h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No matter how hard I tried to open the door, the door would not budge, even though it was unlocked.

A disembodied voice was heard from behind me as a holomessage appeared between me and the door.

I did not even look human as the head which was shaped like a rhino was spinning anti-clockwise.

The rest of the body consisted of the legs of a giraffe, the arms of a gibbon and the trunk and feet of a lion.

Then to my horror the creature changed into a human who quickly became solid that was grabbed by two 4 foot long arms that were emerging from the back door.

It looked a person was trying to phase through the back door but got stuck half way, where most of the body was flaying outside the portal door.

I followed the rhino creature and the disembodied figure through the back door portal.

I found myself back in London but instead of ruined buildings, I found that London was not a city anymore.

London now looked a cross between a lavish park with streams, lakes and other water features and a quaint Scottish/Welsh Highland village.

But, I found that I what I had not been experiencing before was an illusion as I find myself in a pod alongside, hundreds and thousands of people who are in pods connected to the computer matrix.

The full Moon shone bright on Alderaan where I was attacked by a vampire, but I just laughed at him and told him "the Moon does not shine by itself but only reflects sunlight which is very unhealthy for you, ha!"

- That's no Moon, came the answer ...

As I undone the connecting cables to my head and got out of the pod and wondered what I see was real or just another computer generated simulation.

I wonder how I would free the others from their virtual worlds and what will lay to me and others when we escape our prison.

I find that those who were keeping us imprisoned in virtual prisons are the true inhabitants of Terra .

They looked so weird with their elongated limbs and necks who had head's that could increase and decrease in size and were permanently distorted.

Their faces looked beautiful one moment and in the next distorted with anger.

They tried to stop me escaping but somehow I managed to summon enough strength for me to throw them off me.

I had to find a way to wake everyone up from their nightmare virtual worlds but without causing them harm.

The only way by finding the central computer to increase the amount of glitches in the programmes along with a message telling me what they are experiencing is not real.

As I got nearer to the central computer, I found that the computer's matrix was breaking down as violent sparks were emitting from the cables.

I approached the central computer's matrix and through trial and error I managed to shut the whole system down.

It was not easy as I had to get through several defense mechanisms which took several hours, but once I got through, it triggered a self destruct sequence.

Luckily, by this time the self destruct sequence started all the other pods with people in had opened.

What we were thought were the true inhabitants of Terra prime were in fact aliens.

It seems that were transmitting lies of their true identity through the matrix.

To get out of the matrix we have to smash through the computer generated illusions by using brute force and from sheer determination.

Once we by-passed the barriers generated by the matrix as we escaped our computer generated prison.

As we left our computed generated prison, we looked behind us and witnessed the destruction of the matrix.

It was a relief that our nightmares had finally ended, but we had an uncomfortable truth that the world we knew was false and now had to piece together the truth.

It began with exploring the new earth (Terra Prime) with our eyes and that the number of people in the pods was much less than the earth world's population.

But this was soon solved as the rest of the population were in simulated realities in parallel earths .

They were also freed from the matrix shutdown of Terra Prime , as billions escaped into an unknown world.


They faced unknown challenges of a world that held both delight and horrors of equal portion.

It was a world untouched by progress, free from any sign of human civilisations.

It seemed that we will begin again but that we would try not to repeat the same mistakes that were made in the matrix simulation.

"Tonight you will feats like a kind," my wife promised.

Turns out she was planning to serve chicken a la king on toast.

We were free from our controlled artificial lives and from being used as a puppet to entertain bored extra-terrestrials.

We suddenly found that the superpowers we were always wanted to have had become a reality but being able to control them was another thing.