Time Traveling

**Time Traveling** is a special ability which is very hard to accomplish. Shelby Marcus & Cyd Ripley were hit by a machine that can replicate time travel. They were hit because they were touching each other causing this charge that can make them time travel. This power is very special. Barry is obsessed with trying to crack the secret to time travel and use it for himself. It was created in 2015 by Barry Eisenberg.

## Description

In order to time travel, the user has to hold his/her hands (in the case of being more than one, all of them have to make physical contact) and think on the determined moment that he/she wants to travel to. In the case of being more than one person, either all of them have to agree or only one of them has to think of where they want to travel. If one resists, they won't time travel, which is called jump-jamming. When they time travel, they enter their respective bodies of that time, but their past/future looks are only view-able to everyone else unless they look into a camera and a mirror. Even if they mentally time travel, users can still take any physical object from one time to another, but it seems they cannot do this with other living beings.

   Once the users travels to the determined moment in time they will be able to interact with that time environment. But in doing so they will change the temporal timeline, sometimes causing a Butterfly effect like in the case of the episode The Butterscotch Effect. Only the users will remember the events of both timelines.

The user can also travel to a time before they are born, leaving behind tachyon particles. To do this, they have to think of the location as well. However this has consequences, as, in the case of being more than one user, if they split up they will become part of the period, and forget each other and themselves. The only way to overcome and escape is strong willpower and for them to continuously remember each other. Another risk is that there is a limit to how many times they can jump while remaining outside their lifetimes, because their power will diminish and they will get stuck in that time.

In The Lying Game, it's shown that if Shelby and Cyd travel to a time where one of them is sick, they will feel physically sick just like they did at the time, so long as they stay in that time period. If they time travel to when they aren't sick anymore, they no longer feel sick.

### "Autopilot" Cyd and Shelby

When Cyd and Shelby time travel to a different time, they possess the bodies of their bodies of that time period. When they jump back to the present or into the future, their consciences of the time between the jump are on "autopilot," presumably put into their bodies to live their lives and create a new timeline or create the future.

If we use the 2015 to 2017 jump from the first episode, after the original 15-year-old Cyd and Shelby jumped to 2017 in their 17 year-old bodies, that leaves a two year period of an "autopilot" version of Cyd and Shelby who have the responsibility to live their lives for two years to create the future for Cyd and Shelby to jump to. When they jump into a past moment within their lifetimes, for example, their 10-year-old bodies in The Butterscotch Effect and change the future timeline, there is an autopilot from 2010 to 2015 who live their lives in the new timeline until Cyd and Shelby's consciences jump back to 2015.

The "autopilot" process brings out some confusing points: After the original 10-year-old Cyd and Shelby were possessed by her 15-year-old selves, how are the autopilot Cyd and Shelby going to remember these few minutes when time travel Cyd and Shelby walked from the elementary school to the high school, ordered pizza to distract the high school students and helped Barry, when they jump back to their present-day bodies?

**There are three possibilities.**

* Autopilot Shelby and Cyd won't remember these few minutes and will go on living normally, possibly confused as to how they got there.
* Autopilot Shelby and Cyd will know they were possessed and will know about their future time travel powers. (This is unlikely, as it would affect the timeline too much.)
* Their brain will fill in the gaps with fake memories: The autopilot Cyd and Shelby will think they acted on their own free will when they went to the high school, ordered pizza, and helped Barry maybe thinking it was some kind of fun adventure or prank that they don't clearly remember.

## Limits

There's a limit to this power. If a time-travel user travel to a timeline to where they don't exist, they only have a few time jumps before their power runs out and be stuck in that timeline. This is shown in Cyd and Shelby Strike Back.

## Users

* Shelby Marcus - In conjunction with Cyd.
* Cyd Ripley - In conjunction with Shelby
* Barry Eisenberg - In conjunction with Cyd, Naldo and Shelby
* Naldo Montoya - In conjunction with Shelby, Cyd, and Barry
* Janet Smythe - Temporarily
* Daisy - Using the time rift
* Sebastian - Using the time rift.

## Trivia

* This is Barry's top invention.
* If they time travel to outside their lifetimes,
* If Cyd and Shelby are also in contact with an object fresh from a specific era, they will end up in the era and location it originated in.
* For Cyd and Shelby to time travel, they have to agree, or only one of them has to think about the time. If Cyd and Shelby want to go to different places, they time travel to a new reality where the other one doesn't exist.
* They can create alternate timelines.

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