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Three options for you.

1.) We test the timelines based on the ideas of people who went backwards and checked into things. You know who you are. Like I said before, we have three tries to check to try and improve the situation.

2.) We just charge straight ahead and hope for the best.

3.) We actually come up with a plan with volunteer basis, split you guys into groups, and proceed from there.

As I've mentioned, Mr. Murdock raised a proposition of having volunteers for the Retrospec project to prove themselves to Vanderweele and get him to back off the project. Mr. Togusa changed the contract in the past that Retrospec will go public, more or less, when the first world has reached full completion. Ms...Anna (Anna it's too weird to call you by something proper) has volunteered herself to jump forward to a degree where she's regained her abilities, powers, and strength.

So if you see double, don't be alarmed.

Here's the thing. No matter what path we take, it's always been the same. The end has always been about stopping Vanderweele's influence over the city and shutting down his power. While there are a lot of ways we can do that, it's always been that ultimate goal to get the city back to what it was. Release people memories. Adjust everything. All that. The pieces of the puzzle finally fell into place to give us a clue of what we're supposed to do here.

Under the ocean there's a base in a trench hidden away. The further you go, the less the water appears. It's displaced, but the pressure of the ocean itself might kill you before you get down there unless we loosen the binds.

We have two objectives here: destroy the eye that's feeding his defenses in the city, and destroy the base in the ocean to siphon his power out and stop what's been started.

Pick a side. Once you know your strengths and weaknesses, we'll have a better sense of how to attack and take him by surprise.

Got it?

Fixing the city? That's "finishing" its regrowth. And taking away his power means sending memories and energy back to where it belongs.

This is going to be the last thing I'll ask of you guys. So...think on that.

Zee Carlisle
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Has Zee explained to you how you jumping forward in time is going to work?

Nope! But he didn't say I couldn't do it. So I'm just gonna try the same thing we've been doing, but with something in the future.

So, let me just make sure I understand this correctly, you're going to go to the future where your other self is and... bring your other self back, or a part of her? Did I understand that correctly?

My current plan is that I jump to a time when I've got everything back that A2 had. Where my soul's been restored, I guess? If that's how we're gonna think about it. Then I talk it out with her, I tell her that we need her help to save the city, and she comes back to now with me. Then you get two of me.

[Give Derek a few minutes to respond back as he thinks about this.]

So you're not travelling to A2's world, but our own timeline after all this happens? And it's a more powerful you?

[Gears are moving in Derek's head.]

That's the idea.

No clue how or if it'll work, but that isn't about to stop me. We've got too much riding on this for me not to bust out the crazy shit.

Hmmm...

I wonder if I should do a similar thing too. If we are needing fire power in a sense. I just remembered a bunch of spells, and I feel like there are a whole lot more that I still don't know. Who knows what spells my other self knows. I mean, I just got a spell with the ability to blow things/people up. Maybe risking my life to get my other self here with all that fire power and memories might be useful.

You think the guy you're turning into is gonna be down to liberate a city he doesn't know or have a reason to care about? 'Cause that's the hard part. Telling a future version of yourself who's basically thinking exactly the same as him (probably, who knows) that fucking up the timelines this much is worth it, and that he has a reason to do it.

I like my odds with A2. Not too sure about yours.

Well, actually yeah. Ask me last month and I'd say "hell no." But now... yeah. I have recently gotten some memories of Draco as an adult where he had to travel back in time to save his son and prevent a daughter of and evil wizard (the one i've told you about) from bringing her dad back to life, and thus screwing up the whole wizarding world time line. So if the future me is going to have those memories, and others like that (because I don't have the full story yet), I think he is going to understand about needing to fix a time line.

Cool, so that's a whole bunch of jumping into the past. So you have exactly as much of an idea about what going into the future is gonna do. No idea if it's gonna work, no idea if it's gonna shatter the timeline or what.

I still think it's probably a good idea if I'm the only one who does this. Minimizes risk. I've got no problem taking a leap of faith on this, but the rest of you need to be here in case I just end up down a bottomless pit.

Look, I was trying to be helpful.

Fine, you'll go first, and if we need a 2nd, I can go. How does that sound?

Sounds like a plan.

Look, I know I'm going into the least charted territory there's ever been. If I fuck it up, I want it on my shoulders. I'm not trying to call dibs, I just want to make sure that this won't make it worse. Same as with the sixth layer shit.

You kinda are calling "dibs" though in this case, there aren't many people stepping up to the place. But it is probably better to try and toss one stone in and see how many ripples it makes in stead of a bunch of stones at the same time.

Glad you understand. And I sink like a rock, so I'm real good at making waves.

Hopefully I'll come back okay. We'll see how this plays out.

Don't make too many waves or you'll screw up time.

Shit, that's why it's called a timestream, huh? Yeah, okay, all the big waves I make will 100% be in the present day. Promise.

Thank you. My life outside of the app is actually decent again, so please don't screw that up.

You have a life outside the app? Lucky you.

I acquired it recently. And thank you.