David Areche, “Unititled”

UNTITLED

David Areche

While in New York in the year 2055, Naz and I had just finished building our biggest project ever, and I immediately went to go test out the VRX-1000 that levitates about 3 feet above the ground. It has many features such as going into different timelines and comes to you wherever, whenever you whisper. I was on the hoverboard and in order for me to time travel into a different timeline, I had to change the date that’s placed on the hoverboard as a lock combination. I changed the date to July 17, 1955 to Disneyland’s opening day. I set my feet on the board with high expectations. Then, suddenly the board malfunctioned and I crashed into someone’s backyard along with the board. I was frustrated thinking that this project was going to be a success, and I kicked the board with such frustration, blood boiling through my skin, and accidentally changed the date to 1945 during World War II. I was unaware of what I did, and that was when a portal sucked me up. I grabbed my hoverboard at the last second. *WOOOOOSH* *BUMP* *OUCH* I was getting hit by many objects from other timelines. I landed in a forest and it was pitched black. I couldn’t even see my hands, and I couldn’t see my surroundings. I was roaming around the forest dragging my fatigued hoverboard not expecting anything. I heard a group of guys talking in the distance in a different language, but I didn’t think much of it. I quietly approached the group but accidentally stepped on a branch and alerted the guys which caused them to start marching towards me with lethal weapons. That’s when I hid behind a tree, hoping they would back off, and suddenly a loud explosion in the distance sounded, which backed them off from me. I sighed with relief. I went to go find a safe place. I was looking for the

machine vet because I didn’t have my tools to fix my fatigued board. I needed directions because I was lost, lost in this smoke-infested forest from the explosion and gunshots. Mind you, I wasn’t aware when I put in the date of WWII, so I still thought I lived in my futuristic world. I spotted a kinda wounded-looking soldier leaning against a tree. I was confused. I asked him, “What year is it? What’s going on?” “The second World War . . . 1945!” the wounded soldier said. I was in absolute disbelief . . . ‘’What did I get myself into? I need to get back home before things get out of hand!” As the soldier died from the excruciating pain, I set the date to the year I came from, 2055, and I started to get back. That was when a M1 Garand bullet (that I assumed the soldier got shot with) shot my board, which caused my board to detonate and stopped me from getting home. * * * * * Naz was running out of ideas on how to get David back, he tried everything in his will. One of Naz’s ideas was to travel into times David loved the most. David always wanted to learn more about the total disaster of Pompeii, so Naz traveled to that time period to find David but a giant volcanic ash cloud rushed towards him, scaring him back to 2055. David admires tall glass buildings. Naz traveled to when the Burj Khalifa was still being built to try and spot David, but Naz was intimidated with the great height of the building. He was able to highfive a plane! He was frightened back to 2055. At this point he had already given up risking his life to find his friend, one from almost being turned into ashes and, two, from almost falling to his death. Naz went to school the next day and enrolled in the Academy For Young Writers in the East Side. His first period was history and the topic was WWII. The teacher showed various images and videos of WWII and as Naz dozed from boredom, he was immediately woken up like a lightswitch as he confusingly spotted DAVID on one of the videos and no-

ticed his board was broken. Naz waited impatiently for school to end so he could get his friend back. Finally school ended and he rushed home. He brought together the necessary tools for David and set his board to the date 1945.