Chapter One READY Luis sat in the lawn chair on his back porch He stared at the shed at the end of his yard Just like every morning for the last two days he waited for his best friends Tyler and Casey Jenson His father complained that they spent too much time hanging around the house instead of doing more interesting things at the end of spring break If only he knew Luis thought several times about telling him about the three times they had gone forward and back in time But he felt sure his dad would stop them from going again And they had to try once more to help his great-great-great-great uncle Cyrus get back to his own time Meeowwww Sppppttt
Luis jumped up when Tylerʼs robot cat Steel rolled across his foot Tyler sat down in the chair next to Luis and Casey flopped onto the porch Her magician style jacket full of tools and gadgets rattled Still no luck with getting Steelʼs meow to sound normal huh Luis asked Tyler set his forearm crutches on the ground Nope I think that cat is messing with my head Luis grinned He hated to admit that he liked the weird cat Steel had helped them when they were fighting aliens in space ghosts and crooks in a haunted house and flaming scarabs in an Egyptian pyramid Have you heard anything from Uncle Cyrus Casey asked She pulled a metal box of small gears and wheels and a screwdriver from her pockets Luis watched Casey take apart the gadget then put it back together again
How can I hear from Uncle Cyrus when you have Steel with the two of you Luis said I think I need to keep it here since it needs to be near Teslaʼs Time Twister for Uncle Cyrus to talk through it Tyler nodded Yeah I agree If we donʼt hear something soon weʼll be going back to school And our dad is afraid weʼre bored so heʼs talking about taking us to a cabin that a friend of his owns Casey said We canʼt leave now You canʼt Time Twist alone My dadʼs been trying to get me to go somewhere away from the house too I told him the three of us might go to the movies today in case he comes home and weʼre not here Luis said You mean like not here or anywhere in this time Casey said If we donʼt go soon Cyrus may really be stuck in the machineʼs pull on time forever That would be awful
Luis opened his mouth to agree when Steel began to shake His tail twisted in a circle and his eyes glowed red Luis grabbed the robot Is that you Uncle Cyrus Steelʼs voice box crackled Yes Luis But you must hurry to the machine I have been sent to another event in time and I need your help Luis and his friends jumped up Okay this is it Maybe if we solve this adventure and find another item from Tesla Uncle Cyrus can finally go home Casey grabbed Steel and took off fast Tyler moved quickly across the grass He could run a lot faster than people gave him credit for Especially when the fifth-grade bully Greg Dover was chasing him Or an Egyptian crocodile-lion-hippo goddess Luis ran to the shed and pulled the strange tree-shaped key from his pocket He fit it into
