Chapter 11 - The Reverse Buddha's Cannon of the Law of Cause and Effect
Arya's Buddhist blood crystallized into a mandala formation in the vacuum, each lotus petal reflecting the destroyed parallel Earth. The home fleet unfurled a projection of the Wheel of Fortune Sutra that enveloped the entire solar system, Sanskrit scrolls wrapping around the eight planets and transforming the sun into the Dharma of the Angry King.
"Activate the Reverse Buddha Speaks Karma Engine." Ramon's main body chanted the sutra at the flagship, firing black hole missiles from each of the Buddha beads. Arya stepped on the Antimatter Lotus and dodged, the Quantum Sherpa in his earlobe suddenly playing a recording he'd never heard before, "Don't trust any beta numbered ..."
The lunar wreckage suddenly coalesced into a mechanical Buddha, with 36,000 Buddha eyes locking onto Arya at the same time. As the causality cannon recharged, she saw the remnants of successive administrators blasted to death floating in the trajectory of the ballistic trajectory - each a clone of her!
"Your struggles are scripted as well." Ramon's voice took on a supernova-like sadness as the flagship extended its light-years-long demon-pestle, "The Mother Planet scripted three thousand ways to die when she created you."
Arya's Buddha bone suddenly pierced her chest and grew into a reverse swastika totem. With her bare hands, she ripped through the dimensional barrier and yanked out the dead souls of the former administrators in the dark matter ocean. As the 100,000 alpha-series ghosts formed a shield, the causal law projectiles disintegrated themselves 0.3 light-seconds away from her - they could not attack the home planet's creations!
The eye of time suddenly opens in the palm of the Mechanical Buddha, and images of Arya's childhood flash through it: at the age of five, she's carving in a lunar church, and the instructor turns out to be the young Ramon himself!
"Do you understand the humor of reincarnation now?" Ramon's flagship disintegrates into billions of miniature transmogrifications, each playing a different carnage ending, "What you fell in love with was nothing more than your own Creator."
Arya's reverse swastika totem suddenly reverses, and Buddha's blood writes the Paradox Heart Sutra in space. When the sutra touched Mercury, the entire planet collapsed into a Klein bottle, sealing half the fleet into an infinite loop of penance programs.
"Then transcend the Creator!" She ripped off the Buddha's bones and hurled them at the mechanical Buddha, the bone fragments proliferating into a chain of anti-causes in the vacuum. The Buddha's 100,000 arms suddenly beat each other up, and the moon's core is revealed to be the truth that makes everyone tremble - sealed inside are the originator cells of the home planet's breeders!
Ramon's main body finally left the flagship, and silver teardrops oozed from the Breeder's battle armor: "Stop! That's ... in there."
Arya's fingertips had touched the initiator cell. In the moment of fusion, she saw the truth of the birth of the universe - the home planet's civilization was nothing more than some child's glass ball toy, and the Earth's experimental field was a child's play house game made out of Play-Doh!
"So we are all toys of toys." Her Buddha's blood suddenly cleared like a spring, and the drops birthed new universes in every dimension. The Mechanical Buddha began chanting the Genesis Patch in an attempt to repair the tainted chain of karma.
While Ramon's demon-pestle pierced her abdomen, Arya laughed. Her wound blossomed into the Reverse Buddha Dharma, held in each of her eight thousand hands:
The gravitational wrench that crushes black holes
The imaginary compass that rewrites physical constants
The antimatter rose that materializes love
The second recharge of the Causal Law Cannon is complete, and the entire solar system begins to go backwards. Arya grabs Ramon's essence in the time reversal and stabs the antimatter rose into his chest, "Let's teach the bears a lesson."
The rose suddenly blooms, each petal unfolding into a parallel universe. The home fleet replicates itself in an infinite fractal, eventually triggering a vacuum decay due to mass overload. Ramon's essence suddenly sends a pulse signal in the Nurturer's Secret Language before dissipating, "Run, the child is awake."
The lunar wreckage is suddenly kneaded into playdough by invisible hands, and the galactic cantilever begins to curl. Arya saw the face of a huge child emerging from beyond the universe, and he was looking at the "broken toy" with curious eyes. ...