Log:Apostate's Redemption, Scene 3

Apostate's Redemption 2018/12/06 	 Amelia Topaz Jak Moonshadow Timewarp Kaelyn Desperado Radical

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A seemingly endless grid of primary roads, with some services, and quiet roads of middle-income houses and lawns: this is Newtown, or the Western Sprawl, as it is often known. Founded in the 2020s, in the backlash to the alien mania following first contact, it is an assertion of all that is human, mundane and boring, juxtaposed with the Alien District and those two periods were in history.

Newtown is not all uniform; styles of house show the expansion of city like the rings of a tree, and the neighboring districts too have their influence: the poverty of Harrisburg has seeped into the north as wealth has crept into the south and the students have invaded the northeast. Only the Alien District has failed to leave its mark.

Another group of Starguard members, including Topaz, arrived from another world. A world which is far more rigid in its law enforcement. They claimed to have been following two individuals who were damaging the dimensional barriers. It turns out those two people were Apostate and Desperado, other-worldly versions of Radical and Jak. While Topaz's team searched for the two, the heroes did likewise...in an attempt to find them before a huge fight broke out. Sadly, the heroes weren't able to avoid a fight. Desperado, a bounty hunter, was spotted in the midst of a fight with Apostate. The latter had crushed a house with a singularity, endangering everyone in the area. During the fight, he was knocked into his own construction, and he disappeared.

This leaves...Desperado with the heroes...and a report that Topaz and her team of Delta agents are inbound. And...well, a house that has been reduced to a ball, about 1 foot in diameter.

Jak only has eyes for one person here- himself. Well his other self, Desparado. His eyes narrow behind his blackout shades as he squares himself up to his cyborg-alternate.

His hand hovers above the handle of his weapon as he sizes Desperado up, wondering who's faster on the draw and who's the better gunman overall. If original body parts are anything to go by- its Original Flavor Jak.

The tall robed figure (Dialydd) tilts his head to one side for a moment as he looks from the super collapsed house to Desperado. In a deep rich, somewhat Scandinavian accented voice, he murmurs, "Cha, did that other one hate you to the extent of murder?" He seems genuinely curious.

Desperado's hat has managed to remain on his head. It's likely secured with magnets, at best guess. He stretches his neck, but keeps his weapon in hand. "I was tryin' to bring 'im in. He's caused a heap 'o trouble. Probably still will."

Timewarp pops over to join the conversation. "I didn't stop him, then?"

Moonshadow says, "There's a posse coming, looking for both of you."

Desperado shrugs, "I don't rightly know. Maybe? Maybe not? S'far as I can tell, he keeps turnin' up even when I think he's done for."

Desparado's whole manner makes Jak's original instinct to have a one on one showdown to end the debate raging through his mind. But he sounds like he's here trying to turn a criminal in- which means their showdown will have to wait until this mess is all over.

"I should have known you were the good guy." Jak says with a grin as he lowers his hand. "Too handsome not to be. Even with the aftermarket add-ons." And like that the tension from him towards Desperado evaporates.

"Well- try telling the 'posse' coming our way. They're chomping at the bit to get you and that guy. I can't imagine a good explanation is going to cut it with those guys."

Desperado nods. "S'pose I should take my leave, then." A panel opens up on his arm, and he hits a button. He smirks as he hears Jak's comment. "I know what you were thinking. No one's faster than Jesse Fortune."

Moonshadow says, "Any idea where the other guy went, Jesse?"

And from the West a gallop can be heard.. Well hooves, the heavy sounds hitting concrete rather rapidly as a large centauress comes galloping into the area, looking a bit bedraggled and wearing headphones.. That might explain why the over-huge college student is suddenly in the middle of a super hero/villain fight?

She looks around her wide-eyed, and blinks a few times tugging her headphones down which are blaring 'Under Pressure' by Queen now loud enough for most to hear.... "Well bugger me... I sooo should learn to pay more attention." She mutters, hands on her 'hips' as she looks around. To be honest, to actually put hands on her real hyps requires some flexible gymnastics considering her body's layout.

Kae's ears prick forward as she looks around, then sees a couple quickdraw people? Hear's Desperado.... "Sooo not going with the High ho Silver.... and definately not gonna be the horse in this one..." She mutters to her self as she realizes she's in a pickle

In the air, juuuuust kind of up and behind Kae is a ghostly chuckle... Kae blinks ears flickering as her tail lashes "Figured you'd be the one to make sure this happened..." The voice then mutters "All for entertainment, luv."

Timewarp says, "And if you're a ro then why are the other hunting you both?"

Moonshadow says, "For them it's All Rules, No Exceptions""

Desperado's body starts to fade slowly, like he's going out of phase with reality. "He has some kind of interdimensional hideout. A pocket dimension, they call it." And he chuckles at Timewarp's comment. "I ain't no hero. Least-wise the sort you're talkin' about. I'm a hunter." He glances over toward Kaelyn as she arrives. "Curious. Been some time since I seen a centaur."

Moonshadow says, "Is that where that rabbit-hole took him?"

"That's some watc--" Jak is in the midst of saying when his reply to his previous comment gets him right in the soft spot. He makes an audible 'Oof' sound but can't help but like his double after that even if it only makes him want to scratch the itch more. He falls quiet, deciding the only way to recover from that comment is to get this case over with and get to the showdown. He'll find Desperado again- even if its the last thing he does. He's so caught up in that that he misses Desperado's answers to the others' questions.

Dialydd seems to be listening, but he walks over to the collapsed sphere that was the house. He kneels down next to it, his head cocked to one side.

At Kaelyn's arrival, he looks over and goes still for a moment. Hidden his veils, he blinks with both his sets of eyelids, but then rallies.

"I would posit the fugitive is immune to his own, cha, powers. And used the singularity to create a wormhole to escape. I cannot guess at his range."

[To Jak] Moonshadow says, "Looked like a vortex manipulator to me..."

"A what now?" Jak asks Moonshadow. "You've seen one of those before?" Now she's got his attention. He wants one for himself even not fully comprehending what it was or what exactly it did.

Dialydd notices first...but there are four figures visible, flying in low, over the buildings.

CB Delta Strikeforce(#2897TOn)

These power armor suits look somewhat similar to the standard Starguard Delta suits, but much like the normal soldiers, the insignias on the armor appear to be different from what is expected. There are a couple of commonalities with the soldiers, such as a stylized 'CB' logo as well as two sideways S's overlapped linked to look like a wave.

Topaz(#2909TOnp)

This young lady is in excellent shape. That is more obvious now than it might be otherwise given the way her costume clings to every curve of every muscle of her body. It is almost as if the costume were not even made of fabric, and yet it is not sheer and does not break any boundaries of decency. It is simply impossible to find any seams or figure out where it starts or ends. Her medium length hair is almost glowing a golden color and her eyes -are- glowing with a bright yellow energy. She wears a simple domino mask of solid yellow on her face and from the base of her neck down across her torso and the arms all the way to the gloves and it flows down over her waist and hips down the legs to the feet. It is all one piece and looks impossible to get into or out of without destroying it. The entire one piece suit is a deep yellow, with a swirling pattern of color, looking reminiscent of wisps of smoke. As if the designer had little imagination, but the only variation is the two inch wide topaz attached to the back of her right glove that seems to pulse and glow with an inner light.

The robed figure points up and to one side with his left hand. "Incoming potential hostiles," he murmurs as he stands back up, taking a moment to dust off his robe at the knees.

Moonshadow says, "It's from an old TV show."

Kae's left ear swievels toward Desperado now at mentioning Centaur... She points at him "Ahah! Finally, someone calls me what I am without calling me a 'horsie' first or animal or..." There's ghostly chuckling and she siiighs. "Yer so annoying!" She says to no one in particular. 'No one in particular' responds, voice having a faintly 'english' accent "Yer so cute when yer flusterd luv..." Kae blinks and her arms flail now like she's trying to bat something away, least before she hears the mention of potential hostiles "Huh what?" She asks, now looking in the mentioned direction.

Just as Topaz is getting into earshot, that's when Desperado disappears. Topaz shouts, "No! Don't let him get away!"

Timewarp says, "Hm, but it hurt him too. So, if he shows up again, how to beat him is for someone to set up a really heavy object and then to knock it toward him...."

Timewarp turns to face Topaz. From what she understands, we're not really cooperating with them, but a bit of a deception might spare a fight. "We were questioning him - you scared him off!"

Jak should have known better. Moonshadow always seems to have a good firm grip on his chain and be mid-yank. He sighs a little disappointed but then trouble literally comes over the horizon.

A smile spreads across his face. "Finally. I got all worked up for a gunfight." He says as he deftly unholsters and spins his pistol on his finger. "Maybe these fascist will oblige me since they don't know the meaning of 'synergistic interactions' or 'friendly fire' or 'freedom'." He finds a Delta Strikeforce member and locks his eyes on him, if only just to annoy.

Topaz sets down lightly about ten meters away. Behind her, the three suits of Delta armor land with a series of thumps. Topaz looks at Timewarp. "He certainly didn't look restrained." Her gaze turns to the crushed house and the surrounding area. "Desperado didn't do this. Was it the other fugitive?" Topaz had mentioned that they didn't know the identity of the person that Desperado was looking for.

Moonshadow says, "Yes, we dropped him down his own rabbit-hole, and it closed on him."

Timewarp says, "I said 'questioning'. People talk more freely if they don't think you're the enemy!"

Jak won't sell himself down the river and he isn't particularly fond of these guys, so he plays the quiet gunslinger and keeps his eyes locked on Delta Strikeforce Member #2.

"A gravity manipulator, sera," murmurs Dialydd as he tilts his head to one side then the other as he observes Topaz and her cohorts. His attention goes to Moonshadow for a moment then returns to the extra-dimensional folks.

He then backs up a few steps to stand by Kaelyn.

Timewarp says, "Desperado was fighting the other guy - the one with the black hole power shick - so he was wiling to talk after we fought him!"

The Delta strikeforce member that Jak focuses on is quite keen to return the favor. He keeps his eyes on the gunslinger.

Moonshadow says, "He was dressed in white with green piping. Desperado said he has a hideout in a pocket dimension."

Topaz nods slowly as she looks around. She then looks at Timewarp, "I see. I suppose I should not be surprised, given the state of things here." She seems to remember something about the world though...and she tenses up noticeably. "We should finish our business here as quickly as possible." Her attention turns to Moonshadow, "Do you have any idea who it was? The visual description is helpful, but any additional information would aid us greatly."

Moonshadow says, "The outfit looked familiar, but the colors...Radical. He looked like Radical, but in white and green instead of black and red."

"And he was mad crazy. He was definitely unhinged." Jak says piping up. "Seemed Jesse was just running the bounty down. You know, doing your jobs for you. I'd imagine there's far less red tape his way." He adds after considering what he's learned about their world so far in passing.

Topaz nods slowly. "Who is this 'Radical'? I do not know the name."

"And better you don't." Jak says, trying to cover for his fellow Traveller. "So- that's about all we can tell you Brown Shirts*."

Timewarp says, "I can tell you his powers are tech based, if that helps."

After much talking and folks chatting back and forth and whatnot, Kae throws her arms in the air "I have absolutely no clue what's going on here?!?!" She calls out, to no one in particular. More ghostly laughing and Kae sighs, ears splaying as she slumps her shoulders... "Ummmmmm....." She then shrugs, and tilts her head trying best to listen in and figure things out and such...

She then looks around and turns slightly, now looking at the person standing near her.. "Ummm, sooo is all interractions with large numbers of 'metas' allways this confusing?"

[To Kaelyn] Timewarp says, "Oh, the isn't too complicated. There are like officials from an alternate fascist earth who've come here hunting a couple of fugitives. Also one of the fugitives was hunting the other. Clear?"

Topaz notes Kaelyn's confusion...and then turns to the others. "Where did this other person go, exactly? You said he was sent through his own 'rabbit-hole'?" She uses the exact term that Moonshadow mentioned. "What does that mean?"

The robeds and veilled Dialydd murmurs softly to Kaelyn, "The four across from us are from an alternate Colonial Bay. One more, cha, strict than this one. They are in pursuit of (he points at Jak) that ser's extra dimensional duplicate. We were asked by Starguard to find out what was giong on and found his duplicate being attacked by a gravity manipulating meta who exacped once he was knocked into the singularity he created."

He looks up at Kaelyn. "Does that help?" he asks in an almost fatherly tone.

Timewarp says, "He had this big gravity thing going so I threw a rock straight at him. Knocked him clean back into that used-to-be-a-house over there but he went poof instead of getting crushed himself."

Timewarp says, "At least, the other guy thought that he'd escaped to a pocket dimension or something instead of being crushed."

Dialydd then adds to Kaelyn, "And yes, it can be very confusing. But quite interesting, yes?"

Topaz nods at the explanation. "I suppose that leaves us with few alternatives. We could try to track down this 'Radical', but it would be a side investigation to try to get details on our actual fugitive. I think..." She looks around again...a little more nervously. "...we should be going."

Timewarp was rather hoping they'd come to that conclusion. If they're looking for a pocket dimension they aren't here!

Kae glances down at Timewarp curiously, she can't help it, Kae's bloody tall. Her horse section by its self is well taler than Timewarp by no small margin. "Umm I guess? Honestly, since Loki changed me he delights in making sure I end up in wierd situations now and then. I think this is one of them..." She says... More ghostly chuckling for now, and Kae now sighs "See what I mean?"

Kae now turns to look at Dialydd curiously and nods "If you say so... I'm pretty sure I'm missing a class and am sooo gonna have to explain things to the prof... THough there's like stuff in place for metas going to school and all and I'm guessing I definately qualify as a meta... I think.. Maybe?" She then shrugs "Don't know how folks that litterally have a horse for their lower half qualify."

Moonshadow says, "We will remain to work on healing the barriers."

"Yes, your presence here could attract chaotic forces, sera. Returning to your home dimension would be advisable. In this dimension, one more balanced, you, cha, stand out," murmurs Dialydd.

<< It's an interesting line of thought,>> thinks Dialydd. <>

[To Kaelyn] Timewarp says, "Hey, even some people without any powers at all get called metas."

Topaz glances toward Dialydd, "That...is the least of my concerns. Chaos?" She snorts a little as she groups up with the Delta troopers. "No...I wanted to make sure that the person we left behind here last time...remained left behind." And with that, one of the troopers activates a dimensional transferrence device in his armor, and the group starts to disappear. Topaz smiles, "Give our regards to Revenant when you see him."

Moonshadow says, "Revenant? Who's that?"

Jak decides he needs to see a man (Radical) about that teleporter thingie his duplicate had. He could always ask his parents but that seems a bit dangerous- afterall it was how he was lost to them in the first place, and now it seems off the table with their relationship where it is anyway.

He's always had a love for Mainland tech anyway. Its so big and chunky- at least in comparison to the yoctotech & teleportation technology Riddersholm is built on.

His daydream is snapped away by Dialydd's warning. Its a strange one- but this whole 'balance' thing was never his strong suit. Sometimes he misses the good ol' simple days of being an international smuggler. Things were definitely easier to comprehend then anyway.

He frowns as Topaz and team leave. "Does it bother anyone else they can just pop in like that?" He asks as if his question weren't rhetorical.

Moonshadow says, "Yes."

Amelia takes a moment, waiting until Topaz and her team have left, "Revenant was the leader of their Starguard. His team was dragged here by Lazare's actions. In the ensuing fight, Topaz made a play for leadership of their team, and left Revenant behind. Revenant appeared to be somewhat like our Spirit."

"It is quite disturbing, yes, ser Jak," murmurs Dialydd.

He then looks over at Kaelyn. "I would posit you qualify as a meta unless humanity has more thanone base form. Which my studuies do not indicate, sera. Cha, ah, and I am Dialydd."

he robed figure bows slightly to kaelyn, his six-fingered hands held open to his side.

Timewarp shrugs. "I can't complain about people appearing out of nowhere, I guess."

Kae nods slowly "Figured I probably did... guess it takes all kinds and all origins and whatever..." She says and shrugs slowly, her left forehoof paws the ground as she does shrug and the back right one stomps, kind of like a horse and human shrug all put together... Well actually it is.

Kae smiles and looks around "Well at least I missed the combat bit and stuff it looks like. I have zero clue how to do that end really." She adds and rubs at the back of her neck. "Other than run around with my hands in the air, I can do that..."

Police sirens can be heard in the distance.

"I'm glad its not just me." Jak says in a tone that's loosing some of its tension and annoyance. "And one of their ousted stormtrooper leadersis running around here unaccounted for? Somehow that seems worse." He adds another name to his list of people (all thus far interdimensional) who need their ***es handed to them by the one, the only Jak Venture.

Dialydd nods to Kaelyn then turns to look back at the others. "Perhaps practice with a, cha, long staff? YOu could use acceleration to knock people aside or down, sera, or even knock down small sized groups if you held it across yourself?"

Dialydd then asks, "Could this Revenant be asked what he knows about these others? Or is he opposed to the general, cha, lawlessness of this Colonial Bay?"

Amelia says, "Revenant was...crushed under a car, if I remember correctly. By Judith, I think? When the car was picked up, he was gone. No one is quite sure what happened to him."

"That sounds like our cue to leave," says Moonshadow. She lifts off into the air.

Timewarp pops over to the ex-house. She imagines it's long past saving, but wonders if there's anything that can be made out that looks like a clue to why it got destroyed - unless it was just collateral in the fight.

Jak stands his ground for the time being, though with his superhuman abilities he doesn't need to hurry anywhere on this Earth.

Dialydd nods slightly at Amelia's words, "As my ancestresses stated 'unless there is a body, assume they are alive.' A good maxim I believe."

He walks back to the collapsed house. "I could not detect any, cha, human remains in the conglomerate, but my senses are not fully reliable," he murmurs. "Perhaps the university would like the sphere to study. Their physics department might like to study such gravitically compressed material."

Timewarp sighs. "Not much point in fixing the house, I guess. I mean, I could, but it would collapse again in a day or so."

On the bright side, Timewarp does notice that there are no organic remains. So, no one was home. And it doesnt' look like there were even pets inside the house.

Jak walks over to Timewarp and pats her on the back. "Well, at least you tried. You know what they say, ya can't save 'em all." He says encouragingly to her. "And Six-Fingers over there said there weren't people inside. So that's a win right? Unless... you found people inside?" He sounds worried.

Dialydd murmurs in a deadpan voice, "And that could be crushing to the owners."

Timewarp is greatly relieved to find that. Otherwise she'd have felt the need to do something about it, and might have put undue strain on the fabric of time.

Timewarp says, "No people. Just hope the owners have meta insurances."

The two police cars get closer...and then slowly glide to a stop. Four officers get out and slowly walk over to the remaining heroes. One of the female officers says, "Umm...what the heck happened here?"

Jak Venture nods. "Let's hope that, and that Radical might be able to help us find my duplicate & his too before anything worse happens." He says, secretly hoping for another opportunity at having a showdown.

"Ooh- we've got company." He turns and smiles to the officers as the approach but holds his tongue.

Moonshadow flies off toward the Alien District.

Kae tilts her head, ears splaying some before she holds her hands up into the air "Absolutely nooo clue! I just wandered in on crazy Meta stuff!" She responds simply. "Soo evidently we have alternate dimensional beings bouncing around and eating houses..." She says and shrugs.. That's what she's gathered so far! Kae glances to Timewarp now and adds "That about right? Alter dimensional folks chasing each other and well ate a house and well ummm yeah, crazy stuff?"

Timewarp goes up to the police officer and tells the tale as she understands it. Less mentioning who's whose doppelgnger's.

The officers take down the information. Timewarp is...at least recognized as a hero. So good enough. They take down the statement. And..there's a fair amount of head-shaking. Especially when considering the remains of the house.

Timewarp agrees. "I'll be glad if that vil never comes back!"

Moonshadow changes course, heading for the University.

Jak stays with Timewarp but while she's talking to the police he sends a message to her, suggesting they stop off and see Radical/Connor in person so they can get ahead of this before it becomes a real problem.

Timewarp says, "Yeah, good idea! He probably has much more idea about this junk."

Moonshadow lands on the Science Building roof, and uses the communicator Amelia gaver her to call Radical.

Connor responds shortly thereafter. "What's up? I'm here. Well, I'm in my office. Is there an emergency?"

Moonshadow says, "The immediate threat is over, for now. Can you meet me on the roof? Just business, I promise."

Connor pauses...and then says, "Sure. I can do that. Give me five minutes."

Timewarp provides the police with sketches of all the dimensional intruders. It's probably good if they can recognise them if the see them.

The officers finish up and call in the situation to the department, leaving the heroes to do as they like.

A few minutes later, Radical appears on the roof where Moonshadow is, in full gear. He says, "Took me a few minutes to change. What's the problem?"

As soon as Timewarp is done with the CBPD Jak gives her a nod and begins teleporting his way towards Connor's office himself knowing that Timewarp will take her sweet time and still beat him there.

He arrives on the roof mid-message to Connor saying much the same thing as Moonshadow. When he arrives he looks surprised to see her.

"Ah- so this is where you got off too. Had the same idea we did- just first I guess?" He says, his tone appreciative.

Moonshadow says, "I was just about to brief him on what's happening."

As soon as Timewarp is done with the CBPD Jak gives her a nod and begins teleporting his way towards Connor's office himself knowing that Timewarp will take her sweet time and still beat him there.

This makes him realize there were other metas along. He leaves Amelia and Grimm behind to sew the hole in the universe left in the wake of Radical's dimensional duplicate.

He appears next to the other metahumans, putting a hand on each before teleporting away.

He arrives on the roof mid-message to Connor saying much the same thing as Moonshadow. When he arrives he looks surprised to see her.

"Ah- so this is where you got off too. Had the same idea we did- just first I guess?" He says, his tone appreciative.

Timewarp takes her sweet time and beats Jak there. :)

Moonshadow starts briefing Radical, starting with the appearance of SG Delta downtown. She makes sure to pause so that the others can chime in when they wish.

When she gets to the appearance of the two fugitives, Moonshadow takes care to describe both of them as accurately as she can, even using her Shadow Magic to conjure their images.

Timewarp also shows the originals of the sketches she made.

Radical tilts his head as he listens. He waits for the full explanation, "Interesting. Seems pretty clear to me, more or less. Was there a question about what happened?"

Moonshadow says, "It seems to us, that as much as the Desperado is an alternate Jak, the other one is an alternate you."

Timewarp shrugs. "Well, we don't know much about the other world. I get the feeling we don't like the authorities there, but what do we know of the other people? I've got to say your doppel doesn't seem pleasant."

Jak waits for the others before giving his own spin on why he thought they ere here. "Well it wasn't so much a question of 'what' happened for me, more of if there might be some gadget you can Wizard your way into that will let us track down this guy before the Orderites do? Or better yet, is there a way we can just block them from getting back here?" Jak asks, starting broad since he isn't sure what is possible and what isn't. So he's going big. He'll adjust once he understands the parameters a bit better.

Jak is smart enough to know when he's out of his depth and to get advice. If this were some kind of deal he'd expect the other Travellers to come to him for advice and or representation just the same. But Super-PHysics isn't at all the same kind of numbers Jak finds himself comfortable working with.

Timewarp nods. "That too. Or block that gravity thing!"

Moonshadow adds, "I was thinking that since you are he, in a way, you might be able to provide some insight as to what his goals may be, and what his powers are."

"Hmm- well that's also also a good plan. So A, B, and C. Any will do. Bonus points for multiples?" Jak says jokingly.

Meanwhile? The poor horse-woman is completely out of her depth... She then ummms.... "I wonder what my alternate universe doppleganger is like... Probably still human, maybe..." She adds and rubs at the back of her neck. "Soo queeestion? THose of us who have accidental, or wierd origins of their powers and stuff.. Our alternate dimensional dopplegangers, they gonna somehow end up the same waaaay? or just be normal folk I wonder." She says, yup, leave it to Kae to muse about something that has nothing to do with catching the baddies...

Kae peers at Timewarp curiously then glances around again.... "Well if I do have a dopple and they're a centaur, I imagine they'll probably what? run fast, be fairly strong-ish and such?"

Kae then blinks as she looks around... "Gah!! Where am I now!?" she calls out, now out of her reverie....

Radical thinks about it a moment. "I can see into all other dimensions with these." He taps his goggles. "I just need to know where to look. I suppose I might be able to cobble together some kind of 'dimensional tracker' to help narrow things down. As for blocking a singularity...enh. Not sure I can do that." He thinks about Moonshadow's comment, "Well, based on what you told me, I'm not sure if he was say...ever the Cartesian. It's possible, but I was always told that there was one Cartesian and one Anarch, across dimensions. Then again...I'm sure there was much I wasn't told."

Timewarp says, "We can show you where the intrusions happened, if it helps."

Radical nods, "That will help a bit. I don't have any kind of...say...tracking ability, though. So, let me work on that first, and then we can head to the location in question. We might be able to deal with this other...'me'...is his own sanctum. That's what his pocket dimension will be called. I'm sure of that, at least.

Timewarp says, "I guess the sanctum has its advantages. He can't retreat to it from there, and he probably won't want to destroy it!"

"Do they sell Sanctums on Villow or something?" Jak says facetiously. "Maybe I'm in the market for a Sanctum." He muses before returning back to the serious business at hand. "You just let us know when you're ready. Doesn't sound like those holes are going any-" He stops before his whole foot gets in his mouth. "Well- will it matter if the 'holes are restored'?" He inquires to Radical. "Because Amelia and some StarGuard agent are back there right now reparing the latest breach."

Radical shrugs, "It would only still be a problem if this other version of me comes back. From the description, the dimensional shift was more violent than the one I personally use. Since what I do is based off of what I learned as the Cartesian...that's the reason I assumed he hadn't had the same experiences I have."

Timewarp says, "Hm, but it also means he'll have different experiences. I guess he'll be not so much like you, as doppels go."

"Well that makes sense. I sure as heck don't want my dupe's 'upgrades'." Jak adds quietly as he begins fiddling with his own watch.