Hey Fanfiction readers! Sorry for being late on this chapter- first of all, it was a lot of writing (5 pages in word T.T) and also school was in the way of writing….. But I am back! :D Hope you like the chapter! :D
When I woke up that morning, something felt different. I felt different when I woke up, like I wasn't waking up, but almost turning on. But then I felt someone prop him or herself up next to me, and question,
"Dad?" then I remembered where I was and that that voice was Toby. Then I propped myself up just as Dad was lifting his head. It looked like we where in Toby's room. It looked like Dad had fallen asleep while he was watching us, like we had been hurt or sick or something.
"Good Morning kids." He looked worn out and relived that we were up
"How do you feel?" He asked us. This confused me, because I don't remember getting sick or hurt recently.
"Kinda weird" I answered
"Have we been sick or something?" Toby must have been thinking the same thing because he said what I was about to ask. I was worried. What if something really did happen to us?
" No, you two are fine, Toby. You're perfect. You are wonderful!" Both Toby and I let out a sigh of relief.
"Oh, that's great, because-" Suddenly Dad pulled us both into a hug, like he had missed us. Then he almost started crying. This really worried me, but I put that in the back of my mind because this was one of the first times in a while that we had a big family moment, and I wanted to cherish it. Soon Dad left so that we could get changed. I went into my room, which was right next to Toby's. A doorway connected our rooms. I wore a different outfit today that was blue jeans, a white camisole, a blue flannel button down shirt, and a pair of sneakers. Then I put on my special necklace. Then Toby and I went out to the kitchen where Orrin was waiting. He started freaking out when he saw us.
"Uh, I must be malfunctioning! Wires crossing, short-circuiting. It can't be you! You are..."
Toby and I looked at each other then back at Orrin with questioning faces. Everyone was acting very strange this morning.
"Oh, my gosh! You are..." He looked us up and down as if looking for something. As he was freaking out, I heard a whoosh of a door being opened and assumed it was our Dad.
"Hey, Orrin, you okay?" Toby and I asked. Why was everyone acting like they could not believe that we were still alive? Very strange.
"You're... gonna be late for school." Orrin finally got a hold of himself and calmed down a little,
"Well, I... I must say it..." He was clearly still surprised to see us.
"...It's very nice to see you again." I saw Dad giving him a rolling of the eyes face but when he noticed me staring at him, he smiled.
" Sit down you two. I want to talk to you." He pulled out our chairs for us, something that he never does unless it's something important.
He got a "Sure, Dad." and a "Ok" from my brother and I
"It's about school." He started as he sat down. Oh no, I thought. What did we do wrong?
"I have decided you shouldn't go anymore, kids." I was shocked. School was very important to him. Why not go?
"I'm gonna teach you at home. Myself!" I let out a relived sigh at that statement. Then I realized. We were getting more time with our Dad! This was great!
"Awesome!" I exclaimed
"Sounds good to me!" Toby replied then he turned to Orrin
"Hey, Orrin, looks like we're gonna be hanging out together." Orrin was shocked again then started shaking.
"Together? Oh! Wow, that would be very nice, Master Toby-Oh, dear!" Then Orrin dropped what he was holding and it knocked into Dad's cup, spilling its contents over the table.
"Please, Toby just let the robot do its thing." Dad chastised Toby
"Sorry" Toby grumbled. Then something came to me,
"Hey, if you're gonna be home-schooling us. What about the ministry, your job? " I questioned. His work had been very important before, so why was he abandoning it?
"My job now is to be your father." He stated, as if he wasn't gonna let anything else get in the way.
"Oh" Both Toby and I understood and finished our breakfast. After we finished, Dad brought us to a room with a big computer
"Let's start with something familiar." Dad started as the computer booted up
"Four natural calculus. It's your favorite." He nudged the both of us. For some reason, I felt as if it wasn't my favorite, even though he said it was.
"I guess" We both replied. By Toby's tone of voice, I felt like he thought the same thing.
"If, sir wishes perhaps I could help Master Toby and Mistress Emma with-" Orrin started but suddenly stopped. I looked up quick enough to see Dad giving Orrin a horrible glare.
"Oh, bad idea. Bad idea. I'm a robot. What am I thinking?" I felt bad for Orrin. He hadn't done anything wrong! He was just asking what he was programmed to ask. Why did Dad act the way he did?
I was jolted out of my thoughts with a crash and a "Wrong way!" from Orrin. Then Toby started on his equation, and I realized I had to do one too. As we both were completing the problem (which was easier then I thought), Dad was commenting on the different ways we were doing the problem. Finally, when we finished, Dad exclaimed
"Bravo, wonderful, excellent, Toby and Emma! First rate, kids, first rate!"
"You ain't seen nothing yet!" Toby insisted. Then something weird happened. I knew exactly what Toby was going to do right before he said it. It was almost like I was read his mind! But that's not possible, I yelled in my head. I decided I would think about it later as Toby swiped his finger across the screen. I then swiped my finger, causing our equations to disperse as my problem became a cowboy and Toby's problem became a bow and arrow that shot at my cowboy. Then the cowboy started doing a funny little dance and song across the screen, and Toby and I bobbed to the funny song. Then Dad swiped his hand under the screen, causing the song to stop as the screen went away, and cleared his throat and repeated,
"Let's get back to basics."
Dad next took us to the living room, where he dropped one incredibly thick book in front of us. He carried three others.
"Remember this one? Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'- I used to read it to you kids in bed when you were little." As Dad was telling us about the book, Toby made the mistake of opening the old book, causing dust spurt into both our faces making us cough.
"To put us to sleep?" Toby asked sarcastically
"Yes! You two asked for it every night!" Dad got the wrong impression and didn't notice anything
"That's not quite what I-" Toby tried to explain to Dad, but he cut him off
"Just try rereading these. To get those old brains humming again." Dad pointed to his head as he walked out. But just before he left, he turned around to give us a thumbs up. We both gave him a nervous thumbs up as he left the room. Once he left, both our faces fell as we dreaded the next few hours reading about the most boring stuff ever. Toby closed the first book as I picked up the next one, called Descartes Before the Horse, and we both sighed as we picked up the next book about Leonardo Da Vinci. We looked at each other before opening the book. The first page we turned was about war machines. Boring. So Toby turned a few more pages until he had turned to the section about flight. We both looked at each other with excited eyes. We were going to make these inventions!
Soon, we had a ton of one of the flying contraptions soaring through the air, with Orrin's help. Toby and Orrin were making the little spiral thingies fly while I was working on one of the more complicated planes.
"Sweet, Orrin! You're the man!" Toby yelled as he jumped on Orrin and placed the red cap he was wearing on the robot's head.
"Yes! You know, I haven't had this much fun since... Well, ever!" Orrin commented. As soon as he said that, I finished the plane model.
"Toby, I finished!" I told him as I waved the model around for him to see
"Awesome! Check this out!" He grabbed the model; jumped on top of the pile of books (with Da Vinci's book on top), and threw it into the air.
"I'm impressed! Not knocked out, but impressed." Orrin said
"That's nothing! Watch this!" I told him. Then, the model broke apart and separated into three different planes. We all marveled at the sight
"Now that is impressive, Master Toby and Mistress Emma!" Orrin yelled. He was really impressed at our handy work. He came over to us to give us a fist bump.
"Just Toby is fine, Orrin." Toby fist bumped his and smiled as he told him that
"Just Emma is fine for me too!" I smiled and then he smiled too. I felt so amazing inside! Dad never did anything like this with us, so it was much more fun! But the fun always has to end. Just then, one of the planes knocked into some stuff as Dad walked in and barely missed an incoming plane.
"Toby, Emma-" He started but was hit by one of the planes we made. We all grimaced and knew we all were going to be yelled at. Dad started to swat the swirly flying things as he made his way over to Toby and I.
"What are you two doing? I said to read these books, not destroy them." Dad chastised us.
"I... I-" He started but I cut him off, knowing what he was going to say
"We just wanted to test Da Vinci's theories." I explained to Dad
"I, perhaps... encouraged... ...Master Toby and Mistress Emma ...sir." Orrin told him hesitantly. I looked at Orrin. He was standing up for us even though we were the ones who dragged him into this.
"You should not be wearing that hat." Dad stated randomly, as if it were an order
"A robot should not be wearing my son's, Toby's, hat." He said again. Orrin grasped the hat in his metal hand, gave it to Dad, and then walked off slowly. He was hurt and I just knew it! Why was he acting so hostile towards the robot that did what it was told?
"Dad, it's fine. I don't even like that hat." Toby tried to explain, but I saw Dad tighten his grip on the hat. Something was bothering him about us and that hat. They were connected somehow.
"I think you should go to your room." He told us
"But, Dad-" I started but was cut off
"Do as you're told!" Tears began to form as I turned away from my father, not wanting to look in his face, and ran out of the room. I ran to my room, ran to my bed, and sat there. I faintly heard my brother's door open and close, telling me that he too had run away. I dragged my self out of the bed and walked to Toby's room. He said nothing, as he was focused on a picture of Dad, himself and I. I remember that photo. That was right after there was a tie between him and I at the Science Fair. It was one if not the only pictures with all of us together, happy. I sat next to him and hugged him, wanting to be right next to my brother. We stayed like that for a while. Suddenly, he sighed.
"What's different? I haven't seen Dad angry before" Toby told me sadly.
"Me neither." I answered. Then something weird happened. There were some window cleaning robots out side, and they started talking! I could understand them! No human could understand robot speak!
"Look at the haircut on that one! It's like he got horns!" The window squirter said. It read on its label "Mr. Squirt"
"Horns? Good one!" The wiper blade responded.
"What you mean, horns? It's gel-Wait!" Toby turned to me giving me a look that said, "Did you say that?" I shook my head and we both checked our ears to see if we were actually hearing this!
"I can understand you?" I asked the two robots. This was so weird.
"Wow, that's creepy!" the wiper blade exclaimed.
"What is?' Mr. Squirt questioned.
"Its like they can understand us!" It was weird because we were standing right in front of them, hearing exactly what they were saying.
"Don't be a dummy." Mr. Squirt told the wiper blade.
"We can hear what you're saying." We both told the unsuspecting robots as we walked slowly toward the window.
"It is as if they can hear what we're saying." The robot was clearly getting distressed about us talking to them.
"There's no way! They're human! Come on, let's go and clean some statues." He squirted the window and told the other robot.
"Okey-dokey!" The wiper blade robot turned and wiped right in front of Toby's face and the two robots yelled.
"How can I understand what you're saying? You are robots!" Toby pleaded
"You don't want any trouble."
"Toby-" I started but he had already grabbed onto the robots
"Wait up! I just wanna know what's going on!"
"What's happening to me?"
"TOBY!" I yelled to him. He finally realized that he was hanging on the edge of the windowsill with me attempting to keep him from falling off the edge. The only thing keeping him in the air was the squirt bottle. My heart was pounding because if he were to lose his grip on the bottle, he would pull both of us down because he weighed more then me.
"Okay, guys, let's back up, very carefully." Toby and I warned the robots, but suddenly the squirt bottle sprayed in my brother's face causing him to let the robot go. OH SHI- I started to yell in my mind until I felt myself being pulled down with my brother. Then a scream ripped through my throat as the both of us flailed our arms helplessly as we traveled closer and closer to the ground. I covered my eyes as I could not look if my body went splat. Then suddenly I felt my shirt flailing and myself moving upwards. I also heard rockets.
"That's too freaky for me!" One of the robots yelled
I dared to uncovered my eyes and I could not believe what was happening! I was flying! I glanced at Toby and he also was flying. It felt weird having rockets on my feet, but I felt like I had used them all my life. Toby, however, was having trouble with controlling his and was jerking all over the place. Suddenly, he went flying backwards and into a building. I have to rush to keep up with him as he flew all over Metro City. At one point, after he almost got run over by a train, he finally got control over his rockets. I was following him the entire time laughing a him.
"Havin a little trouble there?" I asked him sarcastically
The response I got was a "Shut up" and " Race ya!" as he flew off after the train. I smirked and flew off after him. He and I flew around the train and smiled at each other. This was so much fun! Then I took off into the sky, wanting to get a good look at the sun. Toby followed after me. The wind felt so nice against my skin and my hair was blown out of my face because of it. I soared through the clouds and was having the time of my life. Then Toby dove into the dormant volcano/mountain and while he was doing that I followed him and we actually communicated through our minds. It was so cool! It also explained why I knew what Toby was going to do with the equation problem from earlier. Then we popped out from the top of the mountain was were sprayed with droplets of rain.
"This is so cool!" I exclaimed with a
"We gotta show Dad!" Toby turned to me and I nodded with a smile as we headed back home with the sunset on our backs. Little did we know that this was actually the beginning of all the problems and hardships that my brother and I were going to face. Because after all, we were just machines with the powerful blue cores.
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