It's been a rough week. He was one of the top agents, but within one day, he hit rock bottom.

While on his last mission, his partner died. He did feel bad for what happened, but he feels like he should feel worse. Vinnie guessed that he felt disconnected to what happened since he didn't see his partner die. He didn't even see the body. Apparently, his partner fell into a trap and died.

After his partner died and they failed their mission, Mr. Block, their boss, scowled him for not working with his partner as a team. Which was true. He didn't really like his partner. They argued a lot. On that day, they got into a heated argument about how to accomplish their mission properly. They got fed up with each other and went their separate ways. Partners are supposed to stick together and look after one another, but they didn't do that on that day.

Now, Mr. Block was furious with him. Not only did he fail a really important mission, his partner was also one of the best agents, even though Dakota would disagree with that statement. Mr. Block was so mad at him that he downgraded him to the lowest of the low. Now, instead of getting "Saving the world" type missions, he'll be getting pointless petty missions. He didn't mind that. He knew he can climb his way back to the top.

Vinnie sighed. Since he lost his partner, now he was getting a new one. Part of him was relieved. He wanted a new partner for years. Years? He wasn't sure if it was for years. Being a time traveller, you kind of lose track of time.

He was waiting in a room for his new partner. He didn't know much about him. All he knew was that his last name sounded like candy dish and that he failed the field test miserably, but he did pass the written test with flying colours.

Which, Vinnie thought that was weird. How was it possible for someone to get a hundred percent on the written test, but zero on the field test? Even though it was years since he took the written test, he remembered how hard it was and how easy the field test was. It made it sound like his new partner knew pretty much everything about time travel, but he's incompetent. Oh well.

He's been told that this guy has been on the waiting list for a time travelling partner for a really long time. Like, a really really long time. Seems like no one wants to be his partner...

He figured that he'll be the one to give him a chance.

Dakota kind of regretted coming early. His new partner wasn't even here yet and now he's stuck with his own thoughts.

He barely even spoke to his new partner. Well, technically, they never spoke to each other at all. There was a middleman passing on messages between the both of them. Even then, there weren't that many messages to each other. His new partner wanted to dress up like they were in the 70s, which, Dakota completely agreed with it. Instead of wearing that uncomfortable suit and sunglasses, which he used to wear, now he's wearing a really comfortable tracksuit with sunglasses. After he realized how comfortable that tracksuit was, he bought five more. One for every day of the week. Well, except for Sunday. There wasn't seven of the same tracksuit in stock.

Dakota was suddenly snapped out of his thoughts as he heard someone approaching the room. He quickly looked at his watch. At least his partner wasn't late. In fact, his new partner was going to be exactly on time.

The door opened and he was surprised.

He wasn't sure what to expect from this new partner, but he didn't expect him to be older than him. And now he was slightly embarrassed. Not because his new partner was older than him, he was embarrassed because his new partner was dressed like he was in the 1870s, not 1970s, like he thought they agreed on.

Whoops.

They both looked at each other in silents. Dakota got himself ready to be yelled at for wearing the wrong outfit, but that's not what happened.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Dakota! I am Cavendish, your new partner," Cavendish announced.

Dakota had to force himself not to laugh. Did his new partner seriously called him Mr. Dakota? He came to the conclusion that he was right. His new partner was a nerd. Since he liked to tease and bicker with his partners. He decided to act like the complete opposite to the impression that his new partner gave. "Ey Cav! No need to call me Mr. Dakota, just call me Vinnie! And yes, I'm your new bro," Dakota nudged his new partner with his elbow.

Cavendish's smile quickly turned into a frown, "I am not your new "Bro"," Cavendish used air quotes when he said, bro. "I'd prefer if you took this partnership more seriously."

A part of Dakota regretted what he said. Even though he was the one with more time travelling experience, his new partner looked a bit intimidating. He felt like he made a bad first impression. He decided to change the subject. "Alright, we already have a new mission. We're supposed to go back in time to 1984 and take down some guy before he goes on to become a serial killer or whatever."

That seemed to catch Cavendish off guard. He was visibly nervous. "Alright," he agreed.

Dakota looked at Cavendish and waited for him to say something else. Then he realized that Cavendish was doing the same thing. That's when Dakota remembered that Cavendish was new to all of this. He had to keep reminding himself that because Cavendish was older than him. "Okay, follow me, I'll show you our new time machine!" Dakota waved Cavendish to follow him and that's what he did.

They walked down the hall to the parking lot without saying much. Their time machine didn't look that bad, but it looked old. It was, of course, not as good as the time machine he used to have.

"Well, here it is," Dakota announced.

Cavendish didn't say anything, but he looked excited.

Vinnie decided to hop into the front seat, leaving the driver seat available for Cavendish. He thought he would be nice and let Cavendish have the honour to drive them to their first mission.

Cavendish hesitated.

"Come on, what are you waiting for? Time waits for no one. Well, except for us, because, you know, we're time travellers," Dakota wiggled his eyebrows.

Cavendish got into the driver seat and looked around. He pressed some buttons and then they were on their way. Cavendish looked around in awe while driving through the timestream.

Seeing this, Dakota realized that Cavendish probably never time travelled before. Which means he probably never drove a time machine. Suddenly Dakota regretted letting Cavendish drive.

He braced himself right before they left the timestream, which was the right thing to do. As soon as they got out of the time stream, Cavendish struggled to regain control of the time machine. They swirled around but Cavendish was able to regain control.