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We have been stuck in this mirror maze for hours. Lucky Rev brought snacks and water in her backpack. Not even Rev is sure how large this maze is.  "I hate him for this!" Rev says as she looks closely at the mirrors. "I wish this place was better lit." I say as I look around at the dark lighting. "We just have to keep moving." Rev says as she pulls me up off the floor. "I get this is some kind of puzzle but they could at least put benches in here." I tell Rev as I dust myself off from sitting on the floor.  The lights seem to get darker and then brighter almost like they are going to go out. We just keep moving through the maze, I don't think we have run into any traps that Rev had been worried about. The lights completely go out for a minute. I stop where I am at and Rev grabs me. "Don't stop moving come on." I hold Rev's hand and follow her through. The lights are going out for minutes at a time now. I think it must be the way this place is powered. "Stop I have an idea."  I tell Rev as I pull out the Orb. "I already hate this idea." Rev says as she stands there. I pull out the Orb to light our way. As soon as it lights up I see a man with a painted face standing behind Rev in the mirror or behind the mirror I am not sure. "Who is that?" I ask Rev as I point. She turns around and screams in fear. "OH HECK NO!!!"  I don't understand her fear of the man with the strange painted face. "What's wrong? I don't think he is going to hurt us he isn't moving." Rev is shaking her head no. "Of course he isn't going to hurt us he isn't real. He is a killer clown from a movie that used to terrify me as a child."  Rev turns toward the paint man pointing her gun at him. "Rev I think it’s okay." I try to comfort her, she starts shooting the painted man in the face shattering the mirror. I see a girl with all her hair in her face and her arms out. "What in the...." Rev says before she shatters that mirror. I stand there just watching her as she goes about shooting through mirrors, well at least it is getting us through the maze faster.

                Rev and I are running through the maze of broken mirrors. I slip and fall into a piece of broken mirror slicing up my arm nothing serious but I am bleeding quite a bit. "Are you okay?" Rev asks me as I look at my cut. "Yeah it's just a surface wound I should be fine. I just want out of this thing." I tell her looking at the maze. "Don't worry we are almost to the end I think." Rev look forward and keeps shooting all the mirrors out. "Come on let's go." Rev says as she starts to walk again. We are finally out of the mirror and there is Charles sitting at a desk. Why is he just sitting there? Rev tilts her head. "Why are you not in some kind of safe room?" Rev asks him. "Why would I? You would get to me no matter what I did. I just needed time to get some things together." I do not understand Charles' thinking at all. "Give her the Orb and then get on your knees and pay the price for her life." Rev say with a strong voice. "You can kill me Rev but you cannot have my Orb. I will never give my Orb to a child of Kora and West." Why does he keep insisting that I am West’s daughter? "I am sorry to intervene in your guy’s argument but I am not West daughter." I am not sure why I felt the need to clear that up but I am sick of him calling me the child like I am not my own person. "How do you know you're not West's daughter?" He asks and I can’t help but sigh at his question. "Because his Orb didn't light up for me." Charles just stands there. "Oh I see."  Charles says with his head down. "Okay so West isn't her father now hand over the Orb." Rev says as she steps toward him. "Come get it Rev." Charles says as he rolls up his sleeves. Rev smiles and put her backpack down and throws her gun on top of it. I don't think this is a good idea. Rev run right at him with her knives in hand. He deflects her at first but Rev jumps on his desk and kicks him in the face. As he tries to shake it off she stabs him in the side. She throws the knife cover in blood at the wall next to me. That when I notice that I am standing in a puddle of my own blood. My arm is bleeding a lot more than I thought. I look back up to see Charles drop to his knees holding his side. "Do you have anything to say?" Rev asks him. "I didn't mean to kill her Rev. You know what she meant to both of us. It was an accident and I wanted to tell you that but I was stealing your jobs secrets so it didn't feel like a good idea." Rev laughs at what Charles says. "Where is the Orb Richard?" Is the only thing she says back to him.  "You won't find it Rev so just kill me but let me say this Rev. I am okay with dying now, I ruined my life that day I killed her and stole your secrets. I lost you that day. I have been around for a long time now and it all mean nothing without you. So do your worst but know that I love you!"  Rev puts the knife to his throat. "WAIT! We need that Orb." I yell. Rev looks around and her eyes fixed on his desk. "Ava can the Orbs disguise themselves?"  It must be hiding on his desk. "Yes they can!" I say with excitement. This is almost all over.  Rev walks over to the desk and grabs a clear oddly shaped paperweight. "A giant diamond." She says as it shocks her. "Yup this is it." She starts to throw it to me when Charles jumps up and knocks it out of her hand. The paper weight changes into and Orb as it flies towards me. It lands in my puddle of blood and lights up. "Why did it light up with me blood?" I look up at Charles whose face looks just as shocked as mine.

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      "Why don't you turn around so I can see that handsome face of yours and also so you can hand over the gun." Rev says with a smile to Charles. "How are you even awake? I gave you a pretty strong sedative one that would take out a gorilla." Charles says as he turns to hand his guns to Rev. "You don't know do you?" Rev says a little shocked. "I can assure I have no idea." Rev starts laughing. "Take a good look at me sweetheart, you're looking at the first generation of embryo testing. I am a mortified person my love." Rev says in the sweetest voice. Charles’ face drops. "I didn't know that. I learned about that when I hit the future. I knew they had been doing testing in our time but I was under the impression all of it was unsuccessful." Rev knobs yes at Charles. "I am the only successful one from my time of birth." Rev smiles so proud of herself but she didn't mention her siblings who survived as well. "That explains you falling off the church roof and not breaking anything." Charles says as he starts to walk toward the giant windows, Rev follows him with the gun pointed at him. "As good as this trip down memory lane has been we need your Orb."  Rev says it like he will just give in to her request. I stand here completely still thinking how I wish things had gone a little more like I planned. How did he know we were coming? "My Orb? You are joking right? Or are you just mad!? My Orb won't work for you. Clearly you guys are working for one of us how else would you be able to time travel."  Charles says just like the others but I want to know how he knew we were coming. "How did you know we were coming?" I ask ignoring what he said. "I didn't know you personally were coming. I set my Orb to alert me when a hole is torn in the time I am in and also for it to alert me when Rev’s DNA is within 1000 yards of me." That is really smart of him. That explains the alarm sending everyone away. "So back to my questions about my Orb." Charles says as he leans with his back to the floor to ceiling windows. "Your Orb will work for me if I combine it with the others. Well with your help of course." I explain to him. "Whose kid are you?"  I smile. "Kora." I state. "Her and West had a secret baby who is now trying to what? You are trying to take us all down or something?" He is assuming West is my father I wonder why. "I am not trying to take down anyone. I am trying to save you." Charles laughs at me. "Save me? That impossible with Rev on your team. You do understand that right? She is going to kill me no matter what she has told you." I laugh at him and so does Rev, I think this is my fault for miss-wording what I just said. "She told me she was going to kill you no matter what. I think I should have worded this better. I am here to save everyone but you I guess."  Charles starts to give a small laugh. "Yeah that's what I thought. I would ask what you're going to be saving the world from but I have run out of time. So why don't we talk about that next time." Charles drops through the floor. "WHAT???" Comes flying out of my mouth. "NO!" Rev screams and run over to where he was standing. "It's a trap door!" Rev says as she stands over the square hole in the floor. "What are we going to do?" I ask. Rev look at me and jumps in the hole. I look around the penthouse to find Rev’s back pack with all the guns in it because she has mine. I see the backpack by the thing that gives out coffee. I grab her backpack take a deep breath and jump down the hole.
                The hole was long, cold and lead me to a room of mirrors. "I don't understand where we are." I tell Rev who is looking at all the mirrors. "It's a fun house that most likely leads to a safe room of some sort. We just have to make our way through and hope there are no traps." Rev says as she taps on one of the mirrors. I get up to hand Rev her backpack. "Here I think you might need this." She turns to look at me. "Yes I do need this." She smiles and grab out her gun which is much bigger than mine.  "So we have to walk through the mirrors?" I wonder if this is some kind of technology from her time. "No, the mirror are a maze. They are just set up to look like there is no way through. He took one of my favorite things and ruined it not a surprise." Rev keeps walking up to the mirrors and stepping back to look at the whole thing. "What is a maze?"  I ask Rev unsure if this is a good thing or bad thing we are about to walk into but judging from Rev's face I'm going to say bad. "A maze is a designed like a puzzle in which you have to find a way out. It is normally really fun but I have a feeling like this one isn't going to be." I walk up to the mirrors wondering how this could be fun. I like puzzles normally but this doesn't seem like a puzzle. "You said something about traps, what did you mean?"  Rev puts her backpack on her back. "You will see when we get to it. Come one." Rev walks through one of the mirrors. I walk over and see there is no mirror there it is an opening. I start to follow Rev and hope for the best.

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      I am searching through all the screens data to see where Charles was when we were coming through the hole. I look at all the rooms and I don’t see him anywhere. I think about what Kora said about there being labs here. I look for the labs on the screens but I am not sure what a lab even looks like. Maybe I should have asked Kora and Rev to go into more detail when they were talking about it. I wonder if a workroom is the same as a lab. I look through all the workrooms to see if I can find him. I go back 20 minutes before we came through and search every room. I wonder if I can use his picture to search for his face?? I pull up his picture from the history books on the screen and start to search for his face. The screen instantly pulls him up in front of the wellness center talking to a crowd. I make the screens go quicker to follow him up to the time we come through. Right before we start to come through an alarm seems to have been set off as the hole opens for us to come through. That is when Charles ran back to the penthouse. There are no cameras in there but everyone was cleared out of the wellness center. I think that means he pulled her to the penthouse.
                I wonder the halls toward the penthouse trying to walk as gently as I can. I look around for anyone who might have stood behind but the halls are completely empty.  I have my gun in my hand but I don't want to walk with it up the way Rev showed me;  for the simple fact that if someone is hiding in here that has nothing to do with this I don't want to scare them or even worse hurt them. I walk up the stair to the next level where the penthouse is, as I reach the top of the stairs I see the door to the penthouse open. I take a deep breath and head in. I see Rev right away. She is attached to some kind of bag with water in it and she seems to be sleeping on a wellness bed. I run up to her and start to shake her but she will not wake up. "She is on a sedative. So there really is no use in shaking her." I hear Charles say from behind me. I just realized I dropped my gun as soon as I saw Rev so now I don't have it to point at him. I slowly turn around to face him. "Would you like something to drink?" He asks me as he walks over to this shiny metal tube. "No thank you." I say as he uses the metal tubs nozzle to pour out something dark with strong vanilla smell. He looks back at me and raises his tea cup. "It’s coffee just in case you were wondering what that smell was. I unlike the others couldn't give it up. I know in the new healthier world we created there is supposed to be no substitute for sleep but some habits are hard to kick. I'm sorry you have no idea what I am going on about." Charles sips on his coffee and sits on a sofa across from me. "Why don't you take a seat." he says to me pointing at the love seat not too far from where I am standing. I walk over and sit down not too sure what to say. "I have to ask; I will regret it if I don't. Why Charles?? Why the name change?" I just have to know.  "Richard was my father's name and it was what all my loved ones called me. When I woke up in the future I thought it was time for a change. My loved ones were all dead and so was Richard. Why Ava? I mean why did your parents name you that? Did you ever ask?" I laugh at his questions about my name. "My name is not Ava. Ava is short for Aviator.  They were once brave pilots who fought in wars." His face goes very blank by my explanation of where my name came from. "I know what an aviator is my great grandfather and father were both pilots. That is not a very girly name, is it?" Charles says as he looks up with great thought. "No it is not, I have been telling my parents that for many years."   He kind of makes a snort sound and shakes his head. "I just have one other question about your name." He states. "Okay. What is it?" I ask very curious what it might be. "There is no history that Aviators ever existed. We didn't want to give people heroes to admire beside us. So please explain how your parents named you after something they had no idea even existed." I stop breathing and start thinking. They didn't teach us about aviators in school. The only reason I know what my name mean is just because my parents told me. "It leads me to believe that you're not helping Rev, that she is helping you but why would she be helping you? Why are you special?" Charles says as he pulls a gun out of the sofa and points it at me. "Oh Richard aren't you always late to the party." Rev says from behind Charles with a gun pointed right at his head. "I didn't even hear you move, I forgot how good you are at that." Charles says Rev just laughs

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         Rev is looking at a map of where Charles is supposed to be, she is trying to plan how we are going to sneak up on him. Kora knows what years he is in and where he stays in those years. Which year we are going to is up to me. I want to go back to the beginning before he knew Rev was here. I think the shock of seeing her will give us some advantage. I am not scared to see Charles but more scared of what Rev will do when she sees him. I don't think killing him will bring her peace the way she thinks it will, but trying to tell her that is like trying to teach a turtle to bark.  Rev looks up from her map at me. "I think this would be the best place to get him." She points at a wellness center. "Why would he be there?" I ask her not understanding how she knows he is going to be there. "Look! He keeps a penthouse on top of this one. Which means he stays there while he does his research. Trust me you have no idea how many labs I had to make beds in while he was wrapped up in a project. He is a scientist to the bone. He loves to live in his research he always said it helped him think."  His research?? What kind of research would he be doing at a wellness center? "And to think I use to believe wellness centers were a place for people to get help." I say to Rev. "Wellness center are just laboratories. We needed a friendly name for it so people would flock there when they were in need. We not only studied blood work but also human behavior there. Plus without research people would never cure anything, laborites are needed." Kora adds as if this information would make me feel better. To think that my whole life the Five were just studying us is a thought that makes my skin crawl.  "That doesn’t make things much better." I tell her. "It is not intended to make anything better it is simply the truth. If you are going to get Charles’ Orb you have to know what you are walking into." Kora says as she rubs my shoulder. "So are there any other crazy secrets we should know about before facing Richard?" Rev asks Kora. "Of Course there is but what fun would it be if I just told you." Kora stands there smiling. "Right, so we will just figure it out at the most awkward time. Got it!"  Rev responds as she finishes putting notes on the map.  "Here, have the evil brain washer and scan the map that way it can help us once we get there." Rev says as she hands me the map so i can scan it with the orb. I wish she wouldn't call the orb a brain washer. 
                "Are you ready?" I ask Rev as she puts her back pack on. "Nope not at all but today seems like a good day for vengeance, right?" I am not sure if that statement actually needs a response. I grab the Orb and think of Charles in the past, the Orb lights up and I drop it to the floor. "Here we go." I tell Rev whose face looks completely blank. Which means she is really scared that's the only time I have noticed she hides her facial expressions. We go through the hole to find Charles and I feel like I am falling. I hit the ground hard.  I haven't hit this hard since I learned how to use the Orb. "Rev" I yell out to see if she is hurt. I start to get up and I look around. It is dark and red lights are flashing which mean we set off an alarm when we came in. I just realize Rev hasn't said anything back. I look around and don't see her. I pull off my back pack to get a flash light to see if maybe she is passed out and I am just missing her in the dark.  I turn my flash light on and look around. She is nowhere near me, if I landed here and we walked though together shouldn't we land right next to each other?? I get up so I can start wondering around. I see a bunch of thing on the floor like glass and pens. It is like everyone who was in here just dropped everything in their hands and ran. I see the doors are open, it must mean no one is trying to trap me. I slowly move up the stairs I must have been in the basement which explains the darkness and lack of windows. I walk up to the main level and still no Rev anywhere. I need a new plan seeing as without Rev my plan won’t work. Should I try to get the Orb alone?? No, that seems like a bad idea. I should just try to find Rev first. Okay now that I know what I am doing lets work on the how. I look around to see all the doors to everything are open. I wonder if they left the control room open not that I would have a problem getting past the lock but it would be nice not to have to cut myself. I start to head toward the control room very slowly just in case there are any managers or wellness checkers around. I see the control room door open I am not completely sure but I don't think they are supposed to do that. I walk over to the control room and it is empty.  I am so relieved that no one is here. I put my gun down on the desk to see all the screens are off.  I start to try and turn them on to see if there is any data on what made everyone run out of here. I get the screens to turn on and turn on the cameras to see if there is anyone else in the building. I look around and there is no one. Where is Rev? I look back through the data to see if she fell through when I did. I am searching, I see me walking through the hole and Rev is next to me, we aren't all the way through it yet it is just our leg. What is that??? I get closer to the screen there is a hand coming out of another hole. I see the hand grab Rev’s leg and pull her through the other hole. Whatever it was pulled her so fast it knock us both over. Someone took her, it has to be Charles who else would it be?? Who else could it be??

Poem: Paper degrees

Uneducated in the eyes of the sophisticated society with paper degrees.

My antiquated truths fall flat on ear of supposed open minded thinkers. 

Saying the future is nothing like the past,

snarking at the humble begins at which most of us came from.

I  show no shame for my start. 

I am proud of my hard working parents.

Foolish are those who see a paper hung on a wall and assume that paper stand for knowledge.

When indeed that paper could stand for payments. 

They say our time is the time of accessible information.

How arrogant my generation.

To think the information they find at the end of key word search to be true.

Without real research.

Our time is the time of impostors and hypocrites.

Take a good look back at the greats and you will see.

We are on the same time line of destruction.

Egos to big cannot be carried for long. 

But my words are just one uneducated person's opinion. 

One who does not learn from the past will be doomed to repeat it.

A saying i agree with all too well.

But for all of those who think we are the first to be this big.

just pick up a book on Romans or the Greeks.

Do a little research in the library of Alexandria . 

See what happened to people from the past who thought they were all knowing.

Where might they be now?

Humility is the only way for true survival.

So much like the great we will be in books.

Where future children guess if we were fact or folklore 

Life update: Writing the ending

Good morning everyone,

     So as you know timetopia is my Wednesday series that i put out. Well it is also a novel that I have been working on for over a year. This first book is how ever coming to an end. I am sad writing the end for it. I absolutely love writing this for you guys every week. I am not sure if i will start a new series once this one is over or not. I am  still on the fence. What do you guys think? Would you guys like another series after Timetopia?  I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you as always for being so supportive. 

Love Meisha 

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     Everyone is sitting on the sofa waiting for me to say what my plan is. "It’s okay to be nervous." Kora says trying to comfort me. I wish I could just talk to Rev about my plan. "Rev you know that game you told me about with the flash lights?" Rev face looks puzzled probably because she only told me about it once while we were on the road driving. "Flash light tag?" Rev says slowly. "Yes....... That one..... Ummmm. I was thinking we could do that to Charles. We could make him look in the dark for us flashing the lights only where we want him to look misdirecting him throwing him off for you to attack."  Kora and Rev looked at each other for a while and then back at me. "That could work if we knew exactly where he is going to be." Rev says looking at Kora for a response.  "How???? I mean we could.... Ummm well..." Kora stumbles over her words just as I have just done. We all stand there in silence I think they just realized that having me come up with a plan is not a good idea. “Ava walk me through this a bit.” Rev says as she stands up. I think she literally wants me to walk her through my plan.   

                I lay on the floor after going over the plan step by step with Rev although she thought I was crazy the first half of the time. She finally started to get on board. I am exhausted from running through the plan over and over again. “We should go for a walk.” Kora says as she reaches her hand out to me to help me up. I take her hand and get up off the floor and we head outside. “After you get the last Orb from Charles you are going to need to get back here for the last piece of the plan.” I look over at her as we walk. “What is the last piece?” I ask, she stops walking and shows me her necklace.  She must be talking about the flash drive. “Why would I need that?” I ask her not fully understanding why I would need anything from her flash drive thing.  Kora says “because you will need to go back to stop us from ever creating the time machines in the first place. This flash drive has everything my team and I have ever worked on and all of my research. I am the keeper of all of it I guess you could say.” She laughs. “How did you get that job?” I ask wondering how and why they would trust one person with all the information. "I was the only one who wouldn't use the information to benefit only me." Kora says as if its fact but she had me for her own benefit, didn't she? I am not sure what to say. "Why did they think that? I mean that you wouldn't use it to for your own benefit." I ask with West’s words in the back of my mind. I look long and hard watching every line on her face waiting for an answer. "I had nothing to use it for. We all tried everything to save my sister.  Once it was figured out that she could not be saved my life goal was to make this place everything we had dreamed about. This is why it hurts me so much to have to destroy it, but I will not let our dream become a prison for people. That is just something I needed to change." Kora is trying to do what is best for everyone not just herself. I think West might have known a different Kora. Maybe Timetopia and losing her sister changed her.  "Why can't we just find the person responsible for all of this and just stop them? Why do we have to stop Timetopia’s creation?” I ask Kora hoping that she might see there is another way then just eliminating everything I have ever known. “There is no way of knowing for sure who is doing this. Plus without the Five to keep Timetopia in check…….. It will more than likely just become the world we left behind. I can’t let that happen.  I didn’t go through all of this for this just to become what we left. I would rather you just change that world. I think you and the information on this flash drive can do just that.” I can hear the hope in her voice. “How many were killed in that ruin where your sister was buried?” I ask hoping to remind her of what she did to get herself here. “I wish I could say that those ruins killed millions but by the time we made the Orbs there were not even millions left.” Kora says sadly. “I thought those ruins were from the past not from your time. When exactly did you start it all over again?” Kora shakes her head at my responds. “Yes your right the ruins were not the future. It was the past but all those people were already dead and the future was not a place anyone wanted to go.” Kora says thing just as blunt as Rev. This must have something to do with the world they were raised in. "They were alive when you whipped out the world though, were they not?" I ask Kora trying to really understand her. "Yes they were and it was one of the hardest parts of making this new world. But at the time I thought it was a necessary evil and once I realized we did all this for nothing I came up with this plan." I hear her words and I don't think her justification of everything makes any of it right, maybe undoing everything she did to get here is the right thing.