"Nice try, Kayla." Katt snarked.
"What?" Kayla asked. "If you don't believe me, does anyone have the skills to fake something like this?!" She shouted in annoyance, and urged the rest of the group to check their cellphones.
The date on her phone read August 27th 1887.
"Are you seeing it too?!" Camelia asked. Katt and Alicia brought out their phones to double check. "Yeah!" They said. "This isn't one of your pranks?!" Ella asked in shock.
"Told you I didn't do it." Kayla said.
As they looked around, they saw more proof something wasn't right. Their cellphones had reception, and a radio tower was in view. How could this be possible if they really were in the 1880's?
"Argh! Even back home, I can't escape this confusing technology! I only bought this blasted contraption to be hip and cool!" Claudia lamented. She was another student at Capital Remedial, but she was also none other than Susana's younger sister who lived as a student after the time machine she had access to broke down. She was holding a trendy smartphone. She looked similar to Susana but was taller with long hair in a medium shade of pink, and she wore her hair in a ponytail with a green bow.
The group didn't have much time to think about the ramifications of being in this time period or about the changes that were made to it. Perhaps the standard of living was better than the 1880's were, but the group's optimism didn't last long because the skies were turning red and crackling because the space-time continuum is falling apart!
Camelia quickly reacted and cast a magic circle that had a geometric pattern with overlapping squares surrounded by four smaller circles that had four-point stars in the middle of them. Near her she summoned large columns of hard light that rose from the ground and into the sky.
"The other Dimension Weavers and I are trying to hold it all together, but there are too many anachronisms for it to be stable!" She warned. The columns reached into the sky which was then starting to crack. Camelia and the rest of the group waited on edge to see if the columns were strong enough to stop the cracked sky from breaking.
"No! It didn't hold!" Camelia warned. The tops of the columns started to shatter against the pressure of the sky, which began to fracture! Pieces of the sky broke and fell in fragments below; where the sky had broken, the space was dark blue with lighter blue and white glitchy effects.
The group could only look as more fragments of the sky and space-time began to fall.
They kept falling, and the columns collapsed. Suddenly everyone was being lifted up into the space in place of the sky. There were more glitchy effects in different colors; surroundings were pixelated in some areas. Other people were also starting to glitch!
Ominous messages in glowing red and white text appeared throughout space: "A problem has been detected and the space-time continuum is shutting down to prevent further damage to your computer and your existence. The problem seems to be caused by the following file: space-time.ext. Time_Travel_Error_Anachronism_Overload"
It was inescapable!
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