2 Years Later
Outside the Public Library
Chapter three
Virtual Reality Simulator
Public Library
When they walked in, the bells on the doors chimed, but no one was in. They walked around; finding the entire place to be deserted.
"Think it's closed?" Zak asked.
"No, then they would have locked it." Aiden responded, intrigued. They split up and scanned the library.
"Hey, what do we have here?" Zak asked, as he saw a computer monitor. It was the only one there, and was at the very back of the room, behind many stacks of books. On the screen, it said:
Open V.R.S?
Yes
No
"Hey, Aiden! I found something!" He waved to show where he was.
As Aiden saw the screen, took the mouse, and clicked:
Yes.
Then, another screen popped up:
Are you sure you want to do this current task?
And of course, Aiden clicked:
Yes.
Instantly, everything rumbled, and a hole was opening in the wall, as soon as it was finished opening, the computer slid in, revealing a staircase.
"What did you do?" Zak asked, eyes wide.
"Found a secret people have been hiding for… decades." Aiden replied simply, almost too calm.
They walked down the pitch-black staircase, until they reached a steel door; it had no handle, window, or even a place to insert a key. When they walked up to it, the hiss sound of air being used in hydraulics came, and the door opened. It revealed something out of their world. In the middle, was a console, the size of four pillars, wiring was everywhere. It went around the ceiling, and on the ground. The only way to get there was by a single walkway.
On the sides of the walkway, were huge black holes, and behind the massive console –that was really a big pillar with a huge screen and keyboard set attached– were two walkways –and those had those holes next to them–, leading to other doors, with strange symbols on them. Zak looked down them, and noticed that the platform they were on was not supported by any pillar under them, and that under them, were seas of wires. So really, the only thing keeping the platform aloft was the walkways attached from the walls to the pillar.
On the walls, were strange engravings that were really lines, with bigger dots on the ends. When they walked up the console, they found a massive array of buttons, gages, dials and levers. Above all of that, was a screen, with strange letters all over it.
"This… is… incredible…" Aiden said, dumbfounded by the size and technological advancement this… machine had.
"What does this do?" Aiden flipped a cover off a button, and was about to press it.
"Aiden, don't–" Zak was cut off, because the second he pressed it, the strange letters on the screen began to change resembling the Matrix Binary code, and then filled the entire screen. The lines on the circular wall began to light up, in fact, everything did. And with another hiss of hydraulics, the door closed. The lines and dots on the walls shown a bright blue. Then, a mechanical voice came saying,
'virtual Reality Simulator; activated. V.R.S; fueled and charged. Airlock; closed. Planetary Code; 726.8236. Current destination; Kurobain. Current time frame; unknown. Portal emitting.'
In the holes, pillars began to rise out of them, with… ball-like thing on the top of each, instantly, they started to glow cyan colour and they fired something like electricity into the air. Once all of the 'electric' currents collided with each other, a bright white light ignited. When the light died down, the electric currents where still there, making a big ball of energy. After three seconds, it fired a super charged jolt of electricity right behind Aiden and Zak's feet.
Aiden smiled, and Zak said,
"Don't even–"
"Have a nice trip," Aiden stuck out his foot, and pushed. "See you next fall!"
Portal
As they fell, it looked as if they where falling through a tube. The walls looked like a PhotoShop mosaic gone wrong. The strange thing was, there wasn't any wind when they were falling.
"You idiot!" Zak exclaimed as they both fell. Aiden knew Zak's fear of heights all too well.
"Well, sorry if you have no sense of adventure!" He retorted glaring.
"Where the heck are we going anyway?!" Zak wondered aloud.
"Like I know?"
"If we ever make it out of this I promise–" Suddenly, he was interrupted by a series of blasts and explosions.
Suddenly, with a bright light, they landed on chrome.