"Cyd," Shelby spoke suddenly, looking up from her homework towards Cyd's bed in their room. The girls had now made it to their Sophomore year and as they had expected, they still hadn't come to the reality of the future lab; according to their past trips there, they still had at least two years until it happened.

"Yeah?" Cyd asked looking up from her own work. Ever since their second purposeful trip to the future lab, she had been working on her homework without having to have Shelby haggle her into doing it.

"What if we went to May 10, 2019, you know, the day we're supposed to end up in the future lab, and figure out when on that day it happens. Or how it happens because my dad said it's in the news that day starting around 9 and he had seen us that morning so we know it's between then and—I'm starting to ramble. Anyway, why don't we figure out exactly when it happens?"

"Why?"

"I dunno. I mean if we know when it's going to happen at least we can be ready for it on the actual day if we're still going to be doing stuff in the future that lands us there."

"I guess that kinda makes sense. Then when we really are in our senior year, we can be ready on that day for it. We just have to make sure we can get back to each other," Cyd spoke.

"And even if we can't right away, we'll still end up in The Pelican Ball Room and we can reach each other from the tables to get out," Shelby explained.

"That's true. I can't believe we're within a few feet of each other every time we go there."

"So you in?"

"Yeah. Let's do this." Cyd went over to Shelby and they first bumped, sending them to the morning of May 10, 2019.

CHCHCH

"Okay, everything seems normal so far," Shelby spoke, looking around their room. It was practically the same as the room they had just left other than there were a few extra posters and nick-knacks. "Wait, your parents should be back from Peru by now."

"Maybe they decided to stay longer."

"Or maybe they got entombed! Sorry."

"It's okay. I'm perfectly okay with still living here. Anyway, we know you're going to see your dad before he goes to work so let's go get some breakfast and then he'll head off to work. It's within the 5 or so hours after that that GDD is supposed to get us."

"Right." Shelby lead the way as the two went down to the kitchen, everything was nearly the same in the house as it had been in 2015. "Morning mom, dad," Shelby greeted as she and Cyd sat down at the table.

"Right on cue," Mrs. Marcus said as the toaster popped with two slices of toast for the girls.

"Well, I'm off to work. See you later dear," Mr. Marcus said, kissing his wife's check. "Girls."

"Bye," they chorused. "It's only just after 7 now," Shelby said, glancing at the clock in the room after her mom had left to go check on her brothers.

"That means it would be about noon when we've come to the future before and that's when we'll be in the future lab."

"If it's still going to happen," Shelby added.

"Yeah," Cyd agreed.

A few minutes later, the girls had finished their breakfast and were heading back up to their room to get their backpacks together. At 7:45, they were heading out the door. "See you later, mom."

"Bye girls, be careful," Mrs. Marcus called.

Cyd laughed. "Yeah, we'll be careful all right, careful not to get trapped in the time-line with the future lab."

Shelby let out a light laugh. They looked around suspiciously for anyone who would be taking them to GDD. Barry and Naldo were working in the lab in Barry's RV but left soon after Cyd and Shelby got there, remembering that they needed to be at school early. Cyd and Shelby ventured outside the RV a few minutes following. They hadn't gone more than a block down the road when they were attacked out of nowhere.

"Ah!" Cyd exclaimed. "It's the people from GDD. Shelbs, grab my hand!" she exclaimed, reaching her hand out towards her best friend.

"I can't reach you," Shelby called back, struggling against her captor.

"Get them in the van," spoke the voice of Janet Smythe. Once the girls had been put in there and restrained, Janet Smythe held up her hand to stop the next part of the plan, which had been to sedate the girls. "How do you know that GDD is capturing you. We have an unmarked van."

"Oh, we've been to this time-line before, we're trying to figure out how to stop this time-line from happening in the first place. I'd assume you're capturing us because we're time travelers," Shelby spoke.

"Yes, how—"

"Like she said, time travelers," Cyd said, getting her hand free from her restraints so she was able to reach her hand out to Shelby and instantly take them back to their room in 2016.

"Well, now we can be prepared for when it is going to happen," Shelby said. "It's right after we leave the lab."

"Yeah," Cyd agreed. "Something we're going to do in the future is still going to cause that to happen so we just need to keep making sure that the only time we time travel is in private where no one can see us."

"Yeah," Shelby agreed. The two hugged and somehow managed not to accidently send themselves to the future lab.

The girls hoped that with the plan they had come up with the year before, they could prevent the future lab from happening. The next few years they were even more careful to make sure they didn't do anything to get themselves trapped in the future lab.

A/N: The next chapter is the last one. Again, some of this had to be kind of out of order, as in, the last scene or two of the last chapter happened after this chapter, so if there's any confusion, let me know in a review and I can clear things up before the start of the next chapter in case anyone else had the same question.

I always like to know what you think, so reviews are very much appreciated and I would love to hear any constructive criticism you have for me. Thanks for reading,

-CrazyHayniac