Flip of a coin.


    Marcus sat down in the chair said that he was ready to go but what happened next he was not ready for


    The next thing he knows everything goes dark and he can feel the chair under his hands and all of a sudden it''s gone there''s no feeling from it he knows he''s there but he''s got no feeling in his body everything goes and then poof  He''s in a different place without a body and he''s just a floating head


    Around him that he can see is lots of other floating heads and in the middle is a giant circular pillar that''s kinda talking reminds me of the major boss in the first tron movie ever made


    It just looks down at Marcus and says ah 800842 dash earth representative marcus welcome to day we will put you on intake welcome to the galactic board and with that his head just literally flew away and the moment it stopped it was attached to a big round ball all of a sudden you see another one of these heads just coming in at super speed flying through the air and it just hits the same ball that Marcus is on in a little next spout comes out of the ball and then puts the head up so now it''s like a little too headed harder ball


    So think of this an orb about five feet in diameter with two metal tubes coming out of the top of it with two heads just placed on top


    Marcus at this moment was gonna say something and tried to open his mouth and realize that his mouth is shut so he couldn''t really say anything just listen and look


    It was about a minute before the other head was lucid enough because that whole thing about connecting to the round ball really knocked him out a while


    When the head came to it looked over at Marcus and saw the little stiffles on his lips holding his mouth shut I just said oh I get it i''m here to be your ductationer today or whatever you want to call me you don''t need to know my name I won''t get to know yours because you can''t tell me so let''s just say hello and welcome to the galactic board


    As I can see that you''re a brand new initiate i''ll tell you what''s going on here and how this all works a long time ago a space race figured out how to communicate with other races except I didn''t do it right then they pissed off a really really evil thing


    And in doing so this evil society people creature we''re not too sure created a system and as it finds new sapient creatures it brings them into we call it the galactic board it''s just another name for the system the software whatever you want to call it but there are rules no offense the thing was evil not in psychotic evil says that young species need to grow up before they''re allowed to be harvested or abused and because your plan hasn''t figured out space travel you''re basically in a quarantine zone you''re kind of lucky that way but people still want to interact with you so what they do is they elect one person and the system the Galactic Board makes some sort of place on each planet that is under protection and then it asks one of the locals to be there arbiter


    You get paid for just doing this job so you''ll be getting paid 15 galactic credits today for just observing if you have an answer for us and I can only accept yes or no that''s a head up and down or a head left or right I understand that do you understand this sir


    Marcus looked over at this human person looking like any other normal Joe if you know what I mean Mr Joe Smith will call him and he Marcus has looked at Mister Smith and shook his head up and down he understood mister Smith just smiled and said okay let''s get on with it


    This is where the sci-fi part comes in because the balder on starts rolling you would think their heads would hit the ground come up hit the ground come up hit the head the ground come up over and over no their heads never moved once and you Marcus looked down he couldn''t see it where it was disconnecting it was perfect it was just moving


    Marxist of Dover Mr Smith and he was smoking a cigarette the moment Smith saw Marcus look at him he just kind of flicked his tongue in the cigarette right back into his mouth and there was a swallowing motion and then Mr Smith looked over at marks and said are you ready for your grand tour of the Galactic Board


    Marcus was like where the hell did that cigarette go but he was ready so he just nodded his head and said yesThis tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.


    Mrs Smith was kind of laughing at this because his magic trick went over quite well and well he was in a good mood so Mr Smith started to talk as they started to roll along and as you were rolling along it was a grand white area with metal rafters like there was a hallway that they were in and the main room that they were in before was huge mr Smith then spent the next day and a half explaining that there was work to be done next time he came in but for now he''s just going to show him around the space station that they were on and the space station was in another galaxy so they''re just transmitting his brain to this body for the day the reason for the memory wipe was explained to him as you''ll see stuff here that should melt your brain we want to put good memories back into your body so that we don''t infect it or make it so that you have neurological issues you are in charge of what you''re allowed to know for now we''re just going to stop everything from coming through you should have no bleed over as what they call it everybody says it didn''t have a little bit but I don''t know if we really believe that or not but for today we''re just going to take you around show you the station and after one or two more days working here we''ll probably give you your own body here it''s just for today you don''t want to get lost or well in the past we''ve had people that just couldn''t stop crying or or screaming so that''s why you can''t talk you just first days so just don''t worry about breathing or anything like that you don''t have to worry you''re not really here you''re sitting in the chair


    This made a lot of sense to markets now that he was there and he just just listened and he just kept on going and Missus Smith kept on talking and explaining how they were founded a long long time ago and it wasn''t that amazing it was just a really old system that was still around every planet had a guardian and if you wanted to deal with things outside you had to pay for them made a daily wage and that was it we just kept the machine running if you all long live the system


    The undertones that Mr Smith was giving off made Marcus kind of wonder about all this and after seeing the 5th or 6th alien that he had never seen before as they were just going around Marcus realized he wasn''t on Earth anymore this was exactly what he''s being told some space station somewhere out there and their final stop for the day was at an office where he was let in and introduced a triangle a giant triangle and no this is not a gravity falls reference just there was a triangle sitting in a chair and I know how silly that sounds but yeah a triangle bright pink and everything in a chair


    The cube then started to talk and it just said basically I believe this is our new recruit Marcus mr Smith just nodded his head and the cube said hello with that Mr Smith turned around and left the room


    This shocked Marcus at first until Mr Smith being able to basically read his mind at this point somewhat understood his misconceiving nature and said the moment we rolled through that door he had taken your information and that''s all he needed he will now do all the paperwork for your next jobs and you will be informed next time you load in for now I''m going to take you to your office which is where you will start next time on your desk we''ll be writing utensils it''s like the desk that''s in your home the idea is if you want to take work home with you some of the paperwork can be sent with you to your home and if not it stays here most people don''t take their work home with them so let''s go for another jaunt around and while you''re here you won''t have to worry about using the bathroom or eating anything because the bodies we give you are mechanical your brains here not your body so do whatever you feel like doing and then when you''re done you say end job for today or something along those lines and the computer system that is monitoring at all times well basically just log you out


    Marcus was about to log out right there and Mister Smith just looked at him and said before you log out realize you''re going to keep yourself in the dark because if you kept all the stuff that you''re about to see in that little brain of yours you''d be crying to sleep every night and we know because we''ve let people just do it and that''s exactly what happens every time so this isn''t some conspiracy or something like that this is just us keeping the dark evils of the void out of your mind so you can have a good night''s sleep and enjoy the sunset and yes I looked up your planet and it has at your location that you sleep every night it has a beautiful sunset and sunrise so I kind of envious on that one point so realize we need your help and you''re planted in solar system need you to get through the backlog of paperwork that''s been waiting for someone in your position arbiter of Earth welcome to the Galactic Board


    Marcus just said in his mind log me out and as he was logging out it said please hold five seconds for us to log you out and in those 5 seconds a little blue box popped up and showing him 15.6 GBc.


    And then it went black


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    Mr Smith watched the head of Marcus dematerialize off its shell and with that instead of rolling around Mr. Smith literally stood up the ball turned into a full body of the whole nine yards.


    Mr Smith had he looked normal he had just been doing that kind of like a way of just moving around quickly but the smirk on Mr Smith''s face wouldn''t go away cause it says he he was interested in Marcus and what Marcus didn''t know was that Mister Smith was the last guardians liaison to he knew way more than he was letting on and he was so happy that he got himself a good one now he was looking forward to him and Marcus causing so much trouble in the galactic board and with that he went strolling off to go find some work to get done and some chaos to spill over somewhere.


    This was Mr Smith''s most enjoyable task of any day chaos pure and simple the love of chaos he wondered to himself if Marcus would have a love for it too he could always use another friend to cause a mischief plus Mr Smith missed the stories of Loki from his past arbiters maybe this arbiter would have some good stories too and if not maybe they would just have to make some thing together :)).