Travel Back In Time (Whiz Kids and Little House Mashup)

Chapter 1

1984

Richie Adler, a very intelligent fifteen year old, was sitting at his computer system, Ralf, trying out yet another experiment he had made up.

"Well, I've gotta go now," Alice Tyler, one of his friends said when she realized that nothing was really going on.

"Yeah, me too," Jeremy Saldino agreed, heading out of Richie's bedroom behind Alice.

Richie then spun around in the  chair he was sitting on and sighed. "And let me guess, you gotta go too Ham, so you wont be late for lunch with your family," he said sarcastically.

"Well, yeah," Hamilton Parker replied. "Sorry Richie... maybe tomorrow it'll work. But in all honesty, a time machine, in this day-in-age, is probably not gonna work."

Richie put a straight look on his face. "Gee, thanks. You know, I actually thought my friends would support me with this."

"I'm really sorry but I'm just trying to be honest," Ham repeated, tying his best not to sound mean or something. He shrugged and made his way out of the room. "Oh, Miss. Adler, I was just heading out," he said as Richie's mother, Irene, entered the bedroom.

Irene Adler was the mother of two children, Richie and Cheryl. She is divorced and the kids live with her. She supports Richie's decisions in computers and programming and in all things electronic.

Richie put his head in between his hands, frustrated.

"What's wrong, honey?" Irene asked.

"What's wrong mom, is that they don't know how to be patient and help me with this."

"What are you trying to do this time?"

Richie looked around his room at all the electronical equipment. "Don't laugh, okay?"

Irene put her hand up. "I promise."

"Okay... it's a time machine-"

"A TIME MACHINE!" He was interrupted by Cheryl, his eight year old sister. "You're building a time machine! Ooooooh, can I be the first to try it out? I wanna go back in time to a week ago when Nicole Robinson copied my test answers and I hit her."

Richie smirked. "Yeah, if it actually worked, you could do that, but I can't seem to figure out what I did wrong. I did all the calculations that took me months to do." He held up a binder full of loose-leaf papers with math equations and writing all over them. "But it seems like Ralf just doesn't wanna corporate with me today."

"Maybe he's just not in the mood," Cheryl suggested.

Richie's eyes went wide. "Cheryl. How many times have I told you, Ralf isn't a he, Ralf is an it. And Ralf can't have feelings or moods."

"Well, sorry," Cheryl said, a little offended.

Irene turned to young Cheryl, who was way shorter than she was. "You know it's not a nice thing to hit people, Cheryl."

"That's why after I did it, I would travel back to today so my punishment would be over with."

"She kinda has a point there, mom," Richie said, agreeing with his sister for once.

"Eh," Irene shrugged. "Anyways, I'm going to go make lunch."

When she left the room, Cheryl walked over to her older brother. "Richie?"

"Yeah?"

"Even if you do get this time machine to work... you're still a sneak!"

Richie smiled sarcastically at her, knowing that she always had called him that. "Sure Cheryl, sure."

Cheryl walked back over to the hallway. "But anyways, if you do get it to work, call me in so I can test it out. I wanna be the world's first time traveler."

When Cheryl left, Richie got up from his spinning chair and started pressing buttons on Ralf, his computer system. He walked back over to his desk which laid his large computer and took in a deep breath. "Okay, one last try," he said out loud. He waited a second and then typed in nineteen-eighty-three on the keyboard that was connected to the computer. He then connected some wires together and closed his eyes. His plan was to go back to a year prior and tell his friends everything that was going to happen within the next twelve months.

But things didn't go as planned.