Story Pt III: Rock 'n Roll

Okay, I suck at making up titles, but at least I have something for the rest of the story, right? I'm going to try to post a little bit of the story every day this week, just too keep it rolling out. Yeah, that's right. EVERY DAY. It's not that I actually have the time, but I'm in a writing mood, so yeah. I have a basic plan for the story, so that will help. Let's see if I can actually do it though. :)

In the brainstorming, however, I realized just how long this story is going to be, since I'm just dragging it out. Perhaps with this I'll be able to include more characters, but just as a note, I can't really find any convienient place to add any new people in the first few parts of the story, so if you want to be included in here, it'll sadly have to be a little while. But in the meantime, I'll need one or two people who are really interested in science for the part after that. Any volunteers? ^_^


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“Alright then!” Skys said, erasing the whiteboard. “We ready to go?”

“’Course! Let’s rock ‘n roll,” Gummy replied, opening the door to the DeLorean.

“Hang on a second. Help me get all this stuff into the machine.” Skys went to a cabinet in the corner of the lab and heavily dragged out some rather large cases, filled with food but mostly water.

“Why so much water?” Gummy asked.

“The car runs on fuel cells. Gasoline is inefficient and may become obsolete in the future, but no matter where we go, there will always be water, so we’ll never have to worry about a fuel problem. But I’d still like to carry some with us, just in case.”

Fifteen minutes later, everything was all set and ready to go. Skys snapped his laptop into the mount on the dashboard, started the car, and slowly backed out of the lab into the driveway, and steered the car onto the street. Skys traded a nervous glance with Gummy, and a chill ran up his spine.

“So, exactly, how do we get from here to space?” Gummy asked.

“There’s a hideout deep in the mountains about an hour’s drive from here that used to be used for rockets and weapons research back during World War II. As far as I’ve heard of, nobody’s been there since it was decommissioned over 50 years ago.”

“An old abandoned military compound? Isn’t that where scary stuff happens?”

“Like time travel?” Skys suggested as he drove. “Rumor had it that, there, well, there was a division there that also studied time travel. The government had multiple secret projects running throughout the war, doing whatever it needed to gain a technological advantage. Teams studied everything, massive weaponry, time travel, interstellar communications, teleportation, mind reading and mind control, how to control the weather, stuff like that, I think. I don't actually know a lot about it. But I do know that with the success of the Manhattan Project, where the nuclear bomb was developed, all these other projects slowly faded into distant memory, especially once the government stopped funding them when we won the war and no longer had any need for them. I know the Internet came about as a subtle result of their communication studies, and I’ve heard of how people can fly planes to sprinkle certain chemicals into clouds that would cause clouds to rain, snow, or evaporate. But time travel was one of the more powerful ones that was never declassified.”

“Wait,” Gummy interrupted, “If it’s still classified, how do you know about this?”

“You really want to know? I was sorting through our garage a number of years ago, and I came across a box filled with these classified documents, schematics, blueprints, and information in general. I had no idea where they came from, but down at the bottom of the box, I found my grandfather’s ID badge…he was apparently the lead scientist for the time projects.”

“What? Really? He never said anything about it?”

“I’m not really sure what happened to him. I’ve never met him before, and my parents won’t talk about it. Maybe that’s one of the things I can find out on our trip. Anyways, a huge chunk of this car was built according to his blueprints. In a footnote, he mentioned that an operational launching pad was already developed and is hidden here at this compound.”

“Hey, um, Skys, check your mirrors.”

“Huh?” Skys looked back. Red and blue flashing lights approached. Skys groaned.

“Oh come on, what did I do? You can’t pull a car over just because it looks weird, you know!” Skys turned to Gummy and asked, “Should we stop? If we do, who knows what they’ll do to us or to our car?”

Gummy smirked. “The story is supposed to be interesting, not boring, you know. All we've been doing is talking so far. It's time for some action, and this thing has rocket engines, right? Show me how they work!”