Flux buddies and Time Cops vs. Lalnable Hector and Specimen 5
This is my second Fanfiction. But this is the first one that I will be updating. I have taken a few creative liberties due to some of the stuff I describe isn't actually possible in Minecraft. I hope you enjoy!
Prologue
Previously on Flux Buddies…
"Kim, we need to go after them!" Yelled Duncan
Destruction in 5 seconds…
"But what about everything we'll be leaving behind?" Pleaded Kim, desperately trying to avoid going into what she knew could only be more danger.
"I guess we have no choice," answered Duncan
The time-gate sprung into life with a light blue glow. The time-gate was incomplete however, as there were still pieces lying around. The Fluxed pair hoped that it was enough for the time-gate to work safely but not give Lalnable Hector and Specimen 5 enough power to go too far.
As the time-gate glowed, Duncan and Kim were transported to an unknown destination in time and space. Once the duo was gone, the time-gate's glow faded. For a moment, the lab of inconceivable horrors and evil was peaceful.
Destruction is imminent. Say goodbye to everything you love and cherish.
The countdown was over. Explosives placed all around the lab were ignited. Everything that had been built by Lalnable was destroyed in mere minutes. His clone army was reduced to nothing. His one-page lab reports were never going to waste anyone's time again. His Werewolves might as well have had silver cutlery skewered through them. On the matters of cats, let's just say that Tiddles IV had been avenged.
The explosives on the dam were ignited and the reservoir spilled most of its water, causing the nearby village to be flooded. The Mayor never saw sunlight again…
Chapter 1
10 minutes in the future…
At an old research facility, a near identical time-gate glowed to life and spewed out a mad-scientist and his 'apprentice'. Duncan, for some reason was in a mine cart and flew down a track until he hit a dispenser at the end, flew out and hit a big reactor. Kim was not in a mine cart, so she flew out and hit the floor.
"Duncan, where are we?" asked Kim.
"I don't know," Replied Duncan, "But it seems familiar, as if I saw it in a dream but forgot it."
"Duncan, you forget everything. You could have grown up here and you would forget about it," said Kim tiredly.
"Duncan, what are you doing back?" said a static voice, "Where's Sjin? Who's this girl you've brought back? She seems to be giving off high levels of Flux."
"Kim, the big reactor's talking!" said Duncan excitedly
"I'm not the reactor. I am the computer, SQUIB," explained SQUIB, "Why don't you recognise me?"
"Are you sure? Your voice seems to be coming from the reactor," suggested Duncan.
"Sorry about his stupidity, he was never the sharpest knife in the drawer," apologised Kim "But how do you know Duncan?"
"Well he turned up here one day with his friend, Sjin. Once they got the time-gate working, they started the Time-Cops," explained SQUIB.
As if on cue, the time-gate glowed and spat out a mine cart with Sjin in it. He zoomed down the track until he joined Duncan (Who had his ear pressed against the big reactor listening intently for the sound of a voice) at the end of the tracks at the dispensers. He hopped out of the mine cart looking surprised at Duncan and Kim's presence.
"Shit!" Shouted Sjin, who was hiding behind his mine cart, "If you guys want revenge for trapping fake Duncan in Azkabang…"
"I don't even know what's going on!" said Kim, cutting off Sjin, "The last time we saw you; your army was killing Lalnable's clones."
"I don't have an army," said Sjin.
"My live footage says different," cut-in SQUIB.
A screen above SQUIB turned on and showed another Sjin with green wings, flying above two armies. One army consisted of a wolf-man and a small horde of Duncan's, while the other was a horde of green-armoured barbarian-looking soldiers wielding peridot swords.
The clone army was few in numbers, and the wolf man was almost dead. The other Sjin didn't even look tired. This was probably due to him not actually doing anything.
"Why don't we have a TV, Kim?" asked Duncan.
"Because you break anything nice we ever own," retorted Kim.
Sjin said nothing; he only looked on in what seemed to be shock, but suddenly he said: "That is one handsome fucker."
"How are you getting this footage?" asked Duncan, completely ignoring Sjin's ever so slightly creepy admiration of himself.
"I'm using the time-gate, but you should already know this. You and Sjin spent hours messing about with the big reactor to create enough energy," said SQUIB.
Before anyone could explain the confusing matter of many different Duncan's, the screen started to flicker. The picture disappeared and was replaced with static for a moment. Once it reappeared, the army of Sjinterfel had been decimated, leaving only the few Duncan clones who had survived and a near-dead wolf man. Sir Sjin had been knocked to the ground. His Terrasteel armour had been destroyed and its fragments had been scattered across the battlefield, and his Sylph wings were battered and worn out; they drooped as if they were fatigued. The Sword of Sjinterfel and the Head-Hunter Crossbow were lying on the ground, they seemed undamaged but it was impossible to tell as the video had become blurred since its return. Lalnable Hector and Specimen 5 appeared. Lalnable had a draconic evolution staff in hand. Specimen 5 had a weapon that neither of the Flux buddies recognised. Lalnable made his way towards Sjin. The video cut out.
"Where's the video gone?" Sjin demanded.
"It appears that Lalnable has managed to cause interference using his own time-gate," explained SQUIB "I'm trying to get the feedback but it seems that Lalnable has many different time-gates set up all through time and space to block my signals."
"Will Duncan be able to get back?" asked Sjin.
"He already is," said SQUIB
"This is a different Duncan. Since being blown up by Sips, I've met three different Duncan's," explained Kim as she gave Sjin evils.
Kim then went on to explain her run in with the Time Cops when they were the Magic Police and the whole Lalnable and Specimen 5 catastrophe.
"Interesting..." said SQUIB, "Looking through historical records, there seem to be many different Scientists with names similar to Duncan, Lalna, or LividCoffee."
"So there are countless different me's out there?" asked Duncan.
"Not necessarily," answered SQUIB, "It's possible that some of them are the variations of you that we know of scattered through time."
"So Sjin, where's your Duncan?" asked Kim.
"Well, we were just a wild goose chase about a rog Afterwards, I left, but Duncan got left behind because he got distracted by some Science shit," answered Sjin, "He should arrive in a few minutes."
"I also had to make sure that they didn't collide when I detected unknown entities coming through the portal," added SQUIB, "That must have been you two,"
The screen above SQUIB began to show an image that was too fuzzy to make out what was going on. A deep, Duncan like voice crackled through the static.
"Your foolish ally has forsaken you," it mocked, "He ran and left his army to die."
"Fuck You!" Duncan yelled. He fired an explosive arrow at the screen and destroyed SQUIB's hologram.
"Hey!" complained Sjin, "I don't go to your base and break your stuff."
"You abandoned us!" shouted Kim.
"That was a different me!"
"But it was still you, so you are still technically responsible,"
A high pitched screech caused the argument to end suddenly.
"You're all in danger, and instead of working together, you're acting like children," Scolded SQUIB.
The time-gate glowed and spat out a Duncan that wasn't covered in Flux. Because his mine cart had been used when F-Duncan (Flux buddies Duncan) had exited the time-gate, he was thrown out of the gate and rolled across the floor. TC-Duncan (Time-Cops Duncan) picked himself up, saw his doppelganger with Kim, who caused him to panic and pull out his gun.
"Sjin, get back the Fuck-buddies are here for revenge!" he screamed. "They already tried to kill SQUIB!"
"Duncan, it is okay," said SQUIB, "they ended up here by accident, but now you're all in danger."
"What? Why?" asked TC-Duncan
"Because there's an evil version of us and also an evil Kim, and they want to kill us all," explained F-Duncan, "Also I'm not the original Duncan, the evil me is."
"So I'm a clone?" asked TC-Duncan.
"Most likely," answered F-Duncan.
"The full story is..." began Kim.
"Yeah, I know, Fucked me just explained everything," interrupted TC-Duncan.
"Hey! I'm not fucked!" Complained F-Duncan
"How does that explain anything?" asked Kim.
TC-Duncan then explained everything that had happened to the Flux Buddies concerning Lalnable Hector and Specimen 5. During which, FB-Duncan started carelessly swinging his Draconic Evolution staff around making swooshing noises. Kim and Sjin stared in disbelief at the amount of detail that was being produced by TC-Duncan.
"Now that everyone has been caught up, it's time for us to fortify this place," said SQUIB.
"She's right," agreed Kim, "Lalnable already knows that you guys are involved with us and will come knocking."
"Well if they're just knocking..." said TC-Duncan.
"It means that they're going to kill us!" said Sjin in frustration.
A look of realisation dawned upon TC-Duncan's face which quickly became a look of horror.
"Wait, can't they just use their time-gate to come here and kill us at any time?" asked F-Duncan.
"Pretty much," shrugged Sjin, "We were going to create a force field which SQUIB could connect to the time-gate which would've meant that unauthorised personnel cannot come through, no matter when or where they came from."
"But then we realised the mod for force fields wasn't installed," said SQUIB, "But this is a crazed genius we're dealing with. In addition to that, he's pretty much an evil Duncan with time travel. He'll probably forget about us for a while, and then turn up. The only thing that's certain is he'll be here before our time gate can make another trip."
"Yeah, but we have something that Lalnable didn't count on: there are two crazed geniuses who can help defend this place," said F-Duncan.
"Crazed idiots more like" muttered Kim.
"There are plenty of Quiverbow weapons, and materials to protect all of you," said SQUIB.
"I don't need those shitty Quiverbow weapons when I have my trusty staff and bow!" Boasted F-Duncan, as he and the other Duncan went to the back of the Time Cops HQ to build weapons of mass destruction, all of which would later turn out to be useless.
"We're going to need an escape, so I'd better modify the tracks to accommodate us all," said Sjin to no one in particular.
This just left Kim standing in front of the remains of SQUIB's hologram platform.
The two Duncan's were going through all the chests looking for materials to make arms assistants, weapons for them to wield, and books to blacklist Lalnable and Specimen 5. All that could be heard from them was random grumblings about stuff not working, or gibberish that only made sense to the Duncans.
"Hey guys," called Sjin as he entered the mess that had been created by the two scientists in mere minutes, "Can I borrow some iron to make more of the rails we need for getting all of us through the time gate?"
The Duncan's just looked up from their individual projects and glared at Sjin.
"NO!" they screamed in unison.
"I need it all!" Roared F-Duncan, "We can make do with two lanes, just use more Mine carts, you fucking stupid shit!"
"Okay, okay," said Sjin.
"Get out of my sight before I rip you apart and feast on your bloody corpse!" growled TC-Duncan.
This sudden outrage terrified Sjin. He had never known Duncan to be aggressive or violent towards his friends. Without hesitation, he ran out of the room; however, as he glanced back for a split second, he could have sworn that both Duncan's eyes were glowing red.
Sjin stumbled back into the main room of the HQ, where Kim was using the blocks she had found in a nearby chest in a pointless attempt to barricade the door, and thicken the walls. Sjin nervously paced over to her.
"Hey, Kim," said Sjin, attempting to not sound shaken up.
"What's up butthole?" casually responded Kim.
"Has your Duncan ever been aggressive or violent?" he asked.
"Not really," answered Kim, "Yeah, he always breaks my stuff and kills my animals; however, the only time he's intentionally violent or even borderline aggressive is when he's killing mobs who've caused us a lot of trouble. Why do you ask?"
"Well, I went to get some iron, and he screamed at me,"
"Well, I wouldn't be surprised if he still held a grudge about you kidnapping him and imprisoning him in Azkabang," suggested Kim.
"It wasn't just your Duncan, but mine as well," explained Sjin, "Yours called me a fucking stupid shit, and mine threatened to kill and eat me."
"What!?" gasped Kim.
"I think that their eyes were red too," added Sjin.
"Kim, you mentioned that Duncan isn't the original, correct? Asked SQUIB.
"Yeah, that's right," She confirmed.
"It's possible that Lalnable may still have some control over him. The same is likely to be true for our Duncan. If that is true, then Lalnable's control must be weak; however, it may mean trouble if he can fully control them both," said SQUIB.
This news both shocked and terrified them both, as the friends they though that they had known for years were both clones, and may possibly try to kill them.
"Servant woman!" called Duncan's voice, "Get in here!"
"I am not your servant, Duncan!" yelled Kim.
"Yeah, whatever, just get in here."
"Don't go in there," warned Sjin, "He'll kill you,"
"He won't kill me. He's always been rude, but never that rude," said Kim, "Anyway, he's harmless,"
"He has a draconic evolution staff and bow," pointed out SQUIB, "They are certainly not harmless,"
However, Kim decided to go against this advice and made her way over to the room in which the Duncan's were building in.
"Hey, Duncan," said Kim, who couldn't quite keep the nervousness out of her voice.
"Kim, I need you to have a look at MineChem," said Duncan.
"I don't think that we have that mod installed," pointed out Kim.
"Then how am I supposed to do anything?" roared Duncan, "You're so fucking useless!"
"Hey, don't blame me!" argued Kim, "If you want to blame someone-"
"Don't tell me who I'm supposed to blame!"
"I made a thing that goes boom!" Exclaimed TC-Duncan, excitedly.
F-Duncan's anger seemed to just evaporate instantly.
"Excellent!" said Duncan, giddily, "Now we just need to make more!"
"That's just a Sunray! It's a pile of crap!" yelled Kim, "How is that going to help up survive!?"
"It's not," answered F-Duncan.
"You're supposed to be creating weapons to help us not die!"
"Yeah, we discussed that," said TC-Duncan, "We came to the conclusion that no matter what weapons we manage to make, we'll die."
"So instead, you and I will escape through the time gate while these guys arrest Lalnable and Specimen 5," said F-Duncan.
"No, the plan was for Sjin and I to escape while you two die-I mean, kick their asses," said TC-Duncan.
"But you're the Time Cops!" argued F-Duncan.
Whilst the two scientists were fighting over who was going to stay, and who was going to die, Kim decided to leave before they started killing each other.
When she was back in the main body of the Time Cops building, she found that Sjin was just fiddling with the rails attempting to look busy.
"Hey, Sjin, you do realise that the idiots are just making random crap that won't help at all," said Kim.
"What!?" said Sjin in response.
"Yeah, and apparently only two of us are leaving this base when Lalnable turns up," Continued Kim.
"We'd leave now, but the Time Gate needs to recharge. Even though our big reactor is powerful, it still isn't powerful enough to allow continuous use," said Sjin.
"But it allowed both me and Duncan through, and then you and your Duncan,"
"That was only because there was some kind of connection between Lalnable's Time Gate and the one here," explained SQUIB, I could send you through his old one, but I can't find it."
"Well Duncan set off some explosives which destroyed the entire lab," Kim told them.
"Hey, guys! We've made everything!" called F-Duncan.
"Already?" said SQUIB in disbelief.
"Yeah, we made all the arms assistants we could." F-Duncan started.
"And then we took all the best Quiverbow guns we have and filled our inventories with them," finished TC-Duncan.
"All that we need to do now is place the arms assistants and give them the weapons," Finished F-Duncan.
With that, all the arms assistants and weapons were shared among the four players. F-Duncan and Kim went outside to set up, while TC-Duncan and Sjin stayed inside to set up the defences for when Lalnable and specimen 5 inevitably penetrated their outer defences.
I didn't intend to be updating this chapter, but when I originally posted it, I realised that it was far too short. If I ever do update a chapter from now on, I will only be correcting spelling and grammar errors, and possibly change some words for synonyms. Sorry this was so speech heavy, the next chapter will be much more action packed. Please leave a review, so I can make future chapters better.