Hey everyone, a little late on the update, I've mostly just been lazy and had a small bit of writers block. But that's over with and I'm ready to write this chapter. You guys seem to like being on that cliff, so I'll leave you up there! How's that? Great!
Cuddles140: I knew you'd lose that rope! And yes, I'm glad you remembered that in a previous story I mentioned Jet having a bad childhood.
Katie07111: Thanks for the rope! What do I need it for? Ah, forget it! *throws it off cliff* Yes they are connected.
Lolumroller: I HATE when that happens!
Brittney9100: No, I never hold a grudge! *hides knife*
Zanerexn41: Oops, sorry about that. If you don't like it then maybe I'll put something a bit less depressing. No promises.
Goody50: Watch your language!
Out in the distance, not too far from that tropical island, there was a white cloth just floating along. If you look closely enough, you can see that the white cloth isn't just a white cloth, it's a lab coat. Gary's lab coat to be exact. Not too far from the lab coat, you can see a dark blue penguin floating on a piece of metal.
"This titanium alloy is perfect for me to float on." Gary said to himself. "If only I knew how to swim though."
Gary began looking around for any land or anything to aid him while he's alone at sea.
"Hm, nothing in sight, it seems that I'm in quite the predicament. I have the faintest idea of how to get back to Club Penguin, let alone another island." Gary said to himself as a cold gust of air hit him. "My, my, it is very cold. Where is my lab coat?" Gary began looking around for his lab coat. (Shirtless Gary! Eeeeee!) He spotted it about a mile away from where he was standing. "However will I be able to reach that!?" He sighed as he stared at his lab coat.
Gary got an idea. "I got it!" He took out his "Oar 3000". "This 'Oar 3000' will help me reach objects as far as 100 miles! Most excellent, if I do say so myself!" Gary congratulated himself for a short while before using his new gadget. He pressed the button on the side of the 'Oar 3000' and the long metal arm began extending until it touched his lab coat. "Got it!" Gary pressed the button once again and the arm retracted, sending back the lab coat. "Thank you 'Oar 3000'!" he said to the invention as he put his lab coat back on. He shivered as he slid it onto his flippers.
"I say," he said blowing on his flippers, "is it colder than I last remember?"
He looked around again before laying down on the metal. "Maybe getting just a few minutes of sleep could energize and refresh me. I wonder how Agent Jet Pack Guy is doing."
(Gary flashback time!)
"Come on, Gary!" said a voice that sounded quite a distance from the other penguin.
"Could you please slow down? I'm not as fast as I used to be!" said a dark blue penguin wearing a white lab coat and a tie.
"Why did you wear that?" asked his penguin friend pointing to his lab coat.
"I always wear this. What's wrong with it?" The dark blue penguin asked.
"Sprocket, you've got to actually look like you're going to have fun. Not make something explode!"
"Would you please stop calling me 'Sprocket'? My name is Gary." Gary said
"Well, I like to call you Sprocket because you're all high tech and whatnot." Said his friend
"Well I at least need a nickname for you!" Gary said back.
His friend thought for a while. "Think back to one of our best adventures!"
Gary thought back to when he climbed the Tallest Mountain while there was a blizzard, it's the reason he decided not to become a field agent. (This is a reference to another story that I believe was removed a while back, I forgot the name and the author but I do remember that part in the story, I just forgot the partner's name.)
"Peak!" He said suddenly.
"Peak?"
"Indeed, one of my favorite adventures was us climbing the Tallest Mountain, therefore Peak." Gary said.
"I like it, Sprocket. Now let's go!" he said
"Wait a minute, where are we going?" Gary asked
"You'll see!" shouted Peak as he ran further.
The two best friends arrived at the beach where you could see a lot of happy, yellow fish leaping out of the water and landing back down with a splash. Gary watched in fascination.
"Sprocket! What are you looking at?" Peak asked
"Look at how the angle of this fish is leaping! It is a perfect obtuse angle every time. Yes, sir that is a true talent right there!" Gary said marveled at the leaping.
Peak rolled his eyes. "SPROCKET!"
Gary jumped. "Gah!"
"Get the seawater out of your eyes so we can begin!" Peak said handing Gary a fishing rod. "We're going fishing!"
"Fishing?" Gary asked. "Whatever for?"
"To get you outside more! You're always in your lab and it's like I never see you anymore. We needed some time together for once!" Peak said to Gary.
Gary looked at the fishing rod then took it. "Well, I suppose catching a few fish could be a good way of spending time together."
"That's the spirit….sorta… we'll work on that some other time. Now let's get fishing!" Peak said casting his rod into the water and Gary followed.
Hours went by and no fish came biting or tugging on the line at all.
"Well this is a fine waste of time." Peak said standing up. "I'll be right back."
"Wherever could you go at a time like this?" Gary asked
"I'm going to go find someone to help us fish! We're terrible!" Peak said running off in the opposite direction.
Gary sat there shaking his head as he suddenly felt a tug on his line. He looked at his rod and realized that he didn't catch a fish, he caught a box!
"What is this?" he asked as he picked up the box and looked inside.
Inside the box was a little penguin that looked about the age of 8, as he picked up the little penguin, he began to cry.
"Shh, it's ok; I'm not going to hurt you." He said rocking the penguin. "My name is Gary the Gadget Guy."
"I-I'm J-Jet Pack G-Guy." He stuttered.
"Nice to meet you." Gary said as he waddled back to his igloo with the penguin.
Peak called out to Gary. "Sprocket! Where are you going!?"
Gary turned around. "Something came up, I have to go!" Gary continued to waddle until he reached his igloo. He placed the little 8 year old on his bed and swore to always look out for him no matter what.
(End of flashback)
Gary opened his eyes and began looking around. "Oh my, how long was I asleep?"
"I do indeed miss my good friend, Peak. I do wonder how he turned out." Gary said as he began using his flippers to row.
He occasionally looked back up to see if there was any land anywhere to be found. "Now, it would be a lot easier if I could invent a 'Findland 3000'…" Gary was knocked out cold after being forced into the water by an unknown source. (Darnit, Belle!)
(Time for Gary's life, this one I had the most trouble with)
A small, dark blue, three-year old penguin was sitting in his crib all alone. He may look small, but he had a massive IQ and an enormous cranium capacity. As well as a fair amount of brothers and sisters. His parents were very supportive but sometimes didn't know what to do with him when he seemed way too advanced for his age. His brother, Link, waddled into the room and picked up a tiny ball. (No, not Link from The Legend of Zelda)
"Hey Gary, try to catch this!" he said throwing the ball at him. The ball hit Gary in the glasses and his glasses fell off.
Link laughed. "You're so slow! How are you that advanced but still can't catch a simple ball?!" He waddled out of the room still laughing.
Gary didn't talk much as a toddler; he often answered questions by spelling them out on blocks, which were his favorite toys. His parents decided to send him to preschool early hoping that he'd be a bit more social in preschool. Unfortunately, he was picked on for his small size but big brain. When he got home, he was often put into a state of depression so he'd waddle to his room and begin playing with his blocks or asking one of his brothers and sisters to give him math problems and equations to figure out. Finally Gary was able to go to elementary school at the age of 3 after skipping preschool. He ended up going to middle school by the time he was 8 and that's when he began inventing. His first invention was his coffee machine which he carried around with him all the time.
Today, Gary waddled out of his math classroom with his coffee machine in his flippers. A group of boys waddled over to him as he opened his locker.
"Hey look, it's Scary Gary." Said one of the boys
Gary ignored the boys like he usually did and closed his locker, one of the boys stood in front of him, blocking his path. Gary began getting nervous, he hated crowds.
"Hey Scary Gary, what's the square root of 2,456?" asked the other boy.
"W-Well, I'm sure the answer to that is…."
"Wrong!" The boy interrupted. "The answer is behind you!"
"What?" Gary asked himself as he turned around. When he turned around, a different boy kicked him and knocked him onto the floor.
"See you later, Scary Gary." The boys said as they waddled off and laughed.
The rest of the penguins in the hallway began staring at Gary as Gary tried to escape all the eyes that were watching him. This is what caused Gary to fear crowds and tight spaces. Soon the school day was over and he got onto his bus, on his way to the bus, he noticed the group of boys that bullied him earlier.
"Aw, look! Scary Gary looks scared!" said the first boy.
"Yeah, he does look scared! So Scary Gary's name really is Scaredy Gary!" The boys said laughing.
The rest of the bus began laughing with them. Gary felt humiliated, the bus driver kicked the boys off the bus, but now no one wanted to sit next to Gary. So he just stood on the bus while he got paper balls and books thrown at him. He was the smallest kid there and no one treated him with respect at all.
When he got off the bus, there were a group of penguins in his neighborhood that had just moved there. Gary didn't feel like introducing himself so he ignored the boys, unfortunately those were the same boys that bullied him that same day. They had followed him home. They began crowding around Gary again, knowing about his claustrophobia. Gary couldn't shout for help because he felt all the walls close in on him and he felt trapped and unable to escape from the torment. He felt light-headed and nearly collapsed until he saw a girl in the corner of his eye. She was a purple penguin with a light purple suit on, which soon turned into a polar bear suit in the blink of an eye. She waddled over to the bullies dressed as a polar bear and began to roar. The boys turned around and saw the bear so they ran the opposite way.
Gary looked up and was relieved to see all the bullies gone. The girl took off her costume and helped him up.
"Are you ok?" she asked
Gary nodded in response afraid to let out another word.
"I'm sorry that happened to you, my name is Dot." She said extending her flipper.
Gary extended his and shook her flipper. They both waddled home together as they (mostly she) talked until they reached their house.
"Well, I have to go. Nice meeting you, Gary. Bye." She waved and waddled inside her house.
Gary waddled home smiling; he just met his first friend.
(Flashback over)
Gary woke up and rubbed his head.
"What an odd yet familiar dream." He said standing up. "And what an odd yet familiar island."
What an oddly long chapter! I had trouble with Gary's backstory. I didn't mean to make them connect but it seems that that's what the flashbacks ended up doing. So you know whose backstory is next. Give me some ideas for theirs.