The first human rebel

4 min readApr 20, 2022

Laest was a common boy like any other, he didn’t know what his life would have been but he definitely didn’t expect to witness the first extraterrestrial contact. Laest was born in 2185, son of an engineer, he always looked up to his father who passed on to him the passion for science and technology. At school, he excelled in math and science and in his free time he was used to locking himself up in his father’s workshop inventing quirky devices and gadgets. Great was Laest’s joy of an extraterrestrial contact in 2202 where he was still attending high school but greater his motivation and passion renewed by the scientific and technological innovations brought by other alien species. His fantasy was like a raging river. To better understand alien technologies he started studying and reproducing alien’s utensils, chips, and devices but most of all Laest was interested in the Synchall technology. How could such a small and elegant device be able to connect to the metaverse, reproduce and show the virtual world? It was unprecedented.He graduated in high school and pursued university, excelling in all his fields, afterwards he also managed to find himself a job for an alien agency whose aim was to adapt their technologies for humans, finding a chance to better study extraterrestrial devices.In his private time, he was obsessed with the Synchall, he wanted to reproduce such technology that none was even close to understanding. Around his fifties, he succeeded. A lucky bug created from a string code gave him access to Synchall’s server, receiving and processing every information within it.It was his biggest achievement, his happiness was fulfilling. He could finally take a breath and enjoy the benefits of science development and extraterrestrial relationships.

The absorption

20 years went by in a peaceful and joyful life, until absorption day. He was home that morning, it was his day off but he was still thinking of ways to adapt an alien propelled jumping platform for the human bone structure. He witnessed a profound silence, everything seemed to have stopped. He couldn’t hear cars rumble, nor children’s cackles or builders noises. Laest peeked outside from the workshop window, everyone looked like frozen and remained so for about 10 minutes, until at once they all went back on doing whatever they were about to do, like nothing ever happened. It all seemed too weird, so he kept observing. That day he noticed a girl from the neighborhood ignoring her dog she was so obsessed about, the traffic was nonexistent, he also tried to chat with the family living upstairs, noticing they were acting strangely like they were inhibited somehow, especially their kids who were calm and composed and that never happened in his presence. He was sure something was up, so he called sick for a week, confirming humans were brainwashed or at least mind-controlled. How did that happen and especially why was he the only one immune from that event? His mind automatically thought of the Synchall, he was the only one who managed to recreate a personal version of it, eliminating somehow the mind control part. Knowing that wouldn’t have helped to solve his problem though, every human had a synchall installed in his body, and removing it required surgery and often led to death anyway. His case was a lucky one thanks to an unexpected bug, but that could’ve been a starting point. He tried to upload his source code into a new Synchall and confirmed that the bug worked on other Synchalls.

Legacy

His next step was to find a solution to override his string code into live and functioning chips to free all humanity at once. Laest found something else to be obsessed about and of course it had to be the Synchall once again. In his last years alive Laest wrote all the information he gathered about the Synchall, he tried to develop a large-scale solution but he never managed to. He developed a way to disable the chip locally through an electric device that connected with the synchall when touching it, overwriting the base code with his custom string. On his deathbed desperate to die as the last free human ever existed, he freed a 16 years old girl that was working in his house as a caregiver, telling her the bare minimum before taking his last breath.