"Are you sure about this? Edd asked worryingly, holding a shiny delicate button while Matt is running around freely in the house again. "Positive." Tord said without a doubt, looking straight at Edd.
"But this could take serious damage with-" Tord quickly put his index finger up to Edd's mouth while he tried to explain. "Mmph." Edd rolls his eyes and looked at the button with a hint of worriment.
"No no, no more nagging, we are doing this." Tord grabbed the button out of Edd's hands and admired it while Matt stopped running and looked at both of them with wonder. "Hey guys! What are we doing now?" Tord sighed and looked back at Matt. "Remember what happened to Tom nearly 3 years ago?" Matt tilted his head slightly. "Uhh..?"
Tord remembered and facepalmed himself, "Right...I forgot about what happened to you with that god damn memory-eraser gun." Matt pleaded, "C'mon Tord, tell me what happened with Tom?" Tord sighed and smiled in defeat and said, "Just this once, okay?" Matt nodded in happiness, and Tord began.
"3 years or more ago, Tom decided that it would be a good idea to create a time travel machine and..." Tord cleared his throat and continued. "And he did. He was the first one to try it out, and..uhm...he went in the time machine...and when he called us and told us that he was in another time line, the time machine couldn't take it anymore and broke. Tom was stuck on the other side with no connection on his phone anymore, since the time machine broke. Since then we have tried to fix the time machine, and...we finally fixed it today, so I have decided that I am going to go in and go find him...dead or alive."
Tord sniffed and saw Matt tearing up, so then he patted Matt's back gently. "Hey...I'm going to try my best to find him, okay?" Matt wiped his tears and looked at Tom with sad eyes, "Why can't Edd and Matt come with you? And why YOU, didn't you hate Tom?" Tord looked at Matt strangely. "How come you remember that I hate Tom and yet not remember how we lost him? Matt shrugged, "Answer my question, Tord." Tord chuckled a little and said quietly, "after all these years I've been guilty and thinking how I treated him...I want to make it up to him."
Matt nodded in silence and whispered, "Does Edd know that you're going alone?" Tord looked over his shoulder at Edd, who's still making minor changes to the brand new time machine. "Erm...No...please don't tell him." Matt awed and gave Tord a thumbs up and wink. "Don't worry, I won't."
Tord was just about to say thank you when Edd walked over to them, "Are you two done gossiping? We don't have all day, Jesus." Tord shrugged and said awkwardly, "Sorry bro, we've just been discussing how...shiny your hair looks." Edd heard and patted his own hair. "Hmm...if you say so."
Tord chuckled awkwardly and looked at the time machine. "Is it finished?" Tord asked with curiosity. "Almost!" said Edd while fixing the colorful wires. "looks pretty finished to me." Matt said while eating chocolate chip cookies he found in the kitchen.
"Alright, it's finished." Edd said finally after closing the lid with the wires inside. Tord's eyes widened and Matt squealed. "Let me just go pack up my stuff for this trip!" Edd ran upstairs excitedly while Tord sighed and looked at Matt, who munched down the last cookie. "Hey Matt...after I go in the machine, shut it down so that Edd can't follow me...you and Edd have to take care of this current time line that we're in, alright? I'll bring a cellphone with me that doesn't need connection to call, and I'll call the both of you once I settle down in the other timeline." Tord whispered. Matt nodded slowly, while fading footsteps can be heard louder and louder.
"Quick, you don't have much time!" Matt whispered back trying not to be heard by Edd. Edd walked into the room just when Tord was about to step into the time machine. "Hey Tord? What about me?" Edd asked, confused and is about to step into the time machine. Matt quickly grabbed Edd's right leg making him fall and yelled, "TORD! GOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!" Edd tried to escape while Tord quickly stepped into the time machine and pressed the button, sending him away to another time line that Tom's in.
Matt let go of Edd and shut down the machine quickly as Edd became frustrated. "What if he gets hurt? He can't survive on his own!" Matt hugged Edd and said, "He'll be fine..."
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My hands are dying-