(MOVED TO AO3) Time Travel Trouble - An Eddsworld Fanfic

11 - Friends and Frenemies

For a moment, everything was silent. Gravity felt like nothing as Tord falls. His dark brown hair brushing against his face, long black coat waving as he falls.

Then, his face meets the ground with a thud. The sound of tweeting birds and children talking could be heard in the air with the calm sounds of wind blowing by. Tord groans, his eyes slowly opening up as he rolls over. He squints them as he feels the sun beating down on his face.

"Oh, my head..." He mutters. "Where am I?"

"You mean where are we ?" A voice asks.

The norwegian sits up, shaking the grass and dirt chunks out his hair. As he regains his focus, he sees Sophie sat beside him arms folded.

"Oh goddamn it. I didn't mean to drag you along with me Soph. Sorry about that." He apologizes.

"Hmph. Don't apologize to me. Apologize to Edd for breaking into his apartment." She huffs, getting up and turning away from him.

Tord sighs, noticing the time travel device next to him. The screen was a little cracked but that didn't matter.

"So, where'd you send us to?"

"Not sure. But it's somewhere in the past. Further than I wanted though."

As Tord continues to tamper with the device Sophie looks around them, taking in their surroundings. They seemed to be outside a school of some kind.

One that was familiar to her.

"Faen. Darn thing won't cooperate with me. Guess it's burnt out and needs to recharge or something." Tord groans, stuffing it into a pocket inside his coat.

"So we're stuck here for a while? Great."

"At least we have each other eh, søtnos?" Tord grins, nudging her shoulder.

Sophie goes red in the face, before slapping him across the cheek. Tord grimaces, rubbing it as he turns a little pink and smiles through the pain.

"Tord you know full well that I don't understand the stuff you say in norwegian! If it's your way of trying to flirt with me, it ain't gonna work."

She folds her arms, looking straight ahead, while Tord smiles fondly at her.

"She's so cute when she's angry... feisty even..."

Tord then looks ahead at the school in front of them.

"Y'know, there's something about this place that's familiar to me..." He mutters.

"You too huh?" The girl sighs.

"Ja. I think I went here during my early teen years with Edd, Matt and Tom."

As they begin walking and looking around, Tord notices how no one seems to be paying them any mind.

"Do you think since we're in the past no one here can see us?" Tord wonders.

"Maybe. Although when Edd and the others' future selves showed up, we could see them." She answers, shrugging.

"What were your future selves like?" The norwegian asks out of curiosity.

"In my eyes, the tech they had was pretty advanced. Tom had this cool visor for his eyes, Matt had a cool cybernetic chin and eye and Edd... well, he just grew a beard and stole your trench coat by the looks of it." She says, snickering at that last part.

"Haha. The future sounds pretty cool by the sounds of it. What about you? What was your future self like?"

"I... don't know. Mine wasn't there. I asked Future Matt about it but I didn't get an answer." She sighs sadly. "... although to be fair he was kinda unconscious under a lamppost when I asked, hehe."