When Ross and Mike arrived back in the dungeon, both of them looked very glum. Bien could immediately tell that there was something wrong with them when he saw how they both looked.

"Guys, what's going on?" Bien asked as Ross and Mike got back in the dungeon. Due to it being fairly dark, Bien couldn't make out any of the other details on Ross's face, so he had no idea that Ross was a complete mess now. "Was their bathroom closed?"

Mike looked at Bien. Even though it was hard to distinguish features, Bien could see that Mike was clearly frowning.

"Ross and I saw the machine that's going to shred our memory," Mike glumly said.

Bien looked sympathetic. "Is that why you look so glum? Ross looks especially bad."

"Actually…" Mike started.

Mike told Bien the whole story about how Ross found out that Beth, the girl he had genuine feelings for when he was just six years old, was now working for Maverick and was going to be getting the machine ready to zap their memories. Mike spared the details of how Ross reacted, though. He tried to spare what was left off Ross's dignity after the episode in the room.

"Wow," Bien said. He turned his head towards Ross, who was sitting in a corner of the dungeon in a fetal position. "That must have been really rough on you," he said, trying his best to prove that he cared.

"I don't want to talk about it," Ross said coldly, not turning to either of his friends.

"Did Beth tell you how much longer it was going to be until the machine is ready?" Bien asked.

"No," Mike said. "I guess we'll find out when they find out."

Ross was sitting alone in the corner of the dungeon. He didn't want Mike or Bien to talk to him. He was so furious at how Beth ended up working for Maverick that he couldn't express it in any other way. He was furious about how he handled the shock when he first found out, but he had better things to worry about now. And yet, he couldn't keep his mind focused on those better things.

"Beth…" Ross whispered soft enough so Mike and Bien couldn't hear him. "Why?..."

The rest of the time dragged on. Mike and Bien were smart to know not to disturb Ross as he sat on the floor and sulked about what had just happened. When the time came, the guards showed up at the door to the dungeon.

"Well, kids," one of the guards said, "I hope you're valuing your final moments of having your memories, because they're going to be a thing of the past."

Mike showed no resistance. He got up and a few guards surrounded him as they led him out to the room where Beth was in.

Ross, however, was more stubborn. Three guards had to come over and forcefully pull him up and then drag him out the door of the dungeon. Bien just stood there while he watched his two friends get taken away to have their memories wiped.

The long walk down the empty hall had absolutely no mood to it at all. It felt like it was devoid of any life that had existed there for hundreds of years.

When Ross and Mike were finally led back into the room that they had been in there just a few hours before, the guards left them and locked the door behind them so Ross and Mike couldn't escape. Beth looked at Ross and Mike with a sorrowful look. Mike seemed to be feeling some of the thoughts Beth was trying to convey, but it looked like they were just bouncing off of Ross.

Too angry to look at Beth, Ross pointed his head to the floor and stared down at it, not blinking at all.

"Look, Ross," Beth said, trying to convince him of something, "I don't have a choice. I'm sorry; I don't want to wipe your memory any more than you want me to."

Ross stayed silent and didn't look up at her once.

"Ross?"

"Beth," Ross mumbled, slowly lifting his head up and looking at Beth. "I want to know why. I want to know why you're here, working for Maverick and wiping people's memories."

"Ross…" Beth said, sounding very uncomfortable.

"Beth!" Ross yelled loudly, making her jump. "Tell me!"

Beth looked at Ross and saw the fury in his eyes. She took a deep breath and turned away from him.

"It…it happened a few years ago," she said, not looking at Ross. Now she was looking at the floor. "I was fourteen."

Ross and Mike had their full interest in what she was about to say. (Ross especially) Neither of them said a word, hoping Beth would start shining some light on the situation.

"When I was fourteen, I was completely miserable," Beth started. "My parents were divorced and were having fights left and right about me. I wasn't doing so well in school, and with my parents arguing over who got what, my life was terrible."

Ross really didn't like where this was going. He stood there with his arms crossed, almost like he was interrogating her. His breathing was steadily becoming more controlled.

"I was thinking about running away from home," Beth continued, still refusing to make eye contact with either one of them. "And so…I did."

Ross's eyes widened, but he still maintained the hard-core look on his face. Mike looked like he was getting very interested in Beth's story as well.

"I tried to find somewhere to hide so no one would find me after running away," Beth went on. "I had to find somewhere where no one would think to look for a runaway teenager. I eventually found a small stump inside a forest that would at least keep me dry in the rain, or that would keep me a bit warmer when it was cold out."

"You can't honestly think you'd be better living inside a tree stump than with your family," Mike interrupted.

Beth completely ignored Mike's comment and resumed her narration. "But as soon as I found the tree stump, I found that there was a white glow coming from inside of it. So, when I investigated what the white glow was, it just took me here."

"Weird," Mike said. "There was a white glow that took Ross and I here as well!"

"You think Maverick knew we were going to come down here at some point?" Ross asked, sounding very serious. "It all seems like a bizarre series of coincidences."

"I don't know," Beth confessed. "But when I got warped down here, I quickly found my way into the temple. That's where I found Maverick. When I told him of how I ended up here, he thought I had a lot of integrity and decided that I would be better off working for him."

Ross's face dropped completely. He looked angrier than someone on a talk show. "Don't tell me you actually accepted that?!"

Beth looked really nervous. "It sounded like a good decision at the time."

Ross looked up at the ceiling, squeezed his eyes shut and started walking around in small circles while screaming moderately loud. He soon turned his focus back to Beth.

"I can't believe you," Ross said. "You didn't even have any problems when he told you that you'd be working by erasing people's memories?!"

"It really hasn't happened that often," Beth said, trying her best to defend herself. "In fact, it hasn't happened for a very long time."

"How long has it been?" Mike asked.

"The last one to have his memory wiped was here a few months ago. I can't remember his name, but it was a rather strange one. I think it started with a 'B'…"

Ross's eyes widened even further. He didn't think it was possible. The odds were too high against the likelihood of his suspicions actually being correct. But after seeing what had happened to Beth in the nine years since they had last seen each other, nothing seemed too hard to believe now.

"By any chance, his name wasn't 'Bien', was it?" Ross asked.

For the first time since they had been reunited, Beth smiled. "Yes, that was it!" But her excitement quickly faded. "Wait a minute…how did you know that?"

Ross and Mike looked at each other in a very uneasy way.

"Ross, do you think we should…"

"We've got to, Mike," Ross mourned. "Bien has a right to know. That must be why his memory isn't going to be wiped with ours…because his already was wiped."

"You know him?" Beth asked, the amount of surprise and disbelief in her voice still climbing.

"Yeah," Ross said. "He's a good friend of ours. He taught Mike and I some good skills with a rapier. He helped Mike and I fight off a few of Maverick's guards. Yeah, we know him."

Beth didn't know what to say. "I'm…sorry," she finally said.

Ross acted like he didn't even hear her say it. He just put his hands on his hips, looked down at the floor and shook his head a little bit. He then looked up and stared right at Beth's eyes.

"Beth, is it possible to replay some of the memories you zapped?" Ross asked.

"Uh…yeah," Beth said uneasily.

"Great. Can you show us what you snatched from Bien's memories?"

"Hold on a second, Ross!" Mike objected. "Those are Bien's personal memories. I don't think it'd be right for us to start watching them like they were some television show."

"Mike, I'm not watching them just to watch them," Ross said. "I want us to know what memories of Bien's were stolen so we can tell him what he's really been doing."

"Er…" Mike said, still sounding very uncertain about Ross's proposal. "Beth?"

"…fine," Beth said after a lot of thought.

Ross smiled for the first time all night as he saw Beth hop into the chair she was in the first time they had met in several years. She was now busy at the controls and was trying to get everything uploaded.

"All right, I think I got it," she said after pressing a bizarre combination of buttons on the giant machine. "Try watching the giant screen in the center of the side of the machine."

Ross and Mike looked at the large screen that they saw the first time they had been in the room. It started turning on, and the images they saw were very disturbing. It was so creepy, and neither one of them expected it.

On the screen, there was a shot of an excavation site. It actually looked pretty similar to the area around Ross's house from the present. The shot focused on a wide open place with several diggers as they were drilling a giant hole into the ground, hoping to find some treasures of the past.

"Whoa!" said a voice from the image on the screen. The voice belonged to Bien. "That machine's pretty loud. I'm sure these guys won't mind if I bust out some tunes to drown out the sound of that drill."

Suddenly, the shot on the screen started turning around like it was on a tripod that could turn 360 degrees. When it was turned around halfway, the camera started walking towards a small car. Then from behind the shot, a hand came into view and reached into the car and pulled out an iPod.

"Hey," Mike blurted out, "That's the thing that was in my pocket when we wound up back here."

It was then when Ross and Mike realized the image on screen wasn't a third-person shot of a scene going on, but was rather a first-person shot of Bien's point of view. This was obviously a memory that was sucked out of him.

The image on screen showed Bien (or at least his hands) adjusting the iPod so it was playing a Metallica song. Of course, Ross and Mike, being from the 1970s, knew nothing about what was going on.

"Didn't he say he liked listening to Metallica?" Mike asked as he turned his head towards Ross.

"I don't think so," Ross disagreed. "I think I only heard him say that the name sounded familiar. This must be why."

Ross and Mike turned their attention back to the screen in front of him. The short video that they were watching was soon playing a song Ross and Mike had never heard (it was being heard because Bien was listening to it, and this was, after all, one of his memories)

"Gee, I can't wait to get home so I can play XBOX," they heard Bien mutter under his breath. "I can't wait to try out that new fighting game!"

"What's an XBOX?" Mike asked.

"Probably something from the future," Ross deduced.

Ross and Mike continued watching the memory play out in front of them. They watched as Bien started humming the tune of the song he was listening to as he went to work over by the ditch.

"Hey, guys," Ross and Mike heard Bien say on the screen, "Break time is in twenty minutes."

"Got it, Bien," said Bien's co-workers and co-archaeologists as they continued to scavenge the deep holes that they were digging.

Bien started walking back to his car to get something from it, but the shot suddenly shifted over to a mysterious cave that was sitting by a stream.

"Hello?" Bien asked. Instantly, the music turned off from the memory video. (Bien turned it off, but he didn't look down at his iPod to do it)

The video Ross and Mike were watching on the memory zapping machine showed Bien's point of view as he continued walking to the cave that he spotted. Ross and Mike watched with curiosity as Bien got on his knees and started crawling through the cave.

The camera was shaking up and down a little now that Bien was on his hands and knees, but this was his point of view, after all. He came to a dead end, but in the daylight, Ross and Mike could make out some words written on the wall in the cave. Bien apparently saw the words as well, because he tried deciphering them out loud.

"Er…I can't read these words without a flashlight," Ross and Mike heard Bien say. "Good thing I brought this with me."

The camera shifted down so Ross and Mike could clearly see Bien reaching into his pocket and pulled out a small flashlight. He clicked a button and a bright white light shot out of it. Bien aimed it at the cave walls as they became illuminated with the bright light.

Bien started reading the words out loud: Hassa Roean Kasana Dor...

Instantly, the cave started shaking wildly and it sounded like an avalanche was taking place inside the small cave alone. Bien started audibly gasping and getting panicked, so it wasn't long before the camera showed Bien's point of view as he tried crawling out of the cave as quickly as possible.

"Why do you think Bien never told us about this?" Ross asked Mike as they continued watching the video. "I'd think that of all things, he'd remember this the most."

"Maybe part of the cave hit him on the head and erased his memory of it?" Mike suggested.

Both teenagers continued watching. They saw that the cave had calmed down, but they could hear Bien breathing heavily after just crawling out and thinking the cave was going to collapse on him. From his point of view on the screen, they could see Bien pressing his hands on the grass to keep himself up. After the longest time, Bien looked up and Ross and Mike could see what he once saw.

Bien was staring into the cave and saw a white glow coming from it. Bien let out a small "Hmm?" as he started crawling into the cave again to investigate the white light that was coming up from the cave floor. When he was right in front of the light coming up from the cold floor of the cave, it showed Bien's hand as he reached out to touch it. No sooner did he touch the light did the entire screen turn white.

Bien's screams could be heard coming from the screen as he went through the roller-coaster like passage that the time gates created whenever they were formed. After several seconds, it finally ended with a loud smash onto the ground.

Since it was from Bien's memory, it was still in first person from his point of view, but he slowly got up and looked around. He was in a completely different time period now than he was before he touched the light. The weak looking houses, the style of clothes, the giant temple…he was in the village of the people who idolized the Finis Tempi.

"Where…am I?" Ross and Mike heard Bien ask while still watching the memory.

The memory video then showed Bien running up the stairs to the temple. He tried going in, but he was stopped by two guards. It was Kline and Sandra, neither of whom was still alive.

"Halt!" Sandra said. She put her hand right in front of the camera lens. (Which means, in reality, she put it in Bien's face) "No one is allowed in here without permission from Maverick himself!"

"That's right!" Kline said off screen. "Now, be off with you."

The camera started turning away, meaning that Bien was turning around. But just as it looked like he was ready to walk away, a familiar voice called out from behind.

"Stop!"

The camera turned around and back to the temple (Meaning Bien was turning back around so he was facing the temple) and he saw Maverick standing at the top of the stairs.

"My good friend, what is your name?" Maverick asked in a friendly voice.

"Bien," Bien answered.

"Bien. Come in, Bien. Sandra. Kline. Allow our guest to enter."

"Yes sir," Kline and Sandra said simultaneously.

The video showed Bien's point of view as he started walking up the stone stairs and into the Temple of the Finis Tempi. Maverick was right in his face and tried to look as friendly as possible.

"I don't recognize you. Are you a visitor to this village?" Maverick asked Bien.

"Actually, I think I came from a different time period. I know this sounds hard to believe, but I was in a cave and saw some words. Once I said them, a white thing appeared on the cave wall, and when I touched it, it brought me here," Bien explained.

"I see…" Maverick said, sounding like he somehow understood exactly what Bien was talking about. "Well, do come in."

Maverick led Bien inside the temple and down the long halls. It showed Bien walking down into the lower level of the temple and in the same hall as the dungeon. Maverick continued leading Bien through the halls until he eventually stopped at a door and opened it for Bien. He gave Bien a pleasant smile.

"This is Beth," Maverick said. He waved his hand in the direction of a young woman who was sitting at a chair at a very large machine with very strange buttons and a large screen in the center of the machine. "She'll take care of you."

"Sure will," Beth said with a surprisingly insincere smile on her face. Then, the screen slowly started to fade to black.

"Whoa," Ross said. "So that's when you put him on the machine and took that memory from him?"

"We took more than that," Beth confessed. "We took many more memories than just that one you just saw."