18 God Machine (1/1)

”You must escalate conflict so that, if everybody did it, you'd be better off.But you gotta deal in every human.Otherwise you get Illuminati bullshit.”

- Mr President's Notes to Self Twitter Account

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4 Hours Later

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”Ma'am?Are you awake Ma'am?” says the cop standing over me.

I start.What the fuck?I look around.Shit, I'm on the ground.I try to get up, but my clothes aren't on right, and I fall on my face.Shit.

”Are you okay Ma'am?” the cop asks.

”Yes.” I say.Fuck off, I think.

Fear sobers me a little.I get my clothes on right and stand.There's a lot of people running around.Fuck!I'm going to jail.

The cop asks me a bunch of questions.It slowly dawns on me that he's worried about me.I calm down a little, and give him what he needs to leave me alone.I'm okay.Nothing happened to me.Yep, I'm drunk.No, nobody attacked me.I'm not crazy, hurting, or whatever.Sleepwalking's a bitch.

He offers me a ride home, but fuck that.He nods.”Okay.” he says.”Just…Be good to yourself, okay?We're gonna get through this.”

I nod seriously at his pep talk.Weird.

I walk to Candy's.There are so many people running around, it takes me a while to realize it's 4 in the morning.Everybody is looking up, at the moon.Fuck, that's not the moon!I fumble with my phone.Every feed is lit up.A new planet appeared out of nowhere 2 hours ago.New planet.Scary close to Earth.Out of fucking nowhere.

I pull up my full lab right there on the street.I call Doc-Danger.I get no answer.My stomach hurts.I've never tried to force my way into Doc-Danger's feed.I do so now.There's no need, I have full access.He's gone.He just disappears 2 hours ago.He fucks me in the woods, pulls up his lab, and disappears.

I pull up the God Machine.It's gone too.2 hours back, there is activity in its logbook.In the same millionth of a second, it answers all the impossible questions.Then it disappears.

My chest hurts.Like there's barbed wire around my heart.I kneel down on the street and weep.