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Part 1/? - Transmission Part 2/? - The Sandhill Hotel Part 3/? - Piccadilly Part 4/? - The Future Part 5/? - Too Late Part 6/? - The Mystery of the Missing Time Machine Part 7/? - Underway Part 8/? - The Sierra Bunker Part 9/? - Cross-Country Part 10/? - The Pit Part 11/? - Calls for Help Part 12/? - Campout and Reunion Part 13/? - Apocalypse Bunker

Nobody wanted to make the trip back to Los Angeles by car – that would be a twenty-four hour drive, and Peggy and Howard were both in need of showers and clean clothing again – but Kevin very nearly insisted on it. He had quite a lot of work and equipment in his car that he didn’t want to just leave in an airport parking lot. He only changed his mind after Toulouse offered to rent him a storage locker for it in the city of Cody, and pinky-swore that she wouldn’t make him pay her back.

They caught a red-eye flight that was only half-full. Toulouse took the window seat with Peggy next to her, and Kevin and Howard across the way. The stewardesses served very bad coffee, and then, with nobody in the rows in front of or behind them, they were able to talk.

“I never asked what you found,” Toulouse said. Her voice had a hopeful note in it, as if she wasn’t sure Peggy would answer, but wanted to ask just in case.

“Not what we expected to find,” Peggy replied. “It turned out the bunker was still in use after all – that’s how we were captured and ended up being nearly thrown down a bottomless hole. We did get to meet the mysterious Mr. Smith they mentioned in London, though.”

“Oh?” Toulouse asked. “Who was he?”

“We still don’t know,” Peggy said. “We never heard his first name. With our usual luck it’s ‘John’.”

“What did he look like?” Toulouse wanted to know.

Peggy did her best to describe him, but for the most part Mr. Smith had been as unremarkable as his name. “Brown hair, starting to gray, receding a bit. Brown eyes. Wore a shirt and tie. He might have been in his mid-thirties. He wasn’t somebody who would stand out. I can tell you,” she added, “that he had dreadful taste in art. He had this enormous gold painting that took up an entire wall of his office.”

Toulouse sat up a bit, as if this sounded familiar to her, then settled down again and closed her eyes.

“Did you want to say something?” Peggy asked.

“No,” said Toulouse. “I was sitting on something.”

“At least we know it wasn’t Will Smith,” Kevin remarked.

Eventually the pilot announced that they would be landing soon, and passengers began returning to their seats and doing up their belts. Toulouse had her laptop out, but she’d been staring at her thesis without getting any typing done. At the announcement, she folded it up and slid it back into her oversized purse, then flopped back in her seat again and shut her eyes.

“I don’t wanna go back there,” she moaned.

“You don’t have to if you don’t want to,” Peggy said.

“No, you’ll need me to show you where it is,” said Toulouse. “I just… god, I can’t believe this whole time, all this was going on right under my nose and I never knew about it! Am I just stupid?” She looked at Peggy pleadingly.

“Of course not,” said Peggy. “You’re a little naïve, perhaps, but I don’t think you’re stupid.”

“You have a master’s degree,” Howard reminded her.

“I am working on my master’s degree,” said Toulouse. “I don’t have it yet!”

“It’s not actually that hard to get a master’s degree,” said Kevin. “It’s just expensive – it’s basically a practice PhD.”

“You’re not helping,” Peggy told him.

They landed, and since Toulouse refused to go back to the Sandhill Playa Del Rey or any other hotel her family owned, the group got two rooms in a motel attached to the airport and caught a few hours’ sleep there. In the morning they made a quick trip to the shops in the terminal for new clothes. This time Peggy was able to find herself quite a nice rust-coloured blazer and trousers, and a cream-coloured blouse. It was still quite unlike what she would have worn in the 1940s, but far more to her tastes than the clothes from the secondhand shop. Howard, on the other hand, sauntered out of a souvenir shop in a bomber jacket and a shirt with a large, grainy, black and white photograph of the Hollywood sign printed on it, overlaid on a bulls-eye of bright colours.

“Who dresses you at home?” Peggy asked him.

“Jarvis,” he said.

“I knew it.”

From there it was only a short drive to the Playa Del Rey. From the outside, the hotel looked perfectly normal – a sleek new building with lots of glass and palm trees planted all around it, like a hundred others in the area. It didn��t look like somewhere people would hide an apocalypse bunker, but of course, that was exactly where an apocalypse bunker ought to be.

Toulouse was evidently still worried about being recognized, because she nervously reached up to make sure her hair was still hidden by her knitted hat as she got out of the car. She led them inside and through the lobby into the courtyard, where there was a big outdoor swimming pool. As it was still only about ten in the morning, very few people were using this yet. On the far side of it, they entered a section of the building that was off-limits to guests, used mainly for housekeeping and storage. Three elevators there allowed the staff to access the upper floors. Toulouse went to the last one in the row and pressed the button.

The bell rang and the door opened at once. They followed Toulouse inside, and she opened a panel below the floor buttons, and punched in a code that must have been her dead brother’s birthday. The door slid shut, and the car began to descend. Since it was not meant for gusts, there was no music playing inside. The only sound was Toulouse’s breathing, which was very slow but very loud. It was the sound of somebody trying to keep herself calm, and failing.

A light indicated that they’d reached the first basement level, then the second. There was no indicator light for a third floor down, but they kept going. It must have been at least two or three storeys below what would formally be considered the basement when the doors finally opened. At first, only darkness was visible outside, but then lights in the ceiling flickered on to show a long underground hallway. This was very bare, with linoleum floors, cinder block walls, and pipes and wires visible in the ceiling. Toulouse began walking forward.

“Some of these are dorm rooms,” she said, her voice trembling. “And there’s one that’s a cafeteria, although there’s no food in it right now. The big ones down the end, those are the warehouses.”

“Definitely looks like somebody’s ready for the end of the world,” Howard observed. “This place could survive an a-bomb.”

“Or a supervolcano,” Kevin agreed.

Toulouse took them down to the end of the hallway, where there was a T-junction with a wider corridor. Down the opposite side of this were multiple sets of double doors, all of them unmarked. Toulouse turned left, and took them to the second one from the end.

“This one’s the weird one,” she said.

She opened the door and turned on a light, which illuminated a large open space divided into blocks and aisles by lines of white tape laid down on the floor. In the blocks were high metal shelves, with boxes and crates stacked up on them. At first it looked like a furniture warehouse, but then Peggy began to notice the details. In one place, there was a stack of what appeared to be bricks, covered by a piece of canvas – but when the canvas moved as the ventilation system started running, the light glinted off gold underneath it. On the shelf above were rows of canvases. Peggy went up and moved one to see what it was, and found a pastoral landscape. Behind it was another, exactly the same, and another, and another. She moved further down the shelf and lifted a sheet to see what was underneath it, and was startled to find another copy of Klimt’s Dido, the same size as the one that had been in Smith’s office. Behind it were two more, all identical. The gold leaf was even flaking away from one corner in exactly the same spot.

“Here,” Toulouse pulled a box down from another shelf and brought it over. Inside were filing folders, marked with numbers. Peggy took one out and opened it, and frowned at what she saw – at first the image didn’t make any sense. It was something sitting on the platform of one of the time machines, but the object didn’t look like anything in particular. Just an undifferentiated mass of flesh, with some hair in it. She turned the picture over and found someone had written the word original on the back.

“Original what?” she murmured.

Behind the first picture in the pile was a second, which showed a similarly twisted and distorted shape. This one, however, wasn’t quite so unrecognizable. It was clearly an animal, white with large brown patches… and to her horror, Peggy realized it was a cow. The time machine must have failed, putting the animal together all wrong and partially inside-out. She quickly turned it over so she would have to look at it. The back of this one had first repair attempt written on it.

“It’s pretty bad, isn’t it?” asked Toulouse.

“It is, rather.” Peggy slid the folder back into the box.

“The aliens are over here,” Toulouse said grimly.

She led them down an aisle, past a shelf stacked high with metal boxes. One of these had been dragged down and opened, revealing the glowing crystals nestled in Styrofoam. That must have been the one Toulouse herself had looked in earlier. One of the crystals had something written on it in black marker – Peggy stopped and turned it a bit to see, and found it said cow.

Down the very end, against the far wall, was a line of big, boxy freezers that opened at the top. Toulouse went up to one of these and took a deep breath, then lifted the lid very slightly for a peek inside. Peggy could see a light come on inside it. A split second later, Toulouse dropped the lid again and turned away, breathing heavily.

“It’s gone, isn’t it?” asked Peggy, her heart sinking. It would just figure if whatever they were here to see had vanished, just like the time machine at the Piccadilly.

“No, it’s still there,” said Toulouse. “I just wanted to check.” She opened the freezer again, this time while keeping her eyes fixed on the ceiling so she wouldn’t have to see the contents again. Peggy, Howard, and Kevin stepped closer for a look.

“Okay, that?” said Kevin. “That is some John Carpenter shit right there.”

For a moment Peggy thought the freezer contained multiple dead human bodies. Then she realized it was only one body, but like the cows in the photograph, it was badly distorted. The frozen corpse was that of a naked white male, but he had four arms, one set above the other, and rather than having a head, his swollen face was embedded in his upper set of pectoral muscles, stretched out horizontally to take up nearly the entire chest. His eyes were eight inches apart, the mouth below them nearly as wide. There was a second mouth lower down, just above the navel. This one was more normally sized, but the teeth were around it instead of inside it.

Toulouse lowered the lid again. “There are more in the others,” she said.

Peggy knew she wouldn’t like what she saw, but she went to the freezer on the right and opened it. This one actually did contain two corpses, both short, somewhat overweight white men, lying chest-to-chest… but when she looked closer, Peggy realized they were fused at the head. Their necks came together into a bulb with two balding scalps and a gnarled and multi-lobed ear, and no faces. Repulsed, she began to shut the lid, then stopped when she noticed something even worse.

One of the arms was in a plaster cast. It had been broken and set. Peggy needed a moment to really consciously process the implications of that, and when she did she felt sick. Setting an arm wasn’t something anyone would do for a corpse, not even a corpse they meant to keep for whatever horrible reason. The thing in the freezer must have been alive long enough to break the arm, and to have it set in the hope of healing. Somebody had wanted to keep him alive.

“Peg?” asked Howard. The name came out in a high-pitched squeak, and he had to clear his throat and try again. “Peg?”

“Yes?” Peggy lowered the freezer lid and turned to look. Toulouse was now sitting on a stack of filing boxes a couple of yards away, hugging her own shoulders in utter misery. The men had moved on a couple of freezers down, where they’d opened another one. Kevin was staring into it, while Howard motioned for Peggy to come see.

Peggy’s own steps were a little wobbly as she went to join them. It was no wonder Toulouse had been traumatized by this place – Peggy could picture the young woman sitting alone in this huge room, frantically trying to get in touch with the only people she thought might believe her. What had she thought when she couldn’t get an answer from them?

Inside the other freezer was yet another deformed corpse. This one had multiple limbs sprouting from places limbs do not belong, including an arm growing out of a thigh and a set of toes protruding from a shoulder. The face of this one, however, was relatively intact. It was gray and slightly bloated from death, but it was a very distinctive face, and one Peggy knew all too well.

It was Armin Zola.

Her heart almost stopped. The other two hadn’t had recognizable faces, but they’d both had the same build. Were they all Zola? And if so…

“You see it?” asked Howard.

“I do,” said Peggy. “What does it mean, though?” Had he made multiple attempts to go time-travelling and they’d failed? But if so, why were there several corpses left?

Howard lowered the freezer lid. “Well, I could be wrong, that’s been known to happen,” he said, “but I think it meant that thing isn’t a time machine. It was never a time machine.”

“What in god’s name is it, then?” asked Peggy.

“It’s a matter copier,” said Howard. “Information must be stored in those crystals, and the machine reads it to reconstruct the subject later. Remember Sutcliffe said Zola used cows to test the machine and there were a lot of tests? That’s why we were finding cows back in 1948, and that’s why they’re turning up now – because HYDRA is going through the crystals looking for something and most of them just encode a cow. When I touched the coils and it short-circuited, there must have still been a blank crystal hooked up to the machine…”

“And we were copied into it,” Peggy finished for him.

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georgewagner · 4 years ago

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Bridgerton-style garden design ideas and inspiration

The society papers are filled with anticipation for the event of the season: Netflix’s romantic drama, Bridgerton, will soon be back on our screens! Whilst season 1 inspired many of us to adopt the Regencycore interior design aesthetic, the most dedicated fans out there are going a step further, by searching for ways to mimic the extraordinary gardens of the ton in their own outdoor spaces. That’s after mourning the fact that Regé-Jean Page (The Duke of Hastings) won’t be returning in season 2, of course.

Transform your garden into a space that’ll rival even Queen Charlotte’s royal estate, with our top 5 period-style garden features, below.

A vibrant pergola

The folly is the one of the show’s most memorable locations. But, we aren’t all lucky enough to have a garden with ample space for such a building. A pergola is a stylish (albeit less grand) alternative that not only brings practical value, but also offers a unique focal point.

Extravagant floral arrangements are commonplace in a Bridgerton style garden. So, hang baskets of bright flowers on the overhang of your pergola and place reclaimed antique urn planters alongside it. You can also grow climbing plants, like wisteria, up the posts.

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A distinctive water feature

Soothing as can be, the sound of running water in your garden will help you to de-stress as you sit in the fresh air. Opt for a fountain, rock waterfall or reflecting pool in an ornate design to add a subtle touch of Regency.

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Beautifully manicured shrubs and hedges

A courtyard garden is fashionable whether you’re going for a full-on Bridgerton style garden, or simply adding antique touches to a contemporary design. Clean lines are necessary when it comes to this style. Use potted topiary plants in clearly defined, geometrical shapes to section off different areas of your garden. Another option is to plant box hedge plants alongside key features, like the garden path. This will provide a sense of separation without devoting all the space to a courtyard.

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Intricate wrought iron gates

Nothing says “Bridgerton” more than swirling, spiralling patterns (known as scrollwork) crafted by a talented blacksmith or metalworker. Whilst scrolls can be spotted in almost every corner of the typical high society home, you can be more tasteful in your choices by implementing scrollwork on your driveway gates instead.

Install gate piers, which are pillars either side of the gate, to add even more elegance to your entrance. You could even sit urn planters atop, adorning your gate with fragrant flowers.

A gated driveway improves your home’s security and privacy. Plus, it’s a low maintenance option, requiring just a wire brush, water and a touch of paint to get it sparkling every so often.

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Those of us without driveways can still benefit from the beauty of floral displays when creating a period perfect home exterior. If you’ve got security fencing, plant the flowers of your choice in over-fence and railing planters. Then, match the rich hues to the colour of your front door to bring the whole look together. Make sure you pick a sophisticated front door colour – after all, your front door colour says a lot about you!

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Remember the spectacular lightbulb canopy and Roman candle fireworks featured in Daphne’s dream at the start of episode 3, season 1? Well-designed garden lighting makes your space feel luxurious. It’s also one of the top garden features recommended by Ricky from Pride Landscape and Design. Find out why in our video on how to make the most of your garden all year round.

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The Sky House, A Project For Nature Lovers

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere” said Vincent van Gogh, and the design of this modern home endeavours to do just that. The Sky House, a project by architects at MIA Design Studio, is located where numerous skyscrapers have been built close together in the metropolitan city of Saigon, Vietnam. This towering border of buildings creates a feeling of being down in a concrete valley, a state not conducive for open and airy living, or in which to bond with nature. The team hatched an architectural plan that would promote inner peace and calmness through links with nature and family, via deep volumes of vertical and horizontal connective space.

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jeremystrele · 5 years ago