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Tom’s POV
“Wow.. it looks like you guys had lots of adventures while I was away.. I wish I could have been there...” Commie was saying, as I was coming from downstairs to our attic.
“Hey, I have an ide-“ Edd gets cut off by Matt.
“Todd! Look what, we have! It’s a gun from space!” Matt shows Tord, mentioned futuristic gun. “We’ve been wondering for ages what it does.” He hands him the gun, which commie hesitantly takes.
He investigates given object. “Well why not check it right now? I honestly don’t have a clue what it does.” Tord gives really, really bad suggestion.
“No-“ “Yeah!” Edd and Matt say in unison. What a bunch of idiots.
Tord hands gun back to Matt. “Alright time to check it out on Tom’s bass!” My eyes widen.
“NEVER! This would be the last thing, I would have gave any of you! I suggest Matt’s novelty toy collection.” Tord and Edd nod in agreement.
“But I would never hurt little Tom!” And he’s into that monkey again great… “Or my self’s clone! He’s too precious to ever get shot to.” Wait what?
“You still have your clone?” Matt nodded to my rival. “It wouldn’t hurt to check it out on him, would it Matt?” He chuckled quietly.
“Well… Of course not Todd-” “Tord.” He corrected ginger. “Sorry… Anyway. Matt! Come here, we have to check something on you!” We heard someone running to our direction, shadow was emerging from the corner of his room.
“Hey guys! So what is it that you have to check?” Clone asked us. “Stay still ok?” Real Matt dictated, his clone nodded.
Moment of truth I guess. Matt pulled the trigger.
Nothing?
“Huh? Why are you not working buddy?” He began to hit the gun with his fist. “Matt don’t do it, remember how it ended last time?” Edd warned him. “Nope. Let’s see if it works now.” He pulled the trigger again. “Bloody gun, work already!” Matt started cussing. It was weird hearing him annoyed.
He hit the gun again which started to glow, we all backed down. And waited for the unexpected to happen.
It was so bright for a few seconds but my eyes managed to get used to the environment.
“Guys… is everyone ok?” I asked worried about my friends.
“Yeah, I am…” Edd said. “What happened anyways?” I tried to explain to him. “You see, this dumb ginger, known as Matt didn’t listen to you.” I pointed to the culprit, Edd mouthed an ‘o’.
“Where is Tord?” Edd asked. “I couldn’t care less where the damn commie is.” I took sip of Smirnoff, that I had in my pocket. Convenient.
Edd shook his head in disappointment. “Oh look, there he is!” He stood up and approached… 12 year old commie? “Uhh… Tord?”
“Ow…. Where am I?” He asked and looked up to see Edd. “Is that you Edd? You look big! Well bigger than last time I’ve seen you.” Oh so he lost his memories, lame.
“Yes, it’s me Tord. I know it may look very weird and it indeed is weird…” He tried to sound as calm as possible but I could see that he wasn’t fine in the inside. “You see… umm… Remember how we like to go on adventures yeah?” Little boy nodded. “So… Imagine that once we went to space and got a gun from aliens, that turns people into children.” Tord looked so innocent right now, smile never dropping his face. He let Edd continue. “We had a problem with it right now and it turned you into one.” Edd put hand behind his head, clearly uncomfortable due to this situation.
Tord only lightened up more. “Had I conquered the world yet?!” “What? No-“ He only continued. “Have I became glorious leader of a powerful army that wants to conquer the world?!” What’s with that conquering? “No…” “Then at least… Tell me that people like me.” I couldn’t tell that little brat that nobody liked him. It would really hurt him. “They do Tord-” I got cut off again. “YAY! IM POPULAR!” Did Matt really influence him that much back then? He’s being so annoying.
I seen his phone buzzing on the floor, someone’s calling him. His name was ‘Paul’, I think I remember him from our school. I picked up the phone but it needed passcode. Fuck.
“Hey Edd.” He looks to me. “Do you have phone number to someone named Paul? He called to Tord second ago.” He nodded. “Why do you need it for?” If he called Tord then maybe he may know what to do. Since Tord made it to the big city to make his dream career come true, inventing things and stuff. “I think he could help us in this situation.” I pointed to Tord, Edd immediately dialed them.
Edd’s POV
I waited for him to pick up.
“Hey Edd! It’s been so long since we’ve talked.”
“Yeah, I only called to let you know about… certain situation.”
“Regarding what?”
“Um it’s about Tord. I think you called him some seconds ago-“ Speaking of the devil. “HEY PAU!”
“Who was that?”
“That was Tord. Yeah I would explain to you more if you would come here.”
“I’m on my way.”
He ended our call.
There was hard pounding coming from downstairs… How did he even know where we live? And how was he there so fast? I went downstairs immediately and opened the door for Paul and someone else. They were in strange uniforms, probably from work.
They must have noticed how perplexed I looked like. “Oh, yeah. This is Patryck, mine and Tord’s friend.” I relaxed a little and let them into my house.
“Let’s go upstairs. There will be my friends and of course Tord.” I motioned them to follow me to Matt’s room, or attic. However someone wants to call it.
“Huh, that was fast.” I heard Tom saying in an uninterested tone.
“Pau you look so big!” Tord looked very amused. I remember how he was as a child, cute, not as mysterious but still quiet. Liked to be very expressive about everything.
“Okay look, we may have a solution to this… problem. Patryck, should we…?” Paul asked his partner to which he hesitantly nodded. “There is no other way, sorry.” They both sighed. “You have to promise us never to tell anyo-“ He got cut off by no one other than Tord.
“But I don’t want to grow up and be boring like Thomas.” Tom let out some grumbles. “See he’s boring and grumpy.” He pointed out.
I can’t really disagree with that, Tom is quite grumpy, cold and rude. But I know that he’s only trying to look tough and intimidating. His eyes sure play some role in this.
But when you get to know him well, he’s such a softie. He loves watching ‘The children’ and ‘The cats’ with Matt and when there is something he would really like to do, he uses his high pitched voice.
It’s adorable and annoying at the same time.
Paul coughs to get our attention back from Tordie. “So promise you won’t tell anyone.” Me, Tom and Matt nodded, Patryck made a motion signalizing to follow them.
“Where are we going to?” Tord asked. “Umm…. We’re going to-“ Tom was thinking hard about what excuse to use, I decided to help him.
“We’re going to an amusement park!” Moment when I finished saying that he went ballistic from excitement.
We went outside to see a helicopter? “What the Fu-“ I shushed Tom and pointed to Tord. “Sorry.” He whispered. “How do you even have that?” I asked them.
“It’s Tord’s. You can ask him when he gets back to normal.” My eyes widened. How in the world would he afford an attack helicopter? It’s a shame he doesn’t remember anything. But on the other hand, I missed how he acted.
“Get in, we are flying to Guildford.” Patryck ordered. Tord took my hand and looked at me smiling.
We tugged ourselves inside it. “It will be a 15 minute flight but who cares.” Patryck started taking off.
While being 1 km or more in the air, we received seeing the best things London has to offer. Skyscrapers next to Thames River looked astonishing from the air. Paul also point out Buckingham Palace, and the London Eye. Sadly it was middle of the day, so no additional beautiful lights to see.
After a while urban area changed into sub-urbs that later merged with rural area, colors like green, yellow, brown and orange accompanied it.
Tord looked amazed by the view. He was still holding my hand so I had to sit next or on the opposite side of him. “Everything is so little and so beautiful!” I hummed in response. “That made me think. Edd, Was I tall?” We heard Tom and Paul snicker.
“You were taller than Tom, but not so much tall to outgrow me.” He looked content with the answer and returned to look at the landscape. After a while we were at out destination.
Guildford is a medium town, I heard people say that it gives you vibes of a balance between rural and city life. There is also a hill, that sure makes sunsets look marvelous. Oh I think we are actually heading there, since Paul is lowering the altitude.
A metallic circle at the hill exposes itself, making an entrance for helicopter. “Cool!” Tord said. “We have to take other entrance. Don’t ask why.” Patryck told us. “Wait so this is the amusement park?” They both nodded, but I know that it’s a lie.
As we landed, I took a notice we were in underground building, that looked like a bunker. In this ‘room’ of the place were stationed planes, tanks and helicopters, with bloody marking and Tord’s n0r5ki signature.
“Tord before we go to the amusement area, we want you to come with us.” He nodded and followed Pat and Pau, we did as well. They stopped near wall waiting for us.
“Why are we stopping here, next to a damn wall?” Tom was very impatient, probably wants to head home, or never leave it in the first place.
Pat patted Tord’s shoulder and Pau revealed some sort of a virtual console that was asking for fingerprints. “Alright Tord, could you put your hand on this?” He did as he was told. Metal started moving to the sides, revealing an enormous office room. Who would need that big office anyway?
Everyone entered it. “I’ll be right back” Patryck headed in direction ahead of him, leaving the room and swiftly closing door.
There was a small talk between us. We gave Tord something to handle so we can be unbothered by him. I didn’t mind it though, but I couldn’t risk Tom being mad at him and Matt, who really liked each other.
Patryck finally came back with raven black haired man behind him. “This is Yanov, our main scientist here. He will make a new gun that reverts the effects of the other one.” He explained, he handed the other man the gun remnants.
“How long will it take to make? I would really appreciate it being the fastest as you can.” Tom grumbled more.
“Maximum 3 months. So you better take care of him.” Yanov said, smug smile started appearing on his face.
“And why can’t he stay here if you know him that much?” He was annoyed, that he needed to fly there for nothing. Pat, Pau and the dark hair sighed in unison.
“Paul take him to the amusement area, ok?” The other one nodded and took Tord by hand, who gladly took it. So they actually weren’t lying about that. When they left the room Patryck started speaking. “You see, this is an army. Red Army to be exact. And Tord is our leader. That means we can’t have a child running the army for 3 fucking months. He wouldn’t even know how and besides some traitors may actually kill him while being in such vulnerable state.”
WHAT THE FUCK. No, seriously. What the actual fuck? The questions he asked weren’t coincidence.
“You are telling us that commie wants to take over the world?! Yeah I’m not buying that. He’s such a sucker that he wouldn’t even know how to lead anything.” Tom stated.
“Oh, you'd be surprised, I’ve never seen such confident person, ready to do anything to achieve his goals. Anyway I’ll be sending you home when Tord comes back. Make yourself at home for now.”
He lit a cigar and left with Yanov.
“I’m not going to be taking care of this fucking commie!” Tom complained, which was predictable.
“It won’t be that bad Tom. I remember you two being best friends since elementary school.” I tried persuading him.
“We used to be friends. Since he started goofing around, I lost respect to him.” Tom slightly groaned.
“But Edd’s right, Tom. He’s just like me - adorable!” Matt chimed in, thanks buddy.
Tom kept silent, as he sat at the desk. I could tell he was contemplating his life choices. “Fine but do not expect me to be near him 24/7.”
Me and Matt decided to check the two other rooms. One was filled with arsenal of well organized weapons. Other one with a bedroom. “Let’s sweep the area!” Tom joined us with his high pitched voice I mentioned before.
Some things were secluded in a glass, probably were some sort of antiques. I need to look out on Matt then. I kept my eye on him, as I was looking through bookshelves, hentai was 25% of all the books there.
Yup it was definitely his room. “Guys I don’t think we should invade Tord’s privacy.”
“Why not? I would love to blackmail him sometimes.” I took Tom’s wrist and pulled him outside the room, Matt followed along. The moment he closed the door, another one was opening.
“Why can’t I stay? Everything is so awesome here…” Tord whined, making his puppy eyes. Everyone would fall for them. Well most people.
“You will come back later Tord. For now you will be going home with your friends.” Paul took something out from his pocket. “Hold your hands, I will teleport you back into your house. It was tested before and even Tord used it, so you don’t need to worry.” Ray of light immediately came to our direction.
“YAY! WE’RE BACK HOME!” Aww… Cute.