Henry II

'Who's shaking me?' was Henry's first thought. "Henry, come on Love. You got to wake up!" 'Char?' rolling over Henry came face to face with his best friend.

"What Char… Just go back to sleep." 'why is the bed so small and uncomfortable?'

"Come on Hen. Jasp will be here in a few minutes and you got to get up before your parents come looking for you". 'My parents?'

"Oh my Frittle! What happened?" he exclaimed bolting up in his bed.

"Obviously the time ray made by The Monitor hit us before we were able to destroy it. And due to the physics of time rays we are stuck in our old bodies. I called Jasper before I came over here and he's on his way."

"Char! What are we supposed to do? What year is it? How old are we? Do I actually have to finish High School this time?" Henry's breathing got more and more haggard as his mind raced. 'How the heck are they supposed to handle this? Do any of them even have drivers' licenses?'

"Breathe Henry, we are going to sort all of this out once Jasper gets here." His breathing started to even out as Charlotte rubbed his back. A thud caused them to turn their attention to the duffle bag which had flown through Henry's window. "And there he is".

"Hey Cuties! Hen I'm moving in," Jasper hopped through the window. "Char says she has to close out some stuff at her parents place but then she'll be moving in full time too".

"Why are y'all moving in here?" Henry whined.

"Obviously, your parents are the most oblivious and therefore this will be our home base for the meantime."

"Why can't we just move out and get our own place".

"Because we need money to do that, and we definitely aren't making enough to support the four of us on our Junk and Stuff paychecks" explained Charlotte

"Four of us?"

"Yeah you, me, Jasper, and your sister".

"Wait! What about Mia?"

"Shit! Jasper's right. We forgot about Mia. Do we even know if she came back with us? I mean she isn't here…"

"Well we didn't meet her until we moved to Dystopia. Where does she even live?" Henry questioned.

"I think I remember her saying something about living in a van?!"

"What?"

"Yeah, she said she moved into her van after running away from home. She never really talked about her past before we teamed up in Dystopia." Charlotte recalled.

"I mean to be fair we don't really talk about what happened here in Swellview with her."

"I guess you're right. We definitely mentioned that we lived here though, so hopefully if she did come back in time with us, she will remember where to look for us".

"Alright, I can't think on an empty stomach. I'm going to go make us some breakfast". Getting up Henry lead the other two downstairs to the kitchen. Getting out the supplies he started to whip up a batch of pancakes. A pair of arms circled around him. "Can I help you Jasper?".

Jasper buried his face in Henry's neck "I'm just reassuring myself that you are really here. I hated waking up without you guys there. It caused me to spiral a bit till Char called". Henry nodded; he would also worry if he ever woke up alone. The three of them had never been far from each other since Henry's accident. Speaking of which Henry thought about the layout of his room.

"We are going to have to order a new bed. The one upstairs barely fits me, so it definitely won't fit all of us. I'll snag my dad's credit card and we can get that delivered today".

"Way ahead of you Hen," called Charlotte from her set up at the kitchen table. 'Where had she even gotten that laptop?' Passing the eggs to Japser to start cooking Henry grabbed the skillet to start on the pancakes.

"What do you have for us Professor" Jasper asked as he expertly cracked 6 eggs and then looked to Henry, "Is Piper home?".

"I didn't see her in her room on our way down, maybe she spent the night at a friend's house? Add finding Piper to the To-Do list Char".

"On it! So far, I have buy a bed, find Piper, check in on our school records, and swing by Junk and Stuff" she grimaced at the last one. "We should probably make an appearance today; he is bound to call us at some point."

"Can we please not talk about him while we are eating" Jasper begged as he brought the plates over to the table. Turning off the stove Henry joined them with a pitcher of OJ.

"Alright Professor D what is first on our list then?"

"I think that we should start with getting a bed. I can work on that while you call Piper. Jasper is on kitchen clean up, hopefully we should be able to get everything set up before we have to go to sleep tonight".

"Which knowing Ray, could be very late".

"True," Jasper agreed as he gathered up the plates. "Alright team, break!"

Grabbing his phone Henry headed into the living room to call Piper. "What do you want?" came the impatient voice of his little sister.

"Hey Piper, I'm just calling to say hi…"

"Nice try, what do you really want"

"What! I'm hurt. I can't just call my favorite sister to see how she is".

"I'm your only sister Henry".

"Right. Whatever, what time will you be home?"

"Probably around 4. Why do you care?"

"I'm just trying to plan what to make for dinner before I go into work."

"Why is your store even open at night?"

"IDK Ray wants people to be able to get junk 24/7."

"Weird…"

"Yeah, but he's the boss. Want anything special for dinner?"

"Sushi Dushi?"

"Alright then, Sushi for 4 at 5."

"What 4? who…"

"See you at 4 Piper! I love you, Click" Whew. That was way harder than he had expected. He was going to have to pull himself together before he actually saw her. At least he had a few hours before she came home.

"He guys! I think I found a bed for us. What do you think? It's similar to the one we had before. And it has same day delivery".

"Sounds good Char!"

"Where does your dad keep the emergency credit card Henry?"

"I think he keeps it in the vase on mom's backless bookshelf".

"Found it! Order placed; it should be here in like 2 hours…"

"Sounds good y'all let's get to work!" Henry and his friends spent the rest of the day trying to put their new/old lives together. There were a few pitfalls when they noticed that they each had maintained their powers and upgrades from the future. Henry had been reaching to catch a book thrown at him by Jasper and ended up super-speeding and then having his forcefield hit by the phone charger Charlotte threw at him. Seeing his powers activating Char tapped where her tattoo should be behind her ear and activated her chip allowing her to become a living computer. Jasper cursed in Spanish and then started a shopping list for healing crystals. It appeared that Team Danger had been gifted a second chance with a helping hand.

By the time Piper got home they had established their plan of attack. Henry had texted Ray to let him know that the three of them would be coming in together that night. After the sushi had been eaten Henry and co gathered up their supplies and headed over to Junk and Stuff.

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