Deep inside the Subterainnus, Scott was welcoming them as his best guests. Milo and Melissa were having breads and rats, and the undergrounder was fixing the roof of his house.
And that was where all the noise came from when he moved the roof by a single inch. Milo and Melissa covered their ears and little was Scott aware of it.
"Scott stop please!" Milo shouted his loudest, which the man replied "I can't hear you!"
"Uh..." Melissa took a chance of telling him, and didn't bother of shouting anyway "We need to get outside and have fresh air, you don't mind?"
The noise then stopped, as the man replied "Oh, why didn't you say so? Of course that's fine," Milo was impressed, but the expression wore off when Melissa drove him away with a smug facial expression "Let's go."
In no time, they sat down together on a chair, staring around. Besides a couple of lamps hanging above and a few abandoned houses, the whole place is like an empty playground that kids feel tired of it.
The two were glad that they didn't have to hear the crazy noise inside that pipe fitter house.
A bit chatting before they got to real realiziation of what happened just then. The time Murphy's Law went craziest.
"I think I'm getting why Cavendish prevented me from going to the stage, I should've known." The faces turned saddened and serious, as Milo telling "How fool I were when I ran onto the stage and cried from a bit insult he gave me..."
Melissa stopped him right there, "No, this isn't you, Milo. You can't blame yourself just for all of this."
"But Cavendish warned me, and if I thought things through a little better..."
"But you didn't know. You just wanted to get up there and had a chance to present after all the hard work we've done yesterday, right?" Milo nodded, still his eyes told Melissa he still blaming himself. She continued "And Cavendish and Dakota. They knew. KNEW all along! And what did they do? Just sit there and watch us falling?" Her tone got a bit of frustation from there "Yep, they did nothing!"
"No, don't say like that, Melissa," The boy still had faith in those time travellers "They're adults. And from what I know about them, they're kind-hearted and loveable. They won't let us give in easily. There must be a reason for all of this."
"So you're saying that you're on their side and not me?" Melissa asked, much to Milo's confusion. He replied "What are you talking about? I'm always on your side. It's just that..." He rubbed his head embarrassedly "...you're overthinking this, and that's not our Cavendish and Dakota we knew."
Now that he said it, Melissa also took time to look things through better "I guess... you're right. But still, I don't have full faith on them." But on the other note, Milo still kinda rolled over Melissa's point "Still, you're not wrong. They must have warned us before we got in. Or at least gently told us to leave the stage, and we can understand the cue. Instead of making fun of me like parents hardly get over with caring their children."
"I know, right? That's where it's conflicted."
Milo held his hands to his head, and suddenly, a thought came through his head. He put a smile and gave a positive spread to his girlfriend "Hey, Melissa! I think I know."
Much to Melissa's confusion of Milo's sudden positive spin "Know what?"
"In the episode 309 of Doctor Zone, where the A-plot is just... literally temporal transproter or something,..." Melissa normally got tired when hearing either Milo or Sara rambling about that darn show, but this time, Milo got some sort of idea anyway, so she listened "...the B-plot actually connect to the A-plot, where The Sheriff knows bad things will happen to Doctor Zone when he has a day playing golf. So he replaces one of the golf ball with another temporal transporter he had."
"Wait why?" Melissa asked, didn't really get what the boy is trying to tell
"Doctor Zone overuses his glitched temporal transporter and 'cause mayhem to happen around him. Until he realizes that the new one is inside a net."
"Okay, that was a fun story, Milo. But what exactly is the connection between it and your ideas?"
"So... we're going to just spot any weird things happen..."
Melissa continued him "...and find an approraited excuse for those two time travellers. I'm in. We're bored apparently."
And so they were brainstorming and looking for any weird plotpoint.
A couple of hours later...
"Huzzah! Yay!" A loud cheer came out, as Melissa won another game of Mandarin Square Capturing, "Three in a row!"
"Guess I'm bad at this. It's fun when you don't even know what you're even playing."
"A Vietnamese board game. Simple!"
She continued "Anyway, we've been playing this boardgame for so long. Have you got any good excuse for your good guys?"
"Not at all." Milo shrugged "But at least I got a small hint."
"Tell me, what is it? I want to know, even if it's inconsiquental."
Milo pointed at the Mandarin rock, which is the biggest rock in the boardgame, and a small rock, represented for a volunteered guard, "Well, remember our last game? We swapped two rocks together. And I think Dakota and Cavendish may have been responsible for swapping our paper all along."
Much to Melissa's astonishment, and rage, "So they're responsible for making me look like an idiot in front of the people?"
"At least they did something, Melissa. It's just that it didn't work." Milo sighed for her frustation.
"They could have a better plan, but why this?"
"I think they did the same thing like The Sheriff has done in the episode 309. And it didn't work out for us so..."
"You're still on their side, aren't you?" Melissa showed a frown face.
"Melissa, just please." Milo tried his best to calm her down "No one is responsible or has a fault for this. Not even Murphy's Law. Things just naturally happen."
Realized how much sense her friend told herself, Melissa put her head onto her arms, from furious to saddened
"What are we going to do? I'm scared..."
Milo patted her back and comforted her, "It's alright, Melissa. We're here together and that's what matter." While he rubbed her back carefully and repeatedly, since he knew well his friend would feel more comfortable, "It's fine to be fear. You're on a quest, remember?"
Melissa, could feel how relief she was when Milo cared for her, with a long sigh "Thanks, Milo. Well, you really know me. You've accomplished my mother's back-caring again."
The banana-haired boy then took out something from his backpack, "Want me to read a story?"
She couldn't resist that smile from the boy, and just want to say yes. Although she needed to relax from the back-caring Milo gave her, she felt herself mind to listen to his story. It would be cheerful and loveable, she knew it.
It's not the first time Milo told stories to Melissa.
"Well, the story is this presentation I'm holding right here."
Melissa's dreamy eyes widened due to surprise, "Wait a minute. Really?" She put her head closer to Milo to have a look at the paper. It did look like a presentation: preview, main content, conclusion, whatever a presentation paper has.
"Yes, listen."
Milo cleared his throat before reading.
"Dear my lovely friends, my friends' parent and teachers. If you prefer a life of peace and quiet, and a bit of drama on the way, then you will never be a fan of action movies. Being a Murphy is already an action movie to me, and if there are movies with actions, I will fan-girl really loud and search on the Internet if there were a sequel."
Melissa whispered to herself, "This is so good. The audience has missed out a boy with a beautiful heart out there."
Milo overheard her, and put a flattered smile, while continued.
"I've been in action movies since I was a four-year-old. My dad showed me ton of great movies from Disney to Pixar and Dreamworks. I really love movies. Movies are all slice of life, and slice of life is literally the best thing in the whole world. But when my father bought a completely different set of movie: five parts I, II, III, IV, V with just a same content, I have formed a crush on action stunts. It was five parts of "Krillhunter" with krills, a man who obbesses to krill and wants to hunt it down, and his partner in crime."
"I don't know you love movies since you were four." Melissa put her eyes out from the paper and looked at him, interrupted and received an answer, and he replied, "Long story, I was overnight a lot."
"Anyway, the actions in it were great. There were krills being hunted down, but there was an evil pirate who wants to manipulate the krill more to bug our Krillhunter. But that doesn't stop him from trying. And explosions. I mean, how a milk truck can just blow up like that. Or the Krillhunter wiping the floor in order to 'krill' the krill when suddenly, a flood rushed in and flooded all over the house. There were less krill, but after the flood, there were even more. And he screamed 'Kriiiiillllll!' As a four year old child, I loved it very much. It overhelmed all my delightful emotions and I wanted to hug my father in joyfulness."
Milo paused for a while, and looked at his best friend, who was really paying attention to his story by just listening to it. Melissa's confused to his act, "What, Milo? Why do you stop?"
He didn't respond. He gave a nod and a smile to her before continued.
"Until... I grew up a little bit. About seven. When I started getting hang a little with Murphy's Law, and understood the circumstance around me more clearly. And I've met a best friend in my whole life."
Melissa then took a quick look at Milo, who already knew herself would be surprised. "A best friend... in you whole life?"
Suddenly, a bolt got loose and the two's chair collasped. The broken chair falling made the ground breaking and reached the whole underground cave. Rocks were shattering and started to fall over. Milo and Melissa stood up in terrified, while the boy accidentally gave his paper to the orange-haired girl to keep it.
A rock fell right through Scott's house and hit his head. Luckily, he always has his helmet on. "Who plays MSC? 'Cause a rock fell right in my head just now. And just thought I'm wearing a helmet."
But the two were so terrified to reply him, much to Scott's confusion, "Kids? Kids! Are you listening to me?"
They didn't reply, and pointed at the disaster happening. Scott turned his head around and saw it, "Oh my goodness! This place is falling!"
The girl screamed and had a ran ahead, while Milo directed Scott standing like he was frozen, "Come on, Scott! Just run!" Melissa shouted.
The trio had a run to the path to the subway. But not only was the Subterrainus the one who collapsed. The whole place they were running almost swallowed them.
"There it is! A train leads to the above world!" Melissa cheered and while still exhaustedly breathing.
"Hurry, Scott! Run. Run!" Milo pulled the man by hand, while he still silently looked at the direction where his world was about to be destroyed for the most part, and running lifelessly.
The trio reached inside the train and on their positions: Scott still silently paid attention to his world outside the window, Melissa was on the control center. And Milo was biking as an energy source for the train in order to run it.
"How is it going back there, Milo?" Melissa asked, and the boy replied "Good for now! I can bike for hours!"
From his position, he could hear Scott sobbing and see the underground man still looking at the back direction. "Poor man..." The boy whispered to himself.
While running, Murphy's Law broke one of the train's wheels. The train lost balance and slightly leaned to the Southwest direction.
Melissa almost fell onto the ground. She hit the door by the gravity when leaning, and used her hand to hold a door edge in time.
"NO, MELISSA!" Milo screamed as he stopped biking and wanted to save his best friend.
"Don't Milo! Keep biking! We're almost there."
The train was about to slam right at the brick wall which leads to the museum of national history. But Milo left his position, and made the train go slower, combined the friction between the train body and the ground..
"Keep biking, Milo!" Melissa held the edge tight, while dragged her feet up in order not to hit the ground. He could see her struggling.
"But Melissa, you're in trouble. I gotta help you!"
Melissa still tried to convince him otherwise, "We're slowing down! You gotta give the train more force. Just leave me alone. I'll be fine"
Milo screamed while the friction noise was getting louder as well, "No, this can't be happening. What kind of friend do you think I am?" He shook her head in disagreement, saddened look at his friend "Besides, how do you know you will be fine?"
"I don't know!" She shouted back.
So it's a tough choice. Milo had to choose either keeping biking while risking Melissa's life, or saved her friend but odds would be stucked here forever if he didn't use a force to slam the brick wall and made the train go slower.
And Milo did know well who himself is. He disobeyed Melissa and grabbed her other hand to pull her up inside the train, "No, Melissa! I won't leave anyone behind, especially you!"
He used his best force to pull her up, and Melissa finally got inside. They released exhausted breath and dearingly looked at each other. Without the energy from Milo's biking, the train had officially debut in front of the wall.
"But Milo, the train. If you tried a bit more, we could slam the wall and get out of here. It's all my fault" Melissa felt guilty for her carelessness.
Milo held his hands to the ginger's cheeks, cue 'you stupid', "Oh, Melissa. You can't blame yourself for all of this. I really wanted to save you. Beside, what's the meaning of victory without you? Am I right?"
Melissa replied to him quietly, at their moment "Right..."
They rounded their arms around necks and gave a comfort hug to each other. The hug longed shortly before they released themselves out and sat on the train floor face to face, but the two could feel how much one caring for another.
But still, the train had stopped, and any effort was useless, "Still, looks like we're gonna stuck here. The rocks behind trapped us from getting back." Then another wheel beneath them broke apart as well, made the train fully lean to the left "And now the left part of the train body has touched the ground. We can't use your force to slam the brick wall anymore."
"That was ashamed." Milo however, put a smile and cheered his friend, "But cheer up, Melissa. We may not accomplish our mission but at least we've tried!" He stood up and made a gesture for winning the 'third place'
Melissa followed him and stood up, pat his back hard enough to make the boy stop, "I know, as long as we're together now. Right, Scott-" Just as she looked at his seat, there wasn't Scott there, "Huh- Where is he?" And Milo looked around the same as her, wondered we he could be after these disasters.
While they were looking, they heard noise from a hammer and noise of brick falling. The noise was more clear when they looked in front of the train, and saw the man has completed making a hole through the museum of national history. A scream from outside "Hey, that hole has just been fixed for a month!"
Milo and Melissa froze for a moment, before they jumped and cheered really loud. Milo hugged Scott as a thank while Melissa held and shook hand with the man. They seemed to be happy with what the undergrounder had done.
But Scott didn't respond. Unlike his positive attitude daily, he pulled out an unfamiliar side of him. A really weird side: saddened eyes, frowned, had an endless and lifeless look. He welcomed the kids to the outside world, but not in a hospitalized way.
The delightful faces of the kids turned uncomfortable when seeing Scott liked this. They were... really uncomfortable. Melissa went out first, while Milo pulled the man out, "Come on, Scott. We need to talk."
In front of the museum of national history, at the steps lead inside. The kids and Scott sitting and faced the raining state of Danville. The roof had them covered enough. It was a sad weather, and Scott in the situation, in the harmony of it as well. Melissa kept patting his back to make him better, while Milo talked to the man, "Look, Scott. I'm so sorry. I know I'm responsible for destroying the underground world you've lived for a long time." Scott state didn't mind of Milo's words anyway, but he still tried "I know you can't forgive me, so please punish me. I'll do whatever you want."
Milo was really in the state of 'ready for any punishment Scott would give him.' He really begged the man to do this, or else, Milo himself would feel guilty, and it takes a hard time to get over with it. There was a time, Zack got hurt because of him, and while his family and Zack himself understood his condition, Milo's doubt was really big and it took a big time to make Zack gain Milo's trust.
Scott from the zen state, however, raised his right hand to the sky. Milo thought this would be his punishment, and he closed his eyes to receive it. And surprisingly, the hand landed calmly on Milo's shoulder. He was surprised by Scott's attitude, and tried to speak up to him again. But Scott interrupted him and took the turn to talk, "Whoa, whoa. Stop it right there! I know the underground world I've been created for years, has been destroyed by your Murphy's Law. But I can't blame you for it. Sure, you're a whole disaster magnet and everyone must hate you a lot, but I'm not. I'm totally fine." Scott smiled to comfort the boy "I mean, I can build another world. We have a lot of time in this world."
Milo still worried, but pulled out a nod to what he said. Melissa asked him "So, what makes you feel sad for the whole time? Milo needs to know."
Scott was just trying to comforted him. But he couldn't really tell what made he feel so sad about. That's just a small thing he was sad about, and he didn't really want to tell Milo about it. So, changed topic, with a choppy sentence "You know what... uh... I'm just gonna... buy so-some construction materials to finish another Subterrainus." He tried to smile again while in fact, he was just trying, "Anyway, seeyoulater!"
He ran off to the rain and faced away the kids, who from far away, could see Scott use his right hand to wipe out the tears from his face.
"Wow." Milo barely had a comment for this "I just... I'm just terrible..."
Meli saw Milo being upset again. She used both of her hands to slap at both of his cheeks, in an attempt of snapping the boy out of depression "Look, this isn't the Milo I know! The Milo I know will think of the best solution for all of the mayhem happen around him. And if you accidentally broke something, it's NOT your fault, and you shouldn't bother yourself for it. If they just blame you, they're wrong because it's an accident. Pull yourself together!"
Milo took her hands away from his cheek, and argued her, "Still, I had destroyed Scott's only house just because I'm staying around. And although he's not directly blaming me, he would probably hate me a lot. You don't know how much this hurt me, Melissa, you don't know!"
"But you didn't do that on purpose!" Melissa kept convincing him "I don't believe these are all on you, Milo. Trust me-"
Milo stopped her right there, "No, Melissa. I can't handle this anymore." The boy went outisde, standing in the rain, "I've gotta punished myself for what I've caused." After he said it, he ran off to the opposite path Scott took. It leads to the Coyote Woods.
While Melissa stood there and couldn't do anything. "Milo, please, listen to me! MILO!" The thunder stroke loudly and Melissa covered herself in fear. She couldn't do anything, but helplessly looked at Milo slowly smaller to her vision. A post lamp fell on a man's head while he was running.
"Kid, watch where you're going" – "Sorry!"
The rain didn't stop. At least it was gradually fewer, but the rain was still too heavy. Melissa sat down and stared at nowhere from the stairs of the museum of national history.
Sad and bored, she opened her backpack. It was nice of her that inside that backpack, she kept every friend memories she had with Milo inside it: Some photos they took were sticked with tape and glue; a diary called "Melissa and Milo Murphy' she constantly takes out every night to note what happened with her and her boy that day, and just kept it inside the backpack as the best secure place; a little handwatch Milo had made for her, although it's pretty fragile, she never broke it and sometimes, she added an addition to the watch so that it would never break itself; a presentation of Milo, nice...
"Wait, what's this?" She took out a paper with 'Milo' wrote in it and a type of movie called 'Action movies'. "Oh right, Milo handed it to me when we saw rocks falling and running to the train." She spoke to herself apparently. A thought then appeared in her head, made this day more delightful.
"That's it!" She ran off to where Milo ran off previously, "Milo, wait for me!" Shouted, apparently for herself as well.
Meanwhile, in 2175, two pairs of Cavendish and Dakota, Zack and Sara, were walking to the direction Hildergard told Cavendish to go to. What really sucks was, they were transported to the Winter of 2175, and the future's cold is even colder than the 2015's cold.
Zack and Sara walked while shaking their body.
"Oh my goodness, Cavendish! Why would you have to transport us to 2175, in Winter?!" Much to Zack's furious, as he was freaking cold then
Cavendish replied him gently, "First, you two, took our sweaters. Cavendish?"
The two Cavendishes took off their sweaters and Zack and Sara obeyed them, as they were wearing those.
"On the bright side, Zack, this is a modern fashion of the future!" Sara commented to Cavendish's clothes, and Zack still felt pissed "This looks like clothes from the 1870s." At least their conditions were improved then.
"Second. It's the darn temporal transporter. We were suppsoed to be at the last day of school – summer almost coming."
Sara continued the gentleman "And the temporal transproter is unpredictable, it will take us to a random timeset. We could get into first day of summer though."
Zack kinda understood, though that all didn't make any sense, and all the knowledge took from a science-fiction television series.
"Fine then..."
Hehe, it's been a long time, eh... But I can finally update this story. It really took a hard time to find a stand for Milo – Melissa story arc, but I'm so proud with what I have accomplished so far. Is this chapter good or bad, or any other compliments or criticism? Give me a review, so a review is another improvement.
Chapter 10 is in progress. Should be out soon! (Depends on how much longer the 'soon' refers to)
