Fred the Great

Fred the Great is the fifth fanfic of the short story series Joe the Great. This fanfic is a “what-if?” scenario and therefore is non-canon to the franchise.

Summary
Fred gets his hands on the book and all its powers, now Joe has to take backseat.

Plot
Joe wakes up in the hotel, he runs out of the room. Fred and Sam are at the gas station outside enjoying milkshakes, criminals knock it out of their hands. Joe arrives and goes up to them, Fred and Sam get worried, Joe tells him they will be a piece of cake, Joe tries to pull out the book but fails to find it. Pages of comic strips pass, stories are not always told once and that in this case, it will be told another way for Joe who found himself living a life that caught him by surprise.

The boys are in the hotel, Joe doesn't understand how he lost the book, Fred and Sam are confused as to what he's talking about. Fred tells Joe he never seen him with a book before, Sam says when they left school, he didn't have a book, Joe says they’ve been fighting bad guys and how they defeated Thanos, but they don’t believe him, Joe tries not to panic, as he probably just misplaced it.

Later that night the boys are outside in the woods, Joe tells Fred and Sam he went back in time to find the book and things will be back to normal, Sam gets confused by what he's talking about. Joe asks Fred if he remembers taking out Thanos, Fred says what in confusion, he says he's gonna take a walk, Joe decides to follow after him. Joe gets to where the book is and sees that Fred has it, he tells him the book is powerful, Fred wonders what's going on and asks for a machine gun, the book gives him one, he causes mass destruction. Fred and Joe come back, Sam asks them where have they been, Fred tells him he found a book with magical powers. Fred asks the book to give him a jetpack, Sam finds this cool, Joe is annoyed. A drone approaches, Joe tells it to back off, Fred tells the book to summon a bazooka. The drone is firing at Fred, he dodges, Joe wants to help him, but Sam tells him it’s too dangerous. Fred shoots the drone defeating it, Sam mentions how amazing he was.

The next day Joe and Sam are sleeping Joe wakes up, he sees Fred is gone. Joe goes out to the woods and sees Fred, he asks him when did he get up, he tells him he never went to sleep. Fred mentions that he got techno goggles to play a virtual reality game, then got a scuba suit to catch some fish, and got some high speed running shoes to pick up clothes he forgot, Joe tells him the book is not about having fun, he asks him if he wants to bet. Fred is bowling, he strikes with a mega club, Joe throws his bowling ball, but fails, he becomes upset, Fred and Sam wonder what's wrong, Joe tells them its either he's better at the book or he won't ever get it again. Thanos arrives. Joe tries to attack, but gets thrown, Sam tells Thanos to leave them alone, but he ignores him. Joe warns Fred but he tells him he's got it under control, Fred asks the book to summon something, but sees it needs to recharge, Thanos deactivates the book, he captures him, Joe and Sam run out of the bowling place.

Joe and Sam find a motorcycle to catch up to the van Fred and Thanos are in, Joe tells Sam to punch a hole into the window, Sam punches the hole into the window and breaks it. Joe and Sam get into the van, Thanos tries to shoot Joe and Sam but they dodge, a beam hits Fred, he lets go of the book. Joe reaches out for the book, but Sam gets it instead, Joe becomes disappointed, Sam tells him he doesn’t need a book to be a hero. Sam asks the book to give him a lava gun, he fires it at Thanos, the book starts to recharge. Fred, Joe, and Sam get out of the van, it crashes, they watch the explosion. Some stories can be retold differently and you may never know how it'll turn out, as the comic closes.

Characters

 * Joe
 * Fred
 * Sam

Villains

 * Thanos
 * Drone
 * Criminals

By Fred

 * Machine Gun
 * Jetpack
 * Bazooka
 * Techno Goggles (off-screen)
 * Scuba Suit (off-screen)
 * High Speed Running Shoes (off-screen)
 * Mega Club (obtained off-screen)

By Sam

 * Lava Gun

Major Events

 * Joe goes back to the first day of spring break.
 * Fred finds the book instead of Joe.
 * Sam gets the book from Fred.

Trivia

 * The events in this fanfic never happened in the main storyline.
 * This fanfic was made to show what would happen if Fred got the book.
 * Despite being non-canon this is the only fanfic where Joe does not summon anything, since Fred and Sam took possession of the book.