It's Just The Beginning

[Jacket]

Warning Spoilers Ahead

[spoiler]

July 23rd, 1989 Miami, Florida

NE 144th Place
Lebedev's Villa

"I can see where this is going... heh!" said the father sitting at his desk in his main office with dual wield smgs lying on the ground along with two used clip but the man has spots of the blood from his hands that got cut gruesomely from the throwing knives that Jacket used from the deceased female ninja bodyguard.

"I'll spare you the pleasure!" grunted the father reaching in one of the drawers of the desk pulling out a pistol with his right hand then shoots himself in the brain causing half of his head to explode with the bullet coming out of the other end making an even more mess of blood and gore.

Satisfaction filled with Jacket seeing the father dead in his chair but as for the chicken masked vigilante turns back to the double doors leading to the main entrance of the hq that he came in, the office phone began to rang loudly getting the man's attention before he left the scene. Jacket walks over to the front of the desk where the phone was sitting at on Jacket's right. He picks ups the phone without speaking a word but filled the line with silence when the telephone was placed close to the right ear that the mask covered.

"Hello...? Hello!?" said the caller with a old shaky voice sounding like an elderly man.

"What's going on down there? I'm trying to get some sleep!" continued the caller in a grumpy tone.

The line was filled with quietness with Jacket still standing there not saying a word.

"Is there anyone there? Can you hear me? Hello?" questioned the caller trying to figure out who he was talking to.

"Goddamn phones! I fucking hate these things!" ranted the caller with frustration.

Once again, silence filled the line but the caller soon hanged up and so did jacket clicking the phone back in it's place. The gun that the boss used on himself lied there next to him along with one of his used smg. Jacket felt that he was not happy yet and he had one more job to do. He walks over and stands next to the sitting deceased corpse of the father and grabs the pistol off the ground and carries it with his right hand in the fashion with the gun pointing towards the ground in a non-hostile way. An elevator was opened in the far left corner of the office that has only one button which was up. Jacket who was armed, walks in the elevator and sees there was two floor buttons which was ground level and second floor. He presses for the second floor and the elevator begins to lift upwards. After half of a minute standing there, the doors open to the second floor with a hallway that has two brown wooden doors on each side. For the floor, it consisted a blue and green luxurious carpet along with the purple tile floor.

Jacket steps out of the elevator and starts walking down the hall with the gun towards the door in front of him. It wasn't locked which Jacket opens the door and sees the room was a good size bedroom with the same tile floor, a L shape couch that had the same color as the hall rug while a telephone on a lamp stand sitting next to it, three big tropical plants in big pots were spread out sitting in parts of the room, an king size bed that the blankets even pillows having a light green color with a night stand that was littered with many meds on top sitting next to it along with one of the plants, a tiger skin rug is placed in the middle of the room and in front of it is three plaques on the wall consisting carnivore animals. There was an old man sitting in a wheelchair not far away from the outside balcony looking wore and tired. Jacket walks over to the old man who noticed him when he entered the room.

"Ah, so your the one causing the ruckus? What's your business here?" said the old man with a cough at the end of the sentence.

"Actually... why don't we just skip to the details?" offered the old man looking at the masked vigilante.

"I've done so many horrible things... Nothing seems to really matter anymore, does it?" stated the old man.

"I'm not going anywhere, as you can see... Just go ahead and do what ever you came here to do." said the old man knowing his destiny then closes his eyes.

Jacket stands there in silence for a minute then raises the gun aiming at the old man's head. BANG! The trigger was pulled and the old man's head kicked backwards with a bullet hole in his forehead that had blood running out plus a splattered of blood sprayed out behind the wheelchair from the shot. After killing the man, Jacket drops the gun and turns to the balcony doors with two big rectangle glass windows on each side of the doorway. The masked vigilante walks towards the balcony then opens the doors causing to swing outwards. A breeze filled the air outside with the view consisting the skyline of Miami with the sun setting and the glistening waterway. Jacket stands outside on the balcony and takes off his mask throwing it to the side.

He reaches in his jacket pocket pulling out a cigarette from a pack and puts it in his mouth. A lighter was taken out of his blue jeans pocket and begins to light the cigarette. After lighting the tobacco, he puts the lighter back in his pocket and starts to inhale the smoke. The butt is taken out of the mouth from his right hand and puffs out a cloud of smoke into the breeze carrying it away. Jacket reaches in his left pocket of the pants and pulls out a photo.

No need to thank me, kid. it's on the house. You would've done the same for me, right?

The photo in jacket's hand waves a bit from the breeze. It starts shaking loosely in his hand as the grasp gets less tightening. Suddenly, the photo leaves Jacket's hand flying free in the wind being carried on along above the waterway. Still, Jacket stands on the balcony puffing smoke while the sun is starting to set as the city's lights start slowly glowing brighter from the less sunlight. All of a sudden, time stops all around Jacket then one of the three masked strangers that looked like himself appears next to him leaning their back on the balcony with both arms resting on the balcony's hand rail. The face was hidden with the familiar chicken mask that Jacket was wearing earlier.

"So you think this will be it then that this will be the ending of all things that you have done. I wouldn't necessarily have that mind set right now due to the fact that I have a feeling it's just the beginning." said the masked stranger looking at Jacket which his body was consumed with this yellow glow effect around him as if there was a spotlight above shining down.

Jacket looks back at the stranger with no words to say but still has the burning cigarette in his mouth. For the facial expression, it was just straight and didn't really have any emotion for this moment.

"As time goes by, we sometimes have to move to different and unfamiliar places which is normal to happen." continued the stranger in the same position.

Jacket takes his eyes off the stranger and turns his head facing the frozen skyline once again.

"Don't worry, you'll see soon what I'm talking about." finished the masked stranger then vanishes as time flows again with sun slowly disappearing.

As the sun is setting, Jacket can see the sun behind the skyline start to glow really bright unusually and keeps getting brighter as dusk is about to take over. The light from the sun became so bright it blinded Jacket with whiteness leaving him in confusion. [/spoiler]

[Jacket]

“My name is Omni. This is not the world you know. This is the Omniverse. You interest me, so I have made you part of it. The Omniverse is a place that reflects the wishes of those who are part of it. But! There are rules. I will explain them only once, so listen carefully.”

A loud booming voice gets Jacket's attention kinda startling him in the darkness that surrounded him. Suddenly, he notices the white strange figure in front of him who said those words to him. What is going on? Is this the afterlife?

“This is Omnilium. It’s what ties the Omniverse together. Without it, you are nothing. With it, anything you desire can be yours. But you will need more than this. If you desire it enough, you will find it. You will find that using it comes naturally. Just think of what you desire most.

A glimmering colorful orb was given to Jacket as he held it in both of his hands. Still, Jacket has many questions about what is happening to him right now in this kind of situation.

“You will not be alone in the Omniverse. There are others. Of course, they, too desire Omnilium. Do not fear death. For as long as you interest me, you will be reborn.

Immortality did concerned Jacket as of why he was given this role since all he was just a simple human being. Jacket is curious if Omni knew what he really did back in Miami.

“That’s all you need to know right now. You’ll figure out the rest soon enough. I’ll be watching … and waiting.”

Soon after, Omni disappeared in front of Jacket leaving himself there all alone. He is still struck with astonish of this Omniverse he was put into. For his feelings, he wasn't really mad at all but is filled with some satisfactory about getting away from his old life that he left behind. His apartment turned into a crime scene, his car was vandalized, and he just lost his girlfriend by that hired masked gunman. At this point, Jacket was ready to start a fresh life all over again but he still had that spirit stuck with him about hurt. This kind of feeling he couldn't just shake it off. It was like a sin sticking to him and felt impossible to get rid of. Blood-thirst wasn't it but a skill he couldn't just throw away and forget about. That's what made who he is now. Hurting defined him.

[Jacket]

Soon after, Jacket feels like he blacked out after the intro of the Omniverse and wakes up in the whiteness environment of the Nexus. A feeling comes across him like he woke up from a nap but he still slightly remembers living in 1989 Miami. He looks around him noticing the new place he is at now. Strange that this world he arrived in doesn't look like it has any landscapes or living things. The ground even felt artificial not having any kind of soil feel but instead a hard flat surface. This does concern Jacket where he's at right now in this strange blank verse. He did heard that he wouldn't be alone and that there were others like him out there. Maybe he would have to look harder here to find anyone. Jacket turns around away from looking at the white horizon and sees that a fountain stands before him that looked out of place. The base of the fountain was a big square with gold metallic wave like sculptures that surrounded the main part of the fount. It was a pyramid shape with a spout spewing water from the top and the long slide that surrounded the black pyramid even attached to it too had the same shape. Water went down and reaches the bottom having an end that collecting the water most likely helping to keep doing the cycle.

Weird that the fountain was giving Jacket déjà vu as if he seen this some where  before. He blinked a couple times looking at the structure that had more color then the environment surrounding it. Silence was among him making him feel alone but discovering the fount, he can hear the noise of water moving and spilling. It started to get louder as Jacket is still looking at the architecture. He blinks once more then opens his eyes realizing he was in a different place now but this time he felt like he was back in his home city. The fountain was in a corner taking up the space with nothing present around it. Jacket turns around once more away from the fountain and sees a doorway open but a corpse of a dead Russian mafia gangster with his head crushed leaving it unrecognizable and flesh mush with blood even chunks of the skull surrounding the neck of the body. Suddenly, he realizes that there was a bloody wooden bat in his right hand pointing down at the ground dripping. His chest and torso was also covered from some of the blood most from the carcass.

A mask was covering his head too which was his chicken mask having a bit of blood on it as well. Jacket realizes where he was now. This place is starting to feel familiar especially the clean fragrance. He notices this is a spa that the counter was further away from the entrance on the right wall with a window behind. In the counter contained having some comfortable towels especially hygiene products for baths and skin. Two Russian gangsters were standing at the door that let you go into the main spa area farther away from the counter which they just now notice Jacket killed one of their men. One was armed with a golf club and the other with a butterfly knife. They rushed towards Jacket with anger thinking they were going to kill this masked maniac once and for all. When Jacket blinked again before they could take a swing at him, both were dead and beaten up badly showing blood spread across the ground. There was now even more blood on him than before.

With each blink, Jacket sees he's making progress through the spa killing every gangster in the facility. Dogs even tried to attack him that were trained by the mafia but failed from Jacket's brutal nature. The process of this massacre felt like minutes were passing by. Finally after one more blink, he can see the last gangster that was in the building pleading to leave or at least pay him so he can live. Jacket ignored every word he said and noticed they were in a steam room. The man was sitting against a fountain having his hands raised at Jacket. Instantly while the men was pleading partially in Russian, Jacket drops his weapon and hits the guy in the mouth so hard it left his face in a bloody mess losing teeth in the process.

"Pleash....no..." gurgled the gangster from the blood in his mouth spilling out.

Without hesitation, Jacket grabs the guy from his white sports coat and pulls him close then turns him away facing towards the fountain. Suddenly, the man's head gets forcefully dunk in the steaming warm water. He begins to squirm around to at least break free or have air but was unsuccessful. Still, he was still moving with his hands at least trying to grab something. After two minutes of Jacket forcing the man to be submerged underwater, the victim drowned and the water became bloody from his broken face. Jacket stands there for moment still having his attention on the corpse slouched over with the head underwater.

One last final blink, Jacket sees himself back in the Nexus but was still clean from all the gore he thought he just made and was unmasked. He notices he still has that same cigarette he was smoking earlier in his mouth which looked to be already burnt up. The used cigarette gets taken out of his mouth and thrown on the ground then smashed by his sneakers. From looking at the ground a bit, he notices that his mask was still lying on the ground from earlier. Unexpectedly, the mask starts to dissolve into omnilium with particle substance heading towards the orb then obtains it. This was astonishing what the orb did to his mask and realizes what Omni said about the orb. From what is all happening to him, he walks up to the fountain then realizing the the fountain transformed into a normal looking fountain then the one from earlier. Strangeness did fell upon Jacket but he tried to brush it off and remain calm about this situation. He sits on the side of the fountain for a bit to rest.

[Jacket]

It was five minutes already for Jacket sitting here at the Nexus fountain still nobody showing up. A sigh comes out of his mouth and gets up from the side of the fountain and cracks his knuckles. How empty the Nexus looked like, it did intimidated Jacket a bit on thinking if progression was even possible in this verse. He doesn't hesitate on the idea any longer and begins to walk away from the fountain towards more whiteness. Of course, there was no idea in his head where he will end up. At least, the temperature felt just right not too cold or too hot. Jacket didn't look back to where he walked away at but just focused on moving forward to explore more of this so called Omniverse.

It's been over an hour of walking for Jacket and still hasn't come across anything yet. Finally, there was something in the distance that had color but Jacket couldn't tell what it was. This object caught his attention and he headed in direction where it was at. The trip took fifteen minutes to get to this out of place thing that was standing out from the white environment. Jacket arrived at it and appeared to be some kind of gateway consisted to be an archway of old and sandy looking bricks that made it. This gate gave Jacket a feeling it looked like it came out from a desert by touching the sandy surface that was dry. It appeared to even have an opening in the archway for people to go in and out. Jacket didn't go in the archway due to him being unfamiliar about deserts since he hasn't really lived in one before. He was hoping if he can at least come across some kind of civilization but the Endless Dunes didn't feel like it could be full with life. Survival felt like the theme of this kind of gateway.

The newly prime turns away from the Endless Dunes and walks away from it towards west wondering if he can find something else similar. After another ten minutes of walking, Jacket did start to miss his car from Miami but realized that when he left it, the vehicle was in a destroyed state. Still, the explanation of the omnilium that Omni described echoed in Jacket's brain which made him pull out the orb. If he can desired anything, it would be his Delorean back in new conditions as if he just bought it from the car dealer. He closes his eyes with the ominilium in both hands and starts to think of his car. After a minute of thinking about it, slowly the ominilium starts developing the vehicle. The skeleton of the car appears then wheels starts getting added. Grey interior comes in place along with the stainless steel plates getting added. Suddenly, the gull wing doors get in place and the windows too. After most of the car is developed, the motor gets added with the vented cover on the back then the headlights are installed even the back lights.

Jacket opens his eyes to see his new and familiar Delorean in front of him which does bring him joy to see it untouched. With a smile on his face, he walks up to the vehicle and opens the driver's gull wing door. He gets in the car and sits down then notices that the keys are in the ignition. The keys get turned making the motor turn on without any trouble. His hands grip the steering wheel still happy to see that the car isn't in a trashed state. Jacket puts the car in drive and puts his foot on the gas peddle accelerating the car forward. Since there are no laws or speed limits in this empty verse, he doesn't care about how fast he has to go and at least tries to get the car to 80 mph which was the highest on the speed gauge.

After driving for ten minutes, Jacket arrived at another gateway looked different from the last one. The car begins decreasing speed with Jacket pressing his foot gently on the breaks. He rolls up at the gateway noticing it looked more advanced then the last one with it being made out of steel and having a civilization feel too, plus the presence of stormtroopers. Finally, Jacket has actually found people than himself but they wearing armor he hasn't really seen before and looked more sci-fi presence then his time. The security team of the gateway notifies Jacket's presence and three troopers start walking to his car given commands to check out. Two were armed with the DLT-19 automatic long range blaster rifles and the other was holding the E-11 standard issue imperial blaster. Before they came up to the car as they are walking, Jacket opens the gull wing door and gets out of the vehicle. He waits for them to walk up while sitting on right side hood of the car since he knew that these guys can be some kind of serious business. One with the E-11 comes up to Jacket while the others checked his vehicle. The newly prime stands and walks not too far away from the car up to the trooper so he wouldn't interfere with the troopers since he knew that his new Delorean shouldn't have anything illegal.

"Evening sir, may I see your ID?" questioned the trooper not sounding harsh towards jacket but in a command manner.

Jacket reaches in his back pocket but realizes he doesn't even have his ID and realized that the police must've confiscate it as evidence back in Miami.

"Sorry, I don't think I have one on me at the moment. Besides, I was just bought here by this guy named Omni just now." replied Jacket in a calm way.

The two troopers come up to Jacket and the other stormtrooper from sweeping the car for anything suspicious.

"The car is clean, sir." said one of the troopers which the one talking to jacket nods in response.

"Well since your a new prime, you are aloud to enter the city of Coruscant."

"Thanks." said Jacket in response of the stormtrooper.

The patrol walks away from jacket and back towards their base of security next to the gateway while two stormtroopers stand guard on both sides of the entrance to Coruscant. Suddenly, the car turns into omnilium and gets sucked in the orb. This makes Jacket turn around to see what is happening to his ride and he notice it's doing the same thing that his mask did earlier. He turns around again looking at the front of the gateway and walks up to the entrance. The troopers on guard do notify that he does have access to enter and let him by. Jacket steps in the gateway and gets transported to the capital of the Empire.