The Unwritten

The Unwritten Part III - The Scientists

Cotanrz was worried, very worried. Something wasn't right. He looked down at Miuccia seated at the console. Her attention was turned toward the primary Fluid Resonator screen. These were screens made of solidified fluids that acted in psionic fashion on the viewer in both the display and relay of information.

The FluR was displaying some very odd data. Miuccia looked back up at Cotanrz who stood behind her. He was looking however at another FluR on their left.

Something was most definitely not correct.

It was supposed to have been a simple experiment in interdimensional displacement with a very base form of bidirectional communication. Once they had turned the device on, basically a kind of antimatter gun aimed inward at itself, they fired it off disrupting the fabric of both space and time creating a form of singularity.

That singularity was a tiny hole punched through to another universe. It was just big enough for a two-way exchange of information into another dimension, another universe, an elsewhere that some saw as simply another frequency or phase of existence.

Whatever it was it was as close to this one, whatever you considered it, as could be. Without that is, being the same exact version of wherever it was this was. It would be similar there, whatever was on the other side, but would vary by only a few degrees of reality. As it was, time appeared to be the most displaced element in the formula.

Cotanrz amused himself with the thought, ‘depending on how one saw it.’ Of course, it questioned one’s sanity in some ways.

This wasn't the first time they had tried this, but it was the first time they had tried to actually affect another environment, to actually communicate with it. And from what they could now tell, they had succeeded in materializing the collector to a locus within a geometric structure. Somewhere up near the top plane, what would be (could be) the ceiling.

There were readings that indicated beings were within the structure, so they tried to be very careful about what they did then. Miuccia had said that the power was dropping off so Cotanrz made a judgment call to absorb energy from the locus rather than pushing more power through from this end and thereby taking the chance of killing their connection…or worse.

What that effectively meant was that they could absorb energy from non-corporeal materiel; no living being would be harmed. They could pull matter on the other side into energy, stabilize and strengthen both their connection and communication, and continue the experiment with the least amount of risk.

It had worked, or seemed to have anyway, before it all went wrong.

Power had returned back up to and beyond the levels needed. It had worked. Communication was then attempted by transmitting information “packets” into the aural field and therefore, into the body of one of the beings.

Striking any part of the body of an intelligent being would instantaneously set communication into their mind, as if they had just been spoken to by the sender. Striking a part of the body closer to the brain would give better response, but as Cotanrz had stated during his lectures, beggars can’t be choosers. On the other hand, striking a lower intellect being such as a house pet would merely result in simple momentary confusion to the animal and nothing else; it would be completely harmless to it. For scientists in this universe, that was paramount.

In the worst case they figured nothing at all would happen. At best, they could find they were communicating for the first time in history with a being from another universe! Energy levels of the beings in the locus indicated they were most likely quite intelligent. In fact, readings indicated they were not far off from their own species in complexity, humanoid in form and structure and therefore, there was a high likelihood of the experiment being a success.