The scene cut off abruptly as the "Creator" turned every Reed in the Reed Council into his puppet. Brad fell silent for a few seconds, then fixed his gaze on the Reed from the Ultimate Universe whose face he still could not make out.
"Did you show me that on purpose?"
"I wanted you to understand the gap between us."
The Creator stood with his hands behind his back, a hint of amusement entering his muffled voice. That breezy tone seemed to tell Brad that the gulf between them was as vast as the distance between heaven and earth.
And that gulf came from nothing more than the fact that the "Creator" had begun interfering with the multiverse some time before he had.
"You, too, once split reality and took control of every parallel universe branching from the universe of your birth. You should understand the gap between us better than anyone."
"From the moment you were born, I knew everything about you. Every choice you made, every technology you developed, unfolded before my eyes."
"My domain includes your universe. Everything about you is merely one branch of an observation project to me, so you can never be a match for me."
The Creator's voice was full of mockery and derision.
"Perhaps you believe your technology comes from outside the entire multiverse, but you are not the only one who possesses technology from elsewhere."
"Where do you think those two went after leaving you their entire legacy of knowledge?"
The Creator raised one of the hands he had kept behind his back. A tiny crystal glass sphere rested in his palm.
Inside the sphere were two points of light, one blue and one red.
Skynet and Hemen.
Brad had thought they had retreated somewhere unknown, hiding in the shadows while