TiMe Machine 5

'I must leave this place write now', Rohan thought to himself. 'The body will start stinking soon and future mom dad may wake up any time. But where can I find George Thompson. I must go to Virginia University.' He took the electronic machine in hand and started exploring it. There were two modes, teleportation and time travel. He entered on the teleportation option. The window popped up and asked for the location coordinates. 'What are the location coordinates?', he searched it on the internet and found them. May be I should take the laptop with me so that it will be helpful there. He started shivering, whether it was because of the excitement or the fear of doing it, he was quite unsure of. He went to the kitchen and drank the glass of water and came back to the drawing room where the body of the Professor was lying. He took the time machine in one hand and the laptop in other hand and pressed the OK button. He thought he was prepared for the upcoming pain but it was all fresh experience without any pain just slight dizziness. When his legs hit the earth, he was standing on the grass lawn in the middle of the university campus. It was the day time. Suddenly he felt the pain in the back of his head exploding out and he went unconscious. When he opened his eyes he was lying on the ground and it was night time. The time machine was still in his right hand. He felt like puking, so he sat on the grass for nearly 10 minutes. Slowly, he got control on himself. The first thing he noticed was that his laptop was not there. 'Maybe electronic components can not pass through space-time', he thought to himself. He saw on the screen of the time machine, to his surprise it was in the time travel mode. 'How did this happen? I remember setting the teleportation mode. Suddenly a flash of memory came to his mind, he had been standing on the grass in the morning time. Confused with the whole incidence, he stood up and started noticing the surrounding. He was standing in the middle of two ancient buildings. It was the Virginia University College campus. There were no lights on the streets or ground but the corridors of the building were lit. On the other end of the corridor, a guard was smoking a cigarette. Suddenly Rohan noticed the cold atmosphere. He was wearing the T-shirt and the three-fourth. 'How am I supposed to find George Thompson in such a cold.', Rohan started shivering violently. He ran towards the building and entered the corridor. The guard noticed him and approached him quickly. "Hey there, what are you doing here at this time?", guard asked him angrily. "I am the student of Prof. George Thompson. I was working in his lab for my project." "Oh really?", the guard asked sarcastically. Rohan had a strong feeling that guard has not brought any of that. "Show me some Id", demanded the guard. "Oh..I forgot it in the lab", Rohan started fumbling. As the suspicious guard started approaching towards him, he started running back towards the grounds. The guard cried out loud for the other guards and started chasing Rohan. Rohan ran fastly across the grounds running into the other building. Thankfully, there was no guard in this building. He remembered being chased by the dog once and then taking 5 injections. 'I must not fail this time, think something', suddenly he got an idea. He took out the time machine from the pocket and started the teleportation mode. In the drop down menu, he found the last coordinates being entered, he stopped running and changed the location coordinate by fraction. "Freeze or I will shoot you", screamed the guard from the back. Rohan turned around and saw the guard pointing a gun towards him. 'Hey calm down man, I am just a kid. No need of gun.', Rohan spoke negotiatively. But from inside, he was terrified to the hell. "We got him", Rohan heard another guard from his back. 'Oh shit, I am trapped.', thought Roahn. Both the guards started cornering him. Without any warning, he pressed the button on the time machine and the whole world started whirling around him. When he hit the earth, he lost his balance and found himself on the middle of the highway. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the truck approaching rapidly from the front. He rolled himself all across the road and came near to the divider. He nearly missed the Truck. "Watch out you jackass", yelled the driver. Somehow, he climbed the road-divider and came to the other side of the road. In front of him, he saw the huge entrance of the Virginia University. 'Thank god for giving me the idea.', overwhelmed by the idea of narrowly missing death, Rohan started thinking fastly. 'How could the guards in the university be so hostile that they pointed gun at me? Which time is this?', he thought to himself. After being time traveled with Prof. Ford, he had lost the track of the date. He thought may be the time machine can help him. He went into the menu and started exploring each option carefully. It was just like the normal mobile phone, handy and simple. Then he found the option. CURRENT DATE AND TIME. He clicked. It was 20 Aug, just the next day when he first met Prof. Ford. 'Oh...may be the security was tight because of the murder in Prof. Ford's lab yesterday. I must go and check where can I find this Thompson.' He walked helplessly towards the entrance gate. The cold air was making his toes and hands numb, from the far distance, he could see the security personnel on the Gates. 'I can not go in like that.' He took the time machine once again and found one interesting option, CALIBRATION. He entered into it and put it into fine tune mode. He could see the lawn from the Gates, it was nearly 800mtrs, he approximately calculated the displacement achieved by varying the single digit in the location coordinates and set the new coordinates accordingly. 'Please let this work.', he prayed and pressed the button. When he opened back his eyes, he was standing beside the same wall as previous but the only difference was this time he was inside the campus. He walked slowly through the dark and reached the same building. There he found the chair and table where he first saw the guard sitting. He walked slowly towards the table and found the paper lying on the table. On the first page, he saw the same picture which he saw on internet from his home. The body which was lying with one hand cut. He read through the article searching for the name of George Thompson, when he found the lines, 'Prof George Thompson, who was the close friend of the murdered scientist is taken into the unknown secure location by the police authorities. Taking into consideration the hand of terrorist forces, FBI has intervened into the matter' 'Oh great, now I can not reach Thompson', Rohan felt hopeless. Suddenly he saw the same old guard coming back to his security-post. Rohan silently went back into the grounds and stood in the darkness. 'Great, the murderer is given the protection and I became fugutive. This is my bad time.' And something stroked his mind. 'Yes, this is bad time. Because once the FBI fails to solve the case, they will leave him and he will come back to the University. I must go in future!' He opened the time travel mode in the time machine and pressed the exact time with 3 years farther. 'My quest ends in the future.', he convinced himself and pressed the button.