Chapter One:

I held the little old game box in my hands. It hardly looks like it was tampered with, but its worth a fortune this altered game box. I just bought this online the other day, eager for this game box that looks like a harmless toy even though it has illegal electronic parts that has been banned for some time. I wanted to see the inside so badly to find out if it has the illegal parts I wanted that I almost cracked the top cover of the game box with my screwdriver when I tried to quickly open it up. The description online said it had the altered pieces, making it worth so much. I finally got the cover loose, I succeeded in opening my little treasure chest. I was overjoyed with the idea that I have struck gold, looking carefully at it I saw the electronics made by an entertainment corporations, indeed it had demo parts from the infamous experiments. The “C.O.D.Y.S. project”, a project with the use electronics to create an a way to alternate realities, a part of the project was for the use of entertainment. However only a few have been made, and some were made illegally outside of the company.

I didn’t care if it was illegal parts, I don’t care if the project has been banned. I think it was a cool idea, and I will not let the project die in vain. I let out my breath when I poked the pieces I needed. I dumped the game box shell with the others I got, some were fakes, some were legit, some were ambiguous. I carried my treasured pieces I needed to have to create my “alternate reality room”. I have decided to think bigger, with the idea that since the small portals were unstable, thus by making the portal larger it could be controlled. I took the parts to the room, the walls were filled with thick cords hanging twining around like overgrown ivy. I almost tripped on the cords tangled on the floor, there wasn’t a spot not covered in electronics. I think I got all the parts I needed, but honestly I don’t know. I hoped as I connect the pieces in that I can set up the portal to alternate realities, but then mid-thought I heard a crackle as the spark shot out at my finger when I put the last piece in.

‘Something is wrong! The equipment isn’t on yet, in fact the wires wouldn’t be live as caution when putting the parts in’, I thought, ‘maybe that spark just shorted it out and it won’t work now. It will be impossible to get new parts again.’ I heard a buzz of electricity, as soon as I heard the noise it was too late to react. I felt the electricity coming up my leg seizing me in a paralysis. ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen. I am going to die. I am going to die,’ I thought as the pain of the electricity cramped my legs. The pain went up to my chest, instinctively I inhaled, but couldn’t exhale. Black dots filled my vision, when suddenly it clustered to a black hole that opened in front of me, that must be the portal to alternate realities. ‘I did not set the destination though, it could go anywhere,’ I thought, ‘But better than dying.’ I reached my hand to the endless black hole that stretched sucking cords loose and papers I had lying around. The feeling of my face and hands tingling as it felt like I am being split apart, I could not feel or even aware of my lower body. My elbows started to hurt like its being stretched at odd angles. Then all of a sudden I was no longer aware of anything not even pain, I exhaled the breath I was holding sending pain everywhere.

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I woke up. ‘Ugh. I am alive if I am in pain, right?’ I thought as everything ached, ‘Feels like I’ve been through a strainer.’ I looked around to see greyness all around that stretched forever. A few blue streaks crackle on the floor like rivers. The blue streaks glowed and seem to follow a path along the ground. ‘Well it’s not a yellow brick road, but it’s the only thing to follow. Otherwise I can get lost in this endless grey world. If I follow it at least I may not walk in circles and can investigate this place better,’ I thought. I followed the blue glowing streaks that throb faster than my heart is racing, until I finally gave up and sat down. When I gratefully stretched my legs on the flat grey ground I thought, ‘I have walked for at least a day without water or food’. ‘I guess it could’ve been worse, I could’ve been trapped in a place without air, a world made out of just water ,or…,’ my thoughts were interrupted by a noise. It was just a small scraping noise, but it was enough to make me think that I might not be alone. ‘Finally, I could be saved, or it could be danger,’ I mumbled to myself.

I heard the scraping noise getting louder, it sounded like metal scraping metal. Like a metallic tuning fork, the noise resonated shrilly getting closer. I stood up, getting ready to run if I needed to. Then there was a barely audible thump, and the grey world was full of silence again. I waited listening to hear anything at all to indicate there was danger, or any life in that matter on this world. ‘Could I even call this a world? It seems like grey eternity, with no sky or earth, this must be a plane between realities,’ I mused. I huffed out a sigh, I didn’t even know I was holding my breath. ‘Guess it would take more than an airplane to get me off this trans-reality plane. Hmmm maybe I could name this plane of reality T-R plane. Why not?’ I thought as I felt gloomy at the idea that even though I discovered a new plane of reality, I could not share the excitement back at home with someone. ‘If only I looked at the notes better, or have done more testing I would have not ended up in this T-R plane, I could have been at a planned spot that was at least suitable if not a paradise….,’ thinking of fantasies of what I expected the adventure to be like. ‘At least in every fantasy idea I had, I was supposed to meet the girl of my fantasies, quite literally,’ I mused.

‘Maybe a girl like that.’ I thought, as I saw a ghostly form of a woman swim in front of my eyes. Obviously I am so dehydrated that I am hallucinating. My eyes got heavy, they were spinning, but before falling into the grey dregs that was dragging me to sleep I definitely felt something soft touch my chin as I fell. ‘Maybe that was part of a dream,’ I thought as I finally was dead to the world, lost in a world of dreams.