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“Well if the cuffs weren’t broken before they are now.” Cadet Nah yelled down as he switched to super speed to race down and grabbed a hold of Sun Emperor before he burst into complete flames.

“Frrreeeedom!” Sun Emperor echoed as he felt the full pull of the sun on him absorbing its light and heat. Every solar flare-up making him feel rejuvenated. Sun Emperor’s mane glowed brighter as he began to rise up off the ground steam and flame shooting from him.

“Tharok where are you with that stun gun?” Cadet Nah yelled as he swooped down in front of Sun Emperor picking up both Cadet Durgo’s as his flame extended out.

“It’s malfunctioning. I just need to fix it. I’ll work on this and I’ll send Validus to help you. Validus go!”

Instantly the behemoth came to life its mental pink lighting charging up. While Tharok stayed behind fiddling with his power dampening gun as it began to spark slightly. Sun Emperor rose up and flames coated his whole body as his mane became a giant ball of flame about his head.

“AHHh much better.” His voice deepening as if the sun was sunken in on itself.

“Arrhhhhh!” Validus roared as he ran straight for Sun Emperor who began firing waves of flames from his hands as he pushed Validus back whose giant three fingered hands were covering his face while his pink mental lighting was still charging up.

Cadet Dune’s form shifted spreading out around Sun Emperor creating a sandstorm around him; shifting quickly to avoid being fused by his heat.

“I think I can contain him for a moment to allow Validus to charge up.” Cadet Dune’s face appeared across the outside of the sandstorm. While inside it was clear the flames from Sun Emperor were only getting stronger and his sandstorm was starting to solidify.

“Tharok!”

“I’m working on it!”

“Grava on the count of three fly by him using your comet tail! Cadet Durgo commanded as she re-merged leaving Cadet Nah’s arms as he flew back into the fray.

“Galactic Idea.” Cadet Grava beamed as she took off high into the air of the domed court yard.

“Open that black hole a little more Duneshine!” Cadet Grava called down her comet tail of light transforming to its dark smoking plume its sleep cloud dust falling into the opening.

“Noooo I will not be denied!” screamed Sun Emperor as he extended out his flame and light straight up vaporizing the dust cloud and reaching out with his powers to grab at the small bit of light left in Cadet Grava’s tail sending a blast of sunlight up her tail.

“AAAHaaaa!!!!!!” Cadet Grava screamed.

“LET GO OF HER!” Cadet Dune yelled his sandstorm closing in on Sun Emperor forcing his way down trying to squash him. Quickly Cadet Dune forced his way down to pin Sun Emperor in his sands.

But just as he thought he had him pinned to the floor Cadet Dune felt an intense heat come from underneath him and in an instant Cadet Dune exploded out ward his sandstorm dispersing sending glazed over sand shards out ward.

“Take cover!” Cadet Nah yelled jumping in front of Cadet Durgo and switching quickly to invulnerability to stop the shards from piercing her.

More shards flew at Validus who screamed as pink mental lighting shot out striking several spots around the cadets as a piece of Cadet Dune’s glass shards sliced his arm.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRAHHHHHHHHHHH” Validus roared again firing but this time at the spot Sun Emperor was standing on. But Sun Emperor erected a wall of fire to absorb it.

“I will not be denied! Freedom will be mine.” Sun Emperor screamed as his solar flare pulsed out sending Cadet Nah and Cadet Grava flying backwards as both began to try and rush him.

“Where the Sprock is that gun Tharok?! Cadet Durgo yelled dodging flames that began to erupt outward.

The prison’s alarm system began to go off. Sprinklers and green foam began to rain down from the domed skylight. But nothing doused Sun Emperor’s flame. The water evaporated before it even reached him. The temperature rising around him and the green foam he set ablaze with blast of pure light.

“What’s going on here?” Science Police Officer Fillom barked as the elevator opened.

“Die, Jailer!” Sun Emperor opened fire on him basking the entire elevator in flames killing Officer Fillom instantly leaving nothing more than a chard corps.

“He just killed someone! Tharok where the SPROKE it that gun?”

“Right here!” Cadet O’rn said jumping on top of the cruiser.

“A Monkey?” Sun Emperor scrunched his orange eyes.

“That’s right. Your worst nightmare.” Cadet O’rn crouched down and waited for Sun
Emperor to fire. But nothing came and instantly Cadet O’rn jumped up and ran full speed at Sun Emperor who began firing on him shooting blast after blast. Cadet O’rn using his natural agility to maneuver past each blast.

“Don’t get hit. Don’t get hit.” Cadet O’rn thought as he past each blast. Cadet O’rn’s brown eyes fixed on Sun Emperor.

“Monkey fast. But not fast enough!” Sun Emperor pulled back his hands creating a strong blast.

Blasting Cadet O’rn square in the chest while he was in mid jump. Cadet O’rn thrust out his chest bouncing the blast directly back at Sun Emperor. A burst of fire backlash throwing Sun Emperor off and sending him flying backwards before landing on his feet sliding back a bit his fiery finger tips digging into the graphite floor melting it.

“Shiny Monkey. ArHHHHH” Sun Emperor fired back instantly and just as quickly Cadet O’rn blasted him back.

“Keep it coming, you over sized puff ball!” Cadet O’rn bolstered in bravado and fired back as he pushed the Sun Emperor’s power back at him hoping to burn him out.

“I will not be defeated by a MONKEY!” Summoning every last ounce of solar flare he had in him Sun Emperor blasted him with a concentrated flare that bounced back at him but wide as the original flare and the black lash flare sent Cadet’ O’rn flying backwards.

“Cadet O’rn I got you.” Cadet Nah yelled as he flew by grabbing him quickly and then taking him down next to Cadet Durgo.

Validus began charging Sun Emperor as did Cadet Grava whose tail was already changed to the sleep fumes and dust. Cadet Grava circled high above as Validus grabbed Sun Emperor up in his hands and began to fire his pink lightning on to Sun Emperor.
“Ahhhhh vvviille creattttuure.” Flames burst from him as his mane extended out burning Validus’s hand.

“:hmmmwhhwRooohooooo” Validus howled as he pulled back.

“Tharok Wher..”

“Can it I heard you the first 90 times!” Cadet Tharok lifted his repaired stun gun over his shoulder and fired on Sun Emperor a blue light speed towards Sun Emperor who threw a flame at it. The flame slowly died as the beam forced its way back towards Sun Emperor until finally the beam had made contact with Sun Emperor.

“Noooo…I was to be free.” Sun Emperor moaned as the beam rendered him powerless and then slowly put him to sleep.

“Stun gun and power dampener in one.” Tharok smiled to no one particular.

“Took you long enough hot shot.” Cadet O’rn said standing slowly.

“Yeah. It did. What took you so long?” Cadet Durgo asked brushing herself off much of her standard blue uniform singed.

“I realized we would need both to stop him and it was easier to create one instead of two. But that took some reconfiguring. But I got it done.” Tharok slimy smile made Cadet Durgo’s skin crawl. She wasn’t sure if him as a full human was worse than him as half machine but either way she didn’t trust him one bit.

“Good thing Smart star was able to implode our super nova!” Cadet Grava smiled brightly at Tharok and waved her three fingers at him while shrugging her shoulders slightly. Cadet Tharok smiled uneasily before returning his attention to helping get Sun Emperor into the brig.

“What about Cadet Dune?” Cadet O’rn asked looking around at the glazed sand about them.
“He’ll recover. According to his file he can heal from this it just takes time. Well need to collect his shards before we can go. So let’s get to work.” Cadet Durgo explained as she began picking up those around her feet quickly triplicating to get the job done faster.

“Alright crew. Let’s do this.” Cadet Nah said rubbing his hands together before using his super speed to help Cadet’s Durgo and Grava help pick up the pieces of Cadet Dune. While Cadets O’rn and Tharok put Sun Emperor into the brig and readied the cruiser. Validus followed Cadet Tharok up into the cargo hold where his cage was and instantly feel asleep as he rested on the warm spot created by the cages heated floor.

Inside the cruiser’s brig.

“Well that was fun.” Cadet O’rn called over the intercom system from the bridge of the cruiser.

“If your idea of fun is beating the snot out of someone who just wants their freedom then yes. It was fun.” Cadet Tharok finished his calculations for the brig cell’s power dampeners to keep Sun Emperor down.

“He’s a convicted killer, hired assassin and powerful enough to burn out a reflection of his own power. I think I’d rather him behind bars.” Cadet O’rn squeaky voice came over the intercom again as he tried to make his voice sound like the voice of the law.

“I’ll be up in a few.” Cadet Tharok replied before cutting off communication with Cadet O’rn.

“Uggg. Cadet M’oron is not what I need right now.” Tharok thought to himself as he cracked his neck.

“Sorry Old Sunshine for having to put you down like this. I know we’ve never met but I admire your work. You’ve done some naduir things.” Tharok said to Sun Emperor checking vitals and the brigs force fields and flashing him a smile. His brown hair falling into his eyes as he bent down.

“And you provided just the right amount of cover. If it wasn’t for your cuffs “failing”, meaning I hacked into them and shut them off, then used a hologram of me with a “failing” dampener gun to allow you to power up, I wouldn’t have been able to find my way into the evidence lockers and personal storage of all the inmates and I found exactly what I came for.” Tharok thought pulling on a chain around his neck and pulled up a set of three green keys each with a different handle on the end.

Tharok stood and used his secret omnicom update of the pager from the Dark Man.

“Keys obtained. Let me know where the drop off is.” Tharok typed quickly before going up to the bridge with Cadet M’oron.

Three keys? The last three Fatal Five members? Or something else...

Interesting little battle. Sun Emperor was powerful.. kudos for giving everyone something to do. Poor Sci-Cop got killed and Tharok emerged as the hero... I bet Lu and Jo will be suspicious though.

Hi IB, Harbinger, and Raz
Thank you for your continued support! I'm glad your enjoying these missions.

Black Mace was an unexpected delight to write and his mission is just the start to something.

I'm glad you guys liked Cadets Ayrla and Wel4d. I've got a top class of 52 and i'm having fun exploring new version of existing characters like Wel4d who is the villain Quicksand and Ayrla who is a creation of mine from the Alternate Legionnaires thread.

Candi's fun in battle and glad the little moments like Garth and Brek's teamwork turning out well.

Harbinger you were sort of right not a full trap.

Twine's good to hate and i'm glad you all love to hate her. i hope to do more with her and a few other cadets soon once i've worked out a few more story lines.

IB Sun Emperor is powerful and i'm glad the battle worked out well. i'm trying to work on that aspect more.

Three more Fatal Five members....hmmm a prospect a never thought about. But i guess you'll have to wait and see.

Suspicions are there in spades about Tharok and this maybe a Jo and Lu team up we've all been waiting for.

More soon and an Recap coming your way.

Planet Vulna-5 : The 3 slain

Roll Call:
Cadet Shazlon of Barrio III - Spherical diamond body, with retractable appendages. Super durability. Telepathic communication.
Cadet -Jenni Ognats of Aarok – travel at super speeds. Speed force connection.
Violet - Salu Digby – able to shrink to microscopic and grow gigantic size at will. Of Imsk U247
Spark - Ayla Ranzz –electrical generation and manipulation. Of Winath U247
Cadet Bobb Kohan of Earth - creates crystal structures by force of will.

All five Cadets stood around the slain Vegauras cafubs. Their hearts ripped from their chest.

“What could have done this?” Cadet Orgnats looked around horrified at the sight her amber eyes watering.

“Poachers wouldn’t do this.” Cadet Kohan said as he created a crystal pen around all of the other Vegauras.

“No…this looks to specific. Poachers would have shot or stabbed them to kill them. But not ripe out their hearts and leave them for dead.

“This world is steeped in ancient magical practices if I recall from our mission brief.” A slow soothing voice entered all of their minds. Cadet Shazlon’s yellow eyes opened up on her multifaceted surface in two spots only even though she could manifests them all over if the liked. It gave her a 360 degree perspective.

“Yes and this does seem to look like some ancient magic.” A voice a came from a nearby reed tree their howling song slowing to almost a dull roar at this point without Cadet Orgnats help.

“Who are you?” Cadet Ayla Ranzz instantly turned her hands sparking to life as white hot electricity circled her hands.

“I’m Artumes” the voice stepped out from the reed trees and walked towards them taking off her dark brown hood of her cloak revealing her long pony tail of forest green hair and pink eyes.

“Alright Artumes and how would you know that?” Cadet Kohan folded his arms across his chest.

“I live here and I see magic all the time even if I can’t wield it myself.” Artumes widened her eyes to showcase their pink hue.

“But for what purposes would they need three hearts? That’s some heavy blood magic.” Cadet Vi stood up looking Artumes in the eyes.

“Since when are you an authority on magic?” Cadet Ayla Ranzz asked over the legion telepathic ear plugs.

“The Emerald Eye left some magical information in my mind. Most of its simple like knowing that hearts are for blood magic.” She added quickly over the Legion link.

“Correct purple one.” Artumes bowed slightly as she saw Cadet Vi’s eyes clearly.

“Uhmm what are you doing?” Cadet Vi bit her fingers as she watched Artumes bow before her.

“You’ve got eyes purple and of the ruling class that signifies you as part.” Cadet Shazlon responded diamond hardness stung their minds for a moment.

“Sorry, I’m still learning Interlac and even with telepathy its sometimes gets misconstrued.” That grabbled of falling diamonds sounded in the background of their minds.

“Yes, and you clearly have magical knowledge. Why were you herding sheep if you’re royal? Sorry to ask questions of you.” Artumes bowed again.

“Please stop bowing and I’m not royalty at all. I’m a Science Police Cadet and were here to help herd these sheep because there was a request for some extra help to do so from the Vegauras Preservation Society, since the winds of the Turlna forest are unseasonably low and the Vegauras wouldn’t able to find their way. So they sent us.” Cadet Vi smiled warmly as she stood uncomfortable with all the attention from Artumes who was glued to every word she said as if her life depended on it.

“We’ll you still know magic. You should meet my master. He’s a magic caster as well and well known to many on Vulna-5.”

“Your master? Would he have any need for 3 cafub hearts?” Cadet Kohan’s voice was nothing if not stern.

“He might know who would. But I can’t say for sure if any of his magical practices come from blood magic such as this.” Artumes pointed to about them at the three slain cafub.

“ Then I guess we’re off to meet your master. No one slays innocent cafub on my watch.” Cadet Kohan threw up his arms and instantly a crystal dome covered the three dead cafub as they all followed Artumes to her master’s estate.

“What is your master’s name?” Cadet Ayla Ranzz asked.

“His name is Myke Chypurz.” Artumes lead them up and into the Turlna forest and over the hill to Chypurz estate.

The walk there wasn’t long. The cadets knew they could use their flight belts but Artumes had begun walking before they could suggest anything. So they just followed suit. The sun shone brightly as they traveled to Chypurz estate, the reeds making a soft song as the wind picked up slightly. In under 600 clicks they had arrived at Chypurz estate a tall home made of four shining blue black coal like spires that came together to form a triangle.

“This looks like something out of a horror holo.” Cadet Orgnats thought across the telepathic earplug comlink hugging her hands together.

“It does look rather ominous. But it will be fine.” Cadet Vi thought back.

Artumes led the cadets to the front door as they crossed a small draw bridge that was over a cobalt blue mote. Entering into a large sitting room with a giant fire place against its back wall it was clear this place was nothing of what it seems from the outside. The room was empty except for the fire place which began roaring as soon as they entered.

“Please have a seat.” Artumes gestured and instantly floating green couches appeared and a blue floating pad appeared for Cadet Shazlon; which once she rolled onto it, the pad plumed up and hugged her diamond sphere snuggly.

“Hmmm. This is a delight. I would love one of these for my quarters.” Cadet Shazlon thought to everyone sending them the feeling of absolute pleasure.

“Sorry I’m still learning to filter out my own thoughts and pushing them to others. You humanoids are so receptive.” Cadet Shazlon thought again slightly embarrassed as she saw the relaxed looks on her fellow cadets faces.

“Welcome to my lovely home.” Myke Chypurz’s voice echoed throughout the large room before finally appearing in front of them in front of the fire place its flames bursting forward in bright blue as a burst of fog parted.

“I’m Myke Chypurz a member of mystical clan Struma.” A formal bow as his flop of blue hair falling forward.

“Thank you for having us. I’m Cadet Ayla Ranzz and were here to ask you a few questions.”

“About what?” Myke Chypurz snapped his fingers and a floating fluffy cushioned chair appeared beneath him.

“We were herding some Vegauras when three of their cafubs were killed and their hearts were taken. Which from what we understand is related to blood magic and your estate is the closest to where we were with the Vegauras. So we were wanted to know if you or if you knew of anyone who would need or want cafub hearts.” Cadet Kohan was direct and to the point.

“We just wanted to know if you knew more about the need for three cafub hearts.” Cadet Ayla Ranzz jabbed Cadet Kohan in the ribs.

“I like his bluntness and no I don’t have any use for blood magic. I practice a form of light magic and blood magic for the most part is a passing fade that happed years ago on Vulna-5. Not to mention many associate that with Mordru and we’re all trying to stay off his radar.”

“There is a peace treaty in place that makes Vulna-5 neutral territory so you don’t need to worry about him.” Cadet Vi said meeting his blue eyes for the first time.

“True. But doesn’t mean he doesn’t come searching for the most powerful of us to add to his collection or siphon our power.” Myke Chypurz voice was stone cold as he said this, his playful nature gone as he pulled at his collar revealing a scar running down the side of his neck.

“So then blood magic is something that attracts Mordru?” Cadet Vi asked

“Yes. It would or it could be his doing. There are many reasons three cafub hearts can be used though, some are for protection and divination spells, love spells, control spells.”

“I thought you said you had no use for blood magic, how do you know so much about it?” Cadet Kohan asked his suspicions rising.

“One has to protect themselves and the best way is knowledge and my clan used to deal with blood magic back when we were on Vulna-4. But since have moved past that.”

“Still didn’t answer on whether or not you knew someone or not who was doing blood magic.” Cadet Kohan leaned forward his grey eyes burning a whole into Myke Chypurz.

“Thank you Mr. Chypurz for your time. We’ve got to get back to the investigation of who took the hearts of the cafubs.” Cadet Ayla Ranzz jabbed Cadet Kohan again before standing to leave.

“Its fine and please call me Myke and no I don’t. I steer clear of that but I think I can help. I can use a locator spell of my own to draw another object to another piece of the object. I just need…” in a snap of his fingers he was next to Cadet Vi his hand glowing as it lifted the few strands of Vegauras hair that was left behind on her from when she touched them.

“I can use these to bring you to their hearts. The hairs and the heart are all part of a bigger whole.”

“Thank you so much.” Cadet Vi said shaking his hand.

Slowly the hairs glowed as they floated into a beaker that appeared before Myke which filled with a red liquid before exploding into a smoke that began to travel out his front door.

“Here’s your path. Mind if I tag along?” Myke asked his sense of shame nowhere in sight.

“Might be good to have a magic wielder with us.” Cadet Vi smiled nervously as she felt his blue eyes still on her.

Quickly they all followed the red mist leading out of the house and back into the Turlna forest. 700 clicks west of where the cafubs were found and the herd was still being kept under Cadet Kohan’s crystal pen. The winds had begun to pick up the reed trees moaning their hauntingly mellow song. This time the cadets along with Myke chose to fly to find the culprit faster. The red mist spilling from the breaker in his hands as they flew fast. Once they cleared the trees they saw a medium sized stone pyramid with a mural and alter in front of a stone hut that stood on the top of the pryamid. A small alter with all three hearts was there. But not a single person in sight.

“Do we approach?” Myke asked his eyes glowing as he sustained himself a float in a small cloud formation.

“I say we do. But not all of us. That might be over whelming to the assailant and that way we can call for back up.” Cadet Shazlon suggested her flight belt bobbing her up and down gently.

“Agreed. Vi, Myke and Cadet Orgnats head in their first and call if you need us.” Cadet Ayla Ranzz gave the order before Cadet Kohan could suggest himself. This was too delicate for his bluntness and Myke may have liked it but that doesn’t mean that this sentient would.

“I’llspeedaheadanddoasweepofthepyramid.” Cadet Orgnats sped off before anyone could say anything and was back before Vi and Myke had taken two steps.

“Thingslookok.butnosignofanyone.thethreeheartsareunattened.”

The three of them took off back towards the pyramid in hopes to find some clues and potentially their perpetrator. The air around the pyramid seemed to stand still as it was clear it was from another time and place. Vi and Myke landed on the top of the pyramid its plateau the alter with all three hearts in small jade bowls each a different shade of blue and each placed below a mural of a large goggle eyed creature whose shaped face looked like two serpents which meet at the centre of his face to form his nose. He also had large fangs hanging from his mouth and a protuberant upper lip.

“What kind of place is this?” Cadet Orgnats looked around holding her nose.

“It’s a pyramid but from South America, specifically from a people known as the…Azztec..Aztec?” Myke’s blue eyes were closed and his left hand glowed as it touched the aged stone of the pyramid.

“Yes, it’s from Earth’s distant past. Some of these pyramids still exist on Earth. But they are covered in moss and much more aged than this one. This one looks no more than…” Cadet Vi was cut off.

“100 years old.” A deep female voice called down from the top of the hut which stood behind the alter.

“Who?” Myke asked his hands ready and glowing blue with small storm clouds circling his hand.

“A Weather Wizard! My clan has survived then! Thank Tlaloc. Now help me cast this curse.” The raven haired woman in a red flowing cape and red bra with a red armor like skirt jumped down beside Myke practically ignoring Cadets Vi and Orgnats.

“I will do no such thing. But I’d love to know why you’re casting a curse.” Myke’s stance didn’t change but the clouds around his hands grew darker as they gently thundered.

“Then you are an enemy and I shall kill you in the name of Mordru.”

“Mordru?” Cadet Orgnats exclaimed as she ran quickly to pin the woman in red to the wall holding her there by the throat and arms.

“Hahahah. Child, you think that holding me will stop me?” the woman in red’s husky voice deepened as the sky above them opened up with hurricane winds and rain pouring down on them as a bolt of lightning struck Cadet Orgnats who vibrated herself at the last second to avoid the pain but absorb its energy into the speed force.

“Hmmm a speedster. How delightful I haven’t faced one of those since the Flash!”
“You’vefoughttheFlash?” Cadet Orgnats was stopped in her tracks at the mention of the hero’s name from the past. Giving the woman in red a chance to strike with a bolt directly at Cadet Orgnats knocking her back into the stone hut.

“Vi, stand back.” Myke jumped in front of Vi who was in the woman in red’s sights.

Myke’s storm clouds grew bigger around hands as he sent out a wave of wind and rain and hail stones at the woman in red. Her hair flying back but she stood her ground.

“I have millennia of practice. You’re just a storm BOY in my clan.” The woman in red yelled over the roaring winds Myke was sending her way.

While Myke thought he was protecting Cadet Vi, she used his distraction to shrink down to microscopic size and using her flight belt flew on the atoms to reach the woman in reds inner ear.

“Who dares enter my space!” the woman in red roared. She felt Cadet Vi’s intrusion as her body was magically aware of everything on her and about her person.

“Tlaloc flush this abortion out of me!” placing her hands to the sides of her head rain water flushing her ears. The magic waters cleansing to the subatomic levels washing Cadet Vi out who instantly grew back to half her height as she lay unconscious on the stone floor.

“Vi!” Myke yelled before he knew it a monsoon raced down on them as he sent it hurtling down on to the woman in red.

“Whoever you are I will defeat you.” Myke yelled as a snow storm began to assault the woman in red.

But the woman in red once again stood their taking the brunt of it. When suddenly her eyes turned red and instantly the storm was reversed. The blanket of white swirling counter clockwise to shift the hail into a cyclone back at Myke; who began sweating as he concentrated on pushing the storm back to her. The woman in red didn’t bat an eye lash.
“Lady I’m not giving up!” Myke said through gritted teeth the clouds circling his hands swirled fast and furious.

“Give up child and never refer to me as Lady. I am NYOLA!” and with those words she pushed the storm at him head on with a blast of lightning bolts the electricity surging through his snow drenched body shocking him unconscious.

Meanwhile back in the reeds Cadets Ayla Ranzz, Cadet Kohan and Cadet Shazlon waited to hear from the team as they watched the pyramid as it stood looking untouched by any of the weather battled that was ragging on its top.

“Think we should check on them?” Cadet Kohan asked impatiently pacing back and forth between two reed trees wearing the grass down.

“Its fine. if they don’t report in the next five minutes we’ll head over.” Cadet Ayla Ranzz tried to reassure Cadet Kohan.

“Yes. Over we’ll go. But I think we should go now rather than later. I’m not sensing Cadet Vi or Orgnats as strongly as I was a moment ago. My but telepathy doesn’t seem to stretch that far and the telepathic ear plugs seem to be getting some interference” Cadet Shazlon’s yellow eyes blinked as she retracted her organic metal appendages and she took off rolling towards the pyramid.

“Lead the way.” Cadet Ayla Ranzz said as her and cadet Kohan took off on their flight belts after Cadet Shazlon.

As they neared the pyramid they felt the air around them change and stand still for a moment till they saw the hail storm that was just coming to an end with Myke underneath it unconscious with Cadet Vi and Ognats nearby in the same condition.

“Looks like we got here just in time.” Cadet Kohan said as he concentrated his hand glowing a bright crystal silver white as he created a crystal avatar of himself in front of the woman creating the storm.

“What matter of sorcery is this?” Nyola asked approaching the crystal construct.

“Cease and desist. You are hear by under arrest for attacking Science Police officers and a civilian.” The crystal construct held out its hands and tried to grab Nyola by the wrist and change into crystal cuffs and cage.

“This is odd magic indeed. But Crystals are great conductors.” Nyola began to chant as a strong bolt of yellow and blue lightning burst forth from her shattering the crystal avatar instantly.

“Ahhh” Cadet Kohan held his head for a moment as she shattered the crystal avatar.

“Cadet Kohan are you alright?” Cadet Ayla Ranzz flew closer to him grabbing his torso to help steady him in mid flight.

“Yeah… I’ll be fine. But she just messed with the wrong Cadet.” Cadet Kohan’s hands glowed the silver white crystal again this time a cage formed around her as they were closer to the top of the pyramid.

“This again. you will not stop me from doing my lords bidding! The stone will be mine!” Nyola’s voice deepened as she summoned bolts of lightning that shot from all directions but this time not breaking Cadet Kohan’s concentration.

“What stone is she talking about?” Cadet Kohan asked.

“Hmm not sure. But looks like she can toss some lightning around. Lets she how she does with mine!” Cadet Ayla Ranzz began to charge up.

“Wait, look.” Cadet Kohan pointed to the stairs leading up the center of the pyramid.

Cadet Shazlon rolled up the steps as fast as she could go, using the momentum from her flight belt to propel herself forward and once reaching the top platform rolling straight into the cage and Nyola herself. But Nyola quickly created a tornado around herself which rebuffed Cadet Shazlon.

“That’s it.” Cadet Ayla Ranzz let go of Cadet Kohan and flew on straight ahead her hands charging up before releasing a blast of hot white electricity at Nyola.

“Hmmm.” Nyola had turned her back once the diamond had been bounced down the steps.

Cadet Ayla Ranzz poured on the lightning as she got closer. Nyola took each hit and then began to fire back with her own bolts. Cadet Ayla Ranzz took every bolt. They were nothing compared to the day she gained her lighting. Cadet Kohan quickly joined the fry by blasting Nyola with pure crystal force.

“Why isn’t she turning to crystal? The one time I want it to happen it won’t.” Cadet Kohan thought to himself.

“Ahrrrrgg. Your both a giant distraction. I need to complete the ritual.” Nyola’s eyes reddened as she called down a bolt of lightning that struck all three Vegauras cafub hearts at once and then Nyola made storm clouds and hail rush them to try and stop their attack. But neither cadet stopped.

“Haaaarg… did anyone get the number of that auto cab?” Myke started to come round when he saw the hail and clouds flying at Cadets Kohan and Ayla Ranzz and quickly he summoned a wall of snow in front of them the clouds around his hands growing as they picked him up turning into a floating tornado.

“Boy storm just stay down and learn.” Nyola yelled pushing his wall of snow away but she didn’t see him coming with his tornado which quickly swallowed her up and he jumped off and just as quickly Cadet Kohan incased her in a crystal egg.

“Who is this mad woman? Cadet Kohan screamed.

“She calls herself Nyola and is an agent of Mordru.”Myke’s shoulders heaved a little as he concentrated to keep Nyola’s tornado going within the crystal egg.

“She’s slowly being put to sleep. I’ve triggered her serotonin levels Cadet Ardeen taught me that recently.” Cadet Shazlon returned to the plateau her yellow eyes glowing brightly as she bobbed up and down gently because of her flight belt.

“Do we have any answers why she’s here?”Cadet Ayla Ranzz asked helping Cadet Vi to wake up while Cadet Kohan checked in on Cadet Ognats.

“She said she was here for the stone. But I don’t know what stone.” Cadet Vi answered her voice a little rough as she was still coughing up some water.

“It’s the philosopher’s stone.” A voice from the alter toned as smoke rose up from three ignited hearts.

“The Philosopher’s stone?” Cadet Vi’s eyes glazed over as she remembered the last time she saw that in her reality was with the Scavenger and he used it to almost defeat her entire squad.

“Yes and it is here on Vulna-5. It is…”

“Where it belongs.” Artumes called from behind everyone. Her long pink hair flowing in the winds as she held up the stone which was on a rope around her neck.

“It’s smaller than I remember.” Cadet Vi said out loud.

“Smaller than you remember?” Cadet Kohan’s eyes darted to Cadet Vi.

“From the holo’s I’ve seen. I did some research on magical artifacts. But there was no record of it being here on Vulna-5.” Cadet Vi answered.

“Well here it is and its mine. So don’t bother trying to take it.” Artumes turned the stone turned pendant towards all of them the floor turning into quicksand, while Cadet Shazlon was transmuted from a diamond sphere into a wooden sphere.

Cadet Kohan quickly began to sink as he refused to stop struggling and kept trying his flight belt as his concentration faded so did the strength of the crystal egg. Allowing Nyola to use Myke’s tornado to burst out of it. Crystal shards flying out and into the quicksand.

“Impudent whelp! You know not what you posses or who covets it!” Nyola yelled sending the tornado towards Artumes.

“How can she wield magic? She’s a pink eye.” Myke asked trying to keep his cool and not sink too quickly.

“The philosopher’s stone doesn’t work that way. Anyone can wield it.”

The tornado was turned into grains of golden sand that added to the quicksand. Bt Nyola was relentless and fired bolt after bolt of lightning at Artumes before summoning a hail storm. She knew that Artumes wasn’t skilled enough to transmute all of these attacks.

“Ahhh. Stop you witch!” Artumes yelled transmuting the bolts to water and the hail to dust.

Cadet Ognats slowly began to vibrate her way out of the quicksand pulling Cadet Vi up with her who shrunk down and flew over to Artumes being so small that she went unnoticed before growing large enough to untie the rope the Philosopher’s stone was tied to and then quickly grew to 5 feet to punch and tackle Artumes from behind.

“Uggg! NOOO!” Artumes screamed as the Philosopher’s stone pendant flew out of her hands and towards the quicksand. Cadet Vi grew to15 feet tall instantly to cover Artumes and to grab hold of the pendant. But Nyola beat her to it as she used a gust of tropical winds to blow the pendant to her.

“I have it! It is mine!”Nyola screamed holding it up to the sky as she called down a bolt of lightning that began to surge through her body and down into the pyramid itself the lightning criss crossing through the stones as they lighted up with jade jewels that were imbedded in them. The light from the glowing jade stones grew brighter till finally the pyramid shimmered away. The cadets, Myke and Artumes found themselves on the ground in a grassy clearing.

“Where is my pendant! Where is my stone!” Artumes howled into the air as the others stood about her.

“Gone back to Mordru’s territory I assume.” Myke patted Artumes on the shoulder and in an instant cuffs were on her wrists.

“And what about Cadet Shazlon? She’s a wooden sphere…is she even alive anymore?”

“I’m here cadet…aching but here.” Cadet Shazlon thought to the group. The thoughts flowing easier now that she was more organic like them and not a silicone based life form.

“My brother Cadet Garth can help you. but we need to get back to the Vegauras.” Cadet Ayla Ranzz reassured Cadet Shazlon.

“And we need to break it to the Captain what Mordru has gotten his hands on.” Cadet Kohan added dusting himself off.

“Somuchforaquietmissionhuh?” Cadet Ognats speed towards the Vegauras to check on them.

“What about Artumes here.” Cadet Ayla Ranzz asked.

“She’s my servant. I’ll make sure to punish her.” Myke’s blue eyes were stern with anger at the thought of her touching magic.

“No please! Arrest me! Please don’t let him punish me.” Artumes pleaded with Cadet Vi who looked at Myke and saw the anger in him.

“I’m sorry Myke but we have to arrest her. she assaulted Science Police officers and by your laws used magic. So she will be coming with us.” Vi gently took Artumes by the hand and began to try and lead her away.

“Fine. but first a curse. Your thirst for freedom has left you locked in a cell where you think freedom will be yours. But your mind will swirl with storm clouds at a moment’s happiness from this day forth.” And with a wave of his clouded had Artumes was cursed and a small cloud appeared above her head and droplets of rain began to pour down. The cadets walking away with Artumes in custody.

Magical Storm Boy, nice use of a 20th century Flash villain in Nyola, great allusion to the Philosopher's stone, basic magical knowledge in Vi's mind, and good development of Bobb and Shazlon! Nice entry Omni!! Great stand alone story that ties into the larger Mordru arc!

Not the last of poor cursed Artumes either I hope

Across the Galaxy on Zerrox, Sorcerer’s world.

Mordru sat on his throne, the torches of around his throne room dim as he looked over his empire on a magical conjured image.

“Hmm… its vast I guess. It was larger before my imprisonment by my deluded daughter.” Mordru’s hand glowed a dull yellow as he conjured an image of his empire before his imprisonment and many of the planets that once resided in him grasp was completely out of reach because of the infernal United Planets. The yellow glow cast a twinkle on his throne and the gems across it.

“I will get them back and then some.” Mordru’s smile widened as he felt the presence of familiar magic.

“My Lord, I’ve returned with the Philosopher’s Stone.” Nyola stored into the throne room confidently as she approached the spot designated for an audience with their lord.

“Ahhh Nyola….my first earthly conquest, you’ve returned.”Mordru’s hand glowed a warm red as the torches flared up and the conjured images faded away into puffs of smoke. He descended from his throne down to the audience area. Mordru circled Nyola stood her ground firmly as Mordru picked up stands of her brown hair and smelled them gently. The smell of lilacs and the ancient earth’s atmosphere lingered in her hair and skin.

“Yes, I have and with the stone my lord.” Nyola stood her ground confidently as she held out the stone.

“Yes, lets me see.” Mordru whirled around to face her and took the Philosopher’s Stone pendant from her.

“Here my lord.” Nyola handed him the stone.

“What is this?” Mordru held the pendant in between his thumb and index finger.

“It is the Philosopher’s stone as you requested my lord.” Nyola didn’t move but her fear was clear.

“No its not. This is but a fraction of it.” Mordru’s hand burned bright with red hot energy as he drained the stone pendant of all its energy.

“But the spell you gave me verified it as the stone.” Nyola’s eyes widening in anger.

“And it is. But it’s not all of it which means I’m afraid you’ve failed your mission.” Mordru’s sinister smile spread.

“No! I retrieved the stone and you said I could leave and take my temple back to my own time!” Nyola’s anger and fear burst forth the throne room burst with winds.

“Yes. But not the entire stone, so essentially you failed.”

“Let me try again! I know the rest is on Vulna-5! Please my lord. Let me try again!” Nyola pleaded.

“I’m sorry but one chance per century. You know the deal.” Mordru began to step back as his smile never wavered.

“No! Please Dark Lord! Don’t do this! I’ve served you faithfully!” Nyola screamed as a red mist surrounded her and clouded her vision till finally her screams were no more and she was frozen in horror inside a ruby gem.

“Hmmm back to the throne with you my lovely Nyola.” Mordru smiled sweetly as the ruby gem flew back towards his throne and instantly snapped back into its spot.

“Well that’s a pity. Which agent shall I send next?” Mordru asked aloud to himself as he stared at his jeweled throne.

“Sniff! Glub! Sniff! Blub!” Aq’u the Water Elemental grabbled from his floating water ball cell.

“Oh don’t worry. You’ve got time dear Aq’u. I mean not a whole lot of time because you need to find a host to keep your powers from me. But still time.” Mordru turned his deadly gaze onto Aq’u.

“You won’t...Glup…win. You…glupp… can’t take me without the stone. Only the stone will allow you to absorb us…glubb.” Aq’u the Water Elemental floated folding over his many tentacles like arms.

“Ahh but I will have the stone and I will have you.” Mordru smiled devilishly as his hand glowed green and an emerald gem snapped from his throne and into his left hand.

“Now let’s see who wants to play next.” Mordru smiled as he brought the emerald to his eye and peered in.

Vulna-5; local United Planets Science Police headquarters.

Artumes sat in her cell waiting to be transported toVulna-5’s main prison her pink hair sobbing wet as a storm cloud the size of a ball rained down on her with strikes of lighting striking her hair every once in a while sending a zap down her spine.

“Ooo…That’s starting to feel good. Good thing I used the stone to change my skin into copper while keeping my pigment the same.” Artumes smirked a bit and the storm cloud grew and struck her with lighting.

“I just need to find a way back to my stone. That witch may have taken my pendant but there’s more where that’s came from.” Artumes wiggled a little bit trying to loosen her cuffs up enough to reach the inner secret pocket in her pants. Moving just right Artumes grabbed the small stone piece just big enough hold fraction of its power.

“Got it. Hmmm what can I change these light cuffs into? Maybe…the easiest way is to just go for a gas…” Artumes concentrated hard and aimed the stone at the cuffs. The stone glowing yellow as it aimed the light cuffs. They began to slowly change to oxygen. But stopped half way through, the cuffs themselves becoming lighter but still binding.

“Maybe I’ve got to go from light to a solid before oxygen…hmmm aluminum it is.” The light cuffs sparkled as they became silvery and shiny but their light dimmed considerably. The metal was so dull and easily pliable that Artumes broke the metal easily.

“Nice. Thanks little stone.”Artumes gave the stone a kiss before pointing it at the wall and melting it down to mud.

“Now to reunite with the rest of the stone.” Artumes thought to herself as she crawled through the mud getting a little bit in her vibrant pink hair.

Artumes quickly climbed down the drain pipe down to the hover car lot and dogged from car to car till finally reaching the reed trees. Artumes ran for over an hour through the trees to make it back to the Chypurz Estate. But as Artumes was about half way there dogging from reed tree to reed tree when suddenly the reed trees burst into flames as they were struck by lightning on either side of her.

“AHHHH” Artumes jumped back before she was struck on instinct.

“II figured you’ve be back for this.” Myke Chypurz held the rest of the Philosopher’s Stone, which was much larger than any of them had thought. He floated above her his blue hair wild as the wind swirled around him to keep him a float the night sky clear of all clouds but those few above the two of them.

“Give that to me!” Artumes screamed running straight for Myke who did exactly what she thought he would and struck her with lightning bolts charging her body up.

“Thanks I needed that!” Artumes called out as she jumped up and grabbed at his feet sending the voltage back up his body shocking him little making Myke fall to the ground with a tuck and roll.

“Ha. So you’ve gained some powers of your own. Bolts are not my only weapon especially now that I have your stone.” Myke cackled as he searched himself and didn’t find the stone on him.

“Where is it?”Artumes raged.

The stone landed in between the two of them and they both dove for the stone and began to fight over it. The clouds and lightning over Artumes head raging in and out as she struggled to get the stone away from Myke. Myke’s eyes glowed a bright blue as he cast hail spells at Artumes to get her to let go, letting ice form on his hands to coat the stone to her hands.

“I won’t let go!” Artumes said through gritted teeth as she started to use the stones power to change her hands into stone to survive the ice.

“The two of you can fight all you want. But I’ll be taking that stone.” A man strode up to them confidently standing before them a mere mortal looking man of 6”2’ with long black hair past his waist tied into a ponytail. He wore a loose fitting pair of gold pants and a gold vest with

“Who are you?” Artumes raged not releasing her grasp from the stone.

“Ka-zam you fool! He’s the oldest and possibly the first Genie in existence.” Myke’s eyes glowed a bright blue as he released the stone and ran for the hills as his clouds swirled about him lifting him up and far into the reed forest.

“You should follow your friend.”

“He’s no friend of mine and you’re not getting this stone! I’m the Philosopher now!” Artumes raged standing and flashing the stone at Ka-zam.

“Child, I do not have time for your games. The stone has no power over me. All it will do is bounce off of me and back to you.”

“Liar! You’re just scared. I can take you.” Artumes lowered her head of pink hair which she had focused the stones powers to harden it into steel pink spikes. Rushing Ka-zam holding the stone firmly.

“If you must.” Ka-zam stood his ground harms crossed as he yawned his response.

But as soon as she was in three feet of him a magical golden field activated and bounced her back. Artumes tucked and rolled into a standing position. But as she took her first step towards striking again her feet refused to move.

“What’s happening?” Artumes looked down her feet began to turn into a combination of emerald crystal and stone.

“I told you. The stone’s power will bounce off of me and back to you. You wished to encase me in emerald and turn me to stone.”
“No!!” Artumes screamed as the emerald crystal stone rose up her body till finally her entire body had been converted. Ka-zam walked over to Artumes’ stone body and he took the Philosopher’s stone from her hand.

“The Dark Lord will be pleased.” Ka-zam’s expressionless face was lit by the golden light from the snap of his finger opening a portal.

As Ka-zam stepped through the portal its golden light falling across Artumes’ face and as the light faded a tear fell from Artumes emerald crystal stone face.

Whew. Mordru is becoming scarier and scarier. I wonder who else he has as his slaves.

Poor Artumes. I was beginning to think for a moment there that she would become a big villain in her own right. Nice bait-and-switch.

Montauk Point, Metropolis Earth - United Planets Special Unit training academy The “Couple’s Suite” Level 5.

Roll Call:
Saturn Girl - Cadet Imra Ardeen – telepathy, mind control, reading and communication. Of Titan U247
Dreamer – Nura Nal of Naltor U247 – precognition

Imra sat in the “couple’s suite’s” common area running her hands through her long blond hair as she let her hair down from her high ponytail.

“Hmmm….This is going to be a long call. I hope Garth doesn’t come in anytime soon. I know Jo and Tinya are both in class for the rest of the afternoon and then studying for the next hour after that. But Garth went on a mission and that could end any time.” Imra realized how familiar all of this seemed. The academy was much like the Legion with a few sublet changes. The larger number of cadets and training before being chosen as opposed to the Legion where they embodied the ideals of interplanetary cooperation and were chosen based on their idealism, powers and age as they hadn’t learned the prejudices yet.

The holo screen dripped down from the ceiling into the center of the sunken in floor and pooled into a small globe in front of Imra who sat on the smaller of the floating plush couches. The holo line she was using was encrypted and coded by Brainiac 5 for the team to use. He had sent its program to her after her last conversation with him about reality resenting around them and completing it with them in mind.

“Hello Imra. I’ve been waiting for your call.” The holo screen came to light with a light blue haze radiating out as the image of her teammate Dreamer came into view her long platinum blonde hair falling flawlessly into her face before she brushed it back.

“You have?”

“Yes. I had a vision an hour ago.” Nura said with a shrug.

“I see. Then you know why I’m call?”

“That wasn’t as clear. I know you want to talk about my visions though.”

“I do. I recently receive a visit from the Time Trapper and he said some very interesting things about your visions.”

“Like what?”

“That he’s sent some of them to you.”

“He sent them to me?” Nura’s mind swirled for a minute with the possibility of her visions being controlled by the Time Trapper. He is an entity of cosmic scale for sure and that would explain why she saw him.

“Yes. But The Trapper didn’t specify which ones or why for that matter other than to help us solidify ourselves to this reality. Do you have any visions that you can recall that involve the Time Trapper?”

“There is one. It happened just after the rebirth of Randall and Jahr.”

“Who?” Imra’s blue eyes twinkled with familiarity but unsure from where.

“Oh sorry, we forgot to call and update all of you. Wildfire is no more. He’s been reverted back to his human state and into two separate beings.

“Wildfire’s former lives have returned?” Imra’s blue eyes were wide with shock.

“Yes and their reality frequencies and vibrational energies are aligned with this reality.” Nura sat forward the holo screen adjusting to keep her in frame.

“Wow. That’s amazing. The two of them must be going through some separation anxiety.” Instantly Imra’s compassion for the two shown through.

“I’m sure a few sessions with you might help.” Nura smiled simply.

“It seems to be the thing I do these days. But back to the business at hand. What vision did you have?”

“In my vision I saw Wildfire splitting apart and into his two separate selves. But then there was a second vision with Wildfire standing recombined in between the two of them and the Time Trapper standing in the background with his arms around them almost like he was pushing them back together.”

“That has to mean something besides just telling what already happened. Do you think it could mean that the two of them are still connected?”

“I was actually thinking something much direr…” Nura trailed off.

“You don’t mean recreating Wildfire?” Imra asked as she imagined Nura’s vision.

“I think so. They are of this universe and if this universe is to have a Wildfire I think we’d have to make him. For whatever reason this reality was calling out for the two of them separately.” Nura’s grey eyes looked like they might water before she blinked back to her almost bubbly vacant stare.

“We’ll if this reality is like our old home and it is morphing to include us to become our new home reality, Randall has strong ties to several members of the Legion because of the Uncanny Amazers. So he would be in their histories.” Imra recalled leaning back against the couch.

“And the event which created Wildfire hasn’t happened here because Mordru is free and there hasn’t been a final confrontation with him. But if reality is trying to include us shouldn’t he have stayed together? Our histories are influencing this reality.”

“But only to a degree. The course of this reality is still going strong and they’ve bonded with this reality. But you said the second vision with the Time Trapper looked as if he was pushing them back together right?” Imra asked her mind running the scenario in head again.

“Yes or at least that’s the way it seems but it’s more as if he’s just holding everything together and Wildfire’s form is faintly tethered to the two. But why if they’ve bonded? Isn’t that what we want?”

“That’s an entirely different conversation.” Imra pointed out

“But I do think that in order for all of us to bond Wildfire might need to be recreated. I think The Time Trapper showing Wildfire’s form in between means he’s still needed for the rest of us to bond because his transformation is part of our shared history.” Nura finally put the pieces together.

“And the Time Trapper wants us to bond with this reality to save it. He said it was unstable and that he wants our story to continue. But he didn’t say why it’s so important that we bond with this reality or why we have to save it.” Imra confessed as she relived the moments of her battle with Aven which happened just after her meeting with the Time Trapper. She knew what she had done was right. But her soul hurt in so many ways from that moment that she hopped she would never have to do something like that again.

“I’m sorry about Aven, Imra.” Nura said simply with a small but genuine smile.

“Did you see that happen as well?” Imra was caught between embracement and fear that someone knew what she had done.

“I did and I think you did what you had to do.”

“Thank you.” Imra’s smile was firm but also grateful.

“Have you had any other visions?” Imra asked keeping the conversation on track.

“I know you’re going to have your hands full soon between the Elementals and Tharok. But as far as the Time Trapper goes…” Nura’s eyes glazed over instantly.

“Nura? Are you having a vision?”

There was no response from Nura. Imra did her best to reach out to Nura across Metropolis and into the Legion’s secret headquarters in the ware house district. But even with her strengthened telepathic powers she couldn’t reach her. But before Imra could do anything she found herself surrounded by a purple cloud and whisked away to a moment outside of time. Imra was standing next to Nura on a rock in what looked like the void but with more rocks and various other kinds of debris floating around the rock they were on and there before them was the Time Trapper in his tattered purple robes face concealed except for two white eyes that stared back at them from the shadows of his hood.

“Nura are you ok?” Imra asked instantly unable to move.

“Aside from not being able to move? I’m well, although this is a new kind of vision.” Nura looked about her unsure what to make of it all.

“This is no vision but a visit with two of the fairest Legionnaires I’ve had the pleasure to encounter.” The Time Trapper bowed his head slightly.

“Where or should I say when have you taken us?” Imra kept her calm knowing she couldn’t move or use her powers here as she felt nothing but psychic static about her.

“But to the end of time of course and before you ask I’ve brought you here to explain a few things as you’re both working on the how’s and the why’s when you need to be more worried with the actions you’ll need to take.”

“Fine. Then tell us why you’ve been sending me visions?” Nura called out.

“To help you all bond to this reality. You each have to bond in your own ways and yes your theory about being cemented here once you’ve interacted with an integral part of your potential past, now that reality is building you in is correct. That’s all I’ll tell you on that for now.”

“Then what else do you have to explain?” Imra’s blue eyes glared at the Time Trapper.

“There are certain events that occurred in your reality that must take place in this reality to cement you all here as a whole, in order to keep your memories intact. If they aren’t then your memories will start to change. They will change to the memories I shared with you Imra.”

“That means no Legion and none of us will know each other...Garth and I…” Imra’s mind swirled with the memories the Time Trapper had shared and many of them weren’t that great compared to the life she had lived thus far.

“So what you’re saying is we have to fix this reality to match ours?” Nura’s mind thought of all the possibilities that bring both good and bad.

“In a sense yes. The events don’t have to necessarily happen the same way as long as certain end results happen. As long as those things happen your memories will stay intact. Then the final merge will happen.” The Time Trapper sat back and gently tapped his bandaged warped hands together.

“Certain things like Wildfire’s rebirth?” Imra asked her head hanging a bit as she tried to wrap her mind around all of this.

“Yes. He is one of many events that must take place to cement you here as a team. But he must be recreated at the hands of Mordru.”

“How is that not exactly how it happened?” Imra’s anger getting the better of her as she felt powerless in this place.

“What happens when we finally merge?” Nura demanded to know.

“I foresee two options but things are not clear enough to know yet which will be the path you take. The events must occur first and yes that is how it happened. But that was the end result. So the battle whether big or small or no battle at all can change. All that matters is that Mordru creates Wildfire.” The Time Trapper’s tone becoming menacing as he leaned forward.

“How many of us are bonded?” Imra asked instantly her curiosity needing to know more.

“Kid Quantum, now the demerged Wildfire, Live Wire and Spark are slightly bonded through his meeting with Mekt but Live Wire has other things that must happen and I’m sure you’re aware of what I mean Saturn Girl.” The Time Trapper’s tone completely dark as he was clear that it might mean his death and resurrection as well.

“You of course, Saturn Girl after your meeting with Aven and young Brainiac 5 is on his way to being bonded with him meeting his mother recently. But many of you still have work to do.”

“So you want us to do your dirty work for you?” Nura’s patience was starting to wan as well.

“No. you all will bond when you bond not all of this can be forced. But I will task you with certain events that need to happen. Dreamer will receive more messages and if need be I’ll send some your way as well Saturn Girl.”

“Why should we go along with your plan?”

“If you want your lives to stay the way they are and not have this reality swallows you and spit you back out as someone else, now that you no longer have a home reality. These events must occur or you disappear.” With a wave of his hand the purple mist warping around the two of them before they could say another word.

“Imra? Are you ok?” Nura was the first to speak this time her vision clearing first to reveal her back in the monitor room of the Legion’s secret headquarters. The holo screen’s glow lighting her face.

“I’m alright. But I think we’ve got a situation on our hands. But I don’t think we should tell anyone else.” Imra’s pragmatic mind at work behind her blue tired eyes.

“Agreed. Although we will have help.”

“Did the Trapper send you a vision already?” Imra’s globe shifting making the holo image looks almost fish bowl like.

“He did. But our little squad is a nice combination of power and intellect which I hope sets your mind at ease.”

“So which Legionnaires are with us on this Fix it squad?” Imra leaned forward.

“Lu and Lyle will be with us and Laurel for now from the vision I was sent but there’s possibly two more but I can’t make them out just yet. That must mean they come in later.” Nura closed her blue grey eyes for a moment to try and clarify the vision one more time.

“Then I’m sure you’ll get instructions on when we bring them in until then this is between us.” Imra nodded slightly as she said this.

“Agreed and we already know one of the events recreate Wildfire.” Nura’s ever present smile fading for a moment.

That was a nice scene. I was surprised at first that nobody updated the cadet team about Wildfire's splitting, but realized they must be keeping communications as few as possible to avoid detection. My bad

Will the Fix It Squad have to manipulate events into place? Lu and Lyle are good choices for sure.

I like the struggle they felt about recreating Wildfire. Certainly, it's a sad fate for the now-separated Jahr and Randall.

Wonder why Wildfire's creation in particular is so important?

Garth dying and being reborn... oh dear... does that mean Element Lad is also out there somewhere? I think he and Kinetix and Magno and Thunder are the only Legionnaires who haven't popped up at all yet.

Interested as always to see what comes next!

Neo-Paris, Earth.

Roll Call:
Cadet Stheno of Medusa - turns people to stone
Cadet Gates of Vyrga – teleportation disks
Cadet Lonny Evening of Myar –sentient being of ink. Makes ink projectiles. Can transform into humanoid form.
Cadet April Dumaka of Fuzzball Cat-like speed and agility, enhanced senses, and retractable claws.
Kid Quantum II - Cadet Jazmin Cullen –quantum fields capable of slowing/freezing time. Energy blast capable of causing decay. Of Xanthu of U247
Cadet Bogdan Tarka of Doopa –speedster. Capable of traveling so fast no one sees him

Encyclopedia Galactica: Travel Guide edition.
Planet: Earth.
City: Neo-Paris
History: Founded after the great quakes of 2626 Neo-Paris built up around the ruins of the once beautifully named “city of Lights”. At its epicenter is the only remaining building to stand the Eiffel Tower; but only at half its height. The ruins of many great buildings which stood for centuries have been demolished and have become the lost catacombs of Neo-Paris; while the catacombs below the original Paris have become known for a place for those to hide out in and get lost. Neo-Paris urban legend has it that if you wish to get lost down there you will.
The city of Neo-Paris’s has raised it up and become a fashion capital as it once was while maintaining a simple and gypsy like culture of bazaars, fairs, and that embraces hospitality
Maim attractions: The Eiffel Tower, Bazaar De Norte, Seine river tours, The locked bridges, and the ruins of the Louvre Museum.

“Catch up!” Cadet Dumaka yelled as she ran through the narrow alleyways of Neo-Paris.

Cadet Jazmin Cullen flew on after Cadet Dumaka whose speed and agility bounced her from wall to street to trash can effortlessly as she tried to catch their target.

“I can’t believe this is part of our duties. To hunt down those who aren’t registered this is the kind of thing the Legion would have fought against.” Cadet Jazmin Cullen thought to herself.

“Have you seen the targets?” Cadet Evening asked over the telepathic ear plug system.

“No. the one we followed seems to have disappeared. But Cadet Dumaka is still tailing him. How about your target?” Cadet Jazmin Cullen replied flying steadily still following Cadet Dumaka.

“We’ve got her in our sights and about to approach. Plan beta in effect if this goes south.” Cadet Evening’s voice was clear of her bubbly nature.

“Copy.” Cadet Jazmin Cullen replied still feeling unsure about this kind of mission.

“hmmm I haven’t had a hunt like this in ages! Cadet Dumaka called out running faster as their target seemed to be moving faster now.

“Have you seen our target yet April?” Cadet Jazmin called down.

“No but I’ve smelled him. He’s fast for a human. But doesn’t possess super speed”. Sniff! Sniff! “And is very nervous.” Cadet Dumaka’s yellow eye’s growing larger with excitement.

“We know he doesn’t have super speed. His ability is to become invisible and according to his file he doesn’t know how to turn it off. He’s been captured several times but always escapes.” Cadet Cullen’s hands powered up golden amber energy about her hands as she tried to find their targets quantum signature. She hoped it wasn’t Lyle’s. The Espionage squad hasn’t checked in since the reality reshaping conversation and Lyle could be up to any number of things and telling these people his power doesn’t shut off.

Three blocks away south near the Seine.

Cadet Evening approached her target slowly having transformed into her humanoid form her blond hair bouncing lightly with each step.

“Hi!” Cadet Evening said approaching the young girl sitting on a bench eating some Bgltz blue ice cream.

“Can I help you?” the girls brown eyes looked sideways at the blond blue eyed girl.

“I hope so. I think I saw you the other day down in the bazaar De Flurve . You were creating some pretty intense holograms. That was you right?” Cadet Evening’s exuberance showed through.

“Yeah that was me. They were pretty nadir weren’t they?” The young girl with ordinary brown hair and eyes smiled smugly.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. You’ve got some chops in the hologram kitchen.” Cadet Evening smiled broadly.

“Thanks. It’s always good to know I’ve got some fans out there. But I should be getting along. Got another bazaar to get to.” The young girl stood her hair flowing down past her waist with a shimmer of blue and her outfit changing to a yellow over coat that looked real.

“Oooo” Cadet Evening reached out her hand passing through the yellow coat.

“Nice. Huh? Saves a bundle on wardrobe. Well catch ya later kid.”

“Wait. I want to show you a trick too.” Cadet Evening instantly shifted her hand into its inky form.

“Hmm… you’re powered too?” The young brown haired woman asked with a glint in her eye as she shifted them back and forth.

“Yes. But why are you being so shifty? You look uncomfortable.” Cadet Evening tilted her head to the side with her smile never fading a gust of spring wind provided by the weather control system tussling her blond hair about.

“Are you new to Earth or something girl? Powers are not supposed to be displayed. The bazaars are protected and well my holograms look like something a device can make. So I pass. But you shouldn’t flaunt your powers like that. You’ll get pouched if you do.”

“Poached?”

“Yeah poached. The Science Police will come along and sweep you up. Listen, come with me to the Bazaar and you can show me more there.” The long brown hair and yellow coat disappearing revealing her short pixie cut brown hair and brown eyes. Her outfit a simple waste coat purple leather jacket and tight purple pants.

“I don’t know. I only went to the last bazaar because of a school trip and I don’t even know your name.” Cadet Evening crossed her arms pretending to stand her ground all the while her hand that was tucked underneath her arm was creating an ink ball.

“It’s Celeste now if you want to show me some more of your power then come to the Bazaar. There are more like us there.” Celeste grabbed hold of Cadet Evening’s arm and led her away. The ink ball dropping in the jostling pull of Celeste hands on her arms.

“Now what’s your name dear?” Celeste asked politely

“Lonny.” Cadet Evening said simply with a smile this wasn’t the plan. But the chance to catch more non registered sentience could be a good thing for the cadet program.

“Heading to the Bazaar with Celeste, she says it’s a protected place. Means more meta’s follow my lead.” Cadet Evening called back through the telepathic ear plugs.

“What is that sac of ink thinking!” Cadet Gates blasted over the telepathic ear plug network to cadet Sethno.

“Meh. She makes a point. If we find more unregistered we’ll get in good with the Captain.” Cadet Sethno stretched her back as the scales across her head glistened in the sunlight.

“We better follow her. No telling what this bazaar will be like and that ink ball will probably gets herself captured.” Gates canned as he opened a green disk of energy beneath the two of them flashing them away in an instant.

Five blocks north.

“Quantum signature isn’t Lyle’s.” Cadet Jazmin Cullen breathed a sigh of relief.

“But what is that?” Cadet Jazmin Cullen’s amber eyes glowed as she looked to her left and saw a quantum fissure slowly mending itself closed.

Cadet Jazmin Cullen reached out for it her hands a slight glow as she tried to match its quantum frequency.

“This wasn’t listed in the targets file…” Cadet Jazmin Cullen was awe struck at the quantum fissure and the preciseness of it.

“Cadet Cullen any luck finding the target? Cadet Dumaka seems to have lost the trail the closer we got to the Seine and is double backing now.” Cadet Tarka said standing next to Cadet Jazmin Cullen instantly not making a sound before he spoke.

“Where did you come from?” Cadet Jazmin Cullen shook her head slightly and the quantum fissure was gone. But had she really been that transfixed that she didn’t hear Cadet Tarka approach at all.

“It’s my gift remember. I can appear at super speeds and unseen.” Cadet Tarka smiled broadly. His mop of red hair slicked back his blue skin almost blending into his cadet standard issue uniform.

“Yeah, right. Sorry I did and no there hasn’t been any sign of his quantum signature; which should be present if he’s admitting any kind of frequency that disrupts visible light.”

“I’ve just gotten word from Cadet Gate’s team. Lonny is going with the holo caster to a local bazaar and apparently there are more unregistereds there. I say we meet them and take in a whole bunch.” Cadet Dumaka said breathlessly reaching them.

“But what about the invisible kid?” Cadet Tarka pointed towards the direction Cadet Dumaka came from.

“I can’t pick up a scent anymore and without that we can’t exactly track him.” Cadet Dumaka’s stance was very commanding as her hands rested on her hips and her mane of golden browns waved about.

“Maybe he’ll be at the bazaar. If this place is a hot spot for the non-registered its possible we could find him there.” Cadet Jazmin Cullen interrupted trying to move things along.

The three Cadets agreed and in an instant Cadet Jazmin Cullen took to the sky while Cadet Dumaka sprinted away and Cadet Tarka disappeared in a blink of an eye. Cadet Jazmin Cullen’s eyes flared again a fissure erupting for a split second and then gone.


Encyclopedia Galactica: Travel Guide Edition
Planet: Earth;Neo-Paris
Attraction: The Bazaar de Notre Dame
What was once one of the most beautiful and more visiting churches in all of Paris the Cathedral de Notre Dame. Famous for its flying buttresses, architecture and stained glass windows the Cathedral was hit hard by the earthquake of 2626, which devastated all of France, and Germany. The Cathedral’s structure had finally succumbed to its age after that with not much surviving. The main Cathedral’s ceiling was half open letting the sun shine in. The stained glass littered the floor in tiny pools of water that have collected in two sink holes and what does remain of the stained glass windows is scatted at best much of the artwork lost to the ages of decay. The stonewalls that survived the quake were stable but over the centuries since the quacks people have come in and fixed up the central cathedral in attempts use the space. But not many stayed around long. Now the central cathedral’s giant open space houses huts that have some of the best black market technology available, along with food stands and a few flower shops and this particular bazaar has become a refuge for those with powers who refused to be registered even though it is a famously known Bazaar the of Neo-Paris it is known to be highly protected by those who run it.

Celeste led Cadet Lonny through the giant half open wood doors till they were in a dimly lit hallway that led to the main cathedral the boulders bulging out but once they reach the main cathedral the sun shone through the open ceiling.

“It’s brighter in here than I thought.” Cadet Lonny looked around at the giant space and the sunlight filtered through some of the remaining stained glass bringing in reds and blues and greens which dazzled her eyes.

“Yeah it’s pretty cozy.” Celeste looked around at the bazaar the huts weren’t the nicest but the place didn’t look like a rundown cathedral either.

“So you said there were more like us here?”

“Powered and none registered?” Celeste looked at Lonny.

“Yeah.”

“Well there’s more like me. But you little miss inky aren’t one of us.” Celeste pulled away from Lonny and moved towards a small hut the first one next to the entrance and pulled back the back half of the huts curtain revealing a standing machine that had a readout screen and several small buttons and wires crisscrossing the front.

“This alerts us all to those who’ve got nannites in them and who are wearing any kind of Science Police gear. Which you pigged on this thing a lot.” Celeste dropped the curtain as three guys came and stood behind her. Two of them were at least 7 feet tall and looked to be twins both hulking with muscles while the third stood with his arms crossed but instead of one head he had two both with giant ears.

“Well I guess the jig is up.” Instantly Cadet Lonny shifting to her ink form and took a fighting stance.

“Hmmm. Interesting looks kid although I prefer gold over black.” Celeste cast a holo image of a gold bar around Cadet Evening focusing her powers made the hologram hard light. Cadet Evening morphed her hand into an ink hammer and battered the gold bar hologram but to no avail.

“See I told you she’d get herself into trouble.” Cadet Gates flashed in his green portal opening mid air as Cadet Sethno jumped down firing her blasters on the three thugs behind Celeste. Each scattering.

“Oh just stone them already!” Cadet Gates canned as weapons fire started coming from all over the open cathedral and opening as many portals as he can to redirect the blast from hitting him or Cadet Sethno who tucked and rolled to avoid several blast.

“That would require eye contact and gotchya!” Cadet Sethno’s eye’s glowed bright green as she ducked down behind a hut and caught the gaze of four men firing towards Cadet Gates.

“Now was that so hard?” Cadet Gater’s ported behind the double headed thug that was behind Celeste as he ran towards Cadet Sethno with his ear’s flapping hard to create a small gust of wind that made Cadet Sethno shut her eyes and chopped him on the shoulder before porting him ten feet off the ground and dropping him into one of the food huts, this one happened to have nothing but all sorts of fruits that were squashed beneath him upon impact.

“Be quiet little bug or next time I won’t save you.” Cadet Sethno’s eyes glowed green again taking out two more men who were firing on Cadet Gates. Their bodies turning to stone instantly and their blasters changing with them.

“Hmmm I love a good stoneman.” Cadet Sethno said sliding past her latest targets running her slick hands over their rough stone muscles before flipping her way over towards Cadet Gates.

“Don’t take out all the fun.” Cadet Dumaka came running in jumping three men near the entrance who were firing on Cadets Gates and Sethno trying to make their getaway.

Cadet Evening continued to try and bash the golden holo bar around her but she wasn’t making any head way.

“Maybe if I over flow it…” Cadet Evening pushed ink ball after ink ball out of her hands till finally ink was coming out in streams.

“My holo structures are pretty sound kid.” Celeste’s hands and eyes glowed the same bright glow as the gold bar.

“I’m assuming that’s as long as you’re concentrating!” Cadet Tarka called as he burst into the room in the blink of an eye punching Celeste in the face before disappearing in the blink of an eye again.

The gold holo bar disappeared instantly the black inky liquid flushing outward covering the floor in a wave of ink. Many of the sentience firing were knocked off balance their blasters firing in all directions and becoming stuck in the ink.

“EWWWWW” called out multiple people in the crowd as they were covered in ink.

Celeste was covered in black ink but was able to get up and fire off a few holograms of hard light tigers that began rushing the Cadets.

“Ooo… you make pretty kitties.” Cadet Dumaka said with a glint in her eye as her retractable claws burst forth slicing through their hard light surfaces leaving scratches which showed up on the legs of Celeste.

“Ouch!” Celeste called out as the tigers started to fade a bit before she focused harder and they grew bigger thrashing about hitting everyone.

Cadet Evening dodged each of their wild holo attacks their tails swinging about and their paws and claws scratching wildly. Her inky form jumping up and over before pushing around one of the smaller tigers into the others with blasts of ink. Cadet Sethno was stuck in the ink as well but used her powers to stone anyone who was still firing, catching five or six alone; while Cadet Gates opened a portal dogging more laser blasts.

“Stop!” Cadet Jazmin Cullen cast a wide amber quantum net which froze everyone in their tracks and caused every stray blast to freeze in mid air.

“Nice of you to join the battle. Now care to free me!” Cadet Gates squawked.

“No problem.” With a wave of her hand all the cadets were free the blast disintegrating in place.

“Where’s Cadet Tarka?” Cadet Jazmin Cullen looked about those trapped in the ink noticing he was missing from the scene.

“Over here. I missed the inkterage.” Cadet Tarka waved from the top of a hut.

Cadet Jazmin Cullen’s eyes glowed as she held everyone in place but she also saw the quantum fissure open just behind Cadet Tarka.

“Let’s wrap this up team. Cadet Evening can you get to clean up? And Cadet Gates teleport all stone statures to the side over there which is void of any ink. Cadets Sethno and Dumaka cuff all freed sentience and read them their rights for firing on Science Police Cadets.” Cadet Jazmin Cullen called out orders as she floated down to Cadet Tarka.

“What would you like me to do?” Cadet Tarka’s smile unfading.

“Cadet Tarka can I ask you something?” floating closely to the hut Cadet Tarka stood on. His hand holding on to the flag poll of the hut.

“Sure.”

“Why is there a quantum fissure behind you?” Cadet Jazmin Cullen asked her eyes glowing.

“W…Wha...What?” Cadet Tarka stammered out.

“There is a quantum fissure behind you and I want to know why. I’ve been feeling and seeing these things all over the place since I came to the academy and right now its right behind you and your energy is keeping it open.” Cadet Jazmin Cullen looked around to make sure no one was listening and cleaning up as they were instructed.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about Jazmin!”

“You’ve got quantum energy and a quantum fissure behind you. I can see it. Don’t make me reveal it. Just tell me what this is all about.” Cadet Jazmin Cullen’s eyes glowing dimly.

“Fine. But not here.” Cadet Tarka’s eyes pleading.

“Fine. But one more thing, will any of the fissures or energy going out hurt anyone?” Cadet Jazmin Cullen’s tone was serious as her amber eyes shifted back and forth.

“None of it will hurt anyone and the fissures close at my will.”

“Are you two love birds done talking?” Cadet Dumaka called from the ground holding two of the people that were firing by the wrist as she snapped on the light cuffs.

“Yes. Cadet Tarka cuff Celeste and scan for any other non-registereds.” Cadet Jazmin Cullen called out.

Cadet Cullen hated being this authoritative. But a simple retrieval mission almost turned into a black market war in the middle of Neo-Pairs’ most famous Bazaar.

“I hate this. Sometimes I wish I had chosen to stay with the Legion.” Cadet Cullen thought sullenly to herself.

Beneath the Cathedral Floor:

“Did you learn anything m’amie?” a breathless voice rasped in the shadows.

“No not really. Their psychic shields are pretty good. But I did hear the one who stopped the battle think some thoughts about something called the Legion and earlier I heard an echo of her thinking that they wouldn’t have stood for this. Maybe whatever this Legion is they could help us. Maybe they help the non-registered.” Meta Ulnoor’s voice whispered telepathically.

“You think? But I’ve never heard of this Legion in any of my research of the underground since I got my powers.” the invisible voice said aloud again.

“Jacques I really wish you would speak telepathically when were out in public. You may be invisible but I am not. ” Meta looked around the catacombs nervously. There were a few fire pits nearby with a few known slave traders and poachers searching for the wanted amongst the dredges of the catacombs.

“Sorry Meta.” Jacques though back.

“It’s fine. I’m just on edge. We’ve been on the run from registration for weeks now and each time we find a safe house or an underground cell we almost get poached days later. But I don’t know we’ve tried everything else. Maybe this Legion can help us.” Meta thought back.

“Then you should dig again and see if she knows where they are before she leaves.”Jacques thought back as he did his best to silently move along the wall to not cast a shadow near the fire pit him, Meta, and their silent friend a 9 foot Elephant sentient whose hide was impenetrable and his tusks were semi-retracted had cornered themselves around and find a seat.
Meta began concentrating as Jacques kept watch to make sure no one messed with them while she looked for their possible salvation.

Great stuff Omni, I love your take on the team.

The Time Trapper is always tricky but you captured him well.

The Fit It Squad is such a great idea for your team, really good one! I'm looking forward to seeing how you deal with Wildfire and Lightning Lad, it's going to get crazy (crazier?) isn't it?

Neo Paris is such a great take, though I'm upset to think of Paris in ruins as its one of my favourite cities, but as that earthquake won't happen for 600+ years I'll let you off. The Bazaar is a another great idea, black market in the middle of a metropolis.

You've got Jaz nd Gates jst right, she not really wanting to take charge but doing it anyway, him being a grouch who gets things done despite his complaints. The mystery of the quantum breach behind Cadet Tarka is good too, I'm looking forward to seeing what youvevplanned there too.

I agree with Jaz that the Legion would never be part of such a thing as hunting unregistered metas, and how cool that you introduce Jacques as one of the registration rebels! Loving it!

I'm really enjoying your story Omni and looking forward to more, more, more!

I love the new elements as well, as Harbi said the Legion not being part of hunting for metas is spot on. And jacques and meta give me hope that they can change the system eventually.

Great spotlight on Jaz. You write her well.

Loved the action too. Stheno as a cadet is great!

The mystery of Cadet Tarka is interesting too.

Have just caught up on my reading...I like the idea of Nura & Imra having to come to terms with giving the Trapper what he wants. I really thought Catspaw had a lot of potential to be fun back in the day so it's cool to see your interpretation of her too!

Loved the description of the Bazaar! Very cool!! And i am enjoying this glimpse at a metapowered underground, will be interesting to see where that goes (as well as the business with the quantum fissures, I have an idea about that...)

Montauk Point, Metropolis Earth - United Planets Special Unit training academy

Roll Call:
Cadet Stheno of Medusa - turns people to stone
Cadet Gates of Vyrga – teleportation disks
Cadet Lonny Evening of Myar –sentient being of ink. Makes ink projectiles. Can transform into humanoid form.
Cadet April Dumaka of Fuzzball Cat-like speed and agility, enhanced senses, and retractable claws.
Kid Quantum II - Cadet Jazmin Cullen –quantum fields capable of slowing/freezing time. Energy blast capable of causing decay. Of Xanthu of U247
Cadet Bogdan Tarka of Doopa –speedster. Capable of traveling so fast no one sees him

Cadet Cullen embarked from the cruiser into hanger bay one after her squad’s latest mission to Neo-Paris to capture unregistered meta-humans. They found one of their targets, Celeste a hologram caster while the other target the invisible kid got away. But they did bring in four other meta-humans who weren’t registered. The acquired targets were dropped off at a detention center where their fates would be decided. Cadet Jazmin realized that it’s possible some of them may be her fellow cadet soon or deported or put in jail depending on their record. This thought ran through her head over and over as her fellow cadets passed her.

Cadets Dumaka, Sethno, and Gates ran by her in their own fashions; while Cadet Morning stayed on the cruiser doing post mission clean up and restock. Gates green disks opening every few feet dogging Cadet Dumaka who’s racing out the hanger and to the commissary after working up an appetite. Then there was Cadet Sethno slinking past her; her strut poised and confident as if it had been practiced over a millennium. Cadet Cullen didn’t know much about Cadet Sethno but she had an air about her that was of another time. Cadet Cullen realized there were many of her fellow cadets she knew very little about and that made her feel unsettled. The Legion was like an extended family for some if not our actually family.

This reality wasn’t their home but it was but so many things seemed wrong with it. Like the academy hunting those who aren’t registered and giving them the option to be a soldier in the war against Mordru or go to jail for refusal for to register. But right now she couldn’t worry about that as she looked up and saw Cadet Tarka in front of her ready to talk.

“Cadet.” Cadet Jazmin’s tone was serious.

“Please Jazmin don’t sound so cold. I’ll tell you what the quantum fissures are. But I have to ask you that you keep it a secret that you know about them and that’s all I ask.” Cadet Tarka’s eyes teal pleading as a curl of red hair feel across his flat nose.

“Ok explain. I’ve been feeling like I’ve been going crazy every time I feel one of these things. My brother James feels them but denies it and the last time I had something like these quantum fissures happen to me some bad things happened.” Jazmin’s mind ran with memories of Darkside and how her team traveled through time coated in tromium to stop him from conquering space and time.

Cadet Tarka looked around quickly checking to see if the hanger was empty and saw Cadet Morning in the cruiser window but she wasn’t paying attention.

“Take my hand.” Cadet Tarka held out his blue hand to Jazmin.

Cadet Jazmin took his hand tentative and in an instant a quantum fissure opened up and they were bathed in its golden energy slowly walking into the fissure. Instantly the world about them froze. The air didn’t move and everything looked liked a faded black and white holo story.

“Where are we?” Cadet Jazmin asked looking about almost letting go of Cadet Tarka’s hand.

“No! Don’t! If you let go of my hand while were here you might not reenter in the right time.”
“What are you talking about Bogdan?” Cadet Jazmin grabbed hold of his hand again.

“Right now we are in the moment between moments and if you let go of my hand you may not return to the right moment.”

“The moment between moments?”

“Yes, this place exists in between the seconds of time. In essence I stop time or freeze it; allowing me to seem like I’m capable of moving at super speed. That’s how I take people out. I punch them here and there’s a second delay but the affects are felt in the flowing time world.”

“So you affect the none froze world from here. Does that mean when you touch them you bring them here?” Jazmin looked about the hanger and wondered if she cast a quantum field about herself in here could she stay or would she counter his power.

“No. They are still frozen just getting moved around and my quantum energy doesn’t affect anything other than bringing me here and freezing time around me and those I bring here.” Bogdan gently pulling on Jazmin to have her follow him out of the hanger.

“Then why are you listed as a speedster?”

“It was a ploy my world’s leaders devised. They didn’t want it getting out that a time manipulator came from our world.”

“But why?”

“Because we’re all time manipulators to a degree and they don’t need the likes of Mordru coming to our world and using us. When we joined the U.P. for protection and then found out about the nannites program they worried for their Safety. But the nannites register our powers as super speed they can’t make much more sense of our time bending than that. And before you ask my leaders had a competition and I won my spot to be the representative.” Bogdan held up his blue hand at Jazmin to shush her as he could see the questions forming on her face.

“So President Chu thinks you’re a world of speedsters who are hiding this fact to keep Mordru away but in actuality you are a people of time shifters?” Jazmin’s hand flew to her head for a moment as they walked through the corridors past many cadets who were all frozen in mid walk or conversation.

“Yes. That’s the basics of it and President Chu understands keeping the “Speedster world” a private one.”

“True not much is known about your world. You don’t even have a local Science Police Headquarters or flights to your world. I tried looking some stuff up on the ride back from Neo-Paris before you ask.”

“We’ve got a satellite for emergencies. But we’re a pretty peaceful world.”

“Doesn’t mean there aren’t crimes and a need for law enforcement.”

“No. Things do happen. But the local law enforcement handles all of it. We’re not lawless and most crimes are time related on our world; usually the abuse of one’s powers.

“What exactly are the other time powers your people have?” Jazmin looked and saw Jo and Tinya frozen in a kiss as they made their way up into the main commissary.

“There’s mine, slowing down time by stepping in between the moments. Jumping forward or backward but only for short periods of time, usually no more than a few seconds to a minuet at best. There’s speeding up time, also to varying degrees, this get the most restrictions.” Bogdan winked at Jazmin.

“There’s stepping in between the moments to go forward in time. But that one is trickier. It’s not the same as just jumping forward which allows you to go back whenever. You’ve got your own quantum signature to help you travel back and forth. But with stepping you have to find the right quantum fissure back to the right moment and time.”

“Do you have to find the right one?”

“No. I create my own to stay in the present I just slow it down. But it is that way for stepping back in time. You have to find the right quantum fissure back.” Bogdan enjoyed telling all of this to someone. He’d been living with this secret since he left his planet and hated having to hide who he was.

“Wow. So I’ve just been sensing you using your powers. That takes a weight off of my mind.” Jazmin’s amber eyes lightened as she gave a small smile.

The grey scale world about them didn’t move. The main commissary was a bustle of people frozen in time eating, in mid bite, chewing talking. But all stopped. No wind was moving. Cadet Ognats was frozen in mid run her excited grin bursting as she ran past Cadets Mavien, Kohan and Rikane who were all sitting together. Jazmin knew that Jenny had crush on all three cadets so to see all three together was a bit overwhelming for her.

“This must be what the world looks like from inside my quantum sphere I’m immune to the freezing nature of my own spheres.” Jazmin gently pushed Cadet Bannin’s hand up as he was frozen in mid scoop.

“Yes, I imaging this is what Cadet Rikane saw that first day before he merged with the sphere.” Bogdan recalled of the first time he saw the Cullen siblings display their quantum powers as he looked around at the grey scale world around him. He took the small beauty of the in between moments for granted.

“So can you keep my secret and not tell the world I can freeze time?” Bogdan

“Yes and I’m sorry for being so harsh. But you have no idea some of the thoughts that were running through my head about these quantum fissures.”

“Maybe not. But why don’t you try me.”

“I don’t think we’ve got time for that. We’ve got a debriefing to get to.”

“Jazmin, we in between moments. We have all the time in the world.” Bogdan’s arms flew up as he spun around and gestured at the frozen world about them.

“Haha. Right.” Jazmin smiled brightly.

very creative, having Turtle's powers be time manipulation disguised as speed! I wonder if Jazmin can learn some power tricks from him.

His world is definitely interesting - you crafted it so well, it makes sense that a world with such powers would isolate itself and protect itself. Kind of like what Trom did in the Postboot too!

Hey IB, Harbinger and Raz thank you so much for your continued support and comments. I really do love hearing your thoughts.

IB,

I'm glad you liked my magical Storm Boy and Nyola. I wanted someone that I've never seen before and so I found Nyola. I realized that there are many worlds that Mordru would want to get to and any that were either in neutral territory or part of the UP would want items like the Philosophers stone from them. So he would send agents like Nyola and Ka-zam. He's got many more in his clutches.

I figured that Vi and the Eye had a connection that would have allowed some very basic information to stay in Vi's mind about magic So i'm glad you liked that.

Bobb and Shazlon will be popping up again. So i'm glad you liked them and the little bit of development they got.

Artumes may be stone but don't forget that tear that ran down. so don't count her out just yet. ;P

Mordru is scray and he's going to hopefully get scarier.

The fix it squad may have to manipulate some events for sure and Lu and Lyle i just felt were natural choices as they both are able to make the hard choices that i don't think the others could. Laurel is able really good at that and she provides the power they might need.

Element Lad is out there and so is Trom. But they are a ways off. But Garth's death and rebirth are something that is going to take some real thinking on my part. so don't expect to see him too soon.

Kinetix is out there for sure don't you worry.
Magno and Thunder...true they haven't been seen yet either...hmmm guess i got some work to do.

I think Wildfire's recreation is important because for the most part the team we see now has been present from that point on, with the exception of Shikari and Timber wolf. Plus writer's note its just the easiest one to recreate.

I'm glad you all liked the struggle of Imra and Nura and them coming to terms with giving into the time trapper.

Thank you Harbinger for the kind words about my portrayal of the TT. He is a difficult one to capture. I just try to think manipulation to the 10th degree.

Thank you IB and Harbinger about Jazmin and Gates. They are two that i like writing and but find the hardest to write. so thank you again!

I'm glad you like the action and Cadet Sethno has some stuff coming up so look forward to that.

I'm glad the Bazaar, Neo-Paris and the underground were well received. the Underground will be popping up again too.

Well Raz did it turn out how you thought?

I'm glad you all like the mystery of Cadet Tarka and i hope you've liked the revel of his time manipulation powers.

Thank you IB! i think one of my favorite things is creating the worlds and working out the descriptions. so i'm glad Doopa works.

just a couple more post and a recap. Thank you all again!

Yay! looking forward to the interesting ideas you sprinkled in here. More Stheno, Shazlon etc. is always good.

True, Garth's death and rebirth is going to be tough to recreate especially without Element Lad! Whom I forgot - has he appeared too? Color me embarrassed

Yay Zoe! I'm sure you will do her justice when she does appear

Mordru using agents, I agree, is a great idea and makes tons of sense.

Looking forward to more more more Omni

Montauk Point, Metropolis Earth - United Planets Special Unit training academy
Top Level: Captain Allon's office and living quarters.

Roll Call:
Captain Gim Allon – Academy headmaster.
Saturn Girl - Imra Ardeen – telepathy, mind control, reading and communication. Of Titan U247
Violet - Salu Digby – able to shrink to microscopic and grow gigantic size at will. Of Imsk U247
Cadet Dirk Morgna of Scylla -Light and heat generation, heat vision, flame generation, transform body into pure light or flame. The Avatar of the elemental Phy'r

“Captain Allon do you have a moment?” Avatar Dirk Morgna asked exiting the jump tube.

“Sure. But I will say it’s kind of hard to say no when you show up at my door instead of calling first.” Captain Allon said with a joking smile. He didn’t mind the interruption from the filing and cadet assessments he had to do.

“Well my father says never take no for an answer and as you said you can’t say no with me right here.” Avatar Dirk smiled brightly.
“Wise man. Now what can I do for you Mr. Morgna?” Captain Allon leaned back in his hover chair behind his desk crossing his arms.

“As you know Mordru is a threat to all and some of those who opposed him before and helped lock him away were the Elementals. The four of us combined with the might of Lady Mysa and many of those powered in the mystic arts banished Mordru. But I and my other Elementals paid the price of being banished ourselves and imprisoned within the elements of four different worlds. I on Scylla and became the great flame. The planets housed the powers of the Elementals and the souls of their host. That is till recently when all of their souls passed on, thus freeing the Elementals and forcing them to search for new host. Clearly Fire found his.” Dirk smiled brightly.

“Go on.” Captain Allon kept his smile on his face.

“But the other three have yet to surface. I was wondering if I could take out a squad of cadets to try and find them before Mordru does. If he absorbs their power then he will be even harder to beat. Also I’d like to be treated as a cadet. As in I’d like to be a cadet.”

“Sergeant Shauvang mentioned you had that intention. But the term has started so I don’t know if we could let you in this late and let you graduate quickly if that was your thought.”

“Well aware Captain. But I say base it on my performance and if I ace everything then I’m in your special unit.” Avatar smile never faded his bright blue eyes shone with confidence. Phy’r let Dirk’s mind take this conversation as he would have been much more demanding and less negotiable.

“Alright considering our mission statement is to prevent Mordru’s expansion and prevent any harm he’s doing finding the other Elementals are in our best favor. Do you have a squad picked out?”

“Yes Captain I do.” Avatar Dirk smiled and handed Captain Allon an omnicom.

“Hmmm interesting choice of cadets Cadet Morgna.” Captain Allon said with a wink.

“I’ll look into their schedules and notify you of when you’re cleared to go.” Captain Allon handed the omnicom back.

“Thank you Captain.” With a small salute Cadet Avatar Dirk Morgan took the omnicom turned and made his way back to the jump tube and quickly left.

“Computer, contact Cadet Ardeen please.”

“Yes Captain.”

Several seconds later the holo screen on Captain Allon’s desk burst to like with the image of Cadet Ardeen.

“Captain, what can I do for you?”
“Cadet Ardeen, Mr. Morgna has recently asked to be made a cadet and considering his power levels and displays he’s alpha material.”

“That’s great news Captain. I will advise it be best for Cadet Inferno and him to not be on the same mission.”

“Interesting you say that. Cadet Morgna has asked for her, Cadets Dune, Blok, Berta, Ayla Ranzz, Cadet Rehtu, Purtha, Nolan, Beeek, Wentim, and Sepht to be his squad to help him find the remaining elementals.”

“That’s and odd mix of cadets.” Cadet Ardeen scrunched her brow trying to figure out the reason for choosing said cadets.

“My thoughts exactly. But I’d like to add you to that roster. As much as I appreciate Cadet Morgna’s added power levels and knowledge of Mordru there’s something in my gut that says don’t trust him.” Captain Allon leaned forward as the sun shining in from the deck blinded him slightly.

“Of course Captain. If you suspect something I’ll trust your instincts. I can’t read Cadet Morgna; it must be his status as an Elemental Avatar seems to magically protect him from me reading his thoughts. But I’ll report back everything I see and maybe if I can’t read him I can read the unattached Elementals.”

“Thank you Cadet Ardeen. I’ll notify you of the mission’s departure.”

With a nod Cadet Ardeen’s holo image shimmered away as Captain Allon ended the call.

“This mission to find the Elementals will be interesting. But I’m not sure how it will go. Cadet Morgna’s eagerness’ is just too suspicious for me and considering how he came to be after the Elemental tried to drain the cadets sent to Scylla I need to keep an eye on him.” Captain Allon recorded into his omnicom.