The Series 
                                                   Episode Fifteen 
                                                    The Old Ones 

Jana travels by shuttle to her father's apartment in the outer suburbs and on her arrival he asks. 
"How long will Silv be Jana?" 
"I don't know dad she had another class, probably an hour or so." 
"Ok well guess what, I've decided to take the position the OLD ONES offered me, it's a plum job as head of explorations, 
I'll have a team of 25 people that I can pick myself and we'll be exploring and setting up an observatory to monitor solar flares outside the city limits." 
"But dad this'll mean you'll be away from home." 
"I'll be away Jana, but exploring and setting up an observatory outside the city is vital to our research, basically we need to find out as much as we can of scientific value, we'll be looking for points of reference, because in the near future we intend to place some satellites in orbit to monitor the SUN's activity outside our atmosphere." 
"Dad why do you have to do this at all?" 
Walter lowers his voice. 
"Jana we have no choice, there are reasons to believe the fluctuations in the SUN's magnetic core are getting closer to a full on magnetic storm big enough to disrupt every power source on the planet." 
"That's amazing dad, I haven't heard anything in class about this?" 
"I know Jana, this is privileged information, this type of magnetic anomaly is far different to anything the OLD ONES ever taught us about how the SUN works, we must be quiet about it otherwise there could be serious repercussions, you may as well know the accident that killed your mother was caused by a power disruption brought on by a solar flare, oh look I'm sorry for bringing this up so close to your birthday, by the way the OLD ONES sent me this present by courier for your sixteenth." 
Walter takes a small package from his jacket and hands it to Jana, she opens it and cries out with happiness. 
"Dad the pendant's beautiful, but about my mom, it was so sad, I remember the day it happened when she passed on, no one ever told me the real reason, is this why you're taking the job?" 
"It does have a lot to do with why I'm taking it Jana, interference by solar flares to our power can be deadly if there's no warning, we hope to be able to predict them with the use of satellites." 
She places the green crystal pendant around her neck, embraces her father and says. 
"Please thank the OLD ONES for me dad." 
"I will, don't forget to wear it when you visit the COMPLEX or they won't let you in." 
"Dad, Silv told me a bit about the complex today, well a little bit about the ability to transform and all that kind of stuff, I was interested in the traveling to other dimensions  part of it." 
"Yes it is exciting, but remember all the things that happen in the COMPLEX are in your mind, they can't send organic matter anywhere, only brain waves, and a lot of those dimensions are not great places to be, they can scare you even when you know it's only in your mind, they're interesting to look at, then you get out fast before they can have an effect on you." 
The next week goes quickly for Jana, she's excited about her planned visit to the COMPLEX after her sixteenth birthday, so the day after a birthday party in her father's apartment Jana gets up early in the morning and takes a shuttle into the city and walks up to the main entrance of the COMPLEX where a robot guard at the door questions her. 
"Excuse me citizen do you have your pass?" 
"Yes I do." 
Jana holds out her crystal pendant for identification. 
The robot replies. 
"Pass citizen." 
On entry into the building Jana is escorted through a series of corridors continues by lift to another level then she's asked to sit in a waiting room, she fidgets and squirms in her chair then a computerized voice tells her to go to the next door, she approaches and it opens automatically. 
There's a dazzling WHITE LIGHT emanating from within the room and the voice that calls to her sounds like water rushing over rocks in a stream. 
"Come in citizen, welcome to your first session in the COMPLEX." 
Putting up her hands to shield her eyes from the intense light she sees SEVEN HUGE CRYSTALS of different shapes and sizes all mounted on pedestals with bright lights rapidly flowing backwards and forwards from one crystal to another, a chair appears in front of Jana and a voice says. 
"Please be seated JANA, we are what people call THE OLD ONES, we are here to ANSWER QUESTIONS and pass KNOWLEDGE to you and allow you the full clearance of level one.

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