/The Time Issues/

/Why, hello. I’m the great and amazing Nancy Narrator. And I will be narrating The Time Issues. We start the story at…/

(The Narrator’s offices!)

/Naomi? Why are you interrupting me? That’s Natasha’s job./

(Speaking of Nat, umm, she’s sick at home, and she kinda… hates you… so she told me to act like she would whenever anyone (particularly you) narrates something. So, uhh,

hold on, *texts Natasha* YOUR STORY STINKS!!!! *bows* Thank you, thank you. I know, my performance is great.)

/Okay? Anyway. At the Narrator’s office, our boss was pacing in the hallway./

[Oh no, oh no, oh no.]

(Umm, why is he pacing and saying ‘oh no, oh no, oh no’?)

{Parce que son superviseur pourrait le virer.}

/Because his supervisor might fire him./

(Wait, Boss might get fired?)

/Yeah…/

(Oh dang. I better call Natasha. Like, now. If a new boss were hired, they might fire Nat! *calls Natasha* Hey, Nat. You feeling better? Okay, you better hurry over to Narratebucks. *pause* Yeah, now. *pause* I don’t care if you have the flu! Even if you had flu B, I wouldn’t care. This is very important. *pause* No, I can’t tell you over the phone! *pause* Bye Nat. And hurry! *cuts call* Nat’s coming.)

/Okay? Why?/

(Because I’m certain that she can come up with a plan.)

*AT NARRATEBUCKS*

Thank you for calling me *cough*. I know exactly how to help you.

(Okay, so, what?)

All we need to do is go back in time and change a couple things, like my decision with the drill press.

(So the supervisor approves of Boss)

/And he won’t get fired! But how do we go back in time?/

With my trusty… TIME MACHINE!!!

/You own a time machine?/

Yes and no. So, you know that time when I had that pill that made me go insane?

/Yes./

So, during that period of time, I robbed a bank.

/NATASHA?!/

Wait, wait, wait. So, using the money I robbed, I went to a famous scientist who made a time machine. And I bought said time machine.

(Okay, so all we have to do is go back in time and change a couple of things that happened during Drill Press! Easy enough.)

/Not easy enough! Anything we change in the past affects the present! So if we do that, Boss might do another stupid thing that will get him in trouble!/

(Wait, we can just stop Boss from coming to work! Nat is sick! With the flu. All we have to do is spread the flu to him.)

/Meaning he won’t come to work./

And the Drill Press accident would never happen! Nice one, Naomi!

*AT NATASHA’S APARTMENT*

(So where is your time machine?)

Right over here. *picks up a TV remote*

/That’s a TV remote./

Nope! It’s a machine that takes you BACKWARDS IN TIME!!

(And space?)

Depends on when you go to.

/That isn’t correct grammar./

(No, it is. When we go to. We’re going back in TIME.)

{*enters* Bonjour!}

(Hey Louis.)

{Alors, vous faites quoi les gars ?}

/Guys! I learned French! He said: so, what are you guys doing?/

(Finally! I don’t have to use my phone to know what he says! Nice, Nancy!)

/Merci!/

Guys. Do you want to save Boss?

(Yeah, but I’m a bit thirsty. I’m going to get some water.)

/I need to use the bathroom. See ya in a bit!/

{*goes to grab some water. Spills it on the time machine* Oh non. Bon, c'est mauvais. C'est très mauvais. Zut alors ! *puts time machine back*}

*A FEW MOMENTS LATER*

All righty! Time to go to the past–

(And save our awesome Boss’s back! Let’s go! *grabs remote*)

/Let’s go! *pushes buttons*/

*Time machine whirs. All of them grab on. It starts to flashy-light up. And ‘pop!’. They disappear.*

{J'espère qu'ils vont bien. *leaves apartment*}

*MEANWHILE, SOMETIME IN THE CRETATIOUS PERIOD.*

Aah!!

(Aah!!)

/Aah!!/

(Where are we?)

More of, when are we?

/It says here in the history that we went… 65 million years back. AAAHHH!!!!!!/

(What?)

/We are in the times when dinosaurs ruled the earth!/

Okay, okay, calm down. Umm, what buttons did you press?

/I clicked the day button, and I clicked seven. Like you said./

(Wait. Hold on. When I grabbed the machine, it was wet. And the last person who was with it was Louis! I’m calling him. *grabs phone* Dang it! There’s no signal.)

Well, now what are we going to do?

/I don’t know! It’s your time machine!/

I’ve never used it! AAAHHHH!!!

(What?)

There’s a dinosa– *gets eaten by dinosaur*

(Aaaaahhhh!!!!!!!!)

/Aaaaaahhhh!!!!!!/

*Runs over to a cave*

/Ohh dang./

(Nat is– gone.)

/And how are we going to get back–/

*Disappears*

/To her apartment./

Hiya!

(Nat!!)

/I don’t understand! We saw you get eaten by that dinosaur./

Right… I knew I forgot to mention something. We can only be in the past for five minutes, and if you die in the past, you will just return to the present. Time travel is very safe.

(Now what about Boss?)

I handled that.

*FLASHBACK*

Hi Supervisor Narrator!

Hello Natasha

I have a simple proposal for you.

What is it?

*holds a fake knife* If you fire Boss, you will not make it to your wife and kids. Ever.

“Thinking if it’s a real knife* Okay, okay. I won’t fire your Boss.

*Puts knife down* Thank you! Now sign this contract.

Okay *signs contract*.

HA! I just fired YOU!!!

*BACK TO PRESENT*

It was very easy.

(Nice job Nat. Umm, how did you handle it?)

That’s a story I will save for next week.

/The End/

NOPE!

(So, according to Reedsy laws, we can't submit stories only 938 words long.)

WHYYYYYYYYYY

(So here's a snippet from another story called...

/STUCK!/

(Our friend Naveen is narrating it.)

It's a BLAST!

*STUCK! *

>Hello super real humanoid audience! I’m Naveen Narrator and I will be narrating Stuck! Reader digression advised.>

[Why is viewer digression ad-....]

>Ok! Today we start in…….>

{Ma maison}

>No, Louis, we don’t start in your home, we start in the office, like every other story! Are you new here?>

{Non je veux juste commencer quelque part de nouveau}

~I don’t know why you try, Louis, we don’t understand you.~

>Anyways we start in the office, end of story.>

% I thought the story just started. Are we done already? %

Who cares if the boss doesn’t know what's going on. We can do whatever we want, so lets use that drill press again.

All in the sink say NOOOOO!

>You guys deal with your problems with Natasha another time>

% Hey, Natasha look at that railing over there, I double dog dare you to stick your head in it. %

Ok! Lalalalalalalalalalalalala AHHHHHHH!!!!!!

>WHO TOLD NATASHA TO GET STUCK IN THE RAILING>

{Oh non je suis coincé dans la cafetière}

>WHO TOLD LOUIS TO GET STUCK IN THE COFFEE MAKER.}

~Hey, it's not my fault there's a language barrier. I asked him the get me a coffee.~

[I’m bahhhhhhhhhhhh! What happened here? Someone better explain, or else you're all fired.]

~Let me go first, there’s this whole language barrier.~

>Someone pranked or double dog dared Natasha to do something I don’t even know.>

Natasha is victorious in all double dog dares.

[Who’s the lead narrator, they will be facing repercussions.]

(all points at Naveen)

[Naveen your punishment is to gather everything in the office dangerously sharp or safe all on it and wedge yourself in there until you are stuck.]

>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>

(Gathers things and wedges in them)

[now that's an ending]

(Okay, so, not a snippet. How was it?)

I'm guessing you said it was GREAT!]

(Thanks for reading! Byeeee!)