I quietly snuck into the garage. Yesterday, some idiot stole one of my dad's time machines and I had to get it back if I didn't want to die. I crept behind the back of the red time machine, opened the hatch and snuck in. Then I switched on the time machine and listened to the engine whir, once I decided that it was fully charged, the time machine took to the air and it disappeared into the world of 2007.

After I parked the time machine right outside the science fair and turned it invisible. I reached inside the pocket of my incredibly tight pants and searched for my badge. Unfortunately, I forgot it for the 1000th time this week. I searched the time machine for something I could use as a badge, anything…there was a half eaten doughnut, a broken microchip and…a coupon for a tanning salon.

"That'll do." I said as I snatched up the coupon and ran inside the building. Once I was inside, I hid behind one of the science project another kid made and waited for my 12 year old dad to arrive…

"Wilbur, tell me about the part when you had the awesome dinosaur fight!"

"No, tell me about the part when you had to save Lewis!"

"Hey, he was going to tell me about the part where he stupidly crashed the time machine!"

Wilbur sighed as his friends argued. They had already heard the story countless times, but apparently they wanted to waste his time by making him repeat it every day since his adventure.

"Danny, shut up. Nobody asked you!" Austin exclaimed as he flicked his red hair out of his brown eyes.

"I'm part of the TCTF too, so my opinion matters too, Austin. Stop trying to show off." Danny rebutted. He stood up and his long, black hair falling over his blue eyes. "Plus, I'm 14 and you're 8, so you have to do what I say."

"You guys, stop it. You're the ones that wanted to hear the story in the first place…" Taylor said as Austin accidentally knocked her red cap off her head, revealing her straight brown hair. The 13 year old's green eyes titled angrily towards the two boys. They stopped immediately.

"Seriously guys, you've heard the story a thousand times over. Don't you think it's enough?" Wilbur asked.

There was a pause.

"NO!" The three of them exclaimed.

"Wilbur, as a member of the Time Continuum Task force, you told us that we could have adventures with you. But then you run off and have the best, coolest most awesomeriffic adventure ever!" Austin exclaimed.

"Awesomereffic isn't a word, braniac." Danny teased him.

"Danny, stop, he does have a point." Taylor told the boys. "Wilbur did have an awesome adventure, but he forgot to bring his badge, which proves that he is a useless member of the group."

"Very mature, Taylor!" Wilbur shouted.

"Well, Wilbur, you did make Austin build you a time machine from Carl's blueprints." Taylor said.

"Yeah, it took me 124 tries!" Austin exclaimed.

"And you did make Danny design and make the badges himself." Taylor said.

"What for? We never carry them around anyway!" Danny exclaimed.

"And you did make me think of the name, which was incredibly hard to do!" Taylor exclaimed.

"Well guys, we did have fun in the Time Machine, right?" Wilbur asked them, nervously. "I mean – remember the time we saw the making of the pyramids?"

"Yeah – the Egyptians threatened to bury us in them" Austin said.

"Well, um…how about the time we visited the Wright Brothers?" Wilbur asked.

"You almost made a hole in their airplane." Danny reminded.

"How about the time that we went to World War 2, that was pretty fun." Wilbur added.

"No Wilbur, that was terrible. We almost got killed because you made a German Soldier mad at you." Taylor said.

"It's not my fault that their uniforms were disgusting." Wilbur rolled his eyes.

"Whatever Wilbur, come on, let's get out of the treehouse and do something fun!" Austin told him.

"Like what?" Wilbur asked.

"We could play Chargeball, there's a set up in your room." Taylor told him.

"Alright, we're playing Chargeball." Wilbur said as he headed for the door of the treehouse…

And fell down the tree.

"Wilbur, you know there's a Levitating-ladder, right?" Danny added.

"Yeah – I always manage to miss that…" Wilbur groaned painfully.