<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=119103.msg5243234#msg5243234">Quote from: Wintercat on 22-09-2011, 16:16:53</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/><strong>Paradox (NYC)</strong><br/><br/>The database query that J7 occupied his thoughts with came up with very little information. Almost frighteningly, the history itself spoke of the german scientist's experiments as failures, and that he had never even become a metahuman. Then another line of information seemed to replace it stating that he had invented the first functional, stable fusion energy device, but that working <em>cold fusion</em> was still ages from being accomplished, the present fusion core he had constructed being capable of containing the fusion reaction and providing cheap power but with an efficiency that paled to the future upgrades, but the devices was <em>decades</em> too early. Besides the fact that the scientist's experiments originally only served as the starting point for someone else who perfected the idea later, but that part of the history was rewritten. <br/><br/>J7 knew the history as it -had happened- and could see it changing. The history did not alter to him, he was still aware of it. Mainly because this scientist's <em>later</em> discoveries were also among the <em>founding discoveries</em> for the whole Time-Travel-process. He had not perfected them either, but he had laid the groundwork before. <br/><br/>Searching came up with no reference to the woman herself at first, but eventually an article appeared. <em>Massacre at Ravenwood Apartments</em>. The grim article detailed what was thought to be a weapons-deal gone wrong. Over 300 bullets had been fired at the scene, the crossfire killing several people, and wounds inflicted by 'unknown weapon' were also noted. What the image in the article showed was several bodies on a parking lot covered in white sheets, ambulances being loaded up with still living, and police yellow tape spread around. <br/><br/>The image also showed several men in fine suits at another image, as well as the woman that he had seen in his mind before with the orb. All of them were laid on the pavement, with cloth drawn up to their necks but bloody marks spread through the cloth still, though darkened. The pictures looked like they were stolen from police crime-scene photoes, too detailed and gory for the reporters to have gotten such shots after the police showed up to keep everyone back.<br/><br/>Apparently caught at the middle of it all, the article noted <em>fully automatic weapons</em> present, as well as the discovery of <em>broken fragments</em> of something the officials declared to have been found to contain traces of intense radiation, lead-shielded before being cracked open, and estimated to have been a core for a frighteningly powerful 'suitcase nuke'.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The mystery was wracking his brain but part of that was simple. A working fusion reactor decades early? Someone needed to take better care of it! And the Massacre had to be stopped as well. The Ravenwood Apartments was map searched then he took off, trying to run. The shift to the faster timeline getting easier to work with every time.<br/><br/>Technically he wasn't moving as super-speed but to an onlooker the difference would be a trivial one. How much time he had left hardly mattered- he had to get there as fast as possible. Running, skipping between traffic, walking, cabs, whatever. He had an appointment with the future and he didn't want to be late.