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January 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Beyond the fields, beyond the meadows, lives a brown bear with a flattened ear named Winnie the Pooh. One morning, he woke up and began to eat his honey pots for breakfast as usual. Suddenly, someone rang his doorbell and the bear came to the exit.
β Who's there?
β These are your new friends. Does Winnie the Pooh live here?
β Yes, it's me.
β Please come out onto the porch!
Winnie the Pooh obediently opened the door and went out onto the porch. Five strange people in strange suits with helmets stood in front of him.
β Don't be afraid, Mister Pooh. We are your new friends. My name is Lieutenant William Romzarg. But you can just call me Will. These are my personal guards. We are all from an interdimensional underground organization.
But Winnie was surprised and did not understand.
β What organization? β he asks, and Will answers:
β Don't worry. We will definitely explain everything to you. But first we want you to come with us. We are inviting you to visit us, so to speak. Your friends have already been invited and only you are left. Are you coming with us? β After asking the question, Will extends his hand.
Winnie stood for a minute, looking at this strange man and eventually gave him his plush black paw to shake. The soldiers took out some kind of device that looked like a walkie-talkie and opened a portal of blue beams of light and sparks. They all went through the portal together and found themselves on some large base with a hall and a bunch of monitors. Will said:
β Welcome to I.A.I.S.F.T.P.O.T.M.A.T.!
β I.A.I.S.F.T.P.O.T.M.A.T.? βββ Winnie asked again.
β Interuniversal and intertemporal sector for the protection of the multiverse and time. β explained the abbreviations of the name of their organization and led the bear around their base, giving a tour and explaining how they work. β Our organization is outside of time, outside of space and between universes. We have long been observing each universe, as well as their time, such as the past, present and future. We fight against time paradoxes and protect each universe from any anomalies and cataclysms, if suddenly something terrible happens in some universe and we save its life.
β Okay, but... What does this have to do with me? β Winnie did not understand.
β Don't worry. Now we will find your friends and we will explain to you all in more detail why you are all here.
He led the bear to the first floor, where all of Winnie the Pooh's friends were already standing. They were Piglet, Rabbit, Owl and Eeyore.
β Guys! β Winnie was very happy to see his friends and hugged them.
β So. Now tell us what's going on and why you gathered us all here? β Piglet asked.
β Yes. Look right at the screen! β Will asked and the animals looked at the screens, where images of different glowing lines in space were shown. β These lines are called universes. Together they are... The Multiverse. In each such world, there are your own alternative versions. Including Winnie the Pooh. β The monitors began to show different versions of Winnie the Pooh, including the very same Disney yellow one in a red T-shirt.
β Wow! I didn't know that there were other worlds where I existed, who looked different. β said the bear.
β That's not all, β Will explained. β You are the most special and that's why we saved you from death.
β What death? β Eeyore didn't understand.
β You didn't know this, but... Your home universe, where you lived, is dying.
β Dying? β the rabbit asked again.
Will switched the screens with the remote control and showed one of the threads, which began to twitch.
β This twitching thread is your universe. Previously, it stood still, like all universes. However, it suddenly began to twitch. And very soon it will die. β Will rewound time with the remote control to the future, where the thread of the Soviet Winnie the Pooh universe twitched even faster and broke into two small, dangling threads. Then they began to dissolve and disappear from sight. β If we hadn't pulled you out of there in time, then you would have died along with this universe.
Winnie the Pooh and his friends were shocked by what they heard.
β And when will our universe die like that? β Owl asked.
β In a day. β Will answered.
β And is there no way to save our universe? - Piglet became worried.
β Yes. We love our home very much. Is there nothing we can do to keep our universe from dying? β asked the rabbit.
Will scratched his chin and said:
β Well, there is one way... Only one! We have to find Christopher Robin in some other universe and move him from there to your universe.
β Who? β the animals did not understand.
β Let me explain. β He switched the monitors again and they began to show different versions of the boys, as well as their adult versions when they grew up.
β Wow! Who are these people? β Winnie the Pooh asked.
β They are all the same character. More precisely, his different versions in different universes. His name is Christopher Robin.
β Christopher! Hmm... He's cute. β Winnie answered about the boy.
β Yes. He is very funny. The problem of the destruction of your universe is precisely due to the fact that your universe never had its own Christopher Robin. He simply does not exist there and he was never born there. But even if he was born, he does not know about you and he probably has a different first and last name.
β But why is it precisely because of the absence of Christopher Robin that our universe dies? β the rabbit did not understand.
β You see! We discovered this when we noticed that some other universes also died. And the reason was that in some of them, Christopher Robin himself was missing. And in some, either Winnie the Pooh or some other of his friends were missing. We called all this under the working title Canon. In different worlds that died, the canon was broken and therefore they died. All because in them, as in your universe, there is missing, as we also called it, the Key Anchor Character. That is, either Christopher Robin, or Winnie the Pooh, or someone else.
β And how does canon work? And won't the universe die anyway after the death of the Key Anchor Character? β Eeyore asked.
β No, there are conventions by which the death of the universe can be avoided, as we found out. If in some universe, for example, Christopher Robin was never born at all, especially when he should have been born or he accidentally died without living his entire life to the end, then his native universe dies. And if Christopher Robin was not only born in some universe, but also lives his entire life, grows up, grows old and then dies himself, having lived a life of dignity, plus his friends will be in his life, like the same Winnie the Pooh, then even after Christopher's death in this case the universe will continue to live on and will never die.
β Ah! So let's find this very Christopher Robin as soon as possible and transfer him to our universe so that it can live on. β suggested Piglet.
β Oh! It's not that simple. After all, if we take some other Christopher from any other universe, then in this case his universe will die without him. β Will explained and the animals were upset. They didn't want anyone else to suffer in their place. β Although... There is one very strange, scary and cruel universe. In it, your versions are hybrids and they have become cruel maniacs who kill people and even want to kill Christopher. We don't like this universe. It is terrible and clearly unnecessary among other terrible universes. We can take Christopher Robin from there, and let this cruel universe disappear.
β YES!!! β the animals jumped up victoriously.
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Adult Christopher runs through the forest and stumbles. An evil yellow bear with a chainsaw approaches him. β Finally, you are caught! Now you will die, traitor! β Don't, Winnie! A portal opens and Soviet Winnie flies out, kicking the hybrid in the face, forcing him to step back. β DON'T TOUCH HIM!!! β he shouted. β Who are you? β Christopher asked him. β Don't be afraid, Christopher. I'm Winnie the Pooh too. β the brown bear answered. Christopher was surprised by what he heard. β There can only be one Winnie the Pooh in this world. And that's me! β the hybrid said in a scary voice. Soviet Winnie turns around. β Quickly, Christopher Robin, jump into the portal! Without asking any questions, the man and the brown bear jumped through the portal. The hybrid didn't have time to catch up with them before the portal closed. The angry yellow bear stayed in place and screamed at the sky in anger.***
The portal opens in the native universe of the Soviet Winnie the Pooh. And not only did all its inhabitants return there, but also an adult Christopher Robin and Will himself. β Now this, Christopher, is the universe of these friends of Winnie the Pooh. β Will explained. β Wow! This is even better than what I had as a child. Well... I understand about the multiverse and different worlds with our doubles from other universes. It's just somehow unusual for me to know that my real and best friends will be these little animals, unlike the hybrids who became monsters. β Nothing. You will live in this universe, feel at home, and then in a month or two you will get used to it and say goodbye to your past life. In this universe, you will live in the forest, get food very easily and live in one of the possible houses in the trees. And if you want to live in the city, it is not far from here. There you can even become a new person and get a new job with a new home. As a parting gift, Will gave Christopher a working map of their organization with his photo, because now he is one of them. The lieutenant was about to leave, but Winnie the Pooh stopped him: β Wait, Will. β the lieutenant turned to the bear. β Why did you choose us? Well, when our universe was dying without its Christopher Robin, who never existed in our universe? Why did you only want to save us, taking us out of this universe? William smiled back and said: β Very simple. We believed that you, compared to your other parallel versions from other universes, are very special and important for the multiverse. And that you can make the multiverse better. And we were right about you. After all, when your universe was dying, you did not despair and decided to find a way to save your universe, and you also dared to save one person from another universe, which, according to logic, should never have existed. You made a good contribution to your multiverse. We would even call it... The Poohverse. Winnie was shocked with joy. β A multiverse in my honor? β he asks and the lieutenant nodded, after which he entered through the portal and disappeared. Christopher looks around the forest of this universe and looks at the animals themselves. β Welcome to our family, Christopher! β said Winnie, stretching out his arms along with his friends, and they all go to hug their first and only human friend. That's how Christopher from another universe stayed to live in this universe, the universe of the Soviet Winnie the Pooh. Let this universe live forever! Even after Christopher himself grows old and dies, having lived his whole life with dignity!
