Time is On Your Side

by Stovohobo

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“Let me tell you about what I’ve been doing as I was gone,” I muttered just loud enough for Max to hear. I smiled, relishing this feeling of power. “I’ve been preparing. Training, if you will, to have revenge. Oh, it sounds so idiotically cliché when I say it like that, doesn’t it?”

I let him think a little, then creased my eyebrows and snapped my fingers. The grass around us rippled, the blue sky cracked with pressure that came from the laws of the world unraveling. It was exhilarating.

Max had his eyes trained on me, and yet they were unseeing. He was as helplessly still as his surroundings. I grinned at the corner of my mouth, turned, and started walking away.

Which was when his counterattack came.

Immediately, the bubble of stopped time around us shrunk in to just a cocoon, imploding in on itself until it completely wrapped itself around me. My fingers were unresponsive; I couldn’t move.

Max frowned and said, “Tyler, you’re not evil. It’s too different.”

And he punched me in the stomach.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Time is On Your Side

    Never Explain's Buddy Icon Never Explain

    Posted 4 days ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Very nice, I thought you’d need more than one ficlet, but thanks for leaving a little meat on the bone so I could put in my own details.

  2. Time is On Your Side

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 4 days ago

    Interesting line from Max. Great job on the descriptions of the fantastic (sci-fi) elements.

  3. Time is On Your Side

    Blusparrow's Buddy Icon Blusparrow

    Posted 3 days ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Is max the one that is evil. dang. oo their is a sequel. YEY !
    LoA

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