Back in Time Part 2

Anthony and his friends head back in time to fix a problem with the space time continuum.

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Synopsis

The Zapbots head to the entrance to the Gearatron sector as they received a distress call. The find an Earth cargo ship being held by a tractor beam emanating from a nearby planet. On the planet below a secret Gongo base has attempted to capture the Earth ship. As the Gongos threaten the Zapbots from the ground below, the Zapbots proceed to head down to the surface to attempt to deactivate the tractor beam.

In Carry-On's and Pick-Up's quarters, Carry-On proceeds to complained about being bored and feeling like he has no purpose. Pick-Up attempts to cheer up his brother to no avail. At that moment they are requested to join the crew to head down to the surface.

The Zapbots proceed to invade the secret Gongo science lab and are met with little resistance and a badly designed hologram to try and fool them. After they capture the Gongo scientist and his mistress, they discover that they have a small human captive as a pet. The Zapbots take the boy back to Misslemax for medical attention as Boaty attempts to figure out what the Gongos were up to with the science station.

Later David, Mike and Anthony board the human ship to greet Captain Williams and mingle with the human ship crew. At the event Mike pressures Anthony for a Headmaster body and Anthony informs him of the training he would need to go through first. During the event Roberta calls Anthony indicating the human is talking to Click and they leave to check up on him.

In the medical bay David indicates that he is familiar with the human and his name is John. He was apparently one of the many humans captured when the Gongos had access to Earth. Anthony attempts to get John to slowly open up and gradually John learns to trust Anthony. Later to help John adjust more he takes him to a holoroom adventure. Mike who at first seems jealous of John, later joins the crew after Anthony makes amends with him.

Meanwhile Pick-Up continues to try and cheer up his brother who has a major case of depression. Carry-On comes into his quarters and Pick-Up notices he broke his crank-shaft. Pick-Up forces Carry-On to go to the medical bay after much argument over the issue.

Anthony awakes from a disturbing dream and his friends come up to comfort him during the late night hours. To help him sleep they head down to the holoroom to create a campout type scene. As Anthony tries to sleep he explains to Mike that something is definitely up and he can't seem to figure out what he has to do.

The next morning everyone meets up with Scan to figure out what his and Boaty's analysis concluded. There is a time distortion created by the Gongos hanging over the North Pole of the planet. After Shortstop complains about not getting any sleep Scan puts two-and-two together and realizes that the Gongos were attempting to go back in time and kill his (Anthony's) ancient relatives to prevent the next generation of Zapbots from being born. Anthony must go back in time to correct the issue before their reality collapses on itself.

Back in Time

As Anthony, Jeremy, David and Mike head with Timetravel through the rupture, he experiences another dream like state where he talks with Matt. Matt informs him that he still holds a connection to the Matrix and he needs to save him ancient relative Salvatore Anselmo in order to restore the timeline.

Anthony and his crew land in Sicily and proceed to look for his ancient relative. They rescue Salvatore from a jail-cell and proceed to head back to the forest. Salvatore explains the town is being run by a mafia family and him and his friends are in a gang that simply try to stay alive. Salvatore agrees to take Anthony and his crew to their secret hideout (once again) located in a warehouse.

The next day Salvatore takes Anthony to meet his parents who are definitely not going to win the best-parents-of-the-year award. Realizing how violent and arrogant they are, he decides to take Salvatore and his friends away to safety.

Back at the hideout, Anthony plans how to navigate the group of Italian boys out of Sicily to France for safety. Suddenly their hideout is attacked by the local mafia. Anthony and his crew who cloaks proceed to disable and scare them away making them believe he knows 'black-magic'.

Anthony and his crew begin the long journey with the boys to France. They proceed to stick to the side roads, but have to take shelter in some nearby caves when a massive rainstorms hits. The next day they head into a nearby town and by two wagons with horses to help take the boys the rest of the way. Once they reach the French border they check into a hotel and get some well deserved sleep. Find an orphanage on the town border, Anthony says goodbye to his ancient relative as Timetravel has noted the time rupture has closed, resolving the problem.

Anthony radios Timetravel and they meet up to head home.

=Present Time

Pick-Up goes to have a conversation with Botimus about his brother. Botimus agrees to talk to Carry-On.

Later Carry-On goes to Bop's bar and Bop as usual gets him to open up about his problems. Carry-On gripes of not being part of something big and feels like he is a footnote in various stories. At that moment the Red Alert siren goes off and Carry-On leaves the bar with Bop telling him 'you will find your way.'

Two Gongo ships uncloak near the planet. Aster the leader of the Gongos taunts Botimus Prime. Very shortly after they engage in battle and the various Zapbots on the bridge are knocked from their chairs. As Carry-On enters the bridge he takes control and warps Misslemax away for safety giving them time to regroup and repair. Botimus congratulations him on his quick thinking and suddenly Carry-On feels more assured about himself.

As Anthony and his friends re-enter timewarp with Timetravel he has another dreamlike situation with the vision of his lost friend Matt. Matt explains to Anthony that the events of this saga all played out before (referring to the original Zapbot saga) except in the alternate timeline, he was alive until this adventure and then dies when Timetravel comes out of timewarp. Anthony frustrated by Matt yells at him, but then realizes that Mike filled the void that Matt left. Matt always warns Anthony that choosing to ignore his destiny will destroy the universe. As he comes out of the dream like state and then out of the time warp, he yells at Timetravel to take evasive maneuvers and just misses getting hit by a Gongo ship.

Featured characters

Zapbots	Humans	Nonocons	Planets
Boaty Botimus Prime Camper Carry-On Click Flash Flier Fortress Misslemax Hightone Iron Pick-Up Nobertis Shortstop Speedy Terrain Twirl Windshield Wheels	Jeremy D. David D. John M. Captain Williams	Secretish	Earth

Quotes

Anthony to Rogish as they work to rescue the hostages.

Notes

Versions

• First Version: 1990?
• Second Version: 2020
• Third Version: 2021

Production notes

• This story was inspired by the movie Toy Soldiers which of course has Wil Wheaton in it. I basically wanted to write a story with a 'happy' ending
• First appearances of Pull-Along and Wheels.

Real-life references

• Germany - Terin (Terin is not a real town, but Germany is obviously a real country.)