I don’t know why I follow through on these stupid dares even though I know it could get me killed, I mean I know I lost the bet but that doesn't mean I have to do something illegal right? The name is Freddy, and me and my pal Rick are breaking into Chronoshift Labs right at this moment. You see, Rick and I bet our friends Sandra and Mark that our high school football team was gonna make it to the Championship and win; well they made it but they didn’t win. So now we have to break into this stupid laboratory and steal something, doesn't matter what it is, as long as we come out with something.
“Hey do you see anyone up there?” Rick whispers to me as I look around the corner.
“No there isn't anyone here.” I answer, as we round the corner and enter a dark hallway.
“Yo turn on the flashlight.” Rick whispers again, even though I told him it was too dangerous.
“No dude, we’re gonna get caught easier that way, now just shut up and look for a lab door or something.” I snap back, really getting anxious to get out of here. I run my hand across the wall as we move up and I feel a doorknob. I wiggle it a little bit and find out it’s unlocked.
“In here man, we can probably find something and get outta here” I say. I turn the light on and I can see a device in the middle of the room, it looks like some metallic boomerang. I walk over to it and it’s labeled “Time Travel Device”.
“Time Travel? No way this thing is real, look around for something else.” Rick says in disappointment.
“Why? Let’s just grab it and leave, if it’s fake then there’s no harm no foul right?” I ask.
“Whoa look at this!” He exclaims, not even seeming to hear me.
“Proton Launcher, dude, we could grab this and blow up a bunch of stuff.” Rick says, as if that was a good idea.
“No, that’s a horrible idea, let’s just grab this boomerang-thing and get out of here” I say as I grab it, once I move it the whole place lights up and sirens start blaring.
“Oh great now you’ve done it.” Rick says.
“Me, how was I supposed to know?” I retort.
“Whatever we gotta move, you want me to grab this cannon thingy?” He asks me and all I can say is:
“Uh no, it’ll slow is down”. We dart back the way we came through with the boomerang in hand and manage to make it out to the field where Sandra and Mark are waiting for us.
“You weren’t tailed were you, we could here you tripping the alarm from all the way back here.” Sandra says, looking a little worried.
“Nah, we lost them, I don’t think they ever saw us once” Rick answers.
“Alright then, what did you nerds steal?” Mark asks us. I show him the metal boomerang and tell him that it was labeled as a time machine.
“Pfft, no way that’s real, how would it even work?” Mark says.
“I don’t know, did it look like we had enough time to figure it out?” I reply, still a little paranoid that someone was following us. I flip the thing around a couple of times and find a power switch.
“I think this turns it on” I say, and just like that the thing whirls to life, glowing blue and hovering right in front of me.
“Where would you like to go?” It asks us?
“Awesome, it talks!” Rick exclaims.
“Why of course I do, how else would I communicate with you?” It asks.
“What is your name?” I ask it, not wanting it to report back to the lab and ratting us out.
“I don’t have a name, though I have a serial number I could read off to you it’s…” It starts to say when Sandra interrupts saying that we should call it boomer.
“That’s dumb, can’t we come up with something better?” Mark asks.
“What does it matter” I say, “Let’s just see if we can use this thing.”
“Why certainly you can use me, all you have to do is throw me and catch me, the rest will be sorted out afterwards.” Boomer explains to us.
“Can we all go or just one of us?” I ask.
“Stand close to each other, I’ll be able to take all of you then.” Boomer says. I then take hold of it and hurl it like a boomerang. It starts to come back and I manage to catch it. Boomer then envelops us with some sort of energy and we’re transported to some room, with only a desk and a man sitting behind it.
“Why hello there travelers, welcome to the Office of Time Exchange, my name is Brian, how can I be of service.” The man tells us.
“Whoa, what is this place?” Rick says.
“Ah, first timers,hmm lots of new ones today, this is the Office of Time Exchange, a place where all realities meet in order to traverse the multiverse with the utmost convenience. You can travel anywhere you like, literally, to any time period of any universe. However, as first time travelers I am required to send you to the Nexus, or the point where everything was one at a point in time.” Brian explains, he then reaches into his desk and pulls out a device.
“Wait, you mean we’re travelling back in time? Mark says, “Way cool…”
“Yes, I’ll be sending you back to when the first decision was made, when the universe became the multiverse, to get back all you have to do is use your device and you’ll be sent back here. It is imperative that you do not interfere with the course of history, you must observe, and return.
“But why, is there any particular reason we have to go there?” Sandra asks, which I was also wondering, was there a point to this?
“Ah yes, my apologies I forgot to mention, you only possess cosmic energy from your universe, before the split all the cosmic energy was bundled up in that instance. In order to participate in further travel you must possess all of it, don’t worry, you won’t feel anything, it is very small trace amounts; at least I hope it is, sometimes it gets funky and you might mutate or something but that is very rare. However, it is necessary so that you do not implode the universe you travel to.” Brian says, “Well without further-or-do, let’s send you back”.
We become enveloped in similar energy and are hurled into what looks like a Hyperspace Warp as seen on TV and after a few moments we arrive in what appears to be a garden.
“Hey, uh, Fred, what’s that moving around your feet?” Rick asks, I look down and see a green beam of light swirling around my feet. It proceeds to multiply and moves up my body.
“What the-” I stammer but it’s too late to do anything about it, after a few short seconds the beams of light shoot into my chest, and then it explodes. The other three are knocked back a few feet but are alright.
“Holy c-crap dude” Rick stutters out.
“What?” I ask him, but before he can answer Sandra shoves her pocket mirror in my face. My skin resembles the color of the sky and my hair is a much darker blue. I no longer have pupils or irises and my eyes are just white. I still have my clothes on(Thank the Lord) but I was obviously changed.
“H-hey what happened to me?” I ask, hoping to get answers from Boomer.
“Hang on, I’ll scan you” he says, and after a bit he relays me what happened:
“My hypothesis was correct, you absorbed too much cosmic energy, however you do not seem to be at any risk. You’re strength has seemed to improve vastly and cosmic energy is coursing through you body which suggests you may be able to project it somehow. It’s odd however, it seems that four different types of energy is running through you, an ice-based energy resides in your head, a heat-based energy in your torso, dark-matter energy in your arms, and electric-based energy in your legs.” Boomer explains to me, my head starts circling but he said I was OK so I don’t know whether to be nervous or not, maybe Brian has a cure for it.
“Woah man, you’re like a superhero, like that’s crazy” Rick says.
“Hey try out one of your new powers, I bet it’ll be awesome” she says, getting even me hyped up about looking like one of the Blue Man Group. I point my arm at a tree and try to clench my arm as to shoot something from it, and what do you know, a beam of energy flies out and blows it up.
“Radical” Mark astonishingly replies. Just then, another explosion happens off in the distance, and we rush over to see what the commotion is.
“Hey looks like someone got your powers, Brian did say some other new travelers came through” Sandra says. We arrive to a huge crater in the earth, with three dead bodies.
“Holy-” Rick stammers, and we all get a little nervous. Mark goes down to inspect the wreckage, and finds the most disturbing site.
“Hey, don’t they look like us?” he says, now we all get a little freaked out. I could see the bodies of what appeared to be an alternate version of my friends, lying dead inside of this crater.
“The path of the tracks leading out from here suggest the perpetrator of this crime intends to rewrite the course of history but altering the first decision.” Boomer relays to us.
“What do you mean?” Sandra asks.
“Well as I am sure you have figured out, we are in the Garden of Eden, and these tracks lead to the forbidden tree, I believe he intends to eradicate all existing universes and create new ones.” Boomer replies. Thinking quickly I grab Boomer and race a mach speed toward the villain. As I expected, it seemed to be an alternate version of me, but instead of turning blue, he became a dark red. I could see another human moving towards the tree and I knew that I needed to stop him from making it there.
“You know we may be able to cause an anomaly to throw us to the beginning of time if you can encapsulate the alternate me, two time stream merging together to travel at the same time surely will cause some sort of dimensional rift.” Boomer explains. I chuck him in front of me, hoping that his idea will work. The alternate me notices Boomer as soon as I knock into him and once he comes back the same ball of energy encapsulates us, however we aren’t transported right away; instead the area rumbles violently. After a few seconds, we are transported to a rock, floating out in the middle of space, with Boomer nowhere in sight.
“You idiot! You’ve ruined everything, I could have perfected this world!” he shouts at me. I look around in bewilderment. Noticing sophisticated symbols carved in the stone.
“Do you hear me!” He shouts again.
“Would you just shut it.” I say, moving to the center of the stone I notice writing, in some ancient language that I do not understand. I proceed to look up and do not notice any stars, it’s total darkness with this one source of light.
“I’ll kill you” he mutters, however I am prepared to fight him, being here seems to have given me insight on how to use my powers. He charges at me in a rage and I proceed to project a beam of intense cold at him, freezing him and sending him drifting perpetually in this wasteland. The platform starts to flash many different lights and I can’t see anything for a few moments. A monolith seems to have formed in front of me, it is completely golden barring the red line going across the center.
“How have you arrived here?” The large structure asks me, the red line distorts as it speaks.
“Where am I?” I ask back.
“You are nowhere, and everywhere at once, you are at the Nexus, a point where every known reality at every known point in time converges. Now I ask again, how have you come to arrive here mortal?” It replies. I go into detail about how I came to arrive and it doesn’t seem to get aggravated. After I finish my story it seems to ponder for a few moments, but replies with,
“You have been chosen, as have many other mortal beings, to become a celestial it seems. You have done us a great service, unable to monitor beings such as yourself I would have missed the greatest catastrophe known to all of reality. I will grant you passage back to your friends, Fred, and you will continue to track down beings like yourself for me, I will monitor the FIrst Decision so you don’t have to worry about the new ones messing anything up there, focus on those who would abuse their powers to take advantage at different points in time. If you ever require assistance, use this.” It levitates a stone towards me and I grab it.
“Crush this in your hand and you will be able to communicate with me, I wish you luck mortal, now go, and protect all of your kind from more celestials such as yourself.” It beckons me. I wanted to ask it many questions but before I can it blasts me with a blue beam and I am transported along with my friends back to Brian. I explain to all of them what I had experienced at the Nexus and the all seem to follow.
“It seems as though many new celestials are coming through the precinct and we aren’t able to identify them before sending them back. You have to go out and hunt them, make sure that they don’t screw anything up for us. Ok?” Brian asks us.
“Will do, where do you need us now?” I ask him.
“We’ll provide you guys with clearance to the Time Stream so you can observe anomalies and report back. I can also provide you three with weaponry to help out your friend in this endeavor. Good luck.” He says. He leads us to a room with a single doorway in it; we enter and are sucked into the Time Stream, and we can observe all things happening at once. We agree to set out and protect all of us from more threats to reality, and hope that we can succeed, seeing an anomaly behind us, we set out on our next mission.
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