Chapter 17 - Rewind.

On a battlefield, monsters vs humans.

Ezekiel woke up and looked at the place around, he found himself surrounded from corpses, whether monsters or humans. Walking up to one of the monsters, Mimics, he opened it with his bȧrė hands, and looked at its internal organs, unlike any Earth creature it was completely different, which he doesn't find very weird, as these monsters is not from the Phylogenetic Tree of Earth.

After taking various samples from them, he put them in his suitcase, and walked towards the dead humans, looking at their Exoskeleton suit, for combat purposes he took one of them and walked towards a fallen carrier, as he was going to study them and see what abilities have they put on them.

As he walked through the battlefield, he saw many soldiers killing and dying without even being able to know of how they died, or when they died. This made him remember his times of his original Earth, and couldn't help but think of his mentor/guardian, although he didn't get any emotions, after having reincarnated, he realized he had received much more than other could.

Thinking about his Earth, he wanted to see if he could ever go back, but he does not have the method to do so, as he can only visit places within [Gate to the Multiverse], but he knew probably in the future, he would one day be powerful enough to control where he wishes to go without the use of 'it'.

Sitting inside the carrier, he first analyzed the blood of the Mimics, and looked at the differences between them. Sometime later, he continued by slowly removing each part and analyzing its functions and the way they are made, what differences they have from the other Earths…

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6 Minutes earlier.

William Cage looked at the others accompanied him in the carrier, and was so nervous, he didn't even know how to manage the Exoskeleton, nor remove it's safety. The people around wouldn't stop mocking him, nor help him with his doubts.

Master Sergeant Farell: "One minute, one minute to drop!".

William touched the buŧŧons unknown to him, and yet he still couldn't get to open the safety, looking around, he screamed to the one behind, "Hey, how do I turn the safety off of my weapons?".

Unknown soldier: "What?".

William: "How do I turn the safety off…".

*Beep, beep, beep*

The carrier opened from below, while everyone was getting ready to jump, William looked at it with his wide eyes, the distance between him and the ground, he felt very insecure.

Farell: "Get ready! Thirty seconds to drop! On my mark, activate drop lines, remember…".

The Sergeant hadn't finished, the ship exploded taking with it some of the soldier's lives.

William: "Ahhh, aaah".

Screams sounded everywhere, and the people around jumped from the carrier, and as they did, the cable stuck to the suit helped them calibrate safely to the ground.

William looked at this all, and fear made him unable to make a decision, as everyone left, only him and the Sergeant were left, "Cage drop or die" finished he too jumped, leaving him alone.

William looked at the ship on fire, as all its parts were tearing apart, and looking below the ground which seemed infinitely extending, he used all his courage and jumped.

"Ahhhhhh…"

The group which went with him, some died from colliding between each other, some died after landing, and some didn't manage to land.

William's string was removed itself from the ship, and he fell on the ground right into the water, splashing into his entire body.

Kimmel one his group mates screamed, "we made it, thank god we made it, woooo" just finished the carrier fell right on him, killing him.

William who was near was affected by the wave of sand, once again throwing him in the ground, getting up his brain was so fried up he couldn't even feel bad for any other one here, as he walked forward he saw some dead from the Exoskeleton itself, looking up William saw another carrier towards their way, and ran and threw himself in the pit.

The carrier killed a lot of the soldier who couldn't out run it, William who was on the pit crawled out, and looked at the people coming out from the carrier, and saw Rita the famous Mimic killer.

William: "Oh, sh#t…".

Getting up he ran towards the direction of coming, but was suddenly stopped by his Sergeant.

Farell: "Private Cage, you are going the wrong moment, you wouldn't want to miss your moment" as he pushed William back to the battlefield.

Griff: "What the hell? They are not supposed to know we are here".

Ford: "This is a slaughterhouse man! A slaughterhouse".

Farell: "On your feet people, get in line! Nance get me a sitrep".

William looked at the situation and once again asked, "my safety, how do I remove my safety?".

Everyone ignored him, Ford even pushed him in the ground for annoying him.

Farell: "Here they come".

William: "Heeyyy, HEYYYY…".

Everyone looked behind, only to be greeted by death from the Mimic, leaving only William who seem to have somehow gotten to work the weapons.

Williams looked at the gun working and shot towards the Mimic and managed to kill it, "hahahaha".

"Reload, reload, reload"

He hadn't finished, and right next to his right hand a big Mimic landed, and it kept walking looking around, William looked at the bigger and different colored Mimic and looked at the grenade on his left side, from his partner who had died, the Mimic seemed to have noticed him and ran up to him. William too knew it was late, and used it to kill the Mimic with himself dying.

*Boom*

Blood from the Mimic fell on his entire body enveloping him and turning his eyes black.

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Ezekiel looked at the completely unusable Exoskeleton, just as he was about to get up, as he knew the last 4 minutes had passed, everything went black and he lost consciousness.