Heroes of the Future #Wattys2015

Chapter 2

A man came out of a a red-ruby door. He wore a white lab coat, so I'm assuming  that he is a scientist.

"Ah, I see that you have come. I guess there is no need for me to come to you, but thank you for making it easier. I would assume that you would think that I am kidnapping you." He looked at me.

Ok, person, people don't usually appear out of nowhere. Speaking of which what is this place. There's a floating table in front of us. Everything looked like they're from a sci-fi movie. All sciency and stuff.

My friends stared around them.

"Well I'm not going to keep you all waiting, so I guess I should explain a little bit. The others should be he-"

"Hey!" Ashly crumbled to the ground as a person- wait... is that JOSH??- landed on top of her.

Another person appeared out of nowhere and landed right on top of the floating table. The person moaned and I realized that it was a boy- a skinny- freckled face- short- blondish- boy.

"Avery!" Kirsten and I both yelled.

Another boy appeared. Except this time, it wasn't a bad landing. Carter!

Huh? Since when do people fall from the sky. And why does it happen to be so that my friends and I, are coincidentally transfered to a weird place?

Avery got up from the floating table, and I went over to help Ashly and Josh up.

"Are you going to explain anything?" Kirsten asked the scientist-looking guy.

"My name is Ludwig," He started to explain as Carter, Avery, and Josh started to realize that we were hear too,"and you all, are in the future. Now let's go sit down and have a smoothie."

...

So here we are, sitting at a floating table, drinking a smoothie (mine is strawberry of course), and talking to a stranger.

"I know that this is very confusing to you, so I am going to try to explain this the simplest way I can, but first, any questions before we start?" Ludwig said.

Avery's hand shot up.

"Yes, Avery?"

Avery's mouth turned into an O. "I-I was just going to ask- uh how do you know my name?"

"We are in the future and we have technology that can tell us anything about you. Now what was the question you were going to ask me before?"

"I was just wondering, why Carter got a much, uh, more nice landing."

"Oh, I am very sorry about that. It's just whether you are lucky or not." Lidwig shrugged his shoulder.

"Any other questions?" He asks.

I glared at him. "And how are we supposed to trust you? We were teleported to a strange place, and now we're drinking a smoothie as if nothing surprising happened." I looked down at my smoothie which was halfway done, and held it up. "This is probably poison anyways!" The others immediately stared down at their smoothie like it was a bomb about to explode.

Ludwig sighed. Wait, what if his name isn't even Ludwig?! "I'm not lying. I promise!"

"How would we know if you're lying or not?" Ashly stared at him.

"But I'm NOT lying." He argued back.

"Prove it!" Josh said.

Ludwig rolled his eyes. "Okay, at least you believe that you are in the future, right?"

We all said nothing, because we can't deny what we just went through, and we won't admit it either. Yes, we are that stubborn. That's just how our brains work. I grin to myself.

"Why are you smiling?" Carter asked.

"Why not?" I said back. "Okay lets settle this. You," I point at Ludwig and he mutters something I couldn't really hear, but have an idea about it. "if you want to prove that you are telling the truth, then stick your head in the toilet." There. Settled.

Ehh, okay not. Kirsten and Ashly stared at me.

"There's no doubt that you're Hien." Ludwig muttered.

"Hien." Kirsten looked at me. At least Josh, Avery, and Carter aren't complaining.

"Okay, fine. Since you pronounced my name right, we'll let you stick your hand in instead." I said.

Kirsten and Ashly groaned.

"I'm taking that as a yes." And at least he didn't argue. Wow, Who knew I could have so much power over them. HA HA HA. No, I'm just kidding.

Ludwig sighed. "All right." He clapped his hands and said "Toilet."

And that's when a toilet dropped down from the ceiling.