Liam, Maddy and Sal had gone out for lunch again. Maddy didn't know which she preferred, Liam, Bob and Becks being sent back in time and nearly getting everyone killed and the world destroyed; or doing the same thing everyday and eating junk food because no one could be bothered to cook lunch again.

"We should get back soon" Sal said, when they'd been sat, just talking for 15 minutes after they'd finished their burgers.

"Yeah" Maddy agreed. "Let's go guys," Bob and Becks led the way back again, talking to each other quietly, whilst Maddy, Sal and Liam walked behind, saying nothing. When they reached the archway Maddy lazily cranked open the door and stepped inside followed by the others. Sal swung herself round and leapt onto her bed. She spent almost all her time sat there, reading, drawing, writing in her little book-thing, playing on the Nintendo DS. She was last to bed, and first up in the mornings.

"Well, I'll make some tea. Does anyone else want some?" Maddy asked, for lack of anything else to do. Who knew that being a Time Traveller could get boring?

"I'll have some," Sal called from her bed.

"I'll have a cup, if you'd be so kind," Liam nodded to her. As usual, Bob and Becks said nothing. Maddy yawned as she made the tea. Two sugars for Sal, one for her, and none for Liam. If she made any more tea she'd be doing it in her sleep.

Sal was having her nightmare again, but this time, just before all the rubble could fall and the fire jumped upon them and everyone died (that was when she normally woke up) there was a loud Bang! Which made Sal jump and she fell out of her top bunk.

"Urr…" She groaned as she rubbed her head. She turned 180 degrees until she was facing Liam, who looked like he was waking up.

"Sal? Whaddyadoin?" he asked sleepily.

"I fell out of bed. Liam, I heard something, from around the corner"

"S'nothin, probly, gobaccasleep…"

"No! Liam! I'm certain I heard something!" Sal was shaking Liam.

"Jayzus! Can't I get any sleep?" Liam asked bad-temperedly as he threw aside his blankets. "Let's go see what it was, if it's so important to you," As he walked round the corner wobbly, with Sal trailing behind him, he wondered if Sal could've been right. Then he stopped in his tracks.

"Jayzus an' Holy Mary" He whispered.

"What is it?" Sal demanded as she ran to see. "Jahulla"

Just bringing themselves up to their feet, Sal and Liam saw a small girl and a giant of a man. The girl's hair was un-brushed, and her clothes were tatty. They weren't unlike the clothes sal used to wear, back in 2026.

"Who are you?" Sal asked.

"Oh, God. Sorry, I've got some explaining to do" The girl smiled apologetically. Maddy had woken up and she worked her way sleepily towards them.

"Guys? Whataya doin up so late…?" Her eyes widened as she saw them. "Jesus Christ!" She exclaimed.

"Can you make some tea? I'm gonna need your help." The girl asked.

Maddy made the tea. Two sugars for Sal, one for her, and none for Liam. Then…

"Do you take sugar?" Maddy called from the kitchen, hoping that she really had been making tea in her sleep and no one would answer.

"One sugar for me, please. And Greg doesn't have tea" Came the answer. Maddy made the final cup. She bought them to the table on a tray, handing the cups out shakily, and then she sat down, joining Liam, Sal, Bob, Becks, and the mysterious girl and the man.

"OK, who are you? How did you get in here?" Maddy asked after and awkward silence filled only with tea-sipping.

"Well, OK. I'm going to explain this, but don't interrupt, alright?" The girl asked. Liam, Sal and Maddy nodded. Bob and Becks answered together.

"Affirmative"

"Well, me and Greg are part of the same agency that you must belong too. We-we were on a mission, everything was going wrong, and then… Greg got a message from Tom. Tom's our Computer Whiz" She explained "Saying that the base was going to be destroyed, and that he and Freya might die, but he thought he'd figured out where some other TimeRiders might be stationed, and he was sending us there, cos it was the best hope we had, then he sent a window that lead us here." The girl finished and sipped her tea.

"So-so you're from another TimeRiders field office?" Maddy asked, putting down her cup of tea so as not to drop it. The girl nodded.

"I'm Diana, and this is Greg, the AI. Can you take me back, just so I can see if they're still there?"

"I don't think so" Maddy picked her cup up again to take another sip "If you say that time got all messed up and your field office got destroyed, then you'd need to fix time first, and we'll need to prepare for a Time Wave-" Maddy frowned as she began to panic

"Unnecessary." Greg, the AI interrupted. "The operative's mission is stationed 33 years from this field office."

"Oh phew. But how long have you been doing this? I mean, it's pretty simple, if the base has been destroyed, because time has been messed up, then you need to fix time first" Maddy lectured.

"Oh. Well, I haven't been doing this very long. I was recruited probably about a month ago, but it's hard to tell with the Time Bubble. Tom and Freya have been doing this longer than me."

"I wouldn't worry about it. I still can't get me head round half of it" Liam consoled her.

"That's because me and Maddy were already used to the idea, from films and stuff, but you're all old-fashioned and stuff" Sal said

"That isn't my fault!" Liam retaliated.

"Liam is correct. Several random factors went into when Liam was born." Becks said.

"I'm from 1930, it's all pretty new to me. I've been finding it hard to cope because I'm stationed over a hundred years in the future from when I'm used to"

"Wait a minute. You say that everyone else you work with has been doing it longer. That means that the previous operative, well, y'know, died. They must've recruited you themselves, is that allowed?" Maddy asked, realising what Diana had said earlier. Diana shrugged.

"I don't know. I think Tom and Freya have pretty much given up on the rules. They never talk about how long they've been doing it, or who was before me."

"Look, I reckon all we can do is send you back in, so you can fix time" Maddy said apologetically.

"But you can't. That's why Tom sent me here in the first place, me and Greg were about to die!"

"Couldn't we send you to before you were about to die, then you could fix it?" Sal asked

"I don't know. This is making my head hurt" Diana complained. Maddy looked for Sal for help.

"I think it's the best we've got. You should give the Time-Stamp to Computer Bob. Greg can look after her." Sal said logically.

"Affirmative" Becks, Bob and Greg agreed in unison.

Once Diana and Greg had left, Liam exhaled loudly and sat on his bed, exhausted.

"Nice to know we're not the only ones"

"But we could be. What if Diana and Greg fail? And then her Tom and Freya die too? They could be the only other station, that could be why Diana was sent here, why that Tom could only find this place, because, logically, you'd have thought there'd be another station in-between those years" Maddy said.

"But there is only thirty years in-between, if Diana's calculations are correct. It's possible." Sal contradicted.

"Perhaps we'll never know" Liam said, drifting to sleep once more.