By the way, the title was ripped off from the book by Michael Crichton. However, it has nothing to do with the actual book.

Chapter 314- Timeline

Two weeks later…

Sonic crawled out from under the porch in a daze. Shadow was standing nearby watching, "I warned you." he said with an evil smile.

Sonic just stood and went into the house silently. Shadow glared after him, "HEY! I don't care how horribly she tortured you; when I insult you I want you to pay attention!" he screamed.

Later that day…

Tails stood in the garage, having just put a blue tarp over his latest invention which he planned on adding minor touch-ups on tomorrow, and turned and went over to the door leading to the kitchen but when he opened it he found Liz standing there smiling at him.

"What're you doing?" she asked innocently.

"Leaving." Tails said.

"Why haev you been spending so much time in the garage these past few weeks?" Liz asked trying to push past him.

Tails responded by hurling her back into the kitchen with incredible and unexpected force, "STAY OUT OF THE GARAGE!" he screamed slamming the door shut.

Liz stood and glared at him, but she turned and marched off.

Tails turned and locked the garage door; he didn't trust Liz not to go snooping around.

Later that night…

Liz came out of her room and quietly snuck down the stairs into the living room. As she reached the last step she realized that everyone was already asleep so she decided to have a little fun.

She crept slowly across the room on her tip toes as the pink panther theme played from somewhere. She came to the kitchen and pulled out a blowtorch as she approached the door to the garage.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?"

Liz spun around to see Tails glaring at her, "How'd you know I was up?" she asked.

"I heard you humming the pink panther." Tails said with a glare, "You really should try not to sing when you're sneaking around."

"Damn…" Liz mumbled, "Well, who cares? I want to see what you're doing in there!"

Liz turned and kicked down the garage door and ran inside.

"Liz NO!" Tails screamed running after her.

Upstairs everyone else had been awakened by the commotion coming from the garage. Sonic led them down the stairs and went into the garage and flicked on the light.

Liz was trying to fight off Tails who was clinging to her ankles trying to stop her from seeing what he was making.

"What the hell are you two doing?" Shadow demanded.

"SOMEBODY STOP HER!" Tails screamed, "SHE'S GOING TO KILL US ALL!"

"Kill us all? What exactly do you have under here?" Liz reached for the tarp and pulled it off.

"NO DON'T!"

However, despite Tails' pleas Liz pulled her leg out of his grasp and approached the machine that stood before them. "Cool! What is it?" she asked.

"Looks like a grandfather clock with a bunch of wires sticking out of it." Amy said.

And so it did. However, these wires were connected to a panel of pretty red buttons. And when Liz saw these pretty red buttons her eyes lit up.

"NO! DON'T PRESS THOSE!" Tails screamed.

Too late.

The gears in the clock started to spin and a buzzing sound emitted from the machine. Tails screamed and ran out of the garage.

Nobody else seemed to have the inclination to do so because they were fascinated and curious as to what was happening in front of them.

Tails was hiding under the couch of the living room when a blue flash came from the open garage door.

He crawled out and went over to see what had happened and found that his friends had all disappeared!

"Wow… it worked…" he mumbled.

He ran over to the control panel and pressed a button. A small spark discharged from the clock, but nothing else. Tails' eyes became wide, "OH NO! IT'S BROKEN!" he screamed.

He began to panic as he stood there trying to think of what to do… then he ran out of the room and dialed for Liz's friends to help him. He must have been desperate because otherwise he would never have called in the middle of the night… also because… well they were Liz's friends.

Liz sat up and glanced around. She was sitting on a dirt path surrounded by forests. "Whoa… what happened?" she mumbled.

She stood up and dusted the dirt off her clothes, "Alright… let me think…" she said to herself, "Tails' invention short circuited… it was shaped like a clock and was hooked up to a machine… hmm…" Liz stood there in thought for a moment then she snapped her fingers, "That's it! It all makes sense! I fainted! I guess I should wake myself up." She went to the side of the road and picked up a rock.

"What ho, stranger?"

Liz looked around and saw a girl wearing a dress, an apron, and a bonnet coming towards her with a basket in her hands.

"Hello there illusion. I was just about to wake myself up." Liz said with a smile.

"I be no illusion. I'm as real as day." the girl said stopping near Liz,

"Hmm… then I guess I'm not dreaming." Liz said dropping the rock, "Well could you tell me where I am?"

"This be the road to Salem." the girl said, "May I say stranger, thine clothes are some of strangest I've yet seen in all my years. Pray, where dost thou hail from?"

"I was just in my house near Station Square… Wait… Salem?" Liz asked, "That can't be right… how could I be in Salem? Is this one of those old tourist villages? Is that why you're talking so funny?"

"I'm afraid I know naught what you speak of. Where I be from the tongue ye use may well be considered strange." she said with a giggle, "Have ye a name stranger?"

"I'm Liz."

"I be dubbed Ann. I live in Salem. Liz, would ye care to join my family and I for supper?" Ann asked pleasantly.

Liz paused and thought for a moment. Then suddenly it all came together, "Ann, what year is this?"

"Why, it be February of 1692. What an unusual question, Liz. Pray, why dost thou not know the year?"

Liz didn't respond. She stared at Ann for a moment and then without warning she fainted.