The Adventures of Spyden: Book Two: Time is of the Essence

Disclaimer: HA!! I don't own Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (or any characters in it). However, I am the creator of Spy, (who is a main character in the story if you couldn't tell) Brion, and Ned.

Author's Note: This is the second book in my Spyden series. I highly recommend you read my other two fics first as they both tie into this storyline. Also, another fic will be going on about the same time as this one is "The Chronicles of Lewin". This also has a direct connection to this story. But remember, IT'S BEING UPDATED ALONG WITH THIS STORY! So I won't reveal everything in one sweep.

I would like to thank DanMat6288 for inspiration…and also deviantart's "Paradoxal" for inspiration as well (not to mention the look of the character in question).

I'm trying to keep the story mysterious…

Anyway, please R&R.

Now on with the story…

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Chapter One: Rescue Mission

The Blue Swirl appeared in front of Brion, who was at the computer (on the couch), trying to figure out what dimension Spy just zapped himself into. He only looked over when two figures came flying out of the swirl to the other side of the room.

"What the…" The figure that ran into Spy was up almost immediately, while Spy groaned a bit before pulling himself off the ground. "Since when did you have friends?"

"ha ha, very funny." Spy sarcastically replied. The stranger was observing his surroundings

"Where am I?"

"Ahem, I think we're the one's who should be asking the questions here." Brion scolded. Spy put his hand to his face in embarrassment,

"Yeah right…"he said under his breath, 'where does he get this from…Law and Order or something?' Spy spoke up, cutting off Brion's attempt at an interrogation. "This is a dimension-between-dimensions; I'm Spy and he's Brion." An awkward silence filled the room quickly.

"Brion?" Spy signaled.

"Oh, right…WhoareyouWhyareyouhereDoyouhaveIDIreallylikeyourhairAllicyandstuffwhichiswhatyouareonTHINICEMAN." He took a breath, "soyou'dbetterWATCHOUT!!!" The stranger was speechless, mainly because he couldn't understand a word of what he had just said.

"What?"

Spy sighed, "He wants an introduction…"

"Oh, You can call me Lewin, and well…" his eyes diverted to the ground, "I'm fulfilling a promise that I made…to practically everyone I know…that I would turn things back to the way they were. I wasn't able to do that before and…"a pause as Lewin's fists clenched together, turning them white, "…they all paid the ultimate price…"

"So you want to travel back in time and change the future…" Brion started in a serious tone, without a shred of sympathy.

"Yes!"

"…Thus seriously endangering the flow of time itself in all dimensions, including this one?"

"huh?" Spy and Lewin asked in unison.

"All dimensions are linked one way or another; altering the history of one dimension could have an adverse effect on another dimension."

Spy leaned over to Lewin and whispered in his ear, "Yeah, that's why he lets me travel through them everyday." He spoke up to Brion "What would you do in his place?"

Brion pondered this and then slammed his mechanical fists together. "Well, it's not like we haven't bent the laws of science before!!! Let's do it!" a few minutes passed as Brion typed away on him computer, giving Spy a chance to notice that Lewin had a shield and sword in the other dimension, he must've lost them somehow. Spy kept observing Lewin; a strange feeling in the back of his mind kept surfacing that he had seen him somewhere before. Something was familiar about him that he couldn't place a finger on. His thoughts were interrupted when the power shut off, leaving only a blue swirl in the center of the room

"Go guys, I don't know how long it will stay open." The two jumped off the couch and stood underneath the swirl as it started moving down, he thought he felt something moving around his feet but quickly shrugged the thought away.

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They appeared in front of a large mansion undergoing some reconstruction. Lewin sighed with a mixture of relief and worry as he watched imaginary friends scurrying about trying to speed up the reconstruction from the last Extremeosaur attack.

A scream sounded from down the street. It came from a child running away from a teenage boy. Lewin showed no emotion as e casually walked in a direct path with the teen chasing the boy. The boy kept running as the teen found himself thrown against the iron fence by his collar. Lewin grinned that didn't quite show his emotion, just that he was happy about something.

"Hi Terrence." Terrence gasped slightly (you could barely notice) at how this complete stranger was able to guess his name correctly. Before he could ask anything, Lewin had set him down, "and thank you." Terrence was now even MORE confused and ran off home. Spy ran up to him, the boy was following him.

"Hi, um, I'm Mac…thanks for helpin' me out back there." Lewin raised an eyebrow and looked somewhat surprised.

"Wow. Oh, no problem. You can call me Lewin" Spy turned to Mac who was still staring at Lewin.

"So, how have you been, besides the bully chasing you." Mac shook himself out of the trance he had put himself in.

"Bully? Oh, that's just my brother, Terrence. He likes that sorta thing. What's you're name?" Spy remembered that Mac had fainted before he could introduce himself.

"Spy."

"Cool, you want to come in?"

"Sure!" They both replied. The three entered and Mac was greeted by a tackle to the ground and a heap of laughter from several around the room, Spy included. But he soon noticed Lewin wasn't even paying attention. He had become distant, like he was remembering something from his past. The noise died down as Madame Foster made her way slowly down the steps.

"Well, hello there, Spy…" She glanced at Lewin, who was still lost in thought. Her smile lessened at the sight of him. "I see you've brought an old friend." Lewin perked up at this.

"Oh, common, he's not THAT old." Spy responded. Mac and Bloo were already dashing out of the room to find Wilt, Ed, Coco, or someone else to play with. A faint cry, 'No running in the halls.' Sounded from a few rooms down in the direction they ran. Frankie walked in carrying several empty baskets with some difficulty from their awkward shape.

"SPY! Good to see you again; Look, not to be a pain, but can you help me out here?"

"Sure thing." Everyone seemed to clear out of the room leaving only Lewin and Madame Foster. Lewin had bothered to look at Madame Foster for more than a few seconds and started to leave as well, when she spoke.

"Something troubles you, dear?" Lewin turned his head to eye her.

"No…nothing's wrong." Madame Foster frowned a little and scolded slightly.

"You can't lie to me, I know every trick in the book," she laughed at the thought of raising Frankie and her mother, "Now seriously, What's wrong?" Lewin sighed, his one eye still the only thing seeing her.

"You wouldn't understand…" he was at the entrance to the waiting room when she finished.

"Do what you need to do… I don't think anyone should stand for what you've been through if they had the power to change it." Lewin smiled.

'She STILL can read me like a book. You can't hide anything from her…' he thought.

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Duchess sat at her table, formulating how to pull off phase two of Ned's plan. She had been considered one of the victims of the attack, and thus was not held to be the one who unlocked the Extremeosaur's cage. The more she thought on Ned's plans, the more ideas flowed into her own mind. She even got the idea for world domination, but she lightly pushed that aside in her mind. However, it kept coming back, the simple plan to unleash ALL of the monsters instead of just that one that was easy to tame. It would take concentration to get them all to follow her, but she felt the utmost confidence that it would be easy.

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A/N: Did you like it? This took me forever to write; I wrote it and I kept feeling that something was missing…but I found it and now its here. Please review!!

Next Chapter: Vengeance, Friendship: Lewin snaps at Spy, and a fight ensues. Who will be able to stop this unfair fight? Perhaps a good friend…THE good friend.

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Bye ;D