Buster’s Guide: Issue #3 | The Time Police & The 1991 Temporal Glitch

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📟 [TRANSCRIPT DECRYPTION // LOG_03]
⚠️ WARNING: RECURSIVE TIMELINE INSTABILITY DETECTED

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LOG_03: RECURSIVE ERROR
DATE: May 16, 1991 – 19:47
LOCATION: Second Street, Cornwall, ON

The sky didn't go dark. It went to static.

Buster was in the yard with Shadow next door, the black lab. At 7:47 PM the air got heavy, like before a storm, but it tasted like copper and old tape. The camcorder's audio meter pinned at 19.8kHz and stayed there.

I looked up and the clouds had a crack in them. Not a cloud break — a straight line of VHS snow, right down the middle of the sky over Cornwall.

Then the sun turned red. Not sunset red. Emergency broadcast red.

Three chrome spheres came down through the static. No sound. They just hung over the street, red sensors sweeping the lawns. Our neighbor's minivan reflected in them perfectly.

Einstein — that's what I called the kid with the glasses from down the block, he was always reading — yelled "Don't move! They're keyed to displacement!" Buster, being Buster, moved.

The spheres fired a blue grid. It didn't hit him, it grew around him. One second he's mid-leap for a tennis ball, next he's frozen inside a neon cage. I could see his breath stopped in the air.

That's when he stepped out.

Not the maintenance guy from the mall. This one had a clock for a head. Real clock, ticking, yellow face, wearing a Cornwall Police hat on top like it was normal. He pointed at Buster and the street behind him started dissolving into green numbers.

"You are a recursive instability," he said. Voice like a library card catalog. "Every action produces divergence. You are not a dog. You are an error that repeats."

Buster vibrated. I don't mean shook — I mean his pixels came apart. The camcorder couldn't track him, so it made twelve of him. Twelve Busters, all slightly out of phase, all barking at different times.

The spheres spun in circles trying to lock on. The computer voice on the tape says: "GOOD_BOY.exe detected. Cannot execute containment."

Buster — all of them — shouted: "I'm not an error! I'm a multitasking phenomenon!"

The street turned into a kaleidoscope. One Buster jumped over a mailbox that wasn't there in 1991 yet. Another ducked a laser that hadn't fired. The clock cop just stood there ticking louder.

Then the sky opened again and the Colossus stepped through. It's not a robot, it's a tool. A building-sized clock face on a body made of TV static. It didn't walk, it just made the neighborhood smaller.

Everything got quiet. Not silent — that white-noise hum when you turn off a CRT in a dark room.

Last thing on the tape is Buster looking at the camera, all twelve of him syncing back into one, saying: "...I really should've stayed home today."

[Tape ends. Timecode: NULL.]

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— S.M. // [STATUS: DATA_FRAGMENTATION_CRITICAL]

📡 ALERT: CAUSALITY LOCKDOWN IN EFFECT // UNIT_03_DEPLOYED // TEMPORAL_INDEX_003 // [SIGNAL: UNSTABLE]

Buster's Guide Issue 3: Buster vs The Time Police

Cornwall Labs Archive — Cornwall, Ontario 1991 // 19.8 kHz Temporal Lockdown

Buster and Shadow witness a temporal anomaly crack open the sky above them.

Fig.01 — Temporal anomaly detected, Cornwall skyline 1991

The sky over Cornwall didn't just turn dark—it turned static. Buster looked up, paws treading on 1991 grass that felt increasingly like low-resolution carpet. The air tasted like copper and old magnetic tape.

🔴 SYSTEM LOG: CAUSALITY DETECTED AT 19.8 kHz

Cornwall skyline under a bleeding red sun as Time Police ships arrive.

Fig.02 — Red sun event, Time Police breach inbound

AUDIO LOG: 19.8-KHz

A low-frequency hum begins to vibrate the juice box in Young Shadow's hand. It's not a sound—it's a pressure.

EINSTEIN: "Buster, don't move. Their sensors are keyed to displacement velocity. If you hold still, you're just a background asset."

BUSTER: "Hard to hold still when the sky is growing eyes, Einstein!"

Three chrome spheres emerge from the static, their red sensors scanning the lawn with terrifying precision.

⚠️ CAUSALITY LAG DETECTED ⚠️

Time Police Unit 03 intercepts Buster and Shadow as reality collapses around them.

Fig.03 — Unit 03 intercept, Cornwall temporal collapse

EMERGENCY OVERRIDE: ACTIVE

Einstein's advice was sound, but Einstein wasn't the one being stared at by a giant red eye from the future. Buster's "displacement velocity" went from 0 to 100 in a heartbeat.

BUSTER: "Shadow! The ship! If we don't leave now, we're going to become a footnote in a history book that hasn't been written yet!"

SHADOW: "I'm trying! The ignition is stuck in a 1994 logic gate!"

::: TIC ::: TOK ::: TIC ::: TOK :::

PANEL 4: TIME FREEZE NET

❄️ MOLECULAR MOTION SUSPENDED ❄️

Time Police freeze net traps Buster and Shadow in a blue temporal grid.

Fig.04 — Molecular motion suspended, chrono-lock engaged

ERROR: KINETIC_ZERO

The world doesn't just get cold—it becomes solid. Buster is caught mid-leap, his front paws stretched toward a future that has been temporarily cancelled. A blue geometric grid flickers into existence around him, pinning his molecules to the coordinates of 1991.

EINSTEIN: "Stay calm, Buster. They've locked your position in the fourth dimension. You're essentially a museum exhibit right now."

BUSTER: (muffled, vibrating) "I... HATE... MUSEUMS!"

-- CHRONO-LOCK ENGAGED --

PANEL 5: THE RULE REVEALED

SYSTEM STATUS: RECURSIVE_ERROR_LOG_00

Time Police officer reveals Buster is a recursive error as the street collapses.

Fig.05 — 'You are an error that repeats' — baseline redact

TRANSCRIPT_ID: UN-AUTHORIZED_EXISTENCE

The Time Officer steps forward, his helmet whirring with the sound of a thousand ticking pocket watches. Behind him, holographic timelines bloom and collapse. "You are a recursive instability," he states, his voice a dry rasp of parchment.

"Every action you take produces divergence. You are not a person... You are an error that repeats. By existing in 1991, you have turned this street into digital rot."

Buster bristles, his fur flickering between golden yellow and low-bit gray. For the first time, he doesn't joke back immediately. "...Okay," he says slowly, "that's kind of harsh."

"CONTAINMENT IS MANDATORY. INITIALIZING DELETION."

PANEL 6: THE ESCAPE GLITCH

CRITICAL ERROR: MULTIPLE BUSTER SIGNATURES DETECTED

Buster creates temporal echoes to escape as Chronos Sentinels with clock heads close in.

Fig.06 — Multiple Buster signatures detected, escape glitch

LOCAL_REALITY_FAILURE: 88%

Buster didn't just run—he smeared. If the Time Police wanted to treat him like a digital error, he was happy to oblige. By vibrating at a frequency the 1991 baseline couldn't understand, he began to leave vibrating copies of himself behind.

[SYSTEM_REPORT]: Target identity fragmented.
[SYSTEM_REPORT]: 12 instances of 'GOOD_BOY.exe' detected.
[SYSTEM_REPORT]: Cannot execute containment on non-linear assets.

BUSTER: "I'm not an error! I'm a multitasking phenomenon!"

The Time Police spheres swivel frantically, unable to distinguish the dog from the data-rot.

::: ESCAPE_VECTOR_CALCULATED :::

PANEL 7: CHASE THROUGH ECHO TIME

⏳ ERROR: TEMPORAL_RECURSION_DETECTED ⏳

Buster's temporal echoes trapped in energy cages as Time Police close in.

Fig.07 — Echo run initiated, temporal recursion

LOG: ECHO_RUN_INITIATED

The Cornwall street becomes a kaleidoscope of overlapping moments. One Buster jumps over a mailbox that isn't there yet; another ducks under a laser net that was fired three seconds ago.

EINSTEIN: "They can't lock onto us if our causal footprints are overlapping!" — voice echoes from three directions at once.

The Time Police spheres spin frantically, their red sensors pulsing in a desperate attempt to differentiate the Original from the Echoes. The neighborhood is dissolving into pure data.

"THEY CAN'T PIN US DOWN IF THE TIMELINE CAN'T DECIDE WHICH ONE OF US IS REAL!"

VOID

⚠️ SIGNAL LOST: REBOOT REQUIRED ⚠️

Temporal Colossus with clock face towers over collapsing Cornwall as dogs watch.

Fig.08 — Temporal Colossus deployed, reality collapse

Everything collapses inward. Not explosively—but quietly, like a television being turned off in a dark room.

The Time Police, the grid, the 1991 baseline... it all bleeds into a single, humming note of white noise. Buster feels the grass vanish beneath his paws. He isn't falling; he's just no longer located.

"…I really should've stayed home today."

TO BE CONTINUED IN ISSUE #4: THE REBOOT

// CHRONO_INDEX: NULL // SESSION_TERMINATED //

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📋 Cornwall Intel File: Threat Level Critical

⚠️ TEMPORAL_STABILITY_CRITICAL:
The Time Police have deployed the "Shredder" protocols to contain the 1991 glitch. But the data-stream is resisting. By attempting to delete the anomaly, they have triggered a System-Wide Narrative Erasure.
FILE: BUSTER.EXE — [STATUS: CORRUPTING...]

[ENFORCEMENT RECORD: UNIT-03] - THE REDACTION OF CORNWALL:
Data recovered from the 1991 baseline suggests that the Time Police (Designation: Unit-03) have initiated a total structural purge in Cornwall, Ontario. Unlike standard narrative errors, the presence of the Temporal Colossus—the clock-faced sentinel seen in the final frames—indicates that the "Buster" instability can no longer be contained via simple signal degradation.

RED_PROTOCOL CHECKLIST	CURRENT TRACKING STATUS
1. Sky Transition	Completed (Status: Solid Static)
2. Biological Memory Scrub	82% Active
3. Target "BUSTER" Anomaly	Still manifesting in unrendered sectors

Anatomy of the Temporal Colossus

The Colossus is not a biological entity; it is a Causal Enforcement Tool. Its primary function is to "rewind" the local 19.8 kHz frequency until the narrative matches the approved Cornwall Labs baseline. In Issue 3, we witness the Colossus unfolding over the residential district—this is a visual representation of a Somatic Overwrite.

Note the "Time Police" units appearing in the periphery. These entities are Redaction Officers. They do not kill the subjects they encounter; they remove the subject's history, ensuring they were never born in the 1991 baseline to begin with.

The Glitch Leap: Narrative Escape

Buster's ability to leap into the "Static Sky" suggests a terrifying evolution in the Space Madness protocol. By embracing the glitch art of his own reality, the canine entity has moved beyond the jurisdiction of linear time. The Time Police are no longer chasing a dog; they are chasing a corrupted file that refuses to be deleted.

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Keywords: Time Police Analog Horror, Temporal Colossus, Cornwall Ontario 1991, Buster golden retriever, Shadow black lab, 19.8 kHz, 90s Glitch Comics, Cornwall Labs Archive

// CORNWALL MEMORY RECOVERY PROTOCOL //

Were you in Cornwall, Ontario in 1991? Did your TV ever cut to static at 19.8 kHz? Did you see the sky "crack" over the backyard during that summer?

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