Independence's Lab

=== The Hook=== They were in the lab, when suddenly a light started to flicker and go out. Next, a computer flickered and went out. The next computer over went out. Eventually, the whole building was out. Bombs rained down outside. There was nothing left.

"NOW! SWITCH DIMENSION!" I yelled. World War 4 started, and we were already getting rained down with missiles and bombs. Stephen came up to me, and we both held our glamor watches together, and the whole building lifted off the ground, and a green flash of light flickered around us.

Chapter 1
"Hello? Is this Stephen Brown?" I said on the phone. My name is Gage Morgan, and I'm still trying to get in contact with Stephen. You see, Stephen is my best friend from elemntary school. Now, we're grown up, and I'm still searching for him. He lost contact when his mom moved away from his dad, they weren't even married. And now, we were both thought of as two crazy people.

"Hi! Who is this?" said Stephen. He had changed. He actually talked properly, and had gotten rid of his old accent.

"This is Gage." I said. I knew he would remember, now that I just brought my name back into his mind.

"Oh yeah! Remember the lab? We were just faking it back then, you know? But what if we made one now? I'll meet you at my parents' old house around 5. Just get there, and we can re-introduce ourselves." he said.

"Ok. I'll see you there." I hung up. Boy, he had changed all right. But, we didn't know what was coming. We still needed a building, and we didn't have any money. What were we going to do?

I started thinking about how to get money. Then I realized how to do it. There was a river flowing under my house. If I could actually prove it existed, and find actual precious metals in it...but then I remembered the Morgans had kept it there so that if we ever actually needed it.

I went into my basement. I found the door to our tunnel. I'd never been to it before then, I saw it. My flashlight shone on thousands of jewels, gold coins, and other items, plus bars of gold. It got my backpack full of the stuff, and the place where I'd made a dent refilled with the same items over again. It somehow refilled itself. I had thought when my parents told me that there was a river under our house, I thought they'd meant water. When I got out of college, they had a huge fight, and then got divorced, and argued over who got the house. I said I'd take it and they could both move out. They both agreed, and my mom gave me directions on how to go to the river with precious metal hidden in it.

My watch said 4;30 on it. I had to get a move on. I went through my basement door, and then ended up in sunset light. I jumped in my car, turned the key into the ignition, and then drove off. Luckily I hadn't yet moved to California, because I wouldn't have gotten this far. I saw Stephen waiting at his old front door. The only difference between his younger and older version was he had grown to about 5 foot 7, and he didn't look any different after that.

"We need to get plans for the lab. I've discovered a new technology, but it involves making a physical building as a startup. What's in the bag?" Stephen blurted out all at once.

"The bag has everything we need to get a building. I've located a large building space where we can get started. I also have a lot of cash in this bag. I stopped by somewhere to exchange a few precious metals and jewels for over $3 million."

"That's enough to get our stuff ready within a week!" shouted Stephen.

Chapter 2
We walked in our new, fresh, clean lab. It was so awesome that I couldn't help but wonder how we'd built it. The construction workers hid the building out of site by putting it in the ground instead of building upward. The best