Chapter 15 (Time Travel)
In the time machine flying into the time zone at the speed of light, the boys were on a mission. A huge mission in fact in which involves the whole future itself at state, as they were going back to the year 2007 were Wilbur's dad Cornelius but in the future his name was Lewis in the two thousands. Hiro and Miguel was looking at the multi colored energy waves that was the time zone in ah, as Wilbur was steering the flying machine as he looked at the dial on the screen as their year was dropping down instantly.
Miguel put his hand on the glass shield slide door as he felt coldness and quickly take his hand off, and immediately warm his hand up with his breath. "Jeez, this glass door straight up ice cold. I thought it was going to be at least hot." He said rubbing his hands together. Hiro then said while looking back at his Latino friend. "Instead of the glass being hot it's cold because based on how Uncle Cornelius built and design this time machine. In order for the time machine can function without hurting the driver or the passenger of having a hard heat stroke, the time machine has to have a cooling system in order for it to stay in one piece."
"Thanks for telling us that Hiro cause I think me and Miguel wouldn't even know." Wilbur said checking the time dial as it was on its last double digits. A thought popped in Miguel's head as this was very important. "Hey guys?. When we go back in time do you think we might see our younger parents?." Wilbur let go of the steering wheel and turn around "That's an excellent question you asked Miguel. I believe it's very possible and." "Wilbur the wheel!." yelled Hiro.
The time machine was going down spinning crazy instead of staying straight as Hiro quickly pushed Wilbur out of the way grab, and pulled the steering wheel back while Miguel was holding on to his seat belt tight. As the time machine was pulled right back up and stay on course. After keeping the time machine steady and calm, all three breathed out in relief as both Hiro and Miguel was given Wilbur the look. "Next time when you're talking make sure you put hands on the wheel!." said Miguel a little shaken up as he still was holding hard to seat belt.
"Alright, alright I will next time. It's not like we're going to crash or something." Wilbur said putting his seat belt on as Hiro was on the wheel steering. "Ok. We're arriving in the year 2007 right about. Now." said Hiro. As right on cue the time machine exited out of from the time zone, and entered the year 2007 version of Todayland. All three looked at their surroundings as they can't believe that they were actually in the two thousands, while flying around the city as the buildings were plain old modern buildings without any touch of technology over at San Fransokyo, and both Metropolis and Mexico city was down right dead plain.
"Wow our hometown is so, so, so." Miguel was trying to find a word to describe what his seeing." Then Wilbur found the word to describe their old version of their hometown, and said "Crappy. Very crappy indeed." "And you're never wrong my friend." said Hiro flying their way to Todaylands Elementary school and parked in the back, and put on the invisible cloaking mode. With that being done they hopped out of the vehicle as Wilbur typed the lock code on it, in case someone might find it and wanted to take it a spin.
When they entered in the back and made it to the gym room where the science fair was going to be hosted, and found out that the whole entire room lights were completely off let alone their wasn't anyone or anything there except for a bunch of tables filled up in roles. "Ummmmm, where's everybody?." asked Wilbur who was confuse at what his seeing and rubbing his head. "It would appears that we didn't set the time of place when we got into the time machine." said Hiro putting out logical facts into the answer. "Great that's just great and according this news letter on table, it clearly says that the science fair starts at 5:20pm after school." said Miguel who was reading the details on school letter.
"Why time is it now?." Hiro asked himself while taking out his phone. As he did his phone read 3:00pm and said "We have two hours and twenty minutes to go. And boy, I can't believe that my phone has been reprogrammed to show the exact time, month, day, and year!." Wilbur took out his phone as his said the same and was surprise that their touch screen phones can litatualy reprogram themselves and have the right time. As they figure out that they have a little bit of free time, they decided to have a look at the past and see what 2007 has to offer.
They walked their way out of the school and headed to the sidewalk, and went exploring the city. At first it surprises the three of them to see stores that they haven't seen before in their time line, and they saw a arcade building in which in the next few years will turn into their favorite signature pizza spot. "Let's check this place out you guys." said Wilbur as he opened the door for his friends as they went inside. "This arcade joint is so old and way back." Hiro said looking at the arcade games and wasn't impressed at all.
Miguel went up to the counter and paid a cup of quarters wroth of twenty dollars and went back with a smile. "Since we have two hours until the science fair, we can play some games." He said with a grin as he made his way towards one of the arcade game boxes. While looking for a good game to play as the boys have never heard of the games called Ghost Squad, Raiden IV, The Last Starfighter, and Big Buck Hunter. Neither one of them haven't had a clue to which game to play first as they were browsing through each arcade, even though they never ever even heard of those games.
But then that's when Hiro spotted a very familiar arcade game that he has seen at uncle Cornelius and Franny's arcade room, and told the boys to follow him. "What caught your attention H?." asked Wilbur. Arriving to the arcade box wondering what got their best friends eyes on as they see what it is. The game that's in front of them was a Wreck it Ralph game that was identical to the one that uncle Cornelius and aunt Franny has. "Wreck it Ralph?. Dude this game came out in the nineties. I'm surprise to see it here." said Miguel taken out a quarter and handed it to Hiro. Hiro flipped the quarter and put it in and went to playing as he was in on it, while Wilbur and Miguel went up to play Pac Man and Sonic.
"I wish this time line had Call of Duty or even Heros Duty." Hiro said beating the high score on the game. "I was thinking about that too. Man, these games have no HD, no what's so ever." said Miguel. In about an hour they burn all of their quarters and broke high scores on each game making the owner surprised to see the score board being beaten. "You kids aren't from around here are you?." the owner asked them. "Um, were are and our parents told us to not talk to strangers." Wilbur said patting himself on his back for creating that lie. As they left the arcade building and headed back to the Elementary school as it was getting ready to be five o'clock, and it was time for the science fair.
"Alright guys were have one and only chance to save my dads future. And we can not afford to screw things up." Wilbur said taking the matter at hand seriously and so did the others. Then Miguel said while finishing drinking some water from the schools water fountain. "Yeah, and this time Violet and Penny aren't here to get us out of it. So we have to make it right." Just the thought about the girls made them really wish that they were here with them, as they would really could use a super by now.
In about the next hour the schools elementary science fair was officially open as each student have brought their projects on the table, and went to setting up their presentations while the judges were walking around judging each project one by one. When the boy went in they were focused as they were on the lookout for the Bowler hat guy and keeping an eye on the boy who looks about around their age. The boy that they keep their eyes on was the young version of Cornelius but in the year 2007 his name was Lewis. The young genius was at his table setting up his invention known as the Memory Scanner and he for one can't wait to turn it on. Before he could even turn on the switch, he was quickly pulled under neath the table and meet a boy around his age that, he has never see in school.
"Hey what are you doing?." He asked with confusing on his face. "Look before I answer your question, I have a question to ask you. Have you encountered a mysterious Bowler hat guy by any chance?." Wilbur asked his young father. Arching an eyebrow on the question that was being asked as Lewis manage to shake his head no. "Not really. Why do you ask?." He said as Wilbur pulled him out underneath the table and gave him a warm friendly smile. "Just asking my friend and good luck on your science fair project. And if you do see a guy wearing a bowler hat, I recommend you call me and my friends." Wilbur insisted as he was about to go back to keep watch, until Lewis stopped him.
"Hey wait, who are you anyway?." Lewis asked as for some odd reason he felt he the boys, let alone the other boys as well who were looking around at different projects. With a smile on his face he said "Let's say I'm your loyal confidant." and walked away. Meanwhile on the other side, Miguel and Hiro were looking and talking junk about the projects that they see while keeping an out for the villain from the their time line. "Dude, that's the worst project that I ever seen." Miguel commented as he was looking at the classic potato battery project. Hiro smirk on that as he saw another project that was worthy toto be laugh at. "Agree, the volcano lava project is so 2000's. In our time we have all tech or even do a Google slide project." Hiro said as he continued keeping his eyes on the projects.
Wilbur was doing the same as he can't help but crack a grin seeing lame projects and can't believe these are considered a science project, and don't know weather he should feel sorry for the 2007 kids or go on a picking spree. At the right moment he spotted the Bowler hat guy in a black cloak as he was walking in the room like a plain old by stander. "Bowler hat guy!." Wilbur yelled as he started running at him and jumped right at him, causing him to fall down. But unfortunately it wasn't the Bowler hat at all instead, it was another science fair participant that was going to present his Solar system project. "Hey my Solar system!." the boy yelled in disappointment as the other student who happens to present some frogs but they got loose.
"My frogs!." said the little girl who had a pigtail hair style. Hiro and Miguel ran over to Wilbur who made himself look like a fool and a jerk. "It's 5:22pm and you're already causing a scene." Hiro said through his teeth feeling that their cover is blown. Before Wilbur can say anything, another girl came up to them who had on a red t-shirt with blue jean shorts with polo white shoes, while having a little bit of long hair. "What happened Franny?!." said the little girl. "Franny?!." said all three in utter shock when they heard that name. Franny?. As in Wilbur's mom and aunt to Miguel, Hiro, and the others they all thought, as they can she's looks a lot like their Franny in the year 2037.
With an upset attitude and along with angery look, Franny pointed and said "This jerk right here have jumped on Ricky, causing him to drop his project into pieces while accidently bumped into me." The young girl looked at the boy who was responsible for the whole thing and said "Hey, you stop being a jerk to my best friend or you and your friends are going to get these hands from yours truly." Before either one of them can say a word all of a sudden two more girls came into the same place. "Helen?. Franny?. What's going on here?." asked a Japanese American girl with short hair. "Helen?!." said the boys in shock as the young Helen put her hand on her hip. "Yeah, that's my name. Do you boys have a problem with that?." the young Helen asked showing a little bit of attitude.
"N... N... No, not really aunt Helen. I'm mean Helen." said Hiro as he laid his eyes on the other girl figuring out that she must be without of doubt, must be aunt Cass. And the others must be aunt Luisa, and Sierra judging by how they look and clothes style. "On the behalf of my amigo we wanted to say we're sorry for the destruction that he cause." said Miguel as he was looking down by the Latina girl who carrying a basket. "Hmmmm, you know something?. I see that you're wearing one of my families best made shoes and I have never seen you in our shoe store. And I should know because I'm in charge of our cash register." said a young Luisa who was checking him out as he was nerves to say something. "If I tell my past mom the truth then consider my future, just plain old history. Or lie about and hope she takes it." Miguel thought fast as he sees his mom waiting for a response while tapping her foot in patient.
"Weeeell you see I asked one of the kids in the school to go and buy me pair, because I was ummmm, too busy doing my homework." He said with a smile with teeth showing and all. Looking at him real good and said with a cheerful attitude "Alright!. I trust you and friends." "Yeah, and will let by gones be by gones. Right girls?." asked a young Cass. Helen and Franny looked at each other, smiled and nodded as the boys were relieved that it went smoothly. "Now, to show theirs no hard feelings. Let's go ahead eat one of grandma Coco's sweet buns." Sierra suggested as Luisa completely forgot about it, and took off the small blanket that was covering the buns and passed out to everyone.
"Mmmmmm, I love grandma Coco's sweet buttery buns." said Wilbur as he to smaller bites of his bread. "You can say that again amigo." said Franny who was eating while putting her frogs back into the big box. Hiro was eating his bread as he looked up at the bleachers and saw Abuelita who was in her prime while on her side was grandma CoCo who was old but not too old, as she was seating down watching the science fair and finally saw another Japanese American girl who was trying to fix her last minute presentation on what it appears to be a electronic water cycle project. Without even guesting on who she is, Hiro knew for a fact that this was his young version of his mom and she was a perfect example of beautiful. While heading over there to have a little chat and maybe help her out on fixing her project, little did the boys know that hiding behind the stage curtain was the Bowler hat guy and his hat Doris who was seeing the boys from the future and figure that it's time to put their evil plan to work. Doris hovered off the man's head as she sneakily went to Lewis's table and began unscrewing the parts to the memory scanner and successfully hid underneath the table without being seen.
At that right moment the judges came over to Lewis as they were ready for his presentation. Some of the students were grouped together to watch the display as both Wilbur and Miguel was actually going to relive a historic event in which it was Lewis, who will become known as one of the greatest inventor in the world and of his time. And that moment will be presenting his most prized possession that will make him famous. "Good evening everyone my name is Lewis. What I'm presenting is going to change the way we remember things from our past by actually watching it." Lewis said putting his headphones on and then said "This is called the Memory Scanner. This device can retrieve old memories in your memory bank and projected onto the screen. All you have to do is type in the year, month, date, and time and." When he typed the numbers onto the keyboard lunch box that attached to him, the Memory Scanner begin to start up making both Wilbur and Miguel super excited and can't wait any longer.
Suddenly the machine went crazy and started coming apart causing it to shoot out one of the parts, and created chaos in the whole gym as water sprinklers went off after detecting smoke from a broken volcano eruption causing everyone's project to be sabotage, let alone causing a little bit of fire into the mix. "What just happened?." said Hiro who was lost as to what his seeing when Lewis invention went terribly wrong. The main person who was hurting the most was Lewis as he had a lot of history, of having his inventions going down hill and wound up failing. He thought this time his invitation was going to work for sure as he put a lot of effort and sacrifice to build the memory scanner. But now, his idea invention is dead and so was his confidence. He automatically ran out of the gym with tears in his eyes as he gave up trying to make a difference into the world, as Wilbur was calling him to come back but Lewis didn't even listen as he ran out of the door.
"Come on we have got to help my dad. Our whole future and family is at state." said Miguel as Wilbur agreed as they quickly rush over to the exit. "Come on Hiro!." yelled Wilbur as he said his goodbye and rejoin his friends. "Who were you talking to besides momma Abuelita and grandma CoCo?." Wilbur asked as he entered the code to unlock the time machine door. After hopping in they flew out as while hearing what Hiro is talking about. "And so for the first time in my life I met and talk to my mom. And it turns out she's has an IQ score of two hundred!. Can you believe it?!." said Hiro who was being a nerd for a second.
"That's awesome Hiro." said Miguel giving his friend a fist pump. Wilbur who was driving as he too congratulated his best friend while founding the orphanage where his dad use to live and hover parked, and got out. "Now, we wait until my dad gets out. His always out here on the roof top when he gets upset or be depress for some personal reason." said Wilbur as he and the boys hid behind the brick shape roof entrance. "Do you guys remember when I was chased by a pack of dogs on my shoe delivery route and Violet and uncle Joe have to save me?." Miguel asked as he remembered how it all happened.
(Flashback) It was like any other day when Miguel was out riding his bike in San Fransokyo on his shoe delivery, as he was being chased by a group of stray dogs as he forgot that he had a to go order at Super Burger, and now, he was paddling for his life.
"Ah man, why did I order that Super Burger special." Miguel said to himself while avoiding being jumped by one of the dogs. While trying to get away from the dogs his phone rang and saw uncle Joe Robinson face and press the call button. "Hello?." "Miguel where are you?. I ordered my costume made shoes two hours ago and I wanted to walk today and try to burn this weight off of me." said Uncle Joe who was the only obesity member of the Robinsons family and his wife insisted that he should take a nice walk around the park, and enjoy the fresh air. "I'm sorry Uncle Joe but I'm being chased by dogs right now." said Miguel as he jumped over and fail down.
He recovered quickly as he grabbed his bag and run by foot as the dogs continued to chase him. "Violet. Miguel is in trouble we need to go save him now." Uncle Joe said as he got off his electric power chair and made his way out of the door. "Wait up Uncle Joe, maybe I should do this by myself." Violet suggested closing door behind them as she's going to miss her TV show but luckily Carl is going to record it for her. "Why not Vi?. I can do this and besides I need to lose my weight." said Uncle Joe as he started jogging and quickly losing breath while Violet was slowing down so he can catch up with her.
Miguel wound up getting cornered in a abandon building as the dogs were showing their teeth making him pray for his life as one of the dogs were about to jump, until all five of them was sat on by Uncle Joe who apparently climbed up on top of the shipping crates and jumped down on top. Violet grab Miguel and pulled him to the air vent were they all came in from, and pushed him in. "Hurry up will ya?. I have a verity of snacks and drinks at Wilbur's house waiting for me." Violet said a little ignored as she wasn't planning on saving anybody. "Sorry Vi. Next time I'm letting my cousin do the shoe delivery." Miguel said crawling out.
Sighing to herself she now have to help push Uncle Joe the same way where Miguel was, as he was too big to fit through the vent. "Alright let's do this one and hopefully the last time right?." She asked her uncle who was putting on his costume made shoes with glee. "You bet Vi." He said making his way into the vent and got stuck again. Violet pulled up her sleeves and went to pushing her over weight uncle, with all of her strength. "Next time you're going back to the chair and lazy exercise. After all uncle Cornelius have made that lose weight chair for you and I don't see no results." said Violet pushing pretty hard.
"Oh, believe me it works. I just like to it the none last way." Uncle Joe said as he manage to go in but got stuck in the middle of the tunnel. "What's taking you so long Vi?." Miguel asked who was waiting on them. "Shut up Miguel!." Violet yelled back. (End Flashback)
"Oh yeah, that's was a funny with a side of a knee slapper." said Wilbur as he slapped his knee while chuckling. "I was at the Cafe helping Aunt Cass with the lunch hour shift." Hiro said happy that he wasn't there because he would be laughing and filming it on his phone. Suddenly they heard the door slammed open as Lewis came in and took a seat on the brick wall. He pulled out his notebook from his book bag and went to pulling out the pages of his inventions, and let it fly into the wind.
He pulled out his design of his memory scanner and then balled up, and threw it away. Lewis was about to have a few hours of being depressed but suddenly the paper ball that he threw was thrown back to him. Curious as to know who was here with him, he got up and walked over to the side and see the same boys from the science fair. "Are you guys following me?. And if so why?." He demanded to know. "Ok, fine will tell but don't us when say this alright?." Hiro said as Lewis nodded while crossing his arms. "Alright. You see Lewis we are not from here. Well not from this time line. You see we're from the year 2037 and we have come to make sure that your future is safe." said Wilbur with a innocent smile.
"First off time travel does not exist and second who is trying to take away my future?." asked Lewis. "The Bowler hat guy." said Miguel. Lewis didn't believe to what these guys were talking about as he said nice and clean. "You guys are crazy and I'm calling the police for stocking." All three of them can't afford to let this happen as they quickly grabbed him pushed him into the time machine. "Help!. I'm being kidnapped by bunch of weirdos!." Lewis yelled as he try to bang the window out. "We did not think this through. Have we not?." said Wilbur as he activated the time machine.
Both Hiro and Miguel said no as they were holding on to a now panicked Lewis as he pushing and kicking. "Let me go!. I demand to know where are we going?." He demanded again. "Relax Lewis we're not going anywhere amigo." said Hiro as he didn't know that Wilbur had other plans. "Wrong you are Hiro because we're going to the future!." Wilbur said thinking that showing his young dad the future and maybe it will regain his motivation to go and redo his presentation of the memory scanner.
"Nothing can wrong. Right?." He thought to himself as he pressed the button and off they go. Back at the Rivera house shoe shop, the young girls were there helping make shoes and putting them in boxes. "That was weird when we met those strange boys." said Franny who was polishing some shoes. "Yeah it was Fran, I feel like I known them." said Helen who was stacking up boxes and went to crafting shoes.
Cass was eating some more buns as she said "And the weird thing about it was that they asked us how did we met." Then Sierra said "And it's obvious. Todaylands preschool." While talking to each other, grandma CoCo was overhearing it as she too was wondering about the mysterious boys as well. She went to her bedroom and gave it a thought while seating in her chair while looking at the photo album of her parents. "I miss you poppa. I really do." She said taking out a photo out and open it as it was a picture of Hector.
Smiling she set the picture back inside the book and then remembered that Hispanic boy as he too looked familiar, and judging from his looks he had the Rivera genetic resemblance without question. "I will never know who's those boys were but I can tell they are going to do great things one day." She said singing a familiar song from what her father have sang long time ago.
Then suddenly her door was being knocked as she heard the girls calling her. "Grandma Coco?. We're done doing the task that you asked. Can we go and hang out at the arcade?." asked Helen. Putting the book back in the shelf she got up and open the door, and gave them some quarters. "Have fun you girls." CoCo said as she closed the door behind her and made her way to the shoe shop. The girls headed to the arcade games to play their favorite games, and then found out that their high scores have been beaten.
"Who the heck beat my high score on Wreck it Ralph?!. That's impossible!." said a upset Luisa as she was mad.
"Who knows. Maybe. Just saying. Maybe it has something to do with those three teens." said Sierra as she put a quarter into the machine and started playing.
Helen was getting ready to play as she stretched her arm into the claw machine and cheated to get a stuff animal that she have had her eye on for some time, as she hugged with joy and spent fifty cents on the pin ball machine. "Whoever they are they must be some want to be Supers who trying to find a name for themselves. But they don't have what it takes to play in the hero business." She thought and smirk as she won high score and gain an extra turn.
"I bet their hero group name must be something silly like Team Future. Or something so wack and lame." said Cass as she began to play the dancing game and get her groove on.
"Just by the name of it is a true knee slapper sis." said Hiro's mom as she slapped her knee while chuckling.