Chapter 5

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 there. There is no time, so anything that is stored,”

“Remains how it was when it entered.” Eli completed and I smiled. He was the nerdy one between the both of us, the smart one. I was smart too but Eli absorbed knowledge like anyone I've ever seen, and that's a lot coming from the last human. But I only realised this after coming back.

“How big is it?” Eli asked,

“Roughly, about the size of a big city, probably a bit larger.” Eli's eyes went wide in shock and I laughed,

“It wasn't that big at first, but years of refining my skills made it like that.”

“Wow.” Eli said, after taking a huge bite out of his burger.

I paused for a moment before asking, “aren't you going to ask what an anomaly is?” Eli shrugged,

“I'm sure I'll find out soon enough.”

I stared at Eli, I knew he was patient but not that patient. When it came to knowledge and new things, Eli was like a cat. Which was why I knew he had a different reason for wanting to be patient.

“Fine.” Eli sighed after seeing that I wasn't going to stop giving him the look, “if I'm right, you'll have to explain to this your best friend what is happening. It will be repetitive of you explain to me first.”

“Oh, I didn't think of that.” I nodded my head. I ruffled Eli's, “you are pretty smart.”

“Pretty? Please, you know I'm smarter than you, even with your future experience.”

We both laughed. I wanted to rebuke him but I knew he was probably right.

A ding sound echoed and the door to the lift opened. We were currently in the thirtieth floor and it was busier than I thought it would be. There were about ten people walking through the corridor.

It might not seem like a lot, but in a massive company such as this, the thirtieth floor was already more than halfway up and floors like this shouldn't have this much people moving around. They should instead be in their offices.

“What?” Eli asked as he noticed my pause,

“The floor is busier than usual.” I said. We walked out of the lift and began heading down the corridor.

“What do they even do here?” Eli asked,

“This is the Blue Royale company, on the surface, they are a geographical analysis company but beneath, they conducted in-depth research in the earth. All these lost civilization and alien presence nonsense.”

“And your friend is?”

“He is one of their research analyst. In truth, he wanted to be a biologist but he got stuck with the post. During one of our talks in the apocalypse, he told me about where he worked. Apparently, blue royale was one of the people that found the signs first.”

I stopped before the second to the last door, this was it. I knocked on the door and opened it to see him, short black hair that would later be tinted green, beige skin and brown eyes. He looked up form his desk, immediately adjusting his tie.

“Good day sir, how may I help you?” He asked, standing up and reaching out his hand for a shake. I wanted to pull him into a hug but I couldn't. So I took the handshake instead.

Eli took a seat and I did the same beside him. But now that we were here, I don't even know what I was going to say to him!

Sorry, I'm your best friend from the future and the world is about to end and I'm here to recruit you? Even I would think I was crazy.

“The world is about to end. You will soon start noticing strange signs and when you realise what is happening, it will be too late. My brother is here to recruit you.”

I stared at Eli in shock, I never expected him to be so blunt. “You are supposed to be the smart one, Eli.”

“I am. Look at him, he isn't stupid. He might not believe us, but we've sown a seed. Leave a number, I'm very sure a smart guy like him will call when they start seeing the signs you talked about.”

I looked at the guy who was just staring at both of us blankly. I felt like I should add something. I reached for a pen and paper from his desk and wrote down my number,

“Jason, it might seem like nonsense now, but you'll understand soon.” I added as u pushed the paper forward.

I sighed and looked at Eli, signalling for him that we should take out leave. At least that was what he proposed. But just as I stood up, Jason finally spoke,

“You know my name?” He asked.

“Yes. Jason Steinberg. I can't tell you how thou—”

“There's no need to, I believe you.”

“What?”

“What?” Eli and I spoke at the same time, we were shocked. Jason stood up, his expression serious.

“I don't know how you know my name and I honestly couldn't care less, and although I don't totally believe you in the end of the world crap, I don't totally not believe you either.”

There was silence for a moment before Eli asked the question that bugged us both,

“Why?”

“Because we've started seeing the signs. Signs of something unprecedented.”

My eyes widened, “that's shouldn't be possible!” I muttered absentmindedly.

“Johanne, what's wrong?” Eli asked,

“The signs shouldn't appear until two weeks before the apocalypse!”