A DaVinci Co-Ed

Part 15

Arthur rounded everyone up, “Right then, we will go to Xanadu first and get some intelligence.”

“You may need some,” quipped Sid, “but I’m intelligent enough.”

“Is everyone ready?” asked Arthur as he looked at everyone else. They all nodded, twizzled the dials on their IWTs and vanished together.

Turning up the day after tomorrow (I quite liked that film) Arthur was too late.

“Arthur,” chided Danish as he reprimanded Arthur, “you are a day late, you need to rescue Fawh the day before yesterday (which isn’t a film yet) before he gets inextricably linked to D’ark’s plans.”

“Which D’ark?” asked Arthur.

“All of them.”

“What, you mean the kids and the wives as well?”

“No, just Vladimir and Lord D’ark.”

“We will travel back to the day before yesterday and rescue him.”

“You’ve got to be careful, Lebil is already trying to sort out the problem of D’ark trying to trade a time travel device to the Witch King for the fantasy dimension.”

“A whole dimension?” exclaimed Arthur agog.

“Who’s Arthur Agog?” asked Arthur.

“I meant your mouth was agog,” explained I.

“Oh.”

Danish sniffed a little to let them know it was his chance to speak, “D’ark does not get the whole of the fantasy dimension but the arth of the fantasy dimension.”

“We cannot allow him to do that. What are we allowed to do when we rescue Fawh?” inquired Arthur.

“You don’t usually bother about the rules,” replied Danish. “Don’t you have your IPP Time Code Field Guide?”

“It’s not very exhaustive is it, leaves too much unsaid. I don’t think the Author spent enough time on it. Two afternoons in Sainsbury’s, Monk’s Cross as far as I can remember.”

“Just don’t kill anyone or stop anyone from being killed.”

“What if they are going to kill Fawh?”

“You can stop that because he’s not part of the horror dimension’s timeline.”

“Well then,” interrupted Sid, “we can stop someone from being killed, if Fawh is someone and not something.”

“Stop being pedantic Sid,” rebuked Arthur.

“No, I don’t want to. My father was a pedant and I’m following in his overly formal and precise footsteps.”

Arthur ignored Sid and instead asked Danish a question, “So do we get to see the Time Resolutions program or what?”

“Erm, I don’t know, it may affect any decisions you make in the horror dimension.”

“Would it affect my decision to buy a cup of coffee there?” asked Sid.

“Not necessarily,” replied Danish.

“Would it affect my decision to punch Arthur on the nose?”

“No.”

“Excuse me,” interrupted Arthur, “but I may be affected if you punch me on the nose.”

“But if I did punch you in the nose it wouldn’t affect anything in the horror dimension.”

“I might punch you back,” threatened Arthur.

“As long as you don’t kill each other then things will be fine,” remarked Danish.

“Can I half kill him?” wondered Sid.

“Which half?” inquired Arthur.

“The top half, then we don’t have to listen to your inane bombastic statements,” chirped Sid.