Shizuka was walking about, heading towards town, along with her newly formed ally. But at some point, she stopped.

"I'd much rather see what you're made of, before I send you for our business." Shizuka spoke.

"What do you want me to do then?" her ally wondered.

"Well, Outtatime..." Shizuka responded, referring to him by the name she gave him, "... just show me what you can do."

Outtatime nodded, after which he disappeared out of thin air.

"That's it?" Shizuka wondered, "Just disappearing?"

It was when she wanted to move her hands to express her frustration that she realized he did more than just disappearing. Somehow, she found herself tied to a tree. Under normal circumstances, she'd grab a knife she has hidden on her, but that that too was taken away from her.

"What...?" she didn't know what to say.

"How about that?" He started, "I can freeze time, but move freely while everyone else can't."

So as he was able to move freely, he could easily tie her up, and take away all her knives, without her resisting. Shizuka didn't know whether to punch him for doing this to her or hug him for having such a great power, provided she was in any position to punch or hug anybody.

"Well now, if you don't mind letting me go and..." Shizuka started, but got interrupted.

"There's a sight you don't see every day." someone's voice sounded.

Shizuka turned her head, and was surprised to see who she was saying: "You?"

Meanwhile, back at SGS, Verne looked through the room, obviously searching for something. After some time, he finally found it. He found the model time machine.

Everybody in the room was surprised to see this, so Sakura asked: "How did it get here?"

"Did you take it from Dark Shadow without telling us?" Masumi asked.

"No." Verne replied, "That is, we took it, or rather will take back, although it happened in the past, or is already happening,... it's hard to explain right now."

"Wait, I think I can see where this is going." Mr. Voice said.

Before Mr. Voice could say anything else, however, Souta noticed something: "There's a note to attached to that thing."

He saw a piece of paper hanging between two pipes that were part of the machine, he took it away and read out loud what it said. Some location, which everybody recognized as the name of a forest, was described, followed by Dark Shadow, but Souta also noticed something else, which had him turn to Satory: "This looks like your hand-writing."

Satoru looked at it: "It is my hand-writing. But I didn't write that."

"Not yet you haven't." Verne said.

"Okay, Verne-kun is not making sense now." Natsuki complained.

"As my idea goes, we should go to that place to see us fight." Verne explained.

"Alright, then let's..." Eiji started, but then he realized something about Verne's choice of words, "Wait, what do you mean, to see us fight?"

Verne sighed: "I could explain it all to you, but we'd be wating our time if we did."

Masumi then turned to Mr. Voice's screen: "Mr. Voice, since you seemed to..."

He stopped, as Mr. Voice wasn't on his screen anymore.

"Where did he go?" Masumi wondered.

"He's never here when we need him." Souta complained.

"What did you need him for anyway?" Sakura asked him.

"Well, he did say he understood what Verne was going on about, so I thought maybe he could explain it." Masumi answered.

"Never mind that now." Verne said, "We'd better find Makino first."