A series of short stories “The Incredible Rays Team”
(“Exciting news from the Future” Collection)
Introduction:
The collection “Exciting news from the Future” will take us into the future and first introduce us to “The Incredible Rays Team” – a team invented by shy and taciturn programmer Michael (Mike) and created with the help of a talented scientist Dr. Roberts. Mike is an ordinary person, but with a very rich imagination. While working on the development of advanced technologies, his imagination has developed even more, and he begins to see everything in a completely unexpected light. As soon as he closes his eyes, he sees a completely new world in front of him, which he controls mentally and in which he can create and develop absolutely every detail. Closing his eyes, he mentally projects this new world and manages it. In his free time, Mike likes to draw and create various images and characters. He likes to develop games and designs for unique and unknown worlds and universes. He creates and designs every detail himself. Mike can spend hours working on such things on his personal laptop. He uses his technical knowledge to manage and test the created objects and functionality. Uses his rich imagination to invent new objects, images, characters, activities, abilities and functionality, to develop various variants of projects and scenarios for the development of events. Having a rich imagination and good technical knowledge, Mike begins to think in the direction of creating new technologies that will change the world, but he does not have the necessary scientific base. By chance, he meets Dr. Roberts and shares some of his ideas with him. Roberts was impressed by his imagination, but initially considered most of Michael’s projects unfeasible. However, secretly, Dr. Roberts begins work on some of them in his laboratory, but he lacks the necessary funds. A mysterious company appears on the horizon, ready to finance his research in exchange for access to technology. A mysterious company called “Future Dreams and Projects Labs” informs Dr. Roberts that it is fighting for a better future for humanity and is funding new advanced technologies to improve people’s lives. However, behind the mysterious company are legendary villains of the past, called “Secret Wizards”, who meanwhile expanded their empire and became many times more powerful. “Secret Wizards” have always sought to destroy humanity, replace people with modern technologies and seize power over the world, becoming its absolute masters. “Secret Wizards” never communicate with people face to face, but appear with the help of modern technologies or from the screens of monitors, smartphones, video walls, projectors and other devices. They always want to get the best technology. They really like the idea of new objects and characters appearing on different screens in exactly the same mysterious way as themselves. “Secret Wizards” want to use such means to achieve their goals. Almost all of their offices in the past were furnished and equipped with large screens and video walls. Everyone who has ever visited their headquarters called the “Wizards World Trade Center” has noticed their love of big screens, unaware of their great dislike of people. And why not achieve more? One of Mike’s ideas, developed with the help of Dr. Roberts, will really make a strong impression on the “Secret Wizards” and even shock them, and they will do everything possible to gain control of this technology or create their own variants. Absolutely everyone will be shocked when the new characters come off the screen and gain the ability to move freely everywhere, anywhere in space. Dr. Robert needs Mike’s rich imagination and skills to develop his projects, but he also needs the money of the “Secret Wizards”. Observing the development of technology, Mike came to the conclusion that it is not enough to use modern technologies and robots, but it is also necessary to create a new type of tools and technologies that are inextricably linked with people and are available at any time. Technologies capable of moving and performing tasks at the speed of light. Thus, he came up with the idea of the need for technologies and characters that are invisible, but if necessary can take shape, color and sound. Characters with superpowers who are able to cope with super-tasks that people cannot cope with. Such technologies and characters could move freely in space, pass through walls and barriers. A bit like the legends of ghosts and spirits from the past. Mike wants to create real ghosts that can change size and shape. According to Mike’s plan, such characters should move in the form of an invisible beam and appear as needed and in any form. To create such technologies, it is necessary to use new physical principles. Sound and image should be able to be transmitted in space without problems. So, suddenly you can hear real speech from the other end of the room, and suddenly there may even be an image sitting in a chair opposite you that starts talking to you. Such technologies and characters could suddenly appear at the right time and the right place and save a person’s life. Mike and Dr. Roberts are working together on a project to create a team of such characters called “The Incredible Rays Team”. The concept of “Incredible Rays” and the first characters of the “Incredible Rays Team” were created by Michael on his personal computer and subsequently refined in the laboratory of Dr. Roberts by a group of scientists with serious knowledge and experience. The characters of “Тhe Incredible Rays Тeam” appear for the first time, acquire a real shape and color and come to life on the screen of Mike’s personal laptop, who first draws, paints, designs and constructs them independently, and later these characters will acquire their incredible abilities and capabilities in the laboratory of Dr. Roberts. At some point they will become real characters and heroes who will be able to pass through walls, barriers and all kinds of obstacles, just like ghosts from fairy tales and legends do. The characters of the “Incredible Rays Team” will receive incredible features and functionality, as well as be able to move with incredible speed and instantly change their position and location. They will be able to carry out instant and immediate actions, attacks and rescue operations. Over time, the number of incredible characters will increase, and the team of “Incredible Rays” will expand significantly. Later, the “Incredible Rays” will gain the functionality to move not only as invisible rays, but also as visible ones to warn those in need and their opponents about their arrival. They will begin to move and appear suddenly and in the most unexpected way in the form of a multicolored beam of rays or multicolored streams and bundles of rays, which will become a real symbol and emblem of the “Incredible Rays Team”. The project will greatly interest the “Secret Wizards” who would like to use it for their own purposes. A struggle ensues over who and how will use “Тhe Incredible Rays”, as well as over who and how will run the laboratory of Dr. Roberts, which is also partially funded by the “Secret Wizards” due to lack of its own funds. The laboratory can be used to develop technologies for the benefit of humanity or fall into the hands of villains. Soon Mike will have to sit down at the captain’s table and take the control panel, become a superhero who, with the help of characters from The Incredible Rays Team, will fight the “Secret Wizards”. Meanwhile, he meets the beautiful Irene (Iri), who works as a journalist for the newspaper “News from Tomorrow” and who regularly publishes articles about this impressive battle. Iri has no idea what Mike is really doing, and seriously believes that The Incredible Rays Team is led by dangerous criminals, while the company “Future Dreams and Projects Labs”, secretly controlled by “Secret Wizards”, represents the good guys. Mike and Iri are good friends, but over time Mike falls in love with Iri. He is often jealous of her, noticing that she hardly communicates with men, and begins to worry whether she is on the other side of the barricades or that she is a lesbian. Mike’s feelings for Iri do not go unnoticed by the “Secret Wizards”, who know perfectly well what his weaknesses are. “Secret Wizards” always skillfully play the role of kind and right people, denigrating their competitors. They want to be and look the smartest, the most powerful, the richest and the most beautiful. Their ambitions and greed are huge. With their constant attempts to seize power over the world, they turn many, many people against themselves. Everyone remembers their legendary clashes with the “Unstoppable Workers” many years ago. This time, the “Incredible Rays Team” will get in their way, which will lead to a record and unprecedented collision.
Author: Anton S. Petrov
This series of short stories was created and performed in a new format of short stories called “Exciting Flight”. Learn more about the amazing “Exciting Flight” format here:
