Chapter 3
The authorities after being quickly alerted by the college officials later that day actually went inside of Professor Matthews officer after banging down the door, and they searched through the office for anything suspicious.
They found the computer with the hidden messages still on the interface and they look over the book that was laid on top of a hidden cabinet that was near the desk. After confiscating everything they took the computer disk left inside the PC, and then walked out of the room.
Meanwhile, Jake and the professor have no idea authorities could be coming very soon to their homes, and the book was given to the college, and they would soon discover the truth about the book.
The two talked for a little while and then eventually started to walk home, and Professor Matthews went on his separate path, while Jake went on his path.
Even though they knew they couldn’t keep the project a secret forever they both had no clue of the trouble they would soon be in. That night, Jake was home, and sleeping comfortably on his small waterbed when he hears the neighbors laughing and talking.
He takes it as nothing, and then tosses and turns and goes back to sleep. But, then he hears another sound, it seemed like it was the sound of sirens blaring as if it was the cops. Jake quickly gets up from his sleep from the noise and tries to find out who was coming. He rushes down the stairway hoping to get a glimpse at who was coming, and he peeks through the window.
The place was filled with the sound of blazing sirens, and the could see shiny lights blaring through the nearby windows, but it wasn’t Kyle. He pulled back the curtain on the windows, and to his shock and his surprise it was the police.
Jake although quickly frightened opened the door and came out with his hands up, and surrenders. The cops actually start coming into his house, and although he is questioned they don’t arrest him yet.
The house was searched by sniffing dogs who search different room looking for any suspicious material, and they don’t find anything after about ten minutes. The dogs are then moved out of the house, and Jake after a while of being questioned is free to go back inside his home. The night continues with him trying to get some shuteye.
The cops found nothing of interest in Jake’s home and he quickly goes back to sleep. Meanwhile, it’s a different story for the professor since he was drinking again. The cops didn’t find him at his home yet, so they could not get him for questioning.
The next day the officials at the college now had their hands on the book and they hope they could actually harness some of the knowledge that was hidden in the book. After thoroughly reading it and analyzing it, the book was quickly taken to the school laboratory, so that it could actually be put to good use.
The professor was already was coming back to the college that day for more testing on the book, when he noticed after suddenly looking over the desk that it was gone. He thought it was inside of the special cabinet, but it still could not be found.
After searching relentlessly for the book he came with up the conclusion the someone may have stolen it, but he could have swore that he locked the door before he left it that day. The only way they could have got in is with a key, said Matthews.
He thought he could got tell the officials at the college, but he was already too late. The officials had already taken the book, and were now deciphering it in a laboratory where it would be used to conduct scientific experiments.
Professor Matthews couldn’t believe his eyes when he actually stepped into the nearby laboratory that day it was filled with wiring, different components that sparked electricity and he saw the book way out in the corner. But, he could not come near it since the security guards where guarding the entrance.
What they were attempting to achieve seemed clearer as Matthews looked through the window, but what didn’t seem clear was if they could get it to work. The machine was slowly being melded together by skilled mechanics and welders in the background as Matthews looked out the window and watched them go to work relentlessly.
They discovered every different meaning that was hidden in the book word by word, piece by piece as it seemed the college was going to be on map with the project. Meanwhile, Jake was still going to be leaving for work as always even though he had that shocking encounter with the cops last night. Jake really didn’t want anymore trouble, but he know that it might come again, if he wasn’t careful. He wasn’t sure how the professor was doing, but he definitely wanted to see him again after work was through.
He wasted no time driving to work, and the traffic was actually quite smooth and free flowing that day instead of being congested. He couldn’t help but wonder if the Professor’s drinking was actually having an negative effect on his career, but he didn’t really think about it as the work day continued.
Jake filed a few more papers and quickly signed a few more documents before heading out the door a little more early that day. The professor although in much shock and awe from how quickly the project starts was coming together calls on Jake about what was going on at the college.
The window that showed the outside world from his office was filled with the look of dirt trucks and cement trucks, and he could see and hear the bulldozers knocking down trees one by one.
The college was quiet as Professor Matthews still watched from outside the windows as the construction crews worked tirelessly on the auditorium.
Meanwhile, the scientific progress was being made on what seemed to be the first time machine. The scientists who were in charge of the project were supervising the engineers and mechanics who were putting the machine together.
The lab was not far from where Professor Matthews was, and although the sounds from the lab were minimal, the professor of course could still be a little distracted since he wasn’t that far away. The machine was almost finished, and many people in the room were working with computer equipment while checking over everything from the transistors to the on board wiring.
Even the construction process didn’t actually distract the professor that much; he still had to alert Jake about the project which took a little time out of his schedule. He picked up the phone and waited for him to pick up on the other end.
After he finally picked up, Jake learned about the project and he wanted to drive over to the college to come see it. The professor told him it wasn’t finished yet, but he should be there since they were making history.
The machine was actually a time machine, although it took heavy convincing on Professor Matthews part to make him actually believe such a thing. I really thought we were just dealing with a book, said Jake. The book was only the beginning, said Professor Matthews. They eventually stopped the conversation after Jake said he would be there later today. The day slowly passed with Matthews excited, but still cautious from the possibilities.
As the day continued, Professor Matthews watched closely as the marvelous inventions came together. He didn’t want to actually get involved with the scientists, and the guards were blocking the door anyway.
Meanwhile, Jake was on his way from work and he was already leaving the office at that moment. He didn’t really believe yet that something as unthinkable as a time machine was actually being built but he continued down the road getting closer to the nearby college.
The professor could only watch from the window, but he was happy to know that at least Jake would be on his side while he watched. Jake ran down the sidewalk, and rushed through the doors, and he tried to find the area where Professor Matthews was. He didn’t find it at first, but remembered that he should use the elevator.
He was inside of the elevator that would take him up to the 3rd floor where Matthews was. The 3rd floor finally appeared on the electronic sign above the elevator, and Jake quickly rushed out.
Although he didn’t see Matthews yet, he stormed through the hallways hoping to find his office number. Only one room that was actually in his memory from what he remembered over the phone.
The room was room one zero five, and he stormed inside hoping to find Matthews. He didn’t find him yet, and although discouraged he almost found a window that was apparently similar to the one on the first floor. Then at a moment’s notice he turned around and discovered the machine the professor was describing right before his eyes. The professor wasn’t there though, possibly because he was told to leave.
Then as Matthews slowly came back into the picture, Jake slowly approached the window. He closely came near the window, and he saw the spectacular spectacle being built faster then neither one of them could dream.
Then the professor approached him and started talking. This is it, the final frontier, said Matthews. No way, this is ludicrous, said Jake. No, you don’t have to say it, said even though it’s been only explained in the movies, this is really it my friend, and Da Vinci was really going to fulfill his genius, it just took him that long, said Matthews.
They actually had little to say about it since it was so futuristic, but they had at least complemented the crew on being able to decipher what Matthews could only get through one page of, barely. The place was starting to shut down for the day as Jake touched the window one more time.
Both Matthews and Jake soon left as the security guards took notice of Jake touching the window. Jake still had so many things on his mind, and still a lot of answers that he wanted out of Matthews, but after seeing that the machine get built right on front of his eyes, many of his past questions soon became even more harder to think about.
Even though Jake knew that it was going to be the eventually wave of the future, he never understood to the truest extent on how finding one rare book at the library could lead to everything that was being created now, and right before his eyes. He only picked up a book, and yet it was there all along, the diagrams, and most of all the knowledge that was condemned by the church. He tried to tell Matthews that he was almost too shocked to bare what was occurring, but he hugged him, and they walked off.
The two walked away from each other for the night, and Matthews although somewhat satisfied with breakfast went out for supper.
The next day, the Time Machine was just about complete and Jake and the professor were unaware that the college my attempt to test it out. The machine still had some glitches, but that didn’t stop the crew from working harder than ever at the project.
The computer that was on board was tested out by one of the mechanics, and even though some of the employee’s at the college were skeptical that it would just end up being a prototype and may not actually work since they were still amazed by the design of the finished project. Meanwhile, Jake and Kyle were both sitting on the couch and soon a phone call is made from the college and Kyle is first to pick it up.
The former head of the college, Dr. Morton thanked Jake whose last name was Mitchell. Both Jake and Kyle were excited about the possibility of the time travel, but it was the reward of just getting recognition for their book that excited them even more.
After the brief talk on the phone, Kyle quickly congratulated Jake for success and the two were keeping the belief in their minds they would soon be rich if the book was determined to have some value.
The machine was later unveiled to the college members later that day when it was finally finished. The board members were all impressed by most had no clue where the idea actually came from or if their really was a designer since it was so out of this world the head of the department attempted to convince them it was top secret, but they started to demand to know more.
Later that day, some students around the campus started to learn about the project, and the ones who already knew about it started to gather in protest. The protestors gathered in larger numbers around nearby open lot outside the main administration building.
They didn’t bother to follow the school’s handbook which includes no protests and no knocking down signs, which they did excessively. Even though cops were called in, the protestors grew so much the numbers holding up protest signs and chanting the school can allow something so radical on campus, and the cops also grew in larger numbers as well. The number of people who supported grew as well and by about eight thirty that night the number of supporters was almost over half the number of opponents.
The protestors were all gathered around the main administration building and the old library by nine o clock and the protestors were mixed crowd with some supporting the opinion that the time machine was an invention that should stay and was useful to mankind not a burden.
Other believed that the machine was immoral and too radical for the college and should be banned completely. The crowds became so large that the college officials felt like they were trapped inside the building and couldn’t get out.
That night, both Jake and Kyle were still unaware of what was happening not far from their home, and many more crowds gathered outside the college to protest as well. The protests in most areas where not violent, but it wouldn’t be long before he found the truth about where the idea for the machine originated.
A person with a rock attempts to hit the window of the main administration building, but misses. Then a few more people start throwing things, and it eventually becomes an all out riot by ten o clock. The situation is so large in it’s number of people of gathering to object the pros and cons of the project, that cops even thought arresting people would be useless.
The cops were gone by ten thirty and since the campus officials were closing the automatic gate for the night many people started to walk home. Some of the hardcore protestors attempted to stay and even the people who were in tents started to go to sleep for the night.
The night was filled with people still taking the protest to the streets, and most had no clue a man who died centuries ago was the real influence and inspiration behind the project.
The riots continued until the very time of midnight, and was slowed down occasionally by the police, and even that didn’t effect the very passion that some had for shutting down the project as riots continued.
The main man behind the discovery of the book was of course, Jake and his cousin and professor Matthews all knew about the book. They didn’t want to describe how it originated because they still could only come up with a few clues to how it originated including Da Vinci.
The public may not buy the fact that Da Vinci which was believed to be the author was really the real mastermind behind all of it. They all were holding torches, lamps, and candles outside the college. Even though it was a riot, the cops were getting less involved because it was becoming more thought of as controversial and not criminal.
Even though rioting continued throughout the night neither Jake nor Professor Matthews decided to participate since they were responsible for both discovering and interpreting the book. The book was somewhat odd in the fact that a secret so controversial could be hidden under layers of words describing basic and primitive science, and also basic math.
Why it seemed, was going through Jake and even Kyle’s head a little more often than not. The fact that it took so long for someone to uncover what was written was making them feel that it was a set up that way as if Da Vinci knew the future when he church and even society could only judge him as a normal person. The book was just sitting there on a table, and neither Jake nor Kyle knew if someone had actually read it or not. The night went out, and Jake looked out the window.
Jake saw some protestors far out in the distance from his window. Some of the neighbors were so annoyed that they told them to go home, but they didn’t. He decided that he should get some shut eye, but he remembered the professor’s warnings that sooner or later they would know he discovered the book and he would eventually be questioned.
Although Jake had a strong feeling that it would be inevitable he was going to be interrogated about the origin of the book, he though about how he could find an easy way out.
The only way it seemed would be to tell the truth which wasn’t that hard, but never the less they would get it out of him that it was Da Vinci who created the book and not him. If he did try to tell them that though, then it could strike even more controversy which may make him famous, but also not as safe as well.
He tried to put a pillow over his head to keep out the frequent noise that was the protestors. The noise continued throughout the night although it began to calm down a little by four thirty in the morning, and when he awoke at six thirty, the noise had mostly ended except for the sound of a dog barking.
The door in his room was already open that morning probably from the wind. He noticed that window was still open, and he suddenly got up and closed it. After walking downstairs and finishing a bowl of cereal, the news suddenly came on, and Kyle was relaxing on the couch watching television.
The news broadcast was basically describing the riots, and it showed a picture of a professor, and although Kyle didn’t notice it at first, Jake turned around and realized it was a picture of Professor Matthews.
When Kyle soon had his eyes glued again to the television, Jake came in and watched the newscast as well. He saw the picture just as soon as he came in, and heard professor Matthews name mentioned on the television.
He could see his picture at a distance from the kitchen and he pushed Kyle over his space on the couch to watch the rest of the broadcast. Apparently professor Matthews was drinking again and was arrested for getting rude with a few customers and one officer.
The main reason though he was arrested was because a college official specifically pointed out that he was responsible for the discovery of the book as well as it’s research. Even though Jake was relieved that he was not the culprit, he didn’t know what to do about professor Matthews and he was shocked.
Although he couldn’t go out just yet since the campus didn’t open until ten o clock, he felt that he could have done more to save professor Matthews from getting arrested. But, as he put on his coat, he realized that unfortunately he would have to pay the price for interpreting and discovering such knowledge.
He put on a small hat from the coat rack and went out the door. The news report also said that professor Matthews would be eventually charged wand released since it was not a criminal matter. The professor would still spend the night in jail according to the police report.
Jake quickly got into his vehicle and drove down to downtown nearby which is where he worked. Professor Matthews was apparently going to spend a little jail time even though it was not a criminal matter.
He also remembered that news report was also describing how Matthews would have testified about everything he knew about the book, and even all the people that he questioned and saw during the time of his handling of the document.
Then he realized that their was a possibility that he could end up saying his name out, and he would have to testify as well. He didn’t want to be involved in legal matters, but he knew if was coming if he stayed out of the scene of the college or not.
Then he finally arrived at his workplace, and their was even a petition on the wall telling people to be involved in the protest and stand up for what’s right. The number of people who filled a list up against the wall next to it were quite numerous.
Right when he thought that the day was going to go f