Time Chairs
13 February 2009 11:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skonen_bladesDr. Ian Montrose of the Illinois delegation was the first to discover time travel. Originally, he had wanted to be a plastic surgeon. Physics, quantum physics, and the theories of time travel came more naturally to him, however, so that was the path he pursued.
He found that while he couldn’t actually send people back in time, he could vibrate their atoms in such a way that the years would fall away in a causality transaction that he claimed he didn’t entirely understand.
His machine made people younger.
When an older person was put into the chair, he or she could desire the amount of years that needed to be removed. With a quick flourish of the wrist, a lever was thrown, sparks flew, and instantly, the patient sat up quickly, gasping with fresh lungs and wide eyes that no longer needed glasses.
It was quick, expensive, and best of all, a person could come back in 80 years and do it again. Repeat business. To say that Dr. Montrose made money would be an understatement. He changed society.
For someone so smart, he was pretty stupid. The scandals that happened afterwards were attributed to his ignorance but it’s hard to believe that someone so intelligent had no idea about the horrific side effects that were happening in one specific alternate universe.
Those years weren’t just disappearing from the patients. They were being ‘swapped’. Alternate versions of themselves in the universe that became known as Earth02 suddenly found themselves aged 60 or 70 years instantly.
While eating breakfast in the morning, spoon halfway to their lips, liver spots would bloom on the backs of their hands, frailty would rush through them with a shuddering wave, and they’d gasp as the room became blurry. Young women on busses would scream as their hair suddenly whitened, as their legs withered, as their bones became brittle and their skin wrinkled.
In the middle of a fishing trip, a youth became forty years older than his own father right there in the rowboat while they both screamed. In footage that chilled people around the world of Earth 02, a seventeen year old fashion model in Milan fell on the catwalk, crumpling down, teeth falling out of her mouth, bones jutting out beneath dry skin, before osteoporosis broke her hip, her legs, her shoulder, and three ribs on the catwalk.
It was like time lapse film. You have to imagine the terror. It seemed to have no rhyme or reason to it. It seemed to be completely random. Earth02 had no idea why or how it was happening. It mostly seemed to happen to the young, affecting those between the ages of 18 to 24 most of all, making it all the more tragic.
The scientists on Earth02 worked hard, finding a trail of superstring atoms back to our Earth. Ironically, it was Dr. Ian Montrose of Earth02 that was the key to finding us. He worked hard and eventually found a way to cross over entirely from one dimension to another. That footage of the two doctors meeting for the first time is legendary. Our Montrose, blue-eyed with slightly darker hair facing down the Montrose of Earth02, blonde hair cut short above dark green eyes.
Once it all became clear, our Montrose was tried for crimes against humanity. He was found innocent but it was the trial of the century. The technology of the two planets was exchanged. The victims of Earth 02 stole their years back. The younger people that had been part of the Montrose treatments on Earth01 were hunted down in a bloody chapter of history. To stop the raids, the two planets agreed to pay out money to the victims of Earth 02.
For a while, the technology was seized and banned. Life returned to a tense form of normalcy. Research, however, continued. It was the possible fountain of youth. That kind of lure couldn’t be resisted.
Then we found the problem. Montrose had dialed the frequency of his time-stealer to that one specific dimension. There were theoretically an infinite number to choose from.
Dollar signs and evil thoughts filled minds.
If the time-stealer was dialed to a random universe each time, we’d theoretically only steal life from one person in one alternate universe. That didn’t seem like such a big deal. Plus, it would most likely go unnoticed. It would be a strange report in that Earth’s equivalent of the Weekly World News and that would be it. If they noticed at all, it would be a scientific footnote at best. As long as there was only one, they’d never track it back to us.
Game on. The technology was ‘fixed’ and brought back online. For those that can afford it, people of both EarthPrime and Earth02 are now in the peak of health eternally. De-aging treatments are expensive, millions of dollars for each year removed. Black market time chairs are set up in South American alleys from time to time, reverting hundreds before police trace the power spike and shut them down. We’re partying.
The time chairs exist, stealing lives from other universes.
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He found that while he couldn’t actually send people back in time, he could vibrate their atoms in such a way that the years would fall away in a causality transaction that he claimed he didn’t entirely understand.
His machine made people younger.
When an older person was put into the chair, he or she could desire the amount of years that needed to be removed. With a quick flourish of the wrist, a lever was thrown, sparks flew, and instantly, the patient sat up quickly, gasping with fresh lungs and wide eyes that no longer needed glasses.
It was quick, expensive, and best of all, a person could come back in 80 years and do it again. Repeat business. To say that Dr. Montrose made money would be an understatement. He changed society.
For someone so smart, he was pretty stupid. The scandals that happened afterwards were attributed to his ignorance but it’s hard to believe that someone so intelligent had no idea about the horrific side effects that were happening in one specific alternate universe.
Those years weren’t just disappearing from the patients. They were being ‘swapped’. Alternate versions of themselves in the universe that became known as Earth02 suddenly found themselves aged 60 or 70 years instantly.
While eating breakfast in the morning, spoon halfway to their lips, liver spots would bloom on the backs of their hands, frailty would rush through them with a shuddering wave, and they’d gasp as the room became blurry. Young women on busses would scream as their hair suddenly whitened, as their legs withered, as their bones became brittle and their skin wrinkled.
In the middle of a fishing trip, a youth became forty years older than his own father right there in the rowboat while they both screamed. In footage that chilled people around the world of Earth 02, a seventeen year old fashion model in Milan fell on the catwalk, crumpling down, teeth falling out of her mouth, bones jutting out beneath dry skin, before osteoporosis broke her hip, her legs, her shoulder, and three ribs on the catwalk.
It was like time lapse film. You have to imagine the terror. It seemed to have no rhyme or reason to it. It seemed to be completely random. Earth02 had no idea why or how it was happening. It mostly seemed to happen to the young, affecting those between the ages of 18 to 24 most of all, making it all the more tragic.
The scientists on Earth02 worked hard, finding a trail of superstring atoms back to our Earth. Ironically, it was Dr. Ian Montrose of Earth02 that was the key to finding us. He worked hard and eventually found a way to cross over entirely from one dimension to another. That footage of the two doctors meeting for the first time is legendary. Our Montrose, blue-eyed with slightly darker hair facing down the Montrose of Earth02, blonde hair cut short above dark green eyes.
Once it all became clear, our Montrose was tried for crimes against humanity. He was found innocent but it was the trial of the century. The technology of the two planets was exchanged. The victims of Earth 02 stole their years back. The younger people that had been part of the Montrose treatments on Earth01 were hunted down in a bloody chapter of history. To stop the raids, the two planets agreed to pay out money to the victims of Earth 02.
For a while, the technology was seized and banned. Life returned to a tense form of normalcy. Research, however, continued. It was the possible fountain of youth. That kind of lure couldn’t be resisted.
Then we found the problem. Montrose had dialed the frequency of his time-stealer to that one specific dimension. There were theoretically an infinite number to choose from.
Dollar signs and evil thoughts filled minds.
If the time-stealer was dialed to a random universe each time, we’d theoretically only steal life from one person in one alternate universe. That didn’t seem like such a big deal. Plus, it would most likely go unnoticed. It would be a strange report in that Earth’s equivalent of the Weekly World News and that would be it. If they noticed at all, it would be a scientific footnote at best. As long as there was only one, they’d never track it back to us.
Game on. The technology was ‘fixed’ and brought back online. For those that can afford it, people of both EarthPrime and Earth02 are now in the peak of health eternally. De-aging treatments are expensive, millions of dollars for each year removed. Black market time chairs are set up in South American alleys from time to time, reverting hundreds before police trace the power spike and shut them down. We’re partying.
The time chairs exist, stealing lives from other universes.
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