Wireless – Tygertim8

Jane was stepping down the stairs wearing only her “Madame Butterfly” robe, her heaving bosom bouncing with each step.

It was time to come hither her beau out of that damn dank basement and back to reality….
Sid was working very hard in his basement. The basement was crowded with wires, mismatched surplus Laboratory Capacitors from Bell Labs (good thing Murph worked security there, it certainly helped with the “midnight requisitions”), a jumble of Magnatrons, Tesla single node vacuum tubes using bremsstrahlung effect waves focused through Geissler tubes to create a a vertical ionized channel that would open up a dimensional gateway to another possible alternate universe. Despite being a “C” student, Sid believed that he had made the necessary break through while studying Nicola Tesla’s wireless power transmission. Sid knew he was right.
The last connection in place, Sid adjusted his glasses and threw the switch and a little golden brown bubble began to fade in as the current was fed into the system, augmented by the Tesla capacitors and contained by the magnetron s. Across town the McKinney power station’s power use displays lit up, and the bubble in Sid’s basement flared fiercely and Sid was reduced to a gelatinous puddle amidst his smoking clothes on the floor. The entire output of the Midwestern power grid was sucked into Sid’s basement, and McKinney along with a sizable chunk of the North American Continental area was empty of human life.