AUTOGENOUS

Newmansville

It is a cold and dark night. The winds harmonize as they travel alongside the power lines running from the Newmansville county government facility. Trucks occasionally pass in, the process is short. But today the security is more advanced than usual.

Maleah drives on a wide county road, no buildings in site on either side, nor behind, and the facility dead ahead. The car slows down as it approaches the front security check. Maleah rolls her window down to address the front guard.

"Identification please," the guard blatantly asks. She hands her the card around her neck. She looks at it, then back at her for many instances, nods her head and runs the card in her system.

"Ma'am it says your card is expired... three weeks."

"Yeah I thought so, I've been transferred over to a branch in Pittsburgh, moved over there a week ago, took me a little while before I found out I left a photo of my fiancé and I at my desk, I assume it's in the trash but I'd really appreciate it if I could look for it."

"Why not have it mailed?"

"I may work for the government but that doesn't mean I have to trust the postal system with something so valuable to me-"

"So valuable you forgot it," she quickly interrupts Maleah. The tensions are high, the guard studies her face, looking for an excuse to not trust her, "The derivative of natural log of twenty three times x is one over x," she confidently states, in hopes of a very specific answer from Maleah.

"Well any constant times x of a natural log is always one over x..." confidently replies Maleah.

The guard smiles, "Alright... you check out, head on in, I hope you find your frame."

"Thank you," replies Maleah, "have a nice day!"

She continues into the facility, finding her old parking spot. Jacob's muffled voice emerges from the rear passenger seat of the four-door.

"You actually left a photo of your fiancé here?"

"Of my brother in law and my sister actually, but it checks out."

The car parks, she looks around as she takes the keys out of her car, "I'm going to get out of my car here soon, and head in the entrance directly in front of us. I will be back in five minutes at most, so you better get back here then, or I'm leaving"

"Well if our mission checks out then we should have all the time we want..." Dennis muffles through the car seat.

"Good luck," she says just before she opens the door and walks in the building. A minute passes, Dennis and Jacob exit from the seats, emerging through the leather cushions. They exit the car in uniform. They both wear medical suits and pull a stretcher from the floor of the backseat and begin to rush into the entrance of the building.

An alarm sounds, lights spot and brighten the parking lot, there is still time to get far enough from the car to avoid suspicion. They roll the stretcher straight through the double doors of the building. They rush down the hall, the tall pole hosts a swinging bag of fluid connected to tubes that run down to the bed. Red strobes streak across the walls as alarms penetrate their ears.

"What the hell is this? They couldn't have spotted us this early!" Jacob asks.

"They very well could have, what do we look like conmen?" Replies Dennis, "OUT OF THE WAY OUT OF THE WAY!!!" A man panicking in a suit sees the stretcher racing down the hall and backs away to the wall letting the men pass.

"Next door up to the right!" Dennis yells. Loud winds circle in the room they soon enter. They burst into the door to see two men running out of the opposite end of the room, one of them holding something but Dennis couldn't describe it as the red lights flashing. Sparks of electricity fly from the tubes that run up to the platform of Doctor Bluwkinskis time device. The room is set up almost exactly as it was in their warehouse, but more advanced and pieced together. The alarm blares into their ears as the winds hurl around the rip in time.

"THE HOLE IS ALREADY OPEN!?!?" yells Jacob.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!" Dennis checks the readings on the monitor behind the platform. The wind hurls their hair in changeable directions. "THE TIME COORDINATES ARE ALREADY SET! TWO DAYS AGO, SAME LOCATION AND EVERYTHING!!!"

"THAT'S WHAT WE WANT RIGHT?"
"YEAH!" Dennis yells and chuckles at the same time.

"WELL LET'S DO IT THEN!" Jacob yells, they look at each other and the swirling hole in space time, they jump in, Dennis still holding the stretcher. They fall through time, surrounding them is space and pure matter. They are traveling through a world between worlds.