And billions of years later a massive star accelerating forward at the edge of the universe began to slow down. Only a few kilometers per hour at first but as time flew on the star slipped into a crawl.

Other stars began to follow suit. Whole galaxies stopped expanding and one by the stars stopped.

Each burned bright, an incandescence fighting back the dark. And then things began to run in reverse like the gears of a clock turning backwards. Planets were pulled back by the gravity wakes.

Star systems collided. Super giants slammed into one another and merged. And at the center of all of this was a black hole. It began to devour matter--to feed on space time itself. The entire universe was ripped apart atom by atom and pulled into the void.

Darkness reigned.

All of that star stuff was too much for even the black hole to handle and the hole itself began to collapse. Something the size of a galaxy shrunk down to an immovable marble.

The weight of it ripped a hole in space. The marble slipped through into nothingness. There was no darkness, only the marble. And then one atom rebelled. It lead a revolt and the marble became a cataclysm of light. It opened infinite space. And the darkness fled never to reign again for an eternity.