June 28, 2012 2:30 a.m.
"Where're you taking me?!" Rina screamed at the warrior carrying her over its shoulder.
"Shut up, girl!" it growled as it slammed open an old steel door with a loud bang. It shoved her into a chair and tied her down there. "Now tell me where the coin is!"
"I all ready told you, I DON'T HAVE IT!" she yelled. It reached up and grabbed her by the hair.
"Fine, then you'll have to answer to my master." It laughed maniacally before walking out of the room.
Rina whimpered and bowed her head, 'why don't they believe me? It's all because of that old man; I wouldn't be in this mess if he'd never given me that stupid penny.'
The warrior came back in the room accompanied by a tall looking man. "Well, well, well, if it isn't Rina Frost…" he said with a grimace.
"Who are you?! How do you know me?" Rina was in a panic. No one was supposed to know her here.
"Ok, I'll play your game. I'll tell you who I am and how I know you, when you give me the coin."
"I all ready told your minion over there, I don't have it." She said calmly repeating herself.
"Then where is it?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
"I DON'T KNOW!" she yelled. 'you are such a liar!" she thought, 'you know the old man has it, so why are you protecting him?'
"YOU LIE!" the man said in her ear. "I know you know where it is, so save yourself and TELL ME!" he got up in her face. His fowl breath making its way to her nostrils.
She did her best not to gag before answering, "What are you gonna do if I don't tell you?"
An evil grin appeared on the man's face, "OH, you don't wanna find out."
"Maybe I do…" Rina said trying to sound brave, but almost failing.
"Izzy, I want you to get the answer out of her, if it kills her first." The man said before leaving the room.
The creature smiled evilly and out of nowhere pulled a dark purple blade with deep red blood stains from many victims with possibly the same fate Rina had.
June 28, 1967 11:00 a.m.
Mike Nesmith sat straight up in bed. 'What time is it?' he thought looking at his alarm clock. 'Why did they let me sleep till 11:00, I'll be late for my date with Alyssa?' he threw the covers off his bed and got dressed in a hurry.
He barreled down the stairs, and found the rest of the guys gathered around the table in a heated conversation.
"Guys," Mike said sitting down with them, "Why did you let me sleep so late?"
"Sorry Mike," Peter said, catching Mike's attention. He saw Peter's scared expression and his expression softened. "We didn't mean to let you sleep. I was gonna go and get you, but I forgot."
"It's all right Pete, are you ok?" he asked out of curiosity.
Peter shrugged, "I had a bad dream last night."
"Oh, Peter why didn't you tell me?" Mike said looking concerned.
"I didn't tell you cause Micky had one too, and he met me on the stairs, so I talked to him." Peter looked guilty.
"Yeah, Mike," Davy said, "They had the same dream."
Mike frowned, "How do you know?"
"It was about this chick that was running from this alien thingy in the near future." Davy responded a little too sarcastically than Mike could have liked.
"Izzy…" Mike whispered subconsciously to himself.
"Izzy?" Micky said, "Who's Izzy, Mike?" Micky asked looking at the tall Texan with a frown.
"Uh, nobody," Mike said standing up, "I gotta go; I have a date with Alyssa."
"Ok, have fun, Mike." Peter said with a wave.
Mike was scared out of his wits he'd had a dream similar to Peter's, but the girl wasn't running, she had already been captured, and was being questioned, and most likely being tortured for information about a coin. 'What did that mean anyway?' he thought to himself as he walked to Alyssa's house, 'and what did it mean when she said she was in a different time zone?' he shrugged it off when Alyssa opened her door at his knock.
"Hey Mike, you ready?" she asked with a bright smile.
"Yep," he said with a nod, "But we'll have to walk, Micky and Peter need the car today for groceries."
"That's all right," she said with a wave of her hand, "It's a nice day, walking could do me some good." She smiled again as he led her down the street. He decided to take for a walk in the park anyway, so why not get a head start on the walking.
When they got there, Alyssa and Mike went to the play ground, just because they could. Alyssa had Mike push her on the swings for a while, and then they climbed up onto the jungle-jim and sat at the top of the slide.
Surprisingly there weren't any kids around to complain about them blocking the way down the slide. They sat and talked about the different types of music they liked and what they used to do when they were little, like where they lived and grew up.
Eventually they both were getting tired and decided to walk back. They were about half way home when Alyssa suddenly turned toward Mike.
"I'm sorry, Mike." She said giving him a small kiss, before turning around, "But I have to go." He frowned at her and was about to question her. 'Wasn't I walking her home?' he asked himself, and then saw that she was slowly fading into a mist that had congregated around her feet.
A few minutes had gone by before he realized he was staring at a blank spot on the sidewalk where Alyssa had once been standing.
Mike was in shock the whole way back to his house. He thought about going to Alyssa's house to see if she was there, but he somehow knew she wasn't.
"Hey Mike." Davy greeted him as he came through the door to their pad, "You ok?"
Mike numbly shook his head and sat shakily down on the couch. "My girlfriend just disappeared into oblivion."
"She didn't like you at all?" Davy responded sitting down next to him.
"No, I mean she literally disappeared." Mike said looking his short friend in the eye.
"Yeah, ok, Mike." Davy patted Mike on the shoulder before leaving the room in a hurry.
Mike sat in shock until Peter and Micky got home with several bags of groceries in their arms.
"I believe you guys now." He said taking a wobbly bag of eggs out of Peter's arms.
"Believe us?" Peter said making a face, "About what, Mike?"
"About your dreams."
"Oh, yeah? How come?" Micky asked with a grin.
"Alyssa disappeared into oblivion on our walk back home."
"What does your girlfriend running away from you have to do with our dreams?" Peter asked putting away the milk and eggs.
"I mean she literally disappeared, guys. And I had a dream last night too. It was about this girl, she got captured by this alien thing, evidently named Izzy and this guy kept asking her where the coin was. She wouldn't tell him, though, so the guy decided to torture it out of her. That's all I remember, but I do know she kept referring to the coin being a penny."
Micky and Peter listened to Mike rant about his dream. It had picked up where theirs had left off, so this was helpful. At the word penny, Micky remembered something, "Mike?" he said sitting down at the table, "Did you say Alyssa disappeared?" Mike nodded. "The same thing happened to me, yesterday on my way home. Did she give you anything?" Mike shook his head, making Micky frown.
"Well there was this guy, right? And he just randomly appeared in front of me, right? He handed me this, then disappeared." Micky pulled a shiny penny out of his pocket and put it on the table. Peter picked it up and examined it before Mike could get to it.
"Mike!" he yelled, "the date, look at the date!"
He handed the penny to Mike.
The penny looked just as normal as any other penny, except for the date. Instead of 1967 or lower, the date said 2012 on it.
Mike's eyes widened in surprise, "But that's 45 years from now!"
"I know that's what I said, but I thought I was goin crazy so I shoved it in my pocket and went on with my business."
"That's gotta be the coin they were talking about in our dreams." Peter said as Davy came in the room and dug around for something to eat.
"No it's not." He said making a face, "you all are just staying up to late."
"Well you can think what you want," Micky said, "but I think that girl needs our help."
Davy didn't say anything more; he just rolled his eyes, poured himself some juice, and walked away.
June 29, 2012
Rina took a deep breath, 'I have to get out of here.' She scouted the room for any chance of escape, but found nothing. These people definitely thought their dungeons through. The door flew open to reveal the tall man.
"What do you want?" she spat.
"My dear Rina," he replied painfully sarcastic, "you know exactly what I want."
"And I've all ready told you what I know." She said standing her ground.
"But I know you haven't told the whole truth," he said pulling up a chair, "I know there's something more to your story."
"I told you, I got the coin from an old man, which brought me here. Then I lost it, it just disappeared." She said through gritted teeth.
"It just disappeared…" he repeated in disbelief. Rina nodded grimly.
"You never told me who you were." She said numbly.
"Your right," he said, "I didn't. My name is Doctor Porter."
"Well, Porter," Rina said, "I've told you all I know, now let me go!"
"I'm so sorry, Rina," Porter said playing with the loose strands of her hair, "But I'm afraid I can't do that."
Rina felt like crying, 'what does this guy want with me?' unfortunately, Porter noticed this and grinned wickedly, "Rina, all you have to do is tell me the truth, and you're free to go."
"But I have!" she screamed tearfully.
"LIAR!" he yelled back at her. He slapped her across the face with a loud crack in the echo-y room.
Suddenly the alarm bell sounded. Porter brought his focus away from Rina and stood.
"Where are you going?" she whimpered.
"Don't worry," Porter responded, "I'll be back, Frost." With that he went out the door and slammed it loudly leaving Rina in complete darkness, with only the warning bell to make noise.