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ABERRANT - Prologue<h2 style="text-align: center">Prologue</h2>A gentle midsummer breeze filtered through the branches of a tall cedar standing outside a Park Ranger outpost in the vast wilderness of Glacier National Park, Montana. Memos pinned to a corkboard graced by a beam of sunlight filtering through an open screen door lazily lifted and settled back down as the warm air flowed through. The sound of birds chattering outside in the pleasant sunny weather was largely ignored by the ranger on duty, who had his face buried in a computer workstation, trying to make sense of a recently installed trail surveillance system.“Pandora, bring up Summit Peak trail camera 3C, please.” He had his gaze buried in the documentation on his desk as he spoke to the AI assistant. Noting hesitation from the machine, he looked up at his monitor.“I’m sorry, I did not find a viewport matching your request,” a nearly convincing female-sounding voice replied from the computer’s speakers.“For Pete’s sake,” the ranger sighed. “Alright, list the cameras you have for the Summit Peak observation zone.”“The cameras currently in operation in the Summit Peak observation zone include trail cams A, B, E, F—”“Alright, stop,” the ranger interrupted, “Pandora, there is a trail cam C on that circuit. You’re also omitting cam D.”“As it currently stands, no cameras labeled C or D are active on the circuit you mentioned. However, records indicate that cameras with such names were connected seventeen hours ago. Perhaps the requested device has gone offline unexpectedly,” the AI assistant replied.“No shit, Sherlock,” the ranger said, rolling his eyes.The sound of the screen door clanging against the door frame interrupted from behind. Another ranger came in and set down a black bag at the foot of the wall with the corkboard. “Still wrestlin’ with that bot, Larry?” he said, betraying slight amusement from the corners of his mouth.“Hell, those geeks down at Monosoft seem to think this thing is the future, but right now she seems about as dull as a bucket of glacial till,” the ranger at the computer replied, lightly tapping the small computer box sitting on top of the desk. “Could have just told me the damned cameras were down from the get-go, but I had to navigate a riddle first.”The other ranger let out a snicker. “The future sure is bright.”“I can determine the time and cause of the outage by analyzing the last footage captured by the devices,” the AI said, slightly catching the ranger at the desk off-guard, who returned his gaze to the screen. “I will, however, require your permission to access the data, along with direct access to your processor cores to aid in processing the data.”“Sure, why not. Go ahead,” he replied.The other ranger shook his head. “So it’s as dumb as a box of rocks, but you let it have control over your workstation, huh?”“Unless you want to hike up there and check the cameras yourself, let’s just see what it comes up with, Travis.” He turned back to his manual for the cameras and wet his finger before turning another page. “Whoever thought it would be a good idea to put this finicky equipment out here in the middle of nowhere in the first place—”“Analysis complete,” the AI interrupted. Both rangers looked over at the screen, somewhat surprised by the punctuality of the result. “Neither camera directly revealed the culprit. However, analysis of vibrations recorded in the image along with audio samples adjusted for delay suggest that a rockfall has occurred in the area between the cameras, likely severing the satellite communication relay—”The power fluctuated, causing the computer to cut off and reboot suddenly. As the lights flickered in the Ranger’s Station, an eerie ray of light brighter than the sunlight from outside passed through the windows, casting eerie shadows that crossed the opposing walls inside the ranger’s station. A series of loud bangs rattled the entire building, startling the men into grabbing their hats and ducking before looking around. The ranger near the door ran outside as the cacophonous booms continued overhead, rattling the windows of the building.“What on earth…” the ranger inside muttered. He got up from his desk and slowly began walking toward the door. “Travis, what’s goin—A blinding flash poured through the doorway and in between the slats in the blinds over the window from outside, accompanied by intense radiant heat. He covered his eyes and face and could feel what felt like a sunburn on his arms and hands, accompanied by a sudden blast of oven-like heat in the air around him. The sound of the birds had suddenly ceased, leaving only the noise of the footsteps of his partner stammering back toward the building’s entrance. The ranger’s accomplice crashed through the door and fell over inside as the light slowly began to dim, casting a damning orange glow over everything. As it became possible to see what was going on, the Ranger who had been near the computer could see his partner on the ground covered in second-degree burns along one side of his body with steam coming off of him. He lay on the ground shuddering in shock. “My God, Travis, what the hell!?” He began to make his way over to help, but never made it.A powerful shockwave hit the building along with a blast of wind comparable to that of a tornado. The windows shattered first, followed by the roof being blown upward from the rush of air entering into the building from outside. Entire sections of wall and other debris blew over in one direction while the park ranger was blown over the computer desk and nearly head-first into a filing cabinet near a wall on the other side of the room.The sounds of water spraying from somewhere along with what remained of a fire alarm pitifully buzzing began to filter back to reality slowly. A deep rumble could be heard in the distance, echoing through the mountains while slowly subsiding. The park ranger managed to lift a section of collapsed wall off of him and saw the remains of a large smoldering cedar that had been snapped like a twig lying across the partially collapsed roof above. He carefully got up and dug himself out of the fallen remains of his station and the surrounding collapsed debris. He carried his aching and partially broken body to safety and sat down near a rock wall and opened his eyes. Before him was a landscape covered with destroyed trees all knocked over in the same direction, radiating away from the mountains about five miles away. Behind the larger of three peaks, a colossal mushroom cloud rose higher than the grandest of thunderstorms he had seen above the range. Leading directly into the apparent source of the blast cloud was a large contrail surrounded by many smaller ones going in the same direction. He winced as he reached for his pockets and produced a cell phone, which appeared to still be working and dialed for help. “This is Ranger Lawrence Willis, Summit Peak lookout station. Hell just poured out of the sky here… entire forest is flattened. Send help…”

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