It was the sound of water dripping followed by a cold sensation through his skin..
The heaviness that weight upon his body, and the exhaustion that brought his consciousness back.
He slowly open his eyes and examine his surroundings, and found himself in a cave with many shattered rocks and debris of metals. The surrounding is so chaotic its just like a bull stampede recently happend.
And the first question that he ask himself is,
(Who am I?)
After pondering for awhile, a name slowly resurface in his mind
(Raynor Radon)
And after that, a sudden flashback of memories and information of what happen in the past and how he end up at this place flow into his head all at once..
It was during the year of 2225 AD that he lives in, where after the WW3 has over some hundred years ago, and humans have avoided their extinction, and unexpectedly, many still survived.
After that, because of how low the earth's resource and how bad the environment have become, humans have fixed their focus upon the vast expense of the universe and focus on developing technologies not for warfare but to expand their territory to other celestial bodies and to obtain their land and resources.
Many years later, human technology have led them to populate the moon and colonized Mars and to make them suitable for human habitat. Not long after gaining suffecient resource, humans continue their tug of war and have also bring their warfare to the next level, with the help of galactic travel.
But everything changes during the year 2205 when the first human have awoken to his psychic powers, and after that like a spreading disease, many more have also awaken to their psychic power and eventually, over 99% of human population have psychic power. The remaining that did not have any power have been shunned by society and in worst case, enslaved or killed by others... After few years, Kaiser, a once famous scientific researcher have reported to have cultivated his powers and reach the realm of immortality and his powers has exceeds any other humans. Because of that, he is being worshipped by all, and has been known as the “supreme ruler”. But little did anyone know, those who have psychic powers have lost their interest in developing new technonogies and research. They only spend their time cultivating their psychic powers to reach the realm of immortality, and thus leads to a stop in human technology development.
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Raynor was living in his laboratory deep under a mountain. After the non-psychic persecution, he has cecluded himself in his lab researching the secrets of space and wormhole for the development of warp drive. Like usual, when Raynor was going through his notes of research, and he sense a pressence of someone behind him. Someone that he knew long ago..
While still staring at his research notes, silence filled the room for few minutes. Finally Raynor ask
[so, what brings the supreme ruler to this place?]
[You are still focusing on your research as usual I see, and please call me by my name, we are once close friend am I right?]
The other person replied with a smile that is obviously a fake smile once you look at it.
[That does not answer my question Kaiser! you can enjoy your luxuries outside why waste your percious time talking to me?]
Raynor ask again in a more firm voice and finally Kaiser reply,
[The famous reseracher is researching wormholes, and will have a chance of developing a black hole instead. I as the fuler of mankind will have to confirm the safety of our race, thus here i am.]
[If it is the creation of a black hole you fear, then I have safety measures installed. I’ve found a way to vaporize it as long as it does not grow too big. Even if it swollows up everything in this room, the devices installed around this facility is still enough to vaporize it. But that is unlikely to happen, for i will contain it immediately, so you have nothing to worry about]
While informing him, Raynor unconsciously touch a strange looking device on the table, and Kaiser look at it like he found something interesting, then immediately his expression turned to a gentler one and replied,
[Look at yourself, how many years we have not seen each other, and now you have grown much older, and I am still as young as we first meet.. You too can enjoy the luxuries all you want, as long as you partake of the medicine and obtain the power, and by a few modifications you too can become immortal.. That is the result of our hard work of years of biological experimenting and you do not want to be a part of this?]
[...]
Raynor remained silent as he is looking at Kaiser with the eyes of determination that nothing will change his mind.
[Hahaaha.. I like your determination! Just to let you know, I’ve always been jealous of you. I was the top in the Biological Engineering class, but then you came in and take my place. Not only that, but also you ace in every form of engineering and also including Quantum Physics, I’ve always wonder, what’s in your brain? How can it remember so much information?]
After saying all that, Kaiser took a galnce at Raynor expression, and with a smile that scares young children away, immediately, the strange looking device that was on Raynor’s table appeared in Kaiser’s hand.
[What, are you tryin..]
Without Raynor finishing his sentence, a loud ‘boom’ sound exploded in the room where the largest device is located, and a shockwave travels through the room and many stuff overturned and broke, followed by a force that pull many small debris into a single spot, but does not stop and it grows stronger everytime it pulls in something, and eventually the pulling force pulled in many larger stuff.
Raynor stood at his spot glaring at Kaiser who seems unaffected by what happened while he’s trying his best to stand his ground without being pulled in, like a skinny person trying his hardest standing in the middle of a thunderstorm while vehicles are being overturned.
[I hope that your ‘safety measures’ around this facility dosen’t disappoint me, I shall put my trust in this famous scientist Raynor, which I shall pay my last respect.]
After saying that, Kaiser disappear without leaving any trace, but leaving Raynor alone in the room with the force that pulled him even closer.
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Thats all Raynor remembers before blacking out and arriving at this cave.
After getting all his informations and emotions sorted out, he have no clue how he survived the black hole and reach this place.
But there is only one explanation that he can think of...