In the first video game, I remember having a hard time finding Doc's Challenge. I wanted to use the actual roads, but I got frustrated and zoomed through some snad.
Chapter 5: Here We Go Again
"Kristopher, weren't you supposed to catch up with Derek and the others?" I asked.
"I did," Kristopher replied. "When I got there, everything was under control. The bookcase was up, Sally wasn't seriously hurt, and even most of the books were back on the shelf. Derek's planning on getting some kind of hardware whatevers to keep the bookcases from falling again. They're pretty tall. What happened to you?"
"I had a hard time getting back into town from Willy's Butte," I said sheepishly.
"Mind filling me in?" William nearly shouted. "Kristopher how did you get here?" William turned to me. "And you said Derek is getting married."
"In three days!" Kristopher pointed out cheerfully.
William's eyes fell to the ground. "The last time I spoke to Derek, he said nothing about being engaged."
"William," I said. I put my tire on his to comfort him. "That was the last time either of us spoke to him, but it wasn't as long ago as you think it was. It was only two years. Right, Kristopher?"
"To the day, I believe," Kristopher mused.
"Aha!" I exclaimed suddenly. "It was two years in your world as well! William, when we're here, time in our world slows down, but when everyone is in the right place, time is exactly the same."
"That makes sense," William said.
"How can that make sense?" Kristopher asked. He seemed baffled.
"Well... This car world and the human world where we originally came from are, simply put, alternate realities, or 'parallel dimensions', as the latter implies that the worlds coexist as one but are independent of each other. Since time is the same in both worlds when everyone is where they should be, then this case is almost certainly one of parallel dimensions. However, in the rare occasion when someone is misplaced, such as one person or car appearing in the other world, the world in which the came from is highly disturbed, thus slowing down time there. Then, when the person returns to their home, time returns to normal, and the time in the world they visited is slowed until the other world catches up." William, who was pacing during his speech, turned to face us. He frowned when he saw our somewhat confused faces.
I shook away my silly, dumbfounded expression. "I think Kristopher had a rhetorical question, William."
"Oh, sorry," William said.
"Yeah, give us a little warning before you go off on one of your long-winded speeches again," Kristopher said with a laugh.
"As, uh... thorough... as your explanation was, I don't think I understand how time is still normal when Kristopher and Derek are here," I said. "They came from the human world."
"I think I can answer that one," Kristopher responded for William. "Derek and I no longer have a place where we were born. There, we're dead. Be time doesn't slow down until someone is missing, or misplaced, no matter where we go, nothing will get highly disturbed, or whatever."
"Because you can't get misplaced if you don't have a place to begin with," William completed. "But how are you here?"
"All because of some crazy dream you once had, brother," Kristopher replied.
William's eyes fell to the ground in shame. "I don't remember having such a dream. I don't remember ever being here."
"Hey!" I exclaimed. "Maybe that's how we get back William!"
"Maybe what is how we get back?" he asked.
"You don't remember it, but the last time we were here I had to remember something to get us back," I answered. "For us to go back this time, you have to remember something."
"I don't get–"
"William, you should get it. You should be able to remember the last time we were in this world!"
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