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Part Nine
Bloody hell!' Audrey breathed out. Damn good job they can't see us. Just image the panic of a space ship suddenly appearing out of thin air here in the middle of town.' They stood there and watched the hustle and bustle for they were on the edge of the market, Brendan marvelling at the fact that with the map co-ordinates now logged, they could pop into town, over three hundred miles away in a matter of a second or two, do some shopping and be back at the camp before a kettle had boiled.
`Let's have a beer,' he said on a sudden impulse, grabbing her hand.
`We can't do that! They'd freak out if they saw us suddenly appear out of nowhere,' she said.
`We'll find a quiet corner and take off our helmets and we are then really here. We've got to prove that we can just travel over three hundred miles in a matter of seconds,' he said desperately. She saw the logic and agreed so they moved off, still flinching though when somebody walked straight through them till they found a secluded courtyard with nobody about.
`Quick, helmets off,' he said and they did so and felt the heat of the day strike them and they both stood and then laughed and hugged each other.
We did it!' Audrey exclaimed. We could even go to Boston and give your parents the fright of their lives.'
It would certainly be a shock. With the right map references, we could travel the world in a blink of an eye,' he laughed. Let's go and have a beer, I'm thirsty and maybe something to eat,' he said taking her arm into his. `Good job I brought some loose change with me.'
So they wandered out into the market carrying their helmets and found a cantina and had something to eat washed down with a couple of cold beers.
Have we enough money for some fruit and veg,' she asked as they wandered through the market, though you'll have to tell them what we want for I can't understand a word they say.' He laughed and so they bought what she pointed out and with a bag full, found a place for them to slip on their helmets unobserved. They then walked back out into the square where the machine was waiting for them, the people moving about completely oblivious to the two of them walking up the ramp of the ship for it suddenly to disappear as they set course for the camp.
Audrey punched in the sequence of letters as they now called them and the numbers before pressing the enter button. Three seconds later, they were at the camp site, bypassing those squares they had to go through to get to the town. Now they could do their market shopping in double quick time.
`Oooh it gives me the shivers to think that we could have walked through the town stark naked and had sex on a market stall and they wouldn't have seen us,' Audrey said.
`You've got sex on the brain,' he laughed.
It's being married to such a gorgeous hunk of a man that does it,' she said as she gave him a hug and a kiss. Take me to bed and tell me how much you love me,' she whispered in his ear.
After dinner,' he said. If a man doesn't eat...'
`...he doesn't have the strength, I know, you've said it once before. Okay, dinner first and then bed,' she smiled and kissed him.
They descended from the craft and went to the mess tent where she got out two steaks and while they were on the grill, prepared a salad, all with fresh things from their shopping. They didn't need to carry as much food as they thought now that the town was so close in time.
It was just getting dark when the meal was over, and as promised, he went to bed early with Audrey. She was happy to do this and took her time in undressing and letting him see her naked body and was pleased that it aroused him. It was still covered by his shorts but it didn't take long for her to get them off and take him in hand. She pulled him by his prick onto the bed and immediately went down and took him into her mouth.
She liked doing this and preferred it when he was really limp where she could then bury her nose into his pubic hair as she had the whole of his penis in her mouth. She also liked his smell, a man's smell and it was to her now like perfume. Another part of his body she liked was his balls. She would take the sac in her hand and gently heft them up and down as if weighing them and also taking it into her mouth. Rolling his balls around and feeling at how soft and fragile they were, those wonderful plums that manufactured the semen that was not unpleasant to taste and swallow. His tongue and mouth were also adored, especially with what he was now doing after she had swung her leg over his body and moved so that her sex was there for him to suck and lick at her as she was doing to him.
With them both having their orgasm, it would take nearly an hour before he was up and ready to now put himself inside her. With already having come earlier, it made this session last that much longer which pleased her no end of having his hardness constantly moving and pleasing her. She didn't always come for a second time but loved to feel his coming surge and splash into her vagina and still regretted it when he pulled out. Never ever having felt so happy, either of them, they drifted off to sleep.
Next morning, they began to look for a Brontosaurus, and found a herd. The beauty of the sphere was that it could jump about at will and they could observe the animals without leaving it, just sitting up in the dome. They followed three herds over the next month gathering enough material to write many books on the subject when Brendan called a halt. He was heeding his own warning of the danger of being too long in the sphere. That they would continue to age at the normal rate but it only took fifteen seconds in the helmet to have aged one hour. It doesn't seem much stated like that, but over a long period of time it might appear as if they had the disease of accelerated ageing.
One of the reasons for Audrey's success of her thesis was that it was about the first Brontosaurus remains to be found in South America for it had been a widely held belief that they had only lived in North America. Brendan had now pointed out that in just that one month, he'd noticed that they were constantly on the move and it was always to the north.
They spent the next month writing a book that was simply titled Brontosaurus on the lap top and when they couldn't add any more, sent it off to Robin via the phone to his computer in the University. He eventually got it published as being written by Professor's Fowler and Fowler and it received great acclaim within their own circle but was much criticised by the so called critics outside as pure fiction on the lines of Jurassic Park. Though they didn't hear of this until a long time afterwards.
After they had sent the book off, Audrey found a way of stopping the revolving picture of the Earth on the computer that was opposite to the one that showed the grid lines.
It was the top row and second from the left marked if their ideas on the alphabet and numbers were correct as G2. She had pressed this and the globe stopped moving, though, typically, it stopped where there was only water to be seen. She tapped this key again and it began to revolve again. Quite excited at this, she played with this several times and finally got it to stop to show the greatest part of the land mass shown.
She was quite excited by this and it was with some trepidation that she put her finger onto G3 and pressed it, her heart thumping inside her chest and gave out a shriek of joy that brought Brendan over. For there, down in the lower left hand side, a pin prick of light could be seen and it had a small ripple of fading light moving out from the centre. This seemed to pulse about every five seconds, the outward ripple like when a stone or something is dropped in a pond. Strong waves at the impact then a lessening of the circle the further it moves out until it faded away for another pulse of light and the ripples to repeat themselves.
`That's where we are on this land mass,' she cried excitedly, jumping up and down in her chair. He had to agree with her supposition and asked her to show him what she did. So she pressed G3 and the light faded and then pressed G2 and the globe started spinning again.
`We could go all the way to Russia or even China using this in conjunction with the map over there,' she said.
`Well we're not, we don't have the co-ordinates,' he said.
`Let me find them on the other screen. We've got to find out if this white spot that comes up on the globe moves or not?' she said plaintively.
`It will take time to keep going from one plot to another and recording each one as you go,' he said.
`Let me try it Brendan, please,' she begged.
`One hour, then see what the grid shows for the co-ordinates.' So with pad and pencil, Audrey worked as fast as she could, noting down each page as it were as she travelled in a northward direction until the hour was up.
Okay,' she called across to Brendan. I've got the location. Can you press G2 on the other screen and then G3 and see if the spot moves for we certainly will considering the bloody number of grids I've gone through.' He moved over to the screen and pressed those that she had said and saw the light and the ripples.
`Okay,' he said as he held the tip of a pencil lightly to the centre of the white spot and Audrey put the code onto her screen and pressed the enter button.
They heard the familiar light hum and felt the slight tremor for about three seconds and Brendan gave a shout.
`It's moved! Only about a quarter of an inch, but it moved.' Audrey gave a shriek and rushed across and flung her arms about him and kissed his face.
Now we can cross the world,' she said, breathing heavily. Let's go take a look.' They went up to the dome and looked out at a forest of trees that towered above them so that they were really hemmed in.
`Where are we do you think?' she asked in a whisper.
`Not the slightest idea. How many squares have we crossed?'
`I don't know. I didn't count them,' she said in a small voice.
`Well let's go back to where we were and you can count the number of squares and I'll try and work out just how far north we went.' He went across to the central well and looked at the reclining massaging chairs and their consoles and just as Audrey joined him to descend to the map room, he stepped away.
Audrey. I've had an idea. Go down to the globe and tell me if I can stop it spinning.' She gave him a quizzical look but went down anyway. Can you see it?' he called out.
Yes,' she called back. He then went to one of the seat's console and pressed G2. It stopped!' she shouted out. He then pressed G3. `Now the spot has appeared,' her voice getting excited.
Now go to the grid map and punch in the camp site code,' he called down, but don't press enter.' He waited a moment until she called out that she had done so and he felt a shiver run up his spine as his finger hovered and then pressed the symbol G1.
There came the hum and the tremor and he looked out at the blur and then he saw the familiar scene out of the dome.
What did you do?' Audrey said, appearing as by magic up through the vacant space of the well. I heard and felt us move.'
`Come and look,' he said and she moved over to him as he wave his hand towards the outside.
`The camp site,' she breathed out, recognising the landscape though the existing camp wasn't visible whilst they were inside the sphere. He moved over to a console and pressed the button G3 first and paused a moment before pressing G2.
`That should put the world back into a spin,' he laughed and he took her hand and they went down to the map room on the deck below where they could see that the screen did indeed show the planet turning once again.
`You took an awful risk,' Audrey said, looking at him a little reproachfully, though the tone of her voice was full of pride, belying what her eyes were saying.
`A calculated one my dear. Now how many squares had we moved?' he asked briskly. She quickly got her papers and counted through the list she had written.
`Eighty six. How far would that be?' He sat down and worked it out.
`Just over fourteen thousand miles.'
In just a few seconds,' she said in awe. Where did we land?' He got up and they poured over a large scale map of South America and he put his finger on a spot after using a ruler.
Using this modern map, we landed just north of the Andes in Bolivia, near the town of,' and he peered closer to the map, Trinidad.'
`Trinidad? I thought that was in the Caribbean?'
`Well there's a place of that name here in Bolivia,' he said.
`We've got a place called Boston in England too. Did you know that?' Audrey asked.
`Yes and you've also got Hollywood and lots of other names down in Devon and Cornwall that we have in America,' he gave her a smile that was also a smirk. She poked her tongue out at him for his smugness.
They slept that night in the mess tent for that was where their bed would be staying. Though it had been his intention with its construction that they could have it up in the dome, but now that they could travel back in seconds, it was better left in the camp.
He explained again to Audrey using this as an example.
`If we sleep for eight hours a day, in three years we will have slept for one whole year. We will be one year older by just sleeping. Now if we slept those eight hours in the ship, it wouldn't be one year but only just over nine hours at our present time but we will still be one year older. We would be ageing too fast it would appear to the people who know us, so the less time spent in the machine is better for us in this respect. Now do you understand?'
`Yes but we've still got to use the damn thing to get about and learn what we can,' she argued.
`I'm not disagreeing with you on that. It's just that we cannot just waste time by being in there and not doing something constructive. We can't go back to Boston after one year and look as if I've aged ten. What would they think?'
`That your wife must be bloody good in bed?' she laughed and dodged the slap he playfully attempted, grinning at her reply.
But she knew he was right and so that became the pattern of returning when they felt it was time for sleep even though this could still be in the morning sometimes because of this time warp.
Brendan had made progress on the screen and keyboard he had been playing about with, finding the shift keys, save and delete ones too. He was now reasonably confident to tackle one of the three screens they hadn't as yet touched and so sat in one chair and with his hand movement, had the chair move round to one of these.
As the chair stopped, the screen lit up and he had it filled with numbers down the left side and what he assumed was words on the right hand side, though mostly filling it. The numbers were fairly far apart though the words were on steady lines going down the screen.
He was able to scroll backwards and then saw that even though the numbers, sometimes close together, other times far apart, many words filled the page. He went up through quite a few pages before stopping and began scrolling back down.
It was with a growing excitement that the numbers changed, well two did. The first set of numbers didn't change and there was a space to the next four numbers that didn't change either. Again there was a space with another two that did change as he scrolled down.
He'd found their calendar of sorts! He carried on down to the last one and saw that the numbers read as 0012 1836 4706. The last two figures had been 84 when he had stopped to go back to the beginning. Here, he scanned across the words, a series of symbols with a space between the groups to show that they were indeed words trying to comprehend where one sentence ended and another began. On the third line came a set of numbers that seemed familiar and having an inkling of what they might be, had the chair move back to the grid map screen.
Yes!' he shouted, giving the arms of his chair a thump with his fists that made the chair twitch and dither not knowing in what direction to go from his hand movements. Audrey!' he called out as he moved his chair back, `Come and look at this!'
`What is it?' she asked as she went over to stand by his chair, her hand on his shoulder as she looked at the screen.
`I believe I've found their log book.'
`What's that?'
Travel diary. See, these figures on the left are their time date and the rest is what they've seen or done, whatever. This,' he pointed to the figures on the screens right, is the last grid reference they stopped at. The one where the ship was when you found it.'
That's wonderful,' she exclaimed. Can you read it?'
No,' he said crestfallen. But at least we're starting to get an idea of their date system from this.'
`Well it's not going to help if we don't know how they've arrived at it. Like ours is based on the Earth going round the sun and the turning of the Earth as it does so, you know, days and years.'
I know,' he said sadly, but at least it's a start.'
Wait a minute!' Audrey said, her hand tightening on his shoulder. I've seen that set of numbers,' she said pointing to the group of four on the left of the screen. `They're on the console of the Earth turning.' She went over to that screen and they were there lit up on the console. What she also noticed now was that their present grid reference was there too. She moved back over to Brendan.
`But if that's their date then, what do you think it is now? I think we've established that over a hundred million of our years have gone past,' she said.
`I don't know unless we find some sort of calendar or clock in the system. I'll clear this and see if I can find anything else.'
This he did and began trying different combinations, noting down every move he made. Sometimes he found something but without knowing their alphabet, what came up didn't make sense. Audrey got bored watching him and went and sat down in her chair and sent it round to the Earth screen.
She began doing the same as Brendan, touching a key to see if anything happened, noting it down. Five minutes later, she hit one key half way up the console on the left and the date shimmered and now had a bold line round it. This excited her and now she pressed the delete button and the date disappeared. She already knew which key to press for it to return and it did so. Now beginning to fidget in her chair, deleted it once again and then type in a new set of numbers, 0041 1226 2791. She'd increased all the numbers randomly, but was it years in the singular or in hundreds or thousands, she had no way of knowing.
Brendan, would you come and look at this?' she said, so wanting to press the enter button but it had to be his decision whether she did or not for they were in it together if something went wrong. He came over and stood as she had, his hand on her shoulder as he looked at the console. I think we can move the ship in time with this,' pointing to what she'd done. `Can we try it?'
`Well we were going to try it sometime so now is as good as any, but be ready to cancel and get back to the original,' he said.
`Here goes then,' she said and held her breath as she pressed the enter button.
The familiar hum came along with the slight tremor and the screen of the earth went like a television set with its snow flake effect. It then cleared to show just a haze where the Earth was and the ship was now trembling quite a bit, something they had not felt before. They were silent for a minute, the ship still moving slightly beneath them, the haze not clearing from the screen.
Stand by to send it back,' Brendan said. I'm going up top to look.' He quickly left her side to go and stand in the middle and lift his hands to disappear up into the dome. As he went up he raised his head but couldn't see the sky it was so dark and yet he knew it should be light. It was until he got close to the dome's glass that he could see it was whirling dust blotting out the sky. This is some earthquake he said to himself, the vibration that bit more apparent up top. But it would still be prudent to move back in time if that was the way they had travelled he thought as he went down to the map room.
`Well?' Audrey asked, an anxious look on her face.
`There's a hell of a dust storm outside and it feels like an earthquake or something. I think we should move.'
Audrey turned to the keyboard and deleted the date numbers and typed in 0069 1226 2791 and pressed enter.
`I meant back not forward,' he said when he saw the figures on the screen as the hum came and the vibration. The screen went fuzzy again for a moment before settling down to show them the Earth again.
Oh my God!' they both said in unison as they looked at the screen in awe. Will you just look at that?' Brendan breathed.
`The continents have divided,' Audrey said in a scared voice, which indeed they had. The picture of the Earth now had that familiar look of the American continent now divided by water from Africa and Europe, the land mass of Asia disappearing off to the right.
`It looks bigger too,' he said.
`Meteorites?'
More like an internal upheaval if you ask me,' he replied. Christ, it's lucky it didn't split in half to shift that much of the land. Let's go up and have a look.' They both went and elevated themselves up to the dome and looked out to see that there had been a considerable change in the landscape.
Look!' Audrey cried out, grasping Brendan's arm. The Andes! The ridge has gone and the mountain range is now there.' True enough, it was as she said. For as far as the eye could see, the Andes moved away into the distance getting higher the further north they went. `Let's go out. I want to see if the event that happened has put the Earth on its proper axis.' Brendan felt her shiver with excitement as they went down the central core to put their helmets on.
They were quickly outside to see that the terrain was much different, less trees but now they could see the beginning of that mountain range. They squinted up at the sun and then lifted up their visors. They didn't even look at the camp site, but kept lifting and lowering the visors.
Yes!' she cried. The axis has changed!'
Must have been one hell of a bang to do that,' Brendan observed. Their visors were up now and they could see the camp and it conjured up a vision of cold beer in Brendan. Let's go and have a drink, I'm parched,' he said. She agreed and took her helmet off and shook her head to free her hair and he loved to see that action and was very glad and lucky he felt, for having married her.
`How many years do you think we've travelled then?' she asked as they sat at the clear end of the mess table, tipping up her bottle to drink just like an American male.
A few thousand I think,' he replied, drinking his beer the same way, though I had meant for us to go back, not forward.'
Well we can now see where to go,' she said in her defence, and we're now getting close to our time.'
Yes,' he laughed, only a few more million years or so to go.'
`Well the sooner we can get to the nineteenth or twentieth century, the sooner we can work out their calendar.' He looked across the table at this vibrant young woman he had married and felt a stirring in his loins.
`Well we've had an exciting day so I think we should go to bed,' he said.
`Bed? It's not that late and I'm certainly not tired and ready for sleep,' she replied.
`I didn't say anything about sleeping,' he answered her with a wolfish grin.
`Oooh you darling,' she said with her lovely smile, quickly finishing her beer and went and jumped on the bed to wait for him. He laughed at her exuberance and finished his beer before going to the bed and undressing her. Then after taking his own clothes off, joined her, both on the bed and literally by sticking his erect cock up into her inner warmth.
`I love this bed and what we do on it,' she said with her arms round his neck, loving his steady moving in and out of her, feeling her gripping him each time he was fully inside. Brendan loved the way she tried to squeeze him there as his cock throbbed and pulsated in this fashion as he fucked his adorable lovely wife. It pleased him immensely when he was able to bring her to an orgasm and always felt the relief of being able to let go himself and see the delight on her face when she felt him surge within her.