Well you see, Miso was a typical girl from the 3257. She finished school when she was ten with a doctorate in nanotechnology. Developed an A.I. life form called Nanite, artificial, symiotic, assistant, or N.A.S.A.. She now has a friend for life, and a way to wirelessly interact with any and all technology within a ten foot radius from her. It also acted as a personal short range portal creator and could reuse one out fit and create another. She got a B in her science class for the effort.
After school she found all manner of work. She was a DJ for five clubs, I.T. director for three different security firms, and a part time teacher for kids who needed help on quantum mechanics, or chaos theory. It was busy work and kept her in the satisfactory range with the local magistrate. Miso was board. She was fifteen and needed some excitement! She did a search in the data base for the least searched for request to date. The A.I. returned with a subject called history! She couldn't believe the treasure she had found!
Miso was also a hopeless romantic. She longed for the past and was fascinated with history. Specifically the 1990s. They just started inventing technology and had the world wide web. It was so ancient that people actually talked to each other on small portable electronic devices called cell phones. They had these cute animations call emojies and used them to express how they were feeling at that moment. They had to walk really long distances to go to school and sit at this thing called a desk. She wanted to return to those times. She went into the virtual world and clicked the licensing agreement and downloaded the schematics to build a time portal. There was some fine print and a lot of legal stuff at the end she decided to read later. It took her most of the wek to reconfigure her nuclear powered sonic sanitizer into at temporal rift arch. It only had enogh power to stay open for and hour. She opened the gateway and sent in a drone only to discover the portal opened in a place called New Mexico? Eh, she shut it down and tried again after making a few minor adjustments.
This time the portal activated and she saw her fantasy 1992, ancient Japan! She was so excited she stepped through, and saw the ancient city of Tokyo! Miso was bombarded with the sounds, and smells of history! She loved it! It was everything she ever dreamed of! Then the worst happened. A bus pulled up right into the portal! It was too munch matter! This would drain the power even quicker as the antimatter field would force the differential of the quantum dimensional shift into chaos. The cross stream containment field started to crackle and collapsed cutting the buses cab in half munch to the bewilderment of the driver. Fortunately no one was actually harmed. Time paradox was most of the warning label.
She would worry about going back after a week or so. The sun was so bright! Miso still in her bio suit sighed. She would have to change. The optical read out linked to a wifi connection, to cell tower, and to a satellite, in order to spot the nearest clothing store. She walked in the store. It beeped at her as she entered probably had some bio sensor wirelessly notifying the store A.I. "Hello? I'd like some clothes please."
This is where the story takes off. .... In the ancient city of Tokyo.
