Cacophony by Aaron Frale

Author:Aaron Frale
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

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Dr. Ray typed on a keypad while the body of a cultist lay bleeding out at his feet. His mind was being overwhelmed with math again. He mumbled the numbers while he attempted to crack the code to the doorway in front of him. After restoring the heat and the atmosphere to the station, Dr. Ray had unauthorized all devices so no one could enter, then had brutally killed the ones who were already on board. He had stabbed them many times even though they didn’t fight back because they thought he was a god.

After typing the answers to several complex mathematical constructs that he knew to be Dr. Ben’s favorite, the door failed to open again. In the vault shelves around him, there were many different artifacts this organization called the Tuners had collected over the years. Many of them were field experiments and prototypes built by scientists like himself from U-1. They were of no consequence. The real prize inside the trove was another door with an electronic lock.

Dr. Ray knew what was inside; he only had to figure out the key. Brute forcing his way in would prove just as fruitless as disabling the Universe One ban on weapons. The security of his world was next to impossible to disable without a quantum super stack the size of the Pacific Ocean. However, Dr. Ray knew that it was Dr. Ben who had created the code.

He wasn’t surprised that the Tuners couldn’t get inside. From the sound of it, they were kids who had deluded themselves. They thought they were protecting the multiverse. However, Dr. Ray had gained wisdom from his countless years of existence. He knew there was one way to save the universe, and the answer was beyond the door.

He typed in another solution to a theorem they used to debate in college when Dr. Ray and Dr. Ben were two friends who enjoyed complex mathematics together. This was long before his friend had discovered environmental flaws in the tuning process, and Dr. Ray had found that appealing to people’s vanity outsold products that would save peoples’ lives.

That’s when an idea had struck him. The passcode to get in the doorway wasn’t any obscure academic subject. It was the person who mattered most to him. Dr. Ray entered his own birthdate.

The door opened.

Inside was an inert sphere of material that was as dense as a neutron star. The three rings to keep it from collapsing into a black hole and taking the station with it were still in operation after all these years. A skeleton was slumped over the control panel. A homemade firearm was still in the mouth of the deceased, and the back of the skull was blown out into a million pieces.

This was how the great Dr. Ben had died.

Dr. Ray pushed the bones aside, and they toppled to the floor. There was no time to mourn his friend. He fired up the machine, and the sphere glowed blue. It became brighter as he worked.

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