Jeff and Tracy worked day and night on both Omnis to no avail. Nothing they did could fix them. They were taking a break, sitting by the river, watching the paddle boats and Jet skiers, wondering what to do. Tracy looked despondently out over the water and sighed. Just then, a little boy came up to them, holding his hands behind his back.

"Are you Jeff and Tracy?" He asked them. They nodded. "The gentleman over there" the boy pointed to figure by the boathouse, "he asked me to give you this."

He held out a small box. "He told me to say, 'this will fix everything' ". Jeff took the box and thanked the boy. He looked over in the direction of the man, who nodded and smiled, then walked away.

"Do you know who that man was?" Tracy asked.

"No, I don't think so..." Then the memory hit him "Wait! Yes, I do! Hey! Isaac! Come back!" He dashed off after the man, Tracy hot on his heels, but the man was gone.

Tracy caught up to him, "OK, who was he?"

"Isaac Wolfstein. We met him in New York in 1932..."

"Wildman Wolfstein?" Then she smiled. "Let's go, quickly!" She grabbed Jeff by hand and dashed back to house.

Wildman watched the exchange from his hiding place and chuckled. "Dat boy! Such a smart one he is! I just hope he and the lady can figure out vat's going on!" He raised his hands skyward, "Would it be too much to ask for something to make any sense here? Vell, at least this is better than the Nuclear..." he shuffled off, shaking his head.

Back at Tracy's house, she closed the drapes and put the box on the table. "Why all the secrecy? What's going on?" Jeff asked. She opened the box to reveal... an Omni! They stared at it dumbly. Was this some kind of joke? Jeff gingerly lifted the Omni from the box and examined it. He opened it and the lights began to flash. Startled, he dropped it on the table with a clatter. They looked at each other, then the Omni.

Jeff spoke first. "Do you think..."

"It works?" Tracy finished. "If that was the legendary Wildman, I'm betting it does."

"But he told us that they'd taken his Omni when he retired and he was stuck in New York. That's why he wanted us to take him somewhere!"

Tracy laughed, "The Wildman without an Omni? I hardly think so. My guess is that he decided to keep one as a souviner. I'll bet he had this one stashed somewhere."

"Then why did he make us-"

Tracy cut him off, "Vat? You tink I know everyting? How am I supposed to know vat he vas tinking?" He laughed at her impersonation of Wildman. "Always remember Jeffrey: Never, never look a gift horse in the mouth. Now, lets see if this'll get us out of here."

They stood up and Jeff picked up the Omni. Then he took Tracy's hand. "Are you ready?" he asked. She took a deep breath and nodded. They held hands tightly as Jeff pushed the button, blasting them into the Time Corridor.

The trip was different than any other either of them had experienced before: muted colors flew by, mostly grays, and off-white...it was all so flat and lifeless.


Back at the villa, Victoria looked over at the sleeping form of her slave, and smiled. "I can't believe how EASY this has all been! Those old fools who used to run history were so naive...look at what I've got! Power, wealth..." she smiled and ran a finger across Boggs chest, "and the handsomest slave any woman could ever ask for. And, he has no one to turn to! It was brilliant of me to send Jeff flying off to God knows where," She giggled like a school girl.

Bogg called out in his sleep, "Jeff...Jeff come back. Jeff..."

"Shhhh, Phineas, shhhh. You are with me now..." she cooed in his ear.

In his sleep, his broken spirit cried, "Jeff..."


Jeff and Tracy landed with a thud in a large, dimly lit Hall. Tracy gasped, "This can't be Headquarters!" She jumped up and started looking around the abandoned room for signs of the order that was once there.

Jeff held his head in his hands. "Who could have done this?" he wondered aloud.

Tracy called from the darkness. "Jeffrey! Get over here and look at this!" He scrambled up and followed her calls to a large machine. He looked at it askance.

"It's the Omnitron," Tracy said. "And it's running! But..."

"But what?"

"This doesn't look right! Someone has tampered with it. The only person who has control over the Omnitron is the High Keeper, and he never lets..." she looked at the display and gasped. Jeff came to her side and peered at it. "Victoria," Tracy spat. "I should have known it was her," she fumed and started pacing back and forth.

"What does she have to do with all of this," Jeff asked.

"She was the Assistant Keeper of the Omnitron. I'll bet she's behind this. She always wanted to be High Keeper; did whatever she could to get in Garth's good graces. Maybe-"

Jeff cut her off as another figure entered the picture, "Tracy look!"

It was Bogg! The life was gone from his eyes, and that famous smile was nowhere to be seen. As Tracy looked at him, all her feelings came flooding back. And this time, his eyes caused her pain. "He looks awful, Jeff," she whispered. "Why isn't he fighting her?"

Jeff fought back tears as he watched Bogg sit down on a settee while Victoria talked. He and Tracy watched as Victoria's glass dropped from her hand, and were shocked to see Bogg retrieve it and get her a new drink. "He's acting like her slave," Jeff whispered back. "We've got to do something, Trace!"

"I can locate Voyagers, but I don't know how to reconfigure history!" Just then, she spotted a small hole in the console. It was just the size an Omni would be when open. "Let's see what this does," she suggested.

Jeff looked at the hole, then at Wildman's Omni and inserted it, face down. Lights started blinking. The Omni hummed and sections of the Omnitron started lighting up. It whirred and buzzed for a minute and then went dark. Jeff lifted the Omni out and looked at it. It still looked the same to him.

Tracy looked at the main screen and shouted, "It worked!"

"How can you tell?" Jeff asked.

"Look at it! Look at the Omnitron!" It was glowing again and was correcting what Victoria had changed. "This Omni still had a record of Real History! We did it!" She grabbed Jeff in a big bear hug.

"But how did Isaac's Omni still work when ours didn't?"

"I have no idea, Jeff, but it worked!" She looked at the console and started pushing buttons. "Now, to find Phineas."


A/N

Seems I'd caused some confusion in the original posting of with some of my phrasing. I'd originally said Wolfman had disappeared, and most people took that to mean he'd Omni'ed out, which was never the case. So I have edited the scene slightly and added a bit to it, so now there should be no confusion. :) "Vat? You tink I'm perfect or someting?" :D