Hey everybody! Sorry for the long wait! I've really been procrastinating, the true words of my friend doodlegirll. :P Well, here's chapter 4, I hope you enjoy.
Oh, lets see who can guess what c89p means? I'll give you a hint, the real name of it was going to be 38916. ;) Not a easy clue, but still a good clue!
Chapter 4. The search.
Wilbur shot a glare at Lewis then pulled a stopwatch from his pocket.
"Whats that?" Lewis asked.
"A stopwatch." Wilbur grinned, when his father didn't look amused, he said: "Fine. Its the Time Pause 3000. It stops time."
"Where'd you get that?"
"From another fanf- I mean..Your lab?" Wilbur smiled at Lewis, who shot him a look. "What? Its not my fault you leave your inventions out in plain sight!"
Lewis rolled his eyes. "And by plain site you mean..."
"Locked in the drawer I'm not supposed to go into. But not the point." Wilbur said as he drew a piece of string from his pocket and lay it on the floor. "The point is, Tinys missing and I'll be in trouble unless you come and help." He grabbed Lewis's shoulder and pulled him into the circle and pressed the stop button on the stopwatch.
Lewis looked at his clock, the hands weren't moving. "That is so cool! How'd I figure that out?"
"Search me," Wilbur muttered as he began to walk towards the secret door in the wall. "One day you came out of the lab screaming with happiness, saying you made a time stopper. Something about a c89p chip or whatever." Wilbur shrugged.
Lewis followed him through the secret door and to the time machine. Wilbur quickly turned off the invisibilty and hopped in, Lewis followed him.
In a matter of minutes they were zooming in the futur's air, flying across the citys skyline and to the Robinson house.
Wilbur landed the time machine in the front yard with a small thump on the tires hitting the dirt and glanced at Lewis. "Hey, I just thought of something really cool. Why don't you and I just go and search the backyard?"
Lewis shook his head. "Wilbur, we're going to need more then two people to find this dinosaur."
Wilbur gave a small pout. "What about-"
"No." Said Lewis firmly.
"Gee, you really need to stop that," Wilbur huffed as he climbed out of the time machine.
"Stop what?"
"Stop acting like my father!" Wilbur spat. "Stop treating me like I'm a little kid. Your not my dad yet, I don't see a ring on your finger."
Lewis didn't answer, instead he climbed out of the time machine and looked around. "Lets go explain this to your mom."
Wilbur opened his mouth as if to say something, but didn't answer. Instead he grimaced as he heard the front door of the Robinson Mansion slam open and quick clunks of highheels come closer.
"Wilbur Robinson! I can't believe you!" Franny muttered angrily, she stopped suddenly when she noticed Lewis. She stared at him then shot her son a angry look. "You brought him here again? Wilbur! Thats dangerous! What about the past changing?"
Wilbur grinned a cocky smile. "Taken care of. I used the time stopwatch-"
"You stole two of your fathers inventions!" Franny exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air. "Wilbur Robinson! I have half the mind to..." she stopped and stared angrily ahead, not finishing the sentance.
"Mom...I have no idea why you're so angry." Wilbur said slowly after a few seconds, he glanced behind his mother where a worried Carl stood, he apparently had stepped out of the house while Franny was scolding Wilbur.
She stared at him. "Don't give me that, young man," she said. "I know what you did with The Cupid. Carl told me."
"Carl!" Wilbur moaned as he glared at the Robot.
"Hey!" Carl said. "Do you know how hard it is to keep a secret when you are threatened on being deactivated? She didn't know where you were, and you know I'm not a good liar!"
"Why didn't you just say I was 'out'?" Wilbur asked through gritted teeth.
Carl didn't answer, instead Franny grabbed Wilbur on the shoulder near his neck very tightly, ignoring his "ow!" and wagged her finger in his face. "I am so very mad at you, Wilbur. You're lucky I haven't done anything yet, you're even luckier I have good self control."
Wilbur looked into his mothers eyes, then glanced at Lewis, who was watching.
Franny looked over Wilburs head and eyed Lewis. "Hello Lewis. I hope you don't mind me asking why my misbehaving boy brought you back here?"
"To help him find Tiny." Lewis replied.
Franny looked at Wilbur. "Wilbur! If you had asked the whole family could have helped, instead you steal the time machine and kidnap Lewis? Wilbur, you are in so much trouble-"
"Yeah yeah, Mom." Wilbur interuprted. "Listen, to make it short, I really don't care." He looked at Carl and Lewis and saw their shocked expressions, he suddenly realised what he said and slammed his hand over his mouth, eyeing his angry mother worriedly. "We need to find Tiny?"
Franny seemed to look like she was trying very hard not to explode, she let his shoulder go and straighted up and blew out a breath of aggravated air. "Yes, we do," she eyed her son then Lewis. "Where did you last see him? We'll all help you find him, I'm sure the family doesn't mind helping, I'll go get the family, you show Lewis and Carl the place you hit Tiny...But don't think you're off the hook."
Wilbur huffily lead Carl and Lewis over into the backyard behind the lab in front the tree Wilbur had aimed at that morning.
"He shrunk somewhere around here," Wilbur muttered, standing in place with his hands in his pockets, scanning the grass with his eyes. "Its going to be impossible to find him." he added quietly.
"Don't we so negative, Wilbur!" Lewis said as he dropped to his knees and picked up a small orange thing. "Darn..Just a toy. But anyway, don't think we won't find him! Its not impossible, we just need to look hard."
"We could use your search goggles. You made them last year." Wilbur suggested.
Lewis smiled. "Great idea! Go get them."
Wilbur frowned. "Can't. You kind of...locked them up."
"Why?" Lewis asked, but already knowing the answer.
"Because I wouldn't stop touching them, taking them and bugging him for them." Wilbur said, shrugging as he looked over the grass again, still not moving.
"Wilbur, it would help if you looked to, instead of just standing there. You'll get sunburned." said Lewis.
"Eh, like I wouldn't get sunburned by walking around, either. I haven't gotten sunburned in years, I'll be okay. And I am looking." Wilbur said cockily to Lewis.
"Get looking, Wilbur Robinson. Now." said a stern voice behind him, Wilbur jumped a mile and spun around. He had not heard his mother coming as the grass killed the sound her highheels made.
Most of the family were behind her, the only ones missing were Fritz and Petunia, who were on hiatus.
The family split up and went looking around the yard, they didn't stretch out to far because: how far can a dinosaur as small as a bottle cap go?
The family had been searching for almost an hour when Carl suddenly said:
"Wheres Wilbur?"
Everybody looked up from where they were and looked around for him, but he was nowhere to be found.
"Where is that boy?" Franny asked, secretly fearing that he might have taken the time machine again. "He always seems to disapear when he is forced to do something."
"I'll go check in the house," said Carl.
Carl left and returned in a matter of minutes hauling back a scrowling Wilbur, holding him by the arm like Franny sometimes did to him.
"I don't get Carls problem." Wilbur said cockyly. "I found a way to find Tiny."
"How?" Lewis asked as he trotted over to Wilbur and noticed he had something in his hand.
"Well dad, uh, you made Tiny a tracker once we got to owning him. I just remembered where you had it a few minutes back. If Carl would let my arm go and stop pinching a nerve I'll show you how it works." Wilbur shot a glare at the robot, who let go of Wilbur skinny arm.
Beeping was suddenly heard from the house, worried, Carl and Tallulah ran inside the house to find out what it was.
Wilbur took the item he held and flipped it open, like a 21st centuary cell phone, it was about the size of a small laptop and had a screen like a laptop on top, a few knobs and buttons were located on the bottom. Wilbur pressed a few bottons and a map popped up on the trackers screen. The map began to move and finally a orange blob was located, on a hill that was located near a giant city. It wasen't moving.
"Thats weird." Wilbur muttered. "That city looks nothing like ours."
Suddenly the screen screwed up and the machine turned itself off.
Wilbur quickly pressed the 'on' switch, when the machine didn't turn on again, he began pressing the button rather quickly until his mother took the machine from his hands.
"Whats wrong with it?" She asked herself as she turned it over and over in her hands.
Carl came running back outside with Tallulah then, muttering how the fridge had suddenly turned off and how the travel tubes in the house had stopped working.
"The beeping," he explained. "was the travel tubes setting off. Its really weird, I haven't gone into Cornelius's lab yet, but it seems that everything with the C89p chip has suddenly shut down."
"Which would explain why this tracker shut off," Franny mused. "Cornelius used the c89p chip for it."
"Wait.." Lewis began, looking frightened at Wilbur, who had the same face on.
"The Time Pause 3000!" gasped Wilbur.
"What do you mean, Wilbur?" Franny asked him.
"The Time Pause 3000, the stop watch dad made to stop time, had a c89p chip in it. So naturally that means time is back to normal in the year 2007..."
"Wilbur?" Lewis started, looking at the tracker Franny still had in her hands. "Tiny wasen't moving, was he?"
"No."
"And the city map looked different on the tracker?"
"Uh, yeah."
"What if Tinys in the past? Now that the c89p chip isn't working, time won't frozen so.." Lewis trailed off.
Wilbur stared at him with a worried expression for a few seconds, but then turned back into his own stubborn self. He waved a hand at him and said: "Please. I'm not stupid enough to let a dinosaur escape to the past!"
He looked at his family, who was giving him a knowing look.
"Okay, fine." Wilbur muttered huffingly. "Should we go back and check?"
"I think you should young man," Franny said. "Go now, and be careful!"
"Yeah yeah, mom," Wilbur muttered walking with Lewis back to the parked time machine.