Thanks so much to melissaadams22 for reviewing! And yes I do have a solution other than everyone dying, don't panic :)

Distant screams pestered him back into consciousness, they grated on his ears along with the seemingly continuous sirens blasting away from somewhere. He groaned inwardly, silently cursing how loud humans were when he was trying to sleep. On a more positive note some of his strength had returned and no longer felt like a pin cushion, much to his relief as the memories came back to him.

Nikola blinked a few times and found himself staring at what he assumed used to be the Sanctuary, smoking piles of rubble were strewn everywhere that he could see accompanied by the odd shard of glass. Judging by the dusk he had been unconscious for awhile, the crimson sky was actually a fitting backdrop for whatever chaos everyone was screaming about, it looked like someone had painted it in blood. He flicked his gaze to the street where achingly familiar sickly pools of green welled around, he could see a little girl crying as the Atox engulfed what he assumed was her mother. He closed his eyes, he didn't want to see what happened.

Failure never sat well with him, especially when he was absolutely clueless on how to stop something like that which didn't sit well with him either but at least as a consolation they'd lived to fight another day. Suddenly frantic he opened his eyes again and scanned around for Helen, relief greeted him as he saw her a few feet away from him, face down and seemingly unconscious.

"Helen?" he rasped weakly as he crawled towards her, he stopped closer to her and reached out to hold her wrist to gently shake her awake, "Helen? Helen?"

He stopped for a minute, with a horrible lurch of his heart he noticed blood matted into her hair beside a lump of rock stained crimson. He knelt beside her and ever so carefully rolled her onto her back, she still didn't react but he knew she couldn't. Her once blue eyes were now glazed over and glassy, no longer able to see, never again. A choked sob escaped him as he awkwardly cradled her in his arms, probably the only person left on the planet he care about and she was dead.

For a minute he simply held her close, it seemed so incredibly cruel to him that after his crazy plan had actually worked that she should die from simply hitting her head, the sad irony was that she had died along with her Sanctuary after all, along with everyone in it. Except him. Shakily he reached out to close her eyes, a simple gesture but made her look so much more serene and calm like she was sleeping, he half wished she was and that she'd suddenly demand to know what he was doing when they should be thinking of a way to stop this. His gaze stopped on the device on his wrist, theoretically it was supposed to be able to travel through time. He could stop this, all of this from happening and save her, save them all.

"I'll stop this Helen," he promised her brushing a strand of hair from her eyes, "I give you my word."

Ever so gently he lay her down on the ground and awkwardly staggered to his feet, his legs protesting having to stand when he felt so tired despite having been asleep for awhile. He supposed he shouldn't be surprised, he had to power the device with his own energy after all and to travel through space and time had to need a lot of energy. He swallowed nervously wondering whether it was wise to use the device so soon but decided there was no point in waiting considering he was already dying from the Atox, besides precaution really wasn't his thing.

He focused again channeling his energy into the device, focusing on the past. He closed his eyes and concentrated intensely willing to work as he energized the device, he could feel it sapping his strength, feel it ebbing away, draining from him like liquid spilled from a glass. It was all he could do to stay on his feet, abruptly he felt his body lurch forward and he screamed silently in the long-lasting seconds where he felt again like he was being jabbed at by billions of needles, even worse like they were tearing him apart. Then it stopped and he fell against some solid surface, shakily leaning against it to stop himself from collapsing as he tried to breath through the pain.

"I need a drink," he heard a voice say from nearby that sounded curiously alike his own and if not so fatigued he would have turned to investigate who had spoken but receding footsteps indicated the speaker was leaving and he didn't feel up to chasing them.

"Are you alright?" another voice asked.

"Do I look like I'm alright?" he snapped in a sharper tone then he intended.

"Not really," the speaker replied and he glanced up to see Big Guy was the one speaking, he gaped at him for a moment.

"It worked," Nikola muttered in amazement as he turned to put his back to the wall to get a better view of the Sanctuary hall, intact and Atox free, "I can't believe it actually worked. Am I a genius or what?"

"What," Big Guy grunted frowning at him, "did you set fire to Helen's lab again?"

"What?" Nikola questioned in confusion before it dawned on him that obviously none of the others knew about the future, "no, we have bigger concerns. Is Helen back from her trip to capture the hyphodon yet?"

"Yes," he confirmed and Nikola cursed silently.

"I should go back further," Nikola announced inwardly wincing at the discomfort of the time traveling process, "see you a few minutes ago."

Before he could change his mind he energized the device again, focusing on going further back in time only instead of gradually building up its power he used it all at once, immediately jolting forwards as the achingly familiar sense of pain stabbed at him before he came to a sudden halt in the middle of a corridor, to his amazement right in front of him he could see himself and Helen.

"-You're a selfish arrogant bastard Nikola!" Helen was yelling.

"Little on the harsh side, don't you think?" he asked of her curiously as the shocked faces turned to him, he realized that if he was correct in where he was now then he hadn't gone back much further than before but he didn't feel up to trying again, he didn't even feel up to standing and found himself collapsing backwards onto the ground as he tried to stay awake, "I think this is far enough..."