“Well thanks for the game, I’ll see you later.” He left the room. I moved toward a bed and sat down. Directly in front of the foot of the bed was a box. “I wonder if that is today’s equivalent of a T.V.. I wonder how you turn it on.” Right when I said on, there was a burst of sound and in front of me was a 3-D image of piloting a space ship. I yelled, “VOLUME DOWN!” It immediately went down. I found a card of instructions to my right. Reading the instructions, I “flipped” through the channels, but found that even in the future T.V. is just thirty-six channels with nothing worth watching. Although it did enlighten me to some of the new ideas of fashion in 2060.
I had just about laid down to fall asleep when the door opened. I looked, and I think it was Nurse Tim. He greeted me and told me how to get a hold of him if I needed him. Also he told me that in one hour was my exercise period. He said that this was to build up my strength and endurance for my mission, whatever it is. I laid back down on my bed when I was again disturbed by the door opening. In came Ryan. “So how’s the ancient detective?”
“Ancient? I’m twenty three!”
“Not in this time frame.”
“So how did you guys know to contact me? Even if one of you did know me in your time frame, you would have been a little kid.”
“You were my mentor in 2025 when you caught those two. You continued to teach me until I got out of college and we were good friends, but then came the accident.”
“What accident?”
“Never mind. Let’s get down to business. Andrew sent me to tell you your mission, he has a big case.”
“Okay, so what’s my mission.”
“We need you to locate the Double D’s hide out.”
“How am I supposed to do that?! I have no knowledge of your futuristic machines!”
“True, but you are the only detective that caught the Double D, plus they won’t expect your being here.”
“Swell, and how am I supposed to know where to start?”
“We have arranged for you to have a partner from this time frame, but we’ll fill you in totally tomorrow. For right now, you need to get healthy and find the Double D so we can return you to your own time!”
“You’re telling me!” Ryan said good-bye and left the room. Nurse Tim came in, and after rigorous training, I returned to my room and fell asleep. The next morning Andrew came in and woke me.
“It’s time for you to leave.” He said. I got up, and got dressed. “Do you people always undress, then redress?”
“What do you mean?”
“Why not just wear the clothes? OH! Your clothes wrinkle! I forgot! Sorry. Our clothes are wrinkle free.”
“Won’t the clothes get smelly though?”
“Won’t??”
“Will they not get smelly though?”
“No, use this button to clean them while they are on you.”
“Wow!” I said, trying it.
