Chapter 28: The Bones of Yuri.
In an unknown place and time, there is a bright flash of light. As the light fades away Fernando and Gadget look at each other on a tree branch, with Fernando against the tree's trunk. He closes the laptop and puts it in its case.
"Where are we?!", Gadget yells at him.
"Hmmm... I believe this is the western side of Pangaea, somewhere along the equator.", Fernando tells her.
"Pangaea?", Gadget asks.
"You should know, large super continent once on Earth around about 200 million years ago. Actually this is Laramedia some 70 million years ago.", Fernando explains. The sound of a roaring Tyrannosaurus Rex is heard somewhere in the distance. Gadget almost jumps out of her skin at the sound. "Sounds like Kitty is around.", he stays serious though jokes about it.
"Kitty?! 70 million years ago? That's a T-Rex!", Gadget says out loud.
"So? You said you wanted access to my time travel equipment. Well, now you have. Goodbye.", Fernando tells her.
"WAIT!", Gadget yells.
"What?", Fernando asks.
"You are not going to leave me here, are you?", Gadget asks.
"Why not? You have become a detriment to history and the time line itself. I am not going to face a Time Lords' Inquiry because you will not leave things well enough alone. So here you will stay until the end of your days. Maybe you can find a cave mouse to mate with so you can survive longer here. I will be checking up pn you from time to time though, make sure that you are learning your lesson. And in this time frame, you are no longer married to Chip, for he would not exist for another 70 million years.", he tells her.
"You cant be so cruel!", Gadget yells as she starts to cry.
"There are certain events that can never be altered, no matter how much you try. The meteor that kills the dinosaur 15 million years from now, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD that destroyed Pompeii, Columbus' discovery of the Americas in the 1490s, The Charles Mason Murders in the late 1960s as well as man landing on the moon at that time, and the murder of Tammy's family. There is nothing you or I could do to stop it, because its immutable.", Fernando tells her.
"Prove It!", Gadget yells at him.
"Fine. Have it your way.", Fernando says as he rolls up his left arm sleeve. He types on the touch screen pad that was on it, and they disappear in a bright flash of light.
"GADGET! DON'T GO IN THERE!", a female's voice everyone recognizes as Jeanette is heard, along with the patter of running feet. The blonde mouse gets to a separate entrance on the other side of the house from Fernando and opens the door. The three men there look at her and raise their guns at her, releasing several rounds to her chest. Despite the bullet resistant protection, the force from the many rounds hitter her shatter her ribs. Broken bones punctures her lungs as she falls to the floor still alive through breathing is now a difficult proposition. She slowly dies, drowning in her blood as it fills her lungs, but she remains alive long enough to hear Bink's screams and Tammy's mother running for her, followed by several rounds that kills her.
Gadget slowly reaches to her mouth, wiping the blood that has spewed out. Another hand covers her mouth with a handkerchief. "One down.", Fernando's voice can be heard, followed by a bright flash of light.
Chip, Monty and Dale and in the hallway by the main doorway, where is opened by three men. They were cut down by the barrage of bullets that was thrown at them. The men continue in the house, finding Gadget in hallway by the kitchen is. She receives a bullet in the neck and chest. She dies before she could drown in her own blood as the heart and other vital organs stops from the severed spinal cord.
Gadget holds herself with one arm while the other hand covers her mouth as she crumples to her knees. "One hundred and seventy five thousand down. Want to see more?", Fernando's voice is heard.
"No...", Gadget whimpers softly. A bright light flashes, and they were back on the tree limb.
"One hundred and seventy five thousand attempts, all failed with deaths of you, me and the rest of the rangers depending on the mission. There are one hundred million billion times more where we failed. This is an immutable event, Gadget. No matter how hard you try, its not going to happen. That is why I had to let you feel the pain of being killed all those times again and again. If death is not the ultimate teacher to give you a life's lesson, then I don't know what is.", Fernando tells her.
"Why are we back here?", Gadget asks as she wipes her tears.
"This is where those who try to force a Time Traveler to take action stays.", Fernando tells her.
"No!", Gadget yells at him.
Before she could lunge at him, Fernando drops himself from the tree limb and unfolds his wings, flying in a circle to the floor some seventy feet below. Gadget could only see him fly down and then looks at the tree before making the decision to climb down herself. She has another 20 feet before Fernando starts to walk away. She manages to make the rest of the way down quickly and trots behind him some 150 yards away from the tree.
"You said that you sent others here.", Gadget says out loud for he to hear. He stops and looks down at the floor. She walks up to him and looks at the ground with him. A skull missing its jaw bone and a few bones were there. He picks up the skull and the few bones, wiping the Maxilla with his hand. Several teeth there capped in gold can be seen after years of dust was wiped off. "Who is that!", Gadget asks in exclamation.
"No matter many people I send here, they will be spaced 50 years apart from each other so they will never meet. And if they do, it will be like Yuri here.", Fernando explains.
"Yuri?", Gadget asks.
"Take your pick, Yuri, male in Russia or Female in Japan. But I'll tell you this much, the narrowed rows of teeth says Yuri was female, the large incisors, no fangs, and protruding nasal bones says she was a mouse like you, who got in my way and tried to force me to go back in time and do things that cant be done for the same reasons you have in doing the same to me here and now. But Yuri is from the future compared to you and she died in the past, compared to you. Scratches on the cranium says that a gang of Troodons or Velocoraptors got to her. Too bad. I'm going to have to destroy this skull.", Fernando explains.
"Destroy her skull, but why? That's disrespecting the dead!", Gadget complains.
"Cant do that. Cant let some archeologist find her fossilized bones and wonder why there was a modern mouse in this time line. I will do the same to you when I find your bones.", Fernando tells her as her rises his arm to access the touch screen on it.
"You cant do that!", Gadget yells at him as she pulls on his arm.
"Let go of my arm.", Fernando tells her.
"No! You are going to have to kill me!", Gadget shouts at him. He reaches into his pocket, and pulls out the mind wiper, putting it to her forehead. "What is that? Some kind of gun? You are not man enough to pull the trigger!", she yells at him. A tiny flex of Fernando's finger against the switch activates the mind wiper on Gadget. Unlike others he has zapped, Gadget's eyes opens in disbelief as the electro-magnetic pulse surges through her brain, shutting it down the active and conscious parts, and reprogramming the memory centers at the same time. She tenses up as she lets go of his arm, falling on the floor with a padded "thud."
"Never question my manhood, you bitch.", Fernando says out loud before taking a few steps to a nearby boulder. There he smashes Yuri's skull and bones against the big rock, shattering them into dust. He picks up the gold from her pulverized teeth, shaking off the rest of the dust and pockets it. Walking back to Gadget, he taps type on the touch screen. In a bright flash of light they disappear.
