Author's Note-The title of this chapter comes from the song 'Rise Again'. Just to let you know where I got it from so I can't say it's mine. Not now, not ever. (I particularly like the song a lot) Well, I'll shut up now so you can read the rest of this story.

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The group congregated some time later in an empty room, where the Guardian appeared in the middle. She stared at the curious faces. She noticed that everyone was there except for Catlanda.

"I suppose you are wondering what is going on, what I called for all of you," she told them.

They all nodded as they continued to listen.

"Frank Donovan, Nicholas Kokoris, Ardeth Bay, I want to show you all something," the Guardian told them. "We have some time before the Keeper is capable go with you."

"Alright, what is it?" wondered Nick.

The Guardian grasped the sides of his head. Nick put his hands up as if to stop her. The images that were appearing before him were shocking him.

"Nicholas Kokoris, if you had not come here to America, if you had not left Greece, this is what would have happened to Sarah and Patrick Smith that day you first met them," she told him in a ghostly voice.

'Patrick, why does it have to be like this?' Sarah asked the unconscious Patrick, laying still in the bed. 'It doesn't seem right. I hope Henry and Hannah don't find us here.'

She heard noises and voices outside the room and she walked out only to gasp, putting her hands over her mouth.

'No, it can't be them! How did they find us?' she cried as the man saw her and stormed in her direction and the woman following him.

'What do you two think you were doing? Both of you are coming back with us! Now lead me to your brother!' he demanded.

Sarah quivered in fear as she stared at him. She nervously climbed to her feet and led him to Patrick's room. The young man was still unconscious and Henry snorted. He pointed at the teenager lying in the bed.

'This is what you get for pulling a stunt like that! You try this again and I will not be as lenient as I am being now!' Henry growled at her.

He grabbed her arm and dragged her after him. She didn't protest the entire time as she felt the tears well up in her eyes.

'Pat, I wish this could stop. We want this to stop,' she quietly said to herself.

The images became blurry before Nick's eyes and then he saw the brother and sister as young adults. She walked down the street, wearing sunglasses and a gray dress, hair tied back into a ponytail as Patrick waited by the corner, who wore sunglasses himself and a suit. She stopped beside him and took off the glasses.

'Ready?' he asked.

'As ready as I'll ever be. You know we have to do this or else Henry will kill us. I don't know about you but I'm not ready to die just yet,' she told him.

'I know what you mean though sometimes I wish someone saw this happening sooner but Henry and Hannah did a good job of hiding it from the public. We both hate this life and all because Henry and Hannah are greedy for more and more money,' Patrick sighed. 'And no matter how hard we try, we can't escape it. Not now and probably not ever.'

The images horrified Nick to see that both Sarah and Patrick were doing all the dirty work for their father and mother.

"It can't be. It...it couldn't have turned out like that," Nick quietly said before the woman took away her hands. "The two of them..."

"But it could have Nicholas Kokoris. If you weren't there to stop Henry Smith from taking his children back home from the hospital here and taking them in as your own," she replied before heading over to Ardeth. "Now for you."

"Wait a mom..." Ardeth started as he took a step back.

She grabbed him in the same fashion as Nick and he reacted in the same way as the surgeon did.

"If you were not there that night your friends were killed Ardeth Bay, this is what would have happened to Catlanda," she told him.

Ardeth watched as Laron ran into the tent with his men and demanded the two people for the Spire.

'Give us the Spire!' he demanded.

'Never!' cried the man.

Ardeth helplessly watched as his friends were killed and left for dead. He didn't see himself run into the tent, after his friends, wondering what happened to them. He didn't see himself run into the tent and see the ugly mess and cause Laron to hide in the shadows. What he did see was Laron walking into the next room. The man laughed once he saw the crib.

'Well, well, well. What have we got here? A baby. Too bad I killed the parents,' the man snickered as he walked up to the child, who began crying at that moment.

He roughly picked up the child, causing it to cry even more. He smiled and laughed with glee as he found the Spire amongst the blankets, shruken to hide its whereabouts.

'It thought it could get away from me! I finally have it!' he laughed as he dropped the baby back into the crib.

He had a look around before he decided to take the blanket and put it over the baby's face. He kept it there for a several minutes as the baby's cries calmed down. He snickered as he pulled the blanket off to see the baby wasn't breathing and appeared a bit blue in the face.

'Looks like an entire family died this night and I will probably get away with it,' he laughed before walking out of the home and away from the massacre.

Ardeth watched as the images changed. He saw Ramses being resurrected years later and he wasn't there to stop it from occuring. Catlanda had been killed and the O'Connells were also nowhere to be seen. Ramses held onto the Spire and laughed.

'I have my jewel again and I have the Spire! I will be invincible!' cried Ramses as he lifted it into the air.

The images became blurry again and Ardeth saw himself: a heartless man who led the Medjai to their downfall because of the deaths of his friends and their child. His people were now being used as slaves as Laron watched them with a laugh in his voice.

'Ramses II rules this country and this entire planet,' he cried as he threw his head back and laughed his evil laugh.

'You will not win this!' Ardeth yelled at him from within the crowd.

'Too late Medjai, Ramses already has won this war,' Laron told him as he walked up to the former Medjai leader and towered over him.

Laron punched Ardeth hard in the stomach, making him double over in pain. Ardeth fell to the ground and lay flat on his back as Ramses appeared nearby, Spire in hand. Ardeth watched him through partly opened eyes. The Pharaoh laughed.

Ardeth cringed at the sights as she let go of his head. He watched her glowing eyes.

"Not a pretty sight, I know. Now you Frank," she said as she faced the Federal Agent.

He backed away from her as she did so.

"I really don't want to see this," Frank told her.

"But you have to," replied the Guardian as she managed to place her hands on the sides of his head. "Frank Donovan, if you and the others had not been at the police station that day that Michelle Hana decided to walk past you and take your wallet, this is what would have happened to her."

Frank watched as Michelle Hana walked out of her home that day and headed towards the police station, theft close in her mind. He noticed that he wasn't at the station, and neither were the members of his team.

"Where are we? We were asked to research the Hana murders!" wondered Frank, his blank eyes staring in the direction of the woman before him.

"Just watch Frank Donovan," was all the Guardian said.

He did as he was told and watched as Michelle walked down the street from the station, past the place where she first bumped into them. The teenager glanced from side to side before bumping into a man nearby. She grabbed his wallet and he was none the wiser as she apologized and kept on walking. She laughed as she walked right into Death Alley and counted the money she recently obtained.

'This is way too easy,' she told herself as she sat in the abandoned building. 'Noone can ever catch me. Joseph Denner might soon or later but I haven't seen him for two years now. Besides, noone ever finds the Silent Stalker anymore. Denner is my only problem and I know he won't find me.'

She laughed as she put the money back into the wallet and headed back into the street, acting as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

'They'll never catch me. Not now, not ever,' she muttered to herself as she looked around for another potential target.

The images changed before Frank and now he saw the Japanese-American as an adult. She was standing in front of the tombstone. She was laughing quietly to herself.

'Denner, I'm here to rub it in your face one last time. You never caught me all these years and now I can live my life without fear of being sought after by people like you! Soon, I can be just as rich as those in Hollywood for I can now place my computer skills to an ultimate test and steal from others. When I have enough, I'll be happy knowing that I'll be alive to spend it,' Michelle quietly said to the stone in front of her.

She took out the lit cigarette from in her mouth. A puff of smoke escaped from her mouth before she dropped it, putting it out and turning to walk away.

Frank gasped as he now saw Michelle working in an office for a wealthy business firm. He saw a group of people in an office.

'We seem to be missing money every month. It's not obvious that any of the employees are stealing it but the figures don't seem to add up every month. Something has to be done!" one woman said.

'Sally's right and noone can think of a what could be happening here,' a man said.

The man behind the desk thought for a moment before shaking his head.

'Then I don't know what to tell you. We already have lost over 50 thousand dollars over the past five years and nobody can figure out where it's going. If we don't figure it out soon, or if whatever's happening stops, we might eventually go bankrupt,' the man said as he gave a sigh. 'And apparently, we're not the only ones. There are a few other companies that are losing money as well. No one knows who's doing it.'

Frank saw that Michelle was right outside the door, hidden from view of the people inside the room. She gave an evil smile before continuing on past the door.

'You won't find me. Ever. I'm too good for you. I have been working here for nearly ten years. I will soon quit this job and settle down to spend my money as I please,' she said, nearly laughing. 'Little did you ever know that I was getting almost triple my wages. I stole enough money from you and those other companies to live my life as I please.'

She stopped just outside the building, a smile still on her face before heading towards her car.

The images faded before Frank as the Guardian took her hands away from his head.

"What I was trying to show you was that the Time Traveller was right," she told them.

"What?" the three men cried out in unison.

"What could he possibly be right about?" wondered Monica. "What possibilites?

"You see, the Traveller invaded the dreams of these men and told them what would have been happened if they were not there. The sad part is that if they were not there, it really would have happened. Catlanda would have died the same night her parents did and Ramses would have ruled the world when he was resurrected years later, with Laron aiding him. Sarah and Patrick would have been under the control of their parents for the rest of their lives, unable to free themselves from it or escape it. Michelle would have grown up to be a computer genius, embezzling money from companies from all over the world. She would have been a multi-billionaire by the time she was 35 and not much of it would she acquire legally," the Guardian explained to them as a figure walked into the room.

The group looked to see Catlanda standing in the doorway. She slowly walked up to Ardeth, who put his hands on her shoulders.

"What is wrong?" he asked.

"I would like to go home now," she quietly replied.

Ardeth gave a smile before handing her the Spire.

"Alright, then we will," he told her.

"What? Already? Why can't we stay longer?" demanded Alex.

"Alex, soon the portal between our times will be closed and then we will be unable to go back. Some time has already passed because of Catlanda, though we all know she couldn't help it. We have to go now. We'll meet them again," Rick told the teenager.

Alex nodded, the tears shimmering in his eyes. Rick stood up and the two joined the others.

"I hope we will meet again," Evie told them as Catlanda lifted up the Spire.

They all smiled at each other waving good-bye before Catlanda told the Spire what to do. The group of ten soon disappeared into thin air and the rest of them looked at the place where they once stood.

"Looks like they're gone back," sighed Michelle.

She soon looked at Frank.

"Frank, can we go to Egypt sometime soon?" she asked him.

He looked at her with surprise in his eyes but he soon began laughing as he put a hand on her shoulder. His team was surprised at his outburst.

"Of course we can," Frank replied.

He reached to ruffle her hair. She stopped his arm and began to laugh.

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Evie, Rick, Jonathan and Alex found themselves in a large room. They looked around to recognize it as the altar where they first went to the future.

"We made it!" Evie sighed as she hugged her son.

"Yes!" Rick cheered.

Iscantil and Ayanna glaced from side to side. They became very worried as they did so.

"Where are Catlanda and Ardeth? They are not here!" cried Ayanna.

"Why aren't they here? They took the same trip we did!" wondered Jonathan as he also began to look around.

Everyone did so but no luck.

"Where could they possibly be?" everyone began to wonder as they continued to look.

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Ardeth awoke and found himself in a room not familiar to him. He frantically looked around and he saw Catlanda laying on the floor nearby. She was trying to stand up and he hurried over to her.

"What has happened? Why are we here and not with the others?" he asked her.

"I am not completely sure. I am thinking it has to do with my child but I cannot confirm it," she replied. "It could be almost any reason that we are here."

Ardeth sighed with a nod as he helped her to her feet.

TBC...