Void, The World Between Worlds

The screen.. had several DNA strands on it.. the twisted ladder shape was not mistakable. He saw this go by incredibly fast, and there were dozens on the screen. Was the TV.. Analyzing it somehow? No.. He know better than that.. TVs cant work two ways.. well.. unless you modified it.. He simply stood in awe at the screen, watching the strands fly by, eventually morph into a single Chromosome. He felt slightly nauseous.. and laid down. He got up just as quickly as he sat down, and ran to a bookshelf. He fumbled through, and picked out "Modern Biology". He got absorbed in the book, learning all he could about Genetics. If only... His thought was interrupted by the mechanical clunking of a switchboard. Somehow, his ancient mechanical calculator was moving on its own. It wasn't even plugged in! It added thousands of sums in seconds, moving the switches so fast the metal began to glow a dull red.

Sarah's eyes slowly peeled themselves open. She had only managed to sleep for maybe 30 minutes, but something had woken her up. "I just need a glass of water..." she mumbled to herself, getting out of bed and walking downstairs. Everything seemed a bit darker and grayer than usual, but Sarah dismissed it as her eyes being unadjusted. After she had gotten what she came for, she curious peeked out the window...The town looked different. I'm just a little tired and dizzy... she though, but she noticed that even the streetlights were emitting gray auras. The one thing that stuck out was the colored flashes of a TV through a window in a building parallel to her own. She could slightly see a silhouette...

Shouting out wouldn't be a good idea. Sarah tried to reach for the door, but accidentally tripped. An expensive, floridly decorated vase fell and made a loud crash that rang throughout the house. "Great," she though out loud, "That will definitely get his attention..." Cleaning up the shards, she peeked gingerly out the window to see if her remark was true.

A loud, crash sound resonated through the room. Matthew thought that something had crashed through the window.. But nothing was broken. "I better call 911" he thought.. He picked up the phone.. and it was ringing? He didnt even dial anything... "I wonder whats going on here.. Everything is so strange.." He said out loud, but, someone picked up right before he said that!

Jared suddenly felt that something was wrong. He ran to the bridge and said "Computer run a life signs scan."

After a minutes, his ship had scanned earth "Two homo sapiens to detect." Jared frowned "That can't be right there is suppose be 5 billion humans"

The phone nearby began to ring. "I'll get it," Sarah called out to her parents, unaware she was somewhere completely different. She ran to the phone and picked up. "Hey, this is Sarah Caldwell. Who is it?" she asked nonchalantly. She kept her eyes fixed on the TV across the street and realized that the silhouette was holding up a phone.

Jared tapped into the humans telecommunications lines and was listening in. "I bet this is the first time they have seen an alien starship." He laughed forgetting to make sure the mike wasn't on. He without knowing sat down and listened in realizing this link was two way instead of one way.

"...Who are you?" Sarah asked nervously. "If that's your ship...are you an alien or something?" She was still awestruck by the large ship, but she wasn't sure if it was real or if this was all one big nightmare. If the answer she were to hear was a yes, she would hang up immediately and try to run for help. She then looked back at Matthew to see how he reacted.

"...This cant be happening.. Y-Y.. What galaxy are you from, then? How far behind is our Technology" Matthew said to Jared. Before he could answer Matt said "Sarah, quick, get binoculars or something, we should examine that to see if its an illusion or really a.. Spaceship" As he said the word "Spaceship", a cold jolt went through him, making him fall silent, unable to even breathe.

Jared bang his hand on his monitor accidentally going through forgetting it was holographic. "Yes I am but we have bigger problems. Were not on earth I repeat this world isn't Earth. Also don't ask I don't where we are either." Jared started running multidimensional scan.

"No...This is all just a dream, stuff like this just...doesn't happen," Sarah muttered into the phone. "It feels real and it looks real but...it can't be..." She had to lie down on the couch, her head was starting to hurt. A few minutes of silence later, she asked the question, "Well...now what are we supposed to do? Any ideas, anyone?"

"I..I dont know, Sarah.." Matthew thought to himself during an awkward pause. They all seemed to be safe, and in Matts house, things were happening.. Weird things.. "Well.. Jared, do you have any ideas? Do you know where we are?" Matt dashed from the phone, dropping it, as his television was on fire, scorching the wall a burnt brown.

"I don't know where we are." Jared sighed. "It might be good to meet up. I'll be landing my ship. Head to it." He started to descended into the void earth atmosphere.