"Arnold! Have you seen my invention for the competition? It's gone out of my room!" Jeremiah says in panic as he hurried next door to see Arnold.
"I have not seen your invention, but who could get into your room? Was it not locked?" Arnold says.
"Yes my room was locked which is why I wonder how they got in, maybe it was someone with a key? Who would have a key?" Says Jeremiah.
"A janitor or maybe someone who worked for the show?" Said Arnold.
"Maybe, maybe them but you wouldn't steal my device would you?" Jeremiah says.
"I wouldn't steal your device, it's a bit stupid to even explain how to use your device, why would I take something I can't use?" Says Arnold with a good point.
"Hmm touché." Says Jeremiah
I the author am laughing as I am writing 'touché' I just wanted to put that lame phrase in here, anyway.
"Let's search for it around the building and find it." Jeremiah says.
"I just love how you nominate me to solve your problem, what if I'm busy?" Says Arnold in rebellion.
"...I didn't think.." says Jeremiah.
"Ah but I'll help you anyway." Says Arnold.
"I'll look on the top floors and you can look on the lower floors." Jeremiah says.
"Ok" says Arnold simply.
The two of them head off and Jeremiah goes to the top floor of the 15 story high building.
He gets to the top floor of the building and it is restricted. The whole floor is in darkness.
"Hmm, are they doing repairs up here? I didn't hear about it by the competition management." Jeremiah thinks to himself.
As Jeremiah turns around to head back downstairs to the 14th floor, he sees a small tiny light at the end of the narrow hallway. A little green light. He doesn't see anyone in sight but Jeremiah can be heard saying "hey what are you doing? Who is it?"
The green light suddenly moves faster and faster down the long hallway as if it wants to attract Jeremiah's attention. "They want me to follow?" Jeremiah says to himself.
"There are so many rooms on this floor and not a single light but the lights from the stairs. I don't even have a light on me, I should leave before I get lost." Jeremiah tries to make sense of the whole situation.
Before Jeremiah leaves, the green light wakes up again and darts to a specific room. Jeremiah quickly runs after the light and into the darkness.
When Jeremiah gets to the room
"You are going to show me how this thing works." A deep menacing voice can be heard coming from a corner in the already dark room.
"Why? What would you want with my device?" Jeremiah says in slight fear.
The man growls a deep growl at Jeremiah, and he begins walking heavy around the room.
"I can't see anything, what is he circling me for?" Jeremiah thinks to himself as he's very afraid.
Meanwhile downstairs Arnold comes across a ball room in the hotel that had been hosting a party that night.
"Ooh, this is really fancy. I should have put on something better if I would have known." Arnold thinks to himself.
"Hi." A random girl walks over to Arnold and introduces herself. "I'm Anesa banks.
"I'm Arnold, and my last name is piker" Arnold says in confusion with squinty eyes and pursed lips as he doesn't understand why a complete stranger feels comfortable enough to start up a conversation with him.
"We'll I just noticed that you are around my age and that not a lot of people our age are here." Says Anesa.
"Yes, that's true but-" Arnold doesn't finish.
"But? Maybe we could be friends." Anesa says.
"How are we going to be friends when I don't know you?" Arnold says defensively.
"You see, you know that you don't know me and that's what you know about me." Anesa humorously says even though it's not funny.
"That's stupid." Arnold says with a low faint snicker.
"Why are you at this party?" Arnold asks the girl.
"My parents made me come to this party they are holding for their employees to celebrate the success of the first day for the competition of invention. You see, now you're asking me questions." Says Anesa.
"You said competition of invention? I'm on that show." Arnold says.
"Ooh I got here an hour and a half ago so I didn't see today's show, but I'll definitely watch day 2 and day 3. Are your inventions any good?" Says Anesa.
"Yep sure are, but I won't spoil them." Arnold says with confidence.
"Ah, ok I will watch the show and see then. Hey do you wanna see a secret place in the hotel no one knows about?" Says Anesa.
"How can you be sure no one knows about it?" Teases Arnold.
"I mean, I suppose no one knows about it but someone just might, anyway do you want to see it or not?" Asks Anesa.
"I'm supposed to be looking for my friends invention that he lost but I will check this hiding place out first." Answers Arnold.
"You made the right choice." Says Anesa in contempt.
The two of them head outside of the building to find the hiding place.
"The hiding place is outside?" Asks Arnold curiously.
"Yes but it's in the alleyway, and it's up these ladders to the 4th floor." Says Anesa.
"What is this place? It looks like a tiny room." Says Arnold.
"It comes from the building's designer who didn't exactly finish the idea for this room, when the contractors got the model structure of the building, they were told to build the entire building the exact way the blueprint was." Answers Anesa.
"How do you know this?" Asks Arnold.
"My family owns the hotel, they own multiple hotels. My grandfather built this hangout for my mother before she was born." Says Anesa.
"Your family has a nice hotel then." Comments Arnold.
"Thank you—" says Anesa.
Just then as Anesa and Arnold were speaking, Arnold noticed a tiny red dot on the steps right outside of the hangout space. So he looked for more and found a few more drops leading further into Anesa's hangout.
"Let's go in the hangout" Arnold says with open eyes with a cautious look on his face
Anesa didn't notice the worry and said "should we go in and make out?" Until she turned around to finally notice Arnold's worried face.
Anesa turns back around to unlock the small door to her hangout which is in the back of the hotel building.
The two of them open the door to find blood everywhere. It was extremely haunting, blood was even on the ceiling, someone had to take their time to place blood on the ceiling. Someone even had to take their time to stack human bodies on each other. It looked like a scene from A massacre movie.
Arnold quickly turned around because he couldn't face what he had seen in that room and he noticed Anesa had seen the bodies to, and he quickly covered Anesas eyes. "Anesa, let's leave right now and call the police." Arnold says.
The two of them quickly ran into the hotel and called the police, the cops arrived in an instant and ushered for everyone to leave the building quickly. And within 15 minutes, the building was cleared.
Meanwhile upstairs…
"Show me how you use it." The voice demanded.
"I can't, I can't see anything, it's too dark in here." Jeremiah says.
"Oh? you want light?" The voice said as if it wasn't already obvious, Jeremiah wanted light.
"What do you want with the device anyway?" Jeremiah asked hesitantly.
"Send me back in time to a specific date." The voice demanded.
Jeremiah felt a slight sting down his arm and a sudden warm crawling feeling.
"Am I cut?" Asks Jeremiah in a worried tone.
"You are and you'll be dead if you don't show me how to go back in time." The voice threatened.
"Can't we have just a little light if I'm going to navigate the device?" Jeremiah wagered.
A dim white light illuminates the room just enough to see everything. Then Jeremiah looks up to see it's Comadust.
"Comadust? What time do you want to go back to?" Jeremiah said.
"Don't call me Comadust. It's hugo. Call me Hugo and send me back to 1939. That's the year I want, Send me back to February 1st 1939." Hugo demanded.
"Ok I will send you there." Jeremiah hesitantly answered.
"Wait first test it out. Set it to another year and see how it works." Hugo quickly figured.
"I know that it works but I'll set it to a future year to demonstrate." Jeremiah says in agreement.
Jeremiah sets the wrist watch to October 17th 1998, a random date. The two of them actually make it to the future.
"Ok we made it, it looks good, send me to 1939." Hugo says impatiently, very impatiently.
"You're ready to go already? Ok." Jeremiah shrugs and continues.
Hugo and Jeremiah are in a front yard, as Jeremiah is setting the wrist watch he looks over and notices a young boy outside playing in his own front yard that is across the street from them, the kid is around 10 years old. The young boy quickly wanders through a machine his father is working on outside of their home.
"Tragic, that man should run after his son." Jeremiah says in a detached manner, almost in a nonchalant way.
Jeremiah then notices the family mailbox.
"This is the… Lynn residence?" Jeremiah says in an extreme shock...….