Time for chapter 3, I hope you enjoy it.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs chapter 3
"Steve, keep working" said Flint as he walked away.
"Don't worry, I'll just stay, here" said the machine, who's legs were visible behind some boxes.
Flint ran over to what looked like a safe door with a hand scanner on it. "Scanning Hand" he said, and then he made a scanning noise.
Then he moved the door, which turns out to be just a curtain. He runs down a small corridor to a door with a toy like machine next to it. Flint hits a few buttons on the door, and pulls the door open. He gets into the space and closes the door. The pod goes down, and into a port-a-potty. He opened the door and ran towards the house.
Some kids nearby were watching and laughing at him. "That's, a really weird dude" said one of them.
Flint ran into the house and towards the power box. "Re-energizing power unit" he said while he fixed the fried fuse. But when it was fixed, he looked back and saw his dad staring at him.
"AAWW" screamed Flint, but then ran into the box, fell down, and got back up. "Well, see ya dad" said Flint, and he walked towards the back door.
But Tim fallowed behind slowly. "Uh Flint, uh, don't you think it's time to give up this inventing thing, and get a real job" he asked.
"No why" asked Flint?
"Well, it's just, all of your technology stuff, it just end in disaster" said Tim.
"The rat birds, yes. They escaped and spread at a surprising rate. But I took care of that problem, and disposed of them" said Flint.
But then a rat bird came and picked up one of the three kids nearby. "Billy, just play dead" one called.
"Flint, you don't keep throwing your net, where there aren't any fish" said Tim.
"What" asked Flint, confused?
"I want you to work full time at the Tackle Shop" said Tim.
"THE TACKLE SHOP, oh dad no" said Flint, trying to get out of working at his dad's store.
"Tackle is a good career" said Tim.
"Please I'm so close with this one. I just have to hook him up to the power station and get him more power and he'll work. And, and then you can sell food in the shop, and no one won't have to eat sardines anymore. He's going to be, so awesome" said Flint.
"Uh, who's this 'He" asked Tim.
"That would be me" said a voice. Tim and Flint looked up, and saw the machine looking down at them from the lab.
"Uh Flint, who's that" asked Tim.
"That's my newest invention. He's self-aware and going to be the first in a big line of new inventions" said Flint.
But Tim just sighed and said "I'm sorry son; no more inventing".
"Dad I know I can do this" Flint paused "and Mom did to".
Tim stopped, and Flint looked at the ground.
"It had been almost ten years since Mom died, and dad still didn't understand me like she did."
Flint tried to say something, but his dad just said "Come on, let's open the shop". Flint was sad, and then he looked up at the machine.
"Might as well come along, it'll probably be boring up there" he said.
"Cool, I'll be right down" said the machine.
Later, in town, Flint, his machine, and Tim were standing in front of the Tackle shop. Part of the sign had a sheet over it. Tim pulled the sheet down, and it showed that another sign had been inserted.
"Tim and Son's Sardine, Bait, and Tackle" read Tim. He smiled at Flint and asked "You feeling it"?
Flint gave a fake smile and nodded. Tim walked into the store, and Flint talked to his machine. "This isn't going to be good" he said.
"Hey, just give it a chance" said the machine.
Later, Flint was stacking cans of sardines. The machine was rearranging buckets of chum at the back. A commercial was on TV, showing a baby pulling a wagon full of sardines.
"Look out baby Brent" called the audience. But then the wagon hit a log and spilled all the sardines. The baby looked back and said "Uh oh" cutely. "Baby Brent Sardines, hand packed in Swallow Falls" said the announcer.
Then the screen froze, and a small man walked onto the screen. "As your mayor, I know it's time to put our Sardine Canning past behind us and look to the future…SARDINE TOURISM" he said.
It then showed something large covered by many tarps. "That's why without consulting anyone, I spent the entire town budge on the thing that is under this tarp. Which I will be revealing today, at Noon. Featuring a live appearance by Baby Brent himself" he said.
Flint then turned the TV off; he looked annoyed. "Hey, who's Baby Brent creator" asked the machine.
Then the store door opened, and three people walked in. One was a large man with blond hair wearing a blue jumpsuit. There were also two lovely ladies on either side of him. "What is up, everybody" he asked.
"That's Baby Brent" said Flint in an annoyed tone.
"What's ya doing; stacking cans with me on them as a Baby" asked Brent. Then, he said "Uh Oh" and knocked over the pile of sardine cans Flint had stacked.
"Hey, what's your problem" asked the machine angrily. Brent looked at him. "And who are you" he asked.
"Someone you shouldn't be messing with" said the machine.
"Oh ya, why's that" asked Brent.
The machine showed his hand. But then, the hand shot into his arm, and a cattle prod like device shot up. "This is why" said the machine. Brent looked a little scared, but he quickly shook it off.
"Whatever, I don't have time to deal with you. Anyway, who wants to watch me cut the ribbon at the mayor's unveiling thing? I'll be using these bad boys to help save the town" said Brent, holding a large pair of scissors covered in gold paint.
"Boya" said Brent, and then he turned around to leave. "Alright you guys sardines. Ya, Swallow Falls FOREVER" he screamed on his way out.
"I can see why you don't like him" said the machine as his regular had shot back into place.
Then Tim walked up to Flint. "Listen, you uh, maybe you want to go to that unveiling" he asked.
"You know dad why don't you go ahead. We'll uh, we'll hold down the fort here" said Flint.
"But I want to go see" was all the machine could say before his mouth was covered by Flint.
"Really, you shure you two can handle it" asked Tim.
"Ya dad, I'm pretty shure we'll be fine" said Flint.
"Ha, alright then. I'll uh, I'll be back in half an hour skipper" said Tim.
"Okay, BBYYEE" said Flint happily as his dad left.
"Alright, let's get to work" said the machine.
"I don't think so" said Flint, putting his arm around the machine.
"But you told your dad" said the machine.
"I know what I said. I lied" said Flint.
"But, if we're not going to watch over the store, what are we going to do" asked the machine.
"We're going to get you more power" said Flint confidently.
The machine smiled "Well in that case, let's get going" he said. So he and Flint ran out the back of the store, and headed towards the power station.