We Are the Power

Writing prompt:

Scientists have created a renewable energy source that converts human emotions into clean energy. Unfortunately, negative emotions such as hate, anger, and embarrassment are exponentially more potent than joy. As ethical scientists, they are debating how to ethically use the invention.

The interns are always the ones who end up being guinea pigs when the professors get their bright ideas. They are close by, they are conditioned to always agree with the professors and they can be extorted to obey if they don’t agree to be a test subject.

So the invention of the Emotional Power Generator was a break through in physics and psychology. It basically received emotions and converted them into power.

Of course they thought that bright emotions, like love, joy and happiness would give the most power. And don’t get me wrong, they did give a lot of power but when Charlie was put in the chamber and was having a bad day due to her period being present and she was just feeling blah and in pain, their generator was outputting a significant magnitude of power.

No one noticed the side effects of what happened to Charlie. Not even her. She just passed it off as her pain killers kicking in finally. Her pain had died off and her mood had improved as she was feeling much better, not as angry, depressed or in pain.