Out of time and place

Serris · **Reply #300 on:** September 16, 2010, 01:48:12 AM

Deimos nodded. "Sure, it's not like I have anything better to do," he said. He was playing with the stone knife that he had made.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #301 on:** September 16, 2010, 07:07:23 PM

Frank started to tell Deimos the history of Germany begining with when the Romans crossed the Rhine river and explaining the events in Germany through the years and the many wars Germany had been involved in including the Napoleonic Wars, the Thirty Years' War, World War 1 and all that had happend in World War 2 including the July 20th plot finishing off with the destruction of his home city of Dresden. "So that's the history of my country so far," frank said.

Dima02 · **Reply #302 on:** September 17, 2010, 11:02:35 PM

In Cleve's dreams, he was standing in the ruins of a futuristic city in somewhere in Germany. He could tell that the city was German from the names on the broken signs around him. Although it was Germany, there were no swastikas or any nazi propaganda in sight. However, what Cleve did notice was a group of soldiers and big tanks firing at something in the distance. The tanks didn't look like anything American, German, British, or Russian. It was larger than any tank Cleve has ever seen, and it carried a huge gun or its size. The soldiers were shouting in English and busy firing hand-held machine guns at something.

Cleve ran up to the group of soldiers and dove in behind a low breastwork. Mortar fire fell all around them. "What's happening?" Cleve demanded.

"The Soviets have declared war on us," a soldier said in English.

"Grab a gun and fight, lieutenant," yelled a commander with a British accent. The soldier threw Cleve a gun. It felt especially light for its size, but it didn't matter. Cleve dove next to the soldier and took cover behind some breastworks. The soldier next to him was shooting wildly at something.

"What are you doing?!" the soldier yelled, "Open fire."

Cleve looked over the breastworks. There were about twenty huge planes dropping paratroopers. The planes were larger than all American bombers, including the B-17, and they flew at amazing speeds.

"Open fire!" the soldier yelled again.

Cleve shot the gun at one of the planes, but to no avail. It wasn't long before a rocket-like projectile hit one of the planes and exploded it in a ball of flame.

"Look out!" someone screamed. Cleve instinctively looked around and saw two planes headed for him at unbelievable speeds. Based on the speed, Cleve could tell that they were probably both jet-powered or rocket-powered. One of them dropped a bomb on Cleve's position. Cleve could only watch as the bomb fell towards him.

"AHHH" Cleve woke with a sweat on his face. He suddenly realized that it was only a dream, and he was still in the Great Valley. Noting that he might have disturbed some people nearby, he applogized, "Sorry, just a bad dream."

Kor · **Reply #303 on:** September 18, 2010, 01:25:02 AM

Dan looked over at Cleve, "had a bad dream? Want to talk it over, or not?" He asked him, sitting up partially.

Serris · **Reply #304 on:** September 18, 2010, 02:59:44 AM

Deimos nodded in interest. "So I see, your world is very different from ours," he said. He then sighed. "Pity so many wars were fought."

He then turned his head towards Cleve. "Cleve, is everything okay?" he asked.

Dima02 · **Reply #305 on:** September 18, 2010, 12:04:20 PM

"I'm okay," Cleve said, "I was just dreaming that I was caught in some futuristic battle between us and the Soviets."

"It just seemed so realistic." Cleve moaned as he rubbed his head.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #306 on:** September 18, 2010, 04:56:28 PM

"Did it have jet aircraft in it?" frank asked.

Dima02 · **Reply #307 on:** September 18, 2010, 05:48:37 PM

"I didn't see any engines, but they were probably jet-powered or rocket-powered."

Cleve continued to explain his dream to Frank. Cleve has heard of jet and rocket power before, but he has never seen one.

How did he know about jets in my dream? Cleve wondered, Did the Axis figure out how to make them later in the war?

Kor · **Reply #308 on:** September 18, 2010, 06:44:09 PM

"Sounds like a horrific unsettling dream." Dan said, glad he had not had such a dream. "I hope you are feeling better."

Serris · **Reply #309 on:** September 18, 2010, 07:50:51 PM

Deimos scratched his head. "Who are the Soviets? Are they a herd of creatures like you?" he asked.

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James wandered through the concrete and steel ruins of a futuristic post apocalyptic city. He glanced around, there appeared to be no one else alive but himself.

Suddenly, he heard shouting - in English. He turned around an saw a platoon of soldiers rushing towards him but they were dressed in very futuristic looking armor.

He turned to run but one of the soldiers slid a rifle to him. "No time to run!" the man shouted.

James picked up the rifle; it was recognizable as a firearm but it looked like no other firearm that he had seen before.

The soldiers around him scattered, taking cover behind various piles of rubble and ruined buildings. James dove behind a pile of rubble.

Suddenly, shooting broke out.

All of a sudden, James found himself back in his SUV. He was rather confused.

He opened the door and got out.

"Speaking of dreams," he said just as Dan finished speaking. "I had a really weird one."

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #310 on:** September 18, 2010, 10:42:23 PM

"Well sort of they're a group of humans who overthrew their government in the middle of WWI and created one for the people at least that's what it was supposed to be," Frank said. Frank took a folded piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to cleve on it was a drawing of a Me-262. "When I first heard of it I didn't beleive it was only when I encountered it that I did beleive."

Dima02 · **Reply #311 on:** September 18, 2010, 11:52:03 PM

"The smaller aircraft sort of looked like that, but they appeared to have one large engine at the front, triangular wings, and a lot of rockets under the wings," Cleve said pointing at the drawing.

"The Soviets are people from another area. They look just like us, but there are a lot of ideological differences between us."

"And James," Cleve asked, "what was your dream?"

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #312 on:** September 19, 2010, 12:01:36 AM

"So since you brought matt up to date on what's happened in the war I guess I should bring you and matt up to date on what's happened," frank said.

Serris · **Reply #313 on:** September 19, 2010, 12:03:52 AM

Deimos nodded. "I see," he said.

James took a breath. He was somewhat reluctant to share it but seeing as Cleve was doing the same, he decided to do it.

"I was inside the ruins of some futuristic city. I don't know where it was but it might have been America because the soldiers I saw spoke English. But the soldiers were dressed in armor that looked like it came right out of some science fiction movie. The last thing I remember was one of the soldiers sliding me rifle that looked like it came out of an SF movie. Then I woke up," he said. James then rubbed his forehead. "But I never served in the military," he added.

Deimos scratched his head. "Was this battle against the 'Soviets'?" he asked.

James shook his head.

Kor · **Reply #314 on:** September 19, 2010, 01:24:55 AM

Dan listened to what was being said without commenting. "Sounds like more then one person had a weird or bad dream. Do you folks normally have such dreams like this?" He asked looking at those present.

Serris · **Reply #315 on:** September 19, 2010, 01:33:01 AM

"Why would I dream about fighting in some futuristic battle?" James asked. "Like I said, I never served in the military. Though I have been known to play science fiction first person shooters but I have not done so for the past few days because I was so busy packing," he said.

Dima02 · **Reply #316 on:** September 19, 2010, 12:04:53 PM

"I usually don't have dreams this detailed either," Cleve said, "and plus, those details were way too realistic."

"Do you guys know if it's possible to put a jet engine at the front of an aircraft or if it's possible to have homing rockets?"

Serris · **Reply #317 on:** September 19, 2010, 06:21:25 PM

James nodded. "Homing rockets are very common weapons in the future," he said.

Deimos looked into the embers of the fire. "Do you guys think these dreams may mean something?" he asked.

Dima02 · **Reply #318 on:** September 19, 2010, 09:01:48 PM

"It is definitely uncommon for two people to have the same dream," Cleve said, "Maybe we're here to prevent another world war?"

"You know guys," Cleve moaned, "I'm really not supposed to tell you this, but the experiment I was conducting in Philadelphia before I came here involved some fairly high electromagnetic fields--so high that it can bend space-time. That's a extremely likely reason why I'm here right now."

"What I'm saying is," Cleve continued, "the government might have actually discovered time travel and used it to send Dan and James back here to tell us something important. Did you guys notice anything strange before you appeared here?"

Kor · **Reply #319 on:** September 19, 2010, 09:28:36 PM

Dan tried to remember if he saw anything worth mentioning. "Did any of you see anything? It may help me to remember." he said, pausing for a moment.

"I'd have to think that over, but I don't know a lot about world war 2. I saw a few shows about it on PBS. One was about some prisoners of war in Germany who were secretly trying to make a plane to escape, and some modern folks made a plane using their plans and proved it would have flown. They didn't get a chance to since they were freed by the american army before their plane was finished. They invited the still living survivors so they could see the work space they made and see it's flight. Another one was about some sort of little plane that the allies captured that one american pilot described as a get engine with wings and a tiny cockpit. And another was about some German scientists who very late in the war eluded some of the allied and German forces so they could go to a part of Germany and wait in a cousin of the project head, or somesuch, so they would be captured by the Americans instead of the Russians. "