[ WP ] You are the first person to travel into the future via time machine . When you arrive , you gradually notice that your surroundings keep changing , seemingly at random . You eventually realize that you are LITERALLY in the future , and events in the present are still shaping the world .

I did not complete my story as it i late for me, and the story began to exceed my desired length. If you like my story, I will continue it with a part 2... Also, the editing/grammar/punctuation on this is likely horrid, as I'm tired and not that great of a writer to begin with. enjoy! 
 
 “ Hmpff, gyuh, heeeeeeeeve! ” Jake found himself stretching and reaching for rock after rock as he slowly brought himself up the cliffside that had almost sent him to his death. “ And to think, if I ’ d of just left that damned machine alone. But noooooo, I wanted to be adventurous, to risk the unknown for the potential reward. ” He found himself a very small plateau where he was able to sit and fill his oxygen deprived lungs. As he rested, he began to recall the last 12 hours… 
 
 ( 12 hours prior ) 
 “ Alright Jake, I think we ’ ve finished it. You ’ ll be the first person to travel through time… to the future, that is. ” Maxis was drooling at the sight of his very own creation. A hacked version of the “ Time Stepper ”, a time travelling machine that was used by “ The Elites ” to experience history first hand, rather than by reading books. 
 
 Maxis and Jake, who were good friends, never really felt that the law pertained to them. Maxis, the mastermind had jumbled together a plan to steal one of the only 34 Time Steppers and modify it to be used for future travel, rather than historic travel. This was considered an extremely dangerous and theoretically impossible feat, but Maxis knew otherwise. He had read the chalkboard hundreds of times. The complex math equations told him time after time that it was in fact, possible. The only problem however, was that Maxis had neither the strength or guts to pull off the heist. You guessed it, this was where Jake was involved. A man who let his actions do the thinking rather than his brains, followed through Maxis ’ tedious and intricate plan to steal the machine. I ’ ll spare the details of the heist, but it involved one “ rented ” helicopter, a large handful of explosives, and a determined, stealthy Jake. 
 
 “ Soooooo, you ’ re sure this will work? ” Jake was uselessly inspecting the modified machine. “ It doesnt look any different… ” 
 
 “ Of Course! Have i ever built anything that didnt work? ” Maxis was slightly hurt by Jake ’ s doubtfulness. 
 
 “ Well, you know… It just that this is a little more high risk than anything i ’ ve done before. ” Realizing what had just been said, Jake shook his head in disbelief that he had actually second guessed himself. “ Who am I kidding, ” Jake grew a smile, “ This ’ ll be fine. ” 
 
 ( Current Time ) 
 “ This ’ ll be fine… ” The words seemed so distant and innocent, though they had been said less than 12 hours ago, it seemed like the time spent in between had been much longer. A week, maybe a month even. 
 
 Jake looked up, the bridge he had just attempted to cross was rapidly phasing in and out of existence, as though it could n't decide if it wanted to be there. He lowered his head down to the dry riverbed below, trying to figure out where his deathbed could have been. Suddenly, upon glancing back up to the sky, he found that the bridge stopped phasing and remained where it was. 
 
 “ COME ON! WHY COULDNT YOU DECIDE THAT EARLIER! ” He knew he was talking to a bridge, but it somehow calmed himself down. 
 
 ( Back in time again ) 
 “ Alright, what time are you sending me to? ” Jake was strapped into the machine, ready to be sent to the future. 
 
 “ Let's stay close to the present, how about this day and month in 2076? ” Maxis gave Jake the illusion of choice as he had already set in the date. 
 
 “ Sounds good, and you ’ re sure these headsets will transmit through time? ” 
 
 “ Ya, I ’ ll still be able to hear you back here. Ill be in your ear the entire time. ” 
 
 “ Okay, im ready when you are. ” Jake tensed up a bit as he admitted to himself that he was actually nervous for once. 
 
 Maxis hit the giant red button to activate the machine. 
 
 “ Hey! It worked! Im here! In the future. ” Jake was filled with relief to see that all his limbs were sent along with him. He looked around, then wiped the smile from his face. “ Wait, wh-where am I? You said that geographical location wouldnt change. ” 
 
 “ It didn ’ t, your tracker is telling me you ’ re right beside me, only nine years ahead of me. ” Maxis had a tone of confusion and worry as he spoke. 
 
 “ Well in that case, our flat has been completely destroyed, along with the entire city. ” Jake looked around him continually, “ There ’ s nothing but desert here, plain Arizona desert. ” Nearly right after Jake finished speaking, almost tauntingly, the small city of Flagstaff, Arizona phased into existence, leaving Jake inside of his shared flat. “ Oh. My. God. ” 
 
 “ What? What ’ s going on? ” Maxis grew impatient upon Jake ’ s mysterious cliffhanger, “ Jake? ” 
 
 “ It ’ s… here… ” 
 
 “ What? What ’ s here? What do you mean? ” 
 
 “ The flat. Im in our flat. ” Jake creeped to the window, slowly peeking through the curtains as though there were a murderer behind them. “ The entire city is here. ” 
 
 Maxis was now in complete awe. “ No, it. Cant be. It is. But it cant. ” He was now staring at his chalkboard. “ Where did I go wrong? I should have seen this. ” Then it hit him. Somewhere in the middle of his figuring, Maxis had left out a few lines of equations. “ Jake, it seems I screwed up in my calculations. ” 
 
 “ Screwed up? ” 
 
 “ Ya, just. Give me a minute. ” 
 
 Jake looked around outside, he didnt notice it at first, but the more he looked around, he noticed things change, people would suddenly vanish or appear. Then buildings would fall or rise in the blink of an eye, the entire skyline of Flagstaff was changing continually. 
 
 “ Okay, I got it. Turns out the future is in a constant state of flux. Ever changing based on the slightest events that are occurring right now -- err, that is, for ME right now, not you. ” Maxis was trying to explain things in terms that Jake would understand. 
 
 “ So, you ’ re saying that, at anytime. Things could just… change. At random? ” 
 
 “ Ya, basically, I mean, it's not random. Each change has a reason to it. For example, lets say that you see a… toddler on the sidewalk. Well, that toddler can only exist if the parents stay together, so if they suddenly break up in my time, that toddler could just vanish. ” Maxis realized in his head how dumb of an example he had just given, but it got the point across. 
 
 “ Okay, so why would the entire city disappear? Wouldnt there be rubble or something? ” Jake was having a hard time believing what was happening. 
 
 “ I. I dont know Jake. Look, just get out of there, this could be a lot worse than I thought. ” Maxis was quickly finding more and more mistakes on his chalkboard. “ Ughhh. Look, there… are, other ways things can change, things that have already happened in my time, could be reversed. ” Maxis was now finding it hard to explain the phenomenon to Jake. 
 
 “ How, if it happened to you, than it must be concrete. ” Jake was now trying to use his brain for once to make sense of his predicament. 
 
 “ Not, exactly. It has to do with you being in the future. Basically, time itself can not decipher where, or rather, when it is, because you are not where -- ugh, I mean WHEN you are supposed to be. Time thinks the present is actually in the future, so it's reversing things that have happened in the real timeline and swapping it for the blank history of this, err, new timeline that you are creating by being where you are. DANG IT! I mean, when you are, not where you are. ” Maxis was now panicking as he quickly began to see the damage he had created.
