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   I stand outside of the door way with a feeling of fear. I feel something grab me from behind. I start kicking. "Stop kicking." It's my voice I hear. I turn my head and I am looking at myself.  "How?" I am older.  "Years of being stuck here and Rev having to deprogram us. Listen I have to go before the change or I will be stuck here without a time. DO NOT LOOK INTO THE LIGHT! That's how I got lost. You need to go find Rev. Make sure no one looks into the light. It will change your mind. Okay?"  I look at myself very confused. "What do you mean? How were you lost?" I shake my head at myself. "Listen I don't have a lot of time. But nothing here is what it seems. Everyone is a prisoner but with no one imprisoning them. I never saw where the light was coming from I just started to look into it right where I grabbed you and that was the last thing I remember until 6 months ago when Rev drowned me. I died for a few second but it rebooted my brain. It took her 3 years to get me back. She was stuck here after they killed West. You got your answer West isn't the bad guy now you need to go and so do I." I smile at me. She pulls out her orb and is gone. I get up and run down the hall way to find Rev. I see Rev and run right up to her. "My future self-came to me. We are going to get trapped here if we don't leave now!" I scream out. "What!?" Rev says as I pant out of breath. "I found West in a room and he is repeating everything the beam of light tells him to. I was standing at the door when I grabbed myself. Well future me. She said she got lost in the light and it took you 3 years to bring her back. We were stuck here. The beam of light changes minds. That's what she said and that everyone here is a prisoner without anyone imprisoning them." I hold on to Rev I am too scared to let go. "You found me?" West says. I point down the hall I came from.  West starts running. "If what your saying  is correct we have to stop him." Rev says. I grab on to  Rev tighter I don't want to go back toward the light. "I am right here Ava everything will be okay. Come on." Rev grabs me by the hand and we start running after West.

                We get to the end of the hall way where the beam of light is.  West is standing with his back to the wall next to the door where the beam is coming from.  West has tears in his eyes. Rev stops me. "Is it a beam of light?" She asks me. "Yes. It looks that way." I answer looking down the hall way. "Good follow me. West stay right there!" She yells down the hall way. I follow her into one of the rooms. She runs over to the window. She opens it and sticks her head out. "Perfect come on," she says as she climbs out the window thankfully we are only on the first floor. I follow her out the window. She slowly walks up to the window with the light beam. She looks back at me and smiles. "The beam goes to the door. We can get in this way." She punches in the window and knocks all the glass off of it. We climb through the window. "Look the beam is just pointing at West." Rev says as I finish climbing through the window. I look at where the beam is coming from. It is coming from an orb. "It’s an orb." I tell Rev. "I told you those things are EVIL!" I look at her. I pull out my orb and focus on turning this orb off. My orb lights up and starts its own beam of light on to the other orb. The other orb’s beam of light goes out.  West walks in the room. "It was my orb doing this?" He asks as he walks up to the orb. Which is now on the floor. "Oh yes lets touch the brain washing machine. That seems like a top notch idea." Rev says as she walks over to the West from this time. She circles him. "So this is what you become. At least you still look good." Rev says as she laughs. West looks back at her and himself from the future. "Yeah thank goodness for that." He says as he laughs. I don’t understand the joke. This is all very terrifying. "How did your orb do this to you?" I ask West as he picks it up. "I am not sure. Someone had to of programmed the orb to do it. I just wish we could ask me for answers or future me.... well you know what I mean."  I look at future West just sitting in his chair chained down. "Why don't we reboot his brain?" I ask. Rev looks at me. "Did your future self-tell you that?"  Rev asks me. "Yes, she said you had to kill me to reboot my brain. I was dead for a few second she said. You drowned me." I explain to Rev. "I wouldn’t drown you right away. I must have tried a lot of other things first that didn't work. So we should just skip the idea faze of this and just drown him to death." West turns and looks at Rev. "OR not. There has to be another way. We could just use the orb to help us."  West says as he is holding his orb. "Right let’s have the crazy brain washing orbs help us. I am sure it won't do anything evil or I don't know but BRAIN WASH US!" Rev got really loud at the end of her sentence. I can’t take my eyes off of future West’s chains.  He keeps tapping on them just slightly. I wonder what would happen if we let him out of them. 

Poem: Its all on me

I can not change the dream at hand.

All i can do is strive to make it real.

Fight past the same old addictions and the cheaper thrills.

I will not let the world tell my dream will be unfilled.

And even when the people around me are not listening I will still prevail. 

When they lose interest in what it takes to make my dream real

I will laugh and still do the thing best for my dream.

There is no one here that might share my dream with me.

But out there in this big world i am not alone. 

There are many who are chasing the same as me.

But sadly only few will have this dream.

It will be me you will see.

For i will not give up even when at first i fail.

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        I see the people praying to the castle as the three of us are slowly making our way to it. That is where the West from this time is. West who came with us walks further ahead of us. West from this time, Charles and Lilly stand in front of the people and they seem to be getting ready for some kind of speech. “I know you have all been worried but today we have answers. The festival was a success, here are your chosen ones!”   Charles says as four people walk out in front. They must be the ones who survived the poison. I look at Rev as she comes up next to me. "Keep an eye on the West we came with. I am going to walk around a bit, I want to see something." I nod yes to Rev's request. I walk right behind the West we came with. His focus is on the West of the future. I put my hand on his shoulder to let him know I am behind him. "There is no way that is me.  Why is Charles doing all of the talking? Everything about this seems wrong," West says. He can’t take his eyes off his future self. Lilly walks forward to talk. “I know you must be saddened by the loss of your friends and neighbors, but their sacrifice was not in vein. With these survivors we can see what makes them special to save all of you. We came from a land of horrors and wish to protect you from it." Lilly smiles to the people after her speech. West is shaking his head in disapproval.  The people cheer for them. I look around and Rev is nowhere in sight. I am getting a little worried. West from this time steps to the front to speak. "As long as you have us you have no need to worry. We are your saviors without us you would not survive. Always remember that." West says and then walks to the back. The West that came with us looks so mad. "That's not me. I would never say that or become that. I have to talk to him. I need to know what happened."  West says as he looks back at me. "I thought you might feel that way. I found a way into the castle where we will be unnoticed." Rev says from behind me.  I turn and look at her. She always seems to appear out of nowhere. "Okay let’s go to the castle then." West says to Rev.
                We make it into the castle passed all the people. Rev leads us to a window we climb through. Rev and West with guns in their hands. I am looking at this strange place. There are chains on the floor throughout the castle. Rev hears something and stops moving, she motions for us to stop moving. We all stop and stand close to the wall. I see in the distance Charles walking down the hall way toward us. He has chains around his legs. The chains seem to run with the chains on the floor. "He is a prisoner." Rev says. "The chains are like a railroad track. They allow him to move along the tracks but not off." West says to Rev. I am not sure what a railroad is. Charles looks funny. He doesn't at all seem like the Charles I have seen before. Rev look at me, "stay right here with West okay??" She tells me. "Okay I’ll stay right here."  She smiles at me and then looks at West. "If anything happens to her I will murder you so brutally that there will be no pieces of you for anyone to find. Got it?"  West laughs at Rev. "Yeah I get it." Rev walks into the middle of the hall way heading directly to Charles. "Richard." She shouts. He is not fazed by Rev at all. He just keeps walking along the wall. Rev steps directly in his path. "Richard." She says one more time.  It’s like he doesn't even see her. She grabs Charles. "Richard what the hell is wrong with you." She says as she shakes him.  “I know you have all been worried. But today we have answers. The festival was a success here are the chosen ones!" Rev looks back at us and then back at Charles. "Richard you said that already to the people." West looks at me very confused. Rev starts shaking Charles once more. "I know you have all been worried. But today we have...." Charles starts to say again. Rev stops him and then moves out of his way. He starts walking again like if she had never been there. He walks right passed us without even blinking. It's like he can't see us. Rev motions for us to walk over to her. West and I head over. "We need to find the other West." Rev says to West. He nods his head in agreement and we all start to run down the hall ways looking into each room as we go. I hear a voice coming from down a hall way. It’s a woman's voice, I stop running.  I turn down the hall way and follow the voice. Something about it seems so familiar. I walk over toward a room that has one beam of light shining out of it. I see West from this time sitting in a chair looking into the beam of light. The light is so bright I can’t see where it is coming from. "Today has been a great day for all of us. Thanks to your prayers we will not need to have another festival for a while. So you can all rest easy. Your lives are safe thanks to us."  The women's voice says. “Today has been a great day for all of us. Thanks to your prayers we will not need to have another festival for a while. So you can all rest easy. Your lives are safe thanks to us." West repeats what the women said from the beam of light. He keeps saying the same thing again and again. I start to back out of the room. It is like he isn't a person anymore. What has he become? Is this happening to Charles and Lilly to?

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        We walk through the hole to the future. We are in a city but this one looks different then the last time we came to the future. Same houses as the last time with all the markings but no people.  Rev grabs her gun out of her bag.  West is looking at one of the stone houses. "This is a craving of my little brother." West says. I walk over to one of the houses he is looking at.  It looks like a story told in pictures. It starts with a little boy playing on swings and falling into a river where he drowned. "This is your little brother?" West looks at me. "Let me lose. Whoever did this must pay." I am not sure why he is now mad. Or what they did. I didn’t know West had a family seeming as they are not in any history book.  I look around and don't see Rev anywhere. "I am sorry I couldn't let you go even if I wanted to. Plus I am not sure why you are mad."  West licks his lips and sucks them both in for a second seeming to calm himself down. "Someone murdered my little brother. The last time I saw him he was on this swing. I ran to my house to get my action figure. We were going to tie a rock and see how fast he would sink. When I returned to the river my brother had drowned to death. There was a bruise on the back of his neck from where someone held him down. We never found his killer or why they killed him."  I feel bad for West I can see the pain in his eyes. "I am truly sorry for your lose." I tell him. He looks down. "The grass is dead."  He says. I look down and the grass is dead. I have never seen dead grass like this. "We should find Rev." I tell him and he nods yes. We start to walk through the rows of stone houses. No people anywhere to be seen. There is also no castle like last time. I see Rev standing on top of one of the stone homes. "What are you doing up there?" I ask her. She points out into the middle area past the homes. I walk over there. 

            I see dead bodies rioting away. I drop to my knees. How could this have happened? "We need to keep moving." West tells us as he rubs his shoulder past mine. Rev comes down from the house. "He is right we need to go. She says as she unlocks the chains on West. "Thank you." He tells her. "I am only unlocking you so if you have to fight you can." He looks at the bodies. "They were poisoned." West tells us. "How do you know?" I ask. "The veins on the bodies of the ones not so badly decayed their veins are black. I have seen this poison before.  We have to keep moving." I look back at Rev. I can feel the tears start to fall from my eyes. I look back at the body of a little girl. Her hair still in braids as half her face is gone. I can see her bones through her rioted flesh.  Rev puts her arms around me. "Come on honey. This is not anything you want to remember. We are going to stop this from happening okay?" She pulls me up off the floor. "How could someone do something like this?" I look at West. "I am sorry Ava. This is why we created Timetopia to stop this. The thing that is strange to me is the poison of choice.  West is looking over the bodies some more. Rev starts to push me away from them. "Is this poison special in some kind of way?" Rev asks as we walk away. "Yes this is a very special poison. In my time they call it The Decider."  West says as he starts to follow us.  Rev stops. "The Decider?? Okay you have me intrigued. Why?? Why in hell is it named that?" West laughs at Revs. "The passion in your voice every time you speak gets me. It was called that because not everyone who takes it dies. About 23% survive. They become healthier and stronger. But no one is sure why. It made no sense. There was no way of telling who would survive. Twins would take it and one or both would die. Which is highly unusual for identical twins since their genetic makeup is almost exactly the same. It drove some doctors crazy trying to figure out why. As far as I know they never figured it out."  Rev turns to look at me. I can see in her face she just thought of something. “It isn’t air born right?” she says slowly.  “No it is not.” West says as he looks back at the bodies. Rev takes a deep breath. “How then? How did they disrepute it?” Rev asks. I just start walking I cannot be this close to those bodies any longer. “They put it in their drinking water and food.” West follows me. Rev still standing there. “Oh, that’s genius and cruel all at the same time.” She starts to follow me to. I just keep walking. We walk for miles until the grass is green again. In the distance I hear children playing. I hear laughing and singing but I still don’t see anyone. West grabs me. “Walk a little slower. We don’t know what is waiting for us up there.” I turn to look at him.  He seems to care what happens to me. It is throwing me off. “Wooohooo, I know you don’t think you’re a part of the team.” Rev says as she laughs. I see the castle from last time in the distance. “Look we are close. This is where we came last time.” I point at the castle. “Okay lets go see this future self that you guy say is doing all of this.” West says as he walks ahead of me. 

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     I am walking down the hall way tapping on the walls. I saw the wall open to let him out. There has to be a way in. Looking at the walls I am not even sure of what I saw anymore. “He is up!” Rev yells I run back down the hall way to her.  Rev starts to kick him. “Tell us where you hid the orb!” He laughs as she kicks him. “Is that all you got?” he asks Rev. “Wow could you be any more mellow dramatic. This is no scene in a movie. I am not afraid to kill you even if it isn’t easy. You don’t know this about me but I am a very hard worker.” Rev walks over to her back pack and pulls out knives. West laughs even louder.  I start thinking since he isn't with the orb maybe my orb can find it. "Wait, let me try something first. Before you start whatever it is you’re going to start doing to him." I say to Rev. She looks down at West and back at me. "Fine if you must. Try whatever it is you think will work." I smile at her. I pull out the orb from my pocket. I focus on the lost orb. I can hear a beeping coming from down the hall way. "How do you have an orb?" West says to me. "Wouldn't you like to know?" Rev says to him. "It’s my mother’s" I tell him. I follow the sound to a piece of the wall. I close my eyes and focus on the orb in my hand. I just keep thinking how I need a door. I hear something open like a door but heavier. I open my eyes and the wall has opened. I walk into the dark room and grab the orb which is lit up. I walk back over to Rev and West. Rev sits him up. "May I ask how and why?" West asks. "No you may not." Rev says. I look at her. "Yes you can" I tell him. "Why do you want the orb? Who is your mom?" I look at him as I sit in front of him. "I am collecting the orbs, because you will abuse the power you are given with them. In the future you enslave Timetopia and I can't allow that to happen." After I'm done talking his face looks the same as Lilly's did. He looks confused and shocked. "Kora is your mother isn't she?" Is his only response. "Yes she is." He puts his head down. "I should have known you look just like her. Can you get my orb to light up without your mom's orb?" He asks me. I grab his orb and I try to get it to light up but nothing happens. "I can't. What was the point to that?" I ask him. "To see if you were my daughter. If nothing happen then it’s pretty clear that you are not mine." He says to me almost sounding sad. "Why would you even think I could be your daughter?" I ask seeing as I haven't given much thought to who my father could be.  "Kora is the wife that I told you about."  West says so gently. I look at Rev who has a shocked look on her face.
                We haven't said anything for a while. We all just sit there. What do I say? "You said I am going to enslave Timetopia. What do you mean by that?" West finally breaking the silence. "Well you, Charles and Lilly turn yourselves into Gods. You make the people worship you." West laughs at what I just told him. "Not saying that I would do that. But Erick would never allow it," Is his response. "You kill him and Kora smarty pants. They try to stand in your guy’s way."  Rev says. He looks at Rev shaking his head no. "I would never kill Erick or Kora. This makes no sense to me. Who told you this?" West seems like he doesn't believe me. "I saw it for myself. Kora took me to the future to see it." West is shaking his head. "How could she take you to the future our orbs have limits." West is starting to sound angry.  "She stole Charles blood and unlocked her limits." I tell him. "Why would she do that?" I shrug. "She wanted to see the future I suppose." West Laughs at me. He starts to try to stand.  Rev kicks his legs down. "Where do you think you’re going?" He looks up at Rev. “To the future. There is no way I have done the things you are accusing me of. All you have to do is take me to the future to see it for myself. If your right I will hand you over my orb with no complaints.” Rev looks at me and looks back at him. “For the smart people who created a time machine you all are very stupid. We have the orb we don’t need your help. So this is where we would say back home you have no legs to stand on.” Rev says. He smiles. “I have a special lock on my orb. Not just blood will unlock it. But go ahead and try if you don’t believe me.”  I look at Rev I believe him but I know she probably doesn’t. She shrugs and then slices his arm with her knife. “Okay then I will try. Thank you.” She says as she scoops up his blood with the knife.  She puts it on the orb. I hold it with my orb and nothing happens. He wasn't lying. "It’s not working." I tell Rev. "Okay so maybe you’re not as big of a liar as you seem. Good for you." She says to him as she smiles. "I have no reason to lie. I just want to see the future. I want to see what you’re telling me. I know myself I would never become a dictator." I look at Rev. "No one said dictator." She tells him. He shrugs. "So are we going to the future then?"  I ask.  Rev nods yes. West gets to his feet. "Well what are we waiting for? Let’s see this horrendous future of mine."  I put his orb in Revs back pack. I hold mine and think of the future.