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The reality bubble

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Year 348
This is the research journal of Marius Loctor. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in the field of quantum mechanics, we managed to construct a time machine of sorts. It allows us to experience the past in what my colleagues have come to call a 'Reality bubble'. We will use it to witness the moment, when the Enlightened ones have descended from the skies and freed us from our ignorant ways. I am one of 5 researchers, who will enter the bubble. To say that I'm excited would be an understatement.

Year -5
Our records of the time when the Enlightened ones came down are sketchy at best and our first jumps only showed the war that ensued, as the foolish mankind sought to fight the Enlightened ones instead of embracing their gifts. I never knew, that mankind was capable of such bloodshed. We are currently resting between two jumps.

Year -10
This jump seems more promising. We have arrived in a time, where the world seems relatively stable. However there are still no signs of the Enlightened. We probably missed their arrival by just a little bit. Apparently some of the vanguard of the Enlightened are here already though. They have taught prophets of their coming, who currently seek to prepare the world for the joyous event. Unfortunately, as history taught us, it was for naught. From the looks of it, the prophets were largely ignored or considered 'insane'.

Year -4
We've finally nailed it! The ships of the Enlightened are standing like fortresses in the sky, their wondrous machines taking root in our weakened Earth. The human armed forces have scrambled to attack them as if they were invaders instead of saviors.

Year -4 Part 2
I...I cannot believe this! The Enlightened ones have responded to the initial attacks with devastation I never considered possible. And it's not just that. The machines, which are to save our world from our follies are pumping something into the ground none of my colleagues could easily identify. However we noticed the first signs of the plague, which would eradicate 90 % of humanity in the coming years. I cannot believe that this is a mere coincidence.

Year 348
We've returned back to our original time, but I am not sure, if we should really publish our findings. If our suspicion are true, if the plague was not the tragic result of our follies, as we were taught, but much rather used as a weapon by the Enlightened ones, it may well mean overturning everything we thought to know up to now. However there is only one way to be sure. We must travel to the sanctum, where the Enlightened lie enshrined and access the sacred archives. It may be forbidden, but we must know the truth.

Year 349
Our preparations had to happen it utmost secret. If the watchers were to learn of our intentions, they would, without a doubt, put a stop to it. And possibly end us.

Year 350
It has been a long and arduous journey, but we finally arrived at the sacred archives, deep within the forbidden land, where the Enlightened ones first made contact with humanity. The ruins of the city that was consumed by the flames of war make for great cover and I don't think the watchers have spotted us yet. Let us hope it stays that way.

Year 350 Part 2
A few days have passed since my last entry and we managed to gain access to the ark. No human has ever set foot into this hallowed halls ever since the days of deliverance.

Year 350 Part 3
This is absolutely horrifying! We have come across rooms, where countless humans are enshrined into transparent capsules. I don't know what is done to them there, but I doubt it's for their benefit. But what could the Enlightened intend to do with them?

Year 350 Part 4
It's all over. I lied amidst the corpses of my colleagues and I can feel the life slowly seeping from my own body, as the blood streams from the bullet wound one of the watchers inflicted on us. We may have found the truth, but nobody will ever hear of it.
It's all true. We found records, that the Enlightened ones had researched our species for a long time before making their appearance. Over the centuries, they released a number of diseases in rural areas in an effort to find one, that would decimate our kind to a degree, where it would be unable to fight back. We have been lied to.

Final entry
I found an old communication device on a deceased group of human warriors. If I play this right, I may yet find a way to make this truth heard. We have lived with the lies of the Enlightened far too long. The lies end today.

Year 423
We found this journal in the inner sanctum of the alien mothership. After the heroes of mankind woke us from our daze of blissful ignorance, the remainders of mankind picked up arms once again and fought against the remainders of the so-called Enlightened ones, destroying their machines one by one. We wrought our freedom in blood and fire from their hands. And from today on, we will stand strong as a species again. We will learn from the mistakes of our past. And the reality bubble will be an invaluable tool in doing so.
Aliens! Treacherous bastards, every single last one of them!
Okay, this is my second entry for the prompt fav.me/d8s3146, more precisely the sub-prompts of 'Aliens visiting humans in the past' and 'Aliens bringing diseases'. I probably could've found a way to implement the third sub-prompt as well, but I decided against it.

I think I like this one better than my previous entry. Total word count: 908.

I hope you enjoyed it. :)
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This was really awesome ^^ I loved it!