Sliders On Y2K Earth
The date: Sometime after December 31, 1999, hell if I know.
All computerized equipment and vehicles fitted with an internal
clock have failed, literally causing all of society to go kaput
technologically speaking. Businesses and power stations
which depended on the use of computers ground to a halt,
supermarkets and all other food merchandising sites had
been looted, postal carriers had decided their jobs were
pointless (and sucked anyway) so social security checks
issued for January 1st now were someone else's fireplace
fuel, really badly bored kids threw tantrums because
their Christmas Nintendo 64's quit working after one week,
and there was no TV.
Anyhow, it was onto a littered, vacant downtown area of
storefronts with busted windows and abandoned
businesses in San Francisco where the vortex opened,
spilling Quinn and company out on the sidewalk.
The sliders picked themselves up and dusted off,
Quinn coming suspiciously close to stroking Maggie's
breasts, who oddly appeared not to mind at all.
Rembrandt and Colin walked over to the curb to survey
their surroundings. Quinn noticed that they had indeed
been incredibly fortunate in landing next to a bank tower
with an ATM placed on the street.
Knowing nothing of the events which had transpired on
this world, he attempted to feed his ATM card into the
machine and of course it wouldn't go. Needing cash to
survive on this earth and furious because dimwit Colin
gave all of theirs to a blind and deaf window washer
wearing a funny sign on the last world, Quinn cracked
finally and kicked the machine, dropping the timer and
breaking both that and his right size 10.
At the same moment Maggie had been staring through
the shattered window of a nearby T.C.B.Y. Treats and
was shot in the head by a nutso business owner
because she was mistaken for a looter who apparently
preferred slutty clothes.
Quinn's loud yell startled a completely luckless 325-pound
former accountant on the fourteenth story ledge of the
bank tower who was at that instant deciding maybe not to
jump after all. He plummeted to earth and completely squashed
both Quinn and Remmy, who had dashed over to assist his
pal. Unable to slide without the timer, Colin eventually
wandered off and wound up joining a weird strict
religious cult which survived by farming and using
horse-drawn wagons for transportation. He married a
girl named Suzanna whose mother decided she disliked
him heartily upon first sight, and they had 17 kids, 5
of whom were ADD and there was no such thing as
Ritalin.The mother-in-law moved in with them and
promptly began complaining about the lack of living
space in the house. She also bestowed upon him the
affectionate pet names of 'bum' and 'loser' and they all
lived happily ever after.