The Meeting with Sky's parents
Travis was woken up the next morning by someone knocking on the door. Travis groggily sat up, rubbing his eyes, then looking at the door.
"Come in," Travis said, still tired. A female servant, the same one from yesterday, came in.
"Mr. Marksman?" said the servant, "I'm really sorry to wake you up so early, but the king and queen said they will be ready to see you in fifty minutes."
"Thank you," Travis replied. "You may go." the servant bowed and left the room, closing the door behind her. Travis got up after seeing that it was 7:30 in the morning. He went to his dresser and got out his military uniform. After that, he went into the bathroom to take a shower. After thirty minutes, at about 8:00 in the morning, he came out of the bathroom in his full military dress, complete with the Purple Heart for when he was in the Thyraxian War. He and his platoon were about to be wiped out, and the troops under his command were losing all hope of ever winning the battle. But Travis rallied them to take up their blaster rifles and charge the Thyraxians with all they had. After the war, he was given the Purple Heart and the Medal of Honor for saving his platoon when all seemed lost.
About fifteen minutes later, the Captain of the Royal Guard, Captain Rex Maxwell, knocked on the door.
Travis said, "Come in."
Captain Rex opened the door and said, "Mr. Marksman, the king and queen are ready to see you."
"Thank you, captain, I'll be right down," Travis replied. After Captain Rex left to wait outside, Travis put the Medal of Honor around his neck and then exited my room. When Travis got outside, Captain Rex asked him to follow him to the throne room. About five minutes later, they arrived just outside the throne room's door. Captain Rex asked him to wait here while he announced Travis to the king and queen. A few minutes later, the throne room door is opened by two guards on the inside. Travis walked towards the throne of King Stephen and Queen Alexandra. After Travis got to about ten feet away, he got down on one knee to show his respect for the king and queen of Eraklyon. King Stephen smiled and nodded his head.
"You may rise, young man," King Stephen said to Travis. Travis got up and stood at the at-ease position. Queen Alexandra looked at Travis.
"Do you have our son's royal ring?" Queen Alexandra asked Travis. Travis nodded and reached into his right pants pocket. He pulled out a 18-karat gold ring with a ruby stone as the royal jewel.
"Right here, Your Majesties," Travis said, showing them the ring. Queen Alexandra asked Travis to bring it to them, and he obeyed. After he backed away, the king and queen leaned towards each other, examining the ring. They looked at each other and nodded. Then they looked back at Travis.
"Our son did choose you," Queen Alexandra said, nodding. "Then, from here on out, you'll be the new heir to the throne of Eraklyon. We'll have a formal ceremony in four days."
"Permission to speak, Your Majesties?" Travis asked, all military-like.
"You may," King Stephen replied.
"May I suggest that the crowning ceremony be held in a week from now?" Travis asked as politely as he could. "I promised my girlfriend Bloom, who you already know, that I'd take her out to see a movie coming out in four days. If I may, Your Majesties, I'd like to wait until a week from now."
King Stephen and Queen Alexandra leaned into each other and discussed what Travis had requested. Then, after about thirty seconds of discussing his request, they looked back at him.
"Very well, the crowning ceremony will be held in a week," King Stephen replied. "You may go on your date, Prince Travis."
"Thank you, Your Majesties," Travis replied. "I take my leave." Then Travis walked out of the throne room and back to his bedroom. After he got there, he packed up his clothes back into his suitcase after changing back into his MVA uniform, and then put the suitcase in a Capsule. Then Travis picked up his cell phone and dialed Helia's number. After five rings, Helia picked up.
"Hello, this is Helia," Helia said.
"Hey Helia, it's Travis," Travis said with a smile. "Can you come pick me up and take me back to Alfea?"
"Sure, but it'll be about six hours until I get there," Helia replied. "Inter-dimensional traffic is kind of backed up. Will that be okay?"
"If it's backed-up, then I'll just use my Instant Transmission," Travis replied. "But thanks anyway, Helia."
"No problem, Travis. See you later," Helia said. Then he hung up. After Travis flipped his cell phone shut, he put the Capsule containing his suitcase in his pocket. Then he put his middle and index fingers on the middle of his forehead and concentrated on arriving back at Alfea. In an instant, just like he had hoped, he was there. Travis walked up the stairs to Bloom's dorm room to tell her and the other Winx Club girls the big news.
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"You're the new prince of Eraklyon, now?!" Stella asked with shock. Travis nervously rubbed the back of his head and nodded with a nervous smile.
"Yeah, I'm now the new prince of Eraklyon," Travis said with a nervous smile. Then he looked at Bloom, smiling. "I was able to have them make the crowning ceremony a week from now, sweetheart. So we'll still be able to go on our date."
"Really?" Bloom asked in a hopeful tone of voice.
"Yeah, they allowed for one week, so we can go on our date." Then Travis looked around with a confused look on his face. "Where's Trunks?"
"He went to his home-Universe to say hi to his mom, Bulma," Flora said. "He said that he was going to the timeline he was from there so he could see her. He said he's going to be gone for at least five days. But he said that he'll be back for your crowning ceremony."
"Oh, that's good," Travis said with a sigh of relief. "I was hoping he wouldn't have to miss it."
"I doubt he would miss it, since you helped save us two days ago," Tecna said with a sad smile. Travis could sense that she still had the death of Timmy on her mind.
"I'm sure Timmy would be happy for you, Tecna," Travis said. "He would be happy for you that you're happy being with Trunks, since he had him promise him that he would take care of you. Much the same way Sky had me promise him that I would take care of Bloom." Tecna looked at Travis in surprise. But then she smiled as she realized that Travis read her mind. Then Travis yawned after he looked at his watch, which it had automatically synchronized itself to tell time in his home-Universe. It said it was 8:30 in the evening. He wondered how that could be. But then he got a suspicious look on his face. Bloom looked at Travis in confusion.
"Is something wrong, Travis?" Bloom asked.
"It's funny," Travis said. "When I left Eraklyon through my Instant Transmission, it was 8:15 in the morning. But when I looked at my watch, it said it was 8:30 in the evening. I think I ended up traveling through time."
"Without your time machine?" Tecna asked. Then she looked down in thought. "My guess is that you must've went at the speed of light, but you intersected a wormhole. Because my computer had detected a wormhole opening just outside of Eraklyon's orbit around 6:30 in the morning."
"A wormhole?" Travis asked. "Did your computer detect where it was coming from?"
"As a matter of fact, it did," Tecna said. She pulled out her laptop and looked the information up. "It was coming from another parallel Universe, called the Sonic X Universe."
"The Sonic X Universe?" Travis asked in surprise. But then, he sensed something. A presence just outside the gates of Alfea. When he looked out the window, he saw, after using his nanotech binocular-like monocle. He saw a anthropomorphic rabbit with what looked like an MVA uniform. He turned back towards the Winx Club girls and said. "I need to step outside for some fresh air. I'll be back in about two hours."
Everyone, the Winx Club girls, including Bloom, looked at Travis in confusion as he used his Instant Transmission to teleport to outside the gates of Alfea. As Travis looked around, he couldn't see the anthropomorphic rabbit in the MVA uniform. But he could sense him nearby.
"No use hiding, whoever you are," Travis called out. "I know you're here."
"Funny, I've forgotten that I have that good of telepathy," said a voice, coming from the nearby forest. The anthropomorphic rabbit showed himself. Travis watched as the rabbit came up to Travis. He looked at the rabbit with a serious look.
"Who are you?" Travis asked the rabbit. The rabbit smiled.
"You should know who I am," the rabbit said. "After all, we are one and the same." Travis looked at the rabbit with the shock of realization on his face.
"You're... you're..." Travis said in a stutter. The rabbit smiled a sly smile.
"You?" the rabbit said. "Yes, I'm you, from the future. But I'm not here to talk socially, Travis. I'm here to warn you."
Travis Prime was about to put his fingers on Travis face, but the younger Travis stepped back in fear.
"What are you doing?" Travis asked in fear. Travis Prime looked serious.
"Remember what our old friend Spock taught us to do of his Vulcan techniques?" Travis Prime asked. "Our minds, one and together." Travis Prime put his fingers on his younger self's face, just like Spock Prime did to the younger Kirk in Star Trek.
"Five years from now, something tragic will happen to you that will cause you to be a wanderer of the Multiverse." Then Travis Prime closed his eyes as he and the younger Travis went through time in Travis Prime's mind. "That's where I'm from, Travis. The future." The scene stops, showing Travis and Bloom in Eraklyon. "You and Bloom will have two children. The first is a son, whom you name after our father. You name him Trunks Christopher Marksman. The second will be a daughter, whom you name after Bloom. You two name her Bloom Cornelia Marksman. But that's when the tragedy will happen. As Bloom is giving birth to our daughter, she has great pain while giving birth. And it's all because of an evil force from another Universe. I've come to find out that it's our spiritual brother, Sephiroth, before he was made a part of us by God. He'll cause Bloom to die after giving birth to our daughter. I tried to fight him in Bloom's spirit. But he was too powerful. He defeated me. And because of that, Sephiroth was able to kill Bloom. And when you get attached to Gwen Tennyson, Ty Lee, and Sarah Ryback in the Ben 10, Avatar, and Under Siege Universes, it'll be Sephiroth that kills all of those girls that we get attached to. I tried to save Gwen, Ty Lee, and Sarah each time. But I couldn't. And all because I failed, Travis. Because... I wasn't strong enough."
They both snapped to their own bodies after that last sentence. Travis backed away, crumpling on one knee, breathing heavily.
"Forgive me, Travis," Travis Prime said. "Emotional transfers have been affecting the mind, now."
The younger Travis stood up, shaking, and said, "I never thought I had so many emotions."
"Yes, we do, Travis," Travis Prime said, looking down in sadness.
"Coming through... time and space, you decided to... change the past. Why?" Travis asked his older self.
"Because I wanted to prevent the tragedy that you'll go through that has troubled our future for so long," Travis Prime said. "I was ordered by our old friend, King Andronius Prime, of the Armenthian Empire in the Teen Titans Universe, to give you this when the time came." Travis Prime pulled out of his pack what looked like the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. But the younger Travis knew it wasn't the Matrix. It was the Gaion version of it: The Gaion Crystal of Leadership.
"What's this for?" the younger Travis asked his older self.
"It'll help you against Sephiroth, when he tries to kill Bloom," Travis Prime said. "King Andronius said that, when the time is right during the battle, you'll know what to do."
Young Travis turned back towards Alfea's gate, with the Gaion Crystal of Leadership in his hand. But he stopped and turned back to his older self.
"You know, coming back in time, changing your own history," the younger Travis said to Travis Prime. "That's cheating."
Travis Prime smiled, looked down for a second, then looked back at his younger self, saying, "A trick that I learned while we grew up." Then Travis Prime looked at his younger self with a serious look on his face and said, "Whatever you do, Travis, don't tell your Bloom about what's about to happen to her five years from now."
"But I've got to tell her," Travis said, looking desperate. "Why can't I tell her? Or better yet, why can't you tell her?"
"Travis, as our old friend Spock Prime once said to James T. Kirk," Travis Prime said, "this is one rule you cannot break. Otherwise, your entire home-Universe as you know it will be destroyed." Then Travis Prime smiled and said, "But I'll tell you this: When you use the Crystal, you won't go through the same tragedy as I did of losing Bloom. Just go be with her. Cherish and protect her until the day when you'll use the Crystal."
The younger Travis smiled and said, "I will. But, if you came back in time to change history, what'll happen to your timeline?"
"The Universes I've been to will just split in two," Travis Prime said, "one where I never existed, and one where I did exist because of the multiple tragedies you'll face, if I hadn't come back in time." Travis Prime turned back to the wormhole that had just opened up, but he turned back to his younger self and said, "You'll never see me again from this point on. I did what I had to do. I just hope you'll do what you have to do when the time comes." Then Travis Prime disappeared through the wormhole, leaving his younger self to his thoughts. After the wormhole disappeared, Travis went back to his apartment to sleep for the night. After he got inside his apartment, he got into his MVA-embroidered pajamas and went to bed after putting the Crystal on his nightstand. Then he fell asleep in five minutes flat.
