Time Shifting

No more than a second had passed since the moment Erich disappeared from his time and reappeared. But that blink in time had not gone unnoticed by Tia. After all, the two of them were connected. At all times, Tia had a part of herself embedded in Erich's NeuroLink and for the slightest of moments, that part of her disappeared.

But before she could even bust down the door of Erich's meditation chamber, it had reappeared, along with her master. Still, it may have only been a single second since Erich disappeared, but it was enough to cause an existential crisis to the Artificial Intelligence who was already arming her countermeasures against all biological life in the galaxy the moment Erich had disappeared.

Luckily for the Milky Way and all life within it, the man reappeared a single second later, causing Tia to disarm these countermeasures and instead interrogate the man about what had happened to him.