Submitted by alacz t3_zbnkl2 in WritingPrompts
SuqMadiqNaow t1_iyv6adn wrote
The genie opened the contract and began reading. Page after page after page of explanations as to how it cannot twist my wish this time.
No causes. No catches. Just logical argument after logical argument. Pages of them. Every possible corruption of the wish logically destroyed before the genie could even get to this wish itself.
"What is all this? Why are you wasting my time with these pages?".
"I want you to know how incorruptible my wish is to your whims and deceptions. Keep reading. It gets worse for you."
The more pages the genie reads, the more abstract the arguments become. Higher dimensions. Multiple realities. Quantum nonsense. Temporal fuckery. Nothing is left to chance.
Becoming more and more agitated the further he reads, the genie now comes to the second section of the contract. What I like to refer to as Revenge.
Every page outlines in excruciating detail all the horrors I plan to unleash upon the genie for denying the desires my wishes. An eternity of eternities of suffering await this deceitful creature. Unending pain and torment. Not just for what it's done to me, but for every other victim it has destroyed before me.
"How dare you?! What makes you think any wish you could possibly make would leave me unable to stop this?".
I stifle my laughter and simply tell it, "Keep reading. You'll see.".
This entity, who has torment hundreds, if not thousands, of those who only sought to better their lot in life, grows more and more enraged as it's reading approaches the final page.
It is only then, upon reaching that final page, that all color drains from his face. For upon the last page is written a single word. A word whose meaning is unequivocal.
"Read it! I want to hear you say it!!"
He hesistates for a moment before his demenor changes, admitting his defeat.
"Omnipotence..."
(Be kind, I wrote this on a whim and it's my first submission.)
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