Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board The Omnichronal Orrery of Phineas B. Fuddle

Who...who are you?

I am but a triffling spirit, one who has seen too many a cycle of power and corruption played out by a series of tormented spirits who refuse to rest.

Who I am matters little, in the grand scheme of things.

You, Lard Lad, are who matters most at this moment. Within you, you know exactly where Phineas belongs.

<Spotting Moley across the room Nobody and No One rush to his side, laughing uncontrollably.>

<span style="font-size: 8px;">Dude! We told you to bite his ANKLE! Not his Arse! Still you're way kewl now! She's gotta throw Cobalt over for you Dude, she's gotta!</span>

(tends to the wounded freed by Pagan Lass, but still keeping an eye out in case Phinneas manages to escape)

(finds Mary, and treats her wounds)

She'll be fine! Just a few bumps and bruises.

Gods...I wonder who she is?

There you are, Tim! Despite what she says I've little knowlege of chronal energy...I knew I would need you with me! I've learned my lesson over the years, Ghost Girl...a man is nothing without his friends. I'm sure that's a lesson DARK LARD never learned....

Tim...take my hand and help me access the power...

<Time-Teller Lad does so and the two of them close their eyes in concentration>

Ohmygod! Miss Ghost is like My here?

....she was... I sensed her before the hourglass exploded.

<concentrates>

Yes, she is very close by...

Oh. My. God!

I gotta find her...

<tries to concentrate, but his mind wanders to the Ghost Girl>

I can't be...Dru...can it?

<to Everyday Girl> A locket, young one. Look for the locket...

<to Lard Lad> I... recall no Dru.

I cannot recall interacting with the living in many a century... If this 'Dru' was a spirit who journeyed onward in recent years, I would not know her.

...unless she had died but had yet to move on. But I have detected no such spirit here. I am sorry, Lad of the Lard.

O-Okay...

<sheds a tear and continues meditating with Tim's help>

Help me access it, Tim...it's very different from the Lard Force.....

(still tending to Mary)

umm... did somebody mention a locket?

I've got the locket right here!

<holds up the locket containing My Wee Fem>

And I'm okay--all the Yellow Kids did it, they saved me!

<runs to where she can see Cobie and the rest>

Be careful all of you! Britney, I'm not sure what I need to do with this locket!

Ohmygod! Have you like... opened it?

I'm ready when you are, Lardy--I'll follow your lead. Looks like its up to Tim, Ex and me.

Lets remind this son of a bitch who he's screwing with.

<with Time Teller Lad> Yes! There it is! I can access it!

Ex--where are ya? What the @#$% do I do, now?!?!

Brit, I've opened it but not fully. Let me do it now.

<and suddenly, Mary opens the locket fully, and a line shimmers forth!>

I...I...oh my God, do you see it?

<as the conversation of the LMBers continues, no one realizes that the block of amber in which Pagan Lass had encased Phineas is dangerously close to the celestial mechanism which, even now continues to spark>

<phineas, immobile as he is, eyes the sparking carefully, fully realizing that it is not electricity which is being thrown, but, rather, Time>

<closer, he thinks, just a little bit closer>

<to Lardy>

His biggest mistake, Lardy, was not considering the one place on Legion World that was itself, chronally unstable... the island of Marzal. It was there where, through sheer will, I forced his time jumps to send me. That's where the 12th chronometer is and that's where you need to focus all of the energy you absorbed there. In your mind's eye, you've got to go back, Lardy, you've got to go back!

<Looks over at Phineas and at the sparkles which are she realizes are dangerously close to him...>


<span style="font-size: 20px;">Freeze!</span>


<But she's a half a micro-second late...>

Marzal....

<remembers his time on the island, tries to find something about it to focus on>

What were my strongest memories of my time on Marzal...

<the sparking time fragments hit the amber, and, in the smallest fraction of a second, Phineas seizes upon it>

YES!!!

<the amber shatters and Phineas leaps forward... not toward the LMBers, but to the mechanism itself>

<as raw Time flows into Phineas, his very body seems to grow>

Power!!! Need More POWER!!!!

If it's power he wants... It's power he'll get.

Legion Worlders... Hit him with everything you've got... overload him!!!

NO! Someone, STOP PHINNEAS!