Somewhere In Time: The Tale of Blade Storm

"Crap! This won't do." I heard my friend, Jacob, exclaim.

I gave him a sharp glance. "What's wrong this time?" I grumbled. His tone wasn't indicating a very friendly attitude towards the situation. He had been messing with whatever the heck he was working on for hours.

"It's still freakin' jammed!" he exclaimed with a voice that made me fear he was going to go breaking something soon.

"I don't even understand what in the world you're even trying to fix!" I retorted. He stared at me with a scowl more disapproving than anything I had ever seen before.

"It's a chronoscrambler, or rather THE chronoscrambler since I'm the one who invented it. That is, until it got jammed before I could test it." he explained. He continued "It can fabricate time in order to propel a person to any point in time and anywhere you want, granted that it's on Earth. Think of it as a terrestrial TARDIS."

I responded, saying "Well have you turned it off and back on again?"

He mumbled some curses under his breath. "You do realize that that trick only works with things like phones, right?"

I countered "Well maybe you should try it."

He paused for a moment, pondering if he should give in. He mumbled a few more curses a bit louder, sighed, and turned the device off. He then switched it back on. After a few moments, he retorted "See? I told you it wouldn't-," being interrupted by a light flickering in the middle of the polyglass frame.

He appeared dumbfounded. "Holy crap! I thought it was just a stupid trick used when your phone was being glitchy, but I guess it really does work." However, his expression soon changed to a more serious frown as he said "We need to turn it off, it hasn't gotten unjammed yet!"

He rushed over to the machine and started trying to flip the switch. "Dang it! The switch is stuck!" He started to panic, trying desperately to slam the switch downwards.

The heat in the room quickly increased. I started wincing as it got hotter, and started screaming once it got into the 60 degree Celsius range. Thank god the air was dry, otherwise I would have died.

There was a flash and a great boom. I heard the sound of glass breaking and bit my tongue to stop myself from making myself mute from screaming as I felt the shards enter my body.

The pain was sudden and I felt a warm fluid running down my chest as I looked down and saw a piece of the window impaled in my neck. It was the last thing I saw before I blacked out, praying that I would live.