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But one day, the machine started to shake and the date numbers started spinning abnormally. Everyone got scared. Baltasar was also frightened until a large explosion happened and three figures arose out of the smoke - all standing at different heights. The scientist almost fainted as he saw his idols: Freddie Mercury, Albert Einstein and even Aristotle. He carefully ran up to them to see if they were alright. Of course, everyone was confused about where they were and how they got here. Luckily, Baltasar managed to get them all inside of his laboratory and tried to explain everything. The scientist even gave Aristotle a separate lecture in Greek, which he luckily knew. All of the celebrities were stunned, especially Einstein.

“How do we go back? - Freddie asked in a panicked voice. He still had long hair, he was most likely dragged out of the '70s, - All I remember is practising with my band and now I'm magically here? I need to write a song about this…” he whispered to himself.

“My boy, you should not play with time and space like that,” Einstein said, shaking his head in disappointment.

Aristotle was too stunned to speak, so he just stood there, letting silence fill the room. After a short while Baltasar spoke:

“My sincerest apologies gentlemen, I will fix this! But until then, you will have to live here. I have an apartment on the other side of town that you'll stay in,” Baltasar apologised, putting his hand on his chest.

“Interesting, I hope we will all get along for the time being here,” Aristotle spoke in his native language.

Baltasar awkwardly smiled, knowing that he messed up...

Despite knowing that it was going to be a hard task to bring them back to their original timelines, Baltasar wasn't going to give up on doing so, not so early at least. He wasn't sure how he was going to do so though, but it's not like he doesn't have time. Actually, Baltasar has all the time he needs to think the plan through, he just needs a little help. But not right now. His current mission was to bring the three rather confusing historical figures to his place of residence, the apartment that he has mentioned before. Sooner or later they set off on a walk to Baltasar's apartment. Pure silence surrounded the group as they kept on travelling. Soon Baltasar realized that something was wrong and that their trip was taking more time than usual, but he just assumed they took the longer route or got lost. Baltasar was hoping that the first option was the right one, so he didn't mind it much. Soon Baltasar stopped on his tracks as the others did the same. Baltasar began checking his surroundings,

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