I've had this idea for a while and I hope I can pull it off :) I'm not going to proof read this though, for I don't exactly have the time and hopefully this turns out okay. It'll have multiple chapters and it will probably not be updated regularly since I'm already working on two other stories. Damn, I don't even have an outline for this and that's kind of scaring me. I should get one started tomorrow…

IN THIS REX AND NOAH ARE JUST REGULAR KIDS, THERE WAS NO NANITE EVENT, PLUS, THE FLASHBACK IS SET IN THE YEAR 2020 just so you know :) Enjoy :)

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It was a beautiful day truly. A little too beautiful for what was going to happen in about a minute. Rex and Noah walked down the streets, heading back to their college dorm from a small café they ate at, it being the place where their first date had been held. New York City was great in the winter. Well that was Rex's opinion. Noah seemed to take a bit of a disliking to the winter season, but Rex had managed to make it likeable.

The streets were covered in beautiful snow. It had just snowed this morning, so it was almost untouched giving how early it was and how people took cars more often than walked now these days. Technology had gotten pretty far.

"Thanks a bunch Rex, I really love it, though it was kinda expensive. How did you get the money?" Noah asked, inspecting the new necklace Rex had just purchased for the blond. It was a simple one with a silver chain and an orange jewel with darker orange etched into it to represent a basketball. Noah had been obsessing over it the past year and Rex had finally managed to rack up enough cash to get his boyfriend it.

"Worked for Caesar, took a while, but look now!" Rex grinned, stuffing his numbing hands into the pockets of his red and orange jacket. Noah smiled and began unclipping it to place it back in its small box.

"We might have to put a few more links on it though, it's kind of small," Noah pointed out, trying not to sound offensive. Rex sent him his infamous kicked puppy look, but recovered quickly, bouncing back to his happy self. Noah slipped on some ice hidden under the snow and Rex had to catch him. Noah blushed and smiled in thanks, helping himself back into a proper position.

The two had met in high school. Noah was on the basketball court the school owned and Rex had approached him, having just recently joined the basketball team. He was horrible at it though and it was the only cool sport the school was offering at the time. He had asked Noah for some lessons and by the end of the season, Rex had gone from the towel boy to the team's star player.

Then in college, the two had become intimate, Rex having asked Noah out for the first time the day they had met, saying that it was an anniversary thing for the first day they met. Now, the necklace he had purchased for the blond was an anniversary gift for the first time they dated, met and told each other they had loved one another, which had been done the second year of college. The two were now in their third year, Rex aiming for a masters as well as Noah, so they had plenty of time on campus together.

Rex was, quite literally, a genius. He was currently working on a project he had dreamt of ever since he was six years of age: create the world's first and fully functional time machine along with become the first to successfully use one. And he was so close.

Noah, on the other hand, was the average Joe who had just managed to fall in love with such a smart guy. Being with Rex had its benefits too. Rex would help him with his math and science assignments and he'd get them done five times faster than it would originally take him. Don't get him wrong, he loved Rex dearly, he wasn't using him just to pass his academics.

"Thanks again," Noah smiled, turning and hugging Rex tightly who smiled, he was probably the happiest man on earth at the moment.

They continued their way to the building that held their dorm room, approaching the last crosswalk. It was still a bit crowded despite the larger amount of people using cars. Noah and Rex joked about how they still haven't come up with how to create cars that flew every now and then with it being 2020.

Noah, not knowing where he exactly was, immediately stopped and started to neatly place the necklace in its box, being a perfectionist with how it was placed. Rex didn't know that Noah had stopped and had continued walking, having started talking about one of his professors in a way that one would think he was idolizing him. But Rex wasn't, Rex and said professor were probably the best of friends.

"Yesterday he had predicted the snow, I said that he could've just watched the weather channel and told me this but then again, they weren't predicting it until yesterday night, so he's like…a fortune teller or something!" Rex laughed loudly, grabbing for Noah's hand, but didn't grab at anything. Confused, he turned to spot Noah standing in the middle of the crosswalk, fiddling with the chain of the necklace, a hint of frustration etched onto his face. Smiling fondly, Rex began to approach his boyfriend.

BEEP!

The way the pure horror and fear appeared on Noah's face would be burned into Rex's mind forever. Noah turned his head to his right and—

"NOAH!

Rex awoke with a start, his body jumping, making him bounce up and down on the mattress. He was sweating horribly and tears were streaming down his face at the memory. It happened almost every night. He'd relive the day Noah died in the style of a nightmare. Shivering, Rex rolled onto his back and silently cried to himself, one arm slung over his eyes. It never seemed to end. He felt so defeated. His time machine worked yes and he was extremely famous for it…but…

"I can't wait to see your time machine finished," Noah remarked with a bright smile. "I'd be amazing, I'd be witnessing history."

Noah wasn't there to see Rex finish it. He had finished it three years ago and was just tweaking it here and there, it having a few problems. Noah had died seven years before Rex finally figured out the formula to the machine and finished it. He could just see how excited Noah was to see the thing finished. Almost as excited as Rex, just not as much. His original intentions for the machine was to make history—now it was to get Noah back, and he was border lining on the obsessive side of it.

Letting out an almost defeated sob, Rex rubbed at his eyes. He had tried it before in an attempt to get Noah back, but whenever he did, it only brought him back to the very moment Noah was smashed by that speeding truck that had slid on ice, fleeing from the police. Rex would weep with his past self, just not as powerfully. He remembered how horribly his heart clenched and how loudly he wailed in despair. How he had cried and sobbed for months, but still working on his time machine in an obsessed way.

Taking a very shaky breath, Rex swung his legs to the edge of the bed after sitting up. He headed for the washroom to get ready for the day and immediately headed for the kitchen, getting a cup of coffee ready for himself. Caesar was already awake since the coffee was already made. Rex then headed for the basement where the time machine rested, Caesar checking the instrument panel. Today, Rex would attempt it again.

"Are you sure you want to do this again hermano?" Caesar asked, taking a sip of his coffee before. Rex smiled solemnly at his older brother and nodded his head. Caesar had always comforted him whenever he'd gone back and ended up a spectator to Noah's death once again, over and over. Sometimes, Caesar would even cry with him and Rex was completely fine with that.

"Yeah, I'm sure it'll work this time, hopefully this formula will work," Rex nodded his head, pressing a button that opened the capsule. It wasn't like those in the cartoons, where there was a swirling portal in the middle of a large metal circle that stood up. Here, it was like a medical table, just with a glass capsule that sealed you inside. And you didn't fly through a vortex at dizzying speeds, one second you're in the capsule, the next, you wake up. Sometimes Rex would wake up in the right place just in time to catch Noah getting hit by the truck, other times, he'd been sent to a place he'd never been to. He and Caesar had been trying to fix that problem, and Rex hoped that the formula he had handed Caesar last night would work. He had basically killed himself over it.

Caesar sighed a sigh that only old men let loose. The two were young, and had been through more than they should have. Instead of throwing parties and going to parties, they locked themselves into their house, obsessing over the time machine that lay in the basement. They had no parent either, having been abandoned at an orphanage. The second Caesar turned eighteen, he had moved out, Rex doing the same. They lived in the same house so they didn't have to carry equipment and the such back and forth.

"If this doesn't work, I'm not sure what will," Caesar finally announced. They had plowed through almost every formula the world had to offer. They were down to about one hundred left and about seventy of them didn't even qualify for their project. Also some twenty would easily result in death. Others were foreign territory and Caesar wasn't one to blindly go for something unlike Rex. If Rex didn't have Caesar to keep him in check, he would've probably wound up in an insane asylum years ago.

"Don't worry Caesar, I'm sure this one will work, I've checked over it probably twenty times, it has to work," Rex dropped his exhausted smile, stuffing a paper into his pocket. It held the formula Caesar had in front of him. It this one didn't work, Rex would just give up and give his past self the paper in his pocket to save him a lot of future stress with the machine. He was basically doing himself a favor and plus, with the time machine being worked on back when he was in high school, the past Rex would believe he was from the future. He smiled. All of this was so confusing, yet made so much sense at the same time. It was what one would call something contradictory.

Rex sat down on the metal table and removed his aviators goggles, setting them aside. You weren't supposed to be wearing something loose and large when time traveling. It would easily get lost in time, the machine registering it as something else and sending it to a different time and place. Rex fingered the small orange jewel that dangled on the edge of a thin chain. It was the necklace he had gotten Noah the day he had died. If he wouldn't have gotten him it, Noah would still be alive and well. Call him pessimistic, but he was planning on keeping himself and Noah from meeting.

He needed the necklace for the time travel as well. The machine would scan everything on Rex, registering clothes and etcetera. When it scanned the necklace, since Noah had worn it, it would send him to a time where he and Noah were together. One problem. Since it was cracked from being run over by the truck, the machine read that as well, thus sending Rex back to relive that day. They needed a formula that would make the machine focus on only the primary factors of the objects it was scanning, and since Noah had touched the necklace longer than the tires of the truck, it would connect it with Noah, not the accident.

Pressing a button and twisting a knob, Caesar looked up to watch a familiar sight. Rex bracing himself as the glass capsule closed over him, hoping that it'd work this time. Hopefully it would too. Taking a very deep, nervous breath, Caesar started the machine, watching as Rex fell into unconsciousness and turning transparent.

"I hope this works hermano."

Rex awoke in a hallway. He smiled, the formula either worked, or he was in a building on the day Noah died. He'd look up and out the window just in time to see the truck hit him. But when he looked around, he found no windows, and immediately recognized where he was. Looking at the date that had been written down on the whiteboard for the benefit of whoever was unaware of the date, Rex's smile broadened.

December 15, 2017

He had successfully made it to the day he and Noah first met.

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:) That's all I can type in response to what I had just written. I'm so happy that I'm getting this up. Lol, only the first parts of this story will be time travel. The rest, I can't exactly tell you –insert evil laughter here- So yeah! I hope you review this, I would absolutely love to hear you feedback. Peace out my friends :D