The Dimension Travel Trilogy: A Three Part Science Fiction And Fantasy Novel (8 page)

Iron Steel finally used his indoor voice and said with a snicker, “Tom, you’ve got to be kidding me. Why on earth don’t you know about the LSC?” Tom said, “Oh wait,” and Tom started to snap his fingers as if he was trying to figure out a mind boggling tongue twisting scenario. Tom continued to say, “Is the LSC, the thing that moves faster than the speed of light and it has the best forthcoming and talkative expressions and it communicates with you constantly and doesn’t know how to shut up?”

Iron Steel said, “Yes. Are you done?”

Tom Jackson said,

“Why of course I am done. Now let’s go get that LSC. Say do you still have your aPhone?” Iron Steel answered, “Well, Tom, today is your lucky day!” Tom shouted in amusement, “Yes. Thanks bud!”

Iron Steel, pressed the red button with his dragon nose and it was a bother for him. Iron Steel said, “Tom, would you mind doing this for me?” Tom Jackson answered, “Of course.” As Iron Steels dragon claw touched the phone. The phone was lying on the tip of Iron Steel’s claw. Iron Steel told Tom Jackson nervously, “Get it!” Tom Jackson said, “Get what?” as the phone started to slide off of the tip of his claw. Iron Steel shouted louder as he as the dragon was turning red “Get the phone!”

Tom Jackson told Iron Steel, “You want me to get the phone,”

as the phone started to slide off his dragon claw quicker. Tom approached his arm towards the claw and the phone started to fall off.

Iron Steel shouted, “Get it now!” The phone fell off and was heading to crash to the ground. Right at the skin of the teeth, Tom caught the phone. Tom showed a sigh of relief. Iron Steel said, “I don’t believe we should wait for something to happen.” His vocal volume started to increase and continued, “Especially if we are in a situation that might affect us forever!” Tom said, “Cut it out man. Now what do I do?”

Iron Steel said, “Okay this is what you do.” Tom interrupted and asked, “What?”

Iron Steel said, “Okay, you want to get out of this dull dimension or do you want to get home back to earth? It is your choice.” Tom Jackson answered, “I want to get home now!” Iron Steel said like a smart aleck, “Well, guess what, if it doesn’t take a day to get from Earth to another world, then it won’t take one minute to get from here to Earth.” Tom said, “Okay, more importantly, how do you get us back home?” Iron Steel said, “Okay Tom, push the lighter red button on the bottom of the phone.” Tom interrupted again, “I thought it was the top button and I thought it was the darker red button.”

Iron Steel said, “No, No, No, remember, I told the guy at the aPhone store to program our phones to different types of buttons so that way we wouldn’t get the both of them confused.” Tom said, “Well, I just got confused just now and in fact, it was so puzzling like it was one of the most if not the most mind boggling situation that I have ever to the utmost infinite extent, ever encountered.” Iron Steel said as he was rolling his dragon triangular shaped eyes, “Could I get to the point of which I was talking about?” Tom Jackson said with a smile, “Of course you can.”

Iron Steel replied, “Back to the story.”

He paused for a second

and then continued, “I meant the directions or guide to using the aPhone 5 mini in terms of the aspect of working the button. Now, you press the lower and lighter red button and you see fifty other gadgets pop out at you.” As Iron Steel was giving the directions to Tom Jackson, Tom Jackson was performing the tasks and for once in his life, he’d never spoiled the apples.

Iron Steel then said, “By the way, I’ve got to commend you on the fact you are listening to my directions as we’re going along.

So, continuing on with the directions. Now, when you see the fifty gadgets pop out at you, twenty five are actual gadgets and the other twenty five are buttons. Now, the green button is the only button that calls the LSC to come over here. However, there are three green buttons. The green button that you will have to find is a dark green color. I know what you’re thinking.” Tom said, “Well, what do you think you know what I am thinking about?” Iron Steel said, “Yeah, you are thinking that finding this button is going to be like finding an annoying needle in a haystack.”

Tom Jackson said, “No way, I don’t know which track that your train of thought is on. However, my train of thought is on a totally different track going into a totally different direction.” Iron Steel asked, “Well, which track is your train of thought on?” Tom Jackson said very swiftly but explicitly, “ My train of thought is on the track going to Desert Land, I am heading to the land were mountains are made of Ice cream, trees are filled with candy apples, and it is always snowing snow cones ‘round here.” Iron Steel said, “Are you trying to fool around with me when this is not a time for fool around?”

Tom Jackson counter questioned “Well, what do you think?

Do you think I am just pulling your leg or Do you think that I am serious in what I say?” Iron Steel answered, “Well I hope that you are pulling my leg, because if you are serious, you must be crazy.” Tom Jackson said, “I am pulling your leg.” Iron Steel said, “Well that is not okay with me, now did you find the button?” Tom Jackson answered, “Yes, I found the button. Here it is, it is right here.” Iron Steel said, “No, really.” Tom Jackson said, “Why, yes, it was very easy. All of the buttons that are on this little thingamajig are brightly colored. You can see that this button was very predominant.”

Tom Jackson pressed the button, and contacts the LSC.

Meanwhile, the LSC is hovering somewhere over Earth. The LSC is listening to music right now and eating a donut and all of a sudden hears a beep from his pager. The LSC said to himself, “What’s going on? Who’s calling me? Please make sure that it is not that pain in the neck?” As the LSC deposited his claw, to get his pager that was hidden in his front storage bin, the pager said, Tom Jackson. The LSC

said, “Why, that’s unusual why is he calling me? He usually never calls me. There must be something going on around there where ever he is.” The beeper sounded the second beep and finally the LSC

answered the beeper, Tom Jackson says crazily to the LSC through his phone, “Hi, there is something important going on, and Iron was mistakenly turned into a dragon and we have been sitting in this blank dimension for a while now. When will you get here?”

The LSC interrupted Tom and said, “Whoa, whoa, whoa there, Tom relax, you must stay calm. I’ll be there in a couple of minutes.

Okay.” Tom said, “I don’t know buddy, he might be hungry. After all we’ve been here for an hour or two.” The LSC said in a stern and harsh manner, “Listen, you better relax or I will deliberately take my time in getting there. Well, we LSC vehicles have the capability of going slower than the tortoise and faster than the hare.” Tom said, “He’s going to eat me. Just get here.”

LSC replied, “Okay, Tom, I am on my way.”

Both Tom

Jackson and the LSC concluded their telephone/ beeper conversation.

Meanwhile, let’s get back to Tom Jackson’s dimension and see what he is doing while the LSC is on his way to the Blank Dimension. As soon as Tom Jackson concluded the conversation with the LSC, a snicker had exited Tom’s mouth. More importantly, this snicker was a snicker of sarcasm. The words that left Tom Jackson’s mouth were, “It’ll be another hour before this pathetic dingbat gets here. I am not waiting that long.”

As Iron Steel stomped closer to Tom Jackson, he put his dragon ear the size of Tom’s head right up to him. Because, Iron Steel was a dragon at the time, it was hard for him to hear and he was a large dragon at that. So, Iron Steel told Tom in the deep and choppy voice of a dragon, and it was loud like a megaphone doubled, “What did you say?” Tom Jackson reiterated what he said earlier about the length of time the LSC is going to arrive to their rescue from the blank dimension.

After Tom Jackson reiterated what he had said, Iron Steel said with a laugh as hot air came out of him, “Yeah, like that thing will arrive on time. That thing is so slow it could move slower than a tortoise.” Tom Jackson said, “Quiet, wait a second.” Iron Steel interrupted, “What?” Tom continued, “The thing might just be hearing our conversation about him!” Iron Steel replied, “Listen, Tom, why don’t you check your phone to see if the conversation is still happening.”

Tom said, “Okay, I’ll do that. However, I don’t think that this guy has a short temper.” Iron Steel replied to that comment, “You never know if people have a short temper Tom, one minute some body can be a nice folk and the next minute somebody can turn into a dragon like me.” As Tom Jackson took out his phone, a snicker left his mouth. Iron Steel said, “What are you laughing at?” When Steel asked such a question, Tom froze like a statue taking his phone out.

Tom said, still frozen as a statue, “I am laughing at the fact that nobody is hearing the conversation.” However, Tom was really filled with laughter at the fact that Iron Steel used an analogy comparing himself to some sort of a mad dragon. All of a sudden in the blank distance, two beeps were heard. These beeps came from the beeps of an LSC.

Even though this LSC sounded like a generic car, it was a far cry from your generic car. The beeps of the LSC were sounded again.

Tom Jackson turns his head towards the direction in which the noise was coming from and, the noise was coming from the North East direction. Even though the dimension that both Jackson and Steel were in, a blank dimension, they still knew which way the noise was coming from. As they walked closer to the noise, the volume started to increase and increase and all of a sudden, they clunked their heads on this invisible vehicle. The invisible vehicle was the LSC, and it showed itself and the LSC said, “You two dunces it is me.” The LSC

started to laugh and continued, “Come on in.” Both Iron Steel and Tom Jackson, got up and they said synchronously, “Hey what was that for?” The LSC said, “Just get in already.” The LSC lifted up its blue hood and Tom jumped right into the LSC, while Iron remained on the hood of the LSC.

The LSC asked Tom Jackson, “Where do you have to go?”

Tom answered, “I have to go to the best place that will save my best buddy.” The LSC replied, “Who, ‘Iron Steel’?” Tom answered, “Of course.” The LSC said, “Here let me look for the destinations. When, I am finished with my search, I will tell you which are the five best destinations around town!” On the big screen in front of Tom, five destinations popped up, and the LSC described the destinations. The LSC said, “The first destination that I will show you is the Magic Castle. The Magic Castle is a castle that is fit for a king, at least with magic, and there are some weird things that go on there. Then, there is the Neuschwanstein Castle.

This castle is located in Bavaria. Bavaria is on Planet Earth.

Followed by that, the third greatest place to bring your dragon friend back to normal is the Windsor Castle also on Planet Earth. And that is all it.” Tom asked, “Say, Do you know where the fifth castle for my friend is located?” The LSC said, “What do you mean a fifth one?”

Tom said in a snooty way, “Well, gee, you said that there were five castles. You are an LSC, you should have some knowledge. I don’t think that I am riding in some Dodo of a vehicle. Am I?” The LSC said, “Do I look like a Dodo bird?” Tom answered, “No, but you sure act like a Dodo and have the knowledge of a Dodo.” The LSC

basically disregarded that comment and then asked with a sigh, “Okay, do you want to know where your destination might take you?”

Tom answered with a ton of enthusiasm and excitement, “Yes! Show me the place! You shall present me this place where it is best for me friend.” The LSC said, “Well the place that would most likely benefit your friend is the Magic Castle.” Tom said, “Doesn’t the name Magic Castle seem kind of girlish?” The LSC answered, “Well, I’ve been to the Magic Castle. I’ve dealt with folks in the same situation that you are in. Believe me, the Magic Castle is far from the girly castles of what you see in the movies.”

Tom asked another question with enthusiasm, “Well, what does the Magic Castle look like?” The LSC said, “Shush! You don’t want to spoil the surprise. Now, do you?” Tom said, “Absolutely not!”

The LSC said, “Good, Don’t even think about spoiling the surprise.

Let me pinpoint the destination.” The LSC started pinpointing the destination by typing in the destination.

The LSC typed in Magic Castle, One Hundred Dimension Travel Highway One hundred and fifty nine. While the LSC was pinpointing the destination out, Tom asked, “Say, will the dragon on the hood survive the trek to the Magic Castle?” As the LSC was finishing up pinpointing this destination, he said, “Hey Dodo, first of all it is not a trek, it is a journey, adventure, or maybe even a mission from getting from one destination to another.” Tom replied, “Well, gee, you like to say you’re famous first of alls and second of alls like a smart aleck. I will tell you this. First of all, you can call it anything, a journey, a trek, whatever. Second of all, the question that I asked is, Will my friend survive this journey? Now, I would appreciate it if you would please answer my question.” The LSC said, “Fine then, I shall answer your question. The answer is yes. Even though we are going to surpass the speed of light, we shall get to the Magic Castle in a safe manner and thus, your little friend will survive.” Iron Steel said, “I heard exactly what you said, Why don’t you learn how to keep your mouth shut?”

The LSC said in a snobby way, “Well, Mr. Steel, Why don’t you learn how to keep your little mouth shut! You know that I have the right to throw you off of this vehicle.” Iron Steel replied, “To that comment go right ahead.” The LSC said, “Well, because I feel super merciful today, I won’t punish you.” Iron Steel said, “No, I want you to punish me, and I want you to give me your best shot.” The LSC

said, “Well, I did this to one guy today.”

Since the LSC was able to hear what was occurring on the outside and also what was occurring from the inside, Tom Jackson said, “No, don’t hurt him. Throw me off instead.” The LSC said, “Why would I throw you off? You didn’t do anything to annoy me. It is that thing on the outside that is annoying the living heck out of me.”