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11 Feedback Loop

Once Six was up and about Rex was more than happy to raid the kitchen with Jen then pass out for a few hours. The brunette stayed awake though, working through the scans with Doc Holiday. She frowned as she pulled up one of the original scans from New York. Her eyes widened.

"Well I found a problem, and possible door back home but we won't need Caesar's shoddy Null Void gun. Not in a few hours anyway." Holiday frowned.

"How do you mean? Providence closed that rift." Jen shook her head.

"No, they patched it. A cover but not a solution. It'll crack back open, especially if anyone on the other side's figured out that it could be an exit. The Null Void's an extradimensional prison, houses the worst of the worst and no offence your world has enough problems." Holiday nodded.

"I think we'd all like to avoid a prison break. You think you can fix it." Jen tilted her head at the readings.

"Yeah. It's slamming an energy door. I'll need one of my heavy hitters but it's doable."

"How long do we have?" Jen seemed to think for a moment, ticking off a few fingers.

"Three hours, maybe less." Holiday nodded and flicked on the coms.

"Rex get up here! We've got a problem." They made their way to the incident site in New York. Providence had cleared off claiming victory but Caesar was there. Jen explained the situation to the scientist and he nodded.

"You say you can fix it." Jen nodded.

"I think so, and hopefully get home at the same time." Rex held out a hand to shake hers when a roar blasted through the trees around them. Three large tenticled things with wings that seemed more mouth than anything else swooped out of the trees. Jen swore.

"Null Guardians. They must be confused, they're not supposed to leave the Void." She spun the dial on the Ultimatrix and transformed into a greenish black figure with bright glowing green hair and blank white eyes. Her voice echoed slightly as she spoke.

"I'll reveal the gap, if you can toss them back through I'll follow them. I should be able to get home from there." Rex nodded and formed his sword. For beings as big as they were they weren't bright and it was relatively easy for Rex to toss them into the rip in between dimensions that Jen managed to pull open but it sealed too fast for her to follow and she swore as she landed. She transformed back to herself and kicked the dirt in front of her.

"Fuck! That was the only weak point! I… I'm never getting home am I?"

"Not true." The voice was formal and made Jen grin as every agent present whirled on the speaker, he was tall with brown hair and a lab coat. As they watched he tucked a pocket watch in his pocket and smiled at Jen. None of them had even heard him approach. "Sorry it took me so long to find you Jennifer, you're difficult to locate outside your universe. Shall we?" Jen nodded and held out a hand to Rex.

"You kick ass, we should do this again." He slapped her palm and held up his closed fist. She humored him and bumped it.

"I didn't get to spend nearly as much time with you as I did with Ben but you're cool Jen." Jen grinned.

"You too Rex. Maybe don't let your brother use the Null Void gun though." Rex laughed as Jen took the scientists arm and both strange people vanished. Six raised an eyebrow at him.

"At this point I'm not questioning it. Tennysons are weird no matter the universe, apparently." Six shook his head.

Jen glanced at Paradox as the blue lights flashed around them as they always did when she traveled with him.

"What pulled me there?" She asked hoping for once he would be straightforward with her.

"Residual energy from the event that pulled Ben into Rex's timeline. It was without a focus, causing something similar to a feedback loop. When you closed the portal to the Null Void that the initial event created you forced the loop closed. Cutting off your own escape route, but your timeline still needs you. So I came to collect you." Jen nodded. She wasn't going to ask but the words spilled from her before she could ask.

"Why did he look a lot like Ethan?" Paradox frowned.

"Pure coincidence I'm afraid." Jen nodded slightly as they landed outside her cousin's house. Kevin's car sat in the driveway.

"So will…" She started but her question died on her lips as she realized that Paradox had already vanished. "Why does everyone do that?" She grumbled making her way to the door which opened before she could reach it. Gwen raced out closely followed by Kevin.

"Where have you been! Your manna vanished entirely! You were gone! I swear if you do that to me again I will hurt you!" Gwen ranted as she pulled her cousin into a hug.

"So not my fault. Dimensional feedback loop. I got temporarily sucked into an alternate universe. But it's fixed now." She didn't say more as she stepped into the house. Kevin recognized the look on her face, frustration at a mystery not yet solved, an answer just out of reach. He ruffled her hair.

"Good to see you in one piece Tennyson." She nodded as she went to assure her parents that she was fine.