INTO MECHA GALAXY ---
1300 years into the future, the fractures in time glide across the
planet like ice bergs. Time is nearly ready to collaspe entirely into
a black hole. Max and Ginna are the remaining command staff working
for General Nova, who disappeared the moment time broke across the
planet. Using a gravity generator, they have been able to keep the
base and surrounding area free of time fractures, but that is not
going to last. Mech pilots have gathered around the compound, waiting
for help to arrive. Gargoyle is in this future as well, since he is
timeless, but he is unable to do much help with the problems at hand.
In the skies, looming over the planet, is a giant Drochah who fell through a crack in time hours ago. His movement has been slow as if he is outside of their time. Moments ago, his movement grew faster and superheroes came pouring out of the rift.
Max rushed out, “what the hell is that?”
Ginna said, “I don’t know, but Drochah is moving faster now. He must be getting closer to normal time. We have to move.” She banged on a metal scrap to get people’s attention. “EVERYONE! WE HAVE SHIPS COMING IN TO PICK US UP. I DON’T KNOW IF THEY CAN HOLD ALL OUR MECHAS, BUT WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.”
There was a commotion of people whispering and murmuring in the back of the crowds. Many were not paying her any attention.
“AREN’T YOU LISTENING? WE HAVE AN EVAC PICK UP SHORTLY.”
“General!” Ginna gasped.
A white blur zipped around the people and ran right into Gar. It was a large, funny looking bunny who was hugging the statue around the middle. “Gar, buddy!”
Gar looked like he was about to cry, “EB...is it really you?”
“Yup, a blast from the past, so to speak.”
General Nova approached and introduce everyone to the man standing next to him that bore a strong resemblance. “Everyone, this is Director Nova...me from 1300 years ago.”
“1300 years? But...then...you...” Max stammered.
“Yes, Max, I am very old. Right now, that’s not the point.” The General stated.
Director Nova said, “we have a situation. Time is collapsing throughout history. Delta...I mean, Drochah has initiated a battle against the last vestiges of superheroes from my time. We have work to do to make sure they win.”
“That makes little sense.” Max said.
General Nova laughed, “of course it doesn’t. But, it is all true. First, we have to make sure we can operate. Nova, are your people ready?”
Director Nova looked back at a tall, old man dressed almost like a wizard, a 1930s gangster who appeared angry to be here, and someone dressed as Santa Claus. “We need to stabilize the time here so we can work without the fractures getting too close.”
The old wizard said, “the time here is horribly damaged. It will take all our strength to keep it from imploding, and I doubt we can hold that for long.”
Ginna approached the younger Nova. “Who are they, and what are they doing?”
“This is Father Time, Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, and Dan Rutkowski. They all have the power to control time. They will keep this place from falling into a time vortex before everything implodes.”
Ginna frowned, “Santa...Easter Bunny...Father Time...I must have completely lost my mind.”
The Easter Bunny hopped up and handed her a chocolate egg he had materialized out of thin air. “Nope, you’re just as sane as the rest of us.”
“Take your places, everyone.” General Nova said. “EB, join them, Father Time, we’re going to need you.”
The legendary people, and the strange gangster, took up positions around the compound and then held up their hands. The broken time fractures moved even further away.
General Nova asked Ginna, “do the sensors show stabilized time?”
She ran inside and grabbed the scanner. Ginna examined the area and then nodded. “With whatever those people are doing and our gravity generator, time is very stable for five square miles.”
“Good. Director, it’s your show.” General Nova spoke to his counterpart.
Director Nova pressed a button on his wrist comm and a hole opened up in the air. Two scientists walked alongside a large hover cart carrying six hibernation tubes.
The doctor came up to the director, “their life signs are all stable, but they’re still very weak.”
“I know, Dr. Henderson. This is our only chance. Get them woken up and we’ll handle the rest.”
“Understood.” She turned to the other scientist, “Osteen, start the animation protocols.”
Max came over to the General and asked, “what’s going on? Who are those people in the tubes?”
“Our only chance of stopping Drochah. Max, I want you to round up six Mecha’s that have flight capability. I have schematics in my computer for special bio-link hook ups. Have them readied to hook into the system in less than an hour. Can you do that?”
“Sure. I’m a whiz at this kinda stuff.”
“Then, get to it!”
Max rushed off.
“Come on, people. We have a world to save.” General Nova led everyone else back into the command center. “Alright, people, we have a task. If we move fast, we might bring this to a proper end sooner than expected.”
Ginna pulled up her calculations. “Time is almost completely broken. It is shattered all over the solar system and those fractures are growing. However, the gravitational center of this time disaster is about to go completely unstable. At that point, it will collapse entirely into a black hole.”
Gar asked, “what did that all mean?”
Father Time answered, “time has a way of managing itself. This universe is on a strange, but stable, temporal constant that only fluctuates mildly in places. When something like this happens, the universe will ultimately correct itself. By collapsing into a black-hole, the time fractures will be destroyed and time will resume normally...or at least as normal as it can around the gravity of a black hole.”
“I still don’t understand.” Gar said.
Director Nova replied, “we have to fix time, or we all die. That’s all you need to understand.”
General Nova explained, “the anchor for all of this time disaster is 1300 years in the past. Drochah went back in time once before and tried to take over the Earth, but failed. In a fit of insanity, he returned to that timeline, replaced himself, corrected the failure. This altered history and broke time. It has taken these thirteen centuries to finally reach the collapsing point, but it is here. If we defeat Drochah while he is in this space of broken time, it will loosen that anchor, and all of his changes will revert to the original timeline.”
Ginna asked, “one thing I don’t understand. If he changed history and time has been breaking ever since, why don’t I remember that? There should be 1300 years of growing fractures in time, but I know nothing about that.”
Father Time said, “time is like a river. It keeps flowing. You are the water that is at the end of the flow. If someone were to throw a stone into the middle and cause a ripple, then only the ripples would know of the stone. Those ripples only reached this time recently. So, you remember the river before the stone, while all those who have been inside the ripples remember a different river.”
“I guess that makes sense.” Ginna said, not sounding too confident.
General Nova said, “the situation is this. Superheroes from the past are fighting the giant Drochah in the sky. Out there, we have six beings called Avatars of the Morphons. They have the combined power to rip the newly crafted power core out of Drochah. They are the only creatures in this universe that can stop him. But they are extremely weak right now.”
Ginna asked, “how do we help them?”
The General said, “that’s where we come in. We will plug the avatars into mecha’s. The mecha’s will be their strength to enter battle. Once we position them, they will do their duty, and Drochah will be deprived of his victory.”
Director Nova said, “however, we must first send ourselves a message back into the past so this all plays out correctly.”
“You just came from the past?” Gar said.
The General smiled, “of course I did, and I heard the message already. This is what they like to call a paradox. I know what must be done because I was there when it was done. If we don’t do this, then we will change history again...and at that point, time will implode instantly.”
Ginna asked, “how do we send a message back in time?”
“That is the part I must play.” Father Time said. “There is one among you who is in the past and present. One who is not human and his body can handle the displacement power that must be used on him.” He slowly looked at Gar.
Gar pointed at himself. “Me?”
Director Nova said, “yes.”
“You’re going to send me into the past?”
General Nova nodded, “that’s the plan. You’ll take a message back with you. It’ll be short, but you’ll deliver this to me in the past.”
“What message?”
Director Nova said, “there are six beings who we need to stop Drochah, who we call Delta in the past. If...”
All around them, claxon and sirens blared.
Two mecha pilots rushed in, “General! The giant Drochah just sent some kind of energy wave across the land. His old Mechas are popping out of the time fractures all over the place.”
General Nova swore under his breath. “Just what we didn’t need.”
Director Nova said, “if Drochah’s mecha’s join the battle against the heroes, this could be bad.”
Father Time said, “we have little time. It is going to take some focus and power to send Mr. Gar back.”
Director Nova held Gar by the shoulders and spoke sternly, “Go back, tell them that the six are who we need to save us. The fight must come to the future. We must defeat him in this time or it won’t work.”
A voice yelled over the comm, “there are so many mecha’s!”
Gar trembled as he looked at all the people. “I can’t...I don’t...”
“Yes, you can.” General Nova said, “you are a great hero, Gargoyle, and my oldest friend. I know you can do this. I have already seen you do it.”
Father Time held up an enormous clock in his hands and stood before Gar. “Be ready, Mr. Gar. Once you go, it won’t be long before you will be drawn back to this present.”
Gar squared his shoulders and wings and nodded, “do it.”
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