The Invention: Chapter 6

The deep inferno where the Jackrabbits’ time-traveling journey had ended hadn’t really changed much since Jazz and Spaz had last visited it. They got through most of it without much trouble. But soon...
"Aw, great!" said Jazz. "We’re lost in a maze!"
"So let’s find our way out," said Spaz. "It can’t be that hard." Jazz was about to reply with a sarcastic remark, when a scream resounded from one of the corridors.
"OH NO!" yelled Spaz. He ran off down the corridor. Jazz followed. They ran around in the maze, following the screams until...
"WAUUGGGHHH!" yelled Spaz as he suddenly flew out of the maze and fell off a cliff-and ended up landing on top of a weird looking machine. Still slightly dazed, he got to his feet and immediately saw-"DEVAN!" Spaz leaped off the machine and landed on top of the turtle nerd, pinning him to the ground.
"Eep!" yelped Devan as he saw Spaz draw his gun and hold at point-blank range.
"WHERE IS SHE?" yelled Spaz, eyes burning red with anger.
"R-r-right b-behind you, i-i-in th-the m-machine," said Devan. Spaz leapt off Devan, and ran to the machine’s only window, and sure enough, there was his girlfriend, face pressed against the glass. Her face immediately brightened, however, when she saw Spaz.
At the same moment, Jazz leapt off the cliff at the end of the maze and knocked Devan to the ground. (He had been about to activate the machine when Spaz wasn’t looking.)
"What have you got to say now, Devan?" said Jazz, pointing his LFG-2000 at his arch nemesis.
Devan thought fast, then he smiled. "Tell me Jazz, do you remember your sister?"
Jazz’s face went pale. "H-how did you know about that?" "Sister? We don’t have a sister," said Spaz, looking at Jazz and Devan confusedly.
Jazz took a deep breath. "Yes, we do. You were too young to remember, but our mom and dad did have a baby girl. She was absolute cutest thing I’d seen at that point. But she was kidnapped one night, we never found her again, and eventually we forgot her completely."
Then, for Spaz, it all began to come together. "Wait a sec, the only reason Devan would mention our sister is if my girlfriend is actually our sister! Right?" He looked at Devan, who could only nod.
"That’s why you kidnapped her, then! You wanted to put my bro’s traits and y our traits in her so Jazz would get humiliated and killed by his own sister! " said Spaz, not really knowing what he was saying.
The realization hit Jazz like a brick, and he turned to Devan, VERY angry. " You... despicable... (-)..." he almost whispered. Jazz grabbed Devan by the neck, and threw him against the computer screen. He picked up Devan. "I want you to delete every single file in this computer, ONE AT A TIME. You try anything, and I’ll kill you."
Devan grumbled and reluctantly set about deleting his own files first. Meanwhile, Spaz had spotted two large buttons on the machine. One was red, the other green. Spaz knew one was probably to turn on the machine, and the other was probably to open the hatch. The question was: red or green? Now, to Spaz, red meant "stop" and green meant "go". So, naturally, Spaz pressed the red button.
Meanwhile, Devan had finished deleting his own trait files and was about to start deleting Jazz’s, when suddenly a scream of fear, pain, and agony emitted from the machine.
"NOOOOOO!" yelled Spaz, disbelieving. He had activated the machine! "LORI! NOOOOO!" he yelled, speaking his girlfriend’s name for the first time in this story. Spaz leapt over to the window in the door, but it was too bright to see inside.
Jazz realized what had happened, and ran over and pulled Spaz off the machine. "You can’t save her now!" yelled Jazz.
All the two could do was watch and wait for the process to finish. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, it was done. The hatch opened, and out stepped Lori. By this time Devan had joined the Jackrabbit brothers to see the results of his botched experiment.
Suddenly, Jazz’s mouth fell open in shock. So did Spaz’s and Devan’s. Lori h ad changed completely. She was no longer lop-eared, nor did she have buck teeth or freckles. She looked a lot more grown up, especially now that her purple dress had changed into a tight-fitting sleeveless shirt that didn’t cove r the belly, and tight-fitting purple shorts to match. She also carried a pink blaster in one hand.
Devan was the first to speak. "Y-y-you’ve changed!"
"You’ve... g-grown up!" said Spaz.
"You’re a... BABE!" said Jazz.
"Huh?" said Lori, who looked down at herself. "Eeek!" She recoiled in horror , and looked at Devan. "What have you done to me?" she said. "Um, uh, I, er," stuttered Devan, still awestuck by Lori’s beauty. "Well, I’m making sure it never happens again!" Lori leapt out of the machine, turned around, and good use of her new blaster.
KRA-KA-KA-BOOOOM!!!!!
"NOOOOOOO! MY MACHINE! WAAHHHHH!" yelled Devan, who fell to the ground crying. "THAT’S THE SECOND TIME THIS MONTH!"
Lori snickered. "Awww, did I break poor baby’s toy!" she said. Jazz looked around, and saw a tunnel marked EXIT. "C’mon, Spaz, Lori, let’s blow this pop stand!" he called.
"I already did," said Lori, grinning and pointing to the machine wreckage with her blaster. Spaz burst out laughing.20 None of them saw Devan stop crying, pull out a miniature teleporter device, activate it, and vanish into thin air...


The Invention: Epilogue

Soon, Jazz, Spaz, and Lori had returned to Carrottown, which was the closest town to the castle where you-know-who lived.
"Hey!" said Eva. "I resent that!"
Oh come on, lighten up...Shouldn’t you be waiting for your husband? "Whoops!" Eva ran off, thankful that she was wearing a short dress, and so could go faster. She stopped short in front of Jazz and Spaz. "Hi," said Eva, a little out of breath. "So, did you save your girlfriend, Spaz?"
"She not my girlfriend anymore," said Spaz, shaking his head. "She’s my sister!"
"Say what?" said Eva. Then she saw Lori. "Oh no, you’re joking, right?"
"Nope," said Jazz and Spaz. With that, they proceeded to explain what had happened in the previous chapter. Then Jazz said, "I’d have to check with Mom
and Dad to be sure if she’s my sister, but I wouldn’t have a doubt otherwise."
"Why don’t you go check, then?" said Eva. "Besides, I don’t think you’ve see n your parents since your time travel adventure."
"We sure haven’t. C’mon Spaz, I’ll race you there." They ran off. Lori however, hesitated. "You know," she said, speaking to Eva for the first time since she had arrived there, "If I am their sister, and since you’re married t o Jazz, that would make us sisters-in-law." Lori then left to catch up with Jazz and Spaz, leaving Eva with her mouth open.
Soon, at an ordinary two-floor wooden house with an ordinary couple...
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!
"Who is that, James?" said the female.
"Don’t know, Selena," said James Jackrabbit, who went to the door. The moment he opened it though, he smiled.
"Jazz! Spaz! What a surprise! What are you boys doing here?"
"Hi Dad," said Jazz. "Is Mom home?"
"She sure is," said James, stepping aside.
Selena looked up from her knitting. "Hi there boys," she said. "Hi Mom," said Jazz and Spaz in stereo. Then Spaz cleared his throat. "Uh, Mom, Dad," he began. "We got somebunny to introduce ya to." He and Jazz stepp ed aside. "This is Lori."
Selena gasped suddenly, and then fell to the ground crying. James was confused about his wife’s actions, until Selena lifted her head up and said, "My baby’s alive! My little baby girl’s alive!" James began to cry too, realizing this was their daughter which they thought they had lost so long ago. Lori stepped into the house. "Mom? Dad?" she said quietly. "I never thought I’d see you..." She went and hugged her parents, tear in her eyes as well. They remained that way for about a minute, until they felt tapping on their shoulders.
"Is this a private hug session?" said Jazz and Spaz simultaneously.20 James and Selena welcomed the brothers into their embrace as well. They were all happy...family again after 10 years.
Meanwhile, on the roof of the house across from the one earlier mentioned, a nerdy tortoise with oversized glasses watched the reunion. "How disgusting," said Devan.
Not as disgusting as you are.
"Shut up," said Devan. "You can’t do anything to me anyway."
Oh no? How about this...
Suddenly Devan fell off the roof into a garbage can below.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!"
SPLAT!
Devan climbed out of the can, covered with trash.
"How dare you!" said Devan, picking off the garbage.

Need a little washing off?
Suddenly, a little thundercloud appeared overhead Devan, and began raining... water balloons?
SPLISH! SPLASH! SPLOOSH!
"AAUUUGGGHHH!" Devan ran away, with the little cloud chasing him. "I’LL GET YOU FOR THIS, AUTHOR!!" yelled Devan as he ran back to his not-so-secret lab/headquarters. "I SWEAR, I’LL GET YOU!!!"
Yeah, whatever, Shell.


The End