Back at the orphanage, Leah is looking at her notebook, trying to find anything that could've made the machine go haywire, but to no avail. While searching, she sees her drawing of her mom holding hands with her. She rips it off and admires the drawing.
She feels as if she has failed herself. She feels that she can't meet her mom anymore. She feels like.. no one wants her and no one is there for her.
The wind blows, blowing away the drawing from her grasp. It goes flying, going with the wind and gone, forever. She looks at her sketches once again, all the inventions she had thought of, and starts to be enraged.
She's tired of failing everytime. She's tired of making problems for everyone around her. She's tired of letting herself down all the time. So, she starts to rip and tear every sketches of invention she has thought of, throwing them on the ground like it's meaningless.
She continues, before stopping at the sketch of the Memory Scanner. She gets angry, ripping it and crumbling it to a ball and throwing it away. She sits down, still feeling angry with herself. Suddenly, the crumbled ball gets thrown back at her.
She gets startled and checks behind her to see if anyone was there. She starts to her suspicious, taking the ball and throwing it again. Suddenly, Wilbur from the science fair comes from his hiding place and throwing it back, not caring if she already saw him.
Leah: Hey, what are you doing up here?
Instead of explaining, Wilbur starts to imitate bird noises, trying to seem like he's not there.
Wilbur: Coo! Coo!
Leah gets tired of him, taking the ball and marches towards him. She stops and drops the ball in front of her. Wilbur comes out yet again, putting the ball in her hand, and goes back into hiding.
Leah: Would you quit that, please? I know you're not a pigeon.
Wilbur comes out, and covers her mouth from speaking any further.
Wilbur: You're blowing my cover.
Leah: We're the only ones up here.
Wilbur: That's just what they want you to think. Now, enough moping. Take this back to the science fair and fix that Memory Scanner!
Leah: Stop! Stop! Get away from me!
Wilbur: Maybe you've forgotten. I'm a time cop from the future, should be taken very seriously.
Wilbur then shows his "badge", which is actually just a coupon.
Leah: That's no badge. This is a coupon for a tanning salon! You're a fake.
Wilbur: Okay, you got me. I'm not a cop, but I really am from the future, and there really is this Bowler Hat Guy.
Leah: Here we go again..
Wilbur: He stole a time machine, came to the science fair and ruined your project!
Leah: My project didn't work because I'm no good. There is no Bowler Hat Guy, there is no time machine, and you're not from the future! You're crazy!
Wilbur: Hoho! I am not crazy!
Leah: Oh, yeah, Captain Time Travel?Prove it.
Wilbur goes to speak, but nothing comes out.
Leah: Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm just gonna go lock myself in my room and hide under the covers for a couple years.
Wilbur: If I prove to you I'm from the future, will you go back to the science fair?
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Keep Moving Forward (Female! Lewis/Cornelius X Male! Reader)
RandomA genius orphan girl named Leah, feels like every invention she makes always fails. And her enemy doesn't make it better for her, as he likes to make fun of her. One day, she feels as if she is a failure after her new invention fails in the science...
