Adam Brodie and the monster from the dark planet

Chapter Sixty One

Chapter Sixty Four

"We?" said Adam.

Then he saw the massive dragon was not alone. A huge face hung in the gloom of the burning torches and their accompanying smoke. The face seemed that of an extremely old man and rippled in the dark like a reflection on a disturbed, watery surface.

"Hello Adam," said the face. "I am the principal."

"Pleased to meet you," said Adam. "Finally. You kept yourself well hidden."

"I've always been here, not just in the chamber but the Nexus as well. Where you been I been. Let me tell you about myself."

"Uh...I don't think there's time for that," said Adam. "We got a crisis."

"I know," said the rippling face. "Adam, you cannot understand just how complex the multiverse is. The multiverse is made of almost infinite parts, and is almost infinitely complex."

"If it were that complex," said George. "The multiverse would be conscious. Oh now the penny has dropped."

"That is correct George. You see I am the multiverse. The multiverse is conscious and it can think and has an identity just as you do. What you see with me is a projection of that thinking conscious capability."

"Are you God?" gasped Adam.

"Nothing so crude," said the principal. "The multiverse is nearly infinitely complex, and so it must follow the multiverse must be conscious and intelligent, a product of the naturally complex."

The other side of the great doors students were banging and trying to get in. The doors buckled slightly and looked as though they might burst open.

"Alright the multiverse is alive," said Brigitte. "How does this help us?"

"The Dominator was a cosmic champion once and so he was multi-dimensional being. That was not enough for him and he chose to climb the ladder to one more dimension. It took him a long time and he managed to do it without my knowing. Now he has achieved that dimension he is the most powerful being in the multiverse except for myself. He wants to control the multiverse."

"So why can't you stop him?" said Adam.

"Alas, I am only a thought. I am not physical. I am the thought patterns of the entire multiverse. I need a physical instrument to fight the Dominator."

"Me?" said Adam.

"You."

"But how?"

"You need to rise up the dimensional ladder until you are as powerful as the Dominator. I foresaw this time and I brought about the events so that you would be here at this time, my weapon."

"But how?"

"I will show you."

At that instant the great doors burst open and the army of the damned burst through.