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Henry Danger Reader Insert | Captain Man x Reader: SEASON 2

Episode 6: The Time Jerker

It was a beautiful morning in Swellview. The sun was shining, the birds were singing and Henry was tucked up in bed snoozing. It was almost seven AM and in three minutes, he would have to get up and get ready for school, but it seemed like his services were needed elsewhere.

The beeping and flashing of Henry's whiz watch made him awaken with a start, his blurry, sleep-filled eyes looking around his room as he sat up. He flicked open the watch and frowned as Ray's little hologram floated above his wrist.

"Good morning to you, good morning to you, welcome to Wednesday, your face looks like poo!" The man sang to his sidekick, who looked both confused and irritated by the early wake-up call.

"Ray, it's...6:57 in the morning." Henry groaned.

"So? You wake up at seven." His boss shrugged, thinking it was no big deal.

"I had three minutes left. You killed three minutes of my sleep joy." He whined as (y/n) came into the hologram.

"He's a teenager, he loves sleeping, doofus!" The young woman smiled, still dressed in her pyjamas.

"Well, you know we have a good reason." Ray rolled his eyes at his best friend.

"True, true. Henry, who's one of the worst people in Swellview?" (y/n) asked the boy, wrapping her arms around herself as she hopped from one foot to the other since the Man Cave's floor was bitterly cold on her bare feet.

"Ray," Henry grumbled, making the woman laugh as Ray frowned. He saw how cold she was, so he put an arm around her and pulled her to his warm chest. Her icy fingers slid around his waist as she let her personal heater warm her up.

"Henry, we're this close to catching the Time Jerker," Ray told his sidekick, ignoring how (y/n)'s chilly hands made his hair stand on end.

"No way! You guys figured out where he is?" Henry grinned, ecstatic that they were on the verge of capturing one of their biggest enemies.

"No! I just wanted to tell ya that I might need you later if we get a fix on the Time Jerker's location." The superhero explained, confusing Henry.

"So, you beeped me now to tell me you might beep me later?" The boy queried in an annoyed tone.

"Yes. And I also wanted to tell you about the full moon." Ray said, letting go of (y/n), who looked puzzled.

"What full moon?" She asked.

"This one!" Ray giggled as he tried to show his butt to Henry. Such a child.

"RAYMOND!" She yelled in terror as she ran away to her room. If she had an eyeful of that, her lovesick mind would never recover and she'd be plagued by filthy dreams for weeks to come. Henry closed his watch before he could see anything too, flopping back down on his bed to see if he could salvage one more minute of sleep.

"Henry." His mom came bursting into his room, shattering the morning's peace yet again.

"Yeah, Mom?" The kid groaned.

"Can you look out your window and see if that hornet's nest is back?" She asked.

"Why? Dad got rid of that hornet's nest last weekend." Henry pointed out, his eyes feeling very heavy.

"Well, what if they came back?" Mrs Hart quipped, not wanting to argue with her son about this.

"I'm sure they're not gonna--" He sighed, but Mrs Hart was not budging.

"Go look out the window!" She told him sternly, closing the door on her way out. Flopping his head on his pillow, Henry got out of bed in a stroppy mood before climbing up to his window. He opened it and stuck his outside, looking up into the tree and to see that the hornets were certainly back and they were swarming at him. Letting out a terrified scream, he began to swat at the angry insects as they stung his face and hands.

"They're back, they're back! Oh my god, they're back!" He fell off the ledge onto his back as he fought the hornets. He even emptied his paper bin and put it over his head as he used a broken tennis racket to hit them. What a perfect start to a perfect day.

After getting the hornets out of his room(and getting stung more times than he'd like to count), Henry trudged downstairs for breakfast, but there was a cake on the counter that was highly suspicious. It had 'Taste Me!" written in blue cursive on it and it puzzled Henry greatly.

"A cake? Why's there a cake here?" Henry asked to no one in particular, his voice monotone from his foul mood. He did as the writing said and took a taste of the sweet icing.

"Mmm, not bad." He shrugged, enjoying how the icing tingled his tastebuds. However, his slightly improved mood was soured when a hand came shooting through the cake, frightening Henry beyond belief. He backed away from the creepy hand and held a knife out in his defence as he screamed. His day was really not going very well.

"Hahahahahaha, got it! Hahahaha!" Piper laughed as Henry dropped the knife and groaned in anger. Of course, this was one of his sister's stupid pranks.

"You've been caked!" Piper giggled at her brother's pale face and laboured breathing.

"What is wrong with you? You know how bad that freaked me out?" He snapped at her, the previously delicious icing now tasting bitter on his tongue.

"Hey! Everything okay in here?" Mr Hart came running up to his children after he heard all the screaming.

"Yeah!"

"No!" Henry swiftly disagreed with Piper, his heart still beating rapidly.

"I caked him!" Piper told her father, who seemed to ignore his son's distressed face and enthusiastically asked his daughter all about her prank. They both laughed hard when she showed him her video of Henry screaming in fear.

"Dad! You laughing?" He asked, annoyed that his dad was laughing at his suffering.

"Yeah! She caked you!" Mr Hart said, thinking that because Piper hadn't done it maliciously, she didn't deserve a punishment. Henry pulled a face at his family as they watched the video again. His patience was going to be tested today.

~Swellview High~

Henry walked into school, his peers laughing and giggling at him as he did.

"Hey! Henry Hart, whenever I taste a really good cake, you know what I always say?" Mitch Bilksy, the school's biggest bully, came up to Henry.

"What, Mitch?" Henry sighed. Looks like everyone had seen the video then.

"Arghhhhhh! Argh! Ahhhhh!" Mitch copied Henry's reaction from this morning, making Henry smile bitterly as everyone around him laughed. Oh yeah, his terror was hilarious.

"Hey, Henry, how goes it?" Charlotte walked past him as he stomped away from the crowd.

""Awful. It goes awful. " He hissed as he unlocked his locker.

"What's the matter?" The teen girl looked at her friend in concern.

"Well, first, Ray and (y/n) woke me up three minutes early and were all lovey-dovey and stuff on the hologram. And then, I was attacked by hornets. And then, Piper caked me and got it on video." Henry growled as he slid off his backpack.

"Yeah, I know." Charlotte giggled, much to Henry's annoyance.

"You watched it?" He asked in a betrayed voice.

"Just once...or thirty times, I'm not sure." She held up her hands, despite not being that innocent.

"Nice. Real nice." Henry rolled his eyes as Jasper walked past them, carrying a building model made from sticks. Obviously, he wanted them to ask him about it.

"Oh, hey? Will you take notes for me in class? I gotta go to my big interview." Charlotte asked him, nerves bubbling in her stomach.

"For what?" Henry asked in confusion. He hadn't heard about a big interview.

"The Language Information and Math Program," Charlotte said, turning a flyer around so he could see it.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. L.I.M.P" Henry nodded, reading the letters down the sheet.

"It's not called L.I.M.P" Charlotte whined, hating that people called the prestigious program 'limp'.

"L, I, M, P. Limp." Henry spelt out in a slow voice.

"That's just an unfortunate acronym!" Charlotte snapped angrily as Jasper walked past them again, holding out his creation proudly.

"What, Jasper?" Henry asked in an annoyed voice, knowing that his friend was trying to subtly grab their attention.

"Oh, hey guys, didn't see you there." Jasper lied, acting like he hadn't just been parading around the corridor in front of them.

"Yeah, you did." Henry deadpanned.

"And clearly, you want us to ask about whatever that is?" Charlotte added, seeing straight through the curly-haired boy's plan.

"No, I don't...I built it myself! It's a perfect scale model of the Nakatomi tower, made entirely out of toothpicks. It took me three months." Jasper bragged, extremely proud of his creation.

"Why would you do that?" Henry asked his best friend, thinking that his project was a massive waste of time.

"For my art class. My semester project--" Jasper started to explain, but he was interrupted by Sydney Birnbaum chasing Oliver Pook through the corridor. There was never a dull day at Swellview High.

"Guys, what's going on?" Henry asked the friends, wondering what Oliver had that Sydney was desperate to get back.

"Sydney brought this avocado to school." Oliver snitched on his friend.

"So? That's my business." Sydney stated.

"Avocadoes are full of fat," Oliver replied, showing that this was another one of their dumb fights.

"Good fat."

"There is not good fat." They argued back and forth.

"Oliver, that's Sydney's avocado. Give it back to him." Henry stepped in between them, not wanting to see the friends fall out in front of everyone in school.

"Take it, jerk!" Oliver snapped, throwing the avocado viciously at poor Henry, who was just trying to help out. The avocado hit him right in the groin, causing him to double over in pain and collapse on the floor.

"You okay, Hen?" Charlotte asked her friend, who was laid face down on the floor as his lower half ached.

"Mmm-mm," Henry mumbled and shook his head. Poor kid.

~Later that day, The Man Cave~

After a long, laborious day at school, Henry now had to report for work. Walking out of the elevator, he entered the Man Cave, expecting to see Ray and (y/n) skirting around their feelings like usual, or something like that. But no one was around. He walked into the room and threw down his bag, jumping when Schwoz sprang from behind a counter.

"Stop!" He shouted, making Henry shrivel up in surprise. Why was everyone scaring him today?

"What are you doing in my house?" The little man said to him in a funny voice.

"Your house?" The sidekick looked at him in confusion.

"Just play along. Pretend you're a burglar." Schwoz prompted him, Henry quickly falling into the act.

"All right, I'm a burglar...." Henry shook his fist at Schwoz like he was threatening him.

"Oh, yeah? Well, I have this weapon...now, yank it from me." Schwoz instructed him, his smirk hinting that he had an ulterior motive.

"Okay." Henry did as he was told and grabbed the gun from Schwoz's hands.

"Oh no! You yanked away my weapon! So now, I am defenceless!... Now, blast me!" Schwoz looked way too happy for a guy that just asked to be shot in the face and Henry really should've picked up on that.

"Owwwwww!" Henry groaned as he fired the weapon, but it fired backwards, hitting him in the eye. Very sneaky.

"What the butt, Schwoz?" Henry growled at the cackling man, who took back his weapon.

"I just made this, it shoots backwards." He explained, even though the boy was more than aware of how the damn thing worked.

"Yeah, I know." He groaned.

"You can use it to trick bad guys or bad ladies." He carried on.

"Well, can you just explain that without making me blast myself in the face?" Henry snapped, his eye still stinging.

"I don't see how---" Schwoz started, but was interrupted as a new voice joined them.

"What's going on in here?" (y/n) asked them, feeling concerned since she had heard a commotion from her bedroom. She had a feeling it was something to do with Schwoz's new gadget.

"Schwoz made me shoot myself in the face," Henry told her, pointing at the man accusingly.

"Yeah, don't trust anything he gives you. It's either diseased or dangerous." (y/n) giggled as a tube came down with a delighted Charlotte inside.

"I did it! I did it! I got in!" She screamed in joy as she jogged down the steps towards her friends.

"Got in where?" (y/n) asked with a smile, happy to see the girl so pleased about something.

"The Language, Information and Math Program!" She exclaimed.

"L.I.M.P?" Schwoz asked in a confused voice, which made Henry giggle.

"They don't call it L.I.M.P!" Charlotte snapped, even though everyone thought that the acronym was cute and easy to say.

"Well, congrats, Char. I'm really proud of you." Henry smiled at his friend.

"Yeah, well done, kid." (y/n) added, putting a kind hand on Charlotte's shoulder before she and Henry shared a quick hug. However, the sweet moment was interrupted as the computer started to beep.

"Ayyyyyyyyyy!" Schwoz yelled as he ran to the computer.

"It's go time, Ray! Get your ass in here!!" (y/n) screamed too as she sprinted behind Schwoz. It looked like they had finally found their target.

"(y/n), the alarm! Oh my god, (y/n)!" The superhero dashed through the sprocket and leapt down the stairs to where his helper was looking at the monitor with Schwoz.

"I know! I know!" She squealed excitedly as her best friend leaned over her.

"We're swiping and tapping!" Schwoz reported what he and (y/n) were doing.

"Sweet cheese, look! Sector 18!" The young woman pointed to the screen as Ray rested his hands on her shoulder and waist.

"I see it! Look at transformer 128!" The genius told his boss, moving out of his seat so Ray could focus on the target.

"Ahha, ahhh. We got him!" Ray cheered in delight as he fixed the signalled.

"Booyah-boo!" Schwoz exclaimed as he shared a high-five with Ray. (y/n) jumped into Ray's lap as she laughed in happiness, so glad that they had succeeded in their task.

"What just happened?"Henry asked in confusion, watching how Ray placed a celebratory kiss on his friend's temple. What were they so happy about?

"We just figured out the location of the Time Jerker." (y/n) smirked whilst Ray rested his head on her shoulder and secured his arms around her stomach.

"No way!" Henry grinned at the information.

"Way yes!" Schwoz grinned back as Ray and (y/n) swivelled the chair around to face the supercomputer again.

"Ray, guess what happened to me!" Charlotte tried to tell her boss, but he was too focused on his own success to care about hers.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." He brushed her off, causing (y/n) to smack his leg as his arms circled her so he could type on the computer.

"Be nice." She scolded him, knowing that Charlotte deserved to be praised for all her hard work.

"How'd you guys pinpoint his location?" Henry asked as he began to chew a gumball.

"When you use a time machine, it sucks down a massive amount of electricity." Schwoz started explaining. Ray took a second to memorise the way his girl felt in his lap, how her shampoo and perfume mixed into an intoxicating scent, how soft her skin was against his cheek. He was about to go up against a dangerous criminal, he wanted something to settle his nerves.

"And the computer just picked up a major power suck. We triangulated the source..." (y/n) carried on, standing up from Ray's lap so he could transform with Henry. If only she saw the way he pouted and almost made grabby hands towards her retreating body.

"And boom! We got his location." Schwoz poked Ray as his eyes followed (y/n)'s movements, noticing the way his boss was pining for her.

"On top of the Swellview Clocktower." The superhero shook off any insinuations or smirks from Henry, Schwoz or Charlotte as he popped a gumball. He didn't want (y/n) to see how much she flustered him, it would ruin everything he had with her.

"Which kinda makes sense since he's got the whole time theme going on. You know, Time Jerker." (y/n) commented, thinking that they should've guessed the location sooner.

"I got into the Language, Information and Math Program! It's really prestigious!" Charlotte mentioned again, hoping this time Ray would say something nice about her achievement.

"Come on, kid. It's time we told the Time Jerker what time it is." Ray quipped, using the time theme to sound cool. Charlotte's smile fell as he blanked her, feeling rejected as he and Henry ran into the middle of the room to transform.

"Yeah, jail o'clock," Henry added, also trying to sound impressive, but his attempt fell flat since it was a bit...shit.

"Let's blow," Ray said after deciding not to comment on Henry's poor remark. They snapped into their costumes and ran up to the tubes.

"Oh, Charlotte. Congrats on getting into L.I.M.P." Ray said as Henry made the tubes come down. (y/n) smiled at his words; she knew that deep down, he really cared about all his friends in the Man Cave.

"Thanks, but it's not called L.I.M.P!" She yelled back, but the heroes had already left before she had finished. She rolled her eyes as Schwoz chuckled.

"L.I.M.P." He laughed, making Charlotte whip around to look at him furiously.

"Congratulations." He quickly straightened his face as she glared at him, causing (y/n) to giggle.

"Okay, little miss genius, tell me about your program." She said, wanting Charlotte to perk up about her new adventure. She wasn't into stuff like that herself, but she enjoyed seeing her friends smile. To her, sitting through an explanation about some academic course was worth it to see Charlotte so happy.

~Swellview Clocktower~

Henry and Ray climbed up the larger tower(which looked suspiciously looked like a copy of Big Ben) where the Time Jerker had made his base. It was a long way up, but all their efforts would be worth it once they were marching that piece of scum into a jail cell. He deserved it; he kept using his time machine for the stupidest of things, like, when he couldn't be bothered to the trash out. He'd just send it back in time using an enormous amount of energy. Asshole.

Captain Man and Kid Danger jumped through the glass face of the clocktower, brushing off the shards that stayed on their shoulders.

"Well, hello, Time Jerker." Ray snarled at the smirking criminal.

"Yeah, hello," Henry added, his appearance not quite as imposing as Ray's.

"Captain Man and Kid Danger. I had a feeling you'd find me...in time." The Time Jerker gave them a crazed stare, highlighting how he liked to use time-related puns.

"Oh. Is that how it is? The Time Jerker, so when you say things you use a bunch of puns about time and clocks and stuff?" Henry asked even though the answer was pretty obvious.

"I'll answer that question...if you give me a minute." The criminal smirked. How long had he spent thinking up all of these dumb puns?

"Ew, he did it again!" Kid Danger told his boss, annoyed that the man was taking this like one, big joke.

"I heard! You know, we can make time puns too." Ray told the Time Jerker.

"Hmmm, I'd like to watch you do that." Another bloody pun. Seriously, how many of these did he have?

"You know, I'm gonna--I'm gonna punch the daylight savings time outta.. you." Captain Man stumbled, his quip sounding really bad when he said it out loud.

"Oh, that was alarmingly bad." The villain cringed at his enemy's attempt to make a pun and made one himself to mock Ray.

The superhero duo grumbled to each other for a few seconds after they had been caught out before Henry had thought of something clever to say.

"Okay, Time Jerker, I see you walk the walk, but can you...tick the tock?" Yeah, that wasn't clever, that was embarrassing.

"That one was so awful, you need a time-out!" The criminal growled, causing Ray and Henry to seethe and kick themselves. Why was this so hard?

"That's right, tomorrow, you two will be yesterday's news, for my patience with you has passed!" He carried on, showing off his skill for twisting his words into time puns.

"Oh my god!"

"He's great at that!" Ray and Henry exclaimed, making Jerker grin evilly.

"Okay, maybe we're not great at coming up with time-related puns." Captain Man started, having had enough of the Time Jerker's games.

"But we can till put you in jail." Henry reminded him as Ray tried to grab the guy's yellow jacket, however, he was too quick for him.

"Wait there, Captain Man. You see, I'm the one criminal in Swellview you can't capture. Because I can simply leap through my time portal and go back to this morning before you figured out where I was, am, will be, ugh, you know what I mean!" He explained manically as the superhero ran for him again.

You come one inch closer and I'll jump through." The Time Jerker warned him, but Ray just chuckled when he saw Henry sneak up on the criminal.

"You're not going anywhere near that time portal," Ray told his enemy, who tried to walk through the machine's glowing hoop, only to be stopped by Henry.

"Hey!" He stomped his foot and tried to make a break for it, running to where one of the clock's iron numbers had fallen on the floor when they had jumped through.

"You get away from my time portal." Jerker hissed, holding the heavy number between him and the superheroes as a makeshift weapon.

"Put down that nine," Henry ordered him.

"It's a six and it's made of thick, heavy metal." He replied petulantly, turning his number upside down so he could prove Kid Danger wrong.

"Why should we care what it's made out of?" Ray asked in a confused voice, not seeing the link between the object's density and the fact that it was being used as a weapon.

"You'll care when I throw it at you with all my might." The Time Jerker snapped, causing Henry and Ray to scoff.

"Maybe you haven't heard. I'm handsome and indestructible." The older man bragged.

"Well, Kid Danger is neither." The villain responded, offending Henry and also pointing out the truth.

"Hey!" Henry exclaimed, feeling pretty hurt by the comment.

"Dude." Ray too thought it was a bit harsh, but their objections were cut off as Jerker tossed the six at the boy, the heavy metal bruising his arm. Ray leapt forward in anger as Henry bent over in agony. No one was gonna mess with his sidekick and get away with it.

"You can't defeat me!" Ray grunted as he wrestled with the criminal.

"I will too!" He argued back as Henry recovered at the side of the room.

"Kid Danger! Little help!" Captain Man shouted to Henry as he punched the Time Jerker in the face. Gathering his strength, Kid Danger stopped the man from running away and Ray grabbed his collar again. The Time Jerker tried to force Ray into the portal, his head just millimetres away from the swirling blue energy, but he managed to use his superhero strength to punch him back. With his dense skull, Ray headbutted the man so he could save himself from being sucked into the past, but the Time Jerker gave him a blow on the jaw. Ouch.

Seeing that Ray need a moment, Henry jumped onto the. Time Jerker's back and the two spun around as Henry punched the side of his head. The fighting pair didn't notice how close they were getting to the portal. Ray watched in horror as the Time Jerker forced Henry off his back and the kid tumbled into the portal before he could do anything. Oh shit.

~6:56 AM, the previous morning~

Ah, geez. Henry was back in bed, exactly like he had been in the morning. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, yada, yada, yada. He awoke with a start as his watch flashed and beeped again, making him look around his room in confusion. What the hell?

He flicked open his whiz watch and Ray was on the hologram, ready to sing the same song he had before.

"Good morning to you, good morning to you, welcome to Wednesday, your face looks like poo!" He sang happily, but Henry just tensed in worry as he realised what had happened.

"Oh, no. I've gone back to the...morning." He said to himself as everything sunk in. He had to relive the entire day again? His watch began to flash again and he knew he had to explain his actions to Ray, who he had just ended the call on. Putting on a brave face, he opened the watch again, where Ray and (y/n) were standing together. Obviously, Ray had involved his best friend when his sidekick rudely blanked him.

"Uh, hi, Ray and (y/n)." He greeted them nervously.

"You know, hanging up on your boss is not a nice way to start the day." Ray frowned at him as (y/n) hopped from one foot to the other again, clearly cold as she had been before.

"Hang on, what day is this?" Henry asked them, wanting to be sure that he had gone back in time.

"Wednesday, duh." The young woman answered in an obvious yet puzzled tone. She and Ray looked at Henry weirdly when the boy let out a long, tortured groan.

"I'm sorry, did you say ughnnnnnn?" Ray asked the kid.

"Uh, yeah. I did." Henry confirmed.

"Should we leave you alone? I feel like we've interrupted a personal moment for you." (y/n) smiled at him sourly, hoping that his groan wasn't something...private.

"No! No! No!" Henry said quickly, mortified that the woman had thought about that.

"Well, guess what we got some very interesting news for ya," Ray smirked from his big surprise, but unbeknownst to him, Henry already knew what he was about to say.

"I know, you're this close to catching the Time Jerker as soon as you, (y/n) and Schwoz get an exact fix on his location." The boy said exactly what was on Ray's mind, baffling him and (y/n).

"Yeah, but how'd you know that?" (y/n) asked the boy, wondering if he'd suddenly developing mind powers or some shit.

"'Cause, I've gone back in ti--" Henry was cut off as his mom came bursting into his room, forcing him to hang up on Ray again and jerk up from his bed like he had been sleeping.

"Yeah, mom?" He asked as Mrs Hart came in to tell him about the hornet's next.

"Look and your window and see--" She started, but Henry didn't want to go through the entire conversation again.

"If the hornet's nest is back?" He finished, shocking his mother at how he knew what she was going to say.

"Yeah. How'd you know I was gonna ask you to do that?" She looked at her son strangely.

"Well, uh, you just, uh, I...have no explanation." He stammered, knowing that he'd set himself up for a very difficult question.

"Well, do it, all right?" His mom instructed him and walked out of his room. Well, if he was gonna deal with the hornet's, this time he wasn't going to get stung.

"This is insane. I'm reliving this whole day." He told himself, chuckling when he realised that he could be sneaky with the hornets. Climbing up to the window, he opened it and shouted for the insects to attack him. Jumping back down from the ledge, he turned around in time for him to shoot every single one with his watch before they could sting him. Well, that was easy.

"Yeah, sorry hornets...for your deaths. Now I...Piper." He thought about what he had done next and remembered that his sister was waiting downstairs to scare the bejesus out of him. Well, not this time. After shooting the last of the hornets, he walked downstairs, ready to give Piper a taste of her own medicine.

Grabbing a mop from the garage, Henry sneaked into the kitchen and saw the cake on the counter like before. Perfect.

Without a word, he walked up to the cake with a smirk on his lips and plunged the mop through the top of the cake, jabbing his waiting sister on the head. She screamed in pain as he whacked her skull and crawled out from under the cabinet clutching her head. Serves her right.

"Why would you do that? You almost killed me!" She yelled at her giggling brother, who had nonchalantly opened the fridge so he could find some breakfast.

"Well, how should I have known you were hiding under there?" He said innocently like he had done nothing wrong.

"Well, still. Who walks up to a cake and shoves a mop handle down into it?" She asked him in confusion.

"It's this new thing going around the internet. It's called mopping. You've been mopped." Henry gloated at Piper as he sipped his orange juice. Mr Hart ran into the kitchen, but this time, it wasn't Henry's screaming he had heard.

"Hey, is everything okay in. here?" He asked the same question as he had before.

"No!" Piper whined, a lump forming on her head from the assault.

"Oh, yeahhhhh. Oh, yeahhhhhh. Yeah." Henry confirmed to his puzzled father. This day was going to be great, he was going to make sure of it.

~Swellview High~

One hour later, Henry walked into school like normal and this time, no sniggering kids were looking at him. Success. However, he still had to contend with Mitch Bilsky, who was positioned by the door again.

"Hey, Henry Hart." The bully said to the kid, who swaggered up to the larger boy with a smirk.

"Yeah, Mitch? You got something to say?" Henry asked innocently, knowing that Mitch had nothing to use against him since the video didn't exist anymore.

"...Yeah, I...feel like making fun of you for--something." Mitch struggled to come up with something to say.

"And?" Henry said expectantly, enjoying how the bully was squirming in thought as he failed to think of something horrible to pick on.

"I can't think of nothing." Mitch chuckled nervously, looking at his shoes because he felt embarrassed.

"Well, have a nice day." Henry smiled. Well, that went a lot better than last time.

"You! Have a nice day!" The larger boy growled in response before leaving to bully some other unfortunate soul.

"Hey, Henry. How goes it?" Charlotte asked the same question from before, but this time, Henry could give a much better answer.

"Awesome. It goes awesome." He smiled, feeling much better this time around. It sure was nice knowing what was gonna happen.

"Why?" Charlotte asked.

"Come with me," Henry smirked at her and pulled his friend away from his locker.

"I've already lived this day." He divulged, but Charlotte just thought he was crazy.

"Oh." was all she said, thinking that Henry had hit his head or something.

"And the first time, it was awful, but now that I know everything bad that's gonna happen, I can make sure it all goes gooooood." He used his catchphrase, smirking at how he had power over the day. Beat that for time control, Time Jerker.

"Yeah...why don't we take a walk to the school nurse?" Charlotte suggested, thinking he needed some medical attention stat.

"Look, I'm not crazy and-" Henry was cut off as Jasper began to walk past them again with his Nakatomi Tower model. Some things never change.

"Good luck with your big interview for L.I.M.P.," Henry said, cooly walking off.

"It's not called L.I.M.P! And how do you know about my interview?" Charlotte asked him in a confused tone.

"I told you, I already lived this day and I know you get in," Henry said, which probably wasn't a good idea. Hadn't he heard of the butterfly effect and shit?

"I do?" Charlotte asked excitedly, her heart fluttering at the idea of being accepted into the program.

"Yup, and now, here comes Jasper pretending he "didn't see us guys" here." Henry pointed to the strolling boy who eyed them as he walked past.

"Hey, Jasper." Henry greeted him.

"Oh hey, I didn't see you guys here." The curly-haired boy lied again, proving Henry was telling the truth.

"Yeah, you did. 'Cause you wanna show us your perfect scale model of the Nakatomi Tower that you made entirely out of toothpicks, that you built yourself and took you three months." Henry stated, shocking Jasper at how he could have possibly known that.

"Okay...do you have hidden mirrors in my room?" He asked in concern, thinking Henry must have been spying on him to have known that.

"No, gross." His friend replied, shuddering at the thought of seeing what went on in Jasper's bedroom.

As per the earlier version of this day, Sydney and Oliver came running from the corridor. They were still arguing about their avocado predicament.

"Ah, here we go again." Henry sighed, grabbing Charlotte's magazine and holding it over his crotch as protection.

"Avocadoes are full of fat," Oliver said again.

"Good fat."

"There is not good fat." This argument was getting old.

"Oliver, that's Sydney's avocado. Give it back to him." Henry told Oliver maturely, getting ready to avoid what was about to happen.

"Fine, take it, Jerk!" The boy threw the avocado with all his might, but this time, Henry stepped to the side and the flying object smashed into Jasper's crotch and made him collapse onto the floor. He fell onto his beloved model, destroying it completely. Well, that was a new development.

"See what avocados do?" Oliver asked an irritated Sydney, the two of them running off again.

Henry and Charlotte looked over Jasper as he groaned from a load of toothpicks in his face. That had got to hurt.

~The Man Cave~

Okay, so this time, Henry was ready for Schwoz and his mischievous antics. He wasn't going to be scared by him. Throwing down his bag like usual, the boy called out to the hiding man.

"Hey, Schwoz, hiding behind the thing there." He said to the genius, who confusedly poked out from his hiding place.

"How did you know I was here?" He asked the boy, his sneaky weapon in his hand.

"Hey...what's that? A new weapon? Want me to test it out?" Henry asked in surprise, a devious plan forming in his head.

"Yeah, please." Schwoz smiled knowingly, but Henry was going to be the one smiling after this.

"All right, let's see here." Henry turned the weapon around so it wouldn't hurt him.

"Wait, wait, wait, what are you---" Schwoz stuttered, but Henry fired the weapon at him anyway, the beam hitting him in the eye this time. Oh, how the tables had turned.

"What the butt, Henry?" He growled as Henry laughed as he would.

"Hey, that's my laugh! How'd you know this fires backwards? Did you go back in time and know you're reliving this day?" Schwoz's intelligence pointed him to the correct answer as Henry smiled.

"Maybe..." Henry teased him as Schwoz connected all the dots.

"Oh, you and Ray fought the Time Jerker." He gasped.

"We did." Henry confirmed, thinking about how (y/n) should've come down by now. Maybe time had been rewritten again? Henry had no time to ponder that thought as the tube came down. Thinking that she'd been successful again, Henry smiled at his friend, but it soon fell as she walked over to them in a melancholy mood. Oh shit.

"Hey, Char. Congrats on getting into L.I.M.P." He smirked, thinking his well-informed prediction was right.

"It's not called L.I.M.P. and I didn't get in. Thanks for getting my hopes up." She said glumly as Henry's mouth fell open like a goldfish.

"W-what do you mean? I already lived this day, I know you get in," he stated firmly, not realising that he had rewritten time.

"No, I didn't. Look at my application." She told him, turning around her sheet of paper which had a very large, red 'no' stamped on it.

"That's a very clear no," Schwoz commented as he looked over Henry's shoulder.

"I'll be back after I've cried in the bathroom for an hour or five!" Charlotte's voice broke as she dashed behind the secret door, making Henry feel awful.

"I don't get it. I know she got into that program. So how come--" Henry tried to say, but Schwoz had heard enough.

"Henry, when you go back in time and you change what you do, you can change the course of history." The man told him dramatically, causing Henry to cringe. He had screwed up.

"Is that bad?" He asked timidly, already having a pretty good idea of the answer.

"Yeah, it's bad. Come on, it's happened in every time travel movie ever made." Schwoz pointed out.

"Oh, man. It's my fault Jasper's model got wrecked and it's my fault that Charlotte didn't get into that program." The kid whined, feeling really, really guilty.

"Yeah, you change one thing you do, it can affect everyone else around you. It's the danger of time travel." Schwoz said gravely.

"How do you know all this?" Henry asked him, wondering how the little guy had become such an expert.

"I read this book." He said, quickly grabbing 'The Danger of Time Travel' novel from the couch.

"So, I have to go back in time and relive this same day again?" He quizzed, hoping the answer would be no.

"Yeah, yeah. You must!" Schwoz insisted, knowing that everything must be corrected.

"But the first time was horrible," Henry told Schwoz, but he wouldn't take no for an answer.

"Everything must happen exactly as it did the first time," Schwoz replied firmly, as the computer's alarm went off. The Time Jerker's location had been found, but Henry already knew where they were going. Only, things weren't quite the same as before. In fact, things were not good at all.

"I HATE YOU!" (y/n) screamed as she came down the steps with a suitcase, furiously stomping away from Ray who was hot on her heels and equally angry.

"I HATE YOU TOO!" Ray shouted at his enraged best friend, his face red but also incredibly hurt.

"I hope you have a nice life without me, Ray Manchester!" (y/n) seethed as she shrugged on her jacket, her stare full of hate. She couldn't explain what argument they'd had, but it had started soon after Henry hung up on them. It seemed like the rewritten timeline had affected them too.

"Yeah, well, I can find someone else like you. There's a million girls out there who'd love to be my helper!" Ray snarled, his words choking him up as his heart broke. What disaster had led to this? He didn't mean what he said, he'd never find another girl like her, not now, not ever; he was ripping his own heart to pieces with every word he spoke.

"Really? Well, I wish you all the luck in the world. 'Cause I'll never find someone like you." She whispered, turning around and wheeling her suitcase to the lift. Stepping inside, she gave him one last heartbroken gaze, her tears streaming down her face as she left her love in the Man Cave.

The alarm was still beeping as Ray's breathing stayed ragged, but his mind was growing in sadness. (y/n)...had...left? What had Henry done? The boy and Schwoz looked like deer in headlights as they looked at their boss, who was unknowingly crying as he robotically walked to the computer. He didn't know how to react, he'd just lost his heart, his love, his (y/n); he wanted to run after her and beg for forgiveness but he just moved automatically.

"We're about to discover the location of the--" He said in a strained, overly-happy tone, but was cut off by Henry as Schwoz scuttled over to help him and see if he was alright.

"Time Jerker. He's right on top of the Swellview Clocktower." The boy said seriously, knowing he had to get on top of that damn clocktower and make everything okay again. He would go through his horrible day 100 times over if it meant he could get Ray and (y/n) back on track to being together forever.

"How'd you know that?" Ray asked in a sad, dull tone. He felt like all his love had been sucked out of his body. She was currently walking to a friend's house, seeking sanctuary to nurse the broken heart she had left with.

"'Cause I do," Henry stated firmly as he chewed his special gum quickly. He just wanted to get back in that portal as soon as he could.

"I think he does," Schwoz confirmed, seeing how Ray was pale, quiet and sluggish. He seemed impressed and confused but said nothing as Henry transformed into his Kid Danger costume before he did.

"Hey, hey, Henry, where are you going?" Ray asked in a hurt, angry and confused tone as his emotions ran wild at how Henry went to the tube without him. It was certain that in the next few hours, after fighting the Time Jerker, he'd wander into (y/n)'s room and collapse in a fit of despair and sob into the quilt that still smelled like her. Well, he would, in theory. Henry had no intention of letting it get that far. He was going to make this right.

"To the clocktower. To set things straight." He stated confidently.

"Set things straight? Did he set things crooked?" He asked Schwoz in a heartbroken tone, wondering if his pain was because of Henry.

"A little bit." He replied. Little was a huge understatement.

"Meet me on the roof. I'll start up the Mancopter. And don't worry, you'll get (y/n) back, I promise." He said kindly.

"Wait, I gotta blow a bubble." Ray fumbled for his gum tube, thinking the faster he moved, the faster he'd have his sweet girl back where she belonged.

"Up the tube!" Henry yelled as Ray's shaking hands spilt his gumballs all over the floor. Clumsy.

"Ah! My gumballs. You pick the rest of them. Henry, wait for me!" Ray ran to catch up to his sidekick, but a stray gumball made him slip comically and he landed on his back with a crash. If (y/n) was there, she would have definitely giggled like Schwoz.

~Back on the clocktower~

The Time Jerker was sending his trash back through time again as Henry and Ray burst through the clock face again.

"Well, hello, Time Jerker," Ray said as Henry looked around. The thought of going through the entire fiasco of fighting the Time Jerker again seemed so tedious, so he picked up the six/nine that the criminal had thrown at him earlier. He launched the heavy metal number at the crazed villain before any time puns could be made, efficiently knocking him out as it collided with his head.

"What was that?" Ray asked in complete confusion, his face still pale as his heart sank like a dead stone in his chest. Only one person could make it flutter again.

"I'm in a hurry," Henry told him, knowing that it was up to him to get that person back in the Man. Cave.

"But you didn't let me do anything!" Ray said moodily, his lip quivering as Henry punched in some time coordinates on the Time Jerker's machine.

"Who cares? I knocked out the Time Jerker." The boy replied cooly.

"Well, what am I supposed to do now?" Captain Man asked, feeling a bit useless and depressed at the situation he found himself in.

"Just sit back and think about (y/n), dude." Henry smiled at him, watching Ray gulped and screwed his eyes shut so no tears would escape. Okay, he needed to get back now.

"What are you doing with that thing?" He asked as he blinked his watery eyes. God, he couldn't fathom that he was going back to a cold, empty Man Cave. He hadn't done that for eight years and now it felt like a stab in the heart to have lost his precious friend.

"I'm gonna use it to fix all the stuff I screwed up," Henry admitted, still feeling like crap. He'd screwed over his best friends and practically ruined his boss's relationship before it had even had a label put on it.

"Well, I'm in charge!" Ray whimpered in a needy voice. He couldn't cope; his childish personality that was usually kept in check was running out of control.

"Fine. Why don't you pick a place for us to take (y/n) for dinner?" Henry said, knowing that his boss would take his time to choose the perfect place for the young woman.

"She'll want Chinese food," Ray told him as the time machine's blue energy began to whirl into a portal.

"Cool. But first, I gotta go back in time, right now, so I can answer your call in about twenty seconds." The kid stepped up to the portal before diving in. It was time to set things straight.

~6:56 AM, the previous morning again~

Henry had made it, again! His watch was flashing and he was sleeping in bed. Knowing he had to get everything perfect today, Henry flicked open his watch and listened to Ray do his stupid song and dance.

"Good morning to you, good morning to you, welcome to Wednesday, your face looks like poo!" He sang happily as (y/n) came down the sprocket steps behind him.

"Thanks for that," Henry said carefully, eyeing the clock so he knew what was gonna happen when.

"Sure thing, kid." Ray smiled happily, his day still going perfect as his best friend walk up to him.

"Now it's time for me to have the worst day ever, again," Henry grumbled, confusing Ray.

"Huh, what do you mean?" He asked with a frowning face.

"He's a teenager, he loves sleeping, doofus!" (y/n) said her words from the first day and shivered from the cold, Man Cave air.

"Yes, that's exactly it. You woke me up. " Henry quickly agreed when Ray put his arms around his best friend and she snuggled into him. Okay, hopefully, that would do the trick for getting them back together. Closing his watch, it was time for the second part of his worst day ever.

"This is for you, Charlotte, (y/n)." He said to psych himself up before climbing up to the window and opening it. Here came the hornets.

"ARGGGGGHHHHH, THEY'RE BACK, THEY'RE BACK, THEY'RE BACK!" He screamed. Yep, it hurt as badly as it did the first time around. He even fell off the ledge and put the paper basket on his head. Okay, hornets, check. Next, cake.

Getting pumped up in the kitchen to be 'surprised', Henry thought back to exactly what he did two days ago.

"A cake? Why's there a cake here?" He asked again, taking a scoop of the icing to taste.

"Hmmm, not bad." He mentioned and Piper stuck her hand out of the cake like before. Time to be scared.

"Ahhhhh, ahhhh!" Henry acted like he'd had the living daylights frightened out of him and waved the knife around in fake defence. Piper fell about laughing as she collected her camera and Henry pretended to be annoyed. It was avocado time.

~Swellview High~

"Avocadoes are full of fat," Oliver said as he held up his dumb avocado.

"Good fat."

"There is not good fat." At this point, Henry could reenact their argument word for word, but it was time to get hit by the avocado again.

"Oliver, that's Sydney's avocado...Give it back to him." Henry directed the teen, bracing himself for the impact.

"Fine, take it, jerk!" Henry collapsed from the pain and it was safe to say that knowing the impact was coming didn't make it any better.

"It's worse the second time." He groaned in a quiet voice to no one in particular, but thankfully, Jasper's model was intact and Charlotte didn't know she'd get into L.I.M.P. There was only one thing left to do and Henry was praying all was well in the Man Cave.

~In the Man Cave~

"Now, blast me!" Schwoz told him as Henry braced himself for the laser to the eye. Sighing, the boy raised the weapon and fired, shouting in pain as the shot made his skin burn, much to Schwoz's amusement. Yeah, pain hurts more in the second round.

"What the butt, Schwoz?" He asked in a loud voice, hoping (y/n) could hear him.

"What's going on in here?" The young woman asked right on cue, coming down the sprocket steps in concern and Henry had never been so glad to see her smile.

"Hey, (y/n/n)." He greeted her warmly, knowing that she wasn't leaving the Man Cave for a long, long time. Thank God for that.

The tube came down and an overjoyed Charlotte ran down the steps. Looks like that had fallen back into place too.

"I did it! I did it!" She squealed in delight.

"What did you do?" (y/n) asked, not knowing that her history had just been completely rewritten.

"I got in!" Charlotte told her happily.

"Yes, I did it!" Henry exclaimed unbelievably relieved at how his friends were back to normal. However, he didn't realise that his words were lost on everyone else.

"No, I did it." His friend corrected him.

"Whatever. Congrats, Char, I'm really proud of you." Henry smiled, waiting for (y/n) to say "well done" before giving Charlotte a hug.

"Yeah, me too. I can't believe I got into the Language, Information and Math Program!" Charlotte said, her cheeks blushing from all the praise as she pulled back from the hug.

"L.I.M.P?" Schwoz asked and this time, Henry wasn't going to laugh.

"It's not called L.I.M.P." He scolded Schwoz, but Charlotte had some news for him.

"No, I found out they do call it L.I.M.P!" She cried, making her friends giggle.

"No way!" (y/n) laughed happily as the alarm went off. All Henry had to do now was take care of the Time Jerker.

~Swellview Clocktower~

Captain Man and Kid Danger jumped through the clockface for the last time as the Time Jerker disposed of his trash 65 million years ago.

"Well, hello, Time Jerker," Ray growled, his spirits much better than they were when he had no (y/n) to go home to. Henry couldn't think of how she knew, but the young woman had given her best friend a long embrace before they had left. She didn't know why, but she felt like she'd missed him in some way, like an echo of herself had felt great sadness. Sort of like someone had chucked a bucket of water over her, she wanted to reassure herself that she wasn't going to lose him.

Seeing the nine/six on the ground again, Henry couldn't bear fighting for the third time, so he figured that history wouldn't care if he knocked out the Time Jerker again. He threw the heavy iron number at his head, ending the brawl right then and there.

"Now, let's go pick up (y/n) and go get some Chinese food," Henry told his boss, walking away since their job was done.

"That's exactly what I was thinking!" Ray exclaimed, thinking that Henry was psychic or something. He wasn't, he'd just had a little heads up.

"Oh, and dude, when you see (y/n), tell her she's your best friend and she's important to you." The boy advised his boss, thinking about how the previous Ray had felt gutted that he hadn't said it enough before (y/n) walked away from his life.

"Why?" Ray asked, not seeing why today was different to any other day. Yeah, those words were the truth, but did he really have to say them to her right now?

"Just do it." Henry rolled his eyes as he opened the door to the Mancopter. Ray didn't need to know all the nitty-gritty details, he just needed to tell her. He had no idea how lost he got when she walked away from him and Henry was going to make damn sure they'd stick together.

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