A boarded up but well guarded warehouse.

Dragon Fist approached the compound, impressed with Andy's handiwork. Now it seemed that the time had come to assault the compound itself.

  Andy, wearing the body of someone else, hit the button to open the gates too.  Which got the attention of the other guard in the booth.  The fellow was a little hostile, and threatened to hit him if he didn't shut them.  He gave the fellow a firm "Sorry, this is something I MUST do.  Hit me if you want!"

Icepick, seeing the opportunity, lowered the temperature around the tempermental guard, trying to force him to focus on his cold surroundings as opposed to Andy.

  Andy sent to the others {{You'll still have to incapacitate this fellow, I only possessd him, I didn't totally steal his body.  Let his friend beat him senseless, I can STILL use this body to do what we need.}}

Gotcha Andy...let me know if or when you want me to lay the deep freeze on someone..

  {{Anyone who acts hostile.  I will eventually get kicked out of this body, if I don't leave it sooner.}}

We'll wait for when that comes Andy, and we'll bring the hammer down..

  Meg asked them silently {{Shall I scramble everything in there with an EMP?}}

Good idea, Meg. The more off-balanced they are, the less prepared they'll be for us when we make our way inside..

  Meg nodded, and put an EM dome over the compound, then concentrated, and pulsed with EM from the dome.  Making a flare over all the area it covered.

Good work Meg...that ought to get them off-balance. Andy, keep doing what you're doing, but let us know when we need to jump in..

As the emp flared across the warehouse the patrolling guards went on high alert.  They all flipped the safeties off their guns and began searching in groups of two.

Ooc: How high up are the heroes?

OOC: I know Andy's in the guard shack, possessing one of the guards.  Meg's on an overlooking rooftop, but she can see crazy well.  Not sure about the rest.

Dragon Fist is on the ground, keeping out of sight for the moment.

Icepick is also on the ground in his "icy" form.

Of the ten guards four stay at the building while the others begin moving outward in teams of two looking for the heroes.

Dragon Fist stays out of sight, transmitting to Meg "Meg, keep track of their signatures. Position us so we can take the guards that may be coming to us by surprise. Think of it as a life-size chess game."

Mr. Witness was on the roof with Meg tranq rifle out and aimed at the building. "You want me to take the ones by the door? Its rare that I miss."

  Meg nodded, and before her, she recreated a GEM scan of the compound, then placed the life signatures on it, transmitting the image over the Worm-net, friendlies tagged.  To Harvey, she said "By all means, take them down if you can do so.  I'm playing eyes in the sky here for all."

Icepick then went to his "target" as Meg directed, levying a blast of pure cold at one of the guards.

Dragon Fist, on his target, went for a quick punch/kick combination, attempting to knock his opponent out quickly.

2kReturner stood there near Mr. Witness and Meg's position. He shook his head as she used the EMP. He anticipated on the EMP alerting the guards before hand. The EMP didn't affect him. His powers were internal. He reminisced briefly on the day he switched from a TTA power bracelet to a nanite injection... PURE EPIC WIN!

"And that is why I RARELY use EMPs in covert ops." he thought as the soldiers came running towards the group.

That's when some guards came his way. He was around the corner, cloaked and phased. 2k kept his eyes between the guards and 2 security cams. One above the entrance way in the corner and another on the floor but on the opposite side of the entrance. Both cams were nanosized. Only he or someone with super sight could see them.

"Just a little further..." 2k grinned widely.
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  Megaira didn't seem at all fazed, and NOTHING registered on the EMP outside the area she'd delineated.  Which was different, as a normal EMP would go as far as it could radiate, and this one acted highly localized and controlled.

Mr. Witness shouldered his rifle closing his eyes vehind the mask as he focused on his second sight.  He pulled the trigger four times two darts sent towards the two  guards standing at the main entrance.

Knight Errant was on a nearby roiftop still atop his ethereal steed. He watched the others ready to intervene should they get in trouble.

The Last of The legacy rushed towards the two goons taking them down quietly and efficiently with the fighting skill he was famous for.

 The two goons walked right into the trap and as the beams pierced their bodies they both collapsed to the ground.

Mr Witness takes out the two by the door who slump to the ground with Darts in their necks.


 Icepick catches his by surprise encasing one in ice but his body turns and opens fire.


Three guards remain, two at the building and the one shoiting Icepick.

2k smirked at his "trap" working. He then made his way to the last two guards coming toward the building. He stood several feet away from another one of his "surprises". 2k was around the corner from "IT" that disguising itself as a medium-sized crate next to another.

As the guards near the crate, they hear something gurgling however, the sound is concealed somewhere behind them. Yet IT was in front of them.
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"Damn!" Icepick grunted, feeling the bullets impact. He then levied another blast of ice at the gunman, encasing his hands in ice.

"Good job Meg. Excellent direction. Heard some shots over in 'Pick's direction, is there a hostile by him?"

  Meg was keeping the map updated in realtime, and she answered {{Looks like it.  Feel free to give him a hand.  I'm covered, aside from my regen, Mr. Witness is here with me, he's a sniper with tranq darts.}}

Dragon Fist nodded, then made his way to where Icepick was engaged with the guard he was fighting with, executing a flying kick at the guard.

Icepick freezes the gun in the mans hands as he's staring at his useless firearm Dragonfist sneaks up and knocks him out.

One guard turned to watch behind them while the other went to inspect the crate. As he got close the crate suddenly shifted into some kind of tentacle monster grabbing the guard and tossing him against a wall. The other spun at the cries of his partner and got hit with a lazer from the creatures mouth before he could fire. The man fell to the ground leaving the heroes to enter the warehouse.

"All according to plan..." 2k thought to himself with a grin.

After the two guards were KO'd, the mimic turns into a giant ball of energy and dissipates.


2k then moves towards the warehouse but he waits for the others to arrive. After all, the Special Crimes Unit didn't fill him in who would be helping him. They just said, "Others will arrive but when we do not know." 2k had enough trust in the SCU to know that when they said he was getting help, he was getting help. In contrast with TTA who wasn't upfront. Then again, TTA agents were like bounty hunters... They worked alone and if they did have a partner, they had their OWN agenda within the mission. Sometimes it wasn't on the same page with the other.

"Maybe I SHOULD let myself be known to my allies. Hmm... I wonder if Dragon Fist is on this mission." 2k thought as an energy visor appeared over his eyes.

The visor made all the buildings look like outlines but showed all bio signs as they would to the human eye. 2k saw Dragon Fist near another guy who had the power of ice. He looked above and scanned the rooftops and found Meg, Mr. Witness, and Knight.

2k made his way to Dragon Fist and Icepick. When he got near them around the corner, the energy visor faded out to where his eyes were visible again.
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Though 2K was invisible to normal visual means, Dragon Fist could still see his chi signature.

"I'm grateful for the assist, 2K. Welcome to the war," Dragon Fist said with a slight chuckle.

At that moment, 2k's figure faded into view. He was leaning up against the wall behind them with his arms folded. He had a smirk on his face.

"Your welcome. Glad to be here among allies!"
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Dragon Fist nodded at 2K, then looked upwards for a moment.

All right Meg...looks like the outer perimeter is dealt with. Can you give us a quick sitrep on the ones inside?

"Bad news guys. Looks like they cleared out while we dealt with the help. Theres some kind of hatch but it looks both welded shut and the handle was torn off."

"Son of a--" Dragon Fist uttered before stopping himself from uttering a four-lettered expletive.

"Any chance you might be able to track them, Meg? I understand that you had their signature.."

2k listened to them yet there was something missing.

"Think in more than one dimension. We can track them in the present or track them through time and space."

   Meg's answer was logical {{Long as they're not hiding from me, yes, I should be able to.}}

"See if you can can find them, 2K," Dragon Fist replied. "They got a hold of some important documents and we need to get them back as soon as possible."

"Good deal Meg...see if you can pinpoint them then. 2K is going to try his unique brand of tracking down here."

2k nodded yet he seemed to stay there for a few seconds before pulling out a circular security camera.


2k then placed the camera on the ground before him and stepped away.

"This camera will show us how far back they were here. It can only go as far back as an hour. Us TTA agents call it Temporal Imaging."

After explaining, 2k started emitting a light blue aura. the 5 cameras started glowing with him. An energy whirling sound started creeping. Faint outlines of the badguys started appearing. No sound just yet.


2k got this strange feeling that perhaps the person he and Dragon Fist were after was near seeing the imaging is taking longer than usual to work.
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Dragon Fist focused on 2K's chi, but it was difficult to track him since he was moving so fast. He then waited fo the time-traveller to come back and make him aware of his findings.

In reply to 2kReturner (msg # 43):

The inside of the warehouse was some kind of makeshift armory/ planning station. There wete several maps of Weston, tables covered with weapons, and a pile of burn't papers in a corner. In one corner of the room was a hatch which not only appeared to have been welded from the inside but the handle was lying next to it. 2Ks cameras showed only static.

"I found you now Lunningham." Othniel thought as he grinned evilly.

The static went on for a while. The energy whirling suddenly sounded choppy until...

BOOOOOMMMM!! Each camera exploded like a lightbulb blowing up in its socket. Othniel leaped backward, then shielded himself from the explosion and debris flying from the camera in front of him. However, only the camera in front of Othniel shot out shrapnel. The others just burned out but sounded like they would've shot out fragments.


"Dragonfist... The one to whom we've been looking for all this time is with them." Othniel announced after letting down his forcefield once everything was in the clear. Then he grumbled, "Dang monster booby trapped my imaging equipment with his jammer!"
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"Then that makes finding this band of people even more imperative," Dragon Fist said grimly. "From what you've told me of this person you're after, he's very dangerous indeed."

"Yes, it's often my enemies try to leave me a temporal "booby trap" in ending my life. *sigh* so is the life of a crime fighter." 2k paused at remembering those times. "Too many minions they say he has. It complicates matters when 1) The guy your searching for has ties in multiple universes and 2) Your boss leaves you out in the cold on the issue. I began to think that TTA had given up the search since after they first found out about who he was. Normally by the standards of where I'm from, they do if it comes down to only one person being able to do the job. If they catch the crook that way, fine, if they don't and loose one of their own in the process, meh... Expendable. That's the problem I find. We aren't. Sadly, only a few TTA board members believe that."
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"Your enemy sounds almost bearable when compared to mine," Dragon Fist replied. "Imagine having your polar opposite always trying to do you in, or trying to spite you in some way, shape or fashion."

He turned away from the facility.

"We need to get on their trail. With the information they have, there's no telling who or what they'll go after."

2k nodded at Dragonfist's words. "I fought along someone who had a clone of herself made by the same enemy and was turned into public enemy number one throughout the universe. If it wasn't for me and her friends, she would've have been executed for crimes she didn't commit." He then turned his attention to the dilemma at hand. "Can we open up that hatch and go after them if in fact they went down that way?If not... Hmm... I've only tried this once but it will require a LOT of patience. We jump to the time before they came here and camp out until they show up!"

"I've never used time to trap an enemy, but it's worth a shot,' Dragon Fist replied.

2K nodded. "We should bring the others with us. I don't think Tzarina's men are few."

  Meg said thoughtfully "They did go down the hatch, but I think they used a high speed getaway vehicle too."

The Modern Day Knight stepped over to the hatch an ethereal sword appearing in his hand. "I can prolly sluce the top off but if they used a vehicle they could be anywhere by now."

"Agreed..." Dragon Fist nodded in acknowledgement to Knight Errant. "Which is why 2K's plan has some merit."

"We need everyone here in this room to make the trip unless some are going to stay behind. I advise against the latter though. The same amount of guards may be present back then." 2k paused, thinking about the speculations. "I was here a while before all of you arrived but I didn't have enough energy to manage the traps for each guard they had. From what I first saw, it didn't look like they had many guards until I started patrolling the place."
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"Everybody meet up here, so we can make the time-jump," Dragon Fist said. "I realize this may be out of the ordinary, but the documents those people have could do some real damage if they were to make use of them."

  Andy materialized in his human-looking form, arching one eyebrow as he said "I'm not sure how well time travel works for some of us.  I know we have one naturally gifted time traveler, but she's not here right now."

2k's ears perked up to hearing of another time traveler. "Hmmm... Another time traveler like me? I'd like to meet this person one day but at another time. So you're coming with us....?" 2k paused in questioning for he didn't know his name.

  Andy said "You may call me Andy, or Gargoyle.  And she's not precisely like you.  She's a naturally gifted time-traveller.  And immune to temporal paradox."

"I see. I'm Detective Othniel James Goodman. You can call me James but commonly, it's 2kReturner. That's what they called me in the universe I came from." 2k paused, then added to Andy's mentioning of a temporal paradox. "Yeah, I've been their many times myself. Not a good feeling especially when you KNOW how things are supposed to be and what it is because of an "anomaly" created by someone."

  Andy nodded, and asked him "Do you WANT me to page Bella?  She's . . .very good at time-jumping, if we need it.  Her operational limits, from what she's said, is NORMALLY about six months."

2k smiled and nodded. "That would be good. The more that come with us, the more chances we have at subduing the badguy."

  Andy nodded, and sent a message over the mindworm net.

  Bella arrived, landing neatly outside and walking in.  She looked like a pretty normal sixteen year old with a great figure, and dressed in a midnight blue leotard with iridescent watery blue stripes down the sides.  She said "Uncle Andy paged me?  What's up?"

"We need some help in the time-travelling aspect," Dragon Fist replied, nodding at Bella. "2K can explain.."

"I'm on board too," Icepick added.

2k listened to the two converse, lost in his own thoughts, he remembered the "family" that he had. In one, he was an uncle. But in his current time line, he had a wife and child. Remembering her in past tense, made him cover his mouth in grief. All he had was his daughter... Where ever in the Space-time continuum she was. Ironically, in the dimension that he was an uncle, his niece and daughter had the same name as his first cousin and sister in another.

"Nina..." 2k thought to himself. He brought himself to, enraged by Lunningham's words on the day he couldn't save his wife:

"You think your a god with that temporal tech of yours but your not. Just like I stopped you from sniffing out Ivon back at the TTA HQ years ago, I will prevent YOU from saving your beloved Zahra. * Maniacal laughter* Sucks to be you!"

That day brought both joy and pain to Othniel. The joy of seeing both brain children of Lunningham, the Space Juggernaut known as Lainhardt Omega and Katie Evanston meet their end. Though Katie was dealt with by humanoid means, L.O could not. The ship was made solely out of the impenetrable Urelite mineral... No way in but many ways out. Furthermore, L.O. was time-jump proof. What was more, Lunningham had kidnapped his wife and child but in the end, Othniel's wife, Zahra was able to disconnect the jammer and allowed him and his friends to get on board and send L.O. to its death inside a singularity. In the escape, Nina was sucked into a transdimensional vortex created by L.O trying to time jump out of the black hole.

"She's the reason I keep on traveling. I will find her." Othniel thought, recalling of his journey.

Zahra's death wasn't in vain. It was most definitely a sacrifice. A rather UNEXPECTED maneuver. Yet the stalemate meant the end of Lunningham and Ivon... In the current timeline. Unlike the numerous of times Lunningham and Ivon had robotic clones of themselves, this time, they were the real deal.

The last time Othniel saw Nina he couldn't recognize her. Mainly because the STC had put age on her. The moment Bella appeared, he saw a translucent figure of his daughter next to her. Othniel closed his eyes and shook his head at the "hallucination". When he opened his eyes, the image was gone.


That's when Dragon Fist mentioned 2k. The detective snapped out of it but didn't address him. His eyes were on Bella.

"Y-You're back? *ahem* I mean... Sorry, you remind me much of my daughter. You and her about the same height and age. She's a time traveler too. The problem is, she's lost somewhere in the STC. *ahem* Anyway, if we jump back far enough, we will be able to get into this area before they arrive. I couldn't use my temporal imaging to track them because they have a jammer that prevents me from doing so. Yet I DID sense the operator's NOOBISH skills. If it was GOOD jammer, it would of made my equipment not even show static. Which means that this jammer is the BEST they've got. Normally, the time criminals I've dealth with would have a jammer that extends into the STC. This type of jammer would make ANY time-jump into the area impossible and would extend its "blocking" capabilities to covering a period of time. Say several months to say the least."
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  Bella arched one eyebrow, and said "So to speak.  I'm technically here before I exist.  Now, how much of a timejump are you looking to perform?  I don't USE any sort of machinery.  My timejumps are innate, and I, personally, am totally immune to temporal paradox."  At six foot four, she was an impressively tall woman, and he could tell she was still young.

"Ah, innate temporal powers... My daughter has the same! Yet my wife and I had gadgets to do so until the nanite injects were invented. The time jump will be several hours before now. That's how long ago it was before the "bulk" of the army arrived."

  Bella nodded, and said "Well, you may want to make sure you're well hidden before you jump backwards, in case you miscalculate."

"Makes since. Where I first came in was by Mr. Witness and Meg. There wasn't any troops in that area when I arrived. And when time jumping in this timeline, I noticed that I DON'T see myself after doing so. Which means that everyone with us won't see their past selves either. That's how TTA designed their temporal technology. Less Paradoxal. Yet the gadgets ALWAYS had a bug in it. The more that time jumped together, the more "anomalies" there would be. When the the nanite injections came, the anomalies were non-existent."
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  Bella shook her head, and said "I'll jump myself.  I can hide and make certain it's clear.  Do you have a temporal transmitter to let me notify you in this when that it's clear to jump backwards?"

2k nodded. He held out his hand and a small ball of energy formed. A few seconds later, it turned into a bluetooth ear piece. He handed it to her. "Here ya go."
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  Bella smiled, and said "Thanks.  I'm good at this.  This is a short jump."  She took the earpiece, adding "And don't worry, they can't HURT me, and they won't find me."  She floated into the air, rising up to the ceiling and disappearing behind a hologram (he couldn't tell precisely how she generated that either).

2k watched as Bella disappeared. He then looked around, anticipating for Meg, Witness, and the others to show up.
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  Bella got herself perfectly camouflaged, then timejumped.

  Bella timejumped with the perfect accuracy she'd developed through years of practice, and appeared when she'd jumped to, a full hours previous.  She waited, perfectly still, hidden behind the hologram that she had made for camouflage.  Not breathing or making a sound.

At the corner of her eye, Bella saw a guard get thrown into the wall. If she looked closer, she saw a lady made of pure energy knocking out several guards. When Bella arrived, the lady was strangle holding the last one by the neck from a far with telekinesis. Right before he would've taken his last breath, she threw him backward into the wall, knocking him out.
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