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| Dr. Gantz�Time Doc�Part II By Mitch Moss My name is Dr. Gantz, and I am a doctor from the year 3123. I was sent here to stop a time traveling assassin named Volstra. As far as doctors go, I�m one of the best, but I am not a good time cop, since I put a lot of time and work into stopping a decoy. The council had great confidence in me. Hopefully, they were not tricked by Volstra as well. I need to stop him before he kills his target, but I have no idea how I will do it. First, I need information. Maybe I can learn something from the decoy. I gave him a shot of stimulant to wake him. I told him that he was mugged, and the crooks left when I arrived. I then asked how he got this show. He replied, �I was a small time magician, doing mostly birthday parties. A man named Tom Franklin came by, and told me that I had talent for greater things, and he would help me. He gave me a new look, and bought me some new equipment. He hired my assistants and insisted that I use Kathy for the sawing. He knew that she would be perfect. Everything went exactly as planned, until the big show. She screamed bloody murder during the sawing, and I thought it was an act. Then the saw appeared to go through her body, but I was not sure if it was real or not. I got very nervous, and panicked. I was afraid that she was really cut, and I would be arrested for murder. In my panic, I left, then I collapsed.� I said goodbye to him and left, knowing that this information would not help me much, but maybe it would help a little. I looked at Kathy�s data in my medscanner, and found no genetic similarities between her, and the genetic data from the Emperor. She was not the target. I found a phone book nearby, and looked up every Campbell in and around Houston. I had to assume that his plan was to kill one, if not all of the Campbells. I had to stop him before he killed the right one. I used my teleporter to transport me to each address. Then I knocked on each door, and pretended to be taking polls, while I used my medscanner. I went through many Campbells, and was getting ready to give up, when I finally found a genetic possibility. Judy was pregnant, and herself, her husband, and unborn child all had genetic similarities to the emperor. Now I found Volstra�s possible target, but the question remains, �Now what?� I have no idea how I will stop him. I am a poor fighter, and he would easily defeat me in a fight. I had to use my brains and some of the deception that I learned from working in that magic show. I went to a store, and bought some simple items: Nails, string, glue, and a hammer. I thought I might be able to improvise a method to destroy his plan. When I returned, she was gone. I did not know if she was safe or not. I programmed my teleporter to locate her genetically, and transport me to her. It would transport me 100 feet away, so that she would not see me. Besides that, Volstra might have a transport scrambler, which would scramble my signal, and destroy me, if I teleport close by. I appeared near an abandoned warehouse. I took some glue, and smeared some on the back of my belt, in case I would need it. I palmed a nail in my left hand, and held my hypo in my right, in case they would come in handy. I entered the office in front of the warehouse, and heard a voice say, �Come in, we were expecting you. I entered the back room, and saw Volstra standing there, and nearby was Judy Campbell, shackled to a table, with a huge circular saw stationary above her. Volstra pointed an energy pistol at me, and said, �I wish to thank you. You helped me find her. If you hadn�t come, I would have had to kill every Campbell, but you led me to her. I know you wish to stop me, so I will give you a choice: Stop me, or save her, you won�t have time for both.� The saw began spinning, and began to descend. She frantically tried to struggle, but there was no point. She was shackled too well. I then said, �You think you�ve won, but you�ve lost.� I then took out a small cell stasis chamber. �This contains cells from her fetus. I can use this to make a clone. As long as it survives, you have no hope. Even if you kill me, the council can send others to make the clone.� Meanwhile, the saw was getting closer, and she was getting more scared and more frantic. If I don�t stop it quickly, she and the fetus will die. I quickly threw the chamber in the air, yelling �Now!� The container then began to glow with transport energy. Volstra suddenly turned, and fired his energy pistol at the container, destroying it. I took advantage of his distraction, and ran towards him, aiming my hypo for a strike at his head. He dodged, and I missed. He turned, and aimed his pistol at me. I jumped back, and he fired. His pistol then exploded in a ball of energy, and disintegrated most of his body. It created a huge hole in the ground, and everything shook. The edge of the energy ball struck two of the legs of the sawing table, causing them to break. One end of the table fell, and her body was now away from the deadly saw. I quickly gave her a sedative to calm her, and after a while, I was able to release her from her restraints. I gave her some treatments, and it appears that her baby will be in good health. After she finally became alert and aware again, she asked me what happened. It is normally against the rules for a time traveler to disclose their identity, or tell anything about the future, but in this case, she had seen a lot, and it is probably part of her family�s fate to know this. It will probably set events for the future generations of Campbell to cause the political downfall of the future generations of Volstra. I told her that we were from the future, and he was here to kill her, to alter the future. I did not tell her specific details. Those would have to happen on their own. She then asked me what happened during the final showdown. I told her, �I used deception, which I learned from helping with a magic act. I held up a cell stasis container, and told him that it was from your fetus. Actually, it was from my own body, but it caught his attention. I had to act like as if it was extremely valuable, so I had my teleporter set to transfer it away. When he fired at it, he was distracted, and I attacked with a hypo loaded with sedative. I knew that I was no match for him in combat, so I did not even try to hit him. I was merely trying to divert his attention from the glue covered nail that I was inserting into his energy pistol. The pistol�s blast energized the nail, which energized the inside of the pistol, and overloaded it, causing it to explode. My people are not very good fighters, but we are excellent scientists.� I refused to answer any more questions about the future. I gathered A small amount of Volstra�s remains, as proof that he was no more. I took Judy home, and was getting ready to return to my time, when I thought, �What�s the hurry?� Magic and Illusion was a lost art in my time. It disappeared hundreds of years ago, and now was my opportunity to learn it, and bring it back with me. THE END |
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