The Time Hopper's Gambit: The Chronomancer Chronicles by KD Mack

Author:KD Mack [Mack, KD]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2021-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Kreg was in another argument. He kept promising himself he‘d stop doing this, and then here he was again, having it out with some guy who was wearing an ‘I Support The Corp’ t-shirt at the grocery store.

“Why can’t you see how dangerous this crap is?” he said, pointing at the shirt. “Look, I get it. You like the idea of someone cleaning up the mess we‘ve all made, but there’s no way this is the solution.”

“Oh, yeah? What’s your plan?” the man snapped back. “All you complainers don’t want things to be liveable again!”

“We can’t have one organization that’s in charge of time itself!” Kreg protested. “I don’t know, maybe multiple groups? Something like that? Different districts, different countries, something?”

“So they can all argue and use time to sabotage each other?“ The guy turned away. “We’ve got dinosaurs roaming the streets and I’ve been mugged on the same spot ten times by jumpers appearing out of thin air. You just don’t like following rules and you’re making it a stance.”

“Like you aren’t taking a stance,” Kreg muttered, walking off. He wasn’t in the mood for dinner now. There was so much he still needed to figure out, so much that the people around him were oblivious to. He still wasn’t sure how he’d do it. The Corp. was in its infancy; they were still negotiating with different governments, getting deals. The same groups of scientists who had designed the tools they now used to travel – those of them who had the abilities, that was – were now seeking to centralize and control that power. And Kreg was sure that could only lead to one thing.

Phoenix Base. A group that was so set on maintaining its power, it was ready to preserve an apocalypse that had cost billions of lives.

Of course, that was in the timeline that didn’t exist anymore. The timeline that only he, apparently, remembered, though he was still piecing things together. And her… he still needed to figure out how to get back to her. His other self – Kreg Alpha as he had taken to calling him, out of some weird respect– had clearly been more concerned about uniting himself and this woman, Steff, than he had been about Phoenix Base or anything that went along with it. But the memories had returned as he found the anchors, as he spent more and more time in the vortex. Kreg Alpha had left a breadcrumb trail, though Kreg was sure some pieces were missing.

He paced around his apartment, thinking. The feelings had returned with the memories. The longing for this woman, to be around her again, though if his current understanding of the situation was right, she was hundreds of years ahead of him. And he couldn‘t just pop out and surprise her.

But Kreg Alpha had shared how he had placed the anchors, how he had figured out how to leave things in the time stream. His old self had apparently been able to control fire, not time itself, but Kreg hadn’t had any luck with that so far.

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