Continued.....
They look through the telescope that cuts through particles obscuring our view of the real sky: and see silhouettes of large creatures. The real sky is a midnight blue-to-purple and full of stars. There's no signs of civilization, or land either, yet there's glowing trees growing from a ocean? Makana then asks "Is this another planet?", "Technically no, it's a alternative world next to ours; like pretend our shadows are actually alive too,; atoms are hiding we're on opposite sides of the same coin.." Eclair explains. "That sounds scary, like isn't messing with atoms dangerous?" Lei warns, stepping back from the telescope.. But her BFF tells her "That sounds crazy; even if they're 'close'!". Sunny sighs "I hate to agree mom, but if they exist 'with us' we're already interacting on a omnipresent-ish level?". The BFFs simply stare in silence: they have no idea what's going on anymore. Eclair simply explains "It seems that way; but their world looks accessible!", "But how do you know if it's safe?" Sunny asks. "Yeah I agree: there's probably a REASON we can't speak to them?!." the boy warns, but another scientist butts in: "You kids don't know what you're talking about! If we sat around being worried all the time, mankind would've never made any progress at all!". Eclair then interrupts him "Mr Giovanna, that's quite enough. And we're suppose to be the best of the best: naysaying come with the territory, relax?", after hearing her warning: he slinks away.. The woman then says "Now you kids are allowed to stay if you want, but don't touch anything. If Sunny trusts you, then I trust you.", "Thanks! My teacher: professor Kau'i, trusts me around important stuff!". Makana reveals proudly, "He says.." Lei jokes, Eclair then thought aloud "The adjective 'chill' scares me a little, but it should be okay.". The group talk for a while long, with Eclair even showing off less dangerous experiments through the day and until..
That night the BFFs prepare to go. As the sleeping quarters were reserved solely to the scientists there. But Makana and Lei wait at the doorway... "Think Sunny would want to come back with us?" he asks, "No, this was probably her end goal; to find her mom, right?" Lei replies with a irritated tone "It's getting dark fast, let's hurry before we HAVE to depend on just the kart lights?". They go to the golf kart to get ready to go. Meanwhile: Sunny is preparing to sleep in a room specially made for her; as Eclair planned for her to arrive. The blonde is sitting up on her bed, and in fear pulls a strange orb from her purse. It's black and covered in many green-numbers. "I returned to my mother. So what do you want? You said you're not here to hurt anybody, but haven't told me what exactly you wanted to do." she asks it. The orb responds by the numbers quickly launching circles within itself and creating numerical responses; but spoke also. "'Wait'...?" Sunny repeats it's whispers. Meanwhile: Eclair checked her telescope one more time "I enjoyed that challenge; having kids question my sanity was ..funny." She thought aloud to herself "I'm the boss so nobody questions me, I kind of missed another point-of-view." she adds.. Then looks once more to watch the moving silhouettes "If only I could reach through some other way than with this glass...".
A huge tentacle suddenly bursts through the upper lens! Most scientists start to scream and run, some merely document this sight carefully! Eclair could only back up slowly; no one imagined that the creatures from a world they could barely just see would be able to rip through the dimensions! The lone tentacle is followed by many more, then the head of a huge lizard! It is 13ft tall and 8ft wide..the bell is a translucent onyx, and the tentacles colors fade from that to a purplish shade. The blonde woman could only stare for a moment, trying to resist running and screaming and maybe speaking to the huge thing... " Are you..." she gets out but the thing quickly starts to snatch up many scientists, including her! Meanwhile, Sunny was told to run! She raced through the hallways and by oblivious scientists, until she reached the room in time to see her mother being pulled into the huge creature! "Mom!" she yells, but Eclair didn't respond; the gel making up the creature is deafening and hard to see through! The screams of terror also alerted Makana and Lei, so they rush back inside! The boy gasps and let out a: "What the actual living f..", "Is that one of the monsters???!" Lei yells over him! "It's eating them!!!" Sunny tells them, then the orb then starts beeping; though Sunny can its voice. She then wonders at what it said "You want to go inside??", she then walks to the jellyfish..but a tentacle reached at her; scaring her away! She runs behind her new friends; who're still staring in surprise. The dragonic head with tentacles has grabbed many people, but is fighting other creatures keep it from continuing its search. "What should we do? I don't think calling for help would, help." Makana says as he watched the massive thing wriggle, "We should RUN! Probably nobody can help, but staring at it will just get us killed!" Lei tells him in a freaked out tone. Sunny fearfully says: "I think we can help; this orb told me we can!", "What? Is THAT what you were talking to at night???" Lei asks in realization! "Yes, and it knew this was going to happen, it wants me to get close but.. I can't!" Sunny explains, "We can just throw it at a tentacle, it'll absorb it!" Makana suggested, causing Sunny to smile a little "Yeah, this can be easy!" she replies. Then sighs hard and runs to a squirming tentacle on the floor; then throws the orb it;:even if she misses, it'll suck it up anyway, right? But the tentacle suddenly launched up overhead to hit what looks to be a large mosquito coming down! "No!!!" Sunny screamed, Makana suddenly runs! Lei tries to grab his shirt "MAKANA, STOP!" she yells in worry, but he grabs the orb, runs directly under the creature and throughs it up to it's head; the orb levitates the rest of the way. And goes into the lizard's skull, a light suddenly beams up and closes the atoms overhead; chopping limbs of various monsters! "AH!!" Sunny screeches as a dragon's arm falls by her, as does Lei when whale tail nearly crushed her.. She walks closer to Makana who has some blood on his shirt... He then looks back up to see the lizard melt into water; releasing the unharmed scientists and their leader: Eclair. Sunny immediately runs to hug her, but slips in the slimy water.. "Ouch.." she gasps, Makana runs to help her up, but they all notice something: the exposed sky gets DARK..
Green grid lines start to stretch among the room, some lines take shapes and play out various activities. Screams fill the lab, but stop when people recognized loved ones being formed.. "I have traveled from afar just to save these humans." the orb now loudly speaks; in a monotoned male-like voice "You are of the very few born outside of the temporal loop: assess and make a decision to leave or stay: but DO NOT simply go back to 'normal' humans" the orb warns. The scenes around them play out the last few months I'd their lives in fast forward; Eclair watches as she tirelessly works at her newest goal, and sneaks out any cake she finds in the employee fridge. Lei watches all the fun she had with Makana, and classes, until the morning she left with him. Makana watches as he spends a surprising amount of time with his mother and Kau'i; but still MORE with Lei; and abruptly stopped when Sunny arrived. Sunny herself realizes everybody she spoke to was simulated; until she found the orb. Only after it convinced her to visit her mother; she was speaking to real people. ...."What the?" she asks softly, "..where's my friends? My teacher, why aren't they there?". "Many of you never existed" the orb reveals: "Centuries ago mankind polluted severly so that they initiated forced evacuation of Earth. This was met with rebellion and genocidal wars.". Eclair gasps "Over pollution??". "My race showed mercy for your, ignorant one. So they created a illusory view to comfort the survivors and help you survive; but I alone believe you should be helped with the truth" the orb reveals. "What in the???" Sunny asks with a gasp, "No.. Am I a fake too then? No because.." Eclair starts to stutter .."There are few survivors and they are here now; though not everybody here is a earthling.." The orb reveals.. the woman sighs in some relief for herself, but is reconsidering everything she knows. Some of the scientists have been revealed to be part of the grid/ are illusory. "This is a lie! Seriously.. How could all these people not be real!" Lei asks "N,no.. This doesn't make sense!". Sunny replied "We don't know... All you knew was what was on this island and what you were taught, all I knew was in the academy back home. And I used have 2 parents. Daddy.." She starts to trail off "..Didn't die, he never existed. But how was I or anybody born?,". "Do not ask what you truly don't desire to know." The orb warns. Makana starts breathing heavily: he knows he's real, and so is his BFF and Sunny because the orb manipulated events to bring them here, and they're not illusory: that's most of the important people in his life, except!... Makana suddenly raced outside, scaring Lei "Where are y..." she starts, when he immediately yells "To see my mom!!" and jumped in the kart! He couldn't speed away exactly, so Lei caught up to him easily "Shouldn't we stay here? I hate to go along with ANY of this; but if that thing's telling the truth, then we should stay here until we know what to do! Maybe we can for sure learn what we.." she started to explain in fear.. But Makana freaks "I have to see if my mom's alright, I have to know she's real!". He then turns towards her "Aren't you curious about it? About your parents??" Makana questions her in a more worried tone! "Of course I am! B,but if we're going to believe everything that ball's saying; we should be careful!" she rationally explains "*If our parents ARE real then they'll be with us when that orb breaks the illusion*.". Makana's eyes tears up "And if they aren't..I wanna see her one more time!" he cried.. before he stops the golf kart... "Ah....". his BFF starts, but they're interrupted by the illusory kart responding to its user and it speeds to a area filled with panicked people! Makana wipes his eyes and says " That thing brought us, here??". He then runs to the academy close by,, and Lei follows him... She doesn't recognize the building due to the grid texture, but realizes: "Hey, this' Kau'i's lab???". "Yeah, I hope he's real!" Makana says with some hope coming up in his voice: sure enough when he enters the cafeteria.. There's professor Kau'i sitting amongst a few other people. He and 2 others are flesh, but everyone else isn't.. Lei comes into the room too "H,how did you find it so fast?" she asks out of breath, he then replies calmly "Oh, the squares cut off at some points.". He then runs to his favorite teacher as she asks "You can even tell where they cut off?! How??!" But Makana was already focused on the man: "Professor, you're still real!" He exclaims, "Makana???" the man asked having just now noticed he was there "You're not weird-looking either!", "What do you mean by 'real'?" another professor asks. The boy's smile of relief leaves his face, then he tells them the situation and what it meant. "So I guess the mission I sent you on was lead to some crazy stuff... This is a little disheartening, Everybody has to realize they probably have been talking to, or are a alien AI or a mic." A grid covered colleague snaps back " Hey, a I'd like to think my thoughts are my own: this is a sensitive subject!", "You're right... I think being a AI rather than being spoke through is still better in this situation though, as it would mean you're still picking your own responses; you just don't use a organic brain as we do." Kau'i replies in a optimistic tone.. "But what if they suddenly switch the program?? We'd simply not exist!" another colleague reminds them in tears! "Yeah.. Hey, the orb didn't say it wanted to end our lives, right?" Kau'i asks Makana, the boy replied wryly "It said it wanted to reveal the truth, but not why. " Then it could just show us how Earth actually looks, and leave us people to decide on a future together ourselves." Kau'i replied "We could just decide to live as normal or do something fun!". "Ah! Then...lI hafta go!" Makana exclaims, "Go where???" his teacher asks. "I wanna see my mom!" The boy replied, "You could call her from here, then we'd have time to figure out what we should do!" Kau'i suggests. "Can't..I left my phone at the lab!" the boy reveals as he reached in his empty pocket.. The professor reached for his.."Mines' messed up I think.." he thought aloud, Lei then sheepishly says "Seee you in cla.. Well see you around professor!" As she leaves... He himself wonders "Lei? She has a point; what's the purpose in classes now that we know *a lot of what we thought was real is probably just filler to keep us entertained?*". Meanwhile outside; Makana watches as Lei arrives and smiles as she says: " Now let's go home.". Makana feels warm all over ...but doesn't know why, so he simply smirks and drives back to home.
The city is in chaos due to the changes... Makana and Lei get out of the kart quickly, and race to their parents' house! Lei passes through the streets and to the her neighborhood... She's scared and wondering if even her parents ARE real then they're still danger due to all this! But the girl is relieved to see both of her parents standing outside of their mostly peaceful neighborhood, they're making plans to search for her, but she calls out "Mom! Dad!". They both turn towards her in relief! The family then hugs each other, with Lei wishing peace for her BFF too! Meanwhile: Makana races through the streets and finds the academy his mother was in, he rushed through the door to hear his mother talking on the phone,"Mom!" He calls, she looks away from talking on the phone "Makana!" She exclaims! Then ran to hug him! "You're not a fake!" he cheers! "No, I'm not(?) What do you mean???" she asks. "It's a long story..." he replied, they let go of each other as she laughs some "What has gotten into you?!" she giggled. "You didn't see what was going on?" he asks as he backs away. "What?" she asks in some fear. They walk to a window; everything is normal again... "The only thing wrong is that the professor has been trying to call you, but you weren't here!", "Wha??" Makana replies and rushed outside!
It's a beautiful sunny day, birds are singing, dancers are dancing: days like this seem normal like every other...
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