The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 23.5: Time Paradox

Part 10/11

“WAIT!” Sunny shouted, “Don’t, don’t do it yet. Please. Can you at least let me say my last words?”

The peacekeeper looked at Sunny, sighed, then dropped her hand. Michael chuckled in amusement, crossing his arms slyly.

“Alright. I’ll entertain you.”

Sunny closed her eyes, and then opened them again.

“Emma! I know you’re out there somewhere,” Sunny called out. There were murmurs of confusion.

“Do you know her?” Andrew asked as he held onto Emma’s hand. Emma shook her head.

“No, but, I feel like…” Emma continued with squinted eyes, “I feel like I’ve known her forever.”

“Emma…” Sunny shouted with a smile, “I just wanted to let you know, I’m proud of you. I couldn’t have gotten to where I was without you. So, thank you. Keep going out with someone you truly love, kay? And keep an eye out for your parents, okay? They’re going to need it.”

Aragorn, Emma’s father, shuffled uncomfortably at the sight.

“This just feels… wrong, it feels like my daughter is being hanged herself,” Aragorn muttered to Arianna. Arianna put a comforting hand on his shoulder.

“And Ben?” Sunny said while looking at him, “You don’t need to tell me the answer to my question anymore.”

“I already know the answer.”

“Okay, finally,” Michael sneered, “No idea why you know so much about Emma, but that won’t matter now. Cause you’re about to DIE!”

By now, Samuel and Aurora had already reached the guards. Just a grab and they’d be instantly dealt with. But as Samuel reached his hands out for the peacemaker’s neck, he spotted a familiar girl in the crowd. A very very familiar girl. A girl with glittery, long black hair that fell to her chest and a worried expression that stuck out compared to the rest of the disorganized crowd.

“Nova?” Samuel asked as his eyes widened with surprise.

CREAK!

The plank that was carrying Ben dropped, and Ben plummeted to his demise. His body hung loose in the noose, and people let out gasps of shock. Not because Ben had perished, but because-

Sunny’s plank hadn’t dropped yet.

Aurora had her hands on the peacemaker’s neck, quickly strangling him to death and snatching the rifle away from his hands. She pointed the rifle at the guards and began shooting away.

“What the- WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS-” Michael couldn’t finish his words as he was finished off too, and his body collapsed to the ground, dead. Aragorn had a worried look on his face, and suddenly he turned as white as his old brother.

“Wait a minute. That girl… That girl isn’t supposed to be here!” Aragorn shouted as he pointed at her, “That girl… That girl is FICTION! I know her fate! She is supposed to be-”

BOOM!

“What is going on?!” Samuel asked as the world began to tear apart. Buildings began to crumble, and tears in the sky suddenly began to open. Hundreds of thousands of creatures and humans alike began to pour in, and Samuel’s vision felt like it was frying.

“I can’t see anything…” Samuel said as darkness consumed the world, “Something happened.”

“The world’s collapsing!” Sunny announced as she looked around worriedly. Aurora, through all the chaos, clambered onto the stage and freed Sunny from her constraints.

“It’s probably from the fact that too many things that were never supposed to happen in the timeline occurred all at once!” Sunny realized. The three regrouped. They had no time to react, however, as their vision was filled with lines and lines of dialogue, words, thoughts, EVERYTHING.

“What- is- going- on?”

And in an instant, it all ended.