November 29th, 2177. The Ashfall Hall.
"Out there is our new world! Out there is our future! Out there is our destiny!"
The image of Doctor Curio Avaline was broadcasted all over the world as he introduced the Quantum Super Imposition machine to the world. But then, the live footage was cut.
People roared onto the internet and the news to find out that the Ashfall Hall has been attacked by 'terrorists'. There were people out there that did not want this machine to see the light of day.
The machine was sabotaged. It was going to explode any moment, killing the hope of a brighter future and burying Dr. Avaline's life works into the dirt.
The door of the vault was blown open, leaving its thick metal door hanging loosely with the machine inside. The culprits had disappeared long ago, leaving nothing but a ticking-time bomb that was the machine.
Electricity jumped wildly all around. A certain mix of quantum energy filled the air.
The atmosphere became so dense that it hurt Dr. Avaline's lungs. He could see gold dust dancing in the air, strands of silver silk floating, small particles of ever changing dark red matter.
"Are these... Quantum Energy? The machine has become so unstable, it reveals what the human's eyes could never see." Dr. Avaline mumbled.
He stepped into the room. His right knee was bloody and dragging on the ground. But he marched on despite the pain.
The electricity was immediately attracted to him and went into his skin. His entire body trembled and the numb penetrating to his bones.
Dr. Avaline bit his lips and kept moving forward, approaching the panel of the machine. The silver strand, gold dust, and dark red particles scattered away from Dr. Avaline like opposing magnets.
He placed his hand on the keyboard and began to check the status of the machine.
"Whoever sabotaged this machine is very clever. Their intelligence is at least at the level of a genius scientist with the skill of an experienced hacker. I designed this machine myself. It is not easy to hack into the mainframe."
Dr. Avaline's fingers turned into a blur as he redirected the remaining energy and tried to restrict the blast radius as small as possible.
[COMMAND CONSOLE]
fetch all qe_reserve
set sis = positive
set gate = -99999999999999999999
from qe_reserve import sif
start quantum_leap
[END OF LINE]
The variable 'gate' decided where the machine would connect to.
To determine the gate, there needed to be precise calculation and days of preparation. Dr. Avaline didn't have that much time to pick a location, he put the largest negative number possible and hit the button.
Dr. Avaline hoped that with this teleportation, most of the energy would be dispersed and the explosion would reduce. He would never expect that this random action of his sparked an entire series of events and led him to a world he could never have imagined.
A black hole appeared at the center of the machine. It pulled the gigantic teleport machine inside it along with the gold dust, silver strands, and dark particles in the air.
"What the?!" Dr. Avaline widened his eyes as the deep dark sphere shot forward and went inside his chest.
His entire body lit up like fireworks. Beams of light shot out of his mouth, eyes, and ears. Then his body became the explosion.
That day. The Ashfall Hall was attacked. The terrorists sabotaged the one and only Quantum Super Imposition machine. Doctor Curio Avaline, the core inventor, heroically stayed back and tried to defuse the bomb.
He successfully restricted the blast radius of the bomb in question and saved many people. However, the Ashfall Hall and the machine were destroyed in the process, while Doctor Curio Avaline was injured seriously.
Rescuers were able to find him buried in the deep ruin of what was the Ashfall Hall. He suffered major injuries but they were able to keep him alive. Or more precisely, half alive.
Doctor Curio Avaline, some would consider the most brilliant mind of the 22nd century, fell into a coma on that day.
That was nine months ago.
November 29th, 2178. Naara Central Hospital.
Without anyone's knowledge, Dr. Avaline's brain sparked a signal. A signal that pulled him out of the delirious state of the dream world.
That man had been switching from dreams to dreams for the entire twelve months and on that day, he was finally aware.
00:00 AM. November 30th, 2178. The Dream World.
Dr. Avaline looked up to the grey wide sky and saw that it wasn't real. He looked down at the scenery around him. Blurry faces with low-resolution background. It was the appearance of ancient oil paintings that he always liked to look at.
He lifted his hand up and wiped the air. Everything disappeared. The only thing left was a white empty space of nothingness.
This was the real dream world. A world of emptiness.
"So… I am in a coma." Dr. Avaline mumbled. "Scientists and doctors have long theorized that a patient in a coma still experiences a life inside of their head.
I can't remember much of what happened or know exactly how much time has passed. But this is for sure a dream.
What happened outside? What happened to the Jumper Project? What exactly am I experiencing right now?"
Dr. Avaline looked at his body. He was still himself with a bottomless black hole on his chest.
For some reasons, the projection of his mind made him possess the same black hole that had put him in this state. Dr. Avaline couldn't be sure if this was some kind of anomaly or whether the mind was playing tricks on him.
But he could feel something. He could feel energy. Power. Influence. Creation. All inside of the bottomless black hole of his chest.
Dr. Avaline said, "what the hell," and plunged his right hand to his chest. He's already dreaming, "what could happen to me in a dream?" He thought.
Inside his deep dark hole, he touched three things that had now become one with himself.
All those months. An entire year of drifting aimlessly from dreams to dreams. It wasn't for no reason.
His psyche. His mind. His soul. Whatever he actually was. It was trying to fuse with these three energies.
As he reached his hand inside the holes, he touched them all and grabbed them tightly in his hand.
He gained all of their power.
He turned into the waking dream.
Doctor Curio Avaline was now a GOD.