Chapter Seventy-Seven: Dinner and a Battle?!

"I don't believe in fretting or grieving why mess around with strife? Guess I was cut out to step out and strut out give me the simple life" Frankie gang on a chandelier in the dining room above the table as the family and guest took their seats.

"Ladies and gentlemen, dinner is served" Carl said as his chest opened and mini Carl's ran out each with a large bowl of pasta all shouting, 'Dinner is served' and giving a bowl to each person at the table.

"Oh hooray! Italian food" Fritz said.

"I wanted Sloppy Joe!" Petunia said.

"Oh Billie, could you please pass the gravy?" Lucille asked.

"Coming to you, big girl" Billie said moving a small toy train around the table to Lucille.

"Reminds me of the time my meatball pizza staved off civil war on the black moon of Keward" Art said.

"What is up with this dude?" Jason said.

"Where's my sloppy joe?" Petunia said.

"Thank you for the gravy, Aunt Billie" Lucille said as Carl cleared his throat and Wilbur looked up at him.

"We gotta talk" he whispered.

"How about some gravy? Over here!" Gaston said.

"Gravy with spaghetti and meatballs?" Max said as Wilbur moved under the table and Carl extended his head under it.

"Why is the kid still here? Any of this ring a bell? Science fair, Memory Scanner, a time stream that needs fixing?" Carl said.

"Temporary setback, he's just having a little confidence issue" Wilbur said.

"You want me to talk to him?" Carl asked.

"No."

"I give a mean back rub."

"No."

"Shiatsu?"

"No."

"Feng shui."

"No" Wilbur said shoving one of the mini Carl's Carl mouth, " I've got it under control."

"So, boys, are you in Wilbur's class?" Franny asked as the four spoke at the same time.

"No" Jason and Lewis said.

"Yes" Wilbur and Max said.

"Yes" Jason and Lewis said.

"No" Wilbur and Max said.

"Well, yes and no Lewis, Jason and Max are new transfer students" Wilbur said.

"Uh yeah" Lewis said.

"Where are you from, boys?" Gaston asked.

"Canada?" Lewis said.

"What he said!" Jason said.

"I think you mean North Montana, hasn't been called Canada in years" Tallulah said.

"Do you know Sam Gundersen?" Lucille asked.

"Uh it's a big country" Lewis said.

"State" Tallulah corrected.

"I wonder if you're related" Lucille said.

"Maybe if he took his hat off" Lazlo said.

"Oh, good idea, then we can see if he has the family cowlick" Lucille said.

"He can't, because uh he's got bad hat-hair" Wilbur said.

"Oh, nonsense, a North Montana man doesn't care

about hat-hair" Art said.

"Let's see the cowlick!" Petunia said.

"All right, everyone, hold your horses, Lewis, do you mind? I'm afraid this isn't gonna stop otherwise" Franny said as Wilbur threw a meatball and hit Gaston as he pointed to Franny.

"But... But..." Lewis said.

" And so it begins!" Gaston said loading his meatball cannon.

"Now, don't be shy, we're all family here" Franny said reaching for Lewis hat.

"Ready, aim, fire!" Gaston yelled firing the meatball and hit Franny across the cheek.

"Ohhh!" Jason said.

"Ha! Surely, that is not the best you can do" Franny said jumping up on the table as Gaston fired another meatball and she punched it away and Frankie pulled his microphone stand away to dodge the meatball.

"Impressive, little sister, your skills are strong but not strong enough" Gaston said.

"Your words do not threaten me, brother" Franny said.

"Then enough words, now the real battle begins" Gaston said as the two glared at each other as he fired another meatball she smacked away that his Art then smacked away more that was fired and deflected each one.

"Your meatballs are useless against me!" Franny said.

"Then perhaps it's time for spicy Italian sausage!" Gaston yelled loading the sausage and firing it at Franny who punched it forward and hit Gaston in the face and knocked him over as he waved a small white flag as the table cheered.

"That's right. I did it" Franny smirked.

"Is dinner like this every night?" Lewis asked.

"No, yesterday, we had meatloaf" Art said.

"I think he meant...never mind" Jason said eating his food.

"Okay, gang, time for the second course and what goes better with meatballs than P.B. and J?" Carl said making a P.B. and J machine pop on his head.

"Hey, that's just like..." Lewis said as Carl tossed two slices of toast to each member at the table as they all caught their slice as Carl tried to fire the Peanut butter and Jelly from a hand took but it got jammed.

"Stupid..." Carl grunted as he tried to get it to work.

"Carl?" Tallulah said.

"Is everything all right?" Franny asked.

"We're just experiencing bugs" Carl said.

"Just what the doctor ordered" Wilbur smirked.

"Wilbur" Jason said cautiously as Wilbur stood up.

"My friend Lewis is an inventor he can fix it" Wilbur said pulling Lewis over to Carl.

"Wilbur, you know I can't" Lewis said.

"Oh come on. Give it a try" Lucille said.

"You don't understand what's at stake here" Art said.

"Other than a weird combination for dinner?" Jason said.

"Uncle Joe's seen the toast!" Art said as they glanced at the large man who was beginning to turn red.

"We're past the point of no return!" Grandpa Bud said.

"If he doesn't get P.B. and J..." Billie said.

"We all pay!" Petunia said.

"I don't know" Lewis said.

"You would really be helping us out, Lewis" Franny said.

"Please" the people at the table said.

Later!

"So, Mr Fix-it, how's it looking?" Franny asked as Lewis was working on the P.B. and J machine.

"Pretty good, Mrs Robinson I've recalibrated the dispensing conduits and aligned the ejection mechanism and..." Lewis said as Jason glanced around and spotted Frankie in the hall with a bowler hat on his head.

"A bowler hat?" Jason said.

"Okay, that should do it" Lewis said getting Jason attention.

"It's so exciting. Let her rip, Lewis!" Billie said.

"Quickly Uncle Joe can't hold on much longer" Art said.

"Everybody ready?" Lazlo asked.

"Go, Carl" Lewis said handing the shooter back to Carl

"Yeah!" the room cheered

"Is it gonna work?" Tallulah said as it began to spin out of control.

"Oh, no!" Lewis said as the gun exploded splattering everyone in the room with peanut butter and jelly

"Well I'm sticky now" Jason said whipping some jelly off his face

"No! I didn't know, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" Lewis said.

"You failed!" Grandpa Bud smiled.

"And it was awesome!" Gaston said.

"Exceptional!" Art said.

"Outstanding!" Lazlo said.

"Eh I've seen better" Petunia said.

"From failing, you learn, from success, not so much" Billie said.

"If I gave up every time I failed, I never would have made the meatball cannon" Gaston said petting his mini cannon.

"I never would have made my fireproof pants" Grandpa Bud said with his pants on fire as Max picked up a glass of water and threw it on Grandpa Bud as the pants turned to ash exposing Bud boxers, " Still working out the kinks."

"Like my husband always says..." Franny said as Carl put on a performance, showing the words 'Keep moving forward' over and over.

"All right, everyone, quiet down. Quiet down I propose a toast to Lewis and his brilliant failure may it lead to success in the future" Franny said.

"I toast to that!" Jason smiled holding up his glass.

"Gosh, you're all so nice if I had a family, I…I'd want them to be just like you" Lewis said.

"Oh, well, then, to Lewis!" Franny said.

"To Lewis!" everyone in the room said before dumping their glasses on water on their heads.

"Eh what the heck!" Max said as he and Jason dumped their water on their heads as Lewis did the same.

"What if Louis Armstrong said, "I can't"? You think he'd have walked on the moon?" Bud said.

"Dear, Louis Armstrong was a singer" Lucille said.

"What did he mean, if he had a family?" Franny asked Lewis.

"Oh, Lewis is an orphan" Wilbur said.

"Orphan?" Franny said as the room began to shake with the steps of heavy foot prints then they all heard a roar and looked out the window to see a massive T-Rex at the window.

(A.N. The Encounter battle theme begins now.)

"Oh, no!" Tallulah said.

"Big boy!" Art said as Fritz fainted.

"Get up, you pansy!" Petunia said.

"Why didn't you tell me you had a pet dinosaur?" Lewis asked excitedly as he ran to the window.

"Uh because we don't" Wilbur said nervously.

"What are you talking about? He's standing right here" Lewis said as the T-Rex broke through the glass and grabbed Lewis whole in it's mouth.

"Lewis!" Jason yelled as they heard a train and looked to see Billie train coming at the dino.

"Choo-chew on this!" Billie yelled as the train hit the rex and Lewis flew out of its mouth as it caught him by his shirt and began to run on top of the train.

"Lewis!" Wilbur yelled as it jumped off the train and landed on the lawn as the Robinson family along with Jason and Max ran out of the broken glass to fight.

Lazlo then flew up and shot the rex in his eyes with paint as down below Gaston pointed the cannon.

"Ready, aim, fire!" Gaston yelled firing Lefty as the squid flipped around mid-air and wrapped around the Rex head then tossed Lewis who was caught in Art saucer.

"Got you!" Art said as the T-Rex threw Lefty off.

"You messed with the wrong family!" Carl yelled as Tallulah took his arms and Bud and Joe took the other end and stretch Carl out and tried the dino making it fall over.

"Ding-dong! Pizza's here!" Art yelled firing dough from his saucer and cover the dino in it.

"Okay, everybody, this dino's deep-dished" Carl said pocking the dough as the dough began to move.

"RUN!" Carl yelled as the rex busted out of the dough and bit down on Carl.

"Oh! He ate Carl!" Tallulah yelled as she and Bud grabbed Carl and the rex began to shake them around.

"Help us! Help! Help!" she yelled as the rex threw them towards Lazlo.

"Oh, goodness!" Lazlo yelled as they all crashed into the wall splattering paint.

The rex then began to avoid Art blasting more dough and jumped up grabbing the side of the saucer and crashed it to the ground as it ripped the glass off as Art rolled on the grass and the glass bowl landed above him.

"Oh, no."

Lewis then ran from the saucer with the rex on his tail as he ran past Franny and Gaston.

"Incoming!" Gaston yelled firing meatballs from his meatball cannon.

"Run!" Franny yelled as the T-Rex smacked Gaston and Franny aside with it's tail.

Lewis then ran up the hill and got pinned against a wall as the rex tried to reach him with its little arms but it's large arms wasn't allowing it.

"What's going on? Why aren't you seizing the boy?" the bowler hat guy growled in the Bowler hat on top of the rex head.

"I have a big head and little arms I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through...Master?" the Rex said.

Wilbur then pulled Lewis as the two ran Jason and Max.

"Bowler Hat Guy!" Wilbur said spotting the hat.

"We got this! Go!" Jason yelled as the two ran to hid and Jason and Max drew their weapons as the rex roared.

(Objective: Defeat the T-Rex!)
"Now!" Jason yelled as Max gave him a boost and launched Jason in the air, "come on!" Jason yelled throwing both his keyblades like boomerangs and hitting both sides of the rex as it got dazed and fell over.

"Ya! Ha! Rah! Take this!" Max yelled making some stirkes to it's head.

"Ha! Ya! Rah! This is it!" Jason yelled making as few strikes as the rex shook it's head and roared as it stood up.

The rex then went to bite down on Jason as he used his keyblades to hold it's jaws away from him as it threw Jason into the air above and Jason did a Ariel recovery, "come on!" Jason yelled throwing his keyblades as the hit the rex as it stumbled and Jason landed on its head as he used his keyblade to smack the hat off as it hit the ground with its metal legs kicking and the rex fell over.

"Are you two alright?" Jason asked Wilbur and Lewis.

"All fine!" Lewis said.

" Are you boys all right?" Franny asked running over with the rest of the family.

"We're good, Mom" Wilbur said as Franny hugged Wilbur and began to kiss him.

"Yeah, didn't you see us take out that dinosaur? Oh, man! It was so cool, Mom!" Lewis said as Franny looked to him and Lewis realized what he said, "Oh, I mean, I'm sorry. I didn't..."

"Oh, Lewis, it's okay I'm really happy you're safe" Franny said hugging him.

"Your head" Lewis said looking to the bruise on Franny head.

"What? Oh it's just a bruise, Lewis" she said.

"You all sacrificed so much for me" Lewis said.

"Well, of course" Gaston said.

"You are a special kid" Art said.

"One of a kind" Billie said.

"Okay, you should get him out of here before something really bad happens" Carl whispered to Wilbur.

"Silly, silly robot I've got it all under control" Wilbur said.

"Uh huh and what would that been genius?" Jason said.

"Okay, everybody, it's been a long, hard day filled with emotional turmoil and dinosaur fights, so why don't you all hit the hay, and Lewis and me will get going?" Wilbur said.

"Oh do you have to go now? I mean, you know, it's getting late maybe Lewis could spend the night" Franny said.

"Mom, maybe some other time, okay?" Wilbur said.

"Well, any time you want to come over, you just come over" Franny said.

"Mom!" Wilbur said.

"The truth is, we love having you" Franny said.

"We really have to go" Wilbur said.

"No, No, you don't. You have to stay, I mean, who would be a better family for you than us? What do you say, Lewis? Do you want to be a Robinson?" Franny said.

"Uh oh" Max said.

"You want to adopt me?" Lewis said as he smiled and the family cheered.

Wilbur than sighed as he knocked off Lewis hat exposing who he was as the family all gasped.

"Okay, it's true. I'm from the past, now you know the big secret" Lewis said.

"Wilbur, what have you done?" Franny said as the family looked at Wilbur, "How could you bring him here?"

"That is an excellent question."

"Please, don't get mad at Wilbur, he was just being a good friend" Lewis said.

"Lewis, I am so sorry, but you have to go" Franny said.

"What? You just said..."

"I know what I said" Franny said.

"I'm from the past. So what?"

"Lewis. Lewis, look at me. You're...You're a great kid, and we would never do anything to hurt you, but I'm sorry you have to go back to your own time" Franny said.

"Yeah, about that, one of the time machines is broken, and the other one was stolen by a guy with a bowler hat, which kind of explains the dino" Wilbur said as they all looked to the rex now rocking on it's back like a baby.

"I'm calling your father" Franny said.

"Wait, if I have to leave, can I at least go back and find my mom? Wilbur promised" Lewis said.

"You promised what?" Franny growled.

"I was never gonna do it. I swear!" Wilbur said as he covered his mouth realizing what he said.

"You lied to me?" Lewis said.

"No!...yes" Wilbur said as Lewis growled and began to walk away, "Lewis! Lewis, wait!"

"I can't believe I was dumb enough to actually believe you were my friend!" Lewis yelled.

"I am your friend!" Wilbur said.

"Lewis!" Jason said as he and Max ran after him.

"Mister, you're grounded till you die" Franny said to Wilbur as the family headed back in.

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