The Creature in Room #YTH-125 by Mark Young

Author:Mark Young
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Published: 2020-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

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After lunch everyone lined up behind the professors once more and made their way to the next exhibit.

A digital banner announced that this one was called Fantasy or Future? The displays scattered about the area each held a different book. When you pressed a button, a hologram appeared on top of the display, showing the science fiction idea in that book.

Newton and his friends walked to a random display.

“ ‘Between the Worlds by Ferdinand Hargrove,’ ” Shelly read out loud, and she pressed the button.

The hologram showed a person walking through a shimmering field from one room into another room that looked identical.

“In his book, Hargrove imagines that humans will be able to travel between dimensions,” the narrator said. “Is this something we can look forward to in the future? What do you think?”

Odifin snorted. “Ha! Professor Wells already lives in two dimensions.”

They moved to the next display.

“ ‘The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells,’ ” Higgy read. “I’ve read this book. It’s great!” He pressed the button, and a hologram of a man in a trench coat and hat, wearing sunglasses and with a bandaged face, appeared. His outfit looked a lot like Higgy’s regular clothes.

“H. G. Wells imagined a chemical process that could render humans invisible,” the narrator said. “Scientists have come close with cloaking technology, but do you think chemical invisibility is possible in the future? Perhaps you will be the one to invent it!”

Odifin snorted again. “Professor Snollygoster has already pioneered that!”

They moved on to a third display.

“ ‘The Invincible Man,’” Shelly read out loud.

“We already did that one,” Higgy said.

“Not invisible. Invincible,” Shelly corrected him. “By some author I’ve never heard of. His or her name is Zoumba Summit.”

She pressed a button, and a hologram appeared of a human-size pod with wires sticking out of it. Newton froze.

“Though not widely known, the works of Zoumba Summit have a small and devoted following. In The Invincible Man, Summit imagines the creation of a human with superhuman powers—a human with extra abilities that enhance his potential for survival.”

Whooooooooosh! A memory flooded back into Newton’s mind, like it had once before. He was inside a pod filled with water. He couldn’t see through the pod; it was foggy. But then a bright light came on, and he could see the shadows of people around the pod. A scream rose in his throat.

“Newton, are you okay? Newton?” Shelly said, her voice sounding frantic. Shelly’s voice broke through his memory, and he slowly came back to reality. He looked down, and realized Shelly was ten feet below him.

“Shelly?” Newton asked.

A crowd was starting to form. Newton looked up and realized that he was hanging from a light fixture, holding on to the metal with his grippy fingers. His legs dangled below him.

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