Feb 9 - The End of the World as we Know It.

[Janice Gilbertson]

"I'm trying not to think too hard about it," Janice said as she looked Malaika's restraints over.

[Malaika Gabriel]

"The wrist and ankle straps are power inhibitors." Malaika growled, starting to pull against her restraints. From the condition of her uniform, this wasn't the first time she'd tried to get loose.

[Janice Gilbertson]

"Well okay, I'm... really wary of using my powers in a reality storm, but if literally anything is possible now..."

She concentrated her powers on Malaika's left wrist restraint.

[Veronica Freud]

Veronica landed on her as with a booming thud, shaking the floor around her and dropping Will from her grasp. She stood up and was struck by another ball of energy. She was starting to get upset. She looked for something, anything to use as a club to try and swat Dr. Tomorrow out of the air.

[Will Stanton]

Will whispered.
"Throw me at the staff."

[Calvin Strong]

That was when something exploded and Cal went sailing past them.

[Narrator]

Nick's blast, surprisingly, disrupted the energy ball following him, causing it to fizzle and shake apart. Will's and Ronnie's, however, came back around for another shot at them.

The manacles, under Janice's power, constricted around Malaika's wrists.

[Will Stanton]

Will cried out as the energy blast hit him.

"Throw me!"

[Janice Gilbertson]

"Okay, that's not working. Bear, can you break those?"

[Nick Varkan]

Nick swerved around to go after the other spheres.

[Veronica Freud]

Despite the pain Veronica was more than willing to do what the team captain ordered of her. She grabbed Will in her large, powerful hand and threw him as hard as she could with a yell.

[Will Stanton]

Will went for a full-cross body block, trying to smack the good Doctor...

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon still running grabbed a chair and spun around tossing it at the pursuing energy ball. If it didn't work he'd probably be rather screwed.

[Narrator]

Without Gideon triggering the Doctor's shielding, he was able to pick up vague impressions from his mind. He wasn't particularly worried or scared about Will grabbing the staff as he was about if Will were non-corrosive, like covered in wax...

Dr. Tomorrow raised his staff and unleashed a spray of... well, some blue substance into Will's path.

[Gideon Rede]

"Will do something wax like!" Gideon called out hoping he was doing the right thing.

[Will Stanton]

Great advice, if Will had had complete control of his shifting back, which he didn't.


The good Doc would find himself and his staff soaked as Will was forcefully transmuted into some liquid.

[Robert West]

"Mmm, refreshing!" Dr. Tomorrow laughed, shaking his now-wet hair out as he turned toward Gideon and Ronnie. "Now... let's mix things up a bit!" he cackled, sending waves of energy crashing into Gideon and Ronnie. They would be a bit disoriented for a minute, then Gideon would find himself in a rather larger and curvier body, and Ronnie would find herself in one that was picking up the fear of everyone in the room.

[Will Stanton]

All of a sudden, the Doc's clothes, staff, and hair began to smell...sweet?

And it got a bit...heavier?

Chloroform! Will couldn't change densities yet, but he sure could change compositions...

[Nick Varkan]

Nick caught up to an energy ball blasted it, before moving on to the next.

[Byrna Cooper]

"Here goes.."

Bear moved Malaika's left arm up a bit, exposing as much of the area connecting her to the machine as possible.

Once done she backed up a few steps, retrieved a solid steel sphere, and let loose on the connection.

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon shook his head trying to clear his head, and the seeing the relative size of objects around him looked at his hand.

"Oh this is just perfect," Gideon said before swinging a rather poorly aimed punch at Dr. Tomorrow.

[Narrator]

Tomorrow staggered a bit. "Well... that was... creative..."

He managed to tap a button on the staff through the chemical and punch induced haze in his mind, and suddenly Will's liquid mass was splashing to the ground. The room was, for a moment, silent.

In the next room, though, Bear had smashed Malaika free. The machine, however, didn't seem to take too kindly to this. Reality seemed to ripple around them violently, like time and space itself was boiling.

[Janice Gilbertson]

"Oh, bloody hell. Get ready to pull us back up, Bear!"

Janice dove to pull Malaika away from the machine.

[Will Stanton]

Will ended up in several distinct puddles across the room.


One rose up, and a tiny Will sat, dazed, on the ground, not breathing but conscious, as puddles of chloroform is not something you want to breathe in.

[Nick Varkan]

"Figures he'd run away the second one of us actually touches him," Nick said as he touched down.

[Calvin Strong]

"Let's face it, I'd have loved to disappear the last time he touched me," Cal groaned, standing up. "Where is that son of a bitch. I think I'm finally over the 'he saved my life' thing and totally on board the 'beat him mercilessly' thing now, but I want to test to make sure."

[Will Stanton]

"Who knows," Will said, in a tiny voice, walking over. "Let's get that machine shut down first."

[Nick Varkan]

"Right. Save the world, then punch the nerd."

[Will Stanton]

"Alright, Bear, give me a lift.

...Bear?"

[Nick Varkan]

Nick glanced around. "Shit. Where are Bear and Ja... Cap?"

[Will Stanton]

"Let's see, two missing people, big hole in the wall...

Gosh, we might need the boys from the crime lab for this one.

Let's go."

[Narrator]

Meanwhiel, in the next room, the air around the spire began to shimmer.

Shadowy forms appeared from the surface of the spire. Each was man-shaped, but the onlyfeature that could be made out from the pitch-black of their bodies were two glowing eyes on each one. They seemed to be made of the emptiness that filled the rifts that formed in reality, and they all fixed their eyes on the three dangling (though now retreating) girls.

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon looked at the hole then at his new body.

"Not sure how to get small enough to fit through that hole," Gideon said looking at the others.

[Nick Varkan]

"Make the hole bigger?"

"And up we go," Nick said as he scooped up tiny Will.

[Veronica Freud]

Veronica was very, very confused. Looking up at Gideon she got an idea of what her clone must feel like. It was weird to see herself from this angle.

"Just... try to think of your body as a spring. Close yer eyes and imagine a stretched slinky comin' back to normal." She tried to sound calm and collected but Gideon's powers were seriously freaking her out.

[Will Stanton]

"If you have to stay here while you figure it out, OK. Nick, Cal...let's get down there. We're on a clock."

[Gideon Rede]

Like a slinky...

Gideon did as he was told, and began to shrink down to a more manageable size. Then suddenly sprang back to the size he'd started at. Trying again he began to shrink in stops and starts until he was at about 7 feet of height.

"That's not as easy as it looks," Gideon said rubbing the back of his/her neck.

[Calvin Strong]

Cal nodded, picking up his guns from where they'd landed. "All right, let's rock," he said, checking his guns for damage as he hurried for the hole in the wall.

[Veronica Freud]

"Hey, you're doing okay for a first timer." Veronica forced a bit of a smile. "Now, about these..." she waved her hands around "her" head a bit. "I'm... this is freakin' me out. Help. Please."

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon walked closer to well, his body.

"Try to think about a wall or your favorite food," Gideon said, "Focusing on something else will help, but there's not really a way to turn it off. At least none that I've found."