The Only Reason For Time is So That Everything Doesn't Happen At Once

Return Home (Finally)

It had taken them a little bit longer than expected to get back to BORG Tower but they got there soon enough.

"We have progress?" Lloyd asked, using the exact words Ember had told them over the phone.

"Yep!" Ember said as the two approached her where she was standing at a holo-computer.

"It only took three-dozen tests but I think I've finally secured a safe way for you to get back to your time," Ember elaborated. "Are you ready to try it?" She asked.

"Sure," Lloyd agreed. "If it works and I go home, will you know?" he asked.

"We will," Ember confirmed.

"Your presence here and interaction with us created a sort of buffer around us so whatever temporal changes occur, no matter what their severity, won't affect us or our memories," Nya explained.

"How does that work?" he asked.

"Who knows, not to rush you but are you going home or not?" Ember said.

"Yeah, let's start this," Lloyd agreed as Ember handed him the controller part of the device.

"You have to keep your hand in contact with this at all times otherwise you'll be spat out of the time-stream somewhere in completely the wrong decade," Ember warned as Lloyd took the device which, once it came into contact with his skin, molded to the shape of his hand.

"Is this-?" Lloyd started saying.

"-Nanotech? Yeah, it is - tech's came a long way in forty years," Nya told him.

"For this to work, you must think of a significant location in your time and how you want to return there, and you must keep that thought active for the entire time," Ember told him. "I know it sounds stupid but unless you want to be stuck here for the rest of your life, you gotta do it," she added.

"Really? I might have to make one change to the timeline,"

"Just don't accidentally erase me from existence or anything,"

The significant location he had decided on was the Destiny's Bounty, so a comically stupid-sounding pop! Lloyd disappeared.