-Chapter 2-

As we made it back to the Destiny's Bounty, I chatted quite a lot with these so called "Ninja".

I learned that the blue one's name is Jay, and he's the ninja of lightning. I also learned that he talks too much. I mean, seriously, he was the one talking the whole time!

The red one's name is Kai. He is the ninja of fire, and he has serious anger issues. When Jay started bragging, Kai delivered a solid punch into his jaw. I was secretly grateful about that…

The one in black's name is Cole. He said he was the ninja of earth, and the leader of the ninja. I could tell. He was the one shouting at Kai after he punched Jay.

The one in white, Zane, was fairly quiet. He didn't talk much through the entire thing, other than talking to the Falcon that sat on his shoulder. Also, Zane's a robot. Probably should have said that first.

"So, Juliet, how's it been?" Cole asked me. "Umm… alright?" I answered, not sure if they knew my secret. I decided to test them.

I pulled my TTT (Temporal Transport through Time) out of my coat pocket and held it up over my head. "Do any of you know what this is?" I asked them very seriously.

"Uh, yeah. It's that thingy mabob that you travel with," Jay started, "What was it called? The Flux Capacitor? Wait, no, that's Back to the Future…. Zane, help me out here."

"If my hard drive is working properly, I believe it is called the Temporal Transport through Time." Zane finished.

I stopped walking, and just stared at them.

"W-who are you people? And how do you know me?" I asked, expressing no emotion.

"Students, please come with me for a minute." Wu said to them. "Yes, Sensei." They all replied before following him into an alleyway.

I sat against the wall waiting, looking at my TTT. I realized that it was broken, maybe I messed it up when I fell down the crater. "Dang it!" I exclaimed, "It will take months to fix this! I would have to take the calibration and reset the zero moment point and the CPG! Connect the control module to the quasi-cortex molecular ion pump! I would even have to restart the feed-forward control!" I shouted.

As I finished with my rant, I looked and saw that everyone was staring at me. "Oh dear, that will take a while. Perhaps you would like help?" One of the old people said. I had picked up his name in a conversation, Dr. Julien. He was Zane's dad.

"That's very kind of you sir, but do you have any idea how difficult it is to connect a control module to a quasi- cortex molecular ion pump? Well, it's even harder on a microscopic scale." I said to him.

"I first completed that successfully when I was 14. It will still take me two weeks to finish, though." He grinned. "You're hired!" I exclaimed.

"There's only one issue. Um… any good hotels around here, wait, that's no use. I haven't any money… any good boxes? Or clean garbage cans? Or something?" I asked all of them.

"You can stay with us, I could have a roommate for a few weeks." Said the younger lady in red, whose name was Nya. She was dating the one named Jay. "If you don't mind, sure. I'm kind of at a dead end here." I said, rubbing the back of my head sheepishly.

We made it to the Bounty. "Wow, this is crazy! I haven't seen anything like this that was commercialized since the year 2064! Wow, are those differential magnetomers? And a geo-magnetic propulsion system?" I asked, jumping up and down.

"In English?" Kai asked. "The things that make the boat go zoom." I replied grimly.

"Oh, then yes, they are." He replied.

After I had my fix of excitement, Nya led me to her room and let me borrow her clothes. I went to the bathroom to change. Aw man, my clothes were REALLY dirty! My burgundy scarf, my long brown trench coat, and my dark grey t-shirt were all covered with dirt. I probably got them all nasty from slipping down that crater. However, my dark denim jeans and my black combat boots were not in bad condition. My trench coat probably protected them. I just decided to borrow an orange shirt from Nya.

I also brushed through my blonde hair. It's usually messy anyways, but this was a bit too messy for my tastes.

After that, I decided to meet up with Dr. Julien to work on the TTT. After analyzing the damage, I realized that there was even that I initially thought.

"Now, adding to everything else, it looks like the proto-anodysing discorporators have short circuited the molecular quark overload." I declared.

"Is that difficult to fix?" Julien asked me.

"No, but it's very difficult to say!"

-TWO HOURS LATER-

"Dinner's ready!" I heard Zane call from the kitchen. I decided to stop for the day, and I asked Dr. Julien if he could work on the TTT tomorrow. Nya invited me to come shopping with her, because I'm sure she's not too fond of someone having to wear her clothes all the time.

After dinner, I decided to just go to sleep and get my energy for tomorrow. This day was very tiring. And I still have to figure out what's going on!

Hopefully time will unravel and show me the way.