The venture capitalists were eager to meet me. In truth, they’re the ones I wanted to meet with all along.
“Wait a just moment,” I told them. “I will say goodbye to the San Francisco audience and be back in a couple of minutes.”
It took me fifteen minutes to dismiss the meeting and enter into the San Francisco teleportation device after which I reappeared in San Francisco. Business people were waiting for me in New York. Already it was a longer delay than I would have liked I urgently pressed T03 and I exited in New York. No… it was not New York. It was my lab. And my stupid boss was standing front of me. Now I understood. I wrongly pressed the lab’s teleport ID T03. During my work day I tested this machine hundreds of times. I pressed the wrong teleport number by habit and accidentally teleported here. My boss is looking at me angrily and I cannot look him in the eyes. My plan is to run again to the teleportation terminal before my audience wonders where I’ve gone.
“I was busy with my newest research and, in fact, had just completed it when I saw you on the television,” he began. “I hadn’t even noticed my missing teleport machines until I saw the CNN live report and understood what was going on.”
I was silent, just waiting to get out of there. He continued, “You don’t know anything about how the teleportation machines work and still you stole them.”
I run to the teleportation machine and enter the New York teleport ID correctly. Luckily the device is working. I exit and open the door. Again my boss is standing right in front of me.
He pointed his finger at something to my left. That’s when I saw it, the San Francisco teleportation terminal. Now, three teleportation machines were in the room. I’m shocked and I ask him how this is possible.
“This is teleport 2.0,” he said with a smile. “It’s my extension to my teleportation invention. Now I’m able to teleport objects remotely and I can even teleport a teleportation device itself just as I’ve done with the two teleportation machines you thought you could steal.
“Get me back to the audience. The world deserves these machines. Science isn’t for the benefit of only one man,” I yell.
He stood there silently. I lost control ran to him and tried to hit him. But he just dodged and I though better of it. I ran to the store room and fell down in misery. Before I tried to attack him again, He locked the door. I shouted for a long time but got no response.
After 8 hours, He opened the door. I was very tired and gave up trying to attack him. I requested that he allow me to go back with the teleportation machines. I was sure someone was still waiting for me to come back.
He motions over to his computer screen. “Look at that news website.”
The website reads: ‘Black-magic man cheats press media, suddenly disappears from hotel, hotel management complain to police regarding balance of settlement for auditorium rent.’
I pulled up more pages and saw the same article on every one of them. It was even being posted on websites that didn’t even usually post about the news. Nobody believed it was real because the teleportation devices and I disappeared from there. They all thought it was some elaborate hoax.
My boss looked at me for a long time before he spoke. “Get out of here. Never come back.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Family Members
Thanking all my family members.
Editor
Thanks to editor Kyle Sharpe who did a great editing job and point out issues.
Designer
Thanks to graphics designer Robert Sage, who designed the book cover
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Krishna Kumar resides in India and is a new author who writes mainly in the science fiction genre. He is currently working on a novella and above everything else puts his readers first when writing stories.
He is a techie with twelve years of experience in the IT industry and currently works for an IT product startup as their Senior Technology Architect. Writing is his passion and he’s been writing since he was ten years old. This is his first publication. He is thankful for the time he’s been able to spend on this book as his education, family, job and other commitments take up a lot of time. He was waiting for the right time to publish, and he hopes you’ve enjoyed reading his work.
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Copyright
Copyright © 2014 Krishna kumar
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ISBN: 1494933446
ISBN-13: 978-1494933449