It had started as an innocent Christmas gift. Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain used the time machine to travel to the year 2035 to enjoy a break from the whipping wind, sleet, snow and prying eyes.
They were enjoying a meal at an outdoor cafe overlooking a sleepy harbor in California.
"This was a wonderful idea! I admit I was worried at first. Worried what we might find. But this is nice," Tesla confessed to Twain.
"It's a comfort to know mankind made such strides. There are no wars. Everyone uses solar power. The entire world is clean, healthy and happy! Imagine that! I never would have believed it! Thank you my friend. This was a marvelous! Of course, it presents one problem. How do I explain my new found optimism when we return to our time?" Mark Twain laughed.
"By Jove!" Tesla exclaimed.
"What is it?" Twain asked.
"That boat! A dog just materialized on deck out of thin air!" Tesla started and before he finished, a second dog, then a third dog landed on the deck.
Suddenly it was raining dogs, palm trees, cars, buses, and buildings.
"Look out Sam!" Tesla cried, but it was too late. A lady and her husband fell out of the sky and landed right on Mark Twain and his leg snapped.
Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla transported back to 1894 to sort out what they had witnessed.
"According to my calculations, at the rate all these people, plants, animals and objects are slamming into the earth, the earth will be knocked out of orbit, freeze solid and then hurl into the unknown in a matter of hours," Tesla informed Mark without looking up from his papers.
"What does this mean?" Mark asked.
"It means we have travel back in time to Merlin's cave," Tesla started.
"How can we find it?" Twain tried to stand but moaned and sat down fast because his broken leg was killing him.
"First we have to fix your leg," Tesla started flipping through his journals.
Under the duress of the moment, Tesla hardly had time to enjoy having taken the first x-ray and launching the world's first bone and soft tissue mender on the same afternoon.
Tesla re-calibrated the time machine to match matter instead of time.
"We are going to travel to where this book came from," Tesla held Merlin's book of magic, the very same book he had used to build the time machine.
Twain and Tesla materialized in the mysterious crystal cave where Merlin was said to have become a hermit.
"He isn't here!" Mark Twain was alarmed. "Now what?"
Tesla ripped a page out of one of Merlin's journals.
"He's probably with this woman. She was stealing from him," Tesla showed Twain the sketch of a woman Merlin had drawn. "In fact, from the way this place looks, she may have kidnapped Merlin!"
"We're not going to be able to find her with that sketch!" Twain exclaimed.
"Then we'll have to calibrate the machine to take us to the rest of this!" Tesla held up a two foot long gleaming silver stand of Merlin's hair.
~ TO BE CONTINUED ~
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