Futuristic Four: Fast Forward

The Entire Time Stream Could Be Altered

Location: Robinson Industries, Todayland

His father had sounded serious when he called them over to R.I. The second they stepped foot into the building, his assistant had sent them straight to Cornelius' office where the named father of the future awaited.

"You didn't blow up another invention, did you?" Hiro had joked.

"I've never blown anything up!" Wilbur said in defence. "....intentionally."

Once arriving in his office, Cornelius took them over to his private elevator. The one that needed his level of access to activate. Must've been serious if he was taking them down this route. The three men stood in silence as the elevator descended down into the inaccessible parts of Robinson Industries. These sections were for Cornelius' top secret inventions. Ones he didn't want the public to know about until he was sure they were ready or he figured it was best no one knew. Inventions like the time machine. Only several of his employees were given access. But once the deed was done, their access was provoked. Currently, there weren't any private projects being worked on at the moment. So the entire place was deserted. Wilbur had never been creeped out by his father's company before, but this area sure brought up the creep factor.

The two followed the elder man down the corridor. This area was off grid, giving that time they broke in a few years ago this place hadn't been on the map. Guess Cornelius was determined to keep it top secret. They finally reached a door with no knob, but had a handprint scanner in replacement. Wouldn't take a genius to figure out whose handprint was saved on there. Probably was the only one too. Once he scanned his hand, another scanner appeared and scanned his eyes, then a microphone came out for him to say his name.

"And guests." he added, when a gun appeared from the ceiling aiming at the other two men. It gave them quite a scare.

When they finally entered, immediately the room lit up, revealing a long room with a couple of screens at the end.

"What is this place, dad?" Wilbur asked, looking around the room.

"I had this built after the incident with the time machine." Cornelius replied. He didn't need to see the guilty expression on his son face.

"How does this relate to it?" Hiro asked.

"This machine is suppose to scan for any hint of time travel residue. That way I can keep track of any danger to the timestream. I couldn't have a repeat of that incident years ago or worse." Cornelius looked over to his son, who looked back sympathetically. He was still haunted by the events that occurred when he was twelve. This timeline had been altered because of those events and his memories overlapped the ones that happened in the fixed time. He didn't make this to make sure his son didn't cause another alteration, but to make sure he didn't lose him again or for anyone else to experience the loss when someone is erased from the timeline. It was worse than death.

"But why bring us here?" Hiro questioned.

"Something activated the machine today. The readings are small, but there was definitely some time travel residue located Downtown. It wasn't strong enough to pick up a reading, but something came into our time. Something that shouldn't be in this period of time. I can't say if it's past or future, but whatever came through, might alter the timestream or cause it to be destroyed."

"You want us to find it?" Wilbur raised an eyebrow.

"I'd prefer you didn't get involve, but if the timestream is at risk, I wanted you to know."

"What about Violet and Penny?" Hiro wondered.

"It's best we don't worry them or anyone else. I only told you two because I trust you both and because Wilbur's dealt with this before." Cornelius told them.