The Calm Before the StormI observed the final delivery vehicle departing from the warehouse with a sly smile. As expected, the room was piled with boxes of bottled water, bags of rice, and cans of food. I was the last human on a barren earth a week ago. I'm back in the world that existed before everything went topsy-turvy."Excellent," I whispered to myself, my voice resonating through the deserted warehouse.I lifted my hand and looked at the supply heaps. All the items disappeared with a single thought, absorbed into my spatial storage. My warehouse held an enormous expanse that measured thirty football fields in length and ninety meters in height. The finest part is that nothing kept inside was impacted by time. I smiled. I intend to occupy every square inch of it.My thoughts were cut off when my phone buzzed with a notice. My eyes darted to the television. Confirmation of daily necessities supply from an additional source. I lifted the phone to my ear and tapped the screen.Yes,

“I went to the future.” I could hear my voice echo through the living room, reverberating across the vast space. The silence was deafening and for a moment, I thought I had spoken in my mind and the others were still waiting for me to say something.But I always count on a fool like James to reassure me as he bursts into laughter a few moments later. I stared at both the laughing James and Maria who couldn't help the small smile on her face. I could see the ridicule in their eyes, the condescending look, the same one Maria had on her face just after she threw my brother to the shamblers and confronted me about my parents death.Just staring at her made my blood boil and I felt a bubbling rage seething within. But just then, I felt a soft hand touch mine and I looked beside me to see Eli with eyes as pure as I remember, staring at me. Although he had a look of confusion, I could see that he was waiting for an explanation.I smiled and continued,“In the future, the world will face a di

PRELUDE “Take this,” I reach into my dimensional storage and brought out a wrapped burger, handing it to Eli. We were in the lift of the company. We obviously didn't enter through the front door, I directly transported Eli and I into the lift.I would have directly traveled to his office but I had to be careful, a lot of things could go wrong. And also, Eli advised against it, like he knew that was exactly what I was going to do.Eli looked at me with amazement as he collected the burger and I couldn't help but blush. I missed the look of adoration.“This is really cool! How did you do it?” He asked, already unwrapping the burger to take a bite.“I am a special space anomaly. I had many talents but I'm currently down to only two; dimensional traveling and dimensional storage.”“I see. So you can travel through dimensions and store things in your own space? That's awesome! Can I see?” Eli asked. He made sure to chew before talking.“Unfortunately, only non living things can go in ther

STRATEGIST I appeared at an abandoned warehouse in the middle of nowhere with Eli beside me. This time, although his face was pale, he wasn't throwing up.Eli looked around, “this is where the daughter of the governor stays?” He asked with a smirk,“Of course not. This is an abandoned warehouse. I never thought I would get the coordinates right.”“What are we doing here?” Eli asked as we both walked forward. I pushed the door open and revealed the inside of the warehouse. It could only be described as vast. It was very large.“This,...this is where you are going to work for the next twenty four hours. It will be pretty hectic.”“What is it I'm supposed to do? The place is empty.”I reached out and shapes began to take form. In the blink of an eye, everything that was in my dimensional storage appears in the warehouse. I've only managed to fill up less than one tenth of it hence the warehouse could contain it all.“Woah!” Eli exclaimed. He looked impressed. “I thought you were exagger

CALL FOR HELP I appeared in a dark alley, looked around and adjusted my clothes. I walked out of the alley, my vox —the two way radio, Eli thought it was too stressful to call it a two way radio so we decided to use vox. I don't know what's wrong with good ol' walkie talkie— was strapped to my waist and my phone was in my pocket.I walked out of the alley and joined the crowd on the pavement. As I walked, I couldn't help but think of the fact that I'm two weeks time, probably even sooner than that, eighty percent of those in this street will be dead. Yet no one knew.I wouldn't mind telling them, but humans are complicated beings. Some won't believe me, some would see this as an outlet for chaos and others will see it as a chance to manipulate people.I've seen firsthand how greedy humans are, I'm one of the greedier ones after all. Which is why as I walked through the crowd, I tuned them all out, knowing that some of them would probably kill me for something as small as a bottle of