Retired police detective Seymour Staines lives a quiet life as an ice cream man driving around the small Yorkshire village of Wharram Percy in his Mr Whippy truck. One night he gets a mysterious call from his friend Rigby Pemberton who manages the o...
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The pain in Seymour's left knee was beginning to impede his walking and the only saving grace he had was that the pain in his right knee was slightly dulling it. He knew that 'annihilating' people who have activated the monocles at any point in the timeline wasn't something he wanted to get involved with and after only a brief glance at Stacey and Frogmorton he knew they were in this boat with him.
"So where are we going then Bob?" Seymour asked in an attempt to slow everyone's gait and create a reprise from the walk.
"Well, that is simple, we are going to destroy both the monocle and user in the year 2028," Bob replied while not offering the reprise in walking.
'How is that simple?' Seymour muttered to himself.
"It is simple because that is where the crystals are leading me. A monocle has been used in 2028 and I need to go and destroy it. It is the only way to keep the timeline stable."
Now both Stacey and Frogmorton had slowed the pace down and Frogmorton shouted to Bob, "and destroying the person who activated it, how is that not going to affect the timeline?"
"Well this person signed their death warrant when they used my monocle, it is them who has inevitably ruined a timeline similar to the way you have by using the Eye of God."
"So, you are here to kill us too?" Seymour asked, partially regretting not slicing the shovel straight through Bob's throat when he had the chance.
Bob finally stopped and turned to look at them all, his seemingly innocuous stature was overshadowed by a menacing and piercing glare he shot to all three. He sighed and then chuckled to himself.
"If I wanted you dead it would already be so," Bob answered. "But I won't deny that the thought had crossed my mind. To tell you the truth, the issues your venture into time travel caused are minuscule in comparison to that of the issues that will arise from the use of the monocle in 2028. I refer to these as continuum fragmentations and timeline dislocations."
"I don't want to know, my head hurts with all this and my knees are fu-"
Doctor Frogmorton interjected "are you saying that during time travel anything could affect the timeline and ultimately make that and others cease to exist completely in a heartbeat. What happens to people from there... here... then?"
Bob didn't answer. He just offered a slight hand gesticulation signifying they disappear.
"And what does that mean for us?" Stacey asked even though she ultimately knew the answer.
Bob again didn't speak; he just continued the gesticulation.
"Right well I don't want to be gone in eight years so I think we should go with you, but if we can destroy the monocle without killing another human being, we do it. Okay?" Frogmorton said while looking at Seymour and Stacey.
