(R&D Lab/Med-Bay) @Burning Kitty @FalkiThomas @Lightning

At Zack's reply, Rex began to wonder about a couple of things - one, if Zack needed a girlfriend, and two, how special his own nanites were to have people fight over them as well. Upon reaching the lab, Rex then realized how at home he felt in this place, even though he had never seen it before. Everything around him was different, yet so familiar. It was not just the level of technology, but the people as well, particularly the agents and the busy scientist woman at the computer. He literally had a suited agent and a scientist in a lab coat as his caretakers back at Providence, after all. He was a little less fascinated by the others who had seemed to have come from different times and places, though, perhaps that would not have been the case if he had not already been told that these people had all been brought in from different worlds.

R simply raised an eyebrow when the armored ball vanished, knowing that it was the least of their worries. "Huh, I guess he isn't interested."

Meanwhile, J was responding to Link, who continued to express her interest in 'adventuring'. "I... guess you could ask them yourself?"

Lena, who was the only one who had not been informed of the project, was rather overwhelmed by the strangeness of this block. People were wielding equipment, wearing clothing, and using abilities and technology she had never seen in her life. She hardly had the time to ponder over it much, however, for a blond man then spoke to her and Raven and requested to be brought to the place of interest.

"I can't take all of you there, at least not quickly," the Seijin replied, before turning to Raven. "But I don't know if she can. She's the one who brought both herself and me back here with her powers almost immediately."

It was not long before a couple of others jumped in to offer their support, and R decided it was time to give them all a little more detail about how things worked at HQ. "Sweet! I'm loving the enthusiasm. Just let us run up to Main Ops so that we can look through any other reports on the attack that have come in, and then we'll fly all of you over since you're keen to have this as your first investigation with us."

However, the conversation was interrupted when Cloud suddenly proceeded to drag J out of the lab and speak to her in an unexpectedly aggressive manner. R listened to his words in alarm, for he was the one who had found both Cloud and Zack. He dashed out after them in hopes of diffusing the situation.

"Dead? That's impossible. That is your friend! Tell him, R!" J called to her partner in panic as he emerged from the lab.

"It really is Zack, Cloud, I promise you. Apparently, I entered into different points in time in your world when I found you both separately. I didn't think it was possible, but that seems like the only feasible explanation. I'm really sorry you had to come from a time when Zack is... no longer with you, but this has nothing to do with her, so please let her go."

CLOUD

"Death is not impossible it is the only guarantee in life. I have seen enough of it to fill a cemetery twice over. As for the technobable about time, you will do it again. When this is done with you will send me to the past to fix it. Otherwise..." He let the threat hang in the air.

HE-MAN, SHE-RA, & LINK

"You want to watch and reports when the only report you need just came from your own recruits? These two ladies know where a threat is and one has the means to get fighters there quickly with her sorcery. There is no need to waste time with a flight or reports. He-Man and I are going to eradicate the threat now." Her tone of voice and eye roll clearly said she was tired of the shenanigans of this place and she thought these people were utter morons who should be sent back to school. "When we get back you will stop stalling and give us a device to communicate with our people."

Raven stood her ground firmly as the two warriors approached her, she did not like how loud or how demanding they were but they were royality where ever they were from. She looked to the other "heroes" around the room and thought if they were really heroes, they seemed different from what she thought they were supposed to be.

"I-I will try," Raven responded wearily. Raven had already used a great deal of magic calming down the crowd and opening portals, she had needed time to rest but she pushed herself even more and shadows gathered around her and within the shadows a portal had opened to the city where the sewer tunnel was still open. Raven began to sweat as she struggled to hold the portal open. "Quickly, I can not hold it for much longer..."

HE-MAN, SHE-RA, & LINK

He-Man stepped through. Just as She-Ra was about to step through she stopped. "Thank you little one. They can send a vehicle for us later, do not worry they will know where to find us." She-Ra stepped through. Link quickly followed after them.

Link quickly regretted going because of the smell. "By the goddesses what is this foul place? It smells like an entire race was slaughtered, another race used their corpses as a toilet, and then the defiled corpses dumped down here about six months ago." She turned to go back but the portal was closed. "Thunderblight!"

It was dark. She-Ra transformed her Sword of Protection into a flamming sword. Link saw what they were standing in, she barfed. "What is wrong with those misbegooten frakkin people?! They are sick monsters!!"

(R&D Lab/Med-Bay) @Burning Kitty @FalkiThomas @Lightning

R nodded, not taking much time to think before he relented. "Fine, we- we'll do that for you. Just calm down, please."

Meanwhile, Scarlet was left inside to listen to what else the viking duo had to say. "Well uh, sure thing, I'm almost done. Although the girl doesn't look too good, which is why the agents offered to take you there by... ship."

The scientist trailed off when Raven opened a portal anyway, sending half the group over to the location of interest. Lena felt sorry seeing Raven in such a state, though, being unfamiliar with the older girl's abilities, there was little she could do to help. She approached her before placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"I don't think you should have done that. Are you alright?"

Rex watched as the girl in the dark cloak created a portal to another location, instinctively questioning in his mind if she was an EVO before he remembered that he was currently in another dimension. Then again, these people could have brought in more than one person from his 'Earth', could they not? Besides, portal creation was an EVO ability he was all too familiar with as he was reminded of Breach once again. That girl had once captured him and put him in some other pocket dimension, though, he doubted that it was the same with Cinix. This seemed like a whole different level of inter-dimensional travel.

Before the Scarlet could say anything else, R walked back in to speak to her. "Cloud had requested that we give him access to Zack's timeline."

The redhead stared at him in horror, and responded in a hushed tone. "You didn't agree to that, did you? R, we don't know what that might do."

R raised an eyebrow at the scientist. "Considering the nature of this whole ridiculous project, that is something that you're worried about?"

Scarlet rubbed the bridge of her nose. "May I remind you that we are not the first ones to reveal Cinix to individuals from other dimensions?"

"Ugh, fine. Look, I just couldn't let J get hurt, okay?"

"Oh, how sweet," she retorted sarcastically.

"Shut up!"

"Where is J, though? Anyway, some of them have already left for the city, as you can see. You guys should go after them."

"She's getting the information on the reported attack. I'll take the rest to the hangar and we'll meet her there," he explained before turning to the exhausted teenager. "It's fine if you'd like to to stay here for this one. You don't look too good right now."

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(Cinix Business District - Sewer) @eemmtt @Metatrooper

Down in the sewer, Link voice echoed through the dark, damp tunnels as she expressed her disgust at the place. It would reach the ears of its newly-arrived inhabitants, alerting them of the party that had come to investigate the source of the earlier commotion in the city. At the same time, the presence of the sewer dwellers would be made known to the heroes by the noise of their activity. If either group were to move towards the origin of the sounds they were hearing, they would find each other.

SEWERS

She-Ra slapped Link, just hard enough for it to sting but not hurt. In hushed whispers. “Stop being such a drama queen. Yes it is disgusting and perverse that they collect their waste like this. These walls have effectively turned this into an echo chamber. If we had the element of surprise it is more than likely gone.”

LAB

Cloud stepped in. “I know exactly when and where to get Aerith that period of time is etched into my memory like ancient cave paintings. Plucking her from that moment will not upset any time-space paradoxes. Though based on the fact Zack is here from before we ever met and I am still alive, he clearly survives this or someone took his place made to look exactly like him, or if he dies here then at that point it will screw up my past and my continued existence. I would never hurt you, I will however not hesitate to destroy everything around you. If this building is anything like the rest of the city it is a powder keg my Materia can set off really easily. If anyone were to get hurt during the destruction, that would be unfortunate.”

Zack blinked and the vikings were gone down into the sewers, “Woah, they’re eager..” he mumbled to himself. He heard Scarlet mention ships and walked over to her computer desk. “You mentioned ships?” He said, leaning back on the desk and accidentally sitting on his emblem. It whirred and flashed like it had when he first found it and he crashed down onto the floor of the training room back in the ShinRa building. He felt a bit sick and stumbled, looking around.

“Zack, you’re back!” Zack turned and saw Kunsel running over to him. He frowned, before nodding and rubbing the back of his head. “I’ve just been to the weirdest place...”

Abathur was in the now completed evolution pit. He was inside reconstructing the strands and sequences of zerg creatures to bring into this new world. He had spawned more zerglings using the hatchery and sent them all around the crevices of the sewer to gather more biomass. However, the zerglings' search produced little, only several rats and a single alligator. Abathur needed more biomass to construct his next strain of creature, the roach.

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Meanwhile, several zerglings on patrol could hear Link's echoes. They immediately shifted from their original course, running at full speed towards the source of the sound.

As Links cries to echos through the sewers it came the attention of the warlock engineer. Skitterbacked looked up form his work down the tunnel his beady eyes. "Interlopers bring me there head-head!" he screech at his skaven hoard arcs of green lighting hit one of the clan rats incinerating him. Motivated by fear, blood-lust, and desires to show up there fellows they swarmed into the tunnel. As the hoard of clanrats and skaven slaves charge towards the heroes. To the heroes the only warning they received of the verminous hoard was the sound of the hoard approaching and the glint red eyes in the tunnels. As the verminous hoard descended on the band of heroes with a screeching battle cry.

HE-MAN, SHE-RA, & LINK

She-Ra changed her sword from it's flaming configuration to standard. He-Man and She-Ra knew the only way they were going to regain the element of surprise would be to do something absolutely disgusting. They knew the things coming heard them. They didn't know if they could smell them over the foul smell already permeating the place so they had to smell like the place. She-Ra grabbed Link and the three of them were buried in sewage. She-Ra kept her hand over Link's mouth to keep the bitch quiet. Once they were completely covered they kept low and to the wall waiting for the things to pass or not. He-Man gave Link the universal gesture to keep quiet. He also gestured for them to keep their eyes closed.

They could hear the sounds of at least two different things. Suddenly those things began to attack each other. Once the things were to busy battling each other to pay attention to them they started to slowly move in the direction that one group came from. Once they were far enough away He-Man & She-Ra transformed their swords into their blaster modes Link pulled out her bow and nocked two bomb arrows. They fired at the cieling above the battling creatures bringing the cieling down on those things. Link started to open her mouth when She-Ra slapped her upside the back of her head They proceeded to stealthily approach the location they were heading.

Raven could feel the concern coming from the others, it was an odd thing feeling, one that she had not felt in a long time. "I am unharmed, I just need a moment to recover." she says as she hesitates to move her hand to the girls hand though she dares not make contacted. "I will catch up later when I am able, please do not let me hold you up." she tries to give a smile to reassure the others but it doesn't quite seem convincing.

(R&D Lab/Med-Bay) @Burning Kitty @Lightning

Agent R and Dr. Scarlet exchanged glances after Cloud spoke. Despite the both of them not saying a word to each other, it was clear that they were thinking the same thing - what the spell-casting swordsman had just said did not sound any less threatening.

The scientist nodded. "Right, I'll see what I can do. Since we have Zack's emblem, I should be able to use it to..."

That was when she turned to Zack, only to see him suddenly vanish from the place. "and... this just got a whole lot harder. Ah well, I'll still work on it, but for now, you guys really have to go."

Something about Raven made Lena uneasy. The older girl seemed distant, and was rather difficult to read. Lena had a strong feeling that she was internally troubled, and immensely so. In spite of her kind words to everyone around her, Raven's demeanor, coupled with her unusual abilities made her come across as quite a frightening, yet intriguing individual to Lena. The Seijin was curious to find out more about her, but now was not the time, for they were needed elsewhere.

At Raven's words, Scarlet urged the rest of them out once again. "I'll be here with her as well, so get going!"

R nodded and turned to Raven. "Sure, don't strain yourself. We'll be right back."

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(Cinix Defenders' Aircraft)

Rex was again, hit with how familiar everything seemed to be. The sleek, angular vehicle they were currently on reminded him of the ones back at Providence. Then again, the teenage EVO would probably be into any machine he would come across. Even the whole situation of being part of a team preparing to battle monsters was something he went through on a pretty regular basis, so naturally, he was more than ready for what was coming. At least that was what he expected.

"According the the coordinates I've gotten, the ride shouldn't be too long," J informed the group as she and R loaded their handguns and slid them into their holsters. She then checked to see that they were approaching the business district. "And here we are."

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(Cinix Business District) @eemmtt @Metatrooper

Upon landing, the streets were just as Lena and Raven had left them - deserted and in disarray. The chaos and destruction that had taken place earlier was apparent, and Lena recognized the manhole that she had seen the aggressive shadow creatures emerge from. That was when sounds of crashing echoed from the sewers through the opening, alerting the group of the commotion taking place down there. Were those who had gone before them already engaged in battle? J and R nodded to each other before approaching the manhole to check for any immediate threats. Finding none, they then led the rest of the team down into the sewers to look for the source of the earlier attack.

CLOUD

“Well guess that solves the mystery of Zack. You know you shouldn’t have made it so easy to go back and forth. Hell what if one of us fell on the thing during the middle of battle it would put the rest of us in more danger. I suggest beyond warriors you recruit some technical people.”

He then joined the others at the aircraft. Cloud was the first to go down in the sewer. He thought to himself. Great another sewer. Using his Fire Materia he sat some sewage on fire so they could see better.

FORGE, Earth-999999

Tian as the Mutants came to call Calfirnia that they repopulated. They lived in peace doing whatever they were best at growing, rebuilding, reproducing like rabbits. Forge's elite guard protected the civilians. The settlement had recently come under attack by descendents of humans that survived in a military bunker. The elite guard allowed one to escape so they could track him back to the bunker. Once the bunker was found a ground penetrating radar was used to map the bunker. Once it was determined there was only way out they put up a blockade to prevent anyone from leaving until a truce was negotiated or the Bunkers died out or killed. The leader of the Bunkers was an elderly Chinese man who remembered Forge's attack on Beijing. He hated mutants. He was a suicide bomber. One of the Elites used his powers to create a force field. "If he was their leader I don't expect much good to come of this, but we must try we can't become like them." Forge ventured down into the bunker to negotiate, she was unarmed but not defenseless a portable force shield was mounted on her belt. With her arms raised she approached.

"We come in peace after you attacked Tian" One of the Bunkers attempted to correct her. She wasn't going to stand for that. "That was the name when the humans were the dominant species. When the humans had control. We mutants are now the dominant species, we are in control. We will call it what we like. If you wish to live above ground in harmony with us you are welcome. If you cannot live in harmony you will sealed in this bunker forever. Whatever food, water, air you have will be all you have forever. If you find a way to escape being sealed in here you will be given no options if we find you, you will be executed. Everyone must decide for themselves if they want to leave or not. You have three hours to leave after that anyone left will be sealed in."

Forge left the bunker. "Anyone who leaves is welcome to join us in Tian, unless they attack then kill them. In three hours if anyone is left alive seal them in forever." Forge returned to her lab she discovered a strange device with a button on it. She examined the outer shell. She scanned it with a multitude of devices. She mumbled a bunch. She took it a part and examined the insides. She built a computer generated model of the device and activated the model. Based on what she knew and the device she built a better version. She sent a small bug shaped drone through. It broadcasted back to the implant in her head allowing her to see what it saw and control the drone.

The drone went through the base it found where a floor collapsed into a shower. It followed the damage to see what else was damaged. Going out into the hall it followed the corridor eventually finding medical. It slipped in under the door and pershed on the ceiling watching.

(Cinix Business District - Sewer) @Burning Kitty @eemmtt @Metatrooper

Lena knew that she was practically no good without sunlight, and requested that she be the one to stand guard at the entrance, which the agents agreed to. As for the rest, it did not take a long walk along the damp, firelit tunnel until they stumbled upon a large pile of rubble which blocked their path, presumably the aftermath of the crash they had heard earlier on. Stirred by the presence of the newcomers, several survivors of the collapse emerged from the gaps in the debris, lunging at the group before any of them could get a word in.

J and R immediately whipped their guns out and began firing at what looked like mutant rats and giant insects. Rex, on the other hand, instinctively reached out to touch one of the arthropodal creatures in an attempt to 'cure' it. Glowing circuit patterns spread from the area of contact, and then vanished doing absolutely nothing, reminding him that what they were battling were most likely not EVOs. His mistake caused him to be slammed into the wall, which he recovered from quickly. Building his Blast Caster, he proceeded to destroy their attackers with his giant whip.

After ridding themselves of the remaining creatures, Cloud, Rex and the agents would find themselves heading down a tunnel that would eventually lead them to the Zerg hatchery. On the other side of the rubble pile, He-Man, She-Ra and Link's search for one of the origins of the attack would bring them closer to the Skaven's workshop.

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(Cinix Defenders' Base - R&D Lab) @Lightning

Dr. Scarlet was relieved that she was finally able to work in peace, though, she was still heard grumbling to herself a couple of times about how the mayor kept pestering them to implement the project. Having had to send out the copies of only the first iteration had caused them a substantial amount of trouble with their glitches and flaws, not to mention that she and the agents hardly had the time to plan ahead of what had already taken place. After some time, a third emblem materialized on the holographic screen - the pathway to Hyrule. Picking off the one to Midgar, she began to work on locating the timeline where Zack had come from.

She, of course, did not forget her only companion in the room. "Feeling better, Miss?"

FORGE, Earth-999999

She watched as the doctor was working on the emblem on her computer. "Interesting doctor and engineer. Never seen that combo before." He turned the camera of her drone to the Miss the doctor referred to. "Might be a Mutant." Someone cleared their throat behind Forge. Forge grabbed the blaster from her leg and whipped around and pointed it at the person behind her. "What did I tell you about interrupting me while I am busy?" Before the person could respond. "That's right, don't interrupt me while I am busy." The person quietly sighed. "You wanted to be informed about the inhabitants of the bunker. They all agreed to comply with your demands. We had them all tested, one of them is a mutant, a child." Forge put her blaster away. "Take the child and place it with a mutant family. If the adults resist let them know no human raises a mutant child. If they continue to resist do the absolute minimum necessary without the child witnessing it. I want them all under quarantine until a full medical work up can be done, I don't want them spreading some disease." The other person saluted and left.

Forge began looking through her records. She pressed a button on her forearm. "Sage this is Forge, come to my office." Forge decided not to interferre with this doctor yet, she wanted to see how this world treated mutants or other wise gifted individuals first.

HE-MAN, SHE-RA, LINK

The trio could hear the sounds of someone or something working. They moved as stealthily as possible. They watched a hideous armored creature build something. He-Man lept in front of the creature. He put his sword to the throat of the creature. She-Ra and Link placed their swords to his back. "Your evil machinations stop here foul beast." Link supressed laughter at that line from He-Man.

CLOUD

Cloud at this point was really glad he hadn't taken his watch off. If more of those came he wanted to make sure he could take them out at a distance. He check to see how many ethers he had. He proceeded along armed with the side blades of his Fusion Swords. He needed to be nimble and fast up against these small creatures. Cloud was walking along until he suddenly stopped. He scanned the sewage around him. He noticed some of it moving against the flow. He stabbed just in front of the wake created by whatever was moving. He lifted his sword up with a Zergling impaled on it. "Watch it, they are moving around underneath the sewage." He tossed one in front of the female agent's feet. He picked it up. He removed the Zergling. "Would you like to borrow it miss? If anyone else needs or wants one let me know."

Now the Mighty skitterback had consider many out comes of his recent scheming. Having to kill a rival or one of his apprentice just in case. But here he is now two man-things and an elf-thing have swords at his throat. So he did what every skaven would do in this situation run. Activating his power he cast Skitterleap to get away from the new arrivals. The warlock-engineer with a Bampf teleported him self to a nearby platform.

"AHH so man-things and elf-thing! You have come-come only to be crush-kill by ME the great Skitterback and the skaven empire! Kill-crush them!" he screech at the group of heroes. Around the heroes came clanrats spurned on by betters toward the heroes.