Author's Notes: Well, guys, I'm, once again, sorry that I'm so lazy. It took me a week to get this out, and I only started writing this today, gah.

But I got the chapter out, and that's what matters. Anyway, replies? Well, most of you made the same kind of review again, thanks for the support, and TwilightZone145, I still have absolutely no idea when this will be finished. This story has now hit 107 pages, and it's still not even close to being finished.

Also, very sorry that the last chapter was broken for a full day. I made sure to post my watchers a PM telling them about the chapter. Anyway, I'll make sure that this chapter isn't broken.

Anyway, on with the chapter.

Chapter 39

The room fell silent, but my mind was going at a thousand thoughts a minute. 'How? How, can they be on Earth? The only people who know what Earth is, is me and Karen. Unless...'

"Nick? Are you OK?"

I held a long pause. "Ya, but I'm just... I'm just... I don't know what to think now."

The Professor continued, "Well, I'd hate to say it, but it actually get's a lot more complicated."

"More complicated? Isn't it complicated enough?"

"Nope," He said wryly. "When we realized that these portals led to Earth, we-"

"Wait, I thought you didn't know what Earth was."

"Karen filled me in, now, as I was saying, we studied them more intensively. And when we did, we realized something. The portal signal was far from ordinary, even for a portal to Earth. It seemed like a second signal was interfering with the first one.. This is why it seemed so difficult to identify the were the portal led. But, what's strange is that it still matched the signal of the portal that you used to get here. Thewe don't know what that second signal was. It doesn't seem to make any sense. It may just be some strange interference of some sort. Did you see the portals, or did you see any pokemon that would produce the signals?"

"I wouldn't know..."

"Well you should." The Professor was getting ahead of himself again.

Karen spoke for the first time in a while, "Actually, I may know what that second signal was."

"You do!?" The Professor said in surprise, "Hey, I'm the one who's supposed to know this kind of thing."

Karen shot the Professor a smirk, "You see, I was helping Professor Mackenzie here look for the signals." The Professor grunted to himself. "It turns out that your teleportation was the only one from Earth in all of The Organizations records. But it wasn't the only teleportation in the history of pokemon kind.

"I was able to pull a few strings, and was able to skim through the government's satellite reports. And it was then that I noticed a very important piece of history... for me, at least."

The Professor raised his eyebrow, as did I.

Karen continued, "It was the portal that took me to the pokemon world."

My stomach lurched. "YOU CAME FROM EARTH!?" I glanced at The Professor who looked just as surprised as I did.

"I thought it was obvious." I felt like I was going to explode.

"But, where were you on Earth? Who did you know? Why and how did you come here?

"I'd rather not speak of my life on Earth... Anyway, I studied that portal, and compared to the one that I took to get here. I noticed that the second signal wasn't there. So I tried to figure out what was different from your trip here, and mine. So after some thought I finally came up with an possibility."

She turned her attention toward me, "Nick, when did you teleport out of Earth?"

"About 9:00 in the morning."

"I meant what year."

"Oh, somewhere around early 2006."

Karen smiled, "Well, isn't that a coincidence."

"What's a coincidence?"

"Hmph, I teleported out of Earth... in early 2006."

At that point I didn't know what to think. "Wait, wait-wait-wait, if you teleported here at the same time I did, than why am I sixteen years old, and you, around thirty?"

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I sat on the couch in the apartment, in total shock. Terra laid on my lap with Chandler on her's as she tried to comfort me. I had stormed out of the office to calm down. This had to be the worst feeling I had felt since I was back on Earth.

'There, there, Nick, it's ok.'

'No it's not ok,' My voice was trembling. 'That portal launched me in to the future. 15 YEARS! I've been gone from Earth for 15 years. My family, my friends, everyone, they all think I'm missing, dead, gone forever. THIS ISN'T NORMAL!'

'Look at yourself, Nick, you're not dead, you're not gone, you can fix this.'

'Fix this!? What, do you think I can just walk back into them and say 'Hey guys, I'm still alive, sorry that I've been missing forever'?" At this point, I was yelling.

The gang looked at me with surprised, and dreadful looks on there faces.

"I'm sorry guys, I shouldn't be taking this out on you. It's just, what am I supposed to do? I don't even know if I can get back to Earth."

Suddenly, someone was banging on the door. From outside of the door, I could here Karen's voice. "Nick, that's where you're wrong."

"What?" I whispered to myself. I, as gently as possible, pushed Terra off my lap, and ran to the door. I launched the door open and said, "What do you mean?"

Karen walked in, and sat down on the couch, as Terra jumped up beside her. Karen scratched Terra's neck, as she laid next to her. "Well, Nick, the portals we use have a special property to them. Unlike most of the other technology that we use here, the portals can duplicate any portal signal that we put into it."

I gave Karen a perplexed look. "That means, that we can follow the signal that the pokemon took to Earth."

"We can!? Does this mean that we can also follow the time change?"

"Yup!"

I ran to Karen and gave her a big hug. "Thankyou-thankyou-thankyou, but how far did the pokemon go back?"

"That, we don't know. But you'll find out, just as soon as you go back to Earth."

I had now completely changed moods, as did everyone else in the room. I was now looking forward to going back to Earth, ready to see what has become of it. I was finally going to go home.

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I stood in Karen's office once again, with the gang, plus Karen and The Professor. Karen was instructing me one what we would do for communication, and teleportation. The Professor was banging on the keyboard, punching in commands and orders for the portal device. With me, I had one EMDAC and the gliders.

"Nick, we've got some strict rules to apply now. First off, anything that goes between Earth and The Organization will require a ton of power. Not so much that it will shut down the entire building, but enough so that we can't be doing it every day, or possibly even every week. Secondly, remove your data-brace, I believe that Professor MacKenzie has something for you."

The professor walked over to me, and handed me a red brace, nearly identical in shape to the data-brace.

"This is the EDB, the Earth data-brace. It was specifically created to make communication from here to Earth easier. Firstly, the signal sent will be much stronger, but this will use a lot of power so, as I said, don't expect to use it very often.

"Now, if you'll notice there are two little circles below this button here," She said pointing to a spot on the top side of the brace. "One is a red light, and one is green. This is for the purpose of communication. From such a distance, instead of simply making a call, you have to make a request. You push the communication button, and this will send a request signal to us. Now the reason for this, is that communication between two worlds requires, again, a lot of power, so we will need to be able to tell you if we have enough power to communicate. If the light's green, than you should receive contact from me in about five minutes, and if it's red, that means we don't have enough power to support a conversation. If that occurs, just wait another hour or so, so we can stock up enough power. The same thing goes if you're ordering a portal, in which you press this button." She pointed to a button, under the lights.

"Now one last thing. Are you sure it's a good idea to bring all of your pokemon with you?"

I glanced at the gang for a brief second. "Of course."

"Think about it, Nick, if you bring the entire gang, you'll be putting them at risk of discovery. From what I know, no one, save for a few people, know that they exist. I don't think that pokemon are in a very good position to be discovered."

Karen spoke the truth, truth that I hadn't thought about. I looked at the gang a second time. Sanj was able to keep himself hidden, but knowing him, I'm not sure if he would stay hidden if I told him. Dallin was smaller, and would be easily kept hidden, but where would I hide him. If I simply left him in my room, he would get discovered nothing flat. Chandler was only a baby, and would be whining for attention.

Terra, however, was the one jumping rooftops, without being detected when she was stalking me. From what I know, she could still hunt easily, and would make good use of the crows back home.

Terra kept her head high, as the Dallin and Sanj looked grim. They heard what I thought.

'I'm sorry guys, but it's true. So far, Terra's the only one who's proven herself with stealth. And don't worry, guys, I've taken on pokemon before. It's nothing personal, I hope you understand.'

Sanj and Dallin raised there hands. Dallin responded with a smirk, 'You better give me something to do when you get back.'

'Don't worry, I'll take you to that training center twenty-four, seven.' I said giving him a thumb sup.

"Um, Nick, what did you say to them?"

"Oh, I was thinking about what you said. I have decided to take Terra," 'Sorry, and thanks again, guys.'

"Are you sure?"

"...Yes."

The Professor continued for Karen, "OK, the portal's already to go. Are you ready Nick?"

I looked at the gang once more. "Will Sanj, Dallin, and Chandler get cared for while I'm gone?"

"With the best service we have." Karen said smiling, confidently.

I paused for a good long time. "OK, I'm ready to go."

With a few clicks of the keyboard, a windier-than-normal portal opened in front of me. Me and Terra took a few steps towards the portal. Suddenly, I noticed the Terra, was looking back, whining.

'What is it Terra,' I said, kneeling down to her.

'I want Chandler.' She said, still whimpering. I looked back to find Karen holding Chandler in her arms. I looked at Terra, than at Chandler, than at Terra. I made a split second decision.

"Karen, I'm taking Chandler with me."

Karen didn't seem surprised, but happy rather. She walked up to me, and handed me Chandler. She kneeled down, and whispered into my ear, "You're a good father, Nicholas."

She went back, as I carried Chandler, gently breathing in and out, just as he usually did. No matter what he was doing, he was adorable.

I looked back at the portal. Terra, and I walked towards the portal, until we stood in front of it. I turned back to Karen and The Professor. "Thanks, guys."

"You're welcome, Nick, and good luck."

I gave them a thumbs up. I turned to Terra, and she nodded back to me.

I turned to the portal, and walked in.

Author's After-notes: Also, my head was starting hurt when I was writing this. It was a really complicated chapter. And I'm afraid that I might of left something out. But this is no time to be worried. I have some chapters to write. And let me tell you, they are going to be a hell of a lot of fun to write.

Anyway, I got the story out, and I'm proud of it.