Joining her was not an option, to the people who he has come across who were up for elimination by the system, one things has always been synonymous amongst all of them, they felt that the system had no right to govern their lives as if it was an individual rather than some complex cosmic computer that put everything and everyone in place with a whole lot of 'Cosmic calculations'. Cole for once never saw the system as a singular entity, he also didn't think it was infallible, the idea of going to universe after universe and consuming them did not sit right with him, especially as the new universe would always be at a disadvantage. And would be gobbled and swallowed up by the powers of the already established system guided universe.