It was a rainy summer night in Philadelphia. Lightning zigzagged across the sky, casting bright flashes of light onto the broad sidewalks below. A tall young boy dressed in a wet white lab coat paced himself as he hurriedly walked to his destination, carrying a sagging plastic bag in one hand and a clipboard in the other. He was the GOF member Dima02, who was known as Dima Gallop. He rounded a corner and came face-to-face with the huge wooden doors of the David Rittenhouse Laboratoryóthe main physics laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. He hesitated a moment before opening the wooden doors and silently entering the building. Not making the slightest noise, he crept into the basement and to his usual post in Laboratory Station 3.
"Dima Gallop? Is that you?" a feminine voice asked.
Dima was so shocked that he dropped both the clipboard and the plastic bag. A thick, orange juice began leaking out of the plastic bag. "Don't sneak up on me like that, Daisy!" he yelled, still sweaty from the shock, "You made me spill our supper."
"I'm sorry, Dima," Daisy said, "Here. Let me help you." The 25-year-old lab supervisor picked up the leaking Styrofoam food containers and moved them onto a table. Daisy Mellow was a young woman with long, flowing hair and broad green eyes. Daisy and Dima were cousins, but they held little resemblance. The former was petite and charming with green eyes and brown hair. The latter was tall and stolid with black eyes and jet black hair.
"But couz," Dima asked his cousin, "Why did you call me here this late? I almost missed the last Septa train, and I won't be able to go home until tomorrow morning. I’d better get extra pay for working extra hours at night." He couldn't keep a straight face for the last sentence.
"They were testing some electromagnetic device in the lab today. Obviously, my boss saw something interesting and ordered me to stay behind to collect some data. I felt a bit hungry and lonely, so I called you. Lightning always scares me for some reason."
"Of course..." Dima and Daisy both sat down on the floor of the wide laboratory. Besides a big, green electrical generator in the middle of the room, the room was almost empty. It was nice to have the entire building to themselves. Dima unpacked one of the food containers and began to eat. Daisy recorded some data from the generator and propped open her laptop to enter the data.
"How about a little bit of My Little Ponies to cheer us up?" Dima suggested, "It's not like that we have anything better to do."
Daisy nodded and found the pilot episode of MLP: FiM. She put the volume on max in order to cover up the sound of the lightning. She was only supposed to check the gages on the generator every thirty minutes, so there wasn't too much to do. Dima was glued to the laptop screen.
Suddenly, just as Nightmare Moon appeared at the celebration in a cloud of lightning, a real flash of lightning hit the building. The entire electrical system of the David Rittenhouse Lab went berserk. Lights in the hallway flickered on and off, and there was a loud crashing sound. Then, red lights illuminated the room as fire alarms activated throughout the building. The generator in the room began to emit a stygian green fog. It almost instantly filled the room, blinding Dima and Daisy.
"Daisy! What do we do? Daisy? DAISY?" Dima panicked.
"Shut off the generator! Help me shut off the generator."
Dima, despite the blinding fog, managed to locate the generator with his foot. He started yelling so that Daisy could locate him by voice. Daisy frantically pressed the controls on the generator, but it was no use. The controls were damaged by the lightning strike. Dima watched as the gages soared to the max.
Then, the generator exploded. The last thing Daisy remembered was being thrown back from the explosion and hitting their head on the concrete floor. Daisy was immediately knocked unconscious, but Dima struggled tenaciously but futilely for another thirty seconds. He eventually succumbed to the chocking fog and fell unconscious.
