Prologue:

I was born in the year 1553, the accidental consequence of my father's seduction of Lady Elizabeth. She was a high lady of the court of England and he was Chrono, a super villain attempting to live in the past while the government searched for him in the present. A mission had gone terribly wrong and he had been separated from his partner, his twin brother who went by the alias of Secondhand. My father and his twin have the power to control time and bend it to their will; by changing events in the past they have the ability to change the present and future.

How I'm alive I'll never know. My father ended up turning in his twin in order to raise me in peace. The government once tried to persuade my father to turn back time and remove me from the fabric of the universe. He refused and they made a compromise to brainwash the people at court, including my mother. She was known ever since as the Virgin Queen, though a few people know better. Now I live in the present, though I hardly know what they'll put on my tombstone.

Despite an early childhood spent in the protection of a secret government agency and teenage years spent in hiding from my father's evil twin, I've still managed to have what most would call a normal life. Don't believe me? Besides knowing my time-traveling son, before he's been born and planning the downfall of a major criminal organization called the Ministry of Elements, the rest of it is mundane high school drama.

I'm a senior in high school now and nearing graduation. Sky High is a private institution for future superheroes…oh and it floats in the sky. There's nothing particularly abnormal about it except for those two facts. Of course, we try to kill each other in gym class and my science teacher has a head the size of a watermelon but he still gives heaps of homework like most.

I've spent the better part of my senior year doing what most seniors do, writing homework, worrying about college, hanging out with friends. Well, there was the situation with my cousin being kidnapped and tortured and the whole issue at the beginning of the school year when I was stuck in an alternate reality. More recently I broke up with my boyfriend because he wanted to protect me from his evil relatives. My life doesn't really seem that weird until I try to explain it to other people…though obviously I don't do that much, superheroes are supposed to be covert.

Since my breakup with Warren, I've been trying to help him ignore me as much as I can. I try not to think about what our lives would be if I just went back in time and changed it all. Of course there are plenty of things to distract me, homework and end of the year projects as well as graduation plans. I suppose it's all just part of my struggle to survive at a place called Sky High.

AN: I know, I wasn't going to post until September right? Well Matchbox Dragon graced me with a lovely plot bunny and I couldn't keep my mind off of it. I still wouldn't expect frequent updates right away, but who knows! This is posted an exact year after the very first story in the series was put up.

Thanks to all of you who have been looking forward to this and to those of you who were such great supporters of the last three. For those of you who have stumbled upon this randomly I'd suggest you read the first story "Time and Again" and the sequels "Time Wasted" and "Time to Kill". Everything will make a lot more sense to you after reading those.

This story will be a bit angsty but nothing too hard-core. Just the usual things you've come to expect of my stories ;)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Sky High but I do own Lydia, Chrono, Secondhand, Fintan, Knight, Quincy, Taylor, Shyla and all other original characters and most of the original ideas in here. I also need to make a note here to say some of the plot was inspired by Jasper Fforde's works. If you've never read anything he's written you should, he is an awesome author. His works have been the inspiration behind the writing about time and some other things.

Note of thanks: To Matchbox Dragon for lending me the plot bunny she caught in her front yard. Her idea is the general outline of this story and was a great help to me in a time of lack of inspiration! So thanks to you MD! Hopefully I've added enough twists to your original idea to keep you interested and even surprised :D