2099; All Lights Out

The Future Happened in 2022

It was June 2022 and 22 year old twins, Michaela and Michael were back in Locatelli, a scantily-populated area in Sweden.

They had recently concluded their Master's at MIT and were back, on to the project that had come to define their lives.

Their late dad's hedge fund money had long been the basis of their fund-demanding research and experiments.

Michaela was the more brilliant of the twins but she was the more skeptical one who wasn't keen on heavy risks unlike her brother who had coronary artery disease and had been diagnosed as terminal about 9 months back.

"I think we're done. I sincerely have a good feeling about this one, Michael." Michaela said to the sleeping Michael who had passed out from overnight stress on the couch few feet away from the lab entrance.

This was no ordinary lab, and the only comparison that came close in terms of facilities and multimillion dollar physics equipment in this place was Tony's Stark Labs.

Despite the weakness in his body, Michael dragged