1 Chapter 1 Goodbye World - Hello Quantum Nightmare (1/2)
When the ad had read 'Explorers wanted' Kenji hadn't expected the testing to be this rigorous. He'd prepared a fake resume of life in the special forces, complete with the contacts of various senior military officers known to have schizophrenia. He'd learned about military life from a few autobiographies, how to use some exploration tools, and even basic martial arts. He had planned, he had prepared, and now...
Well, strapped down to a hospital bed, unable to move his head while he was rushed past bustling scientists with white robes and soldiers with white masks, he felt something was off. Actually, now that he thought about it, everything was white, the tools, the plastic walls, the lights in the ceiling and even the pupils of the only person not wearing a mask. The man wore a white suit, a white tie, with alabaster hair and jet-black skin. He smiled with pristine white teeth, white wrinkles creasing his dark cheeks.
”Excuse me, what's happening?” Kenji said, the suited man, scientists, and soldiers alike ignoring him as they stared into the blinking green and red screens. Distantly an alarm rang and screams echoed. Kenji tried to look, but the straps held even his head firmly in place.
”Send him anyway, we needed one more,” a woman with a tired tone says, the wheels of the hospital bed screeching along as Kenji entered a room filled with a gigantic machine of floating steel and spinning tubes to form what looked like a giant metallic head surrounded by hundreds of waving snakes. Someone else was wheeled out, going the other way. A brute of a man, grey skin constructed of nothing but scars and muscle, his eyes wide open and grey, his mouth frozen mid-scream.
Kenji blinked, finally realising the man had been turned to stone.
”Stop, I don't want to go anymore. J-just, let me go back to my desk job!”
Kenji didn't have a desk job, but he thought it would make him sound better.
”Prepare the Medusa, we found a replacement,” another man said in a neutral tone, ignoring Kenji's pleading.
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”This is actually a raid, you're all under arrest,” Kenji said, deadly serious, ”failing to release an undercover officer is a criminal offence! Let me go and I shall look into your case favourably.”
No one so much as looked in his direction. Kenji was confident he was a great actor, so he realised they must already know about his perpetually unemployed status. Other than the occasional gaming competition of course. And a little swindling on the side, a cheeky amount, real slap on the wrist kind of stuff.
Wheeled in, Kenji was placed in a circle of people who looked liked they routinely had their mugshots placed in the news. In fact, Kenji recognised a man with a snake tattoo curled around his face, the side of his head a twisted mess of burnt skin. Wasn't he the one the police caught for setting fire to hospitals in America? The reporters on TV had called him 'Dr Pyro', Kenji was sure of it.
”Actually that was a joke,” Kenji says with a great smile, his best, as his bed was fixed to the floor.
”Just wanted to brighten up the place. Now, how about letting me go and we can talk about this?” Kenji was ignored, the scientists and their soldiers retreating out of the room as heavy blast doors descended after them.