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

  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 area next to him a spout comes out of the ball and then puts the head so now it's like 2 little heads on metal sticks attached to metal 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

  '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 they didn't do it right and then they pissed off a really really evil thing!

  In doing so, this evil (society/people/creature we're not too sure) created a system and added it to our reality

  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 psychotic evil, it said that young species need to grow up before they're allowed to be harvested or abused and because your planet 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 its 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 looking person, like any other normal Joe, we will call him Mr Smith

  Marcus looked at Mister Smith and shook his head up and down

  Mr Smith understood and smiled and said okay let's get on with it

  This is where the sci-fi part comes in because when they started rolling you would think their heads would hit the ground but their heads never moved once

  Marcus looked down he couldn't see it where the ball was moving

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

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  Marcus was like where the hell did that cigarette go but he was ready so he just nodded his head to say yes

  Mr Smith was kind of laughing because his magic trick went over quite well. Mr. Smith was in a good mood and started to talk as they began moving along.

  As they rolled along, the area was grand and white, with metal rafters. It looked like they were in a hallway. The main room they had been in earlier was enormous.

  Mr. Smith spent the to day to explaining that there would be work to do the next time he came in. For now, he was just going to show him around the space station.

  The space station was in another galaxy, so they were transmitting his brain into this body for the day. The reason for the memory wipe was explained to him:

  "You'll see things here that could melt your brain. We want to put good memories back into your body so that we don’t cause neurological issues. You're in charge of what you're allowed to know. For now, we're just going to stop everything from coming through. You shouldn't have any bleed-over, as they call it. Everyone says they experience a little bit, but we're not sure we believe that."

  Mr. Smith continued: "For today, we're just going to show you the station. After one or two more days of working here, we’ll probably give you your own body.

  "But for today, don’t get lost. In the past, some people couldn’t stop crying or screaming. That’s why you can’t talk yet—it’s just your first day. Don’t worry about breathing or anything like that. You’re not really here. You’re just sitting in the chair."

  This made a lot of sense to Marcus, now that he was there and he just just listened and he just kept on going

  Mr Smith kept on talking and explaining how they were founded

  "a long long time ago the system realized that every planet needed a guardian to be grudge and abitur for each planet "

  if you wanted to deal with things outside unvivers you had to pay for them to interact with any one! that made made a daily wage and that was what was keeping the machine running.

  The undertones that Mr Smith was giving off made Marcus kind of wonder about all this

  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

  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 triangle 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

  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

  you body can be distroyed and will be and it will not harm you in your body back at your home base, so do whatever you feel like when your here.

  when you're done for the day, you say "end job for today" or something along those lines and the computer system that is monitoring us all the time 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

  "If you kept all the stuff you’re about to see in that little brain of yours, you’d be crying yourself to sleep every night. We know this because we’ve let people try, and that’s exactly what happens every time.

  This isn’t some conspiracy or anything like that. It’s just us keeping the dark evils of the void out of your mind so you can get a good night’s sleep."

  "I want you to enjoy the sunset. Yes, I looked up your planet’s file, and it says that at your location, you get a beautiful sunset and sunrise every day. I’m a little envious of that, to be honest.

  But realize this—we need your help. Your planet and 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, the whole nine yards.

  Mr Smith was interested in Marcus and what Marcus didn't know was that Mister Smith was the last guardians liaison

  Mr Smith 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 new together :)).