Far Future and Far Past: Time Travel

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Today was September 15th, 2100. This was the far future. Everything was bright and awesome. 

My name is Xeponoe. I am currently 15 years old. I have short and extremely black hair. Additionally, I have Purple-Blue streaks. But, I have very purplish-blue eyes. Really bright eyes. I am wearing hot red-orange lip gloss, and also wearing turquoise-light bluish clothes.

This is the far future. In the far future, people fly, travel in space, and do lots of technological abilities. We also have robots and electric helpers just in case there is a problem.

For me. I live a peaceful life. A very peaceful life. People in the far future are very advanced people. 

I am coming back home from school, by flying home. I have a lot of homework to do, anyway. So that is why I am flying as fast as I can.

As I got home, I flew to my room. By the way, I have 3 brothers and 1 sister. My house is pretty large. 

Finally, I got to my room. My room is really big and the walls are white with purple, light blue, and dark blue streaks.

As I settled my things down. I decided to turn on the T.V, to calm down my nerves for any important updates.

I was watching a science fiction movie called Watt Amp Volt Ohm. It’s about these four electric superheroes that go to stop any bacteria or viruses from entering their systems. They control and deal with electricity very well. The viruses are the ones that weaken them.

About 15 minutes into the movie, my parents and siblings came back from school.

“Hello, Xepon!” said my Mom from downstairs.

I immediately came downstairs.

“Hi, Mom,” I said. “How are you?”

“Fine, dear,” she said. “Would you help me carry my things?”

“Yes, Mom,” I said.

I helped her carry her stuff and place them on the table.

“Thank you, dear,” she said.”She flew to her room and closed the door.

My Mom also had the same dark hair like me, but she had light blue-green eyes.

As I set her things on the table, I noticed that her phone was 0%.

I flew to the charger and charged it for her. After 5 seconds, it was 1000%.

In the far future, electricity was big and massive. That is why my Mom’s phone was 1000%.

As Mom came downstairs with a new outfit, she kindly told me that the others were coming soon.

“Today, we are eating Lasagna and Spicy Spaghetti for dinner,” she said. “It would taste so good.”

“Okay, Mom,” I said. Then I helped her with her things for dinner.

After a long time, my siblings and Dad came for dinner.

“Hello, guys,” I said.

“Hello, X,” they said.

As I welcomed the rest of my family home, I made sure that the dinner that Mom and I were

As mentioned, I had 4 siblings. 3 were Sagittarius, Cigar, Messier, and Electro. My sister was named Abell.

My Mom’s name was Vigorio. My Dad’s name was Zernovius.

In the far future, we have very weird names. I mean, really weird.

“As we got ready for dinner, Dad said that we are going to the space laboratory.

“Really?” I asked.

“Yup. He said that we will take a tour around space and then there will be a big dinner party.”

“Yes,” I said. “I can’t wait.”

“Yup, same,” said Abell. “Who is our professor, Dad?” 

“Our professor is Dr. Rambonsol. He will show us space and we will be able to fly in rockets.”

“Super cool,” said Sagittarius.

“I hope we can take lots of pictures,” said Mom.

“Yup.”

“Will we travel to another galaxy?” asked Messier.

“Uh, I am not sure, but I think no because we might get lost,” assured Dad.

“Will we be able to fly in space individually?” asked Cigar.

“No. Together.”

“Will we be able to trigger space-time?” asked Electro.

“Nope.”

After a long time of eating, mom finally spoke.

“You know, I hope that everything is okay for tomorrow,” she said.

As we talked about our event tomorrow, we peacefully went to sleep.

The next morning, we woke up to a bright morning.

“Come down, time to go,” said Dad.

“Coming!” we yelled.

“We are eating pancakes, french toast, and waffles for breakfast. Something delicious before we go.” 

“Okay.”

I entered the bathroom first, showered with warm water, wore my electric clothes, then flew downstairs.

As I came downstairs, I said, “Fork, Spoon, and Plate.”

The kitchen robot came to me and gave me what I needed.

In the far future, we have robots to help and support us.

As everyone came downstairs for breakfast, Cigar said, “Mom this breakfast is delicious.”

“Thank you,” she said.

We ate Mom’s super delicious breakfast and as the robots cleaned for us, it was time to leave.

We said bye to our robots and they said bye back.

As we traveled in our flying car, we saw that lots of people were taking lots of pictures.

Since the far future is advanced we like to take pictures because of the beauty of our advanced technological society. We have colors like blue, light blue, white, and lots of shades of blues. It was peaceful and futuristic.

As we flew to the space laboratory, Dad read the travel guide.

“Okay, so first we fly to the main entrance, then the exploration place and then finally the rocket ship.”

“Okay,” we said.

We followed Dad to the space laboratory and we saw that a lot of people were taking pictures.

“Wonder why,” asked Mom.

“Because the space museum is amazing,” said Dad.

As we entered the building, we saw that people were already flying to the main entrance.

“Come on, let us go,” said Dad.

We also flew to the main entrance, and as we entered, we saw the Professor.

“Hello guys,” he said. “How can I help you?”

“We want you to take us on a tour of the space museum,” Dad said. “you know, for future reference.”

“Okay.”

The professor took us to the exploration room and began explaining to us and lots of other people on the tour about space.

“The universe began with a Big Bang,” he said. “The Theory of the Big Bang was that all the current and past matter in the Universe came into existence at the same time. This happened 13.8 billion years ago.”

“Cool!” I said. I bought a notebook, just in case I wanted to write and take notes.

The exploration tour was really long. The professor said that we might even have to take breaks.

During the exploration tour, he explained about the Sun, the planets, galaxies, and more about space. He even said that space is a natural wonder.

After a very long time on the tour, he said that we will fly on the rocket soon. Like around 15 minutes.

Dad was concerned about us since we felt pretty sleepy.

“Do you want to get something?” asked Dad. “Like a drink or snack?”

“Yes. We want some coke and some burgers,” said Mom. “Right kids?”

“Right.”

“Okay, then, I will get you something to eat and drink,” said Dad.

After 10 minutes, Dad got us some orange coke and burgers.

“Thanks, Dad,” I said. “So when will the rocket fly?”

“It would fly in a few minutes,” said Dad.

And after a few minutes, the rocket was ready to fly.

People had already boarded the rocky and were about to take off.

The countdown started.

“10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1!” yelled the announcer.

We immediately flew off into space.

It was so much fun that we would be able to fly in space.

Then the professor explained how stairs are made and how they are developed and changed in a certain amount of time.

In space, we saw the sun, moon, and everything planetary in space. It was a natural wonder. Very amazing, very bright, and very emotional.

Space is an amazing thing,” said the Professor. “It can bring us to a certain thing in our lives such as how we are part of the universe, how we are made of Stardust, and how we develop as the universe changes over time.

Everyone took lots of pictures. I mean, a lot of pictures. Mainly, astronauts go to space but in the far future anyone can go to space.

After 15 minutes, that is when our box-in-meals came. We had burgers, chicken with spicy sauce, and french fries. It was amazingly delicious.

Then the Professor announced that after 4 hours we will go back to Earth.

“Dad, check out the asteroids!” yelled Cigar.

“Cool!” said Dad.

“Look there is a Black Hole,” said Sagittarius.

“And the milky way galaxy loop,” said Abell.

“I can probably hope to see the next galaxy,” said Messier. 

My siblings were deeply fascinated by space, even mom used space as a background.

This was so cool. I had never been to space before.

“Mom, space is worth seeing!” I said.

“I can’t believe I got up here,” she said. “Look at people taking pictures, snapshots, and everything. Space is really a wonder.”

“Yup.”

After what seemed like forever, we needed to come back down.

We immediately planted our way down to Earth, and everyone in the laboratory congratulated us for traveling in space.

Then, during our trip to space, people started to sell us things. They sold light socks, electronics, and more. It was fascinating.

Then the Professor announced that we will be getting dinner in a flash.

In a flash, there was already dinner prepared for the people in the laboratory.

We were super hungry just as they served such amazingly delicious food.

After 3 hours of dinner, it was time to leave. We put our plates on the table and said goodbye to the Professor. The time was 10:30pm.

Suddenly, a window flashed in my direction.

“Huh?” I asked. I'm over it.

“Xepone, where are you going ?” asked Dad.

But it was too late. The window was so bright that I lost consciousness.

After a few minutes, I woke up

“Where am I?” I said.

“Hello. Who are you?” someone asked.

That is when I really woke up.

“Huh?” I asked.

“Who are you?”

That was when I looked around me. I was not in the far future. I was in the far past.

I took shuddering and shocking breaths.

“You look very different,” said the voice.

I turned to him.

He was a tall boy with light brown hair and turquoise eyes.

“Yeah,” I said. “What year is this?”

“1950,” he said.

I froze. Literally froze.

“1950? I think I am in the past,” I said.

“Yeah-”.He paused. “Wait, are you from the future?”

I nodded.

“Oh My God. That is so cool. So you time traveled?”

“I think I did,” I said.

“Okay. What year are you from?”

“2100.”

“That is even cooler. I can’t believe I met you. You are 150 years back in time. So amazingly awesome.”

“Okay. Who are you?”

“That was the same question I asked you. Well anyway, my name is Tom. What is yours?”

“Well my name is kind of strange here, but it’s Xeponoe.”

“Xeponoe?” he asked. “That is a really weird name. But I like it.”

“Yeah, Tom, sounds kind of, you know, super old. We won't use normal names in the far future.”

“Okay,” he said. “So how do you go forward in time? To your year?”

“I have no idea. I just approached this window and it brought me here.”

“Okay,” he said.

“So now, I am extremely scared, and I don’t know what to do,” I said.

“It is alright, I can take you to my house,” said Tom.

“Really?”

“Yup.”

As we walked to Tom’s house, I asked him, “So how old are you?”

“17,” he said. “You?”

“15.”

“Cool.”

We headed to his house and as we entered, we saw his family.

They immediately looked at me.

“Tom, who is this girl?” asked his Mom.

“This is, uh what is your name again?” he asked me.

“Xeponoe,” I said.

“Mom, this is Xenopoe,” Tom said.

“Xeponoe? What kind of name is that?” she asked.

“Mom, this girl is not from here. She is from the far future. She is from the year 2100. She accidentally got absorbed from a window and got here.”

“Really?” she asked.

“Yup.”

“Oh. 2100?” asked his sister. “That is extremely super duper far away from this time,” said his sister.

“Yup. She time traveled,” said Tom.

“Hi, Ma’am,” I said.

“Hi, dear,” she said. “Look, I know you time traveled but by tomorrow or a few days, we will make sure you get back.”

“How?” I asked. “This is the past. There are no futuristic things in the past.”

“I am not sure,” said his Mom. “But we could check your devices to make sure you get there."

I looked at his Mom. This woman sounds like she is from the future.

“So, if you need anything we can always help,” she said.

“Okay. Thank you, Ma'am.”

Then Tom introduced me to the rest of his family. “This is Matthew, Berno, Penny, Sam, and Liam.”

Wow! Really old names.

Suddenly, Tom’s Dad came downstairs. As he did, the first thing he looked at was me.

“Tom. Didn’t know you had a-”

“Dad, no,” said Tom. “This girl is not from here. She is from the far future. She is from the year 2100. Her name is Xeponoe.”

“Xeponoe?” asked his Dad. “Wait, you time traveled?”

“I think I did,” I said.

“This is extremely way back in time,” he said. “You should go back to the original time zone you were in.”

“Yes, but I am not sure how,” I said.

Then his siblings came to me. 

“You are from the far future?” asked his brother, Matthew. “That is extremely super duper cool.”

“I can’t believe I met someone like you,” said Penny.

“Can I try your technological devices? Please?” asked Liam.

“Can I go to your time?” asked Berno.

“Can you stay here forever?” asked Sam.

“Woah! Guys give her some space, okay?” said Tom.

He told his siblings to help me with things to go forward in time.

“May I stay here?” I asked.

“Of course, dear,” said his Mom.

“Totally,” said his Dad.

Tom and I looked at each other. 

This was going to be great.

“Oh, and by the way, I forgot to tell you that I can fly,” I said.

Tom looked at me again, shocked.

“You never told me,” he said.

“Yes, I can,” I said.

Then I flew across the house while his whole family came to watch me.

His siblings were wailing in happiness.

“Kids, calm down,” said their Dad.

Tom and his family came to me complimenting me on my flying skills.

“Do you know the Wright Brothers?” asked Tom.

“Yes,” I said.

“They used to fly, like all the time,” said Tom. “Always dreaming of flying their first plane”

“Yup. I know everything about them,” I said. “My parents told me when I was little.”

“Okay.”

As I stayed with Tom’s family for a few days, he Welcomed me to his friends in school, and I allowed him and his siblings to try on my rocket boots, including his parents. I told his family everything about the far future and what it was like. They were surprised and thrilled. In the far future, shoe size can automatically grow. Then, I took photos and selfies with them and printed them out on my phone so that they could remember me. Then Maddie, one of the most popular girls in Tom’s school, invited me to her party. It was awesome. Everyone in her party thought that I rocked.

Tom’s Dad was trying to deal with my electronics and Tom’s Mom was making me a dress and other girly things that they made in the past. 

“I hope you like it,” she said. Then, she smiled. She had an amazing smile. Just like my Mom.

“I love it, thanks,” I said and hugged her.

Tom’s siblings were thrilled for me to be with them. They liked the fact that I was in the far future.

After at least 5 days, it was time for me to go. Tom’s Dad was a technological master.

“So you are leaving?” asked Tom. I nodded. My eyes filled with tears. I was going to miss Tom and his family.

Tom took a deep breath and shuddered. He then came to me to give me a hug.

“Thanks, Tom,” I said. “ I will miss you.”

“Same.”

Then I gave his family a hug including Maddie, who decided to come to his house.

“You will always be my best friend,” she said.

“Yes,” I said.

I asked for both their phone numbers and they immediately gave them to me.

After all the goodbyes and hugs, I slowly entered the portal to go forward in time.

“Bye, Xeponoe, I will never forget you,” said Tom. His family and Maddie also agreed.

“Me too,” I said. “Bye!”

“Bye!”

Then the light flashed and I was back again in 2100. In my house

“Xeponoe, where were you?” asked my family.

I told them everything. Every single thing. They were extremely shocked.

“You went back in time?” asked Mom. Her eyes were filled with worry. “Oh my, I was so scared.”

“It’s okay, Mom,” I am back now.

“I wish I went with you,” said Electro. “So unfair.”

“Well, at least I took pictures,” I said. I showed them the pictures and they were shocked.

“Tom and his family are really caring,” I said.

“Tom? That is a very old name,” said my Dad.

“Yes. It is.”

As we got ready for the day, I explained the past to my family.

Then I thought to myself, Hopefully my family could meet Tom’s family one day.


June 07, 2021 06:54

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