Your Next Stop @ HEAVEN!

Ting! Ting! Ting!

"Dear passengers,

 An important announcement. Your attention, please!

This is a story of a Man meeting another Man, and it's not what you think! 

Though we are not in an Aircraft, please fasten your seatbelts. The journey is about to begin.  
Thank you."

Ting! Ting! Ting!

"What a bizarre announcement! What the hell is happening in the announcement room? Did you guys hear that?"I was confused and looked around.

A brown mustached man smiled and approached me - "That's for a movie promotion! "

"What??"

He pointed his fingers towards the rooftop and searched something -" Ughhh!!!....... Yeah! There you go. Look at the third rod over there."

I peeped toward it.

"You see a tiny hole there?? "

"A Spycam?"

"Yeah! and 2 at the back and few there" pointing his fingers to a signboard and ticket counter" he said."They are just to record the Public reaction."

"Why are people so stupid? " I murmured to myself and walked by. The man stood there awkwardly, doubting I meant him.

Once I stepped into the compartment, a gloomy sweaty smell attacked my nostrils. "Shit, I wish I had the money for aircraft."

I searched for my seat and sat in a compartment amidst 70 plus passengers over 50 seats. I took out my book from the bag, crossed my legs, and started tasting the knowledge.

Not even some seconds passed, I was interrupted.

"Excuse me, sir!"

I turned and a man with a black big hat and Black overcoat sweeping the ground stood smiling at me

"Could you please move your bag?"

I nodded my head and took my bags. While getting back to taste the remaining knowledge, I noticed an Old man of 60 years old with a waist-long beard was smiling at me. I stared at him. He still smiled. I was confused and turned back to my book. I couldn't resist myself for even seconds. I turned to him again and still, he was smiling at me. Was he looking at me? 

I turned back and found nothing but 3 rods mounted in sideways. I nodded my head back to him, signaling-"What?"

He still smiled at me. It was kind of awkward and scary. I turned back and started reading the book.

A turn of the page was accompanied by the sudden trembling of the train. Every passenger bounced up from their seats. It was like a sudden 220 Ton- Train turned into a horse.

As seconds passed the trembling became so intense that my book fell over. That's when I looked around and found everyone's face was in a panic. I turned to my Black hat partner-

"So this is not a common thing in tracks?"

The hat man smiled back-"I presume it's your first-time train journey."

I stared at him to get my answer.

"Oh! No....No Sir! This much shaking is not usual. If you don't mind, Can I peep through the window?". 

I just moved my legs to give him some space to let him peep. "Uhmmmm... I guess our tracks are being changed. That's why maybe."

"So we gonna be fine?" 

"Hope So, Sir." and 

BANG!!!

The welded rods from the top of the compartment fell. Sudden chaos erupted in the compartment. I looked around to look at others and I noticed the 60- year old man was still smiling at me, scrunching up his beard.

"Honkkkkkkkkkk!"

A heavy horn slapped us. Within a second, another horn accompanied it. So, now we came to know both horns weren't from the same engine. So...........

"Is there another rail over our track?". The Hat guy murmured peeping his head in the window.

"Shit! $%#*#*!" His face turned pale pink.

"What??" I pulled his head and kept mine.

"Honkkkkkkkkkk!"

The monstrous horn was followed by a 240 ton- heavy goods steam engine piercing from the smoke. Another train was on our track.

"Honkkkkkkkkkk!"

 Again and again, the trains exchanged horns.

Everybody stood up and started to pray-"Jesus!!!-Allah!! " and even-"Hey Krishnaa!!"

"What the hell? Are they gonna stop the train?" I yelled. 

My scream was just a pin-drop sound amidst the racing horses. So my wisdom caught no attention.

"Two trains in one track? What's happening?" I yelled again.

The hat guy turned-"It's usual they change tracks. But....This time I guess some confusion. Two trains they merged in the same track."

"Honkkkkkkkkkk!"

Now the sound was so clear. Again I peeped my head. In 50 seconds, It would reach us- I guessed. That was my calculation from the trained observation at the field- Relativity. 

I just thought for a second and hurried to reach my bag, but I couldn't reach it. 

My heart started to beat up. Beat up further. Hands shivered. Sweat started to drench. I couldn't breathe. Now the train's Sound was so so close. A heavy wind blew and

BANG!!!

I fell.

I opened my eyes. 

A heavy silence was swirling me. The silence was so loud to me, that I couldn't bear it.

 I stood up. All I could see were just colorful lights all around. The lights were so bright. I couldn't even recognize where I was. I stepped towards the light direction. The floor was so soft that it felt like I walked over the cushions. Splitting up the lights an old man walked towards me.

Yes, the same creepy smiled guy I met in the rails. He walked with the same widened smile and approached me.

"DON'T SAY ME YOU ARE A GOD!"

I panicked and yelled.

He laughed.

"Where am I ?" I asked.

"I thought 'What happened to me?' would be your first question." 

"'Where am I?' answers that."

"Hmmm... Well. How the place looks like?" He asked.

"Like Hell! Just say Where am I!"

"You're right. That's where you ought to be. But luckily it's heaven."

"Heaven?" I pushed my eyebrows up.

"Yeah! H-E-A-V....."

"Wait! Stop it!" I breathed for a second.

"SO you gonna say me, you're a God."

"Maybe!"

I gave out my breathe heavily.

"Stop fooling around! I have a lot of work to do! I'm going to.....wait!"

I remembered my preliminary events.

"Did the trains crash?" I asked.

"Maybe!" He said lifting his shoulders.

"So... Am I dead?" I looked over his eyes.

He stood silent for some seconds then he replied-

"Maybe!"

"Ufff! See! Please stop playing. I'm a Scientist. I'm under an important work and I....."

He stopped me midway.

"At least now you introduced yourself. You're a scientist. That's good. Welcome to heaven! You are a Scientist...From??"

I stayed mum staring at him.

"From....?" He asked again.

"You say you are the GOD'. So, you should know my details too."

He smiled-"Hmmm. That's smart."

"Let me introduce myself.  I'm....."

He lifted his hands as if he was coming to show something. Then he dropped.

"To be simple, I'm.....Someone who hates scientists."

"So, you mean You're the GOD."

He laughed.

"Why do you guys have so much against GOD."

"Because there is no GOD."

"Listen. Some questions have no answers. You agree?"

"Yes I agree and that's why we're born- The scientists."

"You need my help to find answers."

"Don't ever dare to teach a Scientist to find answers."

"Hmm. Okay. Gods are humble, Scientists aren't. Isn't it??"

He looked at me.

"Fine Mr.Scientist. What is God to you? "

"See, I repeat. I've got a lot of work to do. Please explain what's happening. Am I dead? ". I asked him.

"You don't need G-O-D to answer your questions right?, Mr.Scientist."

I stepped back. I turned and started to walk away.

"Accept the truth, Mr.Scientist. Seek help when you can't find answers."

"You ain't answer. You ain't true!" I yelled back.

"At least help me find the truth. If that's your job. Help me!" He said.

I turned to him.

"What is God to you- Mr. Scientist?" He asked and walked towards me.

We exchanged looks.

"God is someone who has the power of Something that cannot be taken Power of." I said.

"Like what?"

I looked over the colorful sky of the unidentifiable place. I stuck my eyes there. I spoke.

"TIME!

Time waits for none. Time is the most powerful thing. It can create anything. It can destroy anything. History and Mystery in just a snap of seconds.

That's the power of Time."

I looked at his eyes.

"And God is someone who has the power of Time."

He stood silent.

I continued.

"You know what? If you are God, then just go back and Stop the train crash. 

Just do that, then I believe God is there.

You get it??"

The guy smiled back.

He came closer to me.

"Mr.Scientist-It is what it is!" 

He said and snapped his fingers. and

SQUISH!!!!!!!!

I opened my eyes. The sting of 60 plus passenger's sweat was the first smell my nose grabbed. I turned aside.

The hat guy smiled.

"Oh Goodness! Sir, you finally woke up."

I stood and sat up. I rubbed my eyes.

"The train did not crash?" I asked.

"No sir. You just fainted in anxiety I guess! The other train changed its track. It was so close sir. We were about to crash but just .. we just sped by."

I nodded my head.

The hat guy now came close to me.

"Sir you have any problem??" he asked.

"Why?" I jumped up.

"No...I've been trying to wake you for the past couple of minutes, but it seemed you rested heavily."

"Oh...No...I have Syncope." I said.

 "I faint under high pressure. It's.......It's....usually hard for me to get back to the conscious state. It just takes a couple of minutes."

"Ooh!" The hat man responded with a nod.

"Uhhhhh....How long have I fainted?"

"For 2 stations Sir! " He said.

I tapped my head. I turned faster to find the old man whom I met.

"Who are you Searching Sir." The hat guy asked.

"Uhh...There was someone there...... he was smiling at me."

The hat guy laughed - "With the waist-long beard?"

"Yeah! you know him?" I asked with a shock.

"Sir he is just a nut. He smiles at everyone."

" He comes here daily?" 

"Yes Sir, He has no job, just randomly smiles at everyone he see."

"Ohh! Where is he?" I asked out of curious..

The hat guy searched for a while and said-

"Don't know sir could've got down in the before stations."

He came still closer to me-"Leave that sir. We just escaped from the train crash. What a good thing. Sir, Your first train trip could've been your last trip too. Haaaaaahaaa!"

He laughed.

"Just escaped sir, You are so lucky. Good time for you sir." He said.

Suddenly I remembered something. I lend my hand down to reach my leather bag. I cracked it open and my fingers started to search on........

I breathed...I relaxed when my fingers met the device inside. Yes! The TIME MACHINE device- The purpose of my life.  My 20 year dream. This is an important day, not only to me but to the mankind.

I held the device in between my hands. I smiled holding the power of Time in my hands.

I turned towards him-

"Yes! GO(o)D time about to start!" I said.

Your's timely,

Mr.nothing