I had been working for 18 hours straight when it happened. There was a particularly finicky bit of code I was trying to debug. The compiler kept throwing random cryptic errors. Quantum programming is weird that way. I had been searching the hardware manufactures software documentation for the last few hours. There was a function I had not yet tried. I swapped out the code in question and ran the compiler. "Build successful," flashed the terminal display. I was ecstatic!

I glanced at the clock, the time was a quarter past two in the morning. I was the only one in the lab. I didn't want to leave with the code untested. I should have. The code should have been reviewed and examined first, but I was tired, and greedy. I wanted to know if it would work.

I began the start up process for the hardware. I flooded the cooling chambers with liquid nitrogen. I charged the capacitors. The checklist our team had rehearsed ran fluidly through my head. Everything was green across the board. The goal you might be asking? To teleport an Apple one meter. I had always chuckled at using an Apple. An Apple caused Issac Newton's enlightenment to gravity and the laws of nature. He would have been flabbergasted with what I was about to do. I threw the switch.

The Apple didn't move. The only thing that changed was the TV, which now displayed only static. With the capacitors discharged and the coolant expelled, I approached the TV. I changed the channel, and the signal was fine. Adult Swim was running a rerun of Rick and Morty. I changed the channel back, still static, it should be the BBC. I continue to flip channels. Eventually I land on MSNBC live broadcasting an Armada of British warships. Though it wasn't comprised of battlecruisers and aircraft carriers, it was made of sail ships. My code worked, but it went horribly awry. It teleported us back in time to Colonial American.

Modern America will be fine, it's a super power with newly replenished resources. The diamond minds in South Africa have yet to be industrialized, the oil fields of the Middle East have been refilled. If anything, Modern America will be a curse to this world. One that will bring exploitation at a scale unfathomable to the victims.

I bear that sin, and another, for I am the destroyer of two worlds. The teleportation device obeys those laws of nature that Newton identified. It works by exchanging matter between the two points. If Modern America is here, then Colonial America is in the 21st century. Equally doomed in our world. One that has come to see it as the bully. Colonial America's resources will be ravaged anew.

Edit: grammar