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An Alternate Timeline Real Adventures of Jonny Quest fanfiction
by TimeGuardian

Dad,

I just wanted to let you know that the summer break is coming up, and we are being allowed a larger than normal break because the school is going through renovations. I know that you are still busy in that research project you wouldn't tell me about, but I was hoping maybe we could spend some time together and catch up on old times and-

Twenty year old Jonny Quest sat in front of his computer in his dorm room and stared at the blinking message that he wanted to send. Ever since he had entered M.I.T., he had been struggling to keep up with his studies of computer programming and electronics. From the all too brief time he had spent learning from his dad and Race, he found he had a talent for such things, but he found that it was too easy to lose focus.

After all, who could boast the fact that they had seen the world, had nearly been killed more times than he cared to count along with being kidnapped and trained to be assasin, all before he had even turned eighteen?

Sometimes there were nights where his scars ached, and it reminded him of home. After his family's battle with the Zin twins all those years ago, things had settled into a quiet routine and for that, Jonny was thankful.

Race was able to keep him up to speed with most of the schooling and after many promises and pledges by him and his father, Jonny was finally allowed back into the school system, where he had found reasonable success and managed to graduate only a year behind his peers. At first he wasn't sure why he had decided on college, after all, his father had made it clear that he was welcome to stay home for as long as he needed.

His cell phone began a resonating trilling noise from where he had tossed it beside his laptop computer. Jonny checked the display and found an all too familiar name staring back at him. Flipping it open, he began his greeting. "Jessie Bannon, it's been a while."

Silence greeted his attempt, and it puzzled him. "Jessie?"

Finally he heard a sharp intake of breath along with Jessie's monotone voice. "Jonny, you need to come home. Now."

This wasn't normal for Jessie. Jonny remembered all too well that she would usually be the first one to chide him for being so serious all of the time. "Jessie, what's wrong?"

Her next words shocked him. "Our dads are missing, Jonny. I can't find any trace of them."

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Dr. Quest didn't know where in the hell he was - or at the very least, it felt like hell. The heat surrounded him, permeated his skin and left a sheen of sweat on him. Not that the sweat was helping much anyway, and that was due in part to his pounding head. Benton tried lifting a hand to his aching head only to find that he could not because his hands were bound behind him with what felt like a thick rope.

This was trouble, no doubt about it. Benton did his best to clear his mind and try to focus on how he got in this predicament, and that was when he noticed one conspicuous absence. He could distinctly remember Race being with him before he lost consciousness.

So where was he?

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A man with snow white hair laid on the hospital bed, swathed in bandages, and far as doctor Tetsuo Najima was concerned, this person was a true enigma. Only a day ago the man stumbled into the hospital he was working at and collapsed only a few feet in front of him. BY all rights and with the internal bleeding this man had, he should have been dead.

Tetsuo had orderlies carefully gather the man onto a stretcher and after a few hours of surgery and treatment had managed to stabilize the man's vital signs and have him moved into a private room. Now that he was checking on this man again hours later, he was amazed to find that his patient was conscious.

Tetsuo moved closer to the bed and realized that his patient was also muttering as well as moving around.

Would he be coherent enough to understand? "I hope you can hear me," Tetsuo began.

Suddenly the doctor was shocked as the man laying in the bed shot out a hand and grabbed his arm. The man's grip was like iron, and it was all he could do to stand upright.

It was then that Tetsuo could finally make out the man's strange mutterings.

"Desert...base...Doctor Quest...danger..."

Um, yeah, I am back. This idea is as far as this prologue and one chapter, but I thought I would go ahead and start sharing. This story picks up years later where my stories Manipulation, Shattered Memories, and Serpent's Kiss left off. You do not nessecarily have to read the other stories to understand this one, but there will some references to what happened to them in the past. As to what's planned? You get to see how the kids fared growing up, and see how a few extra years impacts their relationship with each other and with Race and Dr. Quest, along with a big dose of adventure. Feedback welcomed.