Before they get out of the time machine Travis tells Eckels and the other two hunters that they’re to obey the rules and to not step off the path or else it will affect the future. The T-rex then approaches them in the forest and Eckels is scared for his life and steps off the path and runs into the bushes to hide while Travis and the other two hunters take down the dinosaur. Travis then threatens to leave Eckels behind because he broke the one thing that Travis told him not to do, but instead Travis makes Eckels stick his arms up to his elbows in the T-rexs mouth and dig the bullets out of the dinosaur because the bullets don’t belong in the past and they could change the future. Then, they leave the past and travel back to the present, Eckels then realizes that there is something thick and slimy on his boots. He soons finds out that there is a dead butterfly on the bottom of his shoes, he begins to panic and questions himself if killing the butterfly really would change the future. However, he finds out that killing the butterfly did change the future because before Eckels, the other two hunters, and Travis left for the past in the time machine President Keith was the one that won
Before they get out of the time machine Travis tells Eckels and the other two hunters that they’re to obey the rules and to not step off the path or else it will affect the future. The T-rex then approaches them in the forest and Eckels is scared for his life and steps off the path and runs into the bushes to hide while Travis and the other two hunters take down the dinosaur. Travis then threatens to leave Eckels behind because he broke the one thing that Travis told him not to do, but instead Travis makes Eckels stick his arms up to his elbows in the T-rexs mouth and dig the bullets out of the dinosaur because the bullets don’t belong in the past and they could change the future. Then, they leave the past and travel back to the present, Eckels then realizes that there is something thick and slimy on his boots. He soons finds out that there is a dead butterfly on the bottom of his shoes, he begins to panic and questions himself if killing the butterfly really would change the future. However, he finds out that killing the butterfly did change the future because before Eckels, the other two hunters, and Travis left for the past in the time machine President Keith was the one that won