Report #20011- The Pasadena Incident
Dr Hyde, 43, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Castillo, 34, Los Angeles, CA

Letter from Dr. Hyde to Dr. Castillo 07/23/2089

I hate to tell you this Jamie but you were wrong. I finally created a device capable of sending matter to another place without having to move it physically but with a touch of a button. The subject - an apple. I ran it a few times and it kept coming back all in one piece. I have yet to tell anybody and so you are the first to know and I want you to come my home in Pasadena at once if possible. Gate code #33410

Your friend Dr. Hyde.

I arrived at Dr. Hyde’s home as soon as I got his letter. My wife told me he’s probably pulling my leg but I don’t know. Dr. Hyde has been quiet for the past few years and so for him to tell me this is a surprise. I enter the code in his gate keypad and the black tall gates swing open. Walking up the dirt hill I suddenly get a cold breeze. Strange because its the hottest day of the summer, where are those winds coming from?

The white adobe home stands proudly in the center of a man-made forest surrounding the dirt hill. I push his atomic shaped doorbell and a gong goes off causing the nearby birds to fly from the trees.

“Who goes there?” Says the voice from the mailbox.
“It’s me Dr. Castillo, Hyde. I got your letter.”
“Ohhh Jamie come in, come in.”
The door unlocks by itself.
“I’m in the basement. Make a left on the stair case and a right down the hall. The door with steps leading down is open so you can’t miss it.”
“Ok.”

Following his directions to the basement, I see the inside of his home untouched and clean. The pictures in his wall are from years ago when we both use to work at our military weapon manufacturing job at Duckin. I made my way down stairs and see Dr. Hyde writing in his worn out notebook.
“Ahhh, Jamie come here,” he says as he closed his book and embraces me. Immediately I could smell that he had been drinking.
“It’s been so long huh?” Said Hyde,“how’s everything?”
“Everything is well. I’m still with Duckin. Just working from home is all.”

“Never could find something better to do huh? Creating more ways to kill each other huh?” Said Hyde.
“Yeah,” I chuckled. You said you had something to show me.” Hyde paced his eyes back and forth as if looking for an eagerness of information. “Yes. Yes. Yes. Remember when the government called us into Area 51 to look at some stuff?”
I paused. “Yeah, they had us look at some tech that we didn’t know where they got.”
“Do you remember that pile of blue chips that they had on a table?
“Yeah, they had a lot of them and when we smashed one it vaporized the hammer.”

He reached into his lab coat and pulled out the blue chip. I backed away at his bookshelf.“What are you doing with that? We could get killed for this,” I said. “I know. But we had it wrong. It’s not a chip that can just destroy anything. Its a battery. Watch this.” He unveiled his contraption of two glass jars with metal Tesla coils upside down inside, a computer connected in between the jars and a glass tube to place the chip. I watched him grab an apple from a fruit basket nearby and place it in a jar on the right. He took the chip and placed it in the glass tube. The contraption turned on and zapped the apple. It disappears.
“What the fuck? Where did it go?” I asked franticly. “How? What?”
“Hold on Dr. Castillo. The apple is everywhere around us. It is nothing but at atoms and if I push this button.”
The apple reappeared in the left glass jar with a bite.
“Oh my god. You did it. Amazing. Dr. Hyde you have just done something life changing.” I turn to Hyde and his face is horrified.
“There’s a bite.”
“Of course there’s a bite. You bit it before you put it in.”
“NO. I DID NO SUCH THING JAMIE. I DON’T EVEN LIKE APPLES.”
The room turned silent. Dr Hyde had his hands over his head. He then jumped and flipped through his notebook franticly.
“What’s going on Hyde? Why are you so concerned about the bite on the apple?”
He looked up at me and started crying.
“It’s my son Jamie. He’s alive and he’s hungry.”

End of Part 1.