Chapter 4- A Blast from the Past

Suddenly, everyone started looking up. Out of the sky fell devious villain in dark clothing, riding on a big robotic spider. Following him fell a superhero. He ran after the villain and the spider, gleefully shooting at the robot's legs. He took half of them out. The robotic spider fell to the side as it's legs were uneven, tipping the villain into the arms of the police.

"Wait a minute," Larryboy said,"That's Pruneman!"

Pruneman was an elderly retired superhero in Larryboy's time as a hero. But now Pruneman was young and in action.

Larryboy and Archibald watched as a crowd cheered for Pruneman. Larryboy started to step out of the machine behind a building.

"Wait," stopped Archibald, " You don't want anyone to notice a future superhero. It could throw off time as we know it."

"Oh," replied Larryboy. He looked around, " So do you think Alvin is here?"

Suddenly, disco music started playing from a radio. A kid was dancing to it on the street nearby.

"What's going on over there?" wondered Larryboy.

Kids in colorful pants and other 80's styles clothing crowded around to watch.

The kid dancing was dressed in a plain shirt and soccer shorts.

Then all the kids around him started laughing and teased him.

"Wierd!"

"Will he ever stop dancing?"

"What a loser, that's all he thinks about!"

All the kids laughed and walked away. One even threw a can of soda at him. Then the kid sat down on the curb, turned off his music, and looked sad.

"Archibald!" whispered Larryboy.

"Yes?" asked Archibald.

"Look at him. As a superhero, I have to help him!"

"Well, I guess it would be good to help," hesitated Archibald, " But what if he knows you in the future? Let me talk to him, and you can still listen. He can't possibly remember me or what I look like forever."

"Unless you change his life," said Larryboy with a happy tone.

"Well, err, yeah. Then we can see if he somehow knows Alvin." Then Archibald went to the sad boy as Larryboy hid behind the bushes.

"Hello boy," said Archibald.

"Hi," said the boy.

"I see you were made fun of back there,"

"Yeah. No one likes me," he said in a sad tone.

"What about your family?" asked Archie.

"Not them! My parents make me do chores and stuff. That's not love. What makes me happy is music. I love singing and dancing. Yet everyone bothers me about it." he muttered.

"You don't have any friends?" asked Archibald with pity.

"Well," he replied, " I have one friend who will never leave!" The boy started to be gleeful.

"Really? Who?"

"Meet my friend Lampy!" said a happy boy, pulling out a lamp with a face on it from behind a building in a red wagon.

Larryboy and Archibald gasped at this.

"Wait, what's your name?" stuttered Archibald, "What's your name?"

"Alvin," he answered, " but soon it will be King Alvin!"

Larryboy couldn't believe it. He thought of the kid more. He was an onion who liked dancing and singing and was friends with a lamp. Just like Alvin...

"Wait a minute," thought Larryboy, " He doesn't seem so evil."

"Those guys think they could just make fun of me," said Alvin, " But they'll all see! Someday I will get my revenge and take over the whole town! Then everyone will have to do what I want. I can make fun of them! Isn't that right, Lampy?" said an excited Alvin, who then ran off.

"Ok," thought Larryboy again, " He is evil."

Larryboy jumped out.

"Wow, that kid really does have a plan for the future," said Archibald.

"Archie," said Larryboy, " we have to stop him! We can't let him become more evil! This is out chance!"

"I don't think so!" said somone behind Larryboy. Whoever it was, their face was already in Larryboy's when he turned around.

Just to make this clear if I haven't done so already: I do not own Larryboy or the other characters in the story. They belong to Big Idea Entertainment.

Anyway, a little note about the characters in this chapter-

Pruneman was a superhero featured in a Larryboy chapter book (The Attack of Outback Jack). I never read that book so not much is said about him here. He was an elderly superhero in the book and I guessed he was the superhero in the 80's. I also guessed Alvin was around thirty or so in the present, so I made him a child in the 80's.

I also made up his childhood, how he was unloved and thought his parents hated him when they probably didn't. They just made him do chores. Alvin eventually gets more bad over time.

Keep reading! The story gets better! :)