Time Leap by Steve Howrie

Author:Steve Howrie
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: time travel, hitman, ancient egypt, world trade center, princess diana, the future, ancient china, pyramids of egypt, qin dynasty, boskops

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Twenty–Two

Yoyo and Mike had been staying with us whilst we looked for an assassin. By contacting Smirnoff, we had already affected their future in some way. To me, this was one of the most interesting things about what we did. Anything we did out of the ordinary would create a new future, and thereby change things for Mike and Yoyo when they returned. The next step was to fill them in on our meetings with the Russian.

“He sounds cool!” observed Yoyo.

“You’d better believe it!” replied Niki.

“Okay okay… don’t forget what he is,” I said, “a paid killer.” A part of me couldn’t bear the two girls drooling over the Russian.

“Sounds like just what we need,” added Mike. “And the meeting with Lenin was a great idea!”

“Do you recall that Mike? I mean do you have Smirnoff in your conscious memory now?” We all stopped for a moment to look at Mike. Were we creating history in front of his eyes? I’d witnessed the way memories could be created or modified by changing the past. Niki still had difficulty coming to terms with the fact that the World Trade Center towers were destroyed in 2001 – in one version of reality - though her experiences since then had left her in no doubt that we can change the past, and therefore the future. Mike looked confused.

“I… I… don’t know! It’s strange. On one hand, I have recollections of everything I did in the past – and therefore what you are doing now. But some things – like your conversations with Smirnoff – are totally new to me.”

“It’s the same for me,” added Yoyo. “I should know what Smirnoff looks like without you telling us, but I just can’t picture him.”

It was as if being in our time–frame meant that Yoyo and Mike experienced things as we saw them, not as a memory in their own time period. This made sense to me. I thought about the attack on the New York twin towers again. I had kept the pictures in my mind of the attacks, the airplanes flying into the buildings, the collapse and the aftermath – but Niki (who remained in her own time) lost all that as soon as I managed to stop it happening.

“You’ll have to let us know whether or not you retain your memories of World War Three when you get back home,” I said, “…assuming we’re able to stop it happening.”

“No problem,” replied Mike, “I’ll send you a text.”

“Now there’s an interesting idea.”

“We should discuss Smirnoff’s question now,” Niki said bluntly.

“What question was that?” Yoyo asked.

I relayed what Smirnoff had said the previous night, and the question he left us with: why would the leader of North Korea in forty–odd years’ time attack America?

“That’s a good question,” Mike replied. “We should have talked in detail about this before.” He took a sip of coffee, and then continued. “Kim had been building up his weapons stock – short and long range missiles, tanks, fighter jets and bombers – plus nuclear warheads – and this made the Americans very concerned.

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