A/N: …I have an excuse! …Somewhere during my 5 assignments from Science class and other assorted things from all of my other classes, I think I died. So, that's why I didn't get this up sooner.

Good news is that I have spring break, part II starting Thursday! (Better known as Easter Break.) So, I'll get the next chapter up Thursday or Friday.

Anyways, this chapter has an interesting twist! Enjoy!

May 3, 2775

Celeste's POV

We stayed with Velvet in the coming days, explaining our whole situation to her during that time. Once we had finally finished our explanation, we asked Velvet what she wanted with the bio-converter. She explained an extensive plan, and her reasons behind it, and it wasn't that bad of an idea.

"So, how exactly do you plan on getting the converter?" Velvet asked after telling us the whys and hows of her plan.

"Well, like I said, we have a time machine," I stated. "We'll use that to go back in time to when the converter is easiest to take. You know when that is better than I do, though."

"That would be when it was on the train, right after it left the city," Velvet said. "So, we can essentially go and get it whenever we want, right?"

"I think we should come up with a concrete battle plan first, but yeah," I replied. "And by helping you do this," I said to her quietly, "I'm helping myself get control of the city."

"How so?" Velvet asked.

"Simple; you're my descendant. In doing this, with all of the confusion that will ensue, it would be a perfect time to attack the city. If you get control of the city, and you pass the power down through the family, then eventually, I'll get what I want, and you'll have more than you ever knew you wanted."

"I like the sound of that... And I had never even thought of doing that! I'm impressed."

"Well, you're ingenious planning passed through the family."

"Celeste!" Ceci yelled from somewhere nearby.

"Now if only you're uncanny ability to find good help passed, also..."

Ceci flew in, wearing a ridiculous pair of green goggles, and landed lightly in front of us. The goggles were a pair of night vision goggles Ceci managed to make for herself with random parts Velvet had lying around. Like I said; technological genius when she felt like it, moron anytime else.

"Uh, I think we have a problem," Ceci stated.

"Well, don't keep us in suspense!" I snapped after a few moments of silence. As usual, the fact that I was annoyed with her completely flew past her.

"Okay, so my parents designed this gauntlet so it could be a time machine and pick up spacial and temporal anomalies in the area," Ceci explained. "And this thing has been going nuts the past few hours! I think someone's using a time machine, or trying to use a time machine to come here."

Velvet and I looked at each other; we suspected the same people.

"Ceci, could you use your time machine, go into the future, and see what the Loonatics are up to?" Velvet asked.

"And the L5," I cut in.

"Yeah, sure," Ceci chirped in response. She then proceeded to open up a portal, still in the same room we were in. Velvet cried out and ducked under her cloak to avoid the light.

"Ceci!" I yelled.

"Sorry!" she called. She flew into the portal and was gone.

"And you're teamed up with that dipstick why exactly?" Velvet asked after the light faded.

"Because she has the time machine, and she knows how it works," I replied. "I just had to promise her power when I have control of the city, and she did whatever I told her to."

"And you're actually going to let her have control over... Well, anything?"

"Of course not," I replied dismissively. "I just have to wait until she's not important anymore. Then I won't have to deal with her ever again..."

xoxoxoxox

May 3, 2939

Ceci's POV

Celeste wanted me to go spy on the Loonatics and the L5, so that's what I was going to do. I never knew why I did everything Celeste told me to, but it always seemed to work out well in the end, so I just rolled with it.

The time machine sent me 164 years into the future exactly, so I would be able to see what the L5 and Loonatics had done since we left. I ended up across the street from the L5's HQ, so I didn't have to go very far. A window was open a few dozen stories up, too, so getting inside was easy.

I took a long way around to get inside to avoid being seen, and then flew in. I landed on the windowsill so no one inside would see me before I wanted them to. It was hot inside the room the window was in, but it was easy to see why; there were two people using welders far below me, along with a whole bunch of other machines that got warmer and warmer the longer they were on. The room had a really high ceiling, and the window I came in was close to it, so I could see the people below me without being seen.

"It's amazing that we got this done so quickly," a green coyote anthro said as he shut off his welding torch. He flipped up his mask, and I realized it was Tech, one of the original Loonatics. I remembered launching him off the roof, but he was the one that could regenerate, so I wasn't too surprised to see him.

"Psycho-and-Rev-finished-assembling-the-parts-way-quicker-than-we-thought," the roadrunner from the L5, Claire, said as she pushed her goggles onto her forehead. "So-that-saved-us-a-lot-of-time."

"How long until you're done?" another green coyote, Sive, asked. She was lying on the couch in the corner of the room. I remembered launching her off the roof, too, but I was surprised to see that she was alright.

"Probably tomorrow," Tech replied. "We'll be ready for another test in about half an hour."

They were working on something that looked like an arch. A familiar arch that my parents had thrown out years ago... It's a time machine!

I knew I needed to keep them from finishing it, so I had to act fast. I was about to fly into the room to do something, when the door opened and someone walked in. It was one of the twin rabbits.

"Wolfe wants an update," he/she stated (their own team couldn't tell them apart, so I saw no reason to try.)

"Tell him that they're almost done, and that if he asks for one more update, I'll personally go up there and drill the same message we've given him the last eight times he's asked into his skull," Sive replied, making the rabbit giggle.

I didn't want Wolfe to get involved in this, so I decided to act before the bunny left. I jumped off of the window ledge, flew inside, and landed so I blocked the door from the others. The rabbit yelled in surprise and dove backward while Tech and Claire immediately jumped in front of the time machine and Sive sprang up from the couch and darted over to the rest of them.

"What do you want?" Sive spat.

"Right now, I want to make sure that time machine doesn't work," I replied matter-of-factly. "If Celeste and Velvet find out that you have it, and that I didn't do anything about it, then they'd probably kill me."

"Wait a second. Velvet? As in, Black Velvet?" Tech asked incredulously.

Oops... I always said things I wasn't supposed to say, but it wouldn't matter in that case. I wouldn't give them the chance to tell anyone anything, anyways.

"Well, duh, how many people do you know that go by 'Velvet'?" I asked sarcastically.

"Why-are-you-working-with-Velvet?" Claire asked.

"Because she's Celeste's ancestor, and because if we help Velvet get some 'bio-whatever' thing with our time machine, then she'll help us." If Celeste heard all of the stuff I was telling them, she would probably kill me.

"If you think we're going to let you touch this machine, then you've got another thing coming!" the rabbit exclaimed.

"Like you're going to stop me!" I replied as I shot a time portal at them. I had made a modification to it since I last saw them, so the portals came and went a lot faster. The anthros weren't fast enough, not even Claire, and they all got sucked in. I had it set to a date way into the past; a date there was no chance they could come back from.

I heard people quickly approaching from outside the door, so I turned to the time machine and shot a powerful sound blast at it. It was more than enough to break the arch in half, completely wreck the computers it was hooked up to, and send random parts flying across the room.

I opened another time portal that would take me back to Celeste and Velvet, and flew through it. I vaguely heard a door open behind me, but I was already gone by that point.

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Lexi's POV

I figured something wasn't right when I heard the static sound that came from Ceci's time machine, but I ignored it; time machines weren't the only things that made static, and it was pretty far away. I knew something was up when I heard a twin yell, though.

We were all in the living room, talking about what we were going to do next, when I heard the twin. I sat up quickly and listened hard, but I couldn't hear anything else.

"Something wrong?" Nega asked.

"I think so..." I explained what I heard, and everyone else looked as panicked as I felt. Without saying another word to each other, we simultaneously ran out of the room. Rev kept pace with the rest of us so he wouldn't get lost again.

We quickly made our way down to the lab, but I heard a whole conversation between Ceci and Tech, Sive, Claire, and a twin that I found very interesting. Then I heard the time machine again, followed by a sound blast that made me wince, but I didn't stop running. We made it into the lab just in time to see a portal closing.

The place was a mess. The once near-completed time machine was lying in pieces all around the room, along with other random odds and ends, but all of that was lost on me. I only noticed that Tech, Claire, Sive, and the twin were gone.

"Where... Are they?" Wolfe asked, out of breath.

"I have a bad feeling about this..." Psycho stated grimly. He looked a little freaked, and I remembered that since Sive was his descendant, if anything happened to her, he could fade.

"Lex, did ya hear anythin' else after de twin yelled?" Ace asked.

"Yeah, and you won't believe it," I stated. I told them everything I heard, anyways, and everyone had an identical look of a mixture of shock, worry, and disbelief on their faces.

"Wait a second, Black Velvet? As in, bad guy from your time Black Velvet?" the remaining twin asked in disbelief.

"Celeste is her descendant," Nega stated. The twin, Psycho, and Laela gave her quizzical looks. Well, the twin and Psycho did; Laela just stared in her general direction.

"It was never important," Wolfe said to them in response. "It never really came up. Sorry if you didn't know."

"Do-you-think-Ceci-sent-them-back-to-our-time-because-she-did-it-before-so-maybe-she-did-it-again," Rev speculated.

"No chance of that," Nega stated matter-of-factly. "Ceci's like lightning; she never makes the same mistake twice. Well, most of the time, anyways."

"Maybe they'll come back with another time machine?" the twin ventured hopefully.

"Sorry, Mei, but Ceci probably sent them too far back for that," Wolfe stated, taking a guess at which one the twin was.

"I'm Donny." If the situation wasn't that bad, I would've laughed. Wolfe never got the twins right; he had said he thought they were switching on him to annoy him.

"Sorry, Donny..."

"So, with the two techies gone, what do we do now?" Duck asked, skipping right to the point. As always.

"Well..." Rev began, thinking something over before speaking. "Okay-so-Psycho-and-I-helped-a-bit-with-this-thing-when-Tech-and-Claire-were-working-on-it-and-we-saw-a-lot-of-what-they-did-so-I-for-one-think-we-can-maybe-work-on-this."

"Just don't expect us to get it done in any reasonable amount of time..." Psycho muttered, waving his hand and sending a random scrap of metal into his hand.

"It's better than nothing," Wolfe stated. "Until then, I'm not taking my eyes off of my tablet computer. If another portal opens, I'll know about it."

"Is there any way to figure out where she sent them?" I asked. "Then when Chroniker uses his time machine to get us, or if we finish this one, we can go find them!"

"I'm afraid not..." Nega replied grimly. "Not unless we can get Ceci's time machine, that is. And now both Ceci and Celeste are 164 years away."

"Den we'll just have ta wait until we either finish dis time machine or until Chroniker picks us up," Ace stated determinedly, trying to keep our hopes up. "We'll stop Celeste and Velvet, take Ceci's time machine, and den find Tech, Sive, Mei, and Claire."

"Sounds like a plan," Wolfe stated.

Despite everyone else's obvious hopefulness, I started worrying all over again about my teammates.

A/N: I enjoy sending characters through time… *evil laugh* R&R!