"We know we're somewhere thousands of years in the past. Couldn't we just travel forward in time, until things begin to look familiar again?"

"Visual accuracy would not be precise, but we would recognize the correct era when we are again under the water's surface. Your theory is a practical solution to our demise."

"Well if we err... 'time' it right, then we could get back to 1953 and destroy their time ray before they could use it on us again."

"Yes Miss O’Malley. Believing that they had removed us from our own time, they would be susceptible to a surprise attack."

"Then let's do it."

Butler One activated the time travel controls of the spaceship, and Ann noticed another mixture of colours and shapes appearing on the monitor screens. She waited for some time.

"Okay stop!" she said, "I think that's about as long as we spent in the time stream when the ray delivered us into the past. Let's have a look outside."

After a glance, Ann was confused.

"I don't understand. If anything we're in the same jungle, only those plants and trees have grown a bit. There's still no sign of urban development or water. Let's fly up and out of here."

"The jungle around us is dense, Miss O’Malley. Our very arrival has damaged some of it. We would have to break some overhead branches in order to break free of this jungle."

"Well then break them. This jungle is so dense that it can survive without a few branches. I doubt that we will have changed history by doing it. I wonder when on earth we are" said Ann.

Wildstar rose into the trees. Ann noticed the branches snapping, as she studied the monitor screens. Wildstar was a powerful spaceship.

When they broke out of the jungle, Ann instructed Butler One to cruise around in search of signs of civilization.

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"We've been all over the earth, and all we've found is some nomad tribes in primitive tents. There's just nothing. No cities. No towns. We should have found something by now. It's not even like history as I remember it. We should have found an ancient city like a part of Italy or something."

"I am unable to offer any answers, Miss O’Malley."

"Well if this whole earth is just a mixture of jungle and deserts and open fields, could we use a stone scan to locate buildings? No that would see mountains too. We need a way of detecting something which is only found in cities. I just cannot think of anything. Let's ask that tribe we passed a while back. If they're hostile, they'll be no match for our futuristic powers."

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Although equipped with her translator headpiece, Ann found that the tribes people spoke a near fluent form of English.

"We do not know of any existing cities. There were some a few decades ago," said an old and weary gentleman, "But their ruins are hidden deep in that jungle behind our fields over there."

The old man pointed to yet another jungle.

"Wow! Cities built and destroyed way back in our past, before the cities of Rome and Greece," thought Ann, "Maybe we could at least find a clue to our whenabouts there."

Ann thanked them for their guidance and returned to Wildstar.

"Alright Butler One, we're going to crash through that shrubbery until we find those ruins. Maybe we'll find a clue to 'when' we are at the moment. Scan the area as you approach."

"Yes Miss O’Malley."