Episode Two: Blast From The Past(pt. 3)
*This is the final part of the episode. There will be more coming out next weekend. This is published on April 16, 2020. I hope you guys enjoy it! This is a bit longer than the last two parts but it's worth the read. If you like this part, please comment and/or vote. It would be greatly appreciated. Have a blessed day. Enjoy!*
Michellee, Guy, Sam, and E.B were standing in front of the train station. Sam already bought the tickets to WhoVille with a big excited grin on his face. Guy hugged Michellee tightly and dispersed from her to look into her eyes.
Michellee cornered a small faint smile. "Are you going to be okay?"
Guy nodded his head softly. "Yeah. I'm going to be okay. You guys be safe, okay?"
"Of course, we're going to be safe. It's you guys I'm worried about," Michellee responded while turning a bit of her charm on.
Guy chuckled a bit but it faded quickly. "We'll be safe."
Sam approached Guy and Michellee as the train was about to depart. "Are you ready to go, Guy?"
Guy glanced at his friend. "Ready as I'll ever be. I love you guys."
"We love you too, honey," Michellee responded while pecking a kiss on Guy's cheek. The couple gave a brief hug while Sam hugged E.B tightly.
"Have a safe trip, guys!" E.B chirped and embraced Sam back tightly.
"We sure will!" Sam responded excitedly. "You too!"
"Yep!" E.B. beamed while both Guy and Sam rushed to board the train. Both of the boys waved to the girls as they quickly get inside since the train began to depart from the station.
However, while the boys were walking inside the moving train, they noticed that they could still see Michellee and E.B outside from the windows. Guy smiled at the girls while doing some silly expressions that made both of the girls giggle. Sam did a goofy little dance move where he rocked his hips a bit and moonwalked backward down the hallway, causing E.B to giggle when her mother did a little dance move.
The moment that was exchanged eventually ended as the train officially departed from the station with Guy and Sam inside. Michellee turned to her daughter with a soft smile stuck on her face.
"So, are you ready for our trip?" Michellee asked her daughter.
E.B lost her smile while rubbing her arm. "Are we going to someplace 'fun'?"
"Oh yeah, we're going to have lots of fun! Lots of girl fun!" Michellee answered with a bit of excitement as both she and her daughter headed back to the car.
E.B began to wonder while muttering to herself. "I hope she won't take me to the 'World's Smallest Thermometer'."
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A couple of hours passed in the dining cart as both Guy and Sam were laughing and talking about all the things they were looking forward to for this trip while eating Green Eggs and Ham.
"This is so good," Sam ignited the conversation joyously while eating his food.
Guy rolled his eyes playfully. "You eat them every day."
"True. But they're still good," Sam replied happily until his smile was transformed into a frown, having a reminder on the back of his brain.
Guy softly gazed at Sam, noticing his frown suddenly. "Are you okay, Sam?"
"Yeah...I'm just thinking," Sam uttered sadly.
"About--?" Guy already knew what Sam was thinking about but he just wanted to hear his best friend say something about it.
"My mom," Sam responded while gazing at his food. "Heh, for years I used the food as a way to find her. But...we went around the world--just to find out that she's dead. And my dad...I barely remembered him. The only connection I had of him is my hat." Sam took off of his red hat and gazed at it. "Other than that...I don't remember much of anything else about him."
Guy softly gazed at his friend, not knowing what to say that's comforting.
Sam turned his frown upside down and giggled a bit to get off the subject. "Sorry, we're here to have fun and--"
"Don't be sorry. It's good to get it out of your systems," Guy interrupted with a small reassuring smile. He then lost his smile and gazed out into the snowy mountains with a light sigh. "You know what's weird... every time everything seemed fine and dandy...something just had to be wrong."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know. It's just...felt like something is wrong...and I don't know what it is. Are you sure we won't be hunted?"
Sam grinned a bit. "What are we going to be hunted for? We're not criminals. Not anymore. We should be in the clear---"
Suddenly, Sam stopped talking. He had his eyes bulged out while his pupils shrunk in absolute shock. Guy noticed his friend staring at something behind him. He slowly turned his head slightly to notice a tall black cat entering the dining cart, panting like he's been running from something. The cat was wearing a tall red hat with white stripes while having white fur from his muzzle to his stomach. He glanced around the dining cart, not noticing Guy and Sam.
Guy shifted his attention back to Sam, who immediately switched hats with him. Sam pulled the menu up while wearing Guy's old brown crumpled hat to cover his face.
Guy didn't know what's going on or why Sam all a sudden decided to switch hats. All he knew was that Sam must have known this cat from before and maybe...they weren't on good terms. He eyed on the cat discreetly while hiding behind his own menu as the cat passed by them with no regards until the cat just flicked a glance at Sam's red hat on Guy's head. That's when the cat stopped in his tracks and slowly backed up towards the table where they were. The cat stared at Sam's hat while moving his eyes down at Guy, who seemed confused about why the cat was just staring at him. When Guy tried to read the cat's mind...there's nothing but chaos and havoc within, making it hard for him to read the cat's mind.
The cat grinned a bit. "That red hat does not look good on you, my friend. You looked too old to be wearing that."
"Gee, thanks," Guy grumbled a bit, looking back into his menu and hoping that the cat would just leave. He noticed the cat shifting his glance over at Sam, who's hiding behind Guy's old hat and the menu. It's almost like the cat was connecting the dots when he lifted the old hat off of Sam and switched it back over.
"AHA! I knew it!" the cat laughed like he solved an unsolved mystery. Sam groaned irritably while the cat took a seat next to Sam. "Your hat-switching trick didn't work on me."
"I'm sorry, who are you?" Guy asked sternly, almost ready to protect Sam from this...cat.
The cat turned his head to look at Guy and gave a pleasant smile. "Oh, how rude of me to not introduce myself. I am known as The Cat in the Hat...you can call me Cat. And you are?"
"Guy."
Cat raised his brow. "Guy. Guy. Guy! Uhhh...Guy Who?"
"Guy Am I."
The cat's brow twitched in confusion. "Are you a guy?"
Guy seemed confused at first but then sighed deeply. "Yes, I'm a guy. And my name is Guy Am I."
There's a brief awkward pause until something clicked in Cat's brain. "Oh...that's your full name. Guy Am I...you know, you're going to confuse people with your full name. It's almost like you're asking yourself if you're a guy or not."
Guy crossed his arms across his chest with a groan. "It's a family name."
"Ah, I see."
"What do you want, Cat?" Sam interrupted the conversation between Cat and Guy.
Cat looked around the dining cart urgently. "Uh...do you mind if I sit by you guys for a while?"
"No," Sam responded sternly, still hiding behind the menu.
Cat widened his pleasant smile. "Thanks!"
"That's not what I meant," Sam groaned irritably while scooching away from Cat.
Cat ignored Sam's last comment while seeing a couple of buff muscular men entering the dining cart, barely fitting the doorway with their thick arms. Their black suits and bald heads gleamed from the light. Their eyes were covered by their sunglasses.
"Be right back." Cat ducked his head underneath the table and then popped out with a complete new disguise. He had a funny-looking mustache with an eyeglass resting on one eye while having a white suit with red dots all over it. He had a tea set in front of him and poured some tea on the tiny teacup. He picked it up with his pinky extended while slurping it elegantly.
Guy became mildly baffled. "What's going on?"
"What did you do, Cat?" Sam questioned immediately, looking over his menu to focus on Cat.
Cat leaned over to them. "Let's say that I'm being hunted. Just pretend I'm Tom Hiddleston."
"What?" Guy responded with a raised brow.
Cat shook his head as if his mind was changed suddenly. "No...too copyrighted. Uh...let's go with Hugh Jackman...no, that's Australian and copyrighted. Um...just say that I'm Dr. Walrock. There. A good name for a British man."
They heard heavy footsteps approaching them while Guy raised the menu higher to cover his face.
Cat quickly glanced over at Sam, who's now just hiding from whatever was going on. "Hey, you should wear that hot Dr. Linda Schwartz's costume to--"
"I don't do scams anymore, Cat," Sam growled while the muscular men walked closer to them.
Cat widened his eyes. "Why not? Aren't you a--?"
"I'm not a criminal anymore," Sam confessed with a low whisper.
The men stopped in their tracks and turned their heads at the table with Sam, Guy, and Cat were sitting at.
Cat turned his head to notice the two muscular men approaching the table and glaring at the three of them. He slurped his tea dramatically while licking his lips to taste the remaining tea-stained on his white-furred lips.
One of the men squinted at Guy and Sam. "Who are these people?!"
Cat turned his head to Guy and Sam and then back at the men. "This is Michael." Cat pointed at Guy to introduce while using his fake British accent. "And that's Jackson." Cat inferred towards Sam.
The man held up a picture of Sam in a wanted poster. "We're looking for him along with his adversary."
The other man showed a picture of Cat.
Cat, being disguised as a British man, gave an innocent grin. "I don't know who those boys are."
"Oh...not to mention that we're looking for his little friend too," Another man replied quickly while holding out a picture of Guy.
Guy widened his eyes in shock from peeking over his menu and buried his face in it a little longer, his heart racing.
"I still have no idea who those boys are," Cat answered, still talking in his British accent.
"Then how come your companions are hiding their faces behind the menus?" One of the men interrogated. Guy watched as Sam put down his menu but he had long purple wavy hair that was a wig while wearing a short pink dress. He had that seductive look to him when he stared up at the men.
"Jackson?" The other man uttered, confused.
"Elizabeth Jackson," Sam lied, although Guy knew what he was doing. Too bad Guy doesn't have a proper disguise to dodge a bullet.
"Nice save," Cat whispered to Sam quietly.
The other man looked at Guy hiding behind the menu. "Who's he?"
"I just told you. His name is Michael," Cat responded.
"Michael who?"
There's a brief awkward pause.
"Michael Douglas," Cat lied, his lies rolling off of his tongue perfectly.
Guy heard the gun cocking, which scared him a bit. He took a deep breath as one of the men snatched the menu out of his grasp. Guy immediately reacted to this by using his telekinesis powers to move the table and use the table to push the men away from them, causing a complete wave of shock from everyone around them.
Cat had his eyes widened in sudden shock. "Did I just witness--?"
"Yeah, come on!" Sam urged while taking off his lady costume and grabbed Cat by the wrist to run out of the dining cart with Guy following them.
The three of them sprinted out of the dining cart and zoomed through the toy train cart where Cat stopped and looked at the toy that appeared exactly like the train they were on.
"Hey look, guys! That's us and those men are--wait a minute," Cat immediately realized while the three of them turned around to see the muscular men bursting into the toy train cart. One of the men pulled out a sonic beam gun and aimed it at Guy.
Cat took off his hat and reached into it. He pulled out a shotgun and aimed it at the man pointing his gun at Guy. He pulled the trigger quickly, with the bullets crashing into the man's shoulder.
"Yes! Right in the shoulder!" Cat yelped victoriously as he put his hat back on.
The three of them bolted out of the toy train cart while Guy held the door close with his mind.
"Guys! Go!" Guy shouted to Sam and Cat.
"I'm not leaving you!" Sam refused to leave his best friend.
Cat looked around him urgently. "You're going to have to. Come on!"
Cat took Sam by the wrist and pulled him along into the bar cart. Guy stepped towards the bar cart while watching carefully at a couple of men attempting to bust through the door to get to them.
Guy heard beeping going on from the other side and suddenly realized something. They placed a bomb on the door. Before Guy could react, the bomb blew the door open and pushed Guy back. Luckily, Cat caught him from behind and shut the door behind the three of them, trapping them in the bar cart. He pulled out a wielding tool from his hat and drilled the door to seal it. Sam helped Guy up on his feet while Guy was gaining consciousness.
"Who are those maniacs?!" Sam shouted at Cat, who just shrugged.
"You got me," Cat answered while the men were pounding on the door. The three of them turned around to notice a bunch of monkey bars ahead of them. Cat chuckled nervously. "Well, gotta go. Be right back."
Cat took off his hat and tossed it aside. He jumped into it, causing both him and the hat to disappear.
Sam groaned irritably. "I knew he's going to do that."
Both Sam and Guy heard pounding from the door.
"Go! Go!" Guy yelled urgently while both of them made a run for it. Sam bolted ahead of Guy as they climbed through the monkey bars. The door was busted down by the muscular men. The men quickly followed after them. As Sam sprinted ahead of Guy, one of the men pulled out the sonic gun and pulled the trigger. Waves of frequencies traveled through the room and surrounded Guy. It's ultrasound caused Guy to scream in pain while covering his head. Guy collapsed on his knees on the monkey bars.
Sam quickly turned his head around while noticing his best friend in trouble. "Guy!"
Another man pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger at Sam but it missed him luckily.
"Just go!" was all Guy was able to scream out.
Sam hesitated while witnessing one of the men had his bulky fist around Guy's throat and slammed him against the wall. He shook his head and bolted towards the men. He took down one of the men with the pistol. He knocked the pistol out of the man's grasp but the man's muscular arm wrapped around Sam and squished him like a stuffed bear.
Sam growled while chomping at the man's hand with his teeth. The man yelped in pain while thrusting Sam away from him. Sam screeched, not knowing that there's a portal that opened up behind him. And that portal didn't come from Guy. Suddenly, when the man glanced back at his partner, another portal popped open and Sam flew right through it. Sam was thrusted against the man's face unexpectedly, knocking both of them over the monkey bars. Luckily, someone grabbed Sam by the foot, letting the man himself fall over.
When the other man, who's holding barely conscious Guy hostage, glanced over his shoulder, a sharp tip from a spear stabbed him by the throat, choking him. He lost his grip around Guy's throat as Guy fell onto the side of the monkey bar. Guy's vision was a blur while he slowly gazed up at who just rescued him. Cat stood there with a devilish grin on his face while holding the spear. He knocked the man over, falling off of the monkey bars while holding onto Sam. Sam widened his eyes in shock.
Cat smirked playfully. "I told you I'd be right back."
"Where did you even go?"
"To the bathroom," Cat answered without hesitation as he set Sam on his feet.
Sam ran up to Guy and shook him gently on the shoulder. "Guy, are you okay?"
Guy barely glanced up at Sam, blood trickling down from his nostrils from the ultrasound from earlier.
Cat clenched his teeth. "Yeah, that doesn't look good. We got to go!"
Suddenly, they noticed more men in suits coming into the bar cart, which shocked Sam.
"Oh, give us a big fat break!" Cat snarled while sighing at the end of his sentence.
Sam noticed a hole above the ceiling leading towards the roof of the train. "Follow me!"
Sam and Cat helped Guy up to his feet and climbed up to the rooftop of the train. While Guy was trying to understand what's going on, Cat closed the lid of the hole they climbed out of from. The wind blew harshly from the speed of the train but luckily, the three of them were able to stick onto the train.
"What now?!" Cat shouted while noticing the lid about to be punched open.
"I'll think of something!" Sam responded, looking around for anywhere to jump off that was safe.
Guy gained consciousness and saw the twisted railroad ahead. "Uh...guys."
Cat and Sam glanced ahead of them.
"Rollercoaster twist! Fun!" Cat exclaimed giddily while taking his hat off. He dug his hand inside of his hat and pulled it back out. Nothing changed except for the fact that when he slapped his hand on the train rooftop, it stuck.
"Perfect!" Cat responded while looking back at Guy. He extended his other hand out. "Guy, give me your hands!"
"What?!" Guy barked, his eyes widening.
"Trust me!" Cat assured Guy in a loud voice.
Guy reached his hands towards Cat's. Cat gripped both of Guy's hands with his only hand and rubbed something slimy and sticky on his hands.
"Now, stick them on the metal! Hurry!" Cat instructed urgently.
Guy did as instructed, his hands sticking onto the metal perfectly.
"Sam! You better hold onto your tall buddy! It's going to get wild!" Cat replied dramatically while Sam immediately hugged him when the train was flipped over upside down by the twisted railroad. However, both Cat's and Guy's feet didn't stick onto the train. They were soon hanging on to the metal of the train rooftop.
In an instant, the lid door opened in front of them. One of the men in black suits was hanging by the rim close to them while there were others who fell out of the train. The man hanging on the rim pulled out his sonic gun but the train was turned right side up when he's about to pull the trigger. The group instantly land flat on their stomachs while the man landed back inside the train.
The train twisted upside down again while the man had his gun ready and was hanging on the rim outside of the train. Before he could pull the trigger, Cat used his tail to grab his wrist and smacked him with his own gun.
"Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!" Cat insulted the man like a child.
The man growled and grabbed Cat by the tail, pulling him towards the opening and tearing off the sticky particles off of him. Cat let out a shriek before Sam snatched his wrist with his legs holding onto Guy's waist.
"Hold on, Cat!" Sam yelled, glaring at the man.
Cat glanced down at the man and used the fluffy end of his tail to swipe at the man's nostrils. The man almost let out a sneeze while loosening his grip around Cat's tail, giving Cat a perfect opportunity to kick him in the face with his dangled feet. So, Cat kicked the man in the face until the man let go of his tail and fell to his death, causing Cat to almost fall but Sam was still grabbing onto his wrist. Cat noticed Sam sliding down, losing his grip around Guy's waist.
"Sam!" Guy shouted while trying to move his hands so that he could grab Sam.
Cat had an idea sparked in his head and flicked his wrist away from Sam's grasp. He took off his hat again and waited for a perfect moment to use it.
"Guy! I'm slipping! I'm slipping!" Sam screamed, panicked.
"Hold on! Let me--!" Guy attempted at moving his hands but they were stuck in place. "I can't grab you! I can't!"
Sam lost his grip and slipped off, causing both Cat and Sam to fall.
"SAM! CAT!" Guy cried out while Cat used his hat to create a portal beneath both him and Sam. They fell through while the portal closed up, raising some questions for Guy. He breathed heavily while the train turned back right side up. His body was trembling until he glanced up, noticing both Sam and Cat appearing out of nowhere.
"Did you miss us?" Cat grinned at Guy innocently but was talking in a mischievous tone.
Guy gasped a bit while being a bit relieved that both Cat and, most importantly, Sam were okay.
"Thank goodness you guys are okay...is there any way I can get unstuck from this?" Guy inquired out of Cat immediately.
"Yeah," Cat answered while rubbing the sticky particles off of Guy's hands. "There!"
"Seriously? It's that easy?" Guy growled but not at Cat.
"Yep! Say, where are we heading I wonder," Cat spoke as the three of them glanced ahead and noticed a railroad bridge between two wide ledges with a pile of explosives piled in the middle of it.
"Uh...What are those?" Sam uttered his question, pointing at the explosives.
"Blow it up!" They heard someone shouting.
Suddenly, the explosives exploded on the railroad bridge, causing a huge gap between the two ledges.
Guy had his eyes bulged out. "Oh no."
"Well, that's just great. We're going to fall straight to our death. That sounds lovely," Cat implied sarcastically.
"The driver might stop it in time," Sam spoke up, a little hopeful in his tone. Although, that hope was immediately destroyed when they saw the driver of the train getting thrown out from the driver cart and crashed onto the mountain beside the train going for the gap.
"Well...now what?" Cat questioned, mostly to himself. "I can get us out of this mess--"
"What about those people inside the train? They're going to die if we don't stop it!" Guy pointed out.
"Guy...we're wanted men. Not heroes," Cat replied with a deadpanned stare at Guy. "There's no way we can stop this train."
Guy glanced ahead of him and saw that the train was getting close. He gritted his teeth and switched his focus on both Cat and Sam while noticing the hunters coming out of the train to get them.
"Sam! Cat! Do you think you guys could cover me?! I'm going to stop the train!" Guy yelled.
Sam brightened up his smile while nodding his head. "Of course, buddy!"
"Oh boy...well...alright...but we're coming back for you if you fall off the cliff," Cat responded while readying his fists.
"It's not like I haven't fallen off a cliff before," Guy muttered underneath his breath while standing up on his feet. Guy immediately sprinted his way towards the driving cart while Sam and Cat were fighting off the men coming at them.
Guy reached the driver cart and swung himself inside from the window. He noticed a buff man controlling the train with a glare at Guy. Guy used his mind force to push the man out of the window on the other side of the cart. He noticed a red lever and pulled it harshly. The wheels of the train stopped suddenly, screeching and igniting the sparks underneath it. However, it still was heading straight towards the cliff too fast still.
"It won't stop in time," Guy told himself while planting his feet firmly. He took a deep breath, not knowing what he's capable of until he could try it. He extended his hands out quickly and used his mind to slow the speed of the train. The golden glow surrounded the wheel while the train still continued towards the dreadful ledge. He squeezed his eyes closed and used all of his mental strength to slow the train down. The train began to slow down but it still was getting close to the edge.
From outside of the train, Cat and Sam noticed the train slowing down faster than usual.
Cat knocked the last man off of the train with a raised brow. "Uh...the train was stopping faster than usual--."
"Guy!" Sam shouted urgently as he ran towards the driver cart. Cat followed after him.
Meanwhile, Guy continued to use his mind to stop the train, causing a huge migraine on his head. He began to scream out in pain but it was barely audible. The train edged up towards the ledge and slowed to a stop.
Guy let out a heavy breath while collapsing onto the floor. For some reason, he became dizzy after stopping the train.
"Guy!" He heard Sam shouting his name.
"We got to go! Now!" Guy could hear Cat yelling.
Then...everything blacked out for him.
To Be Continued...
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