Time Travel Omnibus: Volume 2 by Anthology

Author:Anthology [Anthology]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Present day:

“No, no, no.” The voice was totally devoid of emotion as it wound the dial back a day, and the view of the palace garden once again filled the screen. Once more the figure fidgeted inside its cloak, and once more it flowed into the screen, disappearing as it touched the grass. A few hours later, the screen shimmered and the cloaked figure reemerged.

Then the dial wound forward one day and the screen focused on the Imperial War Cabinet meeting with the Emperor.

June 3, 1943:

The Emperor nodded at the plans and smiled, but the smile did not pass his lips. His eyes were as hard as granite.

“No. To invade Australia at this time would not be wise. Better to consolidate our position in the region, and secure our supply lines. If the Imperial Navy can cut off shipping to the west coast of Australia, there will be no need to invade. The weakling Australians will come to us, begging to surrender.”

While it was plain that not all the Imperial War Cabinet agreed with this strategy, none dared argue with the Emperor, and so it was that the plans for the invasion of Australia were shelved—for now at least.

In the desert of Nevada, the scientists made a breakthrough and begun constructing a device to test their new theory. If it worked, this new war with Britain would be over in a matter of weeks.

In the Scottish moors, the scientists loaded a crate onto a nondescript truck in the dead of night and drove it to an abandoned coal mine, where they unloaded it and hauled it into the mine on an ore car. If the night had not been so dark, a curious onlooker might have wondered why an abandoned mine didn’t have rusted rails. But there was only one curious onlooker, and it knew the answer. A thin laugh escaped from beneath the hood as it watched events unfold.

In Russia, the warm weather was matched by warm smiles from many of the workers in the fields. Only the ones dressed in one-piece gray outfits were not smiling, and that was because they were German POWs being forced into slave labor. A few managed the occasional wry grin, as they realized their lot was better than that of the Jews who were on “holiday” in Germany.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.