The Man Immortal: Chapter 2
A story to tell, they were human; Part 2.
"Sir…it seems that a perfect host of the Mutagen cell can only exist at a time. The reason the other cells began to mutate, was only after the first perfect host was created. After it went into your system…it became stable, and Christopher who had a weaker body originally was deemed as less compatible by the Mutagen cell and thus decayed." Miranda showed him the timeline between himself and Christopher's decay. It indeed was true what she had said.
"There…there is no one left…at all." The scientist slumped to the ground.
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Over a day passed before like a zombie he walked to his office several levels up. He pulled out a gun, aimed it at his head after a swig of whiskey and pulled the trigger.
"Sir…sir…sir…" Miranda's voice rang through the silent room.
"What Miranda….Miranda? Is this heaven?" The scientist asked looking around from the floor he was laying on.
"No sir…I am no angel. You tried to commit suicide. It seems that even with your brain destroyed, the cells can regenerate and restart your life. You cannot die sir."
"No cell is going to stop me from leaving this fucking world!" The scientist ran out the door, and ran to a catwalk that was several flights above the merged buildings hidden through the craves the base was built into.
With a leap he fell, he even kicked off the catwalk bending the bars of the walkway to increase his speed.
"Sir…sir…..sir….sir" Miranda's voice rang clear through the tumble of surrounding machinery.
"Miranda…don't tell me I didn't die." The scientist said holding his face with his hands.
"You didn't not die." She said with a machine like voice.
"Miranda…god damnit…why…" The scientist grumbled himself off to sleep right there and then. Miranda crouched down and watched him intently as he slept.
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"Sir…sir…sir…" Miranda's voice was soft unlike before.
"Yes Miranda?" He asked turning over onto his back from his side.
"I analyzed your cells…they seem to be in a state like a terrarium. Recycling them continually in a state of perpetuity." She said spreading her hands out into a display to show the data.
"So…I am effectively immortal…" The scientist shuddered.
"I would have left him to be an undying child alone in a world in which nobody else existed…my god…this was a blessing to him to have died…but now I must live with that" The scientists eyes defocused.
"You are correct sir." Miranda said shunting away the holographic display screen.
"Miranda…is my body capable of surviving the outside radiation?"
"Easily sir…in fact it would thrive off it."
"I think…I think I am going to go have a walk around." He stood up as if an unseeable force acted on his muscles lifting his body up with ease.
He walked up to the elevator, and then to the corridor to the main gate. With a flip of his hand on a panel, a section of wall sealed behind him. The walls parted revealing space level radiation suits. However he didn't place one on and overrided the safety protocol allowing the outer door to finally open.
With a quick step he appeared out onto a flat ground. Ash was raining from the sky from an unknown source, carried from pacific winds that now carried with them radiated substances and gasses. The scientist took a deep breathe, the sting only lasted a second before it disappeared as soon as it came and instead felt like breathing in energy.
Ash stirred around as he walked forward to what might be left of a city in the far distance.
Days later, he appeared in a city and looking out half the buildings were gone or crumbled. This was where the explosion had occurred with a mini thermo nuclear bomb.
"Why…" He chanted for the 1,000th time in the last several hours.
Weeks later he appeared in front of another bunker, bodies layed outside the door of people that had tried to get inside. These were fellow scientists and friends he had known! Now, now they were just bodies. After weeping over them, and burying their bodies in the ash covered earth outside the bunker he placed his hand on the bunkers access panel sweeping away the ash there.
The doors slid apart, a hologram of a man appeared.
"James…I am still alive, connect with Miranda of bunker 009. I will now have administrative rights over this base…as there is nobody left in the chain of command to counteract this decision of mine."
In a slightly British accent James spoke up and nodded, "Successfully connected to Miranda of the Bioengineering and development base."
"Thank you James…show me this experimental gate of yours…I would like to test what my friends had been creating here. I have already finished my project and so…now I will finish theirs."
James nodded and led him through unfamiliar hall ways and down over ten levels through a blast proof secure elevator.
"Welcome to base 002 of the space and physics experimental operations center…The latest project in the top classified section of the facility was a design based around Planar Quantum Gates. It was still a century from development." James said politely.
"A century means nothing to me anymore…I am immortal, so teach me everything there is to this. It seems I may very well have been the only person closest to ending the war…they were still so far off, wanting to escape this planet to some unknown place while I stayed to try and fix it…and I was still late…" The scientist smiled bitterly as tears flowed from his face before being reabsorbed into his skin.
Decades passed, and with another lifetime to learn a different trade the scientist became a Physics professor, engineer, and theorist.
A glowing crystal core made of a rare unknown material from a meteor was placed by large robotic arms into an aperture to contain it.
The scientist didn't even stand behind the protective wall, and instead within the room with the radioactive material.
James, who was now standing beside Miranda were currently going through procedures. The crystal began to oscillate and morph as it changed into a strange purple specked liquid that ran through a large door way covered in mystical runes made up of mathematical equations and symbols. A strange vibration occurred within this large door like gate way like a shimmer from heat. It began to warp as invisible strands of dark matter began to warp and condense into a stable black hole.
"Finally…" The scientist sighed, and without hesitation stepped through the gateway and disappeared. Over 3 years later, he returned covered in a yellowish dust.
"Scrap the coordinates…no life exists there. Set the parameters to random." He said as a washing station went over every speck of his body taking samples.
"Yes sir" Miranda and James said simultaneously.
Over 60 different gates were opened, small bacteria cells were found from a galaxy thousands of light years away but no sentient life had been found.
Until…The scientist had been experimenting with the theory of multiverses. He had travelled out to a bunker in china by foot after several years, and found a base called "The Sect". This was a top secret organization based around the theory of the multiverse and the strange energies that linked them together. James and Miranda had scoured the governments around the world for information into what experiments and technology had been produced or theorized.
China amongst three other countries was world class in their knowledge over technology and development and this showed with the fact like the U.S they had been studying quantum technology. However, what differed with the U.S Black hole VECTOR manipulation gate. The Chinese who worked with the Japanese and South Koreans that had group together near the latest war several centuries ago was a gate that opened sideways in space.
Not sideways in the regard to X and Y. Sideways as in from our known universe into the spaces around our universe. After bringing the technology back with several advanced robots from the country it resided in. The scientist began to experiment with combining it with the Planar Quantum gate. After another decade of experiments and analyzing the systems perfection was achieved. This may have taken another 100 years, but the scientist had become a highly intelligent person over years of educating himself on all the subjects of the known world.
It wasn't just his muscles that had become impervious to explosions and bullets, or the fact he could manipulate fields, or draw in radiation to points in space, or survive in the vacuum of space itself that had grown. His mind as a muscle had become substantially more powerful, to the point of rivalling Miranda and James advanced A.I computing.
"Set it for random…" He said simply.
James and Miranda nodded and then began to draw out data and formulations that merged with the Quantum gate.
Unlike the shimmer before, or the stable black hole, in its place was a swirling vortex made up of a myriad of lights.
"Strange…What are the energy signatures?" He asked turning to the two holograms.
"There seem to be a multitude of unknown energies on the other side sir." Miranda said.
"1,000,000,000,000's in fact sir." James said following up Miranda's words.
"Good…proceed as planned." He stepped through the gate.
The first world he entered was full of life, beings of all kinds and races. After being away from sentient things for so long his only companions had been James and Miranda who were merely A.I's.
He hung back, watching these groups for several years. Every once in a while he would bring someone back to his plane through the hidden ripple in space…however, no matter who it was when they were brought back mutations would occur regardless of their race and strength. He alone was a perfect being…he alone…was imperfectly perfect.