Francoise was enjoying a scene where she and her brother were ice skating as children when she found herself thrown into an autumn day park. She was astounded at all the different, brightly colored, leaves. She began a pleasant stroll down the wide sidewalk humming to herself. Soon she came to see two other people in the distance. Realizing she had no idea where she was, she became slightly nervous. She sped up her steps to get a closer look. As she neared them she realized she knew exactly who they were.
"Joe! Kyle! You're both okay!" Joe spun around just in time to catch her as she leaped up to hug him. He blushed slightly as he held her tight. Kyle just gave them both an amused smile.
"How'd you get here Francoise?" Joe asked her as he set her on her feet.
"I don't know. I was watching a memory of my childhood when I suddenly appeared here."
"My doing." Kyle raised his hand. Francoise looked at him curiously.
"What kind of thing are we in anyway. This isn't a time machine I'm certain." Kyle sighed.
"It's more like a personal time machine. You can visit any point in your own lifetime or someone else's if they are inside with you. I just haven't figured out how to make it so you actually exist physically." Francoise only nodded at him.
"So do you know how to get out of here?" Joe asked. "You had to have gotten out somehow to get into our time." Kyle sighed.
"The only way I got in here was because Black Ghost stepped through the portal once. Seeing as I am Black Ghost I had access to his futuristic memories. Crazy, I know, but that's how it works. The only way we can get back now is if one of you envisions the present time."
"Scarl stepped through? He claims he never did."
"Despite his power he doesn't want to admit to his team of scientists that curiosity got the better of him. That first opening of the portal they claimed was not opened by itself, it was opened by him, and the second time was me. It's all very confusing." Kyle shrugged and crossed his arms. "Well if you want to get back then go ahead and remember the present day. Unless, of course, you're enjoying yourselves." Joe snickered a bit and concentrated on the laboratory room as he last remembered it. The park atmosphere vanished and they were thrown forward toward a bright light.
"Damn it all to hell!" Black Ghost bellowed as the three tumbled through the 'time machine' gateway. "Bind them now!" Joe immediately accelerated and took out the guards approaching them. Scarl was not as easy of a target. He also accelerated and backhanded Joe across the face when the soldiers had been dealt with. Blood spurted from his mouth and nose as he fell to the ground and slowed to a normal speed. Black Ghost reappeared to stand over him.
"Here we are again Mr. Shimamura. How many times must we repeat this hmm?" he sneered. Joe glared up at his enemy.
"As many times as it takes." he growled. He kicked Black Ghost fiercely in the gut, sending him flying backward. Black Ghost, however, didn't miss a trick and flipped in mid-air firing upside down at Joe. Francoise gasped and fired her laser at Scarl, striking him in the arm. He grunted and accelerated, reappearing behind her and grasping her in a headlock. Kyle grabbed the gun out of her flailing hand and pointed it at Black Ghost's head. Black Ghost only laughed.
"Just what are you going to do with that?"
"Kill you." Scarl narrowed his eyes and struck him between the eyes with his fist. He bent over and picked up the gun that Kyle had dropped and in turn, pointed it back at him. Kyle laughed this time.
"Go ahead. I probably should have done it that way anyhow."
"Elaborate." Scarl demanded.
"I, am you from the past. Do you not recognize me?" Black Ghost stared at Kyle, his eyes widening in sudden realization. Abandoning Francoise, he hoisted Kyle up by the collar of his shirt and drug him towards the portal. Joe ran forward after them.
"Put him down!" Black Ghost ignored the protest and continued his fast course to the portal door.
"Shoot me Joe! Do it now! If I die so does he!" Kyle screamed at 009.
"I can't!"
"You have to!" Kyle insisted as Black Ghost opened the oval door and the light appeared. Joe lifted his laser and aimed it at Kyle's head, and closing his eyes he fired. Black Ghost seized Kyle by the hair, wrenching his head back causing the laser to miss. He bent over to whisper in his younger self's ear.
"I'll still live for as long as the earth will spin and you will remain ignorant of the future you have so desperately tried to destroy. Black Ghost pulled a small disk and pressed it against Kyle's forehead. The disk began to glow red as it wiped all the memories and newly acquired information of the current situation from his mind. When the disk ceased to glow Scarl peeled it off and threw Kyle into the portal's light. The door shut quickly and Black Ghost hastily threw an explosive onto the machine. It exploded instantly, radiating a blinding light. When the light had gone, so had Black Ghost and all of his men. Joe sank to his knees.
"Damn..." He pounded the floor with is fist. "DAMN!" 003 crawled over to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"You tried Joe. You did your best."
"What makes me sick, is that Black Ghost was a nice guy. Kyle was a nice guy and I wished he could have stayed, knowing what he knows. I just wish he could have stayed my friend."
Back at the beach house, the Cyborg team sat in silence as they reflected on their recent battle. Dr. Gilmore sat with them. They all had put in their own account of the story and their own opinions as they explained what had happened.
"I find it hard to believe that such a nice young man like Kyle could have become the vile thing that Black Ghost is." he said finally.
"None of us can believe it either." 004 said regretfully. It became silent once more, as they all felt that they had said all there was to be said. Dr. Gilmore sighed and broke the long silence.
"Time is something to intricate to be meddled with be it personal history or general history. It is meant to run on and on and on, and never to rewind or fast forward. Whether we like it or not, it is how it should be as of now. The Kyle of the past made his choices, and his choices framed the present day. We can only hope that our efforts can improve our time."
"Present day, meaning back where we started." 002 said bitterly. Dr. Gilmore looked at him.
"Precisely 002. Precisely."
Ok I know it was short but I'm a busy person ok? I put a lot of action in here and I think this is the end of this story, because I believe I've done all I can with it. I hope you've enjoyed reading! Now for the other matter,
I'm sad to say that I think I'm at the end of my rope. I'm out of ideas for now, and I don't know when I'm going to have the time to think of more or if more will even come. Now, I'm not saying that I'm quitting as a writer on this site. I'm just saying that as Cyborg 009 goes I think i've pulled all I can out of it and to write anymore would be mearly repeating things I've already written. I sincerely apologize if the quality of my writing in this fanfic has lessened with each chapter, this I attribute to having either no time, or no energy for writing recently. If you enjoy other subjects, please watch for me in a different catagory if I ever get the desire to write more soon. So now I say to everyone that has been a faithful reader of mine or has just read any one of my stories: Thank you for all of your support and reviews and it really helped me improve and find some motivation for continuing on with this hobby. Thank you all and I'll see you all sometime in the future. -Reasonswhy77