A/N: Hey, hope you've enjoyed the last few chapters. This one will be written in Kyle's POV meaning that you guys actually get to see what's going on in that head of his. Enjoy.

Time worked in confusing ways. That's probably why it's one of the mysteries of the universe. Who decided how time worked? And who decided how many hours would be in a day and how many days would be in a week? The bible says that God used 6 days to create the world, its wild life nature, elements and people and the seventh day was God resting but how did they know this? Did God tell Adam and Eve this and they past it down to their children and the story went through generations? Didn't it get changed? Yep, time was a weird concept.

It was weird in the way that only a week ago that Zsa-Zsa had entered the forest and had come across the robosaurs, yet it only felt like two. It was weird in the way that six days ago I, along with the other Jr defenders had been consumed in cocoons yet that only felt like one. It was weird in the way that only 3 days ago the earthquake hit Pearl Canyon yet it only felt like this morning.

A knock at my door pulled me out of the loop of thoughts and back to reality, James popped his head in and frowned at the fact that I was still in bed and it was almost nine. He decided against complaining and giving a lecture and just let me be. What else could he do? Technically, he had no control over me, no one did. My mum had tried when I called her last but it was useless, she was too caught up in conferences that she couldn't even establish any ground rules for me.

I lay in bed for a few more minutes just staring at the ceiling as if something magical was about to happen. My thoughts moved on from the magical ways of time to twisted tales of fate. Fate. My parents didn't believe in it, neither did the other defenders. I asked Jack about it once, questioning about out mutant powers and the once JCD powers. He claimed that it was all down to a prophecy, so in a way it was fate. Zsa-Zsa claimed that it was down to Charles's planning. Both Annaka and Danny were silent on the question stating that they always saw fate as a kind creature and it had not been kind to them.

I smirked slightly as I remembered the next comment made by Danny, "Fate will probably lose us the JCD powers."

The JCD powers, I was the one that named them of course, Justice… Justice…Justice…I paused and looked at the door, "Justice…Justice…oh what did it stand for!"

I obviously shouted it a bit too loudly as it echoed throughout my bedroom. I scrunched my lips up to the side as I still tried to remember what I named the JCD powers. God, this was frustrating. Again, I smirked but at this time it was due to my comment, James would have scolded me for using the lords name in vain but personally, I wasn't a very religious person hence my little knowledge of the bible.

Eventually, I got out of bed and jumped down the stairs to breakfast. Jumping down the stairs was the only familiarity that I had at the moment. Breakfast was different as well. James naively thought that buying and giving me the same thing to eat (some random cereal that was 'filled' with fibre) would make everything normal. Well unless he had four teenagers in his basement of his then nothing was going to be the same.

I ate my breakfast in silence. It only made trying to eat this cereal worse. Then this soothing voice entered my head, "Seriously add some mayo."

I blinked at the voice and generally thought it was down to pure craziness or lack of sleep. Oh yes, another new aspect of my life- sleepless nights. I had slept in total, for the past 6 days, 20 hours. I knew that James noticed the bags under my eyes, and no doubt that my team did as well. I was positive that James was going to give me some sleep pills or at least take me to the doctors. I could see the thought processing through his mind whenever he saw me. I, at least, thought he would take me 'because I would be a weak link in the defenders if I wasn't getting enough sleep', well that's the line he used on Danny anyway.

I realised that my thoughts had led me to finish the cereal so I gulped down my orange juice in one and placed both the bowl and cup by the sink. There was no point washing it up now, as it was just me eating, I did all my washing up in the evening after all my meals. I then walked back to my chair. My chair. The chair that I sat in the first time I came to the castle. It was mine and nobody could take it away from me.

"Get a grip Kyle." I muttered to myself as I pushed in the chair. It was just a chair and I was acting like it was a prize procession or something. It was reassuring thought that I did have a line between crazy and normal. However, they didn't stop me from crossing it later on.

It was 10am on that Saturday morning which meant that my friends were already in the control room sitting on the appropriate coloured stall listening to James babble on about something. By the sounds of it, he was in a middle of a speech about the earthquake when I sat down in between Zoey and Amy, who kindly flashed a smile at me. I returned one back and gave me attention to James, who had paused at my appearance, but ever the professional chose to carry on speaking.

"As I was saying, the earthquake was the first natural disaster that the defenders had ever encountered and may I add we did a fine job despite one of us being in hospital already and another one ending up there by the end but overall, I want to congratulate you on a great job." James said making everyone but me smile, the next comment he said sent me into a frenzy and was the kick I needed to over step the crazy mark. To be fair, I knew that he said it by accident just by looking at his eyes, "Not even the Jr defenders could have done a better job than you guys."

I don't remember much about the atmosphere in the room after that comment was made but what I can guarantee is that it changes dramatically after I opened my mouth.

"I'm sorry?" I replied as I couldn't believe my ears. That's when the silence happened and I felt myself tense up, "The Jr defenders couldn't have done a better job? Did you even mentor us when they were around? Oh wait, you didn't! You were away half of the year, tracking down Ivar or whatever you said you were doing! So you have no right to make comments like that because, no offence guys, but the old gang would have handled it way better."

I was in the middle of a rant here and I could see that James wanted to intervene but there was no way on earth that was going to let him, "For starters, all of us would have been ready to go out and help the citizens of Pearl Canyon and not be lying in a hospital bed."

I generally felt guilty for digging into Amy like that but I couldn't deny it. Zsa-Zsa would have never landed in a hospital bed, I also felt guilty for what I said next, "Secondly, none of us would have wasted time climbing up trees or going into buildings and spending forever in there to get one person out! Thirdly, our energy levels would have been through the roof, so none one would have passed out and ruined your perfect image of the defenders and finally, they wouldn't have doubted themselves at the end."

You would have hoped that I'd finished. I didn't. My words shot out of my mouth covered in anger.

"I'm not saying I want you guys to be like the Jr defenders. I like you all the way you are but sometime it feels like I have to baby you all the way and that you can't go on instincts, you always have to check with either James or I! The Jr defenders would have ran in there without a second thought, me included and Jack would have never had to run round the whole of Pearl Canyon making sure that we were alright! You all exclaim how wonderful it is to be defenders and actually help Pearl Canyon but frankly, I did more work in my first two days than you guys have in a week! I watch you play with their dino DNA, the ones we found, the ones we so desperately needed in order to actually live, well fat lot of use they did for them! Oh no, you, James, you took them off us when that cocoon happened. You took the only defence we had against an unknown force and looked what happened! Do you know what the worst part is? You all made promises that you would fight with the same spirit, hope, courage and desire that they all did but you haven't! You all assume that it's a game and that's probably due to the earthquake but you don't understand how serious this all is! You don't know that in one minute you could be laying bed and the next you could be in a space ship fighting for your life or that you could be in some stupid lab, fighting off some robosaurs because your team mates thought that following a stupid map would lead them to some answers. You don't know how it feels to lose against Ivar, you don't know how many time I have wanted to… to…to just yell at the world and yell at them for leaving me after they promised that they wouldn't and yell at my parents for putting their defender duty before their own son and you don't know how many time I have wanted yell JCD defenders in this room and actually remember what it stands for."

By now tears were running down my cheeks at a fast pace and the whole room was shocked into more silence. I could feel that my team mates were ashamed of themselves despite that only three days ago I told them they were doing fine and I could sense the guilt in James. I knew that he blamed himself for the person that I become. I wiped the tears from my eyes. This was the first time I had come down to the control room since the team changed officially. I saw how accurately it represented my feelings. The computer was still broken, A3 sheets of paper covered desk tops and the secret passage out to the side of the castle hadn't been used in ages. The room felt old and forgotten.

Before anyone could elaborate on my speech, the computers alarms went off, identifying unknown life forms hanging around in Pearl Canyon. I left the room through the secret passage immediately. I didn't need James telling where these life forms, well robosaurs, were. I could read a map. I knew that my team hadn't moved as were unsure on whether to follow me or not. I would have advised that they should, after all it was pretty dark in here but I think I'd pretty much lost my right to lead and advice on a mission just now.

I opened the door way out into the day light. How fitting, it was raining. I walked around to the front of the castle; there was still no sign of my team mates so I carried on without them. However, a small part of me wanted them to come rushing out of the castle door and shout back at me for undermining them or at least reassure me that it was fine to feel that way but the further away I walked from the castle, the more unlikely it became. Well, the only positive part of this was that they got to see how angry I could get, not even the Jr defenders saw that side. Then again, they didn't press the right buttons and they were older and knew how I worked.

I just walked past the first set of houses when a pair of strong arms lifted me off the ground and carried me out of the street. I was so shocked at confused that I forgot to fight back. His hand covered my mouth so screaming wasn't an option. He carried me to an alley way (Blimey these alley ways get to see all sorts) and then slammed me against the wall.

Harvey stared back at me with his eyes as cold as the winter nights. He grabbed my wrists and used his upper body strength to keep me in place. He then smiled, "Fancy seeing you here. Ivar wanted to come personally but something came up."

"So you're doing his dirty work again?" I exclaimed back. I was about to taunt him so more when I heard footsteps coming down the street.

"It's Dino Time!"

"Pterodactyl!"

"Triceratops!"

"Vulcanodon!"

"Tyrannosaurus!"

My team mates unknowingly rushed past me and straight towards the actual unknown life readings. Fortunately, they reminded me to try and activate my dino DNA but Harvey was one step ahead today. He let go of my left wrist and reached into my hoodie pocket and threw my dino DNA on the ground, "I don't think so."

"Why? Because you know I'm going to win?"

"I highly doubt that just you could take me on. You went from the weakest member of the group to the strongest member of the group within a day!"

I couldn't wrong his facts. It was true, when the Jr defenders were here, I was the weakest member of the team but that was only because my fighting skills weren't as advanced as theirs. However I had improved throughout the year. I glanced down the alley way hoping to see anyone walking by, more specifically my team mates. They wouldn't let Harvey hurt me despite what I just shouted at them. I don't know whether it was just luck or great timing but Harvey always had a way of making the conversation related to your private life.

"Face it kid." Harvey said with his chest pushed against mine and his hand crushing down on wrist, every finger making sure that it was filled me pain. The rain drops were landing on my flat hair and rushing down my face, "Everyone given up on you."

I didn't reply. I couldn't because it was true. Even my team mates had given up on me even before my massive rant. They didn't bother asking if I was alright anymore and they had stopped with the concerning looks. All they did was continuing talking and assume that I wasn't listening to every word they said. They assumed that because I prefer to stare at the wall rather than look at them and the wrist devices, their wrist devices, which I wasn't paying any attention or taking note of anything they said. They had also given up on the concerned muttering and repetitive questions of 'Is he okay?'. They used to ask each other often but they never actually asked me. Ironic isn't it. They asked the people who couldn't answer the all-important question.

The Jr defenders would have never given up on me. Giving up wasn't encoded in their DNA. I could imagine the scenario if they were here right now; Jack would have grabbed me by the collar and shoved me in one of the storage rooms. Zsa-Zsa would have then pushed me down onto a chair and tied me up. Danny would have done a quicker perimeter to look for any adults, make sure they didn't see this and then locked the door all whilst Annaka would be giving me the 'I have all day' or 'you better spill' look. I overheard James comment once that the Jr defenders would have moved heaven and earth for me. As soon as it reached my ears, my heart filled with this tingly emotion, one that I might add, I haven't felt in a long time. It was the emotion of love.

Harvey was still crushing my body up against the wall and my team mates were no longer in sight, either the robosaurs had diverted them to another area of the town or they had retreated. I looked down at the path below me; my dino DNA was lying there helpless covered in rain. My t-shirt was getting soaked that it was becoming see-through and the drops were becoming heavier. Harvey grin started to get wider, "The Jr defenders would be ashamed of the boy you have become."

My eyes darted back up to look straight into Harvey's eyes. He knew that he had reached a sore point so he continued with the taunting, "Down in the rubble of the lab, they would be turning in despair at the mess that you have become."

I tried to ignore it but it was no use, his thoughts swirled around my head like water escaping down the plug hole. They swirled around and around, making themselves at home. Harvey crushed down on my wrist even harder and I was sure that they were both sprained. Tears wanted to flow down my face but I wouldn't let them. I wouldn't let Harvey see weakness. A soothing voice in my head butted in.

"Don't let him win Kyle. Don't let him destroy you like he destroyed them!"

"All alone, in the ground." Harvey taunted some more, my right wrist was definitely sprained and my chest was probably covered in bruises, "Forgotten!"

My breath became heavy and my eyes lit up with the fire that started from my mind. Slowly, I turned my hands down and grabbed onto Harvey's wrists like he did mine. The anger rose from up inside me and escaped through my mouth, "They may be alone, they may be lost, they may be hurt but they will never be forgotten you hear me. I will never forget them. James will never forget them and I will make sure that you never forget the four teenagers who made your life a misery."

A clamped down onto his wrist even harder and I watched with the fire still burning in my eyes as he wrists slowly turned to ice. He winced in pain and in shock dropped me like a burning plate onto the ground. I made a grab for my dino DNA as he watched the ice slowly crawl up his arm.

"Stop!" The soothing voice inside me spoke; "Don't become as bad as him!"

Agreeing with what I now realised was the only real part of Kyle Temple that lived, the true part of myself, the only sane part, I stopped the ice from growing any further and watched it break into millions of tiny pieces. Harvey looked at my afraid before running off.

I watched as the others, including James looked at me confused and unsure of how to proceed. They didn't understand, as much as I wanted them to, they didn't. I looked at my new team. Despite what they thought, they were the perfect choices to carry on the defender legacy and fight against Ivar and when that choice was made I was so filled up with adrenaline that I didn't think through the consequences of what it would do to me. James, as a mentor, was taught to adapt to changes like a fish in water and I watched as the others would examine their dino DNA and laugh about how cool this all was. They didn't see what it felt like. They didn't see that every moment they had with the dino DNA, the wrist devices or the debriefs…they didn't see that every moment it felt like the Jr defenders had been replaced and forgotten like some batteries in a remote control but unlike new batteries they didn't know what I needed or what I wanted. All that I wanted to be loved and have my family back. All I wanted to see the Jr defenders standing there next to them. All I wanted was for us to be sitting in the den laughing about some random rubbish.

Slowly, I stood up and walked over to my team mates. I then glanced over to the cracked shop window and looked at the kid I had become. Harvey was right, they would be ashamed. I had tried to so hard to cover up my emotions and in return I had become this cold, harsh leader that even the defenders and my parents would be frightened of. James was right, when the earthquake struck I was a great leader and that was the leader my team needed.

Suddenly, I felt some one jump on me and wrap their arms around my neck and squish it to death. The light blue t-shirt indicated that it was Amy. Realising that I had stiffened I relaxed into her hug and wrapped my less injured arm around her. The others followed in her suite and soon we had a team hug. I looked up at James, who mouthed the most reassuring thing since over hearing Gildar, on the phone; complain about his hair, "It's going to be okay."

A/N: Hoped you enjoyed this chapter. I know I was a bit mean to my other characters. I'm sure they'll be okay with it…if not I better run.