Chapter 7

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They stared at each other for a moment before Luke broke the silence again.

"He's the complete opposite of me!"

The other Luke was infuriated by Luke's presence, "What do you want to do?! Do you want to steal my money? My gang? Listen now and listen good, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were from another dimension, another universe! One where I'm a nerdy yabbo perchance? So I want you to leave, and go back to wherever you FRIKEN came from, and remember this face!"

Luke wasn't listening. He was busy showing Present his phone camera, "Watch this: you turn on the inverted colour filter in an inverted world and... Ta da! It looks normal!"

"The other Luke swore about 9 times before taking physical action, "Alright m8, you asked for it!" The other Luke stuck up his fists in a lefty fighting pose.

Luke on the other hand, was listening to music on his cassette player. Other Luke swung his fist at Luke, who twisted out of the way. He threw a kick, and Luke jumped over that with a backflip. Other Luke jumped toward Luke, but was kicked in the face by his spinning legs. (Can you see Luke is break dance fighting yet?) Other Luke wiped the blood from his chin, then pressed a button on his keychain. A motor could be heard, then a black Bricklin spun around the corner and almost hit Luke, who moon walked out of the way.

"You're gonna have to do more than that to stop nerdicus!" Present exclaimed.

Other Luke swore another 13 times, "How could this happen?!"

Luke replied, "You think I'm that gullible?!"

Other Luke replied, "Yas!" And made off with the plans to build a multiverse machine stolen from Luke's car!

"Luke we have to stop him!" Present insisted.

"You're right! Quick, into the Bricklin!"

Luke and Present followed other Luke. He was apparently building the machine and driving.

Other Luke got a phone call, "WHAT IS IT?!"

It was Luke, "Ever read the second amendment?!"

"No."

A few loud bangs were heard, other Luke looked behind the car and saw Luke's arm out the window with a pistol firing at his car. Other Luke swore.

"That should do it!" Other Luke said as all of reality stretched around both cars as they teleported to another universe.

"Now I can become one of those super villains they show on tv! This world is full of nuclear power plants, just one can cause devastation!" Other Luke drove toward a nuclear power plant, with Luke soon to follow.

"If we don't stop him..." Present said, "many people won't have a home."

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"Alright Jack, "The Doc said, "That should do it! Your car can travel through the multiverse, just like Luke's. So go punch some crap with Connor."

Connor and Jack jumped into Jack's Elio, Jack in the front.

"Cmon Jack, " Connor yelled, "let's go join Luke!"

Jack responded, "Oh boy! I can't wait to bomb some dodongos!"

The car reached 100 kph, and all reality stretched around them. Coincidentally, that were in the same universe as Luke and other Luke.

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Other Luke ran into the power plant, stabbing the guards with his knife like Jack from Lord of the Flies. He showed no mercy, and was obviously insane. He heard Luke's gun fire behind him.

Eventually, he reached the control room, where there was a large red button, labelled "overheat".

"Give up now!" Luke ordered, "You are going to kill billions of innocent men, women, and children if you hit that button!"

Other Luke looked around. There was a glass container, with a snow globe like object inside. In the centre of the snow globe was a small black point, so small, that it was impossible to measure, yet visible. The container holding this was labelled, "experimental power source".

Other Luke motioned like he was going to hit the button, then ducked. Luke fired his pistol at where he was, shattering the glass container. Other Luke grabbed the snow globe like object. On the bottom, was a label: 'Warning! Time-Space Point Is extremely dangerous! Has immeasurable power if used!'.

The lights started to flicker. With the experimental power source unplugged, the whole system was wonkers. Other Luke threw his knife at Luke. The knife sunk into his shoulder, mortally wounding him.

"OH FRIKFRIKFRIKFRIKFRIKFRIKFEDFRKIDKFIRFDKDFKJDKIKFKIICRIPCRAP!" He exclaimed in pain.

Other Luke ran past him, just as Jack, Connor, and Present entered the room. Connor pulled herbs out of a pouch and started to treat the wound. Present held Luke's hand.

"Present?" Luke asked.

"Yes Luke, I'm here."

"Do you..."

There was a flash of blue light.
The reactor overheated and imploded (Better than exploding I guess).

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"Ow... Oh FRIK! What the crap!" Luke had a sharp pain in his whole head, "Ah! Stupid radiation poisoning!!!!!!!!!"

"Ah! Ow!!!" The others yelled. They were all poisoned.

Other Luke got up, with no pain, "You morons are ded!" He said, and left back to his universe.

"Luke wait," Connor asked, "Your shoulder?"

"Luke," Jack said, "it's healed! What th FRIK!"

Luke grabbed a shard of glass that lay next to him. Despite the pain in his head he jammed it into his arm, and quickly withdrew. The wound was deep, with blue blood dripping from...

"Luke your blood is blue!" Present exclaimed.

The wound covered with an icy mist, then closed. The others did the same: same results.

Luke stood up, the pain in his head subsided, as did the others pain.

"I fell drawn toward a universe, one that needs help!"

"Cmon Luke!" Jack exclaimed, " let's become renegades!"

"Hold on," Connor asked, "I need to text all of our blood." Connor pulled out a blood scanner and took a sample of everyone's dna from their blood.

"That's odd," Connor said, "we're all only 20% human? Except for you Present, I'll need to add you to the codex. But the other 80% is unknown?"

"I know what it is," Luke said, "we are now directly linked to the multiverse! And it's now our job to take back whatever other Luke stole!"

"Here here!"

"Yeah!"

"Here we go!"

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The group reentered their cars. Luke and Present in the Bricklin.

"Hey Luke?"

"Ya?"

"You wanted to tell me something earlier, before the explosion?"

"Yeah. I'm not human anymore, so it makes more sense now, but..."

He paused.

"Do you want to go out for dinner? What a teenager would call a..."

"Would call a what?"

"A... Da... Date?"

The two stared at each other.

Luke broke the silence, "Oh FRIK! I've never asked a girl out before!"

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