Dr. I.Q. rapidly tapped on his tablet. Everyone in the Protectorate eagerly awaited the answer. This could be the key to finding the answers they desperately needed. After several beeps and bleeps the doctor grinned. Dodgers could feel a smile work it's way across his face as well.

"We're in luck. I've managed to trace the signal so we can locate the princess." The Doctor said with a wide smile.

Just like that, the smile on Dodger's face faltered. "But shouldn't we go back to the source of the signal? We need to stop whoever or whatever is controlling Brandon."

Captain Star Johnson sighed. "I'm sorry Dodgers, but right now the princess is our highest priority, not getting your boyfriend back. If you can't follow orders, you will be thrown off the case and placed in detainment until things calm back down."

"But you said that taking me off the case would make things worse." Dodgers argued.

No way in hell was he getting thrown of this case. For the past five years he thought everyone from his previous life had long since died. Now that he knew that the love of his life was still alive, Danny wasn't going to rest until he had his Brandon by his side again. No one was going to get in his way, not Commander X2, not Captain Star Johnson, no one.

The other captain rolled his eyes and scoffed. "I only said that to get you to give us the information we needed. Now, be a good boy and go down to the evaporator. We need to get people on board to help repair the communicator screen you broke. We are not about to go off into deep space without it. Oh, and you'll need to figure out a new password, stat."

"But we need to be going now. Brandon is already hours ahead of us." Captain Dodgers rebutted.

"Be that as it may, I'm not the one who shot his monitor because of a video." Johnson countered.

The temperature in the room felt like it had gone up in temperature as Danny's face grew a dark shade of pink. It took a lot of effort no to clench his fists. He wasn't about to let Star know that that got to him, no way, no how.

"Fine." He growled. "I'll go, but you guys better figure out how we're going to catch up with them."


While the repairs were being done, Captain Dodgers was tasked with looking over the flash drive to see if it contained any evidence. He wasn't sure if it was because it was meant to keep him busy or that he wouldn't freak out if someone else discovered another inappropriate video on the flash drive. Regardless of the reasoning, it had taken a few hours but they were able to come up with a flash drive reader compatible with the futuristic technology. Dodgers sat off to the side on his bridge at a rarely used work station. He plugged the flash drive in and the computer took a brief second to look it over. Quick as a flash a list of files popped up. Dodgers cautiously clicked on the first file, hoping that nothing embarrassing would pop up. In fact, he was met with quite the opposite.

An all too familiar location popped up. Although the decorations were different, there wasn't a doubt that this was his childhood home. The camera panned over the Christmas decorations in the living room until it settled onto a sophomore Danny, Tommy, his six year old younger brother sat on Danny's lap, his freshmen sister, Tammy, and Brandon. All three of them were dressed in pajamas. Dodgers remembered that year. Brandon's parents won a cruise and couldn't take Brandon with. Danny had told his parents that Brandon was going to be alone that year, and they were not going to put up with that. For that year, Brandon would be their honorary kid. All four of them looked groggy as could be, but Danny and Brandon both sported matching smiles. The two of them had just started dating and it was amazing getting to spend Christmas together. His sister on the other hand, scowled, not wanting to be filmed. Some Christmas music was playing in the background when his father's voice nearly made the present Dodgers jump.

"Come on Tammy, where's your Christmas spirit?" His father asked, chuckling.

The young Danny messed with his sister's ebony hair as he teased, "She's just grumpy that she can't see her boyfriend until later today. Isn't that right?"

"No." His sister growled as she tried fixing her hair. "I don't like being filmed."

Brandon stifled a yawn but still maintained his smile. "When you guys said you got up early on Christmas, you weren't kidding."

Captain Dodgers sighed. Well, he had seen all that he needed to in this video, maybe there was something else on the flash drive that would give them a clue about the missing princess. Captain Dodgers continued to click through all the files. All of them had him in them, every picture, ever video, everything was related to him some how. There were pictures of Christmases past, videos of them hiking in the woods near their childhood houses and every other major event in their lives. Why was all of this on the flash drive? None of it made any sense. But the more he watched, the more he looked at years that had long since gone by, the more feelings of homesickness popped up. Captain Dodgers felt the pang work its way through him as a video of him and his family playing football during Thanks Giving when he felt a presence behind him.

"Captain Dodgers." Percy said, getting his attention. "We've found them."