Chapter 1

     Preparation

I didn't know what to do. Jack had convinced me during those numerous journeys to his cell. I thought about releasing him, a couple times actually. I know I shouldn't but I want to join him and fix the timeline. Tomorrow I am going to the year 3000 to see if the timeline is truly disorientated or if Jack was lying. 

Tis a new day and I am going to travel to the year 3000. I need to know if Jack is trustworthy or if he is lying. This will decide Jack's fate but first I need some equipment in case things go south. First I will travel to 1860 and meet Richard Gatling, then I will go to 1867 and collect something from Albert Nobel.

I stepped into the gleaming portal and went to the year 1860. Everything was so much nicer. I find that everywhere I go. The sky was blue and you could walk outside without wearing a gas mask. In my time the sky is sheltered in a smog from the factories and cars. I am in a time that predates the industrial revolution.

 I landed in a tall grassed field and I started to swat the grass away to make myself a path out of the field.

I knew I was close. His house couldn't be to far away. 

"Richard! Richard Gatling!" I called. "I need your help!"

As soon as I said that a white bearded man came walking out of a white house. I was now in the suburbs, somewhere in North Carolina.

"What do you want?" Called the bearded figure.

"Are you Dr. Richard Gatling?"

"Who's asking?" He had white hair and a monocle on his right eye.

I went inside the house and saw his wife and two girls who were 2 and 5. It was around supper time and they offered me a bowl of what looked of canned pork and beans. I had a few spoonfuls of it but subtly put it down. I asked him if tomorrow morning we could chat. He said I could sleep in the guest room and that tomorrow he and I could talk about whatever I needed.

"Dr. Richard Gatling,"

"Please, call me Richard," he interrupted.

"Richard, do you think you could make me a portable gatling gun? I am a government agent and I need one." I said. I showed him my fbi badge. The FBI was not discovered yet so he believed it. He believed that I was government and he made me one. It was about 170 pounds and gave me 20 rounds of ammo.

"Thank you Richard. It was nice meeting you. I must go now."  

This gatling gun was operated by a crank, I had to make it electric. I had a few spare pieces in my pocket and used them to modify the gun. I made it fully electric and automatic which makes it, a minigun. Then I took off the wheels and mount and added a strap, that reduced it to about 25 lbs.

I am now going 7 years into the future. I travelled to Sweden. To meet Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite. The reason I am going to the past to get this is because in the year 2500 dynamite is illegal and so are guns, the only ones in production are in government use and if it is stolen it gets deactivated. So it would be easier to get it from the past.

I landed, luckily, right outside of his house. It looked really long, and has a maroon roof.

"Alfred Nobel! Alfred!" I called out.

"Hello, sir." 

"AH! Oh I'm sorry, I thought you were in the house, you gave me a good scare."

"What do you need."

"Dynamite, tons of it. I am with the government." I showed him the same FBI badge. 

"Ok sir. Let me get it."

"I will come to insure I get it."

He lead me into a room and set the candle lamp he was holding to illuminate the area on the desk. It was dim but I saw a case labelled 'DYNAMITE HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE 50LBS.' 

"I'll take that one but leave you with one."

"Ok but you owe me a lot of money in the future."

"Well, do you want to go to a federal prison?"
"No, but-"

"Ah tatata, no buts, pleasure doing business. Oh and for your troubles." I gave him a $100 note and left. Back in those days a hundred dollars was a lot.

I now have everything I need to get to the year 3000, and if things go south. I stepped near the portal. But this one was different. It was a circular,  and blue but it wasn't opaque like usual, it looked like a vortex instead of a fluffy cloudy portal. I thought something was wrong. Hesitating I stepped in. 

"HA, it was just a glitch."

I looked in and what I saw was horrid, wretched, spine tingling. Jack was right. 

       Chapter 2

       Jack's Exit

I had no idea what had happened or how to fix it. I knew I needed to do one thing for certain. I needed to free Jack. I am going to 2500 again so I needed to put these weapons somewhere. I wandered around the worn down city. But there was a change in the sky. There was no longer any smog clouds, the sky was red. Everyone had a crimson tint to them. There wasn't many people.

 I found what looked like an abandoned McDonalds restaurant. I carefully placed the dynamite behind a counter and the gun inside of the empty and broken ice-cream machine. I opened the portal and went back to the year 2500 to get Jack.

"Boss! I need to speak with you."

"Yes Agent E?" We made our way to her office. I signaled to my friend to come over. 

"Agent F would like to speak with you, but he is a bit shy." I needed a distraction to break out Jack. I called the emergency button and everyone left the building. I went to the future, grabbed the dynamite and went back.

As everyone was leaving I went to Jack's cell and tried to pick the lock. It was a retina scanner so I resorted to plan B, Alfred Nobel's invention, dynamite. I layered it along the bars and set the detonator for 10 seconds. I ran and he stepped back.  BOOM! The cell door came running to the ground and I grabbed Jack's arm.

"You are telling the truth, we will work together to fix the timeline, then you are free to do whatever you please.

"Jack, go get a cloning device, if you want a minigun," I said slyly.

"On it Ezra," he replied. He left off toward the cloning room. 

"GOT IT!" He shouted just loud enough to hear. 

"Ok now we need to go to the year 3000 and you are going to tell me what on Earth happened. "

"Yes sir. I don't have much on the subject but I know who does."

I opened up the portal and the same thing happened, vortex. We landed in the year 3000 and I decided to go and get the improved gatling gun.
"Jack, follow me, we need to go to an abandoned McDonalds. It is on McDonalds Avenue, weird right, but it was abandoned which makes it good for us." Jack and I went to the McDonalds and got the gatling gun. 

"Jack do you want to clone this or should I?"

"I can if you want."

Jack grabbed it at pointed it a the gatling gun. 

"VVVVVVVV, crsshhhhshhsh." There was a bright blue flash.

The light was like a flash of lightning but longer. It radiated it's energy on to the gun and copied it's molecular system and redirected it to a foot beside it.

"Here Jack, you take the cloned one, I get this one. Take me to the person who knows what happened."
"You might be surprised."

"Who is it then."

 "It is your brother, he has been working with me when I was here."

"No, it can't be, he died on his mission a couple years ago. Did he really die?"

"No Ezra, he was about to die but then he jumped to the year 3000, about the same time I disappeared, I can get him for you."

"Sure, um, take me to him. But first give me a second."

I walked over to a abandoned baseball pitch and took a seat on one of the benches. 

        Chapter 3

     Ezra's Brother

"Jack, are you ready?"

"Yes. Let's go get your brother."

We walked down the street and Jack called my brother, Kallus. He was a tall and strong man, he was in his 30's and looked like he could punch a hole in a steel wall. His beard looked like a short box and it was a golden brown colour. He looked like he just got out from a muddy battle, his face was wiped in mud.

"Hey Ez, how is it going."

"Kallus?! It can't be... I thought Jack was joking. How did you survive?"

"Ezra, I already told you, remem-."
"Shhhhh I wanna hear him talk."

"Well Ezra, I was about to die but then I travelled to the year 3000, about the same time Jack disappeared."

"See Ezra told you so."

"Oh do you ever stop talking?"

"I can if I need to, but later, Kallus, get the surprise ready."

"Wait, woah woah woah, ship?" I looked at Kallus, he looked back smirked at me, he knew something I didn't and by the way Jack was laughing, he knew to. He was laughing but trying to muffle it, almost like he had reason to hide it. Are they plotting against me?

They brought me to what looked like an abandoned aeroplane hanger, and they pulled a switch. I didn't know what was going on, it was night and the night sky was beautiful. The stars glistened and sparkled, and there is one star, glowing blue. It was the biggest one I could see. Suddenly, a flash of yellow light came from behind me,

"EZRA, BEHOLD!" I turned around and saw a private jet! Modified with turrets, guns, lights, and the best of all, a minifridge. I walked over to see another one!

"Ezra, since you were trained in the air force and you helped me out of prison"

"And got me a promotion," Kallus interjected.

"Yes that, we decided to buy and modify a private jet, we have two, one for you and one for us two."

"Let's take them for a spin." Jack hopped in the pushback truck and I went in the other. I turned the key and started pulling my HA-420 jet, and brought it to the runway. Jack brought his behind me.