Fantasy Vs Reality | The Tear

21: Two Universes

I stayed up late that night, staring into space... literally. Marcus had left for a while with Orion to gather up some "missions" for the crew to handle on our way to the next spaceport, which was a Research Station for  the Neon Empire. My head was still spinning at all the new information I was learning about empires and the galaxy, and... and well... everything.

The crew would be leaving the spaceport in the morning, getting ready to begin our official missions for collecting some sort of flora samples from a planet on the way to the Neon Research Station. After that, we'll all be heading into deep space, even further from Neon Territory and to the outskirts of the galaxy... at least that's what Ember explained to me.

As I was walking towards my room earlier, I saw our missions on the announcements board. Thinking about going down to a legit planet was a bit terrifying, but at the same time it was extremely fun and exciting.

Not even a tiny bit tired, I decided to head towards the doctor's clinic. There was a tiny pain in my chest that was probably no more than anxiety kicking in, but after everything that has happened, I wouldn't be surprised if... it was something else. My thoughts kept flashing back to how I was when I first woke up. It felt as if something inside my body was trying to fight it's way to the surface, to take over, as if in a panicked rage.

Who better to ask than the doctor himself?

Walking around the corner, and entering the elevator, I exited to find myself standing in the dimly lit corridor to the doctor's office. I needed answers, and for some reason I felt like the only one who would understand half of what was going on would be the doctor... or Coal, but Coal would have to wait until another time. 

I began to wonder if Coal even remembered any of the Universal Crossovers that happened. If he did... then he has a lot of explaining to do... because he was definitely doing a good job of acting like he doesn't know.

I knocked quietly on the door, and it slide open. The room was lit up and the red panda was sitting up drinking what looked similar to coffee. Except for the blue steam it was emitting from the strange looking mug. His glasses were on and he was looking directly at me.

"I had a feeling you were coming tonight, so I stayed up." He said, looking down at a clipboard on the small table in front of him.

"How did you know?" I asked as I came into the small room and the door closed behind me.

"Doctor's sense." He murmured. "Now tell me everything. Tell me everything that happened to you last week... what caused you to wake up?"

He gestured me to sit down next to him, "I want nothing but the truth, no matter how crazy it may sound to me. The utter truth." 

His gaze was very serious, surprising me. I sat down and stared at him for a long moment. 

"The absolute truth?" I asked.

The doctor nodded. "Everything you remember." 

I sighed, trying to think of where to begin. After a moment, I slowly began to pour out everything that happened to me, from when I first started having dreams, to drawings, to being back as a human, to being sucked into the universe I was currently in, all the way to the vision I had last night when Storm herself contacted me and told me about what Coal did.

There was a long silence between me and Jacob, but then he gave a long sigh and stood up. He searched through his files for a moment before finding an old looking mass. I realized it was a hard copy book. He gingerly opened it up and flipped through the pages, then he sighed.

"I was afraid something like this was happening." He muttered, flipping through a few more pages. "It seems..." He tapped a spot on a page a few times. "That our dear friend Coal, has created some type of disturbance between your universe and ours." He peered at me over his glasses. "I was hoping this was not the case, but there are too many signs that show it to be true." He set the book down and stared at me for a long time.