Chapter 1
Edited.
Oops! Was all I could think. This could seriously mess things up. Why, oh why, did I let myself slip up like that?! Okay, okay, (Y/n), pull yourself together. It’s not that big of a deal. It’s not like you destroyed the multiverse—you made sure of that. You just jumped through a random portal without knowing where it would lead. No wait… big deal! Very big deal! I could be on the other side of the world with no way to get back home! I thought to myself while pacing the room. Okay, first things first: figure out where I am.
I scanned the surroundings. Guessing I’m in an apartment building. But where? What city?
To my left, I saw a window. I hurried to it and looked down. I was at least ten stories above the ground, in a very big city. Skyscrapers extended far beyond the clouds, and roads seemed to go on forever. Okay, big city, apartment… oh! It’s nighttime. Then something caught my eye in the distance. The Bat symbol? Oh my god, I’m in Gotham!
~One hour earlier~
I sat in my room humming to myself as I read a Batman comic book. It was quiet and calm in my comfy room, then suddenly someone grabbed my arm, making me jump. My reflexes caused me to flip the person onto the ground, pinning them there with their arm behind their back.
"(Y/n)! It’s me!" said Jenna, my best friend, her voice slightly muffled from my pinning her.
“I told you to stop doing that; I could seriously hurt you one day.”
“Yeah, I know, but scaring you is hilarious! You should have seen your face!” She said, laughing a bit. “Now, can you please get off me!”
I got off her, realizing I was still sitting on her back. “Yeah, sorry.”
“So… what were you reading?” she asked, shaking her arm to get the blood flowing back into it as I sat down in my favorite chair in the corner of my bedroom. I didn’t want to sit back down at my desk with my back facing towards her, out of fear she would try to scare me again.
“A Batman comic book.”
“Cool!” Her eyes widened with excitement. Jenna read comic books too.
“Yeah, this one’s my dad’s old one from when he was a kid,” I explained.
“Hmm,” oh no. She always did that when she got an idea, and they always ended with me getting into trouble while she ran free. “You know what would be really cool?”
“No!”
“You don’t even know what I’m going to say.”
“I don’t have to. I know it’s going to be a bad idea!” I said, remembering what happened last time she had one of her brilliant ideas. Note the sarcasm.
“As I was saying,” I sighed as she continued, “you know what would be really cool? If you made a dimension where DC superheroes were real. I wouldn’t mind looking into the eyes of a real Dick Grayson!” She addressed my powers as she daydreamed about Dick Grayson.
I have the most dangerous power out of all the superheroes in my dimension. I can create a dimension based on reality or based on a fiction I create in my mind. I also have the power to travel between dimensions for as long as I like and create portals for a short period of time. Another power I have is exactly the same as Green Lanterns, but I don’t need a ring to use it. The only problem is that using those powers is extremely dangerous and could cause the entire multiverse to collapse, which would be really bad!
“I admit that would be cool, but as I was saying, that would be a really bad idea! You do remember what happened the last time we did something like this, don’t you?” I asked worriedly.
“It’s not my fault that lady has two heads!” Another side effect of my power is that I could accidentally merge a person with their counterpart from another dimension, causing that person to either die or have an extra body part. In that lady’s case, two heads.
“I’m still not doing it!”
“Come on! Wouldn’t it be cool to meet Superman or meet the Teen Titans?” She asked, getting down on her knees and begging me with puppy dog eyes.
Her words stuck in my head. “I have to admit that would be super cool… but I can’t risk the lives of every living thing in the multiverse.”
“But wouldn’t it be cool to meet Tim Drake?” Okay, that got to me. I’ve always wished Tim Drake was real, just so I could at least see what he looks like as a real person, but the thought never crossed my mind that I could make him real.
“Okay, I’ll do it!” I said, standing up. All I had to do was think about the DC universe, and it would become real.
I closed my eyes as I thought about it, then I felt an energy form in the room. That’s how I knew it was working. But then I heard Jenna scream. I opened my eyes to see a small portal in the room. I knew what this was—the multiverse starting to collapse.
“What’s going on?” Jenna asked.
“I told you this was a bad idea! Now look what’s happening. The multiverse is collapsing. Soon everything and everyone will disappear, sucked into this portal. There will be no people, no planets, no stars, and every single dimension will be destroyed!” I said, panicking.
“Is there anything we can do to stop it?” And with that, an idea popped into my head.
“Y-yes. Yes, there is. Since I’m the one who started the collapse, if I go through this portal, the multiversal balance will be restored, and everything will be okay.”
“Okay, but what’s on the other side of this thing?” She asked, pointing at the portal.
“I don’t know, but I’m going to find out!” And with that, I jumped through the portal, not knowing where it would lead. Not knowing that I had successfully created that other dimension.