In 7 A.C.E., Anna made the first successful spacetime travel. It was not planned. She only wanted to see the outside world, and she understood what her parents built and are afraid to try themselves, a spacetime machine.
One day, in the middle of the night, she disabled all the alarms her parents set up around their laboratory. One-by-one, she activated the computers and entered her target destination.
A loud klaxon sounded.
Of course, Anna thought. She realised late that her parents also installed a security when an authorised destination was activated.
With no time to waste, she entered the machine and locked herself in.
Outside, she heard the calls of her mother, while her father was trying to disable the system. She laughed, knowing that no one in their secret facility can crack her encryption. It will only unlock once she is gone.
“Where did she go?” Ara demanded from her husband.
“I… I have no idea. The destination is impossible,” replied Doctor Pulag.
“What?”
Ara looked, her eyes wide, not believing what she was reading. “She went 270 years into the future? And… and…” She looked at her husband.
“In a time stream fourteen branches away from our own.”
“How did she…”
“Hi mom! Hi dad!” A familiar voice spoke from the speakers.
They looked around and saw a teenager standing in the observation room.
“How did…” She disappeared and reappeared beside them. “Woah, child.” Ara reacted in surprise as she started to see the resemblance on the teenager.
“I'm back after 10 years! I miss you both so much.” She paused, “Oh, right, it was only, what? Three minutes, your relative time?”
Her father nodded, “More or less.”
“As you can see, I'm 17 now, and in possession of a far more advanced technology than what you have here.”
“We can see that.”
“Ahh! My dear lovely mother and father, I know what you two are thinking. No. Nothing will happen to us because we are the key to spacetime travel.
“The moment I jumped through spacetime, it suddenly created multiple branches. As I calculated. A whole new community of spacetime travelling started to exist.
“Right this very moment, in our time stream, we are establishing colonies to far distant planets.”
“How…”
“I will explain it later. For now, I want to eat. I've only eaten cookies for days.”
Part of the Kolverse Worldbuilding and Writing Project (”KWWP” / “Kolverse”).
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