Chapter 1:

January 14, 2015

It's night. The stars twinkle up above. I've been standing up above this certain building for quite some time now. A strategic facility in France, its sole purpose is to gather data on colliding protons in order to know how the universe began. Sometimes they also discover some other things as well, like the quark-gluon plasma, or that they have seen signs of a Higg's boson. They've also discovered two new heavy duty Xi baryon.

Really now, science has evolved so much that it might even one day rival god's creation. Questions about physics such as those are really just the starting point. Eventually, all those science fiction things that we watch such as 'Star Wreck' or 'Star Mars' would eventually come true. Heck, we'll maybe even communicate with aliens, if at all they exist.

Funny that I started it out about god's power, 'cause the government at the time, asked:

'If we fund this, would it rival god's power?'

The scientist promptly said no. And ever since, realizing this piece of 'tool' for the purpose of answering the fundamental open questions in physics; more preferably about the basic laws governing the interactions and forces among elementary objects, the deep structure of space and time, and the interrelation between quantum mechanics and general relativity, has been slow. And it's not until 2010 that we got such findings from such experiments.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. What exactly am I doing out here on top of ALICE's building?

Simply put, I'm waiting for something, one that would make my sweetest dream come true. And eventually meet her again.

"…" when I came to, I was met with the familiar scene of the convenience store. I have a bottle on one hand and my phone is raised to my ear. I knew what the time and date without confirming.

It was like I woke up from a happy dream. It was as if, I just closed my eyes and slept peacefully. And when I wake up, it would only look like a second had just passed. As if I was caught in an illusion. But was it really? Was it just an illusion that 'the world' showed me? To show me a piece of paradise then takes it away from me'

I felt the phone on my hand. It was different. It was a clamped shell typed one. Did I even have this phone from the beginning? No. My phone was just a simple bricked typed one. It's disposable as well, to prevent anyone pinging me down. So it really was…

And when I look at phone, a photo of a girl is shown before me. She has a tear stained smile, and yet it hasn't lost its picturesque. Aah… she was in my dream. She was the most energetic, cheerful to the point of idiocy, girl I have ever met. Maybe she's crying right now. And if she does…

"…I better not make her wait too long" I close the phone and head out of the shop…

"…And after 5 years, I'm here"

5 years of endless research, 5 years of endless endurance, many times, I've hit a dead end. Giving up was of course not an option, but I have to face multiple walls just so I could get here. And it's not some ordinary wall, mind you, it's a wall filled with numbers that would make Einstein use every ounce of his brain cells to crack it.

"…But still, discovering interdimensional travels…would I set up an award for you?"

"No way, I've got better things to do than some conference with scientists…" the man stands beside me and watches the Alps shine under the stars, the distance city sparkle and a small wind pass by.

"So, have you ever found 'him'?" I asked.

"No… wherever he is, he can't hide from 'the world' forever"

"The world is round after all"

"…True…"

This man… well, let's just say that he is my guardian devil. He doesn't pop up like this, but when he does it means something serious. But today, he's taken a rather light tone. Almost as if this guy actually 'cares' for me. Heh, that would be funny.

"…So I guess, the deals done, right?"

"…Yeah"

"Dammit!"

I slammed the table full of paper. My room is literally filled with endless papers on the walls. My apartment is like a cradle for scientists and mathematicians alike. If one could look at it, they could infer this as 20 years of research, where in fact it took only 2.

"*Sigh*…A fucking black hole… Fucking sci-fi shit…" this is just almost impossible to do.

I just proved that traveling through a spinning black hole would act as wormhole to another dimension. I wish, I didn't. Why? Because making one is so freakin' difficult. Even creating microscopic black holes is just hard to maintain. The radiation released from it would just be too far greater than what it sucks in.

"Damn… and there's no other way as well…"

"…Giving up?"

"No, you asshole"

"…"

Translation: Hey, watch it

"…" I turn to him as I said it.

Translation: I don't fucking care.

"*Sigh*…Okay, okay. I'm sorry for that 'time'. Okay?"

"You are a masterpiece for bullshits"

"Look, I can't help you. But we can both help ourselves if we find 'him'"

"Don't have time for 'his' grandiose plan, I've got a woman who's waiting for me"

"…"

Translation: It's impossible to go back.

"…"

Translation: We are both living manifestations of impossibilities.

"…" no comeback? Good, I need the silence for my work.

*RING!**RING!*

I picked up the phone and take the call.

"YO~~! How's it going?"

*BEEP!*

I drop the call and take out the battery.

"I see… that Chin is a douchebag as ever"

"He always is… He's spending time with his family right now"

"I know…"

"…*Sigh*… Look, get out of here. We can talk about 'him' seriously if I finish this ahead of schedule"

"No need. I'll look for 'him'"

"All right… you are 'the world' after all…"

"That I am… Let's make a deal"

"Hm?" I look back and see that he is quite serious.

"…Find the possibility. And I'll do something about you staying 'there'"

"I thought you said you can't help me"

"Not by conventional means" touche…

"You sure? You'd be missing a 'tool' just to kill 'him'"

"Doesn't matter… You killed 'him' once with my formula. 'He' will die at the next…"

"Alright. Don't go egocentric now, or it might bite you back"

"…"

Translation: Deal

"And now… we're here… the execution of my plan…"

"The after effects of this would just be too disastrous"

"Doesn't matter. This is just a small pay back for 'pulling' me out of there"

"You always scorn me… huh?"

"The world is cruel after all"

"That we can agree on…"

*BRRRRRR!* *BRRRRRRR!*

*BEEP!*

"Yeah?"

'Holy piece of mother fucking with the tangible sense of Ukraine! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST MADE ME DO!?'

"You created a black hole, using the LHC"

"YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"

"No I'm not. Get the hell out of there before guys in suits come storming through the place. You don't want your wife be taken away now"

"DAMN RIGHT! FUCK YOU, I'M GOING TO LEAVE FOR RUSSIA!"

*BEEP!*

"*Sigh*…Still a douchebag as ever…" but I still, I owe Chin a lot.

"…So… it's time…"

"Yeah…" I fix my trench coat and pick up the luggage at my side. There's no holding back now.

"…Tell me…"

"Hm?"

"…Why did you pull me back?" I asked him.

"..."

Translation: Sometimes the world doesn't know what he's doing.

"…I see…" I walk to the edge of the building.

"...Hey…"

"Yeah?"

"…I'll take care of Julia's grave for you…"

"…I'd appreciate that… Thanks man"

"Yeah… good luck, Passerby" I jumped, to the abyss below.

As I approach, the darkness below, I see that the edges or rather, the light reflecting from it to my eyes are has bended, as if I'm looking at a fun house mirror. The distortion grows greater and greater and half of my field view is swallowed up by darkness.

'So this the photon sphere'

Allow me to explain. In this stage of falling into a black hole light; photons can orbit around the black hole. We all know that light gets bent whenever you apply gravity. And with a black hole's infinite gravitational pull, it bends to the point that it actually circulates around it. For example, I am looking at to left, and I see the back of my head. Pretty neat.

It didn't take long for me to get pass the point of no return; the point where scientists calls the Event Horizon. There really is no going back after this. My field of view is getting swallowed up by darkness, and when I turn back, I see that the sky where I once came from has turned into like a spherical orb. It kinda look like that the universe is a sphere, and I simply jumped away from it.

*SQZZZZZZZ!*

"Hope Titor is right about this?"

*Knock!* *Knock!*

"Yes? How can I help you?"

"You're John Titor right?"

"Wait! How did you-Guh!?" I kick him inside and close the door behind me.

*SLAM!*

"I've got a few questions for you…"

*SQZZZZZZZZZ!*

"Shit! it's starting!"

The singularity is a point in a black hole where gravity is at its infinity. And the moment I crossed the event horizon my whole body started to stretch, literally. The parts of me that are nearer to the singularity and the parts of me that aren't will have a huge difference in gravitational pull. These are called Tidal forces.

And as I get nearer, I'm being stretched like a used bubble gum towards the singularity. Even my luggage is stretched like that. This is pain, burning pain. I'm being stretched to an almost impossible state and feels like all my tissues are ripped apart like tissue paper. This is called Spaghettification.

*SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!*

*SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!* *SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!*

*SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!* *SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!* *SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!*

*SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!* *SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!* *SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!* *SQZZZZZZZZZZZZ!*

"…"

I'm back here… in this usual comfortable place of static, like I'm inside a television. My body is frozen in place. I feel that my body is back to normal. It's a good thing I don't want to be a living reincarnation of a flying spaghetti monster. Or that faceless guy in a suit. Then looking forward, I found the same black spark and it appears to be not moving.

'Great… now I just have to wait…!'

No, it seems that my 5 year work is going ahead of schedule. Like 'the world' is giving me push. So this is what he meant by 'help', got to admit, I appreciate it. The black entity moves, scribbling in the air the same enigmatic numbers, the numbers that I have only recently cracked. It scribbles in the air at such a speed until the after images are enough to know what it wrote.

99.898891293

And just as before… the scene cracked wide open in deafening decibels. The scene cracked wide and I fell off from it.

"I'm back!"

I've returned to Gamindustri