EVERYONE HATES TIME TRAVEL PART ONE

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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.

Comments

[hellacold]

"We're here on the advice of the fortuneteller Lyra Silvertongue," says Jon wearily. A large raven-like crystal bird with a crest flies out of the time portal and lights on his shoulder. "We have her word this will restore the timeline. If you work with us you can make sure our path is the right one."

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.

[nitrodamus]

"Like you could stop me," he snarls, and flicks his finger in Jon's direction, with a relatively gentle burst of psionic energy to push him backwards. "You're stupid if you think one change is going to prevent anything bad from every happening again. This is why I can't trust you assholes with anything."

He lifts himself into the air further, with a feral, clicking growl.

"You keep out of my way and maybe we'll be fine."

[hellacold]

Jon shifts his center of gravity, bending his knees to absorb the blow. The crystal raven screeches noiselessly and briefly lifts into the air before she resettles herself on his shoulder.

"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."

[robotarms]

Chris had kind of started to wander off, but it's hard to ignore the scene Sollux is causing and he (reluctantly) comes back to stand at Jon's side.

"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."

[nitrodamus]

"I want," Sollux snarls, thrusting a finger in their direction, "for things to go my way this time. And they're going to. One way or another." There is a moment of pause before he decides that he's has enough, with an almost disgusted wrinkle of his brow.

"And I'll make sure of that on my own."

And with that, he's gone, in a streak of purple light.