(New) Einstein's Swivel Chair "A Jules and Wells Story" By John Pirillo

Einstein's Swivel Chair
"A Jules and Wells Story"
By John Pirillo

Wells first noticed the aberration when he was working on an upgrade to the onboard flight navigator. He and Jules had come up with this very simple device that they could feed numbers into in a series of binary codes that would then turn the code into a visible interface. From that they had, with the help of their good friends Tesla and Einstein, as well as Edison, come up with lightware...another form of binary code that could be read by the device and seen as a kind of book to read, complete with instructions how to use it.

Of course, the device had to be miniaturized to be of use within the cockpit, as it had very little spare space, but they managed to fit it under the bombing station, which had a spare foot in it.

"That should do it."  Tesla had decided after hooking up the string engine to the small device.

"Do what?" Watson had asked. They were giving him a tour of their work. Sherlock had declined because he was supposedly off on vacation in the Scots, but they knew better. He never took vacations and he was never a person to relax for long. He was up to something that they were sure out sooner than later, and more than likely...once more...would require the entire Baker Street team to chip in with their skills to solve, squash, or destroy it. Such was life for the people associated with him.

"Do exactly what it needs to do." Einstein said from his perch on the pilot's chair. He swiveled in it like a child, enjoying the freedom of it.

"I really must get one of these for my office."

Wells, poking his head in from back, grinned. "Done. When would you like one?"

"Yesterday."

He and Jules, who was in the co-pilot's chair exchanged grins. "Oh, I think that could be arranged."

Einstein laughed. "You two make a mockery of my Universal Field Theory."

Watson glanced at Einstein. "That dratted thing makes a mockery of a man's intellect."

They all laughed, except for Watson, who was serious.

Jules quickly diverted to another topic. "So you think our machine..."

"You should call it a putter." Watson ventured. "It makes this tiny put put sound."

"That's the energy conversion going on." Tesla pointed out. "When the energy gets converted from the String universe to ours, there's a kind of dimensional boom."

Jules brightened. "The Wright Brothers claim that one day planes will break that dimension and the atmosphere will shatter with an explosion."

"A kind of sonic boom, hey?" Watson asked.

Einstein tapped Watson on his arm. "You're brighter than you look, Doctor."

At first Watson took that as a compliment and blushed, and then he caught on and glared at Einstein, who giggled like a school girl, got up and squeezed through his friends to exit. "Good luck with the flight, boys. Let me know how it all turns out."

He looks back and winks. "After you've dropped off that...uh...revolving chair."

Everyone laughed.

Watson turned also. "Enough of this. My head's starting to hurt. It's bad enough to put up with Holmes and his outrageous theories, without busting my brain cells over this...bing...theory."

"String." Jules and Tesla spoke at the same time.

"Yes, that thing." Watson agreed, and then also exited.

Tesla patted the box he had installed the lines to. "I think putter is not a bad name at all."

Wells nodded. "Then putter it is."

Jules frowned. "Perhaps we should make sure out little device is protected from intellectual thieves."

Tesla gave him a look that asked a million questions.

Jules smiled. "In the future people will steal ideas if you don't protect them."

"Whatever for, my dear man." Tesla said. "There's so many out there."

"Some are just lazy." Wells responded.

"Or stupid." Jules added. "With greed."

"Oh yes, there's that." Tesla agreed. "Well boys, I'm off to. Got to help the old man solve his next momentous equation."

"You two have been working a lot together lately." Wells said.

"True enough. Edison has been off to the India Isles, working on some kind of device that harnesses prana."

"Prana?" Wells asked with a frown. "Not air?"

"Indeed. Air." Tesla said with a grin. "But air that's been revitalized through yogic means."

Jules shook his head. "Next thing you know someone's going to be telling us we need to meditate to help our hearts and bodies."

Wells laughed. "We'll be long dead before that happens, Jules."

"Mon Frere, I pray that is so."

Tesla shook their hands, and then also exited.

Jules tapped the pilot's chair.

Wells eyed it with eyebrows raised. "So soon, old chap?"

"Never too soon, Mon Frere."

"I see." Wells said, positioning himself at the controls. "You are eager to get into more mischief then."

"Always. I have never enough of it at home."

Wells barked with laughter. "Your children are enough mischief for a dozen men."

Jules brightened. "That is because they take after me."

They both laughed.

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The Master of the World's String engines warmed up rapidly. Jules nursed them through the stages: entrance, magnetize indraw and energize. The four states of String energy. The first caused it to enter our dimension, the second to feed the engines, the third to phase it between both dimemsions and the last to direct the engines where ever in time and space they desired.

Wells looked to Jules, who nodded. He started to cause the Master of the World to rise on beams of bright String fields, when Jules suddenly barked out. "Wait!"

Wells settled the ship down and waited as Jules dashed from the cockpit through the lengthy middle and to the door, which he opened, allowing the ramp to fall down quickly. He plumetted down the ramp, not even breathing hard and dashed into a side room, where a brand new swivel chair stood.

He grinned, then hefted it easily and ran back outside, through the warehouse, up the ramp, which Wells activated from the cockpit. Before he had even stepped into the safety of the passenger compartment, the ship was sealed and lifting. He set the chair down, and then hurried back to the cockpit, where he strapped himself in.

"So what now?" Wells asked, fully knowing what Jules would ask next.

"Yesterday."

Wells set the co-ordinates and Jules gave the engines their needed juice.

The Master of the World lifted up from the warehouse for a moment, and then was surrounded by a bright penumbra, which promptly vanished. It lowered back into the warehouse. Jules unstrapped, went into the passenger compartment and exited, just as Einstein leading John Watson and Tesla entered the warehouse, all talking excitedly.

Jules went to Einstein with the chair in his arms and offered it to him.

"What's this?"

"A little something from the future."

Einstein gave Jules a puzzled look, but when Jules set it down, sat upon it and spun. Einstein began laughing like a small girl. It's absolutely marvelous. For me? Really?"

Jules stood up and made way for Einstein, who sat upon it, then began spinning it around.

Inside the Master of the World Wells watched with a set of binoculars, his face wide with a smile.

"Sometimes time travel is not such a bad thing."