Lookouts of Mada's study watched the weekly tapes as usual.

On one of the last nights, they saw Mada sneaking into the lab at night. He performed the same experiment he had performed dozens of times before, but this time the reaction was different.

Huge amounts of light were released from the cell. Light hundreds of times stronger than all previous experiments. From the tape, they didn't understand what was going on but understood that it was unusual. They informed the staff about it.

The team manager who had known Mada for years called him to get an explanation as they had done several times before. After the conversation, Mada looked up with a gleam of excitement and apprehension in his eyes. "The time has come." he said aloud.

After an hour of inquiry from a higher senior team, the manager received an emergency call. "It's one of the three forbidden diamonds!!! Stop him immediately!!!" Called the other side. The manager, sweating with fear, ran towards the lookouts.

"Don't worry. We have his location from the moment we watched the tape. He didn't leave his house. Get there quickly and it's easy work." Said confidently one of the lookouts.

The manager breathed a sigh of relief.

The military teams were dispatched, but when they got there, Mada was gone.

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-Forty-five minutes beforehand -

"Get up! It's time!" Mada called out to Ruan in the doorway of his bedroom.

"Huh? It's the middle of the night... what time is it?" Ruan rubbed his eyes, confused.

"Time for the final experiment." Stated Mada decisively. "It's called the final experiment because if it works, we'll have everything we ever wanted.

All our dreams will come true.

But, if I can't fuse with the diamond, I'll die, and nothing will be left out of me but dust." Declared Mada without fear. "Even if I was able to fuse with the diamond, it might've not work as expected. Then, I would be arrested and sent to prison until the day I die." Mada calculated confidently.

"What? Why such an extreme punishment?" Ruan asked as he quickly gets ready to leave.

"The government is trying to control the freedom of people. To decide for them what they can research and what they can't. In our world, there is much more than what you are aware of. Much more than you can imagine. There are substances that you can't even imagine. Some of them are very dangerous. The government is aware of it. That's why it tries to do what it can to keep them to themselves. That's why they created their own group of scientists, who support their point of view. Then, they put a veto on the Energia and any matter that could be composed of it.

Do you understand what they're doing? They decide what we can study and what not. Even the Energia of our bodies we are not allowed to explore! Do you understand what they are trying to do?! They are trying to take away our freedom!” Mada screamed furiously.

"And because it's important for the government that we obey, it punishes anyone who even dares to investigate what it's against, in an extreme fashion.

They do it to intimidate us. Scare us, so they can keep everything for themselves." Stated Mada as Ruan put on his shoes.

"But a free man is a man who controls his fear in order to achieve what he believes in.

It will not stop me from completing my research." Said Mada with a sparkle of determination in his eyes. I have done everything in my power to make it a reality. Even if it is not optimal. The final experiment will be performed right now. No matter what happens after me this day - after the final experiment, our lives will not be the same. This is our last chance. Our only chance. And I need you ready." Mada said looking closely into Ruan's eyes. Ruan, all dresses up, was ready for his command.

Mada put his right hand on Ruan's shoulder. "All your life, you helped finance me.

You fought for me.

You believed in me.

You are the only family I have left, and I want you by my side, in that special moment." Said Mada sentimentally.

Ruan recognized the tears he was holding inside. He looked at Mada as tears flowed from his own eyes. "I'm ready… grandpa… thank you." Ruan concluded as he placed his hand on his grandfather's palm and closed his eyes in completion. "Come," Mada interrupted the moment after a few seconds "We don't have much time" he claimed as he left Ruan's room towards his own room.

Mada entered his room and forcefully dragged his bed aside to the corner of the room. Under his bed, a wooden door was revealed. He opened the door which revealed a long old ladder into the bowels of the earth.

"What is this thing?!" Ruan asked stunned. "We don't have time for explanations! Push the bed back before you go in and close the door behind you!" Mada rushed Ruan.

Inside, Ruan and Mada walked through the vast tunnel gaping in the bowels of the earth. "Where did you get all of that?!" Ruan asked surprised, looking at the vast space where dozens of different electronic devices are scattered. Various tankers of all kinds, with unidentified materials inside. Cables tied to the base of their cell dangle from the high earthy ceiling. "What is this place?! It's always been here?!" Ruan asked astonished. The place above was his home for his entire life, and he never even questioned there's an underground building below it.

"They've been following me for years. There's no way I'd be able to do everything in my main lab. This place is my real lab. Here I've done all the experiments I couldn't do there." Mada revealed with a smile as they walked inside the laboratory carved into the ground stone.

Ruan looked around. He saw the mouse box he remembered from his childhood. "Everything is here..." he thought to himself as nostalgia hit him.

"We don't have time to be impressed. They are close." urged Mada as he put a glove on his right hand. He approached a side drawer and opened it. From it, he took a blue diamond the size of his palm. "Where are we going?" Ruan asked.

"To the central laboratory." Mada answered.

"Why there?" Ruan asked.

"The final experiment can only be carried out there. All these years… they thought I was heating metals to convert them into iod metal… I tried to convince them that I was trying to reach a higher and higher temperature because it was necessary for the success of the research. But, this device is meant for another, much greater purpose.” Mada shared and walked up the ladder at the other end of his secret lab.

On the surface of the ground outside the city of Saraf, a thin wooden door opened from the ground. Mada felt the cold air on his bald scalp. He looked around, looking for what he had left on the mountainside.

Shortly, he found it.

An old car that looks like a scrap that was forgotten outside the city.

From it appearance, Ruan was sure that it would not start. But to his surprise, they began a short drive to the main laboratory located on the nearby mountainside.

"What is this diamond you took with you? It is much bigger than any previous diamonds you had before." Ruan asked curiously.

"Definitely." Mada replied, "This particular stone is our last chance. All my research boils down to it. All the previous diamond stones I made... they were not meant to succeed. They had many flaws... but I was aware of it. I had to be economical with the materials I had. They are not cheap. I couldn't waste them. Some of these materials are extremely rare." Shared Mada as a contemplative look appeared on his face.

" If not for them...-" Mada recalled when in his head vision, he saw two people standing next to each other. Black silhouette of a man and a woman. The man has glasses on his eyes. The woman who hugs him has a Kare hairstyle. "- Without them… I wouldn't have been able to get here." Mada recalled quietly with sadness in his eyes.

When they arrived at the lab, Mada placed the diamond in the container as he said to Ruan. "This is it. The moment has come." he finalized as he looks at it one last look. Ruan gazed in amazement at the stone behind Mada.

"This stone. My life." Mada concluded as he closes the cell door.

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The special police unit, numbering 8 soldiers, broke into Mada's house.

"Lie on the floor! Hands behind your back! You're under arrest!" cried the soldier as they kicked the door open.

But, only the silence was heard as a response.

"Where is he?!" he asked his teammate after scanning Mada's house.

"I do not know!" answered another soldier.

"What?! You lost him?! Are you serious?!? He's an old man!!!" Shouts were heard from the commander's walkie-talkie.

"We didn't lose him! I mean, we never got to him in the first place! He wasn't here when we arrived! It's like he disappeared!" replied the team commander in a panic.

"I don't care! Do you realize who you lost?! He's wanted for Energia research! The biggest prohibition in the constitution! That means he jumps to the highest wanted level immediately! Find him now!!!" screamed the brigade commander from the other end of the device.

"Ye... yes sir!" The commander answered with a stressed stutter.

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A few minutes into the beginning of the experiment and the heating of the diamond.

The air bubbles inside the cell rose with an escalating speed, indicating the increase in temperatures. The temperature gauge on the laboratory monitor showed a medium-high level. "More.." Mada calculated placing his hand on his chin.

"You raised the temperature 3 times already..." Ruan argued worriedly on the other hand, "Are you sure this is what needs to be done?" he asked apprehensively.

"Don't doubt me." Mada attacked immediately. "I'm sure of it. It must reach the maximum temperature the device can deliver" Mada claimed as he pushed the handle that controls the temperature all the way up. "Wait, Grandpa-" Ruan said when a loud alarm cut off his voice.

Immediately, the emergency lights in the lab turned on. The temperatures rose tremendously quickly as the pressure on the diamond stone in the center of the device increased.

The laboratory space began to move like at an earthquake. The concrete walls rattled as if they were made of paper. A powerful noise of a melting pot was heard from inside the cell.

"What did you do?! This is crazy!" Ruan shouted in panic as he covered his ears with his palms. "There is no other choice! This stone is bigger than the others!" Mada shouted back. "Turn it off now! It's too dangerous! At this rate the whole place will blow up any second! It happened several times before! Stop it now!" Ruan shouted under pressure, dripping with cold sweat. "We can't! It's necessary to create it!" Mada shouted back with determination.

Mada and Ruan watched the temperature gauge as the temperatures continued to rise and reached the maximum shown on the gauge, and beyond.

"Grandpa! We must stop this now and run!!!" Ruan screamed. "Escape?!" Mada shouted in astonishment "And to be defeated?! Never! This is what I live for!" he shouted fiercely.

"It's not ready! There's nothing we can do about it! Despite all our effort so far, is it going to be worth it if this whole place is going to explode along with us?!" Ruan asked with tremendous anxiety and stress. Never had he felt his body is so insignificant compared to the tremendous power emanating from the cell. "Nothing is going to be worth it if we are going to die here! Death is the worst option!!!" Ruan screamed at Mada as he struggled to rise from his knees to his feet.

"It is not!" Mada screamed back. Ruan was surprised by his scream which stopped him in his tracks.

"The worst option is to give in to the fear that paralyzes you to get what you want! It doesn't matter what happens to us! The experiment must be perfected!" Mada shouted back with all his might.

"Grandpa! That's enough! You don't talk sense anymore! We must stop it now!!!" Ruan insisted and shouted back, moving towards the temperature knob. He extended his hand to it.

"No…" Mada thought to himself as he sees Ruan's hand quickly move towards the handle.

"Never!!!" Mada screamed as he hit a powerful body blow on Ruan knocking him to the floor. Mada laid over Ruan with his back to the cell, raising his upper body and looking Ruan deep in his eyes.

"-I didn't get to this point to give up! This is my only chance and I'm willing to go all the way for it! Even if it means paying for it with my life! !!" Mada screamed at Ruan.

The noise from inside the cell continued to rise as it reached its peak.

An immense light burst from the cell.

Mada turned back to the direction of the cell while on Ruan, and slowly stood up, looking at the glowing stone at the center of it.

The noise was so loud, and the light was so bright, that for a moment, it felt to Mada that he was in a completely different place.

A Heavenly place.

Peaceful place.

Just for a moment.

A moment that was interrupted by a blood-curdling scream.

"GRANDPAAAAAAAAA!!!!!", a long scream was heard from deep inside of Ruan's throat with all his might as a massive explosion occurred in the cell. Ruan threw his hand forward toward Mada who was standing above him, trying to shield his face against the cracked lab chamber.