"About 2.16685948 Tesla. Rounded," I shout from my station.
"You still think magnetic clamps were a good idea," My colleague asks me
"Well, yes. Unless you have any other bright ideas," I comment "Just look at it Bradley. It's just so Beautiful."
And beautiful it was. Blue Ethereal light shining down on us from the small observation port. I was so in love with this sight of equipment it felt like spiritual. I just wanted to go and touch that blue beam. But, alas, I couldn't. Not without exposing myself to a partial vacuum maintained by at - 268 Celsius filled with dangerous level of gamma radiation.
"You know Ajay, if board hadn't already called it Pennyworth-Kumar Effect I'd have called it MASS EFFECT.I mean isn't that what it really is. Although its electrons rather than star ship but still,"
"Don't take that FREAKING name again in my presence," I shout the instant he finishes.
"C'mon. I too played it and was sad about its ending. You are not alone, you know," he comments rather dryly
"That's the difference. You were sad, not emotionally annihilated," I say investing all emotions that I could.
"I'd never understand you Fan boys." He says. As if on reflex I reply "That's because you did not go through it the way I did. Before ME the only games I'd play were Real Time Strategies, World War shooters or Third Person Sci-Fi. And this game with rather dull graphics but wonderful thing called 'conversation wheel' comes along and enthrall me for five years, FIVE YEARS. I follow the plot, spend all my pocket money buying CDs and Books pertaining to it, grow close and love a group of pixels just to get a slap in face with that 10 minutes God child Infodump. And it ends up giving me a serious mental block. Against gaming. Against RPGs. And definitely against You Know Who."
"You are making it sound too bad," He says "Besides, it still doesn't changes the fact that it is mass effect."
"Yeah you are right," I continue "Now I just hope we get a Nobel for this."
"Yeah lets. I wonder how you ever came up with this theory if you have such a mental block," He says but before I can answer "And leaving it to that I still don't know why UN is funding us through its Military Branch."
"Are you kidding? Couldn't you just see possibility floating around for guys in Military? Although we haven't sent something bigger than Cesium Atom but still with those Mass Lowering properties…... Railguns could be built, Leaving Earth would be easy, military satellites, orbitals strikes, rapid troops infiltration and exfiltration, the possibilities are limitless." I frown
"We may even have a Self-dependent colony on Mars," He adds "But still why the High Security Facility?"
"Goodness, YOUR NAME WAS TAKEN BY THE MOST NOTORIOUS TERRORIST ON EARTH ON INTERNATIONAL TV. THIS RESEARCH IS IMPORTANT TO HUMANITY AND WE ARE IMPORTANT TO THIS RESEARCH. HOW COULD YOU BE SO LOST?YOU EVEN LISTENI-" I shout irritably
"OK, please don't shout," He interrupts. "Now to the readings."
"The reading Looks fine," I calm down "I'd say we call it a day."
So by now you'd be utterly confused what's going
So let me tell you. It's 2032 and Earth is well…..Deforested, Polluted and split up between United Nations(UN) and a cult of dangerous religious nutjobs. Neo-Conservatism is a force to be reckoned with, ruling science as a force for evil and has a tight grasp all over the world and enforces it through a terrorist organization known as Brotherhood . But UN has stepped in to save nearly 63% of human population that doesn't want to follow brotherhood and wants progress. With highly motivated drive from United States, whole of Europe, People's Republic of China, India and much of Far East to preserve scientific progress that by this time UN is on the brink of becoming a total World Government.
But where does Mass Effect fit in?
Well, Me, Ajay Kumar, ( , , , , Ph.D) and my colleague, Bradley Alfred Pennyworth (copy the qualifications) figured out a way that could theoretically makes things like Mass Effect possible. If you could create a column of space time that has more Dark Energy concentration than is normally found (which I tell you is hard work) then you could observe many bizarre things like Lowering of Mass, Speeding up of Light Beams and as I was about to find out it could even transport you to ME universe
So back to the story
"What were you thinking? You seemed pretty lost." He asks
"Nothing," I shrug "Did you log the readings."
"Yes. Let's go grab something to eat." He says
"Lead the way." I say
We reach the mess hall and as soon as we grab a plate we hear the security officer over the Comms Speakers
"Alert! Alert!" says the voice
"Not Again. This is the third time our lunch is interrupted. That to in a row. First Helium leak, then Wong's Miscalculations then thi-"He is interrupted as Speaker crackles up again
"Alert! Alert! This is RED CODE situation. Multiple Intruders have entered core facility. Assume Hostilities."
I instantly make it for the weapons locker and toss Brad an assault rifle and a combat jacket before arming myself with another pair of two. Brad then reaches for Emergency Comm device and toss me one. We toss the table and create what we think can be said to be a barricade near hall's entrance. He moves near it and freezes .Soon I know the reason why.
I see two men, a rather short Arabic man and a Tall (and when I say tall I mean tall) man whose looks betray Nordic origins. They were walking quite casually but as soon as they see Brad they start putting clips in their rifle. And before I can think much I feel my finger squeeze the trigger rather hardly and the tall man is tall no longer. But as soon as I turn to the other man I see Brad falling down.
No, No, No, No, No, No, No
Not Brad
And with that I empty my clip into the other man. And he joins his companion.
I run over to Brad and am relieved to find him breathing. Bastards got him in his leg.
"You Okay?" I shout.
"I'll Live," he replies raising his emergency comms near his mouth "Come in Chief."
"We hear ya doc. You 'kay?" Says our security chief
"Okay? I just got shot in my leg .If not for Ajay I'd don't know If I'd…Where the hell are our guards?" he says sobbing
"Killed doc. I 'm 'lone bogg'd with 46-47 of those…..I think they'r brotherhood n …Dammit…..Get to you'r station doc…defen….'ave to defend it"
"Yeah let's go." I shout as I help him up and pull him on my back
"I never thought your military training was so extensive. Howw….ww did you do all this ?" he demands
"Isn't. Was taught…..Ugh…Basic stuff when came to facility. Still was kind of ….. Ugh… Man you are heavy," I struggle to keep to maintain my sprint under his weight
"Expected Brotherhood to try something….Ugh…g. So many UN secrets here. We, Wong , Military information…..ugh…Dresden even said all top level stations have access to archives so we could even have nuclear launch codes here. So I asked Chief to give me training." I say
"So that's where you went during breaks." He says with a rather calm look of a typical scientist contemplating things. Goodness, has this man forgot he's been shot at.
We make it to the station. We hide there for some time and try to communicate to chief with little success. They must have had a massive force with at least a 100 AIRCHOPS to provide support. We had a Garrison of 800 here. There's no way they could have pulled this off unless…..
"Of Course. It's a mole." I say. Brads looks with 'I am confused' written all over his face.
But then I freeze.
I see at least 30 men headed our way. And they don't look like guards
I yank Brad into a storage pod and we hide in it. The door opens as I see, what looks like a leader….
Wait, what? That can't be happening. It's the project Director!
He looks at the screens. He fumble with them and they go out. No. No. No. This isn't good.
I come out and ask Brad to look what they searched for.
"Its American Nuclear Launch codes they took!Good God Ajay we can't let them leave with that," He says as I see as we both turn pale.
"NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO." I murmur
"We can't let this happen. You and I both know what they'll do with is. I can't let this happen. But what do we do? GET OURSELVES SHOT AT ?" He tense ups
NO I have to stop this for MOM DAD RITA DIDI
"Overload the system. Withdraw securities. The Pennywo…..-Mass Effect column would collapse and destroy this place." I say as a sudden confidence take us over. I know I have to stop this for my family and Brad has to stop this for his husband.
Without hesitating we get to it and within seconds Brads hand slams on to the ENTER button. Suddenly a surge goes through everything hooked up to electricity
"I hope they can continue what we started without us," He says as he sigh with utter disappointment that soon is shared by me "They have basic Schematics at UN command. They'll do it. I know that .Don't worry Brad." I say as Blue light shining on us through observation port gets brighter.
"Gamma at absolute max. The vacuum has nearly reached room temperature. I think we'll have Blast in abou….-" He is interrupted suddenly as everything movable in the room starts to get dragged towards the port and before I have time to think the glass of the port shatters and with a strong gust of wind we are sucked into the device and I black out.