The Paradox Corridor

Chapter 29: The Last Chapter Title was Incorrect

"Woah, woah, woah. Guys. slow down. One at a time, I will answer you ONE AT A TIME!" 'shouted' the Paradox Corridor, trying to get their attention while they all talked at once. The Paradox Corridor replayed all of their questions on the video that he must have been taking during the whole conversation. Finally, he began to answer their questions.

"Andrew, the robot you fought earlier is a model of robot from the future, but has been screwed up pretty badly, the reasons for which Lyle will inform you later. It attacked you because, obviously, whoever its master is wants you dead, though why I have no idea. James...what weird guy have you been seeing? I have cameras literally everywhere, but I have not seen a single person with a bowler hat at all. Maybe your vision needs correcting. And the Gal-Gatha comes from another planet, and its reason for attacking you is also unknown. Its possible that it is working in league with the robot, although thats unlikely. And Amber...what visions have you been having?"

"I...I...I...can't remember..." said Amber forlornly.

"Well...no matter," said the Paradox Corridor after a while, "But by far the most important question you asked was the question about the clouds. Now, what you all know is that the clouds were blown in by the wind 3 days ago, then the wind stopped, and left this huge blanket of clouds hanging over the entirety of America. Correct?"

"Yes," answered all of the three friends at the same time.

"Right," said the Paradox Corridor, "So that's pretty all anyone knows, and that's all they need to know. However, I'll tell you guys what's actually going on. See, when I was first made, I was designed to create controlled paradoxes. But now, after my remodeling, I am designed, not create paradoxes, but to detect them."

"So...those clouds are...paradoxes?" asked Andrew, confused.

"Close, but no cigar, buddy," replied the Paradox Corridor, "those clouds aren't paradoxes in of themselves...rather, they are there because of paradoxes. Paradoxes that appeared in random points of time, all converging on this world beginning three days ago."

"There are three known paradoxes," said Lyle, "One of them is in the past, one of them is going to occur next year, and one is going to occur thousands of years from now. And yet, for some unknown reason, all of them are affecting today, in 2015. We don't know who is creating them, or how, or why, but we do know that these paradoxes have changed the past significantly, are going to affect us very soon, and are going to change us in the future. All of the changes of the past are going to affect us in the present extremely soon, and these changes could very well mean that you three could never have existed at all."

"When are these changes going to occur, Lyle?" asked Amber. Lyle checked his watch. "In about 2 hours." All three of them gasped in surprise, and Amber almost fell over in a faint. The world as they knew it was out of time.

"Three paradoxes, three days till said paradoxes begin affecting reality," said the Paradox Corridor simply. After a while, James said;

"Well...what can we do to stop it?" Lyle looked at the Paradox Corridor, and both chuckled. This was the first time that the Paradox Corridor had actually made an audible sound that day.