Scientists gathered around behind the monitor. On the screen was their machine being tested. Something that would revolutionize how they approached the rest of their research. A machine with many wires and buttons and knobs, but the most prominent and most important feature being the frame. They had made a portal to the Nexus.. They all watched as the contraption’s frame lit up as it was powered, the sight and sound of space and time being twisted into a spiral breathtaking. Shockwaves came off the spiral with great intensity; the air lit up with electricity.
People in lab coats smiled and gasped and cheered as months of effort were finally beginning to pay off. For a brief moment, the spiral seemed to stop twisting. The scientists quieted down and waited expectantly. A tear began to form in the wall of energy contained within the frame of the machine, earning cheers from the scientists. However, the cheering quieted when two hands grab the sides of the rift from the other side, forcing it open with little effort. The hands belonged to a figure in a hooded cloak, glowing eyes radiating something akin to judgement.
The figure entered the room through the rift, brandishing a spear-like weapon that had a blade with some sort of weird crossguard on one end, and a fork on the other. With the boy came some creature that was like a cross between a snake, dragon, and rabbit; it circled the air around the hooded stranger like a guardian angel of sorts.
Professors began to panic and security was called in, and about a dozen or so armed guards stormed in, pointing their rifles and shouting at each other and at the new visitors.
“Who are you?”
“Get on the ground!”
“Put down your weapon!”
The cloaked figure ignored them all. They just simply pointed a single finger at the guards, spoke something that was unintelligible to all the guards and scientists, and their beast companion leapt forward, weaving through gunfire and mauling one of the guards, tearing them apart with its teeth.
Any stray bullets that flew toward the one in the hooded cloak were deflected by some invisible force. The figure lowered their hood to reveal a child, seeming around 13 years of age. They pointed their weapon at the scientists and shouted: “This is your reckoning. This is the price you pay for disrupting the natural order. I will see to it that I’m on the other end of the weapon that takes your life.”
