Stirfry Returns In: Time Catastrophe! 2

Written in response to: "Center your story around someone who has (or is given) the ability to time travel."

Adventure Science Fiction

I don't know how we even manage to survive it... traveling at the speed of light I mean. No that's not suppose to be a Queen reference, but if you get it; good for you!

"Just a few... more... minutes..." Glowy Sea Kitty's voice gets a little cut off every few seconds as he speaks, it's hard to talk while you're blasting through the fabrics of universes and traveling through time and space.

I, Stirfry, cannot help but wonder! Where to now?

You know?

Since we're blasting through a literal wormhole-

I then land somewhere with a loud thud and "Oof!", luckily I simply land on my bum, can't say the same for, Glowy, as he absolutely face-plants onto the ground upon landing, Mercury can't help but snigger a bit at the sight, not even I could hold back.

Geode, on the other hand landed quite heroically, I couldn't help but admire her for it; however, Demise, landing as swiftly on her feet as a cat, Mercury, simply landed on her bum as well.

Hey, it happens, I know what you're thinking, as soon as you read 'bum' you couldn't hold back anymore could you? A select few of you, at least.

D-7, my sister by the way, landed shortly after, only she ended up landing in a tree.

I stood up straight and fixed my cape, a gift from my father! It's made out of a piece of his cape, cool huh?!

"Wow! We're somewhere else in time that's unfamiliar to me!"

Glowy shouts in a brief fit of rage as he walks a few feet away and kicks a rock across the meadow we now stood in, Mercury, followed with a few reassuring words, "C'mon, Kitty, it can't be too bad of a situation! This is a scientific breakthrough for goodness sake, we're time travelers!", she smiled which uh... seemed to nearly get him to smile, only Mercury gets away with calling him something stupid like, Kitty...

I ruined the moment by yawning loudly and asking, "Can we go see, Queen?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I said so, now shut up."

"Glowy, why are you rude?"

"I-... I am not rude!"

"You're right! You're an-" Cue the sound of a pipe being dropped on a hard floor.

It was after I said that, that everyone paused and turned to me as I stood there innocently, like I had not said something so uncalled for to him as he turned to me in shock, he opened his little shark mouth to speak as his cartoony shark face held an expression of utter offense and shock until, Geode, perked up at the sound of Santana's 'Soul Sacrifice' was heard being played live out in the distance; she's a Santana fan.

It then turned to us as she pointed out toward a large crowd somewhere in the distance, "That's Woodstock! We're in nineteen-sixty nine!", she exclaimed excitedly, the most excited we'd ever heard her be, at least.

I watched her little moment of joy longer than necessary but I couldn't help myself, especially with the way her faceless geode head's crystals shun in the sunlight-

"Stirfry..."

Demise, suddenly said as she stood beside me, her voice emotionless as ever, hands on her hips, that permanent smiley face on her paper bag face looking down at me.

"Woodstock! Cool-! Oh, hi, Demi!"

I snapped out of it, processed what was said and then turned to face her as well as greet her, although, she only huffed with mild amusement when I did. "You were staring, again." she stated, I simply shrugged and then turned back towards the crowd and music in the distance, even from here it was quite the sight!

All the people gathered together and at complete peace with each other, simply enjoying the music, life...

Why aren't you humans like that anymore, huh? Nothing's bad about it! So many things are cliche for you guys now and it's... saddening...

The sound of something crashing down through the branches of a nearby tree snapped everyone out of the peaceful daze as we all turned our attention to, D-7, now finally making it out of the tree...

Well, falling out but uh... you get my drift.

D-7, straightened her TV antennas sheepishly a she dusted off the leaves that clung to her orange, sloth-like body as her TV scene glitched for a moment as she began walking towards.

Demise, stepped forward in concern and I full on ran to my sister.

"Hey! You alright there, D-7?"

"I dreamed somebody loved me..."

"...Oh..."

Mercury and Glowy glanced at each other for a moment and Demise simply sighed in exasperation, D-7 was a hopeless romantic at heart and quite lonely at that; however we do have about... eleven or twelve other siblings, not sure how she could get so lonely but she could.

And seeing me comfort my sister as I found a nice spot of us to sit and watch the Woodstock performances with, Geode, must've been quite the sight for all those used to my pointless chaos...

And dealing.

But we don't really discuss that, ha!

It was an odd but pleasant feeling, to just be at peace all the way back in the sixties, I was tempted to ask where we'd find The Beatles but was soon disappointed to hear, Geode, say they turned down the offer to perform at Woodstock '69, but Creedence Clear Water Revival would make an appearance at some point, I found that reassuring, my deeply, bulging eyes sparkling as I immediately turned back to the musical performances going on. at the festival in hopes I'd see the band, they were pretty good after all! Of course, I'd occasionally get distracted by a grasshopper.

And eat one.

No, two.. three, maybe?

Either way, Mercury, finally got, Glowy, to calm down and relax despite the whole 'time travelers lost in space and time' situation going on with us at the moment, telling him to look at the bright side of it.

I know he knows, he's just homesick.

And I'm happy out here, because I'm sick of home.

Posted Aug 29, 2025
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