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Gangster Schofield – Page 4

“That’s good. Now let’s just continue remembering, and see if we can’t remake the entire event.” Chet said.

“I’ve got a feeling we have a best-seller on our hands.” I replied. We continued typing our story in…

As I got more and more impatient, I began watching my animated screen saver, Joey Outcast. The car he was in finally appeared from around the corner. I went outside to flag him down. I wanted him not to go in the front door because my mother had just finished washing it. He came, and we went directly to my room. “I’ve got it, Chet!”

“What? What have you got?”

“I figured out how to. . .” I heard some noise around the corner. “Inside,” I said. We went into my room.

“Hey!! Joey Outcast! I love this screen saver.”

“That’s not what I called you over here for.” I commented, turning on the tape player and playing a tape moderately loud. “I figured out how to slow down the passage of time.”

“But time is a constant; it can neither be accelerated nor decelerated.”

“Ah, but that’s where you’re wrong. With the board I just built, and this Audio Basic program, I can tell the computer to slow down time, to us. For everyone else we will be going super fast. So fast that they won’t be able to see us.”

“Yeah right. Some gag.”

“Seriously. Watch.” I said. I went out and got the dog. Putting a funny looking collar on it, I brought it back in. “Now, I’ll activate the program for two minutes, and watch.” I put the dog down, and said, “Activate!” The computer sprung into action, showing the program. On the screen was diagrammed the rate that time would pass for the dog, and the length of time he would be in a faster time. The dog changed positions and was now gnawing on Chet’s shoe.

“Ow, I think he bit me!”

“Yes, this was the fastest setting, he look like he just changed locations, but he thought ten minutes had passed.

“Wow! Does that work for humans too?”

“Sure does, I haven’t exactly tried it, but I wanted you to be here for our first attempt.”

“So we can be kind of human guinea pigs? Is that it?”

“Kinda. But nothing will go wrong.”

“You go first.”

“Okay. But you’re missing the chance of a lifetime!” I said. I put the collar around my wrist. “I’ll be faster than you for two minutes, just try to keep your glasses.”

“Huh?”