Time Travel Agency

PROLOGUE

Time Travel Agency's Origin: 1961-2013

     IT ALL began with Winston Churchill. Well, not the one you know... yet. Time travel is complicated. In 1961, Young seventeen-year-old Winston had his own ragtag science and astronomy division made up of him and his friends that was stationed in England. They had discovered a temporal anomaly in low lunar orbit from through a telescope. They knew it was a time thing because every time it came around, they could see through it and find a crater on the moon that wasn't there normally. They called it the Phantom Crater. It was actually a crater made by a 300-foot-wide asteroid that hit the moon in 2025. Over the course of 1961, they discovered five more anomalies in the Earth-Moon system. Unofficially, in early 1962, they took on the name of Time (and space) Anomaly Discovery Agency (TADA).

     In 1965, Winston was visited by a strange man who asked if he was Winston Churchill. After Winston said yes, the man went on to say that a scientist from Hill Valley, California had invented time travel and proceeded to hand them a copy of the blueprint. Winston had the idea of putting it in a refrigerator. For the next ten years, he engineered the blueprint into reality. In 1975, he finished the refrigerator time machine. Since he was a mild WW1 enthusiast, he set the time and he disappeared in a flurry of blue and orange, leaving a square of fire where the refrigerator stood. He never came back.

     After the loss of Churchill, one of Winston's friends and co-workers, Leonard Johnton picked up the leadership role of TADA. He also was Winston's son's father figure. When the boy was five, Leonard showed him where his father ended up. He ended up as prime minister during the second world war. What no one knows was that the second world war never happened before Churchill left. Winston Churchill Jr., the son mentioned earlier, eventually assumed leadership of TADA at 19 in 1990. Over the 28 years Winston I and Leo were in charge, the group went from a ragtag group of free-lance scientists, to a full-blown facility of hundreds of staff members. However, Parliament didn't really notice them until their next big move.

     In 1991, Winston II flew to Hill Valley, California to find the inventor of the time machine. He could not find the inventor himself, but he did find a family who knew the man. They said he "disappeared in his own invention." Winston II could relate. His dad did the same thing. The father of the family, who Winston later discovered he was a local rockstar, handed him an old schematic of the best design out there for a time machine.

When Winston II got back home to London, he announced that he'd expand the organization's boundaries. In 1992, the test was ready. He fired it up, went the 88 miles an hour, and disappeared to a trail of fire. Leo watched the road nervously, and five minutes later, Winston II re-emerged behind Leo. "Hey," Winston said, "I think this organization is ready to go the next step."

     In early 1993, they presented this contraption to Parliament and commended the inventor, Doctor Emmit L. Brown. Parliament declared secretly that they would become an agency. TADA officially became the Time Travel Agency on October 25, 1993. The branding says it's "Established by Parliament in 1962" because of marketing and half-aced truth.

     In 1999, A group of terrorists formed when they heard of TTA. Nothing much about them was known at this time, but many speculations were going around. Maybe they wanted to take over the agency to wreak havoc onto the world. No one knew for sure.

     By 2000, a ranking system was in place. When an agent first started, they'd have a more trained agent teach 'em the ropes until they can move up to the next level: The Agent. An agent has been on the force for two years and should know how to do their job. They get the privilege to go on solo missions and get access to their own time warp pad. They have a watch to get home when they've completed their mission. Then there are the highest-ranking agents: The Veterans. They have access to their own time car. They can use their own car, or a car of their choosing. Yes, they could choose a DeLorean if they so wanted.

     Things settled down and life was normal for the next twenty years. In 2013, a man, who― with help― changed everything through time travel, began his agent life.

July 16, 2013 - Dairy King in downtown Lime Junction City, Alabama

     David Loel was waiting in line to order his usual: #2 special. The restaurant was an average square building with a centered front door and 3 tables on the left and right. Maybe there was an old jukebox from the 80's in the back next to the register counter. In a middle table on David's right, a woman slowly pulled out a gun and hid it by her menu. She stood up and aimed the 9mm pistol at David's head.

     Just before she could pull the trigger, a bright implosion occurred outside the restaurant. A man came through the door in a suit with a Time Travel Agency Pin on his lapel. His name was Agent Jake Jarodson. The gunwoman was blinded by the light, disoriented and started shooting randomly. Everyone got down including David. After 7 shots, the shooting stopped after a different kind of shot was fired. David looked up from his crouching position and saw the dude who came in earlier with a rifle. The shooter collapsed to the floor, dropping her gun.

     The man helped David onto his feet. "Who are you?" David asked, confused and traumatized. "I am Jake Jarodson. You are gonna be a real asset to this agency."

     As the two drove away in Jarodson's time car, a young sixteen, maybe-seventeen-year-old boy ran out of the restaurant. He pulled out a device similar to that of a walkie-talkie, turned some knobs, and disappeared in a flurry of lightning and energy.

Author's Addition

     But, what's all this backstory for anyway? You'll find out in Time Travel Agency.