A Steampunk and his Princess

Chapter 1: Into the Rabbit Hole

Jay's P.O.V

I was walking home from school, alone since Gene my best friend wasn't at school today. Gene is a... weird friend to have. Especially since I always have to watch over his every move to make sure he dosent die of hunger or actually sleeps for a few hours. He mind is everywhere at once. His father is a scientist and Gene wants to be just like him. Gene usually works the mechanics. I start walking to my door when I stop and look over at Gene's house. Gene and I are next door neighbors, but then again I basically live with him. I sigh and roll my eyes.

"Better go check on him," I mutter annoyed. I walk up to his door and nock.

"Its open Jay, you can come in" I hear gene say from the inside. I am basically the only one who comes to his house anyway so he knows it's me. I see him with his goggles on and a blow torch working on something. He kinda looks like steampunk with those goggles on. He has dyed hair at the ends that go from a green and fade to a blue. He has one blue eye that's on the right side and one green one that's on the left. He is wearing that stupid brown jacket that he is always wearing. He has a white shirt on that has a brown rim at the top and bottom and he is wearing his usual jeans. His clothes are covered in oil and dirt, so is his face. He has freckles all over his skin. You could see the start of his mechanical tattoos at the top of his shirt. "Where were you today man? I needed your help" He tells me not looking at me.

"Well, I was at school. Something you must have forgotten about?" I said to him. He stopped working pulled up his goggles and rested them on his forehead. He put the blow torch down and made an "uh-oh" face.

"We had school today?" He asked nervously.

"Yes, its Friday," I said annoyed. He sighed and put his head on the table.

"This is the 10th time this month. Im soo getting kicked out of school" He growled.

"Yeah you are, and I sure as hell dont want to be there alone," I said. As I said his mind is everywhere. For example...

(Flashback)

I saw Gene rushing down the hall papers in hand. He runs into me dropping all of his stuff.

"S-sorry Jay," He says holding his head.
"Its fine," I say and we both reach down and try to pick up his papers. His head bumps mine. We both hold it and wince, I reach down again and pick all of his stuff up. "You are a danger to all," I say.

'Yeah, I know"
"Gene, where are you going?" I ask him.

"Science, I have to hand in this project. Let go of me im gonna be late." He said trying to run away I put my hand on his shoulder and stop him again.

"Three things. One that bell was just the bell to move to next period, not the late bell. Two There is no project due in Science its due next week. And three, you dont even have Science, I have it with you. You have math." I said to him in a completely calm manner. Since he is so crazy, I keep track of his schedule and things like that to make sure he actually gets through the day.
"What? I dont have math" He said as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out his phone. Looks on it and his eyes widen. "Okay I do have math, ugghhhhh why me?" He says putting his head down.
"Because you're insane, now go to class or your gonna be late," I said he lifts his head up and starts running again. I groan and call his name.

"What is it now?" He says looking back. I put my hands on his shoulders.

"That is not the direction of your math class," I say as I move him over to the actual direction. "That was the direction of your English class," I say letting go of his shoulders.

"R-right pfftt I knew that j-just messing with you, heh," He says totally lying. "I gonna go now." He says and starts running in the correct direction but trips on something he already tripped on 5 times that day.

"I-Im okay, Im okay," He says getting up and continuing running. I chuckle and sigh to myself.

"I swear this boy is gonna be the death of me," I say walking off to my class.

(Flashback end)

Yeah, he doesn't pay attention at all.
"So what are you working on?" I ask him.

"Oh yeah, that. Um, Im working on more pieces to my dad's machine." He says putting back on his goggles. I grin widely. They have been working on this for months. They're trying to travel from one location to another but it only takes one second. You could go from America to China in almost seconds with this thing. At least that's what they're trying to do. I really want to test it out when it's done. Im the tester of whatever they make. I remember them working on this when I was a kid.

"You think it will be almost competed soon?" I said. He stops. And smirks.
"Oh, my friend not almost complete soon. Almost complete today." He said to me. I smiled and jumped up and down. I have been waiting for this moment for years.
"Calm down, or you might mess this up." He said to me.

Time Skip.

I was waiting in his super messy room that's covered with papers, energy drinks, and coffee cups. I can't even remember the last time he had it clean. Oh, wait I remember, never. I didn't really care though. I felt a buzz on the special watch he gave me. I pressed the button and an American girl doll size version of the upper half of Gene appeared hovering as a hologram over the watch.
"It's ready, just need to-" he said but didn't let him finish talking I ended it and ran down the stairs. I was so excited.

Gene's P.O.V

The call ended and I heard stomps coming down the stairs. I chuckled at how excited he was. He was acting like a kid. He ran up to me.

"Is it done?" He said smiling.

"Basically, just need a few more touches. DAD! COME HERE" I said then yelled for my dad. He came in.

"Is it done?" He said. I saw Jay step into the machine.

"Just a few more touches and checks," I said. He smiled. He had a coffee cup in hand and huge bags under his eyes. He hadn't slept all night then again he hasn't slept well in years ever since mom died well she went missing, but he says went to another world, which I take as him saying she's dead. That's when he started to get really serious in science. I walked over to the machine that looked like a time machine. I was looking around at the wires and noticed one was out of place. I grabbed it and looked at it, put it in the machine. I had it in my hand still when I heard a crash. I looked behind me and saw my dad with his head on the machine's console. He must have crashed. I looked over and saw his coffee it was tipping over. Before I could do anything it fell on the console and a few wires I felt a shock and looked down and saw some black hole looking thing below me. The machine fell and since I was holding onto the wire I was dragged with it. I felt like Alice in Wonderland in the rabbit hole, just falling in complete darkness. Then I saw another hole open up, but this time it had landed on the other side. The machine fell through and hit the ground damaging it and The second I hit the hard grass I blacked out.