Author's Note: Thank you sooooo much for the reviews! I'm doing my best to format the chapters as fast as I can. Just to answer a couple questions that arose… Cobra is behind the children ending up in the past and I promise that I will attack that point in an upcoming chapter. This is my first fanfic so I'm still working out the kinks of story construction and such. Please keep reviewing as the story progresses! It's my life blood and writing force!

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Actual disclaimer: Hasbro, Sunbow, Marvel, and everyone else owns G.I. Joe. I own nothing but the children I created.

June 20, 2006

4:00PM

"Abby, I'm home!" Hector Delgado called as he walked in the door from his job. He'd had a long day and was looking forward to spending the evening with his daughter. He went into the dining room and saw Abby's schoolbooks, as well as two other backpacks as well. Ah, Beth and Dave are here too, he thought to himself. He scanned around the room and saw the backdoor had been left open as well.

"Aha! I know you three are out here," he said triumphantly as he headed out the backdoor. He walked out onto the patio area surrounding the pool, not finding any of the children. "That's strange," he muttered. He went back into the house, not having found the trio outside and decided to check all of Abby's normal hiding spots.

Twenty minutes later and after looking in Abby's room, his room, the guestroom, the attic, the garage, and the basement, he still hadn't found his daughter or her two best friends. He went into the kitchen, hoping to find a note from Abby pertaining to her whereabouts and was disappointed to find nothing. Worry lines were beginning to crease his forehead.

RING! RING! He turned his head sharply towards the telephone as it began to ring shrilly and jolted him out of his reverie. He walked over to where the cordless phone was sitting on the counter and pushed the talk button.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Mr. Delgado, it's Michelle," said a girl's voice on the other end. "Is Abby there?"

Hector breathed a sigh of relief. It was one of Abby's friends from school on the phone. "No, Michelle, I think she went out with Beth to… the movies," he lied. "I'll have her call you when she gets home." He hung up the phone and was about to go back to figuring out where the trio was when the phone rang again.

"Hello?"

"Hey Hector, it's Courtney. Are Beth and Dave there?" said a woman's voice on the other end. It was his old friend and former teammate Cover Girl. She and her children, twins Beth and David, lived just two blocks away from him.

"I can tell you that they were," he told her. "I got home about a half hour ago, found their backpacks dumped off in the dining room and the backdoor wide open. The kids aren't anywhere to be found though."

"Did they leave a note?"

"Haven't found one yet."

"That's weird. Abby's normally really good about that kind of thing," Courtney said.

"Good to know my daughter is responsible in other peoples homes too," he said sarcastically.

"You know what I mean," she said with a laugh. "Well, if you hear anything from them…" she paused for a second before continuing. "Hector, hold on a moment, I have a beep." Hector held the phone for a moment, wandering into the backyard with the phone as he waited for Courtney to come back. He walked around the patio, hoping to find any clues as to what the kids had been doing before they left.

After a few moments, he found a tiny scrap of black cloth tangled in one of the bushes lining the side of the property. "Hmm, what's this?" he asked curiously.

"Hector?" Courtney asked. "Sorry I took so long, but that was Roadblock on the other line."

"Oh, really, how is he?" he asked, while inspecting the scrap of cloth in his hand.

"Worried. Alicia and Matt went to the airport to pick up Annie this afternoon and they never got back to the house. He called the airport to have security see if they could look for the car and they found it sitting in the parking garage- with Annie's bags sitting outside of the car."

Hector got a confused look on his face. "So, what? Are you saying that those three are missing too?" He headed back to the kitchen inside the house.

"Appears so. I told him we didn't know where Beth and David and Abby were either."

"Weird. All six of them go missing at the same-" BEEP! His call waiting was going off. "Courtney, hold on a second. Someone is calling on the other line." He pushed the flash button on the phone, which allowed him to receive the other call.

"Hello?" he asked.

"Shipwreck, it's Duke." Hector's friend and former team leader was on the other end. "Have you seen Abby this afternoon?" he asked.

"No. But wherever she is, I can guarantee Beth and Dave are with her," Hector told him.

"I just got a call from Wild Bill. Shannon and Danny are visiting Chris and Alayna, as are Cole and Kaelin. Bill told me that the six of them went for a trail ride and picnic this afternoon and never came back, but the horses did. He went out to a clearing in the woods and found one of Alayna's necklaces, but no kids."

"Roadblock just called us and said Alicia and Matt went to pick up Annie at the airport and none of them got back, but they found Alicia's car and Annie's luggage sitting outside the car."

Duke paused for a moment before speaking again. "What is today's date?" he asked suddenly.

"The date?" Hector asked. "Our kids are missing and you're asking me for the date?"
"Today is June 20. Doesn't that date ring a bell to you? June 20, 1986? Sound familiar?"

Hector let it sink in for a moment before letting his jaw go slack. "You don't think-?"

"Project seventeen," Duke said simply.

"Damnit!" Hector cried, slamming his fist into the countertop of his kitchen. The pain shot through his hand, but he didn't care.

"Meet me in Fort Meade tomorrow, at Flint and Lady Jaye's house," Duke told him. Hector returned to other phone line.

"Courtney, I think I know where the kids are," he said.

"Where?"

He took a deep breath before speaking. "Get tomorrow off of work. We have to be in Fort Meade tomorrow afternoon. It's project seventeen."

To be continued….

Author's Note: Hmmm… what is project seventeen you ask???? Well, you're just going to have to keep reading the story to find out. I promise, that all answers will come in time… Just keep reviewing and tell me how everything is going! J Thanks to everyone who already did! I really, really appreciate it! J