...the increasing mass and gravity of the centre of the earth overcame nuclear forces and not only sucked in the remaining mass of the earth into an area the size of a football, but also dragged in nearby neighbouring planets and the sun, meaning...

...the entire universe was about to do down the plughole. God...

...took one look at the situation and decided to power down reality, so he quickly pulled the power cable out of the reality server rack...

...and an errant spark from the socket started a fire amongst the rest of the equipment. In an instant...

... several hundred million other universes also vanished. "Bugger it," said God, as he rummaged for backup disks. Unfortunately, he loaded...

...himself with too much weight, and his back went into an extremely painful spasm. Because of this, his deputy had to take over the task of rebooting all the various universes, and unfortunately that deputy turned out to be...

...The Hornèd One, himself. Empowered by such a task, he decided to replace our universe with...