The Nebula.

Becoming The Self.

Pure nothing.
Sheer emptiness.
It's dark, but it's not black. Yet it's not white.
It's empty.
The feeling of floating, being suspended in pure, exact, nothing.

You see a very small light. It's.. Purple. You can sense the magnitude of Essence emanating off of it. Purple isn't even proven to exist. Only theorized. Is it even purple? Or.. no. No it has to be.
Suddenly you feel numb, your body.. It's splitting. Like TV static, you're scattering. Yet you feel whole.
Suddenly you're in one piece again, yet you can tell you're very far from where you were. Did you just.. Teleport?

Again. Then again. Then again. You're jittering around, clutching your head.
"STOP! MAKE IT STOP! WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME!?!?"
Your voice. It's.. Everywhere at once. Like you're omnipresent. You're not teleporting anymore, but you feel powerful in a new sense. The light's gone too. This is wrong, the area.. This.. Void, isn't a void anymore. It's like the Void is moving. Fleeting into.. You? You're becoming the Void.. Or rather, the Void is becoming you. You can teleport. Can you? Or are you moving everything else? You can feel it. You can feel nothing shifting around you, and that means EVERYTHING to you. Theres an ache.. oh god the pain, the left side of your head hurts more than you thought it ever could. It feels like you're shattering, breaking into pieces, AGAIN. The Void is keeping a piece of you.

Agony. Pure, unadulterated, excruciating pain. You're finally on solid ground. Your head is still the only thing you can think about. The pain of it. It's fading quickly though.
You look up, rising slowly, heaving breaths escape you, and you see the ceiling of the chamber you were in before you blacked out. You can hear gunfire, lots of it. The room is lit with a bright neon bl.. orange..?
You can hear Jones muttering in the observation chamber, without the need a loudspeaker.
"jesus... He has more than one shade.. another level. What did they do?"
Seems the orange is you.
"Get the fucking control unit in here." You hear him speak into a radio.
You finally look straight and realize there is a complete Essence shield around you, the signature pale green. You protected yourself without even realizing it. You look towards the observation chamber and glare at the man inside. In less than a second there's a spear jettisoning towards him, ensuring his imminent death. It crashes through the glass so quickly it's already embedded itself into his chest before the glass has fallen. Even 200 feet away you can hear his scream of agony.

Serves him right.

The shield dissipates as you pant, and check your STAT's

/Lawrence Heller.\
9729148 DEF
7451636 ATK
9991918 HP
*The cloak is protective. That's quite a big skull isn't it?

You can see your STATS now. Good.
Wow. That's a lot more than before. And what skull?

Oh shit.. There's a fox skull about 9 feet across and 11 feet long hovering about 13 feet off- Wait.. You did that. You HOPE you did that. It has the same blaze of orange in its eye. It's made of Essence, and.. you can  control it? There's a large group of soldiers shooting at it. A small ball of pure Essence is charging inside of the mouth. It's orange, like your power level. Probably connected. The sphere is about the size of a car, and you clench your fist. The mouth opens and a solid beam of Essence spills from its mouth with a roar like thunder, eviscerating the soldiers. The Essence disappears and the soldiers are gone. They were atomized. The skull splits apart into dust.
"Try me." Your voice almost warbles, echoing. You realize your body is almost glitching, and you embrace it. You blink and you're in the Void again. Yet, you have a perfect sense of where everything is, back where you were. "Not a telport. A.. relocation?" You think to yourself. You exit, returning to the physical world, about 5 meters away.
"If you value life, then run." You say, this being the final warning. You smirk once more, and teleport in front of them all. There are 7 left. Looks like you control the Void now. Useful.
A large boom on the other side of the room signals the arrival of the "control unit" the now late Jones was referring to. A bolt of a red energy beam pulses toward you. Your arm launches out, a barrier appearing. It collides and.. the barrier cracked. Not limitless it seems. You remove the barrier and look at the unit. You teleport above it, getting a closer look at it. It's.. A human? No. An Essence being. You enter the Void to get a break. You can handle it, but you're going to check it first.

You return, behind it now.

/CU-016||Brice Samuel\
219 DEF
157 ATK?
422 HP
*Control is the deciding factor in war. Meet them in the middle.

Useless. This couldn't be hard.
You teleport in front of it, your eye still ablaze. You summon another skull, and charge it for half a second before firing. Right before you fire he glides out of the way, his eye a flaming black. This is really the best they have? A scythe materializes in his hands and he swings it. Your eye flickers for the briefest of moments as you channel the Void inside of you.

The Void is you, you are the Void.

His attack phases through you. You grab his arm and twist it around you, breaking it and throwing him away from you. They yell in pain, but still land on their feet, charging at you.
"This is what real power is. Understand it." You say, the ghastly bass of your voice shaking the room. You track his every movement, small plumes of dust raising under his feet with every step that races toward you. You teleport out of the way, leaving an afterimage. You fire spear after spear toward him, he thinks he's dodging them, but you're just funneling him to where you want. You enter the Void just before his scythe makes contact with you and emerge behind him, impaling him with the spear in your hand.

*7451413 DMG

"Ack-" he chokes, the spear clean through him. He begins to split apart, dust blowing off of him. You pull it out, and swing in front of him, dissipating the spear and summoning multiple from the floor, impaling him again.

*111771195 DMG

He dissolves into the breeze completely, a pile of ash all that remains. Now you just need to deal with the rest of them. You could make a statement, or just finish them off.

Who has time for fancy maneuvers?
You launch exactly 6 spears and they all hit their mark. Too easy. You appear behind the last remaining soldier, spinning him around and grabbing him by the throat, lifting him off the ground. "I've learned a lot recently. Like the fact that nobody but me is on my side." You tighten your grip and glare at him. "Now run, and tell everyone what happened here. Tell them a god swept through this facility and annihilated every being sent to stop him. Spread the name Lawrence. Go." You toss him like the sack of piss-soaked meat he is and turn, distorting into the Void. You're coming back here one day..
One Day.