Teleportation gone wrong!

In an era of flying cars and huge skyscrapers towering over the city of neon lights, there was one laboratory in forgotten slums that sprawled under the shadows of the shining city. The laboratory is so worn down that it could use a makeover.

But still I am working towards my goal, the machine that I spent everything I saved, my job, my life, and even the laboratory renovation funds I received from the government.

My idea feels unrealistic for normal people, but for me, it's a gamble too. But if I win, then everything in this world will be mine.

“And this time it will work! Then I will be super famous and rich! This will be the revolution of the decade, no, no Century!” “It's finally ready, my teleportation Machine Model number ‘Mark 35’- or 36 maybe?!” Toki was confused; his brain was melting with overwork. His mind was focused on his work for so long that he forgot everything else, it seems.

“Oye, take a break, or else you will die!” one voice came as his friend Toma walked into his lab, with some bags in his hands. “I have bought us lunch. Let’s eat together. And these are all the unpaid bills pasted on your door.”

“Throw the bills somewhere in the room, anyway, I don’t have any money to pay them. And for lunch, yes, but first let me install this safety switch.” Toki insisted and continued working on his machine, which looked like a Capsule.

“Let it be, there are only two of us, nothing will happen, hurry up! And I have written software for that, it will be perfect without a doubt!” Toma tried to pull him away from the machine, waving food bags.

Toki agreed and sat in front of him at the dining table.

“Look, what I have got today! Special instant chicken noodles!” With his cheerful aura, Toki even hyped up the instant noodles.

“You always have this positive point of view, always taking happiness in small things! You are the same as always! ” Toma said in his tired tone, his eyes had developed dark circles around his black, lifeless eyes, he scratched his head through his messy curly black hairs, but was still driven with a single motivation that he wanted to complete his machine.

“As long as it helps you, Toma, I am happy! We are childhood friends, it’s our duty to watch each other's backs! And if that machine works, I will be there to grab half of its glory!”

“But, for now, I am taking half of the fried chicken! He he!” Toki grabbed one large piece of fried chicken from a bucket.

Both silently started eating their lunch and completed their lunch, and after eating, Toma’s brain started working on things other than his machine.

“Toki, what do you mean by that? ” Toma asked.

“What?” Toki replied with a poker face.

“That! That poker face! Don’t make up things! I wrote Software! You were just present there, blabbering about some random anime! I remember now!” Toma wagged his finger at Toki, screaming from the top of his lungs.

“What? It took you much longer this time to realise. And, I was there, right? That means I was part of your group!” Toki grinning.

“It’s not our college project!” Toma exclaimed.

“What? Don’t be so angry, I was just kidding! See, all gloomy mood of yours is gone now!” Toki laughed, still chewing food in his mouth.

“Don’t laugh while eating,” Toki calmed down a little. “I can give you 5% of it as a token of keeping me alive,” he said as he walked out of the room.

“Just 5, ” Toma teased him.

“Take it or leave it! ” Toki exclaimed.

“Anyway, I am going out to buy us juice, can you screw this panel inside the machine till I come back? And lend me some money for juice too…” Toma extends one palm of his hand, asking for money from the Toki, and the other hand points at the panel.

“Yes, take this.” Toki gives money from his pocket to Toma and walks inside the capsule, taking a panel to attach to the machine. Toki walks out of the room.

Not even 20 in seconds.

“Let’s see, I think this panel will go here.” Toma was working on the task at hand when he saw a mouse running around the machine.

“Huh? Where did the mouse come from? If he eats any wire, only god knows what will happen. Shuu! Shuu!” Toma tries to shoo the mouse away from the machine.

The frightened mouse jumps around and walks onto the external control panel, and some random buttons get pushed.

The machine starts to hum, “No! No! NO! How it started!” Then Toma remembers that he stopped Toki moments ago from installing the safety switch, and the regret and annoyance were clear on his face.

“Whatever, first I need to get out of the capsule! That damn rat!”

The machine starts to emit a bright white glow, and Toma gets completely blinded by the light, covering his eyes. “Damn! I don’t want to die like this!”

The room grows Brighter and brighter, so that nothing is visible, not even shadows; a ball of light engulfs everything.

In the next moment, Toma feels a breeze in his messy, silky black hair. He feels soft green grass in the palm of his hands.

"Uhh! Did I die? Looks like I am in heaven! This is so peaceful!" He thought as he spent some more moments enjoying the freshness of nature for the first time, that his whole life was spent in neon city lights, away from nature; this was completely different from him. It was truly heaven for him, you can say in a way.

His eyes slowly peeled open, “Huh? I am alive!” and he was amazed by what he saw, his Yellow eyes sparkled like gold. “Whaa-? What is this place?” He sees a castle in the middle of the City on the horizon, fortified by huge walls, surrounded by forest from the hilltop he was sitting on, only with the clothes he was wearing, a Lemon color T-shirt, and black trousers, barefoot, and some metal coins in his purse.

This was the start of the Journey of a Toma in another world.