Chapter Seventy-Six: Meet the Robinsons!
Grandpa Bud then began to show the Jason, Max and Lewis around the house and to meet the rest of the family as they saw a large man in a chair watching a small T.V. with an exercise program on.
"And five and six and seven and eight."
"That's Uncle Joe, he works out" Grandpa Bud said.
"Keep those tummies tucked."
"Uh huh" Jason said following Bud as the four then ended up popping out of a toilet.
"Oh god" Max said looking at what they came out of.
"This isn't the garage" Lewis said.
"I know" Bud said.
Later!
"I don't think the garage is in here, either" Lewis said as they stood in the yard looking into a large turkey Bud held up as a flying saucer flew in and a man dressed like a superhero ran past them.
"Egads! A very grave matter, indeed!"
"That's Uncle Art" Grandpa Bud said as the saucer dropped some stairs.
"A real superhero?" Lewis said.
"Looks like one and we know what they look like...how on earth can they wear those uncomfortable tights I will never know" Jason said.
"Quad Four, Alpha Omega Galaxy, needs a large cheese-and-sausage thin-crust? I'll be there in 30 minutes, or it's free!" Art said as he was taken into the saucer as it began to take off.
"He's a Pizza delivery guy!" Grandpa Bud said.
"...of course" Max said.
Later!
"What are we doing up here?" Grandpa Bud asked as they stood on the roof of the house.
"Looking for the garage" Lewis said.
"Oh, yeah!" Bud said pulling them down.
"AHHH!" Jason, Max and Lewis screamed as they flew towards a purple flower patched and bounced off it like a trampoline and bounced off a bread made hedge.
Later!
A girl with a building hat on her head got it painted by her brother making art as she growled.
"Laszlo, you stop painting my hat, or I'm telling Ma!" Tallulah said.
"Lighten up, sis!" Lazlo said paining an empty canvas.
"Lasz, I mean it!"
"Children, please! Your mother is trying to take a nap" Fritz said as he pulled up a red headed puppet.
"What is all the yelling out here?!" Petunia the puppet yelled.
"He started it!"
"She started it!"
"I don't want to hear any more!"
"Now, sweetie..." Fritz began as Petunia slapped him as Jason, Max and Lewis just watched in confusion.
"Don't you "sweetie" me! I'm going for a drive!" Petunia yelled as Fritz held her around the corner as the sound of a car starting up and taking off was hear.
"That's strange" Grandpa Bud said.
"Tell me about it" Jason said.
"She usually takes the Harley" Grandpa Bud said.
"...but she a...and they have...never mind" Jason groaned.
Later!
"I think my wife Lucille's baking cookies" Grandpa Bud said as they stood outside a door as he opened it as they saw a woman dancing under a disco ball, "bake them cookies, Lucille!"
Later!
"Why is your dog wearing glasses?" Lewis asked as they stood outside again and looked at the dog wearing glasses.
"Oh, 'cause his insurance won't pay for contacts" Grandpa Bud said.
Later!
"That's Uncle Spike" Grandpa Bud said pointing to the man in the left tree pot by the front door, "and there's Uncle Dimitri" he said pointing to the man on the right as the door opened and the squid came out.
"Oh, look, there's..."
"That's the monster!" Lewis said hiding behind Bud.
"Oh, no, Lewis, that's our butler, Lefty" Grandpa Bud said.
"That's your butler?" Jason said as the squid held out some tentacle for the three to shake.
"Nice to meet you?" Lewis said shaking it.
"Hey, Lefty, any idea how to get to the garage?" Grandpa Bud asked as the squid made a groan sound.
"Well, that's true. We didn't ask her yet."
"Who?" Lewis asked.
"Wilbur's mom, Franny" Grandpa Bud said as he lead them inside to some doors with musical note for doorknobs on it with music coming from the other side, "I think you'll like her" he said pushing opened the doors as they saw Franny instructing a band of frog.
"Hey, guys!" Franny said.
"You ask me over and over and over have you seen
my peacock-feathered hat?" Frankie the lead singer frog sang
"Frogs?" Lewis said.
"Genetically enhanced frogs taught them everything they know" Franny said.
"Franny, this is Lewis, Jason and Max" Grandpa Bud said.
"Nice to meet you, ma'am" Lewis said.
"Perfect timing! We need someone on maracas" Franny said holding our maracas to Lewis.
"Where is your heart at? Nobody knows that, even though you've him, her, me and an army searching! I've got a feeling you will be reeling when you are bad and the circus comes to town!" Frankie sang jumping on Lewis fruits hat as Jason, Max and Lewis saw Frankie had teeth.
"Grandpa, I think I found your teeth" Lewis said.
"And you see me leaving dressed up as a magician or something like that!" Frankie sang as Bud squeezed him and shot the teeth out of his mouth and into Bud mouth.
"Sarsaparilla! My teeth are back!" Bud said with his dentures in place.
"Ew that was in the frog mouth..." Max paled.
"Ring-a-ding-ding" Frankie said hopping off as the Robinson family entered the room cheering Bud for his found teeth as Lewis, Jason and Max slowly backed out of the room.
"Right...well, glad I could help with the teeth, but uh wow, look at the time!" Lewis said as he Jason and Max ran down the hall.
"This family is weird!" Jason said as they bumped into Wilbur and hit the floor.
"Lewis! I told you guys to stay in the garage!" Wilbur said.
"We did, but we went up the tube, and we ran into your family, and I..."
"You met my family?!" Wilbur said pulling on their ears and lead them into a dark room as he clicked on a single light bulb "pop quiz who have you met,
and what have you learnt?"
"Okay. Bud, Fritz and Joe are brothers, Fritz is married to Petunia, and is she..." Lewis said.
"Cranky? Yes" Wilbur said.
"I was going to say wooden" Jason said.
"Tallulah and Laszlo are their children. Joe is married to Billie. Lefty is the butler. Spike and Dimitri are twins and I don't know who they're related to" Lewis said.
"Neither do we. Go on" Wilbur said.
"Lucille is married to Bud, and your dad, Cornelius, is their son...what does Cornelius look like?" Lewis asked.
"Tom Selleck" Wilbur said having to think about it for a second.
"Okay, Cornelius is married to Franny, and her brothers are Gaston and Art."
"You're forgetting something" Wilbur said.
"Forgetting? Oh, right! Wilbur is the son of Franny and Cornelius."
"And nobody realized you were from the past?" Wilbur asked.
"Nope."
"Whew!" Wilbur sighed in relief as Jason and Max clapped at all the information Lewis gathered.
"Thank you, thank you, hold your applause, thank you very much" Lewis said.
Later!
"I don't even know what I'm doing" Lewis said on a board under the time machine as Wilbur cleaned the glass on the windows and Jason and Max cleaned the wings.
"Keep moving forward" Wilbur said.
"I mean, this stuff is way too advanced for me" Lewis said looking at the took in his hand.
"Keep moving forward" Wilbur said.
"And what if I can't fix this? What are we gonna do?" Lewis asked.
"Keep moving forward" Wilbur said as Lewis rolled out from under the time machine.
"Why do you keep saying that? And don't just say, 'Keep moving forward'."
"It's my dad's motto" Wilbur said rolling him back under.
"Why would his motto be 'keep moving forward'?" Lewis asked rolling back out.
"It's what he does" Wilbur said pushing him back under as Lewis rolled back out.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"That is an excellent question!" Wilbur said leading them to the roof as they looked through the telescope to a large building "Robinson Industries, the world's leading scientific-research-and-design factory, my dad runs the company they mass produce his inventions, his motto, ;Keep moving forward' it's what he does."
"What has he invented?" Lewis asked.
"Everything, Carl, the time machine, the travel tubes" Wilbur said.
"Your dad invented the time machine?" Lewis said.
"Yep, five years ago, Dad wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat he wants to build a time machine, so he starts working!" Wilbur said as he lead them back into the house and showed them all the blueprints, "We're talking plans, we're talking scale models, we're talking prototypes!" he said showing them a small nut in a large glass case.
"That's a prototype?" Lewis said.
"The very first, or what's left of it" Wilbur said.
"Yikes" Lewis said.
"Ouch" Jason said.
"Yeah, dark day at the Robinson house" Wilbur said as he lead them to other cases of all the prototypes, "Prototypes two and three, not much better, number six, 58, 212, 485, 952, and they all end the same way" Wilbur said holding up a sign of a thumbs down, then a sad face then a toilet.
"That sucks" Max said.
"But he doesn't give up!" Wilbur said as he glanced up at Lewis fruit hat, "Dude, I can't take you seriously in that hat" Wilbur said.
"Yeah kind of fruity" Jason said.
Later!
Wilbur pushed Lewis in the garage wearing a cap with the lightning bolt logo on Wilbur shirt.
"He keeps working and working until finally he gets it, the first working time machine, then he keeps working and working until finally he gets it again, the second working time machine" Wilbur said showing them the mini model.
"Kind of small" Lewis said.
"I'm assuming that's a joke, I'm ignoring you for time reasons, this, my friend, is merely a model because, unfortunately, time machine number two is in the hands of the Bowler Hat Guy" Wilbur said.
"Cool" Jason said.
"Pretty amazing story, huh?" Wilbur said.
"Yeah" Lewis said.
"Now, are you ready to start working?" Wilbur asked.
Later Lewis got to work on the time machine and after several minutes Lewis came out from under the time machine.
"I think that's it. I did it!" Lewis said.
"I knew you could" Wilbur said as they all sat in the time machine.
"Nice work, my friend" Wilbur said as it turned on and the glass lid closed and the time machine began to float of the floor before glitching out and hitting the floor and the glass was filled with black smoke as the lid opened and the four were covered in black shoot.
"Well, you know what they say! Keep moving..."
"Don't say it!" Lewis growled before jumping out of the time machine and threw off his hat.
"Boys! Dinner time!" Franny said on an intercom.
"Not now, Mom!" Wilbur said.
"If you aren't up here in five minutes, I'm gonna come down and get you!" Franny said as the four glanced at the still smoking time machine.
"We'd better get up there" Wilbur said handing Lewis the hat as Lewis put it back on and left the room.
"Poor kid, just want's to meet his mom and find the family he always wanted and every invention he created failed...I wonder" Jason said thinking before glancing to Wilbur and Lewis leaving the room.
"What?" Max said.
"I wonder if it's possible that...let's go to dinner" Jason said.
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