There was a crying sound. All he could sense was his arms were folded over something on his chest. The time sickness faded and it was Katherine crying. He was holding her too tightly. As he loosened his grip the crying slowed then stopped. When he stood up he could see the shack that was an office. Johan remembered the time he found Angela after he got back from the airport before Gary and Hodge landed the plane, and found kid JB inside looking broken and distant. There were reporters at the gates shouting. But there was another sound, this one was more distinct. A plane with Lindbergh flying it. As he landed reporters rushed through the gates running for the plane. The reports bombarded Lindbergh with question after question. All Johan could do was stare at him unsure of what emotion to express.
"I'll answer all your question in a few minutes if you wait at the gate." Lindbergh told them. The guards started ushering him away to. Lindbergh raised a hand and stopped them,
"I'll give this boy an autograph and send him on his way." The guards nodded then went back to the gate to keep the rally bunch in check.
"You believe me?" Johan asked. Lindbergh gave him a hard look like he was trying to figure him out.
"Yes, I took your advice and decided to do my own test. I needed an untainted sample so I went back to your home in the twenty-first century. And you were right. Although I would have been proud to have called you my son." He said after a moment of silence. You wouldn't be saying that if you knew about my failure and what it's responsible for.
"Anyway I want to give you something." Lindbergh went back to the plane and came back with a baby in each arm.
"Who are they?" Johan asked.
"Mr. Gary and Hodge." He said laying them down on the ground. Johan stared at them in complete bafflement.
"You turned them into babies?" Johan couldn't suppress his surprise.
"With your help. And this." Lindbergh pulled a razor out of his pocket and handed it to him. The razor had a two black and one gold line striped around it. This was the Alpha Elucidator. This also meant the plane was the one Gary and Hodge wanted to send all thirty-six kids to the future with. He stopped it but he couldn't stop his mind from thinking, at what cost?
"So what do I do now?" He asked.
"That's all up to you. Now if you excuse me I do believe my wife will be labor soon with our second son." Lindbergh smiled softly at him then walked toward the gate. Now the fate of all thirty-six kids was in his hands. Johan could feel the weight on his shoulders. He looked down at Katherine for an answer but she had a blank look in her eyes. He never had to face a decision like this when he was a bounty hunter.
"I can't believe it. I missing being a bounty hunter." Johan chuckled half heartily. Katherine gave him another blank stare. What do I do now? He thought miserably. Katherine started squirming and whimpering. If he didn't do something soon she would full on cry, then Gary and Hodge would start crying as well. And that certainly wouldn't help him think.
"Can you get three self-serve baby bottle with the correct milk?" He asked. Bottles appeared in each of the babies mouth's. They drank greedily.
"While you're at it can you tell me what to do with the plane. To fix time." Johan questioned the Elucidator. I DO NOT HAVE THE ANSWER FOR THAT. I'M JUST A MACHINE. IT'S UP TO YOU. Great! Thanks! He scoffed in his head. Katherine finished the bottle was now banging it against his chest like she was board of waiting. If I was on that plane what would I want?
"I would want to go home. Live the life in the twenty-first century." He muttered to himself.
"Send it to the site of the time crash." Johan told the Elucidator his voice full of confidence. The plane instantly vanished and someone stood exactly where it was. A person Johan thought he would never see again. It was JB as an adult. Fully sane JB, a person he missed so terribly.
"JB!" He shouted, crashing into the guy giving a hug without smashing Katherine. Johan could feel JB's eyes go wide.
"Johan!" JB stammered pulling back to look at him. He forgotten that JB had no idea he spent two years in the future.
"Johan what happened? You're supposed to be thirteen!" JB said worried. The happiness and excitement fizzled out of him.
"That's…a long story." Johan avoided making eye contact.
"How old are you?" JB asked.
"Fifteen." Johan stilled refused to make eye contact. Then he noticed JB was holding a baby of his own.
"Who's that?" He looked down at the lump wrapped in a sheet. JB angled his arm so he could the face. It was a face he could never forget, because it was him.
"You brought my younger self here! After all I went through to fix everything!" Johan nearly shouted.
"Johan, this is the same baby Gary and Hodge gave you but this isn't you. This is your identical twin." JB said softly trying to calm him down. Suddenly the face became so foreign. A brother? I have a brother? An identical brother? For some reason it was so hard to get thought into his head. He didn't know if it was because he was so against the idea or if it was because he became accustom to living alone.
"Your parents are going to name him Jordan." JB continued. Johan gave a disgusted face. It defiantly wasn't the name he would have chosen. It was too much like how he people would ask Sam the boy or the girl or two people named Taylor that were in one of his classes.
"You were originally Claude and Clyde so it could've been worse." JB shrugged. Johan didn't want to know which one he was. As far as he was concerned two identities were too much for him, he didn't need a third in the mix. Besides they were both terrible to him. There was a thud when a bottle fell out of either Gary or Hodge's mouth when they dozed off. But it was loud enough to startle him. JB looked down at his own razor and when he looked back up he held up one finger asking him to give him a second. Maybe he blinked but the next instant he saw JB his arms were empty.
"So what happens now? I get my life and he get his?" Johan asked. JB gave him a hard look.
"Johan, when you sent that plane to the crash site all dimensions that were created were fused together." He said.
"Meaning." Johan was afraid of how JB was answering.
"Everyone will remember both you and Jordan always being there." JB replied softly.
