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.