The Psychonet: Apocalyptica

Precious Prescience

I yelled, "What the fuck! What the fuck!! Why?!" This time, the reset hurt. All of our bonding was erased forever.

Arezo and Pandora looked shocked. Pandora asked, "Guhya?? What's wrong?"

I ignored her and went right to Arezo, "In about 3 minutes, we are going to encounter the Lost Ones again. Your little brother is among them. It's going to be deeply upsetting for you."

She replied, "But how could you know that??"

Pandora just watched, as if she understood. Of course, she did.

Gadi looked exceedingly concerned.

I continued, "It's worse. Tonight, you will die Pandora. I don't know how, but I'm going to stop it. Whatever it takes! But I need both of you to follow my instructions carefully."

Gadi interrupted, "What have you done, Guhya?!"

"I'll explain that part later. For now, all of you need to listen."

Gadi quickly replied, "No Guhya! What the hell is going on?? This isn't supposed to happen! Never. Never! Never!! You must have abandoned your path to fate. How? What have you done??"

I grabbed Arezo and demanded, "Freeze time now."

It was done. Everyone except Arezo and I was frozen in time and space. She asked, "Guhya... this is pretty concerning. What's going on exactly?"

"Can you bring Pandora in as well?" I asked.

She nodded and Pandora's body began animating again.

I began to explain, "Thank you. Both of you, look, here's what's going on. I came back in time after connecting to the Psychonet. I don't fully understand how it works, but I keep coming back to the same point in time. It seems to be triggered when I become really upset."

Both of them just watched in captivation.

I continued, "We don't have a lot of time. I need to figure out who is planning to murder Pandora," I said. I explained the whole situation again, remembering the fog this time, "So, we only have a little bit of time before the fog sets in."

Arezo suggested, "I could generate masks that filter out the fog."

I replied excitedly, "You're a genius Arezo!"

I rushed over to Pandora, "I already found out who you are. I'll explain all of that later. In our last timeline... we bonded a lot."

Rather than speak, I just grabbed her face and started kissing her.

She blushed, "Oh, Guhya."

Per my request, the movement of time was restored.

Gadi was flustered, "Guhya, explain now. We are too close to the fated encounter."

I replied, "I've already encountered fate."

He said, "No. No you haven't."

I stood my ground, "I connected to the Psychonet already. I can explain later, but we need to move now. We still must fall in alignment with the fated encounter."

He replied, "This is really bad, but if you insist. As long as we stay on track with the prophecy then I concede to you."

"Perfect!" I exclaimed.

Pax began his usual script, "Well, well! Guhya! You must have decided to join our crusade against the devil, Vaeda, am I right?"

Still bitter about what happened before, I said, "Yeah!"

Everyone in sync said, "Huh?!"

I laid out Pax's plan before him, "Let's just go with this for now. Pax, the rest of you, let's team up in Xanadu and we will figure it out as we go!"