After Cassandra's clever introduction, the kids had been escorted into a large conference room located in the opposite end of the building. They had been ordered to give Duke and Flint their full names and Alicia pulled out her drivers license to prove that she had in fact been born in 1989, which, as they soon confirmed, was currently three years in the future.

"So, what exactly are we waiting for?" Annie asked.

"Maybe they're calling their CO," Cole suggested. "Having us show up here has to be some sort of breach of security."

"Or maybe they're just clearing their heads," Danny suggested. "I mean, Flint just literally came face to face with his future daughter. I'd qualify that as a major shock."

"And what exactly are we supposed to say to them when they come back?" Abby asked.

"For right now, just tell them the truth," Danny said. "We know that Flint is Cassandra's dad and Shannon and I suspect that Duke might be our dad."

"And we are at GI Joe headquarters," Kaelin started. "Where all of our parents worked before we were born."

"Which means that all of us have at least one of our parents here right now," A.J. added.

They all looked around at each other, letting the weight of what A.J. said sink in. After what seemed like an eternity, Beth finally spoke the words that were on all their minds. "This is really creeping me out. I mean, I'm not even supposed to be born yet, and now I'm going to come face to face with a woman who is going to be my mother. Just thinking about it is giving me a headache."

"I know what you mean," Alayna said. "I'm feeling the same way."

"It could be interesting though," Hallie said. "We get to see what our parents were like before they had us. Maybe some of them were a little wild in their youth cuz then we'll have something on them, you know, so when we get home we can use it as leverage when we want to do something they won't let us do." Hallie had a sly grin plastered on her face and her eyes were twinkling at the possibilities running through her head.

Carla shook her head and laughed at her friend. "You're so bad," she said to her.

"And, I hate to mention it," Dave said to them, "But I think we need to consider the possibility that we won't get home. We might be stuck here… for the rest of our lives."

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"Duke, this is completely impossible," Flint said, rubbing his forehead. "There is no way on Earth that that girl is my daughter."

"Well, if those kids are from the future, as they claim, it is possible," Duke told him.

"Don't tell me you actually believe them?" Flint asked him incredulously.

"I'll admit I didn't want to believe their story, but you saw that girls drivers license. It looked pretty real to me," Duke said. "And I got a look at her last name. Hinton."

Flint shook his head in confusion. "Hinton? What are you talking about?"

"Hinton is Roadblock's last name."

"Are you saying the girl could be Roadblock's daughter?" Flint asked him.

"I'm saying that all those kids are probably related to Joes on this base."

"And what are we supposed to do about this?"

Duke took a deep breath and held up a piece of paper. "We have all the children's' names. We'll just go over the names, see if those names correspond with someone here at the base, call those people into the conference room where we have the kids, and go from there."

Flint took the paper and scanned the names listed. "Hauser?" he said, raising his eyebrows. "Sounds like two of them are yours."

"Great," Duke said sarcastically. He decided to change the subject. "Have you heard from Hawk yet?" he asked.

Flint shook his head. "No."

"All right, let's just gather those names and have those Joes meet us outside the conference room in an hour."

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4:00PM, June 20, 1986

After being approached by Flint and Duke about a secret mission, Roadblock, Shipwreck, Cover Girl, Scarlett, Wild Bill, Ace, Alpine, Bazooka, Mainframe, Doc, Quick Kick, and Lady Jaye met outside the conference room awaiting their two superiors.

"Does anyone have an idea of what this is about?" Doc asked.

"None here," Scarlett said. "Duke just came up to me and told me to meet him here. He did seem worried about something though."

"How could you tell?" Bazooka asked.

"Just a feeling," she said with a shrug.

Duke and Flint arrived then and the assembled Joes turned to face their superiors. "Okay, we're going to get right down to business. There are about a dozen and a half teenage children inside the conference room right now-"

"So we've been called in to babysit?" Alpine quipped.

"What's so special about them?" Ace said.

"What is said in the conference room is not to leave the room," Duke directed them. He opened the door and led them into the room.

The kids were scattered around the room chatting in small groups. Some of the girls were practicing dance moves with the others watching them while the boys seemed like they were having a conversation about their favorite sports teams. They turned to look towards the doorway when the Joes stepped inside.

"Hello, Father," Cassandra said to Flint, with a smirk on her face. She saw Lady Jaye shoot him a look that was somewhere between anger and demanding an explanation. He motioned for her to take a seat, but not before he whispered, "I'll explain in a minute." She looked a little confused but did what she was told.

Duke motioned for the kids to take seats along with the Joes. Once everyone was seated, he stood up in the front of the room and began to talk to them. "Earlier today, we were alerted that a group of teenagers had seemingly infiltrated the base," he told the Joes. "After a short talk with them, including gathering their names, and seeing some of their ID's, we have come up with a possible hypothesis as to where, or rather when, they came from."

"When?" Lady Jaye asked. "Are you saying they're from the past or future or something?"

"Future," Flint told her.

"We don't know how or why, but for some reason they have been sent here, and we're sort of hoping that these children can help us out," Duke said.

"Well, what do you want us to say?" Alayna asked. "None of us really know what happened ourselves. All we've been able to piece together from talking to one another is that we all saw a really bright white light where we were in 2006 before waking up in a room in this building, which we have learned from you is GI Joe Headquarters in 1986."

"Did you all know each other before ending up here?" Scarlett asked.

Shannon nodded vigorously. "That's an affirmative. All of us have at least one parent that used to be a member of the Joe team and since they all keep in touch with one another, we all kinda grew up together. As a matter of fact, my brother and I were visiting Chris and Alayna when we ended up here."

"So were we," Kaelin said, pointing to herself and Cole.

"Wait a second," Cover Girl interjected. "All of you have at least one parent who used to be a member of the Joe team?"

"Yeah," Shannon said.

"So…" Cover Girl glanced around the room at her teammates. "Are you telling us that you and your friends are actually our children?"

Cole looked around at his friends before speaking up on their behalf. He was usually very self-assured when speaking in front of groups of people, namely because he was on the school debate team at home, but right now he was feeling more nervous than he'd ever been. "Um, well, uh, based on, um, what we know about our parents and, uh, of course, knowing what they, um, look like- both in our time and, uh, from pictures we've seen- well, yeah, we are reasonably if not a hundred percent certain that you are our parents." Cole was fidgeting nervously in his seat, twiddling his fingers as he awaited a response to what he had just shared.

The Joes stared dumbfounded at the children for a moment before anyone was able to speak again. "This is crazy!" Shipwreck cried. "There is no way that I have a kid!"

"For once I have to agree with you, you crazy sailor," Cover Girl said.

"Well, you do have a kid," Abby said angrily. "So you're just going to have to suck it up and deal with it you lazy bum!"

Beth snapped her head around to stare at her best friend in disbelief. "Abby!" she hissed. "You can't speak to your dad like that!"

"I just did," she whispered. "And anyways, he doesn't know that I'm his kid yet."

"Now, listen here kid-" Shipwreck started to retort angrily. Cover Girl pulled on his arm and whispered something in his ear. He stared back at Abby curiously, and then walked towards her.

Abby saw her father- at least his younger self- walk towards her and then start circling around her. She watched him carefully, holding her tongue until he finished looking at her. "What's your name, kid?" he asked her flatly.

"Abby."

"Your full name," he ordered.

"Abigail Elizabeth."

"And your last name?" he pressed.

Abby looked at her friends before answering. "Delgado," she said quietly.

She saw his eyebrows shoot straight up and he sucked in a breath of air. If he was feeling any sort of shock, he was certainly hiding it well.

"Do you always talk to your father that way?" he asked smugly.

"No. My dad would kick my ass," she quipped.

He let out a sharp laugh. "Smart man," he answered back.

"I know."

"Um, why don't the rest of you kids, uh, introduce yourselves to the group," Duke suggested.

Danny made his presence known, getting up to his full height. His blue eyes and broad shoulders mirrored those of his father. "I'm Daniel Hauser," he introduced himself. "Danny for short." He pointed to his sister. "This is Shannon, my little sister."

Shannon smiled and waved at Duke. "Hi," she said brightly.

"You're my kids," Duke said simply.

Danny looked nervously at Shannon, and then over at Scarlett briefly before turning back to Duke. "Well, uh, yeah. You and um…" he tried to subtly nod his head over in Scarlett's direction. Duke snapped his head around in her direction and started to look back and forth between Shannon and Scarlett.

"What?" Scarlett asked. She looked at Shannon and suddenly understood. "Whoa! Are you saying that you're mine?"

"Hi, mom!" Shannon said brightly.

"I'm not even going to ask about how that happened," Scarlett said as she began to shake her head. She looked directly at Shannon before she continued. "But I suppose I can't deny the fact that you do resemble me. Strongly."

The rest of the kids introduced themselves to their parents-, which seemed a little ridiculous to them but given their circumstances, a necessary evil- and then settled back down at the table seated with their respective parent or parents.

"Well, now that we're all, uh, acquainted," Flint said, looking nervously over at Cassandra. She was sitting with Lady Jaye, who he just learned, was supposedly Cassandra's mother. That was a little shock for him. He knew he loved her with all his heart but he hadn't even thought heavily about marriage- it had crossed his mind, but it had always seemed like such a long way off.

"We can't really do anything about getting you kids home without first going over everything you may have seen or that you did before you ended up here," Duke told them.

"Got a while?" Annie asked. "Because all of us are going to have different versions of what happened."

Duke leaned forward and looked at her. "I've got all damn night. So start talking."

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