Mission: Waqt!
I knew it could be dangerous, and that I’d be the first person to do it…but I had to! I knew it could change some very crucial things, but I had to! It was for the betterment of the country. Betterment of the people!
Everything comes with a price!
I stood on the silver platform as the scientist pulled the liver. Luminating the room with blinding white light!
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I woke up in the morning…feeling a little bit different. After rubbing my eyes and stretching myself on the bed, I suddenly realized that the color of my room has changed! In fact, it no longer looked like my room!
I immediately realized what had been happening!
Though, this wasn’t a known house! I went to the calendar and checked the date, it was January 1st, 2020! Perfectly correct!
I tiptoed out of the room and walked towards the kitchen. Just when I noticed a mid-twenty-year-old woman working there! I couldn’t recognize her…and that meant I had to stay away from her! I went back to the room I was in and searched for a window.
After finding one behind the bed, I silently crawled out into the long lane!
There was just a beggar in the entire lane who naughtily starred at me! I gave him a thousand rupee note and he was overjoyed, as I realized, one thousand rupees was a big deal in those days…I mean…these days!
It was just five in the morning and I was in a seemingly unknown street. It just had stalls and stalls, none of which were open, of street food. I knew I was in Delhi but where in Delhi was unknown to me for now!
I walked through the lane and stopped at a chai stall. Having some tea, I trickily asked the bhaiya which street it was.
“Why do you have your stall on this street? Aren’t there better places? It looks lonely!”
The guy replied, “Arey, Sahab! You think this road is lonely? Come here after two o clock! You’ll see hundreds of people! Chandni Chowk is never lonely!”
“Oh! Chandni Chowk!” I muttered under my breath. “Ok bhaiya! Thanks! Bye!”
“Bye! Have a nice day ahead Sahab!” The guy enthusiastically waved at me and smiled counting his money!
If this was Chandni Chowk then it was perfectly perfect for me! I am so happy I am at the same place where I had to be!
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“Yeah! I understand…you need to! But, do not forget to write me a letter while you’re gone!” she said gulping her food.
“Uh…actually! Sonali, I can’t write letters to you!” I said hesitatingly.
“Why?” she asked.
“We aren’t allowed to write letters from where I am going!”
“That’s not fair! Firstly, you aren’t telling me where you’re going and secondly, you wouldn’t write to me! What should I interpret of this? I know this is really important, and that probably you aren’t allowed to reveal information and that this has happened a lot of times before. I know serving the country is a hard job, but this is something different!”
“Sonali! You know I love you! Please understand me…”
“But…Ok! I completely trust you! But promise me, you’ll come back alive!” she said with a tear in her eye looking straight at me.
I hugged her reassuringly, “I will surely come out completely alive! I promise…”
# # # # #
It took me half an hour to find a taxi! But finally, I did, “How much?” I asked him coming out at the Delhi Police Station.
He checked the meter and said, “Teenso Rupya!”
As I entered the quiet building, a guy in uniform asked me what I wanted.
I said, “I want to meet the Chief!”
“Why?” he asked.
“I have some important information he might need to know!” I spoke.
“What?”
“Sorry, pal! But I can’t reveal it to you yet!”
“What rubbish! Come here…” he said annoyed and took me to a guy who looked like a somewhat Police Commissioner! He was doing some paperwork as this fellow barged in and saluted standing in attention!
“Yes?” the man asked.
“Sir! This guy wants to meet the Chief! He says he has some important information to tell!”
“What?” the guy asked interested.
“I can’t disclose it in front of him, sir! Sorry but this is the protocol!”
“Hmm!” he nodded giving this man signals to move out of the room. The guy saluted again, bowed, and barged out of the room.
He then signaled me to sit in front of him.
“What is the important information you want to tell?”
I said, “Sir! I am an Army Timular Officer!”
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“Nonsense! There is no such post in the army!”
“Not yet…but in the future! We are a newly formed team that takes care of all the intergalactic and happenings with the timeline. But, we, with the decision of the Government have decided to take the leap to save lives! And we will do it at all cost!”
“I…don’t understand!”
“See. I am a guy from the future, and the first person to legally use the time machine to time travel and…” The Commissioner stopped me mid-sentence.
“Wait! How do you even think I’ll believe you? You’re wasting my precious time!”
“Sir, I am not lying! See this…”
I took out a navy-blue card I had in my pocket and pressed the button on top of it! It clicked, making a hologram of a certain fifty-sixty-year-old guy that was the Commissioner himself!
“What the…”
“Yes sir! It is you…completely and entirely you!”
His jaw dropped!
“Kandarp! Yes…it is you! Me…you, we’re the same! I am from the future, and this guy, whatever he is saying is completely true. Believe him, he is a trustable ally!”
“See!” I said taking back the card and putting it inside my coat.
“Wha…I…me…a…”
“I know! This might sound miraculous to you, but this is the truth! I. Am. From the future!”
The Commissioner just stared at me with his eyes open wide and his jaw dropped!
He continued shaking himself, “What, was the information…you wanted to tell?”
“Yes! After exactly two months, that is…1st April 2020, there will be a blast. And not a blast! There will be the biggest ever terrorist attack in the history of terrorism!”
The guy leaned forward.
“There will be thirty nuclear bomb blasts!”
“What the heck?! Are you freaking serious?!”
“Yes! I am extremely serious…”
“In what thirty places will these bomb blasts take place?”
“Wait!” I took out a blue sheet of Tsramper, an advanced replacement of paper. “They are New Delhi, Jammu, Leh, Shimla, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Lucknow, Jaipur, Bhopal, Gandhinagar, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Amaravati, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Raipur, Bhubaneshwar, Ranchi, Patna, Kolkata, Gangtok, Itanagar, Dispur, Kohima, Imphal, Aizwal, Agartala, Shillong, and Varanasi!”
“No way! Those are the major tourist or economical attractions of the country. Our economy, social life, everything will be demolished! I have to inform the Chief immediately!” he said getting up!
“Wait!” I stopped him, “My assistance, with you, is only till this point. I cannot assist you people, anymore…”
“But…the places? Where will these bombs be operated and blasted from?”
“That was never known. Nothing was left for things to be investigated. Everything ended. It was the beginning of the country’s downfall. Until…”
“Until?”
“I don’t think you should know much about the future. Your future is in your hands!” I stood up, saluted him, and brought out a silver button from my pocket.
I pressed it and I was sucked back into the void of “time”. The endless blue void of time that never ended…
But I didn’t reach back in a zap! As I had to.
I stopped at a place in the vast open space of eternity. I felt like I was underwater. I was levitating. Probably because there was no “end” of this void…just as I heard a voice behind me, “You know you made a grave mistake by altering the timeline?”
I turned. Seeing an old, around a sixty-year-old guy with a lean figure standing with his back at me. “Who are you?”
“I am…time!”
“Time?!”
“Yes, I am the energy that’s letting you survive right now. And do you know, what you have done?” he said. The man had such a quiet and serene face. He somewhat looked godly.
“Wha…what…is that su…supposed to…mean?”
“You’ll see yourself!” the man said and vanished.
After which, my eyes opened near a trash can. In a lane, I never knew! I stood up and went to the main road. Vehicles were moving, people were walking but it didn’t seem the way it was. It seemed…different.
I ran around and understood the city was Delhi itself! But Delhi didn’t look like this. It was entirely different!
I went to the laboratory I was “time-traveled” from. But to my utter surprise, it was close! It was raided down! My heart throbbed and my legs shivered. What the heck was happening? I decided to go to my house. Running on the streets as people starred at me unpleasantly, I somehow managed to reach my house!
I went to the building’s compound and found out…
Sonali was standing there, happily, and a guy, someone I never knew, was at his knees. With a ring in his hand that Sonali agreed for!
Seeing this…my heart broke. Somewhere beneath my heart, I shattered. I saved this country in numerous ways. But only I knew that…
Just when Sonali looked at me, I hoped she remembered me. But she didn’t, she just smiled at me and looked back at the guy.
Everything comes with a price! And I understood that…
