Into Thin Air
"We're here," Tom said as we drove along the road. I slammed on the brakes. The others didn't get the warning so they sped past then had to back up.
"What do you mean, we're in the middle of nowhere," I said. I looked around and all there was were corn fields and open land.
"I have to get out and do something. May I?" Tom asked. I nodded and he turned so that I could undo the handcuffs he had on. Stephanie got out of the car and trained her gun on him. We still couldn't trust him.
He walked over to a tree and hit some pieces of bark. Then he turned around and came back.
"What the hell was that?" I asked. He didn't say anything. Just as I was going to ask him again the ground began to shake. Then the piece of the road that we had parked on began to go down into the earth. It was weird though because the sides of the wall weren't dirt. They were metal.
After a minute of falling into the earth we stopped. One of the sides began to fall and opened up a doorway for us. We began to walk through it and down the hallway.
"Holy shit!" David yelled. We all turned to look at what he was looking at. There was a glass wall with a forest behind it. We starred at it waiting for something to move. The leaves began to rustle and then a large animal came out. At first I didn't recognize it. I looked like a really hairy man.
"Oh my God!" I said, "it's Big Foot." Gasps of shock filled the room, except for Tom who wasn't surprised at all.
"Yeah, he's been here since 1965. His name is Alfred," Tom said, "we also have dinosaurs, aliens, and who really killed Kennedy."
"Well who did it?" Melanie asked excitedly, she was always into conspiracy theories.
"The KGB. When Oswald went to the Soviet Union, he was recruited by the KGB as a spy. They sent him back to the U.S. with plans on how to kill Kennedy. When he was captured, they sent in Jack Ruby, who had ties with the Russian Mafia, to kill him. They knew that Jack would be stronger under pressure then Oswald. Plus he would be viewed as an American hero for killing the man who killed his president," Tom explained.
"So why was there a cover up?" Melanie asked.
"We didn't want to go to war with the Soviet Union for fear of nuclear holocaust. If word got out that the Soviet Union had killed the president people would demand war," Tom said.
"Not to interrupt your history lesson or anything, but can we get on with this. It seems like an important thing," I said. Tom and Melanie gave me dirty looks but I just shrugged them off. We continued to walk down the corridor until we arrived at a room with the label time machine above it.
"Here we are," Tom said as he opened the door. He walked in and turned the lights on. There were tables and wires and everything everywhere. Then there in the center of the room stood what I assumed to be the time machine. Melanie instantly ran over to it and began to bask in its glory. She looked at it for a while then began to do something at the laptop that was hooked up to the machine.
"What are you doing?" I asked her, "how do you even know what to do?" she didn't respond. Suddenly the time machine began to beep and the lights began to flash. Melanie stepped back from the laptop and got a frightened look on her face. Matt ran up to her to pull her away but before he had the chance she vanished, into thin air.