Generation Null

Whenever your time machine begins to smell like this, you know you are in trouble. The readouts went blank, then dimly flickered several times. He ran a diagnostic sweep, but the screen merely flashed blue. Hours in the time machine simualtor made his movement instinctive, but no amount of training would reboot the computer in time. Or save him from the malfunctioning time machine. He wiped his brow, and began muttering to himself. Saint Eligius, protect me!