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Chapter 6: Sea of... Why?

The submarine passed by numerous clocks, watches, and all sorts of things. Dawn stared out the porthole. "What time is it?" She asked. I chimed in. "It's time... for time!" I snorted, wiggling my eyebrows. Dawn looked at me weirdly, while Carmen cackled loudly. Frederica groaned, and carried on steering.

The clock hands in the submarine were going backwards, and so was the submarine. Frederica looked back with confusion and shock. The vehicle was moving itself, ladies and gentlemen. For a 50+ year old underwater vehicle, it was moving by itself. This is the peak of technology, folks.

Midnight looked at the hands of the clock. "Uh... Frederica? The hands are going backwards! What does this mean?" Midnight asked. The submarine revolved around in a circle on a clock lookin' thing, but without the clock part, and only the numbers. Hard to explain, I know. We've never seen anything like this before. My ancestors told me that it was 'normal' for the submarine to do that... even though they've never been on the thing. I'm getting off track, though. The story about my ancestors is for another time.

"Err... I don't know, lass. I think it means that we'll get younger by the second!" Frederica exclaimed. And she was correct. All of us in the submarine got much younger. I was now 6, Midnight was 5, Carmen was 3, Dawn was 7, and Frederica was also 5. This can't be good. "Oh no, oh no, we're all young again-" Dawn panicked.

"Do I sound like a squeaky 4 year old? Yep, I do. And I have a lisp as well. Wonderful," I muttered to myself in my kid-sounding voice. This is fricken great. I wonder how long we'll be stuck like this for. Frederica got ahold of the wheel, but she was too short to steer the darn thing. That made her worried. She started asking everyone what the heck we should even do.

Carmen snorted. "Why don't we all screech?" Bruh, really, Carmen? We all looked at him with disapproval. "Shut up, Carmen," I told him. He snorted again, and he cackled. That was humiliating. Midnight stomped her foot. We stopped arguing, and paid full attention to her. "Alright, people! Think of something!" she shouted. We rushed and messed around with all the buttons to at least find something. Dawn got an idea. She forced the clock hands to go back to normal, and that did something.

The 5 of us went back to our normal age and height, and I don't sound like a pubescent 4 year old child anymore. We were all relieved. Frederica went back to steer the submarine, and she navigated her way through the Sea of Time without any problems.

She saw a teeny hand written sign that was very hard to read. Frederica pulled out the submarine's telescope to take a closer look at the sign. It said: 'Nowhere Land. Come and visit if you can!' Frederica awkwardly looked at the sign for a second through the telescope. Dawn came up to Frederica and looked through the telescope as well. She was just as confused as Frederica was. "Nowhere Land...?" Dawn said. None of us have ever heard of the place before. Thank the lord there was even a sign there in the first place that caught our attention. "Would you want to go there, mates?" Frederica asked. The rest of us nodded.

Carmen was a bit skeptical. He wasn't sure if there was anything at all in Nowhere Land. He'd thought it'd be a whole lot of nothing, which was fair. It's called Nowhere Land for a reason. Nonetheless, Frederica took the direction to where it was, and we never would've expected one of the cutest things in that alleged place.