"What do we do?" Kim whispered to the wind. She stared out at the full moon, a lone tear trickling down her cheek. "What do we do? We have no one to turn to." Suddenly, the moon shuddered and changed into a strange looking wooden idol. It was a monkey, holding wood clappers between its paws. And somehow, Kim knew what to do.

"Thank you," she said aloud. And as she watched, the monkey shuddered and transformed into the moon.

And she knew what to do.

"Come on, come on!" Kim said impatiently to her brothers, who were lagging behind. If her suspicions were right, then there might be hope.

"Geez, Kim, what's the hurry?" Tim complained. A screech not very far behind them answered his question. The twins hurried to catch up to her, as they trekked through the African jungle, where the monkey was supposed to be.

Kim, Jim, and Tim entered an ancient looking temple, and stopped for a moment to catch their breath. That was when Kim saw it. A raised platform, with a small statue atop it.

Her breath caught as she leaped up the stairs to it. Then she stepped back a little, puzzled. This wasn't what her dream had showed her. This was a cat! "What the-"she murmured. Small letters atop the cat's head pronounced it to be the "Tempus Chat". (Pronounced 'sha'.)

Experimentally, Kim rubbed the cat's head, feeling the smooth wood against her hand. Then, a swirling blue vortex shone in the air. "Kim!" Jim and Tim shouted, pointing. The pod people had found them. "Hurry!" she shouted to them.

They bounded up the steps, and leaped into the portal, followed closely by Kim. The portal swallowed them, and then shrunk to nothing, leaving the pods in the temple, angry and screeching with rage.

The three landed in a heap on top of a pile of leaves. Kim straightened herself, and pulled her brothers up.

"Whoa," she breathed. This was the day when things had started getting wacky. "Where to start?" she wondered. "Research," Jim and Tim said helpfully.

Kim glanced down at them and smiled wryly. "Have I ever told you guys how much I hate it when you're know-it-alls?" "Yup," they said. "Go to Bueno Nacho," Kim said. "Buy me a chimmerito-and DO NOT eat it this time."

The boys bounded off and Kim headed for the library. She checked out a version of the movie Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, and sat down to watch it. What thoroughly interested her was the fact that the aliens had come down in the shape of small droplets of rainwater, and then had sprouted blooms-then, pods eventually.

Kim turned it off, and pondered her next move. "Is there anything that can help me save us?" she wondered. She looked at the Tempus Chat, who was sitting next to her, and shook her head. "Nah. Time travel wouldn't do us a bit of...well, actually, maybe it can."

She looked around quickly, then headed off into time and space. Seconds later, she returned outside of the library, inside a large spaceship similar to the futuristic ideas of the creators of Star Trek and Star Wars. Now, to get people to believe her. She knew her brothers would, and Ron, Rufus, Wade, possibly Monique and her parents. If no one else believed her, well-their loss.

Now, Kim thought grimly, to get out in time.

A/N: This story took an unexpected turn thanks to the idea given to me by WolfBane2, so-thanks! Sorry Romulan Empress-not everybody dies!!