Chapter 8
3rd POV
The Wandering Earth World.
After the crisis on Jupiter was resolved, the world faced a new challenge: deciding what to do now that they had escaped Earth's fixed orbit around the Sun.
This would have a drastic impact on Earth, as almost everything on the planet depends on the Sun's support. Everyone knowing their situation was on the verge of breaking down as of the moment.
The road to deep space is also a desperate gamble, and there is no turning back.
At a critical moment, Liu Peiqiang started thinking about the chat group…
After a few minutes of deliberation, he thought of something. He would have to ask for Nobita's again, even if he knew his points would not be enough. He has to try something.
He quickly uploaded his findings in the chat.
…
The earth was heading into the distance, and the 10,000 planetary engines were shooting at the material that originally belonged to the earth every minute and every second.
At this moment, Liu Peiqiang seemed to have made his decision.
While he was deep in his thought the chat sent him a notification.
The strongest elementary school student in history: "Are you there?"
Astronaut Liu Peiqiang: "I'm here! What do you need my help for? You can speak up! I'll do it for you!"
Liu Peiqiang began to answer according to the words written on the blackboard. He was still among the "Tengu" Mission members at the moment.
The strongest elementary school student in history: "Uh, its like this, I'm going to take the flashlight back, I just wanted to inform you about it."
Nobita had already decided what he would do.
Astronaut Liu Peiqiang: "No problem! Is there something I can help you with? I'll do my best!"
The strongest elementary school student in history: "You… forget it, I'll try something and see if it would be negative or solve both our problems."
Nobita found his eagerness a bit strange, but soon decide to keep it aside as anyone helped in his situation would be greatful and would help his benefactor eagerly. So, he didn't bother to think so much.
With that, he quickly left the real globe and headed toward the time machine in his desk drawer. He traveled back to the past, arriving a few moments before his past self accepted the task.
The richest man is Iron Man: "Your world seem to be very unprepared for such a monumental task, dude,"
Bats can't be eaten: "+1"
I have nine tails: "Yeah, man! You should have prepared a few steps ahead for such situations. In my world, there is a saying, "You should expect the unexpected and look underneath the underneath." You should try following that. It helps."
I will be stronger when my head is bright: "Aren't you guys curious? How would boss man help the astronaut? Didn't he spend all his points in that earlier task?"
I have nine tails: "Yeah?! Maybe Nobita has a way to travel to other worlds even without using the chat function."
Looking at the group friends' messages, Nobita decided to ignore them for now.
He quickly set the time for his exit… After a few seconds, he reached his stop.
He got out of his drawer and said a bit loudly to his past self, "Hey, wait! I have something to tell you."
His past self seeing himself coming out of time machine was confused.
"???"
"What?" He asked confusedly.
"There'll have to be slight changes to your plan for the completion of your task. I just came here to give you some advice. It would be helpful for both of us." He said with a calm voice, standing next to his past self.
'Whoa! Its different seeing yourself from your own perspective.'
"Yeah? What advice?" His past self asked confusedly, he thought his plan was already good enough.
Nobita thought for a moment to collect his thought and said carefully, "When you reach there, first go near the Sun of that world and use the Time Tornado gadget to rewind that sun's time by a few million years. And after that, you take the Earth back to it's original place with the same method." He pauses for a few seconds and continued after a deep breath, "That should help with Liu Peiqiang's problem form my time."
The past Nobita looked thoughtful for a moment and replied slowly, "Yeah… I think that would work pretty well too." He had a confident grin on his face matching his future self.
The future Nobita gave him a thumbs-up and went back near the time machine to go back to his time. Just as he was about to enter in there, he remembers something.
He turns to his past self and said, "Oh, yeah… I almost forgot, reverse the time of Liu Peiqiang's earth by a few decades to give them a few more years of preparation time and also make a copy of the Jupiter there. It will be helpful for you. You can use the Time Tornado to do that and Copying Hammer and use small light on Jupiter's case."
Having said that, he enters the Time Machine and goes back to his time.
…
As he comes back to his time, he saw his name mentioned multiple times in the chat.
Astronaut Liu Peiqiang: "Hey @The strongest elementary school student in history, just what did you do?"
The richest man is Iron Man: "What? What did he do?"
Bats can't be eaten: "+1."
My head will be brighter and I will be stronger: "+1."
I have nine tails: "+1."
Goddess Zixia: "+1."
I want to beat my sun to death: "+1"
Astronaut Liu Peiqiang: "As you guys already know the situation of my world. We had certain problems regarding the Sun and Jupiter, but just now, it seems I've returned back to earth. And the situation is not as dire as it seem a few days ago. The sun suddenly seems to be millions of years younger and the danger for that Helium Flash is also gone."
"And the 10,000 planetary engines also disappeared from their places. A news is being broadcasted that we will not have to move the earth from its place for many millions of years to come. It seems we were given a new chance to save our civilization."
…
Reading his message, all the members were too stunned to reply anything for a few minutes. But after digesting what they've read, they all began to fire questions about the situation.
The richest man is Iron Man: "What?! How did Nobita do it? It doesn't make any sense, shrinking a planet was already an outrageous thing, does it mean he can change reality as he pleases? Tha…"
Bats can't be eaten: "Wha…?"
I have nine-tails: "Awesome!!"
I will be stronger when my head is bright: "I don't know what to say."
Goddess Zixia: " He's becoming more and more unfathomable as time passes."
I want to beat my son to death; "I don't understand what's happening."
The strongest elementary school student in history: "Oh, that… I went back to the past and…."
As he was explaining what he did, he realized that time travel in his world worked very differently compared to the Marvel universe. In the Marvel world, traveling to the past doesn't directly affect their original timeline. Instead, it creates an alternate timeline, where the actions they take result in a branching reality.
Whereas in the Doraemon world, they cannot seem to interfere with alternate realities. He thinks this might be the work of the Time Patrol from his world's future, similar to how Kang/He Who Remains controlled his 'Sacred Timeline,' but with a different approach.
Tony was bewildered. From his understanding, time travel should not work like that even if it's possible.
Naruto only went with the flow. While, with Kurama, it's a whole different situation.
Bats can't be eaten seems to be lost in his thoughts.
I will become stronger when my head is bright didn't want to torture his mind by thinking about that.
I want to beat my son to death didn't seem to understand the implication of the Nobita's words.
In Goddess Zixia's understanding, it was an exaggerated thing to be able to reverse the flow of time.
Even a saint...can a saint do it?
She didn't know how far the saint could do it...but before that, she had never heard about anything like it before.
The world The Wandering earth.
Liu Peiqiang could not contain his joy. He began shaking with excitement, his son would not have to live a life in constant danger, he would not have to risk his life further and many other things he was thinking about.
The "Tengu" Project also stopped existing, as it was no longer required to be there.
Nobita, who was done with his work, returned to the place, but found that Shizuka was gone!
This frightened him!
"Fuck, fuck, fuck… Where is Shizuka?" He panics and quickly left the real globe, turned on the operation button, and scanned it.
However, the real globe shows that there is no Shizuka on it.
Nobita's heart froze.
He only left for a while, where did Shizuka disappear? He couldn't understand what just happened and kept looking at the real globe, but still found nothing.
Dark thoughts began spreading in his mind…
Just when he was about to hurry and use the time machine again. He heard a voice.
"Nobita~ I'm back!"
It was Doraemon who emerged from the time machine!
"Doraemon!" Nobita shouts happily, thinking he could help him look for Shizuka.
"I originally planned to return in three days, but because I was worried about you, I purchased a top-tier maintenance ticket from the twenty-second century departmental store and came back early." Just as he was talking, Doraemon discovered the real globe in the room.
"Isn't that the real globe! Nobita, did you do something bad with my spare pocket!" Nobita always behaved like this, and Doraemon was even starting to get used to it.
But, taking a look at the globe, he saw a perfectly functioning ecosystem on it.
Doraemon, who wanted to be angry, suddenly widened his eyes. "Wow! Nobita, did you set this up by yourself?"
He looked around the globe twice.
"Cough...it's me..."
"Awesome! This is an educational toy in the future! You can make such a good ecosystem without me! Nobita is becoming more mature." Doraemon started speaking excitedly and was almost about to shed a tear of happiness thinking Nobita's growing more responsible.
Doraemon, when he was first designed, was used as an educational guidance robot for children. Seeing Nobita's growth, Doraemon seemed very happy.
"Doraemon! Now is not the time for that… Shizuka, she disappeared! She's missing in the real globe!"
"What?!" He shouted loudly and started checking the control panel of the globe.
However even after trying everything, he couldn't find Shizuka.
"Shizuka, she's really not in the real globe!"
Doraemon also looked at it many times to confirm that Shizuka had disappeared.
"But how can a living person disappear out of thin air! Don't worry, Nobita! I do something." After Doraemon said that, he started rummaging in his pocket.
"Person Finder TV!"
With that said, Doraemon took out a small TV from his pocket. It looks about 20 inches. The TV is constructed in a strange way, with a funnel on the side of the monitor.
"Person Finder TV, just enter the name of the person you want to find, and one of their items, and their picture will be displayed on the monitor!" Doraemon explains to Nobita.
'Shizuka's item?' Nobita thought for a while, and hurried to the fish pond of the real globe. Sure enough, Shizuka's fishing rod remained in place.
"Doraemon! Here, this is Shizuka's fishing rod!"
"Okay! With it, you can find Shizuka!"
Doraemon grabbed the fishing rod and put it into the funnel.
The TV, however, began to tremble like a tractor. The fishing rod originally stretched out for a long time, but it was also eaten by the funnel of the TV.
Nobita looked at the big screen seriously.
After a while, snowflakes flickered on the screen. Shizuka's figure finally appeared in it.
Nobita also sighed in relief.
However... the scene that appeared on the screen made Nobita feel strange.
"What?"
On the screen, Shizuka is wiping tears.
On the side, Gian and Suneo also looked sad and angry.
"Why is Shizuka crying?" Nobita asked confusedly, not panicking too much now.
"Nobita, look, they are surrounded by something!" Doraemon points at something while focusing on said thing.
Nobita also stared carefully.
Only then did he finds that in the middle of the three, there were two stone sculptures.
And the appearance of the stone sculpture is... Nobita and Doraemon himself!
Nobita and Doraemon looked at each other with a confused look. The same thought enters their minds simultaneously, 'What's happening?'
"They seem to be in an open space! Let's go and see!"
Saying that, Doraemon took out a bamboo copter, gave Nobita one, and used one himself.
The two hurried towards the open space.
In the open space, Shizuka was still crying silently.
"How could this be! How did Doraemon and Nobita turn into stones?"
"It's scary! Is this a curse?"
Suneo also looked at the two statues with a look of fear.
The Gian gave Suneo a bonk on the head.
"What nonsense are you talking about! How can there be such a thing as a curse in the world!"
Saying that, the Gian snorted coldly and analyzed it himself, "It must be magic, someone must have used some sort of black magic on both of them." He states smugly, feeling proud at himself for such perfect reasoning.
Suneo mumbles quietly to himself, "...What's the difference between what you and I said! Aren't magic and curses the same!"
Shizuka looked at the two arguing and shouted loudly.
"You two, stop arguing! Let's think about what to do! Nobita and Doraemon have turned to stone!"
In the sky, Nobita and Doraemon hovers above them silently.
But the moment they saw the two stone sculptures, they felt that the statues looked too lifelike to merely be statues.
Just as they were about to go down and ask what's going on.
They could see Gian clenching his fists.
"No matter who made Doraemon and Nobita like this, I will definitely beat them up! I won't forgive them." He says determinedly.
"Even if they're real magicians?" Suneo asks with some fear: "We don't even know any magic! How will we do it?"
Gian again hit Suneo on the head and makes a bump there, "What are you talking about! We are all friends!"
Suneo covered his head, "Okay, okay! I'll stop talking about that. Let's deal with that evil magician together!"
Everything was noticed by Nobita. 'I don't know why, but these two children, who I once found too annoying to deal with, now seemed much more pleasant to look at.' He thinks to himself.
Just when Nobita was thinking, Doraemon took the lead and flew down.
"What happened here, Shizuka? You were with Nobita inside my gadget, how did you disappear from there?"
Doraemon and Nobita came down from the sky, leaving the three stunned.
"You two are… all right?!"
...
Shizuka told what happened.
It turned out that after Nobita went to Tony's world, Shizuka waited for a long but Nobita still didn't come back. So, she began searching for him, but couldn't find him.
Shizuka became a little anxious.
She went out of the real globe to search for Gian and Suneo to search for him together. But as they were searching for Nobita, the three of them come to the open space and found two stone statues of Nobita and Doraemon instead...