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     I am dusting myself off and I see Rev still on the floor groaning. "Are you girls okay?" Kora asks. "Kara is a psycho but we are fine." Rev responds. "That's not funny Kara is dead." Kora says in such a hurt voice. "She said you knew she was alive." I explain to Kora. "There is no way Kara could be alive if that was true I would be dead. Kara would have taken her revenge on me. I helped them take her down after she did something she shouldn't of." I look at Kora wondering who is telling the truth. "You mean after she destroyed the world and killed billions. Why didn't you tell me it was her who did it?? Why did you make it sound like it was a choice all of you made?" Kora shakes her head. "She is my sister and my twin at that. I would never say anything bad about her. She is just so passionate. She often got a head of herself and hurt others without realizing it." Kora is defending her. "Kara is a psychopath who is going to die for killing Charles. Which by the way thanks for the heads up that he is your baby’s daddy."  Rev says as she stands there with a mean look on her face. "Kara killed Charles?? Why would she do that?"  Kora doesn't believe us, she isn't saying it but I can tell. "You don't believe us do you?" I ask her. She shakes her head. "I am just trying to wrap my brain around all of this." I am wondering if there is a way to show her what happened. The Orb starts lighting in my hand and I have the idea to put her hand on the Orb and show her my memories. I grab her hand and put it on the Orb and think of what just happened. I start to see it all over again, I am sitting in a dark room all of the sudden and I see a little girl. "Don't worry Kora I will take care of you. We don't need her." She hugs me and I feel safe. I am in the same dark room and a man comes in and I start to scream for help and he walks toward me taking his jacket off. A teenage Kara comes running in and stabs him with a knife in the neck and keeps stabbing him. "Come on Kora, we have to run." I can feel the tears pouring down my face as I get up and follow Kara. We are running through somewhere I have never seen. We run past girls in giant cages almost like rooms. Kara uses the man's necklace to get us out of building. We are running but all these lights are on us and the floor is so hard I just realize we have no shoes. People are not far behind us.
                "Ava!" I wake up on the floor next to Kora with Rev standing over me. "What did you do?" She asks me. "I started to show her my memories of what happened and somehow I started seeing hers of Kara." Rev nods her head. "Okay well that explains what Kora said right before she pushed you and the Orb away." I look at Rev waiting for her to tell me. "Stop looking at me like that you look creepy. She said No! Those are my memories and then she pulled away that’s when the Orb flash a light and knocked you both out. I don't think it liked her pulling away."  I stand up but I feel dizzy. "I don't think she knew Kara was alive. I think if she would have known she would be with her sister wherever she was." I tell Rev as I try to walk to the sofa to sit down but I fall to the floor. I feel so weak more so then when I have seen other people's memories, I look to see Kora still on the floor. I have so many questions but for now I need sleep. I open my eyes to see hot tea in front of me on the table and I sit up to drink some of it. I look around and it is night time, there are no lights on which makes me think everyone is asleep. So where did this tea come from? I put the tea down. "Ava are you okay?" I look over and there is Rev in the dark. "Did you put this tea here?" She turns on the lights. "Yeah Kora said the cup would keep it hot until you touched the cup. Some future technology I guess." I look at Rev not sure how to tell her this is common technology here. "This isn't mind blowing technology. This cup has a self -warming component until it feel body heat on the outside then it cools for you to drink it but that's not important. Where is Kora?" Rev picks up the tea cup and looks at it. "I am definitely taking this back with me, as for Kora she is in her room but I highly doubt she is sleeping you both were knocked out for a while. I was a little afraid Kara’s crazy ass was going to show up while you guys were out but nope nothing just you guys passed out on the floor." I have a lot of questions about Kara still. I also have a lot of questions about Charles being my dad. Why wouldn't she just tell me I was his daughter?  I would have understood she thought she was doing what was right for the future. However with Kara being the one who made that horrible future, what side does Kora stand with? I need to figure that out.

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I stand here with everyone's eyes on me waiting for me to say something. "So what will it be Ava?" Erick asks me. "Kara why did they try to kill you?"  I ask her to see if you she is a liar. I want to hear her side and gauge her as a person. "Why or how?" She asks me back. I look over to the desk where there are chairs. "Charles can we get more chairs down here? I would like us all to sit and talk." Charles nods yes and taps on the screen on the wall that I didn't see. Chairs start to come up out of the floor in a blink of an eye. "Thank you Charles. Like I was asking you Kara why do you think they tried to kill you? I would like the story from you please." I go to sit down to hear what she has to say. Rev grabs a chair and sits next to me. Everyone else slowly start to sit. "Well they tried to kill because they feared me. I was able to see the bigger picture. After we all escape the poisonous future we went back to the past. Living in the past was very eye opening for me. I saw the greed that had destroyed the future as it started. So one night I decide to make the choice. I built bombs that would collapse cities and set them off all over the world, after I got the children out of course. This was the only way to start a better world. We were raised to believe greed was just a person striving for more. We needed to reprogram the world. It scared them that I could see the big picture of what we could do with the Orbs."  Kara puts her hand up and motions around her. I think she is talking about Timetopia. I think she is saying this is the bigger picture that they couldn't see. "No Kara! You are not going to sit here and pretend like that was it. We did not fear your vision of the bigger picture. We feared your lack of empathy for life. You killed billions in a night and Kora is the one who saved the children when she realized what you were doing. So let's not pretend." Charles is very out spoken much more like Rev than I thought. "I killed people who were already dead. You saw what the world became because of their greed and lack of empathy. I treated them no different than they treated the world in the end."  Kara says back to Charles.

                I sit here and think of everything I just heard. "So you felt justified to kill all of those people for something that their future relatives were going to do?"  I ask Kara. "Yes, you see you are my niece, you see what I mean right?" I now get why Charles said she was crazy. I look at Rev who is doing this motion with her finger next to her head that I have never seen, she is doing circle over and over again next to her temple. I just shrug at her. She leans closer to me. "Home girl is loco." She whispers in my ear and leans back. I have no idea what any of that means. I take a deep breath and that’s when I notice it. Erick is barely breathing let alone moving. He is sitting in his chair with his arms to the side; I have a flash back of West back in the castle sitting chained down the same way. Erick is brain washed!!! Okay I need to calm down and not let Kara know I see it and at the same time I need Rev to see it. I need to throw everyone off. "So what was your plan Charles when you guys went to the past?" That should buy me some time. "Well our plan was to go back and slightly change thing so none of the major wars would happen. Just slight ticks not blow up the whole damn world!" Charles yells at Kara. They both stand up and are screaming at each other. I lean over to Rev. "Look at Erick, I mean really look at him." I whisper as low as I can. "He is very different then the last time we had seen him. He almost looks like West in the castle.  OH!" She whispers back to me. "It’s Kara!" I tell Rev. "Well if all that wasn't super obvious until right now, you might not be as smart as you think."  I look at Rev, how was the dead twin sister that no one told me about obvious. Wait yeah I guess when you really think about it when she wasn't dead it made it a little clear that she was behind all of this. "Okay you are probably right on that one. What should we do?"  I ask Rev who is watching Charles and Kara fight. "We need to get out of here." I nod yes and the Orb start to light up. "Stop!" Kara yells at me throwing me off. "Where are you going?" I look at Rev. "Oh forget this." Kara says as she lifts her Orb in Charles’ face who is still arguing with her.  The beam of light comes out. "You will listen to me and me alone. You live to please me." Kara tells Charles. I cannot believe what I am seeing. "I live to please you." Charles says back. "Good cut your throat." Kara says as she turns back to Erick. Charles pulls a knife out and cut his own throat, he starts to gush out blood. "NO!" Rev scream from behind me. "Get her." Kara tells Erick. Charles falls to his knees and is just bleeding to death. For a moment time feels like it stops. I can hear Kara voice over the still moment. "I am sorry it had to happen this way but I need the Orb." I look at her as Erick start to come toward Rev. I grab my Orb and focus on wanting them to back up, the Orb lets out a pulse that knocks both of them back. I grab Rev and focus on a hole and pull her through with me.

Poem: Your sorrow i care no more.

A burst of breathlessness comes over me.

In this lone single moment i know you will see.

That even in my youth we were not meant to be.

You made your choices on where you lay every night and left me.

You saved me from  simple life and let me free,

Now i can truly dream.

No matter how big the dream you still wonder in my thought in pitty.

I do feel sorrow that your life has no big tomorrow.

For some that is enough but knowing you the way i do.

Your rotting in your own thought.

Sorry the whore is as boring as an unlocked door.

But that was the bargain that you struck.

I laugh when i see your still checking on me.

The girl who got away to her big dream.

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"Way to rewrite history Charles," Erick says. Why is Erick here?? How did he get here I have his Orb. "How long were you in that corner?" Rev asks as he walks towards us out of the dark corner. "Long enough to hear Charles fill your head with lies. Kara was a visionary without whom none of us would have survived but of course Charles, Lilly and West were jealous of her vision and plotted to murder her. That is the truth about the past." Erick says. "She killed 100,000,000 people on a whim. Erick I know you two were close but when we took her out I didn't see you stopping us." Erick smiles. "I did help, just not you." Erick moves to the side. I see Kora walking up. "Kora what's going on?" She laughs at me. "Hello Ava I'm your aunt Kara nice to meet you."  She walks over to us. Charles face is in shock and he starts to step in front of me and Rev. "I don't even care how you’re alive. I just want to know why are you coming out of hiding now?" Kara walks right up to Charles and put her finger on his lips. "Hush now. I am not here for you. You matter as much as bows and arrows, once effective now obsolete.  No I am most defiantly not here for you but I am here for her."  She looks right at me. "Come here sweetheart." I get the honey tongue thing now. Every word that comes out of her mouth is sweeter sounding than the last. "Don’t be afraid we are family." She sticks her hand out for me to walk past Charles to her. I am not sure what to do. "She is my daughter and I am not going to let you get to her." Charles says to her as he pushes her hand away. “Please you insignificant tool, she is my niece and she is  only your daughter because you put that DNA firewall on the Orbs. So we needed someone with your DNA to unlock them. Along with all those other firewalls that required your DNA. Otherwise trust me she would have a much better dad then you.” She smiles at me. “Look Charles we are here just to talk to Ava for a second. After that we will leave all of you to your bidding.” Erick says trying to be reasonable.

                Rev has her knives in hand as she pushes me behind her. “You can say to her what you have to from right there.” Rev tells Erick as she looks him right in the eye.  "Well aren't you just the cutest little attack dog. Stand down attack dog or you can find yourself back in the whole my sister found you." Kara says to Rev. "I am Charles daughter because you needed his DNA?" I ask Kara as I step out from behind Rev and Charles. "Yes sweetie we needed you to have Charles DNA so you could end all this pain." It sounds like Kara has the same plan as Kora. "Where have you been hiding?" I ask Kara trying to get a feel for her. "I wasn't hiding. I was just living my life in Timetopia. I just picked a time and lived there; I thought I would live a long full life when I found out what had become of this utopia we had created. I could not stand by doing nothing so here I am."  Kara sounds so genuine but something isn't rubbing the right way. "Does Kora know you’re alive?" I ask thinking of Kora crying in her bed. "She is my twin sister of course she knows I am a live but she has to hide it which made her very sad. Kora is my everything as I am hers. You being her daughter and my blood mean more to me than you could imagine." Maybe West was right about Kora and if Kora could fake emotions so could Kara but something tells me Kara is much better at it. I lean over to Rev. "We need to get out of here." I whisper in Rev's ear. "Couldn't agree with you more." She says back. "So now that we had that talk. What is it that you want?"  Rev says to Kara. "I want for you to kill Charles for killing your mom. I want you to get the revenge you seek." Rev's face changes. "NO!" Is all that comes out of Rev's mouth. "What!?" Everyone but me says. "I will not be a pond in your game. If and when I kill Richard it will be on my terms. So now that we got that out of the way what do you want?" Rev says as she steps towards Kara. "I want my niece to come with me to say good bye to Kora before you take her back to New York." Kara step towards Rev completely unafraid of what Rev could do to her.  "See I hear the words coming out of your mouth but it's the strangest thing they sound like a bunch of lies."  Kara chuckles at Rev. "You think I care what you think that’s cute. However this isn't up to you it's up to my niece on who she trust and we are her blood. You on the other hand lied to her to get her to a person you barely knew all for your own revenge. Looking at it that way who do you think she should trust?" Kara looks away from Rev to me. "I want to talk to Kora alone." I say hoping to stop this before Rev loses her temper. "I think that’s a great idea." Rev says. "I don't think you should go anywhere." Charles says as he steps in front of me. "Why?" I ask him. "With Kara being a live Kora can't be trusted. You are my daughter and believe it or not I waited my whole life for you. I know you think I am some kind of villain but I am not I just made some mistakes that I would take back if I could." I feel like I am being pulled in different directions and I am not sure who is good and who is bad. What do I do now?

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          Rev looks confused. "Did we get some of Richard's blood on it?" She asks me but I can't move or respond. I just keep thinking about what West said about Kora cheating on him. She told him it was to save the future. Is this what she meant? "Ava did your blood get mixed with Richard's?" Rev yells at me. I look up at her and make eye contact and then look back at the knife which is dripping in his blood three feet from my blood puddle. I look at Charles who is frozen. "That’s not possible?" He says as he gets up. "I mean I did throw the knife through the air, it is possible that it mixed with her blood." Rev says in a panic. "Ava who did Kora tell you was your father?" Charles asks me but I can't move or speak. I just look down at the Orb and pick it up and as soon as I do it shows me Rev, she looks so young. I feel her hand touch the side of my face. I am climbing over a stone fence and run past people on their knees but I am behind them so they can't see me. I run all the way up a tower and there is Rev waiting for me. She holds me until I fall asleep I feel completely whole in her arm. "I love you Rev." She smile as I whisper that in her ear. "I love you to Richard." When she says it back I have an overwhelming fear come over me. Rev is in tears and I feel horrible. "Let's run away and see the world." I tell her. "Richard we are just kids we can't do that." I hold her in my arms. "Together we can do anything." I see the rock where I ask her to marry me. She says yes in her normal smart ass way. I love her so much. I feel like without her I will die.

                "Ava wake up."  I open my eyes and see Rev. "You were so beautiful and full of hope." I tell her. "I am guessing his memories were of me." Rev says as she helps me sit up. "Yes it was your guy’s life together. How can you kill someone you love so much?" After feeling what he felt for her and seeing her feeling back I no longer understand her reasoning. "He killed the only mother I ever had. No matter how much love I had for him. For that he deserves to die." I look at Rev and hug her I can't imagine this choice is easy.  "Charles is just standing there staring at me.”What did you mean you were here to save everyone?" He asks me. "In the future one of you takes over and brain washes the rest. They start to use Timetopia for testing the Decider." Charles face looks like the others when I told them about the future. "Wow and I am guessing you thought it was me."  He says I am not sure how to answer so I just nod yes. "Ava?"  Charles says. "Yeah?" he walks toward me. "Did you know I was your father?" I look at Rev. I don't want to hurt her. "No I had no idea nor did I care to find out who my father was. I have a great dad so I never asked Kora who she had me with to carry out her plan." I look at my arm that Rev stitched up. "Her plan? This is her plan to save everyone?" Charles asks me. "How did this even happen if Kora was married to West?" Rev asks Charles, he takes a deep breath. "Well Kora and I were fixing things here in Timtopia and she was distraught over losing her sister. So I was just there for her and well one thing lead to another. It was strange because Kora never spoke much to me before that week and after West caught us she never really spoke to me again."   I look at Rev and she looks sad. "So you had a daughter Richard. You always wanted a daughter." Rev just walks away. "You don't understand Rev they told me when they cured my cancer that I wouldn't be able to have kids. So I never thought this was possible. Plus I didn't want kids with anyone but you. The day I stole the files I was planning on having us both frozen I never was going to leave you behind but I killed sister Ellie and I knew you would never go with me." Rev turns and puts the knife back on Charles throat. "Don't ever say her name!" Rev's anger is back. "Rev please wait." I ask her and she seems to listen. She walks back over to me and rubs my back. "So now that you have my Orb what's your plan?" Charles asks me. "I am still deciding if I let Rev kill you. She has every right to but I now think it would hurt her more than you could imagine." Charles nods no at what I just said. "No that's not what I meant. Plus I know you are going to let her kill me. She needs it to move on and it seems like you two would do anything for each other."  I look him in the eyes and somehow I just know he wants what's best for Rev. "Can you two stop talking about me like I'm not here. Thanks!" Rev says. "Now that I have all the Orbs we are going to stop you guys from creating them. So Timetopia never happens and no one ever becomes brain washed." I explain to Charles. "Wait so you have all six Orbs?" Charles asks. "Six!?" Rev kind of shouts. "Yes, there were six Orbs. The Five and then Kara's but I am not sure if Kora has hers or if it is still where ever Kara hid it." Rev and I look at each other. "Great just another thing Kora left out." Rev says as she throws her arms in the air. "Is Kara Kora's sister?" I ask seeing as how no one has ever said her name before. "Yes Kara was Kora crazy sister." Rev takes a deep breath. "What do you mean crazy sister?"  Rev asks hesitantly. "Well didn't Kora tell you about her?" Charles responds. "Yeah but just how kind she was." I tell him. "Well Kara was kind I guess. She was brilliant to with a honey tongue."  Rev seems to know what that means because she nods yes. "What is a honey tongue?" I ask. "It is a person who speaks so sweetly that every word that comes out of their mouth is like honey sweet but sticky." Rev says. "Oh okay. Why is that a bad thing?" I am not sure I understand the problem. "Honey mouth people are normally the people up to no good. However they are great at convincing people to do what they want." Rev explains. "She was no different. Kara could convince you of anything. She had no value for life; she was a scientist to the core. She was ruthless to say the least but she loved Kora. When she found out that they were going to sell Kora into human slavery she sold out her own country. She helped start the end. She is also how Timetopia started. She destroyed all the major cities. It was a waste land after her. We had to gather together and kill her just to survive her." This is a very different story then how Kora made it seem. "So do we need the last Orb then?" Rev asks me. "Maybe, why didn't Kora tell me about Kara?" I ask Charles. "It was really hard for her to deal with. Kara had a hold on Kora like I have never seen. It was like Kara controlled Kora's breathing.  Kara was honestly a force like no one had ever seen." I am starting to question some things. I hear clapping from behind us I look at Rev who looks just as puzzled as me. "Who else is here?" Rev asks Charles. "No one." He says as he looks over Rev.  I slowly start to turn around.

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We have been stuck in this mirror maze for hours. Lucky Rev brought snacks and water in her backpack. Not even Rev is sure how large this maze is.  "I hate him for this!" Rev says as she looks closely at the mirrors. "I wish this place was better lit." I say as I look around at the dark lighting. "We just have to keep moving." Rev says as she pulls me up off the floor. "I get this is some kind of puzzle but they could at least put benches in here." I tell Rev as I dust myself off from sitting on the floor.  The lights seem to get darker and then brighter almost like they are going to go out. We just keep moving through the maze, I don't think we have run into any traps that Rev had been worried about. The lights completely go out for a minute. I stop where I am at and Rev grabs me. "Don't stop moving come on." I hold Rev's hand and follow her through. The lights are going out for minutes at a time now. I think it must be the way this place is powered. "Stop I have an idea."  I tell Rev as I pull out the Orb. "I already hate this idea." Rev says as she stands there. I pull out the Orb to light our way. As soon as it lights up I see a man with a painted face standing behind Rev in the mirror or behind the mirror I am not sure. "Who is that?" I ask Rev as I point. She turns around and screams in fear. "OH HECK NO!!!"  I don't understand her fear of the man with the strange painted face. "What's wrong? I don't think he is going to hurt us he isn't moving." Rev is shaking her head no. "Of course he isn't going to hurt us he isn't real. He is a killer clown from a movie that used to terrify me as a child."  Rev turns toward the paint man pointing her gun at him. "Rev I think it’s okay." I try to comfort her, she starts shooting the painted man in the face shattering the mirror. I see a girl with all her hair in her face and her arms out. "What in the...." Rev says before she shatters that mirror. I stand there just watching her as she goes about shooting through mirrors, well at least it is getting us through the maze faster.

                Rev and I are running through the maze of broken mirrors. I slip and fall into a piece of broken mirror slicing up my arm nothing serious but I am bleeding quite a bit. "Are you okay?" Rev asks me as I look at my cut. "Yeah it's just a surface wound I should be fine. I just want out of this thing." I tell her looking at the maze. "Don't worry we are almost to the end I think." Rev look forward and keeps shooting all the mirrors out. "Come on let's go." Rev says as she starts to walk again. We are finally out of the mirror and there is Charles sitting at a desk. Why is he just sitting there? Rev tilts her head. "Why are you not in some kind of safe room?" Rev asks him. "Why would I? You would get to me no matter what I did. I just needed time to get some things together." I do not understand Charles' thinking at all. "Give her the Orb and then get on your knees and pay the price for her life." Rev say with a strong voice. "You can kill me Rev but you cannot have my Orb. I will never give my Orb to a child of Kora and West." Why does he keep insisting that I am West’s daughter? "I am sorry to intervene in your guy’s argument but I am not West daughter." I am not sure why I felt the need to clear that up but I am sick of him calling me the child like I am not my own person. "How do you know you're not West's daughter?" He asks and I can’t help but sigh at his question. "Because his Orb didn't light up for me." Charles just stands there. "Oh I see."  Charles says with his head down. "Okay so West isn't her father now hand over the Orb." Rev says as she steps toward him. "Come get it Rev." Charles says as he rolls up his sleeves. Rev smiles and put her backpack down and throws her gun on top of it. I don't think this is a good idea. Rev run right at him with her knives in hand. He deflects her at first but Rev jumps on his desk and kicks him in the face. As he tries to shake it off she stabs him in the side. She throws the knife cover in blood at the wall next to me. That when I notice that I am standing in a puddle of my own blood. My arm is bleeding a lot more than I thought. I look back up to see Charles drop to his knees holding his side. "Do you have anything to say?" Rev asks him. "I didn't mean to kill her Rev. You know what she meant to both of us. It was an accident and I wanted to tell you that but I was stealing your jobs secrets so it didn't feel like a good idea." Rev laughs at what Charles says. "Where is the Orb Richard?" Is the only thing she says back to him.  "You won't find it Rev so just kill me but let me say this Rev. I am okay with dying now, I ruined my life that day I killed her and stole your secrets. I lost you that day. I have been around for a long time now and it all mean nothing without you. So do your worst but know that I love you!"  Rev puts the knife to his throat. "WAIT! We need that Orb." I yell. Rev looks around and her eyes fixed on his desk. "Ava can the Orbs disguise themselves?"  It must be hiding on his desk. "Yes they can!" I say with excitement. This is almost all over.  Rev walks over to the desk and grabs a clear oddly shaped paperweight. "A giant diamond." She says as it shocks her. "Yup this is it." She starts to throw it to me when Charles jumps up and knocks it out of her hand. The paper weight changes into and Orb as it flies towards me. It lands in my puddle of blood and lights up. "Why did it light up with me blood?" I look up at Charles whose face looks just as shocked as mine.