Inside 'the outdated lemon' of Cavendish and Dakota, they were giving Gretchen, Richard, Milo and Amanda a ride to the hospital. The fun of the camping day had to be put aside because of the concern for Zack's injury.
"Poor guy. Hope he's okay," Amanda wished.
"Yeah…" Milo nodded sadly. "He's a great friend of mine. I don't want anything to happen to him."
"I'm sure he will be fine," Richard stated. "After all, he saved Melissa. Probably."
Meanwhile, Dakota and Gretchen were looking outside the road. They were amazed by how smoothly Cavendish could drive then.
"It's been forever since you drove this fast, Cavendish," Dakota commented.
Cavendish grinned, "I'm in the mood for fast driving today. Tighten your seatbelts!"
"Or is it because you have a destiny date?" Gretchen teased.
"I don't!" Cavendish yelled. "It's none of your concern… after this ride."
"Oh, I get it now. You don't want to reveal it right now," Dakota elbowed him.
"Maybe after the ride, we can have your date's number," Gretchen joined the teasing game.
The British man remained calm, however, "Normally I would kick you guys out of the car. But this is the case that I need you two to go."
"The date, you say?" Gretchen didn't give up.
"Mind you kick us out of the car then?" and so did Dakota.
"Eat dirt and I'd do that," Cavendish still remained calmer than usual, much to the two's surprise.
The wildefire had been put off, but what was up with that attitude of his?
"Thank you for giving us a ride, Cavendish. We really appreciate that," Richard said.
"It's our appreciation too," Milo and Amanda said in unison.
"Don't mention it. You guys mind if I leave for another mission on the way?" Cavendish asked.
"Already?" Gretchen was surprised. That, combining with her dull expression made the look on her face obviously hilarious.
"You can wait until they finish," Dakota said.
"Nope," the British man said firmly.
Now who is teasing who now.
"Let's go," Cavendish exclaimed before he drove the car away immidiately. Richard and the kids could have wondered why he was in such a hurry but that wasn't their concern anymore.
The three ran (Richard, Milo and Amanda) ran at fast as they could to the upper floor. Richard went behind though, since he had to fill in a form for Zack – the paitient and also for his daughter who had been staying and looking over him.
Milo and Amanda had been really near to the room.
"101, right?" – "It's here!"
The two was hesistant to open the door. But before they could get their calm back and opened it.
"AAAHHH!"
A scream came from inside. Amanda startled that she fell back, while Milo couldn't dare to touch the handle due to that noise.
"Wh-what was that noise?" Amanda stammered.
"Calm down… Don't think too much about it," Milo whispered.
And…
The noise of shredder.
Milo slammed the door (unintentionally broke it) and screamed, "ZACK! YOU'D BE FINE! IT'S US HERE!"
Amanda looked inside and much to her surprise, no one was there. At least, in her view. She took a look inside and saw Melissa looking at them curiously.
While Zack was paying attention to his phone and lying on his bed, "Hey, this pop-up ad is driving me crazy. It's advertising some kind of horror game."
"Cool graphic," Melissa commented before turning to her two best friends, said hi to them nicely. "Oh, hey Milo, Amanda. Are things okay?"
From that point, Amanda and Milo felt like dumbkopf. Especially Milo, who yelled for nothing.
He sighed in relief. At least his imagination was wrong and his best friend looked safe and sound, "Relieve, I say."
"Looks like we're worried for nothing," Amanda entered the room and Milo followed. "Zack, I heard that you had a back pain. You okay now?"
"Not too worry. I'm fine now. I can walk around, see," Zack quickly jumped out of the bed when he felt the pain again, "Ouch!"
"Zack!" Melissa complained. "Just let your back have a break please. Well, he can't do strong exercises just yet. But this guy is fine for the most part."
"I'm glad…" Milo then asked. "Melissa has been here for a whole night to take care of him. Amazing!"
The orange-haired girl chuckled and kind of blushed, "It was nothing… After all, he had done a lot to me."
Melissa indirectly mentioned the moment when Zack saved her from the falling tree.
"He was in a lumberjack-themed boyband after all. So… he might have chopped your heart," Milo teased.
"I wouldn't call it like that, please," Melissa argued.
Amanda giggled while Zack smiled awkwardly.
Meanwhile, Cavendish was still driving the two curious souls (Gretchen and Dakota) on a big road.
Big road! Cavendish had never driven on that kind of path before.
"So… your date is in a restaurant?" Dakota questioned.
"Hold on!" Cavendish pulled the lever to the time-travel mode. A portal appeared and sucked the vehicle inside, much to the confusion of the driver of a car behind them.
"What was that just now?" Mitchell raised an eyebrow.
Gretchen and Dakota felt mostly surprised with what is called a sudden entrance to the time-space continuum. They asked themselves how come they hadn't known anything about it.
"Been quite a long time. How do you like to be time-travelling again, Gretchen?" Dakota questioned.
"Those green-violet paint… Cavendish, why do you take us here by the way?" Gretchen turned to ask Cavendish boringly.
"I guess she can totally be herself when there's just me," Dakota had an awkward thought.
"Very well," Cavendish then got off the driving seat and told them. "Since this time-travelling trip has hooked you two, I need you two to listen to what I'm about to do."
"Uh-huh," Dakota nodded.
"Things get messier again, don't they?" Gretchen exclaimed.
"Yes. 'The date' that you mention over and over is actually Mr. Block," Cavendish informed.
"Mr. Block?" Gretchen exclaimed.
"That dummy old guy?" Dakota added.
Cavendish then got straight to the point, "I mean, I don't know the reason why or how, but I got myself to collect all of the data about Milo and Amanda. Their relationship, their bond, I record every single one of them."
"Every single one of them?" Dakota raised an eyebrow before whispering to Gretchen. "So that happened after we were trapped in that dark world."
"But what makes you do that anyway? There must be a reason, am I right?" Gretchen asked.
Cavendish then took out his phone and searched for a photo that he had taken, "See, they are hugging. And those weird auras are coming from them."
"Woah… beautiful…" Dakota exclaimed.
"So this is their bond," Gretchen finally saw it in front of her very own eyes. "The bond that saved all of us we're talking about. It explains why we escaped Time Bureau in a flash. And maybe more, that I hadn't been aware of yet."
"Since that moment, I had been collecting every single details about its origin, its method, even the cause of it, which is Mr. Block that I had been finding all the time," Cavendish stated.
"Seriously, every single one?" Gretchen raised an eyebrow. "There's no way he could collect it all. Or is it? There's no way of knowing what he could do while we were being trapped in that dark world."
And Cavendish kept explaining. There was some of details which she had already been aware off, but the man also pointed out a few more interesting stuffs.
Stuffs that she had never realized until then.
"The name of it is scary…" Dakota exclaimed.
"I didn't know the true bond had some kind of a name like that," Gretchen said. "So much for doubting him. He has already known very deep."
"So in short, the name would be like it or so, but calling it "The Time Bond," or "Him," would be less scarier," Cavendish presented.
"Jar!" Dakota teased him by giving him fine for 'Anthropamorphisizing phenomenon." A kind of tradition they had recently developed.
"Anyway, come closer. I'll assign each of you what to do," the British man turned behind but he found it a bit struggling, "Ugh, this stupidly small vehicle."
"So here's the plan…" and his voice turned down to the level that only Dakota and Gretchen, who were listening with all of their ears and heads, could listen,
After having discussed it, Cavendish motivated them but Dakota seemed a little bit nervous, Gretchen was kind of doubtful.
"Uh… are you sure you want to do this to him?" Dakota concerned.
"Yeah, the plan might be backfired too, ya know," Gretchen warned.
"Not too concerned, hehe. My plan is foolproof!" Cavendish still remained which might be his brightest smile on the face, and also might be his biggest confidence ever.
Things might get interesting.
2175, Block's office
It had just been recently since Mr. Block and the gang finally came back to the future – their own time. Also not too long ago, the gang decided to withdraw while thinking of a better plan for the kidnap.
Until then, the Block guy seemed to have lost all of the steam from yesterday. He groaned and groaned like forever. The new day had just started but he felt he could immidiately ask for a day off.
"Come on…" the man groaned to himself. He finally reached to the sofa put in the middle of room and lied on it. "I'm just withdrawing. Why does the body treat me this cruelly?"
He continued thinking, "But… come to think of it, I'm tired because I'm not sastified. Yes, that must be it!
Until I find out the answer, there's no way I won't-"
"You… don't need to find anything, boss," the man then heard a feminine voice he had already got tired of hearing. It interested him because of the seriousness she gave out. "All of your plans will be foiled by all of us, today!"
Block turned his head around and saw Gretchen and Dakota looking at him furiously.
He stepped back in fear. He immidiately thought that they would put a revenge on him for having put them to the black-and-white world.
He stepped back slowly. He could feel the two drawing themselves nearer to him.
"Block, we need to tell you something," Dakota informed him seriously. "You don't have to be scared of us."
"No! Stay away! Why shouldn't I?" Block then complained. "You two are the people I don't ever want to meet again… Ugh, how unfortunate I am!"
"There's no point of leaving if you don't tell us the reason," Gretchen grabbed his collar and ranted angrily at him. "Just why? WHY? WHY, TELL ME?!"
"Uh… Gretchen, can you… I'm a little sufficated…" Block muttered.
"Well yeah? Sufficating for 60 seconds, that's for sure!" the woman yelled. "And how can it be compared to two weeks of your tension that you put on us?!...
Also, not only us, but even Milo and Amanda, and the other kids. They have nothing to do with our jobs, ya know," her rant then combined with tears dropping. "All this time, if you want to know the reason, why don't you just ask it?"
"LIKE HELL CAN I DO IT!" Block suddenly roared and used his force to push Gretchen away from him. She lost her balance, but Dakota saved her in time.
"So you're nothing but coward!" Gretchen said.
"YES, CALL ME THAT!" Block then told her. "In terms of my attitude towards Cavendish and Dakota…"
At that point, Block turned away from the two. Gretchen got up and breathed heavily. She was still angry at him though (even angrier after he made that push). Dakota looked worried for him, however.
He told them. "Those two… they failed… they laughed despite having failed. They failed again… They VIOLATED THE RULES! They were JERKS!"
"Why you…" Gretchen started to move but Dakota prevented her and shook his head, whispering. "You should let him say it out."
"Appreciate that, Dakota," Block commented. "And I was always thinking that they were useless, pathetic and they always failed because of that. But… then a long time ago, I caught my eyes on a journal named 'My Journal' and I didn't know who has written that. That was when I met the most surprising fact ever."
One time, inside Cavendish and Dakota's office…
Somehow Mr. Block had found himself inside of their room. There was neither Cavendish nor Dakota's appearance, and he excused himself from finding something suspicious from the two.
He frankly did not know where to start and what to find. Until he found one small notebook on Cavendish's desk, he started to get his hope up.
"A journal?" Mr. Block smiled proudly at himself. "HAHA! At long last, I can use this as proof to easily find out what those two did wrong."
"Intriguing, ah…" he then opened the journal.
Give it a pause.
He widened his eyes. The first three pages were full of pictures. Captions were kind of small, but that didn't mean it wasn't readable. It said that the pictures had been taken after some… pistachion fight.
"A pistachion fight?" Mr. Block raised his eyebrows.
Another caption said they took some pictures with local kids. Two of them were genius inventors, another one was a Murphy boy and his two brave friends.
"So this is… Milo Murphy… that those two were talking about…"
One picture only had Cavendish and Dakota themselves in it, but written next to it was the 'thank you' from friends of theirs.
"Cavendish, Dakota, thanks for being a part of our adventure" - Zack and Melissa.
"Who knows an accident from the living pistachio can be dangerous and exciting" - Milo Murphy.
And the last line shocked him the most.
"Cavendish and Dakota save the day, baby. Heroes that you can count on!" – Doof Doof, 'your future Professor Time.'
"Hold up! Professor Time wrote this line?!" Block said to himself. "The great, almighty creator of time travel said those nutguards heroes?"
To him, that never made any sense. For a long time, he had been viewing them as the lowest of the low government agents. They constantly claimed themselves as a world rescuer and he never believed it.
Block put his hands on the table and complained, "Those two… They're wrong! And I did the right thing! But why…?They are praised while… I'm here, being jealous."
His hands slowly made two fists and he slammed them on the table.
"Why… THEY?!"
"They're more than what you view them, Block," said Gretchen. She smirked as a way to kind of blame him. "That's what you get for not understanding their true power."
"Say what you want, Gretchen," Block roared and still shivered. "But I couldn't just sit there and wait to hear them say 'Oh, Mr. Block, we have saved the Loch Ness monster and violated a few time-travel rules.' I will not allow that."
"Now that you mention it, you did care about us more than you think," Dakota stated.
"No… never I did. I was just desperately trying to find the source of your violation, the truth behind all the stories which I believed they were fake…"
"…and you said once that you would never waste a single second to our bodies," Dakota interrupted. "Think about it. If you hate us violating the rules so bad, you would never find out why in the first place. Instead, you chose to find out the reason for us. Admittedly that you did it because of your hatred, b-but in a way, you just want to find out more about us."
Block widened his eyes and looked at Dakota. Dakota was being calm while he was talking to him, which gave the boss a bit of surprise.
"So you're… defending for me? That I actually care for you?" Block stammered in a gross tone.
"Yes, it's your credit. I appreciate that," Dakota smiled.
"THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN FOR SURE!" Block stated loudly.
The disco guy sighed, "And that's why… we come here. The one who cares for us and always finds a way to know us truth, with such large-scale schemes… this isn't you, Nicholas Block. It's worth it to just hear you mocking us time and time again."
"We come here to help you. Even if it's a pain that you may underappreciate me like you used to," Gretchen smiled. Might as well be one of her most prettiest smiles.
"Wait, what? Now you're confusing me," Block exclaimed. "I thought you two come here for revenge. Admit it, your lives will be even better off without me. So why do you help me?"
"Ahem…" a voice was heard from outside the room. Block immidiately knew whose voice that could be. Gretchen and Dakota glanced and nodded.
The 'today's special person' would come in any seconds.
There he went…
"Kooperdink… I mean, Cavendish!?" Block was sweating more and more. He had been scaring for revenge, now he was confused as heck. He wished someone explaining to him what was going on.
"Pardon me for interrupting but this is the resource than can bring down your entire career as a head of this time-travel agency."
Cavendish then entered while pushing a board inside. One of the sides of the table contained information the British guy had collected during the time Dakota and Gretchen in you-know-where.
"Excuse me? Are you saying that you thwart me down?! HOW DARE YOU?" Block angered.
"No… not me…" Cavendish gave him a cocky smile. "But rather, you have thwarted yourself."
Cavendish then slowly turned the table around about 90 degrees.
Block was shocked again,
The thing in front of him would have been familiar that weird if he had seen those detective and investigation stories. They have some scenes of a person brainstorming a way to solve a case by taking all of the pictures they can get before pinning it on the table. And let us not forget those red wires. One picture from one event may connect to another, and it took sometime to make a network, the detective will solve the case and so…
And Cavendish's board was just like that. He explained, "Pretty surprising, aren't you?"
"How…? Collecting all of these? I see… Amanda, Milo… and also my gang? Just… how?" his tone now transformed into fear and terror.
"Honestly, we were kind of surprised in the first place," Gretchen stated.
"Like she said, Block. Like Cavendish said," Dakota paused. "Like what I said just a few seconds ago."
"You thwarted yourself, Mr. Block," Cavendish said to him. "Right after when you erased Dakota and Gretchen from the timeline, my motivation changed. I was orginally looking for Dakota and Gretchen until I saw the kids – Milo and Amanda – hugging and forming a weird aura around them. The exact minute, the exact second, the exact moment, I changed my motivation from finding Gretchen and Milo, to looking for information about Milo and Amanda."
"If that was your motivation then how would that help?" Block questioned.
"Heh," Cavendish chuckled. "It's obvious that you don't know. Back to the story, I took a picture of them, which you could see it right here… the one in the centre, can't miss it. After that, I watched some kind of live convention about an episode of Doctor …John or so? And I was told by Milo's dad that they were in a camping trip in a park. So I went there, took some more pictures, and also found out that you were there also. I have labeled some titles in corners, and which photos belong to which corner, see?"
He presented, "Camping Day 1. Camping Day 2. Camping Day 3. Disaster in Full Force. I swear, I named this all by myself. The author gladly accepted it."
I'm flattered- Oh wait, I shouldn't be here.
Let's… continue.
"I figured out your plan on the way and you didn't have a single clue about it. Your plan was to use Milo and Amanda, who have been a great companion of us… well, Amanda is Milo's girlfriend so she's our companion too, to force them to tell you the reason of us helping them."
"You know that I couldn't ask you directly! It's your dirty boss here, duh? You won't tell me about that anyway," Mr. Block hissed, feeling relief that he had got something to shot back.
"I would tell. You were just too embarassing," Cavendish teased.
"I WILL NEVER DO THAT IN MY LIFE. What would the system be?" Block roared.
"Then explain about the plan to torture them," the British man demanded. "If you simply just wanted an answer about our condition, why would you have to go that far?"
"Because that's my way of working!" Block defended himself. "Me and my gang work this way to interrogate someone."
"I see…" Cavendish nodded, then continued asking. "Then explain to me about that fire. Is it your plan to burn them in the fire?"
"WHAT?! What are you talking about? I wasn't burning them! It wasn't my fault in the first place."
"But you left them behind and ran away with your gang due to being afraid someone might doubt you guys," he explained calmly. "If that's the case, won't this be labeled as 'murder'… like people say?"
"…I have no idea what you're talking about… You three are quite annoying today," Block turned his vision away from them. "If you're done then I'm leaving-"
"…and if you're thinking of leaving, I can file this to the supreme tribunal. Don't you think they should be surprised and fumed after seeing this board I'm having?" Cavendish gave him a threat.
"Like I'm afraid of that threat," it was a lie that Block made. "You… won't even have access to contact to them."
"Like hell we give up," Gretchen and Dakota knuckled. She said, "It's best to use force in this time being. They'll soon know the truth. And the whole agency is going to be a big mess crowd. 'Mess' transforms into 'Disastrous.' Imagine that 'beautiful scene'."
"You dare?"
"TRY US!?" Gretchen, Dakota and Cavendish yelled at him in unison.
"Waah!" Block used his fist to punch Cavendish. He startled but quickly dodged the move.
Cavendish stated, "Wow, never knew he could be this fierce."
"I'm not the toy to be playing around. Make me understand, why all of this?!" he launched into the three and used all of the moves he learned a long time ago.
"Judo? When did you learn that?" Dakota raised his eyebrows.
"Glad you ask. Sadly, you three have to win against me first," Block grinned. "I don't think you will though."
"Seriously? We just want to help you! Don't make this any harder!" Gretchen said.
"YOU'RE THE ONE TO TALK!" Block yelled. "Now… I bet your Judo skill combined won't even have a chance to push me down."
Gretchen looked concernedly to Dakota and Cavendish who was standing behind her. However, both ot their reassuring smiles gave her confidence. She knew that they were being by her sides and that was important.
"True, our Judo skill can't stand a chance. But you… lack of TEAMWORK!" Gretchen stated confidently.
"Yeah!" Dakota and Cavendish exclaimed.
"That's the spirit…" Block said with a gross tone.
Their intense battle was about to start. Suddenly…
They heard the noise coming from a rocket engine. It was getting louder and louder as if a vehicle was going to crash into Block's office anytime soon. Some scream was heard as well.
A flying time vehicle smashed through the wall and two people fell out from it.
"Ouch, ouch…" Milo rubbed his forehead before judging Doofenshmirtz. "I told you to just walk in like normal people. Crashing through the wall is dangerous, isn't it?"
"I don't care as long as it's fun," Doof stated. He looked around and much to his amaze… "Oh my, what do we have here? A combat battle. And look! There are Caventa and Dakodish."
"…Cavendish and Dakota?" Dakota rolled his eyes while Gretchen seemed to find it a bit amusing.
"It's you again! The not-yet-Professor-Time!" Cavendish exclaimed.
"The one and no one else!" Doof stood proudly. "Your not-yet-Professor-Time, along with my trusty sidekicks, Cavendish and Dakota, who have been by my sides for many battles and hardships, are fighting for justice!"
"Yeah!" both men exclaimed.
"…or basically anything that you're fighting for," Doof added unimpressively.
"No way…" Gretchen looked him with amaze. "But… how do you know to come here?"
"Milo informed me back in the hopsital that Cavendish and Dakota were at their mission. I thought I could give them some help with my new TIME-TRAVEL INATOOOR, so… here I am," Doof said.
"No freaking way! Unbelievable!" Block exclaimed. "You don't fool me, do you? You're the actual Professor Time?!"
"Well, duh!" Doof informed. "I have journals and everything. I even put pictures in there before throwing it to the publisher. Well, not exactly 'throwing' but it's the right word for that situation when we forced him to make it."
"Oh, right, the journal," he took out the old pamphlet he used to look at and by comparing the appearance in the picture and the one in real life, it was true that 'the one' had appeared in front of him, "I can't believe it! The idol of my whole life!"
Block's mood changed for 180 degrees, much to Gretchen's groan.
"Um… Mr. Professor Time not yet. Uh…" Block stammered while trying to bride Doof. "I'm not asking for anything special. Just uh… we're kind of in the middle of something here… uh… so can you just… scooch aside for a little bit? Uh… Not that I mind you or anything but… if you can give me an autograph."
"No! Heck no!" Cavendish exclaimed. "Professor Time is in our side. You don't have the right to tell him to do what you want."
"Yes…" Gretchen gazed at Doof adorably. "But if we weren't in a battle, I would have an autograph, or maybe a photo."
"Not now, Gretchen…" Dakota snapped her out.
"Guys, are we fighting? Because it's no good to fight each other," Milo intefered. "I know that you all can't control your temper any longer and I know that this guy named Block… has done wrong things…"
"You are annoying, Milo Murphy!" Block stated. "You shouldn't even be here in my office with your Murphy's Law!"
"…and you're annoying too. But the thing is we should discuss to find a way to solve this, not fight each other."
"What do you know, Murphy kid?" the old man leered at him. "You don't know everything. They had broken many time-travel rules and caused disaster everywhere. It was my job to monitor them. But… I don't know why they are still able to time travel."
"Uh… duh!" Doof called the attention to himself. "I'm the father of time travel ya know. You control the rules, but don't really know the rules, right? You banned two people from time-travelling in a vehicle. There are two holes in that rule: other people can replace them doing their time travel job, this should be a piece of cake. And what you don't know is that I can make another vehicle for them. That exact prototype is easy to make since it's just… outdated lemon."
"You… the almighty Professor Time… helped them?!" Block was shocked.
"Check out the journal thing again…" Doof sighed. "Man, this guy's memory is terrible."
Block clenched his fists. He looked down, faced the floor in anger, "And here he is… in my office. YOU'RE IN MY OFFICE! Even so, you should stand a little bit to my side, Mr. Professor Time!"
"Now hold it right there!" Doof stood out firmly before saying his speech. "I'm not technically standing to anyone's side. Beside, the Professor Time thing is just a title. My name is Heinz Doofenshmirtz, and I invented time-travel, inspired by Cavendish and Dakota here, to bring peace to this world. To understand. To heal us when needed. Like this pal Dakota having saved Cavendish plenty of times. Technically, they broke the rules but they didn't do anything wrong. Dakota just wanted to save his best partner. Although I might say, you're a bit unlucky, Cavendish. Also, many of their adventures have managed to save the world."
Cavendish chuckled, "I can't explain that for myself, either."
"And… time-travel isn't made to be joking around. We all have done something wrong. I won't say Cavendish and Dakota have been using clean time-travel all the time. You, Nicholas Block, what you have done with your employees is acceptable, but it's wrong to go that far. That being said, the Professor Time only stands up to the people who truly understand the meaning of time travel. This is said…" Doof took out from his time machine a weirdly thick and big book. "according to Part A, Section 260, Chapter 2, Line 354, starting from the 45th word counted from the rig…"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop! We know! We know!" Cavendish stated. The man then sighed. Dakota spotted this and smiled. Somehow he had got back to his characteristics.
"We know, we know, we have done something wrong. It caused… Mr. Block to do… something wrong as well. Mr. Block?"
"Yes?" Block said with a more serious tone. "I have been hearing clearly. So what do you want now?"
"Nothing. Just want to know… what you think… about that," Dakota said.
"Yeah, yeah," Block said skeptically. "We all have our faults and even though the professor is in the house, he can't stand by my side. But, he does have a point. He's the father of time travel after all. So… what do you want to do?"
Cavendish and Dakota glanced at and nodded to each other before Dakota stepped up and showed him a temporal transporter. He shivered his hand because the move he had prepared for a day could change the whole timeline.
"This… looks familiar? Is this you two's temporal transporter?" Block questioned.
"Yes. It glitched about a week ago, and now it has been fixed. But you may have known what that means…" Dakota closed his eyes while holding the device to the front.
"The timeline… will be reset," Block then turned more confused but this time he tried to remain calm. "…I should have just destroyed it. Just what exactly do you want from this?"
"If this happens…" Dakota then opened the screen. A message and a voice could be heard.
"THE TIMELINE RESET COUNTDOWN: ACTIVATED.
AUTOMATICALLY RESET IN 4 MINUTES
4:00, 3:59, 3:58…"
The man continued, "…You know you have tried to know too much from us while the real you… never makes an effort to understand us. The real you… will be less danger than the you right now, because Block will never go this far just to investigate us. This timeline shouldn't be existed."
"But… this is better for you? I don't understand!" Block yelled.
Dakota continued from there, "Also, the thing you have done have caused too much trouble for the 2015 Danville. 3:00, 2:59, 2:58… And just when you're about to think that things can be healed if you try to be good in this version of your, then what about… Milo and Amanda?"
"Milo… and Amanda?" Block exclaimed.
"Me and Amanda?" Milo said while joining both of his hands together.
"You have interfered into their relationship. Their friendship. Their love!" Dakota's tone grew more serious.
"Careful!" Doof warned but it seemed like Dakota didn't listen one bit.
"They were supposed to have a nice camping trip together but you almost injured them to death. And YOU are the cause of the deep bond. It might have saved them, but it may very well lead them to an uneasy life, 1:31, 1:30, 1:29, 1:28… You spoiled their experience, their intimacy that they needed to have. I know this isn't your fault, but you indirectly create their time bond, and if it stays like this… who knows what's worse?"
"So that's the reason why you want to reset the timeline? Heh!" Block chuckled and went crazy for a moment. "They need to shorten their in-between space in their love, where did I do wrong? Keep loving each other baby. And… I have made everyone's life better. Where did I do wrong? I have made your life better, you FOOL!"
"Heh?! Not good…" Doofenshmirtz feared.
"No..." Milo exclaimed. "I have to go there."
"Don't! You stay here!" Doof held his body back. "He is supposed to hit him with the device. If it broke, nothing would be changed but if it didn't break, the timeline would be reset. But I'm not sure the possibility of you getting out there and stop him."
"You even know all the events?" Milo raised his eyebrows. 0:59, 0:58, 0:57, 0:56….
"Déjà vu, baby," Doof grinned. "Plus, I somehow have all the data of possibilities in this small microwave, which I have repurposed it into the data restorer."
"But can't we do something more than just wait here?" Milo questioned.
"Not of my knowledge," Doof shook his head.
Hearing Block's disgusting words, Dakota couldn't regulate himself anymore. He swang the temporal transporter up high before yelling, "WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND…?!"
0:28, 0:27, 0:26…
Dakota still kept the device hanging up there while still pinning him on the floor but at any moment, Block knew it could hit him on the forehead. Knowing that his move could break the device, Block even tried to tease him.
"Don't you get it? If you get rid of this boss right now, your life will be totally better. So HIT IT! Show me the best you've got! HIT!"
"You make me so infuriating!" Dakota roared. He knew he couldn't take it anymore. He didn't want to hit him but Block just wanted it desperately.
His hand holding the device started to move down to his forehead. Block shut his eyes and began waiting for the result. Gretchen and Cavendish exclaimed 'No!' in unision but with the system in the room having been damaged by Murphy's Law and it made some unpleasant noise, their warnings were useless.
Milo looked at the scene determinably, "I can't take this anymore."
0:20, 0:19, 0:18…
"No! You can't take risk like this!" then Doof sighed, knowing that he couldn't stop him anymore. "Although, good luck, pizza delivery kid! I know you can do it!"
"DO IT!" Block exclaimed.
And just like that, Dakota then used his second hand to hold the device. He had unfortunately reached his limit of being calm.
"Goodbye!" Dakota whispered.
The device slowly got down and almost reached Block's forehead.
Gretchen and Cavendish yelled, "NOOO!"
0:05, 0:04…
Milo ran as fast as he could. Knowing that he only got three seconds left, he decided to make a 50-50 jump while trying to make him stop, "Please stop, Dakota!"
0:03, 0:02…
With that, Milo hit Dakota hard and the man let go of the device. It flew in the air and was about to fall. That wouldn't be good as well.
0:01.
"I got it!" Milo stopped him from moving any further by using his arms, and caught the temporal transporter by both of his feet.
Doof sighed in relief.
TIMELINE RESET STARTING NOW.
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Milo slowly opened his eyes, "AAAAHH!"
He screamed and fell back when the first thing he saw after a while of, he guessed, being unconscious was him standing in front of a mirror.
"That gives me the creep…" he titled his head.
"Milo, are you done? Your friends are waiting for you!" Brigette called him from downstairs.
"I'm coming," Milo quickly rushed downstairs with his usual outfit. "That's weird… I want to remember something but… I can't. I wonder what time it is now. I have to ask my friends."
"Ah, Melissa and Zack?" Milo raised his eyebrows after seeing his friends sitting in the living room.
"Oh Milo, your expression is like we have come over to your house for the first time," Melissa chuckled.
"He's just overdoing it," Zack added.
"Guys, uh… I know this is a weird question but… what time is it today?" Milo grinned.
"It's a big deal, Milo," Zack wrapped his arm around his shoulders while slowly revealing. "You have the ticket for a trip to…"
"…your secret crush Amanda's birthday party, my friend! WHOOOO!" Melissa cheered.
"Oh… wow, guys," Milo was happy. He finally knew the time he came back, and also the event he will always remember.
"I am… invited to Amanda's… birthday party."
THE END ?!
A/N: There's still the roll credits and it includes a few more additional scenes so stay tune. Just imagine that the characters, voice actors and so are introduced… Stay tune!
And disclaimer: I never own Milo Murphy's Law!
Scene 1: Inside Melissa's castle (Chap 4)
Melissa asked, "What were you dreaming about last night?"
Milo was hesistant. He clearly remembered the dream last night, where he had ride Amanda back to his house using her bike.
His friends looked at him quizzically, "Uh hey… Milo?"
"I can see it," Zack stated.
"Really?" Milo widened his eyes.
"Nah, not really. But from the way I see, you must have been dreaming something embarassing," Zack rephrased.
"It's okay, Milo," Amanda comforted him. "Don't get too much pressure. It's just a game after all."
"Just answer the way you want to," Lydia followed.
Milo then took a deep breath. He exhaled and inhaled once before revealing, "Okay so it's kind of funny. I was dreaming of me riding Amanda on the way to my house."
"You think so…" Amanda teased him.
"Well, it's not like romantic or anything! I dreamed my bike was broken so I had to lend her. Amanda uh… wanted to make sure that her bike was fine so she sat behind the bike and like that," Milo defended himself.
"That was a nice dream, wasn't it?" Melissa said.
"Phew… though I'd like it to become reality though," Amanda chuckled.
Scene 2: Just about 5 minutes before the dance party (Chap 4)
Amanda seemed happy about the backpack she had received. Milo was happy for her as well, "It really suits you, Amanda. You must be quite happy."
"You bet I am!" Amanda stated. "And… thanks for your gift."
"My gift? Shuck, it was nothing. I saw that you were having a hard time though, so I gave you those," Milo said. "A sharp pencil and a notebook."
"Pretty symbolic, right?"
"I know."
And so from this point, the adventure of Milo and Amanda went on, but less dramatic, less of inner thoughts from each of them. More of… the enjoyment that they would work hard to give to each other.
Scene 3: When Milo gets the baseball back for the kids (Chap 8)
"What do you want to say more Amanda?" Melissa questioned. "It's not like I don't appreciate the rest of your story but… the whole thing of hanging out with Milo yesterday really interests me."
"Yeah, we're just hanging out like normal friends. Though it's kinda hurt sometimes, like when that brick suddenly came out for no reason and made me tripped over," Amanda informed. "And here's the rest… um well, your dad said tomorrow would be a day off right?"
"Yep," Melissa confirmed by nodding. "Then he will inform us something later that day."
"Uh so… Milo has told me about a plan of his. He invited us to go the cinema. Not sure if he has precaution for Murphy's Law, but I bet it will be fun," Amanda revealed.
"Really? What's the movie?" Zack questioned.
"Incredibles 2," Amanda said. "Oh, I love the first part and I think this will be a great follow-up!"
Meanwhile, Milo had just finished finding the ball.
"Here's your ball," Milo gave it to the boy whose role is throwing the ball in the game.
"Thanks, big guy! Say, can you stay for a little bit?" the boy offered.
"Why of course!"
"Bring your ear closer," the boy whispered to his ear. "You're actually my idol."
"Oh, really?" Milo seemed to be delighted by this comment.
"Hey! What's taking you so long with that senpai?" the boy holding the bat asked.
"Yeah! What is up with you two?!" another boy wearing the glove and catching the ball whenever the launcher misses the ball said.
"I know! Just wait for a few moments, guys," let's just call this guy the cap-wearing boy and he idolizes Milo.
"Okay!" both of his friends exclaimed and thumbed-up, much to the cap-wearing boy's relief. Such good friends…
"Thanks for your adoration. What's your name?" Milo asked.
"Mike! Call me Mike!" Mike said.
"Alright, Mike, is it?"
"You can go now," Mike then shoved Milo away from him a little bit. "It's kind of shy to meet my idol without preparing but… I'm pretty much looking forward to our adventure, Milo!" His eyes sparkled with stars, which I believe can never happen in real life. "You're an awesome person when it comes to Murphy's Law! Ooooh, how much I want to be in your life!"
Milo blushed a little bit. He didn't know that a Murphy like him could have a fan. He then smiled and rubbed his hair, "I'm not sure when we will meet again but… I'm looking forward to it too!"
"Give me your number!" Mike requested.
"Okay!"
"And your autograph. And can I take a picture with you? And can you message me just to make sure that we can really contact to each other?"
Scene 4: Camping Day 5
Before we get to the Camping Day 5, I'm gonna state that Richard and his students' camping trip had been doing well. No interruptions, no sudden change of plans occurred. Murphy's Law occurred though, but who are Milo and his friends that we're talking about anyway?
Many games had been played in the whole camping trip in Hamilton Park. And the one in the morning of Camping Day 5 would be the last one of all.
"Okay, so here's the final contest: 4 x 100 relay marathon!" Grulinda informed. "We have borrowed the road surrounding the park so it would make the contest easier for us…"
Melissa would be the first one to run in her team. She could see the person to her right was none other than…
"Lola? Oh, of course, you guys are here too," Melissa said. "But your team only has three members."
"We don't need 4 members and can still win ya know," Lola stated confidently.
"Talk about confidence… so how do you guys arrange the positions?" the orange-haired girl questioned.
"I run first because I'm weaker. Then Zane comes next because he's strong enough to handle two people in 200 m. Madge will finish us up. How's yours?"
"Well, me first, then Zack, then Amanda and finally Milo," Melissa confessed. "Oh, Amanda and Milo. They're so confident when it comes to this…"
Scene 5: Milo, Zack, Melissa and Amanda walk to home together
"Ahh… what a trip, eh?" Melissa relaxed herself after five days of having fun in the Hamilton Park. "I thought I could relax, but now I'm getting excited of the idea getting back to my house."
"Careful! You might get cramp on the way," Zack teased her before they both laughed. "And this wouldn't be great without your leadership, Milo."
"Oh come on, you know I'm not your leader," Milo humbly stated. "It's all because of your great dedication… and Amanda's strict demands."
"Well excuse me, but I'm not just telling people around," Amanda added. "I have helped you find the precaution for Murphy's Law and pretty much activities, am I right?"
"Can't say that you're wrong," Milo said and chuckled, for which Amanda pushed him slightly.
"Hey, let's all push Milo for no reason," Zack offered and the girls agreed.
Milo already ran ahead and exclaimed before the rest followed him suit.
"Hey, stop him, guys!"
"You can't catch me!" the Murphy boy smiled.
It's clear to us that he enjoys every adventure he's able to be in… We'll get to that later.
Later that night, Milo was about to sleep right on the bed after having dinner. Suddenly, his phone rang and it notified a message from Amanda.
She sent him lots of photos taken from the camping trip. Most of it were all of them doing activities. They were pretty funny too. And there were really amazing shots like all of them jumping that could make them remember their first 5-day activity together forever.
He scrolled slowly and looked each of the picture with enjoyment and happiness, like each picture contains something he can remember of.
And then, he widened his eyes when he saw one picture with Amanda holding Milo's hand: she was leading him to somewhere while he was running from behind willingly.
Milo sent her a question about the picture with only them. Amanda replied that someone she didn't know took that one, and it somehow 'stored' in her phone.
The boy blushed slightly. Although he knew that he liked her and maybe she had grown a like on him too, but he thought that holding hands, or going out with her would really be something new, and exciting for both of them.
He wondered if he could just have that.
Not by any adventure that would push them to romantic relationship, but by just how natural they would find out about each other.
Soon enough… there will be that day.
When this picture will be something he will be remembering of in the future.
He makes sure that somewhere in his mind;
…he will think that… they will be walking together to the place where a minister has been waiting…
Yeah, a part of him just wants to think like that.
Because he can't deny to himself, for now…
…that he loves her.
After Credits
2175…
"…so that's the story of… my alternative timeline," Milo exclaimed. "Yeah, I knew that I forgot something."
"You forced me to say it though, so I did," Dakota said before he took another bite on his burger.
They were sitting on a bench, talking in a park in the centre of Danville. Not sure if it were the Hamilton Park in the future, but it sure was pretty far from the Time Bureau.
It was afternoon and Dakota thought he could give Milo a ride and had a chat.
"So… does that mean I love Amanda that much?" Milo raised his eyebrows and blushed. "I mean, I have heard this time bond thing before but… did I actually love her that passionately?"
"Yeah, I suppose," Dakota added. "The blame's on the time bond, but it's part of your actual bond as well. And to think of, It just represents your relationship, the one that can't be sliced by any means."
"Well, that makes sense to me now," Milo smiled. It was actually nice for the two men to hang out like this. Actually, a delightful boy and a delightful man… nice people hanging out.
The boy continued, "Anyway, you said that I had caught the temporal transporter in time. But… what if that didn't happen? Wouldn't it be bad?"
"Ah… I might overthink it, it would actually be nothing," Dakota stated. "I just thought that the love like that was weird."
"I know, I get it now!" Milo suddenly stood up and announced confidently. "I'll try to be a good friend of Amanda from now on, and be a good friend that everyone can count on!"
"You already are. Don't push yourself too much, seriously," Dakota chuckled hardly.
2015, a week after Camping Day 5
Inside the Murphy house
"Ugh, video games are boring too," Melissa seemed to get tired of playing video games in Milo's house.
"Yeah, too much for me either," Zack was in her mood as well.
"Cheer up, guys!" Veronica stated. She was in charge of the house temporarily. "Milo's family is going on a trip to Arizona with Amanda's family. That chance won't come to him twice, ya know? Besides, we're in Milo's house, so LET'S KNOCK OFF OUR ROOF!"
"…but it feels unusual without Milo already," Melissa griped.
"Duh, like how long since he left," Veronica asked a question that she knew better than anyone.
"…three hours…" Zack imitated Melissa.
"…if you do help, please think of a way to have fun without Milo around," Melissa continued her process of groaning.
Meanwhile, from an unknown place where someone was targetting one of the three. They couldn't show the tape, but they had data about the whereabouts of the target they needed.
"So… it's her right? It must be the one we're looking for, at 5512 Druid Dr." a mysterious man who is in his 30s said.
Another man whose voice seems stricter and bolder said, "It's obviously that… Although we won't know until we see her…
…sooon."
A/N: Phew... finally, one truly serious story of mine has come to an end. It takes me a hard labor to write this, but it also has been a really fun ride. Unfortunately, anything must come to an end, and "Hold My Hand" officially ends here with 20 chapters just like I warned you guys about 5 chapters ago...
Though to be honest, I'm glad if you guys have read a heck of this chapter. It wasn't supposed to be that long, but I did extend some parts and put in the credit scenes and then, they were kind of different from my original plan for the final chapter so I had to recheck it many times. So for the fans of my story, I'm sorry if this chapter takes really long to come out.
So this story ends, yeah. I'd like to know how do you like Amanda and Milo's moments? How well I put out the time-travel shenanigans? How much emotions have I given to you? If you have any thoughts, review and thanks for reading! ^^
And by the way, the story ends, but it will be continued as a sequel. Things that don't get solved (like the final scene) and some small-role characters will indeed have an important role in the next story this year. Not promising anything because I haven't got a touch on it yet. But it will be something fresh, not Milo and Amanda centered (although they will be having a trip to Arizona and the sequel will definitely fit that in). A new character will be focused on, and I have dropped clues in the very final scene, so hopefully you can figure 'her' out!
Thanks for sticking with me and the story for more than a year. I have many plans for my fanfiction account. That's all I can say, and I'll see you, in the next adventure from me! - Tugiacat ^^