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Stan looked at the old shack Infront of them "This year is different from every year, pa decided to take us with him to this sleepy town. I don't know what pa sees in this town they don't even have a sea, sure there is a "lake" but that's not the same... No salty air, no Stan 'o' war.. this, according to ma.. pa start coming to this town few years before they had us it started when he joined his nerdy friend who met in the war to go hiking in the caves in this area , his friend is a principal of a college her name was "Backupsmore University" , for some reason he is the local kook of the town ,pa didn't answer when we asked him how but I know he knows how .then his work started to go better and whenever he got a good enough of money he close the shop for like a month and come to this town. He stopped doing that like a year ago , I have no idea why out of a sudden decide to come here for the summer break...."
Stan's days in this town isn't the best he got bored easy he definitely not a forest kid , as for Stanford, eh he is doing better than him somehow he found a friend, what was his name ... fiddleford? his family owns a farm they came here to visit a friend's farm, these two got along well so fast nerds pffff-
Stan tried to go out more to find out a thing to do out at the forest but nothing, the forest creeped him out actually, not as cool as the sea's creep. He walked back to the shack. When he opened the door he ran into ford
"Opff" ford closed his eyes when he hit Stanley
"Ouch, sixer where are you going?" Stan looked at him wondering
"I'll go see fiddleford, we are going to the library to find something to read , and to help him design a robot! Wanna come along?"
"Nah , I'll pass it's probably boring" he didn't want to go because he is afraid to just set there through it all not understanding anything and looking like an idiot, but really it sounds boring, what Stanley didn't know.. they were designing a killing robot, kids am I right?
Stanley walked in looking for his mother , he would try to help her cook or something.
He heard a strange noice from the oldld shelf in the shack. Then he saw the shelf open slowly as his dad walked out of it slowly.face dirty with soot . As his mom showed up in sight shifting closer to his dad .
"So?" All his mom said as she put a hand on his shoulder.
"Still haven't figured it out. It's still hard to even start without my pal" he answered with a frown.
"You will fil , you will" she comfort him."now come on . How about we have a cup of coffee now"
He closed the door as they walked toward the kitchen. Stanley was watching from the corner. "Woooow. Pa has a hideout? What is he batman?!"
He waited until ford came back home to share this big reveal.
"Pa has a hideout!"
"Huh?" He looked up from the book he got then his face turned into a mocking expression "Stop being silly you dork he is not. Pa isn't some kind of a hero"
"What if he is a supervillain?"
They shared a long look before breaking into laugh
"No but I'm serious man" Stan said
"Okaaayyy, where is this "hideout" then? " Ford questioned
" Remember that book shelf in the big room. The one that was separated from the house"
"Woooow, do you think there is a password?"
"Most likely... I guess we gotta play spy then!"
They start spying on the shelf every time they can. Observing their dad's activity without being suspicious
A week later they found out the the password to the hideout . They waited for there dad to leave the house, and there mom to be busy before they sneak to the room. Stan held ford's legs to raise him from the ground to reach the password board.
"Done" ford widpesred
"Jackpot" Stan cheered in a low tone
Stan put ford down. and they stared at the shelf move and a door show up
"Ready Poindexter?"
"Read lee"
They walked down the stairs carefully to not fall .They reached to an elevator ,Stan jumped and pressed the button and the elevator opened.
"There are two other floors" ford pointed out
"Then we have to check the both of them"
Ford pressed on 2 and waited until it moved down.
The door opened and the were met with a locked door
"Leave it to me sixer!" Stan said proud
As he start unlocking it. Click
"It's unlock" he held the door's hand and pulled it down....
Nothing happened it's still locked
"What?" Stan said confused
"Maybe there are more locks?"
"But where?"
"Hey Lee, let's check the third floor first then come back later, we don't know when pa will come back home"
"You are right"
They went back to the elevator and pressed "3". They waited until the door opened again. They were met with a lobby with a lot of Machines
"Is that a...lab?" Ford asked
"Is pa planning a world domination?" Stan asked
"Hehe don't say that you knucklehead he would never" he then took a moment to think "would he?" He smiled cheaply giggling
They walked into the door and reached a study . They found a desk that has a lot of papers, books, Screw drives ,tools , and their dad's fez
Stan reached out for the fez and grabbed it putting it on his head, it was way to big for him, it covered all his hair and his right eye
"Sixer check this out! How do I look?"
"Hehe . You look ridiculous lee" ford chuckled and looked at the desk , there was a book that caught his eyes . Bloody red/crimson book , he opened it from the middle to find a weird unrecognizable drawing bunch of lines looks like unfinished drawing.
He flips the Pages to find the rest of the book empty
"Lee what do you think pa owns this book?what even is this drawing?"
"I don't know bro, let's keep going we gotta check as much as we can before pa comes back" Stanley said as he walked away from the desk still wearing his dad's fez still blocking the vision of his right eye
They reached a board that has three keys on them
"Hey sixer let's move them . And see what will happen" Stan said excited
"But Stanley what if we broke something?"
"And how will pa know it was us? He believes that this place remained a secret"
".....fine . But if something bad happened we are turning it off immediately"
"Sure thing"
They carefully moved the keys and they heard a "eeh" kinda a mechanic cry
"Let's go check!" Stan said
"Lee hold on!"
As he ran near the control board he tripped with a a rock from the ground and half of him fell on the board
"Ow"
"Lee are you okay?? I told you to hold on"
Before Stanley could replay they heard a Roar as a big Machine come to life and start working
"What is that?" Ford asked kinda worried
"There is one way to find out"
Stan stood up straight and they walked toward the sound
The two small figures stood in front of a massive triangle Machines observing it
"BOYS!"
The two boys shivered as they turned their heads back at their father with horror on their Faces
"Come here now" their dad demand
But they stood in their places afraid to hear a long angry lecture from their father
Ford took a step back and accidentally bumped into the lever behind him "omff".
Filbrick fell speechless as the twins' feet start rises above the ground
"Woooo, what going on?" Stanley asked trying to not sound panicked as ford held his hand to not fly so far.
Filbrick's brain went back to life ,and body finally start moving as he ran to try reach his sons.
"Pa!" Stanford said as he tried to reach his dad's hand , but it was far too late because they were on a high altitude. Stanley looked behind him to the too bright blue color behind them and gulped . Took a last look at his dad then.....
Everything went white
Quiet
Everything was quiet
The big machine in front of filbrick went dead an object lost all that glow and sound it had a second ago .
He stood there small compared to it
As a small bandage fell slowly to the ground in front of him..