"MANNY! What's going on?!" Ellie started to panic.
Manny tried to keep calm and hold himself together, as he was trying to fight off something in his mind.
"GRRR, NO! Stop fearing!" he shouted, as he looked for the 'acorn'.
"We have to get out of here! NOW!" He then grabbed the thing from the snow, and just panicky pressed onto anything that felt like a button.
He ended up activated something that teleport the quintet away from Half Peak.
*WHOOP!*
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"Where are we now?" Ellie asked, to her surprise, she instantly received a response.
"Ice Valley, but it's melting. This feels like it, but why are we here?" Manny can see pools of ice and water around them. Manny, Ellie, and Scrat seemed to remember this scene.
"Have we been time traveling back to the past?" She looked around, things about the place had already started to appear in her head.
"Well, Manny! How about you use the machine to get us back to the present then." Julian asked him to try.
"Manny pressed the same button that he did last time when they are at Half Peak, but nothing happened
"Um...The thing doesn't work any more Julian."
"WHAT?!" everyone got shocked for a moment, until the acorn started to sound.
It gave out 3 beeps. He then checked on the miniature screen of the machine, there were unknown symbols on it and a hologram which resembles a power level.
⊑⏃⍀ ⟟⋏ …
-_-_-_-_-
▪️◼️◻️◻️◻️◻️◻️◽
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The second white square now seemed to flicker from black to white.
"What...is this?" Manny then started to get confused over the thing. However, Peaches and Julian seemed to understand what it was trying to say.
"I don't know what the sentence is trying to say, but judging from the icon, I think it's charging." Julian claimed.
"Seriously?!" Manny grunted. "Fine, guess we are stuck here forever."
"Not really forever, It's just a matter of time before this thing probably refills itself, I hope so." Peaches replied to Manny.
"What? Well for how long?" Manny got worried, as he looked at the nervous Peaches.
"Ummm...from how the thing looks, I think it's going to be quite long."
Manny then started to navigate through the GUI of the device. There are only 2 screens that this thing can change from, one being the battery level screen, and one being…..
"What?" Manny whispered to himself as he looked at the second screen he discovered.
⟟⋏⎅⟟⎐⟟⎅⎍⏃⌰⌇ ⏃⌇⌇⟟ ⋏⟒⎅ ⍜⋏⏁⍜ ⎅⟒⎐⟟ ⟒:
┍ ┑
ẋ Scrat
ẋ Manny
ẋ Ellie
ẋ Peaches
ẋ Julian
┗ ┙
⋏⟒⌖⏁ ⎅⟒⌇⏁⟟⋏⏃⏁⟟⍜⋏: ⌇⋏⍜⍙ ⎐⏃⌰⌰⟒⊬
"Guys! There are our names in this thing!" He announced as he made a shocking discovery from the machine.
They all squeezed themselves in to look at the screen, but none of them understand anything about what it's trying to say other than their displayed names.
"We have no time to waste, try finding a good spot."Manny then told everyone to get on and try to find a place to hide out until the machine fully charges. "I can't seem to understand any of this." he muttered under his breath.
"Manny!" Ellie whispered to him as she dragged him down to a big bush, and told everyone to be quiet.
"What are you doing El?!"
"SHHH! Look! What are they!"
Heard what his wife said, the mammoth slowly peaked his eyes out, and he saw something that probably made him start to realise what was going on.
"I knew that I wasn't the only one!"
"Me too! Everyone falls out of the tree sometimes every now and then. They just don't admit it!"
"Wait…" Julian murmured, as he looked at the view that Manny was seeing.
"Isn't that US?" Ellie told Manny as she got confused."
In the distance, Manny saw himself, Ellie, Crash, Eddie, Diego, and Sid all at once.
Manny and Ellie looked with their eyebrows raised.
"It seems that we probably have been traveling through times with this machine." Ellie claimed.
"Let's go give them a talk!" For some reason, Julian just popped out of his cover and went straight forward to them.
"Julian! WAIT DON'T!" Manny tried to call him as he also went out of his spot. The loud call caught the other Herd's attention.
"Did you hear that? Is that you Manny?"
"Uh...No, I would never sound echoey."
"Hey there, How are you guys doing!" Julian was right at Manny, as he reached his trunk out and put it on the mammoth's shoulder.
To his surprise, his trunk phased right through the big furry mammoth.
It shocked him for a moment, as he tried to touch other members of the group, but the same results occurred. It's like none of them have ever felt, seen, or sensed Julian nearby.
"What?" He then looked at the mammoth, Manny and his group still had their eyes focused on the present incoming Manny, as both finally met each other face to face.
This made Scrat, Peaches, and Ellie come out as well. The Herd made a quick charade upon encountering.
"Who are you guys?"
"Who are YOU guys?"
The two Mannys asked each other out.
"I don't remember having an imposter of myself." Ellie claimed, as she stared at the current Ellie.
"So do I, but we ain't imposters, probably time travelers." Ellie tried to tell their past selves who they actually are.
"Time travelers?" the sloth called out. "What do you want from us?" Diego looked at the Herd, as his sharp claws were ready to strike.
"Listen here, we don't want to fight, we just wanted to go back home!"
"Oh I don't think so. What if you're the sirens?" Manny looked at them suspiciously
"Sirens? What are they?" Sid doesn't understand what Manny meant.
"They manipulate animals, so that we become their meal. They are like dangerous tricksters, Sid." Ellie answered.
"That's nonsense! How can sirens live on land?!" Manny felt the ridiculous doubts on him and his herd is extremely unjustified.
"Besides, I don't think you would stand a chance even if we have to resort in violence, we got 4 mammoths while you only have 2"
"You're the one who has two." Manny replied.
"What? Do you have a problem with your eyes?" Peaches wanted to confirm that the other side is not blind. To her surprise however, all of them ignored her.
Scrat took a huge gulp as he felt the increasing tension between both sides.
"Maybe let's show who you really are shall we, with just a little pain." Diego said as he whipped out his claw and was about to strike on Manny... "Don't worry, I'll make this quick, sirens actually taste like fish by the way." Diego gave them a devious smile.
"DAD!" Peaches shouted.
...before he could, however, the ground suddenly shaked, as they heard sounds that depicted peril. Everyone can then feel the wrath of the water slamming down the area.
"THE FLOOD!" Manny screamed. This made all of them panic.
"What do we do now Manny!" Julian anxiously asked him.
Manny then looked at the screen on the machine...
The sound of the giant waves of flood can be heard rushing into the zone where they are standing, The Herd had already started to run, while the other Herd stick together near Manny, as he looked at the screen with a spark of hope.
! ⊑⏃⍀ ⟒⎅!
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▪️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️▪️
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Scrat can be heard screaming out of his lungs, as the waves of water was about to swallow all of them. Peaches closed her eyes as she hugged Ellie, While Julian looked at the machine that Manny's holding.
*TING!* The machine made a sound. Upon hearing it, Julian immediately shouted by reflex:
"DO IT!" his shout was like a little ant compared to the sound of the flood rushing through.
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*WHOOP!*
END OF PART 2.
(Author's explanation: There are 6 battery/power square slots in total. Small squares are borders, with the start (left) always black, the final (right) being white, and will turn black when the final 6th slot is filled. Each ◻️ is an empty battery/power slot. ◼️ represents a filled battery slot. In order to teleport/warp to another timeline, The machine must have all squares turn black, which can be accomplished by waiting for the time it auto charges.
Character's names that are Italic are from the past, while the ones that remained the same are the present.)