So my last attempt at writing a future fic. Hopefully that this is a good attempt and will finish what I have since this has been on my computer for awhile. Happy reading!
Tommy looked up at the tv unsure what to make of what was going on. Leah, Jonas, Bridget, and Edwin stood attention to the girl. The girl on the screen looked intimidating and was ready to give out demands. She looked familiar to Tommy as well. The girl had wavy black hair that landed on her small shoulders. He couldn't see her from the waist down but she had a fleece zip up hoodie over a white undershirt and dog tag pendants around her neck. Her blue eyes stern despite looking stunning. He wasn't afraid to admit it but the girl was rather pretty.
"Sector W?" she asked her voice smooth. Tommy looked around at the team that assembled around him. Bridget stepped in front of him so the girl couldn't see him at all. All of them looked a little relieved at who was on the screen. "Numbuh 27 is the sector leader. Numbuh 29 is the 2 by 4 tech. Numbuh 26 is the team medic. Numbuh 28 is the hand to hand combat. Am I correct with all of these positions?"
Everyone shared a look with each other a little unsure but nodded. Tommy only watched what the new person was doing. This was so weird and to have to hide.
"Well, I know I'm not the person that gives you missions but since this is your first time going on a mission, I volunteered. After all, this is the last time I can give my sister a mission," she said smiling at Bridget. That's where Tommy knew this girl from. She must be numbuh 86s other daughter. She looked a bit like numbuh 86 with the same hair type but the girl had black hair. "So other than reporting to us before each mission, we give you one. About two blocks from your location teenagers are attacking a playground. It is your mission to stop them and then come up to moon base asap. I'd love to hear the mission over lunch Bridge."
"Sounds good," said Leah. "And thanks for the ally, I didn't think we'd get one-" Bridget only shot the blond a look and Leah quickly stopped talking.
"Ally? Numbuh 27 we don't send allies to new sectors. You have to earn that right," said the girl. "I'll see you at lunch okay?"
"Bye Sam," said Bridget quickly before they would get in trouble, suspected Tommy. Whatever an ally was, his cover that he was going to use, is now blown. He heard Bridget's sister correct her to use numbuh 90 any other time, except at home. So numbuh 86 had two daughters Sam and Bridget, numbuhs 90 and 26. After Sam-numbuh 90- hung up all of them turned to look at him. They knew that his cover was blown.
Thing was none of them really looked angry. Leah looked concerned the others just stared at him with a blank look on their faces instead of anger.
"I think you are a spy but we don't have proof. Since we're rather new we're not going to jump to conclusions and get ourselves in trouble by turning in some kind of undercover operative. So be completely honest, are you a spy or a bad guy in any shape or form?" asked Leah and he could feel her eyes looking straight into his.
He didn't really know what the kid's next door was like in the future, but he did not expect this from them. They were asking him to be sincere and honest with them. Tommy thought for a moment and thought, what would happen if he was honest. He tugged nervously at his hat before deciding how to answer. His confident façade fading a little. Then snapped into his The Tommy self.
"We don't have time for this," he snapped with Tommy looked at all of them. At least Tommy didn't have to answer to anyone right away. Each operative was getting impatient and her speech didn't seem to affect them. "We need to fight those teens before we get too distracted. Right guys?"
"I don't think that we should leave him here alone," argued Leah. Tommy felt as if he had no say of what to do. They had to decide what to do next as team. Those teenagers are going to win if sector W doesn't get there.
"Let's just go," said Tommy leading the others with Jonas hot at his heels to the ship. He wasn't going to say anything and blow his cover before he could prove himself. Maybe help them fight the teens to prove it. Before Leah and Edwin could complain they had to follow the rest of their team. Tommy couldn't help but wonder how exactly they got along. Then again according to numbuh 90 this is their first mission. They probably didn't get how they were going to play off of each other. All of a sudden he felt bad for landing in at such a bad time.
All four of them were silent as those drove to the nearby playground. Teens were already there and kids were fleeing from the playground. Sector W got ready to fight but all of them seemed unsure. Normally, Tommy supposed, they would talk about what they would do. Now all of them stood around trying to figure out what they were going to do.
The teens were in giant machines pretending to crush the kids underneath the legs of said machines. Teens were protected in some kind of giant plastic bubble at the top. All of them were talking to each other through microphones and taunting the children. Kids were screaming and the teens saying thing like kids are stupid.
"What do we do?" yelled Bridget to the others. Everyone only looked confused of what to do next. Edwin only looked dumbfound at the machines. He probably thought they were doing hand to hand combat. He didn't suspect them to have giant machines on them.
Tommy surveyed the area and pretended that he was on his own mission. The first thing he noticed what that the one teen on his far right was walking strangely. He was having a hard time with the controls in his bubble. So that was an idea but he had no idea how he would bring the machine down.
"Why don't we use the jump ropes?" asked Edwin snapping him out of his daze. "I saw it in a cartoon once, he used rope and wound it around the legs, and then he made it fall."
"We can do that but then what?" asked Jonas. All of them were sitting ducks except for Bridget who was yelling at them to stop. Leah had to jump and get Bridget out of the way of a leg that was now trying to crush her. Tommy thought fast as he pulled the remaining boys behind some trashcans.
"Teens are usually sensitive to sound right?" asked Bridget as she landed right next to them. "I can make my voice go really high, I learned how to at Broadway Camp."
"Perfect and I know which robot to attack," said Tommy pointing to the giant one that had the incompetent teen. Nodding at them, the girls had run into the open fire to get the jump ropes as the boys distracted them. Jonas and Edwin were throwing themselves at the machines to distract them. Edwin was wielding some weapon that Tommy did not recognize. Jonas had yet another one as well.
The trashcans they were hiding behind were now crushed. The weapon that Edwin was using seemed to back off at least one teen. Jonas was getting his butt kicked though. He spent more time running rather than actually fighting. Behind him, Tommy could see Bridget and Leah tying as quickly as they possibly could. Then Bridget promptly threw one end at Tommy who caught it and ran to squeeze.
Soon enough Bridget and Tommy were running with the rope and Leah joining in on the distraction. She was whispering something into Jonas ear who was eagerly nodding to what she was saying. Then the three were leading the teens all to the middle of ball field. Not too far from where the fumbling teenager was. Right were Tommy and Bridget were going with the rope. As soon as the teen took a step it tripped on the extra-long jump rope.
Since the other robots were close enough, the one that fell landed on top of them. Bridget jumped into her part and raced for the microphone in one of the machines. She took a deep breath and let out a loud high pitched scream that made the hairs on Tommy's neck strand straight up. Everyone in the area covered their ears but the teens who were still struggling to get up. Edwin was making a phone call to what he assumes was arctic base. Bridget stopped after a second. All of the teens were being rounded up by the others. Tommy leading each teen to be tied up.
Soon enough there were buses filling the sky. Other operatives came as quickly as they went pulling the teenagers to be taken away. One teen was complaining about her ears bleeding. Bridget was only smiling innocently at what just happened. The look on her face reminded Tommy about the time he, Sonia, and Lee took out Father.
"That was awesome! You guys did a great job," said Leah high fiving her friends. "And it only took an hour so we have to put together some kind of mission report."
"Not exactly," said Jonas pointing to Tommy. Everyone seemed to have promptly forgot that Tommy was some kind of alien. Leah only made everyone get in the bus and it was a quiet ride back. All of them were thinking of some way to include Tommy in the report without giving anything huge or important away.
Tommy was thinking of what his cover would be. Whatever an ally was, it clearly wasn't going to be an option. He also realized that he didn't know if his machine would take him back to the past. Since he got here, Tommy didn't have much time to think about how he would get back. Clocks, after all, only go forward.
They finally landed and everyone dragged themselves out of the bus and into the main room. As true to her position, Leah got right down to business.
"So who exactly are you? We'll tell you about us if you tell us about you," said Leah. "Trust me there is nothing that won't surprise us." She sat down on the middle of the couch while the others sat around her. Bridget perched at the top of the couch sitting on the ledge using her foot to keep herself from falling. Edwin sat on a bean bag chair looking up at him. Jonas sat next to Leah on the side opposite of Bridget, but his legs were crossed Indian style. He even had a magazine in his hands in case this went south quickly.
"Oh yea I'm a time traveler," he said absentmindedly, like it was nothing worth mentioning. He thought that would invoke some kind of reaction but nothing came. Instead, they seemed to be disappointed at admitting that. Bridget and Edwin rolled their eyes. Jonas picked up his magazine and even started to read an article. Only Leah seemed interested in what he had to say.
"I heard about the time machines moonbase keeps. What's it like in the future? Can we go to the future and meet our kids? Are you one of our kids?" she asked excitedly. Her friends looked at her with that same blank expression. "Oh you know how I love the movie Meet the Robinsons."
Tommy only looked confused at what she just said. Apparently, time machines were common in the future. Not only that but apparently they visited a lot to other time periods. Leah assumed that he was from the future and not the past though. At least if his trusty time machine broke he could easily go back to where he came from. To quote his friend Lee, "cool." Leah kept talking about how much fun it would be to go to the future and learn all about themselves. She seemed like a really chatty version of Sonia.
"Leah, I'm not from the future, I'm from 33 years ago," he said getting a little annoyed by her antics. That caused everyone to look up though and get interested. Bridget and Jonas shot up from their slouched position. Leah shut her mouth and her eyes grew wide. Apparently, the other way around wasn't very common. In fact, judging by how quiet it just got, it must have not really ever happened before. The silence was quickly broken though when Bridget fell off of the back of the couch.
"I knew it! I knew you looked familiar but I wasn't going to say anything because I thought it might be a trick. In fact, this might be some kind of trick, prove it," said Jonas immediately throwing down his magazine. He spoke quickly as Jonas took all of Tommy in. There wasn't a way to prove that Tommy was from the past was there?
"How about this, what kind of weapon is this?" asked Leah holding up something made from an egg beater. He shrugged his shoulders each time she held up a new invention or device sometimes with machines he'd never seen before. With each new answer each of them got curious and curiouser. Bridget actually touched his shoulder to make sure he was really there.
So this is what it is like to be an experiment. Tommy was starting to get more and more curious about the kids as well. He thought going to the future, everything would be advanced, but apparently not. The only thing that really changed was the technology. The mission and everything reminded him of his own time period. Nothing really changed in the future, except the two by four tech.
"Alright, what does the P in your brothers name stand for?" asked Jonas slightly excited.
"Pennywhistle," said Tommy automatically. This was something that he could answer right away and Jonas took a step back. He looked kind of freaked out at the idea. Then he finally spoke.
"You really are my uncle Tommy," he said in a dazed kind of voice. Uncle Tommy? Uncle Tommy? Uncle?! Jonas is Hoagie's kid! His brother has a kid and he's an uncle. The thought excited him as he thought of what Hoagie would be doing in the future. Since getting here, Tommy didn't really think much of his brother. Tommy only looked over the kid once more.
Jonas looked nothing like his brother. Besides the clothes that he had observed earlier there was nothing that could remind him of Hoagie facially or otherwise. His skin looked like he had a permanent tan. His hair black underneath the hat wasn't anything like Hoagie's auburn hair. If anything Jonas reminded him of numbuh 5 or Abby Lincoln. Hold up. Was… Is… Alright that would be kind of cool to get numbuh 5 as some kind of sister to him.
"Did my brother marry Abby?" he whispered and Jonas only jumped up.
"Oh gosh yes. My parents are rather famous being in sector v, my dad is numbuh 2 and my mom is numbuh 5," he said quickly before pausing, "You're my uncle Tommy and I'm your nephew Jonas. I never thought I'd see the day I'd meet you younger. Not to offend you but you are kind of old now and not as cool."
Everyone was quiet just taking this information in. Jonas stood all excited and was about to run his mouth again if none of the others would say anything. This was one of those moments where you can't just sit back and watch.
"In case you couldn't tell," piped up Leah, "My dad is numbuh 4 and my mom is numbuh 3. My full name is Leah Grace Beetles."
Huh, thought Tommy, he thought for sure that Leah was Sonia's daughter. She got all excited for missions and stuff. If they were still friends in the future, maybe her dad would be Lee, but he wasn't entirely sure. It was cool to see that Kuki and Wally were married and had some kid 33 years from now.
"You wouldn't know my parents," said Edwin, "But I might as well introduce myself. Formally I'm known as Edwin Michael Banks. My parents are from sector z and my dad is 0.4 and my mom is 0.5. They're kind of old legends to you. I'm not as widely recognized as these two though."
When he said these two he gestured to Leah and Jonas. That was when he noticed that Bridget was gone, but, he did hear a something from the kitchen. However, he already knew her mom. She said her mom was numbuh 86 but he was curious to know the dad. So Sector W has four operatives but none of them were related to numbuh 1.
"What about numbuh 1? Nigel? Doesn't he have children in the future? He's too cool not to have some kind of descendants!" remarked Tommy thinking about it.
"I'm pretty sure he has a kid somewhere in the future. Whoever it is isn't in our sector or sector v." Tommy's confused expression only made Jonas add in the explanation of sector v in the future.
"Sector V is actually filled with six operatives. My brother, Hoagie, is the sector leader and my sister Jennette is the 2 by 4 tech. Leah's sister Sally is the hand to hand combatant. The others you probably won't recognize but they are Carmela Martinez and Terence Woo," said Jonas.
Bridget walked back in with a glass of water in her hands and sat staring at him. She looked pretty stunned at him too.
Leah went and raced to her bedroom only to come back a couple minutes later. She was holding something in her hands that looked big and heavy. It looked like a text book of some kind. However, he could tell that Leah wouldn't keep some kind of textbook unless it was school. She actually looked really excited about something.
Then she put her book on the table and laid it in front of them. The Importance of Time Travel by numbuh 4 Billion. It looked rather thick but roughly, from the side glance, it was only half filled out.
"I read this ten times and I'm not following a single bit of advice. However, we might need it later," she said and put it in Edwin's backpack. "Because right now we are going to go up to moonbase and filing our report, early. We're not going to say anything to anyone about Tommy being a time traveler. If anyone asks he's Jonas' cousin. And yes, numbuh 1 does have a kid, I saw the name Uno when I was with Bridget picking our numbuhs. There is a process where we can look at other operative and their numbuhs to see which one we would like to share if you wanted to."
She was saying some of that really fast that Tommy couldn't really keep up. With that she pulled Edwin by his backpack and Jonas by his bandana. Bridget automatically stood up from wherever she was and Tommy followed them back to the bus. None of them seemed to have a clue about why Leah said they would need that book later.