THE LOOP

THE LOOP

Man:(staring at himself in a mirror).

(alarm's ringing).

Man:(turning it off)It's time.

Man:(looking at a diary on the desk next to the clock).I'll take a look.....................for the last............................

Man:(turning to the clock)TIME(seeing himself smile in the mirror).

Man:Target's diary(turning pages)

Man:16 January 2014.

"It was like any other day .I woke up from a bizarre dream which usually was my internal clock's alarm. Light through the window like the light bending through the lens of a projector formed a cross on the wall just above my head. Sometimes I felt something which was hard to explain. I felt His(GOD) presence though I never believed in a supreme power, a creator who as most believed was the architect of almost everything including the laws that showed us our existence was not chaotic ,those complex laws that was turning uglier each day and which was a nightmare for high schoolers .But I knew I was different because unlike others I perceived them in a different way definitely not as a nightmare. I believed that something that was complicated was beautiful too. This passion and curiosity took me into the dark realm of science ,into the world of quantum physics until I stumbled upon what we in the scientific world call EXOTIC MATTER better known as NEGATIVE ENERGY.And some said that this discovery could turn some science ficion novels into science textbooks,this could turn things we believe today as impossible,unreal,heretic like time travel into reality. My search for this bizarre entity began almost an year ago.

After a few minutes on the treadmill, and having done with my morning chores, I took my bag which as usual was lying down on a pile of papers with equations jotted down. I closed the door ,rushed down the stairs and then got in a cab.In the cab I took out the diary under which I had put my wallet and ID.The diary slipped from my hand ,I bent down to get it but was then under the driver's seat,the man bent down for me,took the diary and gave it to me.But the man acted strange.It was as if he was trying to conceal himself.But I didn't care because I never loved this sort of journey,in a cab but I had to get to my lab and my car was in a bad condition after a strange accident .It was a near death experience that I would never forget. The cab was speeding between the cars that were moving between what I call giant pillars created by man.After a few turns ,and it usually took some time to reach my working place, the cab driver started talking to me which was a little strange. The man was no taller than me which was all I could make out and his words were not like any usual cab driver's.After some time it was almost like talking to one of my colleagues .The man really had something within him. The man seemed to keep on talking and a thing that I found weird was his curiosity, his inquisitness to know about my work .It was the peak hour of the day and the cab struggled to move through the traffic . And suddenly as a jolt from the blue the man, because by now I was sure he wasn't the cab driver, revealed that he knew about the accident. I still could not see his face but I was eager to who this mysterious man was. He told me that he was part of a secret group.Now it was like straight out of a science fiction novel.But this secret group or agency had something very peculiar.Like every other agency,this one had many secret offices or hideouts and a headquarters too but they were in not in different places but different times. At first I really couldn't comprehend him because the statement was absurd . But he said the statement had this effect on all to whom he said these exact words "I AM A PART OF A GROUP ,A SECRET ORDER ENFORCING GROUP CALLED THE TEMPORAL ORDER ENFORCING DIVISION AND WE CALL IT A SECRET ONE BECAUSE WE MEET AT DIFFERENT POINTS IN TIME,OUR HEADQUARTERS IS IN THE YEAR 2030,AND I AM A TEMPORAL AGENT OF THE YEAR 2042."The man was an agent of an elite group of time travelers whose workplaces or offices as I would like to call ,they call it loops ,are not in different places but in different times, the man was recruited in the year 2042 and he was way farther in time from his workplace .But the man still didn't turn , he didn't want to reveal his identity .I was exhilarated to know that time travel would soon become a reality but this new side of science would pose a threat and drag this world into chaos. Just like any new science or tech this soon would get (or got) in the hands of ordinary men making them egocentric, self-obsessed, unthinking men striving to relive their past and bringing order to their lives by bringing chaos into this world. The temporal order enforcing division was created for this very purpose to bring back order. The man also disclosed the chain of events that led to my unbelievable escape. The event that I believed to be an accident was really not an accident.It was an attempt to end my existence by trapping me in a time loop. A nightmare that could never be erased from my head."

Man: (Turning pages to 13 January 2014).

"I left my workplace late and I was driving at top gear. It was then a strange phenomenon occured, I drove past a sign board which said turn left and my apartment was a few blocks after the turn ,I took the turn and I could see my apartment and it seemed that the building was getting away ,I didn't stop I kept on driving and once again I saw the sign board and again and again and again. I was moving in a circle not in space but in time. I was doing that..... like forever and a car just hit me from nowhere. After all this I remember myself waking up as from a bizarre dream, in a hospital ".

Man:(Turning the pages back)

" My man said I was trapped in a loop set by a temporal criminal from the future and I was snapped out by him, the very same man who was sitting before me ."

" The cab reached my workplace and I got out .The man just drove away without saying anything else. I couldn't understand the purpose of this encounter .I returned home late that night ,I took my diary which was in my bag.But it looked different.Though it was my diary,it looked a bit old as one that was used long time ago. I opened the diary ,turned the pages.It was indeed my diary.I turned the pages until I reached this same date and was shocked to see everything written down ,everything I thought of writing, word by word.Then I realised what actually happend when my diary fell down in the the cab,.But I didn't want to know what happend instead I wanted to know what will happen. My curiosity compelled me to turn the pages and I didn't believe what I saw. Now I knew what my future holds. This day I found the solution."

Man:(Turning pages to XXXX)

"The solution to the problem of time travel...............

Man:(closes the diary)Effect is the cause for the cause of the effect.

Man:WHO discovered time travel?or the better question HOW was it discovered?I hate paradoxes.

Man:(stares through the window)Giant pillars.