The Mad Scientists of New Jersey (Volume 1) by Chris Sorensen

Author:Chris Sorensen [Sorensen, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harmful Monkey Press
Published: 2016-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

Roxie squeaked. His other self stared in slack-jawed disbelief. Eddie was certain that the look on his own face was a mirror image.

“Who...?” the other Eddie asked.

Roxie picked up a plastic fork and wielded it like a weapon. “What are you? A clone? A robot? An evil twin?”

Eddie shook his head. “I’m just me. Eddie.”

Other Eddie glared at him. “What are you doing with my face?”

“I could ask you the same thing,” Eddie countered.

Eddie looked toward the kitchen. Pudge was busy answering the phone for his father who was even busier spreading mozzarella over half a dozen pizzas.

This was yesterday just after the incident with the black hole and the toupee and... and... Eddie could hardly believe it. The belt! Somehow, it had sent him back in time.

Roxie pinched his arm. “Ouch!” he squealed. “Why’d you do that?”

Roxie turned to the other Eddie. “He feels real.”

“That’s because I am real,” Eddie said. He caught his other self burning holes in him with his eyes. “I’m you. I’m just one day older, that’s all. I’ve traveled twenty-some hours back in time.”

“Why?” the other Eddie asked.

“Huh?”

Other Eddie shook his head. “If you’re me and you’ve managed to travel across time and space...”

“Not space, just time,” Eddie said.

“Whatever!” the other Eddie fumed. “If, by some miracle, you’ve come here from the future, then you must have a pretty big reason for doing so.”

Eddie gulped. A reason? Nope. He’d managed it mostly by accident. Now that he thought about it, he had no clue how he was going to get back. Was he doomed to forever be a day behind in a world where another version of himself would be forever throwing him nasty looks?

Eddie felt a buzzing at his waist and looked down at the belt. The orange light was blinking. Now, the red was blinking too. His whole body vibrated again. If that tingling sensation was any indication, this was going to be a very short trip.

“Well?” the other Eddie pressed.

“I came back because... because...” He reached out, grabbed the slice of pizza out of other Eddie’s hand. “Because I hate egg salad sandwiches!”

And bang! He was back in his basement as if nothing had happened. Cooper looked up at him, annoyed at being awakened. Reggie rej-jipped a hello.

“Thank goodness I didn’t fly right by the present and go shooting off into the future,” Eddie thought.

He looked down. He still had the slice of cheese pizza gripped in his hand. Famished, Eddie wolfed down the slice, tossing the crust to a grateful Cooper.

Eddie suddenly realized what a missed opportunity his trip to the past had been. Of course! He had traveled back to the time before he and his friends had taken their midnight cruise, before they had landed on the island. Before he had met Mesmer. If he were to go back to the pizza parlor, he could warn himself not to visit the island. He could avoid meeting that crazy scientist and then maybe, just maybe, his life would go back to normal.

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