“Shhh… uh…” Damn, I have never been good at this diplomatic stuff, “Pull yourself together, man! You… we…. no one has failed. The mission has just begun. Now we need to figure out how to operate this time-travel device and get ourselves to the scene of Over9000’s death. Get it? We can use it to our advantage, save him… stop all this stuff… these murders from happening.”

I walked over to Ramirez and helped him to his feet. My God, the man was… shivering! “Come with me — er, with us. You have to show us the, uh, time travel thing. You can do this. Don’t fall apart on me, man!”