Author's note: last chapter! I know not a lot of people have been reading this but for those who are, thanks for reading, I really enjoyed writing this:)

"We're here, we're here!" Ally exclaimed, running up the stairs to the practice room behind Austin.

They opened the door to see Ross and Laura still inside, having not found their way back home. It was Sunday evening, and the A&A Music Factory had just closed for the day. Austin and Ally had managed to convince Dez and Trish to go back home, saying that they were just cleaning up the Factory.

"Aw, you guys haven't found a way home yet?" Austin said. "I mean, I really like you two, but it's better if you can get home than stay here."

"No, but we figured something out." Ross replied. "As we're here on your planet, time isn't passing by back home on Earth. That means that no matter how long we stay here, time won't pass by unless we contact Earth."

"How would you contact Earth?" Ally asked.

"Phone calls," he replied. "And possibly texts and maybe even emails, too."

"Okay, that kind of makes sense." she said. "But we still have no idea how you're actually going to get home?"

The two younger teenagers shook their heads.

"Well, you can still try to retrace your steps!" Austin suggested. There's no one in the Factory except for us, and there's hardly anyone anywhere else in the mall. The chances of getting caught are pretty low!"

"That's the most mathematically I've ever heard you speak," Ally teased.

Laura smiled and tried not to laugh. Austin just ignored the comment but glared playfully at his girlfriend.

"Okay, let's go retrace our steps." Ross said, standing up.

Laura nodded and stood up with him.

"We've been walking for hours!" Ross complained. "Guys, I'm sure we've already retraced all of our steps."

Laura nodded. "I have to agree. We've definitely walked everywhere that we could've come from."

"But that doesn't make sense!" Austin exclaimed in distress. "Maybe you should just call home and tell someone what happened."

"No!" she replied quickly. "Firstly, no one would believe us. Secondly, that's a lot of explanation to do. I think we should just figure things out ourselves."

Laura, Ross, and Austin discussed further, arguing about whether it was a good idea or not to contact Earth. Ally, however, stayed quiet, deep in thought.

"Ally, you're the smart one." Austin said after a while. "I mean, other than Laura, but she doesn't know what to do. And obviously Ross and I don't either."

"Hey!" he exclaimed, seeming offended. "I'm smart, too!"

"Well, was there something weird that you did right before you found yourselves here?" Ally asked. "Maybe that'll give us a clue as to what you have to do to get back."

"We finished filming the second season of the show," Ross offered.

Ally shook her head. "No, I mean something where you changed your normal habits. Or daily routine. I don't know, maybe you walked on a different path?"

"Well, we walked down a different street," Laura replied. "But I don't see how that's going to help us. We can't get back to that path until we find a way back."

"It was just the two of us." Ross said, confusing the others before explaining. "What I mean is, normally, if we were to walk down a new street or explore the city, Raini and Calum would come along. But they were busy, so it was just the two of us."

"Maybe Ally and I should leave, then?" Austin suggested.

They nodded hesitantly, so the duo walked back to the Factory, assuring Ross and Laura that they would be back to check on them.

"Okay, now what?" Ross asked.

"Now we walk around, I guess." Laura replied uncertainly, as the two walked around aimlessly.

"I'm pretty sure we haven't gone anywhere," he said after a while.

"But we didn't notice when we got somewhere when we got here, did we?" she countered. "Let's go back in the direction of the Music Factory."

So they did, half expecting to see their familiar city of Los Angeles, but sure enough, the A&A Music Factory was still in plain sight. The title duo frowned when they saw their lookalikes still very much present.

"Okay, so that didn't work." Ross said, stating the obvious.

"Keep trying!" Ally called from the Factory.

They nodded, turning back around. Ross frowned and put his hands in his sweatshirt pockets, a sign that Laura recognized as his way of showing defeat.

"Hey, cheer up!" she said, taking his right hand in her left. "Don't be so gloomy, we're going to figure this out!"

"I guess you're right," he sighed, looking up and smiling a little. "Okay, let's walk back."

They walked together for a few minutes, hand in hand, until they had walked farther than they had before, still by the beaches of Miami.

"You know what, let's go back to the Factory and tell Austin and Ally that we need a new solution." Ross suggested. "This isn't going to work, anyhow."

They turned around and walked back down the same path, but to their surprise, it seemed no longer the same. What was the Miami Mall was some other mall that they had never seen, and the A&A Music Factory was not to be seen.

"What the-" Ross breathed.

"You think we found our way back home?" Laura whispered.

It seemed strange. They had left LA on a cloudy evening, arrived in Miami on a sunny morning that they hadn't noticed immediately, stayed a night, and arrived back in LA back on a cloudy evening.

"We have to look around," Ross said finally.

The duo ran down the path that had once led to the A&A Music Factory, but in its place was a large building that they immediately recognized as the sets of Disney.

"We're home," Laura murmured, looking down at her left hand that Ross was still holding.

She gasped. "I figured it out!"

"What?" he asked. "What did you figure out?"

"We had to be holding hands in order to get back home!" she exclaimed. "Of course, because otherwise, how would we even get back together?"

"Sounds like some weird science-fiction story," he commented. "I wouldn't believe it could be real, except somehow it is."

"Somehow it is," she repeated. "Somehow it is."

Author's note: sorry if the ending was kind of lame. I had originally intended for this to be a longer story, but I kind of ran out of ideas. I hope you liked it anyway. And if not, if you've ever read any of my other fics, you know that I love constructive criticism:) it's the only way I improve:)

Thanks for reading! School is super busy but huge things are happening in the Raura fandom so if they progress, expect a new story coming soon:)