Secret Diary - Keep Out! Game 11

Thurs 27/01/2022 cont
The labcoat guy turned out to be Professor Echo, who could apparently copy powers – glad the others said that since if they hadn’t and I’d teleported near him since then he’d definitely be gone! He was yelling out for “Mordrid” which turned out to be some robot minion he had to protect him, and ended up with AJ, Impulse and Velocity all heading off to deal with it, and apparently having a pretty epic fight with it by continually slicing off his limbs.
 
Meanwhile the light in the pit started pulsing erratically and whips of energy started shooting out dangerously.
 
I sarcastically asked Professor Echo whether that should be happening and he just started calling us pipsqueaks and that it could end up blowing up Star City… which would not be idea. His kid seemed smarter than he was since APPARENTLY it was a feature that it would blow up if interfered with rather than a bug, and even the kid could see the issue with that! Duh! Luckily the Doll still had him trussed up in her Jellyfish plushie so he couldn’t move – sweet trick!
 
Apparently the professor didn’t have a plan but did mention his research notes were in a vault in his office that only he could open. I initially thought we could fly him over the pit, but seeing the energy whips suggested that was a bad idea, and since I didn’t want to teleport we ended up going the long way around to his office, and while running through the complex we could see cracks snaking through the walls and concrete falling to the ground, and alarms continually going off.
 
Having got to the office the professor did open the vault, and I popped in to grab his laptop – did find some other interesting things in there too – a ray gun, some weird police badges that didn’t match up to any countries I would have expected, and a can of Rock & Roll Spaghettio … not a bad haul!
 
The professor started pulling up his schematics and talking about exactly what needed to be done … not like we could really understand it – I started to try, but the Doll instead gave me some coordinates and a photo for me to try and grab someone who might be able to. Teleported there, but managed to get my foot stuck in a trolley. Definitely startled the dude I found there, apparently someone called Dr Floyd Williams. Started to ask him how hot he was on his reactor tech and cosmic rift stuff, but gave up and just grabbed him, informing him he was coming with me.
 
Back at the underground base, tugged him into the office and once he recognised Paloma he started to finally get a clue as to what was going on and pretty quickly ended up talking shop with Professor Echo. He seemed to get a view of what needed to be done, so I ferried him over to the reactor, back to see if I was needed with the cable stuff, but when I ported back Velocity was already on the case so back to Floyd.
 
Pretty sure it was barely 30 seconds since I was there but I guess that was long enough for him to get stabbed, as he was slumped over the console with a knife in his back. Couldn’t see anyone else but heard a whisper “The Outsiders Will be Done” so great…. Invisible assassin.
 
Luckily I had that can of Rock & Roll Spaghettio which I whipped out and gave to Floyd to keep him going and his mind off the pain (and on the delicious taste of Rock & Roll) while I called for AJ to get over pronto, after a bit of confusion he started to heal Floyd, while I panicked and made many versions of myself in the room to try and confuse things in case the invisible assassin was still in. Luckily the Doll came over too and she could sense the fabric in his outfit so slammed him into the reactor and then covered him in glitter – definitely made him much easier to see that way! While taking him out, Velocity took a knife and feel unconscious after staggering back. Wasn’t too long before he was knocked out, and Impulse ran over to her brother to help him.
 
The dude materialised in a full body suit with an Omega symbol on him. He’d nicked this crystal from the death ray which we were able to put back in place, and finally Floyd was able to flick a few switches and reverse the polarity of the death ray (or some shit like that)
 
Seemed to be going well, until suddenly a tear in reality appeared across the side of the wall. It began sucking us towards this vortex, and I ran over to the other unconscious invisible guy to try and hold on to him, but he slipped through my fingers. Luckily before he fell through this void AJ jetted over from nowhere and grabbed him, while the Doll caused these weird plants to erupt from the tear and start knitting it back together.
After another moment the rift was repaired and we all fell to the ground exhausted but all accounted for. The kid (Chibi Lotus apparently) was a bit freaked out but we distracted him with a few stories from our other escapades… did have to broach the subject that we weren’t going to be letting his father go and that he needed to get locked up to stop him doing more bad stuff. He did seem to get it though was pretty sad about it, no mother but did have some cousins that he figured he could stay with. Kid seemed to be one of the only ones who got that the easiest way to keep your relatives safe was to keep your true identity out of the wrong hands. Finally! Though the others did suggest that there were advantages and disadvantages to both… except they all have superhero family so whatever.
 
There were some noises coming from the landing pad, so AJ and Impulse went to check that out while we headed off towards the tunnel out that AJ had made, just in case we needed a quick escape. Wasn’t super long before AJ called the doll. He even asked her to warn me in case I wanted to scarper, but by this point I had had such a rough day (almost died, almost had two other people die on my watch, realised that if I had died then my parents would never know what happened to me…) I just decided to hell with the consequences and I’d see what happened.
 
Wasn’t super long before a guy in dumb armour turned up telling us to hand the professor over so they could cuff him, but before he could I got in the way and in his face, trying to get him to confirm who he was… he got super prissy with me but eventually said something to that Floyd dude which confirmed his identity, just as Professor Echo started to try and use Dolls powers against her, so he got the cuffs put on him. We also cuffed up the dude from Omega.
 
He remained super prissy about it going both ways but duh, he doesn’t know who I am so I could tell him anything! Anyways, he could confirm that the Doll was who she said she was and since we had the code word thing set up became pretty easy after that. Apparently though, he ended up having his pants pulled down while drinking! Anyways, once he simmered down slightly he did at least say it made sense, as could have any number of evil weird doppelgangers running around, and a load of different worlds (like one where the Nazi party won the war, reckon that the police badge I stole might have something to do with that!)
 
We tried to explain a bit about what we were doing here and why we were in the lair of a supervillain and messing about with space time continuum and didn’t get more back up than a voicemail to Stormrider like maybe calling in Alpha force from the start? Of course, we’d managed to stop him AND save the island, but apparently that wasn’t enough for him since we were just kids, and we were trying to save the day ourselves rather than get someone with more experience. Dunno though, it might have pissed me off (and DEFINITELY pissed Velocity off since he just freaking ran off!) but after the crazy day we’d had I could kinda see his point. Didn’t let him know that he’d got to me though! Didn’t help that it turns out all the scientists upstairs were all stabbed and dead which really sucked – I’ll admit I’ve not seen much in the way of dead bodies before so it shook me up a bit more than I would like.
 
Anyways, having had to deal with that I popped Chibi Lotus back upstairs to his room and we all headed back, a bit later than ideal but I just told my parents that our project work had run on and headed to bed – glad my illusion magic could at least make sure I didn’t look bruised and battered from the days adventures.