Time Villains Series, Book 1 by Victor Piñeiro

Author:Victor Piñeiro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2021-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

24

Monday was the Mondayest Monday of all Mondays. Not only was Wiki mad at himself for not hatching a plan over the weekend, but he spent the entire walk to Finistere scolding us for being too relaxed about Blackbeard. “We need to face the school bully before it’s too late—except our bully is bearded, legendary, and very capable of murder,” he ranted. “And it might be too late already.” We just gave him the silent treatment. I was still pretty annoyed with him for being so hardheaded about the whole Ms. C situation.

I was about to walk into first-period science when Wiki stopped and pointed to a sign on the door. Scrimshaw Science across the hall—room 108. “Looks like Mr. Jekyll is subbing for Mr. Scrimshaw today.” Mr. Jekyll had been our science teacher last year. “Ooh, wait. Jekyll? A scientist? And he’s British. What if he’s secretly Doctor Jekyll?” Wiki chuckled. Then full-on laughed. Then had a mini laugh attack. “Can you imagine if your absurd theory was actually right? That’d be apocalyptic!”

I got a little excited and a lot confused. “Dr. Jekyll. Is that a famous guy from history?”

“No,” he laughed, drying his eyes as he walked past me to his class. “It’s doubly impossible because he’s not from history. Dr. Jekyll’s a character in a book. But he’s the absolute last person you want in the real world. Good thing you’re completely wrong about all of this.” Then he walked off to his first-period class.

I walked into the room even more annoyed at Wiki, if that were possible at this point.

“Good afternoon, children. Today we’re going to take a break from marine biology to conduct a quick yet fascinating chemistry experiment involving selenium and zirconium. Please procure your notebooks and we shall begin.” I’d forgotten how boring Mr. Jekyll’s class was unless you were super into science experiments. He spoke like a British butler from olden times, he got really excited about mixing liquids that were different colors, and he loved sounding out the names of chemicals that were ridiculously long and complicated. So, yeah, Wiki used to absolutely love his class. Me? Not so much.

“Now, let us begin with selenium. Pencils are out? Good.” As he droned on I thought about what Wiki had said. So, clearly Andy summoned people from history, but what if he summoned people from fiction too? If Wiki were here he’d probably say something about time travel at least being theoretically possible but fiction just being made-up garbage. But Wiki wasn’t here, and I was desperate for a lead. Why not at least look into it?

Once Mr. J finished lecturing and we started doing our lab, I faked having to look something up on the computer. “It’ll just take a minute, Mr. Jekyll. I’m really interested in millennium.”

“Selenium,” he corrected.

“Uh, yeah, that too. One sec.”

The computers faced the classroom, so as I researched Dr. Jekyll online, I was pretty terrified that Mr. Jekyll would notice. Especially once I started reading about him.

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