Chapter 3 - Spectacular events (1).

Back to present times.

Abu Dhabi-Ghweifat Highway.

After doing some more checking, he went to examine the parcel to see whether it's in one piece or not. Bilal opened the back door of the delivery truck and shifted his gaze towards the parcel inside the truck, he was relieved to see the parcel in good condition. Only the Outer plastic covering was somehow damaged.

He entered the truck, trying to start it again, but to no avail, it looked like the engine got damaged as well. The only feasible solution which occurred to him was calling Riyaz and telling him the whole ordeal.

Taking out his cell phone, he dialed Riyaz's number, but to his surprise, he found out there was no network, he tried refreshing the network several times but nothing worked. It really intrigued him as it was his first time seeing the no network sign since he came to UAE.

By now, he was totally convinced that something is wrong today, very wrong. Having no other way out all he could do was wait on the Highway and ask for help from other people.

As he was fiddling around his phone waiting for someone, the white light which distracted him earlier flashed in his eyes once again but this time with greater intensity.

'What was that?' like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he looked around everywhere with reflux only, to find an empty road with just him and his truck.

'Maybe it's over' he thought but was proved wrong, as once again, it flashed into his eye and also with an increase in intensity. But it still didn't stop, those flashing lights started flickering into his head with an increased frequency.

The white light unexpectedly started to give him a massive headache. With each rise in flash frequency, the headache also started intensifying.

'Please! Please!! stop!!! Ahh!!' Bilal started screaming at the top of his lungs as he was unable to bear the pain any longer as a result, he fell on the road. He felt as if he was about to lose his consciousness, he clenched his teeth and tried to endure it.

'What did I do to deserve this painful death.' agony was so great that he saw the death door. However, it seemed like the white light heard his pleading as the pain started subsiding bit by bit, after a couple of seconds, it was completely gone.

He reopened his eyes only to be completely astonished. He saw the whole world fully covered in white color, he saw several hundreds of transparent holes floating in the sky from which millions of multi-colored glowing particles were flooding out. The number of holes in the sky seemed to be increasing just in a few seconds, they started spawning everywhere.

His vision then changed once again, this time it was a world completely wrapped in darkness, several huge beams of blinding white lights penetrated the atmosphere and landed on the surface of the earth, forming huge pillars of radiating lights. The darkness in the sky did not seem to like its action as it started transforming into human-shaped darkness apparition.

With another blink of his eye, his vision restored back to the normal worldview he originally had. Those colorful conceptions ingrained a deep fear into his mind. He had now confirmed that something unusual is going on in the world. Abruptly, a strong gust of wind blew past him and started pulling him towards it with a great inertial force.

Bilal hurriedly clutched the back door of the truck when he became unable to stand still facing the force. The wind seemed to have its own intellect as it started to blow much faster in response. Suddenly, he heard the creaking sound coming out of the truck and it started vibrating, it looked like it was going to blow him away alongside the truck.

"How can a storm suddenly form in here? Help! Someone Help!!!" he started crying for help but strangely enough, there was not a single soul in the vicinity.

His wrists started aching in pain even all the way to the shoulders, he felt that if he didn't let it go, his arms would be ripped off his shoulders. Little by little his hands began slipping off the door's handle as if the day couldn't get any worse, the door started deforming from the inside and with a loud 'clack' sound. Bilal, door, and the parcel inside the truck flew with tremendous momentum along with the ebb.

"Ahhhhhhhh" Bilal screamed in panic while still holding on to the metal door. The raging winds started to form a wind tunnel which accelerated the flying speed even further.

Very soon, the wind tunnel dissipated on its own like it was never there, but Bilal was nowhere to be found nor the parcel was there. Only a damaged truck could be seen lying on the highway's lane with a missing rear door.

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Antarctica

Location unknown.

Hundreds of meters below the extremely chilling winds, frozen tundras and thick ice sheets, sat an underground metal dome fully surrounded by freezing ocean waters of Southern Ocean.

A small blue submarine-launched itself from within the dome at great speed. Inside the control room of the Submarine sat a caucasian middle-aged man

"Xeon status report, how many have awakened in the first wave." asked the Caucasian man in a stern voice.

Suddenly a holographic screen bald head appeared in front of the man and said, "Around 100 million experienced various stages of Nervous Breakdown, 40 million experienced partial awakening and around 5 million experienced full awakening."

"It's still too low, we're running out of time, Xeon activate the systems of fully awakened ones and release project 'MV4' into the atmosphere."