Season 1, episode 1 part 2: A bad morning that only got worse
This is not right!
You know as well as I that we have to do this.
We can't just force this responsibility on him.
I know that what we are about to do will haunt us for all of eternity.
THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!
Because there is no other choice! The void is becoming too unstable and if we don't act now, it could be the end of the multiverse! Are you willing to let countless perish because we did nothing!?
…
I'm sorry I yelled at you, but there is no other way.
… Do it.
Of course.
BEEP... BEEP... BEEP
I slammed my fist on my alarm clock's snooze button to stop that annoying sound. I still didn't understand why1 the damn thing screamed out at 7:40 AM... Wait a minute, 7:40! I jumped out of my bed to take a closer look at the clock to see if my sleep depravity wasn't messing with my eye sight. I felt my eye twitch when I found out that it was true and that only meant one thing, "I OVERSLEPT!", I yelled out at the top of my lungs and may have woken up the neighborhood along with the dogs as barking rang through the air. I didn't care about any of that as I rushed towards my closet. If you think that I am going to waste my time describing what my room then sorry, but I only have about five minutes- strike that, make that four minutes to get to school on time. I may just enough time to tell what I was wearing right now. I had put on a gray hoodie with a blue t-shirt underneath, some cargo shorts that reach a little bit past my knees with red and gray sneakers to boot.
I bashed through my room's door and quickly ran down the stairs, only to jump off them about halfway and land on my feet. It didn't hurt as much since I was running on only adrenaline. I made my way to the kitchen and took a quick cup of orange juice and a bite of a muffin my mom made. I was about to rush outside when I remembered my phone in the kitchen was charging. I grew into a habit to never leave the house without my phone. I made a quick U-turn to get my phone and checked it to see it was fully charged. I stopped right as my hand was on the doorknob as I looked at the date on my phone: It was a Saturday.
I swear I felt my left eye twitch as I stood there, looking at my phone. My hand slipped off the doorknob as I turned my face towards the door… And repeatedly slammed my face on the door for about a while. After about ten minutes of face slamming, I went to my parent's room and made sure to tell them that I was going to walk around the neighborhood. They were alright with that and my mother told me before I left to try to make a new friend or two. I causally walked down the sidewalk with no real direction in mind. I was thinking to myself at how much of a fool I was just then. I guess since I have time on my hands, I guess I could tell you who the hell I am. My name is Max Volt and yes I know that's a weird name, but then my family was a bit off. I am an ordinary teenager that just moved into the town called Echo Creek. Echo Creek was supposedly a calm, quiet town and that was one of the reason my parents moved here.
In case you didn't figured it out already from what had transpired back at my home, I have a tendency to panic and I am quite paranoid. I stress out on the littlest detail. Another problem I have to deal with was my social anxiety and stress problem, meaning I have trouble talking to other people and my parents thought that could be a chance that I might be able improve my social skills here, but I only been here for about one day and I almost stressed out from thinking that I was going to be late on my first day of school. I let out a groan as I began to think that this was a lost cause.
"Could this day get any worse!?", I soon realized what I just said and quickly covered my head with my hands and curled slightly into a ball. I waited for a few minutes before I peeked out my ball to see if anything had happened. I slowly uncurled until I was standing normally. I let go of my breath that I didn't even knew I was holding in. Soon, I continued walking down the sidewalk as I talked to no one in particular, "I can't believe that I got worried for no reason! I guess my mom was right, I am too paranoid.", I let out a sigh of relief that nothing bad happened, "So that phrase only worked in cartoons! I mean, what are the chances that something bad was going to-", I never got to finished my line of thought when a large eagle had landed right in front of me.
That pretty much caught me off guard as I took a step back away from the giant eagle as it got up and shook its head and looked right at me. It only lasted a few seconds before flying towards the backyard of somebody's house. I stood there trying to piece together on what the heck I just saw. It all came to one conclusion and that was to turn around, walk back home, and forget everything that just happen. I only walked a couple of steps when I felt something hit my head and caused me to let out a cry of pain as I rubbed the part of my head that was hurting.
I growled as I looked at what just hit me, it looked like one of those wands a disney princess would have. Its handle was pink with purple lining in crisscross pattern with a yellow heart at the bottom. It had what looked like a yellow butterfly with an slightly darker yellow circle in the center that connected with a circle with a star with white wings and a little crown at the very top. The one thing that caught my eye
was that the star was cut in half with one side a golden star and the other side was a black slot where the other piece should have been. I bent down and picked it up and looked around where it could have been.
"WHERE'S THE BOOK!?", I turned my head towards where I heard someone yelled and saw that it came from the backyard where that giant eagle flew towards, "I am so going to regret this.", I muttered to myself as I stuffed the wand in my hoodie's pocket. I walked around the house to see the person that yelled. I was right when I told myself that I was going to regret it. The moment I was in the backyard, I saw the weirdest thing in my life. There were a giant spider and a giant eagle with two other teenagers, one boy and one girl, trapped in webbing. There was a small monster in front of the girl that was struggling to get out. It was pretty small hell, I bet he can't even reach my knees. He Had what I think was a dull, golden bag of chips and green skin with a beak for a mouth. He had a gray beard that was tied into three separate parts and in his left hand was a four fingered skeleton hand with the middle one missing a piece of it with a half star glowing a sickly green trapped in a piece of rock. It kind of looked like the wand inside my pocket, except for the glowing star piece. I couldn't help, but look at the green star and found myself unable to shake off the feeling of dread coming from it. It just looked… Wrong.
The little guy walked up towards the girl the web was holding. It pointed its wand at her as it threatened her, "Listen here Star Butterfly!", Oh dear god that voice was like nails scratching a chalkboard, "Either you tell me where the book is or I will force it out of you!",I wasn't sure why the thing wanted a book, but I stayed hidden behind the house's wall. I continued to watch the situation unravel as the girl, Star, unsuccessfully tries to free herself from the spider's web.
"There is no way I'm telling you where my spell book is Ludo! I don't know why you want it, but if I still had my wand, I would narwal blast you back where every you came from!", I saw Ludo hold the wand up to her face as its started to glow brighter. Star quickly stopped her struggle as she noticed the Ludo's wand charging right in front of her eyes.
I'm so glad you choose the hard way, it's way more that way.", I noticed the other teen started to struggle even harder as the wand began to get more power. I stood there in shock as I was about to watch a girl get tortured or worse! There was nothing I could do except take a step back to get away from the-'Wait a minute!', I put my hand in my hoodie's pocket and pulled out the wand I found on the sidewalk. I guessed that the girl was the one who had this thing, but I had no clue how this toy was going to help. I looked around for a weapon to use to help and saw an iron pipe on the ground. I picked up without trying to get use to the weight because I was really short on time right now.
I put the wand back inside my hoodie and walked out of my hiding spot as I stood my ground. I took a deep breath before yelling at them, "HEY!", The good news was that Ludo stopped charging its wand, but the bad news was that the spider, the eagle and Ludo were now looking at me. I don't know if you
notice, but I was cowering quite a bit at the sight of these things looking at me. I shook my head and tighten my grip on the pipe. I gathered all of my courage- Which I don't have a lot of- and spoke once more, "How about you try to pick on someone that can fight back!", I could hear Ludo growl in frustration at me, 'I guess he doesn't like people interrupting anything he does.', Once Ludo was done, he pointed his wand at me.
"Alright then, if you want to be a hero then go ahead!", He snapped his finger and the spider and eagle quickly moved to his side, "ATTACK!", They didn't hesitated as they charged right at me. I soon felt all of my courage fade away, but one look at the teens reminded me why I was here right now. I was always a complete coward and would usually run away from danger, but I would never forgive myself if I ran now and got them hurt. I slowly felt the bravado coming back as I kept my eyes on the charging monsters, 'I CAN'T AFFORD TO BACK DOWN NOW, I WILL FIGHT!', that was when a bright light shined from my hand and blinded my vision.
