A/N: Sorry for the disappearing act. I was struggling with Harry this chapter.

CH 21: Preventer's HQ

"Are we where I think we are?"

"…How… how is that…."

"Must have been that light…"

"Should we get Une?"

"Should we wake the kid?"

"Probably best we leave him to wake on his own…"

"Go get Une. We need to check in on the others."

"Got it."

There was the sound of a door opening and closing before there was a brief silence.

"So… what do we do?"

"Wait for Une or for Potter to wake."

"He's waking."

Harry blinked his eyes open slowly, confused by what he saw. Firstly, he was staring at a ceiling, which wasn't all that odd, but the fact that there was a light fixture with electricity running through it was.

"Where am I?" Harry muttered, mostly to himself.

"Preventers' headquarters."

Harry sat up abruptly, jerking himself around only to pause and the voice and the words registered. He relaxed a little before the full meaning of the words sunk in.

"Wait, what?"

"Apparently we were thrown forward in time," Duo responded with a grin, "Welcome to our time!"

"But… but the battle, and Umbridge, and the gundams…."

Quatre winced, "The gundams… if anyone else gets a hold of them…"

"Noin won't let them be taken," Zechs said with absolute certainty.

"Nor will Sally," Heero assured.

"They didn't come with?" Harry asked, looking confused.

"They must have been outside the range," Wufei responded.

"Alright, what the hell is going on around here?"

Harry spun again, this time to see a woman that could have been related to McGonagall with all the 'no nonsense' vibes she was giving off. She was wearing a prim skirt suit and had long brown hair that seemed to not dare fall out of place. She had a stern look on her face as she scanned over the group of boys.

Trowa appeared behind the woman, clearly having not actually explained what had happed. Of course, given that Trowa didn't say a lot of things this wasn't all that surprising.

"Apparently we were brought back," Duo offered.

"And the girls were not," Zechs added.

"Nor the gundams," Wufei finished.

The woman turned her attention to the only person in the room that wasn't one of her agents, "And who is this?"

"That's Harry," Duo said with a grin, "He's from 300 years ago."

"Uh, hi…" Harry offered awkwardly.

"This is Lady Une, Commander of the Preventers," Quatre explained.

Harry quickly got to his feet, "Ah, nice to meet you ma'am."

He held out his hand to her which she shook firmly before turning back to her agents, "Debrief and get Water and Fire on the line."

"Sally, the screen is blinking," Hilde called toward the head of the mission.

Sally and Noin both had been working to shuttle the gundams back to their hiding place as quickly as possible without drawing attention to themselves. The two had their hands more than a little full.

"Answer it," Noin called back and Relena leaned over, establishing a connection.

"Lady Une," Relena said, looking surprised.

"Relena," the Commander replied, "Are you all alright?"

"We're fine," the former Queen of the world replied, "But the boys-"

"I know," Une cut in, "They're here."

Hilde and Relena nearly slumped in relief at those words. Sure Dorothy had said that the light was what had started all this, but most spells caused light so it had not been all that reassuring.

"Where are Sally and Noin?"

"Securing the gundams," Hilde responded, "With Dorothy keeping watch."

Une seemed to debate for a moment before deciding that she'd try to get information from the two before her. Securing the gundams was top priority at the moment and she didn't want to call away the two who knew how to use them to answer questions that Relena and Hilde might have the answers to.

"Was the enemy camp destroyed?"

"From what we've been able to tell, yes," Hilde said with a sigh, "We took out their warehouses and the mobile suites that engaged. What we don't know is if that was their only base of operation."

Une nodded slightly in understanding before Heero appeared at her shoulder, "We have been revealed. They know who we are now and that we know what's going on. We won't be able to catch them off guard again and they might decide to make the next move."

Relena bit her lip in worry about that, "What do we do then?"

"Tell Ganger and Weasley. Listen to Sally and Noin. And for God's sake, be careful."

Hilde nodded to show she understood, "Yes sir." Heero scowled at her mocking tone, "I'll go see if Sally or Noin is free to talk."

With that Hilde exited the carrier, leaving Relena alone with her thoughts.

"Vice Foreign Minister Dorlin?"

Relena looked back to Une, "Yes Lady Une?"

"Stay low. They might still be looking for you."

Relena nodded again, "Of course."

Sally appeared at Relena's shoulder, startling the poor girl, face set in a grim expression, "Can you get back here?"

Heero gave a faint shrug, "Worse comes to worse we use that black hole again. It should take about a day though."

"I'll get Granger to research what on earth that was. Your gundams are back where they belong. We'll have them set up some sort of protection spells around them since you won't be around to guard them properly."

"Thank you Sally," Une said with a small sigh, "We'll update you when we have a plan."

"Understood. Water out."

"They what?"

"Calm down 'Mione, I'm sure it's not as bad as it sounds…"

The bushy haired brunette gave her friend a rather dark look, "Yes, being engulfed in a spell and thrown 300 years into the future after being caught in a battle with Death Eaters isn't bad at all. Think Ronald! What if that spell had landed them on one of those Colonies? It could have interfered with the electrical current that keeps it in space and it could have crashed down-!"

"Breathe."

She shot him a dirty look, "What if Death Eaters were sent with them?"

That caused the red head, as well as the girls from the future, to falter. It had not occurred to them that anyone else could have gotten caught in the spell, but given how many people had been in the area it was a possibility. A rather bad possibility.

"Noin…" Sally started and the blue haired woman nodded, quickly backtracking to the shuttle to contact their Commander.

"Hermione," Relena said, stepping forward and stopping what would have no doubt of been a stupid reply on Ron's part, "Could you help us figure out what that spell was?"

Hermione's eyes widened a little, "Oh of course, why didn't I think of that? Common Ron, we have to get to the library!"

The red head groaned as Hermione grabbed his arm and drug him down the hall. The remaining time travelers looked at one another. Those boys and their trouble making.

"Honestly that hadn't even occurred to me."

"It hadn't occurred to us either to be honest."

"This is not good…."

"We don't know if it's true or not. It's all speculation."

"But if you're right then we could be in trouble."

Noin was inclined to agree with the blonde Arabian. Especially if it was that Umbridge woman. She was actually from their time and knew things that would give her a great advantage over them.

"Keep an eye out. Maybe have Harry give you brief descriptions of anyone that he knew was there."

"Good idea. We'll be in contact soon."

"Be careful Quatre."

"Well…. They tend to always be wearing masks…"

"That's not very helpful."

"I know that. I'm just saying I have no idea who was actually there. Well, other than Umbridge."

"There must have been something…"

"The ones that I know well I can usually recognize by voice, but either they didn't speak or they weren't there."

The pilots sighed. This was going to be harder than they thought.

"…I can give you descriptions of the Death Eaters I know."

"At least it's something."

"You can't be serious Headmaster…"

"I'm afraid I'm quite serious."

"Only Potter would be stupid enough-"

"Now is not the time Severus. We have more pressing matters to attend to."

"What do you mean Albus?"

"Voldermort will make his move soon. We best be ready."

Harry was more than a little fascinated with the future. He had spent his teenage years in a world where there was no technology and his childhood he rather lacked in anything that wasn't part of your standard kitchen.

Sure he had snuck onto the computer a few times to blow up a few aliens, but those times were far and few between.

So seeing the Preventers headquarters, full of state of the art technology was nothing short of a wonder for the boy.

"Pretty neat, huh?"

Harry looked at Duo who had spoken and nodded, "This is beyond anything most of us could even imagine."

"Don't touch anything," Heero said shortly as he typed away.

"What are you doing anyway?" Duo asked, turning his attention to the only other person in the room.

Quatre was of checking in on his company, something that had surprised Harry. Who knew that the teenage terrorist/peace preserver was also a multi billionaire business man? Trowa was chatting with Cathy. Who Cathy was, was beyond the 'need to know', thus Harry was rather left in the dark about that. Wufei was off meditating and spending time away from Duo.

"Monitoring criminal activity and running the suspect descriptions against the descriptions Potter gave us."

Harry snapped back to reality at that, "You can do that?"

Duo gave him a wide grin, "We can do anything."

While Harry was pretty sure Duo was joking, he didn't doubt that statement. Magic may be able to bend the rules of physics and boggle the mind, but he doubted there were many limitations with the technology of this time period.

"Hermione go it."

Harry, Duo, and Heero all turned to look at Quatre who was in the doorway, "What?"

Quatre gave a faint smile, "She figured out what happened."

"What was it?" Heero asked, even knowing he probably would not be able to understand most of the explanation.

"Well…" Quatre said slowly, clearly trying to think of a way to say it so that it would make more sense, "She said that it appears to have been a spell that uses the basic principle of a time turner and magnifies its ability."

There was a pause before Duo said, "In English?"

"That makes sense," Harry said almost at the same time.

"It does?" Heero asked, looking at him.

Harry nodded, "A time turner allows you to travel forward and backward in time, but there's a limit as to how far you can go. It couldn't have sent us forward, or backward, 300 years. But if you could find whatever spell they use to make a time turner work, and tweak it, you would be able to extend how far you could travel."

"Can you duplicate it?" Heero asked, getting to his feet.

Harry made a face at that, "Maybe if Hermione helps… I'd need to know how they altered it."

"Hermione had a theory on that."

All eyes were once again on the only blonde in the group. He ran a hand through his hair a little self consciously, "There was a large group of them, chanting the spell. She thinks they built up their power before actually releasing the spell."

"…then I can't recreate it without finding other magic users," Harry said with regret.

Duo just grinned, his smile taking on a slightly evil edge, "Ever been to space?"