Chapter Six
2045
"So what do we do now?" The commander asked.
"I need to see the machine. " Zenon stated, just before she had boarded the spaceship destined for the station, Chris had appeared with a large black eye and a handful of papers.
"These are my notes to the machine, hopefully it will help you do what you need to do."
Zenon pulled these notes from her pocket.
"What are those?" Her mom asked.
"These are the notes to the machine." She passed them to her father. "I looked though them on my way up here. Going back in time is easy enough; it's just a matter of changing the date and time, then pressing the red, followed by the green button. The key is taking the machine with you by holding on to it, or else if you go to far back you will be trapped until the machine is invented again, as I was."
"So what are your plans to go back to being 15?" The doctor asked.
"I-I don't know. I have worked so hard and so long for this, but once I turn back time I will disappear, the past will change, and I will have to start all over again…" Zenon sighed. "I don't know what to do…"
"Well we do want our Zenon back. The thought of us missing you growing up…" Her mom whispered. Zenon nodded.
"Alright, I have come to far to freak out now. " Zenon stepped up to the machine and flicked the date to today and the time for that morning. She then paused and turned around tears in her eyes.
"I love you, no matter what happens, know that I love you." She hugged both her parents before ushering them away from the machine. They were now crying as well.
With a deep breath, she hit the buttons she had seen her parents hit fifteen years before. The bright light surrounded her and she was gone.
Zenon woke again, this time in the medical quarters of the space station.
"Oh, what happened?" Zenon mumbled. She hadn't had a headache like this in a long time.
We found you in the middle of our lab; we were just about to do an experiment with a mysterious box. Who are you? Your blood states that your Zenon but Zenon is now back in her room." Her father stated, Zenon sighed.
"I am Zenon…" They looked at her in disbelief. "That box is a time machine, it will transport me fifteen years into the past where I will wake up in a children's hospital. It's a long story but I gain my doctorate in astrophysics so that I could come up here and stop this. Right now, strangely enough there are three of me out there. My fifteen-year-old self and my eight hours younger self-finding out about the time machine back on earth. But that is beside the point, whatever you do don't turn on the machine until I show you haw it works." Zenon took a deep breath. Her parents only stared at her with their mouths a gap.
"Yeah, a lot to take in I know. But…can I get up?" Zenon asked the doctor who nodded. Zenon slowly got out of bed and walked out of the area and over to the lab where the box sat. The others followed silently.
"This is a very dangerous piece of technology. Changing time is not something that was meant to happen, it could change thousands of futures, and the only reason I am doing this now is that it needs to happen for your sakes. I just hope I am not messing things up for the past to badly…anyway this is the front, whatever is standing in front of it at the time is what will go back in time. You would want to change the date and the time to where you want to go. You turn it on by hitting the red then the green button. That's basically it. I…" She did not get a chance to say anything else as a giant stab of pain echoed though her head. She screamed and in the distance the sound of fifteen-year-old Zenon, screaming could be heard as well. Both Zenons aged 30 disappeared, it would be fifteen years before they would be seen again.