The haunted time travel of the mad candidate to Knight Templar

Star Wars (1977)

In the 12th Century, deep in Old Castile, there was a young soldier who was preparing to become a Knight Templar. His name was Pedro Zarquillo. From an early age, he followed very carefully every instruction of his masters. But there was a final trial which he had to get through. The night before he was going to be ordained as a Knight Templar, he was asked to leave Old Castile. He was only provided with his white horse ‘Luciernaga’, a bottle of good old Castilian wine, and two pieces of bread. He was told to travel to the west and get as far as he could. Although he didn’t understand anything, he tried not to think too much, as he had always been compliant with every order from his templar masters. Thus, that very night, he left Old Castile.

Several hours had passed on his way, and Pedro was getting exhausted. Therefore, he stopped to have a rest. He only saw a very strange tree in the surroundings. The tree had a very wide trunk, but almost no branches nor leaves. But he had no better option, so he stayed there. When he was about to fall asleep, he realized that a huge storm was approaching from the east. But he did not have enough energy to continue with his journey to the west, and after a while, a strong bolt of lightning struck the tree.

The next morning, our brave and innocent hero was supposedly dead as he didn’t return to his Knight Templar ordination celebration. But from some manuscripts that were secretly hidden for centuries, today we know what really happened to Pedro. The lightning had the effect to take him to our days, in the 21st Century. In the beginning, he didn’t understand anything, and he was taken as a mad vagabond and correspondingly sent to an asylum. But after some rest, and what he learnt from the other inmates and the doctors, he was aware of what had truly happened to him.

The Matrix (1999)

After a few months, the doctors decided Pedro was ready to get back to the real-life outside the asylum, and he has been trying to achieve a peaceful life since then. Pedro has never talked to anybody about his previous life, although he is sometimes still confused about the inconsistency of our current way of living, and even feels misunderstood and lonely at times. But he found therapy to overcome these difficulties. This therapy consists of writing tales about what he thinks it would have been his life if he had managed to come back to his Knight Templar ordination celebration.

Today, Pedro is living among us, and through the ancient manuscripts, we know he has still ways of communication with his templar masters, maybe by using a kind of timeless telepathy. Many who have access to this story believe that every science-fiction blockbuster of the 20th-century film industry is based on Pedro’s life in some sense, starting from Star Wars and ending with The Matrix.

In the loving memory of all the humankind

if we still deserve that name