THE TIME TRAVELLER

EPISODE THREE, WHAT IS LIFE.

What is life. For some people, Life is made up of the daily activities and experiences. For some others, life is a place we come to strive for success and after all our accomplishments, we pass away. for religionists, life is a test given to men by God, to determine if we deserve heaven. For scientists, life is a group of atoms that came together after the big bang and formed existence. But for me, life is torture. I don’t even have a life because it was taken away from me at a very tender age.

back to 2024 again, walking past a quiet street around 8:00pm but this time around, there were no flying time mechanisms and the me from the past wasn’t there. I knocked on a neighbor’s door, it was the house of my child hood friend. He couldn’t distinguish between my variant and I, as I looked older. I told him that I was a friend of victor (my variant) and asked if he had any Idea where he was. He replied ‘victor works in a cyber café at Utako, Abuja, Nigeria. And he sometimes sleeps there’. I snapped my fingers as I thought to myself; “my other variant said I worked in a restaurant but this is something different”. It was then i realized, everything became silent and the only thing I could hear was my mind and heartbeat. I started blinking fast as I realized what had been happening. I was correctly in the past, but it was never my past. in the land of the Hellenes, my machine wasn’t just fixed but it also got enhanced. I went to the field behind my home but there were no grasses in it. Only then I understood it all, I was not just a time traveller, but I had become a multiverse traveller. I went back into my aboriginal time-multiverse machine and tried it. Days past and it was time to fly. I went into the machine and started experiencing the multiverse. I travelled through several times and universes.

in a certain universe, there were no humans because They never came into existence. In some others, time moved in reversed. in some of them, I was a billionaire while in some of the others, I lived in abject poverty. But none of all the universes were as magnificent as the universe where I saw a variant of me. married and he already had a daughter, all living in a small duplex. That feeling of instant regret, I abraded ninety years of my stretched miserable life travelling around time and space with no achievements. I developed the yen to kill him and take his life but it wasn’t possible. Even with the power and ability to travel through time, I can’t reverse anything. if only I hadn’t gone out that night. If only I never got into this cursed time machine. ‘Look at me, a cold hearted killer who has been restlessly travelling through time and space. My emotions have been locked in the abyss and can never be found’ I thought, As I slowly walked back to my machine in shame. I also travelled to a universe where I was a serial killer and there was a funny one where I was a monk from Asia. As I was roaming in the corridor of time and space, I saw a light. It turned bigger and brighter as I gazed. As I eyed deeper, I saw a blistering planet and time. I Went closer to it and was surprised at what I saw; it was the first universe to ever happen, the only universe that wasn’t created by mistake. it was the universe from which I came. the burning light was not the sun, it was our earth. the closer I came towards it, the hotter it became. Men were wearing space suits due to the heat disease. Humanity had gone insane. “we are evolving” we believed. unknowingly to us, we were killing ourselves. The thoughtlessness that we called “enthusiasm” was what led to our rapid disintegration. As I Looked down on my decayed planet; “oh my earth” I cried. “I for one, have lost it all. My planet, my life, my everything. but These people still have a chance to be saved, I still have a chance to turn everything around”. So I travelled to a universe where all were rocks and dust. For days I worked to stop my machine from travelling to any random universe on its own. “if only I could convert my machine into something portable”. I took the power surge and the control buttons, disengaged and recombined them again. But I made it in better object. Two days already, and I have recreated a perfect time-multiverse travelling mechanism. It is a ring that has been channeled to only my brain and voice. I call it “the cosmonion”. in that way, all I need to do is to think of the universe and time I want to travel to and then I speak. I have programmed the ring to recognize all the universes and time with codes. so all I need to do is to just think about the code, and then I say it. For example; if I want to travel to the original universe on a Monday around 5:30pm, all I need to say is “O-cosmos-2-17:30” (O means original & 2 means the second day of the week, which is Monday). I wore my time ring and connected it to my brain. In this way, I will be the only person who can access it. If it gets lost, I can track it and if I die, it will automatically self-destruct. There is also a new upgrade, the Cosmonion now lets me travel through time as a memory and not as a body. Now I can travel as a memory into my variants heads in other universes and timeline and the ring becomes like a consciousness. Which means if I die in any of my variant’s body, the Cosmonion will reverse back to an hour before the incident. Could this be the beginning of a new life? “O-cosmos-jun-20-20:00” and ‘Zap’, it’s the 20th of June, 2024 On a Thursday evening 8:00pm. I was sixteen, walking past a quiet street alone and depressed as always. when I saw a bird-like object flying in such a speed no man had ever invented, landing on a field immediately behind my house. My name is victor and I’m a time traveller.