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| Stuck in Time | |
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| Story | |
| Series | |
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Versuva (Foreword)
Spherus Magna (Chapters 1-2) |
| Date Set |
7000 BGCW (Chapter 1)
2000 AGCW (Chapter 2) |
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| Released |
August 2022 (Chapters 1-2)
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Stuck in Time is a side-story taking place in the Ignika Universe Saga. It a journal written by Mersery as he travels across time to do the bidding of the One. It is the second published side-story in the Ignika Universe Saga.
Story[]
Foreword[]
I am Mersery, a Mersion created over five thousand years ago on the planet Versuva. I have been given a task by an all-powerful being, “The One”. I am to observe and record the events of the timeline, collecting artifacts for the One and maintaining order. This is my journal, so dubbed Stuck in Time, where I have my records and observations. Before I can start writing about my travels, I must paint a picture of Mersion society on Versuva before the One intervened.
The Mersions are a technologically advanced race. We have modified our bodies to be partially biomechanical, which allows us to live very long lives. We made ourselves stronger, faster, smarter, and far better looking through genetic modification. Our species was the most superior on Versuva, and we ruled the planet as gods.
We ruled until we were overcome by our power and longevity. The best of us formed a council to manage our great planet, preparing for space travel and managing resources. The council said we would embark in the next 10 years, ignoring the fact that our planet would die in half as many years.
Natural resources had fuelled our desires of greatness, but soon the planet could give us no more. Underneath the cities and power stations was dry and dead soil. The intelligent Mersion soon became ignorant of their flaws and their greed. We ignored our impending doom until it was too late.
The night before our we finally paid for our greed and our planet died, I had a vision. I woke to a golden-skinned being towering over me, surrounded by black water and the night sky.
“Mersery, child of Versuva, will you sacrifice your life and your planet to save the universe?”
At first, I almost answered the question. There wasn’t reason in my response – I would agree that sacrificing a few thousand Mersion if it meant that the rest the universe would be saved.
However, I doubted the intentions of the giant being. If I agreed, did that mean Versuva and all Mersion will perish? I asked the giant this question, interrogating who they were and why they came to me.
“Thank you for your choice,” was all the giant said and my vision ended, waking up in sweat.
I remember the ground shaking and the walls cracking. I heard screaming from outside. Our end was here.
As I made my way to the great city’s centre, where the council had gathered, there was no atop the castle building on their throne. The council had abandoned us. They could not face the society they promised eternity to.
To my surprise, the giant golden-skinned being descended from the sky. The shaking and the rumbling felt less significant.
“Offer me your bravest, strongest and wisest warrior,” the being said. I am sure it was desperation that made us believe in a higher power, as our egos had only led us to killing our home planet.
There was debate about who should be sent, the council being mentioned by quite a few Mersion. A few stood up and offered themselves to the being, stating their achievements in science and conquest. Each of them was rejected with a single shake of the being’s head.
“Mersery,” the giant said. Only the sounds of our planet collapsing broke the silence that followed.
Eventually, the Mersion agreed with the decision. I was becoming the saviour, the herald, the one that sacrificed himself to save Versuva.
The truth was far from that. The golden-skinned being, I learned later, was called “The One”. Describing it nothing short of a tyrant would be modest.
So that is the story of how I left Versuva. In my younger years of service, I bargained with my master for the fate of my home planet. Only now, in reflection of my life’s journey through time, do I see that the One orchestrated the destruction of Versuva to create a servant; me.
In no order, the following is a recount of my time doing the One’s bidding. I know that my death is near, one of the many downsides to possessing the Chronal Staff. My only wish is that whoever reads this journal realises that the universe may not be as good or evil as it seems.
- Mersery, Mersion of Versuva
Characters[]
| Ignika Universe Saga v:e | |||||
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| Matoran Universe | History | Rise and Fall — The Malia Chronicles — Sworn to Duty | |||
| Rising Arc | The Unveiling — The Seeking — The Rising | ||||
| Downfall Arc | Darkest Reign — Order's End — The Downfall | ||||
| Side stories | Memoirs of the Wicked — Skakdi Days — Builder's Duty — Guard Duty — Somewhere I Belong | ||||
| Spherus Magna | |||||
| Discovery Arc | The Aftermath — The Matoran Hunter — Journey to the Edge | ||||
| Side stories | The Nightwatcher | ||||
| Related | Stuck in Time | ||||