RECYCLE EVEN IN SMALL THINGS

Genie appeared inside the highest level of his skyscraper, inside a large office. The office was decorated with a variety of Disney or game-themed items mounted on the walls. His CEO desk was made of pure gold, with platinum inscriptions of cartoon Genie's face on each side. The desk chair was made of dark red leather, with a deep blue back. It was the softest leather known in the world... after Genie created it.

"Ahh~" Genie sighed in contentment, slouching down into his chair.

"It feels good to be king~" Genie sighed again.

In fact, Genie felt so good in his chair that he didn't feel like doing all his 'work' at the moment.

*Poof*

"Hello Sir, I'll set everything up for you later. " A Genie clone appeared, dressed like a butler. He bowed before leaving Genie's office.

"Yeah~ Great," Genie replied, while pressing a button on the side of his chair, activating the massage feature.

The small knobs inside the chair started to move and churned underneath the leather, massaging his back and shoulders. Genie took a moment while enjoying the massage to consider his next thing carefully. See, Genie and the mortal man he fused with had slowly fused over the course of the few days he had been here. And the current Genie was a combination of both of them. He kept Genie's good heart, love for comedy, and loud character. While he kept fantasy world-building, a love of writing, and some naivety from his human half.

This fusion of characters was very confusing in the beginning, but he was safe now. He found a way to control the fusion. He needed to satiate the desires of each half. It's ironic that he, Genie, needed to grant his own wishes to safely keep his sanity. And this leads him to his next plan, he is going to create a MEGA game. An MMO with so many features, nothing could surpass it in how fun, expansive, or cool it would be.

He already knew what he planned to do, but it was the ordering that he needed to decide on completely before he moved forward with it.

*Knock Knock*

"Sir, I've set everything up for you in the laboratory." Butler Genie said as he opened the door to Genie's office again.

"Sigh*" Genie forced himself up from his super comfortable office chair, a look of reluctance on his face.

"Don't touch my chair!" Genie scolded his butler clone on the way out of his office.

Butler Genie didn't follow Genie to the laboratory, he narrowed his eyes and glanced around to see if anyone was looking before he sat in the red chair.

...

*Burst opens doors with dramatic entrance*

"Alright, baby~ Genie's back!" Genie announced to a room of Genie clones in white lab coats.

"Oh~ Ah~" The Genie's in labcoats swooned or oohed and ahhed as Genie made his way up to a place that was prepared for him.

"Now... I'm gonna cook." Genie says while stretching white latex gloves, in cartoonish exaggeration over his hands.

"He's gonna cook! Let him cook!" The voices of the labcoat Genies whispered back and forth to each other. Some of them took out notepads, looking to take notes on his process.

What followed next, was a bizarre display of Genie, mixing beakers and pulling out abnormally dangerous items from seemingly nowhere. He looked like a witch making a potion, more than a scientist.

He stirred a cake of periodic table elements, which looked exactly like the periodic table drawing, with squares of the actual elements. Then he placed it inside an oven and set the temperature to 7,000 degrees. He let it bake and set a timer for 1 hour.

Next, Genie addressed the clones of himself who were watching his art.

"Now, can anyone know what I should do next? I need to add a sprinkle of adventure. Hmm, no let's make it a cup of adventure at least." Genie asked.

"Sir, didn't you want to add Minecraft to the game?" One Labcoat Genie asks.

"How about adding some music-style games?" Another Labcoat Genie asks.

"You could copy another idea and add more to it." A final Labcoat Genie suggests.

But clearly, that suggestion had rubbed the rest of the Genies the wrong way. The labcoat Genies all got worked up and ganged up on the final Labcoat Genie to take back his suggestion.

"How dare you?!"

"We are the noble Genie!"

"We are not copying others! We are original content creators!"

The intense scolding only stopped with the real Genie raised his hand, quieting the arguing.

"No, he's right. But the term copying is too low for us." Genie stated while rubbing his chin with his hand.

Perhaps there was a way he could make use of other ideas, without creating an entire copy of another world's system. It wasn't that he hated copying, he was just concerned about adding another copy of something to the multiverse when there were clearly already examples out there. It was unoriginal!

"You could find some unused pieces, then it shouldn't be copying... right?" The final labcoat Genie suggested again.

Genie's eyes lit up and he looked the final labcoat Genie up and down like he had discovered a new continent.

"You are a genius! From this moment, I am promoting you to head researcher." Genie announced with a smile.

"Wow~"

"Amazing~ "

"I knew you could do it~"

The sound of congratulations resounded from the remaining labcoat Genies, patting him on the back like an old friend. As if their accusations against him mere moments ago, didn't exist. One of the labcoat Genies that was the previous head of research reached out and took off a golden badge from his neck and gave it to the new guy.

Meanwhile, the real Genie had already ignored his clones. He was teleporting himself through the multiverse at breakneck speeds. He would appear at a nearly dying and lifeless universe, condense it into his palm and seal the entire universe in a tiny bottle, before moving onto the next one. This continued for the next five minutes until he reappeared back in his laboratory with a ridiculous amount of bottles handing off himself.

He then carefully took out a glass beaker from the side and poured one of his bottles labeled [Overlord] into it. He heated it and extracted the [Yggdrasil VRMMO] portion of the universe, discarding the rest. Then he added another bottle of [Minecraft] into the mix, without separating anything from it. And finally, he added a final bottle named [Tomb World?] into the mix.

The final mixture looked like an orange fizzy soda, with a swirling galaxy in the center of it. Genie shook the bottle happily and waited until his periodic table of elements cake was done. After the timer finished, he took it out and drenched the cake in the Universe fizzy soda.

*Poof*

Orange smoke puffed in the shape of a skull after the mixture soaked into the cake.

"And now, for the final touch!" Genie happily announced as one of the labcoat Genie's carefully brought a Bonzi tree over from a sealed freezer.

Genie placed the Bonzi tree in the dead center of the cake, causing the entire mixture to stir into a shroud of sand particles. After the shroud fell again, the tray held what looked like a small zen garden of a small universe. With a slight command from Genie, the zen garden changed and zoomed in on the universe, until it came to focus on the Bonzi tree. It was now a towering tree, compared to the rest of the small landscapes. The mountains were tiny in comparison.

"Finished!" Genie threw his hands in the air, while the laboratory Genie gave him a round of applause.

"This should be considered recycling, right?" Genie asked one of the nearest laboratory Genie's just to confirm.

"Absolutely. This is in no way, copying others. It's just recycling." The laboratory Genie nodded and confirmed.

"Fantastic!!" Genie jumped, excited.

He brought his newly baked zen garden Universe out of his laboratory and up to his office, where he found Butler Genie sitting in his chair.

Genie didn't realize just how much his creation would impact the future of the world to come.