Forever in Time

Forever in Time
By: Jennifer Gay

Chapter 1: Peach Creek Fairgrounds

It was a somewhat quiet, yet busy day here in the little town of Peach Creek. We soon come upon a place where there was a huge Ferris wheel and loads of other kinds of rides, games and attractions. This place was the fairgrounds of Peach Creek, called Peach Creek Fairgrounds. It was located on the outskirts of the city of Peach Creek.

Anyway, we soon come upon the attraction section of the fairgrounds. It is here where we see a huge machine that looked like something out of a sci-fi movie; it was a teleport machine, with two pads to place things in and a tube like thing ay the top that connected the two pads. And it is in front of this machine that we see the creator.

It was a boy that was a middle sized, fourteen year old teen that had only three strands of black hair coming out of the back of his white-striped, black sockhat and had dark, jade green eyes. He wore a red-orange t-shirt that went past his waist, purple carpenter pants that went to his knees, and blue tennis shoes with long, red socks that went to his mid calf. His name was Eddward Johnson, but everyone called him Double D, because of the extra ‘D’ in his name.

Being a bit of an OCD, Double D was currently cleaning his machine with a little rag he had, making it spick and span for his presentation of it to the judges. Besides the fair, today was also the day that inventors showed off their inventions for the local competition of “Best Invention”. The prize for the contest was two-hundred dollars and a place for a nationally ranked competition for their invention.

“Hey, Sockhead!” stated a voice from behind Double D as he turned to see his two friends behind him; Ed and Eddy.

Ed was a tall, fourteen year old teen with a red-tinted buzz cut, a unibrow and hazel, green-brown eyes. He was wearing a red and white striped t-shirt that was underneath a long, green jacket that went a little past his waist, baggy blue jeans, and black tennis shoes.

Eddy was a fourteen year old that seemed to be just a smidge too short for his age. He had only three, long strands of dark, almost navy blue-colored hair on his head and had foggy, ice blue eyes. He wore a yellow t-shirt that went right to his waistline. The shirt had a purple collar and a red stripe coming down the right side of his shirt. He wore baggy blue jeans with a silver wallet chain coming out of his front left pocket and also wore red tennis shoes.

“Why, hello Ed, Eddy,” Double D greeted as he finished up on cleaning his invention, “What are you two doing over here? The presentation hasn’t started yet.”

“We know that,” Eddy started to say as he made a cunning smirk on his face; that was his ‘scam face’, “We just wanted to see how the machine was.”

“Oh, well the machine is fine,” Double D replied as he turned back to it, and then back to his friends, “Why do you ask…?”

“We wanna play with it!” Ed stated with excitement as he made a little bouncing motion with his body; he could barely contain himself.

“No can do, Ed,” Double D stated back as he raised his hand up in the air in a ‘stop’ position, “I have to wait for the judges to come before I can ‘play with it’.”

Ed made a little disappointed face, “Aww…”

“… Well, anyway,” Eddy started to say, “After all of this is over, can we use the machine for something? I’ve got the perfect scam for it to be used in!”

“Oh, for heaven’s sakes…” Double D muttered a little at Eddy’s proposition as he placed his right hand on his forehead in disbelief, “My machine wasn’t built for a scam; it was built for science!”

Eddy made a little mad glare to his friend, “Well, if ya ever change your mind; tell me.”

Double D made a little heated sigh at his behavior, “Whatever you say.”

“E-Excuse me,” stated a young voice from behind Ed and Eddy as the three Ed’s turned to see who the voice belonged too.

It was a girl, about the same age as them. She had medium length, dark chestnut brown hair and had dark, ice blue eyes that were slightly covered by her thick, round-shaped glasses.  She wore a hunter green t-shirt that went to her waistline. She wore a pair of blue jeans that went a little past her ankles and a pair of black and white tennis shoes.

There was also another girl beside her that was also the same age as them. She had long, dark blond hair that went a little past her mid chest and had dark, grass green eyes. She wore a blue shirt that went to her waist while the sleeves of the shirt went to her elbows. She wore a pair of tan colored carpenter pants that went to her ankles and covered up most of her tan and white tennis shoes.

“Is this where the invention fair is?” questioned the brown haired girl with the glasses.

“Umm, why, yes it is,” Double D replied back.

“Ah ha, I knew I was right!” stated the blond haired girl as she turned to the brown haired girl beside her, “See, I told you we’d get here on time, Gwendolyn.”

“Well, you are not always right sometimes, Alice,” replied back the brown haired girl named Gwendolyn, which earned her a slight glare from the blond haired girl named Alice.

The three Ed’s looked on with slight confusion before the brown haired girl turned back to them and said, “Which one of you invented this one?” she asked, pointing to Double D’s machine.

“… Oh; well, I did,” Double D replied with a bit of a pause at the beginning.

“Ah, okay,” replied the brunette girl with a nod of her head, “Can I ask what it can do?”

“Oh, it’s a teleportation machine,” Double D explained as he pointed to the left part of the machine, “This is where you put the object in that you want to teleport…” he then pointed to the right part of the machine, “… And it will be teleported to this side over there.”

“Oh, wow!” muttered the brunette with awe.

“Yeah, that’s really something,” stated the blond with not as much interest as her friend beside her, “Let’s go see the other inventions, alright?”

“Hmm, fine,” stated the brunette as she then turned back to the Ed’s and asked, “What’s your name?”

“Well, my name is Eddward with two D’s, so everyone calls me Double D instead,” Double D replied to her, “What is your name?”

The brunette only made a friendly smile, “My name is Gwendolyn, but everyone calls me Gwen for short.”

“C’mon Gwen!” stated her blond friend as she tugged on her right arm a little to get her attention, “Let’s go see the other things before they start judging.”

“Oh, you’re right Alice…” muttered Gwen as she walked off with her friend Alice in the crowd of people.

“… Hey, why didn’t ya introduce us to them, Sockhead?!” Eddy suddenly realized as he turned to Double D with a bit of a mad face.

“I figured you didn’t want that, so I didn’t say it,” Double D replied back as he arched an eyebrow, “Why would you ask me that?”

“Hmph, no reason,” Eddy replied with a little huff of his voice as he crossed his arm across his chest slightly.

Ed, in the meantime, was staring off into his own little at the moment, but soon came back into reality to ask Double D, “Can we play with your machine now?”

Double D made a little heated sigh, “Not yet, Ed.”

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Chapter 2: The “Afterwards” Presentation Gone Wrong</u>

It was now seven o’ clock in the evening here in the little town of Peach Creek as we come back to the Peach Creek Fairgrounds. We soon come back to the attraction section of the fairgrounds, where we can see an audience of people around one particular attraction; Double D’s transportation machine. Soon the judges came over to the machine, examining it a little as they then looked back to Double D, telling him to explain what the machine is for in the competition.

“I would be happy to explain and demonstrate what this machine is capable of doing,” Double D stated as he then gestured the judges to step out of the way of the machine. He soon took out a little remote from his pocket as he then took out a wrench from his tool bag and placed it on the left pad, “This machine is capable of transporting small objects, like this wrench tool in the left pad, and send it to the right pad.”

There were murmurs in the audience beside him, some of them muttering, “Impossible!” or “No way!”

Double D seem to only smile at the little remarks from the audience, “Now, once I push this button to trigger the transport…” he stated as he pushed the button, like he said he would do.

The machine in front of them suddenly came to life as they all could see for themselves that the wrench in the left pod seem to break apart and reform itself in the right pod. Everyone, even the judges, awed at the sight of the moment; some of them even saying, “Unbelievable!” or “I don’t believe it!”

“… Thank you for showing us you presentation, Eddward,” stated one of the judges as he then turned back towards the crowd, “We will take a momentary break to conclude the winner of the competition. Please be patient as we make our decision.”

Soon the judges walk away from Double D’s machine as Double D could see Eddy and Ed come up to him afterwards, “Oooo, that’s so cool, Double D!” stated Ed, “It’s like one of the machines on Star Trek!”

Eddy soon coughed a little, in order to get their attention; or, at least Double D’s attention, “So, uh; did we win it all yet?” he asked.

“Not yet Eddy,” Double D replied back as he then took the wrench from the right pod of his machine and placed it back in his tool bag. He also placed his remote for the machine back in his right pants pocket, “They are probably still deciding.”

“Hello Double D,” stated a slightly familiar voice from behind the three Ed’s as they turned to see the two girls from before -- Gwen and Alice -- standing behind them.

“Oh, well, hello to you too again,” Double D replied back.

“… We saw your presentation just now,” Gwen stated, “It was, umm, r-really amazing; even Alice was impressed, and she’s not impressed by much things.”

Alice made a little glare at her, but it quickly went away afterwards, “Yeah, I guess there’s some truth in that.”

“… Oh!” Double D suddenly remembered what Eddy told him after the girls left them the first time, “I-I never did introduce you to my two friends here, did I?”

Eddy froze up a little, ‘Great, he took up my advice,’ he thought with a bit of anger, ‘I figured Double D wouldn’t take me seriously on that.’

The girls shook their heads, “Nope, don’t think you did,” Alice replied.

“Well, umm…” Double D started off as he pointed to Ed, who was off staring at Double D’s machine with a goofy look on his face, “This is my friend Ed…” he then started to gesture towards Eddy, “And this is my other friend--”

“Hey, I-I think I can introduce myself, ya know?” Eddy interrupted Double D, finally snapping out of his rare, ‘thinking’ mode, as he turned his to the two girls, “The name’s Eddy; Eddy Wendell,” he finished as he jabbed his right thumb into his chest and poked out his chest a little; he also closed his eyes as he did this action, “And you two are Alice and Gwen,” he then opened his eyes back up, looking back at them, “Right?”

“Yeah…” Alice replied, dragging out her word a little, as she crossed her arms across her chest.

Eddy then could sense something familiar about Alice when she responded to his greeting; it reminded him of someone… someone for the Cul-De-Sac.

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About five minutes later, the judges finally came to a decision; they chose… Double D! (AN: Shock, shock; I know. XP) They soon gave him a trophy and his prize money of two-hundred dollars, which Eddy wanted to immediately hold onto to; but Double D was not going to fall for that.

It was fifteen minutes after the judges and the crowd left them that the three Ed’s started to pack up Double D’s equipment, with Gwen and Alice watching them nearly.

Suddenly, something caught Ed’s attention at the corner of his eye, “… Hey, Double D?” he started to say as everyone turned to him, “Why is your machine sparkling?”

“Sparkling…?” Double D questioned as he and the other glanced at what Ed was staring at, only to have their eyes open wide in shock.

Indeed, just like Ed had said, his transportation machine started to give off an unusual, blue aura in the middle.

“What… is this…?” Double D muttered as he stepped closer to the glowing, blue light in the middle of his machine.

“Double D; I think you should stay away from the light show there,” Eddy started to say with a bit of caution.

Suddenly, from out of the glowing light, five, small beams of light shot forth from the middle of the machine as each of the beams hit the Ed’s and the two girls. And, before they could even yelp out anything, they disappeared in a blue light…

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Chapter 3: 1945--Part I</u>

It was a somewhat rare, quiet and peaceful afternoon here on a huge, steel boat out in the Pacific Ocean as we soon come upon a part of the ship that housed all of the people of the ship; the sleeping quarters. It was in one of these many small rooms that we see two men in particular. They were playing with a deck of cards; poker, to be exact, and both of them were dressed up in army uniforms. One of them was a redhead, around the age of twenty-four or so; and the other one had natural blue hair, and he was around the age of twenty five.

Who are these two men? They were Stan McNeal (the redheaded man) and Larry Wendell (the blue haired man).

“Ah-ha!” stated Larry as he set his deck of cards down to Stan, “I think I’ve won this hand again, Stan.”

“Aww,” Stan muttered as he looked back at his cards again as flopped them down, showing that he actually had the winning hand, “I guess I lose again.”

“Uhh, Stan…”

“Yeah?”

“I think you won this time,” Larry stated as he then explained how he had won this little hand.

“… Oh!” Stan stated with a wide smile, “I guess I did win!”

“Uh-huh, yeah…”

As Larry was shuffling the cards again, there was a sudden bright flash of light that filled up the whole room, scaring both Stan and Larry out of their wits; and making Larry scatter the cards everywhere in the room. They both shouted a little loudly as the light show continued in their room. And, when the light show was over, they both opened their eyes to see… Double D, Eddy, Ed, Gwen and Eliza!

“Double D!” shouted Eddy’s voice as they saw them, standing there on the other side of their room, “What the heck was that freaky light show for, huh?!” continued on Eddy as they saw that he was shaking Double D on the shoulders, as if to get an answer out of him.

“I-I really don’t know Eddy!” replied back Double D to Eddy, “I-I don’t know where we--”

“Hey!” stated Larry as the kids suddenly froze up when they turned to look at him, “What the hell do you think you kids are doing here?!”

“… Larry, do they even allow kids onboard the ship?” Stan asked his friend beside him.

“Of course not; were in the middle of a damn war,” Larry replied back to Stan, “Why would they put kids on board a battle ship?”

”Battleship? War…?!” Double D muttered aloud as he widened his eyes to the size of milk saucers, “W-What is it today; day, month and year!”

Stan and Larry looked at Double D and the other kids as if they were on another planet, “It’s February 17, 1945. Why do you ask--?!”

“Oh my god!” shouted the kids, except Ed, as they made a gasp, “W-We’re in the past!” Gwen stuttered with disbelief.

“Really?” Ed questioned with a big smile, “You mean, like time traveling?!”

Even the adults were surprised, and slightly confused, to what these kids were saying, “Where did you all come from, anyway?” questioned Larry in an interrogation-like way.

“Y-You probably would not believe us when we say this,” Double D started to say, “But we are from--”

“The future Peach Creek!” Ed suddenly blurted aloud.

That made Stan and Larry tense up a little, “Peach Creek, eh…?” Stan muttered, as if it brought back a memory, “That’s me and Larry’s hometown.”

“Really?!” questioned the five kids, “What are your names then?” questioned Alice.

“Our names?” Larry stated as he arched an eyebrow, “Shouldn’t you be telling us your names first?”

“Oh, r-right!” Double D stated as he made a little chuckle of nervousness, “My name is Eddward Johnson.”

“… The name’s Alice Garrison,” Alice replied.

“My name is Gwen Owens,” Gwen stated with a slightly nervous smile.

“I’m Ed McNeal!” Ed chirped with a goofy smile on his face, much to Stan’s surprise.

“Yeah, and the name’s Eddy; Eddy Wendell,” Eddy finished off as Larry widened his eyes a little in surprise as well.

“…”

“…”

“… So, what are your names?” questioned Gwen.

“… The name’s Larry Wendell,” Larry replied, much to Eddy surprise; his name sounded familiar.

“… And I’m Stan McNeal,” Stan finished off, which got Ed’s attention.

Double D widened his eyes at the two last names of the men as he turned to Eddy and Ed, “They have the same last names as you two…”

“… Granddad?!” yelled Eddy and Ed out with a yelp.

Everyone stood there in silence for a moment before Ed, Stan, Eddy and Larry pass out from shock.

Double D made a sigh, “I’ve figured as much…”