Tim emerged from Shade's secret transport vehicle. "Where am I?" He asked.

Shade replied, "You are at my home, son."

"Please," Tim shuffled a little bit away from Shade, "stop calling me that."

It had been a powerful revelation for him. Shade was his father in this world. But he also was Dark Laser. The timeline here really was wonky and Tim didn't understand how his father even had the will and the intelligence to start the Resistance, much less know about both realities. There were still so many questions Tim had for his father and Shade was obviously not interested in answering any of them. In fact, when he revealed his true identity, he didn't even let Tim ask any questions, he just moved right along into briefing Tim on the assignment. Which is exactly what he is about to begin doing now. Tim thought.

"Come on, Tim, it is time for you to start your Dark Soldier training. We can skip the first few sessions seeing as you were once in-training before you escaped..." Shade continued to talk as he led Tim down the path the the dark house that was Shade's home.


Dwight's body twitched. It pulsed with life in tremendous spasms. 78 looked through the one-way medical window at the body. Somehow Dwight's weak body and unstable mind had survived the process. Just like he had calculated. He wasn't too sure why Dwight was so strong in willpower, but whatever furthered his goal would be of assistance to 78.

"Do you wish for me to release him?" a doctor asked.

78 didn't respond right away. Inside Dwight were two emotions wrestling for domination of his mind. If he was released too early, then Dwight would turn against 78 and the Dark Soldier Branch he was a part of. Dwight was, 78 hated to admit it, stronger than he was. The process had given Dwight enhanced human abilities for the ultimate super soldier. Dwight was the test, the pawn to make certain the process could work. They didn't need him to survive, just needed the readouts from the results. It was obvious now that it was something 78 could survive easily, but Dwight's survival was a factor that he had kind of hoped wouldn't happen. At least now I should have a powerful ally.

"Not yet... He needs to stew some more."

The doctor obeyed.


Dwight awoke with a start. Where am I? What happened? Where is 78? hat did I just do? These thoughts were quickly shoved aside as pain shot through his body once more. Then he remembered the deal. "Why can't I move?" He mouthed. But nothing came from his voice box. Shit!


The trail finally died and with it died any hope for finding Dwight. Lawrence, Yuki, Mario and a few other rebels had been following 78's tracks for days. But they came across nothing. When the tracks died, they saw the sandy imprint of a landed flight vehicle. 78 was long gone leaving no trace of where his destination was.

On the way back, Mario looked to his comm and sighed. "Maybe we should call for help?"

"But who would we call?" Yuki asked cynically. "I really hate to say this, but Dwight is only one person. Not to mention he can keep his mind in really good shape and lock away secrets. He will be fine."

Lawrence nodded sadly, "Yeah, when we get back, we will regroup and try to plan to find Dwight."

Mario looked down at his comm again.

"Mario, it's gonna be fine. We will find Dwight and he will be in great shape. For all we know, he could have escaped!"

Mario had to laugh at the notion of Dwight escaping. "Right right right..."

Their craft approached the Bunker and immediately they were swarmed with Resistance members young and old asking about the status of the recon team.

Lawrence stood and asked for everyone to settle down. As he did this, Mario was pulled aside by Ben. He remembered Ben as the very first person, aside from Molly, who greeted him at the Resistance base so many years ago. Of course, Ben's greeting was a Jetfire pistol in the face. But after everything about Mario had been cleared up, Ben became his protégé so to speak. He had even taught been how to disarm a man in three tenths of a second. Then Ben was sent on a mission to the German Sector for a few years. he had only been back for two years now.

"What's up, Ben?"

Ben smiled, "Mario, I have someone I want you to meet." He pulled Mario away from everyone else quickly.

"Hey hey! Easy on the arms!"

But Ben didn't slow down, instead he sped up. "Don't worry, we are almost there!"

"What is going on here?" Mario pulled back from Ben as they reached Ben's room. "You aren't gonna try to kill me again, are you?"

"On the contrary," Ben replied, "I'm going to try to give you a new life." Standing in Ben's room was a man dressed in a tattered robe holding a book.

"Ben... Who is the robed freak-o?" Mario eyed the man suspicioulsy.

"Mario, meet Luigi. he is a minister!"

"What?"

"With a license to marry, might I add?" Luigi responded with a tired pride. "I am one of the last on this forsaken rock."

Ben looked into Mario's face. Mario's eyes were tearing up.

"Hey, Mister Luigi, how''s about you start preparing for one more wedding?"


Kristen looked into her children's eyes. This would be her last time seeing them for a very long time. "I love you both very much," She hugged each one 'good-bye' and ushered them onto the waiting train.

The train would take her kids to a temporary boarding school. The school was run by Victoria's Dark Soldiers and was known for teaching students quality subjects. But Kristen also knew the brainwashing that was sure to take place. She only hoped that her children would remember what she had told them about their 'medicine.' "Please, God, keep them safe." Then she turned and walked to her car.

Once in the driver's seat, she opened the manual that had been sent to her from Vickstralia. It hadn't come from Shade, but from the leader of the Vickstralia branch, a man named Lawrence. "What could this guy want?" She remembered that years ago they had sent a strike team to steal some battery for the chair that would later change the world's view of itself. However, she had never been there herself. Could be fun. Kristen stretched her arms and then started for home to pack her things. This mission was going to be a long one, a hard one. She could tell. She had a nose for the hard missions.

"Alright. Let's just see about this..." She opened her closet, and then the closet hidden in the closet. Inside was the battlesuit that she had worn when she had gone after A. J.'s captor. "Slightly damaged, but nothing I can't deal with." She put the armor on and then posed for herself in the full-lenght mirror. "Tim is right, this does accentuate my curves..." As she began to attach the adhesive armor plates to the suit, her thoughts drifted to Tim's work. She wondered how he was and what mission was so secret that she could not know anything about it.

"I know how to keep a secret. Hell, I kept my love for him a secret for over 10 years!" She looked at herself in the mirror again, doing minor adjustments to her suit. She then donned the gauntlets and helmet that completed the battlesuit. She looked at herself again.

The battlesuit was comprised of two sets of armor: an underarmor and a more powerful segmented armor. The underarmor was more for offensive power than for protection. It was an exoskeleton that reenforced her joints and accelerated her movements by 30%. That was just enough to dodge most small arms fire. The plates were the defensive part of the armor. Covering her chest, abdomen, shoulders, thighs, back, and shins, the plates were as state-of-the-art as the Resistance could get. Of course she had it because she happened to be friends with R & D's leading researcher, Chester. The suit was not yet in mass-production phase as it was still being tested out... by her.

"Doesn't matter, with this suit, I can easily match Dark Solders, Elites, and Ninjas with ease. When this war comes to the bloodbath phase, this armor will save lives." She flicked a switch on the left gauntlet and the HUD of her helmet came to life. Read-outs of her vitals and the suit's statistics filled her view.

As she deciphered the information flooding the screen and sorted the files, she reached for her rifle. It was time for her mission.


Kristen adjusted the seatbelt in the plane. She hadn't seen Remy Buxaplenty since the days before she had been captured. No one was actually sure what actually happened to Remy, especially after Tim's memories were shown to the world. There was a rumor that Victoria had found out about his operation he had been incarcerated for a time before his parents bailed him out.

"So," Remy's voice, much older, came over the speakers. He sounded weary, he definitely had seen and been through a lot in his life. "how has life treated you?"

Kristen shrugged even though she knew he wouldn't see her movements. "It's never been better, actually. I got kids. Married to Tim. We are almost a normal family."

"No one is normal anymore, Trix." Remy replied over the speaker. Then there was a long pause. "So, you know anything about the people you will be working with?"

"Nope. All I know is that one is some sort of former undercover operative and the other is their leader."

"That's right, Trix. Mario is the undercover dude. Really nice guy, should be hitting his 30s about now..." Remy was silent after that.

"Remy?" Kristen called to her old friend. Her response was a screen descending from the ceiling to her face.

"Hello, Kristen Tang." The figure was Shade. He was in some sort of gym and behind him was a man doing various warm-up exercises. "In your upcoming mission, you will have to deal with a lot of stress. Also, you husband is on a secret mission-"

Kristen cut Shade off, "Shade! I want to know exactly what my husband is doing! It is my right as his wife to know how he is and what his mission is!"

Shade, of course, wasn't phased in the slightest. "Why don't you talk to him yourself?" Shade gestured behind him and the man in the background came up to the screen.

"Tim? What are you doing?" She looked at the Dark Soldier uniform on his body in shock.

"It is for the mission, Trixie. I'm going undercover."

Trixie looked at her husband. "I really don't know what to say except this: you look like your brother, Tommy." Her eyes watered.

Tim bit his lip, "Oh geez, Kristen. Don't even think that way! I promise you, this is what is best. When this is all over, we will be on top, but whatever card Victoria has up her sleeve, I'm going to get it. i know her better than anyone else and you know that! This is what is best. Best for you, me, the children... everyone."

Kristen looked away. Even though she wore the helmet, Tim could tell she was hurting. Over the years she had grown to hate even the sight of Dark soldier armor. It didn't even have to be on a person, it just had to be there. "Fine. But I don't want to see you wearing it." She pouted.

Tim shrugged, "Sure thing, Sweetie."

Beneath her thick helmet, Kristen blushed and smiled. "Well, Shade..."

The enigmatic man came back on screen.

"You were honest this time, but once this final plan of yours is completed, you are going to have to answer for a lot to all of us."

Shade gave the young woman a single nod then cut the transmission.

"Just like he has always been. Matter-of-fact and to the point..." cursed Kristen.


The hydraulic doors hissed open and 78 stepped into Dwight's holding cell. "Ready to go?"

Dwight looked to 78. "Mario must die. Molly will be avenged!"

78 cocked his head to one side and hoped that Dwight wouldn't snap. "Remember; he left you, but I will never leave you." he reached his hand out to Dwight. "It's time to go."

Dwight nodded and took his new friend's hand.


Mario smiled as he walked to his apartment. "Okay, a quick recap of the day." he murmured to himself, "Couldn't find Dwight; bad. Couldn't find 78; worse than bad. Called in for help from Shade; good. Found a minister to marry me and my Yuki; makes up for everything!"

"What makes up for everything, Mario?" Yuki wrapped her arms around a surprised Mario.

"You'll find out soon enough," He responded with a wink. Then he added, "Did you know that you are the only person that can sneak up on me?"

Yuki just laughed.

"It's true, no one has been able to surprise me except you!"

Yuki shook her head with a playful smile. "Let's go. I heard that there is some new discovery about splitting the atom for some kind of bomb or some such nonsense..."

Mario chuckled, "An atomic bomb? Yeah, right. Like that would ever become a powerful weapon..."


Tim stood up and began to shake his hands. He had just finished his 50 reps of 50 pushups. He never really paid much attention to math in exercise, but he knew that was a lot. Shade was running him ragged, but he knew that it was for a good cause. "What next?"

"This." Shade threw his Dark Soldier hood at Tim. "It's time to start your infiltration."

Tim huffed, "That's easy," he scoffed, "We haven't done this too often, but all the times we have done it, it was easy. It is always easy getting in; it is getting out that is the difficult part."

Shade shook his head. "You are not going to become any ordinary Dark Soldier, Timothy. This mission is more about trust and stealth and getting to the root of Victoria's reign."

Tim looked at Shade with a sideways glance. "What do you mean?"

"A few years ago, Victoria's Research and Development team produced a belt able to project a force field around the wearer. This force field is capable to support a single person in teleportation. This belt could allow teleportation to anyplace anywhere, anywhen, in any dimension."

"Shit..."

"However, they lacked the determination and the technology to actually make a chip that would not only amplify such power for the device but be able to stably support the transport of a human and be able to have set co-ordinances." Shade paused. "Then a person in our Resistance made such a chip-"

"A. J..." Tim breathed.

"Yes. A. J. made the chip."

The realization struck Tim like 20 tons of bricks... "That is why Victoria hired the Dinkleberg! She wants that chip! She didn't want A. J. out of the way, she wants that belt to work!" Tim looked at the exercise equipment that was lying before him, "That is why you wouldn't let me go on the rescue mission, it would end up being too close to my mission." Shade had thought ahead, as usual.

"Exactly." Shade replied. "Victoria is in dire need of the chip. We need to gain that belt by whatever means necessary."

"Dire need? But why would Vicky want to go back in time or dimension-hop?'' Tim mused aloud.

"You know both her versions, I was hoping you could answer me that." Shade replied.

Tim thought hard. He tried his best to remember everything, every little detail. Cosmo... Wanda... I need you guys again. He hadn't called on them in a very long time, he was pretty sure that at some points he had stopped believing in them. But true to their designation, the green and pink stars appeared in his subconscious mind.

"It's Timmy! Hiii Timmy!"

Tim ignored the immature green entity and broke down what he needed: a full recollection of everything that happen the two days before everything went to hell, er, Victoria.

Wanda looked sad, "Oh, so you just want us for what we can do for you? You haven't even bothered to ask how we are, Sport."

Tim flared his nostrils. "This isn't the time. I am trying to fix everything, now is not the time for a hissy fit."

Wanda crossed her arms as best a star could, "Sorry, Timmy, but we are not allowed to help you in this matter. It's Da'Rules!"

"Da' Rules?" Tim wanted to explode, "'Da' Rules' are for a reality that no longer exists here! How long will you fairies continue to hide behind that stupid, stupid book?"

Wando hung her head, "I wish I could help you Timmy, I really do, but Jorgen von Strangle... You know, rules and laws and all... Besides, because fairies are unknown in this reality, we can't survive long here. No one here believes in fairies, not even Crocker!"

This was true and to Tim made sense. They were saving themselves from certain destruction by staying away. "Fine, then I don't need your help with this. Go away."

"But Timmy!" Cosmo shouted out suddenly, "You forgot about the second remote!"

Tim and Wanda looked at him like he was a fool. "What are you even talking about, Cosmo?" Wanda asked.

"Oh, I was just reading the question on Timmy's mind!"

"...You can read minds?" Tim wiped his brow.

"Yeah! Duh! How else would I know you are worried about Trixie! Congrats on finally getting with that, by the way!" Cosmo raised his hand for a high five. "C'mon, give it up. Give it up. Give it up. Give it... Okay..."

Tim ignored it and Wanda poofed him back into a star.

"Second Remote... Second Remote!" Tim's mind returned to the day he had wished for the TV remote all those years ago. He had wished for one and he was then grounded. His parents, being the strict but loving and clueless parents they were, had taken from him the magical remote. Not at all thinking about the consequences, he then wished for another one... and that was what Cosmo was referring to. "Cosmo! you are a genious!"

With that Tim left his fairies and his subconscious. "Shade!" Tim was back in reality. "I got it!"

Shade was rather taken a-back by Tim's sudden outburst after the long moment of silence. "What is it, son?"

"She wants to take from me the remote!"

Shade looked at him with worries eyes. "A remote?"

"Yeah!"

"As in a television remote control?"

"Mmhmm yep."

"Right..."

"No, Shade, you have to trust me on this... Listen to how this reality was created..." And Tim started the story from the beginning...


Remy's jet made touch-down just north of the bunker. In true gentlemen fashion, Remy helped Kristen, decked out in battle gear, out of his plane. "They will be here to pick you up soon." Remy said. "I must go now, I also have a personal mission to accomplish."

Kristen looked back at the man. He looked older than his years. His eyes had lost their laugh and his blond hair was going prematurely gray from the stress from his past. "Remy..."

Remy looked at her with his tired eyes, "Yes?"

"Please. Do take care of yourself?"

Remy's smile was weary and slow... but genuine, "I promise, I will." He got in his 'bird' and took to the skies.

And just like that Remington "Remy" Buxaplenty was gone. Kristen would never hear from or see him again. And somehow, at that moment, she knew that.


A/N: Wowwww ok so a very long update time, but its ok! The story is still here and moving along. I have been busy not just with school but with the story! Haa I am doing my best to make the final chapters of FUTURE LOST more best of the story ever! haha so tell me what you thinK? Read and Review please! It really motivates me even more to know what people think.