Code - Universal Master

For a single, eternal moment, everything paused. The laser bolts froze mid-air. Hayes’s face was a statue of rage. The universe went silent.

Rev 0.0.1: Initialize spacetime. Gravitational constant set to 6.67430e-11. Rev 1.4.2: Patch for heat death. Insert dark energy. Rev 2.1.0: Hotfix for baryonic asymmetry. Matter/Antimatter ratio adjusted. universal master code

And for the first time in history, the galaxy went quiet, not because of a command, but because, deep in its source code, it finally remembered how to rest. For a single, eternal moment, everything paused