APOCALYPTIC TRIP
My name is Dr Smith. On August 8th , 2010, Mr. Jordan, captain Robinson and I, received a letter inviting us to an adventure. The letter said that we were going to go on the most important mission in human history: traveling in time. I cannot remember what time it was, but what I can remember was the desire we had to make that trip. I will never forget that day when we condemned our lives.
The ship was great. It had four levels: the Superior one was the control room, an intermediate one where the provisions of food and drinks, and a bottom floor in which we lived, and the engine room where there was an atomic machine. When we boarded the ship, the President sent us a message wishing us the best of luck. Then we set off. The mission was to visit two dates 1492 (the discovery of America) and the year 00 (the beginning of the universe) then we would have to be back, or at least that was the plan.
We traveled to the year 1942 and saw the discovery of America, how Columbus landed and lived with the natives before setting sail for Spain. Then we travelled to the year 00 and we saw the Big Bang explosion that gave birth to our universe. Something in that blast damaged the atomic machine; first the ship turned off and then it went crazy and made meaningless trips. We could see the death of President Kennedy, when Poland was invaded in 1939, in the beginning of World War II, then we appeared in the middle of World War I. Finally, the machine landed in a destroyed planet that was in flames and at that moment I realized that it was Earth.

The ship began to fall off and what I remember is that something hit my head. When I woke up I had blood in my hands, I saw that the captain was in good conditions but felt a little dizzy. Jordan was dead; a stick from the control panel had pierced him. My left arm was wounded by a piece of glass. When the captain recovered he evaluated the cut on my arm and decided that the infection couldn’t spread, so he would have to amputate my arm.
After the captain cut my arm I had to rest and he went to explore the planet. It took him two days. When he returned, he sat down to tell me what he could see, a place full of ruins and corpses. The world was completely destroyed. There was no trace of life.
One of the most important things was the lack of food. One night, desperate to get something to eat, we had to resort to cannibalism. We ate the body of Jordan. That was something I will never forgive myself for doing.
One day I woke up and found the captain in tears, he told me that he couldn’t be able to continue living this way in such a desolate world, and then he took his pistol and shot himself. Five days after that, I took the gun for safety, and buried the captain. Then I decided to return to the ship to investigate what had happened to the machine.
A year later, while I was studying the spray machine I discovered what had caused this disaster. The problem was that during the Big Bang, stellar dust released by the explosion went into the machine and burned some wires.
I discovered that the machine had some energy left and I could send a message to prevent this catastrophe. The time indicator marked this year as 2012, so if my calculations are correct this would get to Earth on August 7, 2010 and the person receiving the message will send it to the media to tell my story so I would not start the mission. My name is Zachary Smith asking for help to save me and the world.


Pen name:Saint John
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