It was silent... blackness, india ink blackness, night sky blackness...
Suddenly, there was a loud WHACK!
Two eyes opened in horror.
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Slash quickly opened his eyes. He looked up to see his Grade 5
french teacher, Ms. Voltinitzen, holding up her meter stick for all the
class to see. She had already whacked the desk once to wake Slash up.
"Slash!" She barked at the student, "I know it must be hard
having an attention span of two seconds, but please try and stay awake
in class." THe teacher returned to the front of the class and began to
teach again.
'Whatever.' Slash thought to himself, and prepared to return to
his makeshift home he called The Land of Nod, when a folded piece of
paper hit him on the head and landed in his lap. The Snowboard Kid
unfolded the note, and read it to himself.
"Meet you at Mr. Cube's after school!
From Nancy. "
Slash smiled to himself. A little refreshment would do him good
after this torture session of a class. Just as he folded the note back
up and put it into his pocket, the dismissal bell rang.
"Okay, class! Your homework for the night is to think of a story,
write it, and illustrate it. I want it to be origonal, too." Ms.
Voltinitzen told the class. "You are dismissed." Within the blink of
an eye, desks were flipped, papers blown off the bullitein board, and
the class was empty.
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"Hey, buddy!" Jam yelled to Slash, who was at his locker. Slash
closed the door, and ran towards Jam. "What's up, man? Got an idea for
your story?" Jam asked him as the duo left the building.
"Naw. This has to be the worst assignment i ever had. I'm not in
a creative mood." Slash replied.
"Oh? There's a creative mood?" Jam was puzzled.
"Yup."
"What mood is that?" Jam asked Slash.
"Last-minute panic." Slask simply stated as he pushed open the
doors of Mr. Cube's Scone Shack. Slash looked down the row of booths
to his left, and spotted Linda and Nancy. The two boys walked down to
their booth.
"Hi!" Nancy cheerfully greeted the two. Slash took a seat beside
her, and jam sat down beside Linda. A waiter walked up, and left four
scones. "We ordered for the two of you." Nancy stated, and began to
lick her scone.
"I heard about that crazy assignment Ms. Revolting left for your
class. Nice, eh guys?" Jam stated to his friends.
"I don't find it that hard. Getting into a creative mood is
easy." Nancy replied. Slash and Jam looked at each other and started
to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Linda asked the two boys.
"Nothing, forget about it." Jam said through chuckles. Slash had
stopped laughing, and he also had finished off his scone, so he went over
to the counter to get a few more. a minute later, Slash began to walk
back to his booth with two more of the cold treats, but he somehow
managed to trip over his own feet. The scones flew high into the air.
"Uh-oh." Slash nervously said.
"What goes up..." Jam began, but was cut off by the splat of two
scones landing messily on Linda's head. "...must come down." Jam took
his finger, and scraped a bit of scone off of Linda's eyelids. He
popped the finger into his mouth, and said "Mmm... tasty." Then, Linda
exploded.
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU JUST DID?!?!?" Linda screamed at the
quivering mass on the floor that was once Slash.
"Uh... uh... uhhh..." Slash couldn't talk.
"Come on, buddy. Time to make like a tree and leave." Jam said as he
grabbed Slash and took off with him. By the time the two got outside of
Mr. Cube's, Slash had regained his composure, and began running with Jam.
"Come on, let's see if we can make it ot my house!" Slash yelled at
Jam. Suddenly, a red mass of Linda flew out of Mr. Cube's, on her snowboard.
Slash thought he was as good as dead. Suddenly, Jam ducked into Mr. Dog's
board shop. Slash followed, not knowing what was up his friends sleeve, but
decided to trust him for once.
"Mr. Dog, we need two High-Tech Boards, immdeiently!" Jam grabbed two of
those boards off the shelves.
"IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT TO PURCHA..." Mr. Dog was cut off, as Slash
threw a bag of GP at him. He caught the board Jam threw at him, and the two
took off for the back enterance of the store.
"Keep the damn change, we're in a hurry!" Slash yelled as he followed
Jam out the back.
"OKAY, BYE-BYE." Mr. Dog recited another of his annoying phrases.
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Slash and jam quickly hopped on their boards and activated the speed
fans. They began roaring through the Snow Town streets, dodging cars, cats,
cradles, crones, and just about everything else. They had apparently lost
linda, so Slash motioned to Jam to board into his garage. The two got off
the boards and deactivated the fan system.
"Let's go upstairs, Jam. Iv'e got a new video game i wanna show you!"
Slash Said. He led Jam up to his bedroom. Slash shuffled through the pile
of junk on the floor, and pulled out an N64 cartridge. Jam's eye's bulged.
"Wow!" He said, "Skateboard kids 2! Let's try it!"
After a few hours of hitting jumps, doing tricks, and crashing into
eachother, the boys got bored of the game. Slash put down his controller.
"You know, we should work on our english homework." Jam suggested. So,
the two boys sat down, with pencils and paper, and begun to think. After
fifteen minutes of thinking, and throwing out ideas, Slash began to get
miffed.
"Do I look like a novelist? This is impossible, I can't tell stories!"
Slash said, obviously pissed.
Jam thought for a minute. "Why not write about the Linda/Scone
incident?"
Slash looked at jam like he had farted in church. "Are you crazy? She'd
stick my head up my ass." Jam laughed.
"Yeah, knowing her, she'd do it."
"These assignments don't teach you how to write, they teach you how to
hate to write." Slash continued to complain. "Deadlines, rules, grades,
regulations... how can you be creative if you have someone breathing down
your neck?"
Jam gave another suggestion. "Why not concentrate on the fun of
creating instead of worrying about Ms. Revolting?"
"Every time i do that, i end up in the school shrink's office." Slash
stated matter-of-factly.
Jam turned blue not trying to laugh. "I didn't mean have THAT much fun!"
Suddenly, a light bulb appeared over Slash's head. " I have a wicked
idea!"
Jam looked at him. "For your story?"
"No, I thought of a way I won't have to write one!" Slash said energetically.
"Come on, we're going to visit Wendy!"
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"Hey, guys!" Wendy greeted the two boys. They were in Wendy's Garage-
Turned-Lab, where Wendy made all of her cool inventions.
"Wendy, remember when you showed me a plan for a time machine?" Slash
asked the girl-genious.
"Uh-huh..." Wendy said. She dug through a pile of papers, and pulled out a
blueprint.
Slash Looked at it. "Yep, that's it! Now, is it finished?" Slash asked.
"Yep!" Wendy walked over to a veiled object. "It's under here." Wendy
pulled off the blanket to reveal something that looked like a silver egg with
a domed top.
Slash's eyes gleamed. 'I just love it when a plan comes togeather.' He
thought to himself. "Can we borrow it?" He asked Wendy. Jam was still
wondering what his friend could be up to.
"Sure. But you cart it away." Wendy said. She helped the boys load it
onto a wagon, and the boys left the garage. "Bye, see you tomorrow."
"Come on, Jam! We gotta get back to my house?" Slash started to sprint.
"Why?" Jam asked.
"Wev'e gotta get off the streets before we run into Linda!" Slash said as
the Time Machine carted along behind them. The two ran towards Slash's house.
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Once back in the safety of Slash's room, he explained his plan to Jam. "It's
6:30, right? We can take the time machine to 10:30, later tonight, where
we'll pick up my finished assignment and bring it back." Slash told jam. Jam
was skeptical. "Come on, iv'e got our Time-o-goggles, and everything." Slash
threw a pair to Jam, who put them on. The duo clambered into the time machine.
"I have a feeling that there's something very wrong here, and it's me
sitting in this time machine." Jam said.
"Relax! We'll be back as soon as we go." Slash said reassuringly. He hit
a button, and the time machine was gone, along with the two snowboarders.
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Jam opened his eyes to darkness. "The hell...?" He poked Slash.
"I know exactly what's going on, Jam." Slash told him. Suddenly, the darkness
was swept away like someone had taken a blanket off the time machine. That someone
was Wendy, Jam, and Slash, from 5:30.
"What? didn't we already do this? Talk about Deja vu." jam looked at
the stunned 5:30 gang.
"Turn around! Turn around!" Slash told him. "We went back into the past
because we were sitting in the machine backwards!" Suddenly, because of the
turnaround, Jam was at the helm, with all of the controls.
"Where are we going?" jam asked Slash.
"We're going back..." Slash said dramatically. "... to the future!"
Slash jumped up, and went down just as fast, due to the fact that he had hit
his head on the top of the glass dome. "Ouch..."
Jam laughed. "10:30 it is!" Suddenly, the Time Machine dissappeared again,
transporting the duo to 10:30, that evening.
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The Time machine appeared in Slash's room, at 10:30. The 10:30 Slash and
Jam were there to greet them, decked out in PJs instead of their usual wear.
"Here you are! You must be the 10:30 Slash!" Slash told his double.
"Did you have a good trip?" 10:30 Slash asked him.
"No." Replied Jam.
"Why do you always go on these things?" 10:30 Jam asked the Present Jam.
Before Jam could awnser, Slash said "Greetings, 10:30 Slash and Jam. I'm
6:30 Slash, and this is 6:30 Jam."
"Charmed." All four of them said.
"Down to business." Slash said. "Did you do the homework?"
"Nope." 10:30 Slash said.
"Nope??? Why not???" Slash was outraged.
"Because two hours ago, I went into the future to get it." 10:30 Slash
stated.
"Yeah, and here i am! Where is it?!?" Slash asked again.
"That's what I said, two hours ago." 10:30 Slash replied again.
"I knew this would never work..." Jam held his head in his hands.
"Right, as usual." 10:30 Jam stated.
"You mean to say it's time for bed and you still haven't written our
story?" Slash questioned the other Slash.
"I thought the story was already done." 10:30 slash argued.
"How could it be done if you didn't write it!!" Slash
argued back.
"It had to be done before now, because it's 10:30 and i'm supposed
to be in bed!" 10:30 Slash yelled.
"Wait, if the story had to be written in your past, that would mean
i shouldv'e written it!" Slash said, after thinking a bit.
"Well, why didn't you??" 10:30 slash yelled.
"BECAUSE I CAME TO THE FUTURE TO PICK IT UP WHEN IT WAS DONE!!!!"
Slash screamed, at the end of his wits.
"If you hadn't have screwed up my past, your future wouldn't be
like this!" 10:30 Slash yelled back.
The two took a time-out, but it should be decribed more accurately
as a heavy breather.
Finally, Slash blurted out something. "If we both didn't do the
homework, it shouldv'e been done between 6:30 and 10:30."
"Right, we needed to do it at 7:30." 10:30 Slash agreed.
"But, he didn't do it, or you'd have it right now." Slash explained.
10:30 Slash's eyes widened in realization. "Right! Let's go get
that lazy punk!"
"Hey, Jam, lemme borrow your goggles." 10:30 Slash said. Jam threw him
his Time-o-Goggles. "We're going to 8:30 to make that Slash do his homework."
"We'll wait here. We're not getting involved in your schemes anymore."
10:30 Jam stated.
"We'll be right back!" 10:30 Slash said, and then the Time Machine was
gone, ceast to exist from the time frame of 10:30.
"This has to be the least efficent way to write a paper." Jam said,
staring at the place his friends used to occupy.
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8:30 Slash was lying on his bed, reading a comic book. Suddenly,
a time machine appeared beside his bed. Two other Slashes climbed out,
tripping all over eachother.
"Yikes! My past AND future!" 8:30 Slash yelped. The two other
Slashes grabbed his comic book and tossed it aside.
"Get to work, you loafer!" 10:30 Slash said, pushing 8:30 Slash
to his desk.
"Hey!" 8:30 Slash Protested, "why should i have to do all the work
by myself??? Either of you could do it, too!"
"But i didn't at 6:30, and now it's 8:30." Slash replied.
"And at 10:30 it will be too late. You're the last chance." 10:30
Slash added.
"Not really. There's always the 7:30 Slash, and the 9:30 slash, and
the 8:29 Slash, and..." 8:30 Slash was cut off.
"Are you gonna start writing, or do we have to pound you?" Slash rolled
up his sleve as he spoke. 8:30 Slash smiled.
"Go ahead and hit me. my future self will be the one who hurts." 8:30
Slash said diabolically.
"Damn." 10:30 Slash said, uncurling his fists. "Whose idea was it
anyway, to go back in time???"
All the Slashes pointed to eachother. "His."
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"You know, Jam." 10:30 Jam said, "If the 8:30 Slash is anything like the
other Slashes, i'll bet he isn't gonna write that story."
Jam blinked his eyes. "You're right. Why don't we write a story while
waiting for them?"
"Yeah! Slash could use it for his class, then!" 10:30 Jam was thrilled
at the idea. "I'll write it down, and you illustrate."
"Okay!" Jam agreed. "What should we write about?"
10:30 Jam had an idea. "Slash isn't here, let's write about him!"
"Okay, cool." Jam began to draw. He stopped after a few lines, and looked at
his sheeet of paper. "You know, Slash is easy to draw. You just draw a big
mouth, and add some hair."
Just as the two Jams finished the project, the Time Machine appeared. The
two Slashes climbed out. "We're back, but we didn't get the homework." Slash said.
"Now it's 10:30 and we're doomed."
10:30 Jam handed over some papers. "Here you go. We wrote a story for you
while you were gone."
Slash was excited. "You did!" He took the papers. "We're all done now! Thanks,
Jams! We can go back to 6:30 now!" Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.
"Slash?" It was Slash's mom. "Aren't you in bed yet?"
Jam and Slash took the Time-o-Goggles and quickly hopped into the time machine.
"we'll be you in a few hours! So long!" Slash said as he activated the time travel
engine.
"Don't come in, mom! I'm... uh... changing into my PJs!" 10:30 Slash said to
cover the duo's escape into the past. "10:30 Jam, i think it's time for you to go
home. See you tomorrow, at school!" 10:30 Slash opened his bedroom window, as 10:30
Jam nodded in agreement and exited through it. There was a rustle of tree
branches, and footsteps through the snow, leading into the black of the night. 10:30
Slash was alone. Suddenly, his mom walked into the room.
"Did you write your story for class tomorrow?" She asked.
"Kinda." 10:30 Slash Replied.
"What do you mean, kinda???" His mom asked.
"Well, me and Jam had to do a lot of time travelling to get it fin..." 10:30
Slash was cut off.
"Is it done or not???" His mom asked again, a little peeved.
"Oh, it's done." Slash Replied. His mom smiled. "I just haven't read it."
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"All right, Slash! It's your turn to read your story to the class."
Ms. Voltinitzen said to the boy. "Do you have it?"
"Yep!" Slash bounded out of his chair and ran to the front fo the class. "MY
story is entitled 'How Jam Saves The Day...' " Slash looked over the title, and read
the rest of it. " '... No Thanks To Slash, The Time-Travelling Turkety.' " Slash
thought about what he just said. "WHAT?!"
Ms. Voltinitzen looked at him. "Is there a problem?"
"There WILL be for a certain 'Time-Travelling Turkey' after school." Slash was
steaming red, almost like Linda a day earlier.
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Slash stormed into Mr. Cube's after school. "OKAY, YOU!" Slash pointed at Jam,
who was sitting with Tommy and Wendy at their usual booth.
Jam sounded all-innocent. "Me?"
Slash was irate. "This story you wrote is about ME trying to get OUT of writing
the STORY!! You made my time-travelling sound like LUNACY!!!" Slash screamed. "And
the illustration!!! You drew the three of me fighting! I was the laughing stock of
the whole class!"
"As if he wasn't before." Jam whispered to Tommy and Wendy. They both giggled to
themselves. "Um, what grade did it get?" Jam asked Slash.
Slash looked at the attached note. "A+. Very creative. The 'Jam' Narration was a
clever touch. I'm glad to see you're finally applying yourself."
Jam was pleased. "A+? maybe i should send this to the New Yorker... heh heh heh."
"BUT EVEN SO!!!" Slash was still hopping mad. Unfortunately, Linda came in. She
held up a few bombs.
"Slash, you're gonna get it now." Was all she said. Then, she started to throw
bombs at him. Slash took off down the street, with Linda in hot persuit. Jam, Wendy,
and Tommy looked out the door of Mr. Cube's and watched the scene.
'hmm... maybe i should write a story about this.' Jam thought to himself.
Suddenly, there was a loud WHACK!
Two eyes opened in horror.
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Slash quickly opened his eyes. He looked up to see his Grade 5
french teacher, Ms. Voltinitzen, holding up her meter stick for all the
class to see. She had already whacked the desk once to wake Slash up.
"Slash!" She barked at the student, "I know it must be hard
having an attention span of two seconds, but please try and stay awake
in class." THe teacher returned to the front of the class and began to
teach again.
'Whatever.' Slash thought to himself, and prepared to return to
his makeshift home he called The Land of Nod, when a folded piece of
paper hit him on the head and landed in his lap. The Snowboard Kid
unfolded the note, and read it to himself.
"Meet you at Mr. Cube's after school!
From Nancy. "
Slash smiled to himself. A little refreshment would do him good
after this torture session of a class. Just as he folded the note back
up and put it into his pocket, the dismissal bell rang.
"Okay, class! Your homework for the night is to think of a story,
write it, and illustrate it. I want it to be origonal, too." Ms.
Voltinitzen told the class. "You are dismissed." Within the blink of
an eye, desks were flipped, papers blown off the bullitein board, and
the class was empty.
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"Hey, buddy!" Jam yelled to Slash, who was at his locker. Slash
closed the door, and ran towards Jam. "What's up, man? Got an idea for
your story?" Jam asked him as the duo left the building.
"Naw. This has to be the worst assignment i ever had. I'm not in
a creative mood." Slash replied.
"Oh? There's a creative mood?" Jam was puzzled.
"Yup."
"What mood is that?" Jam asked Slash.
"Last-minute panic." Slask simply stated as he pushed open the
doors of Mr. Cube's Scone Shack. Slash looked down the row of booths
to his left, and spotted Linda and Nancy. The two boys walked down to
their booth.
"Hi!" Nancy cheerfully greeted the two. Slash took a seat beside
her, and jam sat down beside Linda. A waiter walked up, and left four
scones. "We ordered for the two of you." Nancy stated, and began to
lick her scone.
"I heard about that crazy assignment Ms. Revolting left for your
class. Nice, eh guys?" Jam stated to his friends.
"I don't find it that hard. Getting into a creative mood is
easy." Nancy replied. Slash and Jam looked at each other and started
to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Linda asked the two boys.
"Nothing, forget about it." Jam said through chuckles. Slash had
stopped laughing, and he also had finished off his scone, so he went over
to the counter to get a few more. a minute later, Slash began to walk
back to his booth with two more of the cold treats, but he somehow
managed to trip over his own feet. The scones flew high into the air.
"Uh-oh." Slash nervously said.
"What goes up..." Jam began, but was cut off by the splat of two
scones landing messily on Linda's head. "...must come down." Jam took
his finger, and scraped a bit of scone off of Linda's eyelids. He
popped the finger into his mouth, and said "Mmm... tasty." Then, Linda
exploded.
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU JUST DID?!?!?" Linda screamed at the
quivering mass on the floor that was once Slash.
"Uh... uh... uhhh..." Slash couldn't talk.
"Come on, buddy. Time to make like a tree and leave." Jam said as he
grabbed Slash and took off with him. By the time the two got outside of
Mr. Cube's, Slash had regained his composure, and began running with Jam.
"Come on, let's see if we can make it ot my house!" Slash yelled at
Jam. Suddenly, a red mass of Linda flew out of Mr. Cube's, on her snowboard.
Slash thought he was as good as dead. Suddenly, Jam ducked into Mr. Dog's
board shop. Slash followed, not knowing what was up his friends sleeve, but
decided to trust him for once.
"Mr. Dog, we need two High-Tech Boards, immdeiently!" Jam grabbed two of
those boards off the shelves.
"IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT TO PURCHA..." Mr. Dog was cut off, as Slash
threw a bag of GP at him. He caught the board Jam threw at him, and the two
took off for the back enterance of the store.
"Keep the damn change, we're in a hurry!" Slash yelled as he followed
Jam out the back.
"OKAY, BYE-BYE." Mr. Dog recited another of his annoying phrases.
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Slash and jam quickly hopped on their boards and activated the speed
fans. They began roaring through the Snow Town streets, dodging cars, cats,
cradles, crones, and just about everything else. They had apparently lost
linda, so Slash motioned to Jam to board into his garage. The two got off
the boards and deactivated the fan system.
"Let's go upstairs, Jam. Iv'e got a new video game i wanna show you!"
Slash Said. He led Jam up to his bedroom. Slash shuffled through the pile
of junk on the floor, and pulled out an N64 cartridge. Jam's eye's bulged.
"Wow!" He said, "Skateboard kids 2! Let's try it!"
After a few hours of hitting jumps, doing tricks, and crashing into
eachother, the boys got bored of the game. Slash put down his controller.
"You know, we should work on our english homework." Jam suggested. So,
the two boys sat down, with pencils and paper, and begun to think. After
fifteen minutes of thinking, and throwing out ideas, Slash began to get
miffed.
"Do I look like a novelist? This is impossible, I can't tell stories!"
Slash said, obviously pissed.
Jam thought for a minute. "Why not write about the Linda/Scone
incident?"
Slash looked at jam like he had farted in church. "Are you crazy? She'd
stick my head up my ass." Jam laughed.
"Yeah, knowing her, she'd do it."
"These assignments don't teach you how to write, they teach you how to
hate to write." Slash continued to complain. "Deadlines, rules, grades,
regulations... how can you be creative if you have someone breathing down
your neck?"
Jam gave another suggestion. "Why not concentrate on the fun of
creating instead of worrying about Ms. Revolting?"
"Every time i do that, i end up in the school shrink's office." Slash
stated matter-of-factly.
Jam turned blue not trying to laugh. "I didn't mean have THAT much fun!"
Suddenly, a light bulb appeared over Slash's head. " I have a wicked
idea!"
Jam looked at him. "For your story?"
"No, I thought of a way I won't have to write one!" Slash said energetically.
"Come on, we're going to visit Wendy!"
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"Hey, guys!" Wendy greeted the two boys. They were in Wendy's Garage-
Turned-Lab, where Wendy made all of her cool inventions.
"Wendy, remember when you showed me a plan for a time machine?" Slash
asked the girl-genious.
"Uh-huh..." Wendy said. She dug through a pile of papers, and pulled out a
blueprint.
Slash Looked at it. "Yep, that's it! Now, is it finished?" Slash asked.
"Yep!" Wendy walked over to a veiled object. "It's under here." Wendy
pulled off the blanket to reveal something that looked like a silver egg with
a domed top.
Slash's eyes gleamed. 'I just love it when a plan comes togeather.' He
thought to himself. "Can we borrow it?" He asked Wendy. Jam was still
wondering what his friend could be up to.
"Sure. But you cart it away." Wendy said. She helped the boys load it
onto a wagon, and the boys left the garage. "Bye, see you tomorrow."
"Come on, Jam! We gotta get back to my house?" Slash started to sprint.
"Why?" Jam asked.
"Wev'e gotta get off the streets before we run into Linda!" Slash said as
the Time Machine carted along behind them. The two ran towards Slash's house.
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Once back in the safety of Slash's room, he explained his plan to Jam. "It's
6:30, right? We can take the time machine to 10:30, later tonight, where
we'll pick up my finished assignment and bring it back." Slash told jam. Jam
was skeptical. "Come on, iv'e got our Time-o-goggles, and everything." Slash
threw a pair to Jam, who put them on. The duo clambered into the time machine.
"I have a feeling that there's something very wrong here, and it's me
sitting in this time machine." Jam said.
"Relax! We'll be back as soon as we go." Slash said reassuringly. He hit
a button, and the time machine was gone, along with the two snowboarders.
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Jam opened his eyes to darkness. "The hell...?" He poked Slash.
"I know exactly what's going on, Jam." Slash told him. Suddenly, the darkness
was swept away like someone had taken a blanket off the time machine. That someone
was Wendy, Jam, and Slash, from 5:30.
"What? didn't we already do this? Talk about Deja vu." jam looked at
the stunned 5:30 gang.
"Turn around! Turn around!" Slash told him. "We went back into the past
because we were sitting in the machine backwards!" Suddenly, because of the
turnaround, Jam was at the helm, with all of the controls.
"Where are we going?" jam asked Slash.
"We're going back..." Slash said dramatically. "... to the future!"
Slash jumped up, and went down just as fast, due to the fact that he had hit
his head on the top of the glass dome. "Ouch..."
Jam laughed. "10:30 it is!" Suddenly, the Time Machine dissappeared again,
transporting the duo to 10:30, that evening.
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The Time machine appeared in Slash's room, at 10:30. The 10:30 Slash and
Jam were there to greet them, decked out in PJs instead of their usual wear.
"Here you are! You must be the 10:30 Slash!" Slash told his double.
"Did you have a good trip?" 10:30 Slash asked him.
"No." Replied Jam.
"Why do you always go on these things?" 10:30 Jam asked the Present Jam.
Before Jam could awnser, Slash said "Greetings, 10:30 Slash and Jam. I'm
6:30 Slash, and this is 6:30 Jam."
"Charmed." All four of them said.
"Down to business." Slash said. "Did you do the homework?"
"Nope." 10:30 Slash said.
"Nope??? Why not???" Slash was outraged.
"Because two hours ago, I went into the future to get it." 10:30 Slash
stated.
"Yeah, and here i am! Where is it?!?" Slash asked again.
"That's what I said, two hours ago." 10:30 Slash replied again.
"I knew this would never work..." Jam held his head in his hands.
"Right, as usual." 10:30 Jam stated.
"You mean to say it's time for bed and you still haven't written our
story?" Slash questioned the other Slash.
"I thought the story was already done." 10:30 slash argued.
"How could it be done if you didn't write it!!" Slash
argued back.
"It had to be done before now, because it's 10:30 and i'm supposed
to be in bed!" 10:30 Slash yelled.
"Wait, if the story had to be written in your past, that would mean
i shouldv'e written it!" Slash said, after thinking a bit.
"Well, why didn't you??" 10:30 slash yelled.
"BECAUSE I CAME TO THE FUTURE TO PICK IT UP WHEN IT WAS DONE!!!!"
Slash screamed, at the end of his wits.
"If you hadn't have screwed up my past, your future wouldn't be
like this!" 10:30 Slash yelled back.
The two took a time-out, but it should be decribed more accurately
as a heavy breather.
Finally, Slash blurted out something. "If we both didn't do the
homework, it shouldv'e been done between 6:30 and 10:30."
"Right, we needed to do it at 7:30." 10:30 Slash agreed.
"But, he didn't do it, or you'd have it right now." Slash explained.
10:30 Slash's eyes widened in realization. "Right! Let's go get
that lazy punk!"
"Hey, Jam, lemme borrow your goggles." 10:30 Slash said. Jam threw him
his Time-o-Goggles. "We're going to 8:30 to make that Slash do his homework."
"We'll wait here. We're not getting involved in your schemes anymore."
10:30 Jam stated.
"We'll be right back!" 10:30 Slash said, and then the Time Machine was
gone, ceast to exist from the time frame of 10:30.
"This has to be the least efficent way to write a paper." Jam said,
staring at the place his friends used to occupy.
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8:30 Slash was lying on his bed, reading a comic book. Suddenly,
a time machine appeared beside his bed. Two other Slashes climbed out,
tripping all over eachother.
"Yikes! My past AND future!" 8:30 Slash yelped. The two other
Slashes grabbed his comic book and tossed it aside.
"Get to work, you loafer!" 10:30 Slash said, pushing 8:30 Slash
to his desk.
"Hey!" 8:30 Slash Protested, "why should i have to do all the work
by myself??? Either of you could do it, too!"
"But i didn't at 6:30, and now it's 8:30." Slash replied.
"And at 10:30 it will be too late. You're the last chance." 10:30
Slash added.
"Not really. There's always the 7:30 Slash, and the 9:30 slash, and
the 8:29 Slash, and..." 8:30 Slash was cut off.
"Are you gonna start writing, or do we have to pound you?" Slash rolled
up his sleve as he spoke. 8:30 Slash smiled.
"Go ahead and hit me. my future self will be the one who hurts." 8:30
Slash said diabolically.
"Damn." 10:30 Slash said, uncurling his fists. "Whose idea was it
anyway, to go back in time???"
All the Slashes pointed to eachother. "His."
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"You know, Jam." 10:30 Jam said, "If the 8:30 Slash is anything like the
other Slashes, i'll bet he isn't gonna write that story."
Jam blinked his eyes. "You're right. Why don't we write a story while
waiting for them?"
"Yeah! Slash could use it for his class, then!" 10:30 Jam was thrilled
at the idea. "I'll write it down, and you illustrate."
"Okay!" Jam agreed. "What should we write about?"
10:30 Jam had an idea. "Slash isn't here, let's write about him!"
"Okay, cool." Jam began to draw. He stopped after a few lines, and looked at
his sheeet of paper. "You know, Slash is easy to draw. You just draw a big
mouth, and add some hair."
Just as the two Jams finished the project, the Time Machine appeared. The
two Slashes climbed out. "We're back, but we didn't get the homework." Slash said.
"Now it's 10:30 and we're doomed."
10:30 Jam handed over some papers. "Here you go. We wrote a story for you
while you were gone."
Slash was excited. "You did!" He took the papers. "We're all done now! Thanks,
Jams! We can go back to 6:30 now!" Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.
"Slash?" It was Slash's mom. "Aren't you in bed yet?"
Jam and Slash took the Time-o-Goggles and quickly hopped into the time machine.
"we'll be you in a few hours! So long!" Slash said as he activated the time travel
engine.
"Don't come in, mom! I'm... uh... changing into my PJs!" 10:30 Slash said to
cover the duo's escape into the past. "10:30 Jam, i think it's time for you to go
home. See you tomorrow, at school!" 10:30 Slash opened his bedroom window, as 10:30
Jam nodded in agreement and exited through it. There was a rustle of tree
branches, and footsteps through the snow, leading into the black of the night. 10:30
Slash was alone. Suddenly, his mom walked into the room.
"Did you write your story for class tomorrow?" She asked.
"Kinda." 10:30 Slash Replied.
"What do you mean, kinda???" His mom asked.
"Well, me and Jam had to do a lot of time travelling to get it fin..." 10:30
Slash was cut off.
"Is it done or not???" His mom asked again, a little peeved.
"Oh, it's done." Slash Replied. His mom smiled. "I just haven't read it."
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"All right, Slash! It's your turn to read your story to the class."
Ms. Voltinitzen said to the boy. "Do you have it?"
"Yep!" Slash bounded out of his chair and ran to the front fo the class. "MY
story is entitled 'How Jam Saves The Day...' " Slash looked over the title, and read
the rest of it. " '... No Thanks To Slash, The Time-Travelling Turkety.' " Slash
thought about what he just said. "WHAT?!"
Ms. Voltinitzen looked at him. "Is there a problem?"
"There WILL be for a certain 'Time-Travelling Turkey' after school." Slash was
steaming red, almost like Linda a day earlier.
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Slash stormed into Mr. Cube's after school. "OKAY, YOU!" Slash pointed at Jam,
who was sitting with Tommy and Wendy at their usual booth.
Jam sounded all-innocent. "Me?"
Slash was irate. "This story you wrote is about ME trying to get OUT of writing
the STORY!! You made my time-travelling sound like LUNACY!!!" Slash screamed. "And
the illustration!!! You drew the three of me fighting! I was the laughing stock of
the whole class!"
"As if he wasn't before." Jam whispered to Tommy and Wendy. They both giggled to
themselves. "Um, what grade did it get?" Jam asked Slash.
Slash looked at the attached note. "A+. Very creative. The 'Jam' Narration was a
clever touch. I'm glad to see you're finally applying yourself."
Jam was pleased. "A+? maybe i should send this to the New Yorker... heh heh heh."
"BUT EVEN SO!!!" Slash was still hopping mad. Unfortunately, Linda came in. She
held up a few bombs.
"Slash, you're gonna get it now." Was all she said. Then, she started to throw
bombs at him. Slash took off down the street, with Linda in hot persuit. Jam, Wendy,
and Tommy looked out the door of Mr. Cube's and watched the scene.
'hmm... maybe i should write a story about this.' Jam thought to himself.