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..."