CHAPTER NINE - THE FINAL JOURNEY

Jack is in the driver's seat with Emma next to him. He's not actually driving (duh), he's simply trying to keep anyone from messing with the controls. Jack starts to remark, "You know, we ought to start to get some situational awarene-" but is cut off by another kid. "AHH, MY EYES!" one of the misfits (the other 18 people in the body slug nest) yells. Jack bellows, "ALL RIGHT, THAT'S IT! YOU'RE ALL OUT OF HERE!" After calming down, he declares, "We need to do something about these misfits. It's too crowded in here." Jack pulls the RV over at truck stop and begins to build a makeshift school bus. It will be solar powered, and A LOT SLOWER THAN OUR RV. After lots of work he finally gets it finished and sends the misfits on their way.

And finally, we learn what my vision meant. Apparently, the lever in the White House can reset the entire universe back to a certain date, changing ONE thing each time that it is used. It has been adapted to human time. With this reset lever, anybody who is touching it AND ALIVE at the time that the lever is pulled will remember what happened in the alternate universe. We get all of this information from the old captives of the Brain Slugs. Who got it from the Brain Slugs. Weird how they ended up helping us.

Anyways, we have some time before we get there. Turns out that Brook AND Mhairi are pregnant. Yep. Okay. Anyways, they both started having cramps after the third day in the Body Slug cave, and thought that they were menstrual cramps. When neither had their period, they realized that they were pregnant.

"What?" I ask, surprised at this information. "But we only. . . you know. . . once!"

"I was shocked, too, but it happened. Unfortunately, we will need to sort of kill these children to reset the universe."

I understand what she's saying. "So the choice is to kill two children and repopulate Earth fully to its old levels. . ."

Daniel finishes. ". . . or to never see our families again, but keep the children." Daniel frowns. "Oh, shit."

We all decide to get rid of the children. "After all," I say, "we can make the babies again. We can't make our parents and other friends again."

We get to the White House. Jack has built a device to scan the whole White House and get a floor map for each level. We head in, but unfortunately, the lever doesn't show up.

So I have to go from memory. We find the room and are heading towards the lever when I suddenly have a bad feeling. "Get under cover!" I yell, sprinting into a room that is entirely made out of a very strong metal. Everybody follows and gets inside just as the roof of the rest of the entire White House caves in.