The day was sunny, but the stable weather was somewhat strange already these days.
Despite that, he didn’t give it so much importance.
Zak was getting his things ready in backpacks and suitcases, making sure to leave everything ready.
Everything pointed to the fact that he would move with his mother, but before he had to visit her and explain the situation.
He left his apartment with his travel backpack while he locked the entrance.
Lest, again like that day, a strange man slipped inside.
He went down the stairs of the building.
This time, due to the good weather, he wore his classic dark clothes: some black pants and a gray polo.
Zak felt comfortable wearing those clothes, since with the half crazy weather he was not allowed anything else.
Either he wore winter clothes or summer clothes; the weather was indecisive.
“Puff” Zak sighed.
He walked through the streets toward the bus stop while at moments he looked at his ticket.
He did not head to the central plaza, but to get to the other stop he had to pass by it.
It was simply to pass running and, in this way, he would avoid that something happened right when he passed.
Though it would be very movie-like and very, but very bad luck.
“I doubt it” said Zak to himself, thinking of the absurd idea.
More and more he was arriving at the park.
The central plaza, which was together with the park, before was full of cars and people walking around despite the downturns.
But since they announced a supposed conspiracy, people stopped coming.
Only one or another came to visit.
For the most part it was people without a social life or bums.
He arrived at the central park and, as he planned, he began to advance rapidly without paying attention to the looks of the people, who surely were wondering: “What does this one have?”.
But halfway through…
A strong tremor shook the area, making everyone get alert.
One or another bum woke up from sleep, falling from the bench due to the strong tremor.
The central tree, a great giant sculpture of an algarrobo, began to sink into the floor as if something was swallowing it.
A scream from the people sounded while they pointed at a purple hole that began to expand through the area.
The plants and everything nearby began to rot.
The bus that he had to take disappeared into the hole with a dull sound.
Zak stayed still.
He couldn’t breathe.
He only saw how the metal twisted before being swallowed.
“What the hell is happening?” he thought while his hands and his body trembled because of the situation.
He didn’t wait to stand still to find it out and began to run to get away from the zone.
But before he could keep advancing, the buildings began to crumble and collapse toward the hole, as if it was sucking them in.
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The rubble blocked the streets, crushing those who had stayed standing.
The cars began to be dragged as well.
Zak immediately ran toward a light pole and clung to it.
He turned his head slightly, watching how one or another unfortunate person was sucked in by the hole, which had reached an enormous size, almost occupying the entire central plaza while it expanded more.
“This seems like a dream… My vision is blurry.
I don’t understand it.
What’s happening?
I was supposed to leave soon and now I’m here… Why right when I’M ABOUT TO LEAVE?
Why?” Before Zak could keep lamenting over the absurdity of everything, the hole began to expand more, sucking everything in with great force.
Zak was hanging from the pole while he felt how the ground beneath him disappeared and only a void could be seen that made him afraid to know what would happen if he fell.
“Quick, move forward!” Wilse shouted while cars and helicopters were coming from behind.
“How could this happen…?
Damn it, I let my guard down…” he thought.
The sound of the engines and the hurried jumps the cars were making was noticeable in the air.
The radio he was carrying on his chest began to sound with a desperate voice: “General!
A strange hole opened in the central plaza and everything close to it is being sucked in!” Wilse grabbed his radio while his mind was spinning over something so absurd.
“A portal?
What the hell is happening exactly?” The voice became more desperate: “It’s expanding a lot!
The situation is serious!
The civilians, the structures, everything!” His forehead began to sweat while he accelerated the car without responding, because of how stupid and senseless the situation was.
“Shit… I feel like my legs are being ripped off” Zak thought while he was still clinging to the light pole.
Everything pointed to Zak being sucked in, but a young man arrived who, despite the danger and the fear, came closer and extended his hand to him.
“Grab on!” He clung to the young man’s hand while behind him two more men pulled hard to pull him out of the hole that was absorbing him.
The sweat and the grunts from the effort were intense, so much that Zak could no longer feel his body from the fear and the exhaustion.
The young man, despite how difficult it was, kept being there no matter what, helping Zak, while from behind the two men supported him.
“Come on, make an effort!
Fight to get out!
Stretch your leg, cling to something and push yourself!” the young man shouted.
Zak made an effort while he tried to raise his foot toward a base to push himself.
He managed to position his foot on a base and pushed himself, but… Being weak, he lost his strength and fell into the hole while the young man still had his hand extended, trying to reach him in vain.
Zak was paralyzed and with his eyes open.
“So this is how it all ended?” he thought.
The military arrived at the zone, but when they got there they were all stunned, because in front of them there was no criminal team or organization, but a damn hole that sucked everything in.
“Any ideas?!” a soldier shouted while looking at Wilse, both from a safe distance.
Wilse watched in silence.
The situation was something out of a post-apocalyptic movie, plus the frustration from everything that was happening.
But out of nowhere, as fast as it had expanded, the hole also began to get smaller little by little.
“It’s shrinking!” a soldier shouted.
Wilse just watched in silence as the hole began to disappear… Before finally closing, one more tremor shook the affected zone while it disappeared completely.
…
The sound of a frequent and angry cough dragged through the dark hallways among corpses.
“Damn liar!” Agust shouted gripping his knife in hand while vomiting large amounts of blood, with his abdomen bathed in it.
A hatch opened automatically while he entered to see the scientist, who was watching the giant panel.
“You lied to me, Soo!” he ran toward the scientist.
“Wait, please, I…!” Before he could keep talking, the dry sound of something breaking and viscous rang out.
There was Agust with the knife firmly stabbed into the scientist’s head, who stopped reacting the first moment the attack was driven into him.
Agust let the scientist’s lifeless body fall to the floor, which filled with a pool of blood.
He moved touching a wall that gave access to the secret entrance to his room.
He went down the stairs and sat on the floor while grabbing his head in desperation.
But before he could keep like that, the space around him began to change into an empty space and rubble, outside of what he would have seen.
A voice behind him resonated in his ear: “Agust.” Agust knew it was Saimon’s voice, but this time it sounded different, rather calculating.
He jumped from his place, falling to the floor while turning to see Saimon with a somber expression and terrifying gaze.
“Sir… Forgive me, sir!
I failed you, sir!
Please, forgive me!” Agust said while kneeling.
Saimon looked at him.
With a slide of his fingers, the space changed to a hospital room where there was a girl with many respiratory devices attached.
Agust realized the situation and began to beg desperately while Saimon looked at him calmly.
“You and your sister will pay the price for you having lied to me shamelessly, Agust” the name resonated in a threatening way while Saimon’s eyes turned black momentarily.
“No, please!” Agust shouted desperately.
But before he could keep shouting, he was deformed until he became a gelatin of ground meat that only babbled.
After that, Saimon changed his gaze and looked at the girl while his eyes turned black… …
Among rubble and a floor full of water that reflected the dark space, Zak got up.
“What… is this?