“Everyone here?”
Dinah shook her head, her hair flying out to either side. “Everyone. I don’t understand. Can’t explain.”
Sheesh. Everyone’s a lot of people.
“Try,” he urged her.
“Sometimes it’s in two years. Sometimes it’s in eight. Sometimes in between. But if he’s alive, something happens, and everyone on Earth starts to die.
Holy shit.
Does that have something to do with Karahindiba and its kin, and the granting of Jack’s power? Because beings like Karahindiba seem like the one thing that would have this kind of power. But Karahindiba seemed benevolent and what the fuck does any of it have to do with Jack?
Well. Jacks gonna Jack, I guess, and surprisingly often that involves the end of the world.
Not that everyone doesn’t die anyways but they die really fast when that something happens, all one after another, and in a year almost everyone is dead. So I said everyone, if that makes sense and a few live but they die pretty soon after anyways and-“
Sheesh, it’s a proper apocalypse scenario, complete with a few postapocalyptic survivors.
Does Jack trigger a nuclear war or something? Or, worse, a Tinkertech war?
…how did the cold war end in this universe when both sides got a new sort of weapon to play with in the last decade of the real world version?