A different universe

Page 1

Brandon is sitting in a hospital bed, he's looking at his mom who's crying. He had gotten into a crash while driving an ambulance from a protest, the police got trigger-happy and started shooting people. An ambulance was called and the only thing he can think of is trying to get the bleeding protester in the ambulance and driving off. He keeps thinking of that day three weeks ago.

—"27 D-2 at Gravearl Road on street protest." Is loudly shouted over the radio. Brandon is one sent out, he drives down the road to the scene fast, he get to Gravearl Road in 16 minutes. He get out of the still running vehicle and runs over to the bleeding girl. her boyfriend also shot but unlike her it wasn't in the head. "Help- Please.." The guy cry's as he's holding his girlfriend. Brandon gets both in the back of the ambulance, the guy refusing to let go of the girl. Brandon speeds off to try to save the guy but they end up in a stack up of a police car and 3 other cars. In the end The guy dies with his girlfriend in his arms, and Brandon end up in the hospital. Brandon is not likely to make it, but the staff are trying very hard to keep him alive. Brandon passes after his last check-in, He flat lines with the last thing on his mind being that he didn't save the guy and killed more then he helped that day.—

Brandon thought it was over when he died, but he's falling from the sky? What's happening? He cant scream, move, or overall think. His eyes are wandering as he falls, he can see an orange sky and purple trees? Then he starts hitting trees then the ground and he passes out. Brandon just woke up in some clearing in a forest he's never seen before. Purple trees and blue grass, the water in the stream near where he woke up is pink.

A guy with a very odd head, a scribble, is staring at him. He can hear the guy mumbling about how he's a newly dead, the matte black, clean and non chipped question mark as his head signifies that. They get at least 6,000 people per day, but he was different. Brandon is greeted, by the another, significantly tall man. "Hello, you seem very confused?" This random man says to Brandon, "I am... WHERES MY HEAD??" He screams as he feels his newly appointed head, he tried feeling his face and he realized he doesn't really have one. "You have a new one, it's kinda the signature here.. Oh by the way, Im Marcus."

Brandon seems lost, this man just introduced himself so casually, its like he's so calm about it. He seems so calm about how the trees are purple, the grass is blue, and the most important they have unusual heads. Marcus holds out his left hand, and helped Brandon up. Brandon just realizes he's missing his right forearm, just above where his elbow would be. "What happened, to um.. y/know.." Brandon asks, just nervous and if he focuses on something other then where he just woke up, his nerves will calm. "Oh? My arm? It's apart of how I died in the 'real' world" they talked about his car accident that killed him, he died after the fire men and medics were trying to pull his arm out of the car, he bled out after that. And whilst they talked they ended up in the cutesy city, with pink buildings and white sidewalks with light blue roads, there's a building that's diffrent though, but its darker and more gloomy.

They walk to the one stickler building in the pink town, and Marcus opens the door, Brandon now realizes this is a sex store. They walk in the building the first layer being a shop "Hi Stel." He says as he walks through the isles. "Hi Marc!!" The girl beind the counter says, presumably stel. "OO!! Who's thiissssss??" She looks at Brandon. "Im Brandon.." he responds still out of it. "Im stella, and the guy behind me is my boyfriend Nolan.". Brandon takes note of that, the girl with a exclamation mark head and the guy with a swirl head are dating. Brandon looks at Marcus "sooo.... Why are we in a sex store?" He asked worried and very confused. "Well me, Stel and her boyfriend share a apartment above the shop, Stel and her boyfriend have been running for-" Marcus gets cut off by Stella "3 weeks! We just bought the place from old man Frank" Marcus rolls his eyes and leads Brandon to the apartment. It was a nice apartment, light yellow walls, a grey couch, a small kitchen, two rooms, amnd one bathroom. "This is were we live, since your new you can stay here, til you figure this place out." Marcus states. Brandon, goes to the kitchen just to look around Marcus folllows him.

Brandon looks around this apartment for sometime until Brandon just sits on the couch, He puts a pillow on his lap. "So.. Mind explaining this world to me?" Brandon asks, still out of it from what happened about thirty-five minutes ago. "Ok... so.. This is the place you come to after being sorted, its like the cooler version of purgatory. You have 6 years to find out how you died in the human world, you head shape changes after that, then you get some of your memories of the human world back, 4 weeks ago Stella and Nolan came here, they found how they died in 4 days, so it might be easy, or you could be like Sunny, she's been here 5 years, in 6 weeks she'll be gone, she'll be none existent. So it could be really hard." He stops to take a breath and then starts again "there are clues all over the place, they help you have flashbacks and find how you died. Then you'll get your new head and then you'll be a official citizen" he finishes, Brandon just sits there, taking in the information given to him. "So I have to find out how I died or disappear?" Brandon asks after a few minutes of silence.

"Basically." Marcus answers him. "Okay... Will you help me, find out how I died? Can you?" Brandon immediately asks. "I guess i could." They sit there in silence for a few minutes, then Marcus just gets up, takes Brandon by the hand and walks out dragging Brandon behind him. Past, Stella and Nolan, and out of the building Marcus drags him. They get to this other building one of the pink ones, but this one has a big sign that says "Kellys Kandy!" and they enter. "Kelly! We have a newbie!" A man, with a swirl head but his head is connected to his neck, standing at a register near the door says. A girl, decked out in fishnets, fur, and bead yet still shouting a bunch of skin walks out of a green door. "OOOO!!! Marc who's your friend!!" Presumably Kelly basically screams. "His names Brandon and as your brother already said, he's a newbie to this world." Marcus shouts back. Brandon starts to take note of everyone calling Marcus, Marc, and he also is taking note of this other guy. The guy whom is apparently Kellys brother? Why is his head still attached unlike everyone else's? He's passed many people and talked to like four why is his head the only one attached.

Then a child, the only child he's seen at all in this new universe, walks in the candy store. "Hello." Weirdly the little girl seems super calm, just blank. She walks to the 'Make a bag' section of the candy store and grabs a bag and starts filling it with one candy. Kelly goes to help the girl, but it gets Brandon thinking. That is the only child he's seen in this whole new world, and he's seen a lot of people in passing so he looks at Marcus.

"She's the only kid here, its strange because she doesn't talk to anyone except Sunny." Marcus responds to Brandons confused head tilt. Kelly walks over to help her and Marcus waves to Kelly before dragging Brandon out. "so that's town... you okay?" Brandon doesn't answer verbally, just shakes his head yes. "...Whats with the kid?" Brandon asks after a few moments of silence. "She's the only one here, we don't know much about her. She'll only really talk to Sunny, We know her names Sally and that she died of brain damage."