Mar 22, 2010 06:07
Urubama Valley
Peru, 1971
PLOIT!
"At least that wasn't as bad as last time."
"Is is gone?"
"I don't think we'll ever know."
Oregon, 1957
POIT
FWAM
WRANG
"Aaah!"
"Robo are we still alive?"
"Oh God. I have to do that two more times don't I..."
New York City, 1926
KRAKOOOM
Woooooosh
"Total protonic reversal..."
Fwam!
"I say! Good Lord Robo."
"I met three future versions of myself who turned the lightning guns into a bomb using science the told me to invent."
"Ah, of course."
"Horsefeathers! What do you mean 'of course'?"
"Causality is only an illusion of linear thinking. Nonlinear events happen all the time."
"Well, I'm glad it makes sense to on of--"
"Where's Howard?"
"Er..."
Tesladyne Compound, 'Present Day'
"Robo."
"Jenkins."
"Die you evil monst- Louis?!"
"You guys are -- just go away. Far, far away. And some one get the extradimensional telemetry pack and the spare copies of my paperwork together. I have a plan."
Meanwhile, in a more canonical universe, not that far away...
"You guys are fired