Father?
“I don’t get it.”
“It’s really pretty simple.”
“Run through it again.”
“Okay…First, the car batteries -“
“Right…those are going to give you enough power?”
“Well, I’m using 10,000 of them.”
“Right. Why aren’t you just using the power lines out back again?”
“Becuase then they’d know.”
“Okay…continue.”
“The car batteries connect to that array of magnets — increasing their power 2000 fold.”
“One of those magnets has ‘World’s Greatest Dad’ on it.”
“Yeah…it was hard to find a bunch of magnets, so I stole them from gas stations along the highway.”
“Right.”
“Annnnnyway…The super conducted magnets are suspended abouve the electrically charged temporal flux coils.”
“The giant hula hoops covered in Reynold’s Wrap?”
“THE TEMPORAL FLUX COILS… I stand in the middle of the circle, and wait.”
“For what?”
“For the hole in space time to open.”
“Ah…”
“If my calculations are correct, the hole should open up into a time sixteen years ago…just before my dad died. I’ll grab him, pull him through…and I’ll have a father again.”
“Maybe…It could open up into a strange Cthulian realm where giant creatures have stood waiting for an opportunity to break into our universe for countless centuries.”
“Don’t be crazy.”
“You’re trying to time travel with car batteries, refrigerator magnets, hula hoops, and aluminum foil….Wait!”
“What?”
“Explorers is on your Netflix list isn’t it.”
“I don’t know what that has to do -“
“That movie’s been getting kids killed for more than 20 years.”
“I don’t know what -“
“We’ve had this discussion. You can’t hook a computer up to a trashcan and travel in space.”
“That’s not what I’m -“
“Isn’t it.”
“But…”
“Jess-“
“I really want to see him again…”
“I know baby…”
“It’s been sixteen years…I never got to say goodbye.”
“I’m sorry baby. Give me the jumper cables and go stand in your place.”
