Book idea?

[MalReynolds]

Okay... Here goes:

There's a group of soldiers who are specially trained to deal with eco-threats, in particular rain forest fires and other types of eco-terrorism. I know, I know, it sounds weird, but bear with it. They get dispatched to take control of a compound in South America, and head into a cave, where they're supposed to find an eco-terrorist leader.

The main character, let's call him... Mack, is highly trained in not only combating fires, but starting them, etc. For every problem he can fix, he has been trained to cause them, creating problem situations, but at the same time, making his skill set the highest of the group. Despite this, he is not the leader, a woman named Ellen is, and they have an on again, off again affair.

At the compound, which they easily take over as it is suspiciously empty, they find plans for a dimensional gun, one that will in essence, take a person and send him to another version of Earth, one of the infinite in the multi-verse. They assume the terrorists have retreated to the cave system. They rest up, and the next day, head to the cave.

After going down several levels and losing at least 1 soldier to a natural occurence of some sort, they find neither hide nor hair of the terrorists, but in a vast, open room of the cave system, a pool of purple liquid. Mack and Ellen stand back as tentacles fly up and begin killing some of the soldiers, who blindly fire into the purple pool.

At this point, a voice begins speaking directly into Mack's head - the entity is known as Gracie, and was the person who sent out the mission coordinates. She is the 'living embodiment of Earth and everything wrong with it,' and plans on using Mack's body - highly trained in environmental destruction - to wreak havoc, eventually causing the scales to tip in favor of massive global warming, to destroy all the humans on Earth so that she can start over. Mack relays the message to Ellen, and they both retreat with the few soldiers they have left.

Back at the base, they realize Gracie's control is expanding, and there's very little they can do. The soldiers elect to sacrifice Mack, believing that if he were no longer around. Gracie would no longer have the vessel. Mack uncovers charts that show that Gracie's control is expanding because there are several exits to the cave - the more exits, the more that her essence can eek out. He volunteers to rig explosives in the cave and seal it from the inside, halting Gracie's progress and killing him in the process, thereby forestalling her future plans indefinitely.

Before he can take the explosives into the cave, a shot is fired, but goes wide, and a wormhole opens up. Ellen reveals that the plans from the trans-dimension gun weren't just plans, that she found a prototype, and that she's sending Mack away - halting Gracie's progress and protecting him, as she does, in fact, love him. Awww.

Anyways, Mack realizes that Gracie will probably kill Ellen for this, and he cold clocks her, telling the soldiers to bomb the cave. He fires the dimesion gun at his feet and...

Wakes up on an Earth just like ours, but slightly different, as Mack had never existed on this earth.

THE FOLLOWING CHAIN OF EVENTS IS FUZZY AS I ONLY HAVE A GENERAL OUTLINE IN MY HEAD:

Mack comes to terms with the situation, and gets to use the dimesion gun a little more. He begins to master it, somewhat, and the randomness to which alternate dimension he gets sent to decreases. He gets well versed on the theory of the multi-verse, and finds from some scientists that they were working on a tool that would, in theory, merge all of the multi-verses into a single universe, which would be a springboard for the multiverse to continue.

Mack realizes that the best way to get rid of Gracie would be to find a dimension where she does not exist, and merge all the universes into one, expelling the threat of her by erasing her from existance.

Along the way, he gets requests as his job becomes more clear to the public, to find places where certain problems are no longer an issue, such as starvation, as well as much smaller problems - perhaps one where an oafish man didn't lose his wife's earrings.

Throughout all of the universes he explores, he finds out that he hasn't existed in any of them, and it is revealed that he was born outside the space-time continuum to act as a vessel to oppose Gracie, who is, in fact, an ancient evil that crashed to Earth. As she is the ultimate evil, Mack was born out of neccessity.

With this realization comes a cold truth - should her choose to merge all the universes into one without Gracie, it will effectivley wipe out his existance, as he does not naturally exist in any one universe. He eventually finds a universe where the universe compressor is, and finds another where Ellen is alive, but she has no memory of him. The only Ellen with a memory of Mack is the Ellen from the Earth where Mack disappeared. He goes back and they reconcile.

He leaves, knowing that she, and everyone that knew about him, will cease to exist once he fulfills his primary function, and he does, combining all the universes into one without Gracie, where the multiverse immediatley begins again. Mack is wiped from existance, and everyone is saved.

At the end of the book, it's probably shown somehow that Mack is remembered by some people, notably Ellen in the new universe, and that he wasn't completely forgotten.

THE END.

Also, his name probably won't be Mack because that makes him sound like a huge douchebag.

Thoughts?