A Journey Through Time

Chapter Seventeen: Flames

Jacob woke up to the sound of an explosion. He shook himself out of sleep and checked out his surroundings. He was in a dimly lit triangular room with green wallpaper and a door on two of the sides, the third with a single window. He pulled open the door on the left, and ran into a pile of boxes labeled "TNT".

"Meh, whatever that means." He muttered to himself as he pulled open the other door.

On the other side of the door Jacob found himself in a small room. Or a large closet, he couldn't tell. There was piles of that TNT stuff everywhere, and Jacob chuckled.

"This stuff must be really popular..."

He kept walking around the room, and he saw a paper bag in the corner. He reached in, and pulled out a bag of pretzels and a box of matches. He walked back to the triangular room, and pulled out a match. He lit it, and threw it out the window. Another explosion made him jump.

"What is that?" He thought, "Dang, I'm starving!"

He shoved the pretzels in his mouth, one by one, until the bag was empty. He pulled out another match and lit it. He then crumpled up the pretzel bag, and set it on fire on the windowsill. He watched as the burnt remains flew out the window in the wind. As he was looking down at the city below him in awe, he began to hear a strange hissing noise from the closet/room place. He walked into the room and turned toward the pile of crates. There was a black string hanging off of a crate of TNT, and the tip of the string was burning. As the flame neared the crate, Jacob heard a series of explosions from somewhere under them, and the building began to tilt to one side toward the window of the triangular room. He tripped over a stray piece of dynamite and-

"Wait a second..." He thought, "Haven't I seen these before?"

He suddenly remembered where he had seen the letters TNT before, and what it had done.

"Oh, no. Oh my gosh, no. I've got to get out of here!"

The closet exploded, and Jacob was flung out the window.