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The original was posted on /r/nosleep by /u/BadandyTheRed on 2024-10-28 01:57:06+00:00.

My mind was racing, I did not have much time as I considered what to do. First, I had the pressing matter of escaping the facility. I had to leave and find M, I had to find out what he knew. While plotting a means of escape, I got another message on the phone. I read the message and saw a longer message than normal, it looked like instructions,

“You might want to write this down and follow these steps exactly, write fast since the message won’t stay on the phone very long. Open the door in exactly one minute and fifty-two seconds after this message is gone. Turn right and go toward a maintenance closet, there will be a tunnel connecting it to main access concourse. Ignore the steam and any exploding pipes, that is just some cover for you. Don’t take too long since if it dissipates a group of about a dozen guards will see you and likely catch you if you are not fast enough. Keep heading down the main path and take a left to find an employee locker room. There is a hazmat suit that will help disguise you and security credentials in case anyone asks. Head to the main bulkhead and place the phone on the power junction and wait for the door to open, there might be a hissing sound that is normal. Head out the main door and move along the North East Road to get to the path to building two. I will be waiting for you and your decision at the top of the watch tower.”

I finished writing down the instructions just as the message vanished. I looked at my hastily scrawled copy and remembered I needed to start counting. I did not have a stopwatch and obviously my phone wouldn’t work so I counted and hoped I would get it right.

At the moment I reached one minute and fifty-two seconds, I threw the door open and ran. I moved per the instructions that I had tried to commit to memory in the brief time I had. I was moving as quickly as I figured I was supposed to be moving and I reached the main access path. I almost fell back and suppressed a gasp of surprise as several armed guards were visible on the other side of the path. Something was wrong, there was supposed to be some sort of steam cover. I tried to carefully step back around the corner but I heard a voice yell out to,

“Stop!” I was about to run back the way I had come from when that same voice turned into a scream as I saw several pipes around the guards head explode in unison. He was enveloped in scalding steam that burned him so severely he fell down into an agony induced sort of coma. I had no idea if he was alive but I did not have time to check. The other guards had heard his shouted warning and were on alert. I took the opportunity to flee down the corridor.

Sure enough when I reached the locker room it was empty of personal and a single hazmat suit was draped over a bench near the back corner. I put it on as quickly as I could and pocketed the key card that was with it as well. I found the main bulkhead door and placed the phone near the power junction and the hissing sound was almost immediate. I did not like the sequence of other sounds that began to carry through the machinery but I had no time to worry about it, so I moved on.

I hustled toward the main exit and guards were still moving about, but no one seemed to question me as I moved out. When I had almost exited the building, I looked back and felt a pang of guilt. I had to know what was really going on, but could I really endanger all these people? I did not know what M was really capable of, but I thought that maybe I should at least warn someone. I decided to approach the front desk and speak to the receptionist on my way out. She looked confused as I approached, no doubt wondering what a high-level scientist, at least according to my fake credentials, was asking of her.

“Yes, can I help you sir?” I recognized the voice immediately, it was Kylie Burke, the same woman who I had received the emergency call from about the fire I had prevented.

“Yes mam, I need you to deliver a message to Doctor Bianca Sinclair.” I wrote a quick message in my notes telling her about the danger to the facility and that they should evacuate and get everyone out of there as soon as possible. I folded the note and gave it to Kylie Burke and asked her to deliver it immediately. She looked confused but I did not have time to explain so I shouted,

“Now! That is an order.” And she took the paper and left with a scared and apologetic look. I felt bad for yelling at her, but unfortunately it had become a matter of life and death and time was not on our side. I needed enough time to get out of there without a commotion, so I couldn’t tell her directly of the threat. I hoped by the time Bianca read the note or Miss Burke did, they would know about the threat and hopefully start getting people out of the building in time before whatever M had planned occurred and the whole place was blown away.

I rushed out of the building and toward the path leading to the watch tower. I could see it in the distance, beckoning me to my fate and whatever answers the enigmatic M had in store for me. I reached the base of the tower and I heard alarms sounding in the distance back at the main building. I hoped those were evacuation sirens. I started ascending the tower and I felt a familiar thrumming of energy and a static charge that made my teeth hurt. It felt like I was moving the wrong direction in snap shots that are arranged out of sequence. I knew that meant he was close. Reaching the top of the tower I saw him with his back turned looking down at the facilities grounds.

“There you are my friend; I knew you would make it. A little bit late but that’s okay. I think I owe you an apology. I’m sorry, I had to know, I had to know that you would make the right decision. You were a variable, but I had faith you would do the right thing. Isn’t that what you are here to do now? The right thing?” M turned to face me and the black hood was down and I looked at the face of the man at least where a normal face should have been. What I saw in place of a face was a kaleidoscope of unnatural colors and hues not natural to this plane of existence and it made my eyes hurt. The wrongness of his entire being was palpable. He did not exist in this place or time, yet here he was an impossibility made possible.

I had no idea what to do or say, my mind had gone blank. I managed to think back to the one question I had been asking myself this entire time.

“Why me? Why was I the one you contacted?”

He gave a chuckle which was partly phased out by some unseen force and rendered half of it silent. He spoke once his voice returned.

“Right place right time, I suppose. That phone was on me when I was atomized. Somehow it can back as well, but it became unstable and I could not hold onto it anymore. When I woke up from the blast I tried to call 911 and get emergency services down to the building, that was when I realized I couldn’t. I had been blasted out of time and reappeared in this, unstable form.” He held out his arms and I saw the odd array of impossible glimmers of half reality radiating off of him. He continued,

“The phone reached someone or something, but as it did it became more unstable. It started reacting to the temporal energy I was surrounded by so I had to get rid of it. It was too dangerous to just leave with anyone so I took a chance. When I saw you drop your phone down that flight of stairs, I used the moment to switch phones with you.” M pulled out a phone that looked just like the one I had been carrying, but after he threw it to me and I booted it up I realized this was my original phone. I had been carrying his phone this whole time and this device had apparently traveled through time. He watched my confusion and made an approximation of laughter again and continued,

“So not really a specific reason, though I will say you did not disappoint. As soon as you knew what was happening you did your best to stop all the death you could. That is an admirable quality, which is why I trust that you will continue to try and stop the things yet to come. This foundation, Hope for the Future, it has a rot that will lead it and the rest of the world into damnation. I know, I have seen it, both the way it begins and ends.” He took a step forward and held out a hand, gesturing to the building below and the entire foundation grounds.

“We had good intentions to start, if we were able to utilize this technology to tap unharvested resources out of time we could have a potentially endless supply of energy. That was the plan at least, until the intentions of the board had changed. Due to the machinations of the warmongers, the scientists that worked with defense contractors and only saw the way this could be adapted to military use; the scope of their plan for my research was shifted.” He seemed to trail off and looked off into the sky above. I was about to ask him to continue when he spoke again,

“I saw the thing that they will do, if left to their own devices. I have seen what they will enact with my life’s work if they are allowed to. They wanted to try and transport living being thru time. I explained the potential harm in sending a living being backwards or forwards in time. Do you know what they end up doing?” He spun around and began raving,

“They recruit children and brainwash them while accelerating their growth rates using the device, to make soldiers that could be manipulated from birth and grow so quickly that it would give them …

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