In Times Like These: A Time Travel Adventure by Nathan van Coops

Author:Nathan van Coops [Coops, Nathan Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Time Travel
Amazon: B00FCCT6UQ
Publisher: Skylighter Press
Published: 2013-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“I used to think thirty minutes was a reasonable amount of time to wait for a pizza. Then I discovered you could have food delivered by time traveler. My standard for freshness has been raised.”

-Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 2157

“I’m gonna kick them both in the teeth. I’m gonna pull his stupid floppy hair out and . . . and . . . kick that, too.” Francesca is storming back and forth from the kitchen to the living room. She reaches the couch again and spins around. “I’m going to . . . wait!” She stops mid-stride. She looks from Blake to me. “You guys can get them! They said they only go to weekends. You can just go to next Friday, be there waiting, and get my chronometer. You can just kick both their asses and get our stuff back!”

I’ve resigned myself to the long end of the couch during her tirade. Blake is stewing in the office chair. The sunrise gleams through the window beside me.

“I don’t think it’s that easy, Fresca. Believe me, I wish it was.”

Her face is flushed with anger. “Why not?”

“If they have any sense, they won’t go to next Friday. Most likely they would have gone to the past. In fact we don’t know which direction they were traveling in the first place. They said they went to weekends, but they didn’t say they did them in any order. They could very well be traveling backwards.”

“But Quickly’s book said Guy goes to that bar for years,” Francesca argues.

“He never said it was done in any particular order though,” Blake says. “Ben’s right. They could be anywhere by now.”

“This could have been the last Friday they were there,” I say. “They could have done all the other ones before this from their perspective. I know I wouldn’t come back now if I was them.”

Francesca slumps onto a barstool. “Damn it. You mean they’re going to get away with this? They just stole like fifty thousand dollars, and a bunch of our anchors. Not to mention my chronometer. I’m really screwed without that.”

“I know,” I say. “I just think the odds of us catching them are pretty slim. We have no idea where they got to, and if that machine of theirs can jump ten years, they could outrace us anywhere.”

Blake sits up a little straighter. “What if they went backward and then came back here? That could be even worse. If they wanted our chronometers, what’s to keep them from coming back with guns and taking the rest? They have all the time in the world to make it back here.” He stands up and grabs the few items of clothing he has left, and unplugs his chronometer from the wall. “I think we should get out of here.”

He’s got a valid point.

I slide off the end of the couch and grab my chronometer.

“What about me?” Francesca says. “Now I’m stuck.”

“We can still jump more than one person with these,” I say.

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