In a modern-day race to perfect time travel, a dedicated historian must outsmart a rival scientist and prevent a catastrophic alteration of history after their actions in the past have unintended consequences.
Protagonist: A dedicated historian who is excited about the opportunity to witness historical events firsthand through time travel; Antagonist: A rival scientist who is envious of the protagonist's success and is determined to sabotage their experiments and steal credit for the time machine's invention.
The protagonist and antagonist engage in a high-stakes race to secure funding and resources for their respective time-travel experiments, leading to a series of intense confrontations and betrayals.
As the protagonist and antagonist both complete their time-travel experiments, they find themselves transported to a crucial moment in history. In a final showdown, the protagonist outsmarts the antagonist and uses the time machine to prevent the antagonist from altering the course of history. The protagonist returns to the present day, hailed as a hero, while the antagonist's actions are exposed, leading to their downfall. The time machine is destroyed to prevent further misuse, and the protagonist continues their work as a historian, knowing that some things are better left in the past.
Twist: Just as the protagonist returns to the present day, they discover that their actions in the past have inadvertently changed the course of history in a catastrophic way. Now they must find a way to fix their mistake and restore the timeline before it's too late.