Chapter 1 - The Mysterious Girl

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July 27th, 1978. Friday afternoon.

One might assume that the couple running across the beach in their swimsuits were dating, maybe even married. But after getting to know them, one learned that Kate Carlin Meriwether, or just K.C. Meriwether for short, & Finnegan Tremaine, Were the furthest thing from a married couple. Actually, they were just competitive co-workers, trying to outclass the other, but all in good fun.

They were lifeguards. K.C. wore her bright red baywatch swimsuit with pride, with long flowing blonde hair and a nice backside to boot (Or slap) and Finnegan rocked around in his thigh-high board shorts, exhibiting his muscular body for all the ladies to enjoy. These 2 would've made people drown themselves just for the sake of having the preferred gender perform mouth to mouth on them.

During their run on the beach, the 2 had to slow down to catch their breath.

"Whoo...what a run." Finnegan threw his voice on top of the light waves splashing the beach.

"You're telling me." K.C. bent over to rub seawater from boundary bay on her arms. As she did, Finnegan checked out her perfectly toned and tanned backside. K.C. knew her co-worker was checking her out...and she didn't care. She'd return the favor if he were bent over just the same.

"So, we get to the white rock, then the pier, then we go home." K.C. asked.

"Sounds good." Finnegan walked up the sandy beach and tripped over a lump. He grunted as he hit the sand facefirst. K.C. laughed as she came over to check up on her friend.

"Are you OK?" K.C. leaned over to check on her friend.

"Yeah I just tripped over this..." Finnegan paused to look at what tripped him.

"It's a fish..." Finnegan quickly said before realizing it wasn't a dead fish...it was something entirely different.

"It's a girl!" K.C. got the girl face up, and began taking details. She was unconscious. Her long black hair was matted with sand and seaweed, with a strange white outfit clad onto her body. But her strangest part was her ears. They were pointed, like an Elf's ears.

"Oh my god." Finnegan quickly grabbed the girl's hand to check for a pulse.

"She's just out cold." K.C. said "She's breathing but very slowly."

Finnegan raised his eyes to the girl's face, and tried to read it as human, but he just couldn't. Her eyes seemed larger than normal, her skin was silverish, but her strangest quirk had to have been her ears.

"K.C., look at her ears." Finnegan pointed at the girl's head.

"I see...What the hell did you stumble over?" Asked K.C.

"Hell if I know. Let's get her to the Blazer." Finnegan said.

And with that, The 2 lifeguards got their newfound friend up, and Finnegan put her over his shoulders fireman style, and the 2 carried her to finnegan's '69 K5 Blazer.

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JULY 27TH, 2020

Diana Prince opened the door to an elevator leading to Steve Trevor's office. She could hear him talking even before the elevator opened. and when it did, Steve turned to face her.

"Diana, glad you made it." Steve started.

"Always glad to make it." Diana replied walking into the room. "So what's the assignment this time?" she asked as the door closed behind her.

"You've got another date with the time machine in San Diego." Steve gave Diana her answer.

"Oh, another one? Where am I going back today?" She asked.

"Ok, this one's a little weird." Steve pulled out a Dossier with the label "Area 51 Interception; 07/28/78.

"Area 51? So it DOES exist." Diana smiled as she opened the folder.

"Even the IADC wasn't allowed to know about it...but here's the thing. On that night, a UFO was hit at about 35000 feet, it travelled west to the pacific ocean, and then submerged about 120 miles off the coast of Oregon state." Steve opened the dossier, and showed Diana many pictures and files.

"According to the reports, Area 51 immediately dispatched a ghost craft to go to the landing spot where the UFO crashed, in the hopes of recovering the craft, but Area 51 officials ended up spending 6 years searching a 500 mile radius. Not one trace of that UFO was ever found. On September 12th, 1984, Area 51 simply closed the book on it." Steve replied.

"And now, they want to send someone back in time to be there and follow the craft?" Diana asked.

"Can you do it?" Steve asked his friend.

"Of course." Diana smiled. Of course she meant that Wonder Woman could do it.

At that moment, the elevator door opened and another friend of the 2 former IADC agents walked in.

"Yeah babe, I know, i'm doing my best here."

Diana and Steve recognized the man as Kenny Triton, And Diana was more than happy to have him along.

"Hey, Kenny!" Diana smiled.

"Hey Diana." Kenny held his hand up, trying to hold 2 conversations at once. "Yeah, I just walked in." Kenny was on his smartphone, talking to his girlfriend, Josie. "No babe, I love you...listen...I got some stuff to do, OK?" Kenny took a 5 second delay. "Oh no, don't say that...Listen, we'll talk later, OK? I love you." Kenny closed the call on his phone.

"That didn't sound good." Diana walked over to hug her friend.

"Josie's mad at me." Kenny hugged Diana "We were supposed to have a fancy dinner tonight, but then steve here..." Kenny motioned his arm at Steve "..gives me a call and says i gotta get over here. Of course being a superhero i'm stuck between wanting to save the world or taking my woman out on a date...why are you women so difficult?" Kenny asked Diana

"Oh, you have no idea, how hard it must be to be a woman and put up with a man, sometimes." Diana replied.

"Alright, you two." Steve Trevor broke up the arguement. "We've got you both here, we've got a mystery to solve. Diana, you can brief him on the way."

"Time travel machine in SD?" asked Kenny

"Time travel in SD. to 1978." Steve replied

"Now that sounds like fun. Disco music and ridiculously large collars." Kenny joked.

"You'd better get going, you too. This one's time sensitive. Good luck to you." Steve wished his best friend in the whole wide world the best of luck, along with Kenny.

And on this one, they would need it.

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