By Mercedes

Hogan woke up from his blackout and expected to see the drab décor of the barrack around him but he was in for a shock.

"Where am I?!" Hogan looked around eagerly but then soon remembered that he was stuck in the barn. Obviously they must have went back in time. It seemed so impossible and inconceivable, but yet, it was true. Hogan just couldn't believe this. It was one of those times that you thought you were dreaming, but you knew you weren't. He decided it was best to wake up the heroes, and Schultz and let them see the harsh reality. Or was this really reality? Had time stopped and were they in a purgatory, or even stuck in some type of vortex?

After the heroes had woken up they all sat in a circle in the barn. There was no sign of Liesl, nor was there a sign of any of her dangerous weapons. She was crazy. The exact definition of insane. She had many issues to work out. The heroes talked how they would get out when Hogan remembered Liesl's quote.

"Well you guys, she did say 'Only one person can you now, and that would be by saving me.' Hogan eyed the rest. "Now think of it, who could save us, has a close link with us, and also one with Liesl?"

"Herr Kommandant Klink!" Schultz nearly fell over when his small brain came upon this conclusion.

"Exactly!" Pointed out Hogan. "So now crew, if you analyze the sentence you'll see that we need to get him to read the diary, but we're in some type of vortex, or something of the sort, so we can't reach him. But, we did leave the book in the barrack. Obviously Klink will notice that we're gone. He'll see the book and read it. He already read it to translate it, meaning he might have saved her last time, but each time you read it you must have to save her. This might mean he won't read it again. But on the off chance he reads it, or maybe just that entry, then he can save us. In order to save us you have to stop her from killing herself in our vortex, but she'll be dead in hers. I know crew, this doesn't make any sense, but to put in simply. We are stuck in a purgatory. We are not living nor dead. We don't exist. She doesn't exist in her either, just her memory. We need Klink to come here and then save her and we'll be back in our proper place in time and history."

All of the crew sat there and blinked for a moment after Col. Hogan's long and fast speech. None of them had the quick enough skills to keep up with his sharp mind.

"Does everyone get it?"

"I think so." Newkirk then had to help explain it to the other heroes. After repeating the message they eventually understood some of what was going on, but they must have been to shaken up to get the whole idea. Schultz didn't get it at all, he was completely oblivious!

"I guess that we can just sit here and wait. There is nothing else to do and we have hay and things. There are no animals, but we don't need to eat or drink, we don't exist right now." At those words everyone kind of gritted their teeth or made a nervous face. Nobody wanted to not exist.

Was this their fate or was it their accident? There were so many questions to ask, likewise so many to answer. Maybe Klink could answer them, or maybe he couldn't.

Now an hour later the heroes were growing quite restless from waiting.

"Will we ever get out of here sir?" Carter looked the most nervous out of all of them.

"But Hogan, how do we know that a guard won't read this, then they will be stuck here with us too?" Lebeau was getting anxious.

"Do you think ol' Klink will really read the entry again?" Kinch looked over at Hogan with curiosity.

Hogan was bombarded with questions. He just wanted to sleep for a while. It seemed comforting to sleep this thing away. "It would be a dream come true to wake up in the barrack bunks again," thought Hogan. "Yes Carter, we'll get out of here." "We don't know who will read it Lebeau, but somebody is bound to after awhile." "About Klink, I don't know Kinch."

With a soft crunch Hogan rolled over and fell asleep in the sharp and slightly painful hay.