What Has Yet To Happen

And Time unfroze.
For the longest time, Norman Bufort, Jessie, Marcus, and the others had been waiting to dispense from their positions underneath the moon and the floating orange letters that said "The End" (Mr. and Mrs. Furbus had not minded at all being stuck in their position, but that is beside the point). However, as soon as these words you are now reading took form, they all began to disperse. Dr. Pea excitedly urged Captain Myghxz toward his laboratory, saying something about re-creating the four-dimensional vortex (Myghxz seemed somehow disinterested in such things); Mr. and Mrs. Furbus made their way back to their house together. Thus, Jessie, Marcus, and Norman remained on the scene (Mr. Burton and Ezz had mysteriously vanished sometime earlier).
"What was it you wanted to tell me, Marcus? Something about Martin?"
"Oh!" Marcus said, his brain slowly rebooting, "Yes. Um...you'd better come with me.
The three returned to Norman's yard, and Norman could not believe his eyes. His entire yard was now a gaping hole in the ground.


"MARTIN!" he said, looking up at the lawn gnome who danced happily on a tower of Xenon canisters, "What have you DONE!?"
"You guys gave me a shovel, did you not? Well, I got busy digging! And I found all the Xenon in the area! Now there's plenty of Xenon for everyone! Who knows when you might need it? (Oh, and I think you have a rabbit-infestation, as well.)"
"My house is...inaccessible!"
"Hmm..." pondered Martin, "I would take your meaning, methinks, but I know not the definition of 'in-EX-S-able.'"
Norman was about to say more, when suddenly a portal opened up before them. Out of the gleaming gateway, Dr. Pea emerged in a time-machine none of them had seen before. Dr. Pea quickly hopped out and began speaking rapidly,
"Okay, I know you guys just turned me down, but you have to come with me, now!"
"Just turned you down?" asked Marcus. "We haven't seen you since beneath the random 'The End' letters!"
"You haven't...oh. So I haven't come to see you yet?"
The three shook their heads.
"Okay, in a few minutes, I'm about to come up and ask you all if you would like to help me build a second time-machine (since the first was left in 2009 with that confounded worm creature!). Um...but you guys are going to turn me down. So, uh...just tell me no and I'll go away, and then I'll come back in a moment or two." And Dr. Pea hopped back onto the time-machine and shot into the future.
Immediately following, Dr. Pea came up to the three and excitedly said, "Do any of you want to help me build a second time-machine that we may have more adventures in time-travel!?"
The three looked at each other, still bewildered by the previous Dr. Pea that they had just talked with, and said, "Um...no?" (Marcus was a little more definite with his answer--I don't think he ever really enjoyed time-travel).
"Oh..." said Dr. Pea, "really? Okay...well, I guess I'll just build it by myself." And with that, the saddened Dr. Pea sulked off to explore time on his own.
No sooner had Dr. Pea left than the future Dr. Pea returned in the time-machine. "Okay, now that that's out of the way (I was really quite disappointed at being turned down, but I guess I have myself to blame), we shall proceed with these matters. Come, you three, let us away on yet another adventure!"
"What is it now?" Norman asked.
"You remember how I suspected the time formula was telling us to go 948 years into the future? Well, while there may not have been a reason before, there is now!"
Marcus declined, but Dr. Pea insisted that Norman and Jessie go. Thus, after Dr. Pea grabbed a few spare canisters of Xenon ("I told you you'd need it!" said Martin), the three hopped into the second time-machine and they disappeared into the future as Dr. Pea yelled, "Come! We have business in the year 2939!"