i See the Future
Chapter 4: Freddie's First ArrivalA/N: I don't own iCarly. This picks up where Freddie is sent into the future and the last chapter's quote doesn't fit in here…so I'll put up the last part, but according to Freddie. In other words, the last chapter is the girls' part of the story, and now is the missing part- Freddie's part! So this, according to Freddie is his first arrival. Coming back is his second. :)
Freddie had his hands pressed against the glass with his face in between with a genuinely scared expression on his face, like a trapped animal. Smoke billowed out and blocked everyone's view. Sam felt the booth shake. Spencer, Carly and Sam stood there, waiting for the smoke to clear. When it had fully cleared, they could see that Freddie was gone.
The smoke filled his face. For a second, he couldn't breathe. Then the smoke went away, but it was dark. Freddie was uncertain if he was in the future, the past, or some unknown time dimension. He thought he was still in the booth of the time machine and felt for the door to let himself out.
To his surprise, the booth was gone. In the darkness he swung his arms around. They didn't touch anything. Scared he was going to take a step and fall down into a deep, dark abyss, but more scared that he would be stuck in the darkness forever, Freddie took a small step forward. No falling. He was on solid ground for the time being.
Freddie took another step forward. Unfortunately, he tripped over something and landed on solid ground. While face-down on the floor he must have stirred up some dust, for he sneezed twice. Freddie was puzzled. He needed to find out where he was.
He got up and squinted in the darkness. He couldn't see anything.
"Hello?" Freddie whispered. No one answered, so he said it a little louder.
"Hello…Hello…Hello" It echoed throughout the space where he was. Freddie took small, tentative steps forward, keeping his hands in front of him. Finally, his hands felt something big, flat and semi-smooth. It felt like a wall. Then his hands touched an unknown object. It flipped upwards and Freddie was practically blinded.
He had hit the light switch. After his pupils had adjusted to the light, Freddie looked around and was very scared. It was where he had just been. It was where Carly. Sam and Freddie usually filmed iCarly. Only it looked extremely old. Dust was everywhere. There was some rotting wood topped with spider webs. There were parts of trinkets and all of the stuff from the set of iCarly.
"Okay, now I know where I am…but where am I in the future? Sam set it to ten years, so I guess I'm in 2027. Weird. Why is Carly's apartment like this?" Freddie talked to himself, trying to make some sense out of the situation.
Freddie decided to check out the rest of the building. He turned back to look at the decaying room. It was then that he noticed the time machine, or what was left of it. It was completely smashed. He wondered what could have happened to it…
He took the stairs down, not trusting the ancient elevator. He was careful to make sure the old wooden steps would not give way. He had come into the main room, where the couch and T.V. used to be. Everything was totally different. There were weird gizmos and gadgets on the walls. There was a comfy-looking, couch-like object that took the place of the old couch. The walls were painted a light blue. And instead of the T.V., there was a whole wall that functioned as a screen of some sort.
As much as the "geek" part of him wanted to examine some of these future technological marvels, he needed to find out many things. There was a mystery here- a reason why the room above remained untouched and primitive while downstairs was equipped with futuristic thingamajigs.
Freddie walked over to the couch-ish thing. He sat down in it. It was very comfortable. It seemed to be made out of a green, cotton candy material. There was a sudden sound of a glass breaking. Freddie jumped. Something or someone was in here with him!
He listened closely and heard someone utter a profanity and a sound of sweeping. Whoever had dropped it was now cleaning it up. Freddie got up and tip-toed over to the kitchen area. He saw a young woman bent over, picking up pieces of glass. Her back was to him so he couldn't see her face.
Freddie did not want to scare her, but he had to let her know that he had to let her know he was here so he could ask some questions. He cleared his throat. No response. He whispered, "Um…excuse me miss…" No response. The young woman had finished picking up the pieces. She dumped them in a nearby trashcan.
Freddie was puzzled. He walked into the kitchenette, right behind her. If she were to turn around, he would be in plain sight. However, this mysterious young woman did not turn around just yet.
She walked over to a large indent in the wall. Freddie realized that it was actually a chair. The wall had been carved so it could function as a bench/chair. The young woman pulled what seemed to be a drawer (and was really an extendable part of the counter) up in front of her.
There was an ultra-thin laptop in the counter lying in the counter, facedown in a carved compartment. She pulled it out and complained out loud, "I really hate this thing; it's so old! It's what, seven of eight years old? I can't wait until it dies and I can buy a Zorb-Z."
Freddie was amazed at all of these cool future things. And according to the woman, who had a vaguely familiar voice, they were outdated. He wondered what a Zorb-Z was…the future would be so cool. He wanted to be here ten years from now, not now, but he figured that while he was here, he might as well find out some things.
The young woman stopped typing and looked at a digital device on the wall. She uttered something Freddie didn't understand and then said, in frustration, "How could I forget something like this?"
Besides thinking, "Sweet, there are new swear words in the future." Freddie also thought her voice sounded a whole lot more familiar when she was yelling…
He didn't know how the young woman could tell the time form the weird device on the wall. The front read 24A7"X". It had lots of knobs and a few levers, but the young woman understood it somehow because she closed the laptop and pushed in the counter. The young woman got up from her carved chair and, for the first time, faced Freddie.
Freddie's eyes opened wide in shock. She was older, yes, but it was unmistakable…this woman was the future Sam.
The future Sam rushed out of the kitchen without giving Freddie a glance. Freddie felt a funny whooshing feeling in his stomach as he realized that the future Sam had walked through him, not by him.
He was curious to find out what the future Sam was late for. He also wanted to see what outside looked like. So he followed her out the apartment door. The apartment building was the same, but old and completely empty.
"God, every time I come down here, must I think of Lewbert?", the future Sam exclaimed. She was now in the deserted, old lobby.
Freddie was still adjusting to the fact that he was actually in the future, all of the amazing tech stuff in the future, the fact that he was invisible/ spirit-like now and that he had found the future Sam. He wondered about the future Carly…and the future Spencer…and himself!
Pondering all these possibilities and marveling at technological advancements, Freddie followed the future Sam outside.
"Wherever Sam is going ought to explain some things…" Freddie thought. But, unfortunately he was very wrong- things would only become more confusing and complicated...
But for now Freddie followed the future Sam outside into the sunlight, the sunlight of a questionable future…
A/N: Sorry it took me so long to post this chapter! I was so busy, but I will never wait that long to update again! Please review, I have some ideas about where this could go... It gets really interesting. The next chapter is also in Freddie's point of view and he is still in the future. He will still be for a couple more chapters. Thanks for reading my story!
With all my purple fuzzleness,
the-purple-fuzzle