"Ray…" Andrew mumbled without a voice. His mouth was bloody afterall.
He was falling down in the sunny sky, his face towards outer space.
His entire torso was destroyed and Goto wasn't healing him for some reason.
Multiple memories floated in Andrew's mind due to the effects of Mon.
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"Andrew…" Bella was playing in the summer field.
The field was wet and Andrew's own legs were drenched upto his ankles. The slippery grass and water made Andrew smile in happiness.
"Why are you just standing like that?" Bella kicked the water towards him.
She perhaps lost balance a little because she immediately hopped back.
"That hop…" Andrew spoke as Bella's kicked water drowned him back to reality.
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Cold clouds of fleeting April rains in the summer sky drenched Andrew's soul in darkness. He fell and fell, the sky was infinite to him.
Ella hopped exactly like that, Andrew realized. That fateful hop after which he had fought to death.
A fight if seen in one direction, would go like this... Andrew attacks Ray first, Ray counters, then Anastasia enters, a huge blast occurs when Anastasia's chains collide with Ray's fist. Thousands of Andrews and Anastasias attacked only a single Ray next and then Ray grabbed one of Anastasia's chains and defeated her instantly.
Andrew broke that simple fight into a multitude of timelines. And the astonishing fact was that from Andrew's eyes- Ray was always looking at him, and even when Ray at some points kept his lids down, he still followed Andrew's direction accurately. All the while speaking to Andrew in puzzles of various timeblocks. Telling him…
"You put so much focus on what has been that you forget to focus on what could have been."
Not once did he look at Anastasia, not even one time. Ray all the time, looked only at Andrew.
"That is why you're like me. Ineff…"
However, when Andrew's turn came to meet his demise, Anastasia had come half dead and stood as a barrier against Ray's final fist.
"Inefficient, Incompetent, Intolerable… is that what I am…?"
Andrew diagonally struck against a school building, broke through multiple rooms due to gravity and exited from the other side of the infrastructure.
And finally, his body ended up landing on a swimming pool.
"Goto…" He said as soon as he made contact with the chlorinated fluid. His nostrils immediately became flooded with the pool's chemical vigour and affected his olfactory functioning. Normally, since Andrew has been swimming since he was a child, he would hold his breath before making a dive, but this time, he couldn't.
Andrew's nearly endless Jenna flowed out as crimson faucets from his injured body and it reddened the pool waters… and he drowned deeper and deeper. The time to reach the bottom of the pool- What should have been only a few seconds felt like centuries to Andrew. This was because Andrew was using Goto on his mind.
A perfect life of good before going back with a clean slate to his previous world. An ideology driven wish to find a way to go back to the old days. An inborn desire to help others from his previous grandparents…
Someone good. That was what he had to be. Let's think and wait. He always used to say to himself.
"Bull….glurg blurb…" Andrew opened his mouth to curse but water quickly entered in and air bubbles drowned Andrew's words.
He opened up Parshu kal and chose a point of time in his future.
Age: 24.
The tragic day when he found his ex-girlfriend cheating. The day he decided to use his powers to drastically change the world.
But Andrew's technique failed him. He couldn't go back to that day anymore, Parshu Kal… wasn't working.
He thought of everything that he was doing wrong as he spent days trapped in his mind.
That is when Andrew remembered something.
"There are decades where nothing happens." Anastasia also had told Andrew something when seen in one particular direction in all those timelines.
"There are days where decades happen." She had said before dying.
As he sank to the bottom of the 7ft deep water pressure, an enlightenment struck him and he again took over control of his jenna.
"I care too much. And that's why I'm like this."
Goto was working again. Water flowed out from Andrew's mouth and he spoke clearly.
Andrew activated Mon and brought himself back from his time cage, and now he was again living in the present.
"Aj." His back, only 1 centimeter away from touching the tiled bottom of the swimming pool.
And that is when he saw the shiny chaotic reflections of the clear waters. Someone's legs were splashing above.
"That's all wrong isn't it?" Ella splashed her legs in the pool as she sat in one corner.
As Andrew's body floated back up, his jenna too came back along with his blood and it revitalized him.
"You put so much focus on what has been that you forget to focus on what could have been." Ella told Andrew as she rested her hands on her knees.
"He meant that the timeline you chose to pursue is meaningless. You should have instead tried to live a more diverse life." She said nonchalantly.
She was splashing her legs and throwing water at Andrew's floating body.
The view of the partially hidden sun was drowned with Ella's attack.
"Back when I found her cheating, I decided to change. I stopped caring about one person." Andrew's wet hair floated over his vision as he moved up and down the water level.
Waves of small splashes accompanied his next words.
"Today, I'll stop caring about everyone and everything."
"That is so lazy of you." Ella jumped into the water and swam up to him.
"Slothful. If that is what I need to be…" Andrew stopped floating and drowned his head under the water.
Ella too dived down and followed Andrew's movements.
"Then live like that. Live how you really want to. I'll accept it wholeheartedly." Ella spoke underwater just like that and floated close to Andrew.
The blue clear water was being permeated by the shiny comfortable sunlight and it changed the view to a one of majesticness.
"I will." Andrew's eyes became dark and hollow. He wasn't under some spell, he was just determined on becoming something.
"I will…"
Something… that the world would fear.
Ella softly held Andrew's face with both her hands.
And then she looked into his eyes.
"I will Bella." Andrew's blue reflection matched hers.
Inside this beautiful pool of clarity, Ella gently kissed Andrew on his lips.
As Andrew firmly kept telling himself…
I will kill Ray.