Operation: ERASED, Part 1

This arc is optional reading, but it is funny and gives good development to the Chariton sisters.

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Kids Next Door mission…

Operation:

E.R.A.S.E.D.

Evidently

Rescuing

Adults

Seemed

Extremely

Dumb

Chariton Household

Mrs. Mikaela Chariton levitated a box beside her head using psychic as she walked up the stairs to her attic, setting it atop a stack. She watched as her daughters, Sunni and Darcy came up the stairs, their faces blocked by huge boxes they were carrying. The two plopped the boxes down beside each other as Sunni gasped for breath. "Thanks for helping me move stuff to the attic, you two." Mika thanked.

"Yeah, no problem, Mom." Sunni panted.

"MIKAAA? We have anymore bread?"

"There might be some in the pantry!" Mika yelled. "Hold on, Rainier, I'll come down! Be right back, you two." With that, Mika left down the stairs.

"Ho, finally, we can catch a break." Sunni sighed in relief, sitting on her box.

Meanwhile, Darcy was using this time to dig around one of the boxes. "Boy, Mom sure has a lot of old stuff."

Sunni got up and walked over to look behind some other boxes. "Dad, too. Look at this old robot." She pulled up a small, rusted robot with severed hands. "This thing looks a thousand years old."

Darcy continued to dig around until a picture caught her eye. "Hey, Sunni, look! It's a picture of our mom when she was little."

Sunni put down the robot and walked over to study the picture, of a 6-year-old Mika being raised up by a man and woman. "Hey, it is. But who're those two people?"

"I think those are her parents."

"You mean our grandparents?" At this, both siblings exchanged questioning glances. "Hey, how come we never met our grandparents?"

"I dunno. You think they… died?"

Meanwhile, Mika was on her way back to the attic. "Heh, that silly Mew. He was hiding the bread all along. That little…"

"Mooom!" Sunni and Darcy came running down the hall just then.

"Hey, kids! What's goin' on?"

"Mom. Are these your parents?" Sunni asked, holding up the photo.

Mika bent over to look at it. "Oh… Boy, that sure brings back memories. Those are my parents."

"How come we never met them? We met our dad's parents once."

"It's… not something I'd like to remember." Mika said, a frown appearing on her visage as she looked up in thought. "During the summer when I was six, the three of us went on this cruise. We were having fun, until…"

"What happened?" Darcy asked.

"Our ship was attacked by this, giant octopus thingy. It was huge. It destroyed everything, and ate my dad."

"What happened to your mom?"

"Well, I survived being eaten, and I held onto one of the floating ship pieces. Before the attack, I saw this pirate ship in a fog. I swam over to the ship and climbed up the side. And then… I saw my mom and the others passengers taken hostage by these… weird zombie-fish pirate guys. My mom spit in the captain's eye when he threatened her. And then he…" Mika was unable to finish, the memory of the sword penetrating her mother playing in her mind. "Well… anyway… I fainted afterwards, and… that's when I met Mewtwo."

Sunni and Darcy held horrified looks. "I'm…I'm really sorry, Mom." Darcy said.

"Oh… it's okay." Mika said with a light smile. "Over the years, you learn to let it go. Anyway, come on. We still have more stuff to move." With that, Darcy followed her mother back to the attic.

Sunni just stood in place and looked sympathetically down at the picture in her hand. She then looked in the direction of her mother with worried thoughts on her mind.

"So, Dad, what is this robot?" Darcy asked, presenting the rusted automaton to her father in the attic.

"Oh, this thing?" Rainier took and studied the robot. "Oh, yeah. This is Scrapper. He's this robot I found near the ruins on Planet Secco, back when I used to work for Watto. He's centuries old. I've had him since I was young, and I've always wanted to get him working again. Too bad I couldn't, though…"

"Hmm…" as Darcy studied the robot with curiosity, Sunni came up the stairs and approached her.

"Hey, we need to talk." She stated with a serious look about her.

"Um, okay. Later, Dad."

Darcy followed her sister down the stairs and stopped in front of their room as Sunni faced her. "Darcy… I think our mom is upset."

"What? Why?"

"When we showed her that old photo, and she told us what happened to her parents. Couldn't you feel it?"

Darcy thought for a moment. "Actually… yeah, I did."

"I think she's still feeling bad about the loss of her parents."

"Well, I probably would, too, but what can we do about it?"

"I have a plan. Let me show you something." Sunni led her into their room, sitting down at the computer desk as she typed something in. "I did a little research on the ship that our mom took the cruise on, the Gigantic. Nice name, right? It sunk on the night of July 13, 2005. Our mom's 6th birthday. And hey, Sector V built a new time T.R.A.V.E.L.E.R. recently, right?"

"Um, where are you going with this, Sunni?" Darcy asked worriedly.

"I was thinking…" Sunni looked in thought, "if we could go back in time and stop our grandparents from getting killed, then our mom could get back the childhood she lost with them."

"Sunni, that's crazy! We can't alter the past like that!"

"But Darcy, think about it." Sunni stood up and faced her. "Our mom just turned 6 years old, and she already loses her parents, two of the most important people in her life. Wouldn't you feel upset? Sure, she says she's over with, but we both felt it. She's sad, and she really misses them. As her daughters, we need to do her this kindness."

"But Sunniii. Changing the past has consequences. We could…We could end 7th Age KND, or stop Numbuh 1 from going to GKND and saving the universe."

"What would saving our grandparents have to do with THAT?"

"I dunno! It could happen!"

"Darcy, we'll be saving two innocent lives, long before their time. Our mom can spend the rest of her childhood being happy with them. Then when she gets married to Dad and has us, we'll get to go over and visit them in this time! Wouldn't that be great?"

"Well…" Darcy looked away in worry and thought.

"Exactly! Now let's get over to Sector V's." With that, the mocha-skinned girl hurried out of there.

Darcy hesitantly followed after her sister, worry still visible upon her visage.

Sector V Treehouse

Chris Uno and Kirie Beatles mashed their fingers at videogame controllers as they appeared to be in a match. Meanwhile, Mason and Sheila sat and watched from the couch's armrests at opposite ends, drinking Purple Flurp. "Oi got dibs on the mute, eh?" Sheila said.

And just like that, Chris Uno was defeated as Kirie silently waved her arms in victory. "Ah man! You can't do that!" Chris yelled.

Kirie looked at him and smiled as she made a taunt in sign language.

"She takes after her mother all right." Artie said.

"Hey, hope we aren't interrupting something." At this, the operatives turned as Sunni and Darcy came in from the hangar.

"Oh, hey, guys! What's up?" Aurora asked.

"Is Haylee here? We need to ask her something." Sunni said.

"Yo." Haylee raised her arm from the chair and got up to approach them. "What's up?"

"This way, if you don't mind." Sunni instructed as they led the Gilligan girl back into the hangar. "Haylee, do you still have that T.R.A.V.E.L.E.R. you built some time ago?"

"Oh." Haylee went over toward her closet and pulled said device out, showing it to the girls. "You mean this thing?"

"Yes. We need to use it."

"Whooa, hold on now!" Haylee raised a hand in defense, holding the machine away. "You can't use this! It's still hasn't been perfected yet. This thing only works with Time Dust, and that stuff comes in short supply. It took us forever to find some when we were trapped in the past. Whatever you're using this for, you might not be able to come back. Besides, it's sort of busted now. Used a lot of power getting us back."

"Theen… you mind if we have it, anyway?" Sunni asked.

"Well, if you want to, but I'll need it back." Haylee stated, deciding to hand it to them. "Not sure what you expect to do with it, it don't work."

"Ohh… We'll think of something…" Sunni stared at the time machine as her plan continued to unfurl in her mind.

Iceland; King Household

"You want to borrow... what?"

"We wanna borrow your time staff to power our machine." Sunni explained to Jagar King.

The timebending adult turned toward the clock-designed staff mounted on his wall. The man slowly approached and took the staff in hand, studying it. "This staff was given to me by Clockwork. His time had come... and he trusted me to carry his spirit. Time isn't something to be manipulated. Even if you right the wrongs, you could create something far worse."

"He has a point." Darcy said. "I mean, saving two people from death? That's a big deal."

Sunni sighed. "Whatever, I don't care what might happen. If it'll make our mom happy, I'll risk anything. We'll bring it back, Mr. King, I promise."

Jagar sighed, "Well, if you're that determined... I'll trust you with it. But once you return to this time, the staff will return itself to me. Be careful. And remember what I said." With that, the man entrusted the clock staff to Sunni.

The two exited the house shortly after as Sunni inserted the staff into a tiny slot that fit its handle. She then began typing a date on the tiny monitor. "Sunni, are you sure we should be doing this? Something really terrible could happen if we saved them."

"What could possibly happen? Our mom would get to spend more time with her parents and never have to be upset."

"Ohhh..." Darcy couldn't let go of her bad feeling.

"Okay, I set this thing to take us to the harbor on June 13, 2005. The day the ship went down. Let's go, Darcy." With that, Sunni flipped on the machine as both she and Darcy stood around it. The portal spiraled open, sucking the two girls right inside as they screamed and spun on the way down.

As Jagar King watched them vanish, his wife, Misty came out beside him. "Jagar, are you sure it was a good idea to lend them your staff like that?"

"It's the only way, Misty. They'll need to see for themselves why the past shouldn't be tinkered with. Don't worry. They'll be fine."

Misty still couldn't help but worry, although she trusted her husband's judgment. After all, this is something Clockwork would do…

Roxas Harbor, 2005

The two finally dropped out of the portal and landed face-first in the sandy beach. The two sat up and brushed themselves as Darcy looked around. "Look, there's the ship!" she yelled and pointed several feet away. Already, the huge ferry known as Gigantic was sailing away from the harbor as all of the people onboard waved to those down below.

Sunni immediately used her power to make the T.R.A.V.E.L.E.R. shrink in size and shove it down her pocket. "WAAIT!" The two girls sprinted over through the crowd and towards the guards on the harbor.

"Sorry, girls." The guard stopped them. "No getting on or off after the boat's set sail."

At this, Sunni stepped up to the guard and waved a hand by his face. "You will tell the ship to come back and get us…"

"Suuurrre."

At that moment, the two were forcibly carried and thrown away from the crowd. "Hey, easy on the dress!" Darcy yelled to the guards as they walked away.

"Crud! Now what do we do?" Sunni asked, looking to the ship in the distance.

"Put this whole thing behind us and go home?"

"Not yet! We can still catch up! Come on, Darcy!" With that, Sunni pulled her sister along and dashed for the harbor's edge. The two leapt into the water and began swimming as fast as they could to reach the tremendous ferry ahead of them. The waves the ship was creating seemed too rough to swim through, but they were still able to pull their weight and make it over. Sunni and Darcy sucked in some breath and dove beneath the sea, swimming towards the underside of the ship. They located a small hatch beneath the ship and yanked it open, swimming inside.

Onboard the ship, a lone little boy stood before a toilet in the bathroom with a worried expression. "Okay, Elmer… first time peeing on a cruise ship… nothing to worry about."

"…BLUUHHH." Sunni and Darcy immediately shot out of the toilet, dripping with water.

"WAAAHHHH!" the boy, Elmer, waved his arms as he frantically ran out of there.

"Well, there's already a time paradox in motion." Darcy stated, stepping out of the toilet and standing to her feet.

"Quit your worrying." Sunni ordered, reaching in her pocket and taking out the T.R.A.V.E.L.E.R.. "Good thing this thing is waterproof. Now let's find our mom and grandparents." With that, the pair left the bathroom.

It soon became nightfall hours later as the two were now roaming around a casino area aboard the cruise ship. "Sunni, it's been hours, and we still haven't found our-"

"There she is!" Sunni excitedly pointed over at the 6-year-old Mika, standing with her parents as she held her mom's finger. "Mom-" Darcy quickly stopped Sunni before she ran over.

"Sunni, are you crazy?" Darcy whispered. "Running up to a little 6-year-old girl and calling her 'mom'?? Are we supposed to let her see us??"

"Calm down, she's only six. She'll never remember."

"And what if she does?"

Sunni sighed. "Fine. But we have to save 'em somehow."

"Let's go look at stars, Mommy!" the 6-year-old Mika excitedly jumped.

"Hm-hm, okay, Sweetheart!" the mother smiled before both parents led her outside. Sunni and Darcy exchanged quick glances before hurrying after them. They hid and watched as the family of three gazed up at the stars of the blue night sky.

"The stars are pretty, Mommy!"

"They sure are, Mika. It's said that, whenever somebody leaves this world, their spirit becomes a star in the heavens, to always watch down and guide you. A lot of your ancestors are up there, and a lot of everyone else's, too."

"Like Grandma and Grandpa?"

"Hm-hm, yes, Sweetie, like Grandma and Grandpa."

Mika happily continued gazing up at the stars. However, her smile was replaced with a frown when a huge, thick fog began coming in. "That's weird… where could all this fog be coming from?" Mr. Corella asked.

That's when everyone took notice at the sight of a strange ship within the fog. Sunni and Darcy stepped closer to get a good look, and Mika pulled out a telescope and studied the ship, taking notice of the silhouette of a strange man with a tentacle face.

"WHOA!" The ship quaked all of a sudden, and everyone fell over.

They all recovered their ground as Darcy asked, "What was that?"

"Mmmaybe we should all head inside and-" Before that passenger could finish, a tentacle had shot up and dragged the man down into the depths.

In mere seconds, everyone was running around and screaming for their lives as more tentacles came above and started wreaking havoc on the ship, pulling more people down with them. Mika stared in shock as a tentacle was about to come down and grab her, but her father quickly grabbed and carried her to someplace safe. "Mika, you just stay here and-" However, the man was grabbed by a tentacle himself.

"DADDY!" the 6-year-old yelled.

But to his good fortune, Sunni Chariton leapt up and swung her light saber, slicing the man free. The chopped tentacle shook around in pain before retreating to the sea. "Whoa! Thanks!" the man thanked.

"Hehe." Sunni chuckled.

"Come on, into the boats." Mika's mother yelled, guiding the two over to the lifeboats. However, they were destroyed in an instant. In mere moments, the entire ship had been torn limb from limb as everyone fell in the water.

Mika resurfaced and held onto one of the floating ship pieces as she looked toward the mysterious ghost ship. However, Sunni quickly grabbed the child and pulled her below water.

Onboard the pirate ship, the Flying Dutchman, the zombie-fish pirates had taken hostage of the survived members of the ferry. As Mika's mother was being held in place, the dreaded pirate captain, Davy Jones approached the woman, looking her dead in the eye. "Do ya fear…" But at that moment, the woman vanished in some flash. "What?!" The pirates looked around questionably for where the woman had disappeared to. Davy Jones walked over and stared over the edge at the sea below. The tentacle-faced captain found no trace of the woman. "Hmmnn…"

"Oi, look, guys!" one of the pirates excitedly yelled, holding up a pizza box. "Oi stole a pizza off the ship!"

"YAAAAAY!" The pirates all went off to devour the pizza as the ship sailed away.

Sunni, Darcy, and the Corella family quietly drifted inside the psychic bubble that gave them air below the sea.

Eventually, the five of them were able to make their way all the way back to shore. The little Mika immediately dashed up and wrapped her arms around Sunni. "Thank you so much." Her mother tearfully thanked. "If you hadn't been around, we would've been done for."

"You two are psychicbenders." Mr. Corella stared with amazement. "That's great! Our daughter's a psychicbender, too!"

"My name is Mik-a!" Mika stated cheerfully. "What's your names?"

"I'm Sunni Chariton, and this is my sister, Darcy." The older sibling grinned and waved. "It's nice to meet you, Mom, er, Mika."

"Sunni and Dawcy? Those awe nice names!" Mika grinned.

"Anyway, we're really grateful." The mother stated once more. "Our little girl just turned 6 today, and you just saved her life."

"Eh, you got it kinda backwards there…" Darcy mumbled through her teeth.

"Anyway, we'd love to stick around, but we need to get somewhere." Sunni said as she removed the T.R.A.V.E.L.E.R. and used her power to make it bigger.

"Are you sure? When we get home, we'd love to have you for dinner." The father offered.

"Thanks, but there's no time to lose, right? But don't worry, I'm sure we'll meet again pretty soon." Sunni assured as she began setting in the dates for their own time. "Take care, now!"

"Good-bye!" The family waved as the girls were sucked into the portal, vanishing in a flash of light.

In front of Chariton home

The portal spiraled open before the home of Sunni and Darcy, and the two girls dropped out as it vanished. "We made it!" Darcy exclaimed.

"We'll return this time machine to Haylee later." Sunni decided. "Let's go see how Mom feels!"

The two girls approached the front door and used their spare key to open it. "Moom, we're ho... huh?" As they entered the house, they found two kids sitting on the couch: a boy in a red T-shirt, brown eyes, black plants, and black hair was sitting with a girl with mocha skin, midnight-blue eyes, long, brown hair, and a purple skirt.

The girl called, "MOOOM, there're two strange girls at the door!"

The psychokinetic woman herself walked in, offering a smile at Sunni and Darcy. "Oh? And who might you be?"

Sunni and Darcy exchanged confused glances. "M-Mom... it's us." Sunni said. "Sunni and Darcy. Your daughters."

"Sunni and Darcy?..." Mika began to think. "Why do those names sound familiar... Anyway, I only have one daughter, and a son. These are Hannah and Jason. The Dimalanta twins!" The boy and girl grinned and waved.

Sunni and Darcy's mouths dropped. "DIMALANTA TWINS??"

"Matthewww. Could you come in here?" Mika called.

Mr. Matthew Dimalanta walked in. "What is it, Mika?"

"MR. DIMALANTA??!" Sunni and Darcy screamed.

"Honey, do we know these kids?"

Matthew observed the two girls. "Hmm... can't say that I do. Why?"

"They... say they're our daughters."

"Hm... maybe they're orphans. Like my friend, Jeremiah."

"WHAT?!" Sunni shouted. "We're not orphans!! We're your kids, Mom!"

"Mr. Dimalanta, what happened to Yin?" Darcy asked.

"Yin?" Matt questioned. "Hmm... I remember I met a girl named Yin. She was kinda cute... 'course, that was before I met Mika in sixth grade, after I came back to Philippine." Mika grinned at this.

"Well, what about Rainier?" Sunni asked.

"O-kay, don't remember anybody named Rainier." Mika said, looking baffled.

"Uuugh!! This is ridiculous!!" Sunni cried, grabbing her mother by the skirt. "Mom, it's us!! We're your daughters! We're psychic, like you!!"

"H-Hey, take it easyy!" Mika yelled as Sunni shook her.

Matt hurried to grab the phone. "I don't know who you kids are, but I'm calling the police if you don't leave."

"BUT THIS IS-" Sunni was silenced by Darcy.

"Um, we're sorry to disturb you. We'll get going now." And with that, Darcy led her sister out, quietly closing the door.

The sisters ran several feet away from the house before stopping to catch their breath. "I don't think they'll listen." Darcy said.

"I don't underSTAND!" Sunni yelled. "Why is Mom married to Matthew?!"

"Well, obviously, when we went back in time to save her parents, something must've happened to cause her to be married to Matthew. ...And WE no longer exist."

"WHAT?!" Sunni screamed once again, taking her sister by the shirt. "WHADDYOU MEAN WE DON'T EXIST?! THEN WHY ARE WE HERE?"

"I'm guessing we're in Limbo," Darcy figured, "and cut off with the actual timeline. Even though we can talk to people. But there's no reason to panic."

"NO REASON TO PANIC?!?" Sunni grabbed and shook her sister by the shirt again. "WE'RE TWO SISTERS TRAPPED IN LIMBO AND THERE'S NO REASON TO PANIC? WE COULD FADE AWAY AT ANY SECOND, WE-" Sunni finally stopped when the two felt the earth begin to shake.

An explosion of smoke appeared several feet away, revealing the image of a tall being in a dark cloak. "It...IT'S THE GRIM REAPER!" Sunni screamed.

"No it's not. It's the Fairy King!" Darcy exclaimed.

"It is true!" said the muscular fairy, pulling off his hood. "I, Jorgen Von Strangle, toughest fairy in the universe, have caught on to your meddling with the timeline. Now, as punishment, I will have you banished to the Realm of Kids-Who-Interfere-With-The-Timeline, -Causing-Themselves-From-Ever-Being-Born!" He looked away and said to himself, "MAN, that's a breath-taker! I really have to come up with shorter names. Anyway, you are... HUH?" When he turned back, the girls had vanished. "No! They must have escaped when I vas talking about how I need to come up with shorter names! I must get after them and take them to the place with the really-long name I just told them about!" With that, the powerful fairy bolted down the street.

Sunni and Darcy were crouched behind a bush, watching the fairy vanish down the street. They breathed a sigh of relief once he was gone. "Okay, let's start piecing this together." Sunni suggested. "So, somehow, by rescuing our mom's parents, she ended up meeting Mr. Dimalanta, falling in love, and getting married to him."

"Oh!" Darcy sparked with realization. "I think I get it! Since we rescued our mom and her parents, our mom never wound up on New Island, where she stayed with Mewtwo! Then I guess she never got pulled into that quest, where she met our dad on Planet Secco. They must've returned to the Philippines, where our mom eventually met Mr. Dimalanta in school."

"Oh, no! Then they ended up getting married and having their own kids!" Sunni realized. "We've gotta go back and fix this!"

"That's gonna be a problem." Darcy stated, pulling out the worn-out time machine. "The time staff returned to Mr. King. Or Clockwork… whoever's using it in this time. Boy, time travel is confusing." They then watched as Time Dust spilled out of a slot in the machine, grey and worn out.

Sunni observed the grey dust and scooped it in her hands. "If only we knew where another timebender is. They could make us some Time Dust. Or something…"

Darcy's mind sparked again. "What a second! I remember… hearing this story… about a timebending alien that's lived on this planet for more than 80 years. What's his name… Roger?"

"Oh, yeah!" Sunni exclaimed. "I remember! That one that supposedly lives in Langley Falls? I heard he's some kind of master of disguise."

"But he's also a timebender," Darcy reminded, "and likely our only chance. I say we look for him."

"But these are all just rumors, really. What if he doesn't exist?"

"All rumors have some kind of origin." Darcy smirked. "If there's a chance he doesn't exist… then he definitely exists."

"Heh. Well, we have nowhere else. But how're we gonna get to Langley Falls, teleport?"

"Worth a shot." Darcy shrugged. "Just imagine you're in an alleyway or something."

"Okay… on 3:" They shut their eyes tight and began, "One… two… three!" And in a flash, the girls were gone.

A lone male citizen then walked by the bush they hid behind, becoming startled when Jorgen ran up to him from behind. "Vait! Excuse me. I am looking for two telekinetic girls who are not supposed to exist. Have you seen them?"

The man stared creepily at the towering figure in the dark cloak. "POLIIIIICE!"

Squads of cop cars and ambulances sped out of nowhere as cops stepped out and took aim at the fairy. "No! Vait! I must find them and take them to a horrible place with a long name! Dyaaaaahhhh!" The tall fairy hurried away as the cops gave chase.

Langley Falls

The teleportation did indeed work for the girls. They appeared midair above a dumpster, dropping inside as the dumpster fell closed. They slowly creaked the dumpster lid open, all covered in crash as Sunni looked aggravated. "Hehe… maybe we need to be a little more specific next time." Darcy joked.

The girls climbed out as Darcy brushed the garbage off, while Sunni exploded a barrier to blow hers off, getting Darcy covered again. The mocha-skinned psychicbender then picked up a discarded newspaper. "Hm… well, we're in the right place. And Darcy, check this out!" Darcy brushed her garbage off and looked over her sister's shoulder. "'Sightings of a strange, grey alien in the woods.' Taken by Parker Peters." A picture showed the image of a naked, chubby alien with six fingers, six toes, and a huge, round, bald head.

"'No one knows where this strange being originates." Darcy read. "'Suspicions continue to surround… the Smith home.'"

They exchanged curious glances. "Hmmmmm…"

Outside of Smith home

The girls made their way out of town and passed down a neighborhood. They approached a yellow house with a flagpole, and a mailbox that read The Smiths. They quietly approached the house and crouched down as they peeked through a window. Inside, a slightly wrinkly man in a blue suit and large chin was angrily yelling at a grey-skinned short man in a red shirt, khaki pants, brown hair, and brown goatee. "Roger, I told you to be careful with these personas! Snapping photos of yourself? Didn't you learn your lesson the first time?"

"Gee, sorry, Stan, but you know me." the short man replied. "After all the work I do for people, I need to feel self-righteous every now and again."

"You're always like that!"

"I… don't think so."

"Ever since we've met, you've been using these messed-up personas of yours to get something you want!"

"Nope, no, that doesn't sound like me at all. If you need, I'll be in the attic, thinking up a way I can get free cable for a month." With that, the being was gone upstairs.

"Could that be him?" Darcy whispered.

"Maybe. Let's check the attic."

The two snuck around and looked up at a window below the roof. Using their agility, they jumped their way to the top of the roof, where Sunni hung her head upside-down to look through the window. The man pulled a bag of some kind of dust from his drawer, dumping it onto the table as he tried to inhale some through a straw into his nose. "Eh… they never make good crystal meth like they used to."

Sunni and Darcy swiftly flipped into the window, drawing their light sabers as Sunni yelled, "Freeze!"

The man turned and held his hands up, looking terrified. "Oh God… I knew it was only a matter of time before two Filipino women would try to cut me. Look, ladies, there's plenty of spare change in the jar, just don't take my old films!"

"Noo!" Sunni yelled. "We're not here for THAT!"

"Are you… Roger the Alien?" Darcy asked.

"Roger? My name is Parker Peters, and the only alien is this bastard I'm trying to catch."

"Oh, cut the act, we know all about your disguises." Sunni stated. "We were eavesdropping downstairs."

Roger sighed. "Well-p, there's no hiding it now." The alien took off his wig and clothes, revealing his alien form underneath. "Hi, my name's Roger. I'm an alien."

"Coulda left the clothing on…" Sunni mumbled, shielding her eyes.

Darcy shook her head and replied, "Listen, we need your help. You're a timebender, right?"

"Well, I dunno about that. But I can move really, really fast. It's like time is slowing around me."

"Sounds timebender-ish to me." Sunni shrugged. "Listen, my sister and I sort of… messed something up in the past, and we need a timebender to help us get back so we can fix it."

"Well, kids, you're all outta luck there." Roger said. "I only know how to slow things down, you want me to warp anywhere, find me some meth."

"Can you at least make us some Time Dust?"

"I can make protoplasm." Roger smiled as gallons of goo exploded from his body.

"Euuuuhhh!" The girls groaned. "No, we need some Time Dust to try and get this machine working!" Sunni yelled. "This is all we have!" She then presented the bag of grey dust to Roger.

Roger observed the bag intently and took it in his hand. "You know, I think I may be able to help you."

"You… can?" Darcy asked.

"E-yep. One whiff of this stuff, and I'm set for Rush Zone." The alien dumped the dust along his table and grabbed his straw. "I have problems controlling this stuff, so you'll need to tell me how far back you wanna go."

"Take us to about July 12 of 200-" Darcy was about to say.

"No!" Sunni intervened. "Take us back to the city of Roxas in, maybe, September 1, 2011. That's about when our mom went to sixth grade."

"What?! Why are we going there?" Darcy questioned.

"To stop her from falling in love with Mr. Dimalanta! Duuh!"

"Sunniii! Haven't we ruined the past ENOUGH?? We have to go back and undo what we did before!"

"You mean letting an innocent little girl's parents die? We can't do that! We just have to make sure our mom falls in love with our dad again, and everything's all better!"

"Sunni, I'm really not sure about this. Frankly, in the past your plans have gone a little… astray."

"Pssh, is that supposed to be a time travel joke?"

"Heh." Darcy chuckled. "You know, it kind of is."

"Darcy, I know I might've messed up a little, but this time, I'm sure we can fix things! You just gotta trust me!"

Darcy sighed. "Well… what if it doesn't?"

"Then we'll keep trying! Roger, take us to September of 2011!"

"Well-p, if you say so. 9/11 it is."

Sunni and Darcy exchanged worried glances. "N-No-no, SEPTEMBER of 2011!" Sunni corrected.

"I know. Isn't that what I said?"

"No, you said... never mind."

"Okay then." With that, the alien stuck the straw into his "nose" and proceeded to inhale some of the worn Time Dust. Suddenly, his pupils expanded in size, his eyes widened. "Grab my arms."

"Get the Time Dust!" Sunni ordered quickly. Darcy quickly scooped the dust into the bag before they both grabbed onto Roger's arms.

"Okay, girls: hold on tight!" And in the blink of an eye, all three were gone.

The girls held tight onto Roger as the alien soared them across a colorful dimension of flowers, unicorns, and many wavy patterns. Sunni and Darcy stared with amazement, while Roger's expression was of peace and serenity. As they flew across the colorful plain, a feeling of calmness and relaxation overtook them. It lasted for a few more seconds before they appeared along the sidewalk of a street, where Sunni and Darcy dropped into two trash cans. They poked their heads out as Roger turned to them.

"Well, here we are. Roxas of September 1, 2011. Now, I'm gonna check if this place has any good strip clubs, look for me downtown when ya wanna go back." With that, the alien left them to themselves.

Sunni and Darcy climbed out of the trash cans and proceeded to shake the garbage off. "Okay… now we just need to find the school our mom went to and stop her from falling in love with Matthew." Sunni said.

"Right." Darcy brushed a banana peel off and replied, "But if we mess things up again, we're going back to stop ourselves from saving them."

Sunni released a sigh, unsure about this. But, she nodded anyway. "Okay."