PART-2/CHAPTER-3

PART-2: THE TIMOCALYPSE
CHAPTER-3: TO THE PARALLEL FUTURE

People all over the world were happy thinking that the aliens left them forever. But what none of them knew was that the aliens travelled to future to conquer the earth as they have a trouble named “The Dark Savior” in the present.

      Amit and Dev knew that they couldn’t go to the future as they cannot get back, and they didn’t want to risk. But Wise couldn’t accept them. Amit knew that he was chosen by Wise because he too was wise enough. And then Dev was convinced by Wise and Amit to try something, a way which could help them get back.

      Three days passed. Dev had been working on any other way to get back to past and he remembers the paradoxes which arise due to past travel. Thus he concludes that past travel wasn’t feasible. But he strongly believed that if we could travel to future, there must be a way to travel to past. He was the one to confirm the extra dimensions of string theory, and that led to the idea of “The Multiverse”, sprouting in his mind. That is, the universe we live in is a part of a bigger system of universes called the multiverse. To put it simply, there are infinite number of universes.

      Amit was studying in his room when he received a call from Dev. Dev asked him to meet him as soon as possible. He put his books in his bag and ran to Dev’s place. Dev explained Amit about the multiverse and said, “And Amit, the spacecraft we sent, didn’t go to our future. Instead, it travelled to a parallel universe. And that means we too could travel to that universe which is ahead in time than us, fight the aliens and get back to our universe.” And Amit continued, “And then, even if we fight for a whole year in that universe and return here, it would’ve only been a few hours here if we returned back by travelling at higher than light speed, right?” Dev replied, “Exactly. I may have invented faster than light travel in future or in that universe. But what if we lose?”, Dev was startled. Wise replied, “That threat may come to us in our future too, from another universe.” And then Amit said, “If we lose, then we’ll die trying. Because that’s what we were born for.”

      Dev started working to build another spacecraft. It took him a week to finish it. And then, he calculated the position of the older spacecraft, that is, to navigate the new one to that universe.

      It was time, all the three were in positions. Dev pulled out some awesome tech and weapons that the world had never seen, from his closet. Which include a laser beam gun, his high-tech mobile, and lots of stuff including a suit which carried oxygen through its inner fabric, and also had a jetpack which was fully meant for the future.  All of them stepped in. They were in the outerspace, Dev set the coordinates and said “Don’t imagine any star trek stuff, Amit”, and then pulled the lever. As soon as he pulled the lever, they experienced a strong jerk and boom! They were in the future! In fact another universe, but they experienced nothing of the travel like in star trek where light passes past the spacecraft like streaks. They experienced no time of their travel, but they were there.

      The space craft stopped in an orbit around the earth, of course, a parallel twin earth. They observed the same alien spaceship in a lower orbit than them.

      Dev asked Amit, “Did you know that you can be invisible?”.  Amit was amazed, “WHAT!” Dev explained him wearing his special suit with the jet pack, “Your suit can bend light around you and lets the light falling on you move behind you, thus making you invisible. And this suit which I’m wearing, also can do that.”

      Amit asked, “How can you ‘bend’ light”, stressing on bend. Dev explained, “it’s not bending actually. It’s like multiple reflections. Consider a polygon and a circle. As you increase the number of sides of the polygon, it appears more like a circle, but it’s not. That’s the same path light chooses around you. And these jetpacks, these help me fly like you while fighting. We’ll land now and then become invisible, so that no one identifies us”. Amit replies, “How would they know us?We’re from another universe, right?” Dev explained, “The thing is, Amit, these two universes, this one and ours are exactly similar until the current moment, and the events differ in both the universes, only from this moment. What happened here until now, is our future. But not what happens further.”

      They landed the spacecraft in an open ground. They became invisible and moved out, just to see destruction everywhere. Alien spacecrafts were flying all over and shooting laser beams. They heard an explosion from behind. They turned around and saw an alien spacecraft shooting a 100 meter statue of the Dark savior. The statue broke into two at its waist. And the upper part was falling onto our heroes when a teenager came running and pulled Amit by his hand, while Amit pulled Dev along.  The teen said to Amit, “Why’re you roaming alone at this time. Come with me, I’ll take you to a safe place.”

      Surprisingly, Amit and Dev were still invisible and the kid was talking to Amit. But he didn’t notice Dev.

Who do you think the teenager is? Why was he able to see Amit even if he's invisible but not Dev?
Wait for the next chapter to know it.