Chapter 23 : A New Kind of Adventure - Part 7 : Surprise! Again

(NOOO! Chelsea lose to Atletico Madrid 3-1, FUUUUUUUUUUUUU *someone walks in* ZZZZZY slippers, yeah. I'm a Chelsea fan so deal with it.)

RINGGGG...

I slammed the alarm clock at the table next to the bed, the alarm clock was set at 3 AM in the morning, yeah, I remember why, the surprise party. Why would everyone wake in that time to just preparing a surprise birthday party? The kids said they were in summer vacation, so I guess we're on the same time as both of my, and Maxwell's world.

I felt the empty space next to the bed, where Lily is supposed to sleep. Maybe she already awake to help make the cake.

I got up from the bed, realizing I was still in the... pink hoodie. Seriously, I was okay with purple one, but pink? I felt myself being a girl or something, and I felt embarrassing. Guess I need to wear this until my hoodie was cleaned from all the blood and kerosene smell.

I picked up my rooster helmet and exited the room, trying to shook the thought from my head. I ran my hand through my black messy hair, it's been a long time since I combed my hair, and since I wore the rooster helmet to cover my hair like the others.

When I passed the kid's room, I slowly opened the door and peeked in, they still asleep. Good, I don't want one of them to know about the surprise party and screw all of it. Besides, it's 3 in the morning, nobody would wake up in this time.

I walked down the stairs, finding uncle Maxwell still asleep on the couch in the living room, snoring loudly. God, I hate someone when they snores in their sleep. It's just annoying as hell! I almost couldn't even sleep for a minute when people snores around me. Back at Maxwell's house, Maxwell always snores in his sleep. That's why I never got enough sleep in night, and sometimes, I just put on ear buds.

I walked to the kitchen, hoping to find both Lily's. When I arrived, they were busy understanding the cake's recipe on a cook book, and probably, waiting for me. "There you are, c'mon, let's start making the cake." Lily said to me.

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So, we finished with flour and the cake dough all over in our clothes, gloves, face, and rooster helmet. Seriously, we acted like a little child when we mix flour and egg for the cake dough, because Lily started it first by wiping the flour at my cheek. And, well. You know the rest.

I opened the oven and Lily put the tray inside the oven, it was pretty big, so it's going to take a lot of time to wait until it fully baked. "Alex, Lily. Set it on 45 minutes." The other Lily told us while making the cream for the cake.

"Yes, mom." We said in unison, and laughed. We just called her mom, like the way she acted. I don't know if I need to consider her like my mother in this dimension. She was kind, and care. Like Lily does to me. Or, Lily just had a crush on me, and... I don't know if I have a crush on her, yet. She's quite pretty, with her long blonde hair and crystal grey eyes. Maybe, time will tell.

I'm glad when 'mom' tell me that my hoodie has been cleaned and dried, so I could get out from this embarrassing pink hoodie. I washed my face from all the sticky flour and dough, and I brushed all the flour from my clothes before changing into my usual grey hoodie.

I realized there's a hole in the upper right arm sleeve, which I remembered when I was shot in the arm. I should've dodge that bullet when Yusuf warned me, and now I'm starting to regret to not listen to him. I pulled out my notebook and wrote an adjective into my hoodie 'fixed', the hole was gone, and my hoodie is good as new.

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"SURPRISE!" We all said in unison, the kids quickly put on their happy faces and rushed to the living room. The party is not that fancy either, just some 'Happy Birthday' decoration on the ceiling and we wore a cone hat that everyone always wear in a birthday party.

Things go out pretty well, the kids seems happy like it was their first time celebrating their birthday. I couldn't help but smiled at them, they remind me of my and Maxwell's birthday. Well, at least I wouldn't have to prank them like I did to Maxwell, although it was hilarious. I still felt guilty at him.

Now it's time for they to open the gifts, I just couldn't wait for it, neither do Maxwell, Lily, and Sophia. It's their time to be a Scribblenaut. And how do they look like, what gift do they receive, just a lot of thoughts going on my head. They look stunned when they saw what inside their gift's boxes. Their own Scribblenaut costume, and their magical gift. I think.

"Can we try it, please, please, please, pleaseeee?" Rosa asked 'father' excitedly, a huge smile plastered at her face.

'Father' just smiled to her, and the rest of his kids also seems curious to try it, "Alright." He answered, motioning them to go to their room to change their clothes.

The kids smiled at their parents, they grabbed the boxes and ran to their room upstairs, slamming the door shut.

"Wow, they looked very excited." I stated, staring at their room from the living room.

"Yeah, it was their first time celebrating birthday with both of their parents here." 'Father' replied.

Really? I never thought of that. I opened my mouth to asked something, but I quickly shut it back. Is it true? That it was the first time they celebrating birthday with both of their parents here? Poor them, no wonder 'Mother' said that their father was rarely home. You know, busy with a lot of Alliance missions and other businesses.

Silence filled the living room, nobody talked or did anything. Everyone was waiting for the kids to come back downstairs. I just couldn't wait to see how do they look on their Scribblenaut costume, and train them to use their magical gift. Like the way Maxwell and Lily train me and Sarah.

Wait, Sarah! Oh man, she is going to miss a lot of fun things here. Sadly, she is too tired to wake up early, she said 'a lot of hacking and answering requests from soldiers in one day'. Can't believe she already been a computer expert and a communicator for the Alliance, thanks to Sophia. But at the same time I can't risk her being in the front line, getting hurt or worse, killed.

I had to take care of her, she's the only family member I had here. Good thing about being here is, there's no Kevin. He's been one irresponsible and a jackass brother. Not to mention about throwing party at the house without permission.

Moments later, they came back from their room and heading downstairs to the living room. They all now look entirely different.

Daniel was wearing the costume that resemble Maxwell. Blue hoodie, star necklace, green shorts, white gloves, red socks, and blue shoes. His red rooster helmet placed under his left arm, with the grey headphones on his right hand.

Nichols was wearing a costume that resemble me. Grey hoodie, star necklace, green shorts, white gloves, white socks, and light blue shoes. He was inspecting his blue rooster helmet and his orange headphones on his neck, I can't tell how he looked completely has the exact same appearance as me. Except for the eyes, he had grey and I had blue.

Meanwhile, Marcus was wearing a costume that look like a fusion between both of me and Maxwell. Unlike the others, he already wore his red rooster helmet and orange headphones. His clothes consists of grey hoodie, star necklace, white gloves, green shorts, white socks, and blue shoes.

And Rosa, she... look exactly like Lily. She was wearing blue shirt, star necklace, white gloves, pink skirt, the same brown bag, purple socks, and light blue shoes. Her pink rooster helmet identical to Lily is under her arm, letting her blonde hair with pink headband at her hair visible.

It all made me speechless, they look exactly like us. Their costume made them look exactly like us! Where did they get these clothes? And how about their magical gift? Is it same?

"Well, look at you all. You look like us when we still at your age." Uncle Maxwell stated, looking at them.

"So, what are we going to do next?" Daniel asked.

"It's time for some training." 'Father' smirked, and then looked at me, Maxwell, Lily, and Sophia. "You all could train them how to use their magic gift on the front yard." He told us.

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So, their magic gift are also similar to us. Daniel, Marcus, and Nichols got the same green, blue, and red notebook with a star in the middle as Maxwell, me, and Sophia. Meanwhile, Rosa got the same globe as Lily and Sarah.

And now it's 6 in the morning, many people hasn't awake yet, so we could proceed the kids training without making the people suspicious. Because, in this dimension, people thought that Scribblenauts kind has either extinct or rare, also it's forbidden to be a Scribblenauts in here, thanks to the Emperor and his Empire.

Maxwell with Sophia are going to train Daniel and Marcus, meanwhile me and Lily are going to train Nichols and Rosa.

"Alright Nichols, all you have to do is write down the words on the notebook." I told him.

He nodded and pulled out his blue notebook and pencil from his pocket, tapping his chin with the pencil and thinking what he should write on the notebook. He stared at his notebook, then at the street in the front of the house, then back to his notebook. He smiled, decided what he should write. From his look, I could already tell something bad is going to happen soon.

He goes to the street and stood at the pavements, I followed him and stood next to him. He grinned as he wrote something at the notebook, a tank just appeared from nowhere on the street.

"Wow, Nichols. You have something better in your mind?" I asked him.

"Nope." He smiled to me, "I always wanted to see a real tank in my life."

I face-palmed and groaned, I bet Maxwell and Sophia is going to have the same problem as me. A helicopter and a sport car suddenly appeared in the front yard, yelling and complain could be heard from there. I hope 'father' doesn't get angry when he find out that we ruined his front yard, because of the kids

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I taught Nichols some basic training on the notebook, like writing adjectives and spawning object with an adjective. He really good at this, he mastered the notebook faster than anyone, even faster than me and Sophia. And now, I think I might teach him the last and the most cool thing you could do with the notebook is, editing object. It's a hard, but fun trick you can do. Maxwell taught me to do that about a week ago, and I always having fun with that.

"Good job Nichols, now I will teach you the most fun part from the notebook." I said to him.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Object editing, you can use your notebook to modify object or living things as much as you like to." I answered.

His face brightened, happiness pouring into his heart and a large smile plastered at his face. "Can you teach me how to do it?"

"Sure." I smiled to him.

I taught him the trick, it's a bit hard to understand because the trick was a bit complicated. But, nevertheless, he still can do it.

"Can I... edit you?" He asked.

"Of co- wait, what?" Before I could finished my sentence, a cloud of smoke surrounded my clothes and I closed my eyes. Oh god, I hope he didn't made me wear a girl clothing, pink clothes, makeup or something embarrassing. I swear, Nichols and Daniel sometimes could be a troublemaker and often pulling pranks to people around.

I opened my eyes, I didn't saw that I wore a skirt or girl clothing. Instead, I saw that I was wearing something different. I wore a tuxedo with black tie, black pants, and a pair black expensive looking shoes. Wow, I didn't expect that. He just smiled to me, satisfied with his work.

"Not bad Nichols, for the first try." I congratulate him, he erased the words on his notebook and I was back in my original clothes.

"Kids, breakfast!" 'Mother' shouted from the house.

"Oh boy! Breakfast!" The kids said in unison and quickly ran inside the house, Maxwell and Sophia quickly followed them inside. Leaving me and Lily outside, 'father' came out from the house with two warm pancakes plate in both of his hands. He walked down to the front yard and handed the plates to both of us.

We sat down on the front terrace while eating our breakfast, we watched many people started to doing their activities. The sun has rose high enough to sign that now is morning, around 7 AM. "So, where did you got those notebooks and globe?" I asked 'father'.

"Those are our old notebooks and my wife's old globe. We didn't used it anymore, so we decided to give it to our kids." 'Father' replied, he told me about why he didn't need it anymore, and how aunt Sophia gone missing in one of the mission. So, in this dimension, Sarah got was imprisoned somewhere, and Sophia was gone missing.

I finished my pancakes and washed it on the sink, too bad that there is no mission today. Well, at least we could enjoy a day off and spend the rest of the days having fun with the kids.

We spent the day playing prank wars, with Lily, Nichols, and Rosa at my side. While Marcus, Daniel, and Sophia at Maxwell's side. Too bad Sarah was still asleep, she always miss the fun every time, but I don't want to disturb her peaceful sleep. She's a heavy sleeper like my father and waking her up was like waking up a faint people. The only way to make her awake was either slap/hit her anywhere, or throw a bucket of cold water at her face.

At the end, it only ended up as stalemate. We have the same points, and every group has been hit by the same numbers of pranks. Guess, we should play this someday again.

I never have this so much fun in here, since we were busy with missions. Now my arm was fully healed thanks to Nichols and Daniel, they were kind enough to think about my arm, and Maxwell's leg. I released my hoodie and opened the bandage, the wound was healed without a scar. Maxwell's leg also healed without a scar. Guess I better used my notebook more often and watch myself next time, I don't want that accident happen again.

I put on the hoodie back and headed to the living room to watch some tv while spending some time with the others.

Sarah was already awoke and I told her about the fun we had with the kids. She regretting about the extra sleep she had earlier, she thought that today we are going to have another mission, but she was wrong. But at least she got enough sleep for a day.

The phone ringed loudly, "I'll got it." Uncle Maxwell said.

He picked the phone up and placed it on his right ear, "Hello? Yes, this is the Johnson residence. What?! The Empire attacked San Pierre? With a nuke?!" He said, that made us all surprised. Looks like we're going to have another mission, and our day off was ruined. How did the Empire had a nuke? I thought that weapon was restricted at the world.

"Wait, isn't that where the President's daughter was hiding? Is she safe? Thank god, where is she now? Falcon City? Just, make sure she is okay. We don't want the President having a mental breakdown. Alright, we'll be right there." He closed the phone, he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"What is it Max?" 'Mother' asked him, she put her hand at his shoulder.

"The Empire attacked San Pierre, they used a nuke to blow the entire city! And San Pierre was officially erased from the map." He answered, "Alright, we're going into the Alliance base. Now." His voice sounded serious.

"I'll drive." 'Father' said. 'Mother' quickly put her hand at his shoulder, "Remember, no mission." She reminded.

"Yeah, yeah." He replied sarcastically.

He grabbed the car key on the key hanger, and headed outside, I went upstairs to call Maxwell and Sophia. They going to be surprised when I tell them.