DORIS RETURNS
Chapter Twenty-one
By doodlegirll
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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE?! Whoa! Wow, guys, I can't believe this!
Alright, as most of you already know from my post, I leave for Arkansas in five days, so if the circle doesn't come back to me by then (with Cali having no internet and Stacy in school) then I guess, Cali and Stacy, you're on your own for the rest of this story! And yep, that means ending it! I know I'm leaving the webstory in good hands and you guys won't let it die. :D
Anyway, here's chapter 21! You're right, Stacy, I can just spit them out like they were watermelon seeds in a slice of watermelon! XD
And Cali, I'm glad you're back, too! Hope you had fun at the Jonas Bros. concert!
Now, to chapter 21!
Warning: I might make a cliffy here...just in case this is my last chapter til a new webstory is posted!
"Lewis, where are you?" Wilbur whispered. He suddenly got his answer when he crashed into something, nearly knocking poor Lewis into a science fair project.
"I'm right here." Lewis hissed. "Sh!"
"Sorry!" Wilbur whispered back. He gazed around him. Another small, fuzzy memory poked him in the back of the head and Wilbur knew it was ultimately the memory that would bring back everything he once knew -- his family, Lewis, the time machine, and food fights, but no matter how hard Wilbur tried, he could never grasp it to where he could bring it forward.
"Recognize anything?" Lewis whispered. Wilbur shook his head, clearly forgetting he was invisible.
"Nothing." He said. He heard Lewis sigh.
"Hey, follow me!" He suddenly sounded much happier.
"But I can't--" Before Wilbur could even finish, he felt the small rush of air hit him as Lewis hurried off. Wilbur groaned. He wouldn't have been so nervous if he could actually remember this place, but he couldn't, so he was pretty nervous. And to make matters worse, the only way he could possibly find Lewis now would be to crash into him again. Wilbur sighed and glanced around for anywhere Lewis could have possibly gone.
A sudden movement caught his eye. He turned around and stared in shock at what stood before him.
It was himself. He was trailing behind a wagon being pulled by Lewis, who kept looking back at Wilbur, as though he knew someone was following him. Wilbur cocked an eyebrow when he saw himself dive into Lewis's project, and he couldn't help but wonder what he had been doing here in the past in the first place.
But still no matter how hard Wilbur tried, he still couldn't make the fuzzy memory any clearer. He sighed and began to follow himself and Lewis to a small table at the back of the big gym.
Lewis, meanwhile, had just stopped by the table where he had set up his Memory Scanner.
"If my Memory Scanner breaking down doesn't jog your memory, I don't know what will!" Lewis said. When he didn't get a responce he turned around and felt in front of him for Wilbur. "Wilbur!" He said, realizing that his son was missing, and without his memory, he was bound to get lost and most likely into trouble!
"Wilbur..." He said, shaking his head. He scanned the gym for any possible place that Wilbur might be. He then started walking forward, furiously hissing his son's name as he did.
"Wilbur! Wilbur, answer me right now you are so grounded! I can have Cornelius ground you!" Lewis said. Suddenly, before Lewis had any time to even open his mouth to call for Wilbur again, he crashed headlong into something, falling backward.
"Ow..." Lewis said, rubbing his head as he sat up. "Wilbur, is that you?"
"Lewis?" Came Wilbur's relieved voice. Lewis adjusted his invisible glasses and looked straight forward, and saw a collection of dust particals settling on something, clearly Wilbur. Lewis quickly picked himself off the ground, hauling Wilbur to his feet as he did so, knowing that moving, visible dust particals were sure to catch attention eventually. He quickly dusted himself off and Wilbur did the same.
"I thought you were following me!" Lewis said.
"I was, but, well...I kinda can't see you." Wilbur said.
"Oh, right. Sorry, I completely forgot about that." Lewis said. "Do you remember anything?"
"No, but I have to say, seeing myself walking around here is kinda cool." Wilbur said.
"Yeah, I guess..." Lewis said. He and Wilbur moved back a little as Stanley the Toga Boy ran past them, the couch still telling him to keep going. They grinned when they spotted Lucille showing Mr. Willerstien her caffeine patch, and Franny getting her frogs in order. Suddenly, there was a large commotion and Franny's frogs were tipped over. The dynamic duo exchanged an invisible glance as Franny grabbed Wilbur and the two proceeded in picking up the future Frankie and his mafia-gang.
"Hey, is that Mom?" Invisible Wilbur asked Lewis.
"Yep." Lewis said. "It's where we met, too." He added under his breath.
"Huh?" Wilbur asked. Lewis had yet to tell him the truth that he wasn't Cornelius's cousin at all, but rather his younger self. He couldn't help but wonder why Wilbur hadn't figured it out by then, but he shrugged it off and continued to watch as Franny and Wilbur gathered the frogs and Wilbur called Franny an "annoying little girl."
"Ouch. I'm sure I got something for that comment later!" Invisible Wilbur said. Lewis nodded in agreement.
"I bet you did, too." He said. "I highly doubt Franny forgot that."
A small sudden movement caught Lewis's eye. He looked up to see a small black bowler hat fly above the science fair towards Lewis and his Memory Scanner. Invisible Lewis's eyes narrowed.
"Wilbur, look!" He said.
"Look where?" Wilbur asked.
"There!" Lewis pointed.
"I can't see you, remember?" Wilbur asked. Lewis sighed in frustration. Wilbur was right.
Invisible Lewis watched as Doris crawled under the blanket of his Memory Scanner as Lewis finished setting it up. Doris then left the Memory Scanner, having done her dirty work, and Invisible Lewis watched as Lewis yanked off the blanket and began to explain the Memory Scanner to everyone.
"Wilbur, watch." Invisible Lewis commanded.
"Watch what?" Invisible Wilbur asked.
"See that small group of people over there?" He asked.
"Yeah." Wilbur said.
"Watch there. Maybe what happened will bring back some memories."
The two watched as Lewis fired up his Memory Scanner. It looked like it was going to work for a split second, then the small spinner on the top flew off, and everyone ducked as it crashed into a light that hung from the ceiling, causing the lights to spark and then go out, followed by the spriklers going off and everyone screaming.
"Quick!" Invisible Lewis said to Wilbur. "We have to follow me!"
"Alright, then." Wilbur said, a little confused. He and Lewis set out after themselves.
"I think we should follow you! You get there before I do!" Invisible Lewis said.
"Whatever you say." Invisible Wilbur panted. They two ran after the other Wilbur.
"Quick! We have to jump in after you! And we have to stay quiet!"
"Right!" Invisible Wilbur said and the two quickly swung themselves into the time machine after the other Wilbur, not saying anything as Wilbur closed the hatch of the time machine and quickly flew off towards the orphanage after Lewis.
Once they were at the orphanage, Wilbur opened the hatch and turned and jumped onto a fire escape, climbing up to the top of the orphanage.
"C'mon!" Invisible Lewis said. He and Invisible Wilbur began to climb the fire escape after the other Wilbur, pulling themselves up just as the other Lewis came running out onto the rooftop and began to rip out the pages of his notebook.
"Wow, you really were mad, weren't you?" Wilbur asked. "Hey, wait a minute! If you're here, in this time, then there's no way you can be my dad's cousin!" He realized.
"Sh!" Lewis said. "You're right. Do you remember anything?"
"No, but you'd better start explaining, buddy." Wilbur said, obviously upset that Lewis had been hiding something from him.
"Sh! Not now!" Lewis hissed and Wilbur went quiet and watched as he threw a ball of paper back at Lewis and began to coo like a pigeon.
"Hey, Lewis, why was I here in the first place?" Wilbur asked.
"You forgot to lock the garage door and my old roommate Goob stole the other time machine with the help of an evil bowler hat named Doris. She's the reason you can't remember everything in the first place."
"Oh." Wilbur said. A hat was the reason he had no memory? "What happened?" He asked.
Lewis sighed. "I'll have to tell you later." He whispered. "Just watch."
Wilbur turned his sight back on himself and Lewis. Lewis was about to go back into the orphanage when Wilbur began to push him from behind, finally over the edge of the orphanage. He then watched as he himself jumped over the edge. Screaming could be heard coming from Lewis and the red time machine suddenly appeared soaring into the air before it disappeared.
"I think it's safe to turn off our invisiblity." Lewis said as he pressed a button on the belt and he suddenly appeared in front of Wilbur. Wilbur did the same thing.
"So we met because I forgot to lock the garage door and someone stole the other time machine?" Wilbur asked. Lewis nodded.
"Yep." He said.
"But what does that make you? You're not my second cousin if you actually live here!" Wilbur said. Lewis was about to open his mouth to answer when they heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
"Quick, turn on your invisibility again!" Lewis instructed and he and Wilbur both dove where the other Wilbur had been hiding before.
A tall, gawky man came running out onto the rooftop. A few beeps and clicks could be heard, and Wilbur wondered where he had heard them before.
"Ooh! Split up and look for clues! What an excellent idea!" The man said to someone Wilbur couldn't see. The man suddenly ran past them, and Wilbur could get a good look at him as he giddily bent down to pick up a stick.
"Who is that guy?" Wilbur whispered.
"My old roommate, Goob, but you always knew him as Bowler Hat Guy." Lewis whispered back. The two watched as Bowler Hat Guy excitedly held up the stick he had found and ran back over to the door, out of their site.
"He's not very bright, is he?" Wilbur asked.
Lewis gave a small laugh. "He was a lot brighter as a kid." He said.
More beeps and clicks and Bowler Hat Guy talking to whoever was making them could be heard, and Wilbur shook his head, trying hard to remember where he had heard those beeps and clicks before. He causiously peered around the corner, and saw that the supposed person Bowler Hat Guy was talking to wasn't a person at all, but rather a bowler hat with a green light on the front.
"Ah!" Wilbur said as he grabbed his suddenly throbbing head. He crumpled to his knees on the gound and tried hard not to scream as his head pounded.
Lewis, meanwhile, had no idea that Wilbur had even moved. He watched as Doris went and got the time machine she and Goob had stolen, and Goob ran and jumped inside. The two then sped off, and Lewis emerged from his hiding spot.
"OK, Wilbur, we can turn off our invisibility." He said as he turned his off. Wilbur suddenly, materialized in front of him. He was on his knees on the ground, and his hands were on his head. He was groaning as if he was in pain. Lewis's eyes widened and he hurried over to Wilbur's side.
"Wilbur, Wilbur, are you alright?" He asked. Wilbur didn't respond for a minute. He then looked up and nodded.
"What happened?" Lewis asked.
"My head started to pound." Wilbur said. "I didn't know your head could hurt so much!"
"But you're OK now?" Lewis asked. Wilbur suddenly grinned and nodded.
"That," he said. "Is an excellent question."
Yayayayayayayay! Wilbur's memory's back! That's why he had a headache. Seeing Doris triggered his memories, and they all came back at once, so he got sort of a migrane headache for a minute. Poor guy...
I hope this wasn't confusing or rushed or anything. It's just a little hard to write about seeing something when the person you're making see it (or try to) is invisible and here's two of the same person (the same age and such) in the same room...ooooh, my head hurts...
;-)
Robin
-EDIT- I had to edit this thing ten million times! Hopefully this is the last time...