Roleplay:Off with her Head!

This Roleplay is Closed! Sorry!

Overview
With the Death of Echo Radon, things have started to take a turn for the worse, starting with the infighting of the already unstable Mythic Knights. Saren doesn't seem to be taking to well to the team after Echo's death, Lexi seems so distracted by something it's like she's not even there and the physical manifestation of Masako's guilt soon comes running towards the team. All while Time Spinner takes on a litteral god and keeps the world from ending at the same time. This assassination attempt through time is going to be one hell of a ride...

Participants
NeoExlucky

Characters
Zero Evol (Neo)

Knave Veron (Neo)

Echo Radon (Neo)

Leah Dubio (Neo)

Trinity Moon (Neo)

Delta Radon (Neo)

Sedna the Rat (Neo)

Kala the Genie (Neo)

Time Spinner (Neo)

Era Tranquil (Neo)

Aero Facade (Neo)

Saren Arcturias (Saren)

Moros Nekrozia (Saren)

Ciel Mackenzie Fay (MHS)

Masako Haruno (MHS)

Natalie Alister (MHS)

Monica DeLouise (MHS)

Zapor the Hedgehog (Z88)

Lexi the Hedgehog (Z88)

"The Fallen Knight" (MHS)

Part 1: It's about time!
"What do you mean save Echo?" Zero asked, the runes being undone on everyone except Saren and Knave.

"As a meta of time I have a multitude of power," Time Spinner started. "One of these powers allows me to see every moment in all possible Time lines, and the thing about Echo is her right arm. In all timelines there is a clear cause and effect when it comes to her, that being that she will always lose the arm and whenever she does death always follows shortly afterwards."

"Skip to the parts that matter." Era chided the meta.

"Echo isn't supposed to die here. There isn't supposed to be any paradoxes created by Masako and Lexi, and Clemont should have already been found by now, but none of those things have happened. This isn't a timeline problem anymore there is something far greater than time being played wtih at this very moment and we need to fix it before anything else happens." Time Spinner explained.

"The only problem with that is that by traveling through time to an event that happened 2 hours ago with all of you involved is going to cause just as many paradoxes as we would be fixing, basically meaning that if we save Echo, we're going to destroy all of time and with it, everyone in existance ever." Aero reminded him.

"But as a meta, as long as I keep my focus, I can prevent Paradoxes from happening at all, I can use the Deja Vu effect to prevent anything like that from happening, as long as the paradoxes aren't too strong. So don't go touching any of the past versions of yourself." Time Spinner argued.

"So wait," Delta started.

"We don't have time to wait, we have literal demons coming after us, as well as monsters, paradoxes, soldiers, futures versions of yourselves, oh and possibly Destruction himself so we need to get moving!" Time Spinner noted. "Just so you know, I am not the Time Spinner from your time, I am a future Time Spinner coming back. Your Time Spinner is off doing something else, if you need a person to thank, look at Aero and thank him."

"None of this makes any sense." Delta shook her head, still looking at the blue hedgehog girl. "Who are you?"

"Monica DeLouise, the Aspect of Grace," she answered. "Yeah, I'm the idiot who tried to take on Neo alone... heh..."

Another tremor.

"Oh great, now that bitch is trying to bury us alive. Y'know, on top of all this timeline shit going straight to Hell!" Natalie ranted.

"I... don't think that's the case, here..." Ciel said.

"Yeah... Time Spinner, you said something about future versions of ourselves, right?" Masako inquired.

"Yes," Time Spinner noted. "Since the timelines are collapsing we've basically the got multiple versions of the end of the world running around able to jump through time now. Specifically there is a Neo who thinks he's king, and a destroyer of Mobius with the same name as you.."

"King Neo and The Fallen Knight." Aero muttered. "The good news is that they don't think they're on the same side for now. Give that a few minutes and we'll see where that goes."

"C'mon My Little Time Traveler, open the portals already!" Era chided.

"I'm working on it!" Time Spinner noted.

"Here's where things are going to get weird. With all these people following us, we're going to need everyone we can get to go through as many timelines as possible. If we can lose them somewhere else, the better." Aero explained giving everyone their weapons. "It's going to take a while, but we're going to save Echo. Saren, Knave, Trinity and Kala are going to save her." He looked at Saren. "Your goal is to save the girl, not kill the Queen. You'll have your moment once she's safe."

"Lexi, Era, Moros, Monica and Zero are going to try and take the hammer from The Queen. We need that hammer gone and Lexi is the only one who can pick it up right now." Aero continued.

"Masako," Time Spinner stated. "You and Delta are the only ones who can stop the Fallen Knight. You need to know that. I'm sending Ciel with you as well. In the end only you and Delta can kill the Fallen Knight."

"I can't believe we're doing this last one..." Aero shook his head. "Zapor. Leah, Sedna, and Natalie are going on a distraction team. You're job is to keep the demons away from the main three groups. Which means a lot of fighting and running."

"And death!" Leah protested. "You're sending us on a suicide mission!"

"I'm sending you four because I know you won't die." Aero said.

"More grunt work. Pathetic..." Natalie complained.

"Trust me, Natalie. What you'll be doing will be very important. If anything happens, if any of the three groups fail... this world is lost," Ciel said.

On the other side of the room, a huge darkened icicle crashed through the ceiling. There was a Conquest member painfully impaled on the end of it.

Masako observed it from her spot. "Are you sure the Fallen Knight can even be killed? And if so, is it worth the risk? For all I know, I might just be her only target."

(Basically, what I had in mind was that future Masako kills the Queen here, absorbing her power as she continues on her quest to... well, kill herself. It would be undone when the group travels back in time. -MHS)

"Yeah yeah, I'm more concerned about Echo than revenge.." Saren sighed.

Moros nodded. 'What can the hammer do anyways?' He asked, just because he's a voidling doesnt mean he knows everything.

"If we don't kill her she could wind up jumping through the tmelines even after we fix all ths. She could kill a lot of people if she isn't stopped here." Time Spinner said. "We have to at least try to kill her."

"Well, looking at it," Era started. "It seems like it can bend energy around it. Kinda like kinesis. Specifically lightning apparently..."

The four portals opened in front of Time Spinner, just as he was about to say something though, a being came from out of nowher a slammed Time Spinner into the back wall. He carried a large spear and was in a dark hood, hiding his face. Time Spinner quickly called out, "Go now!"

Aero started to lead people to their portals when the queen entered the room. "What is-"

(Do it MHS. -Neo)

Moros blinked, looking at the queen for a bit before inching towards his assigned portal.

Saren took the first portal.

Before the queen could finish her sentence, the Fallen Knight made her appearance, gripping her by the neck. The black blood -- the source of the Queen's power -- was being drained from her, her body being physically torn apart in the process. "Surrender now... to oblivion."

Masako watched in horror as Ciel dragged her into the portal with Delta.

"Hey, Monica! Don't die out there, alright?" Natalie shouted as she backed into her respective portal.

Zapor ran into his designated portal while Lexi ran into hers.

Part 2 (A): Blinded by Light, Corrupted by Shadow
Saren, Knave, Kala, and Trinity found themselves in Station Square again. Home, where everything was supposed to be safe.

Only it wasn't. While the city looked perfectly normal it didn't feel normal. Something in the air felt off, like they were in some sort of twisted land.

"Tranquil Manor is where the next portal is." Aero told them through some form of telekinesis. "If you find your way there you can get back home."

"Can you tell us anything about this place?" Knave asked.

"Yeah, this is a timeline where there is only light and shadow kinesis." Aero told them. "Hurry up, despite there being time travel, we don't actually have all the time in the world."

"Why would there be any difference with just light and shadow?" Knave asked.

"Light and Shadow are the two strongest forms of kinesis there is." Kala explained. "They mess with your head though. If you have one or the other they change your perspective in life, make you well, not you."

Trinity looked at Saren the entire time Kala explained that. "Huh." She said.

Saren looked back at Trinity. "Y'know, if you have something to say just say it instead of looking at me like a poece of meat."

Trinity pointed to the sign behind Saren. On it was an ad to vote Saren for Governer, a white suit and a smile that almost everyone in the group found creepy was plastered on this version of Saren.

"Guess you're trying to actually do something in this timeline." Trinity noted.

"5th term." Aero noted. "Apparently he's not bad. The people like him, at least."

"..... Holy shit I look like a f**kin f****t! God no! This shit isn't right damn it!!" Saren ranted. "God if I didnt care more about saving echo I'd be tempted to fix this mess up the old fashioned way!!"

"Wouldn't you die if you killed your..." Kala took a moment to ponder if that was Suicide or homoicide.

"Don't even worry about it, I'll kill Saren." Trinity said.

"Anyway," Knave tried to get them back on track. "We need to figure out where Tranquil Manor is."

"I know! We're two block south of...Hart's Coffee Shop! Which means we're about half a mile from Tranquil Manor!" Kala stated.

"The only one who kills me is me!" Saren retorted.

"Doing that creates a paradox that would kill you." Aero said. "If you want to save Echo, you need to keep moving, forget about him."

The shadowy figure who Saren had seen walk into the antique building stood in the distance, watching the four talk. Saren and Kala noticed him.

"Not this again.." Saren whispered under his breath, the last time he saw the shadowy figure he ended up being captured and echo ended up dying to the bitch queen.

More and more of them started to line up, not doing anything, simply watching.

"That doesn't feel right..." Kala noted.

"C'mon then..." Knave told them. "We need to go."

As they walked, with Kala leading them, the shadowy figures continued to follow, though they still did not do anything, at one point Knave had suggested they take refuge somewhere safe, and that safe space was right in Hart's Coffee Shop.

It looked the exact same as it had in the other timeline as well. It was empty, with Hart standing behind the counter, cleaning. Upon seeing Saren enter, he smiled, held a finger out as if to say 'Wait a moment' and began making him a cup. It seemed that Saren was a reguler here.

At least this Saren's taste was similar to Saren's. Hart presented Saren with an irish coffee, made using a whiskey that was very similar to the kind Echo had given Saren in Eclipse Manor earlier.

Saren downed the coffee with a few gulps. "Ah! That hit the spot..."

Hart nodded at Saren and went back behind the counter, he handed Saren an envelope containing what felt like cards.

Saren opened the envelope.

Inside the envelope was exactly what it felt like, a bunch of cards had been filled into the envelope, judging from the back of these cards, it was clear that these were Echo's. The fronts of the cards all lined up, it was the same circle that Echo had made back in Eclipse Manor, and two other cards and a note.

The first card looked almost burnt up, heat still radiated off of the cardstock. It had a 4 in each of the corners with a chibi picture of Time Spinner in the center, reading a book. It seemed Echo had used this card previously.

The next card was very similar with an 8 in each corner and a chibi picture of Saren in the center, drinking something. It was unclear what this card did.

The note was written in very fast, hardly legible handwriting, but after some time it could clearly be read,

"Saren, I drew a Time Spinner Card for the first time today. Turns out it gave me the power to see the future, and I really wish what I saw made me happy but it doesn't. By the time you have read this, I will be dead, that's what I saw. I know that Time Spinner will try to fix it, I know he'll try to turn back time and make everything right, but he can't. You can't bring me back from the dead, he doesn't know what will happen to people when they go through time like that, and he's letting his past judgements cloud his thinking. In the end, you need to know that you can't bring me back from the dead, I know what everyone will be thinking and wanting, but you're the only person who can make that decision to bring me back or not.

"You also need to get to work on saving your own life. You need to talk to Trinity and Kala, and I know that you'll need them both on their good side if you want both of their lights, but listen, you need to talk to Kala. Start asking questions, ask her about the shards of light and the Echo Project, she is where everything comes together. Kala is the reason Zero has no family, why Neo and Fey were captured, why Trinity was ripped from her home, why Zapor lost his parents, and why everything is going really badly all of a sudden. Kala is what brings everything together."

-Echo

Saren closed his eyes for a moment after reading the message, allowing himself a small moment to mutter an apology before neatly pressinh the card into his coat pocket and turning towards Kala.

"Hey.. Kala, mind if I ask you a few questions?"

"I...guess..." Kala said.

"We really need to keep moving..." Knave muttered.

"No one's there though." Trinity said. "We can wait a few minutes."

"What exactly are these shards of light really, and the Echo project... What's going on with all of that?"

"I mean, you already know everything that I know about it." Kala said.

"No, we don't." Trinity crossed her arms. "You said earlier your the reason we're here. You were around long enough to have been in the demon-spirit war, you're leaving information out, aren't you?"

Kala didn't answer for a while. "It's a long story..."

"We got all the time in the multiverse." Trinity gestured outside.

"When the multiverse was first formed," Kala started. "There was a single diety. Not all these 'gods' that are walking around now, there was only one. He or she eventually left us, all of the multiverse, for unknown reasons. All that we have left, are the 'gods' that we have now, and The Guardians."

"The Guardians are these strange stone-like objects that exist in the dimenion in between all of the universes. The home of the Meta. Their purpose was simple, find people with specific qualifications and moments after they are born, they are given incredible power. That's how meta are made. After the first meta came to be, they begin to find other universes for more meta to be found. One meta from each dimension, ten meta in total. Universe number 8 finally was found one day, our universe."

"Among them were three really important meta, Time Spinner, Diety, and Aselia. These meta came in during a war against demons and Destruction, one we were losing. The meta offered their help, but they needed a guide. So, the Elemental Spirits created a spirit, a spirit consisting of all the elements in existant, someone who could rival the Elemental Spirits in strength. She became known in war as the Elemental Spirit of All, Sihr. Of course she choose a different name for herself; Kala." The genie sighed.

"But what's all this got to do with the Shards of Light?" Trinity asked.

"Well," Kala began. "As time passed, I joined the meta and became a guide of sorts for them, I knew all of the planet's locations from the moment I came into existance. We scoured the land for everything we could use to turn the war around, and we found a small point in our universe, one that led to the center of the entire multiverse. There we found two of the most power items in existance, The Light and The Darkness. Two crystals with so much power that they could disintegrate a meta by merely touching them. Time Spinner had an idea, and with the help of the other two meta, he broke The Light, into seven fragments."

"Spirits could not use the shards, so it was up to seven meta to become the Shards of Light. Time Spinner and Diety were two of them. Suddenly we were winning and in one battle that could have led to Destruction's death, everything changed forever. I was caught in a fight away from the others, and I was going to die. I had accepted my fate when Time Spinner came to save me. Instead of going to the battlefield, he instead chose to rescue me, and that is what caused everything to happen in the first place."

"Destruction had killed Diety on the field of battle. Meta are not supposed to die while they are active. A meta can die only when they have given up their meta powers. Diety's death led to the destruction of the Shard of Conscience. We no longer had the power to kill Destruction. The sky darkened and in the chaos of Diety's powers we got the Chaos Emeralds, and the world was never the same. Suddenly now we couldn't kill Destruction, why hope for something that isn't going to happen, right? Time Spinner came up with an alternative, we could seal Destruction and his demons in the underworld, if all the shards worked together, and they did. We all knew though, that one day Destruction would come back, Time Spinner had to be ready."

"So he changed everything. He changed the lives of everyone, every member of the Mythic Knights, he was always behind the scenes causing everything to happen. Zapor's parents, Era's lonelieness, Masako's destiny, Zero's sister, the Mystic Magi, Leah's mentor, Delta's brothers, even your death, Saren, Time Spinner helped you wind up dead. He can whisper things into people's heads, change how everything plays out, influence people to do certain things, so that other people won't notice it."

"So you're the reason Destruction is still here and Time Spinner is just using us to clean up his mistake?" Trinity asked.

"Yes." Kala continued. "At one point I helped King Arthur and one of his knights, Balador. After sometime, Balador left the round table and established his own kingdom, along with a new form of fighting, with Black Blood. Balador was the first Black Blood user, and taught all in his kingdom how to use it. I helped him through everything, even when he wrote a theory about a possible war machine, it was all possible, but it needed technology that didn't exist. So he kept his writings along with the shards of a crystal he found and saved it for the future. I was imprisoned in a lamp for what I had done, unknowing that it was that small echo in time, that caused Dr. Radon to create the Echo Project. In his madness he didn't know what he was doing, but Dr. Radon eventually decided to use those two crystals in two of his last experiments. Project Delta, the shard of Deceit and Project Echo, the shard of Apathy, two of the Shards of Darkness."

"Echo and Delta...?" Trinity asked. "They're...shards of darkness?"

"Influenced by Destruction and made to one day kill the Shards of Light, yes." Kala nodded.

Saren took all this in, and his conclusion to this was unsurprisingly snarky. "So in essence, all the shit we've had to deal with was a result of Time Spinner's monumental retardation..?"

"That's what it sounds like..." Trinity growled.

"At the same time, by doing that humans and mobians came to exist as well." Kala tried to argue. "It's not his fault! I should have listened to him and Diety and not gone to that city, it's not his fault, it's mine, he's just been trying to stop Destruction, any way possible."

"So instead of it really being Time Spinner's fault, in all reality it's yours." Trinity said.

"Is everyone just going to ignore the fact that the girl we are trying to bring back to life is a shard of darkness?" Knave asked.

"Yeah.." Saren looked off to the distance, a rather forlorn look on his face.

"What would you have us do Knave?" Trinity asked.

"Gods, I don't know!" Knave shouted. "We can't be like Kala or Time Spinner or whoever. Destruction needs to die. The only way for him to die is with all seven shards of light and if they are meant to kill them..."

"Do you think they would do that?" Trinity argued.

"Do you think they have a choice in the matter? You're one of the people they're trying to kill! If they become anything like Neo did in that armor, then they won't even know what's going on!" Knave said.

".... As much as I really hate Knave, I'm afraid I'm going ti have ti agree with him.. Sides, something tells me Echo forsaw her death and what would happen if Timespinner's attempt to bring her back actually succeeded."

"Is that what the note said?" Trinity asked. "How do you know this isn't Destruction messing with us? Even if it was Hart who gave it to us, that Hart is from another dimension and could have been tricked."

"Considering that Destruction seems to enjoy tricking Saren, the does sound plausible." Knave siad. "Of course, I don't really think that matters, since it was the real Kala that told us what Echo really is."

"Maybe we need to ask Echo." Kala suggested. "If we keep going with this, we can talk to Echo in the past."

Part 2 (B): Tranquil Kingdom
Lexi, Era, Moros, Monica and Zero found themselves in a twisted form of Station Square. The biggest glaring issue was the giant castle that stood in the center of town. The buildings had changed, as had the layout of the city. This town was so strange, the people who flooded the streets looked tired and constantly in a state of what looked like Delirium.

"What the hell happened here?" Zero muttered.

"Remember when we mentioned King Neo?" Aero asked. "This is where he's from. This is a timeline where the Order of the Scythe never existed. Without it, there was no Fey, no wayward castle, and no previous kingdom established here, meaning some other family established it. Take a wild guess who's king here."

"Where's the portal?" Era asked.

"The only place with enough power to support it. The caslte gardens." Aero answered.

Moros blinked, looking around with a curious expression. 'owo?'

"So... how much danger are we in right now? I get the distinct feeling that we can't afford to stay here for very long..." Monica asked.

"Considering your all dead in this timeline and were previously wanted criminals?" Aero asked. "A large amount of danger."

"Great..." Zero muttered.

'Even me..?' Moros asked.

"Do not lose sight of our goal. We find the portal and make a swift exit -- that's our plan for now," Monica said. "If we're forced into a fight, there aren't any consequences to neutralizing anyone who might want to kill us... right?"

'Mouuu, I wanna get a cinnabun though... Era forgot them back home.' Moros pouted slightly.

"We'll get them later!" Era chided Moros. "Honestly, you're a child."

"How...did you two beat us again?" Zero asked rhetorically.

"Considering you all are dead, including you Moros, don't worry about coming into contact or killing anyone you need to." Aero told Monica. "You might want to hurry though, there is going to be a change in the guards here soon."

"Right... I'll try scouting for the safest route to the garden. I'm light on my feet," Monica said.

Moros nodded, still pouting a bit. "Mouuu, so mean.." He said, looking at Zero.

"We need to move somewhere safe." Zero noted quickly. "I think...we're being followed."

Monica tucked down as she proceeded forward.

Moros actually started hopping around, a bit of a spring in his steps. Clearly he doesn't get out much,

"That black blood got you all paranoid, huh?" Era asked. "I don't see anyone."

"Don't look, feel them." Zero told her. "I can feel other black blood users approaching."

"If the Order of the Scythe never existed how is there black blood?" Era asked. "They made it, it should only exist if they exist."

"Unless Destruction found some pawns here to." Zero noted coldly. "Hurry up."

Entering the crowd provided a sense of security, though as the group progressed they found that these people acted less like people and more like zombies, not really living but just...existing.

Moros gulped. 'Z-Z-Zombies...? q-q' He gulped, watching too many late night horror flicks in his free time kinda ended up giving him a classic case of unrealistic fear.. Kinda like scooby-doo.

As she was moving, Lexi got a bit nervous. The way the crowd was moving was a bit creepy.

Monica already moved to the end of the crowd. She waited for the others.

"I don't think they're actually zombies..." Era shook her head.

"I know where we can go." Zero said, taking the group through the city, to an alleyway with a dead end. Zero took a running start and quickly used his scythe to swing onto a pipe, where he continued to jump higher and higher.

Era watched as Zero climbed higher up, finally landing on a ledge in the side of an old building. "So can anyone else actually do that or am I just gonna need to fly us up there?"

Moros tried to open two small rifts, one right next to him and the other next to Zero.

"Can you fly me up there?" Lexi asked Era.

"Yeah, I'm... fine with climbing, don't mind me," Monica said. She looked a little tired, though. Her injuries hadn't fully healed.

Era gave a little sigh, creating a platform out of dark poison and hardening it to the point of it being a strong structure. It rose up from the ground, under Lexi, Era, and Monica.

Era truly was Neo's sister. A strong gust of wind formed under the platform, raising it to the floor of where Zero had gone. Once everyone had stepped off the platform, it returned to a liquid state and fell to the floor.

They had entered a very normal looking apartment. There was a couch, in front of a TV, a small kitchen area, a hall leading down to two simple bedroom. It looked so very normal, with the exception of part of the wall being gone.

"This is one of the outposts I used when I came to report to my partner about Echo's status." Zero noted. "This is an A.R.T.E outpost. I doubt they're around now."

Just as Zero had predicted a small group of roughly three or four different guards roamed the streets, looking up and down for the small team that had practically vanished from view. What was most interesting was who was with them. A familiar archer, and mage. Celia was in obsidian armor allowing her great movement while also giving her great defense. Leah wasn't in armor, instead she wore a black dress that many would find at a formal event. The black was moving however, and anyone who looked long enough would find that it was actually made out of Black Blood.

Moros closed the rifts he made before starting to look around his surroundings.

Lexi looked around at her surroundings, and noticed Leah's dress. "A black blood dress...?" She muttered.

'I don't even want to know how that's plausible.'

Zero looked over them before backing away from the side of the building. "Let's wait until they go away."

Part 2 (C): City that never sleeps
Zapor. Leah, Sedna, and Natalie found themselves not in Station Square for once, but rather some place much worse for wear. Giant glowing neon buildings layerd the skyline, there were so many bright lights that even though it was dark, it could easily be mistaken for day time. Many vendors called crowds over, people were gambling left and right. While the others may or may not know where they were, Zapor would know, since he had been here before.

"Huh," Aero noted. "So you're not in an alternate timeline here. It doesn't matter anyway, where you are right now will work just fine for trying to lose King Neo. You need to find the portal, it shouldn't be that far ahead. Oh and Zapor, welcome back to Reale City."

"Guh... this place is so damn bright, it's obnoxious," Natalie complained.

"This place again? It seems brighter than I last remembered." He muttered. "Where would the portal even be?"

"Big casino somewhere?" Leah asked.

"Really big casino." Aero corrected Leah. "Dreams Casino to be exact. That's where the mayor's office is."

"Doesn't the mayor of Reale City want Neo dead?" Leah asked.

"Not the real mayor, just the fake one." Aero said.

"Why is there a fake mayor?" Zapor asked.

"If you'll recall Millie Woodthorne was the mayor before you left, and was taken hostage afterwards. There is a fake mayor in place now; Fury." Aero noted. "So you may want to lay low."

"Or... we enact a hostile change in management," Natalie plotted. "Uhh, later anyway. Whatever, we've still got a job to do."

"I reccomend later." Aero noted.

"Dreams Casino..." Sedna noted. "That's in the center of the city, right? It's there." She pointed to a large building in the center of the town.

Natalie may have noticed that some of the members of the crowd have started to approach them.

Natalie observed them, her hands tucked into her cloak.

"Areo, while we didn't travel in time, what are the chances that something affected the people here?" Zapor asked.

"From the time travel itself? None whatsoever. From Destruction or the Meta of Destiny? Very high." Aero reported.

"Oh great..." Sedna noted.

"Just walk." Leah said quietly, turning to Dreams Casino. "Even if there is someone evil controlling the town that doens't mean the people here deserve to get caught in the crossfire we are having."

Zapor nodded and began to walk to the casino.

"If they're smart, they won't start a fight with us," Natalie grumbled.

"Except they aren't..." Sedna said.

"We can't kill them, they could be normal people under Destruction's influence." Leah told them.

"Does it really matter anyway? In a second we're going to go back in time 4 hours." Seda asked.

"I don't know if we're already back there or not." Leah looked back at the group following them. "If we're already back, then we can't save them with time travel."

"Wait, already back...4 hours..." Zapor was lost in the whole dialogue. "Uh, what's gonna happen when we get to the portal?"

"We figure out who's messing with the timeline, and we kill them! Simple as that," Natalie said. This was one twisted chick..

"I don't think that's going to happen." Leah told Natalie. "The person messing with the timeline is a meta, like Time Spinner and if he's just as strong, than we need to concerned. When we get back to the portal, Considering we spent roughly two hours being dragged and put in jail, we have about 2 hours to stall, while Saren stops the kill, and Lexi takes the hammer."

"Leah, he doesn't know..." Sedna reminded the mage.

Leah stopped walking. She contemplated something, then knelt down to Zapor's height to look the boy in the eyes, placing a hand on his shoulder. This wasn't the first time she had done this. "Zapor...we all failed our last mission and was captured by Conquest...Echo...was executed. She's dead."

Zapor made a face which look like a kid that had all of his hopes and dreams crushed, combined with the face of being stabbed in the gut. "...She's....dead...?"

"I mean technically not right now, we're already back 4 hours in the past and Saren is working on saving her from bring Executed! Everything is going ot be fine, Echo will be safe once all of this is over!" Leah assured him.

Part 2 (D): The Home of Time Spinner
Masako, Ciel, and Delta found themselves in a very strange place. Not even on Mobius at all but rather somewhere else entirely. Something told them it was the Meta of Destiny's doing that caused them to be here, but that was neither nor there. RIght now they were trapped somewhere very far away and couldn't even get Aero to contact them.

The city they were in was quite beautiful, the buildings were made out of some sort of stone that shimmered in the sunlight. The grass was a shining green color that reflected the sunlight, causing it to look an amazing gold color. The oxygen was rich and clean and far better to breath than that one Mobius. It felt like a beautiful spring morning here.

Delta pulled her screen up and was looking through it. "I have no earthly idea where we are." She said. "My screen really doesn't like this place for some reason..."

"What...are you?" Came a femine voice. Behind the trio was two girls who looked to be about the size of a teenage human. They were made entirely out of crystals. This shining, clear quartz that gave the slightest tint of white behind them. One had very long crystal hair, and wore a simple dress made from some teal colored fabric. Her eyes glowed blue as well, with a smile formed through the crystal as if someone had cut through the stone with a smooth knife. There was some strange marking on her forehead that indicated something.

The girl next to her was the same color of crystal but her hair was much shorter. She wore black pants and shoes with a studed leather belt. Fingerless gloves graced her crystaline fingers and her shirt was bright red with a grey skull on the chest. Her eyes matched the other crystal, possibly indicating that they were sisters, although the mark on her forehead was missing. Rather, there seemed to be some strange glowing marks on her back instead.

"No seriously, what are you?" Came the girl with short hair.

"They look tired Pocket Watch, maybe we should leave them alone..." The one in the dress told her.

"You don't even know what they look like normally, how are you supposed to know they're tired?" Pocket Watch said.

Delta looked up from her screen at the girls, then back down to her screen, and then repeated this several times. "Oh." She muttered. "Considering they have the same energies, wave lengths and vital signs as our time traveling friend, I am going to come to the conclusion that they are the same species." She swhispered to the two mobians. "This is where the Chronomancer is from..." She was obviously talking about Time Spinner but the way she said Time Traveling Friend and Chornomancer possibly indicated that she believed it best to not use Time Spinner's named.

"Are you tired?" The girl with long hair asked. "My name is Silver Chain, by the way, this is my sister, Pocket Watch."

"...Masako Haruno. I don't mean to be rude, but 'tired' doesn't even begin to describe how I feel right now..." Masako answered.

Ciel paced around, taking in their surroundings. "This place is so surreal, I'm not even sure what plane of existence we're on..."

"We're in Emerald City." Pocket Watch told Ciel. "In the country of Glamour? On...Millennium? Aliens have never heard of us before?"

"We're not aliens, we're mobians and technically we're supposed to be time travelers." Delta defended, still scrolling through her screen.

"Mobians? What kind of dumb name is that?" Pocket Watch asked.

"Clear Quartz probably isn't any better to them." Silver Chain hushed her sister. "What are you...people doing here?"

"It's a really, really long story," Masako answered. "Our world is in danger, and we've been jumping through timelines to save it. And by some odd circumstance, we've been brought here. We have to find the portal back to our world."

"Well maybe we can-" Silver Chain started to say when she was quickly interrupted.

Neo appeared behind them. No, not Neo, he looked like him, but his clothes were more flashy, and his had a dark tint to them. "There you are~" He called out to Masako, pulling his claws out. They were just like Neo's claws, but darker, sharper, covered in a large amount of Warfarin poison, made to cause pain to others in the worst way possible. "Now, where are you going?"

"Dude's a creep!" Pocket Watch stated coldy.

"What sort of fool do you take me for?! I will not waste my time on you!" Masako barked. "Back to the void with you, whelp! You are not prepared!"

"The pasts, presents, and futures of every single timeline are starting to blur together! We have to stop this!" Ciel warned.

"This guy is botherin' you?" Pocket Watch asked.

King Neo shook his head. 'Tsk, tsk, tks, you know better to act like that." He walked calmly forward, using his aerokinesis to subtley shorten Masako's breath.

Masako growled, unsheathing her blade and letting loose a powerful gale around her to force him back.

King Neo grabbed the gale, holding it like a spear. "I am the true king of everything? Why would you even bother using the wind against-"

Silver Chain interrupted him, sending a large boulder of earth magic crashing against his side, and knocking him over. "I'm sorry!" She called to him.

"Uh..." Pocket Watch started. "What do we do?"

"We can...um..." Silver Chain thought while King Neo got up. "Castle of Green Glass! We can take them there!"

"You little bitch!" King Neo called out. "I will shatter you!"

"Run!" Silver Chain squaked, running towards the city.

Pocket Watch's hand shifted from their normal hands into large blades, she stared down Neo but begrudingly followed her sister.

"Once we enter the city we can't risk King Neo in combat, he could hurt the other crystal people." Delta told them. "But if there's a portal it's not going to last long and we need to find it."

"If there's a portal. If there isn't... well, we are in a world of Metas," Ciel said. She looked to Silver Chain. "Nice save, by the way."

"I was... trying to use his cockiness against him back there. As it turns out, I was the cocky one for thinking his aerokinesis was weak enough for me to pierce his chest with the gale he held in his hand," Masako said.

"Time Spinner told Neo once that there are only 10 metas in existance at one time." Delta said. "These aren't metas, these are the people Time Spinner was before he became a meta, which means that they could be incredibly less powerful."

"I don't think he likes rocks." Pocket Watch said. "Just keep hitting him with those."

Masako looked at Delta. "...Well, that's our best option so far."

As the entered the town, they could see why it was called Emerald City. The buildings had been decorated with strange green gems, all embezzeled into the walls. More crystal people roamed the city, besides the clear quartz that Pocket Watch and Silver Chain were, there were other colors as well. Orange tiger's eye, green malachite, white marble, and plenty of others. They had gathered in small groups, as if they had met in a forum. Many smaller crystals ran around playing what looked like was a game of tag. All in all, the town was quite clean and peaceful.

That is, until King Neo showed, throwing a tornado at the team, which Silver Chain defeated by created a large wall of rock.

"Oh, why do you have to be like that? I just want to talk to you!" King Neo told them, his voice getting much creepier than before.

"This way!" Pocket Watch ran.

Silver Chain knelt to the ground. "That...that tornado was really...really..." She fell to the ground, unconscious.