(Now playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0m0nqwX2VU)
So while everyone is still at Coeus's home (with Oceanus outside due to size), Coeus suggests: "With us being a found family to be acknowledged by all of us now, how about a family trip? Like, right away, to celebrate Higeki as our new addition." "Ooooh, where are we going?", Tethys the Milotic wants to know, causing Charon to suggest: "From what I've heard, Planet Araneaca sounds like a pleasant place to be." So then Oceanus, Tethys, Coeus, Dione, Pallas, Charon and Higeki get going. How would Oceanus get there though, he doesn't fit inside Coeus's spaceship! Well, he simply holds onto the spaceship from outside, the ship is strong enough to drag him along, especially once they're outside Planet Hetrocera's atmosphere.
(Now playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4bnSYwzBg)
Planet Araneaca surely looks very futuristic with lots of shades of blue to add to the calming and welcoming atmosphere here. The technology here is easily more advanced than the one on Earth and non-Pokémon aliens are the inhabitants of it. Those inhabitants are blue furred beings walking on two legs and something between 160 and 170 centimeters tall, having four eyes, fluffy ears, a pair of antennas and four arms instead of just two. Furthermore, they wear collars, some kind of belts and purple boots, fitting to the color of their diamond-shaped purple-pinkish somewhat transparent wings. There is fur looking like hair reaching down from their heads to their back that has a blue-purple-ish color.
It really is a pleasant place to be at, not just because of the calming blue hues but also because of how friendly and cute (and FLUFFY OwO) everyone living here looks. Pallas decides to give a bit of info on Araneaca's lore for those among the group who don't know yet: "Several thousand years ago the species you see here didn't really have a set home and was hunted by several other much more hostile alien species. This planet... is home to the so-called Deity, whose real name most people don't know. The Deity... is capable of having a terrifying impact, being truly all-knowing, to the point where its knowledge is likely to turn someone insane and stop seeing meaning in anything. So... that's why the people here ended up settling on this planet in particular, as nobody would even get close to try to harm them, just because of living on the same planet as the all-knowing Deity. No worries though, more hostile species trying to kill them isn't an issue anymore, as times have simply changed."
Hearing that makes Coeus immediately desire: "I have to meet that Deity with its omniscience! I am a scientist after all, one who is very eager to learn more, hehe!" Though his goblin friend warns him: "Keep in mind how dangerous it is though, Coeus. One wrong question and you might learn of something that'll drive you insane.", but the male Rosy Maple Moth points out: "I am extremely intelligent. I would easily be able to figure out what questions to not ask, so no worries. But thanks for being concerned about me." So while Coeus gets on his way to the Araneaca Ruins, the others explore the other parts of the town they're in right now.
(Now playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdN_6gGpmWI)
Coeus gets to and inside of the futuristic ruins in the middle of this town, going deeper and deeper into them, while it's getting darker the deeper he goes, until he eventually reaches a mostly dark room, lit only by the Deity itself which is currently looking like a giant blue glowing eyeball made out of energy.
The Deity knows who Coeus is: "The most intelligent person in the universe comes to the all-knowing Deity... Weirdly, it is expectable and yet not as common in the multiverse as one might assume. What desired knowledge brings you to me?" Not shocked about being part of a multiverse, Coeus at first doesn't even know what to ask, especially since a whole lot of scientific questions come to his mind, but... he then figures he would enjoy it a lot more if he can figure it out by himself instead of getting the answers given to him. But he is literally talking to an all-knowing Deity, he gotta take advantage of this! So then... he almost ends up asking the Deity why Dione isn't meant to have any real children, but stops himself when he realizes the answer to that likely relating to the nature of reality... and he certainly doesn't want to risk going insane from knowing too much about that. So instead he settles on a slightly different but still correlated question: "Okay, so... is there anything else I could do to make Dione even happier?", to which the response is: "She is already having an entirely fulfilling life at this point. The only thing missing is her mother, someone she cannot have around within the same universe as you deciding to build that robot for her. There is nothing you can do to bring Aethra back that doesn't ultimately make things worse again, so it would be most wise of you to simply accept what she has now to be all she'll ever have."
Then, simply out of curiousity, Coeus asks: "How many versions of Dione in the multiverse get to have that fulfilling life anyway? She... really had to struggle to get here, so I'm curious how likely it even was for things to get where they are now for her." The Deity also answers that: "Only a small percentage and increasingly less." "Wait... increasingly less?", Coeus obviously catches on that phrasing.
(Now playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XdQwHu1ey0)
Careful to not ask any questions that could make him aware of things he shouldn't become aware of due to potential insanity, the male anthro moth tries to conclude a likely explanation and then tests it by asking the Deity if that's what's going on, asking: "Deity... Is... someone is erasing other universes for that statement of yours to make sense? I've heard of big bad guys before, I just wasn't ever really that involved with any of it. So the Deity affirms: "Yes. Someone is erasing universes out there, as you concluded.", which makes Coeus get worried as he asks: "Will... this universe I'm in get erased too?...", to which the all-knowing being in front of him states: "It is in fact inevitable, since even though it hasn't happened yet, it can't really be stopped anymore."
The realization of what this means hits Coeus now, as he understands: "So... not only will I and everyone I care about die by no longer existing after getting erased... this applies to the whole universe I'm in... and even worse... to the multiverse as a whole. Infinite lives are being lost!... And it has already started... and maybe we don't even have all that much time left anymore until this universe is gone too. I do know one thing though... I know that I have to do at least something. Deity, or whatever your true name is, tell me who is responsible!" "It's Cronus.", the Deity lets him know, "The biggest Titan." "So... is there anything I can do about it? I know you said it can't be stopped anymore, but... tell me something, anything, that I can still do!" The Deity answers to that: "Cronus will spare only one universe but will eventually attempt to take full control over it, with the latter part being the only thing you can do something about. The Coeus from the anomaly universe, the one universe that will be spared, also being the universe that version of Cronus comes from, needs to obtain certain information about how to still have one last chance against Cronus after all, since in the anomaly universe, nothing successfully stopped Cronus once he was broken free. You are a doomed version of Coeus, just like I'm a doomed version of the Deity. But you can still make a difference for that anomaly universe. It's not your lives... but there are still big things at stake that you can affect." "What would that information be anyway?", Coeus decides to ask, "The one my uhh... anomaly universe self needs to know, what is it?" After getting an answer to that too, Coeus then gets away from the Deity, not wanting to waste any time with the massive threat out there.
Next Chapter: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57092484/
Previous Chapter: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57024825/
First Chapter: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55993965/
So while everyone is still at Coeus's home (with Oceanus outside due to size), Coeus suggests: "With us being a found family to be acknowledged by all of us now, how about a family trip? Like, right away, to celebrate Higeki as our new addition." "Ooooh, where are we going?", Tethys the Milotic wants to know, causing Charon to suggest: "From what I've heard, Planet Araneaca sounds like a pleasant place to be." So then Oceanus, Tethys, Coeus, Dione, Pallas, Charon and Higeki get going. How would Oceanus get there though, he doesn't fit inside Coeus's spaceship! Well, he simply holds onto the spaceship from outside, the ship is strong enough to drag him along, especially once they're outside Planet Hetrocera's atmosphere.
(Now playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4bnSYwzBg)
Planet Araneaca surely looks very futuristic with lots of shades of blue to add to the calming and welcoming atmosphere here. The technology here is easily more advanced than the one on Earth and non-Pokémon aliens are the inhabitants of it. Those inhabitants are blue furred beings walking on two legs and something between 160 and 170 centimeters tall, having four eyes, fluffy ears, a pair of antennas and four arms instead of just two. Furthermore, they wear collars, some kind of belts and purple boots, fitting to the color of their diamond-shaped purple-pinkish somewhat transparent wings. There is fur looking like hair reaching down from their heads to their back that has a blue-purple-ish color.
It really is a pleasant place to be at, not just because of the calming blue hues but also because of how friendly and cute (and FLUFFY OwO) everyone living here looks. Pallas decides to give a bit of info on Araneaca's lore for those among the group who don't know yet: "Several thousand years ago the species you see here didn't really have a set home and was hunted by several other much more hostile alien species. This planet... is home to the so-called Deity, whose real name most people don't know. The Deity... is capable of having a terrifying impact, being truly all-knowing, to the point where its knowledge is likely to turn someone insane and stop seeing meaning in anything. So... that's why the people here ended up settling on this planet in particular, as nobody would even get close to try to harm them, just because of living on the same planet as the all-knowing Deity. No worries though, more hostile species trying to kill them isn't an issue anymore, as times have simply changed."
Hearing that makes Coeus immediately desire: "I have to meet that Deity with its omniscience! I am a scientist after all, one who is very eager to learn more, hehe!" Though his goblin friend warns him: "Keep in mind how dangerous it is though, Coeus. One wrong question and you might learn of something that'll drive you insane.", but the male Rosy Maple Moth points out: "I am extremely intelligent. I would easily be able to figure out what questions to not ask, so no worries. But thanks for being concerned about me." So while Coeus gets on his way to the Araneaca Ruins, the others explore the other parts of the town they're in right now.
(Now playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdN_6gGpmWI)
Coeus gets to and inside of the futuristic ruins in the middle of this town, going deeper and deeper into them, while it's getting darker the deeper he goes, until he eventually reaches a mostly dark room, lit only by the Deity itself which is currently looking like a giant blue glowing eyeball made out of energy.
The Deity knows who Coeus is: "The most intelligent person in the universe comes to the all-knowing Deity... Weirdly, it is expectable and yet not as common in the multiverse as one might assume. What desired knowledge brings you to me?" Not shocked about being part of a multiverse, Coeus at first doesn't even know what to ask, especially since a whole lot of scientific questions come to his mind, but... he then figures he would enjoy it a lot more if he can figure it out by himself instead of getting the answers given to him. But he is literally talking to an all-knowing Deity, he gotta take advantage of this! So then... he almost ends up asking the Deity why Dione isn't meant to have any real children, but stops himself when he realizes the answer to that likely relating to the nature of reality... and he certainly doesn't want to risk going insane from knowing too much about that. So instead he settles on a slightly different but still correlated question: "Okay, so... is there anything else I could do to make Dione even happier?", to which the response is: "She is already having an entirely fulfilling life at this point. The only thing missing is her mother, someone she cannot have around within the same universe as you deciding to build that robot for her. There is nothing you can do to bring Aethra back that doesn't ultimately make things worse again, so it would be most wise of you to simply accept what she has now to be all she'll ever have."
Then, simply out of curiousity, Coeus asks: "How many versions of Dione in the multiverse get to have that fulfilling life anyway? She... really had to struggle to get here, so I'm curious how likely it even was for things to get where they are now for her." The Deity also answers that: "Only a small percentage and increasingly less." "Wait... increasingly less?", Coeus obviously catches on that phrasing.
(Now playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XdQwHu1ey0)
Careful to not ask any questions that could make him aware of things he shouldn't become aware of due to potential insanity, the male anthro moth tries to conclude a likely explanation and then tests it by asking the Deity if that's what's going on, asking: "Deity... Is... someone is erasing other universes for that statement of yours to make sense? I've heard of big bad guys before, I just wasn't ever really that involved with any of it. So the Deity affirms: "Yes. Someone is erasing universes out there, as you concluded.", which makes Coeus get worried as he asks: "Will... this universe I'm in get erased too?...", to which the all-knowing being in front of him states: "It is in fact inevitable, since even though it hasn't happened yet, it can't really be stopped anymore."
The realization of what this means hits Coeus now, as he understands: "So... not only will I and everyone I care about die by no longer existing after getting erased... this applies to the whole universe I'm in... and even worse... to the multiverse as a whole. Infinite lives are being lost!... And it has already started... and maybe we don't even have all that much time left anymore until this universe is gone too. I do know one thing though... I know that I have to do at least something. Deity, or whatever your true name is, tell me who is responsible!" "It's Cronus.", the Deity lets him know, "The biggest Titan." "So... is there anything I can do about it? I know you said it can't be stopped anymore, but... tell me something, anything, that I can still do!" The Deity answers to that: "Cronus will spare only one universe but will eventually attempt to take full control over it, with the latter part being the only thing you can do something about. The Coeus from the anomaly universe, the one universe that will be spared, also being the universe that version of Cronus comes from, needs to obtain certain information about how to still have one last chance against Cronus after all, since in the anomaly universe, nothing successfully stopped Cronus once he was broken free. You are a doomed version of Coeus, just like I'm a doomed version of the Deity. But you can still make a difference for that anomaly universe. It's not your lives... but there are still big things at stake that you can affect." "What would that information be anyway?", Coeus decides to ask, "The one my uhh... anomaly universe self needs to know, what is it?" After getting an answer to that too, Coeus then gets away from the Deity, not wanting to waste any time with the massive threat out there.
Next Chapter: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57092484/
Previous Chapter: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57024825/
First Chapter: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55993965/
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