The following is a work of fiction. Any similarities to any persons, living or dead, would be awesome and at the same time unintentional and purely coincidental.

Copyright 2014, Yellowbastion. All rights reserved.

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I'm not entirely sure where my story actually starts. Maybe started when I first applied at student exchange program in Geneva. Maybe it started with delusional, religious fundamentalists in a mud hut in some god awful Third World country. All I could know for certain was that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

My day started much like any other work for me. I woke up early to make myself a light breakfast of an egg white omelette and some rye toast. I didn't need to get dressed today I as I had slept in my clothes from when I finally crashed in the couch last early this morning. Having a shower would also have been pointless as I would be suiting up today. The only person who would have to deal with my stink would be me.

My fridge was nearly empty, like it usually was on a Friday, safer my usual breakfast stuff and whatever can I already had open for Barney. My apartment was barren as my fridge. Someone could have walked in and assumed that no one lives here save for a closet stuffed with boxes full of t-shirts and well-worn, faded denim jeans and a few of Barney's own personal items.

Barney and I live together in my tiny, one room apartment quite happily for the past two years. He may have some minor hygiene problems, drooled a little sometimes, and occasionally had some pretty bad gas but otherwise our relationship worked out quite well. We both like to eat food that was bad for us, we both like to bask in the sun, and if neither of us had anything important to do we would both sleep late into the day until the call of nature force one of us to get up. Barney was my pet Pug and I wouldn't trade him for anything.

Barney sat quietly at the edge of the kitchen occasionally licking his chops as I folded my omelette. Normally I would also make a small one for him but I had to be at work early today. He would have to be content with a mix of wet and dry dog food. A small scoop of kibble from the bag I keep in the pantry sloppily folded together with the whatever remained of a can in the fridge, served in a small stainless steel bowl.

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My name is S████ T███, and I am the leading electricial engineer at the Aestral particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. Our 'little' particle accelerator was so expensive to run that every place that we could save money we did our best to try. Everything that couldn't be recycled or composted was reused. The entire system was self-contained. It had to be.

No one knew exactly what would happen when the world's largest particle Excelerator was switched on for the first time. We all had theories of course, but none of us actually knew. Some feared an explosion, or an implosion, well the uneducated populace feared that time would stop or a black hole would form. But none of this happened of course. When the power was finally switched on for the first time, baring a minor coolent leak, everything went smoothly. Twelve years later I was hired.

My job was based on supersymmetry research by Dr. Garret Lisi. His theories of quantum mechanics, using an eight-dimensional charge-space triality model, revealed the possibility that there were twenty-six more weak and superweak force particles left to be discovered, thus a new field of research was furrowed. My job wasn't an easy one, but it paid extremely well and the hours and benefits were decent with all the paid overtime I wanted.. Over the next three years I help design and oversee the build of the Aestral Particle detector.

It was to be the most advanced and sensitive weak force particle detector ever built. The Higgs-Bosson detector had to be completely decommissioned to make room for the Aestral detector, which I had nicknamed 'Mary' after my late sister.

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The air was positively electric in the park just south of Manehattan. Pegasi had been hired to keep a corridor open in the cloud cover giving the public park a fresh, summary feel despite the surrounding late autumn rainstorm.

In several, perfectly aligned rows, set a crowd of well-dressed mix of ponies and griffins. The hushed tone and excited whispers nearly drowned the quiet sobbing of some of the more emotional guests. Today was going to be historic as this was going to be the first legal marriage of pegasi and a griffin.

A justice of the peace stood calmly at the head of a large seated crowd. With her magic, she shuffled a small stack of notecards that she had previously prepared and set on the top of the podium that she stood behind. Everything that needed to be done was prepared. All that was needed now was the arrival of the bride and groom.

The justice of the peace levitated a glass of ice water from the lower shelf of the podium. She took a small sip while skimming over the topmost of the stack of cards. She had performed many joining ceremonies before, but is always good to be prepared. In this case, she had a duplicate set of cards in the inside pocket of her vest. Better to be over-prepared than under-prepared, she had always thought.

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Mindnumbing earth shattering pain is what I expected. Broken bones, searing agony, my entrails strewn all across the ground and glistening with various fluids. Choking on my own bile and blood as I gasp for my final breath before the Grim Reaper finally takes me. I wasn't prepare for my end, the final end of all things I held near and dear. Who in their right mind could ever be? Next Chapter: Chapter 2: Chase Estimated time remaining: 36 Minutes