AN: just so no one gets confused, Lewis thinks that Bobby is Wilbur in the first part of the chapter.

also sorry for the late upload i had trouble figiring out where to end this chapter and had to rewrite it a few times.

The Incredible Future The Next Generation

Chapter 3

Lewis looked around. He was definitely in the future. He recognised the buildings, flying cars and even the transporter tubes. His only question was how did he get here?

Only a minute ago he was in the past, in front of his school. There was no time machine around when this happen. All he remembered was grabbing Wilbur's shirt and next thing he knew he was in the future. Although there was something different about it and there was also something different about Wilbur. he couldn't figure out what was different, but it felt as if Wilbur had changed.

Brilliant just brilliant he thought. He had bought back his grandfather to his time in 2061. What was up with his powers? First they make him travel forwards, then they send him to the past and back and now they're not working. He had no choice but to take him home. He searched his bag and pulled out his cap. Lewis's hair was too much of a give away. His dad had told him how he once bought him to the future and that he risked altering his existence. There was no way he was going to let that happen.

"I guess your parents don't know about this." said Lewis taking the cap and placing it on his head.

"No they don't and lets keep it that way." snapped Bobby.

Lewis sighed and he followed Wilbur. While they walked around the he examined the future. It looked much different walking then when he had flown in the time machine. Everything seemed so much bigger. He followed Wilbur and was surprised that when they arrived at his house he had another shock. Their house was completely different. It was a bit smaller than the original Robinson home, but it was still huge. They approached the house and he didn't see Spike nor Dimitri, in fact there weren't any pot plants in front of the house anywhere. Did they moved or something?

Bobby gently and quietly opened the front door. He couldn't attract too much attention. He gestured to Lewis to keep quiet and be quick when he entered the house. He quietly shut the door.

"Oh, you're back."

He turned around and found his mother standing near the kitchen.

"Hey mom." he grinned nervously.

"How was school dear?" she asked

"Uhh… well it was…eventful." He replied.

Lewis looked at who Wilbur was talking to. He was surprised when he had called her mom. She didn't look like Franny. She did have that same hair colour but it was much longer and she didn't seem to have the family cowlick. Also her eyes were blue instead of hazel. What had happened to Franny did he remarry or something. He looked up at her and he noticed that she looked at him too.

"Who's your friend?" she asked looking at Wilbur again.

"Oh. This is Lew…Louie." he said, then he gave a look to Lewis that said play along.

"Ah…yeah. I'm Louie." he said shaking her hand.

"Nice to meet you Louie." she smiled and she headed back to the kitchen.

Bobby sighed with relief once his mom left. It was too close. He then remembered his dad. Oh if anyone was going to recognise Lewis it was going to be him. His dad was one of the people who knew Lewis the most.

"Hey mom, where's dad?" he shouted across the room.

"What? Oh, he's working late today. He always works late on Fridays so he can spend the weekend with us." she answered from the kitchen.

"Oh, sorry forgot."

Lewis still wanted to know what was going on. There were many things that he didn't seem to understand. For starters, he wanted to know why Wilbur came to the past, how they travelled to the future, why was their home different and why did Wilbur have a different mom? He followed Wilbur down one of the halls. He thought that maybe he could ask him some questions.

"Hey, how come you called that lady mom?"

"Ahh…let me think, because she is my mom." he replied sarcastically with an eye roll.

Lewis shook his head at him. It wasn't the answer he expected. He expected something like that Franny left or she… he didn't want to think about it.

"Where are we going?" he asked.

Wilbur took a while to answer. " To find C.A.R.L, he's usually in my dad's study."

C.A.R.L. now there was a familiar name. Maybe if someone could tell him what was going on it would be him.

They arrived at the study at the end of the hall.

C.A.R.L! get over here now!" shouted Bobby.

The robot soon came running towards him and answered "What little buddy. You sound like you need something."

"You remember that glitch that happened last week?" he had told C.A.R.L since he trusted him with most of his secrets. He even kept them from his dad, despite the fact that they were best friends.

"Yes, why?"

"Well it happened again."

"Ohhh. What happened did you alter the time stream." gasped the robot.

"No!" Bobby said defensively. " I…ahh…" he pulled Lewis in front of C.A.R.L and flicked his hat off.

The robot's eyes made a look if shock and horror. He then started yelling and screaming.

"I thought I only had to deal with this kind of thing with your dad. Bringing him back from past one time was bad enough, but twice is worse, especially when your whole family's existence is at risk."

Bobby quickly grabbed C.A.R.L and covered his mouth. "Shush, will you or do you want the whole family to know." he said. "If I could bring him back I would, but I can't because…" he began to whisper. "My powers don't seem to be working."

He let go of him and he managed to stay quiet.

Lewis was confused. He had been listening to the argument and did not understand a word of it. He didn't catch the last part Wilbur had said because he whispered to C.A.R.L. he wanted to know what was going on right now?

"Ok, you tell me what's going on right now! Wilbur start explaining?" he ordered.

They both looked at him and C.A.R.L looked over to Wilbur and said "You didn't tell him who you are, did you?"

"I might've forgotten to mention."

The robot looked at him strictly and told him "You better."

"Wilbur." said Lewis sternly.

He sighed and finally started speaking. "First of all stop calling me Wilbur. It makes jump because I think he's really here and second of all name is Bobby."

"Fine…Bobby. If your not Wilbur than where is he?"

"He's at work and he's my dad." he answered.

Wait. This was Wilbur's son he was with. So that meant he was even further in the future than last time. He looked closely at him and for the first time he noticed that his eyes were blue like his mom's. Things were starting to make sense. Their home was different because Wilbur had moved out and moved in with his wife. Which came to another answer that she was definitely Wilbur's wife and not Franny.

Wilbur was all grown up now. To him it only seemed like months since he last saw him, but here it was years. Lewis put his cap back on and followed Bobby out the door.

Alright he told Lewis the basics and that's all he planned to tell him. His parents kept him being a super a secret from the rest of the family and he wasn't going to tell the younger version of his grandfather now.

He went up a transporter tube and landed in his bedroom. He figured that he'd watch the chargeball game and deal with the issue later. Lewis had arrived after a few seconds. He seemed to have fallen when he came down the transporter tube.

He really needed to work on his balance. It was one of his inventions-to-be. The transporter tube was still a sketch in his notebook. He got to his feet and saw Bobby setting up a TV or some type of screen thing. Once he had settled he was watching some type of futuristic sport. He didn't really understand it. After a while just sitting in Bobby's room he decided to might as well look around. He headed to the door and Bobby didn't notice him leaving, he was too busy being occupied with his game.

He had to admit that he did like their home. It had the crazy Robinson feel to it and it had a small touch of normal to it. He walked around and came across a door that was round and colourful. He opened it and inside it looked to be a play room. Inside was very bright and there were heaps of what he assumed where toys that kids played with in the future. There was a big screen in the back wall of the room which had a spinning logo on the screen being displayed and read 'Chargeball'. he assumed it was obviously Bobby's. he then turned to another part of the room and there he saw a big club house which looked liked a replica of this house. He headed over to it and looked through one of the windows. He saw a bunch of toys neatly stacked and there was a small table inside with a little toy tea set set on it. There sitting on a chair was a little girl. She looked a lot like Bobby's mom, was it possible she was his younger sister. Her hair was long and black and it was pulled back by a light blue headband, that seemed to match her dress. She seemed to be enjoying her little pretend tea party. He took a step back as to not disturb her, but he stepped on something that made a loud squeaky noise. The little girl stopped her playing and looked up slightly startled.

"Oh, hello." she said shyly.

"Uh…Hi." he said awkwardly.

She looked at him for a while and Lewis looked at her eyes and they were Wilbur's eyes. It was clear to him that she was shy and it must have taken a lot of courage for her to say something to him.

"Are you Bobby's friend?." she said quietly.

"Well I guess you could say that." he shrugged.

"Ok. I'm Helena his little sister."

"Nice to meet you I'm…Louie." he said almost forgetting his pretend name.

"It's nice to meet you too. You know you look familiar, have we met before." she said almost suspiciously.

Lewis had a worried look on his face. He couldn't give himself away otherwise he would get Bobby into trouble.

"Ahhh….that's weird because I have never seen you before. You must have me confused with someone else." he said quickly trying not to sound suspicious.

Helena eyed him and then said "Oh ok, it was nice meeting you anyway." and the young girl continued playing her game. Lewis walked out of the room and took the normal way of exploring the house. He didn't want to take the transporter tube because he wasn't sure how to work to them yet. He didn't know if a specific tube led to a specific part of the house or if took you to where you intended to go. He went downstairs and found Bobby's mom sitting on a couch and reading a thick book. She seemed to have noticed him coming down.

"Why hello again Louie." she greeted.

"Hello Mrs Robinson." he replied.

"Oh you don't have to call me that, Violet is just fine." she giggled.

"Umm… okay than Violet." he said. "What are you reading." he asked turning his attention to her book.

"Oh, well this is Harry potter and the Deathly Hallows." she replied.

How did she know about that book. It was out way before she was born, maybe it because they were so successful that the series was still very well known. He wondered what Wilbur saw in her. Was it because he thought she was pretty or because she was nice? Wilbur had always seemed to be the out there kind of guy and Violet seemed to be the in here kind of girl.

"I presume you're not a fan of chargeball." she said peeking over the top of her book.

So that's what Bobby was watching. A chargeball tournament of some kind.

"No, not really." he replied.

She looked over to the clock and got up. "I better check the cooking, it's almost time for dinner." she headed to the kitchen and disappeared,

Lewis headed back up the stairs and into bobby's room. He was still watching his game. He walked over to a shelf display in one end of his room. There were several trophies (most to do with chargeball) and a few photos of him with his family. The one that caught his eye was a picture in the exact centre of the shelf. It was a photo of their family. It seemed to be taken a few years ago because both Bobby and Helena seemed to look much younger than they were now. In the phot they seemed to be at the park, Bobby was being hugged by Violet and across from them he saw Helena being carried on someone's shoulder. He looked at who was carrying her., it was a slightly muscular man who had hazel eyes like Helena and his hair was black like the res of the families except he had his hair pointed up. It was the family cow lick, it was Wilbur. To him Wilbur looked a bit the same as he did when he was 13. The only main difference was that he was a lot taller and older now.

"What are you doing?"

Lewis turned around and found Bobby standing right next to him. It seems that his game was finished. "I was just looking." he answered placing the photo back on the shelf.

Bobby just rolled his eyes. He was upset. His player had lost the game, but that wasn't the main concern now, it was to bring Lewis back. Surely his powers would work now. He grabbed Lewis and thought 2007. He shut his eyes tight and hoped that when he opened them he would be standing in the year 2007. Again it was a fail. He thought he could just give up, but he wasn't going to, his family's existence depended on it. He laid on his bed and tried to think of some other way to bring him back to the past.

He was getting annoyed with Bobby constantly grabbing him. What was he trying to do? Lewis took a seat on a chair and thought. Then it hit him, it was the most obvious thought of all. How could he have been so stupid? He jumped up and shouted to Bobby "What about the time machines."

Bobby sat up with a startled look on his face. "What did you say?"

"I said what about the time machines? We could use them to take me back." Lewis was feeling very happy right now. It was a simple plan. They just ride the time machine back to his time.

Bobby sighed. "Ahh… you see about that.." he said rubbing the back of his neck, "Grandpa…well kind of destroyed it many years ago, to prevent the time stream getting altered."

Lewis felt down, his good feeling was gone. He slumped back on to the chair. There had to be someway of getting back. He got here somehow and maybe if he found out how he got here than he could figure out how to get back home.

"Are you telling me he's still here." it was C.A.R.L. "You're risking your whole family's existence, your father won't exist and your mother will be dead and that means that you and Helena will never be born…" Bobby grabbed the robot and told him to calm down.

Lewis was confused, what did he mean Violet will be dead? He understood that Wilbur wouldn't exist and the same for Bobby and Helena.

"Hey, how come Violet will be dead?" he asked.

They both looked at him and Bobby let go of C.A.R.L. who straightened up and began to explain.

"You see little Lewis, miss Violet was not born in the future, she was actually born in the past. She ended up here because she became cryogenically frozen as a child and she was in there for thirty three years. Your older self saved her and if she stayed in there any longer she would have died."

Lewis gulped. Her life depended on him too. "Was that before or after the time machine was destroyed?"

"It was before, but she was part of the reason why the time machine was destroyed." replied .L.

"Why?"

"Someone wanted to alter existence and so she and Wilbur returned to the past and stopped him. After that you decided to finally destroy the time machines, because you couldn't risk altering the time stream anymore."

Lewis nodded. It was a reasonable answer. "Well why is it that she never came back to her own time, wouldn't her staying here alter the time stream?"

"Oh no, she was reported missing and no one from her time had heard from her since." the robot sighed before continuing." It was thanks to you that she was reunited with her family. But this isn't the main reason she stayed, she stayed because she fell in love." he then turned to the photo that Lewis was staring at earlier.

He understood. Violet had stayed because she fell in love with Wilbur. Wilbur, his future son had married a girl from the past. Nothing seemed wrong with her staying here and well he couldn't stop her, it was her choice to stay here.