A journey to the wars
Table of contents:
1)The timeless time machine
2)The first immortals
3)T-Rex eggs
4)The mummy chase
5)The destruction of the Mayans.
6)Another religion enters India
7)Finally-“The War”
8)Journey back home
The Timeless Time Machine:-
My friend, Aakash, and I decided to go to a movie. The movie being a science fiction movie was based on time traveling to the World Wars. We were inspired by the movie concept, so we decided to build our own time machine. To build a time machine was not a piece of cake, so we being children of 13 years could not build it on our own. Decided to go to a renowned inventor, we set out to go to Thomas Edison. He had invented many key features that we wanted In our time machine.
After reaching Edison’s house, our minds started to have second thoughts about seeing a world-renowned inventor and asking him to build a thing that no one has ever done before. Gathering courage, we rang the doorbell. An old man opened the door. We asked him if we could meet Thomas Alva Edison. He told us that we were looking at him. We acknowledged him then stated our reason for concerning him. He seemed rather keen on doing the task. He told us that he would start working on it at that very minute. We waited for some time and then asked him if he wanted any help. He did not reply. We thought he did not want any help. The next day, we went to his house again. At that time he was sleeping because he had worked all night. We thought that we could use It without his permission. What we did not know was that the machine was not yet complete. We sat in the time machine and pressed the button which we thought would take us to the past. Then, we entered the time zone we wanted to go to. The time machine started making a weird noise, and it randomly jumped. A thought of apprehension ran through our minds, so we closed our eyes.
When we opened our eyes, we were surprised to see ourselves floating In the atmosphere of a newly formed earth. ‘Aakash’ was written above Aakash’s head. It was actually his name. By seeing that I thought that Anirudh should be written on my head because that was my name. We tried to land on the ground. After using a lot of energy, we finally landed on the ground only to see the time machine already there on the ground nearby. Speaking of the ground, it was completely barren.
The First Immortals:-
Since the ground was barren, we could see great distances. We saw a few people at a far distance. Aakash said we had to go to the people to know where we were. The ground was barren. This gave the impression of a war that has just cooled down. So, I thought we actually succeeded In going to the time of the World War. That impression was, however, short-lived.
While we were walking towards the distant people, we noticed ourselves going into a weird type of wall. It was semi-solid. As soon as we crossed the wall, we noticed so much greenery. We were overwhelmed. After calming down, we moved towards the far off people. Finally, after twenty long minutes, we reached the people. They asked us who we were and how we came to the land. We introduced ourselves not knowing where we were and asked them who they were. They did not reply to our question but talked freely about other things. They gave us food and water for many days so that we could manage our hunger and thirst. When we brought the question of their Identities once again, they reluctantly gave their identities. They told us that they were gods, that they were immortals. Aakash and I were so shocked that we fainted. When we regained consciousness, we took to our heels.
The semi-solid wall had let us in easily but was not giving in to let us go out. We tried hard, yet it did not give in. When we saw the so-called gods coming near, we crashed into the wall like logs of wood crashing to the enemy’s barrier. The wall finally gave in out of pity. The time machine was still far away. The gods were really near now. They caught up and, to our great surprise, asked for forgiveness for overwhelming us. We didn’t stop to listen to their apologies. We rushed back to the time machine hoping to go to the age of the World War.
T-Rex Eggs:-
Once again, the time machine made a weird noise and suddenly jumped. This time, we were really worried because the last time it did that thing; it did land somewhere we definitely did not want to go to. We closed our eyes and waited for it to land. Thankfully, this time we were not floating in the air but were still sitting in the time machine. The surrounding area was really dark. When we looked up, we noticed a dense growth of trees.
The trees’ branches were so widespread that literally, no sunlight was penetrating it. We walked for some distance hoping to find someone to ask which era we were in. Getting exhausted by the humid climate, we sat down on something which we thought were rocks. They weren’t actually rocks. They were T-Rex’s eggs. As soon as we sat on them, they broke or maybe hatched. The baby T-Rex thought we were its food and started running after us. We hid behind some trees surrounded by bushes and hoped we could escape the baby T-Rex. It was soon dark and we were not any closer to the time machine. We decided to hit the sack that night and looked for the time machine the first thing in the morning. By that time, the mother T-Rex had found out that its egg had hatched. The next day we were woken by some liquid being dropped on our faces. At first, I thought it was all a dream and that I was being woken up by someone in my house.
It was the saliva of a T-Rex who was looking for food. It was a perfect storm. We got up and ran as we were soon going to be the food for the T-Rex. We ran for our lives and saw the time machine a little far away. I got in first and waited till Aakash got in. Then, I started the machine without waiting for him to sit down and entered some random time coordinates.
The Mummy Chase:-
Aakash was almost thrown out of the time machine. He was holding the bars of the time machine and was screaming for help. I was shocked, so I landed the time machine in the time zone we were floating over. When we landed, Aakash started talking about loyalty and was in a bad mood for some time. I gave him the cold shoulder until he calmed down. The climate was extremely hot. When we looked around we noticed a lot of sand around us. We were after all in the middle of a desert country.
Behind us was a big pyramid structure. We noticed some people coming our way and decided to ask them which pyramid we were near. When we asked the people, they replied that we were near the Pyramid of Giza. They also said It had just been built for the dead pharaoh of Egypt. We decided to go in and investigate the monument. We pondered if entering the pyramid in front of the Egyptian people was disrespectful to them. So, we waited till they were far away and then we slowly snuck into the pyramid. It was already late. So, we decided to call it a day and rest a little Inside the pyramid. But, inside the pyramid was like a maze. We slept without talking too much because Aakash was still in a bad mood. The next morning, I was woken up by the sound of footsteps walking up and down the hallway near the place where we were sleeping. Soon Aakash was also awake. Both of us froze at seeing the scene. The mummy of the previous pharaoh was lurking around the pathways of the pyramid. We thought why the mummy had come almost out of the pyramid.
Later we understood that the mummy now had psychic abilities, and we were brought to the middle of the pyramid. We were petrified to think about finding our way back to the time machine. This mummy now noticed that we were awake. It started walking towards us. We did not waste any time, and we ran not knowing which direction we were going. The mummy was right behind us. We found our way back to the time machine. Both of us did not know what to even say because we had done the impossible. Once again, I started the time machine. It made the same noise. I had, by then, lost all hopes.
Destruction of the Mayans:-
This time, when we were still landing, we could hear a lot of commotion from the surroundings. The people around us were screaming, and most of them were crying. As soon as we landed, we felt as if we had made a wrong decision of starting a mission like this. When the people saw us they calmed down a little and begged for some food.
We had no objection to providing some food because the gods had given us plenty of food. These people were grateful to us, and they were no longer crying. Till that time, we hadn’t even noticed the place around us. It was In total ruins. We asked the people why the area was in ruins. For both of us, they were speaking in cuckoo. They were speaking in a language we did not understand. Thankfully, we had a translator in the time machine. After bringing the translator, we asked them the question again. This time using the translator we understood that they were telling that the Mayan civilization’s end was near. They also said that some people were invading their prosperous civilization. At that exact time, some people who did not look like Mayans came our way. We ran to the time machine and stopped there.
When we looked back, those invaders had despotically killed all the inhabitants and were now coming towards us. We were shocked when we saw the dead bodies of the people we had just helped. We pulled ourselves together just In time. The invaders were very close to us now. Without wasting any time, we started the time machine and disappeared. Same sound. Now our last straws ran out.
Another Religion Enters India:-
The time machine was turning out to be a way to increase our blood pressure. We both were so angry because we had started on this mission to see the world wars but we were going everywhere other than there. This time, when we got out of the time machine, we saw that we were back in India. I assumed that we were back in our era. But it was not so. We were in India but we were some centuries behind our time.
This happened to be the time of the Muslims coming into India. We wanted to see what they were about to do, so we used the time machine and fast-forwarded the time around us. We were shocked to see that the people ruthlessly took anything which they thought was precious. We stopped fast-forwarding time and stepped out of the time machine. We were furious. We decided to follow them to their country and do the same thing that they had done to our country. Surprisingly, before going away, those people built impressive monuments in India. Luckily, we had the time machine with us, so we could fast forward the construction to see how the monument would be from the inside. After a few minutes, which meant that a few months had passed, they finished the construction of the colossal monument. They built many more monuments on their way back to their country.
The thought about raiding their country completely vanished when we saw the numerous monuments they had built. One more thing we found was that some of the people were staying back after each monument was built. We thought that they wanted to make India their new home. I think that was how the religion of Muslims came to India. Happily, we sat In the time machine and started it. Surprisingly, this time there was no sound.
Finally, ‘The War’:-
We were surprised and happy to find no sound this time. We thought it was better late than never to finally reach the place we actually wanted to go to. But, that happiness did not last for a long time. As soon as we landed, we noticed that the surrounding was stinking. When we looked around, we noticed a deadly scene. The whole surrounding was filled with dead bodies. We noticed that someone was crying at a distance.
Listening to the sound, we reached a small boy crying in front of the dead body of a man. Maybe, that was his father, we thought. We were sick of ourselves for even thinking about coming to a place like this. Then in our defense, I thought that when we saw the movie, there was no such scene where there was nothing but dead bodies lying till the eye could see. Coming back, I asked the boy in English where his mother was. The boy was probably was from Britain, as he could understand what I asked him. He replied that she had asked him to go look for his father wherever the war had been going on. She had also told him to bring him directly home if he was alive and to quickly return if he was dead, as she didn't want to lose the child too. The boy remembered what his mother had said, so he stopped crying, said goodbye to us and ran back home. Looking at the boy running back home, we too felt homesick and wanted to return home as soon as possible.
We went back the same way we had come from and found the time machine in the distance. I asked Aakash if he also wanted to go back home. He promptly replied that I could say that again. Hoping to go back to the correct place and the time when we started, I entered the time zone into the machine. The time machine did not make a sound again, so, crossing our fingers, we hoped to go back home.
Journey Back Home:-
Our wish came true, and we were back in our time. Till this time, we had totally forgotten about Edison. He was still sleeping. When I looked at the clock, it was still the time when we had left. After a few minutes, Edison got up from his nap. He was surprised to see us. He told us that the time machine would take…. We did not let him complete the sentence and blurted out everything that had happened.
Now he was perplexed and he started blabbering that that was not possible, and we must have had slept off like him because we were exhilarated. Now, we knew that we had time traveled. We just wondered if we had actually come back to our time zone, or we were in some other time. Edison looked nervous and was behaving strangely. So, to make sure that we were awake, we slapped ourselves very hard. We screamed out in pain. This proved that we were really wide awake all the time and had done the time travel. Edison was still blabbering nonsense, so we quickly left that place so that he could not say anything else to us. While leaving, we told him that he could keep the time machine and that we did not want it anymore. We started back home puzzled. We decide to keep the time travel a secret so that no one else ended up like Edison.
On the way, we also had to come up with what we had to tell our parents since we could not tell them the truth. To that obstacle, we decided to tell them that Edison told us that we had lost our minds to even think how time travel was possible. We knew that the journey we had just gone on was very peculiar and unbelievable. We reached our houses, and from then onwards, we lived as though nothing like time travel had ever happened in our lives.
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