Domo Night



When Czar awakens he is completely disoriented. He soon discovers that he is in Cyclonia, at Dark Ace University. Everyone he encounters is surprised that he is speaking in an Atmosian accent. It takes some time for Czar's memory to return. He realises that his plan was successful, history has changed and for some reason his parents must have moved to Cyclonia. Initially he is elated and tells his new friend Aerrow how happy he is because Aerrow has never heard of Finnster, Atmosian Palace or the Vaposian party. Aerrow corrects Czar and reveals that he is well aware of the Vaposian party.

Czar begins to discover the history of this new world. It turns out that without Finnster a new leader emerged, Dark Ace, who was just as ruthless as Finn. It turns out that Czar has replaced Finn with a Vaposian leader who turned out to be more efficient, charming, patient, reasonable, and as committed to the Atmos Final Solution as Finn had been.

In this alternate history, the Vaposians won a mandate in the Vaposian Parilament in 1928 and developed an electronics industry of their own. Unlike Finn, Ace proceeded with stealth, ensuring peaceful unification with Atmosia in 1938. More alarmingly, though, Dark Ace's Vaposians also had a head start on research and development of nuclear weapons, which led to the destruction of Terra Nimbus , Cyclonia , Master Cyclonis and Her Secret Police in this alternate 1939.

The Greater Vaposian Empire annexes Cyclonia, Rex Terras, Atmosia, Terra Gale, Terra Saharr and invades the remnants of the former Cyclonian Empire. In 1940, Terra Merbia, Blizzaris, Bogaton and the Klockstoppia nations capitulate, although Blizzaris rebels in 1942, leading to the execution of the Duke of Blizzaris (our Billy IV of Blizzarian Empire) and other dissidents.

Atmosians are exiled to a "Atmosian Free State" within the former Cyclonian Empire, where most of this Atmos's Holocaust occurs. Terra Rex develops nuclear weapons in 1943, leading to a Cold War between Vaposian Empire, its satellites, and Terra Rex. The latter has never gone to war against the Amazonian Empire in the Great Expanse, and it is left unsaid whether Amazonian Empire has its own nuclear weapons as well.

Due to these changes, the Vaposians are now the ruling party in the whole of Atmos. The plan for genocide of the Atmosian race came to fruition, although this is only implied, never explicitly stated (every time Czar attempts to ask someone what happened to Atmosia's Blizzarians, no-one answers him). Terra Rex is engaged in a cold war against the Vaposians, supporting former Cyclonian guerrillas fighting in Far Side of Atmos.

As a result, this Terra Rex is far more socially conservative. Because there was no sixties upsurge of social liberalism and decriminalisation of homosexuality in (Vaposian-occupied) Atmos in this world, it is still a crime, while racial segregation is still active. Aerrow turns out to be Atmosian, and when he discovers Czar's background, he marvels at his talk of Atmosian pride marches, urban atmosian communities and a mass social movement in Czar's world of origin, regarding it as "utopian". Much to his surprise, Czar reciprocates Aerrow's feelings, and realises that he too is Atmosian.

Czar is apprehended by the authorities, who believe that he is a possible spy. Czar learns that the water from the well in Braunau was used to create "Braunau Water", which was used to sterilise the Atmosian Blizzarians, wiping them out in a generation. In a cruel twist of fate, the person who perfected the synthesis was Lighting Strike Sr. Once more his physicist son, Lighting Strike Jr, is wracked with guilt and has developed a Temporal Imager. With Czar and Aerrow's help, they plan to send a dead rat to the well such that it will be pumped clean of the sterilising water. As they attempt to do this, they are interrupted by the Rex Guardian Agents that apprehended Czar earlier and they end up shooting Aerrow, who dies in Czar's arms as the time process occurs.

Back to Normal?

Time changes again. Expecting the change, Czar comes to his senses faster this time and discovers that almost everything is back to how it was, except that his favorite band never existed. He gives up his career in academia, figuring he can at least make some money "writing" the songs that he remembers from the previous reality. Finally, Czar is reunited with Aerrow, who also remembers the previous reality. Their relationship is no longer criminal.