This was written for the Newsies Pape Selling Competition

(It will be a multi-chapter story)

Task: Your Newsies meet in a Broadway theatre

Newsies: Jack K./Jack K. (or Francis Sullivan)

Dialogue: "You don't know what you're doing, do you?"

Total Word Count: 9,659

Disclaimer: I don't own Newsies. However, I do own a 20th Anniversary copy of Newsies on Blu-Ray. Heh heh

A teenage girl walked through the streets of modern-day New York, pulling a wagon behind her. Passersby stared at the wagon as it rolled along, wondering what could possibly be underneath the large sheet that was obviously covering up a giant object. The girl hummed to herself as she pulled the wagon along and after a few minutes, she arrived at her destination, a theatre used for Broadway shows as well as other events. She look up at the sign which read "New York Youth Science Fair" before walking through the door. After signing herself in, the girl walked over to a table and pulled the wagon up alongside it. She enlisted the help of a few of the other contestants and soon the object she had brought along with her was lugged onto the table. She pulled the sheet off and started messing with some of the dials, switching on the machine just as the judges arrived at her table.

"Hello, Miss Evans," one of the judges said to the girl as they approached. "What shall you be presenting, today?"

"Hello, sir. Today, I'm presenting to you my inter-dimensional transporter," the girl said.

The judge couldn't help but chuckle at that.

"Inter-dimensional transporter? Well, that's highly unlikely to work but, uh...let's see it," the judge said.

"Gladly," the girl said. She entered a few things on the keypad and with a sudden burst of blinding light, two figures appeared...

Jack was sleeping soundly when Kloppman came in and started waking the boys up. He walked over to Jack's bed and started shaking him.

"Wake up, Jack! Time to sell papes! Get up!"

Jack groaned and swatted halfheartedly at Kloppman before turning over.

"Come on, Jack! You need to get up now!" Kloppman said, shaking Jack again. Jack finally sat up, mumbling incoherently as he rolled out of his bed, eyes still heavy with sleep. He started to get ready for the day, heading over to the counter with all the razors and shaving cream.

"Heya, Jack!" Crutchy said as he hobbled over to the counter and began to get ready as well.

"Mornin', Crutchy," Jack said as he started to lather shaving cream onto his face.

"Mornin', Jack! Mornin' Crutchy!" Mush called as he walked over to join the two boys at the counter.

"Mornin'," the two boys said tiredly.

"Hey, Jack. How'd ya sleep?" Mush asked with a grin.

Jack gave him a bland look before grabbing a razor.

"Y'know, it seems dat Ise is answerin' dat same question ev'ry mornin', Mush," Jack deadpanned, beginning to shave his face.

Mush just shook his head and laughed before beginning to put shaving cream on his face.

Around ten minutes later, the boys all headed out of the lodging house and started walking towards Newsies Square. They were almost to the square when a sudden flash of light made them all shout and cover their eyes. When the light disappeared, all the boys looked around. Everyone was accounted for, except for one.

"Hey, where the hell did Jack go?!" Racetrack suddenly yelled.

The other boys looked around in confusion and started chattering worriedly.

Jack yawned and stretched as he once again woke up on the roof. He looked out across the rooftops of New York at the sun that was slowly rising over the sleepy city. He let a small smile appear on his face as he sighed and stood up. He walked over to his brother, who had fallen asleep on the opposite side of the roof.

"Hey, Crutchie," Jack said, lightly shaking the younger boy's shoulder. "C'mon, it's time ta wake up."

Crutchie slowly opened his eyes and yawned, stretching out his good leg.

"Heya, Jackie," he said as he grabbed onto the railing of the roof to try and pull himself into a standing position.

"How's the leg feelin'?" Jack asked as he helped Crutchie up.

"Oh, ya know, same ol' thing," Crutchie said with a wry smile.

"That bad, huh?" Jack said more as a statement than a question as he and Crutchie made their way to the steps leading into the lodging house. Crutchie just sighed and carefully made his way down the stairs with Jack following him. When they stepped into the lodging house, Jack started making his way to the beds, waking up the boys as he went. Pretty soon he had woken everyone up and after a few swears floated around the room, most of the directed at Jack for waking the boys up, all the boys started getting ready for the day. After a little while, they were all making their way towards Newsies Square.

"Y'know, I feels like today's gonna be a good day," Jack said, smiling brightly as he slung his arms around both Crutchie and Davey's shoulders, leading the pack of newsboys towards the circulation window.

"Why?" both boys chorused as they walked.

"Dunno," Jack replied. He was about to say something else when a sudden bright light caused all the boys to stop in their tracks. The light disappeared after a few seconds and the boys all blinked as they looked at the spot where their leader was...or, rather, had been.

"Where's Jack?!" several of the boys said in unison. All the boys started looking around for their leader, talking amongst themselves as they did so.

Jack shouted as he was enveloped in a bright light. He felt like he was spinning for a few seconds before he was deposited in a strange place he had never seen before. It was full of all sorts of objects he didn't recognize and all the people there were dressed in strange clothes.

"Where am I?" he said, but jumped in surprise when he heard another voice ask the same exact question. He turned to see another boy that looked to be around his age. He was wearing clothes like his but the boy's vest and pants were a dark gray and his shirt was blue. He was wearing a newsboy cap over short dark brown hair and had the same confused look on his face as Jack.

"Who are you?" the two boys asked each other at the same time.

"Da name's Jack Kelly, but people call me Cowboy," Jack said, spitting on his hand and holding it out to the dark-haired boy who had an extremely confused look on his face.

"But...how could ya be Jack Kelly? I's Jack Kelly," the dark-haired Jack said to the blonde Jack. The blonde Jack, Cowboy, withdrew his hand and looked at the other Jack oddly. Both boys tried to wrap their heads around the situation but their thoughts were interrupted when they heard a girl's voice call out to them.

"Hi, Jack and, uh, Jack. I'll just call you Cowboy," a girl with red hair tucked back into a ponytail said, pointing to the blonde Jack. "I'm Shea. Welcome to the year: 2015."

A/N: So, what do you guys think so far? Please leave a review and let me know! I'm hoping this will turn out as well as I hope. I'm gonna try to shell out a few chapters this week and have it done by May 16th (the deadline for the contest). Oh and in case you can't tell, the first Newsies scene is the movie version and the second is the musical version.

Reviews are encouragement!

-DC