As soon as the away team heard Cricket's scream and Jack's thud, they turned around to look at us. Soon after, Jack regained consciousness. Other than that, nobody moved. Nobody spoke. Nobody even breathed. The tension grew to near the breaking point when Commander Riker spoke.

"Excuse me, but do you know when we are?"

"You mean where, right?" Abby said.

"No, I mean when. In other words, what is today's date?"

"Friday, September the twenty-eighth, two thousand and seven." I said quietly, still recovering.

"Oh no," said Riker, "The Captain is not going to be pleased. Riker to enterprise. Two to beam up." He and Counselor Troi looked at each other and beamed up.

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Riker and Troi beamed back aboard. They stepped off the transporter pad and speed-walked to the bridge. Neither of them had good news for the captain, and neither of them truly wanted to tell him what had happened, for he would not take it well at all. Then they stepped out onto the bridge to deliver the news.

"Well number one," the captain said, "What have you got for me?"

"It's the year 2007," Riker said, "and we appear to be stuck here."

"2007? How can that be possible? No ship can pass through a wormhole and survive. Besides, the sensors still say it was just a hole. Deanna, what have you found out?"

"Well sir," she said, "we landed at random coordinates and we found a group of children. They appear to have brought us here. They're telekinetic. All of them."

"Telekinetic? Even betazoids aren't able to do that. Besides, one child couldn't have made the Enterprise travel 400 years into the past. It's just not possible."

"Whether or not it's possible, it happened. Besides, I didn't say it was just one of them. Alone, it appears that they're completely normal, but together, their quite powerful. And we'll probably need them to get back."

"But there's still the prime directive," Riker cut in, "what about it?"

"Yes," The captain said, "What about the prime directive? They may have brought us here, but we can get back without them."

"I beg your pardon sir," Deanna said, "but without them, we're stuck here. Indefinitely."

"Well," said the commander, "I sure don't want to be stuck her indefinitely. Why don't we ask them to send us back?"

"They can't," said Deanna, "they subconsciously wanted us here, so here we'll stay. We're stuck here unless we take them with us."

"Take them with us?!?! Out of the question!!! That completely undermines the prime directive!!!" The captain was shouting now. Taking the children onto the Enterprise completely undermined everything Starfleet stood for, even if they were the only way back to the 24th century.

"Captain, calm down," Deanna said, "they're telekinetic, if they brought us here, so they could get themselves back here after dropping us off."

It took a few more minutes, but the captain finally relented. The children would have to come on board for them to get back. The prime directive would end up ignored for a while or the future would be at stake.

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Data and Dr Crusher stared at us, and we stared at them. For about three minutes nothing happened. Then a message came down from the Enterprise.

"Data? Dr. Crusher? The captain wants you both back onboard the Enterprise," Riker said, "Ready… energize."

Right as Dr. Crusher and Data beamed up, Troi beamed down. We remained in our frozen stupor of stunned-ness as she walked up to us.

"Hi," she said, "are you all okay? You look like you're in shock."

We all murmured something akin to "yes". We were all thinking the same thing: Data, Riker, Dr. Crusher and Troi had just beamed to Cricket's backyard. Of course we're in shock. What other state would we be in?

"Well," Troi began, "there's something that the captain wants me to tell you; you all are telekinetic and you subconsciously wanted us here, so here we are. The only way for us to get back is for you to either stop wanting us here or come with us. I don't think you really truly want us to leave, so the only way is for you to come with us. However, because you're telekinetic, you shouldn't be stuck there. You should be able to send yourselves back whenever you want, but you will stay aboard for a while so that I can teach you how to get back. Remember, you brought us here subconsciously, so it will take a while to gather the will to go home. Dr. Crusher would also like to study your abilities if it's okay. On the other hand, we are dependant on your help to get back home. Will you help us?"

Troi's words hung in the air for a few moments. We all would have jumped at the chance, except for the fact that she had said that we should be able to get back. Not we would be able to get back. She would be teaching us how to use the telekinesis, but nothing was certain. Though our dreams were about to be realized, we still hung back a little. We all subconsciously agreed that being stuck in the future with no way back would kind of suck. But slowly, one by one, we decided it was a risk we'd have to take.

"I'm in," said Cricket.

"Me too," said Jack.

"Me three," said Kayla.

"Don't forget me!" Abby cried.

They all looked at me expectantly. I was still thinking. I wanted to decide, but I just couldn't. I wanted to be sure I was making the right choice. If I decided that going was the wrong choice, the rest of my friends might not be able to work without me. After a long pause, I finally spoke.

"Oh, what the heck," I said, "It'll be the chance of a lifetime," I grinned, "I wouldn't miss it for the world."