The Dome City
Written by Nichole Haines
©2018 Nichole Haines
Jane woke up feeling groggy and confused, she tried to look around, but her vision was a blurred and she found it difficult to focus her eyes. She struggled to remember how she’d ended up in this place as she felt her body lying against some kind of cold metal surface. Slowly and carefully she sat up feeling a little lightheaded and looked around hoping her eyes would adjust. Still, all she could see was darkness as she sought to remember why she was in this dark room on this cold metal surface, yet her mind was completely blank.
She heard a strange vibrating humming - like noise approaching her, she tried to lift herself up fully and control the disconcerting feelings of her lightheadedness and confusion. A floating hologram, a bright red triangle, appeared before her, its face and mouth forming, eyes and lips of electronic black, the rest of its face unpronounced and noiseless.
It stared at her for a moment reading her thoughts and then it spoke:
"Don’t be afraid child, you’re here for re-education."
"Re-education of what?” Jane asked the hologram.
It continued to stare at her without answering her question, making its disturbing humming vibrating noises which were almost hypnotic, while Jane continued unsuccessfully to try and see her surroundings.
And then it just vanished!
Soon she heard other humming like noises and without warning lights were switched on, within seconds she could see the room she was trapped in. The walls were made from black glass with geometric patterns and the floor from a red marble crystal type substance. She was laying on a metal table but found she was able to sit up fully without those weak and dizzy sensations.
Jane glanced over at the wall noticing for the first time a very thin see-through square glass, lodged just inside of its structure. She wasn’t exactly sure what it was, however at that moment a robot appeared on a screen and said:
"Hello Jane, my name is Bato and I’m the Artificial Intelligence that controls the Dome City.”
“What year are we in?” asked Jane.
" 3030 Jane.” Bato replied.
Jane felt confused, she couldn’t remember anything clearly, yet had a strange, vague recollection of it being the year 2025. She opted for curious and probably forbidden questions:
"Why am I here in this place and why can’t I remember anything?”
Bato looked at her, he was void of emotion:
“Child, those are forbidden questions here in the Dome City” he confirmed “and I’m not allowed to answer them for you, the First Law of the Dome City is never to ask why you’re here. Your memory has been erased for a reason and once again I can’t answer why, you must follow all the rules and regulations of the Bato Artificial Intelligence system here, remember, nobody can go outside, and no-one contradicts our Law!”
OK, Jane thought, let’s try this question:
“How and when was the Dome City formed?”
Bato, rather surprisingly, answered her question quickly
“The Dome City was formed in the year 2025 because World War III broke out and chemical warfare destroyed most of the Earth. We made The Dome City from old malls which were no longer in use after the year 2020 as Internet retail had taken over the world of shopping.”
Bato then ordered Jane to put on her one-piece blue jumpsuit and to get ready for the day. The dark blue one-piece jumper had a badge/logo - like red triangle on the upper left corner of the suit, underneath it was written The Dome City in pronounced black lettering.
As the Bato vanished from the communication screen a small opening emerged in the geometric wall as a metal tray floated out towards Jane. Another Hologram arrived, and a male voice said, or rather commanded:
"Please take the blue and white pill before going into The Dome City."
Jane wanted to ask why once again, but already knew this was a forbidden question, so she didn’t bother.
Looking at the gel type pill she knew didn’t want to take it, yet once again the Bato returned, repeating his order and adding that it was to keep her mind stable, free of emotion while she worked inside the Dome City. As commanded she took the blue and white pill, what other choice did she have? Soon there was another hologram, much like the others, describing her occupation and what was expected of her inside the Dome City. Jane was a Guard of The Dome City, her job to manage the internet and mind system called LUMKA. LUMKA, was a system that allowed citizens to access the internet without the need for traditional computers. Her job was to guard the LUMKA’s forbidden passwords as LUMKA was public system here in The Dome City.
Jane’s job description flashed in front of her face as a doorway manifested itself just ahead in the wall. Entering she found herself in the middle of a lobby with a huge hundred-foot clear glass holographic triangle right at its center, just above it, written in Gold, were the imposing words: The Dome City.
A futuristic train system ran throughout the entire matrix, powered entirely by LUMKA artificial intelligence, it was known as the LOOMER system. It didn’t run on a track, it floated through the air picking up drugged and enslaved people to go about their daily enforced occupations. Jane realized it wasn’t necessary to inform the LOOMER that she needed to ride as the AI LUMKA system was already aware of all of her thoughts, all of the thoughts of everyone were monitored and controlled.
It arrived at 11:30 AM precisely, floating gracefully through the air within the Dome City, escorting Jane to her place of work; the CONTROL BUILDING.
Quickly descending she walked into the building where many people were in a huge room that resembled one of the old call centers used in the 20th and 21rst centuries. Jane relaxed into her levitating office chair as a holographic computer screen and keyboard took form in front of her, she could see an entire map of the Dome City which was about the size of Russia she thought, as she read on the terminal that there were 2 million citizens inside this structure known as the Dome City.
Jane had to sit at this computer and wait for a Red Alert signal to flash across the screen, her responsibility was solely to block other citizens from using passwords that were not permitted by the LUMKA system of control.
Her mind started to drift slightly from her boring guard the computer job. She started to ask questions in her mind, why couldn’t people in the Dome City access certain information on the LUMKA system and why they were only able to have knowledge about artificial intelligence and nothing else?
She waved down one of her Artificial Intelligence Robots Supervisors and asked it if she could use the restroom for a few minutes and the unemotional AI robot gave her the OK to go and freshen up. As she walked into the bathroom a hologram timer materialized itself in the air around her projecting the words TEN MINUTES in large letters.
For the first time she noticed herself in the bathroom mirror, looking closely at her eyes she saw they were brown and, in that split, second had a vivid flashback, a memory of her eyes being blue, not brown. Walking to one of the bathroom stalls she slipped on some water on the glass marble like floor and fell even though it was only three inches deep. Her clothing was soaked and as she was trying to dry it with one of the dryers she started getting what appeared to be electrical shocks all over her body. Quickly she removed the garment and looked inside, there was electrical wiring throughout the inside of the suit and Jane realized it was what kept track of her, what kept her connected to the LUMKA system. Maybe if she didn’t put it back on, she’d be able to get away with not being tracked by the AI Bato.
Wearing only a sports bra, shorts and sneakers, but not really caring Jane began to realize that the blue and white pill she took that morning was designed to keep her brain from functioning properly. As she left the bathroom Jane decided not to take another pill for the rest of the day, maybe that way her memories would eventually come back to her in full force.
Walking out in the main futuristic Dome City it seemed nobody around noticed her, including the floating LOOMER train system. Jane realized she was free of the system, however this was not the end of her adventure, still she had to get some of her questions answered, escaping from The Dome City may depend on it, her mind needed to be clear of the drugs first.
The Dome City looked enormous, Jane didn’t know where to begin her journey to freedom.
Seeing the LOOMER train stop twenty feet away from her, she noticed people all dressed in black one-piece jumpers getting off the train. Further down the lobby hallways she noticed the girl and taking a closer look at her she couldn’t believe her eyes, Jane had to blink multiple times before she could believe what she was seeing. The other girl looked exactly like Jane! Jane took a closer glance noticing that the girl had bright dark crystal clear blue eyes. The look-alike girl had a black leather book in a semi-opened backpack on her back and while walking with the rest of her group the black leather book slid out of her bag and fell to the ground.
Quickly Jane rescued the book and ran back to the restroom with it. Slowly glancing over the front cover, she read the words HOLY BIBLE. Jane was very confused, what was this book? Dressing again in her half damp one-piece jumper, she slipped the Holy Bible book inside her tunic, so nobody could see it.
The holographic clock appeared again in front of her, the words said TIMES UP, BREAK’S OVER PLEASE RETURN TO YOUR WORK STATION.
Back at her floating chair Jane began to enter the forbidden internet sites onto her monitor still connected to the LUMKA system for the citizens of the Dome City.
Soon a list of forbidden sites were on her screen entries like The Holy Bible, Jesus, religion and History. Once again there were questions, why would these searches be forbidden? The holographic message again arrived in front of the workers, GUARDS PLEASE TAKE YOUR NEXT PILL Jane took her pill from the metal tray and surreptitiously hid it underneath her tongue and again excused to use the restroom. She made a quick run to the bathroom, removed her blue one-piece jumper and spat out the pill. Holding it up to the light to see it closely, she noticed there was a very small microchip hidden within it. Concluding the microchip must be the mind controlling device, in each brain causing the almost total memory loss, Jane returned to her workstation trying to act as normal as possible without drawing attention to herself.
At last five o’clock rolled around, the work day was finished for all the Guards, including Jane. A few of her co-workers wanted her to come to the hangout terminal with them, Jane agreed in order to observe them. She quickly recognized the extent of their brainwashing, her colleagues spent their free time watching the holographic screens spew propaganda about AI technology and Dome City rules, those little pills were certainly effective.
Again, Jane returned to the restroom, took off her jumpsuit and removed the hidden book. She turned to the end of the book, a section named Revelation and began to read:
Revelation 12:9 King James Version (KJV)
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Jane’s lost memory started to recover, flashing through her mind, remembering it was the year 2025 when she last read her Bible.
One evening after a stressful workday, Jane remembered somebody knocking on the front door of her home.
“Who is it?” she had asked
“The police” came the reply.
Slowly she’d opened the door and asked what they had wanted. They told her that the President of the United States had decreed that the entire country could no longer freely practice religion and that all Bibles were to be taken away, this had applied to every US citizen. Furthermore, every citizen who had a Bible in their home was to be microchipped in their right hand, so they could be tracked closely by government, if people didn’t comply they were to be punished and presented for re-education or in extreme circumstances executed.
Jane’s memory continued to clear, she had vivid visions of refusing to be microchipped and being knocked out by the two police officers mentioned above.
Jane continued to read the Bible and came across Revelation 13 - 18
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
1And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred threescore and six.
Umm, there’s definitely something I’m remembering here she thought, so she decided to page through this Bible and stop at verses intuitively.
Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Yes, a thousand years of lost time she thought, no wonder the evil AI, the Devil of this bible, the controller of The Dome City had made so much effort to keep this all secret!
Daniel 12:4 King James Version (KJV)
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Jane thought about finding herself that morning on the mental table, no memory of anything before and being told that some questions were forbidden (shut up the words), and knowledge certainly must have been increased, look how effectively technology was being used to control the two million citizens of The Dome City.
She finally at that moment realized religious freedom was taken away from everybody on Earth and all Bibles and any knowledge of God or Jesus were forbidden on the LUMKA mind system because the AI was Satan working in disguise using advanced technology to subjugate the entire planet of Earth.
Jane grabbed her Bible and ran out to the main lobby, quickly looking at the map of the Dome City to determine the boundaries of this futuristic mall city. She traveled by train for six hours and sixty-six minutes before the floating train reached the limits of the Dome City.
Stepping out of the train more vivid memories began pouring through her mind. She saw a memory of sitting in front of her home computer searching the words Mandela Effect on the internet, she remembered back to the year 2012 and people were confused and frantic about why things were changing in their environment and why they were seeing changes even in their home Bibles.
Jane found herself in front of a clear see-through door, a triangular red button on the right-hand side of an elevator. Below the triangular red button, there was a small hologram that popped up that read “THE DOME CITY” the words slowly vanished and 666 appeared in bright red numbers. Jane wasn’t sure what she was going to see once she pressed the triangular button, so she began pressing it slowly while holding her Bible and reciting the Armor of God prayer.
Ephesians 6:11-18 King James Version (KJV)
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
The door opened, and she saw what looked to be a huge warehouse filled with black-suited one-piece jumper AI robots. On the other side of the room was a huge black furnace, with a Jane lookalike AI robot in front of the furnace, throwing Bibles in to. There must have been millions and millions of Bibles, God’s Word being thrown into the blaze to be burned and destroyed.
Jane screamed “NO!” and ran toward her look-alike AI robot forcefully pushing her (the AI) into the furnace so all her computer parts burned.
On the other side of the warehouse, Jane noticed another futuristic see-through-glass door that said Exit above it. Once again Jane prayed before pushing the red triangular button, the doors opened slowly and there was another futuristic glass elevator in another empty plain room. Jane entered the elevator, deciding to push the number three button on the off chance it may liberate her.
The elevator rushed to the third floor and the doors slowly opened. Again, she couldn’t believe her eyes, there were Aliens looking at Holographic screens watching every citizen in the Dome City.
Quickly Jane pushed the first-floor button and the elevator responded rapidly taking her down to the first floor.
As the door flung open all she could see was blackness all around, then as a bright light above her head illuminated she looked up and saw a clear glass geodesic Dome around her. She took the Bible she had and opened it. As she opened the Bible she could see red number computer codes 1010101010101 flying quickly past her head and past the clear glass Dome. She began to read the Bible out loud while the computer codes continued to frantically fly by.
She read the Bible verse:
Revelation 1:8 - I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
A small opening appeared in the clear glass Dome, Jane walked through the opening even though the computer codes continued all around. She walked forward and felt intense G-forces passing through her body, despite all she continued to walk straight forward until the blackness and the glass Dome disappeared from her sight.
Moments later she realized she was laying on the floor of what appeared to be an old shopping mall, other people were walking there too taking photos of a glass triangle in the middle of the mall, so Jane asked a couple why they were taking photos of the triangle. The glass artifact was from the time in the past when Satan ruled the whole Earth with advanced Technology, with a computer simulation called LUMKA that kept people in a Dome called The Dome City.
“Do people still use advanced Technology here?” Jane persisted.
The couple looked at her very puzzled and said “No nobody uses technology, computers or the internet, everything on the New Earth here God formed when Satan was defeated. God reverted everything back to Ancient Biblical times and everybody on the new Earth here lives in peace and harmony and worships God only.
The Holy Bible was saved by a girl named Jane after she remembered the True Word of God and God destroyed Satan’s computer-simulated world.
Jane quietly walked away from the couple in peace, her Bible tucked underneath her arm.
John 1:1-2 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Domed
Written by Nichole Haines
©2018 Nichole Haines
Ron Bale stirred, the sun blazing into his deep dark big blue crystal eyes. His vision slightly blurred from tiredness after a good night’s rest. As he awoke from his sound sleep, he didn’t exactly know where he was at first, slowly he sat up, rubbing his eyes gently to try to correct his blurry, fuzzy vision. He was sitting in a soft fluffy bed with plain white sheets, climbing out onto a grey marble type floor, he stretched a little, then stood.
The sun was brightly blazing through the closed window directly ahead of him and the bed. As he walked slowly and carefully towards that window its white mini blinds began to automatically raise. Ron was in shock, with a sense of disbelief that took his breath away. He realized he was in a clear see through Dome - like bubble, floating gracefully through the deep dark blue sky. How did I get here in this see -through clear Dome? thought Ron. His heart began to race, this was a moment full of fear.
He continued to stare through the white mini blinds, out into the blue sky, trying to make sense of everything he saw. Other clear see - through round Domes, were floating ahead in the distance It appeared, to Ron, that there was one person in each of these Domes, and each Dome was slowly and gracefully floating in the air, above the white fluffy clouds below them.
Ron quickly got back into the bed, was this all just a terrible nightmare, he thought, would he awaken any second? Nope, unfortunately not, this was real! He pulled the white sheets up over his head and silently began to cry. Through his sobbing he heard a mechanical type buzzing sound and as he peeled the bed sheets away from his wet teary face, the wall to the left side of the bed started to open like a curtain in a movie theater. A clear black oval screen emerged from behind the now opened wall and a man appeared on the screen in front of Ron. The man was wearing a shiny silver cape with a shiny silver veil over his face.
“I’m here to command you to do whatever the Shiver guide tells you” he said robotically as if he were in a trance thought Ron. A 3D type hologram, the Shiver guide he (Ron) assumed, appeared in front of the oval screen
Ron noticed the ornate holographic book for the first time.
“It states in the book that it must be read throughout the day for a total of twelve hours in order that you become perfectly programmed” stated the hologram, in a matter of fact way, and then he vanished.
Ron was unsure if the hologram had been a representation of a human or a robot, however, as he considered his options he became aware of the impossibility of leaving the Dome, or indeed talking to the people in the other domes, he knew soon he’d conflicted with the hologram and whoever or whatever was behind him, as Ron had no intention of complying with his captor’s demands
He began to carefully read the book of Shiver provided for him in holographic form. It contained scripture-like text, although these verses didn’t contain the Word God, unlike the Holy Bible, the verses in this so-called book of Shiver replaced the word God with the word Shiver. As Ron read the book of Shiver he began to feel uneasy, something about it was heavy, like it was filled with drudgery and slavery. Although he was still not entirely aware of his circumstances, or indeed who he actually was, he knew this book was dangerous, hypnotic and evil, he knew he didn’t want to replace God’s Word with the words from this book of Shiver, and although he didn’t remember how he knew them, or understand how they were resounding inside of his mind, over and over again he could hear an angelic, almost song-like voice repeating:
“For the word of God is alive and active Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12
Ron really didn’t like reading this book of Shiver that replaced the Word of God with the Word of Shiver, with the Word of death... He walked away from the holographic text in complete disgust, wanting nothing more to do with it.
He returned to the soft bed and started to gently doze. It must have been a few hours later, as it was already dark, when Ron woke up feeling disoriented and sleepy, He looked through his white mini blinds on the window and with. A depressing glance looked out into the starless, dark night sky and sighed to himself, still hoping and praying this was just all a hellish nightmare.
A holographic clock appeared in front of him, announcing that it was dinner time, 6:30pm. He went over to the small metal table that had appeared in the Dome and took a few glances at the meal tray quickly noticing the metal cup filled with dark red blood and a plate of nearly uncooked meat which didn’t look too appetizing either. He decided very quickly that there was no way he was going to drink anything that resembled blood and as for the meat (he didn’t really know what kind of meat it was) well he’d give that a miss too. Instead he’d sleep and allow the night to pass away and herald in the new day.
Ron felt depression setting in as he started to slowly open his eyes, it was like a dream of being stuck in this lonely Dome again for another day, yet he knew it was hopeless to wish for anything else, a brief glance at his surroundings confirmed nothing had changed. He walked cautiously up to the white mini blinds, just like the morning before, again he peeked out of them and again Ron saw the deep blue clear sky all around him. Far below his Dome he could see many white thick fluffy clouds, he glanced straight ahead, far into the distance and saw another Dome approaching his quickly. Finally, he could have some human interaction he thought cheerfully, if only the other Dome would get close enough. Cheerful thoughts were replaced by curiosity and a slight sense of disappointment as the other Dome drifted swiftly closer, for. Ron soon realized that the other Dome wasn’t clear like his own, instead it was bright red, disappointment and curiosity were replaced by horror and terror, as it dawned on him that the other bright red Dome was that color because it was splattered inside with hum