A/N: New chapter! The Blink in this chapter belongs to doodlegirl, not me. :) I can't really think of anything else to say here except I don't own Time Warp Trio or MtR. So, read on…
"Sam, is that you?" the boy who I thought was Cornelius Robinson asked, obviously very confused. How did he know Sam?
"Um… yeah. Hi, Lewis, I haven't seen you since Invention Camp," Sam said, just as puzzled as the rest of us.
I remembered that! One summer vacation Sam left us to go to a three week inventor's camp, where he came back with the pocket watch Samantha would own in the future and told us a bunch of stories that Fred and I pretended to listen to.
"What are you—How did you—Why are you—uh…" Lewis had run out of things to babble. He finally decided on a sentence that fit the entire scene.
"This is very confusing. I don't believe it. Don't you live in 2007 like me?" Lewis asked Sam, but looked around at the rest of us. Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha's gazes all dropped to the ground.
"Yes, but that's actually just what I was going to ask you," Sam scratched his head, but realization suddenly dawned on his face. "You're Cornelius Robinson, the famous inventor, aren't you?"
Lewis nodded slowly. "Uh, yeah… but I won't be a famous until twenty or so years from now. How did you know that? And who are you guys?"
Sam looked around nervously for help. Jodie sighed.
"I guess there's really no way around it. I'm Jodie, and that's Samantha, Freddi, Joe, and Fred," she said, pointing at each of us in turn.
"Freddi?" the black haired boy who I recognized as Wilbur said, surprised. "Is that you?"
"Hi, Wilbur," she replied weakly, giving up on hiding her face from him.
"Wait," Lewis turned to Wilbur, "How do you know her?" He was still trying to work everything out. Things were getting more mixed up by the second.
"I took the time machine once when I wanted to visit you, but I ended up going seventy years into the future. Don't ask me how that happened," he said, seeing the look in Lewis's eyes. "Anyways, I kind of ran her over…" Wilbur ran a hand through his hair sheepishly.
"You almost killed my—" Sam slapped a hand over Fred's mouth and laughed nervously.
Lewis had paid no attention to Fred, however, and by the look in his eyes, Wilbur's story only made it more confusing. Our secret was still hidden… for now. I knew exactly what Lewis was thinking, though:
'If Freddi lives seventy years in the future, how does she know Sam?'
"Do you want us to explain?" Jodie offered, also realizing the look in Lewis's eyes.
"Jodie, no!" I hissed. Normally I wasn't the one to obey the rules.
"Joe, I said before, there's no way around it." The determined stare she gave me just screamed, 'Back off.'
Before Jodie could start, Wilbur suddenly laughed.
"It's funny that all of your names sound alike to one other," he said good-naturedly, but the rest of us kicked at the ground or pretended to tie their shoes.
"It's funny that you mention that…"Freddi giggled uncertainly and continued to uproot grass.
"Yeah, the explanation would be nice right about now," Lewis groaned, giving up on making sense of everything. Jodie grinned smugly.
I thought I should get my say in things, so before Jodie could open her mouth, I cut in and interrupted her again.
"Hey, it happened to me first, so I get to tell it!"
She shot me a glare and I could vaguely hear her mutter, "Dorkbot," under her breath. I grinned slightly and began.
"It all started when my Uncle Joe gave me The Book, a book that let us travel to different time periods." I then went on to tell them about our adventures and the six of us.
"Before a lot of this happened though, the book warped us one hundred years in the future… well, Fred warped us at least. So, after a wild goose chase, we ended up meeting Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha. And very quickly we learned—they were our great-granddaughters.
Lewis grinned and I knew everything made sense to him now.
"So you're related to Jodie," Lewis matched up our frizzy, dark brown hair and dark skin.
"Sam's related to Samantha." Their glasses and black, messy hair (even though Samantha's was up in six pigtails) was a dead giveaway.
"And Fred is related to Freddi," he finished, looking proud. Fred and Freddi both had fair skin and blonde hair, but Fred's hair was curly and short, while Freddi's hair was straight and ended at her chin.
"So, where's The Book?" Lewis was deeply interested now.
"Right where it always is when we travel with these boys. Somewhere we don't know," Freddi groaned.
"You mean, you always lose it?" Wilbur laughed unbelievingly.
"Wow," Lewis chuckled, "that's worse than Wilbur with the time machine." He quickly ducked to avoid a swipe in the head by Wilbur's hand.
"Wilbur Robinson never messes up!" he exclaimed, stomping his foot down with pride. A muffled giggled emitted from Samantha.
"Wilbur Robinson talks in third person a lot, doesn't he?" she mocked playfully.
"Yes, he does."
Samantha rolled her eyes and laughed.
"Hey, instead of standing here, do you want to meet my family?" Wilbur offered, motioning to the large mansion up the hill. "Just to warn you they're a little—"
But Fred, Sam, and I had already begun sprinting towards the house, racing each other there. Fred turned around and backpedalled, still easily outrunning Sam and me.
"Come on, Jodie, I bet you can't beat me!" Fred yelled.
Sam and I laughed as she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Fred, you know I don't run," she stated bluntly, surveying her nails like she was too cool for it.
"What are you, chicken? You just know you can't—"
Jodie had taken off running. We all watched as Fred's eyes widened and he turned and began to sprint up the hill. He and Jodie were neck and neck until…
"THAT'S CHEATING!"
Jodie had whipped out her hoverdisk and soared straight towards the front door. She jumped gracefully off and was stampeded by Freddi and Samantha giving her high fives.
"Still think I can't beat you, Fred?" she smirked, hoverdisk tucked under one arm.
Fred crossed his arms and walked past Jodie. Sam and I followed him, accompanied by Wilbur and Lewis.
"Tough break, dude. But she totally—" Wilbur was cut off by a death glare from Fred.
"Cheated. Totally cheated," Wilbur finished.
"Nice save," Fred growled and began to realize where he was.
"Wow… this place is awesome! Hey, do you have like a baseball diamond in here or something?" Fred began to open door after door after door.
"Or better yet, a library?" Freddi called from behind us.
"No baseball diamond, but we do have chargeball. And as for the library, it's up by my dad's lab. I can take to guys there if you want," Wilbur motioned to a long clear tube next to one of the double doors along the hall.
"Whoa, Travel Tubes! I read about these!" Samantha stood under the tube and was suddenly sucked away.
"Hey! Where'd she go?" Sam ran under the light of the tube, trying to look for her, but he himself was sucked away as well. Fred and I ran under afterwards and I ended up looking at a huge observatory filled with machines, experiments, and papers. Jodie and Freddi appeared behind me and I saw their eyes grow wide.
"This is amazing!" Freddi ran her finger along the rows and rows of books lining one side of the domed room. "Hey, Lewis do you think you could help me? I'm looking for a thick blue book with silver ribbons on it. It's the only way we're going to get home."
"Can't you just use the time machine?" Wilbur asked, also coming over to help look for The Book.
"We can't just leave both of our Books here," Samantha said, playing with a pen.
"Ah! Put that down! It might explode!" Sam ran for cover behind a large machine with lots of blinking buttons. This place was amazing.
"Explode?" Samantha laughed.
"Yes, explode. Do you know how many of Lewis' inventions exploded at that camp we went to?" All we could see of Sam was the rim of his glasses and the top of his hair.
Lewis and Wilbur looked over to what Samantha was playing with. Lewis gasped.
"No, Samantha, put that down, that's—"
Samantha blinked, suddenly looking dazed and cocked her head. The pen rolled out of her hand and bounced away from her on the ground.
"Who are you?"
"—a memory eraser," Lewis groaned, bending down to pick up the pen.
"What?" Freddi and Jodie ran over to Samantha.
"Who are you? Where am I?" Samantha repeated, still with an eerie confused gleam in her eyes.
Sam yelped from his hiding spot, "I told you! See? I knew something was going to happen!"
"Bragging will not recover Samantha's memory, Sam," Freddi said calmly. "Lewis, is there any way that we can reverse it or something? And what is that?"
Lewis frowned. "It's the Blink. The red light on the end can erase your memory. I can't tell if there's any way to undo its effects because the dial might have moved when it bounced on the ground. She may have forgotten everything, but may just be temporary, too. We'll just have to wait."
"Oh no," I muttered. But I noticed something else that was different as well. In the past few minutes, Fred had been awfully quiet. And I had learned that when Fred is quiet, it was never a good sign. I turned around to find that, to my shock, I had been right. Fred's hat was just next to the Travel Tube exit, but...
Fred was gone.
A/N: So Samantha's memory is erased, Fred is gone, but without his hat (which if you've seen the show is never a good sign), and they have no way to get back... Uh oh. Please review, it takes like three seconds! Thanks so much!
