As I rise from my position laying on the roof, the town of Los Angeles I once knew had turned into a hellish world that looked like it had come straight from a zombie horror movie. I sit up, ash clouds are floating by as slow as a snail, cracks in the ground have formed to reveal molten lava laying underneath the surface that is as hot as the sun.
Ryan is lying flat on the roof right next to me. As I scramble to my feet I scream his name as loud as a car spinning out. He must have heard me and waves his finger into the air as he says "Just 5 more minutes man." "Ryan have a look around. Do you think this is a time to be napping on top of a glass roof that could collapse at any moment and make us fall to our deaths!?" I say sarcastically as I tug on his arm to get him to sit up.
"Alright, alright," Ryan mutters under his breath as he sits up. "Oh Sssschise," mutters Ryan.
I roll my eyes "Since when were you German?"
We both get up and dust ourselves off. As I look around, I can see the Hollywood sign in the distance, at least what is left of it. One of the L's and O's are missing and the D on the end is gone too. What is left of it is either wire framing or burning up.
I walk over to Daniel who looks to be unconsious. As I approach him I see that he is missing a hand as is laying in a pool of blood. I quickly call to Ryan.
"Hey Ryan, come have a look at Daniel. Looks like he wasn't as fortunate as us," I say as I look into Daniel's lifeless eyes. In his other hand I see the remote he was holding before all of this happened. I can see 3 small strange green gems in the back of it. I decide to pick up the gems and take them with me. It makes sense now, all of the strange noises I've been hearing from under the complex and why people are rarely allowed in 'the lab'. "Lets go, There's nothing left here nor anywhere," I say as I signal to Matt that we are leaving.
As we walk down the now deserted streets I see the toll that has been taken on the buildings. Fast food stores, doors fallen off their hinges even some rats are scurrying around nibbling at the rubbish that is strewn around. We get to our apartment building and as we go through the door we see that the elevator in the middle is on a slight tilt and is swaying a little. The sparking electric doors are trying to shut but are in a loop of opening and closing. "I guess we have to scale 20 floors of stairs," I say sarcastically. Ryan and I live on the 20th floor of our apartment building and we aren't the fittest blokes around. Ryan groans as we start to go up the stairs. Fifteen floors later, Ryan collapses down onto the stairs. "Go on without me," he says dramatically as he waves his hand over his forehead. "Come on you Muppet," I say to him as I continue up the stairs. Ryan mutters "Worth a try." Once we reach our door, I pull out my key and insert it into the lock. I turn the key clockwise and I hear a faint click signalling that the door is unlocked. As I push on the door to open it, the door crashes onto our carpet floor with a loud THUD. "Jesus Matt, turn it down a little," Ryan said to me as he eyed me. "The hinges must have broken off," I state the obvious. I walk into our now trashed apartment and start searching for my portable hard drive. It has all of the important documents from Cyndago on it. I find the slim hard drive on the kitchen bench and I snatch it to plug into my laptop. I rummage around through the files for 20 minutes while it seems that Ryan is on the phone. It seems a bit suss; how could he get service and who would he need to talk too right now? I finally find what could be interesting, a file named 'G_Crystels_ '. I open the file and find the locations of the crystals before all this went down. Two in the lab. One in an old mine shaft just outside LA. The document also says that 'the crystals hold un-imaginable power and can do anything the mind desires.' A plan starts to unfold in my mind. "Ryan! Come have a look at this," I call out to him. He peaks around the corner as he slides his phone into his jacket pocket. "What is it?" he asks as he walks over to me and the laptop. "I copied the data base from Cyndago onto a hard drive and I found a document that links with the gems," I say as I highlight the part that says, 'the crystals hold un-imaginable power and can do anything the mind desires.' Ryan suddenly gets a surprised look on his face. "Wait, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "Thinking that we go back in time, get the gem Daniel hadn't got yet, then confront him on the roof?" I mumble quickly. Ryan look at me with a disappointed look. "Oh, I was thinking unlimited sausage rolls but I guess we can save the world."I stand up and throw the laptop onto the destroyed couch. "That settles it then." Ryan and I both hold onto the gems and say, "We want to go back in time!" Nothing seemed to happen. Ryan looks at me and says, "So much for tha-." Suddenly, the world falls apart from us and we seem to be falling. We both are screaming like little girls then everything goes black.
