Green Light

Igashu gets up and steps towards the barn with the painting with green light. He opens the doors and some unknown force pulls him in and straight down into a dark abyss. Igashu screams until he hits the ground and becomes unconscious.

When Igashu wakes up everything is dark. Suddenly, four thin lines of light pop up around him. He touches the walls and realizes he’s enclosed. One wall slowly goes down. Igashu looks out and sees green light in the skies. It almost looks like the aurora. Looking down, he sees dark gray thunderstorm clouds.

Outside the box, Igashu notices a black obsidian square platform. He steps in the middle of it, but nothing happens. He steps on the edge to look down and notices the platform expanding, in a square like manner, around his shoe toe. Trying to test something out, Igashu steps most of his other foot out of the platform, leaving his heel at the edge. When his foot is level to the square platform, a platform the size of his foot instantly appears out of thin air and continues to expand around it. Igashu tries his other foot and the same thing happens. He starts running in a straight line and from a distance, it looks as if he’s floating in mid air. He turns around and sees the foot platforms connecting with each other and creating a trail from Igashu to the box.

Igashu smiles and starts to serpentine. He runs endlessly in joy until he tires out. Sitting down, he’s in awe of the beauty of this place. He looks around and sees the green aurora and dark clouds stretching endlessly in all directions and starts wondering his existence.

Suddenly, a red beam of light strikes down on the ground from a distance. With nothing else to do, Igashu decides to head towards the beam of light. As he gets closer he notices rectangular objects ahead. It looks like a city. He walks around one, assuming it’s a building of some sort, but no door is present. There are multiple rectangular objects of different sizes; some are flat and some have more of a cubic feature. As he walks towards the red light, he notices other people heading the same direction. He asks what they’re doing, but they reply that they came out of a box and started heading to the beam of light, just like him.

By the time Igashu arrives at the beam of light, there is a crowd surrounding it. On the ground, at the base of the red light is a black box. Everybody starts murmuring, wondering what it is. Someone from the crowd steps forward and slowly reaches over to touch it. Just when that person was about to touch it, the box cracked open. Red light can be seen coming from within. The box bursts open and in its place is a bacteriophage the size of a dog. Everybody steps back. The bacteriophage doesn’t do anything sudden, but it looks around. A person steps forward to pet it and it slowly moves backwards. Then, suddenly the bacteriophage jumps onto that person’s chest and instantly the person shatters like glass and in its place are three more bacteriophages, not including the original.

Everybody starts panicking and running away. The bacteriophages jump on more people and start multiplying. Igashu runs away as fast as he could from the bacteriophage’s wrath. He turns back and sees one bacteriophage jumping on the rectangular object. With one touch, the rectangular object starts corroding and turning into dust. When Igashu is far enough away from the area with the rectangular objects, he sees the city crumbling. A person next to him, Anon, realizes that they’re in some sort of computerized device and that a virus appeared, corrupting the data files. Anon continues saying that one way to solve this problem is to shut down the power. Igashu, not fully understanding what he’s saying, says that the best thing to do right now is to run away.

As Igashu continues running, he takes a quick glance behind him and sees a wave of red light. He focuses on it longer and realizes that it’s a wave of red bacteriophages rushing towards the remaining survivors. He runs faster than before and sees black objects from afar. He tells others to head over to that direction and they follow. The bacteriophages move swiftly and have the power to slow down things around them. Slow runners are affected and their platforms don't appear under their feet like before, causing them to fall into the dark thunderstorm clouds below.

As they get closer, they notice that the objects they saw were actually rectangular objects. This time, the objects aren't as clustered together as the previous place but more spread out. Some people hide behind the rectangular objects to take a break. Igashu does the same thing. After a quick break, Igashu slowly moves further away. He looks back and sees the faster bacteriophages reaching the edge of the city. From Igashu's perspective, he sees bacteriophages floating along the side of a rectangular object. He sees people resting along the other side and tries to warn them. Igashu waves at them, but they're not looking and there's nothing to throw at the bacteriophage to distract it without it seeing him. The bacteriophage approaches the person and the person screams and shatters. Igashu looks away before the person shatters, but still hears their scream in his head despite covering his ears. Some bacteriophages surround the rectangular object, where Igashu is located, and charges towards Igashu. Igashu closes his eyes and covers his face with his arms.

Everything is quiet for a while. Igashu slowly uncovers his face and sees right in front of him, a bacteriophage midair with it’s mouth aiming towards his face. Startled, Igashu falls backward. He looks around and everything is pitch black, even the green aurora and the thunderstorm clouds are gone. Everything is black except for the red glowing insides of the bacteriophages. Igashu gets up and sees all the bacteriophages frozen. Anon says that there must’ve been a crash and the power is shutting down. They also warn that the power will most likely turn back on again and the bacteriophage will be able to move again. Igashu, hearing what might happen, leaves the city with Anon.

After running for a while, Igahsu and Anon walk in the dark. Suddenly, the sky and ground begins to flicker with lights. Using the flickering light, Igashu looks around to find a place to hide. Anon points in the direction of a black hole. They start running towards it and inside, they see a vortex of flickering long lights stretching for miles. They go inside carefully, unsure of what might be inside. Midway, the lights stop flickering and are continuously glowing, making it look like an illusion into infinity. A rumbling from a distance can be heard and they assume that the bacteriophages are awake and on the move.

When they reach the end of the tunnel, they see the outlet, however, it’s a dead-end. With nowhere to go, they try to think of a plan. They look around and Anon tells Igashu to help him rip apart a cable from the tunnel from one side. They managed to do it, but some lights in the tunnel turned off. The person tells Igashu to do the same on the other side. The bacteriophages, noticing the lights turn off in the tunnel, head there. Igashu and Anon see a speck of red entering the tunnels. The person tells Igashu to hide somewhere safe in plain sight. Anon sees the red wave of bacteriophages flooding in, as if they're a wave of water. Anon waits until the bacteriophages get closer and quickly pulls the two wires together. An arc forms in front of the person and a flash of light shines in front of Igashu. The power cable that Igashu was inside explodes and Igashu becomes unconscious.

When Igashu wakes up, he returns to the place with the white sky and seven barns with the paintings.

- It doesn't hurt to let people help you.