Connor's Grandmother Session 4

Travellers - Saving Connor's Grandmother 2019/02/02 	 Radical Ramona Timewarp Amelia Moonshadow Jak Amara Matt Regent Nada

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Exposition
After Elizabeth drops Ramona off at the disusued gas station she drives away a few miles and then stops, and beckons to Timewarp. She tells Timewarp what you're facing is a 36th Cent Trollheim killer-hunter cyborg. She suggests Timewarp returns to CB 2068 and gather a couple more heroes to help out.

Timewarp suddenly appears directly in front of Matt, fiddling with a device on her wrist. "Hey. I can't remember if we've met yet, but I'm Timewarp. How'd you like to save the present and future and junk by going back in time 50 years to stop a killer-hunter cyborg from the 36th century killing someone's grandmother?"

Matt blinks, his reflexes almost create a really bad scene as his hand cocks back, and a blade of fire appears in his hand..but he's met Timewarp before. A long time ago for him. "Timewarp?.." he knows little of her, but he knows she is a hero..and while this may be a mistake, in all of his memories and experiences, this sounds so...Colonial Bay..."I'm in!" he says.."lets do this!"

Timewarp says, "Arid! I hoped you'd be up to it. One more stop. She plays with the device again."

Timewarp and Matt suddenly appear directly in front of Nada, fiddling with a device on Timewarp's wrist. "Hey, Nada. How'd you like to save the present and future and junk by going back in time 50 years to stop a killer-hunter cyborg from the 36th century killing someone's grandmother?"

Nada blinks (not that anyone can see that) as two people appear in front of her and more so that one of them seems to know she's there. silent for a long moment, "really me? Um okay if you think I can be helpful." She unsure about it but when a neo moment happens you don't say no.

Matt looks..and unless his mage sight can see anything..he see's nothing..he says nothing as Timewarp may have senses to see beyond what he can, its definitely happened before and its going to happen again..

Timewarp shrugs. "Well, apparently you're one of the people who's supposed to have been there, according to Elizabeth anyway. So you probably are important! Ok, off we go!" She fiddles with the device on the wrist and all three are suddenly elsewhere. "This is so cool. I can only travel in time, myself." And even as she says that she opens a time tunnel to 50 years in the past.

Timewarp, Matt, and Nada arrive in a park just as a big brute of a man seated on a bench, who's wearing heavy black leather jacket and pants on a hot summer's day, turns from the police scanner he was listening to and stands, drawing out a large 44 magum automatic with laser sight. The dot of the laser settles on the face of one of the two police officers in a patrol car parked fairly close to the bench seat. There are other modern day heroes already on hand, Radical, Jak, Amara, and Moonshadow.

Timewarp searches about in accelerated time for - ah, that big rock will do! - and hurries to interpose it between the cyborg and his target. The cyborg fires the large automatic. But the pistol must have been damaged by Elizabeth's energy weapon fire at the campus because it blows up in the cyborg's hand. There appears to be no damage to the mech though.

Timewarp thinks. o O (O...k. Wasn't expecting that!)

Moonshadow fires a Shadow Bolt at the cyborg The Shadow Bolt hits the cyborg and knocks it 12m back and off its feel. There does not appear to be any damage to the cyborg however.

Jak draws his piece in one smooth motion, clicking off the safety and not bothering to dialback the 'kick' of his Thunderbolt. 'He's a big boy. Looks like he can take it...' He murmurs to himself as he levels his weapon at the cyborg.

He teleports to line up his shot to hopefully keep the cyborg from inadvertantly hitting one of his allies.

Then with a smirk he squeeze the trigger. Jak's thunderbolt rolls the cyborg a couple more meters away but seems to have no effect other than that.

Matt flies towards danger as has been his MO, and gets about half way to the Cyborg before he commands the wind sprites to carry the cyborg into the air in a cyclonic lift.

Timewarp suddenly recalls the reason Trollheins were so feared. They use a atomic binding technology that makes them absolutely immune to damage while they have power. They can walk unharmed out of a nuke blast. Only anti-matter can damage them while they have any energy left. The drawback is the system is an energy hog. Every hit drains their reserves.

The atomic binding tech also prevents them from generating their own energy. They store energy in super-capacitors that must be recharged from an external source.

Timewarp drops out of accelerated time and says, "I just remembered! These cyborgs have atomic binding tech that makes them invulnerable except to antimatter! The only other way to strife them is to make them use up their energy so it stops working!"

The Cyborg is wrapped up in the cyclonic hold of the air sprites as he is lifted off the ground, The cyborg is relatively heavy, and Matt isn't sure how long he can hold it or how high he can lift it before it breaks free..(16M away from the target)

Amara raises her right hand towards the cyborg. "That shouldn't be a problem. My technology works far more granular than subatomic. I should be able to disassemble it," she says as the gem on her bracer starts to glow. When the cyborg is moved out of her shot, she sighs, then spots an open space. She dashes forward, becoming a sudden blur before ending up closer to the cyborg, but she's still having to chase it. "Frikda, it still may be too far," she curses in Riddertale as she holds up her hand again to try and lock onto the moving target.

A mass of particles begin to disassemble and eat away at the structure of the cyborg, causing small holes and rips to appear in the leather clothing.

Nada looks around noticing Jak, someone she knows, and then the man with the gun, she then sees the gun blow up and the other heroes attack the cyborg. She thinks (what I can do), unlike other heroes she has no blasters or magic, and while fast she not fast enough to get to him. She starts to panic and then it hits her she can warn the police the gunner is shooting at. She focus and the air near the police starts to shimmer and a woman appears in the back seat of the car, a thick and curvy woman dress in what only can be called PJs with Anime girl on the shirt. The woman looks at the two men, "Get down someone trying to kill you, we are trying to stop him!"

The two police officers take heed of the warning and duck down below the windows, one grabbing the radio mic and frantically calling for backup.

Radical doesn't have a lot of tactical options against something like the current opponent. He teleports closer to the target and raises both hands to unleash a focused singularity at the serial killer.

The cyborg is stuck and recoils in the grip of the air sprites.

Timewarp hesitates a nanosecond, unsure what to do, then decides direct assault is all that's practical just now. She has no idea if this will work or if the cyborg is proof against this too, but - she points both arms at the cyborg and warps time to try to age it. Maybe that will cause its capacitors to run down faster?

There's a flare of energy around the cyborg. An energy flow normally imperceptable as it holds atoms rigidly in position becomes visible as the rate of discharge is accelerated.

Matt continues to hold the cyborg, pulling it back towards the fighting crew, he knows of Armara's ability to fight off inanimates, he's seen it first hand, so he gives her the best chance at defeating this beast of a man-machine. He also commands the air sprites to tighten their hold on him. If a cyborg can show emotion this one would be looking shocked at encounting any meaningful resistance back in these primitive times. However this is not its primary mission so it can leave. And does. Timewarp can feel the time fluctuations as the cyborg time-jumps. A small jump, maybe no more than a few hours. But enough to vanish from this place and time.

Radical furrows his brow, "Where'd it go?"

Matt uses his enhanced senses to look around...even as his windsprites literally fly to the winds as their captive disappears. "I don't see it.." he says

Timewarp says, "The future, I think. Not quite sure. Hard to tell when I was warping time myself!"

Timewarp says, "Not far, though."

"So- that all went to plan, right?" Jak asks curiously. Time travel is always difficult to keep up with.

Moonshadow says, "Indeed. We have driven the attacker away, as will be reported."

Amara lowers her hand as the cyborg vanishes, then looks around for Jak. He's the one who pulled her along on this adventure, so he's the one she expects can give her answers. How wrong she is.

Radical nods to Jak as he rubs his chin, thinking about it. "I...believe so? At least so far. We need to get to the gas station. It'll appear again there."

Nada looks around a little confuse, "did we win? I sorry I was not more help. I warned the cops but that's all I could really do."

Matt looks at Timewarp.."if we know where it will be, then we all know how this ends..right?"

"Alright- I can get us all there, no problem." Jak says before vanishing. He reappears next to Amara's armored form. "Alright, so far we're keeping hte timeline on the tracks. So that's a win. Still having fun?" He asks playfully before putting a hand on her shoulder and taking her to rejoin the others.

Timewarp says, "Which might be an indication of how long he jumped." To Matt she says, "Right. We're here to make sure history goes like it's supposed to."

"This is quite the adventure," Amara smiles to him, trying to subdue her excitement. "I still don't understand what we're doing here, though. This is an alternate timeline, yes?" she asks, before he teleports her back to save her from walking.

Radical shakes his head and says to Amara, "Not an alternative timeline. Ours."

Timewarp says, "So it would be Really Bad if someone's grandmother were to die?"

"Does string theory not apply in this instance?" Amara asks in confusion.

Radical shrugs, "I know that I spoke to my grandmother about these very events. And they're transpiring as she remembers. At least thus far.

"We're just here to make sure a pretty lady gets to where she's going safely. But it comes with a heck of a travel itenerary." Jak says cooly. He doesn't seem like he could ask for much more.

Radical says, "I am not a temporal physicist. My specialty is dimensional physics. Well, and math. But as far as I can tell, we just need to make sure that history happens as it's remembered. And no alternate timelines get created."

Nada has no teleporting powers so just runs to the group and looks around, "So um what now?"

[To Amara] Timewarp says, "All I can say is, even in the future people aren't 100% in agreement exactly how time travel works. Maybe current theories are wrong. Who knows? But, you know, they seem to hold. Mostly, anyway. I guess I shouldn't talk about future science."

Radical nods. "Now, we get to the gas station where Ramona is and deal with the thing when it arrives again."

Timewarp thinks. o O (Especially as I don't understand it!)

Amara says, "Tsch, this is dangerous, Jak," Amara says as she looks to him. "You know why we forbade time traveling."

Matt nods, "Whatever..save the grandma, save the world...got it. The mission is simple..." he says to no one and everyone. "Your Grace." he says to Amara, "It is good to see you, as well as you Minister Jak." he gives both a head bow.

"Jak is not my minister. More friend than an official," Amara corrects kindly, turning to Matt. "I'm surprised to see you here, Matthew Regent," she says with a bow of her head in return respect.

Timewarp says, "Ok. So, we know when and where we have to be. So, we should head there. No great hurry, of course. Unless something changes."

Radical nods to Timewarp, and he looks to Jak, "Can you get us there in short order?"

Nada Just listens at the moment since she has no idea what going on. She looks at Timewarp, "if you need a scout well I can do it without being seen."

Moonshadow says, "Since the record shows that the attacker was driven off by _unknown_ metas."

Timewarp says, "Good idea, Nada. You can keep lookout in case he turns up early. Or something. And the rest of us can stay out of sight."

Timewarp says, "Maybe that's why you're so important, Nada. Without you, we wouldn't know when the nick of time to turn up in is!"

Nada nods, "I mean I can stand or sit anyplace and no one will see me. Man this is scary and exciting I never done something like this before" While no one can see it she boucing up and down in excitment.

"Well, I just assumed its forbidden for us to travel... as in via our own methodology. These guys were going anyway. We just rode along." Jak says before smiling coyly. It's a fine and very precarious position certainly.

Noticing Matt Regent arriving he says, "Woah- yeah. No titles- especially out here." He's glad he doesn't have to do much more dodging - he isn't fond of official titles and the weight that comes with them.

He thought he heard April around here somewhere, but she's impossible to spot. So he shrugs.

Moonshadow thinks that maybe she hasn't been properly introduced to Amara.

Amara looks to Jak for a very still moment as he tries to skirt the ban. She leans in and whispers with her own coy smile, "The Council must never hear of this." Meaning, she's on board with this for now.

Nada falls silent again but jak will feel a unseen hand on his arm, "hey Jak. There is a lot of people here."

Once all assembled Jak holds his arms out for everyone to grab on. "Alright Next Stop... .FOrever!" He says after nodding his acknowledgement to Amara.

Matt raises an eyebrow, but puts his hand out to grab Jak's arm..

Moonshadow puts her hand on Jak's arm, "To infinity, and beyond!"