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〖 Date: December 4th, 2013 〗
〖 Timeline: ???? 〗
〖 Place: MIT, Cambridge, MA, US 〗
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A Student 'A' was sleeping on the desk of the classroom filled with students clearly concentrating in class. No one seemed to care about the guy sleeping in his class.
Not even the Professor.
The Professor was Tang San, a handsome-looking middle aged man with light stubble on his face and serious brown eyes. He was about 5' 10" tall and quite lean. He was the 'Introduction to Modelling and Simulation' professor for this class and teaching the very same subject.
Even if someone asked him 'Why aren't you saying anything to the student sleeping in your class?', he would answer 'That kid has given up?'.
The whole world blanked out for a few seconds and everyone in the room was in confusion.
The students started whispering among themselves.
"Hey, did you feel something strange?"
"Yeah, I did. I wonder what happened? My whole vision went blank for a few seconds."
"Right? I felt the same thing... I wonder if it was some electromagnetic interaction with our brains..."
"How would that be possible? It would take so much energy to produce an electromagnetic wave to achieve that... Who would be stupid to do that without any clear motive?"
"First of all, how did it resonate with everyone?": The student paused and turned towards student 'A' and saw him muttering something and exclaimed "Look, it also woke up the Weeb!"
Many students turned towards him and saw him muttering something in a low voice. Some tried to hear it carefully but couldn't understand anything because student 'A' was muttering something too quickly.
[ System Loading... 07% ]
Student A's brain was in turmoil.
[ System Loading... 08% ]
It was trying to integrate the newly invading additional memories with the current ones.
[ System Loading... 19% ]
It had to make hundreds of neural networks per second, so Student A was in too much pain...
[ System Loading... 37% ]
All he could see is a holographic interface in front of him with a loading screen.
[ System Loading... 79% ]
He mouth was moving on his own, speaking gibberish. He couldn't think properly.
[ System Loading... 98% ]
The pain started to subside...
[ System Loading... 99% ]
The pain finally stopped.
[ System Loading... 100% ]
[System Loaded. Welcome Player #3 to the Past. Can you change your future? ]
He was utterly shocked and confused. He was prepared to die but he was somehow reborn.
He opened his mouth and muttered: "How did that happen?"
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'Oh... I should probably go to my dorm now... The class has already ended...' thought Student 'A', and his name was Aron Clark.
Aron as he looked around and found out the class was empty. It had been 10 minutes since the class had ended. He didn't have any courses in the afternoon. He took his belongings and headed to the main canteen.
After having Omelette and Creamy Mushroom Pasta, he headed towards his dorm.
After he returned to his dorm, he found that his dorm mate was not inside. He thought nothing of it and sat on his chair, starting to think of what had really happened.
'So was I really executed? How did I return?... Was everything a dream? Will that Pizza Guy become President again? Global Climate huh... If everything I experienced in this so called 'Dream' is real, then this world is basically f***ed! Wait, why do I have so detailed memories of it? Was that real? Hmmm....'
As I was thinking my thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of my dorm mate, Theo.
Theodore Adams, nicknamed 'Theo' was one of my only friends in the 'Dream'. He soon lost his job as an Engineer and had to work long hours just to pay the bills. I hadn't heard from him for the 15 years I was in prison.
"Hey Theo! How are you?"
"Oh! Hey Aron! I'm fine! Long time no see!"
Theo's reaction was a bit weird because Aron should have met just that morning before they went to their respective classes....
"Hey! What are you talking about Theo? Didn't we meet in the morning?"
"Oh... Did we? Hmmm... oh yeah...."
Theo seemed pondering over something when Aron asked.
"Is everything alright, Theo?"
"Hahaha.. Just thinking about how to get good grades... Seriously thinking though, I think I'm dropping out. I think this l be our last meeting, Aron..."
"Hmmm, why do you think so?"
"Hah! Even though we feel we are learning something new, we are not getting skilled at anything. All companies require you to be sufficiently skilled and updating your skills to satisfy the current market. I think I can't do that here. I don't want to be an Unskilled Engineer.... again(inaudible)"
"I can understand, Theo! You want to be the next drop-out Billionare! I think you might succeed! Remember, don't give up!"
"Stop making fun of me, Aron... I hope that I can make enough to have a comfortable life... I think I have a Vision, Mission and a Goal now. I hope I succeed."
As he told that, Theodore Adams walked out of the dorm. To become a successful man, To make huge changes in the world, which can only be known in the future.
As Aron saw his friend's departing figure, he muttered: "I know you'll succeed my friend, I hope you never give up..."
He opened his computer and started browsing. He searched about timelines, time travel, theories on time travel, cases on time travel and it's history.
He enjoyed spending time like this. Watching videos on internet about things he was interested in.
After doing his 'research', he started designing solutions, mapping timelines, figuring out causes for his rebirth, and most importantly checking his psychological stability.
Being a scientist himself and having researched too much about human psychology in his 'dream', he figured out he was not having any symptoms of psychological disorder, let alone schizophrenia.
He finally came up with the most 'probable' explanation to everything that happened on that day.