Dimension 00

-18- [Singular Points]

The sky was at one point a bright blue, hardly a cloud in the sky with the sun shining brightly on the city below. Now, gray clouds peppered the sky, the blue color was gone and now, snow was falling. This was something beyond normal, odd was one way to put it.

Everyone was visibly confused by this odd change in the weather. Even stranger for Akira, was the new message he received. Never had Labrys ever displayed a message like it.

It was something Akira often found himself looking at constantly now. As though making sure it was really there, not just something his mind was trying to trick him with. Once again, he opened Labrys only to see the same message displayed.

- Singularity Detected -

"Alright, I'll bite. What the heck is going on here?" Saki asked, "More importantly, why do you keep staring at your phone, Akira?"

"Snow falling in September? Next we'll see the sun rise in the west." Shay added.

Akira only turned his phone to face the two, their faces quickly being filled with confusion at seeing the notification, "Singularity detected?" Saki asked, "What does it mean by that?"

"I don't know it myself. But at the time I received it, I'm willing to take a guess." Akira said as he pointed to the window, seeing the snow falling outside. It wasn't only that, even the temperature on his phone displayed it at 19°C.

"If you want to rack it up to a coincidence, that's quite an odd order of events. But I think we might have caused this." Akira continued, "Making Time Machine True 2, connecting Labrys to it, then the weather inexplicably changes in an instant. Lastly, Labrys informs me of a Singularity."

"More of this black hole talk again?" Shay asked with a sigh.

"It's more than that Shay," Saki started, "It's accelerated change again. The law of accelerated returns, everything is starting to grow at a rate faster than we can control. Labrys, the timelines, all of it. The Singularity is only another part of this, but it's still a major factor in this."

"Alright, how?"

"Let's just call it the cause for all this. Likely we triggered it when I had you and Reiji rebuild my PC, then I added on with connecting my phone to it. That moment is our Singularity and all this is the result of it." Akira explained, "The very actions we took to make the Time Machine True 2 are what led to us making a Singular Point."

"Basically, it's an event that results in major consequences. Large enough it could affect time and space, maybe even bend them to its will.

"Like an event you try to change by going back in time to prevent, then being a Singular Point in the timeline, time and space will bend to make sure the event does happen, regardless of what you try. No matter what, it'll always happen."

"So the event of creating Time Machine True 2 has created another of these... Singularity things in the timelines?"

Akira was about to answer, but stopped himself. Both he and Saki looked at each other with a confused look, "So I guess you both don't know everything then, huh?" Shay said confidently, "Maybe. But who can say if it did. Going back in time now, we'll probably just have a simple PC again and computer parts." Saki said.

As Saki and Shay continued to talk, Akira looked out the window to see Mami standing outside in the snow. Seeing Akira, she happily waved at him and he waved back. While he smiled at her, it wasn't genuine, instead forced to hide the sadness he felt.

"How many times have we gone over this?" Akira thought to himself, "We've been through this over and over, and explained it to everyone over and over. It is true then, mess around with time enough, time will start to mess back."