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Chapter 4 - Arrested

Narrator Point of View

He barely had time to break his fall, his hands scraped the floors and got splinters from the twigs on the ground. He looked back and there was no door. Because he had to let his curiosity win over and now he landed in a place that he knows nothing about. He got up and checked his backpack. Nothing has broken. He looked around as he got up and checked to see if anyone was around. No one was in sight and there was no trail. There was still daylight. He checked his phone for the time. There was no signal, but the battery still worked. Only six thirty and it was starting to get breezy with cold air. Daniel shivered a little from the gust of wind that hit his back. He began to rub his arms a little and then blow hot air on his finger tips. He then continued to walk and kept looking back and forth. He was able to spot a camping sight that had floating cameras lighting the area. He stood behind a tree to observe. There was a couple setting up camp and then they flashed their hands over the lens. It made a beep sound and flated over them. Then small little pistol looking devices popped out from it pointing in different directions. Daniel overheard a female say, "what are those?" The man with her said, "it's part of the protection package I purchased, it stuns any animal or human trespasser within ten feet of our camp spot. The trespasser might get past it, but not without getting hit first. Soon after the trespasser will get knocked out. If I don't wave my bar chip within five minutes, the police and rangers get dispatched to our last known location and the camera footage gets reviewed right away. The other pods nearby get alerted and begin scanning and sending live feed until the trespasser is found and unconscious." She said, "wow, I was scared to go camping for the first time. But now I feel better about it." The man replied, "the project was created long ago and it got distributed back in twenty two hundreds. It's to combat the watchers." "What?" she asked bewildered. "Nothing, we shouldn't talk about it. It's just a conspiracy theory that floats around each year." She laughed, "you believe that?" He replies, "no, we just joke about it." Then they entered their tent where they were obvious of what they did from the sound of the noises they made.

Daniel walked away really fast from the camp sight to get as far away as possible. His ears were red and he felt emberrased to hear the couple get intimant. He far enough not to hear them anymore. Then he looked up, there was a pod floating in the air that had not detected him yet. He leaned agaisnt the tree he was in slowly moving. Then he heard footsteps, it was a small animal that was carrying some berries. The pod scanned it as it ran past it and it beeped. A green light blinked.

Daniels Point of veiw

That was awkward, but what really had me exasperated was when he said that the year twenty two hundreds as in past tense. I was still in the twenty hundreds a few minutes ago. The woodland areas are now covered in pods. If I'm that far into the future, then I must not even be recognized. And all that guy had to do was wave his hand at the thing. What did he call it? His bar chip. I couldn't even see the bar chip he referred to.

I don't know what to do. If I turn myself into the police station, they night think i'm cazy and the goverment might take me to do scientific studies on me. I never believed in that conspericy stuff, but I've also never traveled through the future. I should put on my hoodie from my back pack and find a place I can burrow like an animal to sleep in. Maybe i'm dreaming and I will wake up. I don't even know if I will wake up.

Narrator point of view

Daniel continued walking and found a thick bush were he crawled under it and pulled out a sleeping bag from his backpack. Then he stayed up to watch the moon step into the sky and light the night. He let out a deep breath. And stared at his surroundings, then a pod floated pased him scanning at random. It remined him of a movie he saw long ago were the protagonist voluteered as tribute. He couldn't remember the name, but those cameras reminded him of that. Then he saw something moving fast thought the bushes. It was a shadow figure that moved from tree to tree barely making noise as it traveled. I got closed to the pod and when the pod was about to turn around, the shadow sliced it open. Daniel was stunned at the sudden change of events. He saw as the shadow fiure disapeared into the darkness of the wood. Then he started to try and wiggle out of his sleeping bag to get out of that place. It would be five minutes before someone came knew what he just witness. But to Daniels surprise, he was detained by a bunch of men in armor. They flashed their bright lights that blinded daniel. Daniel was surrounded.

Soon a man said, "hold it right there, your under arrest for destroying govement property. We will review footage and complete a thurough investigation." Another man lifted Daniel effortlessly and then cuffed him. Daniel let out a groan in defeat. Another man grabbed his backpack and they began to take him to a floating motorcycle not far from them. One of the men pulled out a bottle and pours it on Daniels back. It was like liquid metal. Then he took a rod the stretch out and touched the metal to electricute it. His closed suddenly felt stiff and something circularr was attached to his back. The top shoulder, the lower back and his calfs. He took a magnet from his pocket and put in on his glove, then swiped his hand on the ground really fast. The liquid that fell on the ground lifted up and attached itself to his glove. He removed his glove and threw it in a bag. He then placed he bag in his motorcycle comparment and pushed Daniel to the ground. Daniel expected to hit the ground and closed his eyes awaiting for the impact. He realized he was hovering over the ground. The man started to drive and Daniel's body was following him like a floating surfboard now.

As Daniel was facing the sky, he moved his head to the left and right to capture the view of a city. The buildings seemed to be a mix of concrete and forrest green crystals. People still traveled by foot or on a floating board. They would be sitting staring at a screen. He couldn't tell what the screen was showing, but almost everyone would be stuck to it. Even the people walking were not really walking on the ground, they had those boards to that had a treadmill built into it. At least that was the assumption, until one lady stopped walking and decided to sit down. The treadmill stopped and a chair began to form. Then a table appeared before her where she began to type into the screen. He also saw a hovering board take someone through a drive through. The meal was handed onto a hook and the person kept going without paying. It was all very odd and facinating. However, Daniel was now in custody and being charged with de

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