*****I DON'T OWN MEDABOTS*****
Chapter 4
Guillotron
or
The Way To The Past
It had been a week since I'd discovered evidence that Levi and I would be time-traveling and we have yet to tell any of the adults. I guess Levi didn't want to warn them. Or it could be that they may not believe him. I don't know anymore. Anyway, if I was thrown back in time to eleven years ago, wouldn't I have stopped myself from becoming a medabot. Wait, no. That would be one of those temporal paradoxes that Anara was talking about. I'm not even going to get into that for the sake of my own sanity. This time travel business can get confusing.
"Hey, Quantum Fire." Levi said to me bending down to eye level. "Lost in your own head?"
"Just thinking." I replied.
We had gone over to Alex's place to hang out. I remember that I didn't have even this many friends when I was still human. However, Melissa and Anara brought up a rather painful subject.
"What's wrong, Melissa?" Alex asked.
"I was thinking about my uncle." Melissa said.
"Which one?" Levi asked her.
"The one I never met. My uncle Quinton." She answered. "He died before I was born. According to my mom, he was the fourth best medafighter in Japan. I want to be just like him."
(Hopefully,) I thought. (Not just like me.)
Out of the corner of my optics, I noticed a familiar red CAR-Type medabot speeding towards us. I knew who it was and I didn't want to be here. I was afraid that he'd know that I wasn't whom I seemed to be. That I was really her uncle and that I was his medafighter. He stopped and transformed to normal mode.
MEDABOT: Red Nova
MEDAFIGHTER: Debbie Jones
SPECIALTY: Speed Red Nova walked over to Melissa.
"Little Miss, your mother wants you to come home at six o'clock." Red Nova said.
"Okay. Red Nova, these are my friends. This is Alexandria and her medabot, Salt. This is Levi and his medabot, Quantum Fire. Guys, this is Red Nova. He was my uncle's medabot." Melissa told them.
I obviously didn't want to talk to him. Not yet, anyway.
"Red Nova, tell Mom I'm going to be with my friends all day." Melissa said to Red Nova.
"Will do, Little Miss." He replied. "Good-bye."
Red Nova transformed back into car mode and sped off.
"Seems like someone was watching, 'Bicentennial Man', a little too much." I joked.
"That's not funny." Melissa scolded me. "Red Nova's always been protective of me. It's his nature. My mom made him promise to look after me."
"He must be protecting you out of guilt. Not being able to protect his medafighter, he might be trying to make up for it by protecting you." I said to her.
"Quantum Fire, don't try to guess why Red Nova is so protective. I just wish he'd stop." Melissa replied.
Melissa, Alexandria, and Levi went inside to play some games leaving me outside to think about what I had witnessed. I felt sorry for Red Nova, having to protect Melissa out of guilt over me. Knowing I was alive might reduce the guilt, but I couldn't bear to tell anyone. I felt as though I was a freak. A human soul caged within the tin pet of a medabot. Salt sat down next to me.
"Was that your medabot?" She asked.
"Yah. I didn't know what to do." I replied.
Salt appeared to be uncomfortable. I was puzzled about this.
"Q, I wasn't exactly honest about my feelings when you told me what you are." She said. "The way I acted is the way I usually act in stressful situations. Really, I was in shock. I couldn't believe that you were like that. I don't think anyone besides you could even imagine anything to the extent that you've just been through." "I know. I don't want to talk about it." I said
Salt lowered her head and walked off. It was about an hour later that I noticed a small flock of birds land in the yard and an idea crossed my mind. When I had been Quinton Jones, animals always had liked me. It didn't matter if they were wild or tame, they always liked me. I walked over to them and I heard one of them chirp. They flew and landed on me. Maybe it was true what people said. Maybe animals can tell your feelings. If I were still human, I would have had a huge grin on my face. But, that thought soured my mood again.
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(LEVI)
I watched the birds land on Quantum Fire. It looked kind of silly. Melissa was checking the robattles stats since the World Robattle Championships were going to be held in Japan this year.
"Hey Levi, you're number 2." Melissa said surprised. "Wait, you're number 2. Isn't that the same number of robattles you did."
"It is." I said not believing what the computer screen said. "I've only been in two battles. Check the battles."
Melissa typed in the data. An impossible number was soon displayed.
"Two-hundred and thirty-four." I read.
The only two battles that I remember fighting were the battles I had against Queen Kong and Tomcat and the battle against Sumilidon. Melissa clicked on the file footage. Each one of them had me defeating some medafighter and their medabot. This was a little too much to take in. Then, a blinking hyperlink word was flashing.
"World Robattle Champion." Melissa read clicking onto it.
It was file footage from a WRC twelve years ago. In it, Ikki, Koji, and I were facing Team Kenya for the championship. Again, we won.
"This is nuts. This is crazy." Alexandria said.
"We already know this. Our best friend who just got his medabot for his birthday a few weeks ago is apparently the world robattle champion from twelve years ago." Melissa told her.
"Not only that but why haven't Koji, Ikki, or your mom even recognize me." I said to Alexandria. "I must have met them at some point in their lives before now."
"It could be that they recognize you but they have that feeling like it couldn't be." Anara said. Melissa was busy looking at the final footage and I noticed a tear run down her face. I was facing a black-haired white kid. The kid didn't strike any recollection but the medabot did. It was Red Nova which meant one thing. The kid was Melissa's dead uncle.
"Think we have enough to go to our parents?" Melissa asked.
"I think we do." I said.
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(Quantum Fire)
We managed to get Levi's parents and my sister to come to Samantha's shop. Rachel, Levi's mother, was an old friend of Samantha and seemed to have a lot to talk about. Ikki, Koji, and Arika and came by with Dr. Aki. I couldn't believe he was still alive.
"I know you all are wondering why you are here and I still have trouble believing some of this but do you know Levi?" Melissa asked.
"Yah, he was at the wedding." Ikki said.
"No, before that. Think back twelve years ago." Levi said. "World Robattle Championship..."
A pause came over them then suddenly, Metabee began to twitch and make rather weird noises.
"Ikki! It is him. I don't believe it! It can't be!" Metabee yelled.
Ikki remembered as did Koji.
"WHAT?!" Ikki and Koji exclaimed.
Levi closed his eyes and reopened them.
"I don't know how it'll happen but I'll have fought with you guys at the World Robattle Championship." Levi said.
At that is when it hit the fan, a massive explosion happened outside and when we rushed out, Ikki recognized.
"Cam..." Ikki said perplexed.
"Yo! I thought he was dead?" Metabee asked.
Cam walked forward. He seemed to be in on a joke that no one else did.
"I staged my death. It was simple enough to rig up a medabot corpse and bribes go a long ways. But now, I'm back for my revenge. Meet Guillotron!" Cam said as a large bot landed on the ground.
Name: Guillotron
Type: NEO-KILLABOT
Specialty: Guillotine Punch
Guillotron was huge and black with large red wings. I was intimidated by it. Then, I felt weaker. It was as if all of my energy was being sucked from my body. Turning my head, I saw that the other medabots were suffering from the same thing.
"Quantum, what's happening?" Levi asked.
"I feel weak. My power's being drained." I said trying to speak.
Cam laughed.
"Now you don't have your medabots to protect you. Guillotron, kill them." Cam ordered.
Guillotron moved slowly towards Melissa and Anara. Anara tried to raise her guns at the monster but couldn't find the energy.
"Transport Medabot!" I heard my sister yell.
The glow of transport faded and Red Nova stood. Debbie placed the medal inside Red Nova and he activated. Quickly, Red Nova converted to car mode and knocked Melissa and Anara away. Guillotron's massive fist collided with Red Nova and sent the medal to the ground. He converted back to normal mode and somehow found the energy to fire his laser cannons. Red Nova continued to fight Guillotron but I heard in the noise the sound of a meda-watch announcing damage. From what I heard, Red Nova couldn't last much longer. I watched as Red Nova slumped to the ground and Guillotron picked him up by his head part.
"I won't let it happen again..." Red Nova said.
He felt guilty, that's why he protected Melissa like this. Red Nova felt guilty because he couldn't protect me. I tried to stand up but my energy levels were down to two-percent.
"Guillotron, kill him." Cam said without raising his voice.
"Guillotine punch!" Guillotron attacked.
The punch connected taking off Red Nova's head and his medal ejected. Guillotron threw away Red Nova's body as if it didn't mean anything and sent his fist down on the medal. The fist connected and when it was raised, all that remained was a shattered medal. My first medabot, my friend for years before that faithful day, was dead while trying to save my niece and all of us. "Foolish medabot." Cam said.
Then, power went to nil and blackness claimed me.
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I was human and I was talking to Quantum Fire. We were in a wooden area and the air smelled of cedar.
"What are you doing?" Quantum Fire asked me.
"We're out of power." I said.
"No, our batteries are out of power but we still have a power source that not even Guillotron can drain." Quantum Fire said pointing to my chest.
A glowing medal appeared on my chest. I knew what he meant.
"My soul." I said realizing the truth.
"Yes, untold power exists within it and with it, we can save our friends." Quantum Fire said extending his hand.
I grasped his hand and woke up.
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Guillotron's massive foot descended on my head and I rolled out of the way to the shock of everyone there.
"Quantum Fire, how?" Levi asked.
"Later." I said reaching out my power to the other fallen medabots. I leeched my energy to them and they quickly stood up. Cam was obviously displeased.
"How can you have power!" He yelled. "Guillotron, you've failed me."
Levi checked my batteries as did the others with their medabots. None of us had any power but yet we were walking.
"Now, let's fight!" I yelled.
I scanned to see that only Anara and Salt had been revived. The others were still out cold, self-repair systems were trying to do their best.
"Keep moving, Quantum!" Levi yelled.
(As if I hadn't figured that out.) I thought.
Cam transported in some kind of artillery part and Guillotron wasted no time firing. We dodged his fire with speed that the human eye could barely track but our problem wasn't Cam, it was this monster of a bot. Our attacks were slowly damaging Guillotron but I knew we'd have a long way to go.
"I declare this to be an official robattl—!" Mr. Referee said before Guillotron's Guillotine punch connected with him.
Finally, I don't know how but I lost it. A surge of power erupted in me and I paused in front of Guillotron. Utilizing my sensors, I saw Salt looking scared as she walked over to Dr. Aki. I heard what she said but I was glad Levi did not.
"Dr. Aki, what would happen if a human was transformed into a medabot and had the Medaforce?" She asked.
"Salt, don't be ridiculous." He said. "If that happened, everything in the Medaforce's blast direction would be vaporized."
"HIT THE DIRT!" Salt yelled.
Levi was close to me, urging me indirectly to protect him by destroying this abomination.
"MEDAFORCE!" I yelled.
Guillotron fired a similar blast but mine was more powerful. Soon, the blast faded but nothing was destroyed. The building that was behind Guillotron wasn't even touched. I turned and saw everyone wasn't there but Samantha's Medabot Repair Shop, Screw It In, was there and was also open. We walked towards it to be greeted by a much younger Samantha.
"Screw It In, what do yah need?" She asked.
"Do you have a charger I can use?" Levi asked before I blacked out.
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(LEVI)
"Who in the hell did you robattle?" Samantha asked me as she worked on Quantum Fire. "All of Select Corp."
"It was a tough battle." I said not wanting to reveal too much.
Peppercat brought a couple of tools over to Samantha and seemed a little odd. She turned to gaze on Quantum Fire.
"I don't know. Guess it's deja vu." She said.
Working, Samantha asked, "So kid, where you from?"
"I'm from around here." I said not necessarily a lie.
"Well, this should make him operational." Samantha said. "Medal?"
I handed her Quantum Fire's medal.
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(Quantum Fire)
Not only did I see Samantha but I also saw another medabot walk into the shop. Red in color and CAR-Type.
"Red Nova..." I said remembering that for me and Levi, we'd watched him die.
I walked around behind my medabot, or rather Quinton walked around behind his medabot. I knew that I had to play it cool.
"Hello." I said waving.
"Greetings." Red Nova replied.
Levi and I left a little shaken. We walked to the park where Levi sat down on a bench.
"We've just gone back in time twelve and a half years." Levi said.
"What we need to figure out is how to return to our time. I don't think you would fancy spending twelve and a half years here." I told him.
"We need to see Dr. Aki." Levi said.
Chapter 4
Guillotron
or
The Way To The Past
It had been a week since I'd discovered evidence that Levi and I would be time-traveling and we have yet to tell any of the adults. I guess Levi didn't want to warn them. Or it could be that they may not believe him. I don't know anymore. Anyway, if I was thrown back in time to eleven years ago, wouldn't I have stopped myself from becoming a medabot. Wait, no. That would be one of those temporal paradoxes that Anara was talking about. I'm not even going to get into that for the sake of my own sanity. This time travel business can get confusing.
"Hey, Quantum Fire." Levi said to me bending down to eye level. "Lost in your own head?"
"Just thinking." I replied.
We had gone over to Alex's place to hang out. I remember that I didn't have even this many friends when I was still human. However, Melissa and Anara brought up a rather painful subject.
"What's wrong, Melissa?" Alex asked.
"I was thinking about my uncle." Melissa said.
"Which one?" Levi asked her.
"The one I never met. My uncle Quinton." She answered. "He died before I was born. According to my mom, he was the fourth best medafighter in Japan. I want to be just like him."
(Hopefully,) I thought. (Not just like me.)
Out of the corner of my optics, I noticed a familiar red CAR-Type medabot speeding towards us. I knew who it was and I didn't want to be here. I was afraid that he'd know that I wasn't whom I seemed to be. That I was really her uncle and that I was his medafighter. He stopped and transformed to normal mode.
MEDABOT: Red Nova
MEDAFIGHTER: Debbie Jones
SPECIALTY: Speed Red Nova walked over to Melissa.
"Little Miss, your mother wants you to come home at six o'clock." Red Nova said.
"Okay. Red Nova, these are my friends. This is Alexandria and her medabot, Salt. This is Levi and his medabot, Quantum Fire. Guys, this is Red Nova. He was my uncle's medabot." Melissa told them.
I obviously didn't want to talk to him. Not yet, anyway.
"Red Nova, tell Mom I'm going to be with my friends all day." Melissa said to Red Nova.
"Will do, Little Miss." He replied. "Good-bye."
Red Nova transformed back into car mode and sped off.
"Seems like someone was watching, 'Bicentennial Man', a little too much." I joked.
"That's not funny." Melissa scolded me. "Red Nova's always been protective of me. It's his nature. My mom made him promise to look after me."
"He must be protecting you out of guilt. Not being able to protect his medafighter, he might be trying to make up for it by protecting you." I said to her.
"Quantum Fire, don't try to guess why Red Nova is so protective. I just wish he'd stop." Melissa replied.
Melissa, Alexandria, and Levi went inside to play some games leaving me outside to think about what I had witnessed. I felt sorry for Red Nova, having to protect Melissa out of guilt over me. Knowing I was alive might reduce the guilt, but I couldn't bear to tell anyone. I felt as though I was a freak. A human soul caged within the tin pet of a medabot. Salt sat down next to me.
"Was that your medabot?" She asked.
"Yah. I didn't know what to do." I replied.
Salt appeared to be uncomfortable. I was puzzled about this.
"Q, I wasn't exactly honest about my feelings when you told me what you are." She said. "The way I acted is the way I usually act in stressful situations. Really, I was in shock. I couldn't believe that you were like that. I don't think anyone besides you could even imagine anything to the extent that you've just been through." "I know. I don't want to talk about it." I said
Salt lowered her head and walked off. It was about an hour later that I noticed a small flock of birds land in the yard and an idea crossed my mind. When I had been Quinton Jones, animals always had liked me. It didn't matter if they were wild or tame, they always liked me. I walked over to them and I heard one of them chirp. They flew and landed on me. Maybe it was true what people said. Maybe animals can tell your feelings. If I were still human, I would have had a huge grin on my face. But, that thought soured my mood again.
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(LEVI)
I watched the birds land on Quantum Fire. It looked kind of silly. Melissa was checking the robattles stats since the World Robattle Championships were going to be held in Japan this year.
"Hey Levi, you're number 2." Melissa said surprised. "Wait, you're number 2. Isn't that the same number of robattles you did."
"It is." I said not believing what the computer screen said. "I've only been in two battles. Check the battles."
Melissa typed in the data. An impossible number was soon displayed.
"Two-hundred and thirty-four." I read.
The only two battles that I remember fighting were the battles I had against Queen Kong and Tomcat and the battle against Sumilidon. Melissa clicked on the file footage. Each one of them had me defeating some medafighter and their medabot. This was a little too much to take in. Then, a blinking hyperlink word was flashing.
"World Robattle Champion." Melissa read clicking onto it.
It was file footage from a WRC twelve years ago. In it, Ikki, Koji, and I were facing Team Kenya for the championship. Again, we won.
"This is nuts. This is crazy." Alexandria said.
"We already know this. Our best friend who just got his medabot for his birthday a few weeks ago is apparently the world robattle champion from twelve years ago." Melissa told her.
"Not only that but why haven't Koji, Ikki, or your mom even recognize me." I said to Alexandria. "I must have met them at some point in their lives before now."
"It could be that they recognize you but they have that feeling like it couldn't be." Anara said. Melissa was busy looking at the final footage and I noticed a tear run down her face. I was facing a black-haired white kid. The kid didn't strike any recollection but the medabot did. It was Red Nova which meant one thing. The kid was Melissa's dead uncle.
"Think we have enough to go to our parents?" Melissa asked.
"I think we do." I said.
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(Quantum Fire)
We managed to get Levi's parents and my sister to come to Samantha's shop. Rachel, Levi's mother, was an old friend of Samantha and seemed to have a lot to talk about. Ikki, Koji, and Arika and came by with Dr. Aki. I couldn't believe he was still alive.
"I know you all are wondering why you are here and I still have trouble believing some of this but do you know Levi?" Melissa asked.
"Yah, he was at the wedding." Ikki said.
"No, before that. Think back twelve years ago." Levi said. "World Robattle Championship..."
A pause came over them then suddenly, Metabee began to twitch and make rather weird noises.
"Ikki! It is him. I don't believe it! It can't be!" Metabee yelled.
Ikki remembered as did Koji.
"WHAT?!" Ikki and Koji exclaimed.
Levi closed his eyes and reopened them.
"I don't know how it'll happen but I'll have fought with you guys at the World Robattle Championship." Levi said.
At that is when it hit the fan, a massive explosion happened outside and when we rushed out, Ikki recognized.
"Cam..." Ikki said perplexed.
"Yo! I thought he was dead?" Metabee asked.
Cam walked forward. He seemed to be in on a joke that no one else did.
"I staged my death. It was simple enough to rig up a medabot corpse and bribes go a long ways. But now, I'm back for my revenge. Meet Guillotron!" Cam said as a large bot landed on the ground.
Name: Guillotron
Type: NEO-KILLABOT
Specialty: Guillotine Punch
Guillotron was huge and black with large red wings. I was intimidated by it. Then, I felt weaker. It was as if all of my energy was being sucked from my body. Turning my head, I saw that the other medabots were suffering from the same thing.
"Quantum, what's happening?" Levi asked.
"I feel weak. My power's being drained." I said trying to speak.
Cam laughed.
"Now you don't have your medabots to protect you. Guillotron, kill them." Cam ordered.
Guillotron moved slowly towards Melissa and Anara. Anara tried to raise her guns at the monster but couldn't find the energy.
"Transport Medabot!" I heard my sister yell.
The glow of transport faded and Red Nova stood. Debbie placed the medal inside Red Nova and he activated. Quickly, Red Nova converted to car mode and knocked Melissa and Anara away. Guillotron's massive fist collided with Red Nova and sent the medal to the ground. He converted back to normal mode and somehow found the energy to fire his laser cannons. Red Nova continued to fight Guillotron but I heard in the noise the sound of a meda-watch announcing damage. From what I heard, Red Nova couldn't last much longer. I watched as Red Nova slumped to the ground and Guillotron picked him up by his head part.
"I won't let it happen again..." Red Nova said.
He felt guilty, that's why he protected Melissa like this. Red Nova felt guilty because he couldn't protect me. I tried to stand up but my energy levels were down to two-percent.
"Guillotron, kill him." Cam said without raising his voice.
"Guillotine punch!" Guillotron attacked.
The punch connected taking off Red Nova's head and his medal ejected. Guillotron threw away Red Nova's body as if it didn't mean anything and sent his fist down on the medal. The fist connected and when it was raised, all that remained was a shattered medal. My first medabot, my friend for years before that faithful day, was dead while trying to save my niece and all of us. "Foolish medabot." Cam said.
Then, power went to nil and blackness claimed me.
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I was human and I was talking to Quantum Fire. We were in a wooden area and the air smelled of cedar.
"What are you doing?" Quantum Fire asked me.
"We're out of power." I said.
"No, our batteries are out of power but we still have a power source that not even Guillotron can drain." Quantum Fire said pointing to my chest.
A glowing medal appeared on my chest. I knew what he meant.
"My soul." I said realizing the truth.
"Yes, untold power exists within it and with it, we can save our friends." Quantum Fire said extending his hand.
I grasped his hand and woke up.
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Guillotron's massive foot descended on my head and I rolled out of the way to the shock of everyone there.
"Quantum Fire, how?" Levi asked.
"Later." I said reaching out my power to the other fallen medabots. I leeched my energy to them and they quickly stood up. Cam was obviously displeased.
"How can you have power!" He yelled. "Guillotron, you've failed me."
Levi checked my batteries as did the others with their medabots. None of us had any power but yet we were walking.
"Now, let's fight!" I yelled.
I scanned to see that only Anara and Salt had been revived. The others were still out cold, self-repair systems were trying to do their best.
"Keep moving, Quantum!" Levi yelled.
(As if I hadn't figured that out.) I thought.
Cam transported in some kind of artillery part and Guillotron wasted no time firing. We dodged his fire with speed that the human eye could barely track but our problem wasn't Cam, it was this monster of a bot. Our attacks were slowly damaging Guillotron but I knew we'd have a long way to go.
"I declare this to be an official robattl—!" Mr. Referee said before Guillotron's Guillotine punch connected with him.
Finally, I don't know how but I lost it. A surge of power erupted in me and I paused in front of Guillotron. Utilizing my sensors, I saw Salt looking scared as she walked over to Dr. Aki. I heard what she said but I was glad Levi did not.
"Dr. Aki, what would happen if a human was transformed into a medabot and had the Medaforce?" She asked.
"Salt, don't be ridiculous." He said. "If that happened, everything in the Medaforce's blast direction would be vaporized."
"HIT THE DIRT!" Salt yelled.
Levi was close to me, urging me indirectly to protect him by destroying this abomination.
"MEDAFORCE!" I yelled.
Guillotron fired a similar blast but mine was more powerful. Soon, the blast faded but nothing was destroyed. The building that was behind Guillotron wasn't even touched. I turned and saw everyone wasn't there but Samantha's Medabot Repair Shop, Screw It In, was there and was also open. We walked towards it to be greeted by a much younger Samantha.
"Screw It In, what do yah need?" She asked.
"Do you have a charger I can use?" Levi asked before I blacked out.
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(LEVI)
"Who in the hell did you robattle?" Samantha asked me as she worked on Quantum Fire. "All of Select Corp."
"It was a tough battle." I said not wanting to reveal too much.
Peppercat brought a couple of tools over to Samantha and seemed a little odd. She turned to gaze on Quantum Fire.
"I don't know. Guess it's deja vu." She said.
Working, Samantha asked, "So kid, where you from?"
"I'm from around here." I said not necessarily a lie.
"Well, this should make him operational." Samantha said. "Medal?"
I handed her Quantum Fire's medal.
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(Quantum Fire)
Not only did I see Samantha but I also saw another medabot walk into the shop. Red in color and CAR-Type.
"Red Nova..." I said remembering that for me and Levi, we'd watched him die.
I walked around behind my medabot, or rather Quinton walked around behind his medabot. I knew that I had to play it cool.
"Hello." I said waving.
"Greetings." Red Nova replied.
Levi and I left a little shaken. We walked to the park where Levi sat down on a bench.
"We've just gone back in time twelve and a half years." Levi said.
"What we need to figure out is how to return to our time. I don't think you would fancy spending twelve and a half years here." I told him.
"We need to see Dr. Aki." Levi said.
