CHAPTER 1
Silence
Silence filled the air like an explosion. So much noise had filled the air but it was all gone now. Silence echo'd through the halls that were no more. Buildings everywhere had fallen to decay years ago. Green overturf has grown over almost everything
/in sight,as a lone human male walks down the street quietly. Attached to his back is one backpack, and in his left hand he carries a black guitar case with several stickers on it.
On rooftops and hiding in piles of building rubble creatures scurried about and muddled around looking for smaller creatures to eat. The world quickly turned into a savage place after the apocalypse. Billions of people gone. Just vanished, like they were
/neverthere in the first place and this whole world was left just for this lone man. What was he to do but keep searching, looking everywhere his feet could carry him. With machinery and electronics having long been worn with time and disabled.
The lone man searched far and wide for 15 years before coming upon his final destination he could think of. The pentagon. He had tried to get in when he first started his journey to find people but it still had working electronics and without access to
/anykind of access code or key he had no way of entering. He was hopeful thattime had decayed the building enough to enter it and for it to be his final resting place.
Coming upon the building that had once been the most secure areas inthe world. Seeing it had practaclycollapsed, the man walked up to a random door and pushed gently. It almost crumbled to dust at his fingertips. Had it been longer than 15years?
/The man pondered over this thought as he searched the inside of the once great building.
The decay was much worse inside, the ceilings hadlong since collapsed and large areas were lit with natural light. Vines the size of street lamps grew along the two extending adjacent walls. He ventured further into the building and came upon a
/hole in the ground. No bigger than 4 feet in diameter, he pondered if he could climb down. Looking down the hole he saw an underground lake. With no hesitation he jumped down the hole instead. He fell 15 feet into a 10 foot deep pool of water.
The water was unnaturally clear and clean, with this much debree around the water should be much dirtier but it wasn't. It was crystal clear. Realizing he still had his backpack and guitar on him he panicked and immediately surfaced and brought his wet
/belongings to the shore. Without looking around he started opening his belongings and checking to see how wet they got. The guitar was actually just a little wet but his backpacks contents were completely soaked. 3 pairs of shirts, 3 pairs of pants,
/5pairs of socks and 4 pairs of underware were waterlogged.
The man sighed and laid out the clothes to dry on a nearby rock then stripping naked and putting his recently worn clothes on the rock next to the others. Finally he turns around and assess the area.
Jaw dropping in wonder, the man saw a large machine of some sort, it had large tubes 6 feet wide in a giant infinity symbol shape and a stage of some sort above it but not connected too it. It just floated there in the air, without cables or touching
/anysolid surface.
How could such technology exist after such a long time? There has to be an explanation. But the man had no answers, only questions that no human would everhear again.
Stepping carefully, he placed one foot on a nearby ladder totest its sturdiness. Surprisingly it held and seemed to be in good condition. He moved it carefully still to the machine and climbed to the top of the machine. What could it have been?
/What had it once been? Questions filled his mind as he finally stepped onto the platform.
Lightly the platform glowed a gentle blue. And a small humcouldbe heard as the machine had started turning on. He quickly jumped off the platform and almost hurt himself as he landed and the platform stopped glowing and the hum quietly
faded.
"It must be turned on by weight. How odd... What kind of machine could it possibly be?" He pondered out loud. His voice echoing softly and hearing his own voice made him miss people again. His heart ached as he walked over to his drying clothes and
/picked up a pair of wet underware. He gently tossed it on the platform and the machine whirred and glowed softly. Eventually after a minute of it seeming warming up it just stopped. He was confused maybe he had broken the machine.
He ascended the ladder againand looked on the platform. Curiously the underware was gone? Maybe it fell off the side, he jumped down and looked around the machine. But nothing was found. Maybe this was some sort of teleporting machine. But how could
/that have existed. He would have to try the machine again when his stuff had dried.
For now he made himself a makeshift bed after his clothes had dried and ate expired canned food and some fresh apples and berries he had collected on his journey.
Tomorrow he would do the only thing he could do. Try out the teleport himself. Maybe he would go where everyone else had disappeared too. Maybe he wouldn't be left behind anymore.