"Are YOU sure you want to do this, Bagas?" That clear voice it sounded quiet, like a white megaphone crossing time.
Bagaskara Tirtawangsa turned his head. And smile. Gently fingers of youth with eyes that sharp with firm facial lines caressing the girl's hair. The clear-voiced girl looked away blush and dodge.
"I'll be fine, Ciara. We have been prepare everything. There shouldn't be problem."
"That's right, miss. We've already sent chickens, ducks, cats and dogs to the past. Now is the time we send humans. This will be a milestone history.
Bagas has the potential to become an Indonesian first to go back in time…" A man in his 50s with a face covered in a mustache and beard said.
"Your father, Professor Dananjaya is right, Ciara. This will become a milestone. I'm going back to the past, learn the mysteries of life in a bygone era. It will be fun…"
"But... what if something goes wrong? How if you don't come back?" Ciara's clear voice returned sound. His voice sounded like the soft sound of rain who are shy.
"There will be no mistake," said the Professor Semmuel Dananjaya. "Bagas has prepared everything something. He now speaks fluent Old Javanese. He can self-defense. We have also checked all the equipment. All clear. Everything will be fine. Trust Father..."
Ciara Dananjaya took a deep breath. The eyes are Clear can't hide the worries shines clear. He leaned his body closer to her Bagas.
"Close your eyes..."
"Hah? Why?"
"Close your eyes. Don't ask too many questions…"
With furrowed brows he closed his eyes.
A fragrant aroma hit his nose. That scent smooth, which is always able to make his heart pounding.
He could feel Ciara's body close to him.
Very close. And then the young man felt something that gently touched her lips. Just a moment.
Bagas opened his eyes. Nearby, Ciara stood blush. The girl's face was red but her eyes shine.
"We'll uh, talk about this, um, after you back," Ciara said softly. "Promise that you will return..."
Bagas nodded and unconsciously touched his lips.
Even if it was just a glance, he knew what had just happened.
Ciara, a girl with a clear voice and eyes like stars it just kissed him. Just a split second yes, but a kiss is still a kiss!
Bagas felt his chest churn. There is a strange feeling that slid all over his body. Girl voice that clear, whose face is gentle as the morning sun, whose hair extends to the back, new just kiss him!!
He had known Ciara for months. During all those months Ciara never touched him.
They talk a lot, of course. Often look at each other.
But only to that extent. Until now.
Bagas slowly held Ciara's fingers. He glancing at the busy professor (or pretend busy) fixing the transghammanitator modulator will be used soon.
"I will be back. You wait, and we will talk..."
Ciara nodded. Slowly he withdrew his fingers from Bagas' grip. The girl's face was still blushing mixed with happy hues.
"After arriving in the past, you have six hours to make observations," Professor Dananjaya said while moving the modulator. "After six hours you can come back. If for some reason you can't come back in six hours, this new modulator can functioning after six weeks."
Bagas nodded. He knows it.
"Remember Bagas, you're just making an observation. You just observing. If it's not urgent, you don't need it interact with humans. as we agree, you will return to the Majapahit era, in the past beginning of the reign of Majapahit."
Back Bagas nodded. He knows that too. In the last three months he has learned everything something related to Majapahit. Culture, customs, language, beliefs, whatever.
"You will return to the past, right in this place. Only the times have changed, but the place is the same. Majapahit settlement center is over there. This place, in the past, was a dense forest. So you need to walk if you want to Tarik, in the center Majapahit settlements and townships."
Again, Bagas nodded. They are now in a kind of plantation in the District of Tarik Regency Sidoarjo, East Java Province.
Near them is a car a black van that was used as a "mobile laboratory" by Professor Dananjaya. Inside the car is equipment modified sophisticated.
Professor Dananjaya handed him a bracelet golden to Bagas. "This is a modulator bracelet for you. This bracelet contains a digital time indication. Also will work to open a time portal if
the time has come."
Bagas put the bracelet on his right hand.
There was a faint 'click' sound. The bracelet feels snug on arm.
"I made arrangements so that the bracelet would never separated from your hands, Bagas. Because the bracelet became the key for you to return to the present."
Professor Dananjaya took a small object black. It was the size of a corn kernel.
"This is our means of communication. I don't know if it will function. When installed on Weaver that shipped to past, we can hear him barking. So this should work. We can hear your voice and you can hear us too."
Without speaking, Bagas took the communicator and put it on the right ear.
"You know how it works, right? If you want to turn it off, double tap. To activate, triple tap."
"Yes, I know," said Bagas. Until now, he didn't could hide his admiration for the Professor.
The old man was indeed a genius and attached great importance
detail. The Professor has planned everything necessary for a trip to the past. All.
Making a time machine is the Professor's obsession Dananjaya for the past thirty years. That obsession causing Professor Dananjaya to be ostracized by society Indonesian academics and scientists. Danan Jaya Professor considered unreasonable. The idea is to make a time machine considered a joke. Yes. It is believed that time will pass only exist in fiction. It's only in dreams Hollywood filmmakers. In the real world, travel penetrates time it was impossible, even from the point of theoretical physics Possible.
However, Dananjaya did not give up. Assiduously he try and try. With sober conditions, he assembling equipment to be used as a time machine.
In this world, when everyone laughs at ideas Professor Dananjaya, there are two people who don't. They are Bagas and Ciara. These two young people know that Professor Dananjaya is not crazy.
Now, they will enter an important stage in invention of the time machine. Sends humans to the past. And Bagas volunteered to be a "guinea pig".
"Are you ready? You better go now so you can back at dusk. How?" Professor Dananjaya asked. Bagas could feel the enthusiasm the big sound of the man's voice. The man's voice trembled filled with passion.
"I'm ready," Bagas said. He then opened his shirt. As studied in a number of literature, in the Majapahit era men used to go naked chest. In order not to attract attention, Bagas had to follow the same pattern. He then wearing a reddish-blue batik cloth as
sarong. Underneath the knee-length cloth he wore shorts.
He glanced at Ciara for a moment. That girl looked at him. Their gazes clashed.
Professor Dananjaya's fingers pressed several buttons on the transghammanitator modulator in front of it.
"Get ready. The energy portal will open in 3... 2... 1..."
A bluish coil appeared in front of Bagas.
The round colored coils are human height. coil it looks rotating. Slowly.
"Good. I go." Bagas looked at Professor Dananjaya. And looked at Ciara. The girl nodded. Try to smile. Bagas stepped into the energy portal.
Bagas felt like he was being sucked in by a strange energy.
He felt like he had entered an endless energy tunnel ends. All around looks like running. Initially slowly, and getting faster and faster.
There was a strange, indistinct sound in the scenery running around him. Bagas felt like watching a movie in fast motion. Very fast even.
Too fast.
Bagas is feeling dizzy. He closed his eyes.
His ears hear various sounds. In fact, he like hearing gunshots. Also the roar of the plane fly. What he heard was a scene cut during the war of independence?
The roar of war faded into silence.
It wasn't completely silent because Bagas could hear voice. The sound is not very clear. Then silence long.
Bagas opened his eyes. view on still running around. Turn. In glow blackish white. He now heard screams. Or scream? There were horses galloping and the clanking of guns, perhaps sword. Battle again? That battle use a sword?
Then silence.
Again.
Strange silence.
Biting silence.
Bagas felt like he had been thrown into a sea of mass which made him sway.
He opened his eyes. The scenery all around not moving as fast as before. Even now more and more slowly.
Slower.
Finally stopped.
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