Robert stopped for awhile at "only" 100,000 times the speed of light. Anywhere he wanted to be in the galaxy, he was. He moved so fast it was almost like he hadn't moved. Even so, that began to feel rather "slow" to him. He wanted to travel ANYWHERE at ANYTIME! He wanted to be so fast that no matter where something was, he could be there!
So "soon" (relatively speaking) after reaching 10k times the speed of light, Robert had grown bored of even that. So it upped the speed even more! 500k, 1 million, 2 million, and so on! He stopped at 100,000,000 times the speed of light. (For a more direct number, that's 67,061,662,900,000,000 miles per hour or 107,925,284,880,000,000 kilometers per hour.)
Robert had his "wish" granted soon enough. He really was moving anywhere he wanted to without needing to try. He was anywhere he wanted, and he would "slow" down when he wanted to actually look at something. He found out that the universe was four things:
1. It was small. Seriously. He thought there was more room.
2. George Lucas was right! There really was a galaxy far far away!...Well, not that far. It was in fact just the Andromeda Galaxy that had everything from Star Wars in it. Though he saw no Empire and Rebels duking it out, but he did see planets like Coruscant and Naboo with the various SW species on them.
3. Outside of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies...the unverse was pretty empty and dull. There was life, yes, but nothing really special.
4. He saw none other than Mario flying around galaxies as well. Which weirded Robert out more. And poor Mario ended up hitting Robert unknowingly and flying off towards a much more difficult galaxy than the one he was heading towards originally.
After looking more at the Star Wars galaxy, Robert found a mostly empty galaxy (as in, no life). Then he flew through a random and nearby star, causing it to supernova! He did it to a few more stars, and simply moved faster than the nova shockwave to escape. This was pretty fun, but ever since he had gotten so fast, Robert constantly felt like he was seeing double, then triple, and so on.
He couldn't shake it. He kept having visions of other places in the universe, even though he might not be near that place. He soon got an answer, when he ran into himself. Yep, he had moved so quickly that at some point he had...copied himself. This was followed up by another Robert suddenly appearing! Then another Robert joined the group, but said he had been moving around the universe.
As time continued, more Roberts appeared. Four became a dozen, a dozen to 50, 50 to 200, and so on. More and more and more!
Robert (and he greatly hoped he was the original one, and not a copy), wanted to try and do something. But he couldn't figure out what to do. He had to figure out something soon, as the Roberts (who will still growing in number) were starting to argue amongst themselves by declaring "I'm Spartacus!" (To which they quickly corrected themselves by saying "I'm Robert!")
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