A/N: I'm so sorry for the lateness, but my wifi went out right after I posted the previous chapter and didn't come back! (Until a day or two later, but that was lost time.) Seriously, it went out as I was about to post it, and I had to wait two hours, continuously screwing with the router, for it to come back. And when it did, I ran from the room, down to the basement, logged on, and posted it. I never ran so fast in my entire life for anything, I almost killed myself, and it only took me a total of fifteen seconds to do. And then right as I finished posting it, it went out again. My parents now finally realize that our wifi is a $%^& piece of !#$, and we will hopefully get something better in the near future. Anyways, I'll have a longer A/N at the bottom describing what's coming next. Until then, read on!

May 10, 2775

Sive's POV

"Ow!" I shouted in response to the sudden pressure to the back of my head.

"Sorry," Tech replied as he drew back a little. He was currently trying to bandage my head without hurting me in the process.

We had just gotten back to HQ after everything was taken care of back at the observatory, and the first order of business was to take care of anyone who had gotten hurt, which thankfully wasn't many of us. I was worse off than the others, though, so Tech had started out by dealing with my head wound. Claire was next to us, helping Laela, who had gotten cut on her arm by a shadow creature. Rev, Lexi, Nega, and Psycho were waiting to be helped, though none of them were too badly hurt. Ace, Wolfe, Duck, the twins, Buzz, and Slam were explaining everything that had happened to Zadavia and Dr. Chroniker, who had come over to HQ after receiving our call. He was currently examining Ceci's time machine.

The second order of business was to deal with the bad guys. Velvet was already taken care of; she was back at the prison in her dark little cell for the rest of her life. Well, that was the plan, anyway, but super villains always seemed to find a way of busting out. Celeste, on the other hand, was temporarily being held at the prison while the L5 prepared to go home. She would head back to the future with them where she would be dealt with accordingly.

"That should do it," Tech stated as he finished the bandaging. "Just don't mess with it and you'll be fine."

"Thanks," I replied as I stood up. I still had a splitting headache, but I kept quiet about it so the others could get some help.

"So-how-did-you-guys-think-of-that-escape-plan-it-was-awesome!" Rev exclaimed excitedly as he sat down where I had been a moment earlier.

"It was all Claire's idea," I replied.

"Well-it-wasn't-that-difficult-once-I-saw-that-lock-in-that-picture-and-remembered-seeing-a-copy-of-a-permit-for-lock-picks-in-Sive's-file," Claire replied modestly.

Lexi asked "You need a permit for lock picks?" at the same time that I asked "I have a permit for lock picks?" I knew I technically needed a permit for them, but I never got around to getting one. Besides; I had gotten those back in the Navy District. There hadn't really been a need for a permit there.

"You didn't hear anything," I said seriously, keeping a straight face, as I exited the room through a wall. I heard laughter behind me, and I chuckled a bit to myself as I walked down the halls.

I ended up going into my room. I wanted to rest for a few minutes, so I lied down on the bed and stared at the ceiling. I had gotten a concussion, so I wasn't supposed to sleep, so I was careful not to close my eyes, but I was exhausted. I hadn't slept more than a few hours for the past few days, not counting the time I was unconscious.

A few minutes later, Ace's voice came through the communicator. "Hey, when everybody can, come up to de livin' room."

I sighed and sat up. Before I left, I caught sight of my cell phone on my night stand, right where I had left it. I grabbed it for the heck of it, stuffed it into my pocket, and walked to the living room.

I walked in at the same time everyone who had just been downstairs with the medics did, minus Rev and Claire, who were already there with the others, Dr. Chroniker, and a holographic image of Zadavia.

"I am glad to see you are all alright, Loonatics," Zadavia said happily when we were all there. "And L5," she added. "It sounds as if you all had quite the adventure."

"Glad to see your plan worked out, Claire," Chroniker said. We had filled him in on the situation before leaving.

"So...what happens now?" one of the twins asked. I still couldn't tell them apart, even after all of this.

"Well, Donny, I suppose we go home now," Wolfe responded. The twins both had shocked looks on their faces. "...What?"

"You just got my name right," Donny responded.

"You never get our names right!" Mei exclaimed. "Well, not many people do, anyways, but you never do!"

"Okay, okay, we get it! I suck at names!" Wolfe exclaimed. I smiled and shook my head at them.

"Will you eight need to use my time machine to get home?" Chroniker asked. He raised up Ceci's time machine and asked, "Or will you take this one?"

"I-think-we-should-just-take-this-one," Claire recommended as she took the machine back from Chroniker. "No-offense-but-it's-less-glitchy-and-we'd-have-to-take-it-back-anyway-and-I-for-one-don't-really-want-to-find-out-what-happens-when-you-put-a-time-machine-through-a-time-machine."

"I agree completely," Chroniker replied. "Besides; I'm going to be taking that time machine apart, anyway; I don't want a repeat of this episode."

"Think that was why the time machine in the future was so messed up?" Lexi quietly whispered to me, and my eyes widened when I realized she was probably right.

"Oh, and I was able to reprogram that time machine to this day, 2939," Chroniker added. "You'll be able to use it to get home, now."

"Out of curiosity, what date was it set to before?" Nega asked curiously. "I just want to know if I sent that beam to a bad time or not, or if I sent it to the past and it will affect the future."

"Oh, yes... It was, ah...March 16, 29...3...4 I believe." Nega's and Wolfe's faces fell simultaneously, and they both stared at Chroniker in disbelief. "Is something wrong?" Chroniker asked.

Nega looked at Wolfe and asked, "Do you think it's just a coincidence?"

"I don't know, that's one hell of a coincidence... I mean, everything would fit if that was the case..."

"Don't tell me that! Just...don't!" Nega moaned as she covered her eyes.

"What?" a bunch of us asked at the same time, myself included.

Wolfe laughed, rubbed his eyes with one hand and said, "I don't believe it!"

"How are you possibly be laughing at this?" Nega asked.

"Laughing at what?" the rest of us shouted in annoyance.

"Do you want to explain or should I?" Wolfe asked Nega, who shook her head in response.

"That was- er, will be, I suppose, the day of the accident that affected, er- oh, you know what I mean!- the accident that affected Celeste and I," Nega explained. "So, essentially, if we had done nothing, then Celeste wouldn't have been disfigured, she never would have done any of this, that beam would never have been fired in the first place, and none of this would have happened."

"Friggin' paradoxes..." I muttered.

"Because-that-beam-didn't-hit-the-satellite-and-disperse-it-hit-you-guys-full-blast-so-it's-a-miracle-you-survived-it," Claire stated.

"Yeah, yeah..." Nega said in response. "I really wish I hadn't done what I did now... It would've been like hitting a reset button; none of this would have happened."

"Oh, don't worry about it," Psycho said reassuringly, putting one arm around her shoulder. "All's well that ends well, right?"

"Psycho, if you don't stop touching me, I'm going to break your arm." He immediately recoiled, and Nega smirked and walked away.

"Seriously though, don't worry about it, Nega," Wolfe said.

"It's all in de past," Ace added.

"You mean the future," I corrected.

"Whatever!"

"...Anyways, Celeste is in-transit here as we speak," Zadavia continued, showing no reaction to anything anyone just said. This was just business-as-usual for her. "Once she gets here, you are free to go back to your own time, L5. I'd recommend saying your farewells soon. Loonatics, until next time. L5, I wish you the best. Zadavia out." And with that, her image disappeared.

"So, we're actually going home now?" Mei asked hesitantly. Now that I knew which twin was standing where, I could tell which was which.

"Yeah…I-think-so," Claire replied in a disbelieving tone. None of us could really believe it; we had grown so accustomed to their presence, it was going to be unnatural not having them around.

"Well…I guess this is…goodbye," Lexi stated sadly. It was true; we would never see them again after this. Well, unless we got caught up in another time travel problem, but after all this, I think we were all going to try avoiding that as much as possible.

"Oh-I-don't-want-to-leave-you-guys!" Claire exclaimed as she ran up and hugged Lexi. It was obvious who the emotional one on that team was.

"Ace, it was nice working with you," Wolfe stated as he shook Ace's hand.

"You too, big guy," Ace replied. I had never noticed it before, but there was a significant height difference between the two, not counting Ace's ears. Wolfe was a big guy.

Suddenly, a twin who I suspected to be Mei ran up and hugged me lightly so as not to hurt my still injured chest, and I returned the hug. "I'm going to miss you, Sive!" she said sadly.

"I'm going to miss you too, Mei," I replied as we separated. Donny was right next to her, and I turned to him and said, "Donny, try not to get yourself killed."

He chuckled and replied, "I'll try, but I can't promise anything."

"Here's a tip: Leave Claire alone," I advised jokingly as I shook his hand.

Laela walked up to me next and hugged me. "Be careful out there," she advised, almost dropping her mystical monotone. Almost.

"You too," I replied. Laela and I hadn't gotten very close throughout all of this, but I would miss her all the same.

I saw Psycho standing off to the side, so I walked up to him and said, "Hey, Psycho!" to get his attention. He turned to face me, smiled, and held out his hand, which I promptly shook. Obviously, neither one of us were the particularly emotional type.

"Sive? Could you do me a favor?" he asked.

"Uh, not sure what I could possibly do for you a hundred years in the past, but sure," I replied confusedly.

"Try not to die," he said with a totally straight face, but he started laughing after I playfully smacked him upside the head.

"Same to you," I replied dryly as I turned back to face the crowd. Buzz and Slam were talking to each other, Tech and Claire were talking to Dr. Chroniker, Ace was talking to Nega, Wolfe was talking to Lexi, Rev was talking to Laela, and the twins were talking to Duck, who looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here.

Claire and Tech turned away from Chroniker, and Claire spotted me and ran over to hug me. I vaguely saw Psycho walk up to Tech out of the corner of my eye.

"Oh-Sive-I'm-going-to-miss-you-so-much!" she exclaimed as she hugged me tighter.

"I'm going to miss you too, Claire, but could you maybe let go before you break something?" I asked as I was starting to feel a throbbing pain in my chest. She was strong for such a small person.

"Sorry!" she squeaked as she let go. "Have-you-said-goodbye-to-everyone-yet?"

"No, I've still got to talk to Wolfe, Nega, and Buzz."

"Oh-yeah-I-just-saw-you-talking-with-Psycho-and-you-know-you-two-look-a-lot-alike," Claire observed as we turned to look at him and Tech. I could see a slight resemblance, but only in the details, as in the blue eyes and white muzzle. "Actually-I-think-he-looks-a-lot-like-Tech-too."

This made me do a double-take. She was right, though, and since they were standing next to each other, it was easy to see the resemblance. Tech and Psycho had exactly the same build, were exactly the height, and had the same facial features. The likeness was uncanny.

"Yeah, I guess it is a little strange that they look alike," I admitted.

"Do-you-think-that-maybe-you-and-"

"Claire!" Wolfe shouted in a threatening tone from behind us. Claire squeaked in surprise and zipped off to talk to somebody else.

Now what was that about…? I thought curiously.

"Is it just me, or does Claire get stranger and stranger?" Nega asked as she walked up to me.

I smirked and replied, "It seems so." Neither one of us was the emotional type as far as I knew, so I was preparing for another handshake. I was surprised when she wrapped me in an almost-tight hug.

"Nega, are you alright?" I asked as we separated. "You've been…different." It was true; ever since the end of the fight at the observatory, she had seemed less…unhappy with the world, I suppose. She overall seemed to be a brighter person.

"I've just come to terms with a few things," she replied with a shrug.

"Okay…" I said, but I wasn't going to drop it just yet. "Are you sure you're not not telling us something?" We had all gotten the feeling that something had happened back at the observatory with her, but she had given everyone the same answer.

"Yep." I guess I would never know.

Nega and I walked our separate ways to say goodbye to the last couple of people we hadn't talked to, yet. I found Buzz first, and we both shook each other's hands and smiled. Like I said, Buzz was the strong-silent type, and I would've been surprised to see more from him than that.

I finally found Wolfe talking to Tech and Chroniker. "Wolfe!' I said to get his attention.

He turned around, saw me approaching, and hugged me when I got close enough. "I'm gonna miss you, Sive," he said.

"I'm going to miss you too, Wolfe," I replied.

"Want to know what I'm going to miss most?"

"What?"

"Your dry sense of humor." I playfully smacked him on the shoulder as we separated, and he laughed. It was then I realized that was one of the few times, if not the first time I had heard Wolfe laugh. All of the L5 seemed happier than when they first arrived, actually. And yet, knowing that you aren't going to spontaneously disappear anymore does that to a person.

"Sive, I've been meaning to ask you, are you okay?" Chroniker asked, gesturing to my bandaged head.

"Oh, I'm fine, Doctor, don't worry," I replied dismissively. "It's not that serious."

"But it could have been," Chroniker stated, "and then where would you have been?"

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work a pair of lock picks," I replied. "It just might have taken an hour for someone else to do it instead of a few minutes."

"Even so, it was a risky move," Tech stated.

"Didn't we already have this conversation?" I asked Tech.

"Yes, but that doesn't mean that it's okay for you to constantly put yourself in harm's way," Tech said.

"Again, we already had this conversation," I said with a sideways glance at Tech.

It was then that Tech and I caught all of the stares from the L5. "What?" we both asked.

"Nothing," all of them said almost simultaneously and a little too quickly as they turned away.

"That was odd…" I stated curiously.

"Yeah, no kidding," Tech replied. "What do you think that was about?"

"No clue. Maybe people from the future are just weird like that…"

Suddenly, Lexi's ears perked up. Her eyes glowed and pink rings flew up her ears, showing that she was listening intently to something. Then, it stopped, and Lexi said with a slight hint of annoyance in her voice, "Hey, guess who just showed up?"

We all got our answer a few seconds later when Celeste was led into the room, accompanied by about half a dozen police officers despite being handcuffed with cuffs that cancelled out her powers. She looked none too happy with the situation, but at least she wasn't one of those villains who screamed obscenities as they got led away. The plan for her was that the L5 would take her back to the future, where she would go to trial. Normally she would just go to jail, but erasing people from existence is a little more serious than the normal super-villain activities. Well, when their inevitable take-over-the-world plan failed, anyway.

"I guess it's time to go," Wolfe stated after a moment.

Buzz and Psycho took Celeste from the cops, who promptly exited the room. The L5 went over to one end of the room with Celeste, while the rest of us and Chroniker gathered on the opposite side of the room. Claire put Ceci's time machine onto her wrist, pointed at the wall, and fired. The familiar bright light emitted from the end of the gauntlet, and the portal plastered itself against the wall.

"Bye, everyone!" Buzz shouted behind him as he went into the portal. Psycho then shoved Celeste in after him.

"Live long and prosper!" Psycho said as he made the funny hand gesture and walked through the portal. I face palmed.

How am I related to that guy…?

"So long!" Laela said louder than her usual volume as she went through the portal.

"See ya!" Donny and Mei shouted together as they went through at the same time.

"Be careful you guys," Nega said as she went through.

Wolfe turned back to us and said, "Just so we're clear, I don't want to see any of you ever again. Agreed?"

"Yes," a few of us emphatically agreed.

"Great!" Wolfe said with a double thumbs-up as he went through.

"Take-care-everyone!" Claire said as she followed them through.

The portal closed, and all was quiet.

"…Let's never do that again," I said after a moment.

"Agreed," Ace replied.

"Oh, you didn't have fun, Sive?" Tech asked jokingly as he put an arm around my shoulder.

"Fun? How could you have had fun throughout this?" I asked jokingly as I looked back up at him. "How many times were we almost killed? Five? That must be a new record, even for us…"

"No kiddin'," Ace agreed. "Hey, does anybody know what the date is today?"

"It's the tenth," Chroniker replied.

"Of what?" Duck asked.

"May."

"So-we've-been-gone-for-only-two-weeks-it-feels-like-so-much-longer!" Rev exclaimed.

"Yes, quite," Chroniker said. "Time travel has a way of throwing off your internal clock. A few minutes can feel like an eternity. But, if you'll excuse me, it's getting late, and I'd like to go back to my lab and get started dismantling that time machine."

"Sure thing, doc," Ace replied. "Thanks again for your help."

"And if you need any help dismantling the time machine, just ask," Tech added. Chroniker nodded, and left.

The rest of the day was quiet. Everyone relaxed, and we got absolutely nothing productive done. It felt good.

A little while later, I was walking around on my own, when I remembered my phone in my pocket. I took it out and flipped it open to see if I had missed anything. I had missed a lot, actually; Aaron had apparently tried calling me 36 times in the two weeks-or-so that we were gone, and I had 33 voice messages, along with 28 texts. Guess who they were all from?

I swear, he's worse than Tech… I thought as I dialed his number.

I had a lot to tell him about.

A/N: IT'S OVER! Honestly, I'm kind of happy. Why? Because I had no intention of this story being anywhere near this long, and it was starting to get hard to keep up my will to keep it going. Oh, well, it's over now.

Anyways, I want to thank all of the readers who kept with this story till the very long-awaited end, and those who lasted through my delayed updates. This has been a crazy couple of months for me, and I thank you for sticking with me.

And next up in my story-series is… Actually, I'm not sure. I have a whole crapload of ideas for stories, I just don't know which one I want to use yet… Maybe I should do a pole to see which one you guys want next? I don't know… Jeez, I need a pole to figure out if I should have a pole… If you want a pole, say so, and I'll do one! Otherwise, you'll just have to wait and see what I come up with on my own. Either way, the wait for the next story will be considerably longer than the between-story time of my last story. Probably a month or two… Sorry, but my schedule is going to kill me, and I have a lot coming up… I promise, I will get something new up! …You know, eventually.

One last note: I will be developing Tech and Sive's relationship through my next couple of stories. You'll just have to wait and see where it goes. XD

R&R!