My name is Gabe and I have made an incredible discovery. I work in a research lab for an unknown government agency that strictly aims to investigate and study unusual phenomena that occurs around the globe. Like what, you might ask? Yes, alien sightings/landings used to be a major part for a while, but after the landing in Nevada was taken care of (it was a shock to learn that it actually did happen when I gained my higher level clearance) and no future events occurred over the following ten years, the focus shifted. Now we study new technology developed by other nations, groups, or scientists that have a potential to be dangerous to the US. I had just graduated at the top of the class with two masters degrees in physics and electrical engineering and was immediately offered a position.
Being a young, new addition to the department, I was stuck looking over the more mundane tech that was deemed to be of little significance but still needed to be looked over; this was mostly junk from jets, ships, subs, or satellites that crashed or was shot down. The good thing was that I was given my own small lab to work in and was on my own...I preferred to work independently. Most of my job was to try to figure out what the usually mangled device was, how it might have worked, catalog it, and then ship it off to be placed in a government storage facility located somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
One Friday I was given a heavy metal box that had looked like it was set on fire and thrown against a brick wall and a metal hoop that was approximately four feet in diameter and looked like it could have been made from the same wire they use to make clothes hangers. There was an extra piece of wire that came directly out from the hoop that seemed to have no real purpose. I used to ask where they found these things that they sent me but I learned fairly quickly that they would never say. It did bother me that I was kept in the dark in terms of the origin of these devices.
I got to work on learning as much as I could about this box and hoop. Pretty quickly I realized that this box was actually a case surrounding a more complex piece and that this metal loop plugged in to a small hole on the side of this device. It still seemed like a pile of junk. I found a port that looked as if it was an input for a power supply. I attached power leads to this port and slowly increased the power to the unit. Suddenly lights turned on device lit up and I heard a soft humming sound. The lights circled three knobs as well as a single button. The hoop filled in with a bright white light which slowly dimmed, and faded so that it was concentrated around the edge. This was something that I had never seen before but was thrilled that I had gotten something to work; usually I have very limited success.
Usually at this point, I would have called a supervisor to have them check out what I've found so far. This thing could have easily been some type of weapon and the last thing I needed was for it to blow up or destroy the building. Instead, I kept playing around with this device. I turned the first knob and I saw the image through the hoop suddenly change. Instead of seeing the wall of my lab through the hoop, I saw sunshine and trees. This was so perplexing; I recognized the area as a park that I liked the run through that was several miles due north. Was this just an image or was it...? I reached out and moved my hand towards the loop and through it, a pretty bad idea in hindsight; I could have lost my hand for all I knew. But as soon as my hand was through the hoop, I felt the warmth of the sunshine. This wasn't just an image, it was an actual portal!
I almost passed out from the excitement. This was not supposed to be possible; all I could think about was how many laws of physics were broken as a result of this. I took a risk of being decapitated and stuck my head through the hoop. It was as if I was suddenly in the park (I technically was).
I pulled back in and went to the device and turned the next knob. The image in the hoop blurred and then settled on a new background. It was still outside but was looking out into a parking lot of a convenience store that was northeast of the facility. The knobs started to make sense now; the first controlled north and south, the other east and west. I moved the east/west knob until I got back to the park. I twisted the third knob clockwise but it didn't change the image through the hoop. I twisted counter-clockwise and first the summer leaves on the trees in the background of the hoop got smaller and then curled up back into the branches. I twisted more and watched as piles of snow grew from the ground and snowflakes shot up from the ground back into the sky. If the idea of a portal to different locations on the planet hadn't freaked me out enough, the thought that this device also turned back time sure did. I felt dizzy but excited. This device was also a time machine.
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A week had passed by and I hadn't told anyone about the time machine yet. I was too busy testing out time travel and figuring out how it worked. I learned that time moved at the same rate both inside and out of the portal. If I spend an hour walking around in the past, an hour also went by in my present time. I also wanted to know about changes to the past and how they affected the future. In short; they didn't. This machine must be more than a time machine and actually open up past events on different independent timelines. I figured that no matter where I went in the past, it was same past that my timeline came from but once I left, any changes that I made created a branch off into a different timeline that never affected where I came from. Time travel was not easy for me to understand and I got a headache trying to make sense of it all. What I did know for sure was that I didn't have to worry about changes in the past affecting my native time. These things are just good to know.
You would think that if I wasn't going to report this machine to my supervisors, that I would use it somehow to benefit me financially or maybe to witness some major event in the past. I could go anywhere on the planet and go back to any date in history. But some fantasy thought came over me first and I decided to pursue it first.
I was the type of guy who was bicurious, but always remained straight publically. I had girlfriends over the years and loved all of the sex but there were times when I wondered about other guys. I would sometimes watch gay porn, especially material that had jocks or thin, fit guys.
I admittedly was in to myself at times. I was pretty fit and toned and would admire myself in the bathroom mirror after showers. I'm 5'8, 160 lbs and am more or less smooth and hair free across most of my body. I am not full of myself or conceited but I am pretty attracted to my body time and could turn myself on pretty easily at times. It wasn't uncommon for me to masturbate infront of a mirror or try to suck myself off. I've tried to several times and couldn't get myself to be flexible enough to get a good mouthful of my cock.
One of my fantasies was to somehow have a sexual encounter with myself. I've thought about a clone or a twin and even time travel and this is what I thought of first. I felt comfortable enough with how the machine worked. I knew that I had this fantasy for a long time and that there shouldn't be a risk of my past self saying no to fooling around. What I did have to worry about is my past self freaking out after seeing himself from the future. I figured I could make a quick escape if anything went wrong and so I decided to try to approach myself in the not-to-distant past.
I picked the summer immediately after I graduated. I hadn't been hired by the government just yet and I wasn't overly busy. I had just broken up with my girlfriend and was in the middle of a serious workout routine to help rebound and get over it. I was looking forward to seeing myself in peak shape...not that I had let myself slip that much since starting the job. I would be staying at my parents house before I moved into my current apartment and during this particular week, they would be visiting my older brother and his family. I dialed in the correct location and year (I had become pretty good at navigating through space and time) and I saw the back of my parents house through the hoop.
It was dark out and the portal was in the wooded area just behind the house; no one would be able to see it. As it turns out, the portal stays open once I climb through, but on the other side it isn't very easy to spot. It looks like a blurry circular piece of glass that looks like the usual background at that point in time. I made sure to know exactly where it was.
I walked up to the back of the house and onto the patio that stretched out from a pair of sliding doors. The lights were on and when I looked into the house I didn't see myself. I heard a familiar voice behind me:
