A few weeks ago:
Thomas, Sarah and Robert all three were working in their lab below the Baxter auditorium.
Thomas was working on an unusual asteroid whose surface couldn't be matched with anything present on Earth, "Is this some kind of alloy or a new element?" he questioned himself.
Sarah, who was staring at the scan reports of the same asteroid couldn't quite figure out anything, "Robert, I can see that there surely is something inside the rock but it is impossible to figure out without cutting the rock open."
Robert, who was also investigating the strange rock looked back and asked Sarah, "So should we open it?"
Thomas turned his head and asked, "Shouldn't we inform the authorities first?"
Robert looked at him and answered, "If we discovered an entirely new element shouldn't we get the credit, and not the higher authorities?"
Sarah agreed with Robert and Thomas had to agree with both of them, "Bring me the laser cutting tool." Robert instructed.
Sarah grabbed it and handled it to him, Robert pressed a small green button and from the end of the tool—which looked like a pen emitted highly dangerous laser beam.
The laser cracked the asteroid—"This thing is surely dark." Thomas said.
Sarah stood back in embarrassment because inside the asteroid was a solid dark stone—a new element.
"This is not liquid." Robert said while staring at the dark stone.
Sarah apologized because they needed to bring a big glass chamber because they initially thought that the asteroid contains some kind of liquid inside of it.
Robert started talking with Sarah regarding the wrong assumption while Thomas looked at the dark stone.
The stone started shaking a bit—Robert who was still talking with Sarah was called by Thomas.
"What Thomas?" Robert asked.
"Maybe, Sarah was right." Thomas said.
Robert and Sarah approached Thomas and were surprised to see that—the dark stone had melted into its liquid state.
Present day:
All three were sitting on chairs—silent and yet the silence was loud.
"Should we inform the authorities?" Thomas asked—his voice low and concerned.
Sarah tried to speak but was stopped by Robert, "Sarah, can you tell me—have you ever discovered anything since you started working here?"
Sarah looked at Thomas and replied, "When I was 22 years old, I-I found out dead microbes from Mars soil sample."
Robert rested his left arm on her shoulder and asked, "What happened then?"
Sarah's eyes filled up with tears and she replied, "The supervisor I was working with stole my hard work and fired me."
Thomas saw Sarah's tear tracing her face and then falling on the ground—"So if we inform anyone…" Thomas started.
"…we lose our work." Robert ended.
Thomas looked down while Robert comforted Sarah—soon they heard Thomas.
"If we understand the concept behind the looping of our element then we can convince the authorities that—we can go back in time but we can't interact with anything—it will solve our paradoxes problem."
Robert looked at him and smiled—"But are we certain that our machine will solve our paradoxes problem?"
Thomas looked at him and replied, "You asked for a theory and I created one—there is no surety that it will work but one thing is certain—we are about to play gods."
Robert stood up, grabbed his phone and dialed few numbers—"Hello, am I talking to Dr. Grey?"
Thomas and Sarah stared at Robert, who just called someone—they weren't aware of.
"Yes, Dr. Grey—this is Robert speaking; actually I have called you to ask you about something—how can we contact president?"
Thomas and Sarah started laughing as they realized that even Robert was unaware to what to do next.
In few day, the entire world was aware of it—3 brilliant scientist working on a way to time travel. People considered them as 'Mad scientists'.
The three of them were standing on a podium—beside the three of them was standing the President.
The president was the first one to speak—"Our nation once spoke to the world that we are always ahead of others but today, I stand here to speak the speak line once again—our nation is always ahead of others."
After that president called Robert to briefly describe their project—he came and stood right where the president stood just few seconds earlier.
"This is a very big opportunity for me and my colleagues—Thomas and Sarah. All three of us were once robbed; our hard work was stolen but today—we are standing here with the greatest discovery; Time Travel."
The audience clapped, Robert felt proud of him and his team—he looked back at them both and smiled and continued speaking, "Our team discovered an unusual element few days back—our first assumption was that many different elements have alloyed to form what we were seeing but we were entirely wrong—the new element we discovered is still mystery to us but inside the asteroid we found yet another mysterious element, we name it—dark energy. It has a strange property to loop back in the time to reach a moment when it was stable and so we get an idea—can we time travel using it? And I can assure you—we can and we will."
The audience started clapping way louder than before, but Robert wasn't finished—"I don't know what my colleagues have plan with this—but I know what I must do. There is a very rare syndrome called—Hypergenesis Syndrome, which mutates one's body in a way that his body becomes very complex to understand. The syndrome causes the development of veins and muscles in unusual rate—which in turns spread cancer throughout the body, there are very few people with this syndrome and I assume that we can use our dark energy to revert back one's condition to normal."
Robert's speech was being heard by a kid—younger than him—lying on a hospital bed, "I-Is th-this true?" he asked—his voice low and weak.
One of the doctors attending the kid replied, "Only if they manage to time travel first."
The kid smiled—the woman beside him broke into tears, "This is the first time he smiled." She said.
"Mother, can I m-meet him?" the kid asked.
"Of course Sam, once you get out of the hospital." his mother replied.