Energy is around us, microwaves, cell-phones, electric lines, radar, and new inventions, scientific cyclotrons, plasma, and energy weapons.
It's 2006, and E-R-Mag Labs, NM, turns on an AM radio antenna connected to "Enet", a communication net at the resonant frequency of earth, to communicate with any special receiver world wide - ships, military units. As the switch is thrown, the entire transmitter explodes, and a tree with metal decorations some miles away vanishes, 2 teenagers with it. The antenna has become a focal point for the earth's magnetic energy, so was named "X-pole" which soon began absorbing electrical energy, but later any form of energy.
The antenna recharges by itself.
Every 24 hours, people and equipment in rough circles vanish. They are sent to a red-sand desert, and are being stalked and attacked by what look like "grey aliens", who appear to have followed a different evolutionary direction, and remained closer to dinosaurs and other amphibians.
Is this the end of time?