A teenager had just walked out of detention.
He had spiky black hair, with an electric blue streak running through it. He wore a white shirt covered by an electric blue jacket, along with some ripped jeans, and most strikingly, a distinctive pair of red sneakers.
He looked around to see if anyone of authority was watching.
Then, he took off at supersonic speed.
He whizzed through the hallway, dodging any students that stood in his way, until he crashed into someone.
"Hey! Watch where you're running!"
Another teenager appeared, but not until after he shoved the running teenager off him. The cloak on him fell off and fully revealed his identity.
It was Felix.
"Watch where you're standing, nerd!"
"Well I'm sorry, I didn't notice a half-brain hedgehog running around after getting out of detention!"
"I wasn't even going top speed!"
"I- Can't you just wait till you get outside in order to go running off?!" Felix asked, knowing fully well the boy wasn't able to see him until he crashed into him.
"And can't you wait until your emo kid convention to wear that stupid cloak?"
"Well i just escaped class, and you out of everyone should know how that feels, because you always end up in detention!", Felix retaliated.
"And I'm not emo", He added.
"Wait, what do you mean, escaped?"
"Nothing", Felix quickly grabbed his cloak and wrapped it around him again.
"Whatever, dude."
The teenager got up, and dashed away.
"Too close", Felix quickly disappeared.
The teenager kept running, until he spotted a girl. That was when he skidded to a stop.
"Hey, how's it going?" he asked, trying to sound smooth.
The girl, startled, jumped. "Oh! Hi!", the girl looked at the teenager, "You're fast, like faster than normal."
"Well, they do call me the fastest thing alive." he said. "I'm Ansat."
"Nice to meet you, Ansat. I'm Olivia", the girl said.
"Olivia? Nice name."
"Oh, well thank you?", Olivia said, confused.
"So what do you say we go get lunch sometime?"
Just then, a brown haired kid with pilot's goggles on his forehead, a white shirt covered by an orange jacket, blue jeans, and white shoes walked up to Ansat.
"I got those chili dogs you asked for." he said.
"Ben, you goober, I told you not to interrupt me while I'm talking to chicks." replied Ansat.
"Um, sure?", Olivia said, looking at Ben and Ansat back and forth. "When? Because tomorrow i'm going out for lunch with my friend."
"Next Tuesday, at 12." said Ansat.
"Wait, don't we have class at 12?" asked Ben.
"Don't you have somewhere else to be, dude?"
"Sure, i guess", Olivia said, writing it down in her notebook. "It was nice to meet you, Ansat." She smiled
"You too."
An awkward silence crept up between them
Olivia checked the time, "I gotta get to class, bye!"
She ran into the academy and quickly climbed the stairs to her class
"Catch ya later." said Ansat.
He turned to Ben, who shrugged while sporting a sheepish grin.
Suddenly a blue blur ran past them
Faster, than normal.
"What the hell was that?" asked Ansat.
"Oh no..." said Ben.
"What?"
"It's Zoomstrike..."
"Who?"
"A really bogus bully from the island I grew up on."
"A bully, huh? I'll go smack some sense into him."
And so, Ansat ran after the blue, with Ben following him, trying to dissuade him from picking a fight.
"Not today, dude!"
Zoom turned back and saw Ansat, and sped up. The gap between the mysterious shrouded person and Ansat widened
An electric aura surrounded Ansat, as he sped up, too.
Zoom stops on the top of a hill
A black suit covers his entire body and face. He turns around and there is a black lightning bolt emblem on the center of his suit. His gloves end with sharp talons for fingertips, and as he stares at the speeding Ansat still catching up, his eyes are watching from the eternal void.
Ansat stopped as soon as he got close enough.
"What's the big idea, bullying my pal like that?" he asked.
"The big idea is, he helps me kill you", Zoom said, his voice was like a monster-ish type.
"Alright, @$$wipe, you're not scaring anyone, so quit it with the edgy stuff. Turn off the modulator, and stop acting like a poser with an overinflated ego."
"I don't need to scare you anymore, because you're scared of what i can do to your 'pal' Ben." Zoom said.
"What're you talking about?"
"I can see it in your eyes, i can see how nervous you are and how protective you are of Ben." Zoom said, "I can see how doomed you are, because you won't be able to defend your friends from a speedster even FASTER than you."
"FASTER?!" said Ansat. "Shut up, dweeb, nobody's faster than me!"
"Well then, lets see what you're made of." Blue energy cackled around Zoom.
"You got it ace, let's race!"
Ansat zoomed off.
And Zoom was off too
But even with the slight headstart Ansat had, Zoom was closing the gap between them
Ansat boosted forwards, trying to widen the gap.
The gap was still being closed
As Zoom finally caught up to Ansat, he grabbed him by the shoulder and flung him to the ground. "Too slow, Ansat"
"Shut up, dillweed!"
Ben walked over to him.
"I told you so." he said.
"Shut up, bonehead." replied Ansat. He looked back into the distance, only to find that Zoom was gone.
The academy door opened, but no one came out. As it closed, the same boy who ran into Ansat appeared.
Then a blue blur went past him
"What the hell?" Felix looked at the running Zoom
Another blur zoomed into the boy.
"What the f**k is going on", Felix watched as the 2 blurs sprinted away, the second one chasing the first.
Ben flew by Felix.
"Ansat, don't try and fight Zoomstrike!"
"Who's Zoomstrike!?", Felix yelled.
Too late. Zoom turned around, ducked, and swiped Ansat off his legs
Ansat hopped back up.
"Hey, cheap trick!"
"Never forget, I am the fastest man alive", Zoom said, and sprinted away
"SHUT UP!"
Ansat was about to give chase, but Ben stopped him.
"Leave it. Maybe if we leave him alone, he'll leave us alone." he said.
"Ben, that logic sucks. I have a better idea."
"Like what?"
Ansat pulled out a can of spray paint, and a roll of toilet paper.
"We nail his house."
"Does he have a house?"
"Maybe."
"Let me help", Felix offered. He pulled off his cloak as he showed up behind them.
"No way, buttmunch." said Ansat.
"Shut up, i saw u lose back there. How are we gonna find and defeat a speedster this idiot cant even catch", Felix asked
"Simple, we ask around, and you butt out."
"Dude, what do you not understand in "I'm helping whether you like it or not." " Felix said
"But if Ansat couldn't beat him, how can you?" asked Ben.
"Well Ansat can't beat this . . . thing. So we have to make something that can help Ansat knock this Zoom guy down"
"I'm down."
"But I'm not. We don't need some lame @$$ lower in the way of us getting revenge." said Ansat. "I'm outta here."
And so, he walked away.
"So you think you can beat Zoom alone. You're gonna get yourself killed." Felix said
"Yeah, but you'll get yourself killed first." yelled Ansat from across the hall.
"You're the one throwing yourself at Zoom, not me", Felix yelled back
Ben flew after Ansat.
As Ben flew after Ansat, a blue blur ran past them.
Taking Ben along with him.
"Hey, give my sidekick back now, you bloated egomaniac!" said Ansat, as he chased after Zoom.
"Holy s**t. Prodraxis, fly, quick!" Felix yelled as he summoned his prodraxis
Ansat was livid, as he tried to speed up faster and faster. However, he was reaching his limit.
As Zoom stopped in firefly forest, he appeared to have Ben in a headlock. "Speed up more and more, you'll just be tiring youself out." Zoom said as he taunted Ansat, and took off again.
"SHUT UP!"
Ansat kept chasing him.
As Zoom kept running, he passed through Shiverchill Mountains, and on his way to Skywatch.
Felix, seeing that Zoom passed through Shiverchill Mountains, headed straight to Skywatch. Trying to catch him off-guard.
Ansat, who was way behind, spotted a snowboard.
He stole it, and zoomed through the snow in style, before leaping off of a ramp, and flying through the air.
By the time Felix got to Skywatch, Zoom was already close to exiting the enormous cloud.
"S**t, too slow", Felix muttered under his breath, instead of flying to Bonfire Spire he went straight to Shipwreck Shore.
Ansat landed in Skywatch, and hopped off his snowboard.
As Zoom approached Bonfire Spire instead of heading in the volcano he went to the top of the volcano, and dropped Ben off on a little cliff. As he looked down at Ben from a higher cliff, he crouched. "So. I thought we'd have a little private chat"
"What do you want, you meth brained maniac?!" asked Ben.
"I want you, to steal Ansat's speed", Zoom said
"No way!" replied Ben.
"If you don't, then say bye bye to your friends", Zoom said, "Everyone you love and have a connection with will die if you do not go through with this plan."
"Tough luck, edgelord! My only friend's Ansat!"
"Everyone in the academy will die, and if you don't think i'm fast enough to do that. You're very wrong." Zoom said
"Well that's not very nice..."
"So what it going to be, Ben", Zoom asked
"Well, I don't wanna be that one dumb@$$ who causes mass death due to stupidity and stubbornness, that would really suck."
Ben sighed.
"Fine, I'll steal Ansat's speed."
"Well then the plan's set in motion, and if you tell anyone about this, bye bye academy." Zoom said as he stood up. As he turned around to depart from the scene, he said one last thing before he left. "I'll be seeing you very soon, Ben."
Ben sulked as he flew off of the volcano.
As Felix waited for a few minutes at Shipwreck Shore, wondering how Zoom wasn't there yet. He felt like something else was wrong, he hopped on his prodraxis again and set off to find the others.
Ansat, on the other hand, was still running throughout Prodigia. Then, Ben crashed into him.
"Dude! You're alive!" said Ansat.
"Yeah, Zoom let me go!" replied Ben.
"Welp, I guess it's mission accomplished."
Ansat was about to leave, when Ben stopped him.
"You must be thirsty after all of that running." he said.
"I guess."
Ben gave Ansat a bottle of water. As Ansat drank the water, he felt different.
After he drank it all, he burped really loudly, as a blue gas emitted from his mouth, and went into the bottle.
"What the hell is that?!" asked the speedster.
"Uh, speed?" replied Ben.
"What?"
Ben flew off with the bottle. Ansat tried to chase after him, but he was a hell of a lot slower than he was a few minutes ago.
"Ben, you goober, get back here and tell me what's going on!" he yelled.
"You'll understand later, dude!" replied Ben.
As Felix flew around, he had finally found Ansat. He dropped down and noticed as he was running a lot slower than he had last saw him. "Dude, what happened to your speed?"
"I DON'T KNOW!" replied Ansat.
"What do you mean you don't know? When did you lose your speed?"
"A few minutes ago."
"How?", Felix said
"Well, Ben gave me some water, and then I burped blue, and the blue stuff went into the bottle!"
Felix stood there, shocked. "Wait wait wait, Ben did this?"
"Yeah!"
"Why? Wait, do you think he was working with Zoom?", Felix asked
"Zoom had something to do with this?!"
"Dude, he's faster than you. Maybe, he wanted to get faster and faster." Felix said. "Y'know what, get on. We're going back to the academy."
"No way, dude, you probably rubbed your nerd essence off on it."
"And how exactly do you think you'll get back to the academy fast enough?"
"Simple."
Ansat grabbed an amulet and a skateboard out of his backpack.
"I'll skate off a ramp, and if I fall, I'll warp there."
Felix shrugged, "Alright, imma head to my dorm once i get to the academy. I'll try to help you try and get back your speed tommorow."
As Felix flew off towards the academy, he thought he saw a black and blue figure under a tree, but a second later it was gone.
Must be hallucinating, Felix thought as he flew on and on.
2 days later, Olivia was waiting at the entrance of the academy.
Ansat skated past her, doing some sweet tricks in the process, before circling her and stopping.
"Ready for lunch?" he asked.
"Yes", Olivia smiled.
"Great!" Said Ansat. "I found this cool taco place near the wand store, I was thinking we could go there."
"Sure!", Olivia said, smiling.
A tired Felix woke up, stretching in bed. He looked around and made sure that his roommate couldn't hear or see him, and made sure that the entrance to his floor of the bunk bed was closed off by a few curtains. And summoned a couple crystals that looked like amethyst, but shined like amber to light up the place. He conjured a plate made of the same material and set it down beside him, got out of bed, grabbed a book out of his drawer, and climbed back in bed to read.
Meanwhile, Ansat was walking Olivia to the taco place.
"...and then I rushed forwards, broke the sound barrier, and I would've gotten away from Gale if he hadn't teleported right in front of me just as I broke it." he said.
"Dang, and that's how you got detention?"
"Yeah. Honestly, Gale's such a square, dude. It's not like I crashed into anybody that time."
"I mean if i was as fast as you, and i wasn't paying attention. I'd probably also crash into somebody."
"Well, yeah, I guess."
Ansat looked away from Olivia to find that they were at the restaurant.
"So this is the place? It looks nice"
"Hey wait, this isn't the place." said Ansat. He looked at the restaurant next to it, which was more run down than the one next to it.
"Oh, i'm sure the food still tastes good." Olivia said cheerfully, even though she doubted that
They walked inside, as Ansat walked to the line in front of the cashier.
"Hi, what can i get for you?", asked the cashier
"4 tacos with a side order of nachos, amigo."
"Alright, and that'll be 1000 gold", the cashier replied
"Sure, dude." said Ansat as he forked over the gold.
"Alright, and you and your friend can sit over there by the window", the cashier said, pointing at a table with a view of the outside as he counted the gold, "And we will have your order ready in about 3 minutes"
Felix suddenly had a realization, he quickly vanished the shining orange amethyst crystals, got dressed, grabbed his wand, and hurried outside.
Ansat sat by the window, looking at all the stuff outside.
Olivia sat on the other seat across from Ansat, she observed everywhere. And realized Ansat was a little off, "Ar-Are you okay? You seem a little off"
"I'm fine."
"You sure? You look like you lost something important", Olivia asked
"Nah, I'm sure."
"Okay...." Olivia trailed off, struggling to find something else to talk about
"Your food, sir." A waiter came up to the table, with a tray of 4 tacos and a side of nachos. The waiter had blue hair with scar on his left eye, and was avoiding eye contact with both Ansat or Olivia.
"Thanks bro."
"No problem", the waiter said, after one last quick glance at the 2. He quickly walked away.
Olivia, who noticed, was a little weirded out. "What with that guy?"
"Maybe he's one of those anti-social dudes." replied Ansat.
"He looked like he recognized us though", Olivia glanced at the waiter, sub-consciously eating a taco.
"He's probably never seen two people this cool before."
Olivia laughed, she switched her gaze from the suspicious waiter to looking outside.
Ansat poured some hot sauce on his taco.
"These tacos are pretty good", Olivia said
"Yeah."
"Well, i think i've eaten enough." Olivia said after her 2nd taco
"Yeah, I think it might be time for the check." said Ansat. "Oh, waiter!"
The suspicious waiter came over, avoiding eye contact. "Yes?"
"We'd like the check, please."
"Sure", The waiter said, and walked away towards the cashier
"Eesh, I wonder what that guy's problem is." said Ansat.
"I don't know either", Olivia said
The waiter came back with the check, "Your check"
"Thank you", Olivia said, and the waiter and her locked eye contact for a split second, and she realized.
As the waiter walked away, Olivia looked at him as he walked away, "Wait...that's not possible....", she trailed off.
"What?"
"He-he looked just like Felix. Wait, but his hair isn't blue, he doesn't have a scar either...."
"Maybe they're related?"
"No that can't be it because he doesn't have any siblings."
"Maybe it's his dad?"
"But his parents died", Olivia said, "May-maybe i'm just hallucinating"
"Ah, whatever." said Ansat, as he put some poor guy's credit card on top of the check.
The waiter came back and grabbed the check, made sure it went through, and handed back the credit and receipt. "Have a nice day to both of you"
"Thanks, dude."
"No problem", he said, and walked away
"So, should we get going now?", Olivia asked
"Sure."
"Alright", Olivia grabbed her bag and started walking over to the entrance
Ansat grabbed his skateboard, as he followed Olivia.
As they exited the restaurant, Ansat's phone started ringing.
"Yeah?" asked the speedster, picking up.
"Hey Ansat, it's me Felix. I think i found out how to restore your speed."
"Shush, dude, I'm on a date."
"Alright, but the sooner u get your speed back, the sooner you can find Ben again"
"Man, I'm gonna cream that little goober-"
He stopped when he remembered that he was still walking with Olivia.
Luckily, Olivia was distracted as she looked back at the restaurant. She wondered, Who was that waiter?
They got back to the Academy.
As they entered the academy, Olivia took a deep breath in of the academy air. Smells like books, as always.
Felix was back in his dormitory, catching up on his algebra homework.
"Well, this date was pretty cool." said Ansat. "Catch ya later?"
"See you around", Olivia said, smiling at him.
And so, Ansat went back home to Pallet Pass.
In Pallet Pass was a treehouse, which looked sort of small on the outside, but slightly bigger on the inside.
Inside there was a couch, a TV, a counter, a mini fridge, and Ben.
"What're you doing here, traitor?" asked Ansat folding his arms.
"Sorry, dude." replied Ben.
"Sorry?! You stole my speed! That's one of my defining traits!"
"Look, Zoom forced me to! He threatened to kill everyone at the Academy if I didn't!"
Ansat got even angrier.
"That goon?! This time I'll kick his @$$ good!"
Ansat tried to revv up, but since his feet weren't blurring, he didn't look as cool as usual.
"Damn. Without my speed, I don't even have that 2% chance that I had before."
"Don't worry, dude, I got this."
Ben uncovered a tarp, revealing a treadmill.
"I call this, the Hyper Blast Processor!" he said. "It's powered by our Nega Exodus, all you have to do is run for a while, and you'll get faster."
And so, Ansat got on the treadmill, and ran, and ran.
It took a few minutes, but Ansat was back to his normal speed. Maybe even 2% better.
"Thanks, little bro!" he said, giving his pal a thumbs up. "This is why you're my best friend!"
"Oh yeah, I've got something to tell you!" said Ben.
"What?"
"Zoom's real name is-"
A sudden blue blur that was way faster then last time
"We meet so soon again, Ben?"
"Back off, you bogus butt-head!" replied the inventor.
As Zoom ignored him, he turned to Ansat. "Thank you for the delicious speed, Ansat. Got anymore in the tank?"
After Zoom finished taunting him, he grabbed Ben and flashed out of the house.
As Zoom made his way to the academy, Felix saw him through his window. Grabbed everything he needed and started going down the stairs to the main hall.
Ansat and Ben were practically flying to the Academy.
"Gotta warpspeed, keed!" said Ansat as he blasted forwards.
In what felt like 20 seconds, they made it.
"You didn't keep the end of the deal, Ben." Zoom said to Ben, "And now you know what is going to happen"
As Felix dashed down the last flight of stairs, he made it in time. In time to see Zoom make a knife made of an orange and purple crystals.
"I feel like you were gonna kill everyone regardless." said Ben.
"Alright, edgelord, you've got 2 choices." said Ansat. "You can either lay off and go home, or you can get a major beat down."
"You weren't fast enough to beat me before, you won't beat me now", Zoom said.
Right before Zoom was about to dash off and start a massacre. Something sweeped him off his legs, and then Felix appeared right in front of the speedster.
"Wait, what happened?"
"It's over, Zoom", Felix said, his dual blade almost on Zoom's neck. "You're cornered"
"Or am i", Zoom taunted, and in a flash he was gone.
And right behind Felix.
Ansat charged at Zoom.
For Zoom, everything slowed down. Zoom quickly threw a punch at Felix and then delivered a punch to Ansat.
As everything sped up, a ball of lightning hit Zoom's back. Sending him forward, over Felix, and onto the ground.
Next to him, the orange and purple crystal knife clattered to the floor, echoing around the entire the hall.
Ben swooped in, and picked up the knife.
A familiar girl with lilac hair came down the stairs, holding another ball of lightning, "What's the commotion?"
"Yeah, so, um, this edgelord named Zoomstrike is trying to murder everyone in the Academy. No biggie." said the inventor.
Meanwhile, Ansat was busy throwing electric spells at Zoomstrike, trying to ensure that he doesn't get back up.
"Well it doesn't look like he's killed anyone yet, that's a positive"
As Zoom was getting pelted with spells, he had enough and cast the same crystal substance made of the knife around him, like a dome to reflect any spells.
"Don't be a wuss, dude!"
Ansat charged at the dome, at the last second curling up into a ball like a hedgehog, and slamming into it.
A large crack was made into the dome, but it sure hurt.
"This isn't over, Ansat", Zoom said, making the dome disappear and flashed right out of the academy.
Felix was bent over on the floor, groaning, the punch hurt. But it wasn't because of the pain that he was groaning. It was the fact that he found out who Zoom was, and the fact that is was, impossible.
"So, Ben what were you saying about Zoom's identity?" asked Ansat.
"It's-", Felix cut off, trying to stand up.
Olivia ran over and helped Felix up.
"Thanks", Felix said.
After Felix stood up properly, he looked at Ansat dead in the eyes. "It's . . . . . me, but not really me. Like-like a different me"
"So, he's a nerd?"
"Do you really have to be a jerk about this?", Felix said. "Everyone could've been dead, and you're making jokes about whoever this Zoom's identity?"
"Ah, chill out. I'm just joking around."
"Wait, if he's a different you. Then where did he come from?" Olivia asked. "And how do you know he's a 'different' you?"
"Yeah." said Ben. "I thought his name was just also Felix."
"I don't know where he came from", Felix said, "But the reason i know who he was- was- was because of the knife", Felix pointed at the orange and purple knife in Ben's hand, "And the dome he protected himself in"
"Whaddya think that's made of?"
"The same material that i can make", Felix said, held out his hand, and made a ball of the same material that Zoom made for the knife and the dome.
"But what is it made of?", Olivia asked. "And how did you get the ability to make it?"
"I was doing some lab experiments with amber and amethyst, when i accidentally spilled some chemicals on it, and in a panic i touched it. But with the hand that i cut a couple weeks ago. And the next morning i tried to make a globe of light, and instead made this", Felix explained, looking at the globe that shone brightly.
"Metal!" said Ben.
"Half right, it seems like both amber and amethyst fused together. I call it, Amberthyst. It functions like regular astral magic, glowing and everything. But it's like a mixture of glass and metal. It's see through, but it has half the density of metal, making it easier to break through. Like how Ansat made a giant crack in the dome."
"No, dude, I meant-"
Ansat slapped his hand over Ben's mouth.
"Wait, Ansat. How'd you get your speed back?"
"Blast processing."
"Why don't we celebrate you got your speed back, to get away from all the murder-ish things"
"All right!" said he and Ben.
"Great, i'll bring the drinks and lights."
"We'll get the pizzas!" said Ben.
"Alright, see you guys soon. Also where do we set it up? Ansat's house?"
"Sure."
"Fine by me." said Ansat. "That treehouse was gonna fall apart from the immense amount of partying."
"Dang, alright i'll see you guys at my house in 15 minutes"
"Alright!"
20 minutes later, inside Olivia' house, were the 4 of them, partying. Having fun, the whole house was decorated with a variety of colors, and music was being blasted.
Ansat was headbanging to the music.
Suddenly, a blue flash broke through the door, paused the music, and head locked Olivia, "Our story continues, Ansat." The blur said, and sprinted away.
"That dillweed!" said Ansat, as he chased after him.
Felix took one look at Ben, "We gotta go, now." He said, hopped on his prodraxis, and sped off.
Ben flew off slightly in front of him.
The blue blur had stopped in a cave, holding Olivia in a headlock.
"Hey, Zoom!" yelled Ansat. "Let Olivia go or I'll bust your face open!"
As the monster observed Ansat, he took off his mask, finally revealing his identity.
"Well, this . . . is a complication." An older Felix said, a scar on his left eye, and blue hair. Almost as . . . . almost as if he was the waiter.
Ansat was taken aback.
"Waiter dude?!" he asked. "Was this because I didn't tip?"
Ignoring what Ansat just said, he held out one hand while his other still had Olivia in a firm headlock, and generated an amberthyst knife.
"I mean, I get that you're underpaid, but you don't have to kidnap my date!"
Just then, Felix arrived to the scene.
And as he saw the identity of Zoom, he froze in shock.
Ben landed nearby. He wasn't as surprised as Felix was, though.
Future Felix looked at the 2 that just arrived, and his mouth curved into a smile. "Well well well, if it isn't my useless doppleganger on this timeline and the dead genius."
"Dead genius?" asked Ben.
"Wait, you're Felix?" asked Ansat. "Now I'm glad I didn't tip."
Ignoring Ansat, he went on, "Yes, on my timeline, you're dead."
"Wait, how?" Felix asked.
"And- how- did- you- get- your- speed-?" Olivia gasped out.
Looking at the choking girl, "I took a sample of Ansat's blood, so I would have the cells that give him super speed, and then I went on the treadmill, and now i'm here."
"Wait, then why are you here?" Felix said.
"I thought I was fine, living my life, and everything. Until future future me came in, and . . . . . killed her." Future Felix said, pointing at Olivia. "In this exact same spot."
"And to answer your previous question, I'm gonna have to answer a lot more."
"Answer them then." Felix said.
"Well, you see, I'm stuck in a loop. Where if one of me, doesn't kill her." Future Felix said, looking at Olivia, "Then, the loop vanishes, and i never exist."
"So I made Ben make a time machine, so I could travel to another timeline, so I could be the Zoomstrike there." Future Felix explained, "And now, I'm about to succeed."
Looking at Felix now, his smile stretched even more, "And you. You'll be driven so deep into darkness, that you'll become me!"
Saying those final words, he raised the knife.
Ansat immediately dashed towards Future Felix, and curled up into a ball as he hit his stomach.
As Future Felix was knocked away from Olivia, he shoved Ansat off him and grabbed Olivia back into a headlock, "I've been in my eternity of hell and pain for so long . . . . . and now it's time for you to go through yours!"
And one slit to the throat, and a body stiffened.
As blood dropped down to the stone cold floor, the body of Olivia Stormchaser fell to the ground, a pool of her dark red blood forming around her dead corpse.
Ben almost passed out at the sight.
Ansat just stared at Olivia's corpse, visibly freaked out. Then, his eyes flashed red, and his hair yellow as his shocked expression turned into an angry one.
He blasted forwards at Future Felix so fast that afterimages followed from behind.
The Future Felix grinned at Ansat, before sprinting off out of the cave.
A clattering sound echoed around the entire cave as Felix dropped his sword, dropping to his knees at the sight of of Olivia's dead body.
Ansat was tempted to follow, but he decided to go to Olivia instead. Ben followed.
"I'm the fastest thing alive, but I was too slow to save my bae..." he said, sadly.
The tears stopped dropping hearing the words.
"Y'know, none of this would've happened if you weren't around." Felix said.
"What do you mean?!""What I mean? None of this would've happened if you never met Olivia." Felix said, standing up.
"Oh, yeah?!"
"And if you never met Olivia, she wouldn't be dead!"
"Well maybe if you've never existed, Zoomstrike wouldn't be around, and none of this would've happened!" yelled Ansat.
"If you never existed, Zoomstrike would've never came onto this earth, and none of this would've happened!" Felix yelled back.
"SHUT UP!"
Ansat was about to punch Felix, but Ben swooped in and held him back.
"You know," Felix said, his face full of hatred. "You should've never came to the academy, you shouldve just stayed in your little a** house!"
"Well maybe I should've ran you over, so that Zoomstrike would've been wiped from existence!"
"Guys, calm down." said Ben.
"It doesn't work like that! Because I'm a different Felix! Because get what!? I didn't take your blood, I didnt gain super speed! I didn't become like you! A person who is a half brained hedgehog! A person who was so ignorant about how the real life is!"t"Oh right, because I'm so stupid! At least I'm not some self righteous little d*ckweed who acts like he knows better! At least I'm cool! Who the f*ck are you?! Some nerd who thinks he's better just because he doesn't have to live out of a treehouse?! F*ck Zoomstrike, and f*ck you!"
And with that, Ansat turned to leave.
Felix shook his head vigorously, urging to talk back. But then a piece clicked in his head, "Wait, Ben. Didn't Zoom say he traveled back in time?"
"Yeah." said Ben.
"He said you made a time machine for him."
"What're you saying?"
"What if you made the time machine again, but this time we go back in time, and make it so Olivia doesn't die, or didn't die."
"Only one problem."
"What is it?"
"The last time I made a time machine, it blew up."
"Oh."
"Did you make it by yourself? Or did you have help?"
"Well, Ansat helped a little, but other than that..."
"Well you have me to help . . . . . . and Ansat if he wants to help." Felix added, reluctant.
"Alright!"
Just then, Ben heard Ansat calling his name from the entrance, so he flew off.
"I'll text you when I'm feeling up to building the time machine," Felix said, looking at Olivia's body. "Right now is . . . . . . not the time."
"Okay!"
At the entrance of the academy, Felix waited for Ben to show up.
Ben flew down from the sky.
"There you are." Felix said as Ben descended down to the ground.
"Yeah." said Ben. "I have all the parts 'n stuff in my bag."
"Alright, let's go to my dorm. My roommate's in class right now."
"Ok."
As they reached Felix's dorm, Felix opened the door, revealing a clean and neat room with a bunk bed.
"Whoa, this place is nice!" said Ben.
"Thanks," Felix said. He grabbed a chair, pushed it towards Ben, and grabbed another one for himself. "So, where do we start?"
Ben dumped his bag of spare parts onto the floor.
"Let's get to work!"
"Alright!"
After a few hours, Felix yawned, looking at a half-created time machine. "I think we should leave it off like this for today."
"Yeah." said Ben. "We should start after some lunch or something."
"Yeah, sounds good," Felix said. "Do you want me to keep this or do you wanna take it home with you?"
"I guess you can take it home. Zoomstrike might attack my house again."
"Alright," Felix said, taking the half-built time machine and hiding it in his closet.
"I wonder how Ansat's doing?" asked Ben.
"Wouldn't like to know," Felix said, shoving the machine harder then what he meant to.
Meanwhile, Ansat was running around the island, trying to look for Zoomstrike.
But it seems like Zoomstrike went into hiding.
Ansat stopped running momentarily, because he had been running for so damn long (like, a day straight) that he had started to get tired.
He walked around, kicking rocks, trying to find a clue.
Then, he had an idea.
Ansat bolted towards the taco place.As he approached the taco place, there seemed to be caution tape surrounding the place.
Ansat skidded to a stop.
"What, did Zoom murder someone else?" he asked, half sarcastically, half angrily.
Bodies were laid everywhere, even though there wasn't any blood or sign of any obvious murder, their necks were snapped into weird postions.
"Son of a-"
Ansat looked at the dead bodies, before storming into the back room.
The manager was also dead on the floor, showing signs of being violently slashed in the chest. His blood was smeared on the wall in the words of "I've won".
"That little punk!" yelled Ansat. "I'd like to smear his blood on the walls!"
Back to Felix and Ben, he closed the door to the dorm, and locked it to make sure there was no burglary.
"I can't imagine what would happen if someone were to take that thing." said Ben.
"Well I don't think they would even know what it was in the first place." Felix replied.
"True."
"Anyways, I'm going to go get lunch, hopefully tommorow we finish the time machine."
"Okay. I just have one question, though."
"What is it?" Felix asked.
"Why did you get so mad at Ansat in that cave?"
Turning away from Ben, he answered. "Because none of this would've happened if he just stayed on his island. Olivia would've been alive, and we wouldn't be traumatized from this entire experience."
"...oh."
"I know it was rude, but i still don't regret saying it." Felix said, looking down at the floor.
"I guess it's understandable."
"Thanks for understanding." Felix said.
Just then, Ansat zoomed by the two of them, knocking them both over.
As Felix recovered from the fall and stood up, he offered his hand to help Ben up.
As Ben got up, he called out to Ansat.
"Hey Ansat, I have chilli dogs!" he yelled.
Ansat immediately ran back, before spotting Felix and folding his arms.
"What's this nerd doing here?"
"Shut up, d**kwad."
"Make me, @$$ casket!"
Ben got between the two, before a fight could break out.
"If I said what I was about to say I would've been expelled from this academy." Felix said.
"If I said what I was about to say, you'd be in the hospital."
"Guys, calm down." said Ben. "Look, Ansat, we have a way for you to get back at Zoomstrike for killing Olivia."
Felix looked at Ben, "I don't think it would be a good idea to tell him about it." he contemplated for a moment, "Yet."
"Uh, okay, never mi-"
"You're gonna tell him what he can and can't do?" asked Ansat.
"It's not like I'm telling him what to not do, I'm suggesting, unlike you who just tell him what and what not to do."
"Oh yeah?!"
Ignoring Ansat, "I mean, I think we should tell Ansat after we build the thing. But you do you." Felix said.
"Alright." shrugged Ben.
"Alright, I'm gonna go grab lunch. See you tommorow." Felix said, and started down the stairs.
"Alright." said Ben, as he left with Ansat.
While they were walking, Ansat decided to tell Ben something.
"Hey, dude, I was trying to find Zoom, and I found out that he killed a lot of people in that taco restaurant I took Olivia to." he said.
Ben took a second to process that.
Then, he started freaking out, before Ansat tried to calm him down.
"Dude, he's not gonna kill us." said Ansat.
"How do you know?"
"Because I'm too cool to die, and you're cool by association."
"Thanks, I guess?"
"No problemo, dude."
And with that, Ansat left.
Suddenly, a blue blur flashes by, taking Ben along with it.
"Aw, not again!" said Ansat.
Then, it clicked for him. He got mad, revved up, and chased after the blur.
Felix saw a blur chasing another blur through a window, he grabbed his stuff and raced down the stairs.
Ansat was still chasing Zoomstrike, slowly getting faster, but still not catching up.
As Felix ran out of the academy, he set an electric trap to catch Zoomstrike just in case he ran into it.
Ansat accidentally stepped into the trap.
As Felix was alerted that something was in his trap, he rushed over, just to see Ansat instead of Zoomstrike.
"Don't just stand there, help me outta here!" said Ansat.
Without saying a word, Felix deactivated the trap. "Next time, watch where you're going."
"Alright, alright, whatever." said Ansat, as he sped off.
But the blue blur was gone.
"OH, GODDAMN IT!" yelled Ansat.
Felix jumped, he ran over to where Ansat was, "What did you do now."
"Zoomstrike's gone!"
"Dang it." Felix said.
In the next day, Felix and Ben were in Felix's dorm again, finishing up the time machine.
"Alright, we're done!" said Ben.
Felix leaned back on the beanbag chair he was sitting on, letting his bones relax.
Just then, the door was kicked open by Ansat.
"Ben, I need you to make me some shoes that multiply my speed so that I can catch-"
He cut himself off when he saw the time machine.
"What the hell is that?"
Felix jumped up, he looked at Ansat, then at the time machine. "It's a time machine."
Ansat's eyes lit up. He ran over to the time machine, trying to figure out how it worked.
"With this, I can go back to the taco place, kill Zoomstrike, and save Olivia!" he said.
"Weird, we had an idea where you go back and save Olivia." Felix said, "Also hands off, me and Ben know how to operate it."
"Yeah, just leave it to us." said Ben, smiling.
"Yeah, but I'm the only one who has the closest chance of beating him, so I say that I should use it."
"Yes we know you're going to use it, we just have to operate it and put it on you, and also hope you don't break it or else you won't have a way home." Felix said
"Uh, okay." said Ansat, shrugging.
"And i'm being serious, if you break this thing when you're in the past. You can't travel back."
"Yeah, I hear ya."
"Anyways, we got to make a plan on what happens when you travel back in time. So you get back safely." Felix reluctantly said the last sentence.
"Basically," said Ben. "I think that in order to totally save Olivia, you need to stop yourself from flirting with her."
"Ben, you goober, that plan sucks." said Ansat.
"Well that's the best plan we've got. You and Olivia being together is what caused her death."
"Can't we just travel back to our date? Zoom was the waiter."
"Ansat, Zoomstrike wouldn't have gone after Olivia if you weren't dating her in the first place." said Ben.
"Yeah, I know, I'm just saying, can't we just save her from a point in time where we were already dating, because I think she's really cool, and pretty, and-"
"Ansat, it's either this, or Olivia stays dead."
Ansat sighed sadly.
"Fine." he said. "Strap me in!"
"Wait, there's a hidden feature that makes it portable." Felix said, pressed a button, and it shrunk to the size of a watch. He put it on Ansat's wrist, and walked Ansat through how to use it. "This is to start it, this is to control what day and time you want to teleport back to, and this is when you want to come back to the present."
"Uh, alright."
"And remember, stick to the plan. Interact with Olivia so you guys become friends, but nothing above that, because if so, she will still be dead when you come back."
"Sure, whatever."
And so, Ansat punched in the date and time, as he disappeared in a flash of light.
Ansat appeared in front of the academy doors, this appeared to be right after he bumped into Felix under his cloak.
"Excellent. Now to find past me and stop him."
On the other side of the doors, past-Ansat and past-Olivia were talking, they had just introduced themselves.
Ansat walked close to his past self, but before he could do anything, Ben called him.
"Ansat, come back to the future, then set the watch to 'Switch Places' mode." he said. "If you talk to your past self, you'll cause a paradox, and a bunch of crap will happen."
"Oh, now you tell me."
He warped back to the future.
"Yeah there's a couple secret features," Felix said, he went over to Ansat, and pressed a button, "If you press this button, a mini-tranquilizer gun will pop out, you aim it from your wrist and hope it hits. The tranquilizer lasts around like 3 hours. Only use that if the 'Switch Places' function is malfunctioned, which it probably will."
"Uh, okay."
Ansat was about put the watch into Switch Places mode, and went back to the past, where he found himself chatting with Olivia.
"Nice to meet you, Ansat. I'm Olivia", Past-Olivia said.
"Hey, baby, wanna meet me at- wait."
Ansat warped 2 seconds into the past, and tried again.
"What's up, wanna go on a- wait."
He tried again.
"You, me taco pla- hold on."
Again.
"God, how am I so bad at this?"
"Bad at what?"
"Uh, you didn't hear anything!"
Again.
"You're pretty- wait hold on."
This kept going on until the 25th time he warped into the past.
"Nice name. I gotta go, I'll catch you later."
"Okay, see you around." Olivia said.
Ansat warped back to the future, feeling totally bummed out.
Felix jumped up from the chair he was sitting on, "Dang, that was fast."
"Is Olivia alive?" asked Ansat.
"Yeah, I'm right here." Olivia said, appearing behind Felix, hugging him from behind. Her left arm appears to have a big scar on her forearm.
"ALRIGHT!" said Ansat, as he pumped his fist into the air.
"Good job." Felix said, "Now what are we going to do with Zoomstrike?"
Ansat got an idea.
A few minutes later, all 4 of them were warped back to the taco restaurant, in the past.
"Remember, look for the emo looking kid with the blue hair." said Ansat.
"Why are we here? And why are we looking for Zoomstrike here?" Olivia asked.
"It happen on our date. It'll make more sense once Ben explains it to you." said Ansat, walking into the back room.
"It won't, my native tongue is Techno-Babble." said Ben to Olivia.
"Wait a moment, what date?" Olivia asked
"It's hard to explain," Felix said.
Ansat kicked open the door to the back room.
"Zoomstrike, prepare to die!" he yelled.
Future-Felix, or Zoomstrike wasn't there.
"Ansat, I don't think he's here, since we saw him at the academy."
"Huh. I thought today was the day me and Olivia went on that date." said the speedster.
"Look, if we get back to the Academy in time, we can kick his butt!" said Ben.
"Can't we easily do that with the switch-places thing?" Felix asked.
"Yeah, but-"
Ansat thought it over.
"Yeah, let's do that."
After Ansat teleported them to where their past selves were, Felix appeared to be in his dorm, at his window. Olivia was also in her dorm, reading. However, Ansat was on the Hyper Blast Processor.
As soon as Ansat realized where he was, he kept running, but turned his head to face Ben.
"What happened around now?" he asked.
"I think Zoomstrike tried to kill everyone at the Academy." replied Ben.
"Well, let's move!"
And so, Ansat gained enough speed from the treadmill, hopped off, and zoomed out of the treehouse.
Ben started flying upwards, before he got an idea.
"Boy, I sure hope nobody tries to kidnap me, or something heinous like that!" he said.
A blue blur came out of the trees, grabbing Ben out of the sky, landing back on the ground and sprinting to the academy.
Ansat swiftly gave chase.
As Ansat got to the academy, the doors were opened, and Zoom had Ben in a headlock, with an amberthyst knife in his hand.
"You're screwed, Zoom!" said Ansat.
However, unlike last time, Felix and Olivia were nowhere to be found.
"More like, Ben is screwed." Zoom said, lifting up the knife to Ben's throat.
"Nah, I think it's you."
Ansat warped into the future, and then back into the past (or present, I don't know), but this time, he was behind Zoomstrike.
However, when he warped back into the past, he crashed into an invisible mass, which appeared to be Felix and Olivia trying to sneak up on Zoom.
"Oh, come on!" said Ansat, lying on the ground. He warped back into the future, then appeared on the roof of the Academy.
"Wow, I really mistimed that one." he said.
He kept warping to different places, into the detention room, his treehouse, right in front of Gale, etc, until finally, when he warped into the girl's bathroom, he slammed his fist onto his watch, and finally warped above Zoom.
As Zoom had just appeared in the academy, he waited for Ansat to go through the academy doors, what he didn't expect, was that Ansat was above him.
"Goodnight, slowpoke!"
And so, Ansat landed on Zoom, crushing him under his red sneakers.
As Zoom crumbled, he fell forward, squashing Ben underneath him.
Ansat grabbed Ben's hands, and tried to pull him out from underneath Zoom.
As Zoom recovered, he got up, and grabbed Ben's legs, trying to recover his only hostage. But out of nowhere, he felt a sharp pain at the back of his head, he released Ben, and turned around. Felix and Olivia appeared behind Zoom with Felix holding up his sword, show that he was the one who knocked him unconscious. Olivia then blasted him with a ball of storm magic, knocking him back away from them.
"Alright!" said Ansat and Ben.
Angered, Zoom quickly got up, and dashed over back to Felix and Olivia, and knocked them onto the ground, grabbing the knife on the ground.
"Don't worry! I have my secret weapon!" said Ben. He pulled out a metallic, L shaped device. He pointed it at Zoomstrike, and pulled a trigger, and boom, out came a laser that went hurtling towards his back.
As it hit Zoom, it launched him forward, and onto the ground, several feet away from Felix and Olivia, who were still on the ground.
Just then, Ansat ran towards him, leapt high up into the air, and landed on his back.
A sickening crunch could be heard as Ansat put his full weight on Zoom, he rolled over, upsetting Ansat's balance, got up, and dashed towards Felix, attempting to kill him with the knife in his hand.
Ben flew up behind Zoom, grabbed his arms, flew high up into the air, and crashed down on the ground.
Blood was starting to come out of his mask, but Zoom kept trying to reach and kill Felix.
"Not so fast!"
Ansat curled up into a ball as he zoomed (haha get it) forwards, and hit Zoomstrike in the back.
Knocking Zoom over Felix and dropping the knife next to Olivia, he was flung into a wall, as he struggled to get up, Olivia picked up the knife.
"FINISH HIM!" yelled Ansat and Ben in deep voices.
"I-i can't," Olivia said, backing off, dropping the knife.
Zoom finally got back up, and took off his mask. "Oh, Olivia. Still can't kill?"
"Too bad, because I can!" said Ansat.
He tackled Zoom to the ground, before jumping onto his back, again and again, until he was absolutely sure he wasn't getting back up.
Sickening crunches were echoed all across the great hall, despite not being able to stand up, he could still roll, he roll off of Ansat, and protected himself with an amberthyst dome, "You can't get in here, Ansat, not unless yo-" Zoom was cut off, as the dome was removed by Felix. "Oh shi-" Zoom was cut off again, taken by surprise before Felix punched Zoom across the face, knocking him down even more.
And then, Ben walked over to Zoom, grabbed his laser gun, and shot him in the face at point blank range.
His face was even more scarred, with burns now accompanying the big scar on his left eye. Felix grabbed Zoom by the head, and slammed him against the wall repeatedly, the noise was getting louder and louder as he slammed Zoom to the wall harder and harder.
Then, Ansat decided to help out by firing 2 Ion Cannons at him.
After letting the Ion Cannons hit Zoom, Felix finished Zoom off with an uppercut to the chin, launching him into the wall, and crumbled to the ground.
Ben and Ansat walked over to his body.
"Is he dead?" asked Ben.
Ansat stomped on his skull.
"He is now."
"Now what do we do? Travel back to the present?" Olivia asked.
"Pretty much." said Ben.
"Okay, Felix let's go." Olivia said, tugging on his arm. But he wouldn't move, he stood there, looking at the body of his future self.
Ansat sighed.
"Look, dude, it's fine."
His expression remained blank, but he allowed himself to get dragged by Olivia to Ben and Ansat so they could warp back to the present.
"Eesh, what's wrong with him?"
"Maybe it's the trauma from seeing his own dead body?" asked Ben.
"Maybe . . . . ." Olivia trailed off, trying to find any emotions in Felix's face, but failed to.
Ansat shrugged.
"Whatever, Zoomstrike's dead, let's go back to the future." he said, as he warped them all back.
"Well, that was enough action for the day." Olivia said, tossing the amberthyst knife aside. "I think i'm off to bed."
"I think I need some soda." said Ben. "Come on, Ansat, we're going home."
"See you guys tommorow." Olivia said, kissed Felix on the cheek and walked into the academy, up the stairs, and towards her dorm.
While Felix slowly started to move towards his dorm, still in shock.
A few minutes later, Ansat and Ben were walking through Lamplight Town.
"Hey, Ansat?" asked Ben.
"Yeah?" replied Ansat.
"Aren't you mad that your girlfriend ended up with your rival?"
"Oh, Benny boy. I could really care less as long as she's not dead."
"So you're gonna date someone else now?"
"Nah, I'll be striking it out on my own for a while."
Just then, Ansat bumped into a black haired girl.
"Watch where you're going!" she said.
"Watch where you're standing!" replied Ansat.
Then, they met eyes.
And that moment felt like it lasted an hour, not that they were complaining.
"What's your name?" asked the girl.
"Ansat, yours?"
"Kayley."
"Uh, wanna go get some tacos?"
"Uh, okay."
"So I take it you're not gonna be home until 10?" asked Ben.
"Ben..."
"Okay, I'm taking the hint!"
And so, Ben flew off, as Ansat and Kayley walked away.
Back to Felix, even thought Zoomstrike died, and Olivia was alive again. He still felt like he still lost.
Maybe because he still witnessed Olivia dying, and her being alive again just made those feelings even worse. But why?
When Zoom died, he felt like he lost another piece of himself. He didn't know why either, him and Zoom were two entirely different versions of . . . him?
As he entered his dorm, he remembered the formula and the parts and how to instruct the time machine bracelet again, so after a few grueling hours, the second time machine was made.
He made sure to lock the dorm door, and strapped it onto his wrist. He wanted to do this, he wanted to find out, why and how did he lose himself, and how could he prevent it?
He pressed the button to warp back into a random time, and everything went black.