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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.

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Rev looks behind the table. " Darn I missed. Well that unfortunate, we were having such a good dinner too." I think Rev is telling a joke but I am never sure. "What do we do now?" I asked.  "Stay close I will get that orb! We are just going to have to work fast.  But make sure you do not get caught in the cross fire." Rev says. I nod yes. The power goes off, Rev looks around. "Follow me but be ready to hide if you have to okay?" Rev says as she starts walking. "Okay." Follow her. We walk through the kitchen with no one in it. We find ourselves in a hall way. Once again this hall way has no doors. I follow closely behind Rev.  The lights flash back on and off. I look up, I hear the wall move and West comes out. He smacks the shot gun out of Rev's hand. He tries to grab Rev and she slips right through his arms. "Hide!" she yells at me.  But I have nowhere to run. I look down this hall way of no doors. West came out of the walls somehow. Rev kicks West right in the face and knocks him down. She laughs. "Men always think they can take on the little girl and get knocked on their ass." Rev says to West who gets up off the floor. "Maybe men from your time. It’s only because you cheat not letting them know you a mortified human." What did West just say??? I stop looking for somewhere to hide and look back. Rev pulls West down to the floor and flips him on his back. "I am not like you. Don't be mad that an ordinary girl is whooping your ass." Rev says as she gets to her feet. West sits up. "Your right you are not like me. You are like the first generation of modified. I am after generations of perfecting it." West says to Rev. Rev's face looks confused. "If your perfection then our world has gotten a lot worse in the future then I thought. Plus like I told you I am not a mortified anything just a normal old orphan."  Rev says to West. He starts to get up. He looks back at me and then back to Rev. "You really have no idea who you are do you. Think about it have you ever broke a bone? Wonder why? I can tell you. Your bones are thicker than a normal old orphan. You know how I know all of this. My hits should have broken your bones but they didn't. Plus look at Ava's face if you think I am lying. She clearly knows." Rev looks at me now along with West.  I feel so uncomfortable. I look Rev right in the eye. "Ava do you know what he is talking about?" She asks so gently. I nod yes. "Ava it’s okay." She says to me. West eyes are locked on me. Rev is pulling something out of her backpack and shoves it into West neck. He starts to shake and falls to the ground. Rev knocked him out. 

                "What did you do to him?" I ask her as we stand over him. "I gave him enough electrical current to knock out the power of a small city block." She laughs   "Couldn't that kill him?"  I ask her. "I mean it could but it won’t. I was looking through all those papers Kora gave us. The people who made him use to test on the kids to see how much they could endure. So I knew it wouldn't kill him based on that."  Rev say as she grabs a metal rope to tie him up with out of her back pack. "Are you mad at me for not telling you that you were tested on when you were an embryo?" I ask her. She finishes tying up West. "No I'm not mad. Just a little curious as to why you didn't tell me. Or better yet how did you find out about it?" Rev sits on West unconscious body. "Kora found out. She wanted to find your real parents. It was going to be a gift to you for helping her out. She found your mom. That when she found out she had died in a fire where they thought you had passed too.  Someone left you on that bus to give you a chance at life."  Kora told this so much better. I am not sure why she left this to me.   "So I am a test tube baby. Great anything else you want to tell me?" Rev says well laughing. I think she is joking. "All the other babies died. Only you and a set of twins lived. So you have older siblings. But that is pretty much it. That's all I know." I just blurt it all out. Rev's face looks like she is in shock. "I have siblings. Great! Wait if they thought I was dead where are they at?" I look at her. “Your government has them. Not that I am sure what that even means. I’m sorry we can ask Kora together if you would like.” I look at West who is still unconscious. “I don’t think I am the type to need anyone to hold my hand but thanks for the offer.” I didn’t think she would take my offer either. “What about him?” I point at West. “We get the orb and draw some blood. Do that thing where you slap them together and we’ll be on our way.”  Rev says it like everything is that simple. “Okay. So where is the orb?” I ask her. She reaches into West’s pocket. Her face gets sharp. I know that look she didn’t find what she wanted. “Not in there?” I ask. She flips him over and looks through all of his other pockets. “He must have hid it when he ran.” I look back down the hall way with no doors. He could have hid it anywhere. “Where do we start?” I ask Rev and look back at her. She walks next to me and looks at the hall way. “Ummmm. I guess we wake him up and make him tell us?” I look at her. “Make him how?” I ask her. She smiles, “the good old fashion way.  Massive amounts of pain.” I don’t think I like this plan.

1 year down of Timetopia

Good morning every one!!!
     I cant believe a year ago today i started Timetopia! This has been so much fun to write. i honestly never thought i would be writing this novel for this long. It took a turn i didn't even foresee. This is so exciting to me. I thank everyone so much for tuning in every week and for all your support. It means the world to get your messages and your tweets about it. I can't even express my thankfulness. I am so blessed and lucky to have started on this amazing journey!!! i will finish the series when its done. There is no time limit on it. But i already know the ending. Its a twist for sure. I LOVE YOU ALL!! thanks as always for reading. 

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                We are in the house, it’s completely empty. It’s scary how silent the hallways are. "Where is everyone?" I ask Rev. "I would really like to know the same thing. Just be sure to stay close behind me." Rev starts heading down the hall way. I do as she says and stay close. We walk down the long hallway. There appears to be no doors or rooms on this floor. We head up the stairs to the main level. There is West just standing there waiting. "Welcome! I have been waiting for you." He says sounding almost happy. He motions to the table in the next room with food on it. "Are you hungry?" He asks. "I could eat." Rev says as she walks over. She still has her gun in her hand. "How did you know we were coming?" I ask, still standing in the same spot. I felt that without an answer, I could not move. "I saw you on the screens and you have been gone for some time. I figured you appeared to see me. So I had my staff whip some food up so we could talk about the reason your here."  He smiles again at me. I don't like his smile, he mouth does not curve up like most people smiles but instead his smile goes straight across like it is fake.  I look at Rev and she is already at the table sniffing the food.

                "Do you want a crab cake?" West asks Rev and she smiles. "Yes, I would love a crab cake." She takes one and starts eating her mount of food on her plate. "Why are you being so nice to us?" I can't help but blurt out. "Because I know whatever reason you’re here has little to nothing to do with me. Rev is Charles’ ex-wife and you, well... I'm not sure why you are here yet or who that effects." West says as he eats his piece of steak. "You’re right, us being here really doesn't have much to do with you. Also, I am Charles’ wife, but only because killing my mother and betraying me did not get us a divorce. It just makes him a horrible person."  Rev's words are so sweetly said but so unkind. I might never know how she does that.   "Right, that makes sense. I was married once, I know what it is to be betrayed by the one you love. It also hurts when you still love them." He seems hurt. I have never heard about West having a wife. I am very shocked. "Do you mind if I ask what happened? Just for the simple fact that I have spent my whole life going to school learning all about The Five's lives and never once have I heard anything about you being married." I don't mean to be rude, I just want to know why there is nothing in the history books about him being married. "Well that’s because I wrote your history books and I felt it best to leave her out. But if you insist on hearing the story… She was a brilliant scientist and that's how we met. We met inside the camps, after my country had been destroyed. I fell for her instantly. We got married within 14 days of knowing each other. That was my first mistake. I should’ve gotten to know her better, but we were young and in love with plans to fix the world." He stops talking and takes a deep breath. I wonder if she’s dead or if they just erased her when they changed the time line. "Well what did she do to betray you?" Rev asks. "She slept with a teammate. When I asked her why, her response..." He stops again. "Her response was what?! Do not half tell a story I hate that!" Rev yells at him. "She said she slept with him to save the future. What a line right." West seems so sad still. "Try having your husband kill your mom and leave you to rot in a CIA black hole." Rev says back to him. "I am sorry she hurt you."  I say to try and be kind. West doesn't seem like a bad guy. He isn't what I thought he was going to be.  I look at Rev wondering if she is thinking the same thing but with her it’s hard to tell what she is really thinking. "So why don't you tell me why you two are really here." West says. I look at Rev and she nods her head at me. I see her gun still in her hand. "We are here for your orb." I say and look at his face. He looks surprised. "Why would you want my orb? It wouldn't work for you. Plus, how do you even know about it?"  He asks. "Well if it won’t work for us why can’t we see it?" Rev says. He looks at her for a second. West stands up and pulls it out of his pocket. "If you want it, come get it." He says to Rev. Rev smiles at him and then I hear the pop sound. I look up at West to see that Rev shot him in the leg.  "That was your warning. Give us the orb."  Rev says, pointing the gun at his head. West starts laughing and looks down at his leg.  He dusts the bullet off his leg like it was nothing more than a bug biting him. "You see… my bones are 5 times thicker than your average person. So that was not the smartest idea." West says.  Rev smiles as she reaches behind her head into her backpack. She pulls out a sawed-off shot gun as she calls it. "Let’s test how bullet proof you really are." She smiles. West flips the table at us and Rev shoots. The sound is unbearable.  I hit the floor and cover my ears. 

Update: Hurricane Irma

Good afternoon every one,
     Sorry i did not post timetopia this week. I had to be evacuated last week because of hurricane Irma. I went back to California with my family. So this week i was on the road back to Florida and had no internet to post. But next week we will be back to our regular schedule. It means so much to me to get your guys tweets and messages asking for timetopia. Thank you! It means the world to see you enjoying the story. 

      The trip to California was no joke. I have never drove there before. I have a new admiration for long haul truck drivers i don't know how they do it. I also got a ticket for speeding not to mention the craziness of being pulled over. I had my car searched. It was one crazy road trip. If you want to hear the story behind me getting my car searched leave a comment below and ill write it for you guys.. Well got to jet. Thank you as always for reading. I am so thankful to all of you who support me and tune in every week. until next time. 

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                Kora made a swift exit out of the room after what I said, leaving me and Rev with a bunch of papers about the future. "Don't feel bad Ava. You didn't say anything wrong. You’re right about them testing on you guys here. It’s no different." Rev tries to comfort me. But I don't feel bad, I just don't understand Kora's reaction. "What did James say when you went to see him?" I try to change the subject to something else. "Before or after I told him he’s going to have a daughter who hates him? But not to worry because we’re going to bring back my timeline so he will never have been born, so she won’t hate him." Rev is hurt, I can tell. "Yeah after that what did he say?" I respond. Her eyes lock on me as she tilts her head. "I hate that you’re not being sarcastic. At least then I could say something back and not feel bad."  I shrug at her. I’m not sure she ever feels bad after saying what's on her mind. "Are you ready to face West?" Kora asks as she reenters the room. I look up and grab my back pack. "Sure." I say. Rev runs to the room to grab her bag. "Guns lock and loaded. So I am ready."  She smiles as she takes the safety off of her gun. I grab the orb and off we go.

                We are in the middle of a city not too far from where I grew up. Everyone is looking at us strangely. “Why whenever you take us to find one of the Five you never take us directly to them?” Rev asks me. “I am not sure to be honest. When I sent you to James where did it take you?” I ask her. “Right to him. I wonder if their orb protects them? Either that or you don't know how to work that thing."  Rev says as she turns to look at me. "I’m not the inventor of it. So, there is a very good possibility I am not using it correctly. All that aside we need to find West." I walk out of the center off to the side. "Is he in his house?" Rev asks me. "I would think so. West has a home that no one is allowed in without him. When it isn't his year he locks it down." Rev looks around. "Well, where is it?" I point for her to follow me.   

                We get up to the end of the street. "We should take the tunnels." Rev says to me as she points to the sewer lines under us. "Okay, let’s go." We walk over to the man hole and Rev lifts it with no problem. "Glad they still have sewer lines." She laughs as she jumps in. I take the ladder that's on the side. We start heading down the tunnel using the orb to guide us. “So, you never really told me how things went with James...” Rev’s still silent, but her silence seems to fill the dark tunnels. “Ava… life since I met you has been crazy. So, saying good bye to James was just strange. Thinking that I was going back to my life in the Bronx without ever seeing him again… It didn’t matter what we said after that realization.”  Rev says then she starts to walk again.  The orb light beams light to show us we are here. “How do we get in?” I look around and there is no way up. Rev laughs. “Saying good bye wasn’t my only reason for visiting James. I needed some answers about West. Like how he sealed all the ways from the tunnels into his house. Expect for the trick door.” Rev walks over to a brick. She pulls a brick out and the wall moves in. She smiles at me. Well this makes sense now. She wouldn’t just go to say good bye. She got information from James, since he was very trusted by West.  We walk in a dark hall way and the orb lights it up. “I wish you wouldn’t do that.” Rev says looking at the orb. “I can’t help it. I just thought it was dark and the orb lit up. But if you want to wonder around in the dark I can just put it away.” I tell her. “No, I just don’t trust that thing.”  I don’t understand why Rev keeps referring to the orb like that. I look down at the light, I guess the orb is alive. I’m really unsure about that however. “Are you coming? We are almost to the stairs that will lead us up.” Rev says as she keeps walking ahead of me. “What if he is waiting for us up there?” I don’t know why I am more scared of West then I am any of the other Five. I have always been afraid of West even as a girl. I remember when he came to our school to see how all of our testing and gardens were coming along. He wasn’t a tall man like Charles. He had larger muscles then any man in my side of Timetopia that he hid so well under his suit. I still remember having to meet him. I had the greenest garden. The way he walked into the room felt threatening. I was only 9 years old at the time. I wonder if he remembers meeting me or how when he spoke to me that day I couldn’t say a thing. I still remember his voice. “How did you get your garden to grow so big?” West asked me as he pointed outside to my section of my class garden. I stood there completely speechless. He laughed at my frozen demeanor assuming I was as he called it, “star stuck”. I wonder what he will think now when he sees me and Rev. We finally get to the stairs. Well, ready or not we are going to face West.