SAME SPOILER WARNING AS LAST CHAPTER
"Oh! My! God!" Chris repeated.
The others ignored his cry, instead they were trying to find a way out. Leo decided to head in one direction, through the darkness, only to reappear coming from the other direction moments later.
"This is hopeless. I can't orb and we can't walk out, and magic doesn't work. We're trapped!" Leo conceded.
"I don't believe what's happening!" Chris exclaimed.
"We're all right there with you, Chris," Phoebe said.
"No, you don't understand. Don't you see what's really happening here? This is all leading to my original future."
"What do you mean?" Piper asked him.
"Everything that Alpha guy just said; Wyatt being super powerful, Dad ignoring me and favouring Wyatt. Also, I won't be meeting Jeni, I took care of that." Chris blurted out, hardly taking a breath.
"Hold on, what are you saying? You think this is all leading to your original future? How is that possible?" Asked Piper.
"I don't think it is," said Leo. "Anyway, we know about Gideon, and about you coming back to save Wyatt. You didn't know any of that when you returned to us last time."
"What if you decided not to tell me, to protect me? Or maybe you thought you'd tell me when I got older, but Mum died and I hardly ever saw you Dad, so it just never happened." Chris reasoned.
"But you said you grew up knowing that Wyatt had turned evil before you were born, if it was the Avatars, then why would you think that?" Phoebe asked him.
"I grew up thinking Wyatt had been turned evil before I was born because of Grandpa. He told me an evil had threatened Wyatt before I was born. You guys never told me anything. You had enough to deal with Mum, with Wyatt's mood swings and changes, we never discussed why. The evilthat Grandpa was talking about was probably Gideon." Chris explained.
"Okay, well, there is no way I would have let you travel back in time again, knowing what happened to you the first time." Leo said, confident this would dispel his theory.
"Dad, I didn't tell anyone I was travelling back to save Wyatt except Bianca. I couldn't risk telling anyone, especially you because you were still close to Wyatt." Chris said, absolutely convinced that this was the cause of his original future.
Everyone was stunned, not knowing what to say.
"And, as Alpha just said, none of you will remember any of this, so you will not know to change anything!"
"What are you saying, Chris, this power will make me grow up to be ruler of the world, like you told me in your original future?" Wyatt asked.
"It has to be, Wyatt. It all makes sense now; the powers you had in my original future were way beyond anything I've seen you have now. And the scary thing is, they were still growing. As Alpha just said." Chris told him.
Wyatt allowed himself a smug smile, but remained silent, when Chris continued.
"Something else I've just realised. I'm actually the cause of all of this."
"That's ridiculous!" Piper said, dismissing him.
"Mum, Alpha just said it. He thanked me. It was because I was in the time portal with Wyatt that we ended up in this time and the Avatars became aware of him. If I hadn't travelled through time with him, none of this would be happening." Chris explained.
Once again there was stunned silence as everyone was trying to process this new piece of information.
"I can't believe I came back in time to save Wyatt from turning evil, and not only did I go back to the wrong time, but I was the one who caused it in the first place." Chris said, exasperated.
"Chris, you can't blame yourself like that. There are many events that you can point to that caused this to happen." Leo said trying to console him.
"But mine was the trigger, Dad." Chris stated.
"So if Chris is right, and this is the cause of his original timeline, then we've been here before." Paige worked out.
"What do you mean?" Piper asked her.
"Time travel really gives me a headache." Phoebe cut in.
"A time paradox," both Chris and Leo said together.
"What's a time paradox?" Phoebe said almost afraid to ask.
"If what Chris says is true, then the timeline has now been changed where Wyatt will grow up an Avatar, as in Chris' original timeline. He will return to save Wyatt and will end up dying because of Gideon. Baby Chris will grow up and merge with the other Chris and then go back in time with Wyatt to get Excalibur, as this Chris and Wyatt have done. This causes the Avatars to give Baby Wyatt their powers and Wyatt will grow up evil as in Chris' original future. And so it goes on and on."
Leo tried to explain as best he could.
"This is seriously doing my head in." Phoebe said.
"There is no telling how many times we've gone through this before, or for that matter what the original timeline was." Chris said.
"So you're telling me we are destined to keep repeating this over and over again." Piper summed up.
"We're only guessing, but if this is right, and it does sound like it is, then yes, time will keep repeating itself until something happens to break the loop." Leo said.
"How do we know what that is?" Piper asked.
"We don't," Leo told her, "Any decision we make, we've probably made before. There is no way to know how to change it."
Suddenly Alpha reappeared.
"It is done." He said.
"No, Alpha, you have to reverse it," Leo pleaded with him.
"That's impossible, in a few minutes the other Avatars and myself will cease to exist as will Chris and Wyatt, and time will be reset to this morning."
He explained.
"Why will Chris and Wyatt cease to exist?" Asked Phoebe.
"Because the timeline has changed," Chris answered before Alpha could.
"Exactly." He said.
"What you have done is going to cause a time paradox, you have to reverse it somehow." Leo pleaded once again.
Before their eyes, Alpha started to fade.
"I'm sorry, Leo, it's too late, everything will work out, you'll see." He said.
They all turned to look at Wyatt and Chris who were also fading.
"No, this can't be happening," Piper said frantically as she helplessly watched her two sons ceasing to exist in front of her.
"We have to find a way to stop this!" Chris shouted, before he and Wyatt disappeared completely.
"Chris!" Leo said reaching out for him, before he and the others were sucked backwards into the darkness.