Chapter 107 - Part 9. Gears.

December 11th, 1979. 15:45:15.

Inside the apartment's bedroom, Ezekiel sat on the bed as he observed through the ŀȧptop the data he has recorded these days by looking up Jon and his life after transforming into the Quantum-Being he is today. Though various experiments could change completely how everything Dr. Manhattan operates from, that was left for later, as of now, those experiments required him being not affected by the Tachyons which despite his many doubts seem to work.

Finished reading through the recorded data, he got up from the bed as he placed everything he has a use for or anything which could end up influencing this world's evolutionary development within his coat, ready to leave and meet Jon. Before leaving the apartment, which probably will be the last time as there is nothing left for him in this world, apart from the upcoming meeting, he erased any sort of traces about himself.

Placing the keys on the kitchen table, he walked out of the apartment and walked to the car not far as he entered inside. This is one of the many cars he has 'borrowed' over this and his previous time before returning to the past, though it seems those criminals also got used to it as they didn't try to get it back forcefully or even peacefully.

Slowly, he drove through the streets and places he had previously walked on whilst observing the people who seemed to proceed with their daily life. Seconds became Minutes. Minutes became Hours. And finally, he arrived outside Jon and Janey's apartment as he parked not far and placed everything he collected within the small bag placed within the door's side. Getting out of the car, he walked towards the house's door and knocked…

*Knock, Knock, Knock*

Seconds passed before a woman opened the door, who slightly narrowed her eyes as she examined his face.

Ezekiel: "Hello" he said as he knew she remembered him, "I am Ezekiel Kosmos, one of your co-workers from the Test Base, I wondered if I could meet Jon?" he asked politely handing a bouquet.

Janey: "Yes, oh my" she said letting him inside, "I remember you now" she said with a slight smile, "you were the person who I met in the bar, before Jon's…" she said as her voice trailed off slowly, becoming a distant murmur.

Ezekiel: "Yes" he said knowing what she meant, "you shouldn't worry, he might seem different. But everything will go for the better…for you" ȧssured, as the movements he created in the background didn't bring any sort of negative impacts, instead, positive for Janey's position as Jon's wife, life, and also future.

Janey: "Thank you" smiled as she walked him up to the living room, "Jon, a co-worker came for you" said looking at the man who sat on the couch doing nothing whilst the TV was turned on for no reason as his gaze was fixed on the window, "well, I hope you find what you came for" she said turning to him and walking away.

Observing Jon as he turned his head to him and examined him, as if looking into each atom composing his body, down to the very subatomic particles that form those atoms, even further if there if there exist dimensions connected to the DC Verse which he didn't get through his means, yet.

Jon: "I have never seen you" he said not moving, apart from just facing him.

Ezekiel: "Yes, you haven't. In this timeline" he said taking the chair by the couch.

Jon: "Is there another timeline I can't see?" he wondered as to how.

Ezekiel: "I see…no, there was once" he said slowly.

From Jon's response, Ezekiel could clarify that his or any other Universe he has or will travel through Time using [Gate to the Multiverse] does not cause another parallel Universe to form, nor any sort of forsaken timeline which one might still have access too, instead, just the 'original' one. This also removes many thoughts which lingered within his mind after doing so in his home Universe, 'Absolutely Anything'. Though there could also exist the possibility of a higher power interfering…

Ezekiel: "Leaving behind that possibility, I came with three purposes to your Universe" he continued to his previous topic, "before you deny, or wish to not talk about it. I will in exchange, offer you information unknown by you of your entirety".

Jon: "What about this Universe entirety?" he asked, not knowing, or not understanding the meaning behind his words.

Ezekiel: "Possibilities of your creator, or probably everything around us" paused as Janey entered inside.

Janey: "Ezekiel hope you like biscuits, this is made from a recipe passed down" as she offered him, placing them on top of the table.

Ezekiel: "Thank you, but there isn't any need for so many formalities" he said with the friendly face he puts on around the humans.

Janey: "Well, I will be going now. Jon, when you finish come to the room" she said leaving.

Jon: "How would you know my creator?".

Ezekiel: "I will tell you everything" he said eating the biscuit, "let me begin, then you can continue".

"Let's start slowly. First, do you currently see the 'future' or are the Tachyons working and blocking your perspective".

Jon: "No, although I can't see the future, many possibilities can be known by the movement of the gears in the Universe" he responded.

Ezekiel: "So, you believe everything works as a Clockwork Universe" nodded, as he moved forward, "Second, do you think everyone is a puppet? Although you might have been able to foresee my visit to your house the moment you materialized, or even before. Maybe you need to stay in that state to know what I will ask, or do the Tachyons disturb everything?".

Jon: "We all are puppets, I am just someone who can see them" he said as his white eyes seemed to look at his, "The Tachyons block my vision, while also blur everything so I didn't know you would come, until you did".

Ezekiel: "I see…" he nodded as he put his hand within his coat and took out a Comic, "Third, do you think there is a possibility of these heroes existing?" as Flash could be seen on the front page.

Jon: "There is a possibility they exist in another Universe" he said not denying the countless possibilities of everything.

Ezekiel: "Indeed" he followed up, "Fourth, how did you survive the accident?".

Jon: "After the Intrinsic Field destroyed my body, my left consciousness re-assembled a new body".

Ezekiel: "Then what made it possible to do so? If so, how did you do so?" he didn't bother asking about his Soul as neither he, nor Jon would know the answer.

Jon: "I don't know" he responded.

After a brief silence between both, Ezekiel once again spoke, "would you tell me your atomic structure, or how you vision the Tachyons?".

Jon didn't say anything, as structures formed within the air and showed his composition whilst also the source of his everything, though unknown why.

Although the atomic structures were amazing indeed, Ezekiel knew there must be more for him to do what he does. The Quantum world is filled with possibilities vast as a Lego box, each piece going together to form a bigger structure, yet possessing different possibilities to form the same matter. He isn't aware of the limits of the countless changes but knows he is far away from reaching the end.

From the answers of Jon, Ezekiel is also aware that there might be an unknown connection whilst becoming a Quantum-Being which factors too in his abilities. And his view of the Universe as a Clockwork, where everything is predictable, being a bigger machine governed by the laws of physics. His perspective of 'Time' too became clearer as the more he observed the vanishing design in the air, and why his thoughts became as they were in the future, whilst also informing him countless things about SpaceTime.

Though this also explains why his thoughts became as they are as after the accident his mindset was stuck in the same formulated though process which followed after he becomes Dr. Manhattan, proving many of his choices around the matters and also his future's trajectory. It could be said, there are two people within him, one Jon and then Dr. Manhattan.

Ezekiel: "Well, you answered as I asked, so I shall return the favor".

Jon: "Who is my creator?" he asked as even he doesn't know why that accident happen and why he becomes like this.

Ezekiel took the Comic on the table, as he showed it to him, "You are one of many possibilities outside the DC Universe" he said passing through the pages, "just how I can read them, I read your existence" he said placing the comic within his coat and taking out a fat book. "Your entire world's future should be changed as of now, and if 'Fate' does exist the changes made by my existence shan't change the path your world will end with" as he handed him the book.

"This book contains everything you were written as" Ezekiel paused as he saw him reading whilst his face reacted more than it did when conversing, "it contains how your world is, or was supposed to go before I appeared, as for if we really are all just 'puppets' this will either reinforce that idea or deny it for you".

Ezekiel: "If from what I read in the Comics, the creator of the creator of every Universe should be 'The Presence'" he said as he ate another biscuit, not used to talking so much unless teaching.

Jon: "Where are you from?" asked looking up, whilst his demeanor returning as before.

Ezekiel: "Another Universe, or somewhere outside all these…not very clear, yet".

Jon: "I understand".

Ezekiel: "Keep the book, I will be leaving for somewhere else" he said getting up, "I don't have much information to give you now, but all known was given. Say goodbye to Janey for me, as for the change in her body it is a pill I put on her coffee" he said walking out and leaving the Universe, not before pressing the same buŧŧon thrice in the small remote in his coat.