Tammy was the weirdo at her school for sure. She was in almost every club, and had perfect grades, and not to mention the weirdest friends. Tammy didn't dress the same as the other girls either. She was more of a tomboy really, spending her time after school skateboarding, playing video games, and out spitting just about every guy she met. Tammy also never dated…EVER.
Tammy was many different sorts of 'geek' as one popular girl said. Tammy was an A.V. geek, a debate geek, book club, writing club, environmental club, aviation club, Navy Brat, Mathlete, Science Olympiad, history, technology, and a computer geek. I think I may have missed some actually. But that's no matter.
Tammy had grown up for seven years with her parents and her brother, and she spent a lot of time with her family. She was especially close to her brother. But, the reason to why she only had seven years, was because when she was seven in fact, her parents and her brother died in a fire. Tammy was over at a friend's house which spared her life, thankfully.
So now Tammy lived with her Uncle Jim in Sammamish, Washington. She had three best friends, Thomas, her cousin, Michel, the skater she met one summer, and Jamie, the only girl in school who was ever nice to her.
Tammy was a crazy inventor as well. She even had a 'henchman', Thomas. Tammy had tried to invent a matter materializer (and was close too!) and had actually made a plane that uses no electricity. She and Thomas used their basement as their 'laboratory'.
One night, Tammy was working on a time machine. She was almost done, and about to test it as well.
"So we can go back in time, and see the future?" Thomas asked as he watched Tammy work and get grease and grim on herself.
"No, Thomas." Tammy said still working. "I've programmed it to only go back in time. See," Tammy put down the tools and stood up, "I have a theory that we can't alter the past. Because if this works, than it was supposed to work, and what ever we do in the past, has already happened."
"And if you're wrong?" Thomas asked. He knew she wasn't going to send herself or him into the past tonight, but she might in later days.
"Well then, it shouldn't be too hard to fix." Tammy said. She picked up a book from the table nearby and opened the door to her latest invention. Thomas straightened himself up and tried to see what she was doing with the book.
"What are you doing?" Thomas asked, giving up on guessing.
"I have put a camera on the book, so if this works, I'll be able to see it." Tammy told him. Thomas still didn't get why that book, but he didn't care now.
Tammy shut the door and locked it. She sat down in a chair and turned to the computer. As Tammy swirled in her chair, she began coughing quite badly.
"Tammy, are you ok?" Thomas asked. Tammy straightened herself and looked at Thomas and said, "Of course. I'm fine."
Tammy pressed some buttons and then hit a red button and there was some dim light coming through the small glass window in the machine.
"Why do they always put windows on things like this?" Thomas asked.
"Cuz it looks cool." Tammy said. Thomas nodded looking at the light. (oh….the light….I want to touch it! LOL)
Suddenly, the whole thing just shut down. The light went out and there was a loud banging and some clashing. Tammy cocked an eyebrow and went back to the computer. She coughed again, but this time covered it up so Thomas couldn't hear.
Thomas walked over to the computer as well and asked, "What's wrong? Is it malfunctioning?"
"No, it doesn't seem to be." Tammy said pressing some buttons. The computer screen flashed the words 'process complete' which meant everything was fine and they should be getting a signal from the camera. Tammy pressed some more buttons and they got a signal from the camera, but it was soon lost. Even while they had the signal, all they could see was black.
Tammy got up and opened a small door on the machine and looked inside. Thomas mingled about the lab and looked around.
Then the door of the machine began to shake, like someone knocking on it. Thomas cocked his head and looked at it. He walked towards the machine and it continued. Tammy's head came out from behind the machine and look at Thomas as she said, "Hey, Thomas. Could you just open the door? If it falls off I'll fix it later."
"Alright then." Thomas said saluting Tammy. He opened the door to the time machine and was surprised at what he saw.
"Um…Tammy…" Thomas said.
"What?" Tammy said from behind the machine.
"You might want to come see this!" Thomas said.
"Hold on." Tammy walked back to the computer and typed some things and took the notebook from the table next to her and wrote down what had happened. Tammy, without looking at Thomas, said, "I still can't figure out what went wrong, or if anything happened at all." She got up and turned to face Thomas. Tammy saw five men standing next to Thomas in strange apparel.