Quantum Bright Lulamoon
Chapter 3: A Breakthrough in Quantum Physics
Previous ChapterNext ChapterToday is saturday. NO SCHOOL! Well, unless you live in Japan that is. Me and my sister woke up to the smell of pancakes. Melody then smiled and said, "Good morning, Bright. Ready to turn back?" I then nodded as she put me on the ground and reverted my size. We both then raced down the stairs and ate pancakes with mom. I won, obviously.
"So, how did you sleep last night?" Mom asked.
"Pretty good." I said as I got a text message from Oak.
Oak: You okay?
Me: Yeah, I'm fine.
Oak: Great! Listen, I need you to come over to my place at around 6 PM.
Me: What!? Why?
Oak: Just a little get together.
Me: Okie Dokie Lokie! I'll be there.
I then pocketed my phone. "Mom, can I go over to Oak's tonight at 6 PM?" I asked.
"Of course, sweetie. Just be back by midnight." She said. Melody then spat out her drink in shock.
"Midnight!? I never got that curfew." She said.
"You also had bad grades as well." Mom said. I don't have the power of empathy, but I could tell Melody was envious of how I was treated. But then again, it was her fault for having poor grades.
As the day went on, Melody kept giving me death stares. "Melody, is something wrong?" I asked.
"No, nothing's wrong." She answered while twitching her eye. Yeah, I call bullshit. This was even more evident because when I left for Oak's place, she had a fake smile on and waved goodbye while twitching her eye. Like I said, BULLSHIT!
Reader, there's something you need to know. Oak's place is not a house at all. He lives in a lab called Monarch Solutions. Don't worry about the name, okay? He is no Paul Serene and spoiler alert, he is not the enemy in this story. He stays my loyal friend, but the enemy is closer to me than you think.
When I got to Monarch Solutions, I saw that Oak and Blue were waiting for me. In my mind, I was all like, "What the fuck is Blue doing here?"
"Hey Bright, why did you go Pinkie Pie in your text messages?" Oak asked.
"Just a joke, Oak. Also, what is Blue doing here?" I asked.
"Oak wanted to get the gang together for an experiment. An experiment that will bring dead back to life." Blue answered. This caught me off guard and I was a bit apprehensive of doing this.
"Oak, this isn't a Lazurus Effect, right?" I asked.
"Hell no. This is more along the lines of Quantum Break. I want to see my father again. I want to meet him and be close to him." He answered. I'll admit that I was sympathetic with how he was feeling.
"I understand. Okay, I'll help you." I said as Oak had a big smile on his face. "But, what about Mrs. Wood? Will she know that we're doing this?"
"No, she won't. The lab has special material that insulates sound, so no one will call the police because of a sound disturbance." Oak said as we went into Monarch Solutions. We then went into the testing area there was a time machine and reflectors just like in Quantum Break. "This looks familiar. A bit too familiar." I said.
"Guys, what exactly is this?" Blue asked.
"Blue, what your looking at is the first ever time machine. It works off of Twilight particles to transmit someone or something to a different time in the future or past."
"Okay, but what is the actual reason you want to do this?"
"I never met my father and neither did Oak. What was your father like?"
"I can't answer that because I never knew him because he left and never came back."
"So you understand now, don't you?"
"Yes, I do. But I don't want to go back in time yet. Just let me be the one to intiate the machine."
"Okay, sounds good to me." I then followed Oak into the machine and closed the hatch. But then the unexpected happened. Olivia "Asshole" Sentury came into the lab. "Oh fuck!" I yelled.
"What are you three doing here? Didn't Twilight warn you about unsupervised experiments?" Olivia asked.
"Are you here to supervise us? Do you even know why were doing this?" Blue asked.
"Yes, I do. Listen, I love you Blue. But this is too dangerous."
"I know it's dangerous, but I have to take this chance. Please, I need to do this." Olivia then smiled.
"Okay, go ahead." Olivia said as Blue pulled the lever. But then the machine started to make warning signs.
"Girls, what the hell is going on?" I asked.
"Someone is overriding the machine!" Blue yelled.
"Overriding? Oh no..." Oak said as the machine created a shockwave explosion. I then woke up but there was a multitude of problems. I could see through my body and the machine looked huge. I also saw bacteria and then it came to me.
"Holy shit! I'm microscopic!" I yelled as a bacteria cell came near me.
"Hello. You must be Bright. Oak is looking for you." It said. I then followed the bacteria cell to Oak.
"Oak, why the fuck are we microscopic?" I asked.
"Simple, the machine malfunctioned. Our size must be because of the Twilight particles. But on the bright side, look outside." Oak said. I then looked outside and saw Blue and Olivia were walking towards us.
"That's great news. Go to Blue's boot." I commanded.
"But she's so far away. How are we even going to get close from over here?" Oak asked. There was then a jet stream of air that pushed us onto the toe of Blue's boot. But the ride didn't stop there because we were small enough to fit through the material in her boot. We then landed on Blue's sock. It was blue and yellow patterned with stripes.
"Well, we did it." I said. Both of our stomachs then grumbled. "You too, huh?" I asked. Suddenly, our world shook as Blue stretched her toes. We then saw the fabric stretch and we fell down onto a orange, soft surface that was filled with bacteria. We also saw from in the distance was her blue painted toenails. "We must've fell through." I said as I helped Oak up.
"Oh no. And I'm still hungry. What are we going to do?" Oak asked. We then looked around and saw that other bacteria were eat skin off of Blue's foot. "Oh hell naw!" Oak yelled.
"Oak, we have to eat sometime soon. Just try it." I said as I ate a piece of dead skin. I then had a smile on my face because of the taste. It tasted better than candy. Oak then tried some and had my same expression. We then digged deeper for more until we reached a different material. "Must be her actual skin." I confered.
"This is exactly what we need, Bright. Attack!" Oak said as I punched it. The world then shook again and the foot was coming out of the sock. I then saw Blue and Olivia's face looking down on us, but with confusion.
"Why does it feel like a bug just bit me?" Blue boomingly said. I couldn't believe she didn't feel a thing when we flew at her. She then look at us with a wide-eyed expression. "Bright? Oak? Is that you?" She asked. We then dropped her dead skin.
"Wait, you can see us?" I asked.
"Yes. I can also hear you. Were you the ones that hurt my foot?" She asked with anger.
"Yeah, sorry about that. We needed to get your attention." Oak explained.
"What's my dead skin for?" She asked.
"Survival. We saw other bacteria eating it so we ate it as well. It's actually good to eat." I explained.
"Bright, that is fucking disgusting." Olivia said with disgust.
"Well, at least it will make my skin look better." Blue said trying to defend us. She then mashed her finger on us and walked outside with Olivia. Her finger surprisingly held us together. "Have you two even tried turning back to normal?" She asked as she put us on the ground.
"Now that you mention it..." I said as we both tried to get big again. Through our efforts, we finally reverted our size. "Hey, were back. What time is it?" I asked. Olivia then got out her phone.
"11 PM. Why do you ask?" Olivia answered.
"11 PM? Gotto go. Bye." I said as I ran home. When I got home I went into my room through my window. I then saw mom waiting in my room with an angry expression on her face. I then saw it was 12:01 which should be impossible because my phone read 11:31. "Hey, mom." I greeted mom with a smile as Melody came in. She wasn't buying it and was fucking pissed.
"Didn't I tell you to come home before midnight?" Mom asked. When ever I get in trouble, I like to leave off a good impression.
"Well, according to Einstien, time is relative. Maybe I'm here before midnight." I said with a sly tone. Melody then let out a little laugh.
"Sorry, it was just so quiet." She said. Mom then crossed her arms.
"Your grounded for a week. That means no going out with friends." She told me.
"One week? Well, it could be worse." I said as I went into my room. As I opened the door, junk traveled out of my room. Notice how I called unrecognizable shit "junk".
"Congratualations. You've just upgraded to two weeks for not cleaning your room." Mom responded.
"Wait, mom. That's not fair. I cleaned my room before I left. I don't even recognize any of this." I said trying to defend myself.
"Mom, I was driving by Monarch Solutions and I couldn't help but notice an explosion." Melody said.
"Make that a month." Mom said as she walked to her room. I then turned to Melody.
"So, disregarding being grounded, how was your day out?" Melody asked.
"Melody, did you have something to do with all this?" I asked.
"Of course I did. First, I trashed your room with my very own trash and then I hacked into our clocks to change it to thirty minutes later. After that, I drove to Monarch Solutions and sabotaged that precious time machine. What a stupid contraption." This surprised me. Melody wasn't acting like herself. She was acting like a bad sister and she despices people that hate their family.
"Good night, Bright. Enjoy the month." She said as she left my room. I couldn't fucking believe it. Melody used mom against me and got me grounded for three months. She needed to atone for her actions. But how?
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