[ WP ] You , an idealistic 20-something college student , offer your soul to the Devil in return for world peace . Much to your surprise , the Devil laughs at what he calls your `` selflessness '' , but says that someone has already made that deal . You ask to see how horrible the world was before .

It chuckled, sending sooty wisps of smoke curling out from It's nostrils and an aura of similar haze surrounded the being that existed in another dimension. It was three dimensional, standing not two steps away, but It appeared in it's space as a picture would on the wall from an old school projector. Never still, always shifting within the smoky haze, It spoke with a low tone that could almost be feminine, 
 `` Not so much horrible before, do you have a minute to talk?'' It burst out laughing gleefully at, what seemed to be, a joke; embers and smoke rained forth within the laugh but disappeared into nothingness just as quickly. The girl looked around, still dazed, and observed that time was unmoving around them, the world around had become flat as though the moment had been caught in the pages of a book. 
 `` Of course you do!'' It chuckled a moment more at it's wit, `` That, my succulent little soul bag, is where you're confused. You see, the high and mighty CEO up there,'' it stopped to gesture up with it's shifting limbs, `` gave humanity free will and I do n't have the security codes to change that, even for world peace. Some yadda yadda about humanity working it out for themselves, brotherhood and unity mumbo jumbo.'' It gave a little grunt sending embers dancing through the air and sized up the shaking sophomore. She is decked out thoroughly in school spirit wear and ready to sacrifice her soul for world peace, last week it had been to ace all of the finals, the month before it had been for the perfect dress for the spring gala, a perfect SAT, the best 13th birthday ever; but, strangely enough, none of the requests made over the years had been doable because of one technicality or another. Despite multiple meetings, one never got accustomed to being in such close proximity with inter dimensional entities, so it took a few moments for her to regain her composure. 
 `` I told the last one that, too. I ca n't make world peace because I ca n't control the will of people, only influence, but perhaps this time we can come to an agreement.'' It looked over the human, so small in comparison to itself, and continued, 
 `` I can take you back in time and reset the timeline, basically giving your kind another go at the last few eras.'' 
 
 `` Is that what happened last time? How far did we go before you did.... that? I mean, how far into the future were humans? Was there war? Or asteroids? Who was it?!'' She stopped unsteadily hoping for more information, there were more questions she wanted to ask but this was the most information that she'd ever gotten so she and waited for it to continue. 
 
 `` Mmmm... I think you were somewhere around the 28th century, maybe the 25th,'' it shrugged, not concerned with being any more accurate, ``... and'no' I ca n't tell you any more. So that brings us to the next question, do you want to proceed? Do you want to be the next chance for people to do it better? Consider this very carefully because the outcome is not guaranteed and the sacrifice is great.''
