Minutemen Page #3

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Totally. This morning before school I

set up the Wiggly Worm on the lawn...

I love the Wiggly Worm.

Remember that time I almost drowned?

Because Derek shoved the nozzle

up your nose.

He tried to run away and

cracked his head on the telephone pole.

Shh!

- I miss us.

- Tres amigos.

Yeah.

You know, Derek really did

try to stop those football players.

But you know how seniors are.

Anyway, I know he feels bad

about what happened that day.

You know, they say that people who

don't let go of the past die faster.

And get more acne.

I'm sweating like five hogs.

Due to irregularities in temperature,

we should be prepared.

OK, I got the winning

Iottery numbers right here.

To guarantee that the vortex maintains

stability long enough to return safely,

we only have ten minutes

on the other side.

Otherwise, we run the risk of exploding.

That's funny,

I thought you said exploding.

I did. Activating grid...

Um... what's with the grappling hook?

You making fun of the hook?

What? No, no. Love, love the hook.

Next stop... funky town.

Whoa!

I just remembered.

I forgot to triple check the...

Can we talk about this?

We gotta work on our landings.

Oh yes, we did it.

We're time travelers.

# We're time travelers

We're time travelers #

# We're time, we're time, we're time

we're time, we're time travelers #

- # We're time travelers #

- Is he OK?

He really loves science.

# We're time travelers

We're time travelers #

One lottery ticket, please.

These are the numbers.

- We're feeling lucky.

- Uh-huh.

Are you feeling like you have I.D.? You

need to be 1 8 to buy a lottery ticket.

Hi. We need to ask you a favor.

He wants a tip.

Here, OK.

We need you to buy us a lottery ticket

with these numbers.

What do you say?

- Tip him.

- Oh.

It's all I got, OK?

You guys. You guys! We have two minutes

to get back to school!

New plan. We'll meet you here

tomorrow at 1 2:
00.

Hang on to the ticket till then, OK?

OK.

OK, that's the second fluctuation,

of the same exact magnitude,

at the same exact location.

I'm telling you,

it's a technical glitch.

What else could it be?

You think they all of a sudden started

drilling for oil in Summerton?

Now, let's just

get back to work, all right?

Can you help me un-knot this?

Cool. I can't believe he won.

An incredible story

from Summerton this afternoon.

The winner of the State Lottery,

announced last night,

has turned out to be

none other than Robot Man.

Told you.

OK, so tomorrow we go back in time

and get a new lottery ticket.

- But this time, we be sure...

- No. Virgil, it's wrong.

It's cheating.

You're right. It is cheating.

New plan. We go on TV with

the machine, do an infomercial,

sell like 8,000 of them and instantly

become rich and humongously popular!

And they say you can't buy happiness.

Listen to me. If anyone finds out

about this time machine

it will be the end

of me, you, and Zeke.

The end!

Can you back up?

I have personal space issues.

Oh, no.

Think outside the box.

There's an important use

for the machine.

What's more important

than being rich and popular?

Kidding! I'm kidding... mostly.

Hey, Chester. Looking for these?

Hey, gimme those!

If you're trying out a new look,

let me say it's not working.

Those kids stole my cIothes.

Can you help me get them back?

I'd like to. Really, I would.

But that would mean altering the

delicate social system at the school.

So... good luck.

Virgil, I just had a brilliant idea.

- You mean use the time machine to...

- Exactly.

- Starch!

- Again, scorch.

Did you read the instructions

I e-mailed you?

I'm sorry.

OK, so let me get this straight.

You're saying we become

like silent heroes

- to the un-cool?

- Look around.

We live in a world

where mere minutes

can make or break

a person's entire future.

Take what happened freshman year.

Had I known it would ruin my life,

- I never would've done it.

- Tell us how you really feel?

Think about all the kids at this school

like Chester, like us.

We all live in constant fear

of humiliation,

because we happen to be smaller,

less coordinated, whatever.

But we can change that.

The Minutemen must use their powers

for truth and justice.

And then we focus on getting rich.

Again, I'm kidding.

- And who are the Minutemen?

- We. Us.

The all-important minutes in time.

- Clever, right?

- Sort of.

Not really.

Forget it! None of these remote

control hookups are gonna work.

This is no good.

We have to make adjustments

while we're back in time.

Well, then, I guess one of us

is going to hang back.

- Not it!

- Not it.

Not it! Aww! Dang it!

- Unfair, I invented the machine.

- OK.

- Re-do. Not it!

- Not it!

Not it!

Double dang it!

Not it! That was fun.

- Not it!

- Uh, Jeanette, what are you doing here?

I was looking for a club to join

and I saw yours.

- 'The Back To The Future Fan Club.'

- Oh, right.

I love that movie, even though

I never really saw it.

But I totally love

the idea of time travel.

I mean, it's just so...

science fiction-y.

Actually Jeanette,

your timing is interesting.

No, it isn't, Virgil.

What are you doing?

Uh... Excuse us.

- Shh!

- It's gonna mess up...

Hi.

- No, no, no!

- Listen to me.

- No, no, no.

- Think about what's going on.

OK.

Jeanette, have a seat.

Whoa!

- OK, you know what to do, right?

- Sure thing, Puffin.

Um... but first...

We so have to do something

about those outfits.

Huh?

There you go. That's better.

- Where did you get these?

- My Dad just bought Ski World.

How lucky is that? If he still owned

The Shrimp 'n Waffle Hut

that would be like, no help at all.

I've been looking

for something form-fitting

that would highlight

these massive guns.

- You're built like a chihuahua.

- You look like a yeti.

- You think I don't know what a yeti is?

- Do you?

- Virgil, grow up.

- Me, grow up? You grow up!

- Don't yell at Charlie!

- I'm not! You stop yelling!

I never yell at people.

Stop yelling!

I never thought time travel

would invol've so much bickering.

Oh, man!

Hold it right there, friend.

Uh, if you guys are gonna pick on me,

you'll have to take a number.

- Don't be afraid.

- We're here to help.

What's going on, fellas?

Oh, you can keep those.

I got myself some new threads.

Who were those snowsuit guys?

After twenty years of service

the board gives you either a gold watch

or one of these.

My sweet little castle.

Don't touch it. It's going in my office

in a bulletproof glass case.

It's delicate.

Did we win? Did we win?

Oh, we won all right. We won big.

Nurse Ratchett and Coach Bob

have seen it before

and they assure me it's not contagious.

One more thing, before we wrap up

this morning's announcements.

Recently, a group of students

dressed in snowsuits,

disrupted a gym class.

More importantly, they destroyed

my precious diorama.

Whoever you students are,

let me make it perfectly clear

that once you are identified,

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