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Experiment name: Aposýnthesi

Attempt No:31518

Date: October 2030

Status: Trial Procedure

Caution: Stay away from the platform while tests are ongoing.

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Rubbing my eyes, the crispiness of my eyelashes with dried tears made it itchier than ever. Pulling on my hair tie letting my straight raven black locks, that had turned wavy due to how long I had kept my hair in a bun. Looking around trying to understand where I was at the moment, then remembering the study I had been conducting for months now.

"Minerva." The voice made me turn to the side humming to show that I was awake and in full attention. "Fell asleep again? You'll end up dying at this rate, 8 hour is the minimum hours of sleep needed."

"3 hours of sleep is not sufficient." Looking up from my desk, my eyes sting as they want to remain shut and rest my optic nerves, yet my brain refuses to let me sleep again. I saw Monique beside me looking at the paper she was meant to be writing on until she fell asleep, while Lorraine was by the small table within the room fixing the food that they had bought outside.

"Correction." Sitting up, raising my arms into the air, stretching it. Marks on my arms and face showed how good her nap was. Then moving my neck to the sides until it made a cracking noise. "30 minutes of sleep."

Both of them stopped in their tracks and looked at me as though I had grown a third head. With Minerva simply acting as though she simply stated the answer to one plus one.

"You rarely sleep, you rarely eat. What drug are you running on?" Lorrain said as she cupped My face. My skin was much more hollow, as pale as a thin piece of powdery paper. My veins, and capillaries painted my face with green, blue and violet vines across my cheeks. Bags under my eye seemed to grow larger, enveloping her entire eye socket.

"Caffeine, Sugar Rush and Antidepressants." I chuckled to which the two did not find hilarious in any way. Making me cough in awkwardness and changing the topic I continued. "Okay, Eat quickly. We need to give this little baby another time. I think I already computed the variables correctly this time."

"This is what? The 30 Thousandth time you tried? You might not even graduate at this rate. MIT is great and all but they do not require you to finish this." Monique said as she pointed out to the board with numerous equations. "You are smart, we know but risking your health for something that is not probable is just stupid."

"Fine, I'll stop but after this." Sighing as I said so. I had entered MIT through a scholarship, it was indeed a blessing as I was invited to study their cause of my wits and after witnessing my robotic design in a science fair once. I had always been interested in proving theories that seemed improbable and no one seemed to try to solve. Now, I had a chance . The means and the support needed.

I only ate a bar of chocolate while preparing the machine, her two friends looking at me as though I had gone crazy. I might have been obsessed with this project but who wouldn't be? When you are so close.

Stepping closer away from the platform; a good five meters away from the machine with a glass, airtight room keeping them safe and away from it. Turning on switches, turning knobs as they increased the power given to the machine, watching if the pressure released stayed in the green level. Little sparks of electricity, that seemed to be fireflies flickering on and off, before some sort of force placed all the sparks into the center. It circling around a little bit, a cosmic latte type of small dot forming as it grows bigger and bigger ever so slowly.

Their eyes widened in fascination as this was the most impressive thing that had happened ever since I made the miniature machine that could bring little toy cars somewhere else.

Sounds of a machine coughing, choking up as though trying hard to sustain its power before turning lifeless is what greeted us as we waited for something to happen. I stared at it hopelessly before taking off my goggles and running my hand through my hair in frustration.

"I told you what you are trying to do is impossible." A guy said as he entered the room.

"We don't need your opinion Hector." Lorraine said as she rolled her eyes only then realizing that other people had entered the room as well. "Why'd you bring them here?"

"I heard that Eva had a breakthrough. Lights flickering and all we thought she had succeeded." I can feel him looking at Me, and then the machine. Knowing well that this study of mine was not feasible and their professor only allowed it because it seemed interesting enough. "Looks like a total failure though."

I turned and glared at him. He had been sabotaging most of my work for the past three years being his only rival for the spot of valedictorian but I can't blame him now as no one had seen or ever been in that room despite me, Monique and Lorraine while they were creating the machine.

I sigh, deciding to go and check the equations on the board instead. All the computation seemed to be right, taking charts and checking it as well, everything seemed to be in order. Walking cautiously towards the machine, not bothering to turn off the switch that powered it up. Meticulously checking each valve, standing there as though spacing out into nothingness while I contemplates what went wrong.

Our classmates that came to spectate murmured like a beating heart, their voices buzzing around my ear. Wondering if I had indeed gone crazy or did I do something to get into their professor's favor to approve this project. The machine seemed magnificent with the wide arc that seemed to be made from alloys that would have been expensive for someone of her social status. Everything that made the machine seemed to be high quality, and could be passed off as a work of a professional scientist. It made them green with envy, gossiping about how I stole the idea from someone else and made it their my own.

Hector, the guy who entered a while ago, had also been looking around I could see him through the side of my eye. He was smart, yes, but not like me. He just didn't want to admit it, the equations on the board seemed to be way complicated that not even him can understand. Acting like he did though as he didn't want some girl from the countryside to overshadow him. One switch caught his attention though, not thinking just flicking it reviving the machine back to life as sparks flicker from the center of the machine.

Last they saw was a blinding flash of light and a blood curdling scream before everything shut off while they were met with the darkness of the night.