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The story so far….
I find myself in a virtual world with Hitler who is set out to straighten the anti-social elements in the real world using time travel.
Since I am not going to tag anyone this branch of the story will end with my story.
And Now…..
The fuhrer is busy reading H.G.Wells classic trying to gather his inputs for time travel. I enter the room only to find that he has lost all track of time and was immensely enjoying the battle between the Eloi’s and the Morlock’s.
“Hello…Excuse me…Aren’t we supposed to leave now?” I intercepted.
“Sorry. Give me a minute. What a classic novel.” He closed his book ready for his journey. “Do you know that Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom?”
I was literally taken aback to hear a quotation on books from the great general.
“huh. Is it”.?
“You humans will never understand the importance of them. Come let’s go”.
He took me to a garage and there stood which he described as the time-machine. It resembled like a vimana that Ravana used to abduct sita back in the days of Ramayana.
“You mean this is going to take us back to the past”?
“Just hop-in Kid and leave the rest to me. So whom shall we elimintate first. Your choice boy.”
“Ok. Let’s go back to May 10, 1933. The destination is Berlin, Germany”
“Ok. Who’s this guy that we need to eliminate?. Was he really dangerous”
“You will find that out”, I assured him.
He closed his eyes and murmured something to himself in some cryptic language. The machine started to ascend. A beautiful lady appeared in the monitor in front of me and there was a 5 minute video on wearing seat belts and the safety precautions that needs to be taken care of in case of an emergency landing or if the time machine goes into an out-of-bound loop.
“What is this wet towel and peanut for”?
“Oh. Just in case. I read somewhere that a wet towel and peanut is needed for inter galactical travel.”
I was sure that the he would be in for a real surprise after we land at our destination.
The sound in the machine was growing loud and it started whirling. I felt dizzy and closed my eyes.
“Wake up kid.”
“Are we there? I started remembering everything.
We saw rows of students marching towards an open ground with bunch of books in their hands.
“OK sir. You are now in my land. The guy that we are going to eliminate will resemble like you. Under no circumstances should you meet him face to face.” Since I was back in the real world, I started taking control from him.
“But Why? I would like to meet him.”
“The shock of coming face to face with oneself will traumatize anyone. They could go into a shock. His heart might stop and will probably drop dead. This would create a time-paradox which would unravel the very fabric of the time-space continuum and destroy the entire universe”. I was glad that I could remember the whole sentence from a famous movie.
“Ok. Whatever dude. So where are these students going”?
“You see those books they carry? They are going to burn them”
“What? Who in the right mind would do that?”
“The one we are planning to eliminate”.
“So why do we want this guy to eliminate. Just becos he is burning books? "
“See. This guy was one of the main reason for the world to witness a brutal war in the 20th century. This is what might happen if we eliminate him.”
“There would be no world war. Millions of people across the globe will be saved.”
“There would be no concentration camps for the Jews”.
“Jews would be happy staying back in Europe. They wouldn’t go back to Asia. There would be no war between Israel and Palestine in the future. People who are staying there will be happy.”
“There would be no two Germanys”,
“There would be no cold war”.
“There would be no arms race”.
“Ok..Enough..Enough..Stop…I have enough reasons now. So how do we kill him?”
“Kill him?. Are u nuts. Killing him would create a time-paradox” and I started to give him a lecture on astro mechanical physics.
“You don’t kill him. You just switch places with him. I have taken care of all the details. You will now make an entrance and act like the general. When the real one comes tell him that he is Charlie-chaplain and have your security guards arrest him. I will take care of the rest. Got it? And one more thing. A guy called Indiana jones, who is looking for some grail, will also come here for your autograph. Just sign it. God Speed and Save the world.”
“Are you sure this will work?”
“Definetly. This is called the ripple effect. Time travel into the future is always the extrapolation of current events of the immediate present. Just as the present affects the future, the future reverberates back into the past.”
Looking at the expression at his face I knew that he understood nothing. Every thing would become clear in the future or rather in my past.
The End.