In a relatively well-off suburban district in London, a black-haired teenager with eyes of the same colour walked through the streets listlessly towards his destination, School. He entered through the gates, turning to his crude analogue watch that showed he had a minute before he was late, but he unhurriedly strolled to his classroom and sat down. No one batted an eye.
After two of his lessons had ended, he found that there was still an hour and a half before his physics class started, so he walked out of the university and made it to a nearby cafe. He sat there on his MacBook, having a small cup of affogato. He enjoyed the contrasting flavours between the sweet ice cream and the bitter coffee; soon enough, he had ten minutes left before the lesson. After packing up his things, he returned to the university at an orderly pace and, once again, made it to class right on time.
He found this lesson the most enjoyable as long as he didn't research more outside of university; otherwise, it would all become mundane again, boring and superficial. The lesson on Particles and radiation concluded swiftly, so he left without a word.
From his coat pocket, he felt a vibration and pulled out his phone, which showed a few text messages.
[You guys done with your last lessons right cos I just left the college - CM]
[I just finished up - BV]
[Yeah - EI, HL, SA, BP, IU, ID, JD, YJM, JW]
[Where we meeting up? - FV]
[Ask Liam - JW]
He responded briefly after reading through the messages on the group chat.
[KFC or the park? - LV]
[KFC - JW, ID, SA, EI, HL, FV]
[It's settled Kill Fat Children it is - JD]
[... - JW]
[Bro chill - IU]
[Meet you guys in 10 mins - LV]
He put his phone away and briskly walked towards the KFC; at a faster pace than before.
'Hey Liam,' Simon said, noticing Liam entering the doors of the KFC.
'Hey,' sitting down, he responded to his friend.
'The others aren't here yet. Anyway, they still have 3 minutes to go' He said looking down at his watch again.
Once the rest arrived they discussed the cold clockwork of the stars and the nations while eating the corpses of birds bathed in fire. Another enjoyable and productive day had passed.
Liam, however, was getting bored with his life and wanted something new so he considered taking things up a notch and studying his subject to a finer extent.
He went home, changed his attire and grabbed some books before descending into the basement, which he had ordered to be built 7 years ago. This was his little laboratory, undisturbed for the past 3 years, yet it remained in pristine condition.
Beginning his work, he started on the fundamentals first - energy. After a total of 5 experiments, he could easily construct and develop a fairly efficient fission power plant. With the energy from the new reactor, he could develop and refine more efficient ways to collect, produce and recycle the energy and reactors.
A week later, he cracked a new way to make energy. Using the excessive energy from the latest fusion reactors he was able to produce spacial fluctuations as well as temporal ones. With this in mind, he was able to manipulate these fluctuations into releasing more energy of which a portion would be sent back, creating what was essentially an infinite energy glitch.
However, this was not the end of his experiment as he called in 2 of his friends and colleagues. They had been working together for the past 5 years; that's right since they were 7 years old.
Together they found a way to gather these fluctuations and create spacio-temporal cracks which they decided to name 'The Portals.' These cracks were moving along with the planet; although, getting to that point did lead to a few casualties since the sheer energy of a stationary portal ripped through the planet as it passed through.
Each of these 3 worked on their own subtangents of The Portals, using its power to better their organisation.
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18 months later - December 3 2021.
Something was going wrong. The fluctuations were still sustaining themselves but the energy that wasn't returned to The Portals was now much less, amounting to close to what only 10 of his best fusion reactors were able to. He researched this phenomenon under the assumption that the solar system had entered an area with a strange type of space limiting the energy released and tried to study the space in the laboratory and the fluctuations in it to no avail, everything seemed the same; however, he did get a better understanding of the space around him making the infinite energy glitch, which he aptly named the IEG, far more efficient.
Eventually, he gave up and started to look at the energy that was produced. This was where he found it, 3 weeks after the problem appeared. Someone or something was stealing his energy. He tracked down the energy to the Earth's core where aside from an extremely strong spacial disturbance the energy vanished. It was clear that the disturbance had something to do with the disappearance of his energy, but he also noticed that energy was being dragged in from other locations.
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[1x Basic Farmer has died]
[Alerting User]
Liam jumped up suddenly and ran out of the shack.