Short Story - The Chronosians, Pt.2

After years of The Time Balancers Saga stewing in the back of my mind, my vision of the Time Balancers became a group of individuals who lived in a pocket dimension observing the timeline, and their job was to look for paradoxes.

Warning: deaths by automobile accident, plane crash; mentions of a great fire, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide

When working on this project for my creative writing class, I instead decided to make these people called "the chronosians." The chronosians had a master timeline, the "correct" timeline, but sometimes something went wrong in the timeline, and the chronosians did their best to try and fix it from afar.

The story followed the leader of the chronosians, Aditi, and her daughter, Ranjana. Aditi and the chronosians are observing the timeline, and watch as a woman who was to become the mother of a future senator was about to be hit by a bus. Aditi messes with the controls allowing the bus to turn and break before hitting the woman, but instead it hits a man. Ranjana gets angry that the "right" timeline is the one where that man died, claiming that he shouldn't have been sacrificed just for the "greater good" and that Aditi focused too much on the bigger picture, while Ranjana believed that entering the timeline to make more minor changes would lead to a better timeline closer to the "correct" one. Ranjana storms off and enters an off-limits time pod to take her into the timeline. Fearing her daughter will damage the timeline, Aditi goes after her.

Ranjana goes to the London 1666 fire, where it was stated 300,000 people were killed. Ranjana pauses time and saves as many people as she can. The casualty number goes down to 6. She then saves two Jewish children from being killed by Nazis in 1942 Germany, and the two kids live on through the 21st century. Next, Rwanda 1994, where Ranjana saves a mother and her two children from being slaughtered. Her final stop is the 2012 street where she saw the man killed by the bus. Ranjana pulls him out of the way. He introduces himself as Jason Lake and offers to buy her coffee. She agrees, not seeming to be in a hurry.

Meanwhile, Aditi has been following Ranjana's progress, shocked by the positive effects on the timeline, but when Jason Lake was saved, suddenly there's a huge error in the timeline. She drags Ranjana out of the coffee shop and back to their time pocket. The chronosians panic, trying to figure out how to straighten the timeline.

Aditi then explains to Ranjana that the reason why she banned going directly into the timeline was because she fell in love with a man, which caused time to unravel just like this is, so the chronosians caused the man to die in a plane crash before he met Aditi, which fixed the timeline. Aditi, however, was unaffected due to being a chronosian, and still birthed his child, that being Ranjana. Ranjana takes this to believe that time predicted that she would start a relationship with Jason Lake. She explains to Aditi that Jason's death caused a small wrinkle in time, so he needed to survive, but if Ranjana herself went back to stop herself from going to the coffee shop, there would be a paradox, so instead Aditi goes.

Aditi arrives two minutes before Ranjana previously did and purposefully collides with Jason, then asks him to walk with her for a few minutes in the opposite direction. The previous Ranjana looks around for Jason, but disappears in a green light as time begins to repair itself--since chronosians are unaffected by changes in the timeline.

In the end, Ranjana realized that she needed to look at the big picture while Aditi realized she had to look at the smaller details. Aditi agrees that some scouts should be sent out to repair the smaller wrinkles in time, and that Ranjana would lead this squad.

Overall, I really like this idea. I feel like I could easily adapt these into a series of short stories, and Tiffany's could still be salvaged, but at this point, I don't know. My biggest problem with this is that I was forced to write it in script form, so it's rather rushed. But I still am very proud of how it turned out.

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