The Teleporter. (2 page)

Thursday,
18:25:

John Arrives at Alex’s place,
by motorbike and begins to walk up the path to the front door. The weather is beautiful. The golden sun is meandering through the low pink clouds as it sets slowly and gracefully. The breeze is fine and warm as it caresses John’s dark brown hair across his forehead. The house looks very clean: it is a white house with a modern set up complete with venetian blinds shielding the view through the big velux windows. John rings the door bell and is greeted by Alex yelling “Just a minute”!
The door eventually opens, John’s jaw hits the floor, and his eyes almost pop out when he sets eyes on her. He remains focused on her big sapphire- blue eyes and tries not to notice her perfect figure until she invites him in and turns around. His eyes then focus on her behind which looks amazing in her denim hot pants and then his eyes gradually molest the rest of her figure. As they walk into the kitchen and he is speechless.
“You look absolutely gorgeous” He bursts out, almost uncontrollably.
“Thanks” she says with a smile. “Can I get you a coffee?”
“Well If I have a coffee I might not sleep!” John replies as he removes his brown leather bike jacket.
“Who said anything about sleep?” Alex hints, as she pushes her breasts forward, as she leans on the kitchen worktop with her cleavage knowingly on full display.
John at this point is speechless and does not know what to say except “SO! The report! Who’s typing and who’s narrating the results? Or should we watch a film first?”
Alex at this point is very into john and realises that he obviously likes her back, so she replies “Yes, just go and pick a film and I’ll bring over some wine and we can do the report after the film”.
John then races into the lounge, tripping over a small table, and a cat, on the way in, to which Alex is laughing whilst opening the wine. John at this point is thinking with his man bits and randomly selects a film and shoves it into the DVD player and sits there trying to look cool. Alex then dims the lights, and places two glasses and a bottle of wine on the coffee table and joins John on the sofa.
“Ooh, what film is this” asks Alex.
“ummmm, it is… errrr…” He then focuses on the DVD case that he discarded.
“21 Grams, apparently”
“Ah I haven’t seen this one! How did you know? It is like the ONLY DVD I have that I have not seen!” she replies.

As they sit there and watch the film, they gradually get closer, and closer, until they are only just touching. Then
John moves his hand onto her shoulder to which she responds by placing her hand on his leg. Later, she then snuggles into his arm and he wraps one arm around her waist and gently caresses. Towards the end of the film and a few glasses of wine each later they cannot contain themselves any longer as the sexual tension is about to boil over, and at this point she is pretty much laying her head on his lap. She looks up at him and he looks down at her, and they gradually get closer until they kiss, for the first time. The kiss is electric and sends a shiver down both of their spines, making the hairs on the back of their necks stand on end.  At this point he gently undoes her silky soft top whilst she is unbuttoning his white cotton shirt.
“We, work together… we shouldn’t…”

“I don’t care- it could be our little secret
! I just need to kiss you some more”
The passion then increases 10 fold and as they both realise the danger and the naughtiness of the situation. He then picks her up masterfully and takes her into the bedroom whilst they are removing each other’s clothes.

As John throws her on the bed she is surprised that he is being so
dominant. The kisses are firm, direct and passionate, starting at her neck and gently getting lower and lower until she has no choice but to grip the bed sheets in anticipation of what is about to happen. But wait, he is going back up her body, teasing her which makes her let out a moan. He is now biting her ear lobe and paying attention to the back of her neck as he grabs her hair and forces her head to one side. Her breathing gets heavier as he slowly moves down once again to her inner thigh. She then lets out a moan as his tongue graces around her, teasing more, until it finally enters.

Alas, s
he cannot contain herself any longer, her back is arching as she is once again grabbing the sheets and heavy breathing in pure ecstasy, it is building up more and more until she lets go with her giant climax.

He now moves slowly up her, and inserts
himself into her slowly. She is still recovering, she is weak and tired and unsure if she can even take any more. He pulls her legs over his shoulder and arches his back so that her bottom is not touching the bed in order to get as deep as possible. Again, she is too tired to deal with the pleasure and it does not take very long until she is screaming into her favourite pillow. It is at this point that they climax together. The contractions of her mixed with the throbbing of him make it a hundred times better as she is scratching her long, red nails into his back. 

As
the beautiful golden glow of the last of the sunset shines through the crack in the curtain they both lay there exhausted.  Her legs are still quivering and she has lost all power in them. Her whole body is shaking as they embrace each other. Alex then says with a smile as she struggles to get her breath “wow, I really did not expect that!”
He then cheekily replies “Well, I can do better if I haven’t been drinking”.
“Oh shut up” she replies cheekily.
          “…want to go again?” he suggests as he starts kissing her neck again.
“We have to start the report… Oh” she loses her breath half way through the sentence as they then start having sex for the second time.

Morning co
mes, and the alarm goes off at 7:30am. The sun is beaming through the venetian blinds and adds a hazy, cosy glow into the bedroom that bounces off of the brilliant white bed sheets: perfectly contrasting the oak laminate flooring. Alex hits the alarm’s snooze button in a sleepy effort to kill the noise as soon as possible, but not to her realisation she had actually pressed the stop button. As they snuggle back up in bed they both drift off once more.

John then aris
es at 10:30am to this email coming though on the blackberry-
*
Where the Hell are you guys? You do realise the next LAB begins in 30 minutes!!!!

Regards
,
Paul Davidson
*
“Fuck!”
“What?!” as Alex wakes up, barely conscious

“
… We’re 2 hours late for work!” John says in a confused manner
“Bollocks!” Alex curses
As Alex jumps out of bed and runs into the bathroom, John leans over and admires her model physique once more as she is standing there stretching, completely naked. She then disappears into the shower and Johns smile on his face is Titanic. He then realises he is late and races to get his clothes on.

They race out the door afte
r getting dressed in literally 10 minutes in a very comic fashion: John then mounts the motorcycle and tries the ignition.
“Not now”

He tries again
“C’mon! C’MON”

He keeps trying whilst Alex bites her bottom lip and smiles as she tr
ies to hide her amusement
“For GOD’S SAKE, IT WON’T START” John vents.
“C’mon, jump in, you can come in with me” Alex suggests. “But won’t it look suspicious?” John realises.
“No, we’ll just say that your motorcycle broke down and that I had to pick you up- Hence the extended lateness” she says. “Get in”.

On their journey to work, they are
bantering each other and the journey seemed to take half the time as they are enjoying themselves so much just being in each other’s company. They then arrive at work and both burst through the door, both out of breath, to be greeted by judgemental eyes from Cat and Paul- not to mention everyone they ran past in reception, the corridors and the multiple labs to get to theirs.

“Have fun did we?” Cat says with a smile on her face
They both look at each other awkwardly, then Alex responds “Yes, actually, it was a great journey- I had to turn back and pick him up as his bike is broken!”
At this point John is already at his workstation, and he pulls his laptop out and checks the daily schedule in a very quiet and out- of- character fashion.

As the room is quieter than usual, Paul and Cat begin to whisper about their suspicions about Alex and John. “I think they did ‘IT’ you know” Cat suggests
under her breath.
“That’s exactly what I was thinking!” Paul replies in a slightly excited whisper.
Alex then notices their un-usual whispering (As they don’t really ever speak, let alone whisper to each other) and gets Johns attention. She looks up, smiles and she nods in their direction. He then turns around to look at them as Paul and Cat simultaneously look back- so at this point they are all looking at each other. A very awkward moment arises when they all quickly look back at what they’re meant to be doing – all with great speed and at the same time.

Minutes later, t
he room is quiet once more, as everyone is working very hard analysing the data, when the silence is shattered by Johns’ deep voice “Here’s something”.
The team all rush over to him “there is a difference in the hamsters mass, before the experiment he weighed exactly 130.56 grams, and its weight just after the teleportation was 109.98 grams”.
Cat Analysis and suggests “Water weight maybe?”
“Possibility” says Paul
Alex then replies “It could be but there is no way we can be sure, I mean unless we take a sample from him before and after, but that may still be inconclusive”?
The team then think for a few minutes.
“What about if it is related to the distance? What if we transported him double distance, would he lose double the weight?” John Adds
“Very good point, let’s run it again…” Alex looks at the clock “… Yeah let’s run it now and process the data tonight?” “We’ll do it over 26 meters including the pad” Alex demands.
They then do all of the calculations which each and every one of them are solely responsible for and then run the teleportation again, identically to how it was run before but over double distance. Another breath taking flash of cyan light and the hamster is again, on the pad. However this time the hamster is fully conscious and begins squeaking straight away.
“Ahaha, see guys he’s getting used to it now aren’t you little buddy?” Johns says as he retrieves the hamster to weight it. “109 grams…. Still….”
The team then look at each other as the weight and distance hypothesis has just been dismissed.

“What could it be?” Alex asks
Paul replies “Look, let’s not focus on this too much; it could have been an error in some part of the process, of just an anomaly. We’ll test the Monkey as scheduled and see what happens there whilst observing the hamster for any changes in colour as some proteins may have gone missing- hence the missing mass”

The team agree
to overlook this result and then begin working hard on the calculations for the next step. The monkey.

One week later, after preparation to transport the monkey, all seems to be going well. FTR have had a colossal rise in shareholders and are now market leaders, even making companies like Apple and Microsoft projected profits look like pocket money with the sheer amount of planned orders and investments. At this point, the most talked about people on earth are the Elite 4 and FTR. It has reached the point where the Elite 4, and every senior manager in FTR have to be escorted to and from work with armed guards to safeguard their ‘assets’. 

The elite 4 have been spending their money- actu
ally the term splashing out is more relevant in this case, on very nice and expensive new things. However John, has gone insane with his money; he has purchased: a Buggatti Veyron, Ferrari 360 Moderna, Nissan 360z; and that’s not the end, he has Armani Suits and Fossil Watches, and not to mention the chartered Gulfstream 6 Jet sitting an Heathrow airport…

They are all living the
dream; life could not get any better.

Friday
08:03
This morning is a hazy one. The sun’s fiery rays are battling fiercely to burn off what is left of the mist and is slowly prevailing. John awakens to a gap in the curtains where the sun is once more beating through and he squints as he tried to focus his tired eyes to wake up fully. After he slowly arises, he walks past the curtains, he feels the warm heat stroking the right side of his body which to him feels sensational, so his smile is massive as he glances at a photo frame with a picture of himself and Alex horsing around in a park. The boy is in love and this heightens every sense, making him appreciate life more now than ever before.
The team gradually turn up to work, one by one which is unusual now. Alex and John say they ‘lift share’ when actually John is staying at Alex’s most nights. The separate journey today is because John had some family business to take care of.  However Alex is late on this occasion and John begins to worry a little.

“Oh
where’s Alex?” Asks John
“Why? I thought you would know of all people…” Paul mutters
“Why would I know? You’re the boss around here!” John cleverly replies.
As soon as John finished that clever reply, Alex walks in the door. John is first to notice and his jaw once more hits the floor. She has her lab coat clutched in hand and she is wearing black high heels with her red toe nails on display. She has long, smooth and tanned legs underneath a black and silver dress that hugs her perfect figure in all of the right places. Her blonde hair is long and very vibrant, so much so it seems to reflect every particle of light in the room. Her lips are devil red, and her eye lashes perfectly grace her big beautiful blue eyes. She looks stunning and as she walks by John with a simple “Hi” then he notices her luscious fragrance and goes red in the face with pure lust. The other two are a bit taken back and Cat says “Wow, Alex, you look gorgeous!”
Paul then comments “Alex, as good as you look right now it’s a bit inapp...”
                    “… Someone special is taking me out tonight, and I’m going straight from work so I thought this would be practical” Alex interrupts with a bubbly smile.
“Who can argue with that?” John blurts out, secretly knowing the person taking her out is actually himself.
“That seems practical, carry on” Paul then acknowledged in a slightly defeated tone.

Thorough the day, with the calculations being done, and the arrival of ‘
Frankie’ the chimp and all of the lab assistants fussing to the elite 4’s every want and need, the team eventually break for lunch. “John, Alex and Cat, Okay, just to let you know we’re having an hour for lunch today, give us the mental rest we need for this afternoons big test and you can go for lunch now but I expect you to be here at 12:30 and not a minute after” Paul orders masterfully.

Paul and Cat then leave the room, together, and the assistants gradually disappear within about 2 minutes.
As the only two left in the lab, Alex then begins unbuttoning her lab jacket, with John’s full attention. She then gets up and walks into the labs’ en suite cloakroom and as she enters the door she turns around, winks and signals John to follow. John, being a red blooded male, snaps out of admiring her gorgeous figure then sprints into the cloak room behind her. They quickly find a spot in the cloakroom where it is not visible directly from the lab and is in between what seems to be a boiler and an unused cabernet. They begin to frantically kiss as the passion and the sheer danger then overwhelms them both. He then grabs her leg and lifts her up against the wall.
“Is this a bad idea?” asks Alex, but she is quickly met with a sharp “shhh” as he is blinded by lust and makes her lose her breath once again.

Only
5 or 6 minutes later, they are both scrambling and trying to find items of clothing that had been torn off a few minutes earlier and trying to make themselves look ‘normal’ and not ‘out of breath’.
“I can’t wait to take you out tonight. I want to be able to show you off to the world”.
“You’re forgetting nobody can know about us, we need to keep a low profile John”.
“I know, but do we really have to keep it secret, I mean, Paul and Cat already are suspicious, and people are going to see us together and are going to put two and two together anyway…” John starts reasoning.
Alex then continues “Yes but I don’t want any complications; nothing that affects my, or our work. Look John we need this; I need this but just trust me. Just don’t admit anything; we’ll come out after all this is over. Okay?”
“Okay, I’ll do this for you. But just know that I’d love to give the middle finger to the world just to have you on my arm and show you off without having to hide...”
“Awww, that’s so sweet!” Alex then kisses John and says “Now man up, c’mon let’s eat!”
          “… Already have” John says for a laugh, which is met by a disapproving yet amused look from Alex.

The rest of the team then appear, little by little as John and Alex are sitting at his desk laugh
ing and giggling whilst they are just finishing eating their packed lunches.
“C’mon, fun is over, let’s get cracking” Paul orders as he paces through the doorway with great speed. “Cat, fire up the machine, Alex, prep the pad and make sure there are no loose objects within 3 meters of both pads. John, you get the monkey ready”
“We’ll go on my mark”

Cat then initialises
the sequence and charges the machine “Ok, Paul the particle is ready to go”.
Alex does a sweep of the place “place is clean, good to go”.
John then removes the monkey from the cage and places him in the teleporter. “Good luck buddy, I hope you make it!” John says to Frankie the monkey as he pats him on the back. At this point Frankie is blissfully unaware of what is about to happen as he sits there looking confused.  

“Ok, the world is now watching. Everyone wave to that camera” Paul points and starts waving to it. The team do the same
.
The world, once again, on an overcast Friday afternoon, watch in anticipation of the result. Now, the dangers of live TV is that it is, well, Live. So FTR had an extra 30 seconds delay put on in case something goes wrong and they can cut to advertisements.

Once again the elite 4 stan
d behind the protective screen when the teleporter is activated.
This time is different however, the rooms’ pressure fluctuation is bigger and is like a sonicboom when a jet breaks the sound barrier- which actually knocks Cat off of her feet and sends objects from the other side of the lab bellowing towards the teleporter. The light is even brighter, so much so that the room is practically glowing like a thousand light bulbs and forces everyone in the lab to shield their eyes; the noise is great and defining, almost like a subwoofer malfunctioning, but amplified 10 or 20 times. Gravity itself is changing; it is getting harder to stand, harder to move; it even makes breathing and thinking a lot more difficult. These events worry the team so much so that John actually goes for the emergency stop. Before he has chance to press the big red button, the room snaps back to normal which catches everyone off guard, so everyone loses balance and falls to the floor. The violent change in pressures is enough to shatter the 4 inch think safety glass also, which is very worrying.

As John looks up whilst he is lying on the floor, his eyes take a moment to focus on his surroundings
. The fire alarm sounds muffled as his ears are ringing because he is stunned a little. As he shakes it off he ensures that the rest of the team are okay before focusing on the monkey.

The monkey is
lying there, motionless on the receiver pad amidst the wreckage. The team promptly scramble to it to check for vital signs amongst the mess and confusion.

Meanwhile, the FTR representatives and the crew in the news feed room are deciding whether or not to pull the plug on the feed and cut to adverts. “We need to cut it NOW” yells one of the FTR employees.
“Not yet, we still have 4 or 5 seconds” replies one of the crew.
          “NO CUT IT NOW, the monkey isn’t getting up! CUT IT NOW” all of the FTR representatives are going mad.
“OKAY, I’ll cut now…”

It is at this stage they notice on the monitors that the monkey is actually
now moving, so they decide to resume with the feed.

“WAHOOOOO, IT WORKED HAHAHAH” John shouts. The team then do not celebrate much, but they all know exactly what they need to be doing. They all rush to take data readings from every sensor in the room, they take samples of the safety glass
and use the computers to analyse every object in the room that was adversely affected to build a detailed report so they can come up with an action plan of how it needs to be modified for bigger objects.

A few hours later, after help from around 20 people, the lab now looks relatively normal again.
Paul then starts “Okay team, good work. The weekend is now yours, please reflect on your hypothesis’s and please show your workings as we need every idea possible to modify the machine capable for human travel. Everyone, we’ll resume on Monday but I need you all to attempt to compile the data- or at least make a start on it.”
The team agree and then go their separate ways. Except there is one thing. Cat and Paul seem to be leaving together which takes Alex and John back a little. “Do you reckon they…”
            “... they would be so good together! Awww Excited!” Alex interrupts very bubbly.
“C’mon, let’s get out of here”

They then leave for the
best and the most expensive restaurant in London. The Ritz hotel.
 

Monday 10:03
Monday morning then comes and the team is hard at work compiling the data report and researching how they can minimise the effect the teleporter has on the local area when John’s deep voice breaks the silence “Guys, found something”.
The team all gather around. “The monkey has lost 21 grams in weight, same as the hamster. It can’t be water weight as the hydration levels in the blood samples taken before and after are matches”. 
Alex and John then look at each other, as they fully remember ‘
watching’
the film 21 Grams together, but they both instantly dismiss this ‘radical’ theory.
“Hmm, Intriguing” Paul says.
“It could be loss of proteins or enzymes or something even simpler than that, like maybe a few strands of hair” Cat adds
“Ok, we run full tests on the monkey before sending him again. “ Paul then looks at his watch “we’ll do it… now. Cat and Alex please prepare the teleporter”.
“…but it’s not ready, it hasn’t been modified yet, and there is no safety glass! That’s in tomorrow…” Alex starts.
Paul then adds “We cannot lose any more time on this weight theory- we need to prove it wrong and or inconclusive so we can move on. Out first human subject is next week. We’ll modify as we go”.

“Hold on tight”.

As the room starts to rattle again, and the radical pressure fluctuation takes effect the machine
John then shouts “TURN THE VOLTAGE UP”…
            “WHAT?!?!?”…
                      “DO IT, INCREASE THE VOLTAGE, ADD ANOTHER 10,000 VOLTS”.
As the light gets brighter and the room starts to rattle as Cat is slowly increasing the Voltage, it suddenly seems to get quieter.
 

“Quickly, put another 1
0,000 Volts in!”
As Cat then turns the knob to nearly full Voltage the teleporter is completely stable, the air pressure has returned to near normal, and the room is no longer vibrating and shaking as it was. The room, with the teleporter spooled up and the monkey inside, is strangely and eerily calm. The team can talk and hear themselves and they don’t have to shout. Furthermore, the light being emitted has nearly vanished; it is nowhere near as bright as before.
“Good Work John!” Paul praises him.
“Good work sexy” Alex whispers into his ear as she subtlety slaps his bum.
“Ooh, that’s why you guys keep me around then?” John asks.
“Haha, yes, that’s exactly why we keep you around- you and your radical but insightful suggestions” Cat adds.

“Press the button”

This time the Monkey is fully conscious on the receiver pad and instantly jumps off the pad and starts jumping around the room. “Ok, Catch him and weigh him John” Paul orders.

After
trying to weigh the Monkey whilst it was messing around, they decide to tranquilise it so they could get an accurate reading- The result was the same as before the second teleportation…
“So, it’s the same weight the second time around” Cat asks.
“Yes, it appears to be” Alex adds
“So this test in now inconclusive and we shall proceed to move the human test forward. We shall do it tomorrow. That’ll please the board further. I have been observing you 4 and I like what I see… so far.” Mike adds from nowhere.
Mike is the overseer. He oversees and authorises every action that the Elite 4 make. Mike, however, is a stern ball buster and a complete ass hole. He prefers the term that he is ‘a go- getter’. He takes no shit from anyone and that attitude that he has adopted has got him exactly where he wanted to be in the organisation. The top. Some say he even has sway over the CEO of FTR, Alan Jones, as Mike used to be his mentor back in the day.