Chapter 3
"Tony I'm moving to Mineral town." Tyler said a few weeks later.
"Huh why?" Tony asked plowing the fields.
"I'm getting married to Karen and the man that owned the farm there got hurt badly during the hurricane we had a few weeks ago. He had to retire and is living in a cottage he bought in mineral town a long time ago." Tyler said.
"How did he get hurt?" Tony asked.
"He was out in the hurricane looking for his grandson. The poor guy lost his mind talking about voices and disappeared into the storm. I'm taking over his ranch and you can have mine. Lots of the buildings are damaged and you only have my worn out tools but I think you can manage. After all we got the house fixed in only 3 days thanks to you helping me." Tyler said.
"Well I'm going to miss you man." Tony said patting him on the shoulder.
"Relax I'll come and visit you." Tyler laughed.
Later that day Tyler hopped on his horse which was hitched to a wagon with his things and left Forget me not valley.
"So the farm is mine now." Tony said looking at the deed.
"Well I've got a lot of work to do." Tony said and went into the shed.
He came out with a bronze hammer and got to work destroying the rest of the chick coop. The sound of his demolishing attracted attention, the kind of attention that anyone but Tony would be welcome to have be alerted to what he was doing.
"Hey!" The voice called and Tony wiped his forehead off and looked around.
"Hello?" He asked.
A middle age man in a dirty lab coat and glasses came up the hill onto the farm.
"Are you the one making all that noise?!" He yelled.
"I guess so why?" Tony asked.
"I'm in the middle of an experiment and I can't focus with you doing that!" He yelled.
"Oh when are you going to be done?" Tony asked.
"Not for until tonight." He said walking up to Tony.
"Oh I guess I can take a break not much I can do until I clean up the debris from the storm." Tony said.
"Ah wait a minute who are you?" The man said.
"I'm Tony the new owner of this farm." Tony said showing the man the deed.
"Oh so Tyler gave you his farm huh? Well I guess that makes you my friend. Any friend of Tyler's is a friend of mine. My name is Daryl I'm a scientist." The man said.
"Scientist huh? He looks more like a mad scientist." Tony thought looking Daryl over.
"Anyway if your a friend of Tyler's then maybe you can help me my experiment." Daryl said.
"What kind of experiment?" Tony said.
"Oh looks like Tyler didn't tell him about my experiments. Perfect." Daryl thought.
"Come follow me my boy." Daryl said.
He led Tony to his workshop and inside. There was a fierce looking robot in the middle of the room.
"This is the terminator. I plan to send it back in time to stop my brother from creating that prize winning robot of his but first I must finish my time machine." Daryl said.
"Cool." Tony said looking it over.
"So what do you want me to do?" Tony asked.
"I need you to go to the mines and get me an ore that I need to finish the terminator's power core. Ask Carter to give you the gear you need and you should be good to go." Daryl said turning to the Terminator and got to work.
"Got it." Tony said and left the lab.
"Tyler!" Karen called as he moved up the road.
"Hey Honey." He said hopping of the wagon and kissed her.
"So did you give Tony the farm dear?" She asked.
"Yep he was grateful and got straight to work on it." Tyler said.
"That's good by the way I have a bit of bad news." Karen said.
"What is it?" Tyler asked.
"Well you know Talon the old man who said you could use the farm? Well he recovered when his son brought him a power berry and he's working on the farm now." Karen said.
"Oh so what am I going to do?" Tyler asked.
"Talon said that we can have his cottage and you can work as his partner on the farm. With both of you together you'll make that farm the best in world soon enough." Karen said.
"Great lets get this stuff to the cottage and then I'm getting to work." He said.
A few hours later Tyler looked around and saw Talon and Tony's dad working in the fields.
"Dad I don't have time for this." Tony's dad sighed as he bashed a rock with a hammer.
"Nonsense Luke you have all the time in the world! Your company went under so now your working for me boy! Besides you've sold everything already and we doubled the size of the house! Your back were you belong boy!" Talon laughed and Luke groaned.
"Man why me?" He sighed.
"Hey." Tyler said coming up to them.
"Well hello Tyler ready to work?" Talon said.
"You bet." Tyler said pulling out a blessed hoe and then charged up and hit the ground sending a quake a long the ground tilling fresh soil.
"Nice job together we'll repair the farm and make it the best in the world." Talon laughed.
"Your right dad enough fooling around." Luke said taking his glasses off and put them away. (He only needed them for reading anyway.)
"That's the spirit come on!" Tyler said.
"Hmm nope, not it, close... but not it." Tony thought as he dug at the site.
"Uh what are you looking for?" Carver asked as Tony threw relics over his shoulder that he didn't need.
"I need... something it's shiny and blue." Tony said and dug up a sword.
"Nice I'm keeping this." He thought and put it away then dug some more.
"Well if you find any tablets let me know." Carver said.
"Over there Carver." Tony said pointing to a bunch of tablets and items Carver was looking for.
"Oh my." Carver said amazed.
"This is everything I was hoping to find here and then some." He said amazed.
"Ah here we go." Tony said holding a crystal up.
"Later Carver!" Tony said leaving the dig site.
Carver sat dumb founded and Flora his assistant came into the dig site.
"Ah Carver what's wrong?" She asked.
"Tony just dug up everything I have ever been looking for in 30 minutes that I have spent 20 years searching for. I don't have a goal in life any more." Carver said and left the dig site.
"But Carver!" Flora said yet he was gone.
"I'm going to get Tony for this. Now I won't get paid anymore." Flora thought and began planning his downfall. (Yeesh scary lady.)
"There perfect." Daryl said with a smile.
The terminator was even more dangerous then before with the addition to a battle suit and rocket launchers.
"Perfect once Tony gets back I'll send it back in time and stop that brother of mine from becoming famous. It should have been me. He stole my blue prints for the Innocent life robot plans!" Daryl growled.
"Am I interrupting your evil ranting?" Tony asked.
"No not at all did you find it?" Daryl asked plainly. (Wow Tony is so innocent now it's almost a sin.)
"Yep here you go Daryl." Tony said tossing it to him.
"Ah wonderful." Daryl said and put it in his robot.
The terminator actived and looked at Daryl.
"What are your orders master?" The terminator asked.
"I commanded you go to and stop my brother from creating the innocent life robot. If you fail to stop him from doing so then destroy it!" Daryl said.
"Yes Master I shall prepare for time travel I will be ready in 6 hours." The terminator said.
"Good now Tony is your new master so listen to him while I'm gone I have to pick up a few things in town." Daryl said and left his house.
"Huh I'm in charge of a killer robot." Tony thought.
"Want to play?" He asked the terminator.
"What is play?" It asked.
"Come on I'll show you." Tony said taking his hand and lead him outside. (May the harvest goddess have mercy on us all.)
As Daryl walked down the road that went out of town he felt a shiver run down his spine.
"Dang it's cold today." He thought and went on.
"Master is this fun?" The terminator asked Tony who was sitting on his shoulder as it destroyed a random town miles away from forget me not valley and mineral town.
"Yep see all the people screaming? They are targets. If you shoot them you get points. And now I'm Jason from Friday the 13th." Tony said putting on a hockey mask. (I think he had brain damage or something. He is easily distracted by things that are not farming related it seems.)
"How do you know this master?" The terminator asked.
"Easy Tyler taught me." Tony said.
Tyler sneezed loudly while he was brushing his horse.
"Tyler what's wrong dear?" Karen asked carrying a bucket of milk.
"I sense a disturbance in the force." Tyler said and ran out of the stable.
He ran into the ranch house where Talon and Luke where eating lunch in front of the TV.
"Move!" Tyler said and changed to the news station.
"A robot is attacking I am currently coming to you live from the scene where the robot is rampaging. It appears to have a hostage and is moving this way!" The reporter said and the camera man dropped the camera.
The terminator looked down at it and Tony did too.
"Holy cow look at that kid on the robot!" Tyler said.
"He's not a hostage he's the one controlling it!" Talon said.
"Dang this is bad if it comes over here we are hosed." Karen said.
"Hmm wait what's happening?" Luke said.
"Master my charge is complete I must return to the lab and go to the past." The terminator said.
"Okay but first say the line to the camera." Tony said.
The terminator looked down at the camera and turned it's left arm into a shotgun.
"Hosta la vista, baby." The terminator said and Tony lifted his mask up enough to expose his mouth and he smiled as the terminator shot it out.
"Good lord the traffic coming back here was murder." Daryl sighed as he headed for his lab.
Tony was sitting on his sofa looking at the black jacket the terminator left him and put it on.
"Ah Tony did the terminator go back in time?" Daryl asked.
"Yep oh and it destroyed a town while it was waiting for the time travel thingy to charge." Tony said.
"Wonderful!" Daryl said.
"Wow would you look at the time I've got to go now." Tony said putting the hockey mask on and drew the sword he got from the mine.
"Why?" Daryl said.
"It's friday the 13th. I have to scare the crap out of some campers later." Tony said.
"What a weird kid." Daryl said waving Tony off.
