Everyone had stunning reactions. What Wigbert and Anastasia did a thousand years ago, Peter wanted to repeat that history... Changing time once and for all!
"Peter, I hope you're well aware of the fact that this is not a time-travel that is delineated in science fictions or fantasies", Ralph was a bit stunned. He warned Peter.
"Then, what is it like?", Peter responded.
"Let me think...Err--Err...It's more like you don't time-travel, the world does. There are no alternate timelines or what you change in the past will affect your present and future. Once you travel, there's no way of coming back!"
"Basically", Sapna came forward, "Wigbert and Anastasia made a machine that makes the world travel."
"No...No...", Ralph was getting confused, "The one who controls the machine always remains in their present. Logically, you become very fast or very slow with respect to the whole world and for the rest of the world, you are not noticeable to them. What they see, is their present but what you see is their past, present and future. It's not like you travel to the past and come back to the present and the effects are noticeable in your upcoming future because you changed your former past. Understand?"
"Reasonably, a clear 'NO'!", David said while Peter was concentrating on the words Ralph spoke and tried to understand the concept.
"Let me go straight", Ralph continued, "What Wigbert and Anastasia did was that they re-lived their past. For them, their past was their present at a point of time. When they turned the time back, they didn't lose any of their memories they gained over time, but the world lost what they had gained. When they stopped travelling back, they reached a time where Allen didn't rule. Basically, whole Cygnus had travelled back but not the twins. They were in their past which they lived as they were in present. Those who were dead didn't remain for so long if they were alive in the past. The world lived its present but the twins were acknowledged with the fact that would happen in future because they had lived that moments earlier in their life. One who controls the EXEL technology has the same age and is not changed by the effect of time. Basically, you have to meddle with the craziest thing this universe has ever known: time."
"You mean to say", Valencia broke in, "There are no loops of time or anything else. They happen only once. Once you travel back, the time will move with the same speed as it did earlier"
"Correct, Ms. Johnson. You observed it right!"
"So, I want to do it", Peter exclaimed.
"You're not coming back!"
"I know... Neither will you because I want you to travel with me. David would need you on Cygnus"
"What?"
"First, I don't know how to travel back! You decoded that time page on Mesoteph Mythology and you know how to control that machine!"
"Why would I need Mr. Osborn?", David, in suspense, questioned.
"As far as I am concerned David, I know your ages will change and you will go into your past. You won't remember anything. We will stop Oliver and the struggles we all faced will be reduced because I will help. There would be no smaller version of mine in the past, I think!"
"You got it right!"
"We'll go with you!", David exclaimed.
"No David. Harry promised to fetch your family back! I'll complete that! You'll live with them once more. Sapna would be able to see Ramesh alive. And Valencia, I will try to make a connection between you and your parents."
"He's right", Ralph exclaimed, "This is the best wish and is possible."
"I think he's right! We won't even remember any of the things and will later in our life meet him, too", Sapna said excitingly.
"I agree... The world needs some support. Both Cygnus and Earth! I am ready!", Valencia agreed.
Peter had the most brilliant smile on his face and with a lot of excitement, he nodded in front of Ralph that he was ready for this adventure. Ralph, too, was proud of THE SPIRITS and thought that Harry had collected the best team ever!"
Peter hugged everyone with some fainting smiles and salty sobs. Peter knew he would not be meeting anyone with this memory of THE SPIRITS. The team would be separated
He was ready and with wiping his tears away from his face, he said, "Let's Do Something Different!"
That EXEL MACHINE was kept by Wigbert and Anastasia in the museum of Mysterious Artifacts on Cygnus. Ralph knew about that.
He incanted-
LONDUS...INCANTUM...TWYOTEM...TRAVILIO
Ralph and Peter stepped in the portal. Of course, a portal might not be opened by an Earthian but one can travel through it! Peter, for the second time, experienced that contraction and relaxation of his body through wormholes and it was a matter of a second that Peter had reached the trodden roads of any remote area on Cygnus. Ralph wanted to avoid entourage and a huge crowd of people surrounding him.
CYGNUS
David brought Peter to the dark side of Cygnus. It seemed that in every house, someone had died. It seemed like everyone was bereaved. Cygnus's condition was worse than Earth's. Earth's genocide was mostly concentrated in the city of London but the army that had attacked London was recruited from whole Cygnus resulting in a more macabre situation.
Hiding from the people, Ralph had led Peter to the museum of Mysterious Artifacts. Peter stood nonplussed after seeing the building. It was too gorgeous. Though it had no visitors and no guards because of the condition of the planet, Ralph and Peter faced no difficulty to enter the museum.
Peter had seen Cygnus for the first time and it was like a sweet-sounding dream which was unwillingly filled with the screams of the racking sobs that wept for the loss of Cygnian blood and assassins. Peter, at a point, felt himself to be responsible for their condition though he was not.
Inside the museum, Peter followed Ralph and with their heavy footsteps across the wooden planked floor portrayed their arrival. Insects and small animals that had made the museum their shelter were a bit startled because they heard footsteps, probably, after months.
Ralph stopped immediately in front of a machine that was kept safely inside a glass box. The glass box, however, was dirty with many omnipresent gritty and fine particles of Cygnian dust that wrapped the whole box. Ralph, in one iron-punch of his, broke the strong glass; pulled the heavy machine out. At the same time, Peter noticed that under the machine, on a wooden triangle, was inscribed:
Invented By- Wigbert Bryan and Anastasia Bryan
Work- Still Unknown
It gave Peter a feeling of deep satisfaction that the story Ralph told him was not only just a bedtime but also it all happened in reality.
Ralph started rotating the rotators and switches. They had got all rusted but with some amount of ample force, they started rotating but Peter interrupted Ralph, "WAIT!"
"What happened?", Ralph asked.
"I think we should do this on Earth"
"Why?"
"Because when the time rotates, I will have to travel back to Earth and that isn't possible. Also, there might be too much crowd here at that time. So, people may find you and form an entourage around you. Better if done on Earth. SO, when it will be done on Earth near THE SPIRITS office, I will directly reach the point in 1995 and that home where Harry, Oliver and Rogers had landed. And you can go back to the Crowning Ceremony! When Harry and the children will reach Earth, I would make an excuse to save them from being kidnapped; you know BPTD attacked their school and after that, I'll see later."
"Brilliant idea, Peter"
Ralph again incanted the spell and a dark-stained portal opened whose other end lied near THE SPIRITS office. Ralph and Peter dragged the machine through the portal. Peter and Ralph again went near the office without being seen.
Ralph rotated the rotators and the buttons were pressed. He commemorated what was written in MESOTEPH MYTHOLOGY. And then with a sigh, pressed the button to travel back.
With a momentary set-back of the force that was applied to both of them, their surroundings mostly vanished. It all started rotating. Peter was able to see the genocide and the final battle. He saw him and Harry fighting. Everything was just like it pivoted back. It seemed that the world was made to reverse back except Ralph and Peter.
Abruptly, the rotating world formed two human figures by collecting some particles to integrate them into people. Peter understood what was that. They were Wigbert and Anastasia.
Peter started, "Oh! It's you, Wigbert and Anastasia... Your highness"
Wigbert and Anastasia understood English but with some difficulties, Wigbert replied, "How is it that you two know us? What timelapse is this?"
"It doesn't matter... We are somewhere between the times of 2019 and 1995"
"We were in the eleventh century"
"That's time mismanagement. Your EXEL technology and your book, MESOTEPH MYTHOLOGY, is just amazing. It worked. You are great", Peter replied.
And both of them just vanished out of nowhere.
"What was that?", Ralph was confused.
"That, sir, were the twins who invented this machine. You told us that they met two unknown people in the way. We were those. Somehow, their buttons were misunderstood and rotated differently, they came forward and that, too, ten centuries later. At the same time, we rotated our world back. When they entered our timeline between 1995 and 2019, we met at a point where we both intersected. And when we came back and they went forward, they vanished and perhaps, for them, we too. They probably will see the final battle in 2019 and see everything that will happen. Then, they might predict: HYRA ROBNORS and REVILO NORBOS"
"Confusing!"
"Surely, it is!"
Wigbert, before this incident, didn't name the machine or the book. But because, Peter, told those names, in front of the twins, WIgbert decided to name the book in the same way and the same happened for the EXEL MACHINE. Basically, the names given to these objects were because of Peter who met WIgbert and Anastasia in his past and the twins' future.
After all this, there was a push that Ralph and Peter felt and then rotating world had stopped abruptly in front of a house. Both of them were acquainted with that house. It was the same where the three brothers had landed after they were given their powers and were sent to face challenges on Earth.
Ralph and Peter crouched so that they were not visible from the windows. They didn't want to expose themselves.
Peter whispered in Ralph's ear, "We've botched up! This isn't the right time we wanted to go into! The children have arrived already. The Crowning Ceremony has already been done. We need other plans. You would be missing on Cygnus, at the moment because you're here"
"No one will see you! You should also be missing!", Ralph quavered.
"No! I would be in an orphanage. No one looked after me. I wouldn't be missing. My father would've committed suicide until this moment, I suppose. Well, I am left with his letter only. I have it today, also"
"You keep it always with you, don't you?"
"Yeah, I do!"
"Well, my plan was that I would not let them take admission in the school they took in. Then, no attacks from BPTD. It would've saved their lives but now as I see it, We're a bit late!", Peter took a sigh.
"Yes! What do we do, then?"
"I'll see. You just leave now. You would be missing on Cygnus. I'll handle it!"
"Quite bright, young man!", Ralph vocalized.
"You take care of David. He is that member of THE SPIRITS who would now be on Cygnus."
"Right! Pip-pip..."
Ralph incanted the spell and then just left Peter with a beautiful goodbye. Though they had spent a very short period of time, they were connected to each other because Peter saw Harry in Ralph and resembled him after his death. Ralph, on the other hand, saw Peter as a young man but not one of those who spent their lives worthlessly. Peter as a person, as Ralph thought, was one of those who used every opportunity to convert it into success.
Peter was now left alone in this world. He, then, just wiped his dirty face and then as a formal man, knocked on the door.
The three brothers, inside, went curious. They didn't understand who had come along this boulevard in this small house. The cute children with some mixed feelings went to the door. The silence accumulated all around which again and again was disturbed by Peter who knocked on the door continuously.
"KNOCK---KNOCK! Is anyone there?", he spoke again and again.
The three children showed full courage and united themselves, even, Harry and Oliver.
"WHO IS IT?", Rogers screamed from inside.
"It's me!", Peter responded.
"It's who? We never heard your voice...", Oliver questioned but he didn't even know what all was happening was all because of him only.
"Oh!", Peter acted and then lied, "Ralph sent me. Hmm... I am a Cygnian actually to look after you all."
"Proof?", Harry asked curiously.
"I know your wishes! I know what happened at the Crowning Ceremony. Even attended it. From my eyes"
The three brothers thought that the unknown man knew about them and therefore, meant no threat. They let him in.
Peter's first reaction after seeing the three brothers was beyond his expectations. He didn't believe these cuties were the reason for so much devastation, especially, Oliver. Two brothers had the same face and Rogers had different.
"You must be Oliver Osborn", Peter identified Oliver from his over-confident gestures, "You must be Harry and you must be Rogers, then"
"Yeah, we are", young Harry still suspected Peter.
"Don't suspect me! Well, answer me, have you joined the LONDON PUBLIC SCHOOL? Now?"
"Yeah, we did! Any problem?", Oliver asked furiously and his behaviour delineated the things he did in his former future.
Peter remembered that the attack that BPTD did on the school was going to take place the very next day and therefore, he tried to resist the children from going to school, "You all must not go tomorrow."
"Why is that?", young ten-years-old Harry questioned.
"Intuition!", Peter replied commemorating the days he spent earlier.
"We have tests going on in school", Rogers spoke, "Also, it's too difficult for all of us to cope-up with the Earthian cultures. Very difficult, indeed. In these mad times, I can't afford a holiday."
Peter knew that the children won't listen to him. And also, he thought that his main motive was to save the world from the devastation he knew. Saving only these three brothers wouldn't help him. BPTD would attack the school and when that happens, though the brothers would be safe, the other children won't be.
Therefore, Peter thought of an idea to stop the attack and reduce the number of casualties as possible.
"It's your wish then", Peter said, "Of course, your tests are too important for you! I believe you should go."
Peter knew he was taking a huge risk and the whole journey would be affected if he fails, but what's a life without a proper risk.
Peter stood with the brothers in that house only.
A few hours later Harry and Oliver, as usual, came up with a fight between them. But these weren't like the final battle; these were just fights that happen regularly.
Though Peter understood the reason they were fighting, he didn't take anyone's side.
He just said, " One tree can make a thousand matches but one match can burn over a thousand trees."
"What does that mean?", both the twins asked but antagonistically. Harry asked innocently while Oliver asked furiously.
"It means that one negative can burn all positive thoughts. So, should you fight, then? After all, fighting fills you with negativity."
"Indeed, it does", Harry stood up and sat beside Oliver, "I am sorry!"
Oliver too had developed patience, and with astonishingly, he spoke without taunts, "I am sorry, too, brother!"
And both of them embraced each other.
Wonderful
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