"What do you make of this, Captain Korin?" asked one of the ensigns.
"It certainly is strange. An entire planet appearing from somewhere else....very interesting too." he said admiring it. Whatever tech had been used to do this had to be reclaimed for the Galactic Alliance. Korin thought of all the fun they could have with technology like that.
"The reports of the scan are in, sir." said another officer. "The planet is safe and hospitable."
"Even stranger." Captain Korin said smiling. "Let's go down then and investigate for ourselves."
The Reliant flew towards the planet and easily passed into the atmosphere with little resistance. After navigating through the dense yellow fog they found a very haunted looking land underneath. All the ground was black and trees were dead. There were no signs of life except for a small group of houses.
The ship landed and Captain Korin nearly jumped out of it to investigate the planet. The other offices tried to slow him down, but he made his way directly to the town and found next to a well a humanoid robot.
"A robot?" he said looking at it.
"Oh my! We have visitors?" the robot said pleasantly. "Welcome to Amity!"
"Why thank you." Korin responded smiling. "What is this planet?"
"We call it Mortis. And interestingly enough this is the first time we have ever met anyone as we moved into this dimension."
"How did you do that exactly?" he asked yearning for answers.
"This planet has been programmed to be sent here every year on this day."
"Programmed?" Korin asked. Perhaps they had a different definition for the word, because planets in this world were not programmable.
"Yes. It is mostly robotic now and this was done by Necro Industries a major corporation in our world."
"Interesting. So why are you world-hopping with this planet?"
"As I said only one day a year. The day known as Mogloween in our world."
"Mogloween? Please explain." Korin said addicted to this new information.
"Necro Industries was responsible for a slight chemical spill in our sector. This chemical is usually harmless but it was mutated by an extremely powerful energy source and it destroyed all life on this planet."
The robot continued. "It also caused the moglins of our world to transform into horrible beasts on this day every year. It was an odd turn of events, but it caused this robotic society and Mortis as you see it to emerge."
Korin smiled. "That is a very interesting tale. Thank you, Mr..." he began.
"Springenstein. Dr. Springenstein actually. I am the Mayor of Amity."
"Well thank you Dr. Springenstein. Do you mind if me and my crew explore your planet a bit?"
"Not at all. However you, Captain Korin, must stay here. Someone told me you would be coming and he would very much like to meet with you."
Korin was a bit surprised but followed the mayor into one of the houses. The mayor bowed and left and told Korin to proceed up the stairs. Climbing up them he found a man dressed casually and with a paper bag over his head awaiting him.
"Hello?" Captain Korin asked confused. This fellow here was quite odd, he thought to himself.
"Oh hi. You really shouldn't be here, Me."
"Me?" he asked.
"Yes, Me. You and I are the same person...well not yet. You will be me one day, but not today. Unfortunately your presence here is exactly how we were born. So you will have to stay here...until the end of the day when Mortis returns home."
Korin reached for his gun, but the paper bag smiled at him and chains erupted from the floorboards. Captain Korin was tied up and the paper bag being disappeared in a flash. Captain Korin screamed for help, but no one heard.
Hours later he awoke and found himself on the floor. Captain Korin walked down the stairs and opened the door to find himself in Amity. He ran to the mayor.
"Dr. Springenstein! What time is it?"
"Oh my. Captain Korin, you never left?"
"No...that person you brought me too tied me up. He claimed to be me." he said angrily at the doctor.
"I am very sorry. Oh wait...no I'm not." The head of the mayor exploded and a paper bag emerged. "Hi Me."
"What? How did you do that? Who are you?"
"I am you as I pointed out. And welcome to my world. I'll be keeping you here until time starts to move in my direction and we can merge."
Captain Korin tried to speak but Korin disappeared. Captain Korin looked around Amity but found no one. He wandered into the forest, but he always found himself back at the town. Over many years Captain Korin became insane and one day he was attacked by a rain of strange chemicals.
Captain Korin felt himself change as power flowed through him. His form changed and he became himself. "I guess I really am Me."
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