[center][h1][color=Silver][b][i]The Timekiller[/i][/b][/color][/h1][/center] The great silver-white void stood silently rushing, activity juxtaposed with utter stillness, as metallic bands of all things historical swirled around a great center. These were events in history, all moving at great speed, all entwined, always and forever...or sometimes never. The area was vast, perhaps infinite in set, and all centered around what to many who could see would describe as a dense planetoid of shiting crystal, eternal white marble, and an unknown assortment of metals. Many travelers will have seen some interpretation of it. It often changes according to the user. You might call it the Vortex, the Axis, The Fourth Dimension, or even Yog-Sothoth. To those that visited it most, however, this was the center. This was all. [center][b]This was Axial Time.[/b][/center] [center][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEcij0ARkmU[/youtube][/center] Hovering in meditation, the female figure sat with eyes closed and in heavy concentration. It was - oddly enough - a young lady who only recently reached adulthood, but then...this is how they all were, in general. She herself was dressed a bit like Obi Wan Kenobi, for her interpretation of the power had been a bit like The Force. It was all in the mind and how it flowed through you. To that end, she used it to see through time and possibility with greater ease than all of her counterparts. Right now, she was focused on one, just one. [i][color=silver]Come on, Raimi... Your whole life has been leading up to this. Take him down![/color][/i] Every version of them were called Mirai Saito, but one - just one, who had been on [i]quite[/i] the journey before they ever met - set herself apart from the others by instead taking the name 'Raimi', an anagram of her birth name. There was something special about her, either brought forth by her history or simply something that had always been there. That was important, in this case, because if she did not rise up to the occasion, her enemy would destroy her world and travel through the galaxy to [i]make it burn.[/i] That's what she was up against in there, a foe whose powers would eventually grow to destroy entire worlds... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [h3][i][b][u]Shizuoka Prefecture - Raimi's World[/u][/b][/i][/h3] Normally, this area was known for its calm and serene atmosphere, but not today! It'd been a miracle to keep him out of the heavily-populated areas. She stood ready for the next onslaught. He could do anything, anything at all, so long as it was flushed through the chaotic cascade of a wild molecular disruption. They were surrounded by rubble, a young lady in black with a metallic helmet and clawed gauntlets and a young man in a bluish combat suit with an orange emblem of a supernova in the chest. He wore a mask - a spiked and stylish sort of thing with flare-compensation in the lenses, like her own - but she knew him...or thought she did. Once, in another lifetime, there had been a Brit-born young man by the name of Allen Forscythe, the unfortunate son of a villain and a woman taken and manipulated by said villain. She had given birth to a well-adjusted boy who rejected his father and was aided by his uncle - an alchemist - to escape the country and lie low in Japan. But that was in another world, in [i]many[/i] worlds. Not hers. No [i]no[/i]... Her world had to be [i]special[/i], where many of the heroes and villains were inverted! The boy's father, Baron Von Madness, was [i]Baron Von Mentalist[/i] here, a philanthropic wonder. Instead, it was the [i]uncle[/i] - the self-styled Master of Change - who was corrupt. Raimi had defeated him recently, but like any mad scientist, the man had one last ace up his sleeve. It was the ace she'd been dreading and preparing for ever since she'd heard the name, years ago. [center][b]Cobalt Thorium G.[/b][/center] It was a name out of Dr. Strangelove, the war satire, for an element in the Doomsday Device which spelt the end for all humanity. The Master of Change was a self-styled alchemist like his counterparts. He produced potions and chemical explosives, horrible mutants and shapeshifting homunculi. He had taken Allen's natural gift and amped it up, and he had altered Allen's mind as well. In all other worlds, he was a nice guy. Even this one, apparently, but now... [color=f7941d]"Oh, not long [i]nooowww[/i]..."[/color] The lenses burst on his mask as the energy surged and rippled around him. They had been fighting and, to her credit, she had wounded him more than he had hurt her. He'd kicked her in the face when she tore at his chest. She'd avoided several attacks and slammed him through portals. However, he was good at ignoring pain and he'd sealed all of the wounds, even taken some of the oomph from her own moves with a trick he called 'Unchaos', sucking out the energy potential for chaos and change from a given area to fuel himself. He was preparing to unleash ALOT of his power [i]now[/i], though. Allen had made lightning and fire tendrils, hellish maws open from the ground, created freak tornadoes, and now he was preparing to blow up the whole Prefecture in one blast. Raimi gritted her teeth. [color=silver]"Alright, you asked for this. [b][i]TEMPUS FU-[/i][/b]" [b][i]No, not that one!![/i][/b][/color] The voice was her own, inside of her head, but it wasn't really hers. It was the one who watched, Oracle. She had been offering moral support or guidance where her combat expertise was limited, but now she was shouting in her head, and it was too late! Tempus Fury was an attack she made up. It was a distorted and disjointed time field that she'd used to tear opponents asunder in the worst way or - when stable - actually reverse time in that area. She was planning to invert everything in on Cobalt Thorium G, but apparently...[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNJt0Spm8J0]that was a bad idea.[/url] Allen didn't shift into distorted madness. [b][i]Everything did.[/i][/b] In an instant, the dimensions were out of control as time and space threw a wibbly-wobbly FIT that cascaded in all places! The effects...well...they'd be far-reaching, to say the least. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [h3][i][b][u]Sector 17 - Zen World[/u][/b][/i][/h3] It did not matter what it was called before. It did not matter that the people [i]still[/i] called it Los Angeles. All that mattered was what HE said now, because [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xORXj0zpf44]this...was Zen's World now.[/url] He was the word and the law. The people conformed to the rule of law absolutely, or they were processed so that they [i]would[/i] comply. We take you now to a line that extends outside of a supermarket, where a man looking right miserable and angry was standing in line. Standing there, that is, until the machine walked over to him. It was a humanoid android armored in blue-black armor. It came installed with a thruster pack on its back and compact engine-wings to guide its flight. It had five-digit hands, stood approximately seven feet tall, and had three large eyes situated side-by-side on a streamlined head designed to reduce air-resistance. This android was Zen. They were [i]all[/i] Zen, as Zen was short for Zenigawa Enforcement Network, a great and self-sufficient system built by the altruistic Dr. Zenigawa before his death, wishing only peace and security across the globe. The enforcer unit addressed the man in a deep mechanized tone. [color=ed1c24][b]"Citizen John Harrison, you have been correctly identified as a Lawbreaker. Step out of line."[/b][/color] [b]"What? N-no, I haven't done anything! It's bullshit! I've done nothing of the kind!"[/b] [color=ed1c24][b]"You are a food thief. Food theft normally carries a fine and reduction of comfort, but due to the resistance to Law in this area, food allocation is limited per capita in order to ensure that all persons are fed equally, and therefore the punishment is more severe."[/b][/color] [b]"You collapsed the industry after promising not to harm free enterprise! [i]Of course[/i] there's resistance!"[/b] [b][color=ed1c24]"The heads of those food industries, with small exception, were corrupt. They were arrested for their crimes and the infrastructure was taken over by Zen until replacements could be found. Your complaint is irrelevent. You have stolen and are also under arrest."[/color][/b] He started backing away from the thing in fear. [b]"You can't do this...! My family will starve without me!"[/b] [color=ed1c24][b]"They will not. A Lawkeeper will make your deliveries on time, every time. Your family will not suffer, but you will ALL comply with the Law."[/b][/color] [b]"Those hideous things?! They're not human!"[/b] The machine closed the distance and grabbed him by the wrist. [color=ed1c24][b]"They ARE human, and you will become one if you continue to resist."[/b][/color] [b]"Someone, help! Don't let 'im take me, please!"[/b] He strained against the android's grip, trying to pull free from its grip with little avail. Zen raised his other hand in order to stun the man completely. It was at this time, however, that the area suddenly rippled and shifted wildly, severe shudders and quakes shaking the entire area, [i]the entire world![/i] An alarm sounded, followed by an announcement over the city intercom system. [center][b][i][color=ed1c24]-ALL POINTS COORDINATE. ALL POINTS COORDINATE. TIMEQUAKE IN EFFECT. LAWBREAKER-ONE HAS BEEN DETECTED.-[/color][/i][/b][/center] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [h3][i][b][u]The House of Madness...[/u][/b][/i][/h3] The quake was both temporal AND spatio, the force of two powers colliding and blasting out through dimensions, not the physical area. It was creating...quite a mess, and the results were far-reaching in several different ways. Way down underground, about a mile down from a house built in secret to kill anyone who entered in terrible nasty ways, there was a man. He was a strange sort of fellow with a somewhat classy attire. Vest over shirt, loose overcoat over vest, top hat on head, a face and hair like a grand Irish Noble, and a long-handled scepter that appeared to have the headpiece of a bronzed rubber ducky. There were numerous details about the man to go into, but suffice it to say, this was [i]Baron Von Madness[/i]. Right off the bat, knowing that in various timelines there were many such men of madness, and so therefore you might be inclined to ask [i]which one[/i] this guy was. Well...first of all, it wasn't Baron Von [i]Mentalist[/i], sadly. This was The Madness, and unfortunately, he was about to get company. [i][b]POP![/b][/i] [color=a0410d]"Hello, world!"[/color] [color=a0410d]"Nyaaah!"[/color] The Baron was suddenly visited upon by...The Baron! As a result, he lost at the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHLMnP7bpnk]game[/url] he was playing. The Second Baron was wearing a bizarre metallic harness device that was now cycling down its power cells. The Original Baron glared up at him now, quite irritated with his surprise counterpart. [color=a0410d]"You couldn't have waited [i]five minutes[/i] to do...whatever you just did to get here?" "You mean, built a time-displacement harness after extensive study of that irritating girl and kidnapping some damn fine technicians?" "Yes!" "Well...maybe, but the fact is that [i]someone[/i] was going to do it, because the fissure is [i]pretty[/i] bad right now, and that means we're going to be showing up [i]all over the place![/i]" "I see. And when you say 'we'-" "I don't mean 'Si'. I mean WE."[/color] [i][b]POP! POP! POP! POP! POP! POP! POP![/b][/i] Oh crap. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [h3][i][b][u]The World Gone Hell.[/u][/b][/i][/h3] [center][color=fff200][b][i]The Quake in the World had been felt by them all, from the lowest acolyte, to the highest overlord. The watched as time and space altered on a whim, and knew that their fabled quarry could be reached. Time it would take and time it was all about, but for the power and the glory and the mastery, all was worth bleeding and sacrificing for. Seated atop his platinum throne within his might citadel, the Hax did grin as he put forth the calculation. His expertise would see him through the distortion, faster than all the others and with no competition beheld. For he was the master of blood and tech and code, and he too had some experience with time. The Hellatics would surely follow in his wake, but they would be far too lacking and far too late...[/i][/b][/color][/center] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [h3][i][b][u]Gotham City - This World, This Time[/u][/b][/i][/h3] [h3][i][b][color=f7941d]BOOOOOOMMM!!![/color][/b][/i][/h3] It was both a heavy impact physically and energetically. Some of the power released would naturally act in shockwave force and explosive release. It was centered at a construction site for a new mid-range office building in Gotham City, which would...now have to be cleared up and started again. Girders and all kinds of debris lay around them, the dust reaching up to great heights. Amidst the center, which was actually [i]clear[/i], lay the figures of the Timekiller (Raimi Saito) and Cobalt Thorium G (Allen Forscythe), both of whom were regaining their senses. Allen was a bit quicker to his feet, though. [color=f7941d]"Okay, good for a warm-up, but now...hmm?"[/color] Eh heh...heh heh heh... Oh dear. He was pretty much out of juice, now. A little to get by on, as it generated now, but [i]wow[/i], what a ride! He turned to ask what the hell Raimi did to him, but suddenly had to duck back as she tried to claw his face off, suddenly! She was a little unsteady, but getting her feet underneath her now. [color=silver]"Guess it didn't all happen according to plan, did it?"[/color] [color=f7941d]"Plan? What plan? I don't have a plan. [i]Blam[/i] is the plam. I mean, [i]plan[/i]."[/color] [color=silver]"Heh...and now you're all tapped out."[/color] [color=f7941d]"Yeah? So are you."[/color] Unfortunately, he was right. Her hair had a tendancy to spike in back when she had a temporal charge, but right now it was smooth. She was empty. That said, she had enough fighting experience to- [color=f7941d]"[i]Un[/i]chaos."[/color] [color=silver][i]What? Oh shit, no no no [b]no![/b][/i][/color] Too late. There was a ripple-wave that pulled into him from fifty feet in all directions. Dust fell to the ground in a heap, pieces that had still been rattling ceased immediately, and Allen's eyes started to glow again...before he swept himself up in a quick personal whirlwind to rise up WAY out of reach as he shouted [color=f7941d]"Leaving now! Buh-bye!"[/color]! Even her grappling gun failed here. Swearing to herself, she reeled it in and made her way out of the collapsed uhhh...everything, climbing over or under until.. [b]"FREEZE!"[/b] ...until the police shouted at her! Wait...that was in [i]English[/i], these people didn't look like Japanese police. Where was she? Raimi decided to uhh, step back, and the cop on the megaphone shouted [b]"WE HAVE THE AREA SURROUNDED! DROP YOUR WEAPON, PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD, AND SURRENDER NOW!"[/b]. Weapon? Oh, right... She was still holding onto the grapple gun. Well then...this was where she threw a flashbang out at them and fired a hook at one of the nearby buildings! [center][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Kkz1S_Tw4[/youtube][/center] She swung out of reach, but even still recovering from the flash, several of them opened fire while others were taking to their cars. Raimi got up high, disengaged the hook, launched to another building, and repeated to keep ahead of anyone with a decent rifle. [color=silver][i]Not gonna get away from them like this, though.[/i][/color] Not that easily, anyway. I mean, it's [i]broad daylight[/i] and she had NO IDEA what was going on! How'd she get to an American city?! How was she gonna catch Allen now?! [i][b]Ping![/b][/i] Maaaybe now wasn't the time to ask that. She had to lose these guys. Raimi suddenly dropped down on a car that was ahead of the police, took hold of the roof, and shoved her masked face down against the windshield with a devilish grin. The driver went "FUCK!!", hit the brakes and swerved, she went flying, and - most importantly, the police in pursuit began to crash into him and each other, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMagP52BWG8]Blues Brothers style![/url] Raimi ended up tucking and rolling, then running for a nearby alley. It was one of those alleyways that had a manhole cover in it. Perfect! She'd used her claws to pull the lids up plenty of times! When the cops rushed into the alley, they'd find the lid just a little bit ajar. They reported her having possibly gone into the sewer. Meanwhile, her grapple gun had taken her to the roof of the building there. Snickering, she let them do as they pleased, getting the hell out of the area while keeping watch for helicopters. No sign of Allen... No idea where she was, or if this really was the United States or just ANY English-speaking town. I mean, she could [i]speak[/i] the language, but...ah, she needed time to think... This...this was gonna take some time. [i]Real[/i] time, not funny hah-hah I'm-a-time-traveler time. [color=silver]"Fuck..."[/color]