by Timothy Jung (6th)

Chapter 1

I couldn’t believe my ears. I was picked to be one of the few scientists that would be allowed to test the theory of teleportation. For so long scientists thought that teleportation was impossible. Then some genius found that teleportation was possible, not by compacting every molecule, but by teleporting every atom one by one faster than the speed of light. But here was the catch. At any moment, our lives might be taken from us.

This was all in the name of science. However, I never thought doing things in the “name of science” would almost exterminate it completely. I stepped into the lab. The professor was still there.

“When the quantum energy gets passed down through the entanglement, that could cause a nuclear reaction inside of the atom, transferring more and more potential thermal energy, which will create a chain reaction to destroy the soul which is found inside the body, but it won’t stop there,” he was saying to the group.

“It will continue to store more and more negative energy inside the hot core of the earth, which will create another chain reaction that will destroy the earth from the inside out, and therefore obliterate the universe.”

Whenever I entered the lab, Professor Einstein was always fretting about ending the universe when we never even got the chance to meet the aliens.

“And we can’t obliterate the universe, since we never even got the chance to meet the aliens!” I took a seat next to my friend Albert. Albert Einstein the 3rd. He was selected to be part of the team because his dad got to teach him everything at home in 4 months, so he got to be part of this mission. Professor Einstein continued.

“This is why when you get ready to teleport, you need to make sure that the energy is all compact into your safe suit if there is the chance that the arsenic will somehow mix into the sodium chloride instead of the hydrogen peroxide. Class dismissed,” he says, and I turn to leave the lab and go test the teleportation gear with the rat. 

I go over to the arsenic tank, remember to put it into the hydrogen peroxide instead of the sodium chloride, then put the gear on the rat. Professor Einstein and Thomas are talking outside in the hallway, and everyone is gathered around me. I signal the molecules to move together and teleport five feet away, in the cage.

The gear is too heavy for the rat to move in, so we won’t have another chain reaction that will somehow blow up the earth. It’s the first test that I’ve been able to do, and I’m really excited. The rat teleports. But then something strange happens. It acts in a funny way. It runs around. It pounces on one of the assistants here, and it starts biting. We somehow get the rat by its tail. We put it into a cage.

Professor and Thomas are inside by now, and they’re stunned. Thomas comes up to the cage. “L-let’s try another rat,” he says through his stuttering.

“Maybe this one was always fierce?” We all have doubt in our minds.

This could either be a bad ending or a bad beginning.