[ WP ] The root password for the universe is discovered .

He sat in shock at the black desk. He felt as if he were now part of the inanimate blue plastic chair situated on the gray tiles of the floor of the high school's computer lab. All that moved was his train of thought through the loop of thinking he could not derail from. Over and over he ran through what would follow his actions. All he could imagine was being torn away from the life he was familiar with. Where he would be taken and what would be done with him he had not concluded. He managed to rotate his head around to scan the small room which was filled with five rows of nine computers all facing a white brick wall, with a desk at their backside and a door also on their backside in the wall to their right close to the corner, himself sitting in the center of the center row. First to the left down the row of unattended computers glowing with their identical log in screens and further left behind him to the unattended desk where a supervisor would sit if the school were open. Rotating to the right he observed the wall at the end of the row of computers where a white poster with black text establishing basic rules for computer use hung and further right to the door with the intimidating box above it marked `` EXIT'' in glowing red. 
 
 
 
 He centered his focus back on the computer he had been occupying for the past three hours. His bony, pale face showed great strain and was highlighted by the sweat the rolled down it as it was illuminated by the screen in front of him as he typed and clicked ferociously with his scrawny, long hands to save the monumental work on to a flash drive. He finalized his actions by ripping the flash drive out of the computer and standing up all in one motion before putting the flash drive in his pocket and crawling under the table. He hastily tore the plug of his computer from the power strip and plugged it back in. Crawling out and standing back up in the aisle he had occupied previously he paused and took a deep breath with his eyes beaming on the exit sign. Following a slow exhale he darted through the aisle and made his way to the exit door. 
 
 
 
 Upon bursting into the outside world, he felt the coldness of 4 AM in January on his jeans against his legs and on his flannel against his chest, but mostly he felt the sharp, icy wind against his small, pointy nose and his clumsy hands which were soon to become numb. He sprinted through the parking lot to his car with long goofy strides. He fumbled to unlock and open the handle of his car because of the panic from what he had just done and in an effort to escape the brutal air that lashed at him. He crammed the vehicle and got on the road with an eagerness to escape the scene and to get the heat pumping form the car's vents. 
 
 
 
 He awoke around 10 AM in his back seat. He removed the blanket he had cocooned himself in and slid over the center console into the driver's seat. He was still tired as he had only gotten a few hours of sleep after driving on the highway as long as he could endure before pulling into the parking lot of a rest stop and dozing off. He had enjoyed the break from consciousness because it allowed him to escape the nervous loop of thought that haunted him endlessly, but the time for that passed and now it was time to return to the road. He got on the highway and drove with his thoughts going round and round. After an hour of looping his mind finally questioned why he had done it in the first place. His thoughts halted and for a moment there was peace. He began to work backwards through his thought processes leading up to his discovery and diligent work. He analyzed his beginning stages. When he first came across the oddity he simply wanted to understand what he had found. As he came to understand the weight of his finding he still had no aspirations other than to understand the beautiful masterpiece. Now he understood the immensity of it and had it in his pocket. The root password of the universe was on his flash drive. He had full control of the universe in his pocket. He chuckled to himself at the lackluster format of ultimate control over more than any human mind could ever fathom. He finally escaped the loop and realized that he would simply learn and teach all that there is to learn and teach. He would expand the knowledge of mankind beyond anything it could formerly imagine. A new loop took over his train of thought: spreading the infinite knowledge without it getting in the wrong hands.
