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“Well,” Booster said with a smile. “In the interest of fairness.”

From the corner of his eye he could see the Labrador puppy leaping up at Skeets playfully and the robot’s discomfort with it couldn’t be more obvious. Skeets [i]definitely[/i] wasn’t going to like what Booster was going to do next, but what the hell? He pulled his mask down anyway.

“Sir, Master Hunter specifically advised against revealing your identity to people in this time period.”

Rip [i]had[/i] warned him that revealing his identity might result in his enemies attacking Daniel Carter in an attempt to get to him. But as far as Booster could see, Rip’s rules had gone out of the window the second they’d arrived five years later than they’d planned. All that mattered now was getting home.

“My name’s Michael Carter and this is Skeets,” Booster said as he shook Ted’s hand. “As crazy as this might sound, we travelled here from the twenty-fifth century in something called a Time Sphere. Problem being we arrived five years later than we were meant to and the last time we saw the guy that sent us here he was under attack. We need to get to the twenty-fifth century and to do that we need to fix the Sphere.”

The gravity of Booster’s tale was undermined somewhat by the jubilant barks emanating from the Labrador puppy as it chased Skeets around Ted Kord’s base.

“That’s where you come in Ted,” Michael said as he placed his hands on his hips. “At least, if you’ll help us that is.”