Roulette Reality 1: Fire

Roulette reality one, spin and fire. They called it a hammer, a trigger: it was in truth a massive burst of energy drawn off from a caged singularity that they used to slice and dice reality into chunks that their quantum computer told them were there. Comparing it to a gun seemed somewhat childish to [...]

some time later

‘You’re acting like a child.’
‘I never took any lessons.’
‘My, then you must be a natural.’
‘Thank you. I have to admit that I am having trouble remembering your name.’
‘That is because we erased it from your mind. We are not letting your reality survive.’
‘No? And how do you intend to prevent it surviving? Isn’t reality a [...]

the scheme of things

The first Brewlat, the original, the one from the prime timeline, the one from which all others branched off (for they had proved that theory to within an inch of its life) had to build a dimension jumper to travel to wherever his doppelganger had come from and prevent him from building a dimension jumper. [...]