"Yes, I remember big brother." She wrapped her arms around him. "Who beat you up?" She demanded, wanting nothing more than to beat the crap out of them for him.

Horatio sighed, "bit of a long story. The short version is basically that a guy named Bishop is mad at me and trying to track me through time. I have no idea how long before he shows up but I could really use your help."

"For sure. Anything for you, Horatio. <3 Victoria remembers too. Though I suppose you wanna teleport somewhere?"

Horatio nodded, "Far from here would be nice. I've always been lacking in the location department. Though I'm not sure how to explain it to Ceres and Polly in that case..."

"Explain what? That you can't stay for dinner?" She said, sounding rather sad.

"None of us can" Horatio replied, "Bishop will level this island looking for me when he gets here. Maybe we can... suggest dinner in Italy? That should buy a day or two."

"Horatio, they know you're a time traveler and that you appeared to us all beaten up. Just explain some bad guy is hunting you down and for everyone's safety we have to leave." June said, pointing out the obvious.

Horatio shifted uncomfortably, "... I don't want them to worry. I'm only telling you because I need you to teleport..." he looked to the side. "and... I'd like to spend a little time with you guys. I'm pretty much always in danger, being chased by somebody. Can't we just... hang out?"

"And what if this Bishop attacks Celeste or Polly while they aren't prepared?" She put a hand on Horatio's shoulder.

"I told you, it'll buy us a day or two, more than enough time for dinner with my family" Horatio insisted, "and by the time Bishop shows up, you'll all be gone. Please Juno"

"Fine, but we're grabbing our bags before hand." She said, she didn't have many things but she'd be damned if they went up in flames because of some Chess piece duche bag.

"Thank you" Horatio nodded to her, then smiled and brushed a piece of her green hair aside, "I like your hair by the way." he added as suddenly the world flooded back into colour and action. "Oh you know" Horatio began replying to Polly's question, "it's very... wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. It can be hard to keep track of which direction you're going. That reminds me, I can never keep track-is the Jupiter invasion before or after the first cold war?"

"I would say after since it's hasn't happened." Victoria said, chuckling.
"HEY! I got a great idea. Horatio, why don't you show the girls your powers?" June suggested, "It's really cool, everything goes black and white."

"Oops, keep that one under wraps for me will you?" Horatio chuckled, then paused at June's suggestion, "Ah... I'm not too sure I should..."

Polly looked at Horatio with big eyes, "That sounds so cool."
"That does sound exciting."
"Come on, Horatio. It'll be fun." June suggested. It would almost let them get back to the hotel room in no time.

Horatio sighed, "weelll.... okay, okay. But there are a few ground rules. You have to be careful not to touch or move anything or anyone. People can get very winded when they're moved so suddenly and it's hard to tell which direction an object might go flying, so be careful" he cautioned before holding out his arms, "now hold onto me and make sure you stay close."

The girls linked hands and Victoria held hers out for Logan.
"Come on, Mr. Bodyguard."

Logan rolled his eyes, "great, this better not turn into some prayer circle though" he looked at the beer in his hand, chugged the rest back and set it aside before taking Victoria's hand.

Horatio's silvery eyes flared with gold as the coloured drained away from the world around them. It took some effort to bring this many people into a time stop and he was a bit winded from it.

But it was well worth it. The girls were praising him and overwhelmingly excited about it all. And the fact Horatio could see them made it even better.

Somehow June convinced the girls that they go should go for Italian food in Italy, stay the night and go backpacking or something. The girls picked up their stuff. Giggling as they picked up their bags with Time stopped.

Victoria gave Logan a look of, 'Something is going on, you know it and I know it but let's play along for now'

Horatio was glad to laugh along with them. It was so nice to be able to spend some time with his sisters, he was going to have to remember to send them the contest winners.

Logan chilled at the back of the group, though he gave Victoria a nod as he kept an eye on their surroundings.

They teleported to Italy, which took a couple rounds for June to take everyone and by the end she was starving. They found a small little restaurant and sat down for a meal.

"June save some bread for me!" Polly said, grabbing a piece before June could get it.

"So hungry.." She mummbled munching away.
"June, you are not a bear." Victoria said sipping on her lemonade.
"Grrrr..."

Horatio cocked his head to the side, "Why can't you have bread Polly?" he asked.

"Cause June is eating it all!" Polly whined and they all laughed even Celeste.
"Ah. Bear made you laugh." June said poking Celeste.
"Umffph." She crossed her arms and turned her attention to Horatio and asked him questions about himself. What's his favorite colour? What countries he'd been to...

"I'm afraid I'm not very well aquainted with colours" Horatio admitted, "the only ones I see are on things that I stop time with and to be honest... I'm not too sure which colour is called what. I do like June's hair though." he shrugged, "as for countries, oh my, almost all of them? Malaiysia, Russia, all of Europe, Genosha, Takita, Canada-before and after global warming hits. Beautiful beaches there but you need to mind the snake-hawks. Then there's Australia, Armenia, I even visited Cocoa-land, for all of the ten minutes it was it's own country anyway. They had the best burgers you've ever tasted-terrible chocolate milk though"

Celeste laughed and listened to Horatio. "Her hair is dark green." Celeste said giving June a look.
"Aww come on Celeste. We're on vacation. I'm sure he'll come around sooner or later."
"JUNE!"
"He? Oooooh, Does Celeste had a boyfriend?" Polly asked eating her salad.
"I-"
"Even better her first crush! <3" June said exicitedly, "Though I think I've rocked the boat a bit-"

Celeste slammed her hands down on the table, "Stop it! June just stop it. He hates me. He hates my guts. He can't even look at me! And it's your fault!" She yelled before running off.

"Celeste!" Polly got up but Victoria grabbed her.
"Let her go. She needs some space. Logan could you..."