The Roaring 20's: Tommy Guns & Silver Bullets

April Herp, 1923

MMage was crouched in the shadows, hiding from a group of wolves patrolling the street during the darkness of the night. With the arrival of the Wolf Pack yesterday, a huge number of Wolves, including those that were already in the city, had taken control of the city. Their numbers were great, and there was almost no resistance from the civilians. The few civilians left were either in hiding or were being put to work by the wolves. Most were working on farming for food for the wolves, but those who fought in the civil war were having their talents put to use. The town priest, Illeria, was reviving more villagers to be put to work, for example. The wolf shaman, Gigi, was helping her out and they worked to bring back all of those whom had expired. MMage managed to sneak through the extensive network of alleyways in the city to get all the way to the town square where Illeria and Gigi were working. The conditions the two were working under were archaic, and those brought back had an immediate happiness of being alive again. That joy was immediately snuffed out when they were told about the circumstances of which the town was now under. They were taken away to work and to use their special skill set. MMage felt remorse for indirectly causing all of this. There was never anything in the timeline about Werewolves taking over any town, himself and the fugitive arriving in this time must have changed the course of events, which would need to be changed back before the timeline was forever altered. MMage thought of a way to fix the occupation of the wolves without either traveling back in time again and altering more things and without killing more individuals who might be important later on. MMage thought about past events and the like. His mind eventually came to the idea of the peace treaty, which had been looked over by so many as a simple gimmick. The peace treaty was most likely in the Town Hall, where Sgtwidget had spent her last few days as Mayor. Looking over to the other side of the town square, the town hall was standing tall, even if it had been defiled by the wolves who now took residence there. Werewolves were standing guard in front, with two stationary wolves who screened everyone before entry and another four on a patrol around the structure. MMage knew that he would need some help getting in. The only wolf who might help him with the peace treaty would be the person behind Sgt who thought it up. MMage ran over to the pile of corpses in the middle of the square and the two healers presiding over them. He called out to Gigi, she turned and asked what a normal human was doing wandering around the town. MMage explained the situation, and quickly won Gigi over with his plan.

Gigi brought MMage over to the Town Hall and presented him to the guards as a personal servant to Foxycleopatra. The guards didn't give a second thought to letting the Shaman into the Town Hall. Gigi dragged MMage in as the wolves closed the door behind them. Gigi left MMage sitting there as she ran off into one of the offices to grab a copy of the treaty. She came back with a copy of the treaty, with a few small holes and such in it from the riot. She mentioned that it was the best copy she could find, some copies had been burnt to the point of ashes. MMage shrugged and grabbed the treaty, walking down the hallway to the Mayor's office. The door was opened before he could reach it, the wolves inside hearing MMage coming and opening the door for him. Upon seeing that it was a human who had entered the office, however, they brought their weapons up to him and warned him not to move. MMage scoffed at their attempts to harm him, but for the sake of diplomacy, he kept from causing trouble. Gigi ran over and called the two guards off, and they put their weapons back. Foxycleopatra turned around in his chair and questioned the human's motive and reasoning for being in his presence. MMage untied the treaty and gave it to Foxy, letting him read it over for awhile before telling him his plan. MMage first asked Foxy about his motives for taking over the city. "I did not want to kill anybody or take over anything, but your human need for expansion drove me to do so. You were expanding into our forest, cutting down our homes for your factories and theaters. If we did not act, we would have been forcibly removed from our forest, all of it becoming a few malls or apartments.", Foxy replied. MMage questioned Foxy about his view of the treaty, reminding him that he had already signed it once. Foxy replied to MMage once more, "I did sign it, and my own second-in-command helped think of it. I would be fine with this, as long as everyone else followed it, including those horrid Mafia members.". MMage couldn't talk for everyone else, but for the sake of not messing up the timeline, he agreed on part of the Mafia members whom had already signed the treaty. Foxeh called in the commander of the Wolf Pack that was helping control the city as MMage left. He hoped it was to make them leave, on account of them being able to handle the city on their own, with the new treaty in place.

MMage was content for a while before he suddenly remembered about why he was even in this time in the first place. The fugitive would have fixed his ship by now, and all of the time MMage spent fixing the timeline will have been spent to further the fugitive's chances of escaping on his end. MMage tried to remember where the radar had pinpointed the origins of the time wave a few days back when another shockwave shook the city. This was not a shockwave from a chrono device, it was a shockwave from a ship's engine starting up. MMage sprinted off to the origins of the shockwave, running through fleeing wolves and civilians trying to get away from what caused the blast. Turning corners and taking shortcuts through alleyways, MMage hoped to get to the fugitive before his ship gathered enough power to form another wormhole. MMage kept going towards the origin of the wave and eventually reached a field near the edge of town. The field was scorched from the crash landing a week or so ago and the few trees had all of their leaves burnt off and were mere black twigs in the earth. The ship was in the middle of the clearing, fully repaired as its engines started to get white hot from collecting all of the energy required to create a wormhole. MMage looked over the cockpit, trying to identify the fugitive. The cockpit was pitch black, keeping anyone from seeing who was driving the ship. The ship shuddered as the engines began to ignite. MMage ran for cover as he scrambled to find his pistol. Taking refuge behind a rock, MMage pulled out an energy pistol and shot twice at the ship's engines. The energy bolts barely damaged the engines as they began sputtering out flames. MMage swore a few times as the ship started to hover off the ground, about to take off. The fugitive managed to turn the cockpit dampeners down enough to show MMage the ancient and archaic gesture he had been making with one finger. MMage was furious but powerless as the ship continued to gain altitude. The ship continued to fly higher and higher as MMage considered either taking another shot at it or running back to his ship to give chase. MMage dismissed both options, the ship was too high for an effective shot against it, and by the time he got back to his own ship, the fugitive would be long gone. MMage could do nothing but watch as the fugitive managed to escape. Suddenly, a flurry of shots hit the ship's engines, causing them to stutter for a moment. Taking the chance, a creature jumped from the top of a nearby tree onto the ship and began to claw at it. The ship began to lose altitude from the added weight of the creature and the loss of power from the gunshots hitting the engines. Another, much more powerful gunshot, hit one of the wires near the engine with impeccable accuracy, causing it to immediately fall back down to the ground.

The ship hit the dirt with a thud, breaking its engines once more. The wolf jumped off the cockpit, landing near the edge of the clearing. The wolf looked at MMage and said, "My leader sent me, the one you call 'Foxeh'. He thought you might need some help with your struggle.". The wolf looked back at the ship, "I can see that he was wise to send me.". "Your rival has been prevented from leaving, so you will not need my help any longer.", announced the wolf before retreating back into the forest, going back to his leader. MMage looked around the square, hoping to find the other people whom had helped him out. A voice called down from the rooftops,

"I thought that animal would never leave. I can't believe that we're going to share OUR town with them. Silly things belong in a cage all day, every day.". A figure wearing a black cloak and carrying a tommy gun came out of the shadows and walked towards MMage. The figure spoke up once more, "Soul sent me, she thought that certain parties would want to follow you around. If you don't mind, I'm going after that wolf before the treaty goes into full effect.". The figure faded back into the shadows as quickly as it came out of them. MMage looked up at the rooftops, trying to find the origin of the single sniper round which finished the ship off. On the very top of a building a few houses down, a person in full ghillie carrying a sniper rifle gave MMage a salute before descending from the building. With all allied forces accounted for, MMage returned his attention to the fugitive's ship. MMage called out to the fugitive, hoping to rile him up before their conflict started. It seemed to work, as the fugitive opened up the cockpit and managed to get out of the semi-mangled mess that was now his ship. Instead of exchanging pleasantries, the fugitive shot at MMage with a revolver he had in his ship. The bullet stopped in midair in front of MMage as a blue shimmer surrounded it and caused it to fall to the ground. MMage ridiculed the fugitive for not anticipating his shielding stopping the attack. Mmage then asked the fugitive to reveal himself, fighting under a shroud would make it too easy to finish him off. The fugitive growled at MMage, but then reached for his watch and flipped a few buttons. The shroud around the fugitive faded away, revealing the person whom had caused all of this trouble in the first place.

Rainboy bowed before MMage, expecting surprise or a gasp. MMage shrugged, he had seen this one coming. Rainboy had been attacked without end, living through everything. Nobody from this time could have that kind of power. Rainboy asked MMage what he was going to do, with no escape and no weapons, he was helpless. Mmage considered what to do. He had thought of bringing Rainboy back to his time, and then thought about killing him. Maybe stranding him here would be a good option, what with the peace treaty active. MMage pulled out his energy pistol and fiddled with it. He started to charge it and pointed it at Rain. The pistol glowed green as it began to charge past its normal limit, depleting its battery and causing the weapon to overheat rapidly. MMage released the trigger on the pistol, and a flash of green lit up the night sky. The area returned to normal very quickly, turning dark once more. Rainboy winced, then noticed a red shimmer around him dissipate. MMage reached down and yanked Rainboy's watch from him. He said Rainboy could live in this time, but he wouldn't have any future technology, most importantly of which was his ship, to prevent him from escaping, and his watch, which regulated his shields. He would have to deal with all of the hatred of the city without his little bit of future tech which made him invulnerable to all of "today's" weaponry. MMage walked over the fugitive's ship, grabbing something out of his pocket and slamming it on the engines. The ship started to phase out of the timeline, returning to its origin in time/space. MMage walked out of the clearing, leaving Rainboy there to choose his own path in this desolate land.

Finding the way back to the only working ship in this time, MMage jumped in and started to turn everything on, hoping that the auto-repair systems and his tweaks would compensate for the in-atmosphere time shift. The ship started to hover and gain altitude. The ship cleared the tallest building in the city, allowing him to, as they said in this time, 'put the pedal to the metal'. The ship lurched forward, gaining thrust from the fixed engines. MMage flipped a switch on the dashboard and activated the shielding for his ship. MMage flipped another switch and readied the time shift. The ship started losing speed as the engines delivered energy to the timedrive instead of using it for thrust. MMage pressed the button to activate the time shift. A tear in space appeared before him, lighting up the sky a deep blue. Every living person in the city (read: everyone) looked up and saw the anomaly. Each saw it differently, some as an act of aliens visiting Earth, some as a thing of beauty, but Rainboy saw it as two different things. One was the relief that he lived to see another day, the other was the rage of being stuck in this time period for the rest of his days. The wormhole sucked in MMage's ship and quickly shut itself behind him. MMage traveled back to his time, leaving the past behind forever.

kaythxbai.