"ON ONE PARTICULAR MORNING, FRED AWOKE, NOTICING THE STRANGE CRAFT THAT HAD BEEN PLACED INTO HIS AND SUPER CHICKEN'S MANSION."

"Hey SC!" He called out. "Wath thith THING doin' here?"

"Oh, that's a time machine, Fred!" SC called back from another room.

"FRED THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT, THEN REPLIED;"

"HEY SC! Gonna use the TIME MACHINE, OKAY?"

"Yeah, sure…wait, WHAT?!"

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"BLINDING LIGHTS FLASHED ALL AROUND FRED. AS SOON AS HE LEFT THE TIME MACHINE, HE NOTICED THAT THE MANSION….was exactly the same."

"DARNIT!" Fred exclaimed. "Really thought thith thing would wor—"

(*PEW-PEW-PEW!*)

"FOR A MOMENT, FRED IMMEDIATELY CEASED MOVING, THEN LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW."

"Wait, THUPER CHICKEN?!" He exclaimed.

"SUPER CHICKEN WAS NOW EXTREMELY MUSCULAR AND SHIRTLESS, THOUGH HE NOW HAD CYBORG LEGS, AND WORE NOTHING BUT PANTS AND A CAPE, HE HELD HIS OWN AGAINST THIS NEW VILLAIN. THIS VILLAIN WAS A WOMAN WEARING A BLACK CYBERNETIC SUIT WITH HOT PINK ACCENTS. SHE HAD BRIGHT GREEN HAIR AND RED GOGGLED OVER HER EYES…THOUGH HER TORSO WAS NORMAL, HER APPENDAGES WERE COMPLETELY CYBERNETIC—SHE COULD EVEN FIRE LASERS FROM HER HANDS."

"HAHAHAAAH!" A female, robotic voice exclaimed. "GIVE UP YET SUPER CHICKEN?!"

"Not a chance…." The muscular fowl replied.

"YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF DEFEATING YOUR GREATEST ARCH NEMESIS, DOCTOR ANOMALY!" The cyborg woman laughed maliciously.

"SC PINNED THE WOMAN TO THE GROUND, HIS CYBERNETIC HAND TURNED INTO A LASER GUN, POINTED DIRECTLY AT DR. ANOMALY'S HEAD…"

"Hasta la vista, Anomaly-sta…" SC remarked, gritting his teeth.

"DR. ANOMALY WAS THEN SHOT HUNDREDS OF FEET INTO THE AIR, LANDING ATOP A SKYSCRAPER IN THE DISTANCE."

"THUPER CHICKEN ITH ME!" Fred exclaimed, running out of the mansion. "THAT WATH THO COOL!"

"Woah…Fred…" SC rushed over to greet his friend. "How are you buddy?"

"Pretty weirded out, thee, I jutht uthed your time machine and I—" Fred started speaking, then thought. "How're we alive?"

"Oh, that's easy." Future SC replied. "Our mutations allow us to live slightly longer than the average human. I'm just over middle-aged right now, believe it or not!"

"Heh. Ya look great!" Fred replied.

"Yep…" SC smiled. "And by the way…Welcome to New Pittsburgh, my friend…"

"THE DARK, APOCALYPTIC OUTSIDE SEEMED RATHER SCARY TO FRED, SO HE IMMEDIATELY WENT BACK INTO THE MANSION WITH SC, CLOSING THE DOOR."

"Yeah it's that way due to the sentient robot brain currently ruling much of our society." SC replied, then shrugged. "Ya learn to live with it."

"Tho…I'm really in th' FUTURE!" Fred exclaimed, gazing around. "I mean, me and SC were already in th' year 2021, but thith it'h THO COOL!! Wait, hold on, if you look THITH ATTRACTIVE, what doth future ME look like?"

"Oh, jeez, Fred, I'm so sorry…" SC opened a door to another mansion room. "THIS, is what you look like."

"FRED LOOKED INSIDE TO DISCOVER THE FUTURE VERSION OF HIMSELF WAS…NOT AS BADASS AS HE BELIEVED. FUTURE FRED….was overweight, with a relatively big gut, clad in a jumpsuit, and eating a huge piece of meat in a slobby manner. HE WAS ALSO SEATED AT A COMPUTER CHAIR, VIEWING MULTIPLE HOLOGRAMS OF PEOPLE IN NEED."

("*BbbUUUUHRRRP!"*) "AGH!" Future Fred exclaimed, then started massaging his gurgling, soft, plushy stomach. "Ith okay…no need to be upthet, daddyth here…"

"Eugh…" Fred stuck out his tongue. "In th' future, I'm…NOT VEGETARIAN?!"

"Yeah.." Future SC replied. "Around sometime next year in your time period, you stop caring about being vegetarian and well…"

"A HOLOGRAPHIC SLIDESHOW WAS PRESENTED OF AN INCREASINGLY FATTENING FRED, AT SOME POINTS HE WORE STRAINED HAWAIIAN SHIRTS, IN ONE PHOTO HE WAS STUFFING HIMSELF WITH BARBECUE SAUCE…"

"In about five years from now it's predicted you'll look like this—" SC showed the final photo of a monstrously obese Fred riding a hover-vehicle.

"ACK!" Fred gasped, shielding his eyes. "Thith ith NOT th' future!"

"FRED QUICKLY TURNED ON THE TIME MACHINE, PRESSING MULTIPLE BUTTONS TO GET HIM BACK TO HIS REGULAR, NON-DARK AND SCARY HOME.."

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"AS SOON AS FRED RETURNED TO THE CURRENT YEAR, HE RUSHED OVER TO HUG HIS BEST FRIEND."

"THUPER CHICKEN I LOVE YOU!" He exclaimed.

"Why so glum, friend?" SC asked. "You've only been gone five minutes."

"I thaw th' future, an' I don't like it!" The poor lion replied, then proceeded gazing down at his own stomach. "An' I haveta lay off th' cake…"

"Oh, Fred, you're forgetting that the future is what you make it!" SC replied, giving the lion another big hug. "What's more important is that you live in the now."

End.