"You do not strike first. Fascinating. I did not expect such restraint from you..." He seemed to take a breath before the final word:<br/><br/>"Murderers."<br/><br/>"If you would speak of crimes and punishment, then know where you come from. Know what you have done. But of course, you do not. A beautiful lie of your power. You have no knowledge of the ones who came before." He teleported, or perhaps moved faster then the eye could perceive. In front of Mesu, he stopped and glared. "You, the Queen, worst of all...but know this. It was not I who released those zombies yesterday. If it had been me, you would have been overrun by ten times the number you fought." Oddly, the tone of his voice sounded...sincere. But there was little time to dwell on pleasantries, however. The man performed an open palm strike to Mesu's chest, sending her flying from the impact!<br/><br/>Next he teleported to Bunji, and though his face was obscured, one could almost see the smile of him catching a Knight with his pants down. Bunji would find himself lifted and thrown, out of the alley and into a solid object-or perhaps just the ground. "I am not surprised. A 'male' reincarnation of Makoto is a mere coward."<br/><br/>Mercury Knight, who he then teleports to, seems to get a slight bit of respect...the Knight gets neck-lifted, but at least the evil bastard is willing to crack a joke: "You answered." He says-as he slams MK to the ground.<br/><br/>Sailor Pluto, however, gets a laugh. "You say you will take my darkness...I AM DARKNESS! I AM NIGHTMARE!" The wizard pulls off a spinning jump kick that is almost text-book perfect, kicking Kurai off her scythe...which the man then BREAKS with another kick. Okay he breaks the handle, but still, weapon broken. While the woman is still on the ground, the wizard gives her a stomp on the chest for good measure.<br/><br/>With Sailor Mercury standing right where Pluto was, well, who do you think would be the next target? With her being quiet and restrained, she is dealt with swiftly. Via a massive assault of heavy punches that left her on the ground.<br/><br/>Terra Knight would then feel the wizard's attention fall on him. "Then, the mountain will fall!" He declares, sweeping the Knight's legs and as the knight falls, he feels the wizard's foot on his back slamming him into the ground harder. "What a fight for the King of Earth." The wizard snarks.<br/><br/>Finally, Sailor Venus. Another who gets a nod of respect-at least, it seems. "I remember Minako making all the cliche declarations of love and punishment. I like the new model." But not enough to not give her a boot to the head, it seems.<br/><br/>The Sailors and their Knights were left bleeding, broken, on the ground and in immense pain. The wizard looking around, before laughing. "Pathetic! You ask who I am, I will grant you that out of pity. I am Nox Arcana. I am your nightmare...and it is just beginning." From beneath his robe, tendrils of a dark, unholy power flowed, grabbing onto the Sailors and Knights, and pouring into them pure corruption. The light that powered them, the light of their powers, it was fading...<br/><br/>Fading...<br/><div align="center">fading...</div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">fading...</span></div><br/><br/><br/>This is such an affront to the powers of Light that the Crystals feel they must act. The various trinkets that the Sailors and Knights use to transform-even Bunji's-materialize in front of them, glowing with a powerful light, basking the heroes in its power. The corruption poured into them is changed, and instead of falling to evil, the heroes feel even greater then before. And, to boot, they are completely healed.<br/><br/>(All players may add the power<strong>Dream Acclimation</strong>to their sheets)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Dream Acclimation:</div><div class="spoiler_body">This power allows the heroes to gain other powers based off of "Dreams".</div></div><br/>Nox Arcana is surprised by this. He cuts off the power immediately, and seems to be prepared to finish the heroes off the old fashioned way, when helicopters are heard overhead. They're at least a few miles up, but at least one man jumps from the leading helicopter, falling with no parachute, and landing hard, on his feet, a fist slammed into the ground. He leaves a small crater as he stands...and hoists a goddamned machine gun. As in a vehicle mounted machine gun. In his hands. He is recognized by everyone-they have seen him in dreams. Mercury Knight and Sailor Venus saw him as the dragon man in their dream. The others saw him hoisting a gun that fired bolts of plasma in theirs.<br/><br/>The helicopters descend as the two men are locked in a standoff. If Nox were to move, the man would cream him across the pavement. Many soldiers appear, all female for some reason. Two others, however, take the side of the gunman. They are unfamiliar to Mercury Knight and Sailor Venus, but the rest have seen them as well in their original dream. A man wearing arcane robes, and a white haired woman with a staff. Satomi and Kurai would recognize the man-he had spoken to them at the convention. Everyone also recognized the woman as...very similar looking to the U.N. special agent.<br/><br/>The standoff is silent, and ends with Nox summoning a sphere of darkness and teleporting away. Almost immediately, the trio that stared him down breathe a sigh of relief. The man puts the weapon on his back, and the trio step forward to where the heroes are.<br/><br/>"I know you've got a lot of questions." The woman opened with. "But let's start with the obvious-anyone hurt and need healing?" The gunman lit up a smoke. "Sorry we couldn't introduce ourselves before. The name's Dean. He's Angelo, she's Faye." Angelo gives a nod. "Again, we apologize for not revealing ourselves to you before. We intended for our role to be one of observation. We didn't expect Nox to move so quickly..." Faye seems to be quick on the uptake-at least when it comes to Angelo. "Don't blame yourself Angelo. You couldn't have expected what Nox did." Angelo seems to be hanging on to some guilt about something, though...<br/><br/>The soldiers are busy cordoning off the area, while the trio of 'heroes' speak to the Sailors. Dean decides to continue. "We are the representatives of the Chrono Custodi. The Time Guard, if you want to translate it. We don't usually get involved, but as Angelo mentioned, Nox forced our hand. We hope we don't have to pull this often-we'd rather let guys like you do it. Local heroes. Even in the business of heroism, shop locally." He points his thumb to the soldiers. "Those guys belong to a different group. The Sisters of Steel. They were the only ones we could get support from-Command would have acted to slowly for us. They were in the right place, right time."