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#SEARN Facility, space and time laboratory room, Section C

A man in a laboratory suit laid in the cold lab floor. He was Prof Jack Merrigan, a young scientist of SEARN who responsible for SEARN's research related to the Large Hadron Collider which mainly focuses on fluctuations in space and time. Jack was a single man in his late 20s. His hair was messy black, with a thin body and normal height, like the average descendants of Asian - Caucasian people. He wore a gray hem underneath his lab suit with blue jeans and sport shoes.

SEARN itself is a research and technology organization that established under the union of Southeast Asian countries. It also manages the 31th LHC in the whole world, which located in the region of Southeast Asia. Unlike the other large hadron collider management organizations, SEARN is more closed and confidential. Jack loves his workplace so much. It feels like his personal -safe-heaven. It has been almost three years that Jack underwent the profession of scientists in the shade of SEARN.

The Large Hadron Collider or LHC is a very high-energy particle accelerator, the most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single engine in each region.

"No way ..." a complaint came out of his mouth. His body tried to get up. His right hand reached for help to stand up. His left hand held the nape of the back of his head which was painful and stiff.

Jack finally managed to get up. His white uniform of the lab looks wrinkled. The SEARN badge on his left chest of his lab uniform was almost completely covered by blood red spots. From the edge of the lips and nose there was a residual dry blood flow.

"WTF*ck," he cursed slowly. "If only I've knew the side effects of nano-machines self-injection which are still in beta ... " Jack staggered back. His hand searched for something on his desk. His eyes wandered, and suddenly stopped to look at a calendar on his lab table.

A red circle written using a marker forced him to think deeply. February 6, 20xx ..., "F * ck", he cursed slowly. "I'm a day late running the P2 procedure for LHC ..."

In a hurry, Jack turned on his computer. An orange luminous virtual console appears before him. "Welcome, Doctor Jack. You have 3 important notifications, and 15 Alerts. Are you willing to read one by one?"

Suddenly Jack felt weak and cold, his whole body was shivering.

"Oh My God, please not now. Why does the side effect of self-injection appear at times like this?" Jack complained. With all his strength Jack raised his hand and his index finger chose the "SKIP" button then "MENU" and "DELAYED". Shortly afterwards three list options appeared on the virtual screen "LHC-P2", "LHC-TC", "LHC-Quantum Gate".

Jack's eyes widened, "Why are there three? Isn't my responsibility just one? Only LHC P2" said Jack back in the monologue. With an awareness that began to fade, Jack tried his best to choose the menu that was his responsibility.

Right when the menu was pressed, his consciousness was completely gone. Jack's body lost his ability to support himself, and fell forward. And without Jack realizing it, his lost consciousness while randomly pressed all the menus on the LHC option.

Jack didn't know that. He has fainted. He was alone in the lab, since a few days ago. Only a lab monkey accompanied him in an iron cage in the corner of the room. And a 42-inch TV that always lights up without ever getting the attention of its master, hanging on the wall, alone.

This time the TV is broadcasting the news that has always been repeated since three days ago, "In the last day, some are 'significant' earthquakes along the Ring of Fire, anything above a magnitude 4.5 according to the US Geological Survey.

The Ring of Fire is the largest and most active line in the world, stretching from New Zealand, all around the east coast of Asia, over to Canada and the USA and all of the South American tips and causes more than 90 percent of the world's earthquakes.

"There are many others, including a 4.5 magnitude earthquake in the Indonesian island of ..."

Suddenly, alarms in all SEARN facilities rang simultaneously.

Riiing ... riiiiing... riiing ...

"Warning, Warning, LHC system overload. I repeat ... this is not a drill. I repeat..."

Riiing ... riiiing... riiing ...

"I repeat... all staffs are required to immediately carry out individual evacuation procedures ..."

All staff in the location immediately moves according to the safety training that is routinely carried out. Everyone feels frantic despite trying as quietly as possible.

"GATHER IN AREA LIFT LOBBY. PLEASE DO NOT USE THE LIFT! It is risky behavior if you still use the elevator during a fire, during an earthquake, or when the building has not declared the lift safe to use!". A warden floor commander shouted through an emergency loudspeaker.

"PLEASE FOLLOW THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS GUIDE!!" shouted the other officers in red and green vests with colored band-aid on their arm. "STAY IN THE LINE, AND FOLLOW EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICERS!"

Riiing ... riiiiing... riiing ...

But Jack didn't realize. He still lost his consciousness.

Riiing ... riiiing... riiing ...

Slowly but surely, the evacuation point is already full of many staff gathered according to the procedure.

Another alarm with a different tone sounded very loud as if trying to break the previous alarm sound,

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....."

"Warning, an earthquake detected ...."

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....."

"What? Why didn't the meteorologist notify us beforehand?"

All staff at the evacuation point turned pale.

They didn't have time to think otherwise, the big shock had hit mercilessly. The entire foundation of the SEARN Facility moves like a collapse.

This time a tremendous panic struck.

But without them knowing it, far below the earth, under the foundations of SEARN, a black hole emerged as a result of the LHC is overlapping in carrying out its programs. Quickly, the black hole swallows everything raw, mercilessly all section C is immersed in nothingness.

This time those who had gathered at the evacuation point survived the black hole tantrum. A moment later, everything calmed down as if nothing had happened.

Suddenly, the alarm sounded again. Different tones, harder and sounds very scary.

Staff who gathered spontaneously returned with pale faces. They all realized that this time was a tsunami attack that would beat this entire facility.

Ten minutes later, the life-threatening giant wave struck. Crushing everything stand on its way mercilessly. Everything was beaten indiscriminately, including houses, large building, parking car, busses, docking ships, moreover human.

Crasssssshhh....

And then, the sea water recedes so quickly. As if they are preparing for its next hit to the island, the giant killer wave.

Crasssssshhh....
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