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EVERYONE HATES TIME TRAVEL PART ONE
Who: Anybody stepping out of the TIME HOLE into present-day LA, anybody who wants to witness this going down – or to intervene
Where: Downtown LA
When: August 2nd (now!)
What: A bunch of time travellers arrive in the present to try to fix their dystopian future. See here for more details!
Warnings: time travel. everyone hates time travel.
It's late at night when the portal opens, an undulating patch of wrongness hanging in the warm summer air just a few inches above the street, bordered by shimmering multicoloured light.
A car swerves to avoid it. There's a scream or two, and people start to clear the area, eager to put some distance between themselves and the potential scene of some kind of Incident – others stay put, cell phone cameras at the ready.
If anything, though, when people start to step out of the portal, the onlookers calm down a little – this is, at least, not going to be another dinosaur incident. Cameras flash anyway. Another person screams, presumably because they're just on a roll with screaming at this point.
More than one person has called the Alpha Force hotline by now – but they might well not be the first heroes to arrive on the scene...
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Everyone is cordially encouraged to make multiple threads here for either time-travellers, present-day people, or both. Feel free to NPC passersby etc. as well!
Remember that villains from the future who are following the good guys through are probably going to come through at a slight delay.
Where: Downtown LA
When: August 2nd (now!)
What: A bunch of time travellers arrive in the present to try to fix their dystopian future. See here for more details!
Warnings: time travel. everyone hates time travel.
It's late at night when the portal opens, an undulating patch of wrongness hanging in the warm summer air just a few inches above the street, bordered by shimmering multicoloured light.
A car swerves to avoid it. There's a scream or two, and people start to clear the area, eager to put some distance between themselves and the potential scene of some kind of Incident – others stay put, cell phone cameras at the ready.
If anything, though, when people start to step out of the portal, the onlookers calm down a little – this is, at least, not going to be another dinosaur incident. Cameras flash anyway. Another person screams, presumably because they're just on a roll with screaming at this point.
More than one person has called the Alpha Force hotline by now – but they might well not be the first heroes to arrive on the scene...
______________________
Everyone is cordially encouraged to make multiple threads here for either time-travellers, present-day people, or both. Feel free to NPC passersby etc. as well!
Remember that villains from the future who are following the good guys through are probably going to come through at a slight delay.
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He stumbles out just after Jon and smooths down his (v stylish, time has been good to both Chris' face and his wardrobe) leather jacket as if to imply that he didn't stumble at all, and he is in fact a very cool and serious person.
He's squinting almost directly at the moon, and the look on his face may suggest that the moon has wronged him in some way.
"Should've worn sunglasses."
(He might have a bit of a hangover.)
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Anyway, he follows Chris out of the portal (without stumbling) and frowns at his friend before surveying past LA.
"Shouldn't've had all rum last night," he tells Chris. Seriously, everyone knows you don't time travel hungover.
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Miko miiight have pushed past a couple people to get through faster, because she's impatient and has no boundaries.
Apparently she has been involved in a lot of crud in the last ten years, if the eyepatch, metal arm, and assortment of scars are anything to go by. She also has a black leather jacket, because apparently it's some kind of requirement for dystopian future rebels, but hers has the sleeves ripped off. Where these people are getting all these leather jackets can only be guessed at.
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She glances around at the screaming crowds and flashing lights from the cameras. "What do they think this is? A rock concert?."
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He rockets out of the time warp, smirking down at the rebels. First villain out of the pen, this one.
This Sollux is tall and spindly, boasting even more scars and a sharper looking fangs than he did in this modern area. His horns and face are bright with glowing lines of cybernetics, and also, he has robot arms. Because who doesn't.
"Might want to pick a better rear guard next time guys, word about this kind of thing has a way of getting around," he says as he looms over them in a miasma of psychic energy.
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The fact that she looks about ready to try and shoot him does not change.
"Oh for-- God-fucking-dammit, dude, what are you trying to pull now?!"
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"I don't know what you're trying to accomplish," he says. "But if we succeed in our mission here it will benefit all of us. If we save Celestia from assassination, nothing that happened in the past ten years will come to pass."
He's reasonably sure they can handle Sollux, or at least get him to leave them alone long enough to prevent the assassination, but if he's compromised the security of the portal, a real threat might be able to get through.
"Tell me you're the only one who got past our security."
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But he also doesn't think that they are going to be his main problem.
"So far. But you might want to talk to Kat Kat back there about that. That shit is just sad." He just sort of smirks/sneers at Miko, and then looks back to Jon. "Just cause you change the timestream at one point doesn't mean that none of the shit will happen. The fact is you don't know what reality is going to look like when you're done with it. I just plan on making my mark."
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He raises a hand to Sollux accusingly.
"But if you hurt our teammates, or innocent people, we'll be forced to bring you in."
To where, he's not sure exactly. Maybe they'd leave him in the past, where the superhuman prisons are more humane. He's well aware no one on their field team is capable of matching Sollux hit for hit, but working together they should be able to bring him under control. Hopefully it won't come to that, especially if they're on a schedule. He doesn't know for sure how long they have until the assassination attempt.
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He lifts himself into the air further, with a feral, clicking growl.
"You keep out of my way and maybe we'll be fine."
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"Bad things will happen, but we'll have the means to deal with them," he says, unperturbed. "If you don't trust us, come with us and make sure we get it done."
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"What do you even want, man?" He'd really rather not get tangled up in this right now, but they can't really leave Jon to dance with some guy way out of his weight class alone. "Things aren't gonna be sunshine and fuckin' champagne fountains, but we can make 'em better than what they are."
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"And I'll make sure of that on my own."
And with that, he's gone, in a streak of purple light.