[ WP ] Your small town is suddenly overwhelmed by refugees arriving from the future .

It happened - perhaps this is cliche to say - but all at once. Literally. The war of the future and the invention of time travel occurred, it seemed, at exactly the same moment. Of course, time should be linear so the discovery *did* precede the war, but within minutes of the invention, the refugees started flooding in. 
 
 The first few stragglers were blood-stained and breathless, barely able to speak. They crawled through the rip in time and fell at our feet like we were gods. Of course, in a way, we were. We'd opened the way for them to escape. 
 
 Over the course of an hour, our tiny town transformed from 3,000 to almost 1 million. They kept pouring in - they had to arrive here, at this nexus point in time and space. They could arrive no earlier for time travel had not been invented, and they had to arrive here because ours was the first ( and only ) time portal in man's existence. We learned this from our travelers in time, who confirmed that almost as soon as it began, time travel was outlawed. Nobody knew the consequences it could have on the fabric of the universe, much less individual lives. 
 
 The war began a decade ago for the refugees, but to us it was still 200 years into the future. Our visitors showed many signs of the changed times - they wore shimmering glass monocles over one eye to sent information straight to their brains; they barely had to consciously acknowledge this information pouring in. Their minds had adapted to compartmentalize and save what was useful while discarding that which was n't. They also wore skin-tight fabric that literally adhered to their bodies, providing the perfect temperature and alerting them of any unhealthy changes. Each of these refugees was very trim. They later informed us it was illegal to consume in excess as food had become scarce and wasting was punishable by death. 
 
 They told us their diet consisted entirely of genetically-modified corn formed in many ways to resemble the food we eat now. Corn, they said, was the only thing still able to grow once all the honey bees died out and pollination became the stuff of legend. 
 
 So they dragged their science fiction, corn-fed bodies through our time portal and warned us that it was all down hill from here. That we needed to change our lifestyles or the lives of our great, great, great, great grandchildren would be left to ruins. 
 
 But we sat back and decided that we were comfortable. We saw the future and decided it did n't apply directly to us. We knew when doomsday would hit and we would be long gone by then. Our evolutionary need to protect our future spawn was no longer ingrained in us but in its place was a desire to satisfy the self. The bees would die no matter what? Why try and stop it? Corn would be all we could eat in the future? Well, there's nothing so bad with corn, and Look! These future residents seemed healthy enough! 
 
 So we allowed them to stay but we ignored their pleas, leaving them to question was the future even truly worth saving?
