This is Duke’s story; all his life he has put his effort on his long on-going project on a macro transmitting teleportation portal at the Bermuda Triangle. He has been working on this masterpiece since his teenage life. He has been through toughness and exhaustion, enduring endless challenges but never has he ever drowned himself in pain to the fact that his grandma passed away three months ago.

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He stands in his living room, where it used to be filled with enthusiasm, his grandma, who had raised him his whole life, used to ask this and that each time he returned home from work. Not anymore.  

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He sighs.

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He picks up a photo which stands on the shelf, only to shower himself with more deep grief. He stands there holding the photo for a while, he recalls back to a series of flashbacks, as well as that unforgettable moment of his grandma lying on the couch not moving and her knitting wool dropped to the floor.

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**Flashback – “Grandma! Wake up! Grandma” *Duke shouted as he was sobbing*

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His grandma used to be so healthy, they had so much fun. He stands in front of the shelf for another while, until he realises he should not put his project aside, this will be his legacy, he needs to get back to work and continues what he has started, he knows grandma would want to see that happens too.

 

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[A few weeks later]

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Duke heads back to his work station located at the Bermuda Triangle. He gets into his boat, starts the engine, and then runs towards the sea against the sunset. Upon his arrival, his colleagues greet him with smiles in their faces welcoming him back after a few months of his absence.  

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“Welcome back, Dr. Duke!” *a few agents greeted*

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Duke nods his head with appreciation as he continues walking towards his office. He heads to his desk, takes off his coat, puts his bag on the desk and reaches out a photo of him and grandma he put in a frame that he brought it from home.

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He smiles as he is looking at the photo.

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He places the photo on the desk. Duke is very optimistic, that he hopes his grandma’s spirit shall lead this project of his towards a success.

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He smiles, again.

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As Duke sits down, a head operator enters his office.

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“Welcome back Dr., it is such a pleasure to see you again. How are you?”

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“I am doing fine, thank you. How’s everything?”

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“Our operating systems and the assignments are going very well, and...”

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After his discussion with the head operator for a while, with a lot of good signs have been reported, he is very positive that his project will be soon completed accordingly.

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Duke has found Planet Z1, it is an extraordinary planet. He is just unaware of what is in there, what it looks like and how the biosphere appears to be, but the teleportation portal project that is currently in the progress is the future, and it will be the answer. The macro transmitting teleportation portal is built up with the exploitation of earth's natural resources. His conducted study and researches were able to prove that the Bermuda Triangle is a significant point where it is able to supply an extreme substantial source of strong magnetic force and energy enough to conclusively activate the portal and function it very successfully. Further tasks on space shuttles development will be put in place ahead when the portal is tested.

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[A few weeks later]

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Duke holds a conference with a team of operators. After the meeting, he stands looking at the work progress at the Bermuda Triangle surface from his office, he takes out a binocular and takes a closer look. This project takes years and a huge amount of human energy, by observing their work far away, it has urged him to prompt for a visit at the scene.

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Duke then rings the speakerphone.

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“Is there anything I can help you, Dr. Duke?”

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“Prepare me a boat now, I am heading to shore!”

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“Yes sir, a boat will be ready for your take off!”

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Duke decides to go alone. He reaches the boat then advances to the shore. The sunset is nice, but as he is on the way, he has noticed something unusual, usually the waves are strong but they are fairly small today, the wind is relatively calm as well, it has his attention, he feels like the water seems to be in a receding condition, however, he continues moving forwards.

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Duke lands on the site a moment later, all of the workers are looking very busy with their hands-on assessments, a few notice his arrival and greet him, while others continue their works. He approaches the under construction of the teleportation portal which is standing 120 meters high from the island of Bermuda Triangle. Duke raises his head up to observe, the portal is looking so gigantic yet so completed. The shape and figure have already leaked out their firmness and elegance. The sun has already set; it is getting dark. Duke wanders around the site for another moment when he suddenly can hear a rapid sound of thunders, he looks at the sky, heavy clouds are approaching the area, Duke has a bad feeling. He quickly heads to the control room, in order to call for a pause of all work progresses, but as he is moving very quickly, the huge clouds have already surrounded the area, loud thunders are approaching too. He gets into the control room and announces for an immediate evacuation and puts the siren on.

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Duke senses something bad is going to happen. As soon as he hits the siren on, he realises a big storm has already begun, everyone who is on the ground is moving very fast under the pouring rain. Without any hesitation, he immediately gets outside and helps those workers to evacuate. The thunders are constantly hitting the Bermuda Triangle’s highest point which causes both huge and small rocks to keep falling and rolling down. Not so long after, almost everybody has left the shore and is on the water heading back to the main work station, Duke still has to make sure every single worker is leaving the site safely. With a doubt of a possible collapse of the teleportation portal, but without much choice, he must hurry back to the station as well.

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As early as Duke starts his boat and gets onto the water, the situation is getting terrible and so much worse as he notices the clouds have bizarrely formed into the shapes of hexagon and have straight edges. They start to pour down extreme strong air bombs at high speed which create some monster waves to arrive, causing Duke’s boat to be unstable and very hard to move forwards. At the same time as he is struggling in the huge waves, he is then notified with another siren sound alerting from the main station, only to realise the massive thunders are currently taking down the station as well. Just while Duke is trying his best in the situation, he encounters another bizarre occurrence as constant gigantic lightning start to gather together forming into straight lines chained up and intertwined between the work station and the teleportation portal across the sky. The portal is then seen to have been activated very mysteriously and starts gulping, which creates strong wind and the water starts to whirl extremely. Out of a sudden, a sharp brightness of a strong lightning blurs Duke’s eyes and has knocked him down in a blackout when he realises he is being spun around in his boat very dizzily, possibly being sucked through the portal.

 

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[On Planet Z1]

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And then Duke wakes up, and realises he is lying on a bed in a hospital. Unaware of how he gets here but he remembers what happened. Duke does not know he is on Planet Z1 right now as everything looks familiar over here. Just a moment later, a nurse approaches Duke to have a check up on him, but as Duke is still suspicious, his curiosity leads him to ask the nurse a fairly silly question.

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“Uhm...May I ask? What planet is this?”

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Without an immediate response back, the nurse instead looks at him and chuckles.

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“And do you know what year is this?” *the nurse jokes around*

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“??”, *Duke raises his eyebrows*

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“Alright, I think you’ll find out when you’re getting better!”, *the nurse walks away*

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A few days later when Duke discharges from the hospital, he decides to go home. Along the way home, he has loads of unanswered questions in his mind but even though he has healed, he still feels weak, and he is getting dizzy once he overthinks. When he arrives home, he makes a voice command for the door to open, it recognises and the door opens. But as soon as he steps inside the house, Duke is almost unable to believe his own eyes towards what he is seeing, very unexpectedly, he sees grandma (Grandma2).

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“Grandma?” *he shouts in a very curious way*

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“Hey Duke, what’s with the shouting?” *Grandma asks*

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Without much doubt, Duke quickly runs to her and gives her a big hug immediately.

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“What’s happening?” *Grandma asks again*

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Just as Duke is trying to release himself from the long hug, he suddenly hears the door is opening, only to put himself in another shock. Duke freezes, as out of a sudden, he sees another him (Duke2)!

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After a long conversation with them, a lot of things have been explained. Duke now knows he is on Planet Z1, and he almost thought he was dreaming. As per Duke’s perspective for now, he presumes Planet Z1 is a mirror of planet earth, it is so identical, but not everything is explained. After a period of time, the longer Duke has his presence here on Planet Z1, the weaker he is becoming. He has noticed he is starting to fade; so Duke is convinced that he must be in some kind of non-human form.

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As time passes by, Duke is becoming weaker, he knows he does not belong here. Not so long after, he has to say goodbye to his grandma (Grandma2) again, as well as Duke2.

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“Grandma!” *Duke hugs his grandma for the last time and he sobs as he is calling her*

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“Grandma never want to leave you on your own again, but for your safety Duke, you must return home!” *grandma speaks in tears*

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After the goodbye, Duke rushes to the Bermuda Triangle, as he is reaching closer, he can see it is still in a chaos, exactly like what happened the other day. He uses the best of his ability to fight through the monster waves and the strong electric forces in order to reach the teleportation portal. As Duke reaches the portal, he is using all his last energy to throw himself in, and again, Duke has been knocked down.

 

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[On Planet Earth]

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Duke wakes up in a lab at the work station, but as he gazes around, the lab is looking so damaging, the disaster has consumed parts of his workplace. He is still unable to explain the existence of his grandma and his identical presence there on Planet Z1 when everything else seems to remain exactly the same like planet earth. But on the other hand, along his concern, Duke is glad that at least he has achieved in opening the gate to Planet Z1 and his teleportation portal is certainly a bridge that he has built.

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Duke determines to get up, and he will lead his team to redevelop his legacy again.

 

Duke is not losing hope!

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=THE END=