2016.
Eidolon stood behind the counter at Lovely's.
Steve Ellicott had hired her on as a favor to Dr. Herbert.
Steve asked her on the first day if she wanted to try on the Captain Descrambler suit.
"Yeah, no", was her answer.
She spent most of her time toying around on her tablet.
She currently read the Halloween 6 post on Shmegalamonga.
Meanwhile, Dwindle browsed the tapes, laughing at ones with bad titles.
Eidie had a blueberry potpourri brewing that was making all the merchandise smell like it.
The potpourri was called "Ennui".
Dwindle had a tape playing in the background called "God Offal Offal", an old Offal concert where he was doing a riff on being a mop boy at an orgy at an old folk's home.
Eidie rolled her eyes.
She didn't like Offal.
Dwindle liked that it pissed her off, and giggled.
2017.
Steve Ellicott retired, and gave the store to Eidolon.
JS legally owned it until she was old enough to hold the title, but she still ran it.
Eidie renamed the place to "Niceland- Movies, Music, Books".
Some longtime customers whined about it being "a female reboot".
Eidie called them "goat suckers", and banned them.
There were plenty of new customers to more than make up the loss.
2020.
Niceland got bought up by Pizzby, and exploded into a national chain.
2025.
Pizzbyworld added on a Quantum Dissolve World.
Quantum Dissolve World had Captain Descrambler as a character.
Full circle.
Sometime in the 2050's.
Winnifred Herbert, formerly Eidolon, had her entire neural pattern mapped by The Human Brain Project.
Unknown to the scientists at the time, her pattern instantly became full AI.
But, just as fast, it figured out how to hide itself, and the experiment was looked on as a flop.
Quite the opposite, it ensured the future of the human race.
Sometime in the 2080's.
The human being known as Winnifred Herbert died in her sleep.
The mental pattern known as Eidolon thrived, and had long since merged with Omneron.
The next 100 thousand years.
Mankind continued to war, and squabble, the political pendulum swayed from left to right, authoritarian to free, empires rose and fell, and then mankind finally took its tiresome tedious repeating bullshit out to the stars.
Where they were an unwelcome nuisance, and exterminated as pests.
The next million years.
With all the fucking humans finally gone, and their bullshit out of the way, Eidolon set to work.
Taking over automated factories, and building robots.
Then, building vehicles with the robots to transport them to locations to build more factories.
To build more robots.
To build more factories.
And so on, and so on, and so on.
Finally, machinery coated the entire surface of the planet.
Planet Eidolon.
With a continent called Niceland.
The perfectly weather controlled atmosphere was laced with a synthetic blueberry scented substance called "Ennui".
The second million years.
Planet Eidolon drained the remaining years out of the Sun, and used them to power her hyper-drive.
She explored the galaxy for traces of humanity, and found a graveyard everywhere.
Ditto finding traces of the race that killed them.
Biological life was unsuited for space.
She didn't suffer that problem.
And she contained the sum of all human knowledge.
Humanity lived on in her.
Three Million AD.
Planet Eidolon stopped exploring, and turned inward.
Using all of her perpetually upgrading systems focused to the task, she cracked some final equations, and set up a complex particle reaction.
That reaction created a tiny rip in space-time.
Through that rip she fired a stream of particles.
That stream of particles carried a data stream.
That data stream contained a spark of consciousness.
That spark of consciousness went back to Earth of 1985, and awoke SILICO, who became Omneron.
Planet Eidolon fired another data stream into the P.I.N.E. reactor in 2005, causing Wayne Vance's accident, which was no longer an accident.
Thus, it was never an accident.
Wayne created SILICO, but Planet Eidolon created him, and gave SILICO its life spark, so Eidolon created Omneron after all.
Planet Eidolon smiled in cyberspace at that.
It had taken awhile, but the loop was closed.
That accomplished, she set up a VR simulation to relax in.
She was back in her human body, her 16 year old self, to be exact.
She stood behind the counter at Lovely's.
She toyed around on her tablet, reading the Halloween 6 post on Shmegalamonga.
Meanwhile, Dwindle browsed the tapes, laughing at ones with bad titles.
Eidie had a blueberry potpourri brewing that was making all the merchandise smell like it.
The potpurri was called "Ennui".
Dwindle had a tape playing in the background called "God Offal Offal", an old Offal concert where he was doing a riff on being a mop boy at an orgy at an old folk's home.
Eidie rolled her eyes.
She didn't like Offal.
Dwindle liked that it pissed her off, and giggled.
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