HEY YA'LL! HAPPY NEW YEAR! SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG! THIS CHAPTER TOOK ME FOREVER TO DO!
I am super exhausted right now and I have work tomorrow first thing. Ugh. I want someone to kill me right away.
So anyways, please leave postive reviews and I will try and continue this!
"Phoebe… Phoebe… Phoebe…"
Being pulled out of her dream, Phoebe opened her eyes and looked up seeing a pair of blue eyes that belong to her father.
"What dad?"
"Come on, out of bed. We have to go."
"Where?" Phoebe rubs her eyes tiredly.
"The university."
She groans laying back down pulling covers up. "Aw dad! You promised!"
"I know, I know I did. But while I was sleeping, my brain puts a two and two together and I realized what went wrong! I need to fix the problem right away!"
Her father pulls back the covers and sees her daughter frowning. "Look… I know I promised and I am sorry. I'll make it up to you. I'll let you take a sick day in the morning and let you sleep in. Just please help me."
"But mom grounded you."
"I know. I can face an earful from her and your Meemaw later. But this is important Phoebe and I need your help."
Groaning, she got out of bed.
"I'll meet you downstairs in three minutes, and come in your pajamas, you don't have to change," Sheldon whispers leaving.
Phoebe trudged downstairs tiredly and puts on her shoes and jacket before leaving with her father as they head over to Caltech. Sheldon called for an Uber which picked them up and brought them over to the university. She looked at the time seeing that it was only 2 AM and she leans back in the car seat hoping there would be traffic so she can sleep a little. But it was a quick ride and they made it.
The two walk in and down the semi dark halls and downstairs to the old storage rooms and finally to the door to one of them.
"I really want to know what's so important about what your doing, that I had to be here."
"It's an experiment I have been doing for years. I never showed this to anyone. Not even your mother."
"But what is it really?"
"It's a Wormhole Generator."
Phoebe looked confused. "Like In World Of Warcraft?"
"It may be like that, but it's not. No, it's a very different kind. It can show you dimensions, teleportations and magnetic vortexes, etc."
Phoebe says, "You actually made a generator?"
"No no no, I tested it. I only used this out of spare parts from the lab. It just needs a fix and it'll be ready for another test as the others have failed, and this was why it lead to a dead end… Until now."
"I thought you already had a generator. Like a long time ago."
"Oh no. It wasn't real," her father explains, "That was just a prank on your uncles who were snooping in on my business."
"Oh…" Then Phoebe finally asked wanting to see what he's doing, "Can you please show me since you dragged out of my bed on a school night after you promised not to?" Phoebe asked as her father puts a key in the doorknob and twisted it to open.
"Then can you not tell anyone about this?" Sheldon questions back. "Not a single person, not even your siblings. Got it?"
Phoebe nodded.
Sheldon opens the door and heads inside and Phoebe follows.
The room looked abandoned and deserted but it has a small machine centered in the middle of the room.
"Is that it?"
"Yes it is. I'm just going to give it a fix and it will be ready to be tested."
Phoebe stands and leans against the wall waiting for her dad to finish.
He asked, "By the way, what you were going to tell me before princess?"
Phoebe remembers what she wanted to tell him and then starts, "Well, you know this science club?"
"Yes? I understand that you didn't go-"
"Actually they're taking it out of clubs and activities."
Sheldon stops and looks up to his daughter and asked, "What? Why?"
"Kyle told me that the dean is forcing it out. Our friends are upset about it too."
"That is just unacceptable. I will take this up with the superintendent of schools and you will get that club back."
"How are you going to manage to do that?" She asked.
"I will do like how I always do princess," Sheldon replies. "Complain about it. I am very good at complaining."
Phoebe is very glad that her dad is on board with this.
"I'll discuss this with your uncles and aunts and we'll group together later on. Ok?"
It took a little while but it was done.
"I got it! I got it!"
Phoebe then said, "Can I see?"
"Of course, but stand behind me. I don't want you to get hurt," Sheldon said and her daughter went to stand behind him.
Sheldon then turns the machine on and the two stand back as the generator does it's work.
A bright light bursts onto the wall creating a swirling hole.
"It works!" Sheldon shouts with excitement. "It really works!"
She smiled proudly at her father's achievement.
"Now for the real test," Sheldon says as he gets closer to it while Phoebe watches.
Suddenly they hear sirens in the distance.
"What's that?"
It grows louder and louder. "It's the stormtroopers…" Sheldon says turning the generator off and looks out into the hallway.
"You mean the police?" Phoebe asked feeling a little nervous.
"Why would they be at Caltech at this hour?"
Sheldon then says sounding a little nervous, "Phoebe, stay here. I'll be going upstairs. If I'm not back in ten or fifteen minutes, call your mother and go to the police station or hospital or wherever I'm going to be."
"Ok."
"And if anything happens to me, you are always the most perfect daughter ever and I love you!" Sheldon said quickly.
That warms Phoebe's heart. She didn't think that she was the perfect daughter. Given the fact that Alex is very smart and Emma gains popularity. She didn't think where or what it leads her to.
She asks, "Really?"
"Indeed you are. Phoebe, there is something important that we haven't told you about."
"What is it?"
"Well-"
Just then there was banging coming from upstairs.
"Hold that thought! I'll be right back. Ok?" Sheldon shouts and then runs off leaving Phoebe in the storage room.
It has been almost ten minutes and her father hasn't came back yet. Phoebe started getting very worried. She took out her phone and finds her mother's number, but then she heard the banging grow louder and louder as it depends down the stairs.
"Dad?" Phoebe calls out hoping that it was him.
But instead she sees two policemen coming around the corner of the hallway.
Very scared, she immediately shuts the door and locks it. She backs onto the other side of the room about to cry. Her father is gone and now the police shows up. What do they want? And what was going on?
She backed up a little more, her foot accidentally bumping into the generator turning it on. The light once again beams on the wall creating a bright hole. She jumped turning around in fright before realizing she accidentally turned it on.
"PASADENA COUNTY POLICE! OPEN UP! WE KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!" One of the policemen yells while banging on the door.
Phoebe looked back at the door and back at the hole. She already faced detention, the last thing she wants was getting arrested. She also wonders where this wormhole leads.
Curious, her arm extends her hand into the wormhole feeling nothing and pulls it out revealing nothing.
"OPEN UP OR ELSE WE'LL BREAK IT DOWN!"
She made up her mind and without thinking for another second, she steps into the bright wormhole and stumbles into… The storage room?
