[ WP ] Time speeds and slows like weather . A town is trying to evacuate before the biggest slow front on record .

Along the coast of British Columbia sits a secluded town called Youngsville. This town, named after the founder John Young, sits exactly 300 kilometres from one of the largest anomalies recorded. The Alaskan Tear. This is just one of many holes in time to pop up over the years due to an increase use of time travel. These holes occasionally emit waves of strange energies that slow, or in some cases speed up, local time. 
 
 This can become a problem as an extreme slow in the timestream can cause bodily functions to cease. Sure, while our hearts may beat slower during a minor time disruption, a full scale 6 time disruption can stop them completely. A scale 6 has only ever occurred twice in modern history. Once in Japan where the entire island nation was frozen for ten years. Once time returned to normal anyone who had been frozen collapsed. Many died from the sudden shock of returning to normal time. Those that did n't lost their minds to what is now called `` Timeturners disease''. Modern day Japan is a glorified asylum now as China and neighbouring countries had no way to deal with the swaths of time-damaged people. 
 
 Due to this, the town of Youngsville, BC, Canada has been issued official orders to evacuate. 
 
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 Youngsville, 2024 
 
 `` All citizens are ordered to evacuate.'' The news was saying. So were the police too, they were going door-to-door asking people to please evacuate the streets and move down the coast or out to Prince George. Anywhere was good, so long as they were out of the way when the wave came. Teachers at school always talked about it. 
 `` The big one was coming,'' they'd say, `` any day we could have a repeat of Japan only it'd be you.'' The school board tried to prepare them too, teaching them evacuation routes and how to remain safe after `` The Big Freeze''. There really was no way to prepare. Time waves were n't like an earthquake where you crawled under your desk, or a fire where you simply walked outside. Time was dangerous in the sense that one minute could be tapping your foot impatiently waiting for the final bell and the next your foot is frozen millimetres from the next beat and there you stay for god knows how long. Then, your foot slams down on the floor with the force of 50 years and your heart is hammering in your chest and you ca n't breathe and *Oh God the hunger*. 
 
 Adrian pushed those thoughts from his head and finished packing. He zipped up the suitcase and stood up pondering if he should take the picture of him and his father hanging over his bed. He was eight, his father in his mid 30's and already greying around the temples. They sat smiling on a beach somewhere. *Cuba? * Adrian thought, most likely not. His family was a family of travelers and they had been all over the world. Thirteen years ago they had been a week from boarding a flight to japan before, well, you know. 
 
 `` You ready bud?'' his father appeared in the doorway, his face with more wrinkles and his hair almost snow white. On his shoulder was a duffel bag, a few hockey sticks sticking out of it. 
 
 `` Yeah lets get out of here.'' Adrian said with a sigh rolling his bag behind his father. As they walked through the living room he could n't help but feel a churning in his stomach. Usually before a trip it always felt weird saying goodbye to a place you knew, even if you would only be back weeks later. But with the wave coming, Adrian felt worse at the unease, not knowing when or if he would return. His eyes absorbed every detail in the house and he, knowing full well that should he return everything would be the exact same, without dust or decay. 
 
 He closed the door behind him; the feeling dissipating. Time distortions were already present, bird chirps slowed down and sped up and walking down the front steps felt like walking through mud before he practically teleported to the car. His body felt stretched and his head hurt to think that yesterday these things might've felt normal to him..He opened the door and his mom, sitting in the front behind the wheel, said something before her lips moved. 
 
 `` The news is saying these are only the warning signs, things will get back to normal before getting worse.'' 
 
 `` Great,'' his dad said, closing the door behind him but the thump sounded seconds after. `` Can we please get out of here.'' The speeding up of his last few words were almost comical and Adrian would've laughed had it been any other day. The car sped down the road and eventually they reached the outskirts. Time disruptions became less common and less severe the more hours they put between them and Youngsville. You could see some people who had taken to walking. Families, pulling suitcases as they walked being passed by cars way too full. Some attempted to hitch-hike yelling at the cars and cussing them out when they would n't stop. 
 
 Youngsville went down in history as the worst Scale 6 event. Lasting over 55 years and ten months, there were over 246 survivors of a town that held 400. Those that had stayed were either unlucky, or in denial of the coming doom. Adrian, who was only 17 at the time of his evacuation, lived happily in Vancouver before returning to his house at the age of 62. Everything was exactly the way he'd remembered and it was almost surreal to walk his house halls and see the same paintings hung up and the windows open. It all seemed so normal. 
 
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 What remains to be seen is how do we, as humans contain the breaches? time travel has been banned in over 81 countries and more add to that every day. Will we ever find a way to contain it? Will the increases in anomalies start to go down eventually? Will there be another Scale 6 in our lifetime? 
 
 Questions for another time perhaps... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ( AUTHORS NOTE ) 
 I kinda half-assed the ending but I really enjoyed writing it and I apologize for any errors I might've missed some but oh well. Any feedback is appreciated thanks for reading! 

