The group of Federal Agents, doctors and people from the 1930's gasped at the sight before them. They couldn't believe what they had just witnessed. Nick, Ardeth, Frank, were all dead, killed before their very eyes. The Time Traveller now towered over Michelle, who never noticed the man standing over her. She had her head buried in the clothes of Frank's lifeless body and was crying her heart out.

"Oh, I'm sorry, did I do that?' the Traveller said with mocking sadness.

Then it turned to evil laughter before he decided to kick her. She was forced off of Frank and she cringed in pain through the tears. She looked up at the man.

"You killed him!" she yelled at him.

"Why of course I did. That's a such a sad thought. At least for you, it is. I'm glad they're out of the way. They were threatening my very existence by living," the Traveller snickered

He now aimed the gun at Michelle. Her eyes widened just before he pulled the triggor. She managed to move out of the way in time and unsteadily climbed to her feet.

"You will pay for that. No one attacks my father and gets away with it," she snarled at him.

"Yes, I will. I always get away with the things I do and I always will from now since these three are dead. I am longer threatened," the Traveller replied as he walked towards her.

Before he could get any farther, he felt something hit his back. He turned to see Patrick throwing rocks at him as was Sarah.

"Leave her alone! Leave all of us alone!" Patrick yelled at him.

The Traveller growled as he blocked the attacks coming at him before staring at the group, who was obviously angry by the looks on their faces.

"Why are you doing this?" demanded Cody.

"Why do you think I'm doing this? So I can live! You do realize that you are going to be next after these children here? They are just as bad as the men who took them in. They will die right now!" the Traveller yelled as he lifted his fist and punched Michelle right in the stomach.

She had the air taken out of her and she gasped for it as she fell to her knees. She watched as the man walked over to Patrick and Sarah. He pulled out guns and shot them once each. They fell to the ground in pain. Sarah clutched her thigh as her brother held onto his knee. The three stared at the man as he lifted up the same baseball bat he attacked Nick earlier with.

"Who cares what you want? I'm in charge of your destiny now. Too bad you're going to have a little accident," the Traveller sneered.

Michelle's eye widened when she heard this before anger engulfed her senses. She managed to climb to her feet and started to move. She ran into him and knocked him from his position. He growled as he climbed to his feet and towered over the three of them.

"That was making my job really easy. Now all I have to do is take you down all in one shot," he growled at them as he lifted the bat again over his head.

"No!" cried the group, who felt helpless as they were unable to do anything.

They watched as the man swung the bat at the three, hoping to hit at least one of them. The three scrambled but Patrick didn't get out of the way in time and felt the bat connecting with his shoulder. But he also felt no pain. He was confused as he moved it, as he still felt no pain of any kind.

"What the heck...?" he started. "Why don't I feel any pain?"

"What?" roared the Traveller. "Why is this happening? You should be dead right now!"

The answer was to come by the Guardian, who appeared not too far away from the group. She had the Spire in hand.

"Traveller, you cannot hurt them because not all of them are here. Catlanda Bay, the Keeper of the Spire and protector of the jewel of Ramses, is not here," the Guardian said. "You cannot hurt the children until they are all here."

The Traveller was very upset now. If one could watch long enough, they could almost see the smoke rising from his nostrils and ears.

"How dare that I am denied my true conquest of this planet!" he yelled as he threw up his arms.

Cody banged on the invisible barrier with his good hand until he hit nothing. He was surprised as he decided to take a step forward and nothing stopped him. He gazed over at the group.

"I think something's going on," he told the others as he moved forward.

"And this was nothing so far?" wondered Matt.

Cody shook his head as the group moved forward. The Traveller was distracted by the Guardian as they made their way towards the three men.

Rae hurried up to Nick's side and checked for a pulse. Finding none, she sighed as she gazed up at her colleagues.

"He's dead. Those two have to be as well," sighed Rae as Sarah crawled over to them. "I can't believe it. He came here, took in two teens and he's dead because of it."

The tears were falling down Sarah's face as Letty put her arms around her, comforting her. Patrick had made his way over to them and was now sitting next to his sister. He put a hand over his eyes.

"Why does it have to be like this?" he whispered. "Why?"

Cody put his good arm around Michelle's shoulders as she cried. She leaned into him, seeking a shoulder to cry on.

"It'll be alright," Cody whispered as the others went over to Frank's body.

"No it won't be Cody. Frank's gone and I have nowhere else to go. I might be on the streets again. He's the only one who really cared," she told him through the tears. "Not that you or the others didn't."

Cody didn't say anything for he didn't know what to say. The others didn't know what to say either.

Ayanna hurried over to her son's lifeless body and held the cold hand.

"I am glad Catlanda was not here to witness that. She did not need to see you die," she said as Iscantil knelt beside them.

"She will be very upset when she finds out," Iscantil added.

The woman nodded in agreement.

"It has to be this way. We both know that," Sharak told his brother.

"I know. Cat will be so heartbroken," agreed Marok.

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A doctor walked into Catlanda's room to see she was not moving. She hurried up to the bedside and checked the pregnant woman's vitals to find them slow.

"Oh great. Someone get in here!" the doctor called out the door.

But before anything could happen, the arm beneath her hand began to disappear. She was confused as she watched the body before her disappear.

"What the heck just happened?" she asked himself as a couple of nurses hurried into the room.

They stared at the now empty bed.

"Must be seeing things or something," she muttered to herself.

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Michelle was still crying into Cody's good shoulder as he put his arm around her. He was trying his best to comfort the teenager as the rest of the team stood silently nearby. They couldn't believe what had happened either but they weren't taking it as hard as she was.

"Why does this have to happen Cody?" she whispered.

"I don't know Shelly. I really don't know," he quietly replied.

Suddenly, a bright light filled the sky. Everyone there looked up to see that Catlanda was now hovering beside the Guardian. She took a deep breath and opened her eyes to look around at the scene. Her gaze soon came to Ardeth and a sad look appeared on her face as her hands flew up to her mouth.

"Yes, he is dead," the Guardian told her as she allowed Catlanda to go to his side.

She cried as Iscantil held onto her. It was then that the woman noticed that her granddaughter no longer had a bulging stomach.

"Where is the child?" she demanded as she stared at Catlanda.

Catlanda looked down to see what she was talking about before staring up at the Guardian.

"The child is with the Guardian. Something is going to happen with me and the baby has to be out of the way. She knows what she is doing," she replied as she stood up.

She walked over to the Traveller, who was snickering at the easy victory that was placed right into his lap.

"You will die here and now," he yelled at them.

Michelle and Patrick managed to climb to their feet and join the female Medjai where she was standing. Sarah leaned against her brother as they did so.

"We will not let you," Michelle said. "Frank will call me by the nickname he gave me again."

"And we will follow those dreams inspired by Nick," Patrick agreed.

"And finish what we all started," Sarah put in.

"Ardeth will live to see his grandchild," Catlanda finished as she stepped forward.

The Traveller sneered at this and moved towards them but before he could get anywhere near them, his eyes were blinded by a bright light.

"You cannot win. You will die Traveller for there is a way to defeat you," Catlanda told him.

"Really? Tell me how?" the Traveller demanded as he headed towards her.

The Guardian lifted up the Spire and the bodies of the three fallen men began to glow.

"You don't understand Time Traveller, there is something about these men that you don't understand. Something that connects them to the ones they have taken in," the Guardian said as the Spire's eyes continued to glow.

The four began to feel the light as it engulfed them.

"Spire, you know what you have to do," the Guardian said, the eyes glowing.

"It is done," the Spire replied as the light spread to engulf the rest of the group.

None of them had time to react as it did so.

TBC...