The Time Traveler: Chapter 2
The Time Traveler
Chapter 2
Testing the Machine
Billy had his favorite dinner. It consisted of pizza and garlic bread. Billy couldn’t think of anything better than that.
Billy washed his plate and his drinking glass and went back to the basement to test his machine. However, he told his dad that he was just putting some finishing touches on it.
While his dad was upstairs watching the Monday night football game Billy was preparing for the trip of a life time. Billy had already though of newspaper headlines that it would make in America.
Boy Travels through Time
Have scientists baffled
Billy new it was a long shot. He opened the door and stepped inside the machine. He closed when he was seated. He put his seatbelt on then turned the controls on. He set the time for April 19, 1775 7 AM. Billy was fascinated with and always wanted to see the first shots that started the War for Independence. He made sure copied his exact time of leaving his house. It was September 20, 2005 5 PM in the evening.
He pressed the start button. Nothing happened. Billy was sorely disappointed. He had spent all this time on the project and nothing happened. If scientists can’t figure out how to travel through time how would a little 15 year old boy be able to do it? He unbuckled his seatbelt and was read to open the door when a rumble began to start. Billy quickly sat back down and put his seatbelt on. The viewing windows on the door revealed light coming from the machine. The machine began shaking even more violently until a flash of light appeared and Billy was floating through blackness.
He looked out the viewing glass only to see blackness. “I’m in another dimension,” Billy thought to himself. There was a flash of light then he was in a forest.
Billy carefully opened the door and peered around about his surroundings.
He jumped back in the machine quickly. He felt his body to see if he was shot. He was still fine. He looked out his viewing glass and noticed British troops and about 70 minutemen. The British must’ve stumbled upon the village that the minutemen were currently housing in. “This must be Lexington,” Billy thought to himself.
“Disperse, ye villains,” cried a British commander. The commander wanted the 70 men to give up there weapons.
Then Captain John Parker yelled out amongst the men, “Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon; but if they mean to have war, let it begin here!”
Billy was on the edge of the woods in behind the village. “That’s the good old American spirit,” thought Billy.
Billy moved out from the trees then behind a cottage and peeked around the edge.
BANG!
Billy didn’t have the opportunity to see who fired the first shot but it was supposedly a shot heard ‘round the world.
After the first shot many other shots were fired. After the fight was over Billy peeked his head out once more. There were eight minutemen that were killed and 10 wounded. The British left a few minutes and moved on.
He decided it was safe to move out from behind the small house. Billy observed small blood stains that had splattered on the walls. He then saw the body’s from the small battles. The eight men gave there life for this village. Someone spoke to Billy.
“Aren’t you going to help clean up the body’s?” said a young girl that was the same age as Billy. She had an old country dress on. “Well say something. You look like you have seen a ghost.”
“It’s just that I have never seen a dead body’s before in my life. Where I’m from the killing isn’t as rampant as it is here,” said Billy looking at the bodies.
“Is that so,” said the girl viewing Billy’s clothes. “Where are you from? Your clothes aren’t from around here.”
Billy paused for a few minutes. “I’m from a far away land.”
“Well it doesn’t matter. Help me move these bodies to a proper burial ground,” said the girl.
“What is your name?” said Billy walking with her.
“You may call me Lara Hitchenson. Lara will be just fine though.
Lara had long blonde hair and blue eyes. Billy guessed that she was the same age as he was. Lara had a very slender body.
“She must be a very strong person to go through all this. I don’t know if I can do this,” thought Billy walking along side of Lara.
“We’re both going to pull these bodies to the edge of the forest where they’ll be buried by Harris O’ Connor.”
Billy looked at the men that were slain. He felt a really bad swirling sensation in his body. He threw up his dinner then fell to the ground.
