A young man, walked along the lush green bank of the red river, humming quietly to himself as he followed the sidewalk intersecting 2nd street and 7th ave. His face was young no more than 23, and hopeful, his brown eyes caught every detail. His frame that of someone who enjoyed the challenge of science and math, and not athletics. He came to a small two level house with blue siding and a very eccentric décor. A mixture of old newspapers and mismatched lawn ordainments littered the front lawn as he opened the front gate and walked up to the front door. A small garden gnome welcomed him.
"Dr Peterson, it's me John." The man said has he pushed a button tucked under a speaker.
A loud click and a hiss followed by a familiar but tinny voice.
"Yes John come in and make sure you are not followed" the speaker replied.
Looking around half-heartily he grabbed the door knob which was followed by a buzz and a click. He opened the door and entered. He was as each time he visited taken back by what we saw. Piles upon piles of books, plates, bowels, furniture, pictures and other scientific objects littered every inch of the house. Sitting in the corner wearing a red smoking jacket blue jeans, sandals and a white tee-shirt reading "New York" was the familiar form of Dr. Adam Peterson.
"Ahh John come in come in!" Adam said as he dropped the large pile of papers he was reading onto the arm chair he was sitting in.
"Is it true Dr.Peterson, it worked?" John said with excitement.
"Yes CATE registered a successful temporal displacement at 1:25pm yesterday." Adam said as he picked up the pile of papers.
"It seems that a output of 1.21 gigowatts of power traveling at 88 miles per hour is all it takes." Adam said was he pointed out of the paper.
"That's a little under our calculations, doctor P but amazing." John said with wonder.
"What's more amazing is that seemed like two hours ago, which if one thinks about it is." Adam said as he stroked his chin.
"It would appear that the subject and everything inside the time-machine are completely protected. The flux transistor makes a perfectly stable Localized wormhole, what's more, is that I am here in my own future." Adam said as he sat back down.
"So the multiple universe theory was wrong?" John answered as he found a stack of journals to rest on.
"Well as far as I can tell, but I did not indicate any dimensional variations the CATE. I'd have except to be in another version of this place, so I mailed my audio tapes and all back information of my experiment to the only other person I could trust." Adam said as he shifted his weight and crossed his arms.
"Your sister right?" John interrupted.
"Yes, that's right" Adam replied.
"Yes well..." Adam started to talk but was cut off by whaling alarms.
Adam jumped up and ran to a computer that was half buried in the dining room.
"Shit, they know we're here, quick John head for the garage, I'll activate the security system." Adam screamed has he flung off his robe and flipped a number of switches on the far wall.
A pounding cam to the door followed by dog barks and cocking of rifles.
"Dr. Peterson this is agent Vince Caldwell of Homeland security, open the door!" A disembodied voice yelled from behind the front door.
"Oh that bitch of a neighbor Mrs. Knutson must have tipped them off." Adam yelled has he closed the back door.
A hum and lights flashed in the house as the two men slipped into the garget. A bright flame jumped from the stove and ignited the contents of the house.
Quickly and nervously, John and Dr. Peterson quick activated the garage's system and entered the parked time machine.
"CATE, activate all systems and start the security destruction sequence." Adam yelled as he and john buckled up.
"Yes Dr. Peterson. Security system enabled." The female voice replied.
The SAAB thundered out of the garage followed by a boom and explosion from both the garage and house. Standing police men jumped out of the way as the silver car rocketed out of the garage and down the street. A hale of gun fire followed.
"CATE Bring the core on-line and prepare for temporal displacement" Adam Yelled as he put the car into 5th gear.
"Dr. Peterson, you don't really mean we are testing this thing again, we have no idea what will happen..." John interjected but was cut off.
"Well John it's either that or stay to be interrogated and shipped to Cuba, by those G-men back there!" Adam said as he wove in between on coming traffic.
Four police cars gave chase as the SAAB rocketed down university drive. Bullets whizzed past the car as it dodged traffic.
"CATE set time ports to august 23rd 2016 1:23am." Dr. Peterson shouted has a hail of buck shot bounced off the rear end of the car.
"Don't worry John, where're in a time machine, granted we get out of this alive, we should be able to get back once we shake these guys!" Dr. Peterson screamed as he swung a left up an on ramp.
The Saab lurched on top I-94 as two more police cars join the pursuit. Traffic from all directions swerved to miss the on coming car as a shower of gunfire descended upon the fleeing vehicle.
"Brace for temporal displacement, in 3...2...1" CATE said as the Time machine glowed with blue light.
Dr Peterson and John screamed as the flash of energy enveloped them, and in the blink of an eye they vanished.