That was the most painful thing he ever experienced. It was worse than being beaten before the point of unconscious just to tear his insides open with a rusty knife. Death would have been merciful. He took his arm away from his face so Dad could help him sit up.

"Are you still in pain?" Dad asked rubbing his back. He shook his head still not ready to talk.

"Did the new boss dude do this?" Katherine directed the question at Matt. He shook his head in reply,

"He couldn't have. He was just standing there." Now it was his turn to ask a question.

"If we could get him home Mom could help him right?" Dad didn't answer right away. He gripped both of his arms helping him to stand back on his feet.

"I don't how she would be able to do anything about this." Dad spoke, his voice barely above a whisper. Basil put a hand over his stomach. When he would press in the right spots he could feel the emptiness. If this happened, what will stop the others from disappearing? It turns out he wasn't the only one thinking about this.

"How is this even possible? Nothing is supposed to change in a time hallow!" Johan said is voice being tossed everywhere. Good question, so what's the answer?

"We also didn't think time could stop either." Katherine reminded him. All of this was happening too fast. Half of his brain was considering lying back on the floor and close his eyes and try to forget all about this. But how could he when his life was in danger. Absolutely none of this made sense! When did this all start? The time crash or me bumping my head and remembering? He didn't know which but he was starting to wish none of them happened. Why did all of this happen to him? He was a no one. His own birth parents crashed him into a wall on purpose killing him at two weeks of age. Dad put a hand on his shoulder steadying him. He leaned into his side for extra support not trusting his knees.

"What were you looking at when we got sucked back in time?" Basil looked up at Dad finally trusting himself to speak. Johan, Chip and Katherine's eyes went wide. With his other hand Dad pulled out his Elucidator and the screen flashed on the wall. It was the clearing they were just in. The moon was still glowing bright and didn't seemed to move any. Oh how he longed to have the connection restored.

"The Elucidator is still broken, it won't tell when or where this is." Dad sighed. Broken or just won't tell?

"Arg! This is frustrating! Does anyone remember which way we fell?" Johan extended his arm at the screen while his body faced them.

"Why do people always think of time as a straight line? I understand why but that's not exactly the case." Basil stopped leaning on his dad and took a step forward towards the screen. "I always thought of time travel more as walking through a dark forest at night, the path lit by a single candle. You can only see what's happening ahead and to the side of you but that doesn't mean everything is frozen the moment you walk by. It still grows, changes. We don't detect the changes because there so subtle. We're too stubborn to except changes when we go back and spot them because we want to see the same thing if we turn around…I don't care what time this is in or where because when you go through time the past has no changed to the present. And who knows what could happen in the future." He turned around to face everyone. Katherine was looking at him with the same look Bridgette looked at her favorite toy. It was actually creeping him out a bit. Everyone else stayed stone faced and saying a word.

"I'm really glad you're on our side." Johan grinned. Chip gaze kept steady on him watching his every little move.

"How is it that you can turn the most depressing questions and gave such an optimistic answer?" Dad flashed a proud smile at him. And I'm going to figure out what space has to do with all of this! This was the most confidence he had in a long time. He couldn't remember the last time he felt this confident.

"So what's our next move?" Chip asked.

"That's the million dollar question isn't?" Basil answered.