LOTM: The Odyssey Of Time

This is a LOTM crossover inspired by FanfictionDreamer's "The Ultimate Story" that describes the future of life, both on Earth and off it, laid out into an epic narrative spanning a thousand million years.

No, literally. A billion years. Let's read the timeline so I can prove it to you, shall we?

Humanity Awakens (2020-2060)
As a new decade began in 2020, the world marched on with discovery and technological growth. Sword Art Online, launched in 2022, gained it's first players in Japan and had spread to Europe and North America by 2025. But before long, the modern way of living no longer seemed possible. In between 2020 and 2060, two main incidents put an end to the current human civilization - first, a massive pandemic that originated in Japan caused the loss of 900 million people in just five years. In 2031, the mutant humans that had been infected by the virus had been wiped out by the few remaining citizens still staying behind in japan, all thanks to Rentaro Satomi, a skilled problem solving high school boy who had become an expert gun user early on in life. As Japan recovered, Buddyfighting emerged as a popular sport for teens and kids in the early 2030s, with the most successful of them all being Gao Mikado, who won over 80% of all the battles in his three year career.

But just as soon as the light at the edge of the rain cloud had shone with full force, it had faded away once again. Although technological progress had continued in the U.S and Europe, who had just barely fended off the approaching diseases that demolished most of Asia by 2030, they would not be spared this time around. The time soon came in which mankind would become his own enemy.

In September 2037, just months after the glorious futuristic world from Meet The Robinsons had experienced a visit from it's ancestor who had hopped forward from 2007, a population consisting of several thousand A.I machines and mechanically modified humans broke free from a production plant, also in Japan. These organisms quickly spread faster and farther than than anyone had expected. By 2038, they had left no piece of land besides Antarctica untouched. It wasn't until October 2038 that Leon Lau, a Chinese scientist, would put an end to their deadly antics.

Wait......did you think that was the second incident? You wish.........

Life had returned to normal by the time the 2040s began. The descendants of Nate Adams, who had discovered Yo-Kai some 30 years ago, made their own discovery of the bizarre spirits in 2044.

By 2046, cutting edge technology had come into use all over the world. The way of delivery methods had changed since the creation of nanotech cardboard, which can resist every impact and keep its contents intact. As the popularity of the material grew, so did its purposes. The super strong cardboard was used as material for special battlefields for LBX's, specialized miniature robots made by Tiny Orbit that were once banned due to their destructive purposes. Their popularity had again risen due to the specialized battlefield, and unique models of LBX were made by 2048.

Four years after the creation of the new cardboard, in 2050, Van Yamano, a middle school boy, had been entrusted with the LBX "AX-00" by a mysterious woman, containing a Platinum Capsule. He learned from the woman that his father is actually still alive and knew about a secret conspiracy relating to the Japanese government.

Okay, here comes the second disaster.........

First Contact (2060-2070)
In 2063, Earth was invaded by aliens from hundreds of light years away called the Nova. In order to counter them, genetically modified female soldiers with super fighting skills called Pandoras and their male partners called Limiters who use special "freezing" powers to limit their opponent's mobility were made to fight against them. In August 2068, the Nova returned and attacked a 50 kilometer long space station in orbit around earth, a large chunk of the debris from which later impacted the moon and severely damaged it, sending asteroids of lunar rock hurtling toward earth. By 2070, despite the Nova being wiped out, the planet was in ruins once again.

Regrowth (2070-2180)
By 2071, bounty hunting had become a common way of life for the few remaining people still living in space. Not long after October of that year, the four most famous bounty hunters had become Spike Spiegel, Jet, Faye, and a young girl named Ed. However, by 2072, their leader (Spike) was dead, leaving the remaining three to resume their normal lives across the solar system.

Technology had grown back to pre-invasion levels by 2105, as shown in the anime series Beatless. In 2108, mind-reading guns were put into use, leading to the events of the anime Psycho Pass in 2112.

By the 2130s, Battle Spirits had become a popular children and teen's game similar to the Buddyfights of a hundred years prior. In 2138, a Battle Spirits player known as Yukimura witnessed a battle between Sasuke Akatsuki and Nagayori Akai. After the battle, Nagayori stole Sasuke's deck. Believing the deck was the life of a card battler, this angered Yukimura. He then challenged Nagayori himself, and won Sasuke's deck back.

But this renaissance of technology had upset the planet quite a bit.........

The Second Crisis (2180-2195)
In the 2180s, average global temperatures had risen by almost five degrees, caused by global warming. As such, people were soon unable to live on the Earth's surface and so created domed cities. But as years went by, war and unstable land condition parted the dome cities, and they lost contact with each other.

In 2194, Shu was a teenage boy from Datania, a school-type city dome controlled by Zero, an A.I program. With the help of his human assistant Nines, they forced the children who live there to live and work as programmed drones using the reset system, which resulted in the children having no emotions, needs, or human instinct. Shu later learned that the purpose of Datania is for each worker to help create a rocket that will transport Zero safely in to orbit before a generator that has been preventing global flooding breaks down due to neglect and the world is flooded in a huge tidal wave. Shu eventually returned to Datania to defeat Zero and save both its citizens and the rest of the runners. The rocket there couldn't be completed in time, but Shu had the idea they instead turn it in to an Ark and ride out the flood before the wave hits. Work was complete and everyone was loaded aboard, but a technical fault prevented it from being launched just as the generator preventing the flood finally broke down, forcing Shu and his friends to work against the clock to free it. But suddenly, the tsunami struck before the Ark was released, leaving the fate of Shu and everyone on board unclear.

After about a year, the waters returned to their 21st century sea level. By 2197, the few surviving cities of civilization had spread out across the greening landscape again, and thus miraculously kicked the story of mankind into high gear again.

500 Years Of Glory (2195-2715)
In 2201, a certain gifted racer from the past was awakened from a 150 year cold sleep: Rick Wheeler, who died in 2051 just before the first contact with the Nova that took so many lives. The F-Zero races had commenced in 2198, inspired by the formula one races of two centuries ago. But in 2221, a horrific crash took place in which a pile-up of racing vehicles resulted in the deaths of 35 drivers, far worse than the grand finale incident of 2200. By 2225, transportation technology such as the F-Zero races had come to pass, with the U.S now becoming the center of technological development which was aimed more towards longer-term goals like the colonization of space.

The third reconquest of the stars began in 2233 with the formation of Starfleet, a organization (and manufacturer) of scientific space vessels measuring hundreds of meters in length, such as the famous U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701 that was launched in 2245, piloted by captain Kirk.

In 2310, the Voyager space probes (which had been launched in 1977) crossed the boundary into the Oort Cloud. However, many vessels from Starfleet had long since overtaken them.

By the 25th century, mankind had built an interstellar empire spanning half the Orion arm. In 2452, Claude C. Kenni, a crew member on the spaceship Calnus and son of the commander of the ship, was transported to Expel, a backwards planet with swords and magic. He teamed up with Rena Lanford, who thought he was the legendary Warrior of Light, and other characters to investigate the Sorcery Globe, a meteorite that was causing problems all over this particular world of humanoids known as the expellians, a hybrid race resulting from the interbreeding of human colonists with the native tribal aliens.

In the 2460s and 2470s, an unexpected increase in the cost of renewable energy led to the end of wind, water and sun-driven electrical systems. Not willing to risk repeating the crisis of the 2180s, humanity began using biofuels, such as leftover food and excrement, to power the world's cities and vehicles.

To reward every successful bowel movement, the government would hand out extremely addictive, popsicle-like "Juicybars" to citizens, which in turn also made them constipated. Aachi and Ssipak were street hoodlums living at this time who struggled to survive by trading black market Juicybars.

With so much energy on Earth dedicated to waste and trash production, the 26th and 27th centuries were marked by growing air pollution and rapid expansion of landfills. By 2700, over 20 billion people were crammed into 85% of the planet's land area, but the quality of life continued to drop even as whole mountain ranges were filed off via the use of explosives and digging vehicles. From April 2714 to June 2715, mankind was whisked away into space stations in a heliocentric orbit in the Kuiper belt, where they would wait until the planet was made habitable again by WALL-E robots designed to clean up trash for days on end. All other space exploration was halted, and Starfleet was disbanded in 2717, meaning that the planet of the expellians was left to its own devices of civilization from that point onward.

Before long, "operation cleanup" was declared a failure as the robots began running out of power, and thus the starliners were ordered to remain in space permanently in 2725.

90 Years Of Lost Hope (2715-2805)
The last remaining WALL•E unit continued to obey his directive every day and doing the same job over and over: creating small cubes from trash and building colossal towers from them, while there were no humans to start the waste incinerators. Earth was covered in trash and suffered from sandstorms and torrential downpours. In 2805, however, the Axiom (one of the biggest BNL Starliners ever made) sent out a probe ship to Earth in the exact city where the Axiom was launched 90 years ago. An EVE unit (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) was deployed from the probe shipand began an operation in search of plant life.

The unit was successful in finding an example of positive plant life with help of the last WALL•E. The plant caused the unit to shut down which alerted the probe ship to come back for transport to the Axiom. This plant was successful and proved that plants where indeed growing in city ruins. The plant was placed in the holo-detector so that the Axiom made an automated hyperjump back on Earth.

Two Last Centuries Of Earth-Bound Civilization (2805-3028)
Later after these events, humans began rebuilding once again, and had repopulated completely by 2900.

Space exploration resumed in 2904, with plans of setting off to check on the expellians (who had been left behind to live on their own and govern themselves almost 200 years ago) underway by 2920.

In 2977, humanity had once again achieved a vast starfaring civilization, but was slowly and steadily succumbing to boredom or despair, often due to defeat and subjugation by a foreign invader. Rising against the general apathy, Space Pirate Captain Harlock denied defeat and lead an outlaw crew aboard his starship Arcadia to undertake daring raids against Earth's new oppressors, the Mazone, a race of organic plant-like aliens who explored Earth in the prehistoric past and were now back to reclaim it.

The human-mazone war began in 2978 and raged for 23 years until May 3001, when they seemed to flee the battle.

Unknown to man, they were actually running away from the approach of something far, far deadlier........

One Final Setback (3028-3044)
It was the 16th of July 3028, the middle of the summer surge of space tourism. No one saw it coming. Over just one week, an evacuation on a scale not seen for over 310 years since the failure of operation cleanup rung the earth like a bell. All the human beings of the planet were flung off the earth just hours before an alien race known as the Drej destroyed literally the entire surface of the planet.

16 years later, the remaining humans discovered a new habitable earth-like planet, and killed off the Drej. From that point onward, the galaxy was mankind's for the taking - no alien races in the milky way had been undefeated or spared extinction by the humans of planet Earth.

However, life on our planet was not over yet. Insects, birds, mammals, and plants began to grow in number as the 4th millennium progressed. By 3228, or 200 years after the Drej-induced extinction, entire patches of forest and grassland measuring hundreds of kilometers in size had appeared again. Even the less hardy trees like oaks and pines had begun to form tracts of canopy by 3500. Fish, sharks, whales, and other sea creatures had also boomed in population by that time along with returning coral reefs.

All Tomorrows (3044-192,051)
Three thousand light years away, the distant descendants of human colonists, the expellians, had now been living by themselves as their own isolated planet of humanoids for 800 years. In 2952, an extreme flare from their parent star had disabled their entire electric grid, and by the new millennium they fallen back to the equivalent of the 19th century in terms of society and technology. After three world wars in 3031, 3092, and 3128 respectively, they were returning to the space age once again by the 35th century. What they, and the human survivors on other planets across the galaxy will do from here onwards however, we must wait a while to find out.

Even with planet earth abandoned, the human story continued elsewhere. By 3596, a quarter of the galaxy was filled with terraformed worlds inhabited by interstellar traveling human beings. Since 3446, two mighty space powers have intermittently warred with each other: The Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance, and a third neutral power called the Phezzian Dominion, a planet-state which trades with both warring powers. There is also a Terraism cult, which claims that humans should go back to Earth, gaining popularity throughout the galaxy.

In 3598, earth was declared a natural reserve by the Phezzians, who even began to fight against both warring powers in order to protect it. Eventually, some seven thousand years later, the Dominion was finally crushed in 10,672. Within a century, few descendants of humans could remember what the term "earth" even meant.

The galactic empire and FPA continued fighting each other and competing over the far side of the galaxy for planets to colonize until 192,051 when a ceasefire was called on both sides as neither had advanced forth over the other.

The Future Is Far (192,051-1,000,000,000 CE)
(WIP)