Victor the Victorious

On a regular day in New York, Victor the geeky archeologist was visiting a historical museum. He walked inside the museum and caught sight of a very humongous, weird machine through the open door to the public restricted area. He was very curious to know about the huge weird-looking machine. So, he entered the strictly restricted area and started inspecting the machine. While exploring it, he wasn’t looking down and he slipped on a puddle because he was as clumsy as a manatee. He fell into the machine and mistakenly clicked some buttons and then, thud! Suddenly, everything around him started trembling. Right when he thought he would throw up, it stopped spinning. He looked up and saw a screen with a green play button on it. He then heard a voice say, “Welcome to the world of puzzles! Press the button on the screen in front of you to start the game.” He got curiously intrigued and clicked on the button ‘play’. He then heard a voice saying, “To get back, you have to mummify the queen of Egypt,”.

After hearing that, he was transported to an unknown, barren land that looked like a desert to him. He looked beside him and spotted that there was a huge pyramid being made and he thought, “Is that the Pyramid of Giza?” He tried to get back in the machine, but the door wouldn’t open. He gave up and started walking straight ahead. He kept walking and saw a gorgeous woman who had lots of makeup on her face, and a handsome, tall man, he as well had lots of makeup on his face. He went straight up to them, introduced himself and told his story of how he got stuck here.

The man and the woman introduced themselves as the king and the queen of Egypt respectively. The king and queen asked for some evidence to believe in his story. Victor started thinking hard and suddenly he realized that he had a phone in his pocket and showed some of its features like music, videos, photographs, flashlight. He then showed them a picture of the fully built Pyramid of Giza. The king and queen said, “But the pyramid isn’t built yet !” He told them that that was how the Pyramid of Giza would look like when it would be fully built and it would be the oldest and sole remaining intact wonder of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Then the king and the queen believed him and agreed to help him. He told the Queen that he needs to complete the nerve-wracking puzzle to go back to his era and to complete the puzzle he needs to mummify the queen. Listening to this idea, the queen got furious and she declined the offer. He tried to persuade the queen to at least get the mummification done for some statue of her, and he told her that if she agreed, she would have a tomb for herself ready for when she died. Listening to this, the queen agreed and said, “Let’s go and start, but first you have to build the tomb for me, then I will help you. I will give you 100 servants to make it in one day. If you fail to make it by sundown, then no deal”.

Victor agreed and started building it where she told him to with the servants. The servants and he worked hard all day and finished it just in time. The queen then gave him a statue of herself, and he started the mummification process. It took him around 60 days to complete it. Finally, he went back to the machine, opened the door, and got back to the museum. He came out and started jumping around in joy. He was never so happy to be back. It was as if no time had passed. He was smiling and dancing when he slipped on the same puddle and fell back into the time machine. His back pressed some buttons, everything around him started spinning, and he thought, “Oops.”