The World Between Worlds

I heard the sliding back door open and a little voice called out. "Master, is there a towel somewhere?" My elf was done swimming and the sun was starting to set. Jenni looked up from my lap to the little elf girl.

"Who is... here." She got up and went to a closet to get a towel. "There you go sweetie. Who are you?"

"I'm Gweddy. I am my Master's elven ****. You must be his ex wife." She said with a bit of attitude I hadn't seen on the little elf before.

"It's okay Gweddy." I interjected. "I think we've worked things out."

"If that stops being the case, I was trained in forest combat and I am very protective of my Master." She said quietly but firmly to my wife.

"Understood. Where did you find her?" She asked me with a slightly impressed tone.

"Oh you know. The abyss. I have dinner figured out, by the way. Where is Lauren?" I asked casually.

"Wait. Wait. Okay, this was all.... very well done and crazy but what has gotten into you." Jenni asked sitting next to me. Her voice was not angry or annoyed or anything she genuinely was interested.

"Well, I came into a lot of power recently. Of the magical sort, it's really hard to explain. Basically, I can enslave anyone I want now and make them do things. I can also change them." I said.

"From a man into a very horny woman apparently." Jenni finished. "So you got this crazy power and the first thing you thought to do was come and get me back?" She put her hand on her chest like I was being romantic.

"Well, I stopped by the park and fucked my elf with the help of a few university girls. But yes, after that I came here." I said smiling sheepishly. She smiled back and then fell back onto my lap so she was looking up at me.

"You made her younger. Can you make me younger?" She asked. I closed my eyes and made her 18 again. She looked just as beautiful as the day I met her. It almost took my breath away. "Holy crap! You actually did it!" She screamed. "This is fucking amazing! Make yourself younger too! We can be teens again!" She was so excited. I shook my head.

"No my love. It's better if I'm older and more mature, especially as my harem grows." I said rubbing my hand over her young cheeks. "But I can keep you young forever."

"Oh my god, this is so cool! I am so glad you came back!" She said hugging me. "Are you going to keep me forever? I want to help you grow your harem." She said excitedly.

"Of course you will be mine forever, and our daughters. Which brings me back to my original question. Where is Lauren? I saw Elizabeth when I first pulled up."

"Lauren went back to her school for some concert they were having in town. She will be back this weekend." She said. "Did Elizabeth enjoy seeing you? She's been missing you lately. I am so sorry for being so... bitchy and everything. I should've have kept them from you but I felt like I had to be tough and stick to my convictions or they would think I'm weak or something. It was stupid."

"It's all behind us now, baby. Forget about all of it. I'll get the house signed over to me, and I'll need to figure out the world I want to build. It's gonna be great." I said finally leaning back on the couch and just chilling. Today had been very very busy and while I could not get tired, my mind needed a minute to catch up. I could feel Jenni settle in on my lap too. I had so much to think about.

This whole 'wandering through the world without consequences' thing was great but dangerous. Why care about anything if I can always win and fix it? Even the drawbacks aren't that bad. People are afraid of me? Some of my slaves **** me sometimes? An Archdemon of lust visits me every Saturday? Meaningless in the grand scheme of things. If I wasn't careful, I would slip into nihilism and lose the very thing that makes this power so sexy. Oh but I forgot. I didn't have one Earth at my disposal. I had the whole Multiverse.

My eyes shot open at a brilliantly blinding light. I blinked a few times to adjust and look around. I was in a bright cloudy foggy sort of place. Everything was white with swirling shades of grey mixed in. I looked down to see that I was naked. In front of me was a window in the clouds. It showed the living room I had been sitting in. Above it read the word "Home."

"What the..."

Welcome to the Nexus! A voice echoed out around me. I looked around to see where the voice had come from.

"Um... thanks? Who are you and... you know... where?" I asked.

I am the Nexus itself. This realm exists between realms. It is the glue of the Omniverse and based on the fact that you are here, you must be a Planeswalker! Congrats. Not many people get this rare glimpse at reality. Said the Nexus.

"Thanks, again. So are there others like me?"

Even if there were, you would never run into them. Everyone who has this ability has their own instance of the nexus and their own instance of every world. Two Planeswalkers can never meet. I'm sure you can imagine the chaos.

I could. Good, now I didn't have to worry about fucking up any of the worlds.

I can read thoughts, and you wouldn't have to worry about that anyways.

This would make conversing easier.

This place is very overwhelming for some mortals. If at any point in the tour you need a breather, let me know. How comfortable are you with the concept of infinity?

I'm a high school math teacher but I know there are different types of infinity. This appears to be uncountably infinite.

Not quite. A Planeswalker's Nexus only contains worlds he can or has thought of. At the moment your world count is 1.

The world I left. But if I imagine some other world.

Then you will birth it into existence. Yes.

Is my world in the Nexus of some other Planeswalker?

I do not know. I only exist to serve you. Probability would suggest that it is though. Now let's try some basic training. Look at your portal. Imagine copying it like a computer file.

Okay. Copy! Sure enough a window jumped out of the current one and sat along side it. It said Home 1 next to it.

Good, now make 1,203,222 copies of your world.

I imagined that number of copies and the windows flew out in a big line to the right. They all appeared to have the same image.

Good, now think about seeing copy 47.

I thought about copy 47 and the windows shifted until a window appeared that said Home 46. Can I renumber these? It updated to Home 47.

Very good! You can edit their names as much as you want, bring them up at will, and delete them as needed. Progress made in one world will instantly save when you come back to the Nexus. Careful you can even delete your home world. Of course, you can bring it back just as easily so no harm would be done. Delete all of the worlds now except your home.

All the windows vanished and collapsed into themselves until only my home window remained.

"Nexus, are you familiar with the Crisis on Infinite Earths?"

I am not. It sounds like a lot of paper work.

"Oh good. You have a sense of humor. We're gonna get along great. Anyways so there's these different stories that all take place in different universes, but then a big event happens to crush all those universes into one. Does something like that affect this place?" Talking out loud felt better than telepathy.

No. Because you can create multiverses. That's why I called this an omniverse earlier. I'll let that one sink in.

Holy shit. So if I imagined any of the DC universes they would all be included, all of those infinite earths would exist in a SINGLE portal in this Nexus. That multiverse could collapse all it wanted and only one portal in this universe would be affected.

Unless you made multiple copies of that portal, then yes. Only the one would be affected. Your home Earth would be safe. You could also create multiverses where this calamity did not occur. Just as easily. The possibilities are literally endless.

Okay, I understood what the Nexus meant by me needing to take a breather. Suddenly a thought shattered my mind. "What if I go back before I got these powers? Would I be cut off from this Nexus until I got them again?"

You will never be cut off from this Nexus. You can always get back here if you think about this place. As for the heart of your question I will now reveal the motto of this Nexus to you. Try It. There are as many questions in your head as there are worlds to explore. I could sit around all day answering you or you could go figure them out for yourself.

Just one more. My wife was sitting with me on the couch. Could she not travel with me?

Ah, alas the gift of being the only Planeswalker is also its curse. You cannot take anyone between worlds. This nexus is bound to your soul so you cannot bring anything or anyone with you. Sorry. If you miss anyone you can always get back to them though. You will quickly get into the omniversal mindset.

Hmm. Do I do this now? I was kinda looking forward to having dinner with my new family. Time isn't passing there and I never get tired. I could do this now. I can't imagine I would EVER get used to this feeling.

Okay I am going to leave you to your thoughts now. If you need anything just start a thought with Nexus and I will listen in.

"Thanks!" I turned to the window and sit down and thought for what must have been an hour. Finally, I stood up and smiled. I had an omniverse to play with and only an eternity to play with it in. Time to get started!