Chapter 53

Chapter 53: Austin felt the familiar feeling of being stretched to the point of breaking, the bright lights were flashing in his eyes again. It had been so long since he had experienced this...then it was over, and he was home. He looked around at the gleaming buildings and bustling skyways. A hovercar flew overhead. "Ah...looks like 2054 hasn't changed much since I've been gone." "Of course it hasn't." The masked man replied, Derek still asleep in his arms. "I've taken you back to the exact point you left from. Look at yourself." Austin walked over to a skyscraper and examined himself in the glass. He was 7 years younger than he had been in 2015, the exact age he had been when he arrived in 2008. "Wow!" "Now if you'll excuse me," the man started. "I have some buissness to take care of with this baby." Austin wasn't paying any attention, he was too busy looking at himself in the glass. The man sighed and vanished down an alley.

"Wait!" Nick called as he caught a glipse of the woman who had talked to him before. "What do you want?" she replied. "Look, I'm sorry I was so mean to you before. I'm just a little...confused right now. I woke up in this lab, I have stitches on the back of my head, and I have no idea where or who I am. I guess I just took it out on you." Amy looked dumbfounded. "You expect me to believe that you have amnesia?" "Um...yeah." Amy looked insulted now, and she turned and started to walk away. "No wait!" Nick called. "Look!" He pulled back his hair and showed her the stitches. Amy gasped. "S-so you really don't remember who I am?" "Not a clue." "Then this is all the more reason we have to find Casey and Calvin! Come on!" She grabbed his hand and they bolted down the street.