"Hey everyone I'm home!" Jeremiah says to a quiet empty house.
"Hm, where is everyone at? Why is It so quiet? I should answer Comadusts question and head to bed." Jeremiah thinks to himself.
"I did already speak to Mr. Weiss about Comadust but I'm sure he'll know what to do."
"Hey Comadust? What's today's ques-"
As Jeremiah walks into the room to see his parents knocked out in his bedroom and the television is fried.
"Hey, what happened here?" Jeremiah asks as he wakes his parents up.
"Hmm? What? Why are we here?" Says Jeremiah's father.
"I don't know." Says Jeremiah's mother.
"Do you guys know what happened before you were knocked out?" Asks Jeremiah.
"Knocked out? We were knocked out?" Says Jeremiah's mother.
"Ugh, I guess they don't know what happened then, they must not remember." Jeremiah thinks to himself.
"If you're still tired, you guys should get some rest." Jeremiah says dismissively.
"Sure, we're leaving, goodnight. In the morning, clean up this room." Says Jeremiah's father.
"What? I was the only one who hadn't been in this room all day today." Jeremiah thinks to himself.
"Ok, I will." Jeremiah answers his parents.
His parents leave the room. "Should I even go to bed at this point?" Jeremiah thinks to himself. "Nah, where is Chris?" Jeremiah thinks as he heads to Chris's room.
"Chris? The tv is fri-" Jeremiah pauses as he sees Chris is not in his room.
"Hm, where is Chris? He disappeared too?" Jeremiah searches all over the house for Chris but he is no where to be found.
"I'll go look for Chris, wait no, I don't even know where to look. It's only a matter of time before our parents notice." Jeremiah thinks to himself. "Ooh, I'll call Mr. Weiss because I bet Comadust took Chris." Jeremiah continues.
Jeremiah calls Mr. Weiss. It only took 32 calls before Mr. Weiss finally answers his phone. "Mr. Weiss Comadust escaped and Chris is missing." Jeremiah explains.
"Comadust is indeed missing but I have Chris with me." Says Dr. Weiss.
"Why would Chris be with you?" Jeremiah asks.
"It seems that Comadust put Chris in the screen and escaped, but I won't give Chris back until you bring back my fugitive." Says Dr. Weiss.
"Ugh how am I going to do that? I have the competition of invention starting tomorrow and it doesn't end for three days. He's just going to sit there until after the competition." Says Jeremiah in frustration.
"Fine, but I do recommend you bring Comadust back to me immediately." Says Dr. Weiss.
"I will, goodbye Mr. Weiss. I will see you at the competition." Says Jeremiah.
Jeremiah hangs up the phone.
"Hmm, if Comadust could put Chris in the screen, that means Chris lied during one of his questions. I wonder what he lied about?" Jeremiah thinks to himself.
Skip to the next scene.
It's the day of the competition and all of the contestants line up to sign in and confirm their entry. There is a long line of people waiting outside the venue to enter the building.
"The crowd this year is bigger than any other year, and they're all here to see our inventions." Arnold says in excitement and anticipation.
"It's pretty amazing, to be honest, to know everyone will see our genius. This can also bring global and international fame. Billionaires all over the globe will see us achieve where they couldn't." Jeremiah says.
A man walks up to Jeremiah and Arnold and gives them a room number. "The event is 3 days, on the final and 3rd day all the contestants will reveal their devices and a winner will be announced on that day. This hotel has been booked for the event, you two will have a room assigned to you and payed for by the competition management. You just have to sign on the dotted line and this is saying you agree to being filmed and etcetera." Said the director.
Arnold and Jeremiah agree to the terms and conditions and the two of them get settled into their prospective rooms in the hotel. Lucky for them, they are neighbors.
"Hey Jeremiah, you wanna go look around the hotel with me? See if we can find something wild?" Arnold asks.
"I'm up for it later, we can do it tonight, but I have some finishing touches to add to my device this morning." Jeremiah says.
Jeremiah spends that morning tweaking his device and writing his speech for his final day presentation. "My invention will be hard to explain to the crowd, but with a demonstration and an explanation together, it should be great." Jeremiah thinks to himself.
It's 1:00 pm on the first day of the competition and the crowd is ready for a performance. The director leads the contestants onto the stage where they are then introduced.
The competition begins and the first task is given. The contestants are given quality material and an exact instruction to re invent an already popular invention, but in limited time. If they can pass this task, the contestant moves on.
"What did they give you? I have to invent an internal combustion engine." Says Arnold.
"They gave me light emitting diode. I wonder what for? Why do they have us creating these things?" Jeremiah says in suspicion.
"It must be to study our level of comprehension and pretty much our overall knowledge, to be specific, no one in this competition test at an IQ under 145." Says Arnold.
Many hours later
The contestants get through the first day in a breeze, the crowd is dismissed and the contestants head back to their rooms.
They have all passed today's task, so they will all move on.
Jeremiah walks past a crew of camera men filming outside of the rooms near his room. "What are they all looking at?" Jeremiah says to himself.
Jeremiah makes it back to his room, when he gets there he realizes his device isn't there.