The year is 2042, the world is not "our" world, but in fact an earth of a nearby reality. It is a slower evolving earth and although it is 44 years ahead of us, it is only 3 years of us technology wise. At any rate, once both "our" worlds approach the same staus, it wll be a time of trouble. For Centuries, "our" earth has been in "Cosmic alignment" with many nearby realities at one or another. When in alignment, a "Cosmic Link" opens up and connects the two realities. There have been people from both "our" realities to have stumbles upon this and have made the transfer to each other's reality. The story I am about to tell you is not about one of these "Cosmic Alignment's", but about a unnatural alignment. Powers discovered & Evil unleashed, Death & Rebirth, Decisions & Consequences. Now as my time grows short, I must tell you so that it doesn't die. Listen & Remember...

His name is Nick Zellar, 18 year old Mexican/American male from Southern California (So. Cal.). He is a Senior in Highschool, but lately he has been spending time in Arizona on an Archeological dig. The group he is with, are searching for a 5,000 year old tablet which holds a prophecy of great importants. What this prophecy and it's importants is, is a mystery in itself. Local Native American tribes however say that a story from long ago, speaks about the tablet and some clues to it's where abouts. Time wastes away and soon the prophecy will be reality and nobody will even know it.

"Are you sure that you don't want to head back to Carter's for the party with me?" Nick places his tools in the back seat of his jeep and turns to Steve. "Yeah, I just want to stay here a little while longer. I just feel that it's something that I need to do." "You still having those weird thoughts. I thought once we found that tablet, they had went away?" Nick turns around and opens the door to his jeep. "Nope, I'm going to start off near the site and work the dead zones. See ya Steve." "Alright buddy, just make sure you watch out, there's coyotes out there." Nick smiles. "Don't worry." Nick steps inside his jeep and begins the 15 minute drive back to the site.

On the way back, the thoughts grow stronger as if there was more than just the tablet at the site. In the distance, Nick notices smoke rising from behind a nearby hill. Nick pulls off the road and speeds toward the hill. As he arrives at the spot where he noticed the smoke, he suddenly feels a sharp pain in his head, and loses control of the jeep. Just as soon as the pain comes, it now vanishes for good just in enough time for Nick to regain control of the jeep. He stops the jeep and slowly steps out of it. He begins to look around. To his surprise, what he thought was smoke, was actually not smoke at all, but steam rising up from a large crack in the ground.

Nick walks over to the crack to take a better look. He bends over the crack and looks inside. There was too much steam to see anything. He bends down and picks up a rock. Taking one more look inside, he steps back and tosses the rock into the crack. The crack must have been deep, because he could hear the rock hit something, and break whatever that something was that was down there. Quickly after, the ground began to shake and more steam, along with rocks and light emerged from the crack.

Nick slowly backed up and as he did, he saw the crack begin to widen. The ground began to tear apart as if to open an entrance to or for something. The ground inside the crack rose up and then as if someone had filled it full of dynamite, the raised ground explodes, sending chunks of rock flying everywhere. Nick jumps on the ground and shields himself from the rocks. Things were silent for the nexts few seconds. Nick looks up to make sure everything was ok and then stands up. He brushes himself off and then looks in the direction of the crack. Standing there on a rock platform rests an agua blue object. Nick walks over to it and picks it up. The object was covered in a thin layer of ice and after brushing it off, the objects identity is revealed...

In his palm lies a small blue crystal. The crystal seemed to have been placed or lost there, because it had clearly been cut into a diamond shape. He closely examined the crystal and shortly after, it begins to glow and starts pulsating slowly. Nick looks deep into the crystal and everything goes black...

New visions begin to appear in his mind. Visions of what seem to be a group of women fighting non-earthly creatures, a guy in a tuxedo???, talking cats, and people with weird sex-changing abilities. The strongest vision shows a god-like man being trapped in a star, and an object falling to earth. The visions end and a woman dressed all in white appears before him and begins to speak. "You are the new Guardian Of The Crystal. Take it and do good with it. I wish you luck." With that, everything returns to normal.

Not understanding what that all meant, Nick puts the crystal in his jacket pocket and heads back to his jeep. He takes on last look around and speeds off to Carters.....