Some days after the presentation and the paparazzi started to calm down, now I could go back to the workshop and to meet with my friends,I passing security like always, but where I arrived, I found all of my friends together and also Richard and Julian, surrounded by a big security team, Julian said in calm tone to everyone:

  

  
• I saw what you were capable of, but I need that you make the portals better.


  

  I approached and responded in a nervous tone:

  

  
• what does it need? To have a better efficiency? Of to make them even more stable?


  

  

  
• no no that’s not what I meant, I need you to make it portable, and to be resistant to multiple climates, and also probably to hazards.


  

  I stood silent for a moment, thinking about what he said, the I noticed what he tried to do.

  

  
• let me guess.. someone wants it as a weapon.


  

  

  
• I see you still have a little of common sense in that little head of yours, yeah, I’ll make it a weapon, but not in the traditional sense for sure, all of the nations in the world are sending blank checks with the purpose of making this “version” of the portal, we would not only solve all of the logistical problems of the world.


  

  

  
• I know that, but we are only a global transport company, looks like this technology is really interesting the world.


  

  

  
• yeah, it is, even if we don’t know all of the military industry, at least we have to decide to which country to sell the technology, we don’t want to infuriate already started conflicts.


  

  

  
• I see…. Then I refuse to continue this project.


  

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  I exclaimed with all of the confidence of the world, even though in the deepest part of my conscience, I knew I couldn’t do anything, then I heard his voice full of seriousness.

  

  
• You will do it you want it or not…. You signed it in your contract, you have no other option, remember why you are here.


  

  They used my own words against me, signed my own sentence, forged my own Chanda, and there was no exit from this one, no other option, no escape.

  

  
• In two days or weeks depending on the demands of the nations and lawyers I’ll send you the contract, with a document that says all of the requirements of this “version” so keep an eye out for it okay?


  

  And so as he appeared, he left, my colleagues approached me asking about, if I had something in mind to start developing this new version of the tele-transport technology, and being honest I had mi mind blank, I couldn’t think of anything, I was cornered once again, just like 3 years ago in that cold cell that make me captive, powerless, so without any option left I proceeded with development.

  The two weeks passed, and after all of that reflexive time the document arrived, the wanted an extremely small version of the portal, capable of transport small vehicles and even people, they will obviously use it to make incursions and invade any part of the world they want without any repercussions, and so I began to work, we had to find the way of not only making the portal device smaller, but also make it as silent as possible, and ew did not forget to find a way so that when the tele-portation happens the teleported object did not find a collision with an existing object nor any bad placement of the portal.

  We developed a prototype that was compact enough but just a bit big like a backpack, also we managed to make an energy barrier based on an archived technology that we found deep in the library of failed experiments of the company, this helped so nothing can enter mid tele-transportation, and we didn’t forgot the essentials, like the localization system, frequency encryptor and generator, nor the miniature generator and battery, this because the generator was small, it didn’t generate the power to kickstart the portal, but enough power to maintain it, so the battery is the kickstart, but also the batteries get charged when the generator is not used, but this portal was different, the setting of this portal is horizontal, so it was like a hole in the ground, in which the object or users is lifted and then slowly dropped 4 meters into the ground of the location, this setting was extremely difficult to make by it self, but also presented the problem that the users couldn’t leave by the portal in which they dropped, so they would have to use another portal.

  After testing the prototype many times, we saw some issues, but nothing that couldn’t be fixed with some extra time, like when a portal opens and the energy barrier appears, it appears with a bright yellow wake, capable of seeing from some kilometers, but that didn’t affect anything luckily, just testing if it was capable of transporting bigger objects by extending the range of the portal.