Kat insists they contact the Time Institute. The party flies to the time institute. The city looks as they expect (except for Reflecta-kid) and arrive at the Institute. The technician that greets them and says it can be repaired with “all the others”. It seems that the rest of the time bubbles were sabotaged except for one which was taken. The party suspects it’s Harmonia. The tech tells them that the Chronarch wants to see them. The Chronarch, Circadia Secundus, indicates that they Time Beacon’s frequency was altered to allow access to a parallel timeline - but it has been corrected.
The party leaves and returns to Dream Girl at Legion Headquarters. On the way, Dynasty contacts Duo Damsel. Duo Damsel suggests they return to the academy when they can. Dynasty is overjoyed that things appear to be mostly correct.
They arrive at Legion HQ - Computo is functioning correctly again (not super slow as it had). They meet up with Dream Girl who welcomes them back. She is pleased that they rescued the starliner. The party has no memory of this and suspects that could be other temporal versions of them. Dream Girl tries to call Brainiac 5, but, of course, he doesn’t respond. They introduce her to Reflecti-kid. She indicates that someone was looking for him, but doesn’t know their identities beyond “people in suits.”
They head down to meet Brainiac 5. Kat writes Reflecti-kid a letter of recommendation for Legion Academy and has him fill out an application. They enter the lab and Brainiac has his back to them. Dynasty is VERY worried since his arms are free but he is working on something - as in the past Quatro had copulated with one of Brainiac’s ancestors. However, when Brainiac turns, he does indeed have robotic helper arms.
They return to Dream Girl’s office with Brainiac to confer about the situation. Dynasty notices that Lamprey, Nightwind, and Crystal Kid were never promoted to Legionnaires. (This was expected as a number of the members had been previously removed from time requiring a bolstering of ranks).
Dynasty fills in Dream Girl and Brainiac with details about the war between Time Trapper and Mordru and the disruption of the timeline. They further explain about Reflecti-kid’s appearance. Brainiac indicates that he believes that Reflecti-kid is not from another timeline nor dimension. They fill in as many details as they can about the cross-time adventures. Brainiac decides this is all beneath him and leaves.
expect (except for Reflecta-kid) and arrive at the Institute. The technician that greets them and says it can be repaired with “all the others”. It seems that the rest of the time bubbles were sabotaged except for one which was taken. The party suspects it’s Harmonia. The tech tells them that the Chronarch wants to see them. The Chronarch, Circadia Secundus, indicates that they Time Beacon’s frequency was altered to allow access to a parallel timeline - but it has been corrected.
Kat sends an email to Invisible Kid 2 , "I'm back; I missed you".
He responds, "..."
The party heads to Legion Academy and Dynasty phases and hides inside Kid Skid to avoid speaking with Nightwind. Laurel, having returned from Daxom, is healthy and overjoyed to see Kid Skid! Dynasty steps out and greets Laurel who is decided cool to her, but congratulates her on the wedding. After a brief chat they continue to Duo Damsel’s office. They get there and greet NIGHTWIND! Duo Damsel grants her leave for her honeymoon with Dynasty. Nightwind leaves.
Feeling safe, Dynasty unphases from inside Kid Skid. Duo Damsel gives test results to Dynasty (B-), Kid Skid (B+), and Quatro (D-). Katrina starts reading her emails and is stunned at what she sees.
Everyone but Dynasty returns to Katrina's faculty office.
Dynasty talks to Duo Damsel. Apparently, the wedding DID happen though from Dynasty's point of view it never happened. Duo Damsel is somewhat bemused at this turn of events. They continue chatting about what happened in the intervening time. Power Boy left the academy after Ultra Boy and Phantom Girl married.
In the lab, they notice that there is a lot of dark ash-like dust that the autocleaner is cleaning up. The lab appears to have been used in the interim. Katrina finds the notes about a recent paper she published.
She proceeds to read her emails - about 20 of them. The Science Police indicate that Phora has been arrested (criminal mischief, vandalism). Further emails indicate charges of shoplifting, grand-theft hovercar, and assault. The final email indicates that Phora has escaped. Kat forwards these to Quatro.
She has received an email from the President of Earth about her acceptance of position to Scientific Advisor to the Office of the President. He has set up a dinner at the finest restaurant in Metropolis to discuss this (along with overtones of a romantic evening).
She sends and apology email to Invisible Kid who responds, "I understand Ma'amselle - I'll not trouble you again."
Quatro checks HIS email and finds that his lawyer is going to try "Operation: Bigamy" to weasel out of his upcoming wedding. He has hundreds of messages from Margi Tinelli and a few from her father. Leland indicates that he will no longer talk with him, but will only communicate via lawyers. Quatro sends her an email saying, "hey babe sorry things have been crazy i dont know what my lawyer is doing lets talk".
Katrina lets Reflectikid use a terminal. Reflectikid attempts to send a "space mail" to his planet and fails miserably. He eventually writes it down on a piece of paper so he can "space mail" it. Katrina says she'll mail it when she gets a chance (and promptly loses it).
Kid Skid checks his email and finds out that his little brother has gotten wrapped up in everything that Phora has been doing.
Quatro tries to track down the location of the Omni-Com he got for Phora - only to get the message, "SPROK OFF, DAD!"
Dynasty explains to Nightwind that she has no memory of any of the intervening relationship due to jumping timelines. Further, Dynasty tells Nightwind that the marriage needs to be annulled. Nightwind indicates that while all of this was a practical joke, she had in fact fallen in love with her. Dynasty indicates that she'd likely married a temporal duplicate. Nightwind is heartbroken.
Note from me, Kid Skid's player had correctly guessed that it was a practical joke.
Dynasty goes to Katrina's office and is quickly brought up to date with the activities of Phora and Catd. They suspect that Phora and Cad have gone to Ventura. As they perform scans however, there is indications that they are in Lakeopolis. Kat sends Chief Zendick all the information she can infer about Phora's previous locations. Kat sends a message to Kel Wynters indicating that she needs to postpone the dinner because she has to deal with the situation with Phora.
Dynasty takes the party to Lakeopolis to look for Phora. Dynasty scans for all Ghorans in the city in hopes of locating Catd. She finds one in a skyscraper. They travel there and in the penthouse apartment, they locate Catd playing Call of Duty 200 - World War VIII.
Catd indicates that Phora was masterminding all the trouble they'd been getting into. Furthermore, they realise this is Leland McCauly IV's penthouse.
Dynasty tries to scan for Phora.
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