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Published: 2023-06-08 23:07:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 815; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 2
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Taking Taylor aside, Kelsey asks him, "So, scientific AI in the Alliance of Western Post-Economic Regions, where South Florida is currently affiliated with, have found evidence of time travelers throughout history, and based on your archaic mobility device, you have somehow come from a time before your Muscular Dystrophy was cured!" Taylor's eyes grow wide, stammering, "Y-Y-You mean...?!" Kelsey interrupts, "That's right! I'm gonna inject some medical nanobots into you that will gradually take your disease away from you! I was able to access your files, and you haven't walked for the last 18 years of your life, so you should leave your wheelchair 18 years from now!" Kelsey takes a small device, something that looks like a glue gun tipped with a suction cup and presses it to the base of Taylor's skull. Squeezing a trigger sensor on the handle, which causes the tool to light up a green light on top of it, Kelsey administers the microscopic robots. Inside his bloodstream, the tiny bots, floating among the red blood cells, enter Taylor's heart, a muscular organ that DMD affects, and immediately gets to work on the cardiac muscle. It's a long road to recovery, but by 2041, Taylor's time, he will be back to a walker and leg braces, and by 2044, completely able-bodied as a middle-aged man. Back outside the Taylor, he exclaims, "Oh, thank you so much!! Now I have a whole life in front of me!! A whole life of adventure!" Back in 2023, Taylor and Tony enter their house in Maryland. Mom talks to Rami on the couch, over the phone, while the TV is paused on an episode of the 1970s cop show "ADAM-12". On the other end of the line, Rami is on his way home from work for the weekend. Mom, in mid-sentence about joking that Rami would wear a speedo at their upcoming wedding back in Florida, states, "Well, hey! How'd your trip to the future go?" Taylor responses, "Well, I got cured of my Muscular Dystrophy!" Mom replies, "With you still in the chair?! Looks like you still have Muscular Dystrophy!"
No sooner than these words are said than there's a knock at the front door, on the opposite side of the living room from where Taylor enters and exits. Mom gets off the couch and answers it. After a few seconds of greeting whoever was at the door, Mom says, "Yeah, come on in!" As she lets the guest in, Taylor sees a brunette woman, appearing to be in her 20s, and immediately recognizes her, even though her transhuman tech is cloaked, as Alice, one of the time agents from the 31st century. Suddenly, pressing some gadget on her hip, the disguise of a college student from the nearby University of Maryland, a red shirt saying "Terrapins" on the front, and jean shorts, into the black and white, form-fitting clothes she was last seen in, along with her technological implants. Alice comments, "Well, I see that you got those nanites into your bloodstream from the 23rd century. Congratulations! You have all but eradicated your Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy!" Mom yells, at the top of her lungs, "YESSSS!!! HALLELUJAH!!! YOU'RE CURED!!!'
NEXT TIME- Taylor visits his former home of Tampa back in the 1980s, taking a couple friends along.