Nevada, united state year 2345
In a underground facility, a group of scientist where about to do the first soul transfer to ever been done in all of humankind history.
"status report"
suddenly a grave and solemn voice sounded in the room alerting all the working scientist, as a hologram of a middle aged men appeared in the middle of the room.
"Everything operational….we are ready to start the transfer!"
Said a lanky and sick looking scientist while taking his glass off to wipe them as a way to calm down his nerves. As nervous as he was it couldn't hide the excitement he felt, being designed as head scientist for such an important work said all about his abilities.
The hologram of the middle aged men smiled and said
" don't be so nervous! its my soul that on the line here heh heh"
As he ended with a chuckle the expression of the head scientist couldn't get any worse, as he already knew that the middle aged men in front of him was a men known to never laugh.
Ignoring the terrified head scientist the hologram of the middle aged men hovered toward a see-through glass window to peer down at a complex machine to which where attached two cylindrical containers.
The two cylindrical containers where made of a see-through crystal and where filled with a liquid, what was shocking is that in the two containers where each a human body. They were almost completely identical, the main difference that could be find was that one of the body had protruding green like veins as if it was a dead corpse that started to decompose, the bodies were strangely similar to the middle aged men, as if a younger version of himself. They where in fact two younger copy of himself, to be precise one was a copy the other his true body.
the middle aged men is Allen Torren the world greatest and most brilliant scientist to ever walk the earth, sadly he contracted an incurable and unknown disease at the age of 29, and since than his body started to paralyze and decompose. at the age of 31 knowing that his body would be completely paralyzed he decided to implant a super quantum computer in his brain and connect it with his mind, which would allow him later to create the hologram that was now hovering in front of the see-through glass window, thanks to that he could still continue to interact with the world and try to find out a solution to his problem.
Everyone fear death, the more one accomplished the bigger the fear, and Allen Torren being the wealthiest men on earth abhorred death more than anyone else. after almost 3 years of research and failed attempts, Allen Torren finally found the solution to his problem.
"if my body is failing me, why not just change it? If I could just transfer my consciousness in another vessel wouldn't that resolve everything"
After coming up with this idea Allen Torren finally found hope, and after gathering every known scientist to have done research on consciousness and the human mind, started to work on his project.
Finally Allen got his breakthrough and after 7 years and many failed attempt in which only one successful. Allen decided to go through the procedure he named 'soul transfer'.
Allen didn't have the luxury of time anymore, even though the world of medicine had a huge advance and could replace almost any organs in the human body, it still couldn't replace the brain which is the most fundamental part of any living human being. Allen condition started to affect his brain and fearing the worst which is becoming brain dead, Allen decided to still go through the 'soul transfer', as by he estimated he only had another couple of month before becoming brain dead.
After Taking a deep breath to steel his resolve Allen Torren, which in this case his hologram said in a loud and clear voice
"start the procedure"
The head scientist that was now sitting behind a control panel two meter behind the see-through glass, took out shakingly a key that was attached to his neck and inserted it in a slot on the control panel, after typing several commands he hitted a big red button that was right in the center of the control panel.
Suddenly a mechanical voice started a countdown
" initiating soul transfer in 10…..9…."
Hearing the countdown start Allen knew he had to disconnect from the hologram and mentally prepare himself to what was coming.
Allen voiced the deactivating commend a few moment later
"Emma deactivate mind link and prepare memory backup"
Right after saying the command everything went black as he started to hear a monotonous toned sweet voice in his head.
"Mind link deactivated, memory backup completed…
Soul transfer in
3…
2…
1…
Soul transfer initiated"
Right after hearing the notification, Allen felt a tug and then a sharp pain in his head. As fast as the pain came as fast it went. It was just for a moment yet the pain was something Allen had never felt in his whole life.
Reigning down a pain filled scream Allen said
" soul transfer status"
The same sweet voice instantly replied in a monotonous tone
" extraction successful…. starting insertion process"
In the facility, every scientist where looking at the central monitor checking on the soul transfer data with abated breaths. As the data signifying a successful soul extraction appeared on the screen they almost started jumping in joy but knowing that the most dangerous and complicated step of the procedure is about to start, none dared to slack.
A few moment later after Allen soul stabilized, the insertion process started.
As the insertion process started, on the monitors appeared a couple of graphics and a big bar occupying most of the screen signifying the start and completion rate of the 'insertion process'. The bar showed that it was at 1%.
At the same time this was occurring Allen heard the sweet voice again informing him of the start of the insertion. Different from the others who were in the facility Allen could only hear but not see the graphics or the progression bar, but thanks to the super quantum computer that was linked to his mind he would receive all the information in real time.
When the insertion started Allen could feel as if his whole being was being siphoned, as if being absorbed by something, it was a ethereal feeling, it didn't hurt it just felt strange.
Back in the facility while the everyone was this still watching the monitor a glint flashed through one of the scientist eyes with an eerie smile edging on his face. It went unnoticed by all the others.
An instant later as the bar was filling up, rapidly reaching 76%, a big red banner appeared on the screen. It was an alert notification.
Immediately the lights in the whole lab started flickering, as sirens went off and started sounding with a loud mechanical voice informing of the situation
" ALERT!!!!
ALERT!!!!
REACTOR CORE UNSTABLE!….."
As the mechanical voice informed of the situation and started repeating nonstop, every scientist in the lab started panicking as all of them ran to their station trying to find a solution to the sudden crisis that they where in. what they didn't notice was that the scientist who had an eerie smile on his face didn't move at all nor did he flinch when the alarm went off.
To be able to perform something as a 'soul transfer' a big amount of energy was needed, and to get that amount of energy a reactor that could produce the huge amount needed was necessary. For the reactor core to become unstable during such a procedure could cause it failure in the best case scenario, while the worst case scenario, it exploding and taking everything in a 100 km radius down.
As the head scientist was sweating bullets whilst shaking in fear and giving orders to everyone hoping to find a way out of this crisis he finally notice the scientist who didn't move since the beginning of the crisis. As he was about to shout to the smiling scientist, his saw the scientist take out what looked like a pen out of his pocket. The moment the head scientist got a better look of the object fear gripped his heart as his eyes bulged out.
The head scientist instantly knew was it was. It was a remote detonator. As the head scientist was about the yell for assistance whilst lunging toward the smiling scientist. The scientist with an eerie smile on his face let out an maniacal laugh as he immediately presses the detonating button.
`BOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!`
A huge explosion occurred as everything in a radius of 100km was pulverized, as a humongous mushroom cloud be seen expending and growing at an astonishing rate.
A couple of hours later after the dust have settled. Where used to be the underground facility now resided a 3km deep crater that extended on more than 10km.
…..
Back when the alert started Allen who was elated by hearing the insertion process going smoothly got frightened when he was alerted by the information given by the voice inside his head
"error occurred….
ALERT!
ALERT!
INSERTION PROCESS STOPPED!
SOUL DESTABILIZING!
ALERT!
ALERT!
IMMINENT IMPLOSION OF CENTRAL REACTOR DETECTED…. '
As Allen heard the notification he felt his heart stop. As the fear of death creeped in he could start to feel his soul shaking. The moment the explosion occurred, a pain greater then when the extraction started afflicted Allen, different than the first time, this pain didn't go away after a moment. As Allen was feeling his soul contort in pain and was going through agony only one though was going through his mind
' is this how I die? I don't want to die….I want to live, why must the world be so unjust!'
After what felt like an eternity to Allen the pain started to fade. Feeling the pain starting to fade Allen could only think of the worst
' so this the end?! Ahaha…Who would though the great Allen Torren would end lik…'
Allen couldn't finish his tough process as he felt a tug to his soul and another bout of pain. The pain was immense and sharp but thankfully it only lasted for a breath before going away.
Allen feeling the heart wrenching pain again, gritted his teeth. After the sudden pain ended, Allen could start to hear some noise when he heard a notification just before losing consciousness
'INSERTION PROCESS COMPLETED.'