EPILOGUE

LOG ENTRY 926

The flux capacitor wasn't as advanced as I had hoped. Time travel has come along way since this thing was made. Modern devices took much of the bodily stress out of jumping, but not this one. I feel like I've been hit by a star cruiser. Something is wrong in the lab, however. No one is here, and there is no evidence that anyone ever has been. The silence is creepy. What is going on?

Lita out…

Lita scanned the room. All of the controls, all of the displays, all of the equipment was unmanned.

She checked her chronograph. It had only been two minutes from when she had originally jumped to the past. So where was everyone?

"This just isn't right," Lita thought to herself.

She weaved through the 'Jump Room', as it had been labeled, and exited into the hallway, which was eerily in the same condition as her last location.

The hallways were usually a superhighway of engineers, scientists, and timecops, but not this time.

Lita continued down the hall until she came upon the data terminal.

She pulled out a small headset from a compartment on the terminal and placed it over her ears.

She adjusted the microphone.

"Search Marcusson," she said.

SEARCHING….

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RESULT NOT FOUND…

READY…

"No. That's not right. Computer, search James Marcusson," Lita said.

SEARCHING…

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RESULT NOT FOUND…

READY…

"This can't search Samus Aran," Lita tried.

SEARCHING….

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RESULT FOUND…

SUBJECT: SAMUS ARAN
STATUS: DECEASED, COMBAT
PROFILE: TWO STAR GALACTIC FEDERATION GENERAL SAMUS ARAN WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY VICTORIES IN THE FEDERATION'S MOVEMENT TO ELIMINATE SPACE PIRACY. ARAN ROSE QUICKLY IN THE RANKS OF THE MILITARY THROUGH CONSTANT SUCCESS IN TAKING PART IN AND LEADING MULTIPLE RAIDS ON PIRATE STRONGHOLDS. AFTER ARAN'S PROMOTION TO TWO STAR GENERAL, SHE WAS ORDERED TO TAKE TEN DIVISIONS TO THE ALIMBIC CLUSTER. ALTHOUGH SHE PROTESTED SHARPLY, SHE OBEYED HER COMMANDING OFFICER AND PROCEEDED WITH THE OPERATION. UPON ARRIVAL, ALL TEN DIVISIONS, INCLUDING GENERAL ARAN WERE SLAUGHTERED BY SCORES OF BOUNTY HUNTERS.

END PROFILE…

READY…

"N….no….that can't be…then how….I can't…." Lita stammered as she began to cry, "Computer, search…Adam Malkovich."

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RESULT FOUND…

SUBJECT: ADAM MALKOVICH
STATUS: CURRENT
PROFILE: AFTER GARNERING ACCLAIM AS A WAR HERO, MALKOVICH WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED DUE TO INJURIES SUSTAINED IN BATTLE. MALKOVICH CONTINUED TO OFFER MILITARY ADVICE TO THE GALACTIC FEDERATION UNTIL THE ALIMBIC AFFAIR. MALKOVICH NOW RESIDES ON THE PLANET VHAZON.

END PROFILE…

READY…

Tears streamed down Lita's red hot cheeks.

"I thanked her by changing the past and getting her killed…" Lita said aloud to invisible ears.

Her only hope was to find Adam Malkovich…