The Oracle Returns
Origin
The Oracle slows everything down and points past damage toward cause.
The Oracle returned. Everything slowed.
Oracle: Every jump alters the past.
Oracle: Every correction destroys another path.
Gemstone stood still.
Gemstone: Then what fixes it?
Silence.
Oracle: Origin.
Before Everything
That word hit harder than anything else. Because he understood.
You don’t fix the damage. You remove the cause.
The timelines opened. Wider than before. Further back.
Caption: Before the betrayal.
Caption: Before the thefts.
Caption: Before the friendship.
Caption: Before everything.
The Break
Gemstone stepped forward. And broke it.
Not the world. The timeline itself.
The Interloper fractured. Severed from its paths.
Ballistic Prime collapsed into static. Dust. Nothing.
Everything reset. Clean. Aligned. But not unchanged.
The Cost
Gemstone stood under a new sky. Whole. But separate.
Two figures in the distance. Alive again.
Caption: His sister.
Caption: His father.
They didn’t recognize him. And that was the cost.
The timeline was restored. But the one who carried it could never fully return.
Starboy
Forward
Restored sky, waiting ship, the next fracture no longer broken but calling.
The ship hovered above. Waiting.
Another fracture opened. Not broken. Calling.
Gemstone turned. Starboy now.
And stepped forward.
The story wasn’t over.