DT rose the next day. He wasn't ready for today. He put on his polar bear suit and stepped outside. Lamby, also wearing his suit was seated on a couch. DT sat next to him.

"You're not ready to go back, aren't you?" He asked, Lamby was fiddling with a first aid kit.

"No, Lamby, I'm not."

"That's the trouble with these inter-universal experiments. You get attached to the people inside them."

DT stared at the floor. Lamby dropped a bottle of rubbing alcohol and DT picked it up for him.

"I knew you knew that we were going home tomorrow, the way you explained the universe. You know it won't matter in the end."

DT sighed once more, he was not looking forward to this evening. Jon came out of his room. He sat down next to DT.

"I know it's hard to leave a universe like this behind. But, you can't stay here forever."

Lamby chimed in.

"Yeah, you got to go back to mom sometime. She'll miss you and us."

"Yeah, She would. She'll miss her little boys."

John chuckled.

"I'm just ready to go back to livin' underground, where I don't have to runaround with fake skin, pretending to be a human."

Perry soon waddled out, still sleepy and rubbing his eyes.

"I want to see mommy!" He said.

DT smiled slightly, and hoisted Perry onto his lap.

Finally, Steve emerged from his room.

"The device is still hidden behind the drywall, right?" He asked.

"Yep. Damn, I just realized we need to destroy the wall to get it out." Jon said.

DT looked shocked all sudden. Something had struck him. The theater's big show was in two days, and DT promised he would sing at it. But, he realized he broke that promise the moment he made it.

"We should start getting things ready, we should leave before Johnny and Ash get back." DT said.

"Yeah, if that makes you feel better about this." Jon said. He stood up and got a rotary saw. He and Steve began to cut open the wall.

"I hate these kinds of experiments." DT said. "Hell, I swore never to do one like this again, and here we are."

Lamby stayed silent. Perry was to focused watching Jonathon cut open the wall. DT knew he had a good reason to do one of these experiments. DT swore, to his wife, to his colleagues and to his sons, that this would be the last universal experiment he does. DT had to feel guilty, it really was an act. But DT, poor DT, grew attached to the people of this universe, and didn't quite want to leave it behind, not without saying goodbye. Johnny and Ash knew this was an experiment, but they never realized it was all part of it, not just researching couples, they were researching this alternate universe itself. DT even had to curse himself more, the couples research, was merely a coverup. Planned by the very people who organized this experiment. DT wasn't doing this on his own accord. He was doing it for someone else.

Jonathon finally cut open the wall and wheeled a large device out. A large box with gizmos, gauges and one large lever.

"Pack up what you want to take home and get ready." Jon said.

Lamby went around and unhooked all the med-kits he hung up. Perry, grabbed one of his drawings. Jon and Steve, grabbed nothing. All the furniture was rented anyway. The machines DT brought, would be transported back with them. With everyone gathered what they wanted, DT stood by the machine and grasped the lever in his hand.

The door to the apartment swung open. And in raced Ash, holding a folded-up T-shirt.

"Hey DT I got you some-…" She stopped seeing DT, hand grasped on the lever, the rest all huddled together, Lamby covered in Med-kits, and Perry holding a crayon drawing she couldn't make out.

"What is going on here?!" She asked.

DT sighed deeply.

"We're- we're leaving Ash."

"What, like this!? You were just going to go, pop, and leave without letting me or Johnny know?"

DT sighed once more, his hand released the lever.

"Its complicated…"

"And not to mention, the show is in two days! TWO DAYS, and you promised me you'd sing!"

Ash looked at the strange device.

"Go on, tell me, what does this thing do."

"It transports us back to our universe."

"OOH!" Ash said, sarcasm polluted her voice. "Why don't you just skedaddle in that spaceship or whatever you showed up in then!?"

DT tried to speak but the words wouldn't come out. He tried and tried as Ash ranted on and on about how DT lied to her again. Finally, he forced out the words.

"It's not that simple, we need to erase the fact that we were here."

"So, you're going to erase all of our memories huh!?"

"No, it doesn't work like that, this machine reverses time, it'll be like we were never here. Time will be reset to the Monday you went to the theater sick."

Ash paused, shocked, she dropped the T-shirt.

"You're just going to throw all this away. The moments, the, fun times we had. Just all down the drain?"

"We have to." DT caught a glimpse of the fallen T-shirt. "Cool Friends" was written on it, in sharpie."

Ash became bewildered.

"Why?!" She exclaimed. "Why, just toss all this down the drain. Johnny and I are engaged, we're having the time of our lives. Then, here you are… moments from throwing it all away. So, Why, why must you… erase all this we did."

"Because, the simple fact that we were here permanently damaged this universe. Even if we simply leave, there would still be remnants of us being here. Hell, us arriving in the TTP, that big explosion that shook your house. That changed the universe dramatically. So, we must restore it, and…"

"Reversing time is the only way." Ash finished.

"Yes."

"DT, tell me the truth, was this all an experiment?"

DT sighed, his arms now nowhere near the device's controls.

"I'm sorry, Ash…"

"Oh, so it was?" Ash raised an eyebrow at him. "Why did you do this?"

"I got paid to-."

Ash raised her voice once more, furious.

"Money! You did this, lied to me, manipulated me for money!?"

"Ash you don't understand."

"What you going to do, buy yourself a sportscar, go get some fancy food…"

DT had enough, Ash teenage attitude was no match for his. His voice, is just as attention grabbing as a normal person's.

"Because Perry needed medical treatment, dammit!"

Ash stopped dead in her tracks.

"Perry's not a robot?"

DT shook his head.

"No, he's a mutant, a cross between a human and a polar bear. He's not anthropomorphic like you."

"What, why does Perry need treatment, what for?"

"I found Perry in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster… and… mutants aren't always the healthiest."

Perry knew where he came from, and knew he was adopted, but didn't entirely know he wasn't healthy.

"As a parent, you want your kids to live a long happy life. The treatment Perry needs cost too much money… and I can't use company funds. I would if I could. I had to earn my own money."

"I'm sorry DT, family comes first." Ash said, her eyes started to water.

"Listen Ash, I know its hard, and what we did wasn't right, but in the end… Perry, he'll live a long and prosperous life, and follow in his father's footsteps. You want that for him, right?"

Ash nodded, the water in her eyes stung.

"This is goodbye, Ash."

"Wait!" Ash grabbed the T-shirt off the floor. "Take this with you."

"I will, Ash. And. Th-."

DT was cut off by Ash, hugging his legs. Small sobs escaped her mouth, she managed to choke out some words.

"You'll remember me, right?"

"Of course… but… you won't remember us."

DT, despite how much it pained him, grasped the machine's lever and threw it down. In a bright white flash, DT and the crew as gone, the apartment was empty. Ash woke up in her bed, sweaty and feeling queasy, just like last time, when the time had been reset.

DT arrived back to his universe just fine. He sighed. All that, months of getting to know Ash, Johnny the theater crew, it was all gone. All the progress they made, from Ash and Johnny dating, to them getting engaged, it was all erased with one simple flip of a switch. It was this moment, DT cursed himself. He grew attached to this group of anthropomorphic animals, made friends with them, knowing, in the back of his head, it never mattered. DT wished he didn't have to reverse time in that universe, but in the end, it was for the best.

"Dad, you know what Dr. Seuss says?" Lamby said.

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

DT knelt to embrace his son. Soon Perry joined in. DT was warped outside of his home. He was ready to go home. He hoisted Perry into his arms and opened the door. Another polar bear, that looked a lot like DT gasped from the kitchen. She was wearing an apron and bows on her ears. She hugged the group.

"How's my boys?" She asked.

DT placed Perry down so he could run off and do what Perry does.

"They were great, didn't misbehave."

"Jon stopped by a week ago and asked if it was okay for them to go along. At first, I didn't want them interrupting your work."

"I needed them." DT admitted.

Lamby soon was chasing after Perry.

"So, how much are you getting paid for this?"

"$800,000"

"You didn't have to do this, Daniel."

"I know, but it was better than going into debt to pay off a loan. I can't use company money for personal expenses."

DT placed his hand on the other's shoulder.

"and I promise, for real this time, this is my last universal experiment, Ida."

The two hugged and soon joined their kids in a game of tag. That night, DT was in his office, messaging the person who was paying him of the results and his findings. Once he did that, the money was transferred into DT's account. DT sighed and looked at projected hospital bill of Perry's treatment. He smiled, it just covered it. DT suddenly heard a knock on his door. Little Perry holding his picture, stood in the doorway.

"Daddy?" he asked.

"Yes Perry?"

"I wanted you to have this." Perry walked up to his desk and placed the picture, face down on the keyboard.

DT rubbed Perry's head in the classic father-like manner. He turned over the picture. What he saw, made him smile widely. It was Ash, acting like a monster and Perry, playfully screaming in fear. Knight Lamby in the background. It was a picture of when Ash played monster with Perry. DT stood up, grabbed a piece of tape and hung it above his computer.

"I won't forget you… I promise."

Heya, DT here. I'd like to take this time to thank you, the reader, for reading this story. Whether you skimmed through it, or read the entire thing, start to finish, I thank you. Writing this story was real fun, and I should admit I ended the story sooner than I anticipated. But with summer ending, and school starting back up. I'd have little time to work on this. I also want to pursue my dream. I do not wish to disclose that dream here, however. I hope you enjoyed this story, as I was a blast writing it.

Thank you and have a nice day.

TOOOOODLES!