It is the year 3150. A miraculous discovery has been made: high-energy particles have been discovered in radioactive material, particles that had the power to move living and non-living creatures through the passage of time. A famous Professor, P. Marcus Anderson, had also invented the TimeMachine, the machine that served as a vessel that carried objects through Time.
The machine was almost ready. Marcus Anderson was hard at work, perfecting it. It had taken 10 of his 30 years of life to discover this theory, and he was not planning on anything distracting him from his task. A great sheaf of paper was piled on the table. Sparks were flying all over, but Marcus was so absorbed he didn’t realise what had happened until the acrid smell of burning filled the air. He realised, too late, that he was trapped in a ring of flames.
He was sure he was going to die, as surely as this machine and all the research that had taken him years to complete would be destroyed. Suddenly, an idea popped into his head. He could save his machine and himself by being the first person to ever try his own machine. However, the machine only worked in thunderstorms. Conveniently enough, Mother Nature had whipped up a huge storm, complete with enough thunder and lightning to make a person feel as if they’re in a particularly loud disco party. Marcus flung himself into the spacious capsule and pressed the big red CLOSE button, which immediately caused the antenna to rise and the door to seal tight. The electrical forces from all the lightning were immediately attracted to the rod of highly- conductive metal, and with a flash and a thunderous BOOM, the Professor vanished with his machine, while the remains of his research and the laboratory in which he had so many hours researching went up in flames to the sound of the fast approaching wail of the two fire-engines.
The next day, after a 6-hour battle with the flames, the house was nothing more but a skeleton. The remains of the machine and the Professor were, obviously, not found. Only after many years were records found, but they were dismissed because the dates were all muddled.
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3150
Science FictionIt is the year 3150. The World as we know it has shrunk into one city: Protekta. Only a group of time-travellers can save the future generations. But after the disappearance of their Head Investigator, will the citizens of Protekta survive, or...
