Chapter 1:
Our mc finds himself in a crowd after, falling victim to a demo version of a machine said to show you views of the world's history live. This drew many historians and scholars to the convention including our mc. Our lucky MC was the first of the public users to try this machine. Once inside, the machine began to run, which was far beyond humans technological grasp, at least as far as the public is aware...
Implementing brain scans, flawlessly reading memories, & analyzing his memories to choose a time period he had long studied and dreamed about.
But to our MC, it was happening so fast he was left shocked and excited wanting to see what the ai would recommend and show him today. As the screen directly displaying in his retinas continued to load his anticipation began to grow.
But as the program directly entered his vision again "Do you want to see the world in your dreams?" Just as he thought in his head, "Yeah, of course..." a loud bang was heard outside the device and the loud banging continued.
That is until voices could be heard from outside the machine clearly belonging to the management team. This demo machine clearly not having speakers so leaving no need to soundproof, he could clearly hear the team responsible for the demo muttering, screaming "Do not answer! Do not even think an answer! Sir please press the emergency eject button on your left immediately!"
they screamed loudly, acting extremely frantic from their tone to the fact the machine was shaking back and forth. He hit the "eject" button multiple times after being shaken from his euphoria of potentially seeing the world of his dreams.
The eject button had no effect, as the machine still projected a small loading screen into the corner of his vision. Then almost immediately came an infinite number of error messages the vast majority reading "Cannot unlock during transfer."
Outside the machine, the room was pretty calm despite the frantic attempts by the crew manning the demo machines stage. The room filled with professors and scholars of history means the room was full of lots of elderly individuals leading to the lack of an outburst throughout the room.
Boomers have seen a lot they lack the inexperience needed to freak out over something they themselves cannot fix nor even know why the crew is even frantic to begin with. But a small group who seemed to have an understanding of what was happening were calmly having a meeting.
Sitting around a table were scientists and government officials speaking about their secret plans to create alt-timelines, possibly falling apart if the machine were to activate.
As the technology responsible for killing a history professor who volunteered to try at the behest of the company would quickly lead to its banning. Not to mention the nosy independent journalists who would go snooping around for their next story to allow them to document for their blogs or youtubby Channels that are always on the lookout for government corruption or secret programs.
The man sitting at the head of the table wearing a navy blue suit with a small flag pinned to his chest, clearly a government politician asked the group "why is this even possible? I was told we created a second machine just for this demo did we not?"
Following his question a loud laugh was heard from just next to the politicians seat, the man who is laughing like a madman looked extremely worn out like a man on his deathbed.
This tired engineer seated directly next to the politician then spoke in a hoarse dry voice "Build a second machine, ha with our budget and staff! Not a chance we barely managed to make one and HA look its about to kill another one! This program is doomed and we are all going down with it, I initially didn't have much hope to begin with. But after constant success on the theoretical side, I thought we could actually pull it off after our teams hard work in boosting the power capacity with the nuclear engine but it looks like we might have just made a larger murder machine ha what fools! We are all fools tampering with nature with time fools!"
After the engineer finished his rant he actually slowly continued to mutter some unintelligible words under his breath clearly descending in madness upon the realization of his impending death!
The room continued in deathly silence watching the crew down on the stage try to disengage to locking mechanisms on the machine. Some members of the group had hope in their eyes, some of the more senior members had none as clearly they know the capacity of the machine they all helped design and probably have seen first hand its ability to kill its test subjects.
Less than a minute after the mad engineers rant the entire building and its surroundings disappeared in a flash of white light… not even sparring the earths crust which also loss a few hundred yards of depth forever in this small area. Hundreds of historians, researchers and tech enthusiasts were imploded lost for eternity.
But what about our MC huh? Who knows he could be your neighbor!
Most likely 1 chapter a day for a little then 1-2 a week from then one! Thanks for even attempting to read, you guys are now one of my elite employees!