Dark parallel trap

Chapter 10

That night, Owen dreamt as to what the kids and teachers would do if they took over the earth. In the dream, Owen woke up and saw that he was sitting at the desk where he usually sits for English class. His classmates were smiling as the teacher showed a video of a seventh grader wearing a bee suit. The classmate was inside a plastic dome that was full of bees. The buzzing sound that the bees made was very loud. Owen closed his eyes. "Come on Owen, you're missing the best part." The English teacher told him with a smile. The students enjoyed watching the livestream. The seventh grader tried to get himself out of the dome. The only way out of the dome was the only that he came into the dome. The bees surrounded him. Before the student was pushed inside, there was some liquid honey sprayed all over the bee suit before the seventh grader came into the plastic dome. The way he came in was two sets of doors. The first door opened up to a small room dividing the inside of the plastic dome with the outside.

The students watched as the first door was sealed shut. The seventh grader pounded his fists on the door to the outside of the dome. Honey was smeared where his fists were pounding on the side of the door. There were three adults who got themselves suited in bee suits. They were inside. The seventh grader tired to push his way past them. The three adults prevented him from escaping so easily. They forced him to turn away from the door and to continue walking towards the second door. This second door opened three seconds after the first door was closed and locked behind the people wearing the bee suits. The bees charged at the humans. However, their bee suits prevented the bees from stinging them. The combined strength of the three adults got the seventh grader with the honey cover bee suit to go inside the dome. While he was there, the bees instantly swarmed him. The students watched as the second door closed behind the student with glee. Luckily, the seventh grader wasn't stung. The honey that covered his bee suit was soon gone. There was a few bees that were squashed while the student was inside the dome. "Being bad is good." The teacher said to the students. Then something bothered Owen. If the bullying is bad. Why did the bully get punished so badly? After all, at that school they say that being bad is good. So why are they making sure bullying is getting so brutally beaten. This thought alone made Owen confused. The next day he arrived at school just like he always does. The sound of the school bell rang. Then the same sound rang again. Owen notice that the school was changing. "Over here!" A voice rang from the air. Owen looked around and saw that the eighth grader who he saw yesterday. He used his hands to tell Owen to go to where he is. Owen ran to where the eighth grader was. He was standing next to the open door of the janitor's closet. The closet was big enough for two people to stand in. All of the equipment that a janitor would use is still inside the small room. Owen stepped to the far side of the room. The eighth grader closed the door behind him. "What is going on? What is all this talk about an invasion?" Owen asked. The eighth grader turned to face Owen and shushed him. The eighth grader was also wearing a backpack. "My name is Frank. I'm sure on your world. My double is suspended. While on my world, I'm in for a lot more trouble than just suspension. There is a whole lot more going on here then you could imagine." The eighth grader began.

Owen looked at the eighth grader. He tried not to excite himself from the news that Frank had to give him. "This is not you're school Owen. Well this is your school, except its in a parallel dimension. The place you're in is the same planet earth, but except things are different here than at your school. I'm sure you can spot a few differences here." He began to explain with a whisper. Owen remembered at how the parents drop his big sister off first at her school, instead of dropping Carter off at his school. He also remembered at how the school is different than the school he's familiar with. The hallways are reversed, and the students and teachers from this school looked more rebellious than the students and teachers he remembered from his school. "I can remember a few differences here when I was in this school. But to the parents and teachers know that I am missing?" Owen asked. Frank shook his head. "When you've went to our world a few times. A double was put in your place. Or an electronic double." Owen was just as confused as ever. Frank took a cellphone out of his pocket. "I stole this from one of my teachers yesterday. I saw him in grocery store, and I stole it by pickpocketing him. You can say that I have done some bad things while suspended." He swipe through the videos stored in his cellphone. He held the video where Owen can see a video playing on the small gadget. There was a news video that was posted on YouTube. In the video there was a news reporter. She was standing with somebody who was wearing some black gloves and where the sleeves of his long buttoned shirt end, the cuffs were a little bit torn off. He was holding an iPad. The news reporter was wearing boots that had spikes near the top. The news reporter looked like she had red eyes. The man with the iPad tapped a few things and something appeared in the vat behind them. There was a lady who was wearing the same clothes as her and who looked exactly like her. The reporter herself was impressed and astounded.

"This clone is built and created by digital circuit boards. These circuit boards can only be created by a computer and they're so small that hey remind you of any small organism. Like bacteria for example." The man with the iPad said. "But how did you get the circuit boards to create a human that looked exactly like me?" The reporter interrogated, still surprised while trying not to keep herself distracted from watching the clone in the vat. "Well, remember that you came in, and before the interview, there were many cameras that took pictures of you from the top and the sides. They were needed for creating your clone. The cameras were placed on a computer, and we sent out the picture to all of the tiny circuit boards by email. The circuit boards receive the information and construct the body wearing the exact same clothes that you are wearing right now." Wow, now that is incredible!" The reporter said to the man with the iPad. "Are there any other projects that involve this same kind of clone that you've showed us?" The reporter asked. "Yes, we are actually going to be using them to "replace" people for a while." The man with the iPad replied. "What do you mean?" The reporter queried. A smile came onto the man's face. Then the video has been paused by Frank, who touched the screen with his left pointer finger. "That's how people know that you're not missing." He explained. "Replacing people, are you kidding me?" Owen questioned with a louder tone of voice. "Quiet!" Frank said with a quiet tone of voice. He stopped for a while and listened. Owen waited for Frank to speak again. "As I was saying. People won't know that you're missing because you're being replaced with a double made out of those circuit boards. If you're not convinced, here." Frank took something from out of his pocket. It looked like a lens that would go on a camera.

"Put this on your T-shirt or in your locker when you go back to your world. You can find out that nothing will be different when you come back to our world." Owen took the small circlelike shape out of his hand. He looked at him and asked the question that bothered him the most. "Wait a minute Frank! If this world encourages its people to be bad. Why is bullying punished at this school?" "Not everything bad is done here. There are rules which don't let us get into trouble that easily. If you saw the video where I was nearly an alligators' lunch..." "I saw that video. It was scary. Even my parents wouldn't want me to do that. Why is that kind of stuff allowed here?" Owen wondered. Then there was some voices being heard from the other side of the door to the janitor's closet. "Owen! If you're here, we'll come and break the door down! You can't seriously hope to escape from the janitor's closet." Frank put his bag on the ground. He quickly opened it and pulled out two devices. They both looked like joy stick handles with a single button on top each of them. Frank gave Owen his joy stick after examining the name on the side of the small and long device. Owen held the device in his hand with his thumb resting on the button. "Let's meet again at lunch. We're not safe here right now. When you're finished eating, press the button. Oh, and don't forget to put the lens on your shirt. I will show you about these clones later." Frank promised as he closed up his backpack and put it back on his back. "Open up, we can hear well you know." Owen's twin's voice shouted from the other side of the door. Owen knew that his twin must be with other people surrounding the janitor's closet. He also held his joy stick device with his thumb resting on the button on top. "On the count of three, we'll run out of here and press the button. Then you can get back home." Frank whispered to him. "We're taking out the battering ram!" Owen's double shouted with sing song kind of voice manner.