Chapter 7: 4 minutes
Dr. West: Stay in the vehicle. We have got very less time. Listen to me very carefully and don’t ask many questions.
Mike was happy to see human life at least 6 months into the future.
Mike: How come the next year? What led to this mass destruction?
Dr. West: Its not next year, what you saw was 5 months after the doomsday. The last war on earth was fought only for 8 hours. Now, let me begin.
Mike: But what led to it?
Dr. West: I did not understand it then, but I understand it now. I missed to see something which was right in front of my eyes. The leap vehicle is an extraordinary machine. For most of the time I believed that past could never be changed but future could be. How stupid of me!
Mike: Oh my God. How could I not see?
Dr. West: You got it now. That’s the key to everything that is happening.
Mike: So who did it?
Dr. West: It is the guy who wanted to have the technology of the future – Damon. Well, it turns out that he was the man who backed Project Leap when it yielded nothing. In the most simple words he is the owner of Project Leap. I may have dismissed him from using the leap vehicle for personal gain but being the stubborn person he is, he went ahead and did it.
Mike: What did he get?
Dr. West: He went a thousand years in the future. He was mesmerized by the world of the future. He saw that the whole Earth was under the control of the US. The US had developed a technology that could control the minds of the people. So, the world was still divided into countries but unknown to the people, all leaders were in control of the US. This technology was a device that once planted into the brain of an individual, could completely control his actions. The world was a puppet at the hands of the US. Impressed by what he saw, he brought back the technology with him. I think he thought, ‘why wait a thousand years!’
Mike: And his plan backfired?
Dr. West: I was right when I said the technology of the future must not be used. But I did not know that it could lead to this. Not knowing the care with which it will be used a thousand years later, he is in a hurry. He plans to take over the whole world at once.
Mike: Who started it?
Dr. West: His plan is to first take control over the big nations – Russia, China, India, England, Germany, France and US. He will start with China and it will be the end of it. It will so happen that the President of China will be replaced by his double because of a threat on the same night on which he is going to send the planters through the leap vehicle. The planters will be able to plant the device, but will be caught revealing them to be US. Here in the US, he will take control of the double thinking him to be the actual President. He will order through the double to kill these people, but the guards will not do it and take them away. The guards will find the leap vehicle and the President’s double to be acting strangely. China will be fumed. Not understanding what kind of attack US was using against them, without any warning, China will nuke three major cities of US. US having no idea will retaliate. And so the war will begin.
Mike: Didn’t you try stopping him?
Dr. West: Don’t you see it. There is no stopping to it. What will be a world of puppets?
Mike: But wait a minute. How could he have traveled thousand years into the future? The world ends before that.
Dr. West: Think again.
Mike: Oh yes. I understand it now.
Dr. West: Whenever the leap vehicle leaps back from future to the present it is leaping into that future’s past. If the leap vehicle brings any information about the future with it, the future past’s changes and so does the future and effectively – that future ceases to exist. So, when Damon traveled one thousand years into the future it existed. Bringing back the technology from the future and using it at this time changed everything. The future that Damon saw ceased to exist.
Alarms sounded to beep.
Dr. West: You must leave now. You see, this visit of yours was never logged into the system. Start the engines.
Mike went on to start the engines but stopped.
Mike: How should I stop it from happening?
Dr. West: There is only one end to it and you know it.
to be continued…