13. The operations bunker

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"Stand alone is better than standing with people who don't value you"

"Stand alone is better than standing with people who don't value you"

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Five entered the Infinite Switchboard but only to find it empty and things destroyed. Chair was laying on the floor and monitors were shattered. It look like no none have being here for a very long time and there was no life at all.

"Okay" he said before he noticed that a monitor was still operational. 

He put down the briefcase and wipe some snow off the screen before he started pressing some buttons.

"Okay. That's good" he said as he turned it on making the broadcast say a warbling sound before Herb appeared on the screen.

"There's been a rip in the space-time continuum. It's swallowing everything. Oh, my sweet Dot, Iris, Josh from accounting, they're all gone" he said and Five turned up for the sound making the audio garbles "We've tried everything! I don't know what else to do. The timeline is collapsing" Herb said before there was screaming in the background and the building began to tremble as the light began to flicker.

"This is...the end" Herb said and Five saw Herb being swallowed by the paradox with a scream.

In addition to being disappointed that he couldn't find any solutions, and Herb passing away, Five's face fell. He felt hopeless now and he really wish Jane was right next to him, holding his hand.

"I could kill for some scrambled eggs right now" Lila said as she entered the room "This is bigger than the timeline, Lila" Five said "What's bigger than the timeline?" she asked "The entire univers" he said "Yeah" she said "The missing dogs, people...It's the opposite of the big bang. Instead of the univers expanding, it's now collapsing in on itself" he explained.

"Like a prolapsing rectum" she said "That's weird analogy, but yeah" he said and she lifted up a book "Here, then. This might give us some answers" she said before she gave it to him.

'THE COMMISSION PARADOX PROTOCOLS'

"Master handbook" he said "The one and only" she said and he opened the book before he flipped through the pages causing the sound of pages rustling to be heard.

While Five was trying to find the right page, Lila was looking at three pencils she was holding between her fingers.

"Here we are" he said when he found the right page.

"Okay, protocol" he said before he began to read it "'In the unlikely case of the grandfather paradox, the founders and any essential personnel should--" Five read and Lila walked over to him before she used the pencils to continue reading "...be immediately remanded to the operations bunker'" she read out as she trapped her pencil on the sentence before she leaned back.

"The founders. What founders?" she asked "I don't know" he said but then something felled down from the ceiling making the two step back.

"We need to find that bunker..." 

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