Date, September 9, 2001
In an empty field surrounded by scattered trees, there's nothing but the sound of nature. Until a loud screeching noise starts and gains intensity at an alarming rate. As the sound reaches its peak, space in the center of the field starts to distort. In this distortion is a buildup of protracted energy that begins to coalesce, increasing by the millisecond. Looking as though it will never end and swallow everything around it whole any second. An object starts to form in the epicenter releasing the energy in every direction.
With nothing but an eerie quiet afterwards. Jacob in his time machine have arrived. As Jacob adjusts his eyes to the light of the sun, he takes in the view of his surroundings to confirm he’s where he is supposed to be. Then he looks at the readout on the current date and time on his screens. Showing him what he wanted to see, September 9, 2001, 2:43pm.
With a shout, “Yes it worked, haha. Screw you Professor R. Meister, saying it wasn’t possible to travel through time.” “I just proved your ass wrong.” With a look of elation and smugness, he powers down the machine and puts it in standby. Stepping off the machine he reaches into the storage compartment grabbing his bag. Making sure everything is set. He pulls out a small remote and activates the camouflage system on the machine and makes his way to his home town.
As soon as he’s in town he heads toward the family home. Thinking, ‘I should check out my younger self. It shouldn’t be a problem as long as I make it quick.’ Outside the home he sees his 8 year old self playing in the front yard with an erector set accompanied by his 8 year old friend, Scarlet. Seeing this brings him back in time. Deep in thought as he remembers how happy he was then. And remembers in 2 days the 'event' will happen.
‘I’m definitely going to make sure it doesn’t happen this time around’, he thought.
Suddenly he feels a tug on his shirt. Looking down in surprise he sees Scarlett.
Scarlett asks, “Why do you look sad? Are you hurt?”
Brought out of his stupor with her question. He gets on one knee and replies, “No I’m not hurt. It's just a sad memory.”
Seeing the sad look on his face she hugs him and says, “It will be ok.” And runs back to his younger self. With a face of confusion, then happiness. Jacob makes his way down the street, heading toward the middle of town.
"She always had a good heart. God I miss her. I should have said a proper goodbye before I made my trip", talking to no one in particular
When Scarlet got back to little Jacob. He asks her, “What was that? Do you know him?”
She replies, “No but there was just something about him that made me want to make him feel better.” Jacob not understanding what she's talking about, shrugs and goes back to building his rocket.
Future Jacob makes his way to the nearest hotel and gets a room. After putting his belongings away. He prepares for the next 2 days. Grabbing the keycard and making his way out of the hotel. He heads towards his favorite restaurant to get something to eat. On his way back to the hotel Jacob takes in the sight of the town and how different it looks from the future. 'How much has changed in the past 17 years', Jacob thinks while sighing.
For the next day and a half, Jacob keeps an eye on his family as he readies to enact his plan.
September 11, minutes before the attacks are broadcasted. Jacob heads to the family home. Parked down the road in his rental car. He waits for his cue to act. Seventeen minutes later, he sees his family running out of the house. His younger self out in front rushing to the car opening the door for his mother and father right behind him. As they move they have looks of intense worry and fear on their faces as the mother is huffing and puffing holding her stomach to support the extra weight as they move faster than they should for a pregnant woman having contractions.
As everyone gets in the car, Jacob in the rental puts the it in drive and is about to make his move. The family’s emotions at this points are running rampant. The car won’t start no matter what they do. Just as father gets out and checks the engine, Jacob pulls up in the rental. Jumps out and ask if they need help.
With a look of relief on the fathers face the father tells him, his wife is in labor and the car won’t start. He's called an ambulance but with what is going on he’s afraid that it won’t get here soon enough.
Jacob tells him, “Don’t worry, you’re in luck I’m a doctor and can help your wife until the ambulance arrives.” His father’s face shows that of pure happiness and elation coming off it. It was like the sun beaming on his Jacob’s own face.
Jacob showing a smile of his own grabs his medical bag. Runs over and helps bring the mother back inside to lie on a bed. He was somewhat hesitant after this. Reason is because he’s to deliver his brother and has to look at his mother you know what. This is not something he ever wanted to see, but he has to do it.
He asks for permission to allow him to touch her. Given the OK. He asks that the kid be brought outside the room while he performs the delivery. Once he leaves Jacob lifts up her skirt and removes her undergarments. Starts feeling the stomach to make sure the baby is in the right position. With his future knowledge he knows very well that the child isn’t. Using External Cephalic Version (ECV) he rotates the child as slowly as he can. So to not hurt either the mother or child. Once the child is in position he pulls out a device from his bag.
Noticing the father eyeing the device after pulling it out. Jacob replies, “It’s called an Intradermal Syringe (IS). It’s an injection device that doesn’t use needles.” Astounded the father says, “Wow I’ve never heard of that.” Jacob smiling says, “that’s because I invented it.”
He injects his mother with a mix of special drugs that help with delivering the child. Then asks her to breathe and push on the contractions. After several pushes and screams of pain the child is finally out. Clamping the umbilical cord on two ends. Cuts it and wraps the child in a blanket. As he’s looking at his brother, which seems like forever. The father asks, “Doctor is everything ok?”
For the second time in the past 2 days he’s brought out of his stupor and apologizes and assures him everything is perfectly fine. He hands the child to his mother, and at this time little Jacob comes running in with the paramedics.
Jacob explains to them everything that happened as they get to work. The paramedics start checking mother and son making sure nothing is wrong. Jacob gets a big bear hug from the father, saying thank you, tears running down his face. He releases him after 10 secs then moves onto his wife and child. Jacob grabs his bag and makes his way out.
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Little Jacob turning around sees him leaving and goes after him. Catching up outside he asks,
“Where are you going mister?”
“I’m sorry Jacob I have to go now.” Little Jacob looking at him for the first time since he had arrived. He realizes it’s the same man from a couple days ago.“I remember you. You were walking past our house the other day. Who are you?” little Jacob asks
With a smile he answers, “Let’s just call me your family’s guardian angel.” Jacob walks to his car, starts it up and drives away.
Little Jacob’s father runs out of the house asking “Where’d the doctor go, I never got his name?”
Jacob with the look of confusion on his face thinks, ‘How’d he know my name?’ looking at his father he tells him the doctor had just left. The two looking stupefied, collect themselves and head back inside the house.
Future Jacob after returning his rental. Leaves the hotel and makes for his time machine with a big smile on his face and thoughts of success. And hoping that the effect he has on the future with everything that has happened the last 2 days won’t be disastrous and go the way he planned. He soon arrives and deactivates the cloaking device and starts up the machine. The readouts showing green his puts in the return date and starts the drive.
Right now there's a fault in one of the sensors. Because of that no alarm was given about the energy leaking from the drive core. His drive core is what makes time travel possible. It’s called a "Drizen Drive Core". And the energy it creates is unique. The energy has started to leak at a faster rate as the machine travels back through the tunnel. Jacobs body starts to absorb the energy. Becoming woozy and slipping in and out of consciousness. He starts to notice fluctuations in energy output and the destabilization of the surrounding tunnel. Looking back he sees that energy leaking out toward him before passing out.
Waking up in the middle of a field, Jacob’s head is pounding hard. It feels as though its going to explode. Looking around he recognizes the field in which he's laying on. Wondering what the hell is going on, he stands up shakily but falls to a knee. Recovering he once again and gets to his feet. He looks around, but doesn’t see the time machine or his hanger.
A little scared he thinks he might have fallen off the machine when he passed out and landed in the wrong time. But he remembers that from the shear force that would have been exerted on him from tunnel he would have been disintegrated in an instant.
He takes a deep breath and focus his mind he notices a tightness in his chest and a warmth that is unknown to him.
Wondering what's going on, he starts to concentrate on the warmth, and starts getting warmer as he does. He starts to feel a tingling sensation travel throughout his body, alarmed by this he stops.
‘What the hell is this? What’s going on with my body?’ he thinks with a worried look
Thinking more on it, he comes to a conclusion, 'It has to do with the energy leaking from the core. Looked like my body absorbed the energy. If so what does that mean? Why am I not dead? What happened to the time machine? And where’s my hanger?’
“I’ll have to get back to the house get my equipment and run tests on me and this field.”
Walking back to the town, he sees something in the distance. “What the hell is that? Is that a person flying?” “Now I’m seeing things."
True enough as the two got closer to one another, it's a man flying. Flabbergasted and staring in awe. The man flies toward him, landing 30 feet away. All the sudden Jacob gets a flash of what looks to be memories of himself. And of people he shouldn’t know but for unknown reasons he does.
Now able to see the man’s face clearly, the man asks, “Jacob? What are you doing here?”
Jacob gets another flash, this time of the man in front of him. Locking his eyes back onto the man he replies, “I’m just coming back from my training Darrick. Why what’s up?”
“Well HQ, picked up a huge energy signature coming a mile from here. Did you see a strange light? or Hear any unusual sounds?”
“No nothing of the sort. Sorry I wasn't any help.”
“No worries, I’m sure I can find out what it was. You should head back to town it’s not safe here right now.”
“I was doing just that, thanks.”
“No problem. I’ll see ya later.”
“Later.”
Jacob starts to walk off while Darrick watches him curiously.‘Was it him? Nah there’s no way he could produce that level of magic power. His power is too small' Darren thought. Then turns and flies off toward the coordinates of the energy reading.
As he turns around to watch Darren fly away. ‘How the hell did I know him all the sudden?'
….'Those flashes, they must be memories. They feel like mine but disconnected somehow.'
Thinking awhile he comes to a hypothesis, ’Shit I know exactly what they are. They’re not my memories, they are my counterparts memories. Something must have gone wrong. Somehow I changed the future more than I imagined. And now I'm in an alternate reality or timeline. How the hell did I end up with his memories though. It shouldn’t have happened unless...
*sighs* My counterpart and I, our bodies must have merged during my re-entry. But that would mean he was exactly where I emerged from the tunnel. The odds of that are astronomical. I’m definitely going to have to do tests, lots of tests. Damn it! Man my headache is getting worse by the second.’
As he looked up from his reverie, he see, ”Is that a Castle? You got to be kidding me," he says in awe.
‘This is definitely not the earth I know. Or is it? Damn having 2 sets of memories is confusing as hell.’ ‘My headache is just getting worse and worse. Life just got so much more complicated. Me and my dumbass self, just had to go and build a time machine.’
‘Well I did it for my brother and my family.’ he thought for a second
'Wait my brother, I have to find out if he’s ok. I’m still missing parts of my counterparts memories. I still can't recall all them. And what of the rest of my family? Scarlett? My unborn child?’
With a pained and worried expression Jacob runs at a full sprint to his house.