Chapter Seventy-Nine: Keep Moving Forward
Later that day Cornelius lead Lewis to his lab as he covered his eyes and Jason and Max jaws dropped at the room.
"Whoa..." Jason said.
"Okay" Cornelius said removing his hands as Lewis jaw dropped.
"Whoa..." Lewis said.
"Yeah, beats working in an office every day" Cornelius said.
"Yeah, no kidding" Lewis said.
"Hey! Want to see the one I'm most proud of?" Cornelius asked.
"Yeah" Lewis said as he lead them in front of a machine with bolts of electricity coming off it.
"Ohhh" Jason, Lewis and Max said.
"Oh, no, no, no. That one" Cornelius said pointing to a cloth covered invention as Lewis approached it and pulled off the cloth to reveal the memory scanner, "it was our first real invention, it's the one that started it all."
"Wowie, so if I go back now, then this will be my future" Lewis said.
"Well, that depends on you, nothing is set in stone, you gotta make the right choices and keep moving forward" Cornelius said.
"Since it's gonna work this time, that means I...we won't we finally get to see what Mom looks like? Do we ever meet her?" Lewis asked.
"Uh I think you're just gonna have to get back to that science fair and find out for yourself" Cornelius said.
"I had a feeling you were gonna say that" Lewis said.
"That's because we are one smart kid" Cornelius said.
"You sure are" Max said as the Robinson family gathered outside to wish Lewis goodbye.
"So long!" Tallulah said.
"Bye-bye, Lewis!"
"Farewell, future brother-in-law" Art said.
"So long! See you later, Lewis!
"Oh, don't forget the mashed potatoes!" Lucille said.
"Have a safe trip, little Lewis" Carl said.
"I will" Lewis said.
"Hey, while I got you here, just a couple of little suggestions regarding my design" he said showing them a muscular design of himself as Jason and Max raised an eyebrow, "Let's face it, these skinny limbs don't exactly make the teapot whistle. All that really matters is, hey, don't forget to invent me!"
"Are you kidding? No way!" Lewis said.
" love you."
"There's so many things I wish I could ask you" Lewis said to Lucille and Bud.
"Excuse me! Time travel now, questions later!" Wilbur said from the time machine.
"But I..."
"Don't worry, just get back to that science fair, and we'll see you real soon" Lucille said.
"Oh, right. Right, okay, I will. Bye" Lewis said.
"Goodbye, son" Bud said.
"Thanks again for everything!" Lewis said.
"Wait. Lewis, one more thing" Franny said.
"Yeah?"
"Just a little tip for the future. I am always right. Even when I'm wrong, I'm right" she said as Lewis glanced at Cornelius.
"She's right. I'd just go with it if I were you and I am" Cornelius said.
"Then you're absolutely right!" Lewis said as Wilbur honked the horn on the Time Machine.
"All right, I'm coming!" Lewis said climbing into the time machine as Jason and Max got in.
"Well, it's not like you're never gonna see them again, they are your family, after all" Wilbur said as they looked out the window at the family as they took off to the past as they saw the past they were in was at a dark and rainy night.
"Wait a minute, you're supposed to take me back
to the science fair" Lewis said.
"I know." Wilbur said as they parked in the front of the orphanage and put on the invisibility mode on the time machine.
"Well, I think you punched in the wrong numbers" Lewis said.
"We agreed that, if you fixed the time machine, I'd take you back to see your mom" Wilbur said.
"What?" Lewis said as they looked out the window to see a woman in a hood coming down the street with a box and inside was Baby Lewis wrapped in a blanket crying.
"A deal's a deal" Wilbur said opening the hatch as Lewis got out and looked up the stairs as the woman set the box down and picked up the baby and hugged him as Lewis began to approach from behind but as he was reaching out to her he stopped and slowly began to back away and nearly slipped on the steps as the woman looked around as Lewis hid around the stairs as the woman set Lewis down before doing down the street.
Lewis then went up the stairs and looked at the baby as he looked at the door and began knocking on it before he ran and hid in the time machine as Mildred opened the door and saw the baby in the box as she gasped closed the door and removed the locks as she opened it again and picked up the baby rocking it in her arms then began to look around for the baby mother but saw no sign of her as she smiled down at the baby.
Wilbur then took them back to Lewis time as they landed on the roof of the orphanage as Lewis got out with his Memory scanner still in the box.
"I don't get it. Why'd you just let her go?" Wilbur asked.
"Because I already have a family" Lewis smiled as he hugged Wilbur and Wilbur returned it as Jason and Max smiled from the side of the time machine.
"I never thought my dad would be my best friend, now, now, don't make me come and bail you out again" Wilbur said handing Lewis his original blue prints for the memory scanner.
"I won't" Lewis said.
"Remember, I've got a time machine if you mess up again, I'll just keep coming back till you get it right, you got that motto?" Wilbur asked getting back into the time machine.
"I got it."
"Don't forget it."
"I don't think that's possible."
"You better get going."
"See you later, Wilbur" Lewis said.
"We'll see you soon Wilbur Max and I will be back with the other Time machine very shortly" Jason said as Wilbur took off then in the air they heard him honk as he wrote, 'see ya later dad' in the sky before retuning to the future.
Lewis was then running back to the school with Jason and Max following behind as they stopped in the hall.
"Wait a minute!" Lewis said running back.
"Lewis? Where are you going?" Jason asked as they ran to a fence and looked to see a baseball game in progress and looked to se Goob asleep in the outfield as they heard a ball get hit and come towards Goob way.
"Goob! Goob, wake up!" Lewis yelled.
"Wake up kid!" Jason yelled.
"Huh? What?" Goob said looking around and holding up his glove as the ball landed in it as his team cheered and ran towards Goob picking Goob up and began to toss him in the air.
"Come on!" Max said as they went back to the school to see it still in the process of being cleaned up.
"Mr. Willerstein, I know what went wrong. Can I have one more chance? Please!" Lewis said running in pulling the wagon with his invention on it.
"Please sir!" Jason said.
"Pretty please!" Max said.
"My ride isn't here yet, so fire it up" a lady in a lab coat said.
"Um I need a volunteer" Lewis said as the woman smiled and held up her hand.
Later the people in the room hid behind knocked over chairs with bags of sand piled in front of it as Lewis put the helmet on the woman head.
"Now, just give me a date to input" Lewis said.
"Well, now, let's see uh there's my first science fair,
the day I got my first microscope, the time I swam the English Channel, my first gold medal for the luge...oh! I know" she said as she whispered in Lewis ear.
"Perfect!" Lewis said typing it in and turned on the memory scanner as it began to hum and an image began to appear and a woman in a dress appeared.
"You look gorgeous."
"He's a lucky guy" another woman said as Lucille looked in a mirror and they saw her in her wedding dress.
"Oh! It works" Lucile said.
"Lucille?" Jason repeated
"It works!" the gym coach said.
"It works" Lewis smiled.
"You look beautiful, Lucille" a man said as looked over to her groom who tux was on backwards and had a face drawn on the back of his head.
"Bud?" Lewis, Jason and Max said.
"Would you look at that?" a younger Bud said next to them
"Whoa!" Lewis said.
"Honey! Honey, you're just in time" Lucille said.
"Lucille!" Lewis said.
"You did it, Lewis! You did it! This invention is brilliant!" Mr. Willerstein said.
"Kid, you're this fair's MVP!" the coach said.
"That was some show you put on, you're a real special kid, but you don't look like a Lewis you look more like a..." Bud said trying to think of a name.
"Cornelius. I get that a lot" Lewis said as a frog landed on Bud head.
"Oh, no! Sorry, mister" a little girl with black hair said.
"No harm done" Bud said handing her back the frog.
"Frankie, what have I told you about running away?" the girl said.
"Frankie?" Lewis said.
"Oh no way" Jason smiled.
"My star pupil" Franny said putting the frog in a box, "my name's Franny, and I teach frogs music."
"Really?"
"Mmm hmm you know that frogs have more musical ability than people? But nobody believes me they all think I'm crazy, you think I'm crazy, too" she said.
"No. No, I think you're right" Lewis said as Franny smiled and he smiled back.
"Over here? There he is!" a newsman said approaching, "Kid, we'd like to get a story on you for the local paper, you've got a bright future ahead of you."
"Yeah" Lewis smiled.
Later that day Jason and Max found the other time machine and flew back to the future as they helped Wilbur push the time machine in the garage.
"How long are you grounded?" Jason asked as they left the garage and Wilbur made sure the door closed this time.
"Five months" Wilbur said.
"Ouch" Max said.
"So what was it like? To see dad win?" Wilbur asked.
"It was interesting ask your dad about it sometime" Jason smiled as they saw the keyhole form on some flowers in the garden as Jason summoned his keyblade and pointed at the keyhole then sealed it engulfing the area in light.
"What was that?" Wilbur asked.
"That was the sign for Jason and I to go on" Max said.
"Where to?" Wilbur asked.
"Wherever the light takes us I guess" Jason smiled as he patted Wilbur back, "you behave now Wilbur, we may meet again" Jason said as they left and returned to the lanes between.
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