Opening day, the strange project

It was the year 2029 and contrary to movies predicting it to be that around this time period the skies would be filled with special cars smarter than your average Joe capable of self operations, a world population of over ten billion people living lives made easy autonomously, resources so abundant that people would be able to have four square meals a day, large sparse of lands and clear skies throughout. Well if you believe in all these to be reality from watching movies about the future then it looks like you watched the wrong set of movies, yes there are more natural resources and lands that the people around know what to do with but this isnt because tiny robots or magic plant growth fertilizers made farming easier though i wish that was the case but sadly it is, the real reason is because for some unknown reason the world population took a major nose dive and instead of a predicted 10 billion people there are about 3 billion recorded living people. As for the abundant lands any wards(lands) and sectors have become inaccessible because of being quarantined and all the Global Health Agency(GHA) can provide as answers is that the areas have been infected by a deadly virus called the Pyrex 9 which has been the most deadly virus in human existence since the Ebola virus.

I tried doing some research about the issue and by research i mean hacking into the GHA mainframe and getting all the information those lying motherfuckers are hiding from everyone which was quite easy if i must add cause you see I'm a program specialist and the keypad is just an extension of my body and what i found out wasn't in correlation with they keep feeding us like the Pyrex 9 being categorized under PROJECT instead of VIRUS so it got me thinking of how i could get more insight on the project so i frequently hack into the mainframe from my lab but on this very day i decided to go out of my lab and head to one of the restricted sites which i always go to.

While on my way there i past the GHA broadcasting tower and stopped on my tracks to listen to the broadcast being made.

Shh, shhhh... We..shh.. Radio static building in the speakers getting in the way of what was to be said, not that it mattered anyway because i as well as everybody standing outside listening already knew what it was about to say. The tower which has been one of the GHA's major means of information dissemination has not been maintained in months and the same message has been on repeat daily for the last couple weeks and i for one have gotten tired of hearing it always giving me that feeling you get when your least favorite song comes on on the radio.

"Sector 5 ward D has quarantined. In hopes of-combating-GHA-regular checkups of individual Dot chips to....help... That is all for today"

"Ahh" i sighed sharply

Dot log chips, just another measure implemented by GHA to monitor our every move. I still wonder how and why people bought the whole idea of implanting a chip behind their ear that records every single activity they carried out and send it directly to the GHA Dot log mainframe for "security" reasons, sounds laughable if you think about it. The whole Pyrex 9 outbreak must have been a good mind changer i guess.

I looked up sticking my face in the sky to the sight of dark clouds and the sun hiding behind them and not even a ray of sunlight could pass through.

"Rain?" The first drop lands on my nose and with a quick realisation i rushed off to my destination before getting cut off by the becoming rain. I hopped into a taxi which took me almost the whole journey but stopped because of the yellow restriction tapes reading "QUARANTINED" I got off the taxi and crossed the yellow tape and like usual the entire area was left empty so i strolled right into the bunker where i had been setting things up and which has been like my second home for the past month. My name is Akin Samuels, 5 feet 10 inches, messy blonde hair with light brown eyes, a short goaty and slightly grown mustache and apart from being a program specialist i am also a time traveller, well not time travel in the traditional sense as i have only been able to send my consciousness back in time successfully using a time matrix i developed myself which incorporates the GHA Dot logs mainframe i hacked into. Up to this point i have only made a few test jumps back but i think i have gotten the hang of it and there it is at the middle of the bunker with image fluctuating on sight because of the flickering lightbulbs, my time matrix which is set in the form a throne like chair.

I walked over to my system set up connected wirelessly to the matrix, slotted in the port the flash drive i downloaded the information i hacked from the GHA mainframe and imputed the destination of the jump along with the person i was going to jump back into, Mr A. Nevel, a worker and board member at GHA headquarters during the time it was initiated making him the perfect host which would make my GHA infiltration easy. I was jumping back for a reason of course which is to get the Dot Log records black box containing GHA workers Dot log codes and with that i can be in possession of the information all the GHA workers and know exactly what this Pyrex 9 virus(project) truly is.

Done with the programing i strapped myself into my Time matrix and engaged the travel sequence. I could feel my mind slipping away from my body as my eyes closed slowly, even with this not being my first jump the literal out of body experience can never be something i can ever get used to and then my eyes closed fully, the next time they opened again i was somewhere else and in another body.

"Ahh!" In pain i crunched my teeth together and squinted pressing my left index and middle fingers to the side of my head cause the split second migraine you get from entering someone else's mind is quite unbearable.

"Forget the out of body experience this fucking migraine is something i can never get used to" i got back to form.

"where am i anyway" i looked around my current vicinity from left to right, up and down assessing everything and i first came to notice that i was at the top of a staircase, i also saw chairs, books on a small circular table with a child's school bag resting next to it and then directly above was a picture frame on the wall with Mr Nevel and what appears to be his wife and daughter on it as well.

"I guess this must be Mr Nevel's house which must mean that the jump was a success" i pasted a grin on my face which didn't last long as i took another look at the room with everything in it which looked bigger in comparison to my new body size which made no sense since Mr Nevel was a full grown man of 6 feet but it felt like i was under five feet tall at the moment.

"Wait, what the fuck is going on here why am i so sma-" my rant was cut short as i got a glimpse of my hands, my tiny childish looking hands. I was left without words but i had to know what i looked like so i shoved the books on the table to the floor and hurriedly climbed on the table in hopes of seeing my reflection on the picture frame glass but i still wasn't able to see anything as i was too short until i boosted myself up and stood on my toes, now able to see my reflection i was left utterly speechless. I was a kid and not just any kid, Mr Nevel's daughter, i had long brown hair packed into a ponytail with a purple ribbon, i looked down and I was no more than 4 feet 4 inches in a blue dress and black shoes, a school uniform?

"God why me, how did this fucking happen i'm pretty sure i wrote Mr Nevel's Dot log code into the program before making the jump then how in God's name did-"

"Amanda, are you alright up there i heard something crash on the floor" i was cut off by Mr Nevel who was standing at the living room in blue pants suit, red collar shirt and knotting a blue tie to match with a black briefcase placed by his left leg.

'Amanda? Who the fuck is Amand- wait, am i Amanda? Please don't tell me i'm Amanda' i thought to myself looking at Mr Nevel from on top the table

"Dad?"

"Yes honey, come down you are going to he late for school and me for work" He finished knotting his tie, picked up his briefcase and continued as he used his right hand to adjust the knot properly "Don't forget that today is our first ever bring your daughter to work day at my workplace so i have to hurry to the office and get everything in order before i come to pick you up later from school"

'Damn, this just made things more difficult, how am i suppose to infiltrate somewhere with high security as a child. Did i just get transported into Mission impossible 9? Even Tom Cruise couldn't pull this off' i thought to myself as i got down from the table, put on Amanda's bag and went downstairs

"OK dad I'm done, lets get going" we went out of the house and drove to Amanda's primary school all the while i kept thinking about the difficulty i was about to face then we came to a smooth stop.

Mr. Nevel unlocked the doors from his driver's sit door. I came out and walked to the front of the school's entrance door not knowing what to expect from a ten years olds primary school since it's been years since i left my own.