Sokka on… Time travel (Please bear through this confusing concept, it gets better.)(This is my very first article i have ever written on fanfiction so its not too great. the other ones are much better)
This is the beginning of a series of ramblings on miscellaneous subjects by our favorite man of meat, sarcasm, logic and science. We will be contemplating many subjects ranging from bending to censoring to paradoxes. Reader topic suggestions will be appreciated. So without further ado, the disclaimer.
(Do I even need this?) I don't own the cast of this story (DUH!). Mike and Brian have that pleasure. Never again will you see that. (Toph didn't even see it, heh heh heh…)
You all know those days when all you feel like doing is laying on your bed and staring at the ceiling fan. Well Katara Sokka and Aang are having one of those days and they have nothing better to do than lay on their backs with their heads on koala-sheep and stare at clouds. Toph and sparky couldn't make it cause let's face it they have a frikkin country and metal bending academy to run. Enough explanation! Onward!
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"Hey Sokka, do you ever wonder what we would be doing right now if we could've gone back in time and stopped the war?"
"What kind of question is that!? Time travel is completely and utterly impossible for a number of reasons. For time travel to even exist there would have to be no concept of time. The past, present, and future would all have to be happening at the same time." Even if we go with Hue's philosophy of, 'Pants are an illusion therefore so is time' what would happen during the time you were in the past? Time would have to either go on without you or freeze. Or what if you travelled into the future? You wouldn't be able to see yourself or how you impacted the world because you climbed in a time machine and disappeared for who knows how many years. Another thing, what if you went back in time to the same time period ten times? Would there be ten of you running around giving people déjà vu? Or if you went into the past to fix something and you fixed it, there would be no reason for you to go into the past. Therefore, you wouldn't have traveled into the past, and you completely mess up time. Or what happens if you go back in time to the same time period twice and something you do on your second trip causes you to be unable to go back to the 'present' which technically doesn't exist and you would be unable to take your second trip to the past so you'd destroy the space time continual."
"Ok Sokka we get it," Katara interrupts, tired of hearing Sokka's monologue.
"Now if that didn't happen but you went into the past or future, which technically don't exist if time travel is possible, and you stayed in one of those time periods what would happen to you? Would your body stay the same, would it return to your 'present' size when you went back to the 'present', or would it appear to your family and friends that you just drastically changed overnight. Or what if you travelled to the past, ate, and then came back? Would you still be hungry or would that food have disappeared?"
Katara and Aang just glance at each other and shake their heads in disapproval. "I wonder if he'll even notice if we leave,"
"I doubt it, my brother can be very absentminded. Let's blow this meatsicle stand." They walk over to Appa who was grazing next to Sokka's Eelhound, and take off, flying directly over the still rambling Sokka.
"So now you see, when you put time travel up against simple logic and science it fails to even be remotely plausible. So does that answer your question Aang?"
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"Aang?"
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Now I can read your mind. You are saying, "There's five minute of my life I'll never get back." Just looking at this concept confuses me and I'm the one who wrote the darn thing! Yes Sokka has an Eelhound. What do you think happened to the one he rode to the airship base in the finale? Well I hope you enjoyed it PM me or review if you have any questions, comments, critiques, or just feel like I need to not continue this. On Monday, Sokka shall dispute the particularities of bending.
До свидания (Pronounced "Das-veedanya") (meaning "Until we meet" in Russian)
PS: A meatsicle is just meat on a stick as shown in Episode 2 season 3, The Headband.