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The secret Project. The Portal Gun Part One

It was Day break on District Island. At least two hours after morning wake up and Oliver Greyhound paced down the cities decaying pavement. Briskly he walked rapidly darting around crowded pools of pedestrians. Normally he would’ve stopped making conversation with at least two per crowd, but he opted not to.

Oliver had received a text from his brother, Lucas, who he had not seen in a long time. Lucas was the smart one in the family; he lived south of the slums in district island, but it didn’t matter Oliver was still going to walk all the way there.

Lucas had invited Oliver to The Restaurant on the complete other side of the city, making Oliver’s walk at least four hours. Oliver walked so fast that he nearly tripped on several occasions having to slow down ever so slightly.

He passed several companies, markets and dealers exchanging several items for sentimental objects. People could be seen exchanging expensive shoes and watches for simple things like food and water.

Oliver turned into a darkened alleyway looking up to see the enormous broken skyscrapers Stretch into the turquoise sky. He walked down the thin alleyway, no one else could be seen. Olivers footfalls fell heavy on the concrete cobbles his torn shoes causing his big toe to pop out and rub on the floor below.

Oliver took a turn under a low bearing overhang kneeling down into a small doorway. He waited there for a few seconds when he heard a knock come from the other side of the door. Oliver responded with his own knock. A few seconds passed, and a little slit opened in the top of the door.

“Password,” the voice said.

“The Spire is located on the northern ridge,” Oliver whispered.

The slit closed with a snap; the door opened. Oliver knelt even further down extending his short body into the tunnel landing on all fours. The metal walls of the ventilation shaft hung tightly around Olivers body making him struggle to move forward, his knees and hard boots loudly attacking the metal bellow echoing throughout the ventilation.

Oliver crawled for what had seemed to be hours until a glimpse caught his eye. A faint light caught his brown eye while he rapidly increased his crawling speed, not by much. He reached an opening in the shaft and knocked four times.

The door opened and Oliver stepped out into a small area surrounded by buildings that once again stretched into the sky. There didn’t seem to be another way in or out of the area it was here he saw the entrance to the restaurant.

‘District Restaurant. Those vents better have been worth it’

The building was surprisingly perfectly intact. The doorway was decorated by several lanterns giving off a vibrant violet light. Its church-like design enticed Oliver in. Oliver took a step into the restaurant seeing just how awful and simplistic it was, but he had expected this.

The restaurant only had a select number of tables, one for a couple, one for four and one for six, that was it. Each table was bolted to the ground even though they were just plain wooden tables and could easily be sawed off. A sign at the entrance stated no weapons to be utilized in the restaurant so Oliver had to hide his dagger in his shoe.

Oliver walked into the seating area seeing a dusty old table next to a pile of junk. Sat at it was a young woman dressed in a pink hoodie and blue jeans typing on her laptop. Oliver walked up to the desk seeing the payment machine and a used notebook containing incomplete orders from weeks ago.

Oliver stood Infront of the desk looking down at the woman sat there. He let out an obnoxious cough in order to grab her attention. “Hi, I'm looking for a Lucas Greyhound,” he asked.

“Does he have a booking,” she replied sounding incredibly bored.

Oliver simply nodded. Her gaze had averted back to her laptop this time scrolling through some sort of database. “I've got a Greyhound booking at 11:25 Sun Time is that correct.” Oliver nodded again. The women turned to a page in her notebook and ripped out a piece of paper handing it to Oliver.

She explained to him that the menus cannot be printed due to a lack of ink shipments from Plaza Island and briefly apologized to Oliver for the inconvenience. She then directed Oliver to a table for four only there was just one person sitting there.

Oliver waltzes up to the table yanking out a chair sitting down rubbing his grazed knees. Pulling up his black jogging bottoms checking for blood, there is no blood. He peers over to the person opposite him also on a laptop loudly typing away as though to be in some sort of zone. The boys terrible posture supported his pale head his blonde hair stood up stiff probably due to the amount of hairspray in it.

Oliver attempted to greet the person only to be ignored. He tried again, nothing. Oliver kept trying to grab his attention, still getting zero response whatsoever. He opted to shout at the person still somehow not getting his attention, but he was able to get everyone else's, several people staring at him, some even extending their middle finger, when he glanced over.

Oliver grabbed the laptop and swung it around. “Hey," the person screamed, Oliver had got his attention finally. Oliver looked at the screen seeing tones of green zero’s and one’s fly from the top of the screen to the bottom in single lines leaving green trails behind on the black background.

“Lucas. What the Fuck is this,” he exclaimed. Lucas simply looked at him as though Oliver had just said the dumbest thing ever, eventually explaining it as a secret project of his. Oliver took another glance at the screen, a confused look befalling his face once again as he tried to piece together the so-called project.

Lucas quickly grabbed the laptop flipping it back around continuing his typing but this time more aware of Oliver’s existence. Oliver sat there in thought while Lucas typed away, the binary on his laptop speeding up as Lucas paid a bit more attention to his brother's existence this time.

Oliver looked toward Lucas seeing his determined face still working on whatever this project was to be. Lucas noticed Oliver looking and tried not to look suspicious. “Lucas,” Oliver was getting dangerously close to Lucas’ true intention.

“This better not be portal technology.” Lucas stopped typing his facial expression, freezing in place, his pupils dilating as Oliver stared into his cold eyes. Lucas was stuck in a form of block or dilemma. He was stuck deciding between whether to continue the project or explain it to his brother who deserved to know.

Lucas knew full well if Oliver found out he was using ‘it’ then he would greatly disapprove especially since the law change seven years ago when the island split. Lucas’ parents' technology caused that, and it was their undoing, so it was outlawed.

Lucas hid his head behind the laptop lid and continued to work. Oliver now fed up with his brother's tomfoolery pulled the laptop lid down and once again gave Lucas a death stare. Lucas nodded and Oliver spewed word after word from his mouth particularly how Lucas was being incredibly irresponsible especially after past events.

Lucas stated outright that he knew how to stop the energy from going out of control and that his project was several thousand times less powerful than that of the great experiment. Oliver didn’t know if he should slap his brother or just leave.

“Besides anything's better if it means escaping this shitshow,” Lucas whispered. At that moment the receptionist begrudgingly walked over notebook in hand. When she got to the two Greyhounds, she quickly reached up to her ear pulling out a multicolored pen declaring the two need to order something or they would have to leave.

Lucas sat back in his chair quickly closing the laptop and ordered his food, his face filled with guilt. “Two waters as well love. Got to stay hydrated,” Oliver chimed. Lucas watched as she walked away, only opening the laptop once she had sat down. Oliver simply looked at his brother in disgust but also understood his predicament. “So, what's the plan?”

Lucas looked at Oliver as he pulled up blueprints on his screen of several floors of some building. Lucas showed Oliver a route of a ventilation shaft leading from the outside of the security station to an empty service room with a one-way window to the station platform.

“See we just use it to sneak into the station and onto the train when the new security batch comes in,” Lucas rambled. Oliver pointed out the complications of a plan like this, but Lucas just pared him off stating they can get to Plaza Island and gather the necessary information as well as using his safe technology to complete the portal network that was left unfinished.

Another customer formally walked into the restaurant stopping by the desk sitting at a smaller table behind the two, this led Lucas to close the laptop altogether and converse with Oliver. The two better finalized the idea of escaping District Island only for Lucas’ phone to go off.

“It’s John, he’s at the lake.” Lucas went to get up and leave feeling a hand grab his arm. Oliver looked at him shaking his head “he’s from the plaza you can’t be meeting him anymore.” Lucas shook his brother's hand off his arm and continued to leave, giving Oliver the laptop and asking him to take it back to the lab for later.

Lucas walked out of the restaurant only to be stopped by the receptionist, he forgot about the food. Lucas politely asked the receptionist to leave it to his brother who would be staying for a while. Lucas then walked back to the desk and placed his watch on the reader paying for his order and briskly left the restaurant.

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The world's of The Land of The Stars

How many worlds are in this universe well there are five so far.

Earth 2.0

Earth 2.0 is a gas giant with a similar atmosphere to earth. This allows the planet to support life in its upper atmosphere. After humanity branches off into space this is the first planet their can get to naming after their home world earth. After flying in the ship that brought them, this then opened out and released the floating Mounds of ground from earth forming them into the Skyland.

Overtime technology prospered but sadly a cataclysmic explosion caused the island to split into four distinct islands.

Keplur4004992i2u74ivB (Kepler 100)

Keplur 100 is the 100th planet colonised by humanity, hence its name. This planet is known for its scarlet skies, land and oceans as well as its artificial turbine designed to keep the planets orbit from rapidly decaying.

However life has practically been eradicated here as most of what was alive ended up being frozen in a light pink crystal.

Cyron 5

Cyron 5, pronounced see-ron 5, is in a dead system. Not long after humanity colonised it, the star went supernova collapsing into a white dwarf wiping out all life. Normally this doesn't happen but due to miss calculations humanity overlooked this very major detail.

However Cyron 5 surprisingly is able to support life, one life. But that life is condemned to silence.

Atlantica B

Atlantica B a water world. The second planet of the atlantica system. Humanity colonised this world in order to harness the world's ocean and transport water to Atlantica A.

Atlantica B became a water world once again drowning its sivilisation. Only those in the underwater bases survived eventually developing animalistic behaviours

Atlantica A

Due to constant resource gathering and other factors unknown Atlantica A became nothing but a meteorite it's orbit changing flying into its sister world becoming its moon.

Humanity launched tonnes of ice away from Atlantica B in order to lower its oceans but this was a temporary fix. Due to the increased gravity of the moon the ice eventually gathered on it causing the moon to become ever heavy eventually falling into the planet bringing all that water back crashing into Atlantica B.

Gastro 9

On gastro nine the universe famous Ren Skylar developed a gene altering compound allowing humans to alter their physical bodies to better suit themselves.

Of course it failed and a virus developed in it causing everyone to become beasts with uncontrollable behavious, Ren watching as his brother dissapeared right in front of him.

Gastro 9 became a sandy wasteland an infinite desert filled with humanoid beings.

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