Tom awakes and finds himself somewhere strange. He is in total darkness he can't even see the ground he's standing on yet he can see his own limbs perfectly fine. "Weird.. I must be dreaming" He slaps himself to test yet surprisingly it hurt. "also weird.. I didn't think you could feel pain in a dream".
While he mumbled to himself he heard someone call him by his name. "Thomas.." Tom looks around in vain knowing he can't see anything. "Who's there?" trepidation creeping in to his voice as he begins thinking this may not be a dream.
Having nothing else to do he begins walking in a random direction. "Thomas.." The voice seems to be getting louder as if he's getting closer, Tom stops to Shout back to the voice. "If you keep saying my name I'm going to get creeped out!" the reply came back instantly "THOMAS LANIER!!!" The voice seemed kinda mad this time... probably because Tom said it was 'creepy'.
Tom should have been scared he knew he should have been scared, but for some reason he was just p!$$ed. "Listen here @$$hat I might not know where I am or who you are but if I find you I'll try my D@mnedest to.." A bright flash of light Blinds him and the sound of thunder echoes through Tom's ears.
"TO DO WHAT MORTAL!! you don't like me saying your name? GET OVER IT!! your kind have been chanting mine for MILLENNIA!! I have only had a rest for the past few centuries." "Well if you're so sick of us mortals why am I here? and why do you keep saying my name!".
Silence.. Tom's eyes began to adjust after being blinded and he notices he isn't in complete darkness now. There are stars shining all around him and a bright pillar of light in the distance as he takes a step towards the pillar everything starts shaking and..
He wakes up to Larry shaking him "Dude can I borrow your ride? Chelsea and Vic are ready to go and I'll grab some BK on the way back" "Yeah man keys are on the kitchen table" Larry jingles them as he walks out the room apparently he already grabbed them. "I want a Whopper and onion rings!" Tom shouts. "It's 8 in the morning they're still serving breakfast" Larry shouts back.
"Ugh then swing by Taco Bell and grab me a large Cinnabon meal and coffee!! I'll pay you back when you get here!" Tom yells before he pulls the covers over his face and falls asleep.
"Oh great..." Tom says as he finds himself where he was moments ago pillar of light and all. "Why are you here again Thomas?" The same deep echoing voice calls out to him from the light. "How would I know man I'm just trying to sleep" Tom mumbled as he walks closer to the pillar so he can get a look at the man who's been talking to him.
"You sure you didn't drag me here because you're lonely? I know I'd go stir crazy pent up here by my self for a few centuries.." Before the voice could reply another pillar of light descended this one was just as bright as the first but was pulsing and yellow. A slight buzzing noise emitted as it pulsed and laughter could be heard from it's general direction.
A new voice with a slightly Hispanic accent rings out. "This mortal has guts.. I like him." Tom looks at the new pillar and laughs while he scratched his neck. "Gee thanks man can you tell me why I'm here?" what looks like yellow dust shed from the pillar and swirled around Tom before flying back. "We didn't bring you here Thomas.. YOU brought us albeeit unknowingly"
Before Tom could ask more the first voice roars out "Would you stop with the puns!, they grew stale long before your civilization collapsed. Thomas you seem to be innocent of the crime of blasphemy only through ignorance, so I have decided that I will not hurl you into the sun".
Feeling like that wasn't an idle threat Tom starts sweating as he tries to inch his way closer to the 'nice voice'.
"Yeah no I wouldn't go messing with higher beings like yourselves I honestly don't know how I got here or how I brought you guys here, but do you know how I can get back? and if there's a trick to having a normal night of sleep with out all of 'this'?" Tom says while throwing his arms out pointing at the vast space.
A third pillar descends, this one bright green and somewhat wavy. "Let me guess I brought him here too?"... The voices remained silent as if waiting for the newcomer to speak. it did not. "Hmm he must be shy" Tom mumbled before speaking up again "Hi I'm Thomas Lanier as you may already know.. it's nice to meet you".
A new and beautiful but somewhat cold voice replies to Tom. "I am a woman" the yellow pillar starts laughing again and Tom started to panic. "I am so sorry ma'am the other two are men so I just figured you would be too, I am really really really sorry it's just hard to tell when all I see are pillars of light and.."
The new voice cuts Tom off as he babbled his apology. "The way back too your bed is as simple as the way here.. just close your eyes".
Not knowing if she was being literal or philosophical Tom thanked her and gave it a try. When he opened his eyes he was looking at the underside of his blanket.. "Well F∆¢k me, it worked".
Tom threw the blanket off and got out of bed just as Mike busted in to his room. "Oh D@mn you're awake I was about to elbow drop you, c'mon man Larry just got back and said no one eats until everyone is up and I ain't about to get nut checked by a startled Mari".
Tom dazedly stared at Mike before rubbing his eyes and yawning a reply. "Just poke her with a stick man you'll be fine if you're out of swinging range".
Need Redbull™... so sleepy, don't wanna work.. maybe I should just sell drugs, I mean people like drugs it would be sooo easy they basically sell themselves. But then I think about prison and that's why I work.. Maybe I could win the lottery that would be nice, sorry for rambling I've just worked for the same company for ten years come July and I really wish I could retire already.. Do you think if I identify as a 68 year old man I could draw social security?
As Larry, Mari, Mike, and Tom ate breakfast all Tom could think about was the 'dream' he had last night. *That was crazy.. where the Hell was I and how did I get there?* as Tom spaced out thinking about the voices Mari reached to snatch a cinnabon off of his plate.
While Mari cheered and ate her spoils Tom shook his head and went back to eating, temporarily forgetting about his dream. "So you have four robots and there are four of us.. do we get to battle now?" Larry asked while looking as excited as a kid on a firetruck.
"No way in hell am I tearing my babies up just to satisfy your destructive needs man.." Tom says resulting in Mike putting his croissant down to ask, "Why do you build them then? they literally go into a ring to break each other."
"Wrong they go in to the ring and break other people's robots, to fulfill my destructive needs, why would I trash my own? But I guess we could race them around a little and I'll let you guys play with the weapons, But not on each other and no pushing fire buttons, that thermite is no joke and it ain't cheap."
After everyone finished eating Larry and Mike went down to the basement for a late wake and bake. While Mike and Larry where down stairs Tom and Mari cleaned up the kitchen and went to the garage to get his bots.
Mari was acting normal around Tom, so he decided to play it cool and wait a while before asking her out, they still had a few months left of highschool. After the two of them made it inside and started setting the robots in his tote Tom looked up at Mari. "Very funny locking me out last night, I would have had to slept with these guys if I didn't have my keys on me".
"What are you talking about?? I didn't lock you out" Mari says with with a look of confusion on her face. "The lock must of slipped then huh?" Tom says and Mari starts to look a little annoyed. "Seriously Tom I didn't lock you out I ran inside and went to sleep.." "Ok my bad, my bad, the door was locked so I thought you were 'Trying' to be funny.. the lock must have really slipped then.."
After the two of them got the bots to the back yard they set them out just before Mike and Larry jump out of the door leading to the basement from the back of the house. In between Larry's lips was a lit blunt after inhaling and passing to Mike he blows out a smoke ring then looks at the box. "Dibs on the cockroach dudes".
"That's fine with me I want Mrs Crawley" Mari says while picking up her controller. "I'll let you pick Mike, You want the snail or the Mantis'?" Tom holds up the last two controllers "I want to shoot sh!t so what do you think?" Tom hands Mike the controller for the Snail Gunner and boots up the Manic Mantis.
As they have the robots run a few laps and random patterns throughout the yard Mike starts getting bored, so he pulls the snail over to aim at an old stump and starts firing. "Hey man did you take the ammo out? I don't see anything".
"Dude that thing is designed to pierce metal, you honestly think those spikes are gonna stick out of a rotten stump? Aim at yourself if you think it's empty.." "Nah dude I'm good I like having my blood on the inside".
While Tom and Mike bicker Larry starts piloting Mr Crawley in big circles around the mechanical tarantula. "That spider is so slow Mari I don't know if it's gonna be able to get Tom too far in the tourney this year". Getting slightly agitated Mari tries to get Mrs Crawley to catch the robo-roach only to miss every time.
"Might be slow but I'll bet she packs a hell of a punch compared to anything she faces off against". "She? that things so ugly you should say 'it'." Hearing Larry talk smack about his latest creation Tom walks over and hits the kill switch on the controller in Larry's hand.
"Dude!! that's cheating". Before Larry could get Mr. Crawley up and running Mari walked Mrs Crawley right on top of the roach effectively pinning it in place. "Look Larry Mr Crawley is more like you now" she says with a grin.
"What do you mean by that?" Mari laughs before telling him "He's dominated by a woman much better than him.." as Mike and Tom laugh Larry just hands Tom his controller and goes inside the house mumbling about having no real friends.
"Aww Mari I think you hurted his feelings" Mike jokes before running the snail Gunner over to the tote and handing Tom his controller as well. "I'm gonna go rub some salt in the wound" Mike continued before running after Larry.
Mari shuts off Mrs Crawley before turning to Tom "you realize they just ditched us to pick up everything right?" Tom stares blankly before replying. "You mean like everyone does when they leave my house? I'm gonna have to buy a gallon of Draino just to get all hair out of my shower, seriously do you girls just pull it out of your head when your in there?" Mari laughs sarcastically as she helps Tom put his robots up. "So when are you going to drop us off at our houses?"
After the robots were placed in the garage Mari ran down to the basement to grab Larry and Mike, while Tom hopped on the couch and started looking up something to watch. After a few minutes the three come upstairs smelling like smoke and Febreze. Mike hops next to Tom and kicks his feet up on the coffee table while Larry and Mari snag the two recliners. "Oooh throw it on good eats man" Larry says spying it on the guide as Tom scrolls through.
I'm back people's sorry about the hiatus new job titled just came with more hours more pay and more BS to put up with but hey I can't complain too much, hope you guys enjoy the next couple of chapters. also I happen to be a huge fan of Alton brown he's my favorite chef, if your board and wanna torture yourself looking at good food you should look up some of his shows, cut throat kitchen is great but good eats is my favorite have them all recorded
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