Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Time Machine 7

The Guard requested Rohan politely but still he felt horrified. "What happened?", he asked cautiously. 'Should I run?', he negotiated this aspect but rejected it immmediately as the Guard was too close and there was no exits. "You entered the building without Icard." "Who told you?", Rohan asked him suspiciously. "That girl over there.", the guard pointed out towards the first floor. Rohan saw the same girl, Stephnie talking with some old person whose overall profile perfectly suited the typical librarian. Rohan followed the guard silently until they reached a room. It was written on the door, 'Detention Room' in bold letters. The guard stared at him for a long time and finally spoke, "Wait inside till the Librarian comes in." and he left. Rohan decided to teleport outside as soon as he enters the room. The moment he entered the room, he saw the flaw in the plan, there was a chinese boy sitting on the table with laptop in his hands. The boy smiled at him and Rohan reciprocated the smile, went and sat on the adjoining table. "So, what is your sin?, By the way I am Chang Lee." The boy extended his hand for handshake. "I entered the library without Id Card and you?", asked Rohan. "Nothing special, I just hacked the NASA website." Rohan thought that he heard something absurd and surprisedly said, "What?" "Yeah, sounds difficult but once you crack the authentication code its all cup of tea.", he smiled. Rohan did not believe it but still he showed the expression of acceptance. "You dont believe me, don't you?", Chang Lee asked him again. 'I don't care what website you crack, I have my own problems', Rohan thought to himself. "Let me show you one thing, do you know the alumni professor of our university someone named Thompson had started the space journey and I can show you the live streaming of his Space-shuttle position.", the moment Chang Lee spoke these words Rohan watched him aghast. 'What the heck?', he thought and jumped out of his chair and went near the laptop to see the miracle. "Are you joking?", Rohan asked unbelievably. "Dude, why else do you think they called millitary people to interrogate me?", spoke Chang Lee with pride in his eyes.
"What did he tell you?", asked the librarian to Stephnie. "He asked me to help him get inside the building as he forgot to bring his I card. I smelled something was wrong, the moment he told me about some foreign exchange program.", girl said thoughfully. "Sir, we have our visitors here.", the guard interrepted the conversation. The librarian went outside hurriedly. It was the first time he was attending some military personnel and that too General Wattson. He was the close ally of the late Prof. Ford. He went outside the library and greeted the General with a nervous smile. The General was a tall person with massive physique. He was about too say something when the guard came running and screaming towards them. "Its him sir, I remember, its him. He was there the next day when Prof. Ford was killed. I saw him disappear just in front of my eyes.", Guard said restlessly. "What?", the librarian was confused but the General Wattson listened to him carefully and gave some instruction to the tactical team along with him. They all spread into the building immediately. "Is he the same guy who broke into NASA network?", asked the General. "No sir, his name is Chang Lee and he is the student of Computer Department, I have both of them waiting in the Detention Room.", librarian spoke half expecting to be appreciated for his presence of mind. But General Wattson was thinking something else. He had been reported about this incidence of disappearance of a boy from the college 3 years ago, just the day after the tragic murder of Prof. Ford. Some of the intel. have told of finding the body same as that of Prof. Ford in some city in India but before he could investigate further into the matter, he was given the responsibility of the security of Prof. Thompson. Later he tried to track the intel. but it was missed. He always had a strange feeling that someday he will solve the whole murder mystery. After all these years of service in military, the one thing he learned was Never Give Up. "Let us get that son of a bitch", General Wattson took pistol out of his pocket and ran towards the library entrance.
"Are you sure, this really is the exact location of the satellite?", Rohan asked Chang. He felt astonished by the fact of watching such a classified information. "Yeah, the exact coordinates of satellite, longitude, lattitude and altitude." Rohan was stupefied to see how things were turning out for him. Right now he knew the exact location of the enemy. 'I should remember these coordinates, the moment I teleport outside, I will try to teleport to the location', he started planning everything in his mind when he heard the noise outside the room. He neglected it when he saw the coordinates changing its location after each few seconds. 'Oh crap, how can i teleport if I have no exact location after getting outside.', he felt like there were many Rohans standing in his head everybody making there own point and then One more Rohan came and asked, "hey idiot, first tell me how would you get out of here?", the moment he realized this, all the imagination went away like bubble popping away. He heard the door opening and military man pointing his gun at him, "Freeze, you are under arrest.", the chinese boy was so bewildered that he dropped the laptop on the table and put his arms on his head. Rohan knew that he must get out before the soldier catches him. He knew he had only one choice left. It was the do or die situation except for the fact that he may die anyway. Unless he had got in such situation, he would not have dared to take this decision. He saw the coordinates on the laptop and he felt the time machine in the pocket ready to enter the coordinates. Within a flash of second, he took out the time machine and started entering the coordinates. He heard the millitary soldier screaming to drop the machine, the moment he pressed the altitude coordinates he heard the sound of gun firing. He closed his eyes and pressed OK. Everything went black and suddenly, he felt the pain rising in his whole body. He felt like standing in the fire and each tissue of his body protested the pain until it reached his head and then he realized the explosion in his head, the only thing he knew now was that this was the death.

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