pallytruck
02-10-2004, 04:38 PM
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Chapter 3
He stood up what was this building in this time? The room was completely empty, there was a door in the far corner so the best idea was to see if it was open, it was open and he stepped out into the street. There were lots of people around and all were oblivious to him coming out the building, he looked up and saw a sign above the door saying “Keep out private property.” Tommy decided that he would have a problem booking in a hotel as this wasn’t 2020 where for some reason you didn’t have to give your name or address.
He wondered how he was going to use the watch and what he was going to do for over a month. He fiddled with the watch but he couldn’t change the date. Theoretically he was stuck but he knew that he’d find out how to use it, he had all the time in the world.
Ben Holmes checked out of his hotel heading towards Lucien Street. He was bored working on designing safety equipment for cars was not what he wanted. What he really wanted was to work on time travel he believed it possible. He stopped to light up his cigar and hurried up his pace, it was cold and he had quite far to go. He was heading to the Georgetown pub where he had been drinking locally for several years, there he would meet his fellow scientist friends besotted on time travel like him they needed a break; a lucky one at that, but it just wasn’t gonna happen.
As he passed the building Tommy had come out of earlier he noticed a few coins on the floor there weren’t many but there was enough to buy a pint. He noticed a few pieces of paper as well. He bent down to pick them up.
It was a sudden shock gasping in amazement the coins were dated with the year 1978 and the other bit of paper was a receipt for some trousers dated 13th January 2003 12:03. He pinched himself to make sure he wasn’t dreaming. Then he opened up the last piece of paper and started reading it, it had a diagram and information on how to build a time machine in the shape of a watch. He smiled the equipment listed and the methods seemed easy, it all made sense. He read it in more detail, the last few pages were wet though so some details weren’t there but it didn’t seem to matter. He couldn’t do this himself but the friends he was going to meet now would help him.
Ben hurried up his pace again, He began to run but bumped into Tommy who was coming the other way. Both of them fell over. Ben stood up rubbing his head.
“Sorry mate”
He stared at Tommy’s hoodie it was unusual.
“Cool mate where you get that top from?”
“Oh it was a present.”
“Oh right.”
The two parted in opposite directions both oblivious of the relevance they had to meet.
Tommy caried on walking until some bloke with a flyer stopped him.
“2 for 1 in George Town pub just round the corner”
“Thanks”
Tommy quite fancied a drink technically he was under age because he wasn’t even born he thought to himself. It wasn’t hard to find, it was then he suddenly remembered that the George Town pub was in fact a small club in 2003 he’d been there several times with his friends when he was 17. The difference was there wasn’t any bouncers on the door, so he opened the door and stepped in. It looked very posh and new. He picked up the menu on one of the tables and scouted through. He wasn’t hungry but he wanted to know the food they ate in the era.
A barmaid walked past.
“System of a down, who are they nice clothes?”
The minute she said this the whole pub turned round to look. Lots of people smiled he had attracted lots of attention.
Ben Holmes looked around at the boy and wondered who he was, the tripe that came out these days on the wireless, it probably was no different. Anyhow he turned to his friends ignoring Tommy.
“Take a look at this”
He Slid a coin across the table and Ronnie picked it up.
“It’s a normal coin.”
“Yes but look at the date 1978, it’s 1976”
“Oh yes” Ronnie exclaimed.
“Where you get it from” Stuart the other man said.
“Found it on the street along with this receipt dated 2003.”
“Somebody’s having a joke Ben, you can’t take this seriously, you can buy things like this in novelty shops.
“Who’d buy a piece of paper in the form of a receipt?”
“It’s genuine look at this.”
He pulled out the paper with the time travel information. Ronnie and Stuart stared at the paper and then turned to themselves read it again then shocked spoke.
“This is like so easy to build, the concepts are so simple, the theory seems easy enough but will it work in practise, I say we could all 3 of us work on it and complete by February 15th.”
“Really”
“Yeah it’s that simple, the only problem is that water on that last page, but that shouldn’t matter too much.”
“My round” Ben said.
Ben stood up and walked to the bar, pleased with how the day was going. He stood next to Tommy as he ordered the drinks.
“You’re the boy I bumped into earlier, my names Ben.”
“Your not Ben Holmes by any chance?”
“Yes how do you know that” He edged closer to Tommy and noticed on his wrist was a watch similar to the one in the diagram.
“I’ve been looking for you, I’ve got some important information about something.”
“I already know your from the future aren’t you?”
“Yes”
“I came back to warn you not to use the time machine or to develop one it ends in disaster.”
“Why what happ…?”
He was stopped suddenly.
“EVERYBODY ON THE FLOOR NOW, THIS AN ARMED ROBBERY.”
People screamed.
Meanwhile…
“Ahh that’s better”
Stuart pulled his zip up and tapped on the door of the cubicle.
“Hurry up Ronnie.”
“Shh I can hear screaming.”
“Don’t be stupid.”
The two men were in the toilets. Stuart opened the door and immediately a hail of bullets hit him in the chest, Ronnie made a run for it, but slipped on some water and fell cracking his head on the table. The three robbers panicked grabbed the paper with the time machine details took a look then ripped them up leaving the receipt and the coin.
“Everybody ok” some manager shouted.
“Christ it’s Ronnie he’s dead” he turned to Stuart.
“Stuart”
Stuart looked at Ben.
“Guess you’ll never fulfil your dream after all.”
Then Stuart died in Ben’s hands.
“Police will be here in 5 minutes they want to speak to you all.”
Ben looked around where was the boy, he was gone? Damn he thought, frustrated he wanted to get the watch to go back and save his friends.
Tommy had climbed through the window of the toilets he couldn’t talk to the police he didn’t have a name to give them as he couldn’t use his real name. He thought to himself that if he travelled back to 2003 nobody would be after him as there was no detail of the time machine and Ben Holmes hadn’t disappeared. Then he remembered that it was Ben Holmes who formed the organisation that built the machine, perhaps he would develop it later in time. It was getting complex but all he had to do was to stop Ben using the time machine or building one luckily all the plans were ripped up.
Ben asked around about the boy and found out that he had gone through the window, so he followed. He could just about see him up the road. He ran after him and grabbed him.
“I need that watch. I need to go back and save my friends.”
“Negative you can’t mess with time travel, besides which I don’t know how to use it.”
“Your messing with time travel yourself what are you doing here?”
“I’m stopping the time machine ever being made, I’ll find out how to use it go back to my time then destroy the watch.”
“You would destroy the chance of a life time think of the things you could do.”
“Yeah and think of the things you would mess up, I’m not even a scientist but I know the supposed theories of time travel.”
“Come on kid give me the watch.”
“No I won’t”
“Then I’ll have to get nasty”
“Hand me the watch.”
“No”
Tommy made a quick run for it, running down a back alley, the same alley towards the hotel. Ben was in quick pursuit he needed the watch that stupid kid had no idea.
As Tommy was running he noticed a flash on the watch. He quickly read the text which came across the screen.
“Must return to original time, time protection lock activated transport in 2 minutes.”
He wondered what that was but knew that Ban was getting nearer and nearer, he would never out run him. The two came to a back alley with a dead end. This was it. Tommy looked at the watch and it was counting down from 30 seconds.
“Come here you brat give me the watch.”
Ben grabbed Tommy’s arm, he felt a strange sensation through his body then both passed out.
Ben awoke Tommy was no where to be seen, he had the watch, he looked at it and he noticed that the date was 13th January 2003 1043. He reached into his pocket pulling out the receipt. The officers club purchased trousers at !203 for £35.00. He tried to use the watch and pressed a button but it came up with critical error, it then feel apart in his hands. He was trapped in this time. Or was he. He had a chance all he had to do was to intercept the boy at the shop because he wouldn’t know who he was he could steal the watch and then travel through time to go to save his friends. He headed towards the shop noticing other boys and girls wearing hoodies like Tommy’s.
Tommy arrived a few minutes later he woke and the first thing he noticed that he didn’t have the watch. Ben must have it but where was he. He then noticed the watch on the floor it was broken and a receipt; it was his receipt for his trousers.
He then put two and two together that Ben was probably going to meet his otherself he had to stop him doing so.
Chapter 3
He stood up what was this building in this time? The room was completely empty, there was a door in the far corner so the best idea was to see if it was open, it was open and he stepped out into the street. There were lots of people around and all were oblivious to him coming out the building, he looked up and saw a sign above the door saying “Keep out private property.” Tommy decided that he would have a problem booking in a hotel as this wasn’t 2020 where for some reason you didn’t have to give your name or address.
He wondered how he was going to use the watch and what he was going to do for over a month. He fiddled with the watch but he couldn’t change the date. Theoretically he was stuck but he knew that he’d find out how to use it, he had all the time in the world.
Ben Holmes checked out of his hotel heading towards Lucien Street. He was bored working on designing safety equipment for cars was not what he wanted. What he really wanted was to work on time travel he believed it possible. He stopped to light up his cigar and hurried up his pace, it was cold and he had quite far to go. He was heading to the Georgetown pub where he had been drinking locally for several years, there he would meet his fellow scientist friends besotted on time travel like him they needed a break; a lucky one at that, but it just wasn’t gonna happen.
As he passed the building Tommy had come out of earlier he noticed a few coins on the floor there weren’t many but there was enough to buy a pint. He noticed a few pieces of paper as well. He bent down to pick them up.
It was a sudden shock gasping in amazement the coins were dated with the year 1978 and the other bit of paper was a receipt for some trousers dated 13th January 2003 12:03. He pinched himself to make sure he wasn’t dreaming. Then he opened up the last piece of paper and started reading it, it had a diagram and information on how to build a time machine in the shape of a watch. He smiled the equipment listed and the methods seemed easy, it all made sense. He read it in more detail, the last few pages were wet though so some details weren’t there but it didn’t seem to matter. He couldn’t do this himself but the friends he was going to meet now would help him.
Ben hurried up his pace again, He began to run but bumped into Tommy who was coming the other way. Both of them fell over. Ben stood up rubbing his head.
“Sorry mate”
He stared at Tommy’s hoodie it was unusual.
“Cool mate where you get that top from?”
“Oh it was a present.”
“Oh right.”
The two parted in opposite directions both oblivious of the relevance they had to meet.
Tommy caried on walking until some bloke with a flyer stopped him.
“2 for 1 in George Town pub just round the corner”
“Thanks”
Tommy quite fancied a drink technically he was under age because he wasn’t even born he thought to himself. It wasn’t hard to find, it was then he suddenly remembered that the George Town pub was in fact a small club in 2003 he’d been there several times with his friends when he was 17. The difference was there wasn’t any bouncers on the door, so he opened the door and stepped in. It looked very posh and new. He picked up the menu on one of the tables and scouted through. He wasn’t hungry but he wanted to know the food they ate in the era.
A barmaid walked past.
“System of a down, who are they nice clothes?”
The minute she said this the whole pub turned round to look. Lots of people smiled he had attracted lots of attention.
Ben Holmes looked around at the boy and wondered who he was, the tripe that came out these days on the wireless, it probably was no different. Anyhow he turned to his friends ignoring Tommy.
“Take a look at this”
He Slid a coin across the table and Ronnie picked it up.
“It’s a normal coin.”
“Yes but look at the date 1978, it’s 1976”
“Oh yes” Ronnie exclaimed.
“Where you get it from” Stuart the other man said.
“Found it on the street along with this receipt dated 2003.”
“Somebody’s having a joke Ben, you can’t take this seriously, you can buy things like this in novelty shops.
“Who’d buy a piece of paper in the form of a receipt?”
“It’s genuine look at this.”
He pulled out the paper with the time travel information. Ronnie and Stuart stared at the paper and then turned to themselves read it again then shocked spoke.
“This is like so easy to build, the concepts are so simple, the theory seems easy enough but will it work in practise, I say we could all 3 of us work on it and complete by February 15th.”
“Really”
“Yeah it’s that simple, the only problem is that water on that last page, but that shouldn’t matter too much.”
“My round” Ben said.
Ben stood up and walked to the bar, pleased with how the day was going. He stood next to Tommy as he ordered the drinks.
“You’re the boy I bumped into earlier, my names Ben.”
“Your not Ben Holmes by any chance?”
“Yes how do you know that” He edged closer to Tommy and noticed on his wrist was a watch similar to the one in the diagram.
“I’ve been looking for you, I’ve got some important information about something.”
“I already know your from the future aren’t you?”
“Yes”
“I came back to warn you not to use the time machine or to develop one it ends in disaster.”
“Why what happ…?”
He was stopped suddenly.
“EVERYBODY ON THE FLOOR NOW, THIS AN ARMED ROBBERY.”
People screamed.
Meanwhile…
“Ahh that’s better”
Stuart pulled his zip up and tapped on the door of the cubicle.
“Hurry up Ronnie.”
“Shh I can hear screaming.”
“Don’t be stupid.”
The two men were in the toilets. Stuart opened the door and immediately a hail of bullets hit him in the chest, Ronnie made a run for it, but slipped on some water and fell cracking his head on the table. The three robbers panicked grabbed the paper with the time machine details took a look then ripped them up leaving the receipt and the coin.
“Everybody ok” some manager shouted.
“Christ it’s Ronnie he’s dead” he turned to Stuart.
“Stuart”
Stuart looked at Ben.
“Guess you’ll never fulfil your dream after all.”
Then Stuart died in Ben’s hands.
“Police will be here in 5 minutes they want to speak to you all.”
Ben looked around where was the boy, he was gone? Damn he thought, frustrated he wanted to get the watch to go back and save his friends.
Tommy had climbed through the window of the toilets he couldn’t talk to the police he didn’t have a name to give them as he couldn’t use his real name. He thought to himself that if he travelled back to 2003 nobody would be after him as there was no detail of the time machine and Ben Holmes hadn’t disappeared. Then he remembered that it was Ben Holmes who formed the organisation that built the machine, perhaps he would develop it later in time. It was getting complex but all he had to do was to stop Ben using the time machine or building one luckily all the plans were ripped up.
Ben asked around about the boy and found out that he had gone through the window, so he followed. He could just about see him up the road. He ran after him and grabbed him.
“I need that watch. I need to go back and save my friends.”
“Negative you can’t mess with time travel, besides which I don’t know how to use it.”
“Your messing with time travel yourself what are you doing here?”
“I’m stopping the time machine ever being made, I’ll find out how to use it go back to my time then destroy the watch.”
“You would destroy the chance of a life time think of the things you could do.”
“Yeah and think of the things you would mess up, I’m not even a scientist but I know the supposed theories of time travel.”
“Come on kid give me the watch.”
“No I won’t”
“Then I’ll have to get nasty”
“Hand me the watch.”
“No”
Tommy made a quick run for it, running down a back alley, the same alley towards the hotel. Ben was in quick pursuit he needed the watch that stupid kid had no idea.
As Tommy was running he noticed a flash on the watch. He quickly read the text which came across the screen.
“Must return to original time, time protection lock activated transport in 2 minutes.”
He wondered what that was but knew that Ban was getting nearer and nearer, he would never out run him. The two came to a back alley with a dead end. This was it. Tommy looked at the watch and it was counting down from 30 seconds.
“Come here you brat give me the watch.”
Ben grabbed Tommy’s arm, he felt a strange sensation through his body then both passed out.
Ben awoke Tommy was no where to be seen, he had the watch, he looked at it and he noticed that the date was 13th January 2003 1043. He reached into his pocket pulling out the receipt. The officers club purchased trousers at !203 for £35.00. He tried to use the watch and pressed a button but it came up with critical error, it then feel apart in his hands. He was trapped in this time. Or was he. He had a chance all he had to do was to intercept the boy at the shop because he wouldn’t know who he was he could steal the watch and then travel through time to go to save his friends. He headed towards the shop noticing other boys and girls wearing hoodies like Tommy’s.
Tommy arrived a few minutes later he woke and the first thing he noticed that he didn’t have the watch. Ben must have it but where was he. He then noticed the watch on the floor it was broken and a receipt; it was his receipt for his trousers.
He then put two and two together that Ben was probably going to meet his otherself he had to stop him doing so.