Kill Switch Page #2

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- I'm trying to find a way...

and you! Hands high!

Hold your hands high!

Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

- Hey, stop!

- Shoot him!

Stop! Stop it!

You're coming out.

I know you're there!

Give you three seconds!

Stop!

Michael?

- Will?

- Why are you shooting at me?!

You wanna put the gun down and tell

me what the f*** is going on?!

What the f*** are you doing with

these psychos?! You're alterplex!

You're alive. That...

Th-that's not possible.

Why not? Why not?

What happened?

Michael, talk to me.

Tell me what you saw.

Tell me,

did something happen to me?

Michael?

What the hell

is happening here, man?

- Whoa-whoa-whoa...

- what the hell's happening?!

Put the gun down,

put the gun down!

I'll tell you what's happening,

but first you gotta answer me!

Bullshit. How did you survive?

How did you survive?

Sh*t!

Warning! Citizen, you are

trespassing in a restricted area.

You are violating

alterplex security act 7.1.

Stop, or we will engage.

You are trespassing in a restricted area.

Stop, or we will shoot.

I work for alterplex.

My name is will Porter.

Remain where you are.

We have name listed as deceased.

Take four steps forward

and lie face-down,

arms and legs spread.

Wait! Wait! Wait!

Let me prove it to you!

Let me prove it to you.

Positive identification.

You are under arrest.

Remain where you are.

A transport is on its way.

It will escort you to alterplex

command in a few seconds.

Remain where you are.

Since the dawn of humankind,

we have reached for dreams

beyond our grasp.

We gazed at the birds

and built planes to fly.

We gazed at the moon

and built rockets to reach it.

Throughout history, we have transcended

our evolution with technology,

pushing through

to new frontiers.

Now alterplex's visionary ceo,

August Reynard,

asks you to gaze at the energy

challenge we face,

and, once again, push

through to a new frontier.

After decades of research,

we are proud to finally unveil

the future of energy harnessing

and realize our dream

for a better tomorrow,

powering us

for millennia to come.

This is a notification

for all alterplex personnel.

Reminder:
Due to the increased

violent protests,

the emergency security policy

will now also include

sectors five, seven and ten.

Yes. Uh, no.

We're not there yet.

We're still waiting on the...

Diagnostics report, yeah.

Well, I'll check on him.

I'll check him.

Yeah. Okay.

So glad you're here, will.

Sorry. Launch logistics.

Clock is... ticking.

How are Mia and Donny adjusting?

Well... a little up and down,

to tell you the truth. Uh...

You know,

new city and everything.

They have a lot of questions.

And frankly,

I still don't fully understand

what I'm doing here myself.

Oh.

Before we go any further...

This is for you.

It's not a gift, I'm afraid.

It's a locator.

Keep it on at all times.

Once we're live,

you're on call 24/7.

- 24/7?

- Exactly.

Shall we proceed?

Alright.

Ms. vos.

Beautiful day, isn't it?

You must be will.

Michael.

Welcome to alterplex.

Can't stay here.

We should keep moving.

Look at what they've done.

And what about what you did,

Michael?

- We raided the lab...

- What happened to you?

There's a lot of dead people.

You can't be here.

There's just no way...

Why is there no way?

You asked me how I survived,

you said it's not possible

I'm alive. Why?

I saw you die, will.

I saw you die.

Come on.

What is this?

What in hell

is really going on down here?

Run it, please.

After the end of fossil fuels,

mankind is faced with

its greatest challenge yet.

With the world's energy consumption

tripling in the last decade alone,

a new form of sustainable

energy is needed.

A system that outshines solar,

wind and even nuclear energy.

After years of research,

we at alterplex

have found the answer

to the energy crisis

by leveraging the immense

hidden power of m-theory,

first proposed by

Edward witten in 1995,

and enhanced

by pieter klintsen's

duplicate-matter theory.

M-theory unifies all consistent

versions of superstring theory.

By deconstructing space-time

into a higher number

of dimensions,

our tower is able to create a

mirrored echo of our local universe.

You're copying

the entire universe?

Symmetry down to

every last quantum particle,

with one crucial difference.

The echo universe will be

devoid of organic compounds.

Instead,

it will be a lifeless cosmos

providing a limitless amount

of matter

that can be transformed

into power.

Acting

as a dimensional conductor,

the tower will create

multiple gravity portals,

which will harvest

the echo's mass

and convert it into

pure electromagnetic energy.

This energy is then transferred

cleanly and safely into our world,

powering it

for millennia to come.

I had the exact same face.

- Parallel universes?

- An echo universe.

And this here

is where you come in.

This is the gate.

It sends you into the echo,

a safe distance from the tower.

You will be carrying this box.

The box will counterbalance

any instabilities

that might occur in the echo.

- Instabilities?

- Very simple.

It plugs

right into the echo tower.

Someone needs to get it there.

- Okay. May I?

- Yeah.

Just plug it in?

That's it?

That's it.

There's a terminal at the base

of the echo tower.

You jump over,

take the box to the tower,

plug it in and jump back

in time for dinner.

Michael, nobody was supposed to

have been copied, no living thing.

This was supposed to be a sterile

world, devoid of carbon life.

I don't know what went wrong.

- So you're saying that...

- Hmm?

- They've copied the entire world?

- Well...

- the entire universe? - Kinda.

- How's that even possible, man?

You really don't wanna

get into that right now.

But ef-effectively, yes. Yes.

- So there's two of me.

- Possibly.

- Of everyone?

- Well... not everyone.

Not me anymore, I guess.

But I'm here to fix that.

I have to get this to the tower.

Uh...

"Redivider."

What does it mean?

I don't know. They didn't

brief me on redivider.

What about sh*t like this, man?

They never briefed you about trains

falling out of the f***ing sky?

The system should've been one way,

harvesting energy from the echo,

from... this universe

into the real world.

But maybe the echo

is fighting back somehow?

It's sucking stuff back?

Heavy objects

from the real world.

I don't know, maybe it's

balancing out what's lost.

Jesus Christ.

No one's going to believe this.

Because no one is gonna know.

- What do you mean?

- Can you imagine the panic?

Look what's happening already.

People would freak out.

- We have to say something.

- No. We don't have to say sh*t.

Goddamn!

Look,

if you really wanna end this,

you have to help me

get the box to the tower.

Sh*t!

- Michael!

- Who's this?

Michael, put the gun down.

Abby?

- What the...?

- Abby!

Michael, easy. Easy.

This is crazy!

They destroyed the lab, will!

- You destroyed the goddamn... - shut up!

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