Last time Theo was almost recovered from his injuries from stopping the fire that the Cauterizer had caused while Kate was still in the hospital. Since they need time to recover, I'd like to tell you a story. This is a tale of how Thorn and Hip lost their powers on one occasion.

In a lab not too far away, some scientists were experimenting on how to create space travel due to the phenomenon that Thorn and Hip were a part of a while back. In a freak accident, one of the scientists had inputted an incorrect algorithm and the machine they were working on created a mass aura that spread over all the earth. No one knew what it was other than a weird flash of blue light.

Meanwhile…

An alarm went off. 

"Let's move Theo." Kate said. 

Thorn and Hip were off to defeat another bad guy. When they arrived at the crime scene, they found some guy who was stealing from a jewelry store. 

Theo said, "Uh he seems like a person without powers so this should be easy." 

He tried to freeze the robber in place with ice but nothing happened. 

"Hey Theo, what's the hold-up? C'mon, freeze him already." Kate said. 

"I'm trying but it's not working!" Theo desperately cried. 

"Alright step aside and let me handle it before he beats the crap out of us." Kate ordered. 

Again, nothing happened. 

"Um, was there something that was supposed to happen?" Theo asked. 

"I've tried to make a net but it's not working!" Kate said. 

The robber, now out of patience, ran away while the heroes were distracted with themselves. 

Theo said "Something is wrong with us. Let's talk to Slinky and see what he can do."

After the heroes had to walk back to Calibre Cave because they forgot the transporter, they called Slinky but none other than Laughing Matter picked up. 

"Ah, my son! How goes the hero business? Tell me, have you made your first banana milk pie? Have you clogged the toilet more than 24 times? C'mon, spill it!" Matter said.

The kids looked at each other for a second and said "We've got a problem. Can you contact Slinky?" 

Matter responded, "He's, uh, busy right now but you've got me." 

Theo said, "Dad our powers aren't working and we think it might have something to do with that blue light that we saw earlier." 

Matter thought for a moment and said, "Oh I thought that was whatever Slinky was doing in the bathroom for the past 4 hours." 

Kate cringed and walked slowly away disgusted. 

"Alright, Dad be serious for once in your life! What are we gonna do?" Theo sternly said. 

Nonchalantly, Matter mentioned a machine that was able to go back in time for a certain amount of time. 

"You can only go back for a maximum of a few days so just input when you want to go back and press the big red obvious button to activate it." Matter explained. 

Theo said "Dad. Dad. You have...a freaking time machine? How do you even have that?!" 

Matter responded "Uh, Don't tell Slinky I told you. Gotta go, bye." 

Theo told Kate the plan and went to a room labeled Jelly Sandwich and found the machine that Laughing Matter talked about. Kate inputted the date and changed the time to an hour before the blue light. Then she pressed the red button and they both got in. At first, nothing happened. 

Then a voice came from a speaker somewhere saying "Let's get them sandwiches!" 

Theo yelled "You've got to be kidding m-" 

They teleported before Theo could finish his sentence and in a blink of an eye they were back an hour before their powers stopped working. First, they got to Calibre Cave and contacted Slinky. Theo told him the situation and Slinky advised scanning for any abnormalities regarding massive spikes in power. They found a building emanating with power on the scanner so they began to get ready to transport over there. Now at the building, they barged into a lab that was inhabited by a few scientists, some machines, and a larger machine in the middle of the room that emanated blue light. 

They explained to them the situation and the head scientist made the others double-check everything and finally one of them grudgingly perked up and said "Um, one of my algorithms was wrong and it, uh, may have drastically affected everyone around the globe with powers." 

The head scientist made him stop his work and take a leave for a few weeks and with that fiasco out of the way the heroes returned to the cave with powers in tow.

"Boy, am I glad we have our powers back." Theo said. 

"Yeah me too." Kate replied. 

Theo asked, "Wait, why didn't we just use the Project Calibre to get our powers back?" 

Kate answered back "Because, you dummy, the other heroes around the world would have still been powerless. We aren't bad guys. We are heroes and heroes protect, fight, and help others." 

Theo sighed and said "Yeah I guess you're right. Well, I can't wait to fight with powers again!"

Meanwhile...

"So, you know about the time machine huh?" Slinky said.

"Uh, maybe." Matter said.

"What were you doing with it?" Slinky asked.

"N-nothing. Just, y'know, going back in time to re-eat some jelly sandwiches." Matter said sheepishly.

"Alright no more traveling through time for you." Said Slinky as he hid the machine.

"Aw, man." Matter sighed.