Very dark. My eyes are adjusting and trying to make out unfamiliar shapes. This happens when you travel to the past and arrive at night, but I was not expecting that, here in what should be 2104.

I am tired. Time traveling sometimes takes something out of you, regardless of your physical health. It's a frequency thing and too complex to get into, but in layman's terms its about being out of place and unaccustomed to certain signals. Like traveling and drinking the water.

Finally, I can make out things around me. I am in some sort of parking lot - only there are no cars. A large black structure looms out over the horizon to the north. I can't explain it, but it looks evil.

I put on my night vision glasses. They are also thermal filters and everything takes on a green appearance with warmer surfaces appearing yellowish-green and hot surfaces a cool red. Everything feels wrong. This is a few miles north of Shamballa a place I assumed would still be safely undeveloped this far into the future. Yet it is all developed. I see nothing natural or living. No trees, plants anywhere. Even near the building there is no landscaping whatsoever. I start walking towards the building. It's the largest structure I can see for miles, and must be a building of some significance.

The absence of vehicles and plants is bizarre. As I get closer I see the building is polished and shiny, but I can't see any windows - just a uniform black appearance. It's starting to look like a Stanley Kubrick obelisk.

Suddenly, I hear a high pitched wail, like a siren. I can't help but feel I am the cause of it and that it signals trouble. I look for some place to take cover, but there is nothing near, just this asphalt-like surface for a mile in every direction until some low level structures, equally undistinctive, appear near the horizon.

Suddenly I see a craft coming from the north. It is in the air. Thermal imaging shows it as red hot. I start running towards the black building.

I hear something over a loudspeaker somewhere.

انت في انتهاك لحظر التجول الكهرباءيه"

My Arabic is rusty, but it seems to be saying "You are in violation of electrical curfew". This is not good. An Arabic language in the region here implies the US is not the US anymore. As I run, I wonder what the hell an 'electrical curfew' is and what the punishment is for being in violation of it. After a sprint, I reach the base of the black building. I can make out what looks to be an entrance, but as I approach the door does not open. I deliver a Hapkido kick to the door and the thick glass cracks. Another well placed kick and it shatters the 1" thick glass in pieces to the ground. I crawl through the doorway and look around. It is all austere and vague looking. Counters with no identifiable purpose, walls with no decoration and floors with the simplest flooring. To the northeast is another doorway and like the door I shattered has no handle. I realize the doors here do not open with handles or keys, but are somehow controlled by something else. Voice, possibly? Perhaps some id tag like certain facilities already used in my time.

"Open!" nothing happens. Only the same voice, this time emerging from somewhere outside.

انت في انتهاك لحظر التجول الكهرباءيه"

I kick the door and find this door is harder than the front door. It looks glasslike but is some sort of alloy. I run to the counter and look behind it to see if I can find anything to reveal what this place is. I see some drawers and I open them. Inside are some sort of devices that remind me of laptops, only smaller. I pull one out and place it on the counter. I look for some sort of switch and find something that looks a likely candidate. I click it.

هذا الجهاز لن تعمل لأكثر من 10 دقيقة في الوقت الحالي.الله يحرم استخدام
الاجهزه الكهرباءيه غير الضروريه بين الساعة 10 صباحا و 5.جرعة
الاشعاع لكم هو 1.05.توقع الغد الى اقصى اشعاع الشمسي وكل من السفر
خارج يجب ارتداء كامل مع الاشعاع.ان هذه الوحدة سوف تغلق.

It's going too fast for me to follow, but it has something to do with Allah, and that this device is disabled. It also mentioned something about needing a radiation suit outdoors. Not good at all.

So far, 2104 looks pretty bad.

I hear some sort of craft landing out front. It's some sort of advanced hovercraft. The whine is unidentifiable. Not a jet or a helicopter. It may possibly be some sort of EMF. I'm trapped. I really messed up here. I look up. The ceiling tiles!

I climb up on the counter and jump up at the tiles with my arms outstretched. They move! I leap again and try to push one aside. Success! The tiles are supported by a grid affair. I leap and reach for the bar. I reach it and hold on. I feel it quivering in my hands as my weight pulls on it. I try to pull myself up and I do so with difficulty. I climb into the crawlspace that must be no more than a foot high. I roll carefully over the other panels and place the other panel back into position. I spread my arms and legs carefully, distributing my weight over these panels. Fortunately they too seem to be a plastic/metal alloy and fairly durable. I hope the cold alloy can conceal my presence from any thermal scans.

Now, I remain still.

يمكن ان يكون الشخص قد ذهبت؟ومن الواضح انها كسرت البا
ب ودخلت.نحن التقاط اكثر نشاط السيد الكهرباءيه.لكن هذا المبنى عدة انظمة الت
ي قد يحاسب عليه.هل تعتقدون انها تيليبورتيد؟رقم ننظر خارج مرة اخرى ، وربما

فروا في بعض انواع الصناعات.

(translated from the Arabic) "Where could the person have gone? Clearly they broke the door and entered.

We are picking up more electrical activity sir. But this building has several systems that may account for it. Do you think they fled?"

"It's posible. Let's look outside again, they may have been using some sort of vehicle."

I wait. I wait for a half hour. I use the time to think.

Suddenly I realize Sharia is enforced here. The US lost some sort of culture war - possibly the whole world lost it. The radiation issue means there is a good chance either the sun is absolutely toxic by now or there was a huge atomic war. Electrical conservation may account for it, but I suspect the planet has severely diminshed natural resources. The radiation may account for the lack of plant life. Suddenly I feel the grid give way and I am falling.

I land in a crumpled mass and find myself facing some type of weapon in the hands of a man with a religious tatoo on his face. Others come running in and point their weapons at me too. They, also, have the strange crescent shaped tatoos on their faces.

How could all this happen? How could the world be overrun by Islamofascism in less than a hundred years? It hits me all at once.

The Democrats were elected to the majority in Congress in 2007!

;-)