The Tesla Gate: A SciFi Short Story
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She screamed as the device tugged her towards the gate. She found purchase by grabbing onto the control strapped to my arm. Though, it was all for naught as her weight and the pull of the gate were too much for the haphazardly constructed strapping. After only a few seconds the control was torn from my arm and I watched helplessly as Alokin was pulled into the blue light.
With nothing between her and the gate, she sank deeper into the bright blue light. Taken into its wretched mouth, she disappeared from sight, and then the room grew dark. The gate was gone and her screams were enveloped into it and then I heard her no more.
Another Time, Another Place, Another World
I pulled myself up from the ground and looked at the device in my hand, the straps torn away from where they once attached to the brass panel. It was nighttime here, wherever here was, and a crowd was beginning to form around me. I felt nervous, but surely no one could actually see me, I had to be invisible to everyone except Nikola, after all.
One of the men moved down towards me from a grassy hill. He was wearing peculiar clothing, very shiny and sleek, very informal compared to the way I was used to seeing men attired. His hair was chin length and his cobalt blue eyes shone magnificently. They even seemed to shine directly at me.
"Are you alright?" he asked, staring deeply into my eyes, wonder etched on his brow.
I looked left and right for who he could possibly be speaking to. No one stood behind me.
"Excuse me, but do you understand what I'm saying?" He asked.
I could barely think to get the words out to respond to him. I must have sounded like a child as only a whisper escaped my lips. "Yes."
A smile curled his lip and he extended his hand to me. "That was amazing, the light was so bright, and then you fell out of the sky like some kind of angelic being. My name is S'vern Loost, who might you be?"
I timidly moved my hand into his, feeling the warmth of another human being for the first time, other than the brief moment my creator had tried to save me. He had failed, and now I was here, wondering if I should keep that truth to myself or not. Pulling myself back into the conversation, I smiled warmly and greeted the handsome man. "Hello, S'vern. My name is Alokin."
With that small introduction and human contact, I knew for the first time that I was finally home, no longer captive in the imagination of a madman. I was now a person of my own accord. I was now a citizen of whatever this new world had to offer, and I noticed that my mind was also quiet.
The End
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