Julia's Journal

Entry: September 15, 2210.

It's been months since I've seen Aiden. Last I saw him, he went to expose TUCOT. I hope I see him again. If he is alive, he will visit me no matter where he is. But that's what scares me. What if he isn't?

Entry: September 16, 2210.

Today was a magical day. Both figuratively and literally. I was at Aurora's Coffeehouse. Out of nowhere, a man sat opposite me without even asking me.

"Hey! What the--" I paused. For a moment, I was angry. Not because a stranger was sitting at my table. But because I knew that stranger.

"Aiden! Where were you all this time?" I said with excitement.

"Hey. I missed you too. Let's go somewhere else shall we?"

"Sure,"

We went to the mall. We had lunch and enjoyed like we never did before. But I still wanted to know why he hadn't come to see me.

We were walking and came to rest at a nearby bench

"So Aiden. Where were you all this while? What happened?

"It's a long story. After I left, I went straight to TUCOT with some EMPs. After activating them, I had exactly 10 minutes to confront Daniels and his henchmen. The henchmen didn't pose a great threat to me. They all were down with just one jab.--"

I started blushing. I don't know why. Maybe because I was hearing my sweetheart's story of saving the world.

"--Afterwards, I went to Daniels' room. I was taken aback for a moment because he was pointing a vintage shotgun right where I was standing. Mr. Nikola was there accompanying him. It was me against them. He shot twice but I managed to dodge both times. You know how vintage shotguns take time to reload. That gave me time to grab and choke Nikola. But Daniels didn't need bullets. He hit me in the head with the shotgun. I passed out. I woke up with Daniels pointing the gun towards my head, just like the vision Tempus had shown. This is where all the others had failed. I immediately yelled:- "WAIT, Daniels. I have something that may be of interest to you,"

"What? Make it fast,"

"Ok. But this is only a two people conversation,"

"Oh don't worry about that." He shot Nikola.

"Why did you do that?"

"He's a cunning guy. He won't leave the room without bugging it. I already found two of his bugs. Now, what is it that you have?"

"It's about the Void. I've found something there,"

"What is it?"

"Wait. let me get up," The fool. He believed it. I seized my chance and grabbed the gun from him, shooting him without thinking further,"

"Did you say something cheezy then?" I asked.

"Nah,"

"Hmmm. And then what happened?"

"I waited for the EMP to deactivate and stole the files of TUCOT which contained some undisclosed plans. I leaked the files and plans on the internet. After that, I took Chronos and headed for the Void. Tempus was waiting there for me. I informed him of TUCOT's demise and the disappearance of my friends. He told that they were safe, but located somewhere, far beyond the Void in a place called the Abhorrent. At first, I found it hard to believe because the Abhorrent was a myth. Tempus gave me the location. He estimated that I would take 2 hours to find them. I went to the Abhorrent and found Gerald's ship, The Bald Eagle. Gerald was in hyper-sleep. Parker's ship, The Sentinel was far off. Parker was also in hyper-sleep. I abandoned their ships and took them with me. Just as Tempus predicted, It took me 2 hours. But something there affected me. It changed me. I came back and found out that 2 months have passed. TUCOT's assets were given to The Scribes, a CIA headed organization. The public was made aware of TUCOT's intentions,"

"Wow. I hope you weren't bragging,"

"No. Not at all. They all happened. And besides, there's something else I wanted to talk to you about,"

"What is it?"

Just as he was about to speak up, some creep started to yell at us for sitting on his bench. I got up and told him we were here first. But I guess that doesn't apply to him. Next thing you know, he just pushed me to the floor. I looked at Aiden. That was the first time I saw him getting furious. He just sat there staring at him. This pissed off the man. As he was about to grab Aiden, I noticed his eyeballs. They started to glow green. This startled the man And a few seconds later, he crumbled onto the floor. His hair started to become grey. Wrinkles appeared out of nowhere. He looked like he was in his mid-60s, which was very very odd because he was 30 or something a while back.

"What just happened?" I asked in shock.

"Time passed I guess," He said and walked with me towards the exit.

THE END