Chapter 1

It is said the universe holds unlimited parallel universes. I am but a poor victim of a time paradox formed that warped me into another universe than my own. I lived in what your world is now. Everything went as planned... World War II came and gone and in the late 1960’s the Cold War started. This is where it all started. Some how I know now that World War II did happen but it was started by Russia because somehow Hitler was erased from the time line and it was called the Great War. Somewhere in this time line about the same time the Cold War started in my original time line a second Great War started with Russia attacking America.

I woke up on my couch and got ready like always to get ready for work. I was on my way to work when on the Radio I heard gunfire and men screaming. I thought maybe it was just reports from some uprisings in the Middle East. Then what scared me was when I heard a voice say “Hold the line don’t let those Russians through” then static. I thought maybe a war with the Russians had started I didn’t know about. Then all of a sudden I saw this guy in a weirdo suit and weird gun appear in front of me. I slammed on my brakes right before I hit him. He looked transparent then became solid. He fired at my car with his weird gun and it started to glow blue. All of a sudden all I knew next was that I had a machine gun in my hand and I was wearing a Soldiers Uniform.

Frank... I heard someone screaming. I was like what you talking to me and he was like “Yea no duh”. Don’t make me tell you again get up to those front lines. He then screamed at all the troops I saw and even me and starting yelling “Hold the line don’t let those Russians through”. I had no clue what just happened am I dreaming was I in a car wreck.

But none of this seemed right it had to be a bad dream. Harriers flew overhead and fired missiles at tanks that were approaching us. I heard machine guns blazing and between it all I heard someone yell, “All men retreat back to the choppers”.

I followed all the men and managed to get into one of the choppers. I then asked one of the men, “Where in the hell am I”. He responded by saying, “Did a stray bullet or something hit you in your head”. He then yelled for his sergeant the same guy that was yelling the orders. He then came over and sat down by me and said, “What's wrong Frank”. Well first for starters you can tell me what the hell is going on. Second how you know my name. Third why am I wearing this uniform and have this gun. Well I know your name because we are friends, and a war with the Russians is going on and your wearing that uniform and have that machine gun because you are part of the US military.

That is not possible I work for an insurance company and there is no war with the Russians all we are going through is a cold war. Well your mistaken Frank because you are one of the best soldiers we have and there was never no cold war. Russia attacked us with out warning and caught us off guard. No all I remember is that I was driving to work when this guy in a weirdo metallic suit appeared in front of me then fired a strange gun at me then all of a sudden I am here. Well I have no clue what you are talking about I think its time you went and saw General Carville.

I just sat there in silence wandering if I was going to wake up from this nightmare. As the chopper landed I was grabbed by two soldiers and carried inside what looked like the pentagon. “So boy you have no clue where you are and you claim you saw what was one of our prototype units?” General Carville asked. “Well I guess so sir if that was what that thing was” I replied. “Well tell me everything that has happened to you today boy“. I went over everything from the top then on his Monitor in his room he pulled up a guy that looked like Einstein a little. Well Einstein what is you think happened to this boy. Ah well from his story I take it the prototype chrono suit sent the soldier wearing it to another dimension and instead of erasing what he targeted it warped the target into the place of his parallel self in this universe. “Well I guess that explains what happened to you boy,” Carville said with amazement.

“So your saying I am in a different universe than my own?” I asked. Einstein then said, “Well that is what happened and there is no reversing it because the guy in this timeline is erased so you have just disappeared from your time line. So will people think I died in my time line? Well possible or they will never even know you even existed. “I am also amazed you did not take over that mans memory,” Einstein remarked. “So what does that mean,” I asked. Well it means that our chrono technology still has some problems to work out and you will probably be the only one this happens to.

So there it was a beginning of a new day in a new world where I would haft to fight for my life...

To be continued...

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