Stealing Power

*Boom!*

"Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed out with everything I had, but all I could do was watch as beams of light fell from the sky, destroying everything they hit. The lives of billions of people gone just like that. My mind was sinking even more. I did not want this. I did not want any of this. I just wanted the people of the empire I loved to live peacefully, so why!? Why must it come to this!?

"No… It won't end like this… I will not allow things to end like this…."  I stood up in the white space, which was slowly being consumed with red, and closed my eyes. I slowly opened them again as my eyes lit up with a light so radiant that I never thought would ever be imaginable. "Stop….."

Everything in the world slowed to a stop. The other me who had been destroying the empire I was working hard to make better and defend suddenly appeared in my mind's sea. "Why!? Why did you stop me!?"