Blinx: Before the Time Sweeper

Chapter 9: Deja-Voodoo

Deja-Vu-Canals - Peninsula

12th December, XXXX

Sweeper visor: "Unknown spike in energy output is warping time: current time is unavailable due to instability."

I managed to sync my Sweeper to the terminal before entering the teleportation gate, and was able to download a map that showed every hotspot of energy from the planet itself (a trick that Aniki himself taught me when he had no other choice: he'd either lose his job from not helping his lowest-scoring student, or he'd lose his job from trying to sneak in too many tips that could make the score look suspiciously high in comparison).

Still didn't understand why they had a cube for person that used it, but I guess it's a snob thing.

The next destination on the roller-coaster (if the roller-coaster was made by a monkey in a theme-park simulator, and even that'd probably be less dangerous than this) was the Deja-Vu Canals (it feel kinda offensive to have a world so bad at handling time compared to how we did it, but at least the puns were corny and innocent enough for a few awkward coughs): a series of narrow straights surrounded by the most desirable housing in the entire-world, envied by even the Sweepers themselves.

It was composed of some of the most breathtaking sights ever recorded in the Sweeper's manuals: there were the many rivers flowing in from the refineries that mined the minerals of the long lost caves that were to the great floods of it's past, all linked by the immaculate, and highly desirable marble bridges brought to life by some of the most sharpest minds and vivid imaginations of the various art-schools around the districts, notable for their excellent education rates (of course they didn't have me for that).

You couldn't miss any of the littered granite statues (they were environmentally-friendly as well) who imposing size was constantly fighting for control of the skies.

(These mostly depicted the idols of their worship: the earliest Time-Sweepers themselves; my ancestors who after a lifetime of sightings, fumbles and accounts from worlds all around were now looked at like prophets by the dozens. It was all mutual of course: they helped rid of the time-anomalies that popped up there, and they took a fascination to the species itself, and even made homes for many orphaned or curious Sweepers: who were now indebted to the once strangers they considered family now. They made the ones at Time-Square look like a ball of clay that only a younger Blinx could only think to make, and from what this brochure has talking about: their relations weren't exactly strong in the first place, but it did make for decent competition).

If Time-Square was the hub of the entire world, then Deja-Vu Canals was the hubbub of the entire universe (it was cheesy, but I liked some cheese especially when it came to anything that wasn't ready to eat yet). I doubt the "citizens of Time-Square" liked that slogan very much...

I wish I had a family that would go that far for me... stop being ungrateful again, Blinx! You're the one that dived into all of this with that same reckless abandon that the teachers said you could never let go off, and you did it anyway after your parents themselves decided they had too much time for you saving the world themselves, right? Such a hypocrite... Stick to not dying instead of frying your thoughts away.

 Anyways before I have a breakdown: the city itself was divided into districts, and for every district strewn a unique colour of delicately serrated streams of ribbons across the many... streams? of the docks, and the elegantly, sleekly kindled alleyways of the canaries - passionately produced from the more peaceful arms compared to the violent ones of the crime that affected it's sister-worlds, or the shadier parts of Time-Square. Bre(a)d from the finest silk gathered at the highest/most hostile peaks of the Everwinter mountain range a testament to the productive, and hardworking tailoring businesses here, with quality guaranteed like no other.