Deja Vu
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Chapter 3: Information
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After about 15 minutes, Mike awoke to find himself battered and bruised. He sat up, but pulling a few tears out with it. "Where am I?" Mike asked himself as he looked around. "Mike!" Dr. J yelled as he ran toward the boy. "Dr. J? That you?" Mike asked. "Yes" Dr. J responded. "Where am I? Where's that girl?" Mike asked him. "You're on C-Island and that girl was Mica, your girlfriend" Dr. J responded questionably. "She was my girlfriend?" Mike shouted. "You're kidding!" "No, I'm not. Are you ok, Mike?" Dr. J asked. "Well, my head hurts and I'm all bruised up." Mike told him. "I'll bet. Well, come into my lab." Dr. J demanded. "Ok, whatever" Mike said as he came up to his feet. "Hey! What's with this yo-yo?" Mike said with a confused look on his face. "That's your weapon" Dr. J said to him as he kept walking. "Uh huh, I'll bet it is, Mr. Crazy." Mike mocked as he started following him while swinging it up and down. They enter the lab and Mike starts to mock him about the cleanliness. "Oh my God! It's actually clean!" Mike said playfully. "Yes, yes, Extreme Makeover: Laboratory Edition." Dr. J said, mocking Mike's past thought. "Hey! How'd you know that I thought that?" Mike asked Dr. J. "Cause', I put a mind-reading device in the door." Dr. J said. "Sense you stood there the whole time, I was able to see" "Yada-yada-yada! I really don't care! It is boring to me!" Mike interrupted. "Oh, yea! I forgot you were only 15!" Dr. J said disappointedly. "So, what's with the yo-yo?" Mike asked holding it in his hand tightly. "Well, that's your special island yo-yo! It's your weapon that you used to go through Coralcola caves" Dr. J said. "Well, it doesn't look like it works worth a damn." "Well, I thought so, too, when you got it. But it soon changed my mind. When you got back with only a few scratches, I thought that you had the best yo-yo I'd ever seen." Dr. J explained. "Wow! I never would have guessed" "Uh huh" "That you were so crazy!" Mike finished. "I'm not lying!" Dr. J snapped. "Whatever!" Mike said as he turned around and went out the door. Back in Coralcola, Mike walks in the Chief's hut and sits down, waiting on the chief to return. After about 2 minutes, the chief came into the hut to rest, only to be greeted by Mike. "Hello, Mike! What can I do for ya'?" "Well, I was wondering if you might be able to polish up the yo-yo a bit. "Ah, the island yo-yo. Sure, give me a minute." Hapo said as he took the yo-yo and walked to the other end of his hut. Then, as if out of nowhere, Bana, Hapo's sister and island shaman, came walking in. "Mike Jones! You must take the test of island courage again! Mica must be rescued." Bana yelled as she spotted him. "What is "The Test of Island Courage?" Mike asked. "Wellumm" Bana stopped at Mike's sudden stupidity and to see if he'd say he was joking. After about a minute of silence, Mike asked "Well, is anyone gonna tell me what the "Test of Island Courage" is?" "It's a test, you go through the monster filled tunnels of Coralcola, which are just north of here, and get out the other side. Alive." Bana explained. "Well, how will I kill the monsters?" Mike asked her after she finished. "Simple" Hapo said as he laid the shining yo-yo back in Mike's hand, "Use this yo-yo" "Ok, is everyone crazy? It's a yo-yo, damn it! Not a mace! It is a cheap toy that won't even dent paper, much less kill monsters! Mike screamed at them both hatefully. "Well, try it for yourself" Bana said, holding up a piece steel beam. "Fine! But when this yo-yo snaps into a thousand pieces, don't say I told ya so!" Mike said as he grabbed the yo-yo and held it tight in his right hand. He put his finger in the hole and reared back. He then launched the yo-yo straight and true. It moved with such speed that you could've sworn that it had a motor on it. The yo-yo began to rotate fast and a small circular beam was rotating around the yo-yo. The toy hit the steel and snapped it into 5 pieces without even stopping. It was like a knife through butter, smooth and quick. It finally reached the end of it's string about 6 feet away, then stopped spinning and came back to Mike as straight and true as when it left his hand the first time. Once the yo-yo was back in Mike's hand, mouths dropped. Mike and Hapo were shocked to the point of speechlessness. Even Bana was shocked at the power it had. "HOLY SHIT! THAT WAS COOL! IT'S A POWERFUL WEAPON!" Mike said, finally admitting to it. "Uhuhuh"Hapo said, unable to get any words out. "Now, Mike, go rescue Mica!" Bana said. "Right!" Mike agreed and ran out of Coralcola. He ran all the way to the tunnel entrance. Once there, he stopped. "Well, this is it! Time to go and rescue this girl." Mike said, still with no idea that all this had happened before. Mike took one last deep breath, than ran into the tunnels of Coralcola. The "Test of Island Courage" had began!