115: Time Riders Alex Scarrow

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Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Maybe if they go to the future, they will have a cure for time cancer

gellaho

Hey, @FancyShark include about 150 marines

FancyShark

"I'm sorry, Liam. The cure is discovered next year."

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"ok bob, impersonate the Nazis"

(Bob climbs a tree and kills himself in it)

"ahhh... shit."

gellaho

And possibly most of the US armed forces, but I don't know what that would be

VernoWhitney

Corpses in the copse, now

FancyShark

@FlippantSausages Daddy Lightning , how many for the US armed forces in total?

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

This is amazing without context

gellaho

Oh, darn

FancyShark

oopsie

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Tree nazis!

Velo-ing

Well in this timeline we never had a stand-down after WW2, right?

FancyShark

"Da. Ve are fuhrolicking."

Brendan!™

You would die of time-distance getting there. Even though they could hand off the cure through time to each other like a relay, or deliver it from one person who already took it.

Velo-ing

So that would be total military personel for the year 1945

gellaho

That would suck, wouldn't it

Velo-ing

Oh that's a lot

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

It's too many parsecs away 😔

FancyShark

Yeah. People actually wanted to be soldiers back then.

gellaho

Or got drafted

FancyShark

Involuntary enthusiasm, I call it

Velo-ing

11,648,775

Brendan!™

I myself am from 1945 and signed up at 13 to kill me a Ratzi.

Velo-ing

I combined Army and Navy

Airforce don't count

gellaho

Bob helpfully instructs Liam to get captured

FancyShark

Hell yeah. Thanks, Velo!

Brendan!™

Unfortunately I was wiped out at Normandy mere hours after my enlistment.

Fortunately I was saved by Time-Racers.

(Not affiliated with Time Riders)

FancyShark

Not past ten, anyway

gellaho

What could possibly go wrong

Velo-ing

This is a lot of doomed people Foster could be out recruiting if he hadn't got cancer from licking the speed force

Brendan!™

Oh the irony of having a time machine and being at the mercy of a schedule

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

I'm part of the Great Lakes Time Riders

Brendan!™

Liam thought the Terminator didn't really want to kill him.

Brendan!™

Nice! They wiped out the Illinois Nazi Fourth Reich in 1975.

gellaho

It's up to the infant computer to save the day

gellaho
Velo-ing

There's a series of books about time travel where they can travel in time but not space, so there's a limit on when they can travel to because of the earth's rotation and where you would be on it

There are fun ways to do time travel, is what I'm saying. This just isn't one of them

gellaho

Meanwhile, in the future

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Yeah, like instead of hitting snooze 3x every morning to get a total of 30 minutes more sleep, I can just go back in time 10 minutes three times

gellaho

They ignore the warning and accidentally grab 1.25 Nazis

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

I've been thinking about funny irresponsible ways time travel could be used if it were commercially available and that's a great one

my thought was using time travel delivery apps to let you be delivered something the second you order it

Velo-ing

Aside from summoning a rampaging chimp, this is the worst they could have possibly done

FancyShark

Time travel but only to go back for napkins after you sat down at the table

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

We got another Nazi Gimp!

Don't celebrate

They are still nazi

FancyShark

Oh boy, free Nazi! Everyone grab something heavy!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

oh took me a minute to understand wtf just happened

that's fun

Brendan!™

This is also a great way to launch a spaceship with no big fuel expenditure.

Brendan!™

Dear diary--a Nazi joined the team today.

Brendan!™

Hey, that's still .25 good nazis!

gellaho

They send him and the limbs right back

Brendan!™

Floating in space, come onnnnnn, floating in space.

Brendan!™

The problem is time travel requires the full energy set of a universe to work. Are you prepared to kill Earth-C for Del Taco?

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

No

Velo-ing

Yes

VernoWhitney

What was the liquid for again?

Velo-ing

My nearest Taco Bell is 45 minutes away

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

yes

gellaho

Sure, send out the thirteen year old Indian girl on her own into Nazi territory. They'll surely leave her alone

FancyShark

Return to Fuhrer

Brendan!™

Sal, even though you're from 100 years in the future, see if anything in alternate-1956 looks strange to you.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

oh my God, Sal is going to drop into a puddle of Nazi juice

Brendan!™

Bakken sie auf ze Fuhrer

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

that guy got liquefied on the return journey for sure

gellaho

@FancyShark Add one complete presidential cabinet

Brendan!™

The Nazis have constructed a hive!

FancyShark

This is how Swarm started

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

No, bees respect women

gellaho

Respect woman

BEEP boop

Brendan!™

And Bob respects no man. The ciiiiirrrcle of liiiiiiife

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

I like that Bob didn't evne tell Liam that one of his tactical options was to fucking kill himself and leave Liam there alone

gellaho

Liam is loving this

gellaho

This probably isn't important

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

you know what's just occurred to me? even though, from the time riders' perspective, this alternate timeline just happened... there's no reason why they couldn't have continued their training in nazi new york before going on this mission

FancyShark

And now the Ents join the fight

Velo-ing

Cedar tree ents would die so fast

gellaho

BEEP BOOP, arbitrary values calculated

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

like maybe give Bob time to learn facial expressions, and Liam to learn what a Nazi is?

Velo-ing

Thanks Bob

Glad you're here Bob

Brendan!™

This is just sloppy code.

Velo-ing

Cannot express how glad I am that I've put my safety in your hands, Bob

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

this is reminding me a lot of Megamorphs #3, the bleakest and goriest animorphs book

gellaho

BEEP BOOP, FRIEND

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

they have to follow a yeerk who is on a time rampage through the history of earth warfare

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

What is love?

gellaho

Don't know how that ended up as a reply

Brendan!™

Correction: unit's manacles are hereby designated Polypenises. Rerouting nervous system....rerouting....rerouting...maximum sensuality potential instated. Shake my hand, Liam.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

and they mostly fail and die and watch humans kill each other in every horible way imaginable

VernoWhitney

Sloth love Chunk

Velo-ing

God damn it Bob I told you specifically not to fall in love with me

gellaho

Meanwhile, in the Nazi disk

Brendan!™

Wet Bob Iz Fren

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

because YOU ARE MY FRIEND

FancyShark

Fallschirmjager means "falling down drunk"

Velo-ing

Thanks Bob. Glad you're still wet, Bob. That'll really help you blend in.

gellaho

DAS MUFFLERSHIP

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Wow so creative

FancyShark

oh no

Brendan!™

Unterkorporal Fritz Mutterfokker of the Goldschlager Korps

FancyShark

I don't want to hear about the Fuhrer's Very Special Place

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

I bet if we take out the mothership all the rest of the nazis will die

Because that's how armies and fleets work

gellaho

Ah, he's got a body bag, I wonder what's in there

Brendan!™

German is funny, I don't care how many German friends I make.

Maybe the German sense of humor is muted because it's hard to recognize comedy when every word is hilarious.

FancyShark

"You vant to see a dead body?"

Brendan!™

And as long as we're playing into stereotypes, the Maltese can't dance.

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

People don't think Germans have a sense of humor, but it's actually very juvenile. A Carlin bit might go over their head, but you play a fart noise and they will laugh and laugh

gellaho

Ah, there's the future doctor

jakesy, aristocrat of crime

It worked for bill Pullman

Brendan!™

Liam should go back in time and teach the Germans Carlin's anti-authoritarianism.

FancyShark

Das Kramer!

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Show him your dick!

gellaho

Meanwhile, Liam's getting sent to a concentration camp

gellaho

Fun for all the kids out there

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

was paul kramer the future guy? I forget

FancyShark

Good. That should help him focus.

Brendan!™

Yeah but in the correct timeline it was Bill Paxton and they all died, leading to the aliens ruling Earth for 1000 years until the attacks of 9/(30)11

Velo-ing

No Jayzus now, huh Liam?

Abandoned by your god

gellaho

He's got you

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

wait... the entire population of new york? how many fucking camps do they have?

FancyShark

It's a shame Nazis ruined it. "Reeducation camp" sounds way more fun than "adult education"

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

(God was fake the entire time)

Brendan!™

Not many once you delete all the ethnics from NYC.

Velo-ing

Let me answer your question with a question:

Velo-ing

?

Brendan!™

Got ist tot

und VE haff kilt Him!

gellaho

Are we having fun kids!

Velo-ing

no

Brendan!™

Liam weeps for the demise of the future.

Velo-ing

God I hope this is on a summer reading list somewhere

Really change those kids

FancyShark

Entire population of NYC in 1956 or 2001?

gellaho

Bob decides to take a nap

Velo-ing

16,112,000

FancyShark

lol, both. Hell yeah

Brendan!™

Did you eliminate the duplicates?

Velo-ing

Wait no that's the state

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Stop threatening to die and die, coward

gellaho

See, the number's bigger which means it's better

jakesy, aristocrat of crime

Lamest cyborg ever

FancyShark

Oooh, right. So it's more like 16,111,997

Velo-ing

New York City, 1950-1960: 7,781,984

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Ah yes Washington DC. The most lightly armored city in America

Velo-ing

Nazis really up the body count

I mean

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

The easiest city to attack

Velo-ing

Yes

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

No

Velo-ing

It'd be pretty easy with a tank

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

DC has more armed guards than any other city I've been to

Velo-ing

You could even do an amphibious landing

FancyShark

Yeah, but the game was on

gellaho

Hey, Alex? Why don't you suck my dick

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

They have a military base, CIA headquarters and FBI headquarters within miles!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

also bragging that his future hover tanks are more maneuverable than a Sherman. Like, yeah, and I'm faster than my son because he's 12 months old, you don't see me showing off about it

Velo-ing

And four years ago we saw that barely means shit

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Well, it doesn't help that the armed guards, CIA, and FBI are all also nazis

Velo-ing

See?!

If anything this book is depicting it as too hard

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

There was one black guy cop tho! He tried to help, bless him

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

he wanted Eisenhower to change into his true form and grow until his head burst through the white house roof

gellaho

Yes, very interesting Mr Nazi

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

I was actually living in DC on January 6th and I panic attacked so hard my parents had to drive into the city to get me and take me home to stay with them for a few days

AMERICA

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

shut the fuck up, Paul

FancyShark

Look, Kramer. If you were the son of a woman from Minneapolis, you would be apologizing a lot more than you have.

gellaho

This is a bold strategem, Alex

Velo-ing

Who the fuck is Paul

FancyShark

The future scientist who gave the nazis the lasers

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

So, I forgot. Why are they siding with the Nazis when they hate the nazis?

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

honestly surprised this author was willing to admit that hitler was an incompetent fuckwit

Velo-ing

Because this book is bad

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Or is that a twist we have yet to uncover?

jakesy, aristocrat of crime

The Fuhrer's here!

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

They are both racist, so

FancyShark

I think Paul's trying to make history better?

gellaho

"I'm like a Nazi dictator, but like a cool Nazi dictator"

FancyShark

Because no one evil uses a serpent for their banner

Velo-ing

I

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Sometime to stop a crime you have to double down on a different crime. Like using a nuke to interrupt a bank robbery in progress

gellaho

And the Bond villain monologuing begins, but to himself

Velo-ing

this book has sequels

FancyShark

Or eating an orange while brushing your teeth instead of drinking Sunny D

gellaho

But first, some body horror for the children

Brendan!™

I grew up on a New England beach and I refuse to believe anyone can walk on that sand without burning/slashing their feet, even in jackboots.

gellaho

Many

Velo-ing

Which implies it sold well enough for those to get published

Imagine getting this book for Christmas

You would never forgive that relative

FancyShark

lol

Nazi got Cronenburged

gellaho

Could it be... time travelers?

Brendan!™

Paul killed Hitler and stopped the genocide singlehandedly. He also prevented every shitty Republican president. I'm not coming aboard, but let's see where he steers this u-boat.

FancyShark

I'm not counting the nazi getting deformed as an atrocity

gellaho

Meanwhile, Liam has a friend

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Liam, learn to shake hands like a man

Velo-ing

Or kiss him in greeting and claim it's a european thing

Brendan!™

"Philadelphia Experiment, but use nazis" is an attractive concept.

Velo-ing

You're in prison now, Liam, it's time to make some moves

gellaho

Kids love it

Velo-ing

yaaaay truck

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Establish yourself as a top bottom, Liam

Velo-ing

Yet realistic expectations for yourself, Liam

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"Whoa... this kid's a versatile! I thought they all died out in the 1890s!"

Velo-ing

You are the best bottom and no one will take that from you, Liam

gellaho

It's probably nothing

VernoWhitney

They let Janice Rand run the transporter?

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Switches are a myth! Many in the spanking community will tell you!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

deal with the one thing, then at least it will be easier to say how many things you need to deal with

gellaho

There couldn't possibly be extra-governmental kid time cops

FancyShark

And as long as no one else in history ever got a time machine...wait

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"in the present that I know of there was only one time machine," he thought stupidly

gellaho

I guess they caused all of history to be erased

FancyShark

"But our calendars..."

gellaho

Which doesn't really follow how time travel has worked up to this point, but let's not worry about that

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"it's not a big deal guys, we're just resetting the calendar so we can start properly on year 0 instead of year 1"

Velo-ing

"Burn the calendars, fool!"

FancyShark

"But it has a kitty cat!"

Velo-ing

Honestly the real smart thing would be to erase a random chunk of history

gellaho

Damn commies

Velo-ing

1836-1842? Gone. Wiped out completely.

FancyShark

Erase the Mesozoic and 1973

VernoWhitney

They know what they did.

Brendan!™

Oh bullshit Russia's still standing.

Velo-ing

Just let the time cops try to figure out why you did that, they'll die of cancer before they get around to just shooting you

Brendan!™

Did they have another 400 million people in the pocket?

FancyShark

Even with time travel, they somehow keep attacking in the middle of winter

Brendan!™

It's always winter in the timeline.

gellaho

And that was a real weight off the fuhrer's shoulders

FancyShark

Erasing your history doesn't fix everything, Paul. If you had internet, you'd know that

Velo-ing

Karl is such a great assistant

gellaho

Meanwhile: Bob is knee deep in shit

Velo-ing

Bob...

why

VernoWhitney

Get some sewage in your wounds, Bob.

FancyShark

Sorrow waste is the worst waste of all

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Good, there is no way they can find more information in the present and then go further back in time

gellaho

Bob tries to go back to the future, but his infant brain is overriding his computer brain

FancyShark

This won't backfire

Velo-ing

Bob stop gathering things in the sewer

gellaho

Tiny nodule of wrinkled flesh

Velo-ing

No Bob, you put that back

FlippantSausages Daddy Lightning

My tummy horted, what did i miss? Did they 9\11 Hitler?

gellaho

Words in a book for children

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Bob, Liam isn't worth it

Velo-ing

Hitler's been dead, the new guy is named Kramer. Liam's going to a concentration camp. Bob is chilling in the sewer for no reason

Liam, Bob's not coming

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Liam has only held you back, Bob

Brendan!™

Meanwhile, in the past-present-future, the rest of the team is doing nothing.

Velo-ing

Bob tried to drink the sewer, Liam

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"Liam I have overcome my programming and returned to save you because... Liam, I love you."

"That's great Bob but please stop hugging me because you smell absolutely vile."

gellaho

In the future, they send a message back. Don't ask how

Velo-ing

He unhinged his jaw like a snake and tried to drink it, Liam

FancyShark

This would be much more fun if they bumped into Samurai Jack

Human Mammalian Hybrid Vooster

Every plot needs a mandatory sewer level

FlippantSausages Daddy Lightning

Sewer brooding is Wolfenstein TNO as FUCK.

Velo-ing

I don't want to use the word 'guzzle' here Liam, but it's only verb that fits

gellaho

In the past, Kramer immediately starts contemplating suicide to escape time assassination

gellaho

And this is still a book for children

FlippantSausages Daddy Lightning

Every time I read the word "guzzle" my brain fills in "Hands free semen guzzling?" because of Seanbaby.

FancyShark

"Suicide?"

"A door, you idiot."