The Nick of Time by Mike Parker

Author:Mike Parker [Parker, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-10-21T23:00:00+00:00

– 21 –

Missed Him by

That Much

Ainsley had scoured the room but there was still no sign of Nick. The only indication that he had been there at all was a canvas satchel next the bed stuffed with a Union soldier uniform that bore tags claiming to be ‘Property of the MIT Anthropology Department.’ There was little else for her to do, so she locked the door again and laid down on the lumpy mattress to attempt to get some sleep. In the morning, the reporter went downstairs and enjoyed a hearty breakfast at the hotel restaurant. She then went to speak to the man at the front desk.

“Excuse me, sir, my name is” she began politely. “I am Mr. Bond’s secretary and he has asked me to inquire as to whether it might be possible for him to hold his room until this afternoon.”

“I’m sure that can be arranged little lady,” the man replied with a smile. “We would be happy to accommodate Mr. Bond in this regard.”

“Much obliged,” Ainsley said curtsying slightly and then returning to her room.

Once inside the room with the doors securely locked, the reporter slid up the sleeve of her dress exposing the shiny tungsten metal of the Turtle Dove. After taking a moment to collect her thoughts she pressed the button Carl had indicated would record a message.

“Carl, this is Ainsley. I made it to Gettysburg and I’m pretty sure I found Nick. However, before I could get to him he teleported away. I’m guessing it is safe to assume he still hasn’t shown up back in the lab. In which case your theory about the time burst may be right. My recall is in about two hours. I am going to use the override and attempt to track Nick down. If you have any new news please let me know. I love you, big brother.”

As she waited for the Turtle Dove to beep indicating it was time for the recall beam, she went over in her mind the instructions her brother had given her before she had left.

“Remember how I told you we couldn’t go back to the moment of the synchrotron overload because I suspect the surge created a temporal burst?” he had asked.

“Yeah, what about it?”

“If it did, that means it is entirely possible that when Nick attempted to teleport back to the lab, the burst redirected him to some other random place and time,” her brother hypothesized.

“So how on earth are we going to find him?” she asked.

“I’ve coded the Turtle Dove to hone in on the Little Bird’s teleport signal,” Carl explained. “In theory, it should allow you to track him through time and space.”

“In theory,” Ainsley asked skeptically.

“Well, it’s not like it’s ever been tested.”

“Fair enough,” the reporter conceded. “How do I it do it?”

“Just before you are to teleport back to the present,” the physicist explained, “Press the override button and this button here at the exact same time. This should redirect you to wherever the Little Bird took Nick instead of back here.

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