My world shook and shuttered, rocked by the explosions around me. Attempting to lift myself off the metal catwalk I had fallen to, I glance around the crumbling cavern to the machine in the containment area below. The Machine itself looked pristine, two inverted pyramids brought together at their apex forming a sharp hourglass shape. The levitating rings around the center spun in a blur, occasionally blocking the searing light from the core. The real marvel was the core, a miniature star rested at the center of this great machine. The massive loops of dark blue energy , were decidedly [i]not[/i] peaceful in the slightest. The containment looked held together with hopes and dreams, as my old professor liked to say. Really "ready to fall…show more content… Doctor can you-" The voice cut off with another explosion. Another voice cried out into the wreckage. "Damian, oh god please no, you can't do this to me! Damian!" The second voice broke into a sob. "Come on Jacob!" another voice shrieked from further up the stairs, "We have to get out of here, this entire place is coming down around us, let's go!"
As the voices fall silent, another explosion rocks the lab. I attempted to call out but the thick black smoke locked it in the back of my throat with a hacking cough. Unable to see any other course of action, I began to climb down the nearby ladder to the destroyed containment unit. Even from above I could feel the heat of the core and that mysterious energy, the closer I became the... less it burned me? That couldn't be right, but my mind was quickly distracted as a band of dark blue energy lightly grazed the containment wall opposite me. With a silent roar the wall, the labs, and the earth behind them all were gone. Easily a hundred meters of steel, concrete, carbon and titanium just... gone as if they had never existed. The cone of destruction was quickly filled in by the destabilized caverns ceiling, cracks spread to the ceiling above the machine as-well, threatening to crush myself and worse, bury my machine forever. A Shiver ran through me, I had to shut it down before it was too…show more content… However my determination to see to the safety of my life's work allowed me to press on. Climbing over the ruble of the containment unit I entered into the reaction chamber itself. My aim was to reach the main power decoupling before the fusion reaction became self-sustaining. I eyed the thick bands of soft blue light coming off the core like a visible magnetic field. Forty years of physics research and I couldn't even begin to understand what I was looking at. Was it anti-matter being ejected from the fusion of hydrogen, somehow not destroying itself as it was created? Was it exotic matter encased in an artificial gravity field? Could even be a completely unknown form of energy too esoteric to explain?
Whatever the case, an opening in the bands came and I jumped through. I realized I had mad a mistake somewhere around mid leap. The peaceful bands of energy became agitated and from the corners of my eyes I saw the nearest bands converge on me. I hit the floor and waited for the
