I push myself off the floor quickly, my eyes wide as I look through the glass into the other side of the laboratory where the minor explosion just happened. Some of my coworkers are still gathering their bearings, but my adrenaline is through the roof.

It worked. It actually worked.

I’m a scientist, and for the past two years my lab has been working on the impossible: communicating with aliens. I know. It sounds crazy. Everyone said it couldn’t be done. But today we decided to finally take another shot after our failed attempt a few months ago.

To avoid going on a long science and math filled tangent, that most people usually usually start to tune out a few seconds in, the point is that we created a blast to hopefully bring an extraterrestrial onto Earth.

We just had the blast. So where’s the-

“Holy shit,” Niall exhales from behind me, pointing at something in the smoke filled room through the glass.