Series Origin

·       “The Adventures of Micah” was originally called “Adventure” (the latter is still mentioned as an Easter egg to help reveal the series’ history). It all started with my (Micah Barga) first planned video game project “Golfing Adventure”, which was initially titled “Micah’s Golfing Adventure”. If I recall, my older brother (Matthew) warned me that I could get in trouble for having my or anyone else’s name in a video game title (I don’t know for a fact if this is true or not, so don’t take my word for it), thus leading me to remove my name from said project. When I was a kid, Matthew often got jealous of some of my skills such as video games and drawing, which is what led to this personal controversy between him and I.

·       Trekker was originally named “Monster Guy”, which is what I reveal in my book “Monstrous Origins”. Matthew (at the time) thought the name was silly, so he wanted to help me come up with something more creative or fitting (whatever the term is). While listing out suggestions, “Trekker” (somehow) was the first to come to his mind. I liked it well enough to go forward with it. I felt bad leaving the Monster Guy name just floating around aimlessly not being used, so I decided to assign it fully to another villain in the series.

·       As I mentioned earlier, Matthew often got jealous of some of my skills, and because of this, he would take offense to me placing him in high-numbered slots (rows and columns included) in my planned character roster tables (row 1, column 5, row 2, column 7, slot #8, etc.). He always wanted me to place him in either the very first slot (row 1, column 1) or close to it (such as slot #2 or row 1, column 2).

·       The “Trekker Gang” started out consisting of Trekker, Trekker Jr., and Osama Bin Laden in a “movie” I made called “The Four Racers II: The Revenge of The Trekker Gang” (Yes, I made a Four Racers I, or I wouldn’t have brought this up). Shortly after, I added Saddam Hussein to it in “The Five Racers II: The Trekker Gang Strikes Back” (Like The Four Racers, a Five Racers I was also made before this one.). Fast forward a couple of months, I decided to make a sequel to my presentation of “The Adventures of Micah: The Quest to Save Sarah”, in which I would have my two friends (Wesley and Sarah) be kidnapped by three guys who are fans of Trekker. At first, I thought about calling them the “Torture Gang”, but it didn’t stand out to me very well if I recall. I don’t think it stood out to Matthew very well either, so I asked him for help (if I’m remembering correctly) to come up with something more fitting. I believe it was him (coincidentally) who helped me come up with the Trekker Gang. I may have come up with it myself. It’s been so long, so my memory’s foggy. Either way, I liked the name well enough to assign it to this group (Having this name already for my two racer movies slipped my mind). This gang, however, consists of three 18 year-old guys named Adam, Butch, and Chris (Matthew helped me pick out these names, as he felt the guys needed individual names, and these were the first to come to his mind that I liked well enough to assign). After discovering the Trekker Gang assigned to two different groups, I decided to keep the name for the three 18 year-old guys and rename the racing group the “Trekkies”, which was only shown in “The Five Racers III”. After concluding the racer movies, I later assigned Trekkies to Trekker’s army of henchmen and/or minions.

·       The subtitle to “The Adventures of Micah: Trekker’s Revenge” was initially going to be “Micah’s Revenge”. I only selected this so I could have my name in the title. I believe this was suggested by Matthew. We were kids when we did this. At the time (if I remember), Matthew told me it was ok to have my name in the subtitle, but not the main title.

·       One of my planned video game projects were three board games that were similar to the video game(s) “Mario Party”, all of which were going to be under the title “Adventure Excitement” (1, 2, and 3 respectively), another title Matthew helped me come up with, as I didn’t want to use the same name(s) already taken by Mario Party. These games would also involve players navigating and winning boards, as well as play and win minigames. I ended up scrapping all this due to Matthew criticizing them for copying off of Mario Party (No copyright infringement intended. Never has, never will.). I ended up making a physical board game called “The Adventures of Micah Board Game”, in which I later realized it had some similarities with Mario Party. As a result, I decided to re-assign the Adventure Excitement title to it as an Easter egg, which (to me) combines all three cancelled video game projects under this name.

·       Another planned video game project I had at one time revolved around frisbees called “Super Frisbee Adventure”. I ended up scrapping this project as well due to the lack of sports/events involving frisbees. If/when I make Golfing Adventure (which I’ve renamed to “The Adventures of Micah Sports: Golf”), I will add “Frisbee Golf” as a playable mode, depending on my skill level, recruits, and/or available storage space. A part of the character order (for the roster) was carried over to another planned video game that I have called “The Adventures of Micah Sports: Bowling” (formally “Super Bowl”). It had its own roster at one time, but it ended up getting lost. My guess is, it was mistaken for trash and thrown away after it was found lying around anonymously, and I never got around to remaking it.

·       My “episode” “Sarah the Dinosaur” is loosely based on some drawings I used to make when I was a kid. I had a crush on a girl named Sarah at the time and would often draw myself saving her from a dinosaur because of it (my love for her motivated me into drawing pictures of whatever fantasies I had about her being in danger and me rescuing her), in which she would be very grateful of me saving her life. So grateful, she would kiss me (only in the drawings, not in reality) and I would get all excited about it.

·       These three topics are what inspired me to make “The Adventures of Micah”: Mario, love, and/or romance. Like I (kind of) mentioned before, I often fantasized about some of the crushes I had (at least when I was a kid, anyway) being in danger and me (as a superhero) saving their life, in which I would get rewarded with a kiss, while at the same time, being a big fan of Mario (and still am today). These three interests of mine allowed me to come up with the idea of having my own series that would feature me and my family, friends, and peers as cartoons.

·       In “Trekker’s Fiasco”, one of the missions I take on with my best friend (Wesley) is based on an assignment I did in English 3 class during my junior year at the age of 16/17. What Wesley and I have to do is find Sarah, in which we end up finding her and all other girls on a planet created by Trekker called “Planet of the Feminine”. As for the school assignment, I was required to write a story about boys and girls being separated (or something like that). At first, I chose to focus my attention on an entirely different character, but one of my classmates (who has seen The Adventures of Micah after I showed him some of my content) asked me what I was writing about. I told him and he asked me why I wasn’t writing it on The Adventures of Micah, so I decided to make his day and repurposed my paper The Adventures of Micah style. Unfortunately, I got a little too inspired and neglected to follow directions, which one of them stated it was not to be a search-and-rescue. That’s exactly what my story was, and I ended up failing the assignment as a result (silly me. You live and learn, right?). My teacher did say in her comment that it was very creative, so that’s something, right? The name of my story was “The Adventures of Micah: The Disappearance”.

·       Following the events of The Disappearance, I decided to make it into a video game under the title “The Adventures of Micah V: The Disappearance”, which started out as a sequel to Trekker’s Fiasco. It was then followed by another sequel titled “The Adventures of Micah VI: The Runaway Car”, which was an idea given to me by the same English 3 classmate of mine who convinced me to write my paper on The Adventures of Micah. I only made these two games (and another called “A Female’s Tale II”) to have 10 platform games (all of which were made with the software “Game Maker”) all together stored on my computer (two games, I did NOT make. I liked them enough to want to have them. Again, no copyright infringement intended). Both of these games were made during a time when the Trekker’s Fiasco book was still being written from scratch. Taking advantage of this, I decided to add The Disappearance and The Runaway Car to it as missions to help extend the story, as I was still unsure at the time what I wanted to write about. A few years later, I went back through and made revisions to my video games, where I took the time to restructure The Disappearance and The Runaway Car as midquels to the Trekker’s Fiasco game. Another couple of years later, I combined The Disappearance and The Runaway Car into one whole game called “The Adventures of Micah IV: Trekker’s Fiasco Part II” (I tried combining it with the first part, but the entire thing took up too much space and took too long to boot). And then another couple of years later, I was then able to combine both parts of the Trekker’s Fiasco game into one entire game after discovering that the background images I drew myself and updated my games with reduced the file size of the games themselves.

·       My “episode” “Brotherly Heroism” loosely revolves around the jealousy I’ve tolerated with my brothers when we were kids, most notably in a home video we have of me showing off and talking about some pictures (most of which are Mario) that I drew at my dad’s then-apartment, where you can see and hear them making fun of them. Matthew’s superpowers (Electricew, Tundra, Flamethrower, and Bane) and Christopher’s superpower (Fantom) were also created by my brothers themselves in reality. If I remember, they wanted some time in the spotlight.

·       “Matthew’s Set-Off” was created per a request by Matthew. I believe he wanted to have his own game.

·       Water Micah, one of my superpowers, was originally unable to breathe on land because of his suit acting like gills. Because of his superhero nature (and the lack of sense I feel from such a factor), I decided to ditch the idea.

·       My initial idea of transforming into Klaw Micah was by having Wesley and Sarah merge with me from both sides while all three of us were invincible with the Micah Coin. I felt like the two wouldn’t be able to escape, so I decided to go with the same transformation mask my other superpowers use.

·       Power Micah was going to be invincible (with the inside of his body being entirely metal) with lightning being the only thing that can hurt him. Before that, he could only get hurt if struck in the face or hands. This idea was later ditched, as I felt like it would make things too lenient.

·       I once wanted to make a song about Power Micah, which I wanted to play during the end credits of my planned movie “The Adventures of Micah: The Scientific Heist” (which was called “Adventure: Micah’s Major Trouble” back in the day). I’m still deciding, as we speak, whether or not to go through with this.

·       I had a dream before that I wrote and had a theme song made about the Trekker Gang. As of right now, I’m still deciding if I want to make this dream come true.

·       There was a time I wanted to make Sarah a princess in The Adventures of Micah. I was always fascinated, at the time, with the romance involved between a royal woman and a commoner man, like what you see in movies such as “Aladdin” (the Disney adaptation(s)). I went through with this in my book “Princess Sarah”, but her role isn’t permanent.

·       Some of my books are based (fully or partially) on real-life experiences. There are too many to name, so if you want to know, all you got to do is ask.

·       Christopher’s original superpower was “Mega Arm”, in which the idea was given to me by Matthew. Christopher himself didn’t like it, which is what led up to him creating Fantom. Mega Arm was eventually repurposed into a villain in my book “Senior Living”. I once asked Christopher if he wanted Fantom to be a good guy or bad guy, and his answer was the latter. It was this that sort of convinced me to make Mega Arm a villain.

·       My laboratory was originally set up in the garage of my house. I later felt guilty about having it there, as I wanted the garage to serve its sole purpose of storing vehicles, and instead moved my laboratory underground beneath the foundation of my house.

·       Wesley’s laboratory was previously set up inside the barn at his house. Just like me previously having my laboratory in my garage, I also felt guilty about this, so Wesley’s laboratory was also moved underground beneath the foundation of his house so that his barn could serve its sole purpose.

·       I once dreamt that Trekker was in the movie “Madagascar” as the main villain. In this dream, my brothers and I were watching the movie with a scene where Alex and Gloria were looking for a way off the island with Alex panicking at point, causing Gloria to slap him across the face to help get a hold of himself and say a line that Alex retaliates to with “Not even Trekker knows!” (if I’m remembering correctly. No idea how or where this all came from. A lot of my dreams make no sense at all. I don’t ask for them to happen. They just do). Trekker later appears in the dream movie, confronting Alex and Gloria and talking to them while instructing some of his henchmen to do something dastardly (I remember one part in the dream where he beckons and his henchmen take something. It’s been so long since I’ve had this dream.). I even remember the dream me making a comment to dream Matthew as Trekker makes his appearance in the dream movie. I remember dream me saying to dream Matthew, “It looks just like him.” (or something like that). Trekker’s appearance in dream Madagascar had my design, but with two additional fangs hanging out of his mouth, a furry body, and wearing some pirate pants and possibly other attire.

·       Another dream I remember having involved my planned racing game “The Adventures of Micah Go-Karting” (called “Racing Adventure” back in the day). What happened in this dream was, I won a race and stood on top of a winners podium (above 1), where Trekker pulls up in front of me in his go-kart and looks at me angrily, shaking his fist in the air while saying, “I’ll get you next time!” (I think). There’s another part of the dream where a crash or something occurs at the podium as part of an old Cartoon Network bumper going to commercials that causes me to stand on the edge of the podium and keep my balance as I’m about to drop my trophy.

·       One other dream I remember having one time involved The Adventures of Micah: The Scientific Heist being aired on TV. The channels were changing and then suddenly, my movie (displaying Adventure: Micah’s Major Trouble) shows up with a scene of me leading my search party over rocks in the water that we had to jump to.

·       I’ve had other dreams where some of my Adventures of Micah content appears. You just have to ask. I have so many.

Brothers into Action

 

 With their newfound superpowers, Micah’s brothers (Matthew and Christopher) help Micah save the day on a regular basis. Angered about a recent defeat, Trekker plans his next move in his jail cell while saying, “Blast that Micah and his brothers. I vow revenge!” A knock sounds at Trekker’s cell gate, followed by a guard saying, “Keep it down in there!”

“Ah, shut it, you broken bolt! I’m having a moment here!” responded Trekker angrily. The guard scoffs and walks away while Trekker says, “Now, where was I? Oh yes! Brace yourself, Micah. I’m coming for you, and I’ve got big plans for your brothers! Ha ha ha ha!” After another day saved, Micah and his brothers revert back to normal with Matthew saying, “This hero business is a lot of work. I don’t know how you do it, Micah.”

“You get used to it after a while. It may not be all fun and games in the beginning, but once you get the hang of it, you start to enjoy the ride.” responded Micah.

“I’m having fun with it already.” replied Christopher.

“That’s the spirit!” said Micah. Micah and his brothers make their way home while Trekker plans his escape from jail, waiting until nighttime to take action by digging a hole in his cell and covering it with a rug. After emerging outside, Trekker makes a run for it back to his mansion while Trekker Jr. lies miserably in his bed. Trekker Jr. suddenly hears the mansion doors open and close, subsequently jumping out of bed to investigate. He sees Trekker standing at the doors and races over to him while saying, “Dad! You’re home!”

“Yes I am, son. It’s so good to see you!” responds Trekker while embracing Trekker Jr.

“I have a plan…” continues Trekker while subsequently whispering into Trekker Jr.’s ear. Trekker Jr. listens to Trekker’s plan with a malicious smile on his face while Micah and his brothers turn in for the night. The next morning, Matthew awakens cuffed on Trekker’s concrete slab, struggling to break free while Trekker and Trekker Jr. approaches.

“Matthew! Christopher! Welcome to my mansion! Wait…where’s Christopher?” asked Trekker.

“Uh, about that…” responded Trekker Jr.

“You were supposed to get both brothers!” said Trekker angrily.

“I’m sorry! Your transport thingy stopped working.” responds Trekker Jr. while showing Trekker’s Teleport Remote. After observing the damaged remote, Trekker tosses it aside while angrily saying, “What a piece of junk. Oh well. Might as well move forward with what I’ve got.”

“Don’t waste your time, Trekker. You know your plans always fail.” said Matthew angrily.

“Not this time. Being in jail allowed me to come up with some smarter moves. You’ll see.” responded Trekker. Micah works in his laboratory with Christopher entering and asking, “Micah, have you seen Matthew? I can’t find him anywhere.”

“Computer…” said Micah. Trekker suddenly appears on screen while saying, “Ah! Micah! Christopher! You’re just in time to see what I have in store for you.” Trekker views Matthew with Christopher exclaiming, “No! You can’t do this, Trekker!”

“Oh, I can. And I will!” responded Trekker.

“Aren’t you forgetting something, Trekker?” asked Micah angrily.

“What, may I ask, is that?” asked Trekker menacingly.

“I’m always one step ahead of you.” answers Micah while pulling out his Power Micah Mask. Trekker presses a button off-screen with Micah and Christopher abruptly vanishing and appearing in an amusement park. Micah hears his Micah Phone ring and answers the call with Trekker appearing onscreen saying, “Ha! Who’s one step ahead now? If you want your brother back so badly, you’ll have to endure pain and misery like I did after you defeated me!”

“Spare the rod, spoil the child.” responded Micah angrily.

“Real cute. Have fun in my worlds! Ha ha ha ha!” laughs Trekker while subsequently ending the call. Christopher observes his surroundings while asking, “What kind of place is this?”

“Some world Trekker created himself. They’re usually crawling with monsters. I must warn you, though…” said Micah.

“This should be a piece of cake!” says Christopher while feeling around in his pockets.

“Where’s my Fantom Hat?” asked Christopher.

“That’s what I wanted to tell you. Trekker typically designs these worlds to either confiscate our powers or render them useless. They do slip through sometimes, but whether or not this is one of them is anyone’s guess.” responded Micah.

“So we’re stuck here?” asked Christopher worriedly.

“Not exactly. There’s usually a way out. We just have to find it.” answers Micah while walking off. Christopher catches up to Micah and asks, “What are you doing, Micah?”

“What we’re supposed to do. Finding a way out. We’re not going to make any progress just by standing around doing nothing, you know.” answered Micah.

“And we have to do all this without using our superpowers?” asked Christopher.

“I’m afraid so.” answered Micah.

“What are we going to do?” asked Christopher worriedly.

“The only thing we can do: rely on our wits.” answered Micah. After walking for some time, Micah and Christopher encounter monsters that are ready to attack with a fight breaking out.

“Christopher! Fight back! It’s the only way to ward them off!” said Micah.

“But I can’t do it without my Fantom powers!” responded Christopher.

“Yes you can! And you must! You don’t need superpowers to achieve greatness.” replied Micah.

“Ok. Here goes.” says Christopher while closing his eyes. Christopher throws a punch that inadvertently comes into contact with a monster’s face, rendering it unconscious and boosting Christopher’s confidence. After looking at his fists, Christopher presents them to the other monsters while taunting, “You want some of this?” The monsters flee from Christopher, who joins Micah afterwards to help ward off the rest. With all monsters out of sight, a warp hole appears in front of Micah and Christopher with Christopher asking, “What’s that?”

“It’s a warp hole! That should be the way out!” answers Micah while jumping into it with Christopher following. Micah and Christopher appear in a mine with Christopher asking, “Now what?”

“Another world.” answered Micah. A pickaxe suddenly appears in front of Micah and Christopher with a manly voice asking, “Hey! What are you kids doing here? This is a restricted area! Authorized personnel only!”

“We’re sorry, sir. We don’t mean to intrude…” responds Micah while looking up at the source, revealing itself to be a male mine worker.

“We came here by accident.” said Christopher.

“I think you two need to see the boss.” says the man while dragging Micah and Christopher away.

“Is this really necessary?” asked Micah annoyingly.

“Quite necessary.” answers the man while approaching his boss.

“What do we have here?” asked the boss.

“A couple of trespassers.” answered the man.

“We’re not trespassing. Honest. We’re on a mission to save our brother, Matthew. He’s being held captive at Trekker’s mansion.” said Micah.

“Did you say…Trekker?” asked the boss.

“Yeah. Why?” asked Christopher.

“An enemy of Trekker is an enemy of mine. Time to rumble!” answers the boss while getting up out of his seat.

“Can’t we talk about this?” asked Micah.

“Where’s the fun in that?” asked the boss. The boss grabs and drags Micah and Christopher to an arena while workers gather round.

“Let the battle begin!” hollered a worker stepping in as the referee. The boss charges after Micah and Christopher with Micah saying, “Just like the monsters, we’re going to have to fight this rusty bolt back.”

“But he’ll kill us! Look at how big he is!” responded Christopher worriedly.

“And we were outnumbered in the last world. Did that stop us?” asked Micah.

“No, but this time’s different.” answered Christopher worriedly.

“Trust your wits, like I said. Remember, brain beats brawn.” says Micah while standing his ground. With the boss inches away from him, Micah jumps and front flips over him, causing the boss to run into some of the boxing ring ropes and bounce back, stunning him.

“Now’s your chance to make a move.” said Micah. Christopher grabs a nearby chair and hits the boss on the head with it from behind, knocking the boss unconscious with the referee counting down to ten. The boss fails to rise within the countdown with the referee declaring Micah and Christopher the winners while saying, “Winners by KO! The kids!” The crowd boos for Micah and Christopher while the boss vanishes and leaves behind a warp hole.

“They’re not cheering at all! They hate us!” said Christopher.

“Who cares? It’s not like we’re moving here. Besides, there’s our ticket out of here.” responds Micah while pointing out the warp hole. Micah and Christopher enter the warp hole while workers throw tomatoes and other junk at them, subsequently appearing in a factory.

“This could be dangerous.” says Micah while walking off with Christopher following. As Micah and Christopher look for a way out, they suddenly bump into Micah’s 3^rd grade teacher, Mrs. Dohner.

“Oh! Hi, Micah! What a surprise!” said Mrs. Dohner.

“Mrs. Dohner? How’d you get here?” asked Micah.

“Trekker.” answered Mrs. Dohner.

“Imagine that.” said Christopher.

“Is that how you and Christopher got here, too?” asked Mrs. Dohner.

“Unfortunately.” answered Micah.

“Maybe we can look for a way out together. Mind if I tag along?” asked Mrs. Dohner.

“I don’t see a problem with that. Christopher and I are on a mission to save our brother, Matthew. He’s being held captive at Trekker’s mansion. Are you ok with this, Christopher?” asks Micah while turning his attention to Christopher.

“Might as well be killing two birds with one stone.” responded Christopher.

“Then it’s settled. She’s coming with us.” says Micah while walking off with Christopher and Mrs. Dohner following. As Micah, Christopher, and Mrs. Dohner observe their surroundings, monsters emerge from darkness and grab Mrs. Dohner with one of them covering her mouth. Mrs. Dohner secretly gets dragged away by the monsters while Micah and Christopher continue walking on, oblivious to Mrs. Dohner’s absence.

“If I’m not mistaken, Mrs. Dohner, you must have been here longer than Christopher and I have. You wouldn’t happen to…” says Micah while looking back behind him.

“Where’s Mrs. Dohner? She was just here.” asks Micah while looking around. Christopher suddenly hears distant mumbling and draws his attention to it, finding Mrs. Dohner getting dragged away by the monsters.

“There she is!” says Christopher while pointing Mrs. Dohner out. Micah draws his attention to the direction being pointed out by Christopher and sees Mrs. Dohner getting tied up above a vat of toxic waste.

“Oh no you don’t!” says Micah angrily while running towards the monsters with Christopher following. The monsters block Micah’s and Christopher’s path and begin attacking them with Micah and Christopher struggling to fight them off.

“You rusty bolts picked the wrong kids to mess with! Face our wrath!” says Micah while throwing a punch at one of the monsters. The monster dodges Micah’s punch and counters it by punching Micah in the face, knocking him to the ground with his Power Micah Mask flying out of his pocket.

“Sweet! My Power Micah Mask!” says Micah while picking up his Power Micah Mask.

“I thought you said our powers didn’t work in these worlds.” said Christopher.

“I did, but I also said they slip through every now and then. Well, here goes nothing.” responds Micah while putting on his Power Micah Mask. Micah turns into Power Micah and begins fighting off the monsters with the upper hand while saying, “Christopher, check your pockets! You might be able to turn into Fantom!” Christopher reaches into one of his pockets, and (to his surprise) pulls out his Fantom Hat, placing it on his head and powering up into Fantom.

“Awesome! Looks like Trekker needs to make a few changes around here.” said Christopher. Christopher helps Micah fight off the monsters while the small amount remaining gradually lowers Mrs. Dohner into the vat of toxic waste with Micah flying up and rescuing her. Christopher wards off the monsters as Micah places Mrs. Dohner safely on the ground.

“Thanks, you guys! I thought I was done for!” said Mrs. Dohner.

“We humans got to look after each other.” responded Micah. The warp hole appears with Christopher pointing it out and saying, “Look! The warp hole!” Micah points out the warp hole to Mrs. Dohner while saying, “You first.”

“Are you sure? I’d hate to leave you two behind.” asked Mrs. Dohner.

“Positive. Our journey isn’t over yet, but yours is.” answered Micah.

“Please. We insist.” said Christopher. Mrs. Dohner approaches the warp hole and looks back at Micah and Christopher while subsequently saying, “Good luck, you two. Please be careful.”

“Don’t sweat it. I’m no stranger to adventures like this.” responded Micah.

“You know? I think I’m starting to enjoy the ride.” said Christopher. Mrs. Dohner smiles and enters the warp hole, appearing back at her home while Micah and Christopher enter the warp hole and appear at Trekker’s mansion.

“What the!? How are you two powered up?!” asked Trekker angrily.

“You really need to be more detail-oriented.” taunted Micah. A beam suddenly comes into contact with Micah and Christopher, reverting them back to normal with Micah, Christopher, and Trekker drawing their attention to the source, which reveals to be Trekker Jr. holding a ray gun with steam expelling from the nozzle.

“How’s that for being detail-oriented?” taunted Trekker Jr.

“No matter. I still got other powers in my…huh?” exclaims Micah while feeling around in his pockets.

“Looking for these?” asks Trekker Jr. while holding up the rest of Micah’s powers.

“How did you…?” asked Micah.

“This ray gun was built and programmed to confiscate any powerup used to gain the upper hand.” answered Trekker Jr.

“Oh, great!” exclaimed Christopher.

“Remember what I told you before, Christopher? We don’t need them to save lives.” responded Micah.

“Easy for you to say. You deal with these clowns all the time.” replied Christopher worriedly.

“Who are you calling a clown?” asks Trekker angrily while leaning towards Christopher.

“Don’t you lay a finger on him!” said Micah angrily.

“Or what?” asked Trekker annoyingly.

“You’ll be one sorry monster.” answered Micah.

“We’ll see about that!” responds Trekker while grabbing Christopher.

“I warned you!” says Micah while running after Trekker. Trekker Jr. quickly grabs and detains Micah, who elbows Trekker Jr. in the gut and goes after Trekker again, jumping and front flipping over him while grabbing his head and swinging him over and down onto the ground. Christopher breaks free from Trekker’s grip while Trekker and Trekker Jr. surround Micah and Christopher.

“You broken bolts need to be taught a lesson!” says Trekker angrily while cracking his knuckles.

“If anyone here needs to be taught a lesson, it’s you, you rusty bolt!” responded Micah angrily.

“Have it your way!” replies Trekker while throwing a punch. Micah jumps out of the way with Christopher grabbing Trekker’s fist and throwing him towards Trekker Jr., knocking them both down onto the ground.

“Nice move.” said Micah.

“I’ve learned so much from you, after the adventure we had together.” responded Christopher. Trekker and Trekker Jr. get up off the ground and walk towards Micah and Christopher with Trekker grabbing and picking up Micah by the neck.

“You’ve pushed my buttons for the last time! Time to…!” says Trekker angrily while showing his claws.

“Freeze!” said a voice. Micah, Christopher, Trekker, and Trekker Jr. draw their attention to the source, which reveals to be a police squad with their guns drawn.

“Put the child down!” said the sergeant.

“Make me!” responded Trekker. One officer pulls out a taser and fires it at Trekker, electrocuting and causing him to release his grip on Micah, who makes a run for it while the police squad apprehends Trekker.

“Trekker, you’re under arrest for escaping.” said the sergeant. The sergeant escorts Trekker to a cruiser while other officers apprehend and escort Trekker Jr. to some other cruisers. Micah and Christopher watch as Trekker and Trekker Jr. get hauled away with Micah asking, “How did you guys find out about this?”

“It was all over the news.” said the sergeant.

“What was?” asked Christopher.

“Trekker’s escape. Don’t you two watch TV or read the paper?” asked the sergeant.

“Yes, but not this time, as we were too busy trying to rescue our brother.” answers Micah while pointing out Matthew. The sergeant draws his attention to Matthew and back to Trekker while saying, “Well, looks like we’ll be adding kidnapping to the charges. Take care, you two.” The sergeant parts ways with the rest of the squad while Micah and Christopher free Matthew from Trekker’s concrete slab.

“You all right, Matthew?” asked Christopher.

“I am now. You guys must have been through a lot.” answered Matthew.

“It was quite an experience for Christopher. As for me, just another adventure come and gone.” responded Micah.

“Well, anyway, thanks for saving me, guys.” said Matthew.

“Don’t mention it. You were in trouble, so we had to act quickly.” responded Micah.

“I hate to break up the reunion, but can we go home already?” asked Christopher.

“Ok, ok. You’ve made your point, Christopher. Matthew, we’ll just tell you about it along the way.” responds Micah while leading Matthew and Christopher to Trekker’s Warp Machine. Micah and Christopher talk about their adventure with Matthew while Trekker and Trekker Jr. get booked into their jail cell.

“Now stay!” says the guard while walking away. Trekker angrily sits in a corner with his arms folded while grumbling, “Foiled again!”

“Look on the bright side. At least we’re together.” said Trekker Jr.

“I suppose every cloud has a silver lining.” responded Trekker angrily.

“So, what do we do now?” asked Trekker Jr.

“The same thing we always do. Plan our next move on Micah.” answers Trekker while contemplating with Trekker Jr. joining in. After his adventure with Micah, Christopher starts to see more enjoyment out of taking on missions and encountering challenges, with and without his Fantom powers while continuing to work alongside Micah and Matthew to keep the world safe from harm.

 

The End