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 "So who were those two, the boy and the girl?" Shadow asked once they were settled outside the Sentinel Base Camp's walls. It still unsettled Intrepid that Beck Strongheart didn't recognize him, so by saying outside, Intrepid didn't need to look at him, so he could pretend he wasn't thinking about him. His mind had become muddled again.
 "Their names are Cailan and Crimson Crateris, brother and sister crime duo." Red said gloomily, as she played with her dimensional scanner. It beeped and chirped, flashed various lights, and projected various images. "They're also the kids of a previous colleague of mine, hence their transdimensional maneuver-ability. Their first offense was stealing a Dimensional Drop."
 Shadow said, "Aptly named, because it is a device that is easily triggered by the momentum of its user in a free fall!"
 "Exactly." Red said, putting the scanner away. "I like you."
 Intrepid looked away and narrowed his eyes. For some reason, her saying that annoyed him. He took to watching the battlefield instead, which was oddly calm at the moment.
 "So what were the Craterises doing with that Maelstrom Shard? They seemed to be transporting it!"
 Intrepid didn't expect Red to answer that question, and while he wasn't facing them, his eyes widened when she actually went and admitted, "I don't know what they're doing with it. I've only been following them since this morning. I'd like to detain them, but it's not an easy job, as you've seen."
 The battlefield was boring so Intrepid turned back to them. He noticed Red had her hood back up, revealing a logo on the back of her coat. It was a green colored lemniscate, the icon of infinity, with a slash running through it, enclosed in a circle.
 "Who are you working for?" Intrepid asked.
 Red turned to him. "I was wondering when you'd finally get to asking your very important questions. I don't have all the time in the world."
 Intrepid shrugged. "You do with time travel."
 Red scoffed. "Time travel doesn't exist. Now to answer your first question-"
 Intrepid's brows had furrowed, and interrupted. "What? Tell me about time travel?"
 "Time travel isn't real," Red repeated. "Dunno where you got that idea from."
 Intrepid's mind traveled back in time to a few hours ago. "But you told me- you came to me-" he sputtered. "On Elistra, you told me I traveled two years back in time."
 "I wasn't on Elistra." Red told him. "And I never told you such a thing."
 Something dawned on Intrepid. "Maybe you haven't... yet." he suggested.
 "Time travel isn't real!" Red groaned for the third time. "But," she continued, now studying her transdimensional maneuverability device, "actually... maybe I do know where you got the idea from. This dimension we're in now, is two years behind your original dimension."
 Both Intrepid's and Shadow's eyebrows shot up, for different reasons.
 "So you're from a different dimension as well!" Shadow proclaimed. He continued to draw something on his paper.
 "Since when am I in a different dimension?!" Intrepid shouted.
 "I don't know," Red instructed, "but you tell me what you know and we can figure this out."
 "Okay," Intrepid agreed. "So, this starts with... yesterday. I got a call from my brother, because he got a call from some relative called Tiberius." Intrepid watched for a reaction from Red, but her face stayed steady, as if she didn't recognize the name. Which could mean a lot of things. Did she NOT know him, which was another contradiction between Red and the Red who visited him on Elistra? Or maybe she did know Tiberius, but she was being vague now.
 He continued, "So, we flew to Elistra, me and friends... and Tiberius called me in the flight. So he told us he could save my family. Then we got attacked by the Maelstrom, and I crashed on Elistra..." his face had turned absentmindedly during the dialogue, and now he turned to Red again. "Then you came and told me I'd landed in the past. You told me not to follow Tiberius."
 "Wasn't me." Red repeated.
 "Someone who looked like you, then." Intrepid amended. "It was dark."
 "Kate?" Red suggested.
 "No." Intrepid said. "She's elsewhere-" his voice cut off, because he wasn't sure if he should tell Red what happened to her... he didn't think she would be happy. But Red caught on. Her eyes narrowed.
 "Intrepid?" she asked. "Tell me where Kate is."
 Intrepid sighed. "She's somewhere on Elistra. I don't know where."
 Red's hand closed around the transdimensional maneuverability device, and she disappeared, replaced by thin air.
 "You have strange friends, Intrepid Fusion Eclipse." Strange Odd Shadow noted.
 Intrepid glanced at him. "Yeah," he said, before looking drearily at the ground. He'd upset Red, and now she was gone. Good work, me, he thought.
 Then Red reappeared, but this time she was holding the hand of a certain Sentinel Samurai. Kate seemed to stumble a bit since her footing had just changed, and when Red let go of her she crumpled to the ground.
 Intrepid would have gone to her side, except Red was stalking straight towards Intrepid. Even though she'd come back, Intrepid had still predicted right, because she did not look happy.
 "You left her!" Red shouted, stopping inches from his face. "I told you to find her. That means take care of her!"
 Intrepid shot back, "I would have gone back, but my transdimensional maneuverability device has been a little broken! Heck, I didn't even want to come to Avant Gardens-"
 "Give me that." Red grabbed at his wrist, where his device was strapped, and pulled the fake watch off. "You've taken it apart, no wonder it hasn't been working for you." she noted, and shook her head with a sorry smile. "No matter though, I have a spare."
 "Can I have it?" Intrepid asked.
 Red laughed, but it was disdainful and bitter. "Okay, that was funny. But it's not up to me, so, no."
 "I could steal yours."
 Red stepped back. "I don't think so." Intrepid looked past her. Shadow had gone to Kate, and as soon as she stopped heaving the Engineer helped her to stand. Kate's eyes darted around wildly until they focused on Intrepid.
 "In..trep.." she muttered groggily. "Please tell.. me.. what is going.. on!"
 "You've just been transdimensionally transported some five lightyears in an instant." Intrepid said.
 "Oh, yeah..." Kate huffed. "It didn't feel this bad when we.. transported back from the.. other universe."
 Inwardly, Intrepid was relieved that Red had brought Kate back. That was pretty nice of her. But he said hotly, "That's what happens when your driver is careless! You got carsickness."
 Shadow frowned. "Driver's care and carsickness are unrelated except for the common setting. Generic motion sickness is more applicable." Now that Kate was standing on her two feet, he returned to his drawing.
 "Whatever. I'm glad to see you're okay." Intrepid told her. "Thanks for getting her," he added, turning to Red.
 Instead of acknowledging him, Red's head dipped, as if she were listening to something else. Her hair swept to the side, and Intrepid noticed a glint on the side of her head. She was wearing an earpiece, and listening to it.
 "Who's she?" Kate asked.
 Intrepid held up a hand for silence, and then brought his other, right hand, up to that side of his head, to manipulate his transmitter/receiver/hearing-aid combo.
 "You're snooping." Kate whispered, quiet enough for just Intrepid, and possibly Shadow, to hear, and Intrepid stepped behind her. Then he listened.
 "...unfortunate. I dropped a hamper on Guppy Forest, which is where they materialized. An odd place, but they can't escape that way again. Elite is going after them. We could use you back here, so come to HQ."
 A loud scream suddenly pierced the air which caused Intrepid to recoil and cringe, since it came through exponentially louder in his right ear. If his right ear wasn't damaged already, it would be for awhile now.
  Groaning, Intrepid stood up and saw with relief that Red hadn't noticed his covert operation. Rather she was staring at the source of the scream, as was Kate and Strange Odd Shadow. Ripping out his earpiece, Intrepid rubbed his temples before turning to follow their gaze.
 The scream, which had been like an, "Ah!" sound, came from a Rank 3 Paradox Space Marauder, who just rebuilt after being smashed by a Stromling. Closest to the Stromling, a Rank 2 Samurai shouted, "Hey, get 'im! He smashed Ray!"
 The Stromling then ran, but to Intrepid's surprise, it did not run to attack the minifigures - rather, it seemed to be running away from them. The Stromling scrambled up the incline towards the Sentinel Base Camp, where it got shot at by the guards, but somehow it was not smashed... yet. One Imagination bullet grazed its shoulder, and it stood stunned for a second. Then another struck it in the chest. Jinxed, Intrepid thought. Now it would smash soon. It was odd, and Intrepid couldn't place it, but this Stromling looked the faintest bit familiar.
 "Guys, it's time for us to go." Red said suddenly.
 "Wait!" Kate shouted, and then she ran at the Stromling.
 Intrepid reached out but she was too fast, so he ran after her. "What are you doing?!" he hollered as she wrapped her arms around the Stromling and pushed it to the ground, shielding it from any more gunfire. Intrepid grabbed Kate's shoulderpads, just as Shadow grabbed his hand, and looking back, Intrepid saw that the Engineer was holding onto Red.
 Then Intrepid felt his body being ripped apart as they were all transported to another dimension.