Chapter 1 The Tesseract
California
A dark-skinned woman was working tediously on here experiments when footsteps could be heard approaching. She puts down her things and turns to the newcomer.
"Hello, Director Adams, What brings you here?" She asked.
'He rarely comes down here in person. He usually sends another agent. Whatever he has to talk about, it must be big and very important,'
"On a mission, Agents Meticulous and Truss found a mysterious cube. I-" He was cut off.
"What is it made of? Where was it found? Are there signs of any radiation? Is it-"
"If you could give me a second to speak you would find out,"
"Sorry, Sir,"
"The cube was found in an abandoned building, near the border between California and Mexico.
It gives off radiation, that's how it was found, but I don't know what kind. That's why I want you to examine it and see what it does," he finished.
"You don't know what kind of radiation it is?" She said more to herself than him.
Her eyes glassed over. She wasn't all here. Her mind wandered to a distant memory. A bad memory.
She shook her head.
"No… I can't do it,"
"You can and you will, Dr. Galvan,"
He turned and left the room.
She stared at the wall with those same glassy eyes.
"Isabella,"
Isabella jumped at the sound of the voice.
"The cube is on your desk,"
Isabella nodded, her eyes still distant.
"Thank you ,Jarvis,"
New York
A caramel-skinned woman sat on a chair in a Grand Hall. Her eyes looked somberly out the window. The sky reflecting her mood. Gray clouds covered the sky.
"Amelia!"
She slowly turned her head from the window to the woman approaching. Her head rested lightly on her hand.
"What are you doing? You have a photo shoot in 10 minutes," her manager, Tonya, informed.
Amelia sighed.
"I don't want to do it again,"
"What?! We can't just cancel last minute. We're already here!" Tonya yelled
"So? I want and deserve a vacation. The next flight to California is what I'm going to be on in the next 20 minutes,"
Amelia got up from her seat and made her way to the door.
"But Amelia," Tonya called after her.
"I don't know how long I'll be gone, so cancel my other photo shoots for this month," She called over her shoulder.
"Amelia!"
Amelia stopped at the door and looked at her.
"Why should it matter what I do? You're still getting paid regardless," That statement said, she left.
Thunder boomed in the distance.
'You can't flinch now Amy, not after making such a selfish request,'
She waved down a taxi and got in.
"Airport, please. Don't take the scenic route, either,"
"No problem,"
Rain began to fall from the sky.
'I remember when I used to love the rain…. Now it's just a painful reminder,'
North Carolina
A light-skinned man wandered aimlessly down the street with a bag in his hand. He stopped in a park and looked up at the sky. The sky was dark and gray. He sighed.
"What the hell am I going to do?" he said to himself.
He was just kicked out of his apartment and didn't really have anywhere to go.
"Help, help. Fire, fire," someone yelled from down the street.
The man eyes widened and headed in the direction he thinks the yell came from.
"Of course there's a fire. There is always a fire when I'm around,"
He ended up exactly where the fire was. No firefighters were in sight.
"The fire must have just started. I better be quick about this,"
He dropped his bag to the ground and ran into the burning building.
"Is anyone here?!" He yelled, trying to be as loud as possible.
"Over here," someone yelled.
The voice was faint. He hurried to find the person, not wanting them to suffer. He found the person. It was a little boy curled into a ball. He was shaking.
He reached for the boy, he was shaking himself.
He shook his head, hard. As if to shake the unwanted memories away.
'Now is not the time,'
He crouched down and picked up the boy. He ran through the building, not stopping for a second. Not even when one of his pants legs caught on fire. He couldn't return the way he came. He ended up jumping out a window on the first floor.
"My son!" a woman yelled.
He went over to the woman and gave the boy to her. Tears were rolling down her face. She sniffed.
"Thank you so much,"
"No problem,"
He put his hands in his pocket and walked away from the burning building and towards his bag.
"Damn it! Why can't I ever win?"
The place where his bag previously occupied was empty. He took his phone out of his pocket, removed the case, and counted the money that was hidden there.
"This should be enough for a ticket to Cali. I know Isabella will take care of me if anything,"
Time Skip
Hours have gone by since Isabella was given the cube. She hasn't really done much to it. Because of the unknown radiation, she was reluctant to interact with it. She was getting nowhere and growing more tired. Isabella shook her head and sighed.
"I'm gonna go home. I am not dealing with this right now."
Isabella took off her lab coat and started to head for the door.
"I can go in if I want to," a familiar voice yelled.
"Look this isn't the first time we have been here. So if you could just move out of the way that would be great," another familiar voice said.
"Both Amelia and Justin are here for you,"
Isabella groaned.
"How many times have I told them not to come here when I'm working?" she asked rhetorically.
"47,"
"Thanks, Jarvis," she said sarcastically.
The door flew open. Isabella was slammed into her desk. The two culprits were laying on her. Due to her slamming into her desk ,papers and other little things fell off her chair slide across the floor, hitting her work bench. The cube was in a glass container. The container fell to the ground and shattered. Blue light burst from the cube, swallowing them up. The light disappeared. And so did they.