By Falco Rockbert
New Romford was hit with a sudden case of déjà vu yesterday afternoon at around 3:15. Seemingly everyone in the area felt like they had experienced the same event happen twice at the same time.
Martin Grainger, a.k.a. Dr. Amazing of The Amazings, felt the déjà vu as well and even recorded it. “We have very precise clocks here at Grainger Tower,” he said, “and we somehow saw a tiny blip occur at the 3:14:35 mark of two microseconds. It’s like time stopped and then restarted.”
The blip was so brief that it could hardly be said to have occurred at all, said Dr. Amazing, but it seems that everyone in the world, and not just New Romford, felt it. The déjà vu caused sudden bursts of disorientation, disrupting activities. Reports have come in of car accidents in most U.S. cities and in Canada and Mexico. A 40-car pile-up was reported in Los Angeles. A Parliament session in London was halted for an hour, and planes nearly collided mid-air in Germany.
As for what caused the déjà vu is uncertain. Dr. Amazing is still investigating the blip with the aid of scientists from around the world. But he said the most likely cause was a reset of the timestream.
“I’d bet someone came back from the future to stop some event from happening,” he said. “Whatever this event was probably was the trigger for a series of events that lead up to a terrible future. When that happens, the timestream is reset to a different path, and that usually leads to a brief sense of déjà vu. The last time I can remember this happening—or rather the last time it’s happened in this timestream—was seven years ago on New Year’s Eve.”
On December 31, 2004, a helicopter inexplicably crash landed on Bette Midler, crippling her from the waist down, during a performance at Carnegie Hall. Eight people died of unusual causes that night, and no cause of the déjà vu was discovered.
No casualties have been reported from yesterday.
