Aardvarks to Planet X by Chris Troman

Author:Chris Troman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure, fiction science fiction short stories, houmour

An End to the World is Nigh

The sullen faced man tapped at the window of the diner I was eating in, and motioned me of his hunger.

I couldn't turn down this pitiful individual; after all he was my brother.

I motioned him inside, but the woman behind the counter anticipated the manoeuvre.

So she quickly cut him off at the door.

"You can come in, but the sign stays outside."

He shrugged it off, and carefully laying it against the window he sat next to me.

"Hello Simon long time no see" I greeted him.

He took the burger I had ordered, and proceeded to demolish it along with the fries and milkshake.

I indicated to the waitress that I'd have the same again.

With a satisfied burp Simon put the glass down, and stared strait at me.

"It'll all end next week."

"Is that what your sign's about?" I enquired.

"I'm afraid so, not that it matters anymore."

"No way to escape it I suppose?" I suggested, wondering how he had come to this.

I mean I know I'd not seen him in five years, but how had he sunk so low after such a promising career.

After all, he had been an expert in M theory and the probability of existence.

He leaned in.

"I know you don't want to hear this, but I've seen the end of the world too many times for one man to cope with."

Then he started to tell me the strangest tail I had ever heard.

Dr Wyndam cursed, why couldn't he get this thing tuned in.

He felt the pressure mounting in his work, just as the geologists claimed the pressure was rising in Yellow Stone Park.

The biggest volcano in the world, or at least it would be all too soon.

Mankind was doomed, with no escape off the planet it was stuck here waiting for the end of the world.

Simon he at least didn't intend to die, along with all the billions of poor souls.

For Simon Wyndam, professor in M theory and the probability of existence had his pet thesis.

And that had grown to an obsession.

Taking the family fortune, much to the annoyance of his brother John.

"If only I could tune the portal."

Simon grumbled to himself, in the heavily protected laboratory in down town Chicago.

Then there was a faint signal on the large screen.

Working feverishly he skilfully adjusted the controls, increased the gain until his mega watt generator squealed in protest.

Then at last an image faded in to being, and he could see a mirror image of his lab.

Complete down to the professor staring back.

As each approached the screen they reached out, and with a flash of colour inversion.

Simon stood exactly where he had been.

"Useless pile of junk."

Simon cursed at the impressive set of equipment, as it powered down.

Then glancing down at the paper sat on his desk, he noticed the headline.

Where was the latest bulleting on Yellow stones ever-expanding dome?

He looked through the entire periodical.

Not a word, he'd done it.

Simon was in an alternative reality.

Quickly he checked the dials.

They were set to zero, so how was he going to get back?

He didn't know the setting of his starting point.

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