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Authors: Timothy Michael Lewis
Tags: TIme Travel Thriller
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Nigel did manage to establish was that it was possible to get a flight to London quite cheaply.
It would take an hour and there was no longer any immigration as North and South America and Europe had long since formed one nation. Peace with the Pan-Asian League and African Union had held for several years and international travel had become commonplace again.
The next day Nigel went to the airport. Due to the much shorter length of flights in this century there were no lounges or much in the way of facilities - Nigel breezed through security and on to the flight to London. The pilot apologised that due to strike action, Weather Control in London was down again and to expect rain in the daytime. Nigel smiled at the thought.
The flight was brief and uneventful. Again, the in-flight entertainment system assumed you had a brain implant and was unavailable to Nigel. He was not too bothered and just looked out of the window. Virtually all of the continental US was now covered with buildings - you could see areas like the Grand Canyon that had been preserved but they were few and far between. Even flying across the Atlantic there was evidence of large artificial islands full of settlements. Reaching the British Isles, again Nigel noticed that even Scotland was now mostly covered in high-rise buildings. Again there were occasional deliberate parkland areas but not that many.
Touching down in London, Nigel left the airport relatively quickly and found a map of London on display. He was looking for somewhere that existed in his time that was still the same, like the Golden Gate Bridge had been in San Francisco. St Paul’s Cathedral still existed though would probably be too public. Very few of the parks had survived - a small area of the old Regent’s Park and Clapham Common looked much the same.
He made an impulse decision to head for Clapham Common. Then he noticed that he was being followed. He realised that the authorities had let him go as they thought he was a Mindoan spy and they thought he would take them to his “handler”. He needed to get the locater implant out of his hand somehow and give the guy the slip before he could safely travel back in time again unmolested.
He got to Clapham Common and then sat and thought for a while. The woman sitting next to him on the bench was viewing something on a tablet on her lap. Nigel noticed that there was an advert for Reptile Regrowth Compound. Apparently it could “grow back fingers and toes lost in minor accidents.”
Nigel hoped that if he got some of the Compound he could cut out the locater implant and then regrow the removed flesh on his hand. He headed for a nearby shopping mall and purchased some Reptile Regrowth Compound and a knife. He then went to the toilets inside the mall, drew his breath and hacked out the locater implant.
It hurt so much Nigel screamed in pain, and blood spurted everywhere. He then applied the Reptile Regrowth Compound and waited. Nothing happened for about a minute, then miraculously the flesh of his hand started to grow over the wound and seal up.
Nigel thought for a while as to what to do with the implant. He wanted to give his pursuers a false trail to follow. He looked around for someone similar-looking to himself and saw a man wearing virtually identical clothes. Nigel walked towards him quickly, followed him and then deliberately bumped into him, slipping the locater into his coat pocket. He then slowly moved into a nearby crowd of people. He looked back to see his pursuer following the other man.
Quickly Nigel returned to Clapham Common and retrieved the time machine from his storage diamond and set it to go back to the 21st century. Nigel activated the machine and time started to go back once again.
Chapter 15
It took quite a while to reach the 21st century, in perceived time to Nigel - while Clapham Common seemed to stay
It would take an hour and there was no longer any immigration as North and South America and Europe had long since formed one nation. Peace with the Pan-Asian League and African Union had held for several years and international travel had become commonplace again.
The next day Nigel went to the airport. Due to the much shorter length of flights in this century there were no lounges or much in the way of facilities - Nigel breezed through security and on to the flight to London. The pilot apologised that due to strike action, Weather Control in London was down again and to expect rain in the daytime. Nigel smiled at the thought.
The flight was brief and uneventful. Again, the in-flight entertainment system assumed you had a brain implant and was unavailable to Nigel. He was not too bothered and just looked out of the window. Virtually all of the continental US was now covered with buildings - you could see areas like the Grand Canyon that had been preserved but they were few and far between. Even flying across the Atlantic there was evidence of large artificial islands full of settlements. Reaching the British Isles, again Nigel noticed that even Scotland was now mostly covered in high-rise buildings. Again there were occasional deliberate parkland areas but not that many.
Touching down in London, Nigel left the airport relatively quickly and found a map of London on display. He was looking for somewhere that existed in his time that was still the same, like the Golden Gate Bridge had been in San Francisco. St Paul’s Cathedral still existed though would probably be too public. Very few of the parks had survived - a small area of the old Regent’s Park and Clapham Common looked much the same.
He made an impulse decision to head for Clapham Common. Then he noticed that he was being followed. He realised that the authorities had let him go as they thought he was a Mindoan spy and they thought he would take them to his “handler”. He needed to get the locater implant out of his hand somehow and give the guy the slip before he could safely travel back in time again unmolested.
He got to Clapham Common and then sat and thought for a while. The woman sitting next to him on the bench was viewing something on a tablet on her lap. Nigel noticed that there was an advert for Reptile Regrowth Compound. Apparently it could “grow back fingers and toes lost in minor accidents.”
Nigel hoped that if he got some of the Compound he could cut out the locater implant and then regrow the removed flesh on his hand. He headed for a nearby shopping mall and purchased some Reptile Regrowth Compound and a knife. He then went to the toilets inside the mall, drew his breath and hacked out the locater implant.
It hurt so much Nigel screamed in pain, and blood spurted everywhere. He then applied the Reptile Regrowth Compound and waited. Nothing happened for about a minute, then miraculously the flesh of his hand started to grow over the wound and seal up.
Nigel thought for a while as to what to do with the implant. He wanted to give his pursuers a false trail to follow. He looked around for someone similar-looking to himself and saw a man wearing virtually identical clothes. Nigel walked towards him quickly, followed him and then deliberately bumped into him, slipping the locater into his coat pocket. He then slowly moved into a nearby crowd of people. He looked back to see his pursuer following the other man.
Quickly Nigel returned to Clapham Common and retrieved the time machine from his storage diamond and set it to go back to the 21st century. Nigel activated the machine and time started to go back once again.
Chapter 15
It took quite a while to reach the 21st century, in perceived time to Nigel - while Clapham Common seemed to stay
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