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"What the fuck." The beautiful female Phoenix woman said in surprise before shouting urgently.
"Fall back."
"Retreat." The Herpolisk leader also ordered before both races retreated back towards their individual bases on the battlefield.
Shortly after they evacuated the area, the fireball impacted the ground, creating a loud boom as Earth and fire flew all over the place.
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"Owwww." Adam groaned as he held Tephe tightly to his chest before asking, "Are you ok, Tephe?"
"Yes," Tephe replied as Adam felt her nod her head against his chest.
As Tephe replied, she withdrew her large wings, allowing them to see that they were lying on the floor next to the processor, while most of the furniture in the mess hall was also piled against the wall next to them.
"Your wings helped protect us, thanks," Adam said as he saw the furniture piled around them.
"I'm glad it worked," Tephe replied with a happy smile.
[OfficialLorelie (Oceana 7): There, ok, thank god.]
[OrangeeyedStace (Oceana 7): Damn bastard, you had us worried sick.]
[Beczontop (Imperial Down): Babe, you ok?]
[Tessisdabest (Imperial Down): Is Tephe ok?]
[OfficialRowena (Oceana 7): How are you even on that planet, brat?]
[LadyErkath (Oceana 7): That planet should be a lifeless husk. Why the fuck is it lifeless?]
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"This is impossible," Rowena said as she and Lady Erkath stared with eyes filled with shock at the large holographic screen before them all.
After Lorelie and Stacey had got dressed, the group, including Lady Erkath, who had returned from her room, had moved to the living room to watch Adam's stream.
"Is something wrong, grandmother?"
"That's…. That's…. That's Fenix Nest." Lady Erkath said in a shocked tone.
"As in the Phoenix race's home world?" Lorelie asked in surprise before adding.
"I thought it was a lifeless planet."
"It is, it became like that after the Phoenix race was wiped out," Rowena replied.
"Why is it like that on Adam's stream then?" Stacey asked.
"I'm not sure," Rowena replied before asking, "Is this the work of the divine or something? How can they be there only hours after we talked about it?"
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[DeverinianLordMalacoss (Deverinian 9): Also, why the hell does it look like the history records that show the siege of Fenix Nest?]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): Fenix Nest? Are you shitting me?]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): That shouldn't be possible.]
[MercheadAnderson (Palaxia): Siege of Fenix Nest? You mean when the Herpolisks wiped out the Phoenix race?
[Whostolemyduck (Earth): Wiped them out?]
[Lizziethetruepower (Palalxia): Yes, they committed genocide against the Phoenix race.]
[Emojisonly (Earth): 😱]
[LadyErkath (Oceana 7): The Phoenix race is supposed to be extinct, yet here the streamer and Tephe are, crash landing on Fenix Nest during its siege.]
[OrangeeyedStace (Oceana 7): Oi bastard, why aren't you answering us?]
[OfficialLorelie (Oceana 7): Babe?]
"Where are we and what happened?" Tephe asked as she looked around at the mess.
"We crash landed on a planet; however, I don't know which one." Adam replied before asking, "Spector?"
"Temporal analysis complete. We have travelled back in time to the Siege of Fenix Nest, universal year 972." Spector replied.
Adam and Tephe gaped in shock at hearing Spector's words.
[All of Chat: …😱]
"We travelled back in time over two thousand years?" Tephe asked.
"Two thousand, two-hundred and seventy-five to be exact," Spector answered.
[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.]
[SciFifanboy (Earth): THAT'S SO SCI-FI, THEY FUCKING TIME-TRAVELED.]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): The Dwarfinian science directorate has determined that time travel is impossible.]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): Are you shittin us, you can clearly see that they are in the middle of the siege of Fenix Nest, explain how that's possible if they didn't time travel?]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): …]
[Tessisdabest (Imperial Down): Is it just me that finds it strange that the streamer hasn't answered any of us yet?]
[OfficialLorelie (Oceana 7): No, it's not, something must be wrong.]
[OrangeeyedStace (Oceana 7): You're right, he wouldn't normally make us worry this much.]
"How?" Adam asked.
"My current theory is that the unknown energy affected the neutron reactor in a way that, along with the temporal fractures, it opened a miniature black hole that sucked us in and led back here," Spector answered.
"Is that even possible?"
"Black hole theory states that black holes are the entrance to a type of wormhole that leads to another part of the universe where a white hole ejects you out. It's possible they don't only transfer you through space but also through time."
"Wow," Tephe said with shining eyes as she looked at Adam, "I knew I would get to travel through space with you, but time as well? That's so Sci-Fi."
[SciFifanboy (Earth): Damn straight, I like this girl.]
[Sparesomechangebro (Earth): Since you travelled back in time, use your knowledge of the future to make some money, then give me some bro.]
[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): That's… a genius idea.]
[Leonthemoneygiver (Earth):Yeah, bro.]
[Whostolemyduck (Earth): Shame he's from Earth, so he doesn't know the universe's history.]
[Sparesomechangebro (Earth): Shit.]
"Wait a second, why isn't chat moving? We've time-travelled, surely that's a big deal?" Adam asked as he saw on his HUD that the chat had not moved in ages.
[OrangeeyedStace (Oceana 7): Hmm?]
"The messages from your viewers are not able to reach us because they are in the future," Spector replied.
"What?"
"While I am unable to tell, I theorise that they are most likely still watching the stream. Since we are in the past, the stream is still going into the future as it always has, even though the time difference is now far greater.
However, the viewer's messages are from the future and are incapable of being viewed because they can't travel backwards to us in the past."
[OfficialRowena (Oceana 7): That makes sense.]
[SciFifanboy (Earth): It does?]
[OfficialRowena (Oceana 7): When you type a message and send it, time passes before the other viewers see it, even if it appears to be instantaneous. Therefore, our messages are indeed travelling the wrong way through time to reach him.]
"So if we had travelled to the future, then the reverse would be the case? I could see their messages, but they couldn't watch me? Adam asked.
"Negative," Spector replied simply.
"Huh?"
"Time travel to the future is theorised to be impossible since the future has yet to happen. However, you can travel to the past like we have because it has already occurred."
[1000yearsofdeath (Earth): Haha, the streamers ship knows more about time travel than Mr Time Travel is impossible. Kekeke.]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): …]
OfficialLorelie (Oceana 7): Wait, if the strange energy did this, how are they supposed to get back?]
[OrangeeyedStace (Oceana 7): ...]
[Beczontop (Imperial Down): …]
[Tessisdabest (Imperial Down): ..]
"Is it possible to return to our own time?"
[Celebrityhunter69 (Earth): Oh, maybe he heard you, Diva Lorelie.]
"Since we are from the future, we theoretically have a fixed point in time we can return to.
However, to do so, I will have to complete my analysis of the unknown energy source."
"How are you? Any damage?"
"There is no major damage as my hull absorbed the majority of the impact. However, the main power is still offline, and I advise against reactivating the neutron reactor until I finish my analysis on what happened.
Emergency power is maintaining the main systems."
"I don't know if you noticed, but if we are indeed in the middle of the siege of Fenix Nest, then we are in the middle of a war zone.
And if what Lady Erkath said is true, then it doesn't end well for the Phoenix race."
"You are correct; however, there are still several hours before the recorded fall of Fenix Nest."
"You have information on the siege?"
"Naturally, to us it's history."
"Can you tell us how we can help the Phoenix race win?" Tephe suddenly asked.
"You want to change the outcome of the battle and therefore change history?" Adam asked in surprise.
"If possible, I don't want those Herpolisk bastards to win."
[SciFifanboy (Earth): Oh yeah, now we're talking, she wants to change history.]
[SciFifanboy (Earth): While it's definitely Sci-Fi to change their own history, what about the butterfly effect?]
[DeverinianLordMalacoss (Deverinian 9): The what effect?]
[SciFifanboy (Earth): It is how a small initial change in a complex system can lead to large, unpredictable differences later on.]
[Whostolemyduck (Earth): An example of this is the seemingly minor event of the assassination of one person that leads to war. This happened in Earth's past and led our planet to its First World War.]
"The issue here is that if we did manage to prevent the Phoenix race's extinction, we don't know how it would affect the future.
Over one thousand years of history will change, and we don't know how; it could even affect you from being born."
"How?"
"Well, I'm just theorising here, but if the Phoenix race survives, then your mother might be given the position of dragon ambassador to the Phoenix race instead of Universal Senator.
If that happens, she might never meet your father and conceive you."