PROLOGUE
January 1st, 2006, Porto La Joya, El Camira.
7:00 PM
“It’s the first day of 2006, baby! Monica’s here on FM Miguel, home of the hottest hits in El Camira! And today, here’s our guest, and he’s the world’s famous footballer…”
Maria Alexandra de Costa. Born in a middle-class family in the southern plains of El Camira, she is the only daughter of Jose and Clara. In 2006 she was a 21-year old university student, currently studying finance in the University of Santos Miguel. She was a popular student back at campus, and she is known to have a lot of love interests, due to her immense beauty.
As the day is an Sunday, she was sleeping on her bed in the dormitory after a long day of work, while her friend and roommate, Lucia de Marques, watching a video from her newly-bought iPod Video. As there was a concert of Andrei K (a famous singer from Hetvesia, back in 2006 obviously) coming to the town, and both of them were a fan of them, she went to Maria’s bed and woke her up.
(M - Maria/L - Lucia)
L:“Hey. Wake up, it’s 7, we’re should be in the stadium before 8, as we need to catch up to the Andrei K concert. Are you going or…”
Maria woke up from her bed, naked. She was surprised about the time when she first saw it.
M: “Se…seven? Oh gosh, I nearly forgot about that, time to get prepared!”
Lucia is one of Maria’s friends. She was younger (19), more quiet and less attractive than Maria, but she was a talented engineering student from Venharra, and her interest in machinery started when her father, the late inventor Jose de Marques, the ex-CEO of Iridium, which was the largest company in El Camina. Both of them knew each other since the first day of university, and despite the differences in them they became best friends and gone each other.
After Maria dressed herself, the duo started their journey to the show by Lucia’s car, a 2000 Claussient 25 1.5EFI Break. Lucia owned the vehicle since last year, which she bought via “shady” means, since she doesn’t even own a license back then.
January 2nd, 2006, Venta, Porto La Joya
1:00 AM
The duo had a great time at Venta, the city’s largest stadium where the singer’s concert was held. When the festival has ended, they decided to drive back to the dorms, knowing there is exams incoming. The road between both places are quite remote, and the roads are pitch dark.
Suddenly, they saw a weird light shining outside. They became interested about the light, but they also quite worried about the light since it came from nowhere.
L: “Light? In this place? Are you serious?”
M: “Not sure. Maybe it’s a signal or something.”
L: “Maybe we could try…approach them?”
M: “Or we don’t. Let’s go back home, and go to sleep. Or…”
Lucia gave Maria a CD of Andrei K.
L: “If you listened to my orders, I’ll will give you these CDs.”
M: “OK, you win.”
Because of that they drove the car to the source of the light. However, when they arrived the light suddenly went off.
Suddenly, a beam of strong flashing light had shone to the car. Maria and Lucia screamed and pleaded for help, but to no avail. Weird sounds came and then they were transferred by the beam. And somehow, the two girls became scared and one by one were fainted from the incident.
A moment later they woke up in a hill. It looks the same, but it certainly isn’t.
Maria woke up from the incident first, and then she saw the place, which is a desert located in nowhere. After that she saw a sign, with “Nevada” written on it. She was shocked from the realization and decided to wake Lucia up.
M: “Nevada? Hah. stop joking…wait. It looks pretty different…wake up, Lucia, I think we’re on somewhere else.”
Lucia woke up from the mess inside the car.
L: “Huh? saws the sign The what? Nevada? How do we end up in somewhere in America for no fucking reason?”
M: “Maybe we should find somewhere to sleep first, and the next day we will find a way to return to where we are.”
Little do they know that they were transferred by the light to somewhere in Nevada in the year 2022. But the girls from 16 years ago* didn’t know about that and they still thought it was still 2006. But still, they started the journey anyway.
[TBC]
Vehicle - 2000 Claussient 25 1.5EFI Break
The Claussient 25 is the D-segment sedan offering from French automaker Claussient back when it was launched in 1977. It was proved popular back when it was launched and even until production ceased in 1987 in France is still widely known as the one of the peaks of the brand with the use of new tech and a advanced design.
And not just that. In some developing markets the car was sold right until 2000. Of course, the vehicle is severely outdated in 2000 with its OHV engine (despite being fuel injected since 1995), poor safety features and an archaic design by that point, but because of its dependability and ruggedness it was known as “The Queen of the Roads” in poor countries like Monbassa.
Note: Maria would be 37 and Lucia would be 35 in this year and age.