Author's note --
This is a work of pure fiction. There is no connection to any real people or places. Any resemblance to real life people, events, or someone else's writings is coincidental. It is for entertainment only and is not to be reproduced without written consent.
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My name is Egan (25), and my great, great, great grandmother helped save the future of planet Earth. I have been tasked to write this story to document the events that would lead up to preventing a world war. Part of this story is documented facts, part of it is family oral history, and part of it is first hand knowledge..
It is the year 2169. It was just 45 years ago that my father discovered how to make it possible to have a cold fusion reactor small enough to power everything from small cars to large ships. It even replaced the polluting oil fired power stations and radioactive risky nuclear power plants of the day. Doing so averted a global war over the last remaining oil reserves.
I've gone back in time 160 years to document a pivotal time in my family's history.
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I had just fixed my great, great, great grandmother's marriage, twice, and was beginning to think it was going to be a full time job just to keep the family history timeline intact.
I had originally transported back 160 years to my great, great, great grandmother's wedding, then fixed things in her and her sister's marriage just 18 months later. Now I had jumped 25 years ahead to see how the kids were doing. According to the family history records, Julie had 3 kids; first Mike, then Mary, then Sara.
My first task was to see how the first born, Mike, was doing. According to my records, Mike had gotten a law degree and was a very successful lawyer for most of his life. His specialty was commercial law, helping both small and large businesses incorporate. His skills were equally matched by his generosity, especially in helping start-up companies looking to find better ways to use Earth resources.
When Mary and Sara graduated college, they started working for two of the most promising start-up companies that Mike had represented. Both companies were ones that Mary and Sara's kids went to work for when they grew up. It had been a good year for Mary's company and, as a reward to employees, the company paid for vacation trips for some of its top employees. Mary happened to be one of those employees.
According to the family history, Mary had elected to go deep sea fishing. The company allowed her to take 3 other people along with her. She chose her sister Sara and two of Riana's oldest girls. All four girls were roughly the same age, early 20's, and had some of the same interests so it was a natural for them. According to the family history, the trip was very successful. A 6' trophy fish hung over the mantle for years.
Having jumped to the time a year or so after the big fishing trip, the companies Mike had been pumping money into to help keep them afloat, were boarded up. When I checked Julie's house, there was no trophy fish on the wall, nor were there any pictures of the big catch. Instead of the mood in the house being happy, it was instead very somber.
I knew the 'big catch' had even made the local newspaper. When I scanned the archives, all I found was an article saying that "Four local girls, on a fishing trip, are missing." The article went on to say that the brother of two of the girls, had spent almost every penny he had in order to find out what happened to them. That last bit of information might explain why the two companies Mike help keep financially afloat, filed for bankruptcy. He had diverted all his resources towards finding his sisters and cousins.
Dreading what I might find, I popped back to the morning of the fishing trip and activated the 'remotes' (my fly-on-the-wall video surveillance devices. Setting the 'remotes' to track the girls I jumped forward a week. There was no signal from the 'remotes'. Trying again, I made successive time jumps, a week at a time, until I finally got a signal, on the Mediterranean coast. From what I remembered, there was a very pricey casino in the area at Monta Carlo.
Jumping to the location, using my time device, I retrieved instructed one of the 'remotes' to return to me so I could download the video, while letting the other 'remote' continue to track one or more of the girls.