Timeshifters: Special Edition (WIA1YR Winner: Best Sci-Fi Story)

ACT II

[Olivia POV]

Moments later, I feel like I was hit by a mack truck, as I wake up in a white room full of open space. As I am wondering where I am, I hear Kyle's voice call out to me.

"Welcome Olivia, we are deep inside your mind. So, you want to know what we are?" Kyle asks me as I turn around, to see him standing in a white suit.

"Yes, but why are we inside my mind?" I ask with confusion.

"Well, we are inside your mind, because I want you to see the truth... The truth behind the society of "Shifters'," says Kyle.

"Shifters? That's what we are?" I ask.

Kyle then sits down in a chair and he obliges me to do so as well. I carefully sit down in the soft chair, still a little uneasy about this whole thing.

"Yes, we are people called Shifters, people who can control the very fabric of time," says Kyle.

"Many years ago, Nazi's were conducting experiments on certain people who were considered, 'The Devil's Children'. They believed that they could extract the power of these individuals, for their own personal reasons. The last experiment that they conducted, resulted in multiple casualties and injuries," explains Kyle.

"So, what happened to the test subject?" I ask.

"Well, the subject managed to escape. It is said that he escaped into the mountains, that he learned how to control his powers and abilities. Then suddenly, he turned back time and he saved all of the people who were experimented on. He would start a society afterwards. That society, is the race of Shifters," says Kyle.

"No one knows about us, because our existence was erased from history. It was the purpose of the first Shifter to erase our history, so that no more experiments could take place," Kyle says, with a somber tone in his voice.

"But what does this have to do with me?" I ask.

"Well, there's the question that I was waiting to hear," says Kyle, with a grin on his face. "Why don't we start at your beginning?"

Kyle gently places his right hand on my face, I suddenly feel my surroundings shift and warp around, disorienting me for a moment.

We then arrive in a strange room, but there was something familiar about this room, like I have been here before.

"Do you remember this?" Kyle asks me.

"Yes, this was the day I turned two years old, why?" I ask confused.

"Look at the old man, that is your grandfather I presume?" Kyle asks.

"Yeah." I reply.

"I'm guessing he loved you very much." Says Kyle.

"Yes, but unfortunately, he passed away when I was ten." I say to him softly.

"What did he tell you about your parents?" Kyle asks me.

"I never had the chance to ask him." I reply.

"Your grandfather, was responsible for the survival of our race." I then have a shocked look on my face, I couldn't believe what I just heard.

"So... He was the first Shifter?" I ask Kyle.

"Yes. Your parents were also Shifters, that why they risked so much to keep you safe." Kyle says to me.

"So, my parents died, to protect me?" I ask Kyle.

"Yes, they were killed by an grouo called 'Paradox'. They are a small organization of time bandits, run by a man named Owen Deckard," Kyle replies.