Big Bounce

### Outcome

The collapsed Nexus Universe is found by Yahweh and is repurposed as a Cosmic Egg to create the Prime Universe. The actualization of core concepts like light and darkness were created as well as the formation of the four planes of reality representing power, spirit, space, and time. Merlin is rejuvenated and released back into the Universe.

### Executed by

Yahweh

The **Big Bounce** was the massive explosion that resulted in the birth of the Prime Universe. It was caused by God finding and infusing the collapsed Nexus Universe with his cosmic celestial magic, forcing a new universe to explode into existence.

## Background

### Chaoskampf

Discord and his army of mutated Longma sought to wipe out all humanoid life on Discordia. They planned a full attack on the humanoid creature capital, Halloweentown. The Longma, with their immense and more advanced power and magic, quickly overwhelmed the humanoid creatures. Merlin knew of only one solution to ensure the continued existence of humanoid creatures.

#### Big Crunch

Merlin went to his laboratory where he built and kept a universe altering machine. He attempted to use the machine to reset the Nexus Universe back to before the Longma attacked. However, Merlin was ambushed by a group of Longma, which caused him to mess up the input on the machine. As the Longma ripped apart Merlin's body, his severed arm powered the machine and caused the Universe to reset back into a Cosmic Singularity, crushing it into nothing and killing everyone except Merlin, who was trapped inside the Cosmic Egg for centuries.

## Big Bounce

After a few hundred years, and after billions of years of creating Archangels and Universes, Yahweh found the collapsed Nexus Universe containing the dismembered Merlin. He infused it with infinite Cosmic Celestial Magic, charging the artificial Singularity with even more magic and healing Merlin's body. The collapsed Nexus Universe eventually exploded into a new magically charged Prime Universe.

In an instant, the four planes of realities were created, each comprising an aspect of perspective. The Quantum Realm, the Astral Plane, the Spatial Plane, and the Temporal Plane, the last two planes forming space and time respectively. The explosion caused by the Prime Universe's Big Bang pained Khaos more than any other universe has. When the explosion occurred, the sudden outward thrust trapped and cut off parts of Khaos' body inside of it. The primordial Dark Energy forming the Ginnungagap, the void between dimensions. Khaos angrily tries to rip apart and destroy the Prime Universe, but only makes it expand outwards by pulling on its Universal Pores.

The heat of the Big Bang forged the first of many Dimensions into existence, Muspelheim was formed. Merlin being at the epicenter of the explosion grafted his likeness across the Universe, making nearly all future lifeforms have a humanoid appearance.

## Aftermath

As the Universe exploded into existence, a primordial entity was born with it, Yggdrasill, the Axis Mundi who extends the entire vertical length of the Prime Universe. Yggdrasill was born from all of the latent magic in the new born Universe. It would grow to connect the Nine Realms, and eventually cause planets like Earth and Alfheim to be flooded with excess magic. The rapid cooling of the Universe's expansion formed the second ever dimension, and an opposite to Muspelheim, the realm of fire, Niflheim, the realm of ice.

The magically charged Universe was deemed acceptable by the Primordial Deities, Primordial Monsters, and Celestial Entities, and journeyed into the new Universe to establish it. The Celestial Entities worked together and built two protective barrier dimensions around the Universe called the Ether and the Nether encompassing the outer upper and lower layer of the Prime Universe respectively. The Celestial Entities made their home in the Ether, constructing the city of Heaven, forming the Heavenly Host, and from it's highest point, watched over the Universe and the soon to be sprawling Multiverse.

When Yahweh took residence inside of the Prime Universe, he placed at its center the Spark of Creation, a primordial force that keeps the Multiverse running without Yahweh's direct intervention. Through this Spark, the Multiverse continued spawning more universes by exploding Cosmic Singularities. Every Cosmic Cycle, the Prime Universe splits into corrupted mirrors of itself, each one spawned from another Big Bang. The first cycle spawned the Anti-Universe, then the Opposite Universe, and so on.

## Trivia

* The theory of a Universe being formed from the remnants of a previous collapsed Universe, due to a Big Crunch, is known as the Big Bounce
	+ In this instance, the Nexus Universe was the first in the Universal Cycle, with the following Prime Universe being the second in the cycle of infinite Universes