A/N: Hey everybody! I have decided there will be thirteen chapters to this story because it is so fitting. :) School gets out Thursday but my birthday is on Monday, and my friends are having a party Wednesday and Saturday so there may be no updates for a bit. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter!

Lela sat alone, weeping in her once-room. Tangled in a net and carelessly forgotten, she couldn't even imagine how the day could get any worse. Her intentions were so simple. She had only wanted to get the information on the time hole to find Wilbur and save him, returning everything to normal. But when she had entered her own house, she had been trapped and held hostage by her own family.

Several more tears rolled down her cheeks. She had told Lewis it was all over and he had left her alone, but something in her heart was still tugging—and hoping. She and her brother had been forgotten and now they both needed saving. Lewis had walked off and disappeared and Lela thought she would never see him or Wilbur again. It was almost useless to keep optimistic, but no matter what, some hope was still there.

It wasn't going to go away, she decided. Lela wiped the back of her hand across her eyes and wet face. She stood and tried to tug the net off of her head and around her body. To her surprise the net didn't shrink, grow spikes, or anything that could possibly hurt her even more. This wasn't one of her father's inventions—it was a plain net. Slowly, Lela peeled of the net and threw it across the room. She watched it suspiciously. Nothing.

Lela then turned to the walls and ceilings for cameras, lasers, and anything that would stop her from escaping. Nothing. Had something happened to her father as well? Lela ran to the door, pounding on it as hard as possible.

"Lewis! Lewis, help!" She only stopped when she realized that her family could here her as well. And they would wonder who Lewis was…

A clicking sound interrupted her thoughts and Lela jumped.

"Holy-!" Lela screeched completely taken by surprise.

"What? I just got the key," a voice said from the door. Lela waited in silence until the mysterious person showed their face. Stick-up-straight blonde hair stuck through the doorway.

"Dad!" Lela smiled and ran up to her father. Behind Cornelius stood Lewis, whose smile was just was wide as Lela's.

"See! I knew you didn't give up!" he chuckled.

"And look what I have," Lewis waved some papers in her face. Twenty papers to be exact. Lela snatched them away and filed through them.

"They're the time hole research papers!" she squealed excitedly.

"But before we go and save my family," Lela turned to face Cornelius, "why are they acting so weird?"

Cornelius gave a weary, sad chuckle. "I'm afraid that the involvement on young Franny's part caused the time stream to implode and replaced this reality with another actuality, which does not include you or Wilbur."

Lewis and Lela stared at him.

"Uh… English, please, Dad?" Lela giggled nervously.

"Oh," Cornelius ran a hand through his hair. "It means that because you met up with Franny when she was younger, it erased the memory of you."

Lela's mouth hung open in shock.

"But—but when I got you nothing happened!" she yelped.

"Time works in mysterious ways, sweetie. Nothing is set in stone." Cornelius opened his arms to his daughter, but she turned away upset. Cornelius's smile faded.

Lela swiveled back around and said to Lewis, "We have to go get Wilbur. It's the only way to set things right."

The determined spark in Lela's eyes stopped Lewis from talking again and allowed Lela to lead him to the time machine.

"Bye, Mr. Robinson!" Lewis called over his shoulder.

"Bye, Lewis! Bye, Lela!" Cornelius called. Lela did not respond, but tugged Lewis out the door to the time machine. Things were about to get ugly.

Lela hurdled herself into the time machine and started the engine up.

"Come on, Lewis hurry up and get in!" Lela honked the horn as Lewis was huffing to keep up with Lela before she took off in the time machine. He hopped in and read off the instructions to get to the time hole.

"Okay first, start the--" Lela turned on the engine and waited her next instruction.

"…engine. And second, push the red button in the back of the steering wheel."

Lela ducked under the front and looked at the back of the steering wheel. A small click was heard and Lela came back out from under the wheel.

"Okay, so now, you need to insert the coordinates instead of the years in the time pin. They are…"

Lewis went on to tell the coordinates to Lela who quickly punched them in and took off.

"Now, hold down the red button and go!" Lewis jumped back into his seat as the time machine disappeared into the sky.

When they reappeared, the two were not in the past, not in the future, and certainly not in the present. Around them soared bolts of light speeding at uncountable speeds. Minutes they stood there marveling at everything around them.

"And this is the time stream…" Lewis said quietly, in awe.

"Look!" Lela squealed and pointed to a black hole-like thing near them. It had swirling lights around it and looked eerie and foreboding. "That must be the time hole…"

"We've gotta go in," Lewis and Lela said at the same time. Lewis sat back down and buckled himself in while Lela sat at the wheel and strapped herself in, getting ready for the ultimate adventure.

Lela placed her hands on the wheel and turned back to Lewis. "We may not live through this you know."

Lewis nodded solemnly, "I won't have a future without it though."

Lela smiled at his bravery and kindness and faced the front window.

"Here we come, Wilbur," she whispered with a look of fierce determination in her blue eyes. Suddenly, Lela slammed on the pedal and drove straight for the black time hole.

When they appeared on the other side, it was foggy and nothing could be seen from more than three feet away. The bright lights didn't dance around them and the brilliant white from the other side was replaced with a hazy grey.

"So, uh… where is he?" Lewis asked. Before he got an answer, however a flash of red zoomed past them.

"What was that?" Lewis yelled. They both ran to the side of the machine, trying to see the "red flash" again. A roar was heard on the other side of the time machine and this time, the red flashed on the other side.

"It's--!" Before Lela could say what it was however, the time machine gave a huge lurch and the sound of metal buckling was heard. The time machine disappeared underneath them and left the two stranded, hovering alone in the time-space continuum.

And even sooner than before, everything blinked out of sight.

Black.

A/N: I really hope you guys know what the "red flash" was because if you don't, you're not going to find out for a while. Like three chapters. So… yeah. Please review my story and tell me what you thought!