and Utopias

Follow The Nameless Ones to find The Child.

We arrived at an airport...

Yeah apparently she's hanging out in an airport for some reason...

More of the Nameless met us at the front and ushered us in. They didn't bother checking us for weapons or taking the ones we very obviously had with us.


We were brought to gate 1.

A teenaged girl sat on a throne made out of discarded luggage.

This... Was not what I had been expecting.

Me: Er I was expecting The Unnamed Child...

Woman: I am she.

Dr. Malice: Um but she's supposed to be a creepy little girl not a...

The Unnamed Child?: That form was merely a disguise. My effect on the fears was limited it would not have lasted if I kept the form they recognized.

Dr. Malice: Wait... You're not a Fear?

The Unnamed Child: Depends what you mean by Fear. If you mean Jack's first batch then no. However they accepted me into their collective... Unwillingly but regardless so if you define Fears as the group of monsters that tormented the universe then I am a fear.

The Liar made a sound like a gasp.

The Liar: I remember what you are now!

The Unnamed Teen: Oh really? Who are you exactly?

The Liar: I was The Dying Man.

The Unnamed Teen: Oh... Some of you survived. Won't last much longer.

Me: Excuse me can we please get an explanation here?

The Liar: She's a Ne Timu.

The Unnamed Teen: The leader of The Ne Timu thank you...

Me: What? No wait hold up that's not possible! The Unnamed Child was a fear for years and The Ne timu didn't even exist before...

I trailed off.

Me: But they did... They've always existed ever since they were created recently just like the fears.

Me: God damn it that's confusing.

Unnamed Teen: The Ne Timu and Fears have both existed since the dawn of time retroactively. Early on they fought and The Fears won. The Ne Timu went into hiding waiting till they could rise again. All except one. Unikeia The Ne Timu of Loyalty and their leader. Me. I can make anyone utterly loyal to me so I did. I made The Fears Loyal to me. They weren't easy to affect I couldn't make them serve and until I disguised myself they resisted my attempts to make them accept me. Finally though by creating the appearance and persona of The Unnamed Child I managed to merge with them and avoid exile.

Me: ... The Blind Man remembered. He mentioned you.

Unikeia: Yes his memory is great and he could still remember who I was. He couldn't shake my power but he could feel that I didn't belong. He'll be dead soon though.

Unikeia: All my enemies are dead or will be soon thanks to you.

She smiled at me.

Dr. Malice: Wait there's still something wrong here... What about universes where The Ne Timu don't exist? How do you exist there?

Unikeia: The Ne Timu exist in potentia in all Universes so I exist as well retroactively from the point in that universes future where The Ne Timu do exist.

Dr. Malice: What about universes that end before The Ne Timu are created?

Unikeia: I'd still exist in potentia but would just never be realized as my true role.

Dr. Malice: But...

Unikeia: Reality is illogical. If you keep trying to make sense of the absurd you're going to find yourself going mad.

Me: Ok whatever I don't care what you are. Where's Portnoy?

Unikeia smiled and then gestured to one of the servants standing by the throne. I was shocked to realize it was Portnoy.

Unikeia: Not very observant are you?

Me: ... You turned him into a Nameless?

Unikeia: Did I?

She leaned down from her throne to him.

Unikeia: What's your name?

Portnoy: What do you want it to be Mistress?

Unikeia: Whatever it was before you met me.

Portnoy: My name is Portnoy.

Unikeia sat back in her throne.

Unikeia: The whole nameless thing was The Unnamed Child's style. I don't have to do that anymore. I used my power to command them to forget their names I don't have to do that anymore. They're just my loyal slaves.

Me: So what are we going to need to do to get him back?

Unikeia: Straight to the point huh? It's simple. Kill my siblings.

Me: Kill the new gods? Oh yes very simple.

Unikeia: You killed the old ones...

Me: That was different. There was a failsafe and I had knowledge.

Unikeia: You think there isn't one for us? As for knowledge what makes you think I won't tell you what you need to know?

Me: You mean aside from the fact that you'd be telling us how to kill you?

Unikeia: Well obviously I'd keep that bit of knowledge to myself... As for the others though I can tell you their weaknesses.

The Liar: Why?

Unikeia: Because without the fears The Ne Timu rule. Without The Fears and The Ne Timu I rule alone. As well good news for you. If you kill all of them but leave me alive Jack won't go on to create the next generation of monsters and you'll only have to put up with me.

Me: Win win huh?

Unikeia: Best you're gonna get.

So now we're being used as Assassin's for The Monster formerly known as The Unnamed Child.

In a way it's exactly what I wanted... The fears will be back... Or at least the thing that pretended to be a fear...

This is the best option...

This is the best of all possible worlds...

Sorry couldn't resist.