Sonny couldn't believe his eyes. That guy couldn't be Koda, the little, kind, adorable, friendly and energetic boy he met few months ago couldn't have become a man that fast.

"Koda?"

"Yeah! It's me!"

"B-but how..."

More shootings brought him back to reality.

"I'll explain you later. Now we have to get out of this one"

Then Sitka, Denahi and Kenai joined Bravo team.

"Hello Jason"

"How do you know my...Sitka?"

"I'll explain it to you later, now looks like you could use a hand."

"Indeed we do" said Jason laughing.

"Okay, update us"

"We have to defend this crossroad. The Talibans must not trespass, so we have to hold them as longs as we can until air support arrives."

More fire came from the east. Sitka ordered Kenai and Denahi to get to Ray and Clay's position while Koda joined Sonny and Brock.

Ray had been informed by radio that he had a quick response operator coming to his position. He just didn't expect the old recruit he had rescued months ago.

"Are you the quick response guy?"

"It's also a pleasure to see you again Ray"

"Denahi?!"

"Look I'll love to have this chat with you" he said to next shoot at the enemy "But we have more important stuff going on"

"Right"

With Clay things weren't different, even if Kenai didn't go directly to his position to not expose him, he was bringing him support eliminating the Talibans from the opposite direction.

Even Havoc was confused about the emergence of that mysterious group. Not Mandy, Blackburn or Davis had located a near quick response unit to backup Bravo. And the surprise escalated when Davis made to link the radio to the unit's communicators:

"To the quick response unit, this is Havoc base, requesting ID immediately, repeat, requesting ID immediately"

"Havoc this is Phoenix 1. Glad to hear your voice after all this time Davis."

The trio looked shocked at recognizing the voice. Lucky for them another call snapped them out of the trance, it was air support composed by a Black hawk and two Jets. The unit identified as Cobra72. Davis informed Bravo about the unit's name as she linked communication, once in the same channel Jason told Trent to give the green light to air support.

"Cobra72, this is Bravo 4 requesting immediate air support"

"Roger Bravo 4, good copy"

"Target, enemy taking the open. Coordinates, 15N10E from my position. Danger close, how copy?"

"Copy Bravo 4, target spotted at 600m from your position."

As Cobra72 appeared in the sky the brother's jaws dropped. Specifically when they started shooting the enemies crossing their path. They never imagined there could be such deadly weapons and made to transport through what they thought impossible.

"Yeah, welcome to the future" Clay told Kenai when he saw his face.

...

Back to base, there wasn't only a victory, but also a welcoming celebration. Jason and Ray couldn't stop bombarding Sitka with questions. Also commenting that Sitka looked pretty good despite the fact that his age started to show up. Clay was happy to see Kenai again, who was no longer a teenager. Meanwhile Sonny and Full-Metal were admiring how Koda was all grown up. He had become a strong young man.

"Hey but...how come you're now an adult? The last time we saw you you were like 8 years old." Sonny

"How long it has been since you left?" Koda

"About three months, mostly" Full-Metal

"Sonny...for us it has been 17 years. And if you ask about my age, I'm 25."

Denahi didn't stay behind either, after greeting Davis he went to Brock to next share a welcoming hug.

"It's good to see you Brock."

"Same for you kid. But hey, look at you" he said braking the hug and looking at the man before him "You've grown so much"

They then heard a bark beside them, Cerberus was jumping around Denahi excited of seeing his old friend.

"Hey Cerby! I missed you too."

"He also missed you. That reminds me, how's Saya?"

Denahi's smile vanished at the question.

"She...she died few years ago. But luckily she got some litters. We even kept one and named him Jet."

But the moment he remembered his daughter's dog, Denahi started to freak out.

"Hey guys!" he told his brothers "I'm also glad to see Bravo again, but can we focus on why are we here?"

It was true, the brothers didn't time travel to the future just for a courtesy visit. Bravo suspected that.

"What's going on?" asked Mandy. It was Sitka the one who talked.

"Keldysh is alive. He's here, in this timeline."

Everyone got horrified.

"How is that even possible?" Davis

"He was using dark magic when the ship exploded "Kenai

"A day ago Keldysh attacked our village with a group of mercenaries. Outcasts from other tribes" said Denahi, but then his voice started to brake at the memory "He...he took my family."

"By the message Keldysh left on this USB we knew he had my brother's family captive on this timeline." said Koda giving the USB to Davis.

Denahi also took out his family picture. He gave it to Jason who suffered a shock attack at seeing the picture. He passed it to everyone in the room until Brock, who suffered a mix of emotions seeing the image of Denahi's family, but most, of his wife.

"It can't be" said Brock unbelievable "Kiddo?"