Lets be honest, what did we really think was going to destroy the world? Global warming? Some lethal virus? Aliens? No one even glanced at the most likely scenario: ourselves. Knowledge is power and the world was getting too powerful. Scientists discovering new things every day, revealing secrets of the planet that some say should stay unexplored. Just recently, Russia discovered a new hard material found deep in the ancient tunnels of the Shamanis Pyramids. The material was experimented on for months, testing the rock's breaking point (so far as scientists know, it is indestructible) and making sure there isn't any dangerous substances such as mercury sulfide hidden somewhere beneath the hard black surface.
Too bad they did. The Russian Scientist that's job was to make sure the strange, dark object was safe failed. It was their job to deliver the good news to the president of Russia. The news that the object didn't pose a threat to them. He failed. It wasn't his fault. Not really. He couldn't have changed the fact that there was mercury sulfide hidden deep inside the new material. He certainly couldn't have change the fact that inside the square black box was a larger box. A much larger box, filled with mercury sulfide.
The box was almost twice the size of the area of the earth. In 2040, science took a great leap forward. German Scientists that were studying "Dimensional transcendentalism" (A state wherein an object's interior was bigger than its exterior, an effect made possible by transdimensional engineering.) finally unmasked the secrets of transdimensional engineering and made the first ever working "R.D.I.S"(Relative Dimension In Space). Named after an object in a very popular TV show that finished in 2032. It was because of the R.D.I.S that they now understood what was happening inside the small black box. The black box was in a Dimensional transcendentalism state. Whatever was on the inside, was bigger than what the outside portrayed. In this case, almost 1000 million square kilometers of mercury sulfide.
At first the scientists were amazed at this fascinating discovery but they became more and more frantic as the realized that the outside material of the box was slowly crumbling away. The only thing keeping the mercury sulfide safe inside the black box was the hard material on the outside. When that is gone? The mercury sulfide will be released into the world. Killing everything it comes into contact with.
The innocent citizens around the world were completely oblivious to what was going on around them. What may you ask is happening? Well, I suppose you could call it "The end of the world"
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A draft of cool breeze drifted through the gap under the small plain steel door. The room was square and a shade of pale white and in the centre of it sat a large metal table. Around the table, seven children about eight or nine years of age and two adults were gathered. The adults - one male, one female - dressed in long, white lab coats, were hunched over a sharp black box arguing vigorously in whisper. The children however, were looking bored or confused. As if they didn't quite know why they were in this strange little pale room with a strange metal table carrying a strange little black object. All they got told was that they would get something out of it. Would that not be enough to spark a nine year old's curiosity?
The first child was a girl about eight. She had strawberry-blond hair worn in pigtails with pink ribbons tied in bows. She wore a bright pink and yellow dress with blue flowers patterned all along the edges. Her cheeks were full and matched the bright colour of her shoes; cherry red. Her sea green eyes were fixated on the boy on her right. His eyes glanced up from the floor and she quickly averted her gaze.
The boy she was staring at rolled his eyes. He was used to this kind of attention from girls. He tugged his hand through his sandy brown hair and let out a small sigh. He was wearing dark green shorts along with a tight brown shirt. Staring up at the ceiling he wondered why he was still here when he could be out playing football with his mates. The boy made a quick glance to his side where another boy was standing, his back leaned slightly against the wall. Maybe this boy was missing his friends as well.
Darren was staring at the sharp black object on the metal table as if he had x-ray vision, the cogs in his brain turning furiously, trying desperately to figure out what the strange black box could be. He furrowed his dark eyebrows and bit his lip. A strand of dark hair fell over his grey eyes and he blinked before standing up straight and brushing the hair from his eye. Darren was quite aware of how he stood out like a sore thumb with his dark shirt and jeans in the bright white room. He was quite aware he was being stared at by the girl next to him.
And the girl next to the strange dark haired boy was staring. There was something odd about him. About how he stood, about how he was staring intently at the object on the table. I mean, sure it's interesting. But you don't need to look at it like you’re going to murder it. She tucked her long brown hair behind her ear, fiddled with the hem of her blue laced shirt and shifted her eyes to look at the folds in her jeans. This was taking forever.
The girl next to the other girl with the laced shirt was looking all over the place. Her big brown eyes wandering from one place to another. She didn't look all that there. She was wearing baggy blue pants and a rainbow shirt that looked like she had gotten it a size – no, a couple of sizes – too big. She had long gold curls that reached down to her belly button and her pale little hands were twirling around a large, gold lock.
The next in line was a girl again. She had a big baggy t-shirt with the words "One Direction" scrawled across the front in big red writing and she had her dark red hair tied back with a small blue band. There were pictures of 5sos all over her denim jeans. They used to be her great grandmother’s when she was a child. Such old bands, used to be all the rage back in 2014. The girl had her tongue out in the corner of her mouth in concentration as she was passing her time by balancing on one foot.
The seventh in line was a boy, flicking his eyes down the line of children as if he were analyzing them. He pushed his round glasses up with one finger and lowered his green cap so it covered his eyebrows. They won’t be able to see him looking now. The grey shirt and shorts he wore blended in with his dark skin.
Slowly, one by one, the children began to realize the angry whisper of the adults had stopped. What ever it was they were arguing about, they had come to a conclusion. Although one or two of the children were still aware of the tension in the room. One of the adults - the man - with sandy brown hair cleared his throat.
"Okay, well it’s time, I guess" he said. He was clearly not happy with the outcome of the conversation.
The woman picked up the sharp black object and calmly gestured to the steel door. Not one of the children made a move, the confident demeanor had vanished now that they were face to face with the job at hand - even if none of them knew exactly what that job was.
The man sighed, strode over to the door and heaved it open. Soon after, the woman flitted through the opening, clutching the black box tightly in her arms.
"Go," the man growled, "Follow Rachel through."
