Fashionably late

by **David Renko** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:12 am

It had been 12 hours before the portal reopened and tossed Renko into the man made lake.

"I hat-" Renko began to say as he climbed out of the lake, "I hate being right."

by **Bobby Bowen** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:11 pm

"Dude, you need to Suss out those gloves of yours better. do you know how worried you made Your werewolf girlfriend?"

Smiling, Bobby stretched out a shiny arm for him to grab.

by **Pete Wisdom** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:01 am

"Aye, and we'll just have to count on her other little mates to cheer her up a little longer, aye?" said a voice behind Bobby, followed by the sound of a lighter being lit and a deep breath being taken in.

by **David Renko** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:05 am

"There's a reason I had you guys go fir-," Renko said as he let Bobby help him up before looking at Pete, "Wait what?"

by **Bobby Bowen** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:06 am

Bobby turned, surprised by the arrival of Peter Wisdom, esquire.

"Mister Wisdom. always a pleasure."

by **Pete Wisdom** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:11 am

Wisdom blew the smoke out, giving his cigarette a flick. "Cheers," he said, nodding to Bobby. "And I just wanted to be the first one out here once this bloke showed up, before pencil-pushers that don't buy things like 'holes in space' and 'chronal flux' as part of their everyday routines sent people to tie this lad up until he'd answered the same bloody questions for them for a week. Probably would prove inconvenient for him, aye?"

by **David Renko** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:13 am

"Quite," Renko said as his gauntlets glowed before he began removing water from his clothes by returning them to a previously dry state.

by **Bobby Bowen** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:18 am

bobby nodded, tossing Renko a garage jacket to warm up.

"let's get back to the school, then.." he started, unless Widsom decided to buzzkill it.

by **Pete Wisdom** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:34 am

"Mmm... not yet. See, once you're at the school, I'm expected to know everything, and we can't let them all be disappointed in me. So how about..." he jerked his thumb over his shoulder... and directly at a pub on the corner. "...someplace that we can go over a few things without prying ears, aye?"

by **David Renko** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:37 am

"Okay..." Renko said a bit uncertain.

by **Pete Wisdom** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:40 am

"You're not one of those poor blokes who doesn't drink, are you?" Wisdom asked as they crossed the street toward the pub, which at this point seemed to be having steady business, but wasn't rowdy or over-crowded.

by **Bobby Bowen** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:46 am

Bobby nodded, patting Renko on the back while shifting to flesh to blend in better.

"You need a drink, man. let's get you one."

by **David Renko** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:06 pm

"That wont look strange when I get back to campus smelling like beer nossir. How much longer did it take me to get back?" Renko asked as he walked with the others.

by **Bobby Bowen** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:25 pm

"Eh, about half a day. We were informally keeping watch on the exit point with a few hourly shifts.. it looks like Mr. wisdom had the same idea."

by **Pete Wisdom** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:26 pm

"About twelve hours, boyo. So you can see how that might raise some paranoid git's eyebrows. You don't want a drink? Just watch us drink ours and do that little time trick you do if your mate here doesn't hit it off with his lady of choice. Oh, here," he added tossing a phone to him. "Call your lady-friend, tell 'er you're back and 'detained for questioning' by the government, but that a dashing secret agent you know will have it sorted in an hour."

by **David Renko** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:53 pm

"I'll take the drink, but you'll forgive me if getting debriefed at a bar or bloody well getting debriefed in the first place is a bit strange," Renko said before taking the phone and beginning to dial Stephanie's number.

by **Pete Wisdom** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:38 pm

"Mm, call it executive privilege. I can do my business wherever I bloody well please, and I can report it back in any manner I bloody well please, and they're going to say 'Thank you, Mr. Wisdom, can I have some more, please?' How'd you all think I got that school assigned to me so I can keep you all out of bloody trouble, anyway?"

by **David Renko** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:45 pm

"Based on the amount of crap that happens at the university I'd say it was because you were funny in the head, Mr. Wisdom," Renko said.

by **Pete Wisdom** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:52 pm

"And you sound like someone who would rather have to answer to a committee why you stayed in this evil universe that's sent terrorists to ours for twelve hours longer than the rest of your team," Wisdom said with a smirk.

by **David Renko** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:57 pm

"And I'm sure you'll find the explanation just as sleep inducing as they would have," Renko said, "Though a pint might help."

by **Pete Wisdom** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:59 pm

"Oh, perhaps, but the difference is I'll believe you. They'll just hear 'blah blah bloody blah, technical rubbish that sounds impossible, this bugger must be lying and is working with the enemy.' But I can arrange that if you want."

by **David Renko** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:04 pm

"Well, can hardly argue about being interrogated in a pub over a dark room," Renko said.

by **Pete Wisdom** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:07 pm

"Exactly," Wisdom said as they walked through the pub and stopping one of the girls carrying drinks on their way. "Ah, 'scuse me, luv, can we get three pints of your best to that table in the back? Aye, best you've got, that's a lass. Cheers." And with a wink, he led them back to the table, pulling out what looked like a PDA as he sat down.

by **Bobby Bowen** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:08 pm

"Well, no point in getting Renko tossed without first getting... Tossed."
bobby smiled, taking a seat.

by **David Renko** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:11 pm

Renko left a voice mail for Stephanie before sitting down at the table with the others. He then slid the phone back towards Mr. Wisdom.

"So how's this going to go then?" Renko asked.

by **Pete Wisdom** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:12 pm

"Simple. You tell me what I need to know, I keep those pencil-pushing buggers off of your arse. What were you doing for the last twelve hours?"

by **David Renko** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:22 pm

"Moving between universes. Moving between them is instantaneous," Renko said, "The problem is that increasing the accuracy for the portal so the team didn't end up in the middle of the pacific ocean or in earth's orbit lead to an increase in temporal anomalies. So when I made the portal accurate enough to land us in London it mean I had to use my powers to compensate for the increase temporal anomalies. If i hadn't we might have ended up arriving decades in either direction."

"Once I actually stepped into the portal I couldn't compensate for the temporal flux, so I ended up arriving later than everybody else. I was lucky that it was only 12 hours into the future."

by **Pete Wisdom** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:14 pm

"All right. Now... are- ah, cheers, luv," he broke off, smiling at the girl who brought them their drinks. He waited until she was out of earshot to stop admiring her arse and continue the questions. "So... did anyone follow you through?"

by **David Renko** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:22 pm

"I don't think so," Renko said, "Stephanie and I had cleared the room and adjacent hallways before the rest of the team arrived. After they got there Paladin was guarding the gate and setting explosives."

"If somebody did follow after us the temporal instability would've been worse, so they may arrive today or after a decade."

by **Bobby Bowen** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:15 pm

"Yeah, no one followed us, and nothing's come through since, right?"

bobby smiled, raising his glass to the server before taking a drink.

by **Pete Wisdom** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:26 pm

"Or rather, we won't know about it until they turn up a few decades from now. Or, even worse, they've already been here for a few decades, and are biding their time and building power somewhere that they won't disrupt the timestream and create some bloody paradox or other," Wisdom answered, reasonably. "So how much would you trust this 'Paladin' tosser?"

by **David Renko** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:37 pm

"Enough to believe he was going to destroy the portal and all the data they'd gathered," Renko said, "Minus the data I took with me."

"I mean even though he's from that place he did save our collective arses a few times and helped us get to the portal."

by **Pete Wisdom** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:42 pm

"Which would have been an excellent way for him to secure his path to the portal so that he could use it to dispose of some rather unwanted residents of his dimension. Into ours," Wisdom pointed out.

by **David Renko** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:45 pm

"We'll not know until it happens, but from what we saw he prefers to leave the people he fought...well dead," Renko said.

by **Bobby Bowen** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:28 pm

"He was not the bad guy there, Wisdom."

by **Pete Wisdom** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:48 am

"Comparatively. He could have just been putting you all on because you were useful at the time. Any way to find out if anyone followed you through?"

by **Bobby Bowen** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:23 pm

"Yeah. No one else came through while I was there. and nobody came through before that, during the previous shift. or the one before that."

bobby was getting irritated, but the beer drowned it out mostly.

by **Pete Wisdom** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:30 pm

"Mmm... all right, I'll put that down as a 'no way to know that you know of,'" he said, tapping something into the PDA. "All right. That ought to be enough to keep some barking git from sending someone to pick you up and keep answering questions in a funny room until you see four lights."

by **David Renko** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:05 pm

"That is certainly a relief," Renko said before downing most of his drink in one quaff.

by **Bobby Bowen** » Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:03 pm

"Screwing with time is thirsty work," bobby quipped, gulping his own beer.

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