Timeline 2: A Blast from the Past
Chicago
The Utel Company was the second hardware company in line to the 'hardware throne', the top of the market. There wasn't a household in America that didn't have one piece of equipment with the Utel insignia printed neatly on the side. Their biggest rivals were I-Gent, a company that had been a threat from the beginning, oh how well Robert Utel remembered the rise and hard fall of his company….Iushido was a fat-brained pig, squandering money over petty plights but soon it was all going to change, yes, the espionage expert that had been hired by Utel was doing his job exceptionally well. The plans had just arrived this morning and Robert had made sure he was the first to see the plans; he didn't care if they had been poisoned or some other bacterium or virus that would kill he needed to see the papers. It was a real shock to the system when he saw them, they were plans for a quantum computer, but that was impossible! Well no-one had ever done it before and there were thousands of labs attempting it, so maybe I-Gent stumbled on the right equation. Quantum computers were different than ordinary computers. Ordinary computers make calculations using two electron states but a quantum computer uses the 32 quantum states of an electron, therefore being a super-computer. Utel picked up the phone and linked the plans to the lab. So maybe Project Re-make would be possible after all. Utel turned on the intercom for his office and told his secretary to get him a cup of coffee, he felt he deserved it.
I-Gent Company HQ, USA
It felt like Judgement Day was looming over them, but the worst thing was that their lips were sealed. They couldn't even speak if they had truth serum pumped into them or else…David couldn't even tell his wife and he knew she was getting suspicious. Who wouldn't be? He was out late running tests and his wages seemed to increase four-fold. Even his 8 year old son was becoming afraid of the strange man who kept coming in the middle of the night, extremely tired. The rest of his team were uncomfortable, everyone's eyes seemed empty, emotionless. This was serious if David couldn't keep up the morale of his team up, this project could just give up life and flop down on the ground. Two days until, 'it' happened, personally David had his doubts, I mean going back in time? It sounds too good to be true, just like some TV adverts he could mention. It probably was all bullshit and he would standing in some 'Time Machine' while some amateur cameraman filled up a DVD of people making complete idiots of themselves standing there waiting to be time 'warped'. It was frustrating, always making tests, but tests were just theory but why use human guinea pig? If they didn't already know the effects? It was strange but David shrugged it aside, he was just being paranoid.
I bet your all thinking maybe he should be paranoid, hmmm maybe but hey anything away! Honest! Don't look at me like that!
This is the end…..of the chapter! 3