Author's notes: (Because I forgot to do it last chapter) Okay, I'm new, so this is my first Fan fic here on this site and this particular category, but I've written Fan fics before and gotten good results elsewere in the worldwide web, so hopefully it will be the same here. Please read it and let me know if it's any good.

Note: I do not own Cyberchase (but you probably already knew that) otherwise this would've been turned into an epsiode about two years ago, when I first came up with the idea.

2.

Questions

Inez stared dumbfounded at the sight before her, at a loss for words.

Digit, a simple-minded cybird, was the one who summed it up best. "Two Matts?" he asked, bewildered.

Both Matts, one clean and the other very dirty, nodded in responce at the same time. They too, seemed a little wierded out by what was happening.

Jackie marched right up to them, studying both intently. "Which one of you is OUR Matt?" she asked.

The dirtier of the two pointed to the cleaner Matt, while the cleaner Matt merely shrugged, as if he didn't know what to think anymore.

The African-American girl gave them one last looking over, then turned around to face a large computer screen. "Any ideas what's going on, Mother B?" Jackie asked.

Even the computer generated face of Motherboard seemed puzzled. "None." she answered.

Inez looked at one Matt, then the other. "Will someone please explain what's going on?" she asked, speaking for the first time since getting called into Cyberspace, supposedly at Matt's request, whichever one that was.

The dirty Matt looked to his cleaner double. "You start." he said.

"Umm, okay." the clean Matt answered. "All I know is that I was sitting in my room reading when my SKWAK beeped, indicating an incoming message. All I got from it was a lot of garbled phrases, and indication that Hacker was attacking Control Central, which obvously isn't the case." he added, looking around at the clean and organized control room. "Then a portal formed in my room, spat out a lot of cold mist, then changed to violet in color, then spat him out." he guestured to his double. "He said something had worked, then asked me to contact Cyberspace. I did, asked Motherboard to open us portal there, then asked to get the rest of the squad here, and well, here we are."

"So you're the real Matt, then." Jackie asked.

"I guess." the clean Matt answered. "Personally, I don't know what to think at this point."

"You're telling me, Mattie." Digit answered, clutching his head. "My mind hurts just thinking about this."

"Okay, so if your our Matt," Inez beagn, pointing to the Matt in question, "Then who's this?" she pointed at the other Matt.

"You're smart, Inez, don't tell me you don't have a theory." the dirtier Matt answered.

Inez gave him an odd look. "My first thought was that you might be a clone of some sort, possibly sent here by Hacker. But then I got the impression that you're almost as puzzled about this as we are."

"Not really puzzled, but rather...unused...to being in this situation." the dirtier Matt answered. He looked sympathetically at his double. "I'm just as weirded out at seeing another of me as you are, even though I knew what I was getting myself into."

"You mean you planned this?" Motherboard asked.

"Very much so." said Matt's double, then challenged, "You guys have any ideas why?"

"Um, why can't you just tell us?" Jackie asked.

"I'm having fun." Matt's double answered. "Besides, where I come from, it's been awhile since I've seen us all sit down and think things out. Here, I'll throw in a hint. The mist my double spoke of is Kryoxide, and it was there on purpose."

"What difference does that make?" Jackie asked, and opened her mouth to say more, but Inez cut her off.

"You seriously didn't try that, did you?" Inez asked, surprised. She seemed to know exactly what was going on.

"Yes, I did, and it worked fine, albeit the trip was really cold, but..." Matt's double answered.

The other Matt's face was showing sudden comprehension. "Whoa!" he said, at a loss to say anything further.

"Did I miss something?" Jackie asked. "'Cause I'm totally lost."

"Oh, right, explanations." Inez said, looking apologetic. "Two days ago, while you were in Solaria, Jackie, Matt asked aloud if time travel was possible. You know, just a random thought. Being curious about it, we both asked Dr. Marbles about it later that same day. He said that he had a theory that introducing a large amount of Kryoxide to an open portal might slow travel time so much so that you went back in time, but he never tried it, fearing that it might not work right."

"How so?" Digit asked, despite himself.

"I didn't understand EXACTLY what he said, but basically he was saying that there was a risk of things blowing up." Matt answered.

"What does that have to do with this?" Jackie asked, guestureing to Matt's double.

"Everything!" Matt exclaimed, "Don't you see? This guy is from the future!"

All eyes turned to Matt's double, looking for a confirmation at this revelation.

He glanced around nervously. "It's not like there was a choice!" He finally said. "I HAD to get here!"

"You mean you're really from the future?" Jackie questioned, her eyes widening.

"It was a big risk, I know." the time traveler answered. "But things in the future...aren't good."

Motherboard sensed there was more to that. "What happened?" she asked calmly.

The time traveler sighed. "There are two Encryptor chips." he said.