Humankinds place in the universe is about to be tested Where our world ends and the cosmos begins is where we find our humanity One authors dream during COVID becomes a spiritual and funny science fiction encounter between man and extraterrestrial Written over five months on a cell phone and during a critical fight with COVID Synopsis As a young boy watching the stars and lightning Marcus Marriott wishes to meet God before dying it becomes his mission In 2028 James works for a secret government organization and is summoned to the oval office by President Monique Duprea to meet an extraterrestrial called Az3 Az3 gives James and the president rings called Mangla that allow telekinetic communication With Mangla given to all world leaders Az3 explains that humanity was given a genetic boost thousands of years ago to create civilization the universe was created by ZERO who we call God and there is a battle between good and evil throughout the universe in which humanity is tilting towards evil As Az3 unfolds a vast web of implications for humanity Marcus wonders if they are being taught or programmed He demands the world leaders reveal the truth to the world The pope steps up and does a broadcast to world admitting his churchs failings and setting off hope for change Years of tumult follow with leaders being jailed and population satisfaction on the rise Marcus brother Jermaine leads a church and struggles to keep a flock of diverging factions together but begins by purging himself of expensive excesses Az3 takes Marcus and Monique to the Federation Council of the Universe where they meet antiAz3 from the dark side They learn that earth is a garden whose light and dark spirits are harvested after death before choosing their place The earths most important resource is focused compassion Monique initiates large scale societal reforms to help America catch up with the rest of the world Jermaine is brought into the fold as a leader They are in a race against time as dark side searchers seek to steal human souls with the help of reptilods a reptile species that lives below the earth and some of whom are shape shifters The searchers begin their attack on earth gathering souls by encouraging people to give up on themselves while humanity fights back with prayers Jermaine volunteers to put himself at risk and his soul is lost but soon recovered Meanwhile the reptilods double cross the searchers and one of them Paula D forges an alliance with humanity through President Duprea The searchers are repulsed for now Paula D confers humanitys history to Monique and they agree a new path is needed Meanwhile Jermaine heals himself and the searchers leader take a reptilod captive and create a way to control him Monique forms a plan to get the populace to come along while AntiAz3 repels an attack from the searchers who consider him a traitor to the dark side Just as the world leaders begin to plan for new ways of beliefs and faith the searchers kill the reptilod leader and install their puppet then release a poisonous fungus developed by the reptiles in Washington DC Paula realizes the leader is an imposter and the leader of the band of searchers flees in defeat Az3 and AntiAz3 reveal themselves to a stunned populace urging humanity towards truth trust and humility There is a great outpouring of joy as the people realize their world has changed permanently and for the better