Chapter 1: a normal day gone wrong

Barlow walks down the courtyard thinking that his friend Jack would be right behind him slapping him upside the head like always but he wasn't there. "Barlow!" a voice came from behind. it was Sam kicking him from behind. "what do you want?" he shouts. she then backs off and runs away. "ok?" he continued on to the high school cafetiera. as he grabbed his breakfast he saw daniel walking with abigal and christy. "where is grendel?" barlow asked daniel. "i dont know... i think he was with jack..." "ok but where is jack?" they all shrugged. then a big flash of light appeared and there stood jack and grendel with black smoke off of jack and green smoke off of grendel. "7:03 in the morning on the dot i told you i could get us here." said jack as he had closed his pocket watch. " its acually 6:30 jack..." said barlow. "huh really? my timeing must be off." he had shaken his watch. "come here babe..." grendel said as he was open for hug from his girlfriend christy. "jack!" a shout rang out from far away. "Emma!" he shouted back as his girlfriend from the 17th century ran jumped up and hugged him. "how are you my love?" she said. "i have journeyed through time to collect hearts but you still have mine my dear." he says and she smiles. "you know i never expected you to get a girl from the past..." says barlow. "mabey you will get one soon. your ancestors did." jack says as he walks hand in hand with emma. jack kept looking at his pocket watch and shaking it. "what is wrong?" emma asked looking at the watch. "it went off by an half hour... i hope nothing else will go off." grendel and christy came walking towards us. "hey jack uh. christy wants to go somewhere." grendel holds on to christy's hand as she starts to try here attempt to make jack say yes. " well unfortunatly no we aren't going anywhere, not until i figure out whats wrong with this." he shakes the watch by his ear. "sorry babe. time machine on the fritz again." grendel winks at her and she pretends to look disapointed. "so where were we. " jack turned his back held out his arm and emma took it and continued on their path.

(lunch time)

barlow sits down with sam and her friends. he continues to eat and litsens to what sam is saying. "so barlow why can't you go to the mall?" she asked him. "i have to go to a winter camp for military training. its an ROTC thing..." he keeps eating and gets ketchup on his jacket. "lets hope they teach you how to keep your shirt clean. he turns his back as everyone stands up and looks to the courtyard. "jack you idiot." he takes sam's hand and runs to the courtyard. he stands on a table as he watches a giant black monster fight a giant zombie bug. "everyone get into the cafiteria! now!" everyone looked as policemen ran into the school with shotguns pointed at the beasts.

(15 minutes ago, jack's POV)

i walked from my class to meet emma at her class. he walked her to 7th period. "ill see you later babe" i say to my red haired companion. "you better" i turn my back and walk to the courtyard. as i had opened the doors that led me outside, i pulled out my pocket watch. the time read 7:02 am but it was way passed that initial time stamp. "great.. your stuck!" i said and i had put it back into my pocket. "hey jack!" daniel had approached me. "danny boy!" he walks with me to find grendel which we do. "jack whats wrong with the time machine?" daniel asks. "i dont know it seems to be stuck." said jack. grendel ran up along side. "dude i need your time machine..". "no why?" i asked. "i just need it so come on give it to me.". before i could say anything grendel snatched it from my hands and started to run. i saw him try to go back but the watch was stuck. quickly i changed into a neoshadow heartless and phased into the ground and like a snake, whipped my shadow right infront of grendel. he jumped right when i put up my black claws to grab the watch. i went back into my human form and ran after the already morphed zombie grendel. "you coward" i said then i changed into a giant heartless. the giant milipede zombie had placed the watch in its hole in its chest. "give to me grendel!" i shouted through my heartless voice. "no i need it!" quickly i had started to advance for the watch. as soon as i had touched the watch, grendel was about to wrap around my heartless body and crush me to death but he knows i can't die. when i touched the face of the watch a sudden burst of light exploded in the middle of the courtyard of where we were fighting. danny was right about to jump in but as soon as he did the flash of light happened and me, grendel, and danny were taken back in time. god knows how long