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RE 6

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 iiiii

2008

"...2058, 2057, 2056, 2055, 2054, 2053, 2050, 2049--"
A white light flashed and the time travellers were suddenly in the year 2049.
"2049. So some time this year everything goes wrong and time is blocked. I wonder why that--" Wylock started.
"I think I found out." Roger mumbled, staring in awe at the scene around them.
Wylock looked around.
Chaos.
Fires. Burning. Smoke.
Chaos.
Running. Savages. Confusion.
Chaos. Chaos. Chaos.
"What happened?" Roger asked. People were running. Being chased by each other. Fires were everywhere. Civilization was...gone.
"Clearly to find out what happened here, we need to go back in time another year or so." Wylock muttered, twisting the dial on his Time Jumper to 2048.
Nothing happened.
Roger frowned. "What does that mean?"
"It would appear," Wylock stared. "That we are stuck in this time period for some unkown amount of time."
Roger pulled out his gun. "We start over then."
Wylock grabbed the gun away. "No! We aren't in a Loop, thus, we can't ride the Loop back to 2008 like normal. We're going to have to wait for another Loop and breaking of Physics."
"Or wait for Leo to find us and kill us." Roger said, sitting down.
"We need to focus on the now. Solve this crisis. What happened here!?"
Roger shrugged.
Suddenly another version of Wylock stepped up to them. "I've been waiting here for you for 20 years!" he said. "For sake of keeping things less confusing...call me Whitelock."
Roger rolled his eyes. "That's helpful."
"Whitelock," Wylock said, staring as if at a mirror. "What am I--I mean you doing here?"
"When I was stuck with my version of Roger here, we tried drastic measures to get away. Roger's dead now, and I'm stranded. Do Not Use The Time Jumpers To Go Back. Okay?"
Wylock just nodded. Apparently his other self tried to get away...and it didn't work so well for him.
The people around Wylock and Roger suddenly turned to them, and started chasing.

RE 5

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 iiii

2008

A white light faded.
"Are you listening?" Leo asked.
Wylock nodded.
"It's broken! The thing's imploding!" Leo shouted.
"Shut it down."
"We'll have to do it manually!"
Leo climbed down to the TIME PORTAL. 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.
"We're back where we started again."
"And once again we'll try to solve all of this!"
"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."
"You're in good company."
"Where to now?"
"That globe is the key. We need to find some way to get back to it. To track it somehow."
"To me this just sounds like a load of Trial And Error."
"Lets just go back to the exact time it appeared in 2000. Set your Time Jumper."
Nothing happened.
"What does that mean?" Roger asked, looking at his time travelling device.
"That time has been blocked off. Just like 2008. The Time Jumpers can't travel to those times now. I don't know why, so don't ask.
"What now?""
"Well, we just tried where this all started...I say we see where it ends."
"What do you mean?"
Wylock frowned. "Set your Time Jumper to the year 3000"
"Isn't that dangerous?"
"Extremely." Wylock grinned and set his own Time Jumper.
Nothing happened.
"Told you." Roger said smugly.
"No. It's not like we can't. That time is blocked off too."
"Maybe we should try an earlier year."
"Good idea. Go to 2085."
Nothing happened.
"It would seem like a huge chunk of the future is blocked. We need to find out when this first blocked off. Try every year starting at 3000, and work your way down. First year we can get out to, we will. I want to know why that time is blocked."
"All of this is just so hard. Loops. Portals. Time. Future. Present. Past. Relativity."
"2999, 2998, 2997, 2996, 2995..."

RE 4

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 iii

2000

Wylock stood up. "Careful Roger, we must not interact with out other selves. The 'us' of this time."
"What happened to 'Time can't become any more damaged than it already is'?" Roger asked, rolling his eyes.
Instead of responding, Wylock looked out from the closet he and Roger were hiding in. "There we are. And there's the rest of the original Time Travellers! What a great group! I miss them sorely."
"Why don't we just save them? You and I are the only ones that survived that awful night. Why can't we just save their lives now?"
"Catastrophic! No!"
"Why don't we go back to when you first started building the Time Portal, and just stop you?" Roger asked.
"Because if you try to tell the Time Jumpers to go to 2008 it won't let you!" Wylock hissed. "How many times do we have to talk about this!?"
"Okay Okay. One last thing. What are we even looking for that can help us save the Line?"
"It was your idea to come back to this time period. If I knew the answer to that, I would've already saved the Timeline."
"I know. Still, I don't know why we bounce about time trying to fix it, when we don't know how."
"Shhh. Look! There's us leaving to follow Fernando."
"I wish we'd never done that."
"No time for sorries now. Follow me. We're going to tomorrow. That's when we finally stop Fernando!"
"As if you need to remind me."

'Tomorrow'

Wylock looked around. He spotted his old young self quickly. Fernando had just taken a bullet to the leg, and was now hunkered down behind a car. Other Roger was leaned up against a fence, reloading a gun. Roger knelt next to Wylock, watching the scene play out for the second time in his life. Wylock frowned, watching as Other Him jumped out from behind a garbage can to attract the traitorous Fernando's attention. As soon as Fernando turned to shoot, Other Roger jumped out and shot to kill. Fernando--and the other Time Travellers--died that night. Rain began to fall.
"Follow me." Wylock murmured, stepping toward the scene. Other Him and Other Roger had left long ago using the Time Jumpers--at the time, basic designs for Time Travel.
Roger followed Wylock out into the street where he saw what Wylock had seen.
"What is that!?" Roger asked, looking at the large yellow globe.
"The key to our problems...I hope."
The ball vanished.
"Hey! Where'd it go?" Roger asked, looking up into thin air.
"If my theory is correct," Wylock muttered "It's vanished into Time."
"Okay... What does that mean?"
"We've lost it."
Just then the ball appeared again.
"We're in luck!" Wylock shouted, jumping to try to grab hold of the ball. "It seems this sphere only travelled a few seconds into Time. We have it! Give me a boost, will you?"
Just then a shot rang through the air.
Leo was here.
Roger shoved Wylock, and the two sprinted away, weaving their path to avoid the deadly shots. They stopped inside a building.
Wylock peered out the window and saw Leo coming toward them. The Time Sphere was gone again now.
"What do we do?" Roger asked. "The ball is gone, and Leo is going to kill us. Then there's NO hope."
"I know, I know. Give me a second to think."
Roger looked at a glass of water abandoned on the counter. He grabbed it and shook it up a bit.
"Then allow me to think."
"PHYSICS CHECK!!"
The water floated out of the glass. Wylock groaned. He stepped out of the house and called to Leo. The crazed man shot first at Wylock, then Roger.
Both shots were dead on.