Chapter 110

Freedom Or Something Like That

For the first time in my entire life, I had no true direction. I had no real job prospects lined up. I had no future goals, only now after everything do I realize how I had put all my eggs into one basket.

I had been so stupid in my first few times, well only one real time, at life. I had banked everything on my Awakening and getting into the Military Academy. I had been so certain of that future, that I didn’t even plan for the inevitability.

I mean of course I had been right. I banked everything on that one course of action and succeeded. I saved the universe, well not just this one, but two other parallel universes as well.

I did all that, only to come back to find that the universe forgot everything I did. Hell, the universe even forgot that there was an apocalypse to begin with. My only true sign that I had done anything of note are my exceptionally high levels for my three classes, my ungodly powerful attributes, and my violin.

“Huh! It’s you. That musician kid from the streets.” A pig of a man calls out.

I cock my head to the side at the man. I had changed my whole face, and body type. I went from my beautiful half Endarian features, with a toned muscular body, to a flabby noodle-armed body, with a punch-able face. I mean, if I am going to do a crime, I might as well look like my asshole brother, right?

Where am I now? What am I doing? Why am I breaking every bone in this pig of a man before me, and healing them incorrectly so he we be at best paralyzed for the rest of his life?

Well, the answers to those questions are kiddie-porn dungeon, vigilantism, and because the justice system might not get this one exactly correct.

Who am I, to be doing such a vulgar acts? Right, I probably should re-introduce myself. My name is Kyle Goldman, and I saved the universe.

The only problem is that I saved the universe in such a way that the entire universe forgot. Well, it didn’t forget. Instead, I basically reset time to before the moment everything happened, while also making sure it would never happen again. Simple to understand, right? Well, if it makes you feel any better, I still have a hard time understanding all of the nuances.

Just how did I do this? You know, I don’t really know. I was there, I had all the plans. But I never thought my plans would get me to this point.

Now that I am left with nothing better to do, I heal the judges’ eyes in such a way that they will not let him see, again. I should point out that when I saved the universe, I gained a lot of powers. I was apparently supposed to be the side character in all of it, the one who valiantly sacrificed themselves while my brother lived on as the hero. Yeah, fuck that life, right? My brother of course is a mind raping asshole who would rather steal the love of my dreams, than lift a finger to save the universe. Fun fact though, he didn’t have to sacrifice himself at all.

Now that the judge is blind, I use my Master Tier Shapeshifting and revert to my own natural form. I of course have already disabled the surveillance systems, meaning that all records of crimes being committed will go to my brother. Including the emergency call to the police that are on their way.

As for me, I am making my way to the dungeon part of this estate.

Oh right, you are probably wondering which kiddie porn dungeon I am in? Well in my first life, or maybe first time through life, I uncovered a corrupt judge who had a very sickening fetish for children. I took care of him in my first lifetime, but now that I have a second chance, I decided to make this a personal project.

How did I get here?

Simple, as he said, I played my violin on the streets in front of the courthouse. Then when this judge walked by, I tapped him. That was enough for me to mark him with my resonance, meaning that when he left the steps. I was able to use my Total Recall and teleport right to him, bypassing his security measures. And here I am.

I guess I am making it someone easy to track me, as I am carrying around the same exact violin case that I had while playing on the courthouse steps. Yeah, looks like I might have a calling card if I take on a true life of crime.

Shaking my head at the oversight, I decide to free all the kids. Fortunately, or unfortunately there are only two. I heal them. Even from a distance I can heal them. Not only do I have a Healing Aura, but my ability to use Healing-X is amazing.

“Come on. Let’s get you two home.” I say.

It takes some time, fortunately I came with two blankets. The kids take them, and we leave. I want to torch the place, to let it all burn down with the corrupt judge inside. I want to, but then I realize all the evidence of this judge and his corruption will get erased.

Instead of burning the structure down, I take the kids to the front door, covered in blankets. Then I wait for the first sign of sirens blaring to be heard on the chill night air.

It has just turned nighttime, and it is still in that late summer early fall part of life.

I mentally go through where I was at this point in my first time through, my first real time through life. That is when I realize, on my first lifetime I was in the park, this was just before I remembered the crypto-jackpot numbers. I pause, as those same numbers come back to me.

I now realize the numbers for what they truly were, my first Precognitive vision. I realize my next step in this whole process. But before I can do that, I make sure the evidence leading to the corrupt judge in the basement is undeniable.

With a quick focus of my will, I create a Pyrokinetic-X flame that blazes a trail straight from the main entrance, through the living room, down the cellar door, to the room with the corrupt and now broken judge. Then just as quickly as the flames were started, I put them out.

Then as soon as the first vehicle pulls into the driveway and flashes their lights on the three of us, me and the two kids, I disappear.

Total Recall.

Poof.

First task done. I make a mental note to check in on this case in a few days. If it is covered up, then it will be clear that the police are also corrupt and will need to be dealt with.

As for me, I head home, for a long overdue family reunion.

For the past few years, I have been the pariah of the family. I could never quite understand why at first, until I realized my brother was a mind raping asshole.

This time I go home and find my mother.

“What the hell are you doing here! You sure have some nerve coming here after what you did!” Venom, pure venom from my mother’s lips.

Mind Heal.

Finding the crude workings of my brother who apparently used his family as a test case on how to mind rape people was easy. The monstrous acts of my brother as a kid, were all pinned on me. Added to this were the crimes I actually committed. While I couldn’t cover those up, I did do them, the crimes of my brother had been fixed.

“Oh, my gods. You, you didn’t do it?” Mom says, as tears begin forming in her eyes. “I, I am so sorry. All this time, and I…”

Mom begins, but I can’t relate. I know realistically I have only been away from her for close to a year. Mentally it feels like the last time I saw her was thirteen lifetimes ago. Though in this timeline it has only been a few hours. Just contemplating that dynamic makes my head spin.

Regardless I am not the same person as I was when I left this house, earlier today. I had left never intending to come back.

“Mother, can you do something for me?” I ask.

“Anything.” She responds, clearly, she is feeling guilty for what is happening, what has happened.

“Can you buy a crypto-jackpot ticket immediately with these numbers?” I ask, then hand her a few cryptos and a string of numbers.

“Erin, where is the…” Dad’s familiar voice can be heard from the other side of the door. Then he opens to see me. “Just what in the hell are you doing back here!”

I just shake my head.

Mind Heal.

Again, I got double blamed for everything, making it so I was the complete problem child, while my brother always had to deal with my evil streak. Now that everything was corrected in their minds, they could see the truth, that I as in fact the one being wronged.

Mother watched the whole thing. I saw her expression go from anger, to concern, to kindhearted care.

It was clear that I was healing my father. That is the one nice thing about having a Healing Aura always active, people generally understood you were good by nature.

With my parents healed, I made sure to tell mom. “Remember buy that ticket immediately, they will win.”

My mom looked from me to the paper, and even the cryptos on the table.

“You aren’t coming back, are you?” She asked, a slightly defeated note to her voice.

I wanted to lie to her, to tell her of course I would be back. But I couldn’t. Instead, I went with a partial truth. “I hope so, but there is a lot to do. The first is fixing my brother.”

“Just what happened to you at your awakening?” Mom asked.

I smiled, “oh I didn’t get awoken today. So, I am officially classified as a null.”

With that my mom and dad both just gaped at me.

“Bye, thank you for everything.” I said, then with a final gesture I pointed to the numbers, then gestured to the clock on the wall. It was getting late, and they only had a few minutes to get to the corner store if they were going to change their futures.

Total Recall.

Poof.

As for me, since I was already in the process of dealing with family reunions. I made my third stop of the evening my brother’s place.

Fortunately, I still had more than enough resonance with him, that getting to him was easy.

“Kyle? What are you doing here?” He asked, as I just appeared next to him while he was apparently on a date with a rather beautiful woman.

“Oh, this is going to be good.” I replied. Then with deft hands I did something that despite all the time resets never gets old.

Mind Rend-X.

Normally this is a mental power that is designed to destroy a targeted mind. In this case, I don’t kill my brother. Instead, I just remove the powers that allow him to be a monster. I take away his powers to Mind Erase, Mind Alter, Mind Control, and Mind Wipe people. Then with those four powers removed, I quickly Heal him, well I don’t heal him. I just sear together the broken fragments of his mind before he bleeds out from an aneurysm. This also makes it so his powers will never be able to return to him. With him effectively neutered, I turn to his date.

“Ahh!” My brother screams and clutches at his head, as blood begins to pour from his nose.

This of course is only happening in seconds.

A quick use of Mind Heal on her makes it so she is aware of everything he has done to her. I even make sure to leave the signs of the mental assaults, I just heal her, so she is no longer subject to the compulsions that were placed on her.

I take a step back to see if I have done everything correctly and am rewarded with music to my ears.

“You BASTARD!” The date screams, her eyes laced with anger as she looks at my brother.

“Later fucktard.” I say.

Total Recall.

Poof.

For the third time in under an hour I move off again. I have a lot to do. I have a lot of things I want to fix this time around, and I am already through a lot of my original to do list.

To Do: Meet out Justice to Judges. (Completed) Neuter Brothers in all Universes. (Started) Heal 14th Jessica Childers’s mind.

With the first task completed, and the second task started. I proceed to my third item on my To Do list.

Fortunately, with all the times I have healed and interacted with the 14th Universe’s Jessica Childers, I am able to find more than enough psychic resonance to her.

With that, I find her sleeping on the ground in a place that looks oddly familiar.

“Where?” Is all I manage to say, before I finally remember where I am. Or rather where the 14th Universe’s Jessica Childers passed out.

“We are in the Awakening Temple?”