RE 3

Short Story by Jim Blow
A Time Traveller original idea from the author that brought you Heroes in odd Places.
Wylock Roger and Leo

The Reoccurring.

Part I

Chapter ii

2008

A white light faded. Wylock brought his hands away from his eyes.
"Are you listening?" Leo asked, looking at the professor.
Wylock nodded. "What is it?"
"It's broken! The thing's imploding!" Leo shouted.
Wylock looked over at Roger. Roger nodded and they split into action.
"Shut it down."
"I can't."
"We'll have to do it manually!"
Leo climbed down to the TIME PORTAL. Strange purple fumes spat out from within the vortex. Leo reached up and flipped a switch, suddenly his feet slid out from under him and he flew upward, then sideways into the portal. It closed, swallowing him up.
"The portal's shaking." Roger said, walking over to Wylock.
"And now it's done." Wylock muttered, turning away.
"We're back where we started again."
"And once again we'll try to solve all of this!"
"I'm with you to the end Professor."
"I know you are, Roger. I know."
"Why do we come back here?" Roger asked, looking around the destroyed lab, and the collapsed TIME PORTAL.
"I don't know. I assume because this is where it all started."
"I don't understand time."
"Few do."
"I believed for the longest time that it was only possible to go forward in time. You know. If I were to go up in space, time would be different for me than it was for people on the planet here. I'd be going forward in time....at least in a sense I would."
"Time is a great mystery. Clocks tick on when Time Stands Still. Nothing makes sense to me anymore."
"So we take another crack at it. Straighten out the Line."
"I wish I'd never invented this confounded portal...and the Time Jumpers in the first place!"
"The first place. That's where we'll try this time."
"I beg your pardon."
"Every time we get here we go somewhere else in time to try to straighten out the Line we disrupted. I say this time we go back to when you first invented the Time Jumpers themselves."
Wylock nodded. "It wasn't a pretty time."
"Is any of time 'pretty' anymore, doc?"
Wylock shrugged. "I suppose not."
Roger and the old scientist raised the Time Jumpers to their faces, twisting the dial backward to go back in time. "Leo will be there. Will that change what happened there?"
"I don't think time can get any worse than it is."

RE 2

Short Story by Jim Blow
A Time Traveller original idea from the author that brought you Heroes in odd Places.
Wylock Roger and Leo

The Reoccurring.

PART I

chapter i

2022

Wylock appeared on the ground, breathing heavily.

Roger knelt down next to him. "You ran into Leo, didn't you?"

Wylock nodded, cringing.

Roger ran into the next room and returned with a small glowing blue box. He placed it on Wylock's chest, and activated it. The machine hummed quietly, then stopped. Roger moved it out of the way and inspected Wylock's wound. It was completely healed.

"What do we do now?" Roger asked, slumping back against the wall.

"We need to start over. The timeline is still looping randomly. We must tread carefully now." Wylock warned.

"And we need some way to prevent Leo from tracking our Time Jumpers whenever we bounce about."

"Right. Him. I'm just wondering Wylock. How are we--"

"Stop talking Roger."

"What's the matter? I just wanted to--"

"Shh! Look!" Wylock whisper-shouted, pointing at a pencil that had just rolled off a nearby counter.

Roger frowned. The pencil floated up to the ceiling.

"Physics is--"

"I know." Wylock frowned, sadly. "Do it. We'll have to try again."

Roger pulled a gun out of his pocket. "It's reoccurring."

He shot Wylock. Then himself.

Once again their mistake had caught up with them.

RE 1

HAPPY BACK TO THE FUTURE DAY
from all the sci-fi lovers here at Blow Headquarters.

October 21st 2015 at 4:29 PM

Short Story by Jim Blow
A Time Traveller original idea from the author that brought you Heroes in odd Places.
Wylock Roger and Leo

The Reoccurring.

Part 0

2015

Mr. Wylock frowned. Something was off about this whole thing. John Wylock turned around, lifting his protective goggles to get a better look at the man behind him.
"I didn't think you'd have the guts to show up." Wylock said, shaking his head.
"You knew I would, though. Didn't you Doc. You've been to the future." the figure growled.
"The future." Wylcok mumbled. "An awful thing the future. But it can be changed."
"By who?"
"Who else? Me. I've got to fix all of this. It's my fault the future is as it is now! I should never have brought Roger into all of this."
"Roger? ROGER!"
"Calm down. I'll fix it."
"There's no fixing what you've done. You messed with time, now it's coming back around for you."
"I didn't mean to disrupt the time line!"
The figure lifted a concealed weapon from his coat and pointed it at the professor. He pulled the trigger. Wylock sunk to the ground.
"Only a coward would shoot a man in the back," Wylock mumbled. Then, with a grunt, he twisted a dial on the Time Jumpers.
He vanished into time.

Editing

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