AN: Yea I got it up, the last chap of angst and now to the fun of time travel! Hope you enjoy, leave me a comment, review or suggestions you might have. Read & Review, you know you want to. Thanks!


Chloe bends down over her daughter placing a soft kiss on the bouncy yellow locks of her head.

"Sweet dreams."

Alison smiles up with bright eyes as she snuggles deeper into the covers. "Mom, do you think...do you think, Erie will be okay?"

Chloe lets go of a painful sigh, her hand brushes the top of the child's head.

"I'm sure she'll be just fine. How's the report coming?" Chloe asks getting onto a subject of less stressful matters.

"Pretty good actually. You think daddy will print it in the Gotham Ledger?"

Chloe laughs softly as her son speaks up from across the room. He being old enough to have his own room, but the intimidation of the house just made it more comfortable to have a compaion just a bit longer.

"Ace, I seriously doubt dad will allow your fluff of a paper to be printed in the # 1 top running Press."

"Second top running Press." Allison corrects. "The number one spot belongs to the Daily Planet."

"Not anymore." William mumbles sadly to himself.

"Will, stop being so hard on your sister." Chloe lightly scolds and gently takes his frames from his eyes to place them on the nearby bedstand.

"I'm quite certain if your sister puts her mind to it she'll be as good-"

"...as you and Auntie Lo, mommy?" Allison finishes.

Chloe swallows the sad lump in her throat.

"Yea, baby, just as good." She bends down kissing the tip of her son's nose. "Goodnight, you two and no staying up late."

"Goodnight, mom." They say in unison as Chloe crosses the room and switches off the light before leaving the room.

Allison uncomfortable turns in her bed, unable to sleep. "Will?..."

"What is it, Ace?" He sighs in annoyance. "I'm trying to sleep."

She leans her head into her handd. "Well, I can't. Tell me a story."

"Geez, Ace, you think you're getting a little too old for bedtime stories?" he grumbles as he turns on his side. "Besides you're the one good with the stories."

"Please, Will?" Ace whines. "I can't stop thinking about, Erica."

William lets out a sigh and flops onto his back.

"Okay...Okay." He says stretching his arms over his head.

"Once upon a time, there was a tree... The End... Now go to sleep."

Ace makes a sour face at him. "What kind of story was th-"

Before she could finish her sentence, a loud gasp emerges from her throat as her eyes spot a shadowy figure beyond her windo. William quickly runs to the switch, flashing the lights on.

"It's Erie!" Ace lets out a squeal and quickly runs over to open the window.

Erica is greeted with a fierce hug by both siblings who nearly tackle her to the floor with delightful laughter.

"What are you doing here?" William is the first of the Wayne children to speak as he releases his cousin, though his sister is still hugging thier older cousin like a life-line.

He snatches his sister back to give Erica some room to speak. Which, to thier amazement is exactly what she does.

"I need your guys' help." She says a bit sheepishly in a way her father would have.

Their eyes go wide with shock and Allison lets out her amazement with a scream causing Erica and William to jump on her with hands over her mouth.

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"You're crazy!" Allison says in disbelief reciving a glare from Erica, leave it to her Cuz to be blunt in the matter. "There's no such thing as time travel. I admit that we live in advane times, but that's just one comanity that we just do not have."

"I know what I heard. I know what I saw, Ace." Erica emphazied, having just explained the whole tramatic events of her mom's death as they sat huddled on the floor.

Allison looks to her big brother for help. "Will, please tell her she's wrong. Time travel doesn't exisit."

William rubs his chin in a thoughtful manner,. "Well..."

Erica face lights up. "I knew I came to the right place."

"William, what are you saying?" Ace asks in suspicion.

He takes off his glasses and rubs the frames with the bottom of his white t-shirt. "What I'm saying dear Sis is that time travel does exisit and dad is the first person to actually have the machine."

Still in shock over the information she shakes her head. "You mean..."

"Dad does have secret labs, Ace." William looks at her pointedly. "What did yo think were happening in those places?"

"Finding cures?" Ace asks timidly.

"No, they were doing something better." Erica gleams. "And you two are going to take me there."

Ace and Will look at each other nervously and swallows loudly.

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They tip-toe across the long, white corridor, their backs pressed against the wall as they walked.

"There's another one." Allison spts out another Sensor which triggers the main alarm system.

Erica peaks around the corner and using her heat-vision melts the device to make a safe passage.

"I can't believe we're doing this." William complains seeing the damage Erica was causing.

Allison pats William's chest. "Stop being a baby, Will. Where's your sense of adventure?"

"Back at my laptop." William huffs.

"Shhhh. Be quiet. I hear something." Erica warns and trains her ear onto the sound. "Someone is coming. Go quickly!"

They nearly escape a guard as they round the adjacent corner just out of sight and only seconds before being discovered.

"We're here." Will announces as he checks his PDA for the blueprints which to the genius mind of his sister and himself weren't hard enough to swipe from thier dad's important files.

"Right behind these doors. There is where they keep the machine."

"How are we going to get inside?" Allison asks studying the double wide doors that look at least an inch thickness of solid steel and controled by the main circuit system and rigged, no doubt, with the state-of-the-art alarm system.

William pulls out a plastic Key card that held the Wayne Interpise logo from his pocket. "I was swiping these from dad when I heard the news." He says looking at Erica sadly. "Somehow I knew keeping a hold of these would come in handy."

Erica gives a sad smile back. "Good Job."

He turns to slide the card in the slot only to recieve a buzz and red flashing light denying them access."

"Great job, Will! You should have known dad would change his key cards constantly." Allison quirks. "Now what are we going to do?"

Erica not waiting for a reply walks over to the security box. William grabs her arms. "What are you doing? If you brake or damage it in anyway this place will be swarming with guards not to mention our parents."

"That's the chance I'm willing to take. I can't waste anymore time." She focuses back to the blinking box waiting patiently for use and with her strength crumbles the device until the locks on the doors disemable and the doors slide apart.

They rush inside as the alarms shrill and flashes angry red warning light alerting that an intruder is in the mist. With her strength, Erica grabs the steel doors shaking with some effort and closes the doors behind them.

"Whoa!" Allison annouces brining thier attention to a huge futuristic machine. "I think we found it."

Erica hazels light up as she looks over the platform and technical controls making such a thing as time travel possible. She couldn't supress the smile and hope that began to burn in her chest. The joy didnt' last long as they heard pounding and shouts coming from behind the jammed door.

"See, I told you." William yells above the noise.

"come on, we have to get this thing started!" Erica shouts and runs over to the machine, William and Allison behind her.

"Here!" William said running over to a carpartment and throwing Erica a small gadget. "It's the only way we can keep in touch!"

"How do we set the time on this thing?!" Erica says more then ready to take this leap.

"It dosen't work that way!"

"What?!" Allison and Erica scream.

"Something better happen soon, it sounds like an Army behind those doors!" Allison points out as she worridly looks at the steel entrance keeping out the said army.

"Well how dose it work?" Erica asks as she stand next to her male cousin, too excited and nervous to worry about the throng of people trying to get to them.

He looks at her intently and explains. "I'm not quite sure but if you're correct about that SOB traveling back to Kill you mom in the past..."

"I am." Erica says without a doubt.

William nods his head. "Then there's already a whole in the continume of time. This machine will follow that rift and hopefully you'll be where he is, or the time he's in."

"Hopefully?" Erica asks in a nervous voice.

"Nobody really know how how this whole time crap really works. The reason why I'm still against this, Erie."

Erica gives him a hug. "I know you are, Will, but thanks for helping me anyway."

He gives her a warm smile and watches as she speeds over to his sister and quickly envelopes her into her arms.

"Thanks, Babe, your the best."

"Anytime, Erie, give my love to Auntie, Lo." Allison smiles bravely, keeping the unshed teas at bay.

Erica's smile braodens at the thought of seeign her mom again. She coldn't wait to hear her voice and be wrapped into her embrace. The little voice in the back of her head warning her how will she let go of her mom again when she hast to come back? Ane what's more, how will she even get back? She pushed the thoughts away, at that moment, all she cared about was seeing her mom again.

William came up beside his sister and places his hand on Erica's shoulder. "Be careful, Erica. We want our favorite cousin back in one piece."

She rolls her eyes and gives them one last smile before walking onto the standign platform. "I'm the daughter of Superman, what could possibly happen?"

Allison and William giver her a knowing smile back, being the children of Batman didn't stop them from getting into any kind of trouble intentional or not it just seem to come with being part of a hero's life, trouble seem to just follow, as they walk over to the gears to bring life to the machine.

"How dose this work, Will?"

He shrugs his shoulders. "I'm not sure. I think this button starts it."

His hand hovers over it, about to press when a familiar dark, gruffed voice stops him.

"Don't you dare! William, Allison you two are in so much trouble!"

They turn around to see their father with ten guards adn their Uncle Clark standing behind him.

Clark looks straight ahead to see Erica looking back defiantly.

"What's going on? Erica, what are you doing? What is all of this?"

A frantic Scientist comes rushing in checking over all the equipment, making sure nothing is damage during their breaking and entering.

"What did you brats push?" He asks in a rush of anger, panic in his tone.

"We didn't push anything. We were about to push the blue button to start the machine. You stopped us before we could." Will says, giving his sister a look that told he was up to something.

The Scientist pulls at the few strands left on his balding scalp in exasperation. "It's not the blue button that starts the time portal, it's the RED one!"

Allison and William quickly glance at each other. "Ace, do it!"

Tricking the Scientist into revealing the correct button to bring the time machine from its slumber, Allison without hesitation presses the bright, blood-red button in front of her.

"NOOOO!" Clark shouts in fear as gears creak and roar into existence and parrelles with bright lights and ear splitting noises that groans from the wakening beast.

The platform illuminates into a blinding light surounding a fearful Erica into it's brilliance.

"You stupid child! What have you done?" The Scientist rants and storms his way to Ace.

Bruce seeing the Scientist as a threat to his daughter decks him across the face before he reaches her.

Clark treis to super-speed to Erica but is held back by Bruce as the lights begin to whirl and the high pitched sound vibrates even more through the air causing ripples of shock waves against thier ear drums.

"Move out my way!" Clark demands, murder in his voice as the sickening fear burns through his veins.

"No, Clark, you can't! It's too late!" Bruce tries to make him understand and see reason. "The machine has already begun, don't you understand, her molecules are being seperated into particules smaller then atoms. If we stop the procdure now it will kill her!"

Clark grabs Bruce shoulder in panic and rage, he bit his teeth down all he could do not to wince from the pain Clark unintentionally pressed on him.

"Can you guarenteed me this transport alone won't kill her!"

Bruce looks intenlly into his eyes, his face betraying his thoughts and fears in knowledge of that question.

"It's a risk for anyone who makes a jump. I'm going to be truthful with you Clark, not everyone makes it or returns."

"Stop the damned mach-" Clark stops and everyone turns thier heads to the screams of pain that comes from Erica.

Clark pushes Bruce out the way and comes to a stop. "What's happening?"

Bruce stands beside them and places his hand on his shoulder and knuckles turning white from the horror in front of him as he squeezes them into his skin, the only solce he could offer in this situation.

"Her molecules are being ripped from her as they are broken down and transferred." Bruce looks at him gravely, the words having a hard time leaving his dry mouth.

"From those who make it back never wants to make it again. It's a very painful experience from what I'm told."

The sounds Erica were making only confirmed his words as pieces of her anatomy seem to dissolve like sand in water. Clark drops to his knees unable to take the torture his child was expieriencing as a fountian of tears floods from his eyes. He couldn't deal with this, not now, not after loosing Lois so soon. This was his fault, he didn't believe her and she felt she had to take matters into her own hands. He would never forgive himself for doing this to her.

Bruce turns his head to see Allison huddled in the protection of Williams arms, tears streaming from her red, swollen eyes as she watches her cousin go through the point of transporting in time until nothing is left but the echo of her screams ringing hauntily in the lab.

She lifts her head up from his chest to see the few particles of Erica disapear. "What have we done, Will?"

William looks down sadly at his sister barely able to form the words. " The right thing. I know it is, now."

To Be Continued...