OMG my brain craps out whenever i attempt to write these. I think i have PWB. Permanent Writers Block. If i do, well these stories may just become lost in the archives. Also, PWB combined with BTM (Bad time management) is said to lead to non intentional hiatus's.

I'm just ranting now, ill just shut up and let you read.

"Class, I have your math tests. Remember that these scores are 75% of your overall grade this year. Thankfully, most of you didn't do so well."

Ms. Simians class moaned as she showed a sly grin. She proceeded to walk down the rows and started to pass out tests. Various moans could be heard as her students received their tests, not happy about their results.

"A 65%!?" Penny said.

"A 30! Really, a 30!" Gumball said.

"A 15!?" Tobias yelled.

Most students who hadn't gotten their tests yet were worried out of their minds. Carmen was shaking in her desk. Crystal was nervous that she began to melt a little. Idaho seemed to be peeling his head. However, among them, Ryan was completely calm. This caught the attention of Alan.

"Hey Ryan, you seem calm. Are you not expecting a bad grade?" he asked.

Ryan turned his attention to Alan, a smile on his face.

"Of course not. I know that I did well. I studied for it yesterday for 6 hours. I went over every single thing I ever learned. There's no way I messed this test up." He replied.

"Are you sure? Penny got a 65%, and usually she gets high grades."

"Trust me, i'm completely positive that i did good."

At that moment, Miss Simian walked up to him.

"You know, your test really brought a smile to my face Ryan." She said, an evil grin on her face.

She put the test face up on his desk, revealing his incredible and passing grade of

"A 0! A 0! ARE YOU SERIOUS!?" He yelled out loud. However, he was drowned out by other cries of despair.

"Geez Ryan, what happened?" Alan asked.

"I... I d.." He stuttered as he tried to wrap his mind around this monstrosity of a number.

He listened to the others, but he didn't hear anybody else have any 0's.

'How could this of happened?', he thought. 'What did I possibly do to deserve such a low grade.'

His life literally began to flash before his eyes. Images of him not being able to attend college, losing jobs, and being on the street appeared in his mind. He was exasperating.

He looked around. His eyes landed on Bobert, who just received his test.

"100%, as expected." he announced proudly.

Ryan sorta felt a ting of jealousy. How could he get a 0 when that pile of bolts got a perfect grade?

But he pushed those thoughts out of his mind as he came up with a fool proof idea. An idea that could not possibly fail.

-Lunchroom-

"A time machine. The invention that scientists have been working on, but have not gotten a prototype on? The one invention " said the robotic voice.

"Bobert, please. You're a genius. You have to know how to build one. I need to go back and somehow change my grade. Please!" Ryan said desperately.

Bobert stared at Ryan for some seconds as he shifted in his seat at the lunch table. Finally he spoke.

"Why does this atrocious grade frighten you?"

"Well, my 'atrocious' grade is 75% of my overall grade. This could possibly leave me with a 25%! I won't be able to apply to college! Then i'll lose any chance of getting a job. I'll end up on the streets! Do you know how it is on the streets!?"

"Negative. Do you?"

"No, I just hoped you would know."

"Well, I could provide you with a means of going back in time." Bobert said.

"Wait, you already have a time machine?"

"Well, I may have made it as a present for my motherboard when I was a tiny processor, but she hasn't used it ever, so maybe I can lend you it."

"Would you really let me use it?" Ryan asked.

Bobert thought to himself for a moment.

"On one condition. You do not change anything else besides the test! Any interference with anything else besides that can drastically change the present or future."

"Yeah, yeah, space time continuum and what not. I promise."

"Alright fine, come to my designated living area tomorrow afternoon." Bobert said.

"Thank you so much Bobert! Quick question though, how big is it?"

-Bobert's residence-

"Here it is."

Bobert held in his claw a tape recorder.

Ryan looked at Bobert with a dumbfounded look.

"Really?"

"It's designed to look like a tape recorder, especially since my motherboard loves the old inventions. All you do is press the record button, speak your wanted time and location, and Eureka, you're off."

"So, you have had a time machine all this time, and you never thought to show the world?"

"This world is not ready to experience this technology. This item in the wrong hands could cause catastrophic destruction..., so here you go." He said as he handed over the machine.

"Um.. thanks." Ryan said, as he wondered if he was the one with the wrong hands.

"Remember, you can only go far back and forward in the span of 100 years. But i'm trusting that you will only use it for your test." Bobert said.

"Well alright, might as well try it out."

He cleared his throat as he thought about what to say. Finally, he pressed the record button, and spoke clearly.

"Last Friday, 10:00 Am, Elmore Junior High Hallway"

Ryan expected some kind of flash or whatever, but instead, he just blinked his eyes, and he was inside the Middle School hallways, outside of a classroom. He took a minute to realize where he was.

"Did it really work?"

He looked through the window of the door and saw the class, as well as heard it.

"A 65%!?" Penny said.

"A 30! Really, a 30!" Gumball said.

"A 15!?" Tobias yelled.

He moved his view and saw himself talking to Alan.

He had to admit, it felt weird looking at himself talking to someone. It was as if he had a twin brother.

"Wow, I can time travel now. This is so weird." He said to himself.

He looked back at himself just in time to see him get his test and start yelling.

Then he realized, he didn't even have a plan.

"Hm... I should of probably done something there." He said.

He thought about it for a minute, and decided on a certain time. He pressed the recording button.

"Tuesday, 4:00 Pm, Flamesworth residence"

Ryan was unsure if it happens when he closes and opens his eyes. He kept his eyes open for 1 whole minute, waiting to see the environment change. When nothing happened, he finally closed his tear stricken eyes. Once he opened them, he was in his room.

"Wow, this thing is pretty cool." He said.

However, he heard footsteps approaching the room. He thought quickly, wondering if reavealing himself to anyone right now would be a good idea. In the last second, Ryan flew up to the ceiling and used his claws to grab onto it.

He saw himself walk into the room, throwing his textbooks on his bed. He climbed onto it and began flipping through them. Ryan (the present one) remembered doing the same thing. This was when he started the 6 hours of studying. The 6 hours of wasted time.

Present Ryan decided that either he reveals himself now, or he waits 6 hours, hanging on a ceiling.

He let go, and gently descended down onto the floor. However, past Ryan had his head in the textbook, not noticing him.

"Ehhem."

Past Ryan looked up and saw a strange sight... himself.

"What the..., who the heck are you!? Are you me!? How is this... what!?" He said as he literally started freaking out.

"Please, I know this is going to sound very weird, but just hear me out."

Before past Ryan could respond, present Ryan explained everything.

After the explanation, past Ryan was scared.

"A 0!? What did you do to earn a 0?"

"I should be asking you that!? Look, I just need you to realize that either you do better, or you're going to end up futureless."

"So what do you want me to do, study an extra 4 hours?" Past ryan asked.

"That wouldn't be a bad idea. Please, just try to get something better than a 0."

"I mean, I could try, but I don't think you telling me to study more is going to work."

"Whatever, just do it. Now, I better leave before I mess up the whole space time continu-thingy."

Present Ryan pressed the record button and spoke the location/time, past Ryan staring in awe and confusion.

"This Friday, 10:00 Am, Elmore Junior High Hallway."

Ryan blinked, and sure enough, he was outside Miss Simian's classroom again.

He looked into the glass window of the door, and saw himself talking with Alan, still feeling kind of weird.

At that moment, Miss Simian walked up to Ryan and gave him the test.

"A 1! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?"

Ryan, seeing himself freak out, face palmed as he tried to work out a different plan.

Something came to mind that may have some consequences, but would ultimately work out.

-Flameworths residence, Tuesday, 4:00 Pm-

Ryan walked into his room, tossed his textbooks on his bed, got on the bed, and began to start studying.

"Ehhem."

He looked up, and saw a strange sight... himself.

"What the..., who the heck are you!? Are you me!? How is this... what!?" He said as he literally started freaking out.

Present Ryan, remembering that this was the same way he reacted before, began to talk.

"Look, i'm you from the future, blah blah blah, came back to help you and stuff. You are going to get a 0 on your upcoming test. And after trying a different approach, here's what i'm going to give to you."

Present Ryan handed past Ryan a folded piece of paper.

"Study and remember that. Friday, 10:00 Am, Elmore Junior High Hallway" He said into the recorder.

He then vanished in front of past Ryan.

"What?" he said as unfolded the paper.

He had Bobert's test, already done, 100%. Ryan thought that this may not be a good idea, but he had no other choice, if what the future Ryan said was true.

-Friday, 10:00 Am, Elmore Junior High Hallway-

Present Ryan took a look into the classroom, and saw himself yet again.

He also saw Miss Simian approach him with his test. She gave it to Past Ryan, who yelled out loud...

"100!"

Present Ryan was glad. It worked. That left only 1 thing to do, go home.

But before he even pressed the record button, he thought of something.

'This thing can take me as far as 100 years. This is a opportunity I may never get again.'

So after careful thought, he pressed the button.

"30 years from now. 10:00 Am, Flamesworth Residence"

With a blink of his eye, he ended up back in his old... garbage dump.

He was literally standing in a garbage dump, full of piles of putrid trash.

"What the?"

He looked around for his house, but he didn't see any house, or any other houses at all. Why had it sent him here.

He heard rummaging behind him. He spun quickly to see a different kind of sight.

He saw a old blue dragon, wearing a ragged sweater, rummaged jeans, and had a combover of gray strands.

"Are you..."

"Who the heck are you!? Why are you on my lawn?" The old dragon said.

"Your lawn?"

"Yeah, I mow it everyday!"

Ryan looked at the ground and noticed that it was just dirt that had little pieces of trash in it.

"Excuse me, but who are you?" Ryan said.

"I'm old Ryan Flamesworth, the best man you will ever see." He said with a grin.

Ryan was, of course, taken aback.

"But... how, what happened to you?" He asked, not wanting to reveal himself.

"What are you..., do you know me?"

"No, No, i'm just wondering."

"Well, if you really want to know, it was back a long time ago, 30 years i think, back wen I looked like..., well just like you as a matter of fact. Anyway, I was, get this, visited by my 'future self'. Weird right? Well, he gave me the answers to some test that I supposedly failed to make sure that I didn't. So I used them, and I ended up with a 100. I was happy, elated. So this made me think, I should do this more often. It was so much easier than actually trying to study of all things. So I kept doing that over an over. MY best friends, what were their names? Mick and Christie? They tried to stop me, but I didn't want none of it. Eventually, they stopped being friends with me, and I didn't care. I just kept on cheating and that stuff. Long story short, I made a few bad choices, and now i'm here, living in my amazing condo."

He pointed to a house, made entirely out of trash.

Present Ryan was amazed at what had happened. Him giving the answers away really changed his whole future.

"Wow..., so you never thought that what you have been doing was wrong?"

"Of course not, I mean if my future self came to me and told me to cheat or else my life would end up badly, what do you think I would do?"

Present Ryan thought about this and realized that he would of done the same thing. So he decided on setting things right.

"Thanks for the chat, nice to meet you."

Present Ryan began walking away, still awed that the Future Ryan didn't really think about how someone who looked like him 30 years ago asked him about his past.

Present Ryan decided to just change everything back to normal.

-Bobert's residence-

Bobert was hoping that Ryan wouldn't get into any deep trouble.

He literally just gave Ryan the machine, and Ryan just left. However, in a minute, Ryan came back.

"That was very fast. So... what exactly did you do?"

"Nothing, thanks Bobert, but I really don't need this." He said as he handed him the machine. Before Bobert could respond, Ryan walked out of his house, not saying a word.

'Like I said, not ready to experience this technology' Bobert thought.

-Next Monday, 10:00 Am-

Ryan was in the classroom, waiting to get his report grade that was being given out. He knew he still had a 0 for the test, but he didn't care, thinking that this was better than being crazy in a dump.

Finally, Miss Simian walked up to him. Before she handed him his report card, she spoke up.

"Ryan, I was told by Principal Brown to tell you that the machine that graded all your tests was messed up, and unfortunately, you didn't actually get a 0." She said through gritted teeth.

She gave him his report card, and walked away.

Ryan was surprised. He didn't fail at all!

He looked at his report card, and saw that he had a 90% for the grading period.

"Yes, I won't be a crazy guy living in a dump!" He shouted in full excitement.

This caused everyone to look at him, even Max and Crystal.

"Long story, i'll tell you guys later."

And well, i'm done with this, completely pooped out. Yay for this long and great chapter. Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for more!