-CHAPTER ONE -

"RICKIN THE RICKIN"

Constant power flux continued throughout the building. Losing and gaining back and forth. Strange screams and sounds came from a mysterious path.

Along the hallway. Came walking, an Engineer named "Thomas Tom Nancy". Bright and intelligent young scholar with a new accomplishment.

Learned engineering and the top of his class. Tom headed out for the day. Wearing his body suit with his ID badge on the right-hand side.

His helmet on his Engineering belt with his small tools. Tom walked past closed doors of other rooms. Seconds moving, he suddenly stops. Hearing.

Carefully listening to a distinct scream. Faint but then it was gaining more force into the screaming. Hallway's lights he stood in were dying then coming back.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Loud. Echoing throughout.

"Hello? Huh? Anyone there?" asked Tom with a slight crackle in his voice

Tom walked into the dark room with no lights. The door had been left open. Door was slightly moving back and forth slowly. Lightly. Tom moved slowly inside.

Eyes blinking with a face of "What the Fuck" gesture. Not understanding what or who was screaming. His right foot stepped on a broken shotgun. Tom looked.

Gasping for a breath of fresh air, fear. Simply Fear came to him. Moved back just a tad bit. Darkening ahead of him. His eyes were focused on the dropped.

Electricity and strikes from the light far beyond his reach. We're hitting the walls and striking into the ground. Tearing it apart more and more. Light produced.

Tom breathed more harder than before. His hands were shaking. His heart rate went sky rocketing. Tom didn't react at all. He couldn't. Elisabeth became visible.

She was in such pain. Bleeding came out from her hands. Nails burned off. Tears of blood were coming out from her eyes. Nose dripping more. She was crying.

Tom noticed the lighting and the distant light. Tearing a hole in the open air. Lighting caused a massive tear through the open space. Causing a large black and blue.

Massive colored time portal. Tom screamed his voice out much like an American idol contestant. The Time Portal began to pull with such amazing force anything.

Anything and everything all around. Weapons along with bodies were sucked in. Tom was pulled forward. Face first. Dragged as his feet tried to move back. Only.

To have the instant motion, his arms waving into the air.

"OH MY GOD! AHHHHHH!"

Tom fell to the floor. Letting go of his clipboard. As it flew into the portal and vanished.

"NO! PLEASE NO! OH, SAVE ME PLEASE I'VE BEEN GOOD! I'VE BEEN FAITHFUL TO WORK AND MY LIFE!"

Tom struggled. His arms in pain from holding onto the wooden floor. What went past him was strange. Floorboards went up being shredded and shattered.

Rubber duckies from a cargo shipping snapped and went past his left side. As the portal grew hungry. Tom was stunned to see that. Small and cute ducks.

Tom returned to his motion and gritting his teeth till. His hands lost grip and his face reaction. Gasping. His words before being sucked into the portal.

Tom was pulled rapidly through as his arms and legs were out. Reaching for anything to grab a hold of. Only to have his life change within a blink of an eye.

"NO! PLEASE SOMEONE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Portal closed shut as everything all around came to a sudden stop. Light and power returned to the building. The bubble held onto Elisabeth tighter now.

She breathed and coughed blood into the floor. She was surviving barely at all. Almost near-death point. Elisabeth was barely seeing anything as her eyesight.

Was losing itself over the course of constant portal use. She whispered a few words.

"It's up to you...Please Save Us All..."- Elisabeth

Reaching out still to nothing. Through the portal Tom came pushed out in constant freefall. His screaming went very high pitched. His body turned. Seeing nothing.

But clouds. Open sky and birds of massive wingspan flying past him looking by as he dropped. Tom continued as the large ground floor was a massive open ocean.

"OH MY GOD! WHAT THE HELL! NO! I'M GOING TO DIE!"

Another time portal opened ahead of him. Sucking him inside of it. Tom was saved from the falling death upon the ocean surface. Tom was pulled through.

Other side of it. Was open space. Pencils and a floating body of a Handyman came along with Tom. His breathing went dead. His eye pupils went large. His voice died.

Gasping as he was struggling. Cold came striking his body faster and faster. His death was for sure. In deep space. Tom rolled and went slowly spinning. Stars around.

Sunlight was hitting him. Before his eyes could look into the powerful rays of the Gas energy. Portal came out and pulled him through it to another trip through it.

Portal opened up from the opposite side sending Tom into the hood of a car. Breaking the windshield of its front. Tom blinked rapidly breathing. Gaining himself again.

Tom rolled off the hood the front of the car and dropped onto his face. He cursed and screamed crying in such pain. His engineer clothes were torn and ruin.

His hearing came back. Rolling over to his back facing upwards. To the sky. Blinking once then twice. A hand was reaching out to his eyes. As he heard a voice.

"Come on your just in time," said the voice

Tom reached out weakly to the hand it gripped his own. He whimpered from the grip tightly holding his. Pulling him upwards. Tom stood back up to his feet.

"Wait? What?!" said Tom

Elisabeth looked into his own set of eyes. She slapped him around left then right. He whelped and made a little jump of surprised movement. Tom snapped out.

Watching her. He was stunned seeing this woman beautiful and dressed in fancy clothing. Holding a large assault rifle with a bayonet attachment.

She tossed the Assault rifle into his hands. Tom tried to catch it and dropped it into the ground. Elisabeth stared worried and thinking about the situation.

"Are you fucking serious" she said aloud

Tom didn't know what was happening. Tom bended over gripping the handle feeling the wait of it. Heavy and chunky to himself. He didn't want it at all. Fear came.

"I'm-Wait! -I'm an Engineer" yelled Tom

Elisabeth stared at him with a small smirk and chuckled. Thinking this was all fucked up. Elisabeth walked away from him a little. Around the both of them. Garage.

Massive garage. Various trucks and cars. Spare parts. Everything a Junker would need. There were even beds and extra rooms. Bathrooms and showers. Lockers.

Weapons room and a control room for maps. Tom noticed everything all around himself. He could see it massive. A three-story garage of golden opportunities.

"You're the wrong guy they sent, you're the wrong fucking guy!" -Yelled Elisabeth

Tom looked to her. Tossing the gun into the floor again. Both hands were shaking wildly towards her as if he was an addict. Tom wanted out from this nightmare.

Elisabeth was concerned what about this path of a future. This was the wrong guy that was sent or maybe just maybe. Slight chance it might be the one?

"Please send me back home, I don't fight or shoot guns at all," said Tom

Tom felt a sudden pain inside his stomach. Tom stood in front of her eyesight.

"I know you. I know who you are Tom...Your Thomas Nancy...,"said Elisabeth

Tom didn't smile. He didn't even flinch or cry. He listened to her words.

"How do you know that?" asked Tom

Elisabeth smiles and reaches out to him. Tom felt a sudden chill growing up his spine. He was worried at first till she reached to his left hand. The slightest touch.

Within moments. Heart rate jolted. An instant memory of a flashback came through him. As he could see himself. Aiming a rifle. Without a doubt. Firing. Killing.

Shooting at enemies that had killed people for greed. Tom looked away. Behind him a phantom of energy walked past him. Tom could see himself. Older. Wiser.

Embracing Elisabeth this feeling. Strange to him. As if she was more important: now than ever before in the flash back it showed him.

Looking back into his own eyes. As if he knew what he had gone through in this timeline or the next after this. She let go of his arm. Breathing came back.

Striking Tom's inner heart. A strange mixed emotion of maybe he was overreacting. Or maybe he had something else that had to happen. Was this fate to happen.

"You're The One Man That Changed my Life, in a such a time before this," said Elisabeth

Elisabeth was listening to what this guy was saying. She had seen his life before in this timeline. Much as another one from another time. She had known him.

"How? Or I mean what is it that I do? I don't fight-I don't know what to say? I'm just simple," said Tom

Around them lights went off and on again. Tom looked up to the ceiling. Feeling the movement. Elisabeth blinked. Thinking how to fix this.

"Future is not Set in stone at all Tom, we have to make it into stone for it to happen to all," said Elisabeth

She gave him a sight to behold. Moved her hair back and looked directly into his own eyes. Standing in a sexy position.

"Tom pick the weapon up and follow me, there's a new set of clothes in the locker room," said Elisabeth

Tom grabbed the weapon from the floor. Rushed over to the locker room. Finding out. With a slight scream. Elisabeth looked to his direction scratching her head.

Bodies of workers and nurses all around the floor. Tom moved with his legs over one body after another. Elisabeth waiting impatiently. Looking at her shoes.

Tapping rapidly, she was getting frustrated with the waiting. Tom noticed the locker number marked as "7". Reaching to the door. Over the dead man with a suit.

Unlocking the door. Staring into the locker. His eyes and mouth went all wide. His breath escaped him. All you heard from the distance was.

"OH YES...THATS AWESOME!"

Discovering a set of unique clothing. Almost like a mobster. Clothing of excellent measurements and precise making. Black and blue colors. The suit.

Tom was going to feel like such a badass. Even though he wasn't at all. Not yet at least. Elisabeth was still worried if this was a mistake even though.

"Oh no..Please...No..No... Tom! We Are now Leaving! Come On!" she yelled

Tom came walking out with a smiling face. Standing with arms out. With her eyes closing then opening again. She rolled them away from Tom. Walking away.

"It's Awesome right? I mean-Elisabeth? Where are we going?" he asked

Running after her. She opened the garage steel door. Chains went sounding off and began to open alone. Eliabeth looked back to him. Serious stare only.

His smile died out. Noticing the world outside of this metal safe heaven. He could see it all. His eyes amazed and astonished by this massive and open world.

"Understand this Tom, where you come from time has changed. Nothing will ever be the same. This is Colombia" she said

In seeing all this was just something that never came to his mind before. Ever. Seeing the many blimps and various flying buildings all above the sky.

Astonishing work and its skill taking so much time to create. A perfect example of advanced engineers. Something like this he would dream of.

"Colombia was created to be an escape and show of higher power in this world, Comstock is dead, Booker is dead" she continued

Tom walked along side Elisabeth. On his back was his weapon. His eyes looking everywhere he could see. Trying to gain a reach on things. She looked to him.

"What about me? Am I in this world of yours" he asked

Elisabeth reached for his right hand. Pulling him towards her. As both headed out walking to the open bridge. Wind blew past them both. Tom looked back.

Various people running together and alongside one another pointing forward. Elisabeth handed Tom a device into his hands. Tom looked down at it. "GRAPPLER".

Tom adjusted it well enough around his forearm and hand. Checking itself of what it is. Noticing that it's a powerful device that could allow him to link up.

"Use this to get around everywhere here in Colombia, please understand there's a war happening," said Elisabeth

Tom and Elisabeth came to a railroad train stop much like a metro station. Along with a few other passengers waiting for the train to arrive. This side was peaceful.

"A War? Wait but-Why would there be a war"

Tom was shocked. They boarded the train and everyone else. Got on to travel to the next destination.

"A Revolutionary war that when Comstock was killed, a man named "BRUCE" that has shifted the timeline" she continued

Train continued moving through the tracks. Shaking little by little. Noticing by a newspaper nearby him. A passenger stared at him. He did the same. Thinking.

Elisabeth looked to her watch. Knowing that the time for the next attack was coming soon. Tom needed to learn how to shoot and fight back from the enemy.

"Listen we need to get to Central Tower, Where the rest are at" said Elisabeth

Train came to a stop. Everyone all got off. Together leaving side by side a huge crowd. Elisabeth looked back over her shoulder. Trying to notice anything. Strange.

"Ok But I just-What is it that I have to do? I save you in what way? "asked Tom

Brushing off from the ground. Heading down the concrete man-made road. Horses sounded off. People came out from stores happily. Massive flags were shown.

Elisabeth breathed easy noticing the flickers ahead. Tom looked to her and noticed the calm change in her tone. They reached to the Doors. Elisabeth went first.

Opening them as soldiers and high-ranking officers were all about their together. a proper command center Tom was amazed as he stared. Elisabeth looked to him.

"First step means so much more than just the second, but these are the details that we have please Tom trust me as I trust you"