My first guest post! So exciting! This guest post comes from Paul Smith, a fellow writer and blogger from Miami. Feel free to contact him via the links at the bottom of the post.
Everything was according to the
plan.
They
woke up in the small room with equipment, as if it was a laboratory, the last
thing they remembered - it was hard to breath and they lost consciousness. Six
talented physicists: Heisenberg, Frish, Feynman, Rotblat, Oppenheimer, Shweber.
They had a habit to call each other by surnames…
The night before they agreed to meet
together. That was one the thousands of evening that they spend together,
discussing subatomic particles to the theories of the beginning of the
universe; that evening they came to a favorite pub to discuss coming
conference. However the last night differed from usual ones.
That
was a tough morning for everyone in the room, because physicists noticed loss
of all their stuff, even including their shoes. Soon one of them, Feynman,
found something strange on his body; it was covered with strange boils. The
same was in the bodies of other men.
The
first, who started the panic, was Shweber.
He asked questions that each of them was wondering, “What could possibly
happen that night? Why can’t they get out of the room? What are they going to
do, if they have no food or water left?” In several minutes they got a note
with a hint “Guess what I want from you?”
Six men, six talented physicists were at a loss… Who was the author of
the note? Where was he? And what did he want? The next hint came in the room
itself… There were the most dangerous species of spiders – Brazilian wandering
spires. That minute Shweber, Heisenberg, Frish, Feynman, Rotblat and
Oppenheimer realized they were in actual, real danger. Spiders came out of
under that doorway and saw their victims got strained and nervous more and
more. That was luckless morning indeed… Rotblat suggested killing spiders
before they kill all the six men. Words were not enough to express their fear
and confusion. Rotblat and Oppenheimer tried to trap spiders, however, despite
of all physicists were bitten.
Meanwhile
the boils on the men’s bodies got worse and then they received another hint.
Actually that was a voice message. It reported that physicists have to create
unique nuclear weapon in time and in the circumstances they were. In case of
refusal, all of they risk dying, those boils were the proof. As for spiders, they were “reminders” of
speeding up. If physicists cope with the task, they were promised to get the
antidote for poison and, certainly, life as a prize. That was a very tough
call, however there was no time to think. Actual danger was too close: spiders
surrounded men, which tried to do at least something in that laboratory…
Suddenly Frish and Feynman were bitten by huge spider and in a couple of
minutes they fell and couldn’t get up from the floor. In addition, the walls of
the room began to draw together. Heisenberg physicist lost consciousness,
because of claustrophobia, he couldn’t handle the tension. Everything turned
into nightmare … It seems there was no end to that.
In
a couple of hours Heisenberg came to consciousness and looked around; there
were dead bodies of his friends… They were covered with exploded boils, but
surprisingly spiders were dead as well… The gas that steamed entire room killed
the rest of people and spiders. Heisenberg got up and said , “Everything is
according to the plan”. That was him, who planned everything… That was revenge
for stolen fame he always wanted. He planned to see death of those, who, he
considered as betrayers…
Everything was according to the
plan.
