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One second, Shepard was winding down in the Omegabase.

The next, she was standing in the park with her toothbrush in her mouth and a confused look on her face.

Five minutes after that, she's started to get a handle on the situation, or at least as much as anyone else has, and starts trying to get back into the base.

[Omegawatch Video - early this morning]

[Shepard looks irritated, not to mention underdressed compared to her previous appearance in a uniform, but she keeps her tone level and commanding.]

Alright. Friendly neighborhood UN Observer here. Is everyone accounted for? We need to start pooling information. Anybody finds a working elevator, let us know - I haven't heard of a connected one yet. Anybody has the ability to safely get through those rock walls, let us know, but get all the writing off of them first. Anybody who knows anything about what could have caused this, explain it to me, I only took two semesters of physics.

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And Shepard appeared right in front of a petite blue alien, who instinctively jumped up in a tree branch in alarm.

"Who are you?"

That was a talking frog.

Shepard looks up into the tree in brief shock.

I mean, it looked like a frog. It sure hopped like a frog. But if it talked, could she be sure it was a frog?

She idly takes the toothbrush out of her mouth. "Commander Shepard, United Nations SHIFT Force," she replied on autopilot. It certainly seemed to be a frog.

Focus, Shepard. This isn't the weirdest thing that just happened.

"I'm attached to the Omegafriends and I was just in their base. Do you have any idea how I got here?"

"Lance Corporal Dororo, of Keron." He replied without thinking. The masked alien stands up straight, his arms folded over his chest, considering the question.

"I am not sure if I can help you with that. What was the last thing you remember?"

Shepard gestured with her toothbrush. "Getting ready for bed. Then I somehow ended up here."

She looked around, noticing other confused heroes popping up - and what's clearly a city park, probably the main one. "We're in Venture Park, right?"

And not wherever Keron is. That would be inconvenient.

He nodded in confirmation.

"This kind of thing is beyond my expertise, but it sounds almost like your omegabase has either ejected you or has gotten misplaced, and you were thrown out because one cannot exist in a place that is not there, Commander Shepard-dono."

That sounded almost philosophical.

"...right. Well, first thing to do is see if we can get back in," she reasoned. "Want to come along, or are you busy?"

He blinked owlishly.

"Are you certain?" the alien questioned, somewhat unsure. "I am not a member of the organization." Dororo pointed out.

"Well, I don't think I'm authorized to invite you inside, but you have to know the area better than me," she said.

"Besides, without knowing what happened, I can't guarantee it's safe out here right now."

Dororo considered that, and concluded that it was a good point the Pekoponjin had brought up. He nimbly drops to the ground.

"You are quite right. With the base missing, and - if your experience is shared - your teammates are scattered about, it would be confusing for them." And a chance for any opportunistic criminals to take advantage.

"I know the layout of the city fairly well, so I can answer most questions on that matter."

"The first thing we need to do is figure out the status of the base," she said. "I'm probably not giving away too much classified info if I ask you where the nearest phone booth is, right?"

He cocks his head at the question, before realizing it was probably a secret entrance. "Over there." Dororo pointed to the east.

If this Omegabase is missing, he should check to see if Alien Street is having any effects from that. "There's something in that direction I wish to check on as well."

What else are phone booths used for nowadays?

"Alright. What is it you wanted to check on?" she asked, heading in the direction Dororo pointed.

time loop displacement with an added bonus of a repulsion field would be my guess
have everyone gather as much of the writing as they can
also anyone certain about the orb in the park? if it stopped working that is

[Shepard sticks to video to keep a hand free, still investigating in the park.]

Time travel? Great.

[She looks over at the orb and the statue it was still more or less the head of.]

Nothing confirmed yet. I don't know much about magical technology or whatever it is myself, but I'm trying to get the more research-oriented folks over here to look it over.

lady blue is able to steal through time
it wouldn't be too far fetched to assume that this attack also uses her time traveling techniques
i'm not sure how many of the OF are that was
i'll have to look at it myself if that is the case

It'd be a big help. I'm a soldier, so all my expertise is in shooting things and giving orders, not time machines.

i've known soldiers
are you at the park?

Yeah. It's as good a base as any while we're checking this out.

don't shoot me when i show up

Hey, I had a nice conversation with a frog alien I'd never seen before immediately after getting shunted out of the base. No threats or anything. I think I can keep my finger off the trigger.

that's because you don't know me yet

[he had been joking and is sort of still joking.]

Well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. See you when you get here.

see you later then

Not ten feet away from Shepard was Parley, in a bathrobe with her hair wrapped up in a towel.

"Wh..."

Sometimes, it was good to get instant reminders that your situation could always technically be worse.

"You alright over there?" Shepard asked.

Since she was little, she had been taught to adapt quickly no matter how bizarre the circumstances got. She looked around to find her gear lying in a pile nearby, so that was something.

"I think so." Parley replied.

i tried all the elevators i could fine and none of them work >-<

are the walls in the way, or is the whole base gone? but i think i could help us blast through, either way!!

I don't know yet. Write down anything you see written on the wall before blowing anything up, and if you've got the ability to try and blast through, be careful. No point causing a cave-in while trying to open the tunnels.

got it! o7 are you thinking that she's leaving clues behind for us?

Do you know any supervillains that don't?

... good point

you'd think if they wanted to get away with stuff they'd just keep it quiet, right?

There's some fascinating psychiatric work on the subject, but for right now, I'm just glad we have anything at all to go off of.

right!

she's left us lots of clues so i guess she wants us to find her eventually

or she wants to laugh while we try and figure it out

"Both" is very possible.

so she can laugh in our faces for not figuring it out sooner?

Pretty much my experience with supervillains, yeah.

[The feed opens with the sound of stone cracking under a heavy impact.]

Already copied down the inscription, but the walls are more than a little concerning. I've tunneled in pretty deep but there's nothing down here. It's like the whole base just vanished.

Is it safe to call this the worst-case scenario? I'm still new here and I don't want to assume.

I can think of worse.

[Not by much, judging by his tone.]

Hang on.

[There's a pause.]

I can't see anything, there's too much lead in the rocks. Has everyone checked in yet?

[Another resounding impact of fist against stone.]

I don't think so, but you guys aren't really very centralized as it is. Some people probably decided it'd be more beneficial to scatter and do things their own way, or report to someone who's not technically outside the organization.

It's possible, but keep trying. If anyone is hurt or missing, we need to know.

[Another huge impact and the sound of crumbling rock.]

What do we know for sure about what happened here? Anything?

The Omegabase appears to be gone entirely, and all the entrances tried so far are blocked with natural stone with writing on it. Anyone in the base at the time was teleported outside to Venture Park, and witnesses describe a bright light coming from a strange orb inside Protector's statue at the same time.

Get someone on that if we haven't already.

[One more punch.]

I'm coming out.

[There's a sigh, crackling with static from the shaky underground connection. No one is hurt, and that's by far the more important thing. It doesn't make the fact that Lady Blue pulled this off any less frustrating.

[The feed cuts and a moment or two later he emerges from the whole he'd tunneled into the mountainside, banking quickly as soon as he spotted her. He touched down in front of Shepard, looking back to the former location of the Omegabase.]

Nothing. It's completely solid.

I was afraid of that.

[She sighs.]

This is really above my pay grade. I'm a lot more used to thugs with guns.

[Then she shrugs.]

So what kind of time travel resources do we have?

It's part of the job, Commander.

[A part he could do without, but it's something you need to adapt to.]

As for time travel ... we have options. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Doctor Jefferson has something we can use.

That's probably who we need to talk to, then. I can keep coordinating the investigation of the entrances or go find the doctor, but probably not both.

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