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Chapter 1/Prologue: The Rise of Matthew Bartholomew
Time: Unknown
Nit slowly opened his eyes and sat up. He quickly sank. Apparently, he was in the water. He tried to turn to ice and make an iceberg he could sit on but he couldn’t! He kept on trying to but always failed
“What has happened to my power?” He asked desperately. At that moment, he caught on fire and shot into the air.
“How did this happen? I’m a pyrokinetic!” He exclaimed, then said again, “But, how did this happen?!” Suddenly, he heard a voice in his ear:
‘You cannot know. You will never know. Forget it.’
“Who’s there!” Nit’s head whipped around in the air, looking for the voice.
‘You shall now be Matthew Bartholomew, to hide your secret. Tell anyone else who asks that you got the powers in the nuclear war that will happen like everyone else,’ the voice said.
“Alright, I will,” Matthew answered. Matthew Bartholomew looked around for civilization and saw land about ten miles to the north. He flew super fast (on fire) toward it and landed on the ground. He realized at that moment that he didn’t know how to turn off the fire. When he thought that the fire immediately disappeared. He saw that he had a strange suit on, it must be what had kept the fire from burning his skin. He knew that the voice who had talked to him probably put the suit on too. And then Matthew Bartholomew began his new life as a terrorist.
What he did was he would join a very successful business under a different name and gain everyone’s trust while slowly rising to the being the head of the business. Once he got to second in command, Matthew would secretly murder the head person. Obviously, the second in command became the head so he became the boss of the business.
After about a year or so, he would make the company become worse and worse leading it to bankruptcy then he would disappear and the company would fall.
Soon his attacks became worse and the falls of the companies were soon decided to be thought by the same person and the person (Matthew) was called the Company killer.
Then, he changed his attacks and went to killing for real.
Chapter 2: 2222
9:00 in the night
The year is 2222. Lint is found and changed his name to forget his past so his name is now James and Rash and Tricia were found too. They’ve changed their names, too, to Alex and Sarah. After a nuclear war people on earth gained super powers. James developed the power of speed, Alex developed the power of incredible strength, and Sarah developed the power of flight. The Shadow-knights had taken James and the others in and trained him to their fullest potential. James has become leader of a new city, Time-warp city. Being immortal has it’s awesomeness’. They gained great wisdom and power to lead the prospering city. But, an evil lurks in the shadows to leap out and grab the moment. Nit has survived and now he is waiting to kill James and get his revenge. Except his name is Lord Bartholomew, so has immunity. James does not know he survives and plots as we speak but he is getting suspicious of all the terrorist attacks on the populace. Now, he inspects a manuscript found at the scene of one of the attacks that he intends to decrypt.
I stared intently at the device that laid before me. It could hold the key to stopping these terrorists.
“It’s very strange, but I think I’ll be able to decrypt it in a month maybe.” I insured Alex and Sarah.
“We don’t have a month! The attacks are getting more and more organized and dangerous. We have to put a stop to it or they take total control of the city, killing hundreds of people in the process probably.” Exclaimed Alex.
“I don’t know what your guys are talking about but...”, She flew up toward the ceiling of the king’s room doing loop-de-loops in the process, “I think we’d be able to totally pone them. We have for a king a superhuman who can run faster than the speed of light, a body-guard who can pick up buildings, and me, able to fly the speed of sound, and pretty much, me’s all you need.
Alex chuckled. “I doubt it.” He retorted.
“Alex, Sarah’s right. We’re pretty much safe right now, we still have the guards too. And, the city would always lend a hand, probably.” I reassured. I looked the numbers blinking on the screen, “I think I know how to decode this, look at the numbers if your line the first few letters up with what number of letter they have in the alphabet, it forms a word. To decode this, your have to do that. That just shortened the month to maybe about two weeks, I still have to do my kingly duties.”
“Good.” Alex walked away toward the door except when he pushed the door open it flew off it’s hinges, “Uhhh... I’ll fix that in the morning. I’m hitting the the sack, ‘night!”
“Me too!” Sarah flew toward the door, flying through the door swiftly. I sped toward a piece of paper, writing down the words I knew so far.
“Well, I better go sleep to, long day tomorrow. And I’m talking to myself.” Suddenly I remembered when I had said that hundreds of years ago, a pain in his heart grew as I remembered my parents, who had been killed by Nit when he had destroyed the kingdom. Time-stop city had been built on it, I took over the city after becoming a master Shadow-knight. I changed its name to Time-stop city, don’t know why but it sounded cooler. I then ran toward my room, getting there in two seconds. And then, I fell asleep quickly. It’s gonna be a long day tomorrow.
“James! James! James, wake up” A voice shouted.
“What?” I asked groggily.
“There’s been another attack! on the Retirement Square! It’s gone!” Alex shook me awake and dragged me toward the screen. On it showed a picture of Retirement Square, except, it was gone.
“How-!” I started. The news reporter started showing a video from the security cameras. A gargantuan laser beamed down from the sky, appearing to seem like it was from space. The reporter started a very interesting report: “It seems that the terrorist group has attacked again, a small-”
“Hi guys. What’s going on?” Sarah had walked into the room.
“Ssshhhh!!” I hissed.
The reporter continued, “-small device was found near the scene of the crime. We do not know what it is and what to do with it.” the camera turned toward the reporter again.
“Sarah-!”
“I’m on my way.” She pressed a button on our synchronized watches that keep us in touch all the time. It opened a window near the screen and flew through at a very fast speed.
“Well, that’s going to go over well.” Sarah suddenly appeared beside the reporter.
“Where is the device?” She asked intently.
“Who are your?” The reporter asked.
“None of your business!” Sarah retorted.
“Well, if you really want-!”
“I do!”
“It’s over there by the police.”
“Thank your for your ‘cooperation’.” She said. She flew over to the police and took the device. Then, she flew away faster than your can say ‘flew’. I walked over to the desk where the old device was. I prepared a separate piece of paper than the old one. I almost forgot a pencil and walked over to get one.
“I got the device.” Sarah said as she flew in, “You could eat breakfast.” She placed the device in front of me. It seemed to very similar to the old one, but it was larger and a little more rounder. I turned it on. On the screen it showed a long list of numbers.
“Even though I know how to decode it now, this one looks like it really will take a while, maybe 4 weeks.” I concluded.
“We have to find these terrorists before they start to do this again. This is a huge push forward toward catching these guys. We have to hope that they’ll start getting sloppy. We have to catch them in the act.” Alex said tactfully. Alex was not only my best friend but he was also the general of the royal army, a wise choice in my department, “In the meantime, we should take a rest and eat breakfast.”
“Finally! I’m starving!” Sarah said exhaustingly.
“Then, by all means lets go, slowly...”,”My friends stared at me strangely as we walked toward the door. Then, right when they didn’t think I was kidding, I said, “Just kidding! Beat your there!” And I ran toward the royal dining room.
Inside the dining room was chaos, my trusted politicians arguing.
“Everybody!” I yelled above their voices, “Why are your fighting?!”
“A politician spoke up, “ We were discussing the means of which to confront this new attack. All the retired people staying there were gone as well.”
“Then can’t we discuss like civilized men, not arguing and yelling?”, I questioned, “Now, let’s begin with not empty stomachs but full ones!”
“You always were good at that.” Sarah said as she walked through the door with Alex.”
“I know.” I answered, smiling. We sat down and started eating the breakfast.
“Now, I have discovered a way to crack a series of numbers on the two devices found at two of the attacks with my colleagues. We’ll have them done in about 4 weeks.” I reviewed to them, “But this new device that they used in this device is troubling. I have an idea that could work. Sarah since she can fly, could fly into space wearing a specialized strength suit that would enable her to be very powerful and breathe in space. She could look for the weapon and when she finds it, destroy it.”
“That’s a very good plan, it might just work.”, One politician said, “But we would have to wonder where to get this suit?”
“Then, let’s get started.”
Chapter 3: Plan Impossible
11:00 in the morning
“Is this suit really going to work?” Asked Sarah as she tightened the clamps on her new specialized suit, which we had built in two hours, I know, I’m proud.
“Well, yes... possibly” I answered.
“Wait, what?!”
“Yes! It will work!” I said. Sarah cursed under her breath as she readied herself for the long flight.
“Watch that mouth, Sarah. Tsk, tsk.” I retorted.
“Y’know, if I die on this plan of yours. I will kill your in the afterlife, you and Alex.” She said angrily.
“Uh-huh. Doubt it, I’m too fast.” I said as I dodged her hand as it swung out to meet my face, “And trying to hit you king? I’m surprised!”
“Go jump off a cliff or something else like that.” Sarah took off toward the sky.
“She’s not gonna be back for a long time is she?” I said.
“Nope. According to space laws, she should be back by the time your finish that second device.” Alex answered.
“That’s what I thought” I said.
“Sure...” He said, “What now?”
“The second part of my plan.”
The second part of the plan
11:00 at night
As we hid in the bushes beneath the tower of Lord Bartholomew, I was pretty sure I saw a red streak flying across the sky. Sarah had to gain enough speed to exit the atmosphere. Apparently, she was still gaining speed.
“Tell me again why we’re are staking out here, James?” Alex asked in a whisper beside me.
“When I was decoding the code, I found some numbers that when I just looked at the numbers they looked familiar the letters formed a name, a familiar one. It was Lord Bartholomew’s name, someone I had met with to discuss the local news of a ring of robberies several years ago, we stopped the robbers. That’s why we’re staked out here.” I summarized.
“So he’s in on i-! Wait! Then what are we waiting out here for?!” He asked.
“I don’t know. Something, I hope.” The timing was perfect, right after I said that a speeder flew toward a window by the top of the tower.
“Come on” Alex said quickly. He then picked me up and prepared to throw me toward the top of the tower.
“Wait!” I started but it was too late I was thrown all the way onto a garden nestled nicely on the top of the skyscraper. I looked back just as Alex jumped toward the top too, and landed on the tower. The second part had begun.
We crawled over to a small glass opening at the far end of the garden.
“He must really like flowers to actually take care of all these flowers.” Alex observed.
“Well, they are peaceful.” I replied. We walked over to the window and looked in. The hallway we were looking into was deserted and there were no guards.
“Looks like a good place to knock.” Alex said.
“Quietly, please.” I asked.
“Like I ever.” Alex simply stood up and tapped on the door, fortunately I moved away in the nick of time before the window fell in. I sighed.
“I suppose you’re correct.” I agreed. We then leaped into the hole.
“Sarah’s missing out.” I said happily, “Let’s do this.”
Keeping to the shadows, we sneaked to the edge of the wall.
“I don’t think Sarah’s missing out, she doesn’t like stealth missions.” Alex disagreed.
“Maybe you’re right.” I said. My legs were starting to get cramped from kneeling so long, “I wonder if we we’re getting close to the room. We turned the corner and gasped. We were there. Lord Bartholomew was discussing something with a man, tall, maybe about in his mid-thirties, brown hair and had a scar running from beside his left ear to the bottom of his cheek. I actually didn’t remember what Bartholomew’s power was. I think his power had something to do with heat.
“Do you have the shipments?” Bartholomew asked.
“Yes they’re right here. Bring it out boys!” The man signaled to a couple of men, who in turn went to the back of the hovercraft. They then went back and brought out a very heavy looking box. I suddenly remembered something. I knew this man, and I knew the danger we were in just crouching here.
“Alex, we have to get out of here.” I told him.
“Why? Are we in any danger? Are there security cameras?” He spun around wildly looking for any danger, even though he was braver now, he was still a worry wart.
“Just come on!” I grabbed Alex and pulled him toward the door. As we got closer to the window I heard men shouting:
“Get them!” It shouted.
“I knew this was a bad idea, if Sarah were here we would have been home free by now!” I said, scared.
“Then come on!” Alex picked me up and jumped through the ceiling making plaster, silver, and brick fly everywhere. And then we fell.
“That might not have been my smartest idea” Alex said as we fell to our doom. He let go of me and angled his arms that before we fell he would protect me when we hit the ground, “Okay, having Sarah right now would have been a smart idea.” We hit the ground with a boom and a large cloud of dust. I got up quickly and looked down at Alex, afraid for what might of happened, but then he raised up his hands to form a thumbs-up.
“I’m okay.” He murmured.
7:00 in the morning, next day
“Okay, so apparently Lord Bartholomew is in on something and it looks suspicious.” I summed up.
“Who was that guy he was talking to and why were your so worried about him?” Alex asked.
“He is a major crime boss in new york city, his name is Rex Malevolent. He has the power of enhanced senses. I bet a 100 morrisians (the money in Time-warp city) that he knew we were there, either if he smelled, saw, or heard us, I just know he knew we were there! How could I be so stupid! But we mustn't worry about the past, we have incriminating evidence against Matthew Bartholomew. The only problem is that people won’t believe us, even though I’m the king of this city. Matthew is too famous with the people. We’re going to have to find a way to expose him, considering what he’s doing is that bad. We need more evidence against him. The other thing is our evidence as I thought was incriminating might not be so incriminating after all, Rex might be going straight and made a delivery service or... he could be what I thought he was in the first place, a person involved in the terrorist attacks.”
“That could be true, but we’ll have to crack the codes on those devices found at the scenes of the crimes.” Alex said
“Agreed”
Chapter 4: Sarah’s mission
9:00 at night
Sarah flew as fast as she could around Earth, gaining enough speed to escape the atmosphere. As she was flying she thought about different things.
‘The city looks pretty tonight,’ she thought, ‘Wish I didn’t have to do this boring mission, I bet Alex and James are having fun right now.
Meanwhile, back to Alex and James...
“Just come on!” I grabbed Alex and pulled him toward the door. As we got closer to the window I heard men shouting:
“Get them!” It shouted.
“I knew this was a bad idea, if Sarah were here we would have been home free by now!” I said, scared.
“Then come on!” Alex picked me up and jumped through the ceiling making plaster, silver, and brick fly everywhere. And then we fell.
“That might not have been my smartest idea” Alex said as we fell to our doom. He let go of me and angled his arms that before we fell he would protect me when we hit the ground.
“Okay, having Sarah right now would have been a smart idea,” We hit the ground with a boom and a large cloud of dust. I got up quickly and looked down at Alex, afraid for what might of happened, but then he raised up his hands to form a thumbs-up.
“I’m okay.” He murmured.
Back to Sarah...
‘I always have to do the stupid part of missions.’ She thought. A sonic boom broke the silence as she started to go mach fifteen almost enough to break the atmosphere. After mach fifty she broke out of the atmosphere and raced into space. It was like instead of a blue ocean, it was black. Star’s twinkled all their lights in harmony as she flew silently through space. She looked around and saw Earth. It was blue because of actual oceans. Time-warp city had billions of lights scattered all over it. Over near it, there was a country that looked like Bearen Nevet’s country. Bearen Nevets was a friend of James in his Shadow-knight training. Then, she saw Tommy’s continent, Shawn Frost’s continent, Fiery Fred’s and a few others.
‘Back to the mission.’ Sarah thought. Then, she found what she was looking for.
Back with Alex and James
“Are your almost done with that stupid device!” Alex asked me.
“I just finished the first one!” I answered proudly.
“This is boring.” Alex said.
Back to Sarah
‘Looks like my part of the mission just got more exciting.’ She thought. As she was thinking this she was looking at a massive space carrier. On the side was a name. ‘THE SKULL-CRUSHER’. The name didn’t really scare Sarah. She flew quickly at the space carrier and into a force-field covered area. Finally, she was able to open her mask, able to breath because of the force-field.
“Finally! That thing was so annoying!” Sarah shouted, “Now, let’s see what this doohickey is.” She flew up toward a deck that had a door. She got there and opened the door. Inside seemed to be some sort of control room. She walked in and surveyed it. Looking at the computer monitor, she inferred that there would probably be a self-destruct button that they probably placed in case anything went wrong. She then activated her watch connector to James and Alex.
“Guys, I seemed to have found a control room. Do you guys know how to self-destruct a space-ship?” Sarah asked.
“Yeah, it’s usually the red button. Hey, if you see any strange devices, could your pick them up for me?” I replied. Sarah looked around the room for a device and found one lying on the table and picked it up.
“Found it! I got it. Okay, I’m blowing up the ship now! Bye!” Sarah said as she walked to the monitor. There was a red button. And of course, she pressed it. A countdown started and it showed:
‘1:00 left till countdown, 0:59, 0:58...
“Uh, oh.” Sarah quickly flew out the door and out the ship flying away as fast as she could. She barely had time to turn around and see THE SKULL-CRUSHER exploding into bits.
5:00 in the morning
“I’m back!” Sarah said as she flew through the open window, “and I got the device!”
“Good, because I just finished the other ones and boy... have we got a story for you.” I told her, “We invaded Matthew Bartholomew’s tower, Matthew seemed to be discussing a trade operation. We discovered that the man was Rex Malevolent, a major crime boss, but at a price.” I said, “We’ve been up all night and I’m so tired I think I might just… go… to… sleep… right… now...” I had fallen asleep and so had Alex.
“Guys? Guys? Well I was really hungry anyway. Off to breakfast!” Sarah exclaimed happily. As Sarah walked to breakfast she heard a strange sound. Quickly turning, around she saw a cloud of some kind of gas going toward her.
“James! Alex!” She shouted right before the gas enveloped her, and she fell unconscious to the ground“Hey did you hear that?” James said as he quickly awoke.
“Yeah, it sounded like it was coming from-“
“Sarah!” We both said in unison. I rushed out into the hallway toward the royal dining room as fast as I could. On the ground lay a limp body.
“Sarah?! Sarah!? I think she’s unconscious.” I said, “I’ve got to take her to the medical room!” I quickly picked her up and ran toward the hospital like a Mach 100 racing car. Inside, I rushed to the counter and said:
“I need a medic for her, she’s unconscious.”
“Right away, your Highness.” She replied, “I need room B7, repeat, B7. I have an unconscious girl here.” Immediately, men rushed into the room and put Sarah on a cart. After that, they rushed her off to a room, B7 I suspected.
“Is she okay?” Alex asked as I walked in.
“She’s going to be fine.” I answered.
Chapter 5: Cracking the code
12:45 at noon
As we walked into the room I could tell that Sarah was feeling better by the way she was arguing with the nurse.
“I feel fine! I don’t need any dumb blood test! I can go!” Sarah argued.
“I think you do!” She answered, “Clearly, you do! Just let me take one tiny test.”
“I think she’s fine.” I told the nurse, “We’ll take it from here. Come on Sarah. Let’s go.”
“Ha! Told you they would come.” Sarah shot one last victorious look at the nurse before they left. We walked back to the room I was using for decrypting the devices. Then, I walked over to the desk and sat down to start writing.
“You might what want to leave for a while. This is
going to take a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long-”
“Okay, that’s enough.” Alex exhaustingly said.
“Okay... right! Back to work!” After that, they left to go do something else other than watch me do boring stuff. Anyways, I think you’d probably want to read this instead.
The amazing adventures of Alex and Sarah! Kind of...
Right after they left the room:
Alex and Sarah left the room in which James was working in. Fortunately, they had a plan to do something fun.
“Sarah, I’ve got a hunch. I think that the next attack might be on the city carnival.” Alex told her.
“And why would you ever think something like that?” She asked.
“Because I was looking down at the sheet and I didn’t have anything to do so I started to decode one random word and it spelled: Carnival. So come on!” Alex said.
“Good! I was feeling like going to the carnival.”
Three hours later at the City Carnival
“Want some cotton candy?” Sarah asked Alex (Sarah really likes cotton candy).
“No thank you.” Alex answered. As Alex walked over to the Wheel-of-fun he and Sarah heard a sound behind them. Their heads spun around and what they saw made the hairs on the back of their head stand up. Right in front of them stood a twenty foot tall thrashing, roaring, and angry giganotosaurus.
Back with Me
Peaceful music played while I silently deciphered the code that had evaded him for hours.
“I wonder how Alex and Sarah are doing?” I wondered out loud.
Back to Alex and Sarah at the carnival
“Run!” Sarah yelled. The giganotosaurus was coming this way, each step taking another five yards. Of course, since Alex had an super strength, he lunged at it. He hit it’s legs quickly at the same time making it fall to the ground then Sarah picked Alex up and they flew into the air. Once they got incredibly high, she dropped Alex down toward the dinosaur. He put his arms out in front of me and smashed into it’s stomach. It was knocked unconscious.
“That was probably the most strangest battle I’ve ever fought in my life.” Sarah realized.
“Me too.” Alex agreed, “How did it even get here? They went extinct like, a billion years ago.” Sarah walked over to where it laid and found a device.
“Jeez. How many of those are there?” Sarah asked.
“No idea. But James is going to be working his butt off with all these devices.” I told her, “Let’s go!” Sarah grabbed Alex’s arm and they took off. they were back at the castle in ten minutes.
“Hey guys I just finished the last... device.” My face fell as I saw the device held in Sarah’s hand.
“Wonderful. I work for five hours and you come back with another device.” I said sadly, “Oh well, back to work.” I took the device and sat down again to start on it. Except, when I turned it on there weren’t any numbers. There was just a little button that said press me. Of course, I pressed it, but that was not a smart idea. A blinding flash of light appeared and I was blinded. I covered my eyes. It didn’t work. The last thing I knew, everything was swirling around. Wind was blowing against my cheeks. I felt very dizzy.
After about 5 minutes of total spinning, swirling, and dizziness, I opened my eyes and slowly got up.
That was when I realized I was out of my time, by a lot. It looked as if I was in 4444 instead of 2222. There were flying cars going every way and a skyscraper stood in front of me as tall as the atmosphere. I stared in awe. 4444 is amazing. I was speechless. It looked as if Earth had solved all it’s problems. Everything looked so perfect. but how did I get here? I thought back to when I was in my time. It was the device that sent me here! I should keep that device for vacations to the future just right after I know how to get back to 2222...
A thought came to my head, ‘How will I get back to 2222?’. This will be interesting. VERY interesting. I walked around, exploring the year 4444 and how much the earth has changed since 2222. People that were born in the year 4400-4444 and more are lucky. They get this great, awesome city. I suddenly realized, what if this wasn’t Time-warp city? What if Time-warp city has changed through the years? What if theres a new ruler? What if... there were too many ‘What ifs’ to comprehend. I raced toward the front of the city and looked at the board that said the name of the city and gasped in surprise. The name of the city was Mattheworld.
“No! How could this happen!” I exclaimed. Suddenly, I heard a voice behind me.
“James Heram/Live terrorist put your hands up where I can see them!” It said. It sounded a little robotic.
“Wait! I’m not a terrorist!” I spun around and quickly took a step back after what I saw. The policeman wasn’t human, ‘it’ was a robot. And he was holding a laser heat-seeking following missile, aimed right at me.
“Uhhh... You’re a robot.” I said confused.
“Yes. Yes I am. Now I am going to arrest you!” It ordered.
“Not if I can help it!” I ran toward it and knocked his head. While he was dizzy and dazed, I sped behind the robot and sped into the city. Unfortunately, the robot had called reinforcements. Fortunately, they weren’t that fast. Unfortunately, they had little pods that could fly almost as fast as Sarah.
“Hey! Losers! I bet you can’t catch me!” I yelled at them. I really need to learn to keep my mouth shut because right at that moment, rockets burst out of the backs of their pods and they easily went as fast as Sarah. I pressed the time machine button a lot, hoping it would work before the robots killed me.
“Work! Work you stupid device! Work!” Finally, a bright flash of light appeared and I was back in my chair staring at the time device in front of me. Sarah and Alex weren’t here so they must have left to go to lunch. If it was even lunchtime, I didn’t know how long I was gone. With a sickening feeling I realized something. The terrorists had a time machine.
Chapter 6: The unbelievable adventure
5:45 in the morning
“Wait. So when we left, you traveled back in time to the year 4444 by accident and was chased by robot police who were ordered to arrest you because the leader of Time-warp city, which name had been changed to Mattheworld, so Matthew Bartholomew must be controlling it, and lied that you were the terrorist who must still be at large at that time,” Alex summed up what I had told him.
“Yeah!” I answered.
“You expect me to believe all that? How do I know that this isn’t just one of your stupid jokes?” he replied.
“Just believe me! Haven’t I given you proof that you can trust me?” I pleaded.
“You have to admit, it IS hard to believe,” Sarah walked over from the doorway.
“Is it? In the past two thousand years we’ve fought a weredragon, phoenix, fought in a nuclear war, and we have superpowers,” I asked. I walked over to the device and picked it up. I turned it on and showed them the button that had teleported me with the words: Press me!; on it.
“This is the button that teleported me,” I told them. “Do you want me to press it?”
“What’s that little tab at the top right?” Sarah asked. She was pointing to a little black spot on the white screen.
I pressed it and it opened up what seemed to be some sort of clock. It was set to 4444.
“It must have set to that when it fell off the dinosaur,” Alex inferred. I set the clock to 4321. After I did that, my friends stared at me with confused faces.
“What? It’s funny,” I confessed.
“Maybe we should just leave it be for a while.” Alex said. I tossed the time device over with the other devices on my desk.
“Right,” I agreed.
“What now?” Sarah asked us.
“The numbers I decoded seemed to be some sort of meeting places. But heres the weird thing. The last place on the last device was Matthew Bartholomew’s tower. Me and Alex were there. That must have been when the time devices were being delivered to him. Wait. Sarah. What was the closest room you were near to when you were knocked unconscious?” I hurriedly summed up.
“I think I was nearest to the... oh, no. I was nearest to the treasure room.” Sarah realized with a gasp.
“Come on! We have to see if they took anything.” I told them. We rushed down the hall toward the treasure room, but I already had an idea of what they probably stole. I sped into the room and looked where the most powerful item was hidden. It wasn’t there. The Shadow-sword was gone. Maybe I should explain what the Shadow-sword was. The Shadow-sword was a powerful sword with magical powers that we Shadow-knight trainee’s got at the end of our training. It had the power to slice the air, making black holes that you could teleport through or hide in. It also hurt incredibly bad if you were cut by it.
“This is not good,” I said with a sickening feeling in my stomach. Alex and Sarah walked into the room.
“What did they steal?” Alex asked.
“The Shadow-sword,” I answered them. Horror slowly creeped onto thier faces as they took in what I told them.
“That is definitely not good,” Alex realized.
“They’ll be invincible!” Sarah said. I walked over to the door.
“I know some people who might be able to help.” I happily said. “I’m going to be gone for a few days so I need you guys to take over the duties of leading a city.”
“Where are you going?” Sarah asked me.
“To get some help from some friends I know.” I rushed out the door into the luminous hallway. “See ya!”
6 hours later...
As I walked into the camp I wondered what I would say to Bearen Nevets. Right before I walked into his camp Bearen walked out.
“James? What’re you doing here?” He asked.
“I need your help. My Shadow-sword has been stolen and I need you to help me to find it.” I told him.
“Mine’s been stolen too, I guess I can help.” He agreed. “Let’s go.” I picked him up and sped away toward Yoshi island. At Yoshi island, I looked around for Yoshi, another fellow shadow knight.
“Yoshi!” A voice squealed behind them. Behind him was a green dinosaur.
“Hi Yoshi! My Shadow-swords been stolen. Will you help?” I asked him.
“Yoshi!” He said.
“Yours has been stolen too?! Come on. We need your help,” I pleaded
“Yoshi!” Yoshi replied.
“Oh, good you can come,” I grabbed Bearen and Yoshi and ran at the speed of light toward the Tommy Inn. When we got there, I looked around for Tommy but I couldn’t see him anywhere. Suddenly, a head popped up from under the counter, it was Tommy.
“Tommy, I need your help. My Shadow-swords been stolen and if I don’t get it back my city will be destroyed!” I begged.
“Mine’s been stolen as well, I’ll help you.” He answered.
“I also think I know who stole your sword. The same person who stole all of ours.” I told him, gesturing to the whole group. After that, I recruited Antreeus at his garden and set off back toward Time-warp city.
Chapter 7: Shadow-knights unite!
(Alex and Sarah, too, I guess, unless they die. Ow! Ow! Stop hitting me Sarah! Sorry. They won’t die)
2:25 in the afternoon
“Land ahoy!” I yelled as I ran the speed of light toward Time-warp city. There was no reply, since most people can’t talk when going the speed of light, but as we neared the city I knew something was wrong. Buildings had fallen over and there were explosions all over. In the midst of the explosions, Alex and Sarah were fighting some kind of ball of fire. Then I realized that the ball of fire was Matthew Bartholomew, and in his hands was the Shadow-weapon. It’s what happens if you take all the Shadow-swords and meld them into to one mega-weapon. It greatly amplified one person’s powers. With Matthew, that’s not good. We stepped onto land and rushed into the battle.
“Attack!!” I bellowed. Matthew, Sarah, and Alex’s heads turned as the Shadow-knights came charging toward them, toward victory. I rushed up the side of a building and caught Alex’s hand. Alex threw me toward Sarah and SHE caught ME. After that, Sarah flew on top of Matthew and dropped me down. On the way down, I started spinning into a twister and cracked a force field that Matthew had generated around him. Bearen jumped up and smashed Matthew with his club, but Matthew simply swiped with his Shadow-weapon and hit Bearen away. Tommy and Antreeus were working together to hit Matthew repeatedly, but he did the same to them as he had done to Bearen. Yoshi grabbed me with his tongue and started spinning me around incredibly fast while I was doing the spinning move. We created a tornado with Matthew inside. His flames snuffed out and Matthew Bartholomew fell to the ground, along with the Shadow-weapon. I walked over and picked up the weapon. When I picked it up it split into different Shadow-swords that the other Shadow-knights all picked up.
“Bye!” I yelled after them as they traveled back to their homes. I looked back toward Matthew after I said bye and I saw that he was gone.
“Where’d he go?!” I asked.
“I don’t know, he just disappeared,” Alex told me as he and Sarah walked over.
“Let’s go home,” Sarah said.
“Okay, but I just have a feeling that this isn’t over,” and then, we walked back toward home. At the castle Alex and Sarah went to have a late lunch (like, really late). I just walked into my room and sat down in my desk. Then, I turned on the computer. There were some things I wanted to see. I turned on the recording of the battle and skipped to the part where Matthew smashed Bearen away. He slashed the air and Bearen just flew off? The Shadow-weapon can’t do that. I went off toward the dining room where Alex and Sarah were having their lunch and sat down beside them. The lunch was steak and french fries. I dug in, devouring everything in sight. A guy can work up and appetite running the speed of sound.
“Wow, I guess super speed counts for eating, too,” Sarah laughed.
“Don’t criticize me, I just saved the city. Anyway, I found out something that you might find interesting. You know when Bearen was hit away by the Shadow-weapon? The weapon can’t do that! There must have been some sort of force at work,” I explained.
“My goodness, our adventures are getting more and more strange.” Alex commented.
“I agree, but how are we going to figure out this one?” Sarah asked.
“We start with Matthew Bartholomew.” I answered.
5:35 in the night...
We slowly crept toward Matthew’s tower. The lights were on but I still wondered how he escaped at the battle.
“Come on!” I whispered to them. Sarah flew me and Alex right in toward the window.
“What are your doing?!” I shouted.
“Direct approach!” she answered, and then, we broke into the tower, the direct way. Inside was the room we had looked in the other time we broke in. At that moment, guards rushed in, along with Matthew Bartholomew.
“You!” He shouted.
“Uh... hi, Matthew. Is there any reason that you’re trying to arrest us? Because I think we should be arresting you,” I said. Matthew shouted something at his soldiers and they all left the room.
“Is this about yesterday?” he asked.
“Yeah, stop acting like a good guy because you’re not,” I retorted. Matthew walked over and stared me straight in the face.
“Why are you doing the terrorist attacks on the city?” I asked him, intently.
“It’s simple really. I’m doing it for revenge, on you,” He answered.
“Why would you want revenge on me?” I said. Matthew just smiled and then I realized who he was.
“Nit!” I gritted through my teeth.
“Please, please. Call me Matthew now,” he told me.
“You’re the reason this has happened to all of us! You killed my parents and destroyed my kingdom! I’m gonna kill you!” I roared. After that, I lunged at him and passed out a nice right-hook then threw a left-hook. Matthew smashed against the wall and slid to the floor. I raced over to land a few more punches, but Matthew already up and shot a burst of fire at me. It hit me and Alex and we flew out the window. Of course, Sarah flew after us. She grabbed our hands and pulled up. She shot back up toward the window and we flew inside.
“Nice direct approach!” I exclaimed at Sarah.
“Heh, sorry,” Sarah apologized.
“Whew! That was a close o-! Where’d Matthew go?!” Alex spun his head around the room.
“He must have slipped out while we were distracted!” Sarah exclaimed.
“Come on, we’ll get him eventually,” I said to them. Sarah took hold of our hands again and we flew out the window to our castle. Unfortunately, when we got there I knew something was wrong. But then again, you don’t need to be a genius to know somethings wrong when you’re castle is gone, completely disappeared.
“Is it just me or is the castle gone?” I asked.
“The castles gone,” Alex answered.
“Except I’d be glad to accept the fact that its just you,” Sarah said. Suddenly, a huge explosion occurred and we were blinded by the light. I opened my eyes as soon as the light was gone and standing where my castle used to stand was a different, more futuristic than even our time now.
“What in the world is going on here?!” I asked again. “Sarah could you take us down right there near the entrance I think I see some words,” Sarah flew us down to the entrance in record time. I then walked up to the words and backed away after reading what it said.
Chapter 8: Time-warped
5:40 at night
“What is it?” Sarah asked me.
“You remember when I went forward in time, right?” I said.
“The city I was in was called Mattheworld. This castle is called Matthewcastle.” I explained.
“No way!” Sarah exclaimed. Suddenly, two robot police like the ones that chased me in 4444 flew over on hover pods toward us.
“James Heram, Alex Melatiny, and Sarah Heram, you're under-arrest!” it shouted.
“I think this would be a good time to run,” I told the others. In a flash of black and yellow, I spun around and sped away. Sarah grabbed Alex’s arms and flew up into the sky. Isn’t splitting up always the right thing to do? I had read that somewhere, or maybe watched it? A sound that sounded like a blast from a laser blaster boomed behind me. I rolled to the right and kept running. Turning around I could see the ‘bot getting smaller and smaller in the distance. I then wondered how Alex and Sarah were doing.
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“He’s gaining!” Alex yelled as Sarah swerved around another sign. “If they catch us this is going to be even more embarrassing than being carried by a girl.” Sarah flew up yet again to avoid smashing into ANOTHER sign. Unfortunately, they were in a market place, with a lot of signs.
“And how is that embarrassing?” Sarah asked.
“I think you know the answer!” Alex yelled back.
“Yeah! I do!” Sarah answered. A blast of light whipped right past Sarah and cut off a snip of her hair.
“Hey! I already got a haircut!” She said. Alex stared at her, confused.
“What?” She inquired.
“Noth-” another sign smacked Alex right in the face. “For the love o-” and another sign. “How in the world are you not getting hit by signs?!”
“Because I’m awesome!” She answered.
“Whatever.” Alex let go of Sarah’s hands and flew back onto the robot. He took it’s head and ripped it off it’s body, spraying oil and screws everywhere. “Now that’s what I call aweso-” another sign with a picture of a robot smacked into his face. “What the heck! This is really starting to get ridiculous!” Alex took hold of the robot’s pod and was now trying to get the hang of it. “That was considerably easy. Ooohh, what does this button do?” He pressed the button which clearly said, “Do not press!”.
“Alex! Why’d you press that?! You’re never supposed to press that!!!!” Sarah yelled. She quickly flew beside the pod, which was gaining speed. “It’s probably going to explode or something now!”
“And why would you think that?” Alex asked.
“Because that’s what always happens with those buttons! Grab my hands,” Alex obeyed and grabbed her hands and Sarah ascended quickly. Alex looked down as they flew up and saw the pod blow up into millions of bits.
“Oops,” he said.
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After flying far enough away from the castle so no police ‘bots could track them, Sarah and Alex finally landed on the top of a building to rest.
“Now we need to figure out who time transported the castle here to where our castle was,” Sarah inquired.
“That’s easy, it was probably Matthew and Rex Malevolent,” Alex answered easily.
“You’re probably right, there’s just one question left. Where’s James? Oh, what’re we going to do?!” she asked.
“We’ll be okay, as long as we’re together,” Alex assured. He took her hand and looked into her eyes, and almost immediately, Sarah felt safe.
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Matthew walked to the edge of his suite in Matthewcastle.
“The plan worked perfectly,” he explained. “My enemies are running like prey.” Rex Malevolent walked out of the shadows. He took a apple from a fruit bowl on the table and started talking.
“Why the weird name for the castle. You don’t seem like the idiotic type,” Rex asked as he chomped into the fruit.
“It’s because of me being so smart that I had to choose a simple name for the people I will rule soon who I have far higher intellect than,” He answered.
“Uh, ok... I’m gonna’ go now,” Rex walked quickly to the door and walked out. Matthew smiled.
“You too,” he said.
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In the city, I still was searching for Alex and Sarah. I had searched almost everywhere and I didn’t know where they could be. It was very difficult searching for them while being attacked by a killer police robot. The robot took out it’s laser and pulled the trigger. The laser missed me by a millimeter! I jumped up in surprise and flew back by the sudden stop. The robot’s head swung around and I could almost imagine the look of horror on it’s face as it blew up in a fiery explosion as it smashed into a building. I looked around and realized many people were looking out of their windows to see what was going on.
“Uh, oh,” I mumbled under my breath as I took off. I didn’t really want my people to see me, their king, blowing up the police. Ducking under a billboard (it’s surprising how many there were in this city) I jumped up a fire escape onto a building flew into the air with a flying jump... and landed on Alex.
“Ouch!” he roared.
“Sorry, sorry, didn’t mean to,” I apologized.
“At least you’re here now, we were wondering where you were,” Alex said.
“Well now I’m here, so did you blow up the police bot too?” I asked.
“Duh! If we hadn’t than we would’ve still been being chased by it!” Alex yelled at me.
“Oh, yeah, right. Anyways, we need a plan to figure out why in the world Matthew’s castle is standing where it is and how we’re gonna’ turn it to ash, “ I thought out loud.
“That’s like a plot point for a few chapters of a book,” Alex pointed out.
“I know, right?” James answered.
“.......”
“What?!”
“Nothing,” Alex said quickly.
“Y’know, this whole predicament would be way easier to understand if we had been teleported to the future like you did,” Sarah told me.
“I know! Just listen to me! WE NEED TO MAKE A PLAN TO SAVE THE DAY!”
“We know! You just said it like three times!”
“Two, actually.”
“Would you shut up!”
“No thank you,” Alex said.
“Are you just trying to annoy me!” I yelled.
“Pretty much,” Sarah said.
“The whole world could be in danger and you’re trying to be annoying,” I shouted.
“You do it all the time to us in missions,” Alex pointed out.
“Fine, I’ll just storm the castle by myself,” I muttered. I sped away at super speed before they could do anything to stop.
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Minutes later, I slid to a stop right before Matthewcastle. The tower loomed over me with it’s dark towers making the tower seem like it was taller than the moon. Fortunately, I knew it wasn’t.
“Let’s do this,” I said confidently, and then I ran in.
Chapter 9: Breaking in
5:53 at night
After running in, I realized that the door was open, and why would Matthew leave the door open? I spun around right as the door slammed shut with a bang.
“Ugh! I’m an idiot!” I shouted.
“Yes, yes you are,” a voice told me. I spun around in a millisecond (literally) and didn’t gasp in surprise to see... Rex Malevolent.
“Oh, it’s you I thought it was like someone I was actually afraid of, phew!” I joked.
“What?! You should be afraid of me!” Rex shouted.
“You know that I know that you know that I know I could beat you in five minutes tops,” I told him.
“Oh yeah? Well... I’m gonna’... uh...,” He stammered. I laughed. He was speechless. Perfect I zoomed around him and slammed him onto the floor. He wasn’t prepared for that and it took him awhile to get up. He growled at me.
“A growl? Seriously? I’m so scared,” I teased. He lunged at my throat, knocking me down and landing on me. I was the one who wasn’t prepared this time. I hit the ground with a bang and I immediately felt a sharp pain in my back. I let out a groan. Rex smirked.
“Yeah right,” I retorted. I kicked up right into his stomach, I missed.
“What in the world? You actually kicked me there?!” he squeaked in a high voice.
“Y’know, if you weren’t a bad guy I might have actually felt sorry for you,” I joked. Rex stood up and got back into fighting position, looked under me, smiled, and looked up again.
“Looks like game over for you,” he smirked. I
looked down and saw a red x under my feet.
“Could anything be more obvious?” I laughed. In one second, Rex was standing where I had been and I was standing where he had been.
“Uh, oh,” he said blankly. The ground opened up like a giant mouth and closed up when Rex’s full body had disappeared. I was about to turn around and walk away when I heard a scream of pain. I whipped around and saw smoke rising up from in between the cracks of the trapdoor. Then, the screams stopped.
“Oh, no. I killed him.”
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Alex and Sarah were still sitting on the rooftop far away from the castle in shock at what I had just done. I had actually been serious.
“Do you think we should go after him?” Alex asked Sarah.
“Of course! Let’s go!” Sarah answered. She flew into the air, picked up Alex, and took off toward the castle.
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I stood still not believing what I had just done. I had never wanted to kill anyone.... I hadn’t thought that that would kill him. I didn’t know they were going to kill me. Guards rushed behind me, but I didn’t care, not anymore. Suddenly, the trapdoor opened up. A crane attached to the ceiling came down and into the hole. It grabbed something and came back up with the object. The object raised up out of the hole and up so everyone could see it. It took me a few seconds to figure out what it was then I realized it was Rex Malevolent’s body. Most of his clothes were scorched off. There was no hair anywhere on his body. Some skin was burned off too in places. That’s what they were going to do to me. I couldn’t look anymore, it was so horrible. Then, I just blacked out.
I stood up and looked around. I was in a... desert? Why in the world would they put me in a desert? I could just run back in a few minutes. Anyways, I started rushing away in one direction. I came to some ruins and stopped there. I quickly did a circle run around the ruins. They were very large in length and width. I could find the area if I knew the length and width. I knew math class would come in handy someday.
I decided to search the ruins since I didn’t know the length and width. After hours of walking through boring ruins I came upon a large castle. Lots of parts of it were missing and I just walked in. I strutted through the abandoned castle finding no one. Finally, I came to a room and what I saw made me sick. Hundreds of bodies and skeletons filled the room. There must have been a battle here or something. I looked over to see a skeleton with tattered clothes hanging onto the skeleton’s bones. Two letters on the shirt said RM.
That got me thinking... RM. I looked around and ran over to a skeleton near the throne. The costume had a fire ball. Another had a green arrow. And one had a fist. These ruins were Matthewcastle and Time Warp City! I ran over to the RM skeleton. It was Rex Malevolent. In the bone, no flesh. Suddenly the eyes of RM’s skeleton sprang open to reveal red eyes. It got up and started walking toward me saying, “You killed me.” I looked over and saw all the skeletons getting up and saying, “You killed me.” They surrounded me. I looked down and tried to cover my ears. Then I realized my gloves were gone and my hands were bones. After that, I realized I was a skeleton. And then I woke up.
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Alex and Sarah came to the top of the castle. They saw Matthew Bartholomew working on his computer, typing something. They looked over and saw a containment pod with the dream liquid in it. Dream liquid was a watery substance that allowed you to breathe and makes you have dreams about whatever your last memory was.
“Is there someone in there?” Alex realized.
“I think so,” Sarah agreed. Suddenly the water became clearer and they saw who was in it. Me.
“Oh my gosh, what do we do?” Sarah asked.
“Attack or wait here,” Alex told her.
“I don’t like either,” Sarah retorted.
“Hey look, James is moving. He’s awake!” Alex said in joy.
When I woke up I looked around and saw I was in some kind of liquid. It was dream liquid! I looked up and saw Matthew turn around to check on me. I quickly pretended to be asleep and he turned around again. There were guards at the door and guards guarding me. I looked at the glass and saw Alex and Sarah. I waved. Then I broke the glass and ran. I hit the wall and fell down, but I quickly got back up.
“Bye,” I said casually, then I do three wall jumps and crash out a window. I look back and see Sarah starting to fly down, and then I saw my feet were on fire.
“Oh, boy.”
Chapter 10: Point Zero
Time: Unknown (no watch on me, sorry)
My life was flashing before my eyes but I didn’t really care, I knew Sarah would catch me. Except, I forgot my feet were on fire. I looked down and saw the blaze reaching my ankles. It hurt like nothing before. I saw my skin start to turn black, but then the rushing wind blew it out. The ground was coming out to meet me, not in a good way. I was about to become a yellow, black, and tan splat on the ground when I felt a hand grab my arm. The ground slowed down and eventually stopped. A red blur suddenly rushed down beside me almost hitting me. Instead, it hit the ground. A hole opened up and I saw Alex standing in the center.
“I’m starting to think that he has some invulnerability too,” I observed.
“Me too,” Sarah said back. Me, Sarah, and Alex all met up in the hole he had created.
“Let’s get out of here,” I ordered. I started to run, but tripped and fell. I looked back at my feet. I couldn’t run with them having a five degree burn like this.
“You can’t run with your feet like that,” Sarah pointed out.
Time: Unknown
Nit slowly opened his eyes and sat up. He quickly sank. Apparently, he was in the water. He tried to turn to ice and make an iceberg he could sit on but he couldn’t! He kept on trying to but always failed
“What has happened to my power?” He asked desperately. At that moment, he caught on fire and shot into the air.
“How did this happen? I’m a pyrokinetic!” He exclaimed, then said again, “But, how did this happen?!” Suddenly, he heard a voice in his ear:
‘You cannot know. You will never know. Forget it.’
“Who’s there!” Nit’s head whipped around in the air, looking for the voice.
‘You shall now be Matthew Bartholomew, to hide your secret. Tell anyone else who asks that you got the powers in the nuclear war that will happen like everyone else,’ the voice said.
“Alright, I will,” Matthew answered. Matthew Bartholomew looked around for civilization and saw land about ten miles to the north. He flew super fast (on fire) toward it and landed on the ground. He realized at that moment that he didn’t know how to turn off the fire. When he thought that the fire immediately disappeared. He saw that he had a strange suit on, it must be what had kept the fire from burning his skin. He knew that the voice who had talked to him probably put the suit on too. And then Matthew Bartholomew began his new life as a terrorist.
What he did was he would join a very successful business under a different name and gain everyone’s trust while slowly rising to the being the head of the business. Once he got to second in command, Matthew would secretly murder the head person. Obviously, the second in command became the head so he became the boss of the business.
After about a year or so, he would make the company become worse and worse leading it to bankruptcy then he would disappear and the company would fall.
Soon his attacks became worse and the falls of the companies were soon decided to be thought by the same person and the person (Matthew) was called the Company killer.
Then, he changed his attacks and went to killing for real.
Chapter 2: 2222
9:00 in the night
The year is 2222. Lint is found and changed his name to forget his past so his name is now James and Rash and Tricia were found too. They’ve changed their names, too, to Alex and Sarah. After a nuclear war people on earth gained super powers. James developed the power of speed, Alex developed the power of incredible strength, and Sarah developed the power of flight. The Shadow-knights had taken James and the others in and trained him to their fullest potential. James has become leader of a new city, Time-warp city. Being immortal has it’s awesomeness’. They gained great wisdom and power to lead the prospering city. But, an evil lurks in the shadows to leap out and grab the moment. Nit has survived and now he is waiting to kill James and get his revenge. Except his name is Lord Bartholomew, so has immunity. James does not know he survives and plots as we speak but he is getting suspicious of all the terrorist attacks on the populace. Now, he inspects a manuscript found at the scene of one of the attacks that he intends to decrypt.
I stared intently at the device that laid before me. It could hold the key to stopping these terrorists.
“It’s very strange, but I think I’ll be able to decrypt it in a month maybe.” I insured Alex and Sarah.
“We don’t have a month! The attacks are getting more and more organized and dangerous. We have to put a stop to it or they take total control of the city, killing hundreds of people in the process probably.” Exclaimed Alex.
“I don’t know what your guys are talking about but...”, She flew up toward the ceiling of the king’s room doing loop-de-loops in the process, “I think we’d be able to totally pone them. We have for a king a superhuman who can run faster than the speed of light, a body-guard who can pick up buildings, and me, able to fly the speed of sound, and pretty much, me’s all you need.
Alex chuckled. “I doubt it.” He retorted.
“Alex, Sarah’s right. We’re pretty much safe right now, we still have the guards too. And, the city would always lend a hand, probably.” I reassured. I looked the numbers blinking on the screen, “I think I know how to decode this, look at the numbers if your line the first few letters up with what number of letter they have in the alphabet, it forms a word. To decode this, your have to do that. That just shortened the month to maybe about two weeks, I still have to do my kingly duties.”
“Good.” Alex walked away toward the door except when he pushed the door open it flew off it’s hinges, “Uhhh... I’ll fix that in the morning. I’m hitting the the sack, ‘night!”
“Me too!” Sarah flew toward the door, flying through the door swiftly. I sped toward a piece of paper, writing down the words I knew so far.
“Well, I better go sleep to, long day tomorrow. And I’m talking to myself.” Suddenly I remembered when I had said that hundreds of years ago, a pain in his heart grew as I remembered my parents, who had been killed by Nit when he had destroyed the kingdom. Time-stop city had been built on it, I took over the city after becoming a master Shadow-knight. I changed its name to Time-stop city, don’t know why but it sounded cooler. I then ran toward my room, getting there in two seconds. And then, I fell asleep quickly. It’s gonna be a long day tomorrow.
“James! James! James, wake up” A voice shouted.
“What?” I asked groggily.
“There’s been another attack! on the Retirement Square! It’s gone!” Alex shook me awake and dragged me toward the screen. On it showed a picture of Retirement Square, except, it was gone.
“How-!” I started. The news reporter started showing a video from the security cameras. A gargantuan laser beamed down from the sky, appearing to seem like it was from space. The reporter started a very interesting report: “It seems that the terrorist group has attacked again, a small-”
“Hi guys. What’s going on?” Sarah had walked into the room.
“Ssshhhh!!” I hissed.
The reporter continued, “-small device was found near the scene of the crime. We do not know what it is and what to do with it.” the camera turned toward the reporter again.
“Sarah-!”
“I’m on my way.” She pressed a button on our synchronized watches that keep us in touch all the time. It opened a window near the screen and flew through at a very fast speed.
“Well, that’s going to go over well.” Sarah suddenly appeared beside the reporter.
“Where is the device?” She asked intently.
“Who are your?” The reporter asked.
“None of your business!” Sarah retorted.
“Well, if you really want-!”
“I do!”
“It’s over there by the police.”
“Thank your for your ‘cooperation’.” She said. She flew over to the police and took the device. Then, she flew away faster than your can say ‘flew’. I walked over to the desk where the old device was. I prepared a separate piece of paper than the old one. I almost forgot a pencil and walked over to get one.
“I got the device.” Sarah said as she flew in, “You could eat breakfast.” She placed the device in front of me. It seemed to very similar to the old one, but it was larger and a little more rounder. I turned it on. On the screen it showed a long list of numbers.
“Even though I know how to decode it now, this one looks like it really will take a while, maybe 4 weeks.” I concluded.
“We have to find these terrorists before they start to do this again. This is a huge push forward toward catching these guys. We have to hope that they’ll start getting sloppy. We have to catch them in the act.” Alex said tactfully. Alex was not only my best friend but he was also the general of the royal army, a wise choice in my department, “In the meantime, we should take a rest and eat breakfast.”
“Finally! I’m starving!” Sarah said exhaustingly.
“Then, by all means lets go, slowly...”,”My friends stared at me strangely as we walked toward the door. Then, right when they didn’t think I was kidding, I said, “Just kidding! Beat your there!” And I ran toward the royal dining room.
Inside the dining room was chaos, my trusted politicians arguing.
“Everybody!” I yelled above their voices, “Why are your fighting?!”
“A politician spoke up, “ We were discussing the means of which to confront this new attack. All the retired people staying there were gone as well.”
“Then can’t we discuss like civilized men, not arguing and yelling?”, I questioned, “Now, let’s begin with not empty stomachs but full ones!”
“You always were good at that.” Sarah said as she walked through the door with Alex.”
“I know.” I answered, smiling. We sat down and started eating the breakfast.
“Now, I have discovered a way to crack a series of numbers on the two devices found at two of the attacks with my colleagues. We’ll have them done in about 4 weeks.” I reviewed to them, “But this new device that they used in this device is troubling. I have an idea that could work. Sarah since she can fly, could fly into space wearing a specialized strength suit that would enable her to be very powerful and breathe in space. She could look for the weapon and when she finds it, destroy it.”
“That’s a very good plan, it might just work.”, One politician said, “But we would have to wonder where to get this suit?”
“Then, let’s get started.”
Chapter 3: Plan Impossible
11:00 in the morning
“Is this suit really going to work?” Asked Sarah as she tightened the clamps on her new specialized suit, which we had built in two hours, I know, I’m proud.
“Well, yes... possibly” I answered.
“Wait, what?!”
“Yes! It will work!” I said. Sarah cursed under her breath as she readied herself for the long flight.
“Watch that mouth, Sarah. Tsk, tsk.” I retorted.
“Y’know, if I die on this plan of yours. I will kill your in the afterlife, you and Alex.” She said angrily.
“Uh-huh. Doubt it, I’m too fast.” I said as I dodged her hand as it swung out to meet my face, “And trying to hit you king? I’m surprised!”
“Go jump off a cliff or something else like that.” Sarah took off toward the sky.
“She’s not gonna be back for a long time is she?” I said.
“Nope. According to space laws, she should be back by the time your finish that second device.” Alex answered.
“That’s what I thought” I said.
“Sure...” He said, “What now?”
“The second part of my plan.”
The second part of the plan
11:00 at night
As we hid in the bushes beneath the tower of Lord Bartholomew, I was pretty sure I saw a red streak flying across the sky. Sarah had to gain enough speed to exit the atmosphere. Apparently, she was still gaining speed.
“Tell me again why we’re are staking out here, James?” Alex asked in a whisper beside me.
“When I was decoding the code, I found some numbers that when I just looked at the numbers they looked familiar the letters formed a name, a familiar one. It was Lord Bartholomew’s name, someone I had met with to discuss the local news of a ring of robberies several years ago, we stopped the robbers. That’s why we’re staked out here.” I summarized.
“So he’s in on i-! Wait! Then what are we waiting out here for?!” He asked.
“I don’t know. Something, I hope.” The timing was perfect, right after I said that a speeder flew toward a window by the top of the tower.
“Come on” Alex said quickly. He then picked me up and prepared to throw me toward the top of the tower.
“Wait!” I started but it was too late I was thrown all the way onto a garden nestled nicely on the top of the skyscraper. I looked back just as Alex jumped toward the top too, and landed on the tower. The second part had begun.
We crawled over to a small glass opening at the far end of the garden.
“He must really like flowers to actually take care of all these flowers.” Alex observed.
“Well, they are peaceful.” I replied. We walked over to the window and looked in. The hallway we were looking into was deserted and there were no guards.
“Looks like a good place to knock.” Alex said.
“Quietly, please.” I asked.
“Like I ever.” Alex simply stood up and tapped on the door, fortunately I moved away in the nick of time before the window fell in. I sighed.
“I suppose you’re correct.” I agreed. We then leaped into the hole.
“Sarah’s missing out.” I said happily, “Let’s do this.”
Keeping to the shadows, we sneaked to the edge of the wall.
“I don’t think Sarah’s missing out, she doesn’t like stealth missions.” Alex disagreed.
“Maybe you’re right.” I said. My legs were starting to get cramped from kneeling so long, “I wonder if we we’re getting close to the room. We turned the corner and gasped. We were there. Lord Bartholomew was discussing something with a man, tall, maybe about in his mid-thirties, brown hair and had a scar running from beside his left ear to the bottom of his cheek. I actually didn’t remember what Bartholomew’s power was. I think his power had something to do with heat.
“Do you have the shipments?” Bartholomew asked.
“Yes they’re right here. Bring it out boys!” The man signaled to a couple of men, who in turn went to the back of the hovercraft. They then went back and brought out a very heavy looking box. I suddenly remembered something. I knew this man, and I knew the danger we were in just crouching here.
“Alex, we have to get out of here.” I told him.
“Why? Are we in any danger? Are there security cameras?” He spun around wildly looking for any danger, even though he was braver now, he was still a worry wart.
“Just come on!” I grabbed Alex and pulled him toward the door. As we got closer to the window I heard men shouting:
“Get them!” It shouted.
“I knew this was a bad idea, if Sarah were here we would have been home free by now!” I said, scared.
“Then come on!” Alex picked me up and jumped through the ceiling making plaster, silver, and brick fly everywhere. And then we fell.
“That might not have been my smartest idea” Alex said as we fell to our doom. He let go of me and angled his arms that before we fell he would protect me when we hit the ground, “Okay, having Sarah right now would have been a smart idea.” We hit the ground with a boom and a large cloud of dust. I got up quickly and looked down at Alex, afraid for what might of happened, but then he raised up his hands to form a thumbs-up.
“I’m okay.” He murmured.
7:00 in the morning, next day
“Okay, so apparently Lord Bartholomew is in on something and it looks suspicious.” I summed up.
“Who was that guy he was talking to and why were your so worried about him?” Alex asked.
“He is a major crime boss in new york city, his name is Rex Malevolent. He has the power of enhanced senses. I bet a 100 morrisians (the money in Time-warp city) that he knew we were there, either if he smelled, saw, or heard us, I just know he knew we were there! How could I be so stupid! But we mustn't worry about the past, we have incriminating evidence against Matthew Bartholomew. The only problem is that people won’t believe us, even though I’m the king of this city. Matthew is too famous with the people. We’re going to have to find a way to expose him, considering what he’s doing is that bad. We need more evidence against him. The other thing is our evidence as I thought was incriminating might not be so incriminating after all, Rex might be going straight and made a delivery service or... he could be what I thought he was in the first place, a person involved in the terrorist attacks.”
“That could be true, but we’ll have to crack the codes on those devices found at the scenes of the crimes.” Alex said
“Agreed”
Chapter 4: Sarah’s mission
9:00 at night
Sarah flew as fast as she could around Earth, gaining enough speed to escape the atmosphere. As she was flying she thought about different things.
‘The city looks pretty tonight,’ she thought, ‘Wish I didn’t have to do this boring mission, I bet Alex and James are having fun right now.
Meanwhile, back to Alex and James...
“Just come on!” I grabbed Alex and pulled him toward the door. As we got closer to the window I heard men shouting:
“Get them!” It shouted.
“I knew this was a bad idea, if Sarah were here we would have been home free by now!” I said, scared.
“Then come on!” Alex picked me up and jumped through the ceiling making plaster, silver, and brick fly everywhere. And then we fell.
“That might not have been my smartest idea” Alex said as we fell to our doom. He let go of me and angled his arms that before we fell he would protect me when we hit the ground.
“Okay, having Sarah right now would have been a smart idea,” We hit the ground with a boom and a large cloud of dust. I got up quickly and looked down at Alex, afraid for what might of happened, but then he raised up his hands to form a thumbs-up.
“I’m okay.” He murmured.
Back to Sarah...
‘I always have to do the stupid part of missions.’ She thought. A sonic boom broke the silence as she started to go mach fifteen almost enough to break the atmosphere. After mach fifty she broke out of the atmosphere and raced into space. It was like instead of a blue ocean, it was black. Star’s twinkled all their lights in harmony as she flew silently through space. She looked around and saw Earth. It was blue because of actual oceans. Time-warp city had billions of lights scattered all over it. Over near it, there was a country that looked like Bearen Nevet’s country. Bearen Nevets was a friend of James in his Shadow-knight training. Then, she saw Tommy’s continent, Shawn Frost’s continent, Fiery Fred’s and a few others.
‘Back to the mission.’ Sarah thought. Then, she found what she was looking for.
Back with Alex and James
“Are your almost done with that stupid device!” Alex asked me.
“I just finished the first one!” I answered proudly.
“This is boring.” Alex said.
Back to Sarah
‘Looks like my part of the mission just got more exciting.’ She thought. As she was thinking this she was looking at a massive space carrier. On the side was a name. ‘THE SKULL-CRUSHER’. The name didn’t really scare Sarah. She flew quickly at the space carrier and into a force-field covered area. Finally, she was able to open her mask, able to breath because of the force-field.
“Finally! That thing was so annoying!” Sarah shouted, “Now, let’s see what this doohickey is.” She flew up toward a deck that had a door. She got there and opened the door. Inside seemed to be some sort of control room. She walked in and surveyed it. Looking at the computer monitor, she inferred that there would probably be a self-destruct button that they probably placed in case anything went wrong. She then activated her watch connector to James and Alex.
“Guys, I seemed to have found a control room. Do you guys know how to self-destruct a space-ship?” Sarah asked.
“Yeah, it’s usually the red button. Hey, if you see any strange devices, could your pick them up for me?” I replied. Sarah looked around the room for a device and found one lying on the table and picked it up.
“Found it! I got it. Okay, I’m blowing up the ship now! Bye!” Sarah said as she walked to the monitor. There was a red button. And of course, she pressed it. A countdown started and it showed:
‘1:00 left till countdown, 0:59, 0:58...
“Uh, oh.” Sarah quickly flew out the door and out the ship flying away as fast as she could. She barely had time to turn around and see THE SKULL-CRUSHER exploding into bits.
5:00 in the morning
“I’m back!” Sarah said as she flew through the open window, “and I got the device!”
“Good, because I just finished the other ones and boy... have we got a story for you.” I told her, “We invaded Matthew Bartholomew’s tower, Matthew seemed to be discussing a trade operation. We discovered that the man was Rex Malevolent, a major crime boss, but at a price.” I said, “We’ve been up all night and I’m so tired I think I might just… go… to… sleep… right… now...” I had fallen asleep and so had Alex.
“Guys? Guys? Well I was really hungry anyway. Off to breakfast!” Sarah exclaimed happily. As Sarah walked to breakfast she heard a strange sound. Quickly turning, around she saw a cloud of some kind of gas going toward her.
“James! Alex!” She shouted right before the gas enveloped her, and she fell unconscious to the ground“Hey did you hear that?” James said as he quickly awoke.
“Yeah, it sounded like it was coming from-“
“Sarah!” We both said in unison. I rushed out into the hallway toward the royal dining room as fast as I could. On the ground lay a limp body.
“Sarah?! Sarah!? I think she’s unconscious.” I said, “I’ve got to take her to the medical room!” I quickly picked her up and ran toward the hospital like a Mach 100 racing car. Inside, I rushed to the counter and said:
“I need a medic for her, she’s unconscious.”
“Right away, your Highness.” She replied, “I need room B7, repeat, B7. I have an unconscious girl here.” Immediately, men rushed into the room and put Sarah on a cart. After that, they rushed her off to a room, B7 I suspected.
“Is she okay?” Alex asked as I walked in.
“She’s going to be fine.” I answered.
Chapter 5: Cracking the code
12:45 at noon
As we walked into the room I could tell that Sarah was feeling better by the way she was arguing with the nurse.
“I feel fine! I don’t need any dumb blood test! I can go!” Sarah argued.
“I think you do!” She answered, “Clearly, you do! Just let me take one tiny test.”
“I think she’s fine.” I told the nurse, “We’ll take it from here. Come on Sarah. Let’s go.”
“Ha! Told you they would come.” Sarah shot one last victorious look at the nurse before they left. We walked back to the room I was using for decrypting the devices. Then, I walked over to the desk and sat down to start writing.
“You might what want to leave for a while. This is
going to take a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long-”
“Okay, that’s enough.” Alex exhaustingly said.
“Okay... right! Back to work!” After that, they left to go do something else other than watch me do boring stuff. Anyways, I think you’d probably want to read this instead.
The amazing adventures of Alex and Sarah! Kind of...
Right after they left the room:
Alex and Sarah left the room in which James was working in. Fortunately, they had a plan to do something fun.
“Sarah, I’ve got a hunch. I think that the next attack might be on the city carnival.” Alex told her.
“And why would you ever think something like that?” She asked.
“Because I was looking down at the sheet and I didn’t have anything to do so I started to decode one random word and it spelled: Carnival. So come on!” Alex said.
“Good! I was feeling like going to the carnival.”
Three hours later at the City Carnival
“Want some cotton candy?” Sarah asked Alex (Sarah really likes cotton candy).
“No thank you.” Alex answered. As Alex walked over to the Wheel-of-fun he and Sarah heard a sound behind them. Their heads spun around and what they saw made the hairs on the back of their head stand up. Right in front of them stood a twenty foot tall thrashing, roaring, and angry giganotosaurus.
Back with Me
Peaceful music played while I silently deciphered the code that had evaded him for hours.
“I wonder how Alex and Sarah are doing?” I wondered out loud.
Back to Alex and Sarah at the carnival
“Run!” Sarah yelled. The giganotosaurus was coming this way, each step taking another five yards. Of course, since Alex had an super strength, he lunged at it. He hit it’s legs quickly at the same time making it fall to the ground then Sarah picked Alex up and they flew into the air. Once they got incredibly high, she dropped Alex down toward the dinosaur. He put his arms out in front of me and smashed into it’s stomach. It was knocked unconscious.
“That was probably the most strangest battle I’ve ever fought in my life.” Sarah realized.
“Me too.” Alex agreed, “How did it even get here? They went extinct like, a billion years ago.” Sarah walked over to where it laid and found a device.
“Jeez. How many of those are there?” Sarah asked.
“No idea. But James is going to be working his butt off with all these devices.” I told her, “Let’s go!” Sarah grabbed Alex’s arm and they took off. they were back at the castle in ten minutes.
“Hey guys I just finished the last... device.” My face fell as I saw the device held in Sarah’s hand.
“Wonderful. I work for five hours and you come back with another device.” I said sadly, “Oh well, back to work.” I took the device and sat down again to start on it. Except, when I turned it on there weren’t any numbers. There was just a little button that said press me. Of course, I pressed it, but that was not a smart idea. A blinding flash of light appeared and I was blinded. I covered my eyes. It didn’t work. The last thing I knew, everything was swirling around. Wind was blowing against my cheeks. I felt very dizzy.
After about 5 minutes of total spinning, swirling, and dizziness, I opened my eyes and slowly got up.
That was when I realized I was out of my time, by a lot. It looked as if I was in 4444 instead of 2222. There were flying cars going every way and a skyscraper stood in front of me as tall as the atmosphere. I stared in awe. 4444 is amazing. I was speechless. It looked as if Earth had solved all it’s problems. Everything looked so perfect. but how did I get here? I thought back to when I was in my time. It was the device that sent me here! I should keep that device for vacations to the future just right after I know how to get back to 2222...
A thought came to my head, ‘How will I get back to 2222?’. This will be interesting. VERY interesting. I walked around, exploring the year 4444 and how much the earth has changed since 2222. People that were born in the year 4400-4444 and more are lucky. They get this great, awesome city. I suddenly realized, what if this wasn’t Time-warp city? What if Time-warp city has changed through the years? What if theres a new ruler? What if... there were too many ‘What ifs’ to comprehend. I raced toward the front of the city and looked at the board that said the name of the city and gasped in surprise. The name of the city was Mattheworld.
“No! How could this happen!” I exclaimed. Suddenly, I heard a voice behind me.
“James Heram/Live terrorist put your hands up where I can see them!” It said. It sounded a little robotic.
“Wait! I’m not a terrorist!” I spun around and quickly took a step back after what I saw. The policeman wasn’t human, ‘it’ was a robot. And he was holding a laser heat-seeking following missile, aimed right at me.
“Uhhh... You’re a robot.” I said confused.
“Yes. Yes I am. Now I am going to arrest you!” It ordered.
“Not if I can help it!” I ran toward it and knocked his head. While he was dizzy and dazed, I sped behind the robot and sped into the city. Unfortunately, the robot had called reinforcements. Fortunately, they weren’t that fast. Unfortunately, they had little pods that could fly almost as fast as Sarah.
“Hey! Losers! I bet you can’t catch me!” I yelled at them. I really need to learn to keep my mouth shut because right at that moment, rockets burst out of the backs of their pods and they easily went as fast as Sarah. I pressed the time machine button a lot, hoping it would work before the robots killed me.
“Work! Work you stupid device! Work!” Finally, a bright flash of light appeared and I was back in my chair staring at the time device in front of me. Sarah and Alex weren’t here so they must have left to go to lunch. If it was even lunchtime, I didn’t know how long I was gone. With a sickening feeling I realized something. The terrorists had a time machine.
Chapter 6: The unbelievable adventure
5:45 in the morning
“Wait. So when we left, you traveled back in time to the year 4444 by accident and was chased by robot police who were ordered to arrest you because the leader of Time-warp city, which name had been changed to Mattheworld, so Matthew Bartholomew must be controlling it, and lied that you were the terrorist who must still be at large at that time,” Alex summed up what I had told him.
“Yeah!” I answered.
“You expect me to believe all that? How do I know that this isn’t just one of your stupid jokes?” he replied.
“Just believe me! Haven’t I given you proof that you can trust me?” I pleaded.
“You have to admit, it IS hard to believe,” Sarah walked over from the doorway.
“Is it? In the past two thousand years we’ve fought a weredragon, phoenix, fought in a nuclear war, and we have superpowers,” I asked. I walked over to the device and picked it up. I turned it on and showed them the button that had teleported me with the words: Press me!; on it.
“This is the button that teleported me,” I told them. “Do you want me to press it?”
“What’s that little tab at the top right?” Sarah asked. She was pointing to a little black spot on the white screen.
I pressed it and it opened up what seemed to be some sort of clock. It was set to 4444.
“It must have set to that when it fell off the dinosaur,” Alex inferred. I set the clock to 4321. After I did that, my friends stared at me with confused faces.
“What? It’s funny,” I confessed.
“Maybe we should just leave it be for a while.” Alex said. I tossed the time device over with the other devices on my desk.
“Right,” I agreed.
“What now?” Sarah asked us.
“The numbers I decoded seemed to be some sort of meeting places. But heres the weird thing. The last place on the last device was Matthew Bartholomew’s tower. Me and Alex were there. That must have been when the time devices were being delivered to him. Wait. Sarah. What was the closest room you were near to when you were knocked unconscious?” I hurriedly summed up.
“I think I was nearest to the... oh, no. I was nearest to the treasure room.” Sarah realized with a gasp.
“Come on! We have to see if they took anything.” I told them. We rushed down the hall toward the treasure room, but I already had an idea of what they probably stole. I sped into the room and looked where the most powerful item was hidden. It wasn’t there. The Shadow-sword was gone. Maybe I should explain what the Shadow-sword was. The Shadow-sword was a powerful sword with magical powers that we Shadow-knight trainee’s got at the end of our training. It had the power to slice the air, making black holes that you could teleport through or hide in. It also hurt incredibly bad if you were cut by it.
“This is not good,” I said with a sickening feeling in my stomach. Alex and Sarah walked into the room.
“What did they steal?” Alex asked.
“The Shadow-sword,” I answered them. Horror slowly creeped onto thier faces as they took in what I told them.
“That is definitely not good,” Alex realized.
“They’ll be invincible!” Sarah said. I walked over to the door.
“I know some people who might be able to help.” I happily said. “I’m going to be gone for a few days so I need you guys to take over the duties of leading a city.”
“Where are you going?” Sarah asked me.
“To get some help from some friends I know.” I rushed out the door into the luminous hallway. “See ya!”
6 hours later...
As I walked into the camp I wondered what I would say to Bearen Nevets. Right before I walked into his camp Bearen walked out.
“James? What’re you doing here?” He asked.
“I need your help. My Shadow-sword has been stolen and I need you to help me to find it.” I told him.
“Mine’s been stolen too, I guess I can help.” He agreed. “Let’s go.” I picked him up and sped away toward Yoshi island. At Yoshi island, I looked around for Yoshi, another fellow shadow knight.
“Yoshi!” A voice squealed behind them. Behind him was a green dinosaur.
“Hi Yoshi! My Shadow-swords been stolen. Will you help?” I asked him.
“Yoshi!” He said.
“Yours has been stolen too?! Come on. We need your help,” I pleaded
“Yoshi!” Yoshi replied.
“Oh, good you can come,” I grabbed Bearen and Yoshi and ran at the speed of light toward the Tommy Inn. When we got there, I looked around for Tommy but I couldn’t see him anywhere. Suddenly, a head popped up from under the counter, it was Tommy.
“Tommy, I need your help. My Shadow-swords been stolen and if I don’t get it back my city will be destroyed!” I begged.
“Mine’s been stolen as well, I’ll help you.” He answered.
“I also think I know who stole your sword. The same person who stole all of ours.” I told him, gesturing to the whole group. After that, I recruited Antreeus at his garden and set off back toward Time-warp city.
Chapter 7: Shadow-knights unite!
(Alex and Sarah, too, I guess, unless they die. Ow! Ow! Stop hitting me Sarah! Sorry. They won’t die)
2:25 in the afternoon
“Land ahoy!” I yelled as I ran the speed of light toward Time-warp city. There was no reply, since most people can’t talk when going the speed of light, but as we neared the city I knew something was wrong. Buildings had fallen over and there were explosions all over. In the midst of the explosions, Alex and Sarah were fighting some kind of ball of fire. Then I realized that the ball of fire was Matthew Bartholomew, and in his hands was the Shadow-weapon. It’s what happens if you take all the Shadow-swords and meld them into to one mega-weapon. It greatly amplified one person’s powers. With Matthew, that’s not good. We stepped onto land and rushed into the battle.
“Attack!!” I bellowed. Matthew, Sarah, and Alex’s heads turned as the Shadow-knights came charging toward them, toward victory. I rushed up the side of a building and caught Alex’s hand. Alex threw me toward Sarah and SHE caught ME. After that, Sarah flew on top of Matthew and dropped me down. On the way down, I started spinning into a twister and cracked a force field that Matthew had generated around him. Bearen jumped up and smashed Matthew with his club, but Matthew simply swiped with his Shadow-weapon and hit Bearen away. Tommy and Antreeus were working together to hit Matthew repeatedly, but he did the same to them as he had done to Bearen. Yoshi grabbed me with his tongue and started spinning me around incredibly fast while I was doing the spinning move. We created a tornado with Matthew inside. His flames snuffed out and Matthew Bartholomew fell to the ground, along with the Shadow-weapon. I walked over and picked up the weapon. When I picked it up it split into different Shadow-swords that the other Shadow-knights all picked up.
“Bye!” I yelled after them as they traveled back to their homes. I looked back toward Matthew after I said bye and I saw that he was gone.
“Where’d he go?!” I asked.
“I don’t know, he just disappeared,” Alex told me as he and Sarah walked over.
“Let’s go home,” Sarah said.
“Okay, but I just have a feeling that this isn’t over,” and then, we walked back toward home. At the castle Alex and Sarah went to have a late lunch (like, really late). I just walked into my room and sat down in my desk. Then, I turned on the computer. There were some things I wanted to see. I turned on the recording of the battle and skipped to the part where Matthew smashed Bearen away. He slashed the air and Bearen just flew off? The Shadow-weapon can’t do that. I went off toward the dining room where Alex and Sarah were having their lunch and sat down beside them. The lunch was steak and french fries. I dug in, devouring everything in sight. A guy can work up and appetite running the speed of sound.
“Wow, I guess super speed counts for eating, too,” Sarah laughed.
“Don’t criticize me, I just saved the city. Anyway, I found out something that you might find interesting. You know when Bearen was hit away by the Shadow-weapon? The weapon can’t do that! There must have been some sort of force at work,” I explained.
“My goodness, our adventures are getting more and more strange.” Alex commented.
“I agree, but how are we going to figure out this one?” Sarah asked.
“We start with Matthew Bartholomew.” I answered.
5:35 in the night...
We slowly crept toward Matthew’s tower. The lights were on but I still wondered how he escaped at the battle.
“Come on!” I whispered to them. Sarah flew me and Alex right in toward the window.
“What are your doing?!” I shouted.
“Direct approach!” she answered, and then, we broke into the tower, the direct way. Inside was the room we had looked in the other time we broke in. At that moment, guards rushed in, along with Matthew Bartholomew.
“You!” He shouted.
“Uh... hi, Matthew. Is there any reason that you’re trying to arrest us? Because I think we should be arresting you,” I said. Matthew shouted something at his soldiers and they all left the room.
“Is this about yesterday?” he asked.
“Yeah, stop acting like a good guy because you’re not,” I retorted. Matthew walked over and stared me straight in the face.
“Why are you doing the terrorist attacks on the city?” I asked him, intently.
“It’s simple really. I’m doing it for revenge, on you,” He answered.
“Why would you want revenge on me?” I said. Matthew just smiled and then I realized who he was.
“Nit!” I gritted through my teeth.
“Please, please. Call me Matthew now,” he told me.
“You’re the reason this has happened to all of us! You killed my parents and destroyed my kingdom! I’m gonna kill you!” I roared. After that, I lunged at him and passed out a nice right-hook then threw a left-hook. Matthew smashed against the wall and slid to the floor. I raced over to land a few more punches, but Matthew already up and shot a burst of fire at me. It hit me and Alex and we flew out the window. Of course, Sarah flew after us. She grabbed our hands and pulled up. She shot back up toward the window and we flew inside.
“Nice direct approach!” I exclaimed at Sarah.
“Heh, sorry,” Sarah apologized.
“Whew! That was a close o-! Where’d Matthew go?!” Alex spun his head around the room.
“He must have slipped out while we were distracted!” Sarah exclaimed.
“Come on, we’ll get him eventually,” I said to them. Sarah took hold of our hands again and we flew out the window to our castle. Unfortunately, when we got there I knew something was wrong. But then again, you don’t need to be a genius to know somethings wrong when you’re castle is gone, completely disappeared.
“Is it just me or is the castle gone?” I asked.
“The castles gone,” Alex answered.
“Except I’d be glad to accept the fact that its just you,” Sarah said. Suddenly, a huge explosion occurred and we were blinded by the light. I opened my eyes as soon as the light was gone and standing where my castle used to stand was a different, more futuristic than even our time now.
“What in the world is going on here?!” I asked again. “Sarah could you take us down right there near the entrance I think I see some words,” Sarah flew us down to the entrance in record time. I then walked up to the words and backed away after reading what it said.
Chapter 8: Time-warped
5:40 at night
“What is it?” Sarah asked me.
“You remember when I went forward in time, right?” I said.
“The city I was in was called Mattheworld. This castle is called Matthewcastle.” I explained.
“No way!” Sarah exclaimed. Suddenly, two robot police like the ones that chased me in 4444 flew over on hover pods toward us.
“James Heram, Alex Melatiny, and Sarah Heram, you're under-arrest!” it shouted.
“I think this would be a good time to run,” I told the others. In a flash of black and yellow, I spun around and sped away. Sarah grabbed Alex’s arms and flew up into the sky. Isn’t splitting up always the right thing to do? I had read that somewhere, or maybe watched it? A sound that sounded like a blast from a laser blaster boomed behind me. I rolled to the right and kept running. Turning around I could see the ‘bot getting smaller and smaller in the distance. I then wondered how Alex and Sarah were doing.
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“He’s gaining!” Alex yelled as Sarah swerved around another sign. “If they catch us this is going to be even more embarrassing than being carried by a girl.” Sarah flew up yet again to avoid smashing into ANOTHER sign. Unfortunately, they were in a market place, with a lot of signs.
“And how is that embarrassing?” Sarah asked.
“I think you know the answer!” Alex yelled back.
“Yeah! I do!” Sarah answered. A blast of light whipped right past Sarah and cut off a snip of her hair.
“Hey! I already got a haircut!” She said. Alex stared at her, confused.
“What?” She inquired.
“Noth-” another sign smacked Alex right in the face. “For the love o-” and another sign. “How in the world are you not getting hit by signs?!”
“Because I’m awesome!” She answered.
“Whatever.” Alex let go of Sarah’s hands and flew back onto the robot. He took it’s head and ripped it off it’s body, spraying oil and screws everywhere. “Now that’s what I call aweso-” another sign with a picture of a robot smacked into his face. “What the heck! This is really starting to get ridiculous!” Alex took hold of the robot’s pod and was now trying to get the hang of it. “That was considerably easy. Ooohh, what does this button do?” He pressed the button which clearly said, “Do not press!”.
“Alex! Why’d you press that?! You’re never supposed to press that!!!!” Sarah yelled. She quickly flew beside the pod, which was gaining speed. “It’s probably going to explode or something now!”
“And why would you think that?” Alex asked.
“Because that’s what always happens with those buttons! Grab my hands,” Alex obeyed and grabbed her hands and Sarah ascended quickly. Alex looked down as they flew up and saw the pod blow up into millions of bits.
“Oops,” he said.
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After flying far enough away from the castle so no police ‘bots could track them, Sarah and Alex finally landed on the top of a building to rest.
“Now we need to figure out who time transported the castle here to where our castle was,” Sarah inquired.
“That’s easy, it was probably Matthew and Rex Malevolent,” Alex answered easily.
“You’re probably right, there’s just one question left. Where’s James? Oh, what’re we going to do?!” she asked.
“We’ll be okay, as long as we’re together,” Alex assured. He took her hand and looked into her eyes, and almost immediately, Sarah felt safe.
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Matthew walked to the edge of his suite in Matthewcastle.
“The plan worked perfectly,” he explained. “My enemies are running like prey.” Rex Malevolent walked out of the shadows. He took a apple from a fruit bowl on the table and started talking.
“Why the weird name for the castle. You don’t seem like the idiotic type,” Rex asked as he chomped into the fruit.
“It’s because of me being so smart that I had to choose a simple name for the people I will rule soon who I have far higher intellect than,” He answered.
“Uh, ok... I’m gonna’ go now,” Rex walked quickly to the door and walked out. Matthew smiled.
“You too,” he said.
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In the city, I still was searching for Alex and Sarah. I had searched almost everywhere and I didn’t know where they could be. It was very difficult searching for them while being attacked by a killer police robot. The robot took out it’s laser and pulled the trigger. The laser missed me by a millimeter! I jumped up in surprise and flew back by the sudden stop. The robot’s head swung around and I could almost imagine the look of horror on it’s face as it blew up in a fiery explosion as it smashed into a building. I looked around and realized many people were looking out of their windows to see what was going on.
“Uh, oh,” I mumbled under my breath as I took off. I didn’t really want my people to see me, their king, blowing up the police. Ducking under a billboard (it’s surprising how many there were in this city) I jumped up a fire escape onto a building flew into the air with a flying jump... and landed on Alex.
“Ouch!” he roared.
“Sorry, sorry, didn’t mean to,” I apologized.
“At least you’re here now, we were wondering where you were,” Alex said.
“Well now I’m here, so did you blow up the police bot too?” I asked.
“Duh! If we hadn’t than we would’ve still been being chased by it!” Alex yelled at me.
“Oh, yeah, right. Anyways, we need a plan to figure out why in the world Matthew’s castle is standing where it is and how we’re gonna’ turn it to ash, “ I thought out loud.
“That’s like a plot point for a few chapters of a book,” Alex pointed out.
“I know, right?” James answered.
“.......”
“What?!”
“Nothing,” Alex said quickly.
“Y’know, this whole predicament would be way easier to understand if we had been teleported to the future like you did,” Sarah told me.
“I know! Just listen to me! WE NEED TO MAKE A PLAN TO SAVE THE DAY!”
“We know! You just said it like three times!”
“Two, actually.”
“Would you shut up!”
“No thank you,” Alex said.
“Are you just trying to annoy me!” I yelled.
“Pretty much,” Sarah said.
“The whole world could be in danger and you’re trying to be annoying,” I shouted.
“You do it all the time to us in missions,” Alex pointed out.
“Fine, I’ll just storm the castle by myself,” I muttered. I sped away at super speed before they could do anything to stop.
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Minutes later, I slid to a stop right before Matthewcastle. The tower loomed over me with it’s dark towers making the tower seem like it was taller than the moon. Fortunately, I knew it wasn’t.
“Let’s do this,” I said confidently, and then I ran in.
Chapter 9: Breaking in
5:53 at night
After running in, I realized that the door was open, and why would Matthew leave the door open? I spun around right as the door slammed shut with a bang.
“Ugh! I’m an idiot!” I shouted.
“Yes, yes you are,” a voice told me. I spun around in a millisecond (literally) and didn’t gasp in surprise to see... Rex Malevolent.
“Oh, it’s you I thought it was like someone I was actually afraid of, phew!” I joked.
“What?! You should be afraid of me!” Rex shouted.
“You know that I know that you know that I know I could beat you in five minutes tops,” I told him.
“Oh yeah? Well... I’m gonna’... uh...,” He stammered. I laughed. He was speechless. Perfect I zoomed around him and slammed him onto the floor. He wasn’t prepared for that and it took him awhile to get up. He growled at me.
“A growl? Seriously? I’m so scared,” I teased. He lunged at my throat, knocking me down and landing on me. I was the one who wasn’t prepared this time. I hit the ground with a bang and I immediately felt a sharp pain in my back. I let out a groan. Rex smirked.
“Yeah right,” I retorted. I kicked up right into his stomach, I missed.
“What in the world? You actually kicked me there?!” he squeaked in a high voice.
“Y’know, if you weren’t a bad guy I might have actually felt sorry for you,” I joked. Rex stood up and got back into fighting position, looked under me, smiled, and looked up again.
“Looks like game over for you,” he smirked. I
looked down and saw a red x under my feet.
“Could anything be more obvious?” I laughed. In one second, Rex was standing where I had been and I was standing where he had been.
“Uh, oh,” he said blankly. The ground opened up like a giant mouth and closed up when Rex’s full body had disappeared. I was about to turn around and walk away when I heard a scream of pain. I whipped around and saw smoke rising up from in between the cracks of the trapdoor. Then, the screams stopped.
“Oh, no. I killed him.”
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Alex and Sarah were still sitting on the rooftop far away from the castle in shock at what I had just done. I had actually been serious.
“Do you think we should go after him?” Alex asked Sarah.
“Of course! Let’s go!” Sarah answered. She flew into the air, picked up Alex, and took off toward the castle.
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I stood still not believing what I had just done. I had never wanted to kill anyone.... I hadn’t thought that that would kill him. I didn’t know they were going to kill me. Guards rushed behind me, but I didn’t care, not anymore. Suddenly, the trapdoor opened up. A crane attached to the ceiling came down and into the hole. It grabbed something and came back up with the object. The object raised up out of the hole and up so everyone could see it. It took me a few seconds to figure out what it was then I realized it was Rex Malevolent’s body. Most of his clothes were scorched off. There was no hair anywhere on his body. Some skin was burned off too in places. That’s what they were going to do to me. I couldn’t look anymore, it was so horrible. Then, I just blacked out.
I stood up and looked around. I was in a... desert? Why in the world would they put me in a desert? I could just run back in a few minutes. Anyways, I started rushing away in one direction. I came to some ruins and stopped there. I quickly did a circle run around the ruins. They were very large in length and width. I could find the area if I knew the length and width. I knew math class would come in handy someday.
I decided to search the ruins since I didn’t know the length and width. After hours of walking through boring ruins I came upon a large castle. Lots of parts of it were missing and I just walked in. I strutted through the abandoned castle finding no one. Finally, I came to a room and what I saw made me sick. Hundreds of bodies and skeletons filled the room. There must have been a battle here or something. I looked over to see a skeleton with tattered clothes hanging onto the skeleton’s bones. Two letters on the shirt said RM.
That got me thinking... RM. I looked around and ran over to a skeleton near the throne. The costume had a fire ball. Another had a green arrow. And one had a fist. These ruins were Matthewcastle and Time Warp City! I ran over to the RM skeleton. It was Rex Malevolent. In the bone, no flesh. Suddenly the eyes of RM’s skeleton sprang open to reveal red eyes. It got up and started walking toward me saying, “You killed me.” I looked over and saw all the skeletons getting up and saying, “You killed me.” They surrounded me. I looked down and tried to cover my ears. Then I realized my gloves were gone and my hands were bones. After that, I realized I was a skeleton. And then I woke up.
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Alex and Sarah came to the top of the castle. They saw Matthew Bartholomew working on his computer, typing something. They looked over and saw a containment pod with the dream liquid in it. Dream liquid was a watery substance that allowed you to breathe and makes you have dreams about whatever your last memory was.
“Is there someone in there?” Alex realized.
“I think so,” Sarah agreed. Suddenly the water became clearer and they saw who was in it. Me.
“Oh my gosh, what do we do?” Sarah asked.
“Attack or wait here,” Alex told her.
“I don’t like either,” Sarah retorted.
“Hey look, James is moving. He’s awake!” Alex said in joy.
When I woke up I looked around and saw I was in some kind of liquid. It was dream liquid! I looked up and saw Matthew turn around to check on me. I quickly pretended to be asleep and he turned around again. There were guards at the door and guards guarding me. I looked at the glass and saw Alex and Sarah. I waved. Then I broke the glass and ran. I hit the wall and fell down, but I quickly got back up.
“Bye,” I said casually, then I do three wall jumps and crash out a window. I look back and see Sarah starting to fly down, and then I saw my feet were on fire.
“Oh, boy.”
Chapter 10: Point Zero
Time: Unknown (no watch on me, sorry)
My life was flashing before my eyes but I didn’t really care, I knew Sarah would catch me. Except, I forgot my feet were on fire. I looked down and saw the blaze reaching my ankles. It hurt like nothing before. I saw my skin start to turn black, but then the rushing wind blew it out. The ground was coming out to meet me, not in a good way. I was about to become a yellow, black, and tan splat on the ground when I felt a hand grab my arm. The ground slowed down and eventually stopped. A red blur suddenly rushed down beside me almost hitting me. Instead, it hit the ground. A hole opened up and I saw Alex standing in the center.
“I’m starting to think that he has some invulnerability too,” I observed.
“Me too,” Sarah said back. Me, Sarah, and Alex all met up in the hole he had created.
“Let’s get out of here,” I ordered. I started to run, but tripped and fell. I looked back at my feet. I couldn’t run with them having a five degree burn like this.
“You can’t run with your feet like that,” Sarah pointed out.