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THE UNFEIGNED NIGHTMARE
I was splashing my hands blindly and pointlessly in the ocean. Itried screaming for help but in vain. Salt water gushed into my
nostrils and mouth choking me towards death. I was seeing a few
spaceships flying above me and far away I heard long loud
beeps........
My nightmare ended as my alarm began ringing. This was
something that I had been experiencing from the past many days
and always sent a chill down my spine. I always felt that this had
something more to it and spent most of my time thinking about it.
By the way, my name is Nishchith and I am working as an earth
science scientist under the Ministry of arth Sciences. I quicklygot ready, packed my bag and rushed with a sandwich in my hand
as I was late for work. But when I reached the office, I didnt see
the regular wide and big smile on my co-worker Raghavs face.
But instead he gave me a letter and was looking quite nervous.
What sup Raghav? You are looking quite troubled today. Did
you fight with somebody? I askedwinking.
Its a letter from the boss. He says that it is very serious. I
have no idea about the whole issue. He was calling you to his
cabin. You better go there right now.
I rushed towards Mr.Karunakarans cabin. He was the principle
scientist of our department. A smart favoured man who was an
ideal boss. He had PhD degree from the worlds most reputed
institution. Even then he never tried to be the boss and was a very
modest and self-effacing man. It had to be some important and
serious issue for which he was tensed. When I entered his room
after seeking his permission, I saw him staring outside the
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window. I waited for him to speak. He finally spoke after the long
silence.
Open the envelope he said.
I slowly removed the letter and saw the recent statistics about
the farming in India. I noticed a steep downfall in the production
and it was something that I was aware of. The scientific tests and
soil treatment reports declared the soil to be healthy and fertile.
The uncertain apprehension was about the reason of why this was
happening.
The earth science reports show the perfect stability of the soiland water table of the land. But even then it looks like this can
prove as catastrophe for all of us. Karunakaran said.
Sir but this is supposed to be taken care by the agriculture
science department. I dont see what we can do anything about
this. I think they have to improve the present pesticides and
fertilizers. I replied.
Twenty seven years ago, when I was working hard on my PhD, I
had gone through many historical documents about earth
sciences. Dr. Karunakaran said as he interrupted me.
It was then when I had come across a few interesting
documents from original runic manuscript of an Icelandic
saga written by Sroupi Stinter. He had proposed many theories
about life deep below the crust. But his studies were proved
against the laws of life and considered to be against the gods
wishes and was publically beheaded. So nobody after him dared to
research on the topic and was slowly forgotten. But once again in
1863, a professor from France developed his interest in this topic
and he risked his life to practically prove the theories true by
going deep down the Earths crust. He successfully completed his
endeavour and came back with many observations and theories.
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He said that he saw highly developed organisms and were better
than humans in many ways. He also proposed the second set of
eukaryotic organisms which have the ability to evolve very fast.
But sadly, he was also considered as a clown and his theoriesslowly faded away.
I didnt know what to say and let the huge lumpto pass down my
throat. I cleared my throat and looked at him. He was expecting a
reply from me and I kept staring at him.
OK sir! I have understood what you wanted to say. I will work
hard to research on this topic. We must bring these problems with
proper proof to the international notice. This could be the
commencement of a disaster and we have to remove the seed
before it grows into a tree. I said after thinking for a few seconds.
The next few days went on in sanctioning the research
equipments and the man power. On the 3rdJuly of 2014, we began
our process of visiting the various farms affected from these
droughts. The project was declared as an emergency and the
teams all over the county were working on every small and big
proof and clues about the deadly droughts. After a week of
observations, we found that the cracks in the ground were
growing larger every day. But on the night of 13thJuly, we found
few chips and very small and highly sophisticated electronic
gadgets on the farms and the land throughout the country. This
was something that daunted me and Karunakaran. We immediatelyexhibited these gadgets to the various countries of the world and
scientists from all over the world were trying to figure out the
functions of these.
I began to doubt the humans as the most intelligent species on
earth and every nights sleep was killing me with the same
nightmare haunting my thoughts. I tried to decode the actual
meaning of the dream with respect to the happenings but all I
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could do is to forget the dream and work towards something
productive.
But on the night of 26thJuly, the guards in the protected areas
detected water gushing out in small quantities from these cracks. I
rushed to the site and tested the water. The water turned out to
be saline and looked as if it was from the seas and was one of the
most surprising observations in the past month. This news was
passed on to the different parts of the country and we found out
that even they were experiencing such events. We also tried to
trace the origins of this phenomenon but out technology could not
lead us far. On the other hand, Indian Ocean waters level was
notices to decrease rapidly. Karunakaran and I felt that we will
have to experience the worst expected. The teams from all over
the worlds suggested many methods of controlling the gushing of
sea water. But all our equipments turned out to be useless in
water and we saw the malfunctioning of many devices in water. All
that I could say is that the foremen had planned very well and
were fully fledged for an attack.
On the 29thof July, we noticed uncontrollable flow of water and it
flooded throughout the country. We were facing a dangerous
disaster which engulfs thousands of lives in the country. We also
noticed the most horrifying and the most path breaking scene of
what mankind had ever seen till today. The cracks kept on
growing bigger and bigger each day uncontrollably that I saw a
whole new world emerging out from below the earth. They broke
through the crust and emerged out from there without any warning
given for us and we had to face the most dangerous consequences
as they came out fully equipped with their army, weapons and
vehicles. The foremen were recklessly destroying all our efforts
that had been made from centuries together. The army, navy and
military forces from all the countries throughout the world were
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called for this emergency situation and all of them reacted and
fought back bravely with all of them.
I saw my nightmare approaching me very fast. I knew that
I was helpless and my fear of water would not allow me do
anything. Then from behind, I saw a huge tide of water about to
crash over me and finish everything. I began to run aimlessly and
began to remember everything that had happened in the dream.
The water wall overtook me and I was splashing pointlessly in the
huge mass of water. I could see the spaceships above me and felt
a felt a gentle push from below. By luck, I found a wooden tree
trunk below me and I was hanging on it to save me myself from
the water fury. I heard the loud beep and saw thousands of
foremen emerging from the waters. . By the stroke of luck I
remembered something that I was never able to. In the narrow
path between life and death, my brain worked heavily and before I
could react better to the situation. I realised that what we had as
the essential elements for life can prove toxic to them.
I remained afloat for three days and on the fourth day, I found a
few men of my own kind who saved me from the floods and I could
join the army and told them exactly what to do. We understood
that Beneath the Earth's crust lays the mantle which is heated by
the radioactive decay of heavy metals. So we exposed them to
conditions that are completely opposite to their home conditions
and we would be able to kill them. The scientists executed the
cloud seeding and also lowered the temperature. We forcefully
pumped more oxygen in the atmosphere which would make these
anaerobic organisms crumble to their death.
On the 5th August we successfully executed the plan and
eradicated the foremen from earth crust with the help of liquid
nitrogen guns, antibiotic grenades, oxygen bombs etc. But at the
end of it almost half of the population was killed and theremaining were homeless and helpless. We had nothing to build
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back the society in which we lived. But we were united and the
whole world helped us to earn a future that we always deserved
and with the hope, enthusiasm zeal and manpower, I am sure that
we will surely build a better and a happier world.