The Absolution Gap

The Absolution Gap is a divide between the Omniverses of Reality and the Omniverses of Unreality. Reality and Unreality are separate, absolutely separate, with a tiny gap between the two of them. This gap is called "The Absolution Gap" because no power in either Reality nor Unreality (it is assumed) has the ability to breach it. That is law, that is fact. That is Absolute.

Prologue
A realm of emptiness, my home. Nothingness, nothing, empty, emptiness. That is all I know, all I am, all I ever will be. Then something changed, and I was spewed out into a place of things, a place of places. So absolutely different from my nature, so utterly full that even the emptiest place there was filled to the brim with substance. I was no longer in a realm of nothing. I was no longer nothing. Now I was something. And that something wanted a name. I was small, almost nothing, but no longer nothing. I was alone, as I had never been alone before. I had never had even the concept of alone, the concept of nothing meant nothing to me. But no I knew, now I was something. But what was I? What would I call myself, for now I had a self to call something. But what? A sudden strange thing, something I at once understood and made no sense of. "Watcher, what have you seen?" I now had a name. 'Watcher'. I was Watcher.

More of this strange thing, which I was beginning to understand as my self adapted to this strange place of places. "Something just exited the Absolution Gap." I now had a home. The Absolution Gap. That was where I wanted to be, that was home, that was safe, that was sheltered. I wanted that now. "I don't know what it is, but this... thing has escaped, has managed to leave the Absolution Gap. Nothing can pass into or out of that gap, that's why Reality and Unreality are separate entities. Because of the Gap." Reality? Unreality? Were these where I was? Were these... places of places really called that? Reality must be where I was, as that was what had been stated first. "Study it, if you can. I need to know what it is. A weapon? A ship? Something else entirely?" "It... it appears to be made of nothing, made of the same nothingness as the Absolution Gap. Except... on the edges, it's changing, gaining form, becoming something out of nothing. Sir, we cannot allow this... thing to come in contact with any powerful energy source. Who knows what kind of havoc it could wreck with an energy source." Now I had a goal: energy. I needed to find an energy source. So I went looking for one.

I found one nearby. But I was suddenly scared. What was it, I needed to know. So I tried to find those strange things from earlier. And there they were. "Shit, sir, it's headed for the generator. If it gets that generator... well, that will be enough energy for it to last forever." "Funny, Watcher, how it only started looking for energy when you said it shouldn't touch energy. Wonder why?" "Are you implying I gave it orders?" "No, but it may be listening to us. If it is, I hope it knows we mean it no harm, and hope it means us no harm either." But I had no concept of harm, no concept of listening, or hope, or anything. I only knew that now I knew what the energy source was. A Generator. I went to it. And then I felt power, then I had a concept of what energy was, what power was. I was strong, I was dangerous. I understood "Harm" and "hope". And I understood that I wouldn't be able to return to the Absolution Gap without energy, more energy then this 'generator' could ever provide me. I needed more.

"Shit, Sir, it's taking our energy, it's absorbing the black hole! And... and it has gained a full form. It has become a black hole, but those aren't supposed to be able to exist in the raw reality, they only exist in universes and metaverses! They can't exist outside them!" "Apparently they can, because this.. thing just became one." "Wait... it's changing again. It's... oh my god." I adapted. In order to gain energy, I would need to speak with these creatures, as I now knew them to be. So I became them. And destroyed them with my touch. They could not sustain me, they were not like me, they could never be like me. Not enough to communicate with me, anyhow. I would be alone again. Not again. I had only just came to understand the concept of alone, and of with. But now I could see that no being in this "Reality" would be able to be 'with' me. Unless... unless I watched, as my name suggested I do. Yes. I would Watch them. I would watch them, and someday, I would find one capable of speaking with me. And someday, I would return to the Absolution Gap. Someday, I would return home.