A simply dressed man with light brown skin stood in an empty metallic room in the Madan Space station, his space station.
He was focused, typing on a floating black screen with almost impossible eagerness.
The room he was in only contained one big window through which he was looking at a round metallic structure that orbited Earth. The man was visibly disheveled, having long but unkempt hair and dark circles under his eyes, yet he smiled as if something extraordinary was happening right in front of him.
He stopped typing. His smile grew even brighter, like that of a mad man.
"Finally! Jesus Christ! Those irritating motherfucking pieces of garbage will finally see my genius. Why did this shit take so fucking long?!" the man shouted, then laughed maniacly.
He stared and waited for a full minute as if waiting. Disappointed, he looked behind him, where a neat and handsome man wearing a suit was standing, holding a square device with a big red button on it. The handsome man grimaced.
"What? Are you expecting me to answer?"
Madan, or Nero as his friends called him, smiled again, this time with a hint of cynicism.
"Yes, Alden, that's why you're here."
Alden looked at him with an uncaring, bored face.
He looked at the device for a bit, then showed Nero the device, his index finger from his other hand, and started to bring it very slowly towards the red button.
"Stop!" Nero shouted, holding his hands up in the air. "Why are you always doing this? When will you learn to take a joke!"
Alden stopped, bringing his hands down, one of them with the device, and looked at Nero with a frown.
"Because you made this stupid big red button that can set off the biggest project in the entirety of history just by pushing it."
Nero scratched the back of his head and smiled.
"There was no other choice! If I'm going to start the biggest project ever, I need to do it while pressing a big red button!"
Alden looked at him with an uncaring face as usual.
"You know what?" Alden said, his facial expression changing into a weird, unnatural, yet genuine smile.
"This time I agree with you."
Nero made a horrified face.
"But don't get used to it," Alden said.
"Holy fucking hell, stop smiling. Your smile is terrifying."
Alden stopped smiling, his face stern as if he was hurt, and looked at his beautiful watch on his left arm. He looked at Nero again, then at the device in his hand. Nero immediately understood what was happening.
"Wait!" Nero shouted, while starting to run towards Alden.
Alden didn't stop. He started to bring his finger closer, and this time it didn't look like he was going to stop.
Nero jumped towards Alden. "NO!" he shouted.
A second before Alden pressed the button, Nero accidentally tripped and pushed Alden.
They both fell down, but they could hear a loud beeping sound over and over.
Nero immediately jumped up and ran towards the window. "Shit!"
Alden got up a second after him and started running as well.
They both stopped in front of a huge window. Nero was the only one panting.
He looked at Alden angrily, "You ruined everything!"
"No." He answered calmly. "It was just time."
Nero was about to answer back, but the massive metallic structure started to open.
They both forgot about the conversation and stared at what was happening.
"Fucking beautiful," Nero said.
The round object opened in the middle, as if it was gradually splitting itself in half.
From the opening came out what seemed to be very thin lines of metal that started to expand. As they expanded they followed around the Earths orbit. It was hard to see the lines from the space station, but in reality each line was huge.
Slowly, the lines started to take the shape of a net. From their view, the net was very thin, almost invisible, but the shadow that it created showed its actual size. The net like structure created a huge shadow that split continents in many little piece, sometimes concealing whole countries.
Finally, the net connected around the Earth. The lines stopped expanding. The whole process made no sound from beginning to end.
"Today will be the day when humanity breaks a law of nature," Alden said seriously but quietly, afraid of somehow ruining everything. " It will be the day when humans will finally be free of the burden of not knowing the most asked question in the history of humanity."
A second after he finished speaking, the metallic net started to shake. It began to contract, undoing the remarkable transformation bit by bit, until it was back to its original round form. The round structure began to fly towards Earth's surface, though no fire came out of its back so it looked like it was just floating in a certain direction.
It was using the anti gravity technology that Madan invented.
Alden turned towards Nero.
"Let's go, the answer is right around the corner."
"Yeah," Nero answered nervously.
They walked around the station, exiting and entering rooms and corridors. The station was huge, so it took a while. Nero tried to think of some kind of joke, but he couldn't come up with an appropriate one. He was too nervous.
Suddenly, they heard clapping, cheering, and whistling. Nero became more nervous.
"Shit. It's really happening."
They knew that the cheering sound of the station's crew was because the structure made its way back to Earth, and the mission was a success.
Alden didn't answer, but he looked nervous as well. Alden never looked nervous.
Finally, after a long walk, they got to the room they were searching for. After a long process of proving who they were by swiping worker cards, putting dna samples, scanning their faces and more, they finally got in.
The room had one black screen and some chairs. It was big, about the size of a human, just a bit higher than the floor. Nero and Alden didn't talk. They just looked at each other, Nero nodded, and Alden pressed a button.
The screen turned on.
They both looked at it. It was black, but there was a tiny white dot on the right side of the screen.
Alden and Nero looked confused. Alden approached the screen and started to zoom in on the image with his fingers.
It took a while, but he continued to inch closer until the dot split in two.
Nero looked seriously.
"What is the meaning of this?"
"Be patient," Alden said.
Alden continued zooming in. Bit by bit, the dots became larger and clearer. There were two grey dots in each white dot now. Later, it was seen that the grey dot contained a black dot as well. Alden continued for a while until the dots filled the entire screen.
They were very clear now. There were two white oval objects, each containing a beautiful silver round object having a cloud-like texture with small black lines here and there. In the middle of the silver object was a perfectly circular blackness.
Alden was weirded out.
"Weird. Those look like eyes. Maybe if we zoom closer, we will see something else."
He looked away from the screen and to Nero, and was surprised.
Nero was shaking, sweating, and making a horrified face. He looked possessed.
He looked at Alden and said quietly.
"B-because… T-those are e-yes..."
Alden was confused.
'Was it one of Nero's jokes?' He thought. 'He never looked so real while making them until today. He has certainly improved his acting skills.'
"We don't have time for your jokes, Nero."
He looked back at the screen and began to zoom in.
He started shaking.
At the beginning, it was almost unnoticeable, but it intensified until he couldn't stand in place. He started sweating profusely.
"W-what is happening?"
He started looking around, searching for the origin of this feeling. He felt terrified, like he was about to fall from a great height, or like he was standing in front of a predator that he knew he had no chance of escaping.
He looked around, searching frantically for the source of this feeling. At one point he looked back at the screen, stopped, and became horrified.
The eyes. The beautiful and flawless eyes. They looked at him! He was certain they weren't earlier!
While shaking, he started to feel a liquid dripping from his nose, eyes, and ears.
He heard something fall, and suddenly, the world turned black.
Then, he heard it. The voice.
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A normal looking teen wearing casual clothes was sitting on a comfortable sofa in his yard. He had short black hair and brown eyes. Today, those brown eyes were shining.
It was a big day after all!
Today, the famous scientist Nero Madan will do his big secret experiment!
Although no one knew what the experiment would bring forth, most people were excited.
This was Madan after all. The scientist who made it possible to walk on ships in space. The same one that solved the food problem in most of the world! It has to be something incredible yet again.
It was said on the news that everyone would see his experiment from the outside, no matter where you're from. 'That is crazy!' Boris thought. 'That means that he created something huge! Bigger than any other invention ever!'
He was certainly excited.
His big brother Callum, a tall and attractive looking guy, sat to his right. He had short black hair as well, but his eyes were green. He was dressed fashionably, looked serious as usual, but there was a spark of excitement in him as well.
"It will be a special birthday, Bo, isn't it?"
"Yeah, but I still expect a present."
"Well, I'll buy you something. A small plushie, perhaps. It's your sixteenth birthday after all."
"Shut up!"
They both laughed.
Their dad, a big bearded fellow wearing simple clothes, was flipping burgers on an outdoor grill near them. Their mother was sleeping inside with their three year old sister.
He looked at his watch and shouted, "It's about to start! Boris, Callum, get ready!" and sat next to them hurriedly.
They all looked up expectedly.
Suddenly, huge metallic lines formed above them.
'So fast!' Boris thought.
The metallic lines create a huge net that seemed unending. They crossed each other, creating a net.
"Whoa," Boris said uncontrollably.
The net shook and stopped moving.
A couple of seconds later, the metallic lines shook again, and strong winds started to form.
It felt a bit colder.
The grill that their father had attended only minutes ago fell, spilling the burgers on the yard floor.
As suddenly as it started shaking, it stopped. Then, the net began contracting, and a couple of seconds later, the net vanished as if it had never been there in the first place.
The strong winds stopped.
They sat there for a minute, amazed at what they had seen.
"That was amazing," Boris said, first to break the silence.
"Yeah," Callum said, his voice filled with awe.
"It was very cool, but our food is ruined," their dad said disappointingly.
"How can you think about food after watching that?!" Boris exclaimed
"Because I made it," He said while standing up and smiling. Then he went to clean the mess that was made from the grill falling down.
"Let's go," Callum said as he stood up and went to help clean the mess.
Boris stood up as well. He started walking towards the mess when he started feeling like someone was watching him. 'You're sixteen already, stop being so anxious,' he thought.
Then he started shaking. He looked at his hands, which were visibly shaking, then at his brother and father, who were as well. They were all confused, especially Boris, who had never seen his father that nervous.
"Wha-" he was about to talk, but the world turned black.
'What is happening? Did I faint?' he thought.
Then, the moment he had fainted, Boris saw two majestic, perfect eyes with grey pupils and a cloudy texture.
He felt like they were looking at him.
No, not at him, but at something more profound.
Maybe it was looking directly at his soul.
And then he heard the voice.