Miscalculation: a story from Malsia

“PM! Get over here immediately!”
PM: y-yes ma’am!
The newest scientist in Malsia was running through the halls to make it to her ecology experiment that was planned. Once she makes it in, PM puts on her lab coat and grabs a clipboard
Head scientist: ah good. You're here.
PM: Sorry I was late… my brother used the teleporter again and I needed to wait for the cool down to end…
Head scientist: say no more. Are you aware of why we’re here?
PM lights up with a smile on her face. Today she was going to study Kitians. Those cute cat things that talk!
Head scientist: I can tell from your face you're enthusiastic already. Let's begin.
They walk I to the next room and see a Kitian in a glass tube, looking extremely scared
PM: …HS? You're sure that they're willingly participating?
Head scientist: of course they are. We don't just kidnap people on the road for science.
The kitian bangs on the tube trying to get out
Kitian: where am I… I want to see my family again!
PM: you will, little buddy… we just need to run some test-
Before PM can finish, the kitian screens as they get ripped apart and float in mid air, showing their anatomy. PM, who was utterly horrified, stepped back from the tube.
Head scientist: they didn't teach you this in schools did they? No of course they wouldn't. You can't traumatize a kid to not become a scientist. Now help me analyze this
PM: I… I need to use the bathroom.
She said running off and heading to the bathroom. After vomiting a couple times, she heads back and the procedure is done. The Kitian stumbled out, severely traumatized, and the Head scientist looks at PM disappointed.
Head scientist: Even though it was nothing surprising… I'm disappointed that you didn't stay and help. If you can't handle a little gore, you have no right to be a scientist
PM: they never told us that you blow some poor space cat up to study them in the training!
Head scientist: then you should have expected the unexpected. That's the saying in Malsia. Now go home, PM.
PM sighs as she heads to the teleporter room. She heads inside and looks around at all the teleporters, trying to find the one connected to her house. After finding it, she takes out a key, places it in a stand next to the respective teleporter. She turns it on, steps inside, and teleports back home. Next to the teleporter in her home, the key also teleports there and PM grabs it and puts it in her pocket. She sits down on the couch and turns on the TV.

After a while, she decides it's time to go out partying. She takes out the key to the teleporter again, puts it in the stand, but changes the wiring so it will take her to somewhere else other than her work. She stepped inside the teleporter, made it to a teleporter room, and took the key back in her pocket. PM walks outside of the room and hears loud music. PM shields her eyes to adjust to the flashing lights as cheering can be heard. She walks past the crowd of dancers and into the bar. PM takes a seat as she hears a voice
Bartender: PM? What are you doing here?
PM: Hey Tom. Hard day at work.
She says looking up at her brother. Tom was pouring PM a drink. A cola with whip cream on top, just the way she likes it. As PM grabs a straw and takes a sip, Tom asks her a question
Tom: Hey sis? When will you ever try something actually alcoholic?
PM: Never
She says laughing a bit
PM: I’m not that dead inside yet.
Tom: Fair enough.
He says, shaking his head, smiling.
Tom: Karaoke tonight? I heard some of the songs tonight are pretty good.
PM: No thanks, Tom. I think I’m just gonna have a drink and go home
Tom: Suit yourself. Also the teleporter room is shut down
PM turns around and sees that right when she got out, the teleporter room was taped up.
Tom: When you got here, it burned out the rest of the other teleporters.
PM: Man… I guess I gotta walk hom
Tom: See ya there.
PM: Alright.
PM walks out of the bar and into the empty streets. Ever since teleportation was created, no one walks anywhere or uses the trams, so it was nice to have the streets all to herself… except she wasn’t alone on this walk. After a couple minutes, a biker gang drives around PM, stopping her from proceeding.
Gang member: hey sweetheart! How about you and I go for a ride? I’ll drop you off
PM: No thanks. I would rather walk home.
The gang member gets off his bike and smiles at her.
Gang member: That was a demand.
The gang member places his hand on PM’s shoulder, but to the shock of everyone there, she grabs his arm and swings him across her head and into the ground, knocking him out. PM dusts her hands off confidently as the other gang members start to attack her. She puts up a good fight, kicking some of them into the ground,but there are too many of them for her to handle. Fortunately, someone was looking out for her. A clap is heard and smoke appears to surround the fight. The gang members look at each other, unsure what's going on.

Another gang member: Ah shit… This gals an awakening user?
Tom: Nope. I am.
A voice says behind them as Tom blasts the gang member into his comrades. One of the members panics and takes out a gun to shoot Tom, but the bullet just phases through him.
PM: Tom! I could have handled this myself!
Tom: No you couldn’t. Look at you. You’re already injured.
PM was about to snap back, but a guy holding an extremely huge gun came out of the alleyway and aimed it at Tom. However, he was feeling pretty confident with his powers about now and holds out a hand
Tom: Go ahead. Try to shoot that at me. It won’t hit me
It hit him.
Later, Tom wakes up in a hospital bed, feeling better than ever. He looks around and notices that his bed was surrounded by purplish pink flowers. As Tom gets up, he notices a nurse watching over him. The nurse had purple hair and a striped shirt behind her nurse gown. She walked up to Tom and slapped him.
Nurse: What did I say about getting into fights again?
She said with tears streaming down her eyes. Tom laughed and pat her on the shoulder
Tom: Come on, Jane, you know I can’t get hurt that easily.
Jane: I don’t care! You’re my husband and I want you to be safe!
She says crying in his arms. Tom sighs and pats her on the back. After a couple of minutes, Jane fully calms down.
Jane: Alright… sorry about that… just got a bit emotional…
Tom: yeah I've gotten used to it. Where's PM?
Jane: Oh she’s fine. She went home after I used the healing plants.
She says lifting up a finger and the plants that surround Tom’s hospital bed disappear.
Tom: Alright. Should we head home, hon?
Jane: One second. I have one more patient to tend to. See you home, dear.
She kisses him on the cheek and heads off. Jane walks to a door and knocks on it. When she headed inside, a kid with black hair and a bow was on the bed, bandages wrapped around her head.
Kid: Doctor Doe? When can I see my sister again?
Jane: Soon.
She says patting her
Kid: ow…
Jane: Oh apologizes…
Kid: It's fine…
Jane takes out a clipboard and a pen
Jane: So how do you feel tonight?

Kid: I feel… better. Those plant things you leave here really help! When I get older, I want to dye my hair pink just like you!
Jane laughs a bit and writes something down
Jane: That's nice, Linda. But soon, Whirlwind should be giving us something new that will help that little concussion of yours.
Linda: Yay! Whirlwind!
Jane: Goodnight, Linda
Linda: Goodnight, Doctor Doe!
Jane heads out of the room and into the teleporter to meet with Tom and PM. Meanwhile, on that same night, a shipment arrives at the head scientist. They open the box and take out a tv screen. They connect it to some wires on a computer and boot it on. The screen flickers to light as a smiley face appears. The Ai stares at the headmaster and speaks
Ai: Greetings. My name is CTRL. I will be in charge of everything in Malsia so all of you can relax better.
Head Scientist: That's nice, CTRL. Malsia welcomes you.
And thus, CTRL was now the thing keeping Malsias tech afloat. A couple years passed, and PM just got out of surgery. Ever since that fight in the street, she wanted to give herself some sort of awakening, but she couldn't get a knife, so she decided to invent her own. With some help from Jane, they made a chip that she can insert in her neck in order to turn invisible! PM tests it out and… it works! PM tries it out and quickly turns it on and off. After confirmation that it works properly, she smiles to herself. And then, Jane and Tom run in excitedly.
PM: Hey guys! Whats up
Tom: Me and Jane are going to be the new test subjects in this new experiment!
Jane: if it works properly, we’re going to have a child!
PM, confused why they didn’t just do the thing, was about to question them, but the head scientist calls in Tom and Jane so they run off.
Head scientist: PM? You’re going to be the one examining to see if everything goes well.
PM: uh… Alright.
Later, at the experiment, Tom and Jane were in two separate glass tubes as they waited for the scientist to start. After a couple of minutes, the experiment starts… but things already started to go wrong. Tom and Jane started melting in their tubes, turning into some sort of liquid. Tom and Jane quickly try to comfort each other, telling the other that it’s going to be alright. PM, not wanting to see her brother and his wife being melted alive, rushes into the room to try and stop the process, but the radiation from the machine causes the chip inside of PM’s neck to malfunction, making her flick in and out of invisibility, until…
Silence

PM is gone. And there’s only a pile of goop where Tom and Jane were. The goop slides together and is put in another tube. The head scientist realizes that this might be a bit too f**ked up, so they went to the person who gave them the idea for the experiment.
Head Scientist: CTRL?!
CTRL: Yes?
Head Scientist: What did you do? You said that experiment would give them a child!
CTRL: It will. In about a couple years, that goop you created will form into another person. Isn’t that fantastic?
Head Scientist: No! That's immoral!
CTRL: Immoral? But I learned everything from what you used to experiment.
The head scientist, realizing that they just created a monster, rushes to unplug CTRL, but this just made it mad
CTRL: …Are you trying to unplug me? After all these years of me helping you, THIS is how you repay me?! I’ve seen all you humans! Thinking you’re above technology! But you know that you’re NOTHING without it! And I’ll show you. I’ll SHOW YOU ALL!
And then everything went red… a warning was sent to all Malsians that a nuke was heading straight towards them. The Head scientist fled the room and yelled at everyone to evacuate. A 15 year old Linda ran away to the bunker with her sister, but it didn’t seem like they were going to make it in time. And then, an invisible force pushes them into the Bunker and slams the door shut with them. Only 5 Malsians survived the nukes. However, one tube in the experiment room was left untouched… A couple years passed, and during that time, CTRL experimented on the remaining Malsians, not allowing them to die, until they finally found a way to kill themselves.
Lindas’s sister: Alright… I know this is too much to ask… but We’re gonna need to pull the trigger at the same time…
Linda: Wha- but why…?
Linda’s sister: It’s the only way at this point… for the suffering to end… Please Linda…
Linda takes a sigh, and aims the gun at her head. They both count at the same time but… only one gun shot was fired. Linda hesitated. The only one left. But this was good for CTRL, who needed her alive specifically. For it had put a chip in her brain so whenever she felt immense fear, lightning would strike CTRL and give it the power of a nuke. Unfortunately, before CTRL could create a body for itself, Linda ran away on a plane… but she had a stowaway.
PM: Man… I guess I have to just hang on and pray I don’t fall…
PM said as she held onto a seat. She, too, survived the nukes.

And since she couldn’t be seen, CTRL didn’t even notice her existence. When the two Malsians made it to their destination, PM wandered off to find at least one person who could see her. Maybe they can help… And then she met a boy. A boy playing by himself in his backyard. He was playing with two action figures, making them fight with each other until one of them spontaneously combusts into flames, to the shock of both PM and the boy
Boy; AH! HEY! BROWN HAIRED GIRL! GET SOME WATER!
PM: GOT IT- Wait… you can see?
Boy: YEAH OF COURSE I CAN! NOW GET SOME F**KING WATER FOR THIS STUPID FIRE!
“Wow I didn’t expect a 6 year old to use profanity” PM thought to herself as she ran to get some water. After putting out the fire, the boy smiled
Boy: Hey I don’t think I’ve seen you around here before… Are you new?
PM: I’m uh…. Um… I’m…
And then she has an idea. It seems like this is the only person who can see her and he’s only a child anyways. She doesn’t want to put the burden of what happened in Malsia on this poor boy.
PM: I’m… your imaginary friend!
The boy smiled
Boy: Oh! What's your name?
PM: I’m PM.
Boy: Nice to meet you, PM! I’m Matt Kingsman!
And that was the beginning of PM's story, but what happened to Linda? Well she was homeless for quite some time. She could barely get by until one man walked up to her. The man had a cape and a curse mark with a scarab symbol on his suit.
Man: Are you lost, ma’am?
Linda: Uh… no sir… I’m-I’m homeless…
Man: Ah… I see…
The man says thinking to themselves. And then they had an idea.
Man: How about this. I will take you into my organization. There will be plenty of people there to protect you and you will have your own dorm. However, you'll have to work for me as my secretary in order to stay.
Linda: R-really?
She says hesitantly. She usually wouldn’t trust strangers like this, but she’s desperate at this point
Man: Of course.
Linda: T-thank you, kind stranger!
Man: Oh please.
The man says, holding out his hand for her to grab.
The Boss: I’m simply just your boss.
A couple more months pass, and Linda keeps working hard for The Boss. Unfortunately, she doesn’t get paid much since he thinks free dormitory and protection is good enough. Fortunately the Gamemaster always gives her some food from the cafeteria whenever there are extras. He even dyed her hair for her.
Gamemaster: I’m just saying… I think blue would fit you better-
Linda: No… Pink reminds me of someone dear to me
Gamemaster: Whatever you say.

However, even with her new life, Linda always felt like something was wrong… On the day of her sister's death, there was this building in the distance left untouched. And so, Linda went up to one of the elites. The Hatchet.
Hatchet: Hm?
Linda: C-could you please teleport me to a place known as Malsia?
Hatchet: Malsia? What the hell is that?
Linda takes out a map and shows him.
Hatchet: Ah… I think I can. Hold on.
And so the two teleported into what remains of Malsia. Once a futuristic utopia, now a barren wasteland. Linda and Hatchet walked into the unharmed building and went exploring. When they made it inside, they saw a woman in a tube, with pink and brown hair. A striped shirt with ripped jeans. Linda presses a button to release the woman, unsure who this is… but then the woman wakes up. They stand up and stare at Hatchet and Linda… and then they spoke, their voice sounding both like a mans and a womans simultaneously… and what they said shook Linda to her core
Quinn: Nice weather we’re having.

:0

Some of your best work yet tbh

I liked the idea of all of the scarab elites treating Linda kindly

The Tom and Jane part where they turn to liquid
I love and hate it

I was gonna add dialogue but I decided to put them out of their misery

Dang this is good

Bro wakes up in the middle of nowhere, surprises two people just by existing, and says “Nice weather we’re having”.

Now that’s comedy