Author Note: Greetings to many out there, my fellow followers & viewers today. You have the finest news of knowing that after this, there's basically only TWO more chapters left to go here? Can you ENVISION it all, the Time Machine fanmake story here almost complete, what a thrilling experience. The 'King of VISIONS' has such high hopes to help many like to create versions of this story in, heh, the future of our time's history? So VISUALIZE this as much as you want, what happens here before we come close to the near ending of this work will be breath taking all the same. So what are we waiting for, it's 'time' we see how things will end up for our heroes?
Chapter 09) Secret Entrance? Rescue Plan!
The scene changes to the dessert when it's nighttime with it being so dark with the wind blowing. "Frruusoophmm…." From the sand blowing around, the scene zooms to the right where we find ourselves at the metal pole triangle site where the Submen leave food for the Luman to come get? There from the bright light of the full moon, the scene zooms down for us to notice that someone or some folks sitting on the ritual table of where the food usual is set. It was Zorog, Tom, and Tails' group, as they were just sitting there, waiting around for…something?
"I give up, Zorog?" Tom spoke out from where he's sitting next to the Subman that is helping him? "What are we waiting for?" Tom waved his left hand out in wondering to the Subman who doesn't have his shades since it's dark, but the boy needed to know just what they were doing?
"TRreesiihmm…." Suddenly without warning, the question of what the group was awaiting for, happened when the table they sat on budged from machine wiring gear noises being heard?
"Ahhh?" Tom yelped out from the suddenly feeling which made him and Tails' group a bit jumpy while Zorog was calm.
"Ask and you receive!" Charmy yelped out to remark Tom's questioning the subject to only get a sudden response.
"What is this?" Tom asked from looking down at the table in suspicion that where they sat on just moved? "What is happening?" Tom asked out puzzled and confused to Zorog, but he never got his answer?
"Trusuhhh-qruushhhmmm….." For suddenly without warning, the entire table was lowering itself down….a secret hole where it was being lowered down by metal poles? "Wrruuooophmmm…." After Zorog, Tom, and Tails' group stood up, they saw below them, the hidden tunnel ruins spot, and one spot had a tunnel opening while they were riding down some elevator device?
"Hurry!" Zorog spoke out to Tom and his friends, as he suddenly jumped off the ritual table when they were close enough to the ground. "Tuphm…." Zorog had made a successful landing on his foot, knee and hand before running off in a direction.
"Glurphm…." The table soon made a complete landing sound when it touched the bottom while Tom and Tails' group saw Zorog running off in the right direction.
"Wait for us, mate!" Marine shouts before she and everyone else was following Zorog's trail of leaving the scene.
"Hurghm?" Soon Zorog jumps over to get behind a small pile area of rubble in the corner. Then he's soon join by Tom and Tails' group in jumping over the pile to hid with the good Subman. But while Tom looks up to see what's happening, Zorog brings his hand up to pull the boy down. Just in time too, as we see a Subman has arrived at the scene too.
But not just one, there were three, and each holding or carrying baskets of bread in their hands before placing it on the ritual table. "Truushoophmm….." Soon the ritual table was starting to go up, just as Tom's group look up to see what was happening. "Crusuuhoophmm….." The table was rising up to the surface area where their was light from the hole where the table once stood.
"So that's there secret to delving food unseen?" Saffron quietly exclaimed in witnessing the food transport for the Luman to gather near when the time to hunt comes?
"W-w-who would have t-t-though of that?" Ray whispered out to the rest in seeing this unbelievable situation.
Soon we see Zorog was sneaking around the entrance tunnel while looking back to make sure he was going to be seen. Then afterwards, he begins to run down the hallway tunnel, followed by Tom and Tails' group running after him.
"Okay, stage one of sneaking in so far is going good, what's next, Tails?" Charmy stated off to his two-tailed friend, wondering where they go from here?
"We need a ride transport, namely the train cart, that should get us to where the Submen keep any captives?" Tails explained out to his friends of what to do next, get on a train and follow it to where they last saw the Submen take any captives too?
The scene changes to where there is a train cart in the waiting, just as there was one to be position there. Soon Zorog walks up to get aboard, followed by Tom and Tails' group to join the good Subman inside.
The red-haired boy and his six animal friends notice Zorog was reaching for the control lever device. "Are you sure you know how to drive this thing?" Tom asked a bit unsure if Zorog even knew how to work the controls from recalling his last encounter with such a device. Zorog looked to Tom with a trouble stare by that claim, as the red-haired boy speaks out his mind. "I can drive. I've done it before?" Tom raised his left hand up to point his thumb out on driving this train cart which Zorog listen to hear this. "I have experience." Tom stated off his final statement of knowing how to handle driving this train cart to Zorog.
"Like you did any better without letting me steer, Tom?" Tails questioned his friend from remembering how the two-tailed fox warn Tom of trying to do something he had no understanding of?
"Yes, I saw how you stopped the cart?" Zorog slowly turn his head to state to Tom on what he saw in how the boy once stopped the cart…by crashing it against the rubble rocks.
"Which let's face it mate, wasn't the best driving we seen?" Marine stated off in thinking that adventure wasn't one of the best moments.
"Truuvhuumm…." Soon Zorog pulled the switch lever down to start up the train cart. "Gruuuvhummm….." As the engine was starting, Tom wanted to do something, but Zorog cut him off to look back with this to say. "Lever goes this way!" He push the lever up in order to instruct Tom on how he needs to drive a train cart properly. "Gruuvhumm…BrriignnBrriinnghnnn…." Soon we see the train cart was moving out while it's wheels were screeching against the floor. "Gruuvhmmm…." We see it passing by from where it was once parked, to now driving on down the tunnel path that lied before the rest.
The scene changes to a familiar underground transport station area from before with it's two tunnel entrances and broken staircase. "Gruvhmmm-MRruuvhhmmm…." Soon we see the train cart that was driven by Zorog with Tom and Tails' group, as the passengers before it was starting to slow it's speed descent.
Zorog was the first to get off, as he slowly moves up a bit before noticing a pathway to a tunnel spot. "This way!" Zorog turns to Tom's group and points his lelf hand out in the direction they must go. With all that said, Zorog ran with Tom and Tails' group following behind the good Subman down that tunnel path.
The scene changes to some ruin rubble and poles on the ground before the scene shifts to where we see Tom and Tails' group behind Zorog, who was in front of two metal doors?
"So is this the place, mate?" Marine asked if this was the place they had to come to or not, but it's clear to the others that it was.
Soon the gang was getting ready, raising their bats, tennis rackets, tennis ball machines, to even buckets filled with golf & tennis balls along with jump ropes to be prepared for anything.
"Your father and the Luman are in here!" Zorog exclaims to Tom and his friends coming up to him, as he points in stating that behind the metal door, was where the captives were kept.
"Then what are we waiting for, let's bust them out!" Charmy cheered off in a ready-go attitude with a wave of his tennis racket in his arms.
"Curf-Fruuuhmm…Gruuvhmm…." Soon Zorog grabs both sides of the metal doors, and opens them up with his strength where we saw a brief peek of some Luman? "Gurgh…GURRRhmmm….." Zorog of course was struggling to open the doors, as he was halfway opening them. "GURrrhhmmm…Gurgphm?" Suddenly he stops his moaning struggle from seeing that he hasn't gotten them open enough to get himself, Tom and his friends in. "GUrrgruhmmm-RAARRRrughh!" That's when Zorog put all of his strength into one big push force, and struggled his best to open the doors. "GRruuughhnnn..BReehnnn…." From this Subman's brute strength by nature, it sounded like he was actually making the doors get forced open until…. "Raarrrughh…RAARRrugh….ARRugh!" He pushed so hard, that from his roaring cry, ended up breaking the metal doors down. "CLUPHhmm-CRuuophm…"
"Brizizizibrisisitrizizhmm…" And from when Zorog, Tom and Tails' group looked inside after the Subman's display of strength, saw electric sparks flying around in the air?
"Man, this guy's a real whooper on the strength booster! He might almost pair with Knuckles and them other mates on the strength matter?" Marine exclaimed in surprise from seeing how strong Zorog was to do that whole thing?
"I-I-I just hope n-n-nobody heard that?" Ray spoke out in worrying if anybody may have heard the doors breaking down or not?
"Guys! I think we have more urgent matters for what's behind the door!" Tails stated out from taking a more notice of the situation.
"Brisisitrizizihimmssuphm…." Of course, once the group saw all the electricity, Tom and Tails' group slowly enter the place where…the Luman laid out on flatbeds with helmets on them while in some sleep state?
"Huuagh?" Tom gasped from just looking around at what he sees, all Luman captives lied on these wall plated beds, with the helmets on their heads and their eyes shut, as electricity flows across the room with energy? "Trisisistriziziztrizzihmm…." All male and female Lumans were stack in rows of these set ups while they were remain in a deep coma-like state?
"Unbelievable?" Saffron utter's out that one word from just looking around this place?
"I can't believe this…there…there…?" Cream tried to speak out with Cheese beside her, this was so scary, the girl rabbit couldn't even finish her statement.
"There using the Luman as a power source?" Tom stated off from just seeing a sleeping Luman strap to a helmet to give off energy of some kind? "Brisisitrizizihmm…." Lots of energy was being sent out of the Luman from what energy they were giving off, as Tom goes on from where we see him explain things a bit. "They harness and focus the energy with their minds?" Tom looked around at all of the Luman captives to the machine, this might explain why the Submen needed the Luman alive, to supple energy? "That's what powers your machinery?" Tom stated off to Zorog who was coming from behind the boy before he walks ahead, telling the good Subman of how their machines are even run?
"PRuush-PUFFfwuophm…." Of course, one blue volt almost hit Zorog which made him yelp before it hit him. "Guuagh?" Zorog yelped out before staring at that spot angry on that close call before running off to join Tom and his animal friends.
"Wooh!" Charmy ducks away from a close volt almost hitting him too! "These things aren't safe?" The young bee stated in what was almost close to harming him.
"Yikes!" Ray dodge a volt shot that almost hit him too, as he signs from seeing he got away in time. "I-I-I agree, let's h-h-hurry up?" The young flying squirrel stated that the sooner they are done here, the better they can leave.
"Brizizitrisisiuhm…." We see a row of Luman hook to the helmets to focus their mind's power into energy for the machines to run, just before Tom is seen walking by them. "Lira's got to be here somewhere?" Tom stated off while looking for his Luman friend, Lira, recalling of her capture the other night while passing more Luman captives hooked to the machines.
"Don't sweet mate, we'll find the Luman Sheila before you can say….Strewth!" Marine was about to boost on Tom not needing to worry, as they will find Lira before they know it until suddenly...
"Briziisuuhpm-Ruushophm…." The machine's electricity was soaring around the Luman rows while Tom was walking down one row spot with himself prepared and holding his bat for defense. "BRizizigruususihm…." As Tom was passing by while looking around, little did he and his small animal friends know what was before them? "Auugh?" Tom yelps out from staring in shock at what he see's just ahead of him and is left gasped with an open mouth from noticing it!
"What is it Tom..Guuagh?" Tails turns to look at his friend, before he and the other animals saw with the same gasp feeling as the red-haired boy was.
"BRusushh-Brizizisuhmm…Briziziuhpm…." Just in front of Tom and his little animal friends, down the row of stack Luman, they saw in front of them three more Luman with the center person being…Lira herself, hooked to the machinery?
"Lira!" Tom exclaimed out in surprise expression to find the friend he was searching for, as he and Tails' group quickly rushed over there.
"Brusisitrzizizhuphmm…." The electricity of blue volts still traveled from the Luman row's brains, just as Tom arrived at the spot where Lira was place followed by his small animal friends.
"We found her, so how do we get her out?" Saffron stated, but wondered how they can get Lira out of being hooked up to this machine?
"They only have the helmets hook to the Luman's foreheads to their brains? Just remove the helmet by sliding it off, and that should sever the connection!" Tails explained from flying up to study Lira's hook up with the machine by only the helmet keeping her from going anywhere and keeping her in this suspended state.
"Alright Tom, time to get to work!" Charmy cheered for his red-haired friend to take the stand, as Tom smiled for the young bee's eager aid to push him to be the hero.
"Gruusvhhmmm…." Just then, Tom puts his hand on the helmet part and pushes it up to free Lira from having her mind's power being used. "TRuushmm…." From doing so, it was shutting down the power from Lira's station, as the Luman girl begins to wake up?
As Lira shakes her head from what happened, a happy Tom and a smiling group of animals stared at seeing their friend was alright before the Luman girl turns to see them. "Tom? Everyone?" Lira spoke with a smile expression, this one wasn't so blank from seeing her friend Tom and his animal friends once again that made her happy. "I dreamed you and your friends would come?" Lira exclaimed out with a happy expression in stating how she dreamt of being rescue by the red-haired boy and his little animal friends?
"Ah, that's good to here. Miss. Amy would say something like that about Mr. Sonic?" Cream replied with a happy sign while stating off something that would have been said by a friend of her's in the animals time period?
"Chao-Chao!" Cheese nods in knowing that was right what Cream said of Amy and Sonic, as anyone else from that time period knows about the meaning.
"Which knowing Sonic, he probably freak out a bit? Hechech?" Tails laughed off a bit while rubbing the back of his head for the very thought.
"Are you alright?" Tom asked with a happy face with his hand up to see if something was still wrong with Lira, if she was going to be okay or not?
"Yes? The Submen did not harm me?" Lira responded to Tom's question, as she slowly got up from her bed spot to stand in explaining to Tom that she wasn't harm by her captors?
"Well that's good news, plus, we also have a new friend!" Charmy replied out with a grinny face before suddenly remembering that they have someone Lira should meet.
"He's a Submen named Zorog, but don't worry, he's on our side." Saffron explained out to Lira to not be worry from when she meets their new friend, who is a Subman.
But just then, Zorog soon came into the conversation, as he came up to see Tom after he and his animal friends rescued one of their Luman friends.
"Where would they keep my father, Zorog?" Tom asked the good Subman friend he and Tails group trust, as the red-haired boy wondered where his father, a non-Luman would be kept?
"I do not know?" Zorog shrug off his shoulders with a puzzled face on that question itself while shaking his head in not knowing either? "I was not with those who captured him?" Zorog held his right palm up in stating with a serious face that he wasn't with the Submen that had taken Tom's father when he arrived?
"Gee, sorry Tom, guess when they found him to not be Luman, they didn't leave him in this place?" Tails apologized to Tom, the boy was so looking forward to finding and being reunited with his father.
"What about the Time Machine then?" Tom asked off another serious question that also needed to be answered with a stern face? "I'll need to go back and get help?" The boy explained while looking down in sadness, if he can't find the Time Machine, he can't go and get help to come with him to aid in helping those he's befriend here?
"Come!" Zorog spoke to Tom, Tails' group and Lira with a serious face before stating something. "I know where they were taking it!" Zorog exclaimed that he knows where the other Submen had taken the Time Machine, as he begins to walk off. "Brisisitrususihmm…." The electricity was still running power from the other Lumans, as Tom and Lira were following Zorog while Tails group was slowly catching up.
"W-W-What about the other Luman?" Ray asked about freeing the other captured Luman, they can't just leave them here, right?
"I'm afraid we can't free them at this time, if we go as a crowd, the Submen would see us and stop us." Tom sadly inform the squirrel that they at this moment of time, are few too short on extra help and would need more then just what they got. "The Luman are not fighters, so we will need to get help if we are going to save them all and get out of here?" Tom explained a bit more forward in what they have to do, it's a hard decision to go with, but it's the best they can do at this time.
"He's right guys, we'll just have to come for them later?" Tails sadly stated off to his friends that they'll come back and rescue them Lumans later. "If Sonic was here, he do this all with Super Sonic Speed, but he's not here, so we need to do things in a slower step." The two-tailed fox knew that if Sonic was here, his speed would be very helpful, but without that fast hedgehog, the gang needs to do things at a slower paste.
"Crickey, Biscuits, I ain't one to leave me cremates behind, but….I'll once swallow me pride, just this once to do this!" Marine complains while taking a deep heavy sign in just listening to the rest. As the entire animal group was following behind Tom, Lira and Zorog in where the Time Machine has been re-located.
The scene changes to where we see Tom was in front of a tunnel path with Lira behind him before something caught his eye.
"The Time Machine!" Tom exclaimed out with a smile, as Lira approached from behind her friend to see something too, along with Tails' group beside them.
The scene now shows before the group, the Time Machine that brought Tom and even Tails' group of animal friends from their pasts into this distant future. It was on an old railroad track just near some rubble that had came down behind it from a broken ceiling top. Tom, Lira, Tails' group and even Zorog all saw the Time Machine there, undamaged and ready to go.
"With it, we can bring help from my time and Tail's friends from their time to find and rescue my father!" Tom exclaimed off with joy in knowing that with the Time Machine, the group has a plan set to aid them in their rescue operation still in effect.
"Don't forget about saving the other Lumans too, mate!" Marine reminded Tom of the other Lumans still hooked to the Submen's machinery since they can't free them all at this time.
"Don't worry Marine, I'm sure Tom hasn't forgotten them either." Cream stated to let Marine know that Tom wasn't the type to forget other people like that.
"Chao-Chao!" Cheese replied in agreement there that Tom would not forget to aid the captive Luman still.
As Tom looked around to his left, his smile turn to a puzzled expression from seeing….Zorog. "Come with us! Back to my time!" Tom happily invited Zorog to come with him, Tails' group, even Lira who stood beside him while the boy waves for the good Subman to travel with them.
But Zorog makes a frown while looking down at the ground when being asked this invite? "I can not?" Zorog sadly turns around with a sorrow face in rejecting Tom's offer before giving a reason. "I have much to think about?" Zorog exclaimed to hold his hand out in confusion before grasping it with a serious face suddenly? "I must decide what I am to do?" He looked away in stating that for him, he must make choices that he himself has never made until he meant Tom and discovered some truths he's never known before? Lira looked to the good Subman with a blank smile while Tom had a puzzled expression and Tails' group was just confused before Zorog puffs his chest up for a moment. "Huuaaagh!" Then when he is done, he suddenly turns around to leave the group, heading down the dark tunnel before vanishing within the darkness.
"Gee, I'm gonna miss the big lug, he almost reminds me of Vector?" Charmy signs in sadness, feeling that he's gonna miss Zorog while stating how he reminds him of someone.
"H-h-h-how does he remind you of V-V-Vector?" Ray asked his bee friend that puzzling question he did not get?
"Cause they're both slow?" Charmy shrug off his shoulders to report out with a smirky smile on his face on stating that subject he found funny.
"Charmy, never mind the details?" Saffron sternly told her friend to not be getting side tracked like that, which Charmy sheepishly rubs his back in understanding the message.
"Come on, we better get going!" Tom turns to point Lira in the direction of the Time Machine, as the two along with Tails' group soon started to walk down in that direction.
"If we can show ourselves to your time period Tom, then the people of your past will have to believe your story!" Tails exclaimed out that if they go to Tom's time, the six animal creatures would be the first proof step in stating the truth to get some help to go time traveling.
Soon Tom, Lira and Tails' group approached the Time Machine after running up to it while checking to make sure it works.
"Good!" Tom stated from placing his bat on the cushion before turning to say this to Lira and his friends. "It doesn't seem to be damage?" Tom reported that the Time Machine is fully fine which means, they can travel in time without any problems at all? "We better get aboard!" Tom turns to invite Lira to get in first, as she was taking the first step while he and Tails' group would go a bit afterwards?
"Boy mates, this was real easy! Not one Subman found us or even had us put up our dukes for a good brawling?" Marine bragged out in feeling mighty proud of themselves for getting by without so much of a struggle.
"Wait! Espio once told me that if things were so easy, they maybe 'too' easy to let our guard down, being a ninja and all?" Charmy suddenly yelped out in recalling something he was told by his friend, who was a known ninja in feeling something about this wasn't right?
"What does that mean?" Cream asked puzzled in not following, both her and Cheese stared at the other in wanting to know?
"Usually it means?….A TRAP!" Tails was about to state when he suddenly paused and then shouted in shock surprise, that this was a trap lying in wait for them, but…to late!
"Fruuophmm…." Suddenly from out of nowhere, nets soon fell right onto Tom's group by surprise! "Aaahhhhh?/WAaaahhhh?" Tom and Lira yelps out some loud cries from the nets catching them, and making them fall off the Time Machine.
"Ahhhhhh?" Tails group yelps out a scream from all of them were caught in one net which left them stuck?
"RAruughhh!/GRuuArrugh!" Suddenly from above an open hole circle mark, we see many Submen jumping down from there while making their battle cries. "RAARRruughhhh!/Guurrrraarrgghhh!" They all landed on the ground, as they approached Tom and Tails' group that were standing up, but Lira was completely on the ground, defenseless. "Arrugh-Arff-Arrugh!/Guuraruughmmm?" Soon two Submen approached Lira's spot, planning on recapturing the escape Luman girl.
"Ugh-Ugh!" Tom was swinging his bat off against one Subman, who was known as Brawl as best he can to keep the enemy away. "Cluphm-CLUMpFroohmm…" But the Subman grab the boy's bat and Brawl brought Tom down on the ground. "Gaugh?" Tom let off a groan, as he accidentally lets go of his bat that rolled off away from him.
"Rauruughhh!/ARrughhh!" The other Submen were still roaring while dealing on the others, as Tom lied their on the ground almost out cold?
"Eeughn?" Tom tried to struggle with little effort to get free, but it was no use?
"Let us outta here, you Neanderthals!" Charmy snaps at the Subman while he and the other animals tried to break free with little effort.
"Grruuophm?" Soon one Subman grabbed the net that brought all of Tails' group up, as he snarls at the little furballs for one of their insults at them!
"I think you just made him mad, Charmy?" Saffron worriedly whispered to her bee friend that he might have upset one of the Subman.
"Eheheheh, I guess these guys can't take a joke?" Charmy sheepishly laughs off a bit with a nervous face before gulping that they were all in deep trouble.
Suddenly, we see Lira was trying to kick herself free when two Submen picked her up by one holding her shoulders and the other under her knees. The scene shows one Subman, Brawl from recalling him before, standing up while holding and looking over Tom's bat weapon in curiosity while he also looked puzzled by Tails' group of weapons too that lie on the ground?
"Urrragh!" Tom groans while trying to reach over to his pooch bag to get something that could help the group out. "Cluaphm-cluaphm…." But as he was reaching for his share of exploding rocks, a Subman nearby grabbed the pooch bag away from Tom. The red-haired boy saw in disbelief that he lost whatever he had to even the odds, but not before more Submen, two at least approached him that caught his eye.
"Cluhpm…" Soon Tom was picked up too by two Submen by his back and under his knees, as Brawl watched this from nearby while still holding the boy's bat.
"Crickey, how can things get much worst?" Marine groans in seeing that they ended up getting capture, what more could go wrong?
"Ask and you shall receive?" Tails stated out with a dry expression, as Tails' group and Tom were turned to look at something from afar, like to look at someone coming?
Then without a warning, the familiar Submen leader (the one with the painted green marks that was seen as the leader earlier in the story), the Driver came out of the shadows, and came up to speak to the captured Tom. "You should have known we would use your machine to bait a trap!" The Driver explained out with his stern and satisfying face that he planned that Tom's group would try to come after the Time Machine, it was all a set up! "Now there is no escape!" The Driver stated out to the serious and angry Tom who yelped from hearing that last stuff while still keeping his expression focus.
"Can't we talk this out?" Cream suggested a thought of reasoning with the Submen's Driver?
"I d-d-don't think they l-l-listen?" Ray stuttered out in worry that it might not be so easy to talk there way out of this.
"Chao?" Cheese sadly nods with his eyes looking down, they don't seem to be getting out of this one?
The Driver was walking away from Tom before giving his orders to his men while going around the Time Machine. "Return the Luman girl to the power chamber!" He issued that Lira would be return to the power chamber room, where the group saved her from, but is now going back. "Take the boy to the deep cell while his furry friends are placed in a separate cell!" The Driver ordered out his next order, as the ones with Lira were taking her away, the ones that were carrying Tom and Tails' group were being handed out. "I will decide what to do with him and his furry creatures later!" The Driver stated off his decision on what he'll decide on how to deal with Tom and Tails' group for their interference, as the other Submen were leaving, only Brawl was left behind by the Time Machine.
But unknown to the others, Zorog sneak up behind a wall part to look back in hearing what the Driver just said, his friend Tom and his little animal friends were in danger. "Tom?" Zorog whispered out under his breath while looking away with his eyes shut, not believing that he ended up getting his new friends caught in a trap set up without knowing or warning them about it?
The scene shows the Time Machine left alone be itself at this period of time? But instead, it was in company by a Subman, and not just any, this was Brawl, Zorog's friend, who looked back to see it? From seeing such an interesting machinery before him, Brawl couldn't help but approach and smile at seeing it's wonderments? "Urgh-Urgh? Urrrgh!" He exclaimed in 'awe' at seeing all the features, but the one that caught his attention was the lever switch? "Urrragh?" Brawl confusedly replied in his mumbles, finding the lever switch to be puzzling to his mind? After coming to a conclusion with a stern face, Brawl made his decision, as he plans to reach his hand out to touch the lever until…
"Noooh!" Suddenly, a familiar voice spoke along with a hand that stopped Brawl from touching the Time Machine's lever which if he did, would have activated the machine.
Brawl looked around his right side to see who stopped him, but instead of being upset, his frown turn to a smile! "Zorog!" Brawl exclaimed happily in seeing it was his friend Zorog, who he thought was vanquished from not returning?
"Clumph!" But just then, a serious Zorog covered Brawl's mouth to cease him from making such a loud noise. "Shush!" Zorog held his other hand to signal his friend to keep quiet, as to not alert the other Submen that he is here. Then once done, he removed his hand and waved for a lost and confused Brawl to follow him. With a serious face, Brawl quickly went with to run after Zorog, leaving the Time Machine unattended for the time being.
Soon the scene changes to were we see a metal cell door that was sounding like it was getting open? "Grughnn-GRruuiiighnnn!" Then once it was open, we see a struggling Tom without his football armor gear on and with two Submen holding his arms as he struggles. "Ugh…Uuagh!" But no matter how the boy struggle, he was no match for the Submen's clear evolve strength. "Heey?" Soon the Sudmen tossed Tom into the cell where he made an impact of the metal ground. "Gruufhh-Grruufphmm…." Soon Tom begins to struggle in pushing himself up from the floor, and as he was halfway up, he looked back at the doorway with an angry face at the Subman left to gaze at him. "Curph-CLRASPhmmm….." Soon after taking the moment at looking at Tom, the last Subman soon turns around while shutting the metal door, trapping Tom inside the cell room.
Tom looked on angry from being put in this prison cell hold, but that was about to change from what happens next.
"Tom?" An old male voice called the red-haired boy's name, as Tom looks to his left to see who the voice belong too? It was an old man dressed in grey suit clothing and grey hair with blue eyes with glasses. It was none other the Henry Spender, Tom's father who was sitting on the bench stair step in moaning his stay before his eyes flare up in joy to see his son.
As Mr. Spender stood up in overexcitement, Tom also recognized his father right away. "Daaad!" Tom spoke out with a happy smiling face to see his father again. "Clumph-clumph-Clumph…." Soon Tom and his father walk across the room before giving the other a big hug, they were so relieve to see each other again, after all this time (pardon the pun)? "Oh dad?" Tom spoke in such relief joy, as his father rubbed the back of his head to be happy to embrace his son again while the red-haired boy spoke. "I was beginning to think I never find you?" Tom spoke in almost starting to doubt himself in ever finding his father from being lost in the future somewhere in time? "I've been searching for you for 10,000 years!" Tom separated his close hug with his father while still keeping his hands on Mr. Spender's shoulders, stating off with a smile to make a joke of how long he's been searching, and it's no joke of how long it's been to come find the missing man.
Henry Spender seem to have a sad expression on his face even when he's happy to see his son again, as he starts to say something. "I hoped someone would come looking for me?" Tom's father stated out to his son that he hoped that someone ended up coming for him. "But I never dreamt it would be you?" Tom's father exclaimed out in happy disbelief that his rescuer ended up being his son, as Tom lets go of his father from his hands on the shoulders. Mr. Spender puts his own hand on his son's shoulder in being happy that his son ended up coming to rescue him. As Tom smiled for this compliment, his father however showed a sad expression which made his smile fade before hearing this? "And now we're both prisoners?" Mr. Spender sadly stated their situation, as he turns away from his son to set near his step seat. The poor man clamps his hands together to look down in sorrow with his eyes shut, he ended up dragging his son into his mess, and look at what's happen.
"It's not your fault, Dad?" Tom slowly approach to be in front of his father, waved his hands up in stating this whole thing wasn't Henry Spender's fault with an honest face.
"I never should have come to the future?" Mr. Henry Spender shook his head off while complaining about coming to this distant future. He looks down with grief and sadness while making some statement to himself on the matter. "Perhaps man was not meant to tamper with time?" He rubbed his left hand before looking up to his son, feeling that he has now realized how foolish it was for him to be messing around with the fabric of time travels?
Tom stared at his father with a blank gaze from hearing this, as the sadden Mr. Spender felt so depress for some reason?
"But I thought if I could find cure, in the future?" Tom's father went off to explain something that he had something in mind, a quest to find some cure in the future? "And bring it back…in the past?" He looked away from getting to the part of bring whatever cure he's referring to from the future to his past, but that's when he stops for a brief moment. "Guagh…Then I could save her?" He signs while putting his two fingers on his head, as he lets off a little moan for what he would have done from finding a cure. "And your mother would still be with us?" As Tom's father stated this, Tom suddenly looked away with a thought of where his father was getting too? He did the whole time travel to the future, to find a cure to save Tom's mother from passing away?
Mr. Spender then slumps his head down and looks to the floor with a sad face, feeling he's let himself down on his mission?
Tom then approached his father before sitting down with him to talk about what he heard. "That's why you spend all those days alone in your workshop?" Tom raised his hand to his father and away, now understanding why his father was also so busy working in his workshop. He did that to build the time machine and to figure out where in time could he find a cure for Tom's mother? "Why didn't you tell me?" Tom puts his left hand on his father's right knee, wondering why Mr. Spender never said this to his own son?
"I didn't wanna get your hopes up?" Tom's father turns to state with a truthful statement, if he said this to Tom, he might have given his son hope of his mother coming back to them? "In case I failed?" He waved off his left hand to state if he told his son of what he was doing, that put to much fate in Tom to think he would get his mother back, and if he failed, his son would be most disappointed.
"Father?" Tom spoke to his father, as they looked to each other before giving each other a hug to support the other. Despite all that, Tom still cared for his father, as did Henry Spender care much for his son to understand his reasonings.
"Breeecruuhmm…Bruughnnnn…Cluuffuphmm…" Suddenly, there was a metal door sound opening which broke off the father-son moment and their hugging scene for the two Spenders to notice who was coming? "Cluphmcluhpm…." It was a Subman, but not just any Subman, this was the leader of the Submen, the Driver himself!
"I have decided!" The Driver puts his chest with his left hand in stating his decision that he's come too while speaking to the Spender family. "You know too many secrets of the Submen!" He soon points his right hand at Tom while snapping at the red-haired boy for knowing so much about the Submen that he shouldn't have. "You will stay in this cell…..Forever!" The Driver proclaimed the sentence calling, saying that because of Tom's interference in knowing about them, he will never leave.
"But what about my friends?" Tom asked the Driver of what he plans to do with Tails and his friends that traveled with him with a serious face.
"They also know too much, and shall stay in their cells…Forever!" The Driver exclaimed with a stern tone that he used on Tom earlier, no one is leaving once they know the Submen's secrets.
Tom and his father yelped from this news before looking at each other, these Submen think that because they know their secrets that can never leave, why?
Soon Tom's father, Henry stood up before walking over to talk to the Driver. "I don't understand?" Mr. Spender raised his arms up in not getting what's going on with this entire situation that's going on from the Submen? "There's so much we can learn from each other?" He holds his right hand up in saying that he and the Submen can learn a lot about each other, maybe get to understand one another's way of doing things? "I…." He tries to think of what to say, but after a brief pause, he places his other hand to his chest while explaining something. "I could show you how to use my machine? To visit other times!" Mr. Spender pointed out that he could show the Driver and his Submen how his Time Machine works and see other time periods in history.
But from the Driver's eyes, they seem to hid doubt and suspicious from hearing this offer?
"We can teach you how to live above ground!" Tom soon approach next to his father, as he too was stating something to help offer to the Submen with a determine face and raised his left hand to state the living above ground part. "With the Luman!" Tom also stated off that they could show how Submen could not only live above ground, but also live together with the Luman as well.
However, The Driver of the Submen was gritting his teeth, showing that he was not very happy of what he's been told or offered?
"Noooh!" The Driver yelled out in anger with his right fist clamped in rejecting both Henry and Tom Spender's proposed offers. "We do things the old way!" The Driver stated out blankly that he says that the Submen do things the old fashion way. "The way they have always been done!" The Driver approaches a cautious, yet serious expressed Spender duo in stating his claim before explaining it. "Submen feed the Luman!" He raised his left fist while wiggling his right hand's fingers in stating that the Submen feed the Luman their meals. "The Luman power our machines!" Then he presses himself over against a yelping Tom and Henry with his stern angry face and tight left fist on what they do with the Luman afterwards.
"Curffh-Currfhh, cuurfhmmm…" Soon the Driver begins to walk away from the Spender family, now understanding what is going on? The Submen give the Luman food, so that when they take one of them for each food offered, they use them to power their machines from their powers of the minds?
At this point, the Driver gets near the metal door leading out of the cell before putting his left hand on it while saying something. "If things change?" The Driver was stating off with a closed eyes in just thinking of what could happen if what the Submen do suddenly changes for them? "Maybe the Submen think they need a new Driver?" The Driver exclaimed out while looking the other way with his eyes, thinking that if things change, the Submen would get a new Driver? "Maybe they think they don't need a Driver at all?" Then he squints his eyes to shake his head around from thinking that if things change, the Submen could think that they do not need a Driver to lead them at all?
"TrufQrruoophmm…" Soon the Driver leaves the stern faces of Tom and his father, as he shuts the metal door behind him after he departs from the cell.
"He reminds me of some fellas at school?" Tom suddenly spoke off with a serious face in recalling what the Driver was doing that he remembers it from another group? "Always trying to be important!" Tom exclaimed out from seeing that the Submen try to be the most important, their acts make him remember those like the ForchunKnotty's way of doing things. "Set themselves apart!" Tom stated off from remembering what he was told by the group he joined, separating the fortunate ones from the unfortunate people from being the more important members, it's almost like the same thing for both Submen and Luman? "But people can't just live in their own little group?" Tom stated off to which his father was nodding in agreement to what Tom was saying. "Or they'll end up like the Submen and the Luman?" Tom raised his right hand in stating that if people stay in their own groups, then they'll never corporate and be separated because of their differences and their living style. "They have to learn to live, and work together!" Tom exclaimed out, as he puts one hand down, raised his left hand up to point out that both different tribes must learn to live together despite their difference. "Auugh?" Tom then signs while looking somehow distracted at the moment with something on his mind. "I wish I can tell that to the fellas back at the school now?" Tom exclaimed in regret that he should have said something like that to the members of the ForchunKnotty, but he didn't know of it until just now, and it's very late indeed?
Tom's father saw how hard his son was giving himself, so he decided to speak to help encourage his son. "Don't worry Tom?" As he spoke, he tries to explain something in lightening up both Spender members spirits on this dark mood. "We'll think of a way out of here?" Tom looked to his father from hearing such a plan which perk his interest from his father's assuring face to have fate. "There's nothing the human mind can't do!" He holds up his left hand's index finger to state something about the human mind's unnoticed limits of potential. "Given enough time?" He waves his left hand's palm out that with enough time, they can put their minds together to think of a way out of this.
Tom showed a smile from hearing his father's words of encouragement, they really helped him out. "I say times the one thing we got plenty of?" Tom spoke before turning to look at his father in knowing that since they are in the future and all that, they have lots of time.
"That's the spirit, son!" Mr. Spender pats Tom on his shoulder to congrats him on seeing the brighter side of their situation. "You know?" Tom's father spoke while bringing his hand down, as he begins to mention something after walking past his son. "One should always be careful what one wishes for?" Mr. Spender exclaimed with a wave off his left hand, as Tom looked to his direction when the old man was saying something with a deep serious face. "Even while I was working….?" He turns his head to look down on the floor in stating something when he did his work in the past? "I always wanted to spend more time with you?" He turns around to admit with a heavy sign that he wished to spend more time with his son when he was even working in his workshop. "Like we use to before your mother….?" Tom's father was starting to say while Tom was approaching him, but the old man stops when looking down. Even recalling how things changed for him so much after his wife and Tom's mother passed away?
Just then, he was given a pat on his shoulder which made a sorrow looking Mr. Spender look around back of him to find Tom with a understanding face. "I know, dad?" Tom stated off in understanding what his father was going to mention, as he looked his eyes the other way when he started to say something too. "I missed those times too?" Tom stated out before looking to his father, he remembers all the fun times he and his father once had together before they all just went away? Tom closes his eyes with his head down while Mr. Spender closed his eyes too while nodding.
"Bam! Paff-Powh!" Suddenly, there was some pounding and bashing sounds followed by some groan cries? "Graaauughhh!/GRRuuuuaaagh!" They were Submen cries, as they got the attention of both Tom and Henry to look over at the spot where the noise was coming from? "GRRaauuughh?/AAARruughhh?" The Submen screamed while still getting some beating into them that was very brutal? "POWh! BAAmm! POffuhmm!" From all that noise, even Tom and his father were becoming a bit puzzled by this? "Gurgh-GArrugh?/WARrruughhh?" Tom's father look to Tom who shrug in not knowing what was causing the Submen to make such noises? "Bam! Pow! Bamhh-Puffhmmm….." With nothing else, the two Spenders just look to the door to find out there answer?
At the moment, it seem all was silent from the front of the metal door until…? "KUR-BOOooommmh….." Without another warning, an explosion force blow open the entire metal door! "Clruughh-Clrurrghhhmmm….." Then after the door landed on the ground from a few clank noises, smoke filled the air? "Crugrugrughmmurphm….." The smoky rubble mist was cogging up the entire cell room, including those still inside it. Tom and his father held their arms to block out some of the stuff from touching them while unaware who or what was behind this?
As both Spenders looked forward, they were soon able to see someone who was behind the explosive smoke screen to be….Zorog? "Urghm?" Zorog replied out from saying his little hello with a smirky face which made Henry look to Tom and Tom to his father at seeing this. "Your rocks work good!" Zorog explained out to Tom, stating that from his pack of exploding rocks, helped to break down the cell door.
"Zorog!" Tom exclaimed out with a smile to see his friendly Subman friend, even Tom's father was all to happy to see Zorog was helping them. Soon both Spenders were walking up to their friend and savior for breaking them out.
"Cluphm-cuphm-cluphm!" Outside at this moment, we see Brawl was patting the bat Tom owned in his hands over the knocked out Submen before looking over to where Zorog is? As Zorog waited for his friends, Tom and Henry got out for the good Subman to point to Brawl from the two humans noticing him. "This is Brawl!" Zorog introduced his Subman friend to the Spenders, as the mention Subman came up to meet the humans. "I told him he could keep the wooden stick if he helped?" Zorog explained what he did to get Brawl's aid, as Brawl was nodding to all of that with the bat he likes in hand.
"I'll even give him battling lessons!" Tom waved off his right hand while looking at Zorog to say how else he would thank Brawl's help while wanting to keep the bat. Zorog smiled at Tom's kindness for allowing his friend to have the bat that he's grown to like.
"Huagh-Haugh-Haugh?" Brawl laughs out while holding the bat in his hands, waving it in front of him.
"Wait! Where's Tails group?" Tom suddenly asked in wondering where his other friends were that came with him, as they were not around?
"In here, Tom!" From near the cell door the Spenders were put in, there was another door nearby, and from it was Tails' voice. "We can hear you all from here!" Tails voice replied out from where the others came to observe the door.
"Tails! Do you need some help?" Tom spoke to Tails' voice if he and his group need any help getting out from behind the cell door?
"Nah, we got this, we stash one exploding rock from those Submen! So…here comes the wine up!" Charmy exclaimed off with a not so worried voice, as he made the sound of a pitcher from a baseball team.
Tom suddenly step back from the door, as did anyone else for a surprise moment about to come. "KUR-BOOOooommhh!" The cell door got blown off the same way as Tom's door did, only from the inside?
"Cough-Cough-Cough!" Of course, those that were exiting it were coughing from all the smoke that was escaping it?
"Cough-cough….A little more warning next time, Charmy?" Saffron asked her bee friend while coughing a bit more from being caught off guard by that move.
"Sorry, I thought a quick pitch would blow it open?" Charmy sheepishly apologized while rubbing the back of his head, he thought that move could be helpful, but it seems the move was a bit much.
"W-w-well it did, t-t-too much?" Ray slowly stated on how that move was a bit much for them to escape, as it was not a quiet way to sneak out?
"Amazing! More furry creatures? Like that blue hedgehog?" Henry exclaimed in surprise smile, as he bends down to look at Tails' group in finding them fascinating.
"That's Mr. Sonic, how'd you know him?" Cream spoke out in surprise to here this new person they meant knows there friend Sonic the Hedgehog?
"Why he saved me from my trip to 2902 from a few….ruffians, but before I could thank him, he ran off with the speed of light? Like a Sonic Boom in a living creature?" Henry explained that when he once got to the year 2902 like Tom did, he ran into trouble, but was saved by someone as well, only it was a known blue hedgehog that Tails' group knew too well.
"Yep, that sounds like Sonic alright!" Tails nodded with a smile in agreeing that from the description, it was their friend Sonic alright. "So your Tom's father? Henry Spender, right, it's a pleasure to meet you." Tails asked in thinking this was the man their friend Tom was looking so much for.
"The pleasures all mine." Henry responded back, as he holds his hand to shake Tails' hand in greeting the two-tail fox.
"And you must be Zorog's buddy, put her there, mate!" Marine came up to happily hold her hand for Brawl to take.
"Ugh? O-kay?" Brawl slowly responded in a bit of confusion, but took Marine's hand to shake…..her entire body up in the air because she was so light and he was so strong.
"Crickey, them Submen have the strongest handshakes?" Marine yelped from Brawl's handshake before he lets the raccoon girl go on the ground while trying to stop her world from spinning around.
Once everyone was all friendly with each other, it was time now to get down to business. "We got to get to the Time Machine!" Tom's father raised his hand up to explain to his son with a concern expression of the matter of getting to the Time Machine that can send them back.
As Henry Spender was turning to walk down a spot, Tom was rubbing his chin from thinking about something for a moment. "We can't leave Lira behind?" Tom shrug his shoulders while turning his head to tell his father something that caught his attention to look back and stop for a moment.
"Uh-Oh! T-t-t-that's right, she was t-t-taken too!" Ray yelped out from remembering that Lira was taken by the Submen again, when they were caught?
"Who's Lira?" Tom's father turned around to ask puzzled with his hands on his waist line in not knowing of who his son was referring too which made him a bit suspicious of Tom's actions?
"A girl?" Tom turns around to reply with a serious face in telling his father that the name was of a girl.
"Is that a problem, sir?" Cream asked Tom's father of what would be the problem of Lira being a girl anyway?
"Chao…?" Cheese shrug off his shoulders in not getting the picture either?
"How old are you now?" Suddenly, Tom's father went off to ask just how old Tom was, in finding out if Tom has suddenly develop feelings for someone?
"Wow, that came out of nowhere?" Charmy replied completely lost while scratching his head, not ever following where this was going?
"He probably thinks that it's been so long, that Tom has found himself someone he loves?" Saffron whispered to Charmy's ear in explaining what Tom's father was thinking which made the bee boy yelped in suddenly getting the idea?
"Let's hope not, he's from the past, if he stays here, it could effect the past and future and throw everything out of order?" Tails whispered to his two friends and the other animals, should this be such a case, it would spell disaster in more ways then one?
"This isn't just about Lira?" Tom shook his head with his eyes shut in stating something much bigger to his father to understand. "We got to help the Luman and the Submen change their world!" Tom turns around to open his arms out in stating both Zorog and Brawl as examples of having Submen and Luman change the ways of how their worlds act accordingly? "Get ride of the ignorance and fear!" Tom turns to his father in stating how each of the two surviving members of human kind, as evolved forms need to no longer have either mention two that stop them from getting along and working together.
"That's right, we gotta show them to get along with each other, mate!" Marine swung her fist in plainly agreeing with everything Tom was getting too.
But Tom's father had a stern dry face from hearing all of this, as he soon responded to this. "Tom?" He spoke out his son's name, even clamp his hands together while looking down in deep thought about this idea plan. "This may not be the world we would choose?" Henry rubbed his hands while explaining something to his son to understand him before looking up to continue talking. "But it works?" He shrug out his open palms in stating that the world of the Luman and Submen have their own ways of how they deal with each other? "Who are we to change it?" Henry Spender points to himself in stating that this world was evolved in how it's made to work, so how are they, people from the past, to change the future of this time period?
"Gee, we never really thought of it like that way before?" Saffron slowly spoke with her head looking down, is it fair for them, people from the past to change the ways of the future from just not liking what they are seeing being done, even though it's how they have come across from time passing them by with their evolution?
"You don't have to keep doing something just because it works?" Tom made a frown, as he argued with his father that sometimes, people don't have to do the same routine if it always works without finding another way. "Not if there's something better!" Tom exclaimed out after shaking his head in stating that with their help, they can show those here another way that could work for everyone.
Brawl nods to that agreement while holding and smiling at the bat in his hands.
"Golly, Brawl agrees with Tom on that matter?" Marine exclaimed with a smile in seeing one of the Submen has gotten the idea, in a way that is?
"That, or the part of having that bat makes it better that he likes it." Charmy exclaimed that instead, Brawl found something better to use that he's never done before and likes it?
"Well, it's a start?" Cream slowly states in thinking that it was some start for a Submen to experience?
"Human beings can think and make choices!" Tom was explaining this out to his father with a smile, as Henry Spender was rubbing his mouth and mustache in thinking over what his son is getting too. "They can make things better!" Tom turns to look at his father in trying to tell him that from the human minds within the Luman and Submen, they can choose and make up their own choices that can be better for them all.
"Alright Tom?" Tom's father waved off his right hand in admitting defeat to his son's fair point on the subject. "We'll try?" He shrugs off his shoulders in accepting to try to help get the Luman and Submen to see things for the better of their lives.
"Right, we will all help out in any way we can!" Tails exclaimed out to the rest that they are willing to help change things for the better.
With everything set, Tom and his father were now walking off down the hallway to go in a general direction.
At this moment, the two Submen watched the humans leave while Brawl was looking over them with Zorog by his side.
"Think?" Brawl replied confused while rubbing the back of his head, not quite understanding Tom's point of Submen thinking?
"HuuaaAugh?" Zorog looked to his clueless friend before shaking his head off in annoyance that Brawl doesn't know much of thinking for himself. "Come On!" Zorog wave motions his head with his serious stern face for the puzzled Brawl to just follow him and the others. With that settled, Zorog and Brawl soon went off to follow the rest that were ahead of them.
Tails' group was following in-between Tom and the Submen that were on their side while chatting of a plan.
"So how do we get the other Submen to listen, mates?" Marine asked her animal pals in what the plan is to get the Submen to change their ways?
"Well unless the Driver is able to change his mind, he'll just order the others to stop us?" Saffron pointed out a problem to the situation, the leader of the Submen who won't listen.
"Man, that guy's more stubborn and hardheaded then Vector is?" Charmy complained out while stating how that 'certain' Subman is very hard to get things straight.
"S-S-So how can we do this?" Ray asked out in wondering what they can do to still help?
"Maybe with a little help from the Luman, we can shine a little light on this subject?" Cream stated out an idea of having the Luman aid them in their struggle to get the Submen to see something to change their ways?
"Chao!" Cheese replied out in a cheer for that good idea that the girl rabbit came up with.
"That's right, perhaps the Luman can show something to get the Submen to finally open there eyes?" Tails spoke out in thinking that maybe an idea like that could work and bring both tribes together, just one problem? "Just need to figure out what it is first?" Tails muttered under his breath, still not knowing how they can have the Luman aid the group, but hopefully, something will come up?
VISION NOTE: The plot in what the Submen do for the Luman are revealed. Which is much different then what other Time Machine fans of the book & film series has seen before, but this was an animated movie changed to fit for younger viewers.
Now this was a VISION that was cutting it close to where all almost seemed lost, but unexpected help comes out of nowhere. Truly, the VISION-KING has plans where the gang return to where the Luman are held, they set them free while fighting a hard battle to defeat the Submen to change things for the better? But can things go so well, let your IN-VISIONED minds show you, just what will happen here? Can the group of time traveling visitors change things for the better, can they ever return home, we won't know that until...the next 'time' I post the chapter? So until that 'time' comes around, we'll just let 'time' take it's course slowly, for we have all the 'TIME' in the world? Heh, time puns are still funny to use even now, but in any time's case, til the next time, enjoy this work.