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" Roderick... His name's Roderick..."

"Doesn't he have a last name?"

"Apparently not sir... he's highly decorated and is willing to serve us on this mission..."

"So the army is going to use some prototype specialist to deal in this matter? hmm... makes you wonder just what the hell was in that tube... OH there he is now... Come in Roderick..."

A tall, muscular, tanned, spikey-haired man slowly stepped into the room. his body glowed with an essence of power.

"Wow... uhh I mean... Hello Roderick... I see you've been keeping busy... Alright now I'm going to brief you before you bite and or rip my head off...

The Lylocks are at it again, though whatever it is may vary from time to time..."

one of the nearby officers grunted and laughed at the same time to make it sound like a cough at the Commander's spur-of-the-moment pun...

"Ehem... sorry..."

The commander gave him a sturn look... "as I was saying... These guys like to alter time... from time to time... heh ok so maybe that is funny... oh right back to the breifing... They stole something that's ours... something very important, it is belived that they are carrying it in a tube..."

A diagram of a silvery tube appeared in a holographic monitor

"... whatever it may be, we aren't sure... but we belive it may have something to do with some top-secret military plan... The boys at the temporal protectorate are going bonkers, because they just hate it whenever their rivals try and do something with time... bah... What happens to time isn't our job nor is it our priority, we're made specifically to police this damned multiverse, and that's exactly what we're gonna' do... This is a recovery mission of a stolen object, nothing more... nothing less... Because of you've had some Ancient skill training you'll be perfect for infiltrating the universe of 36^3%x45^7%-Beta7G. Every little damn thing out there looks like it was made in Japan... So you have the skills placed on the requirements list..."

A long list of skills was unrolled for everyone to see

"We know you like that glove of yours, so we've decided to give you a new little toy... It's called a temporal glove... and it was built by some Temporal Protectorate Scientists so that we could punch ourselves in the past for doing anything we didn't like..."

The same officer guffawed again and then was shut up by the captain's glare...

"Seriously... It is a glove implant which allows you to travel through time. Just so you know, it comes with an attatchable rocker launcher pod for your wrist as well. In this launcher we have placed ONE... and I repeat, ONLY ONE explosive warhead... DO NOT use it unless you absolutley POSITIVLEY must... Under no circumstances are you to tamper with the device, as we'll be tracking you with it, and if at any time you are captured..."

"You'll detonate the pod..."

"I see you're well aquainted with how we work, Roderick... In this case you will be deployed to 36^3%x45^7%-Beta7G immediatley... The man you are looking for is a cyborg... if we are 'fortunate' enough, you might run into a temporal agent... Don't even bother with the civilian, if he gets in your way, you'll know what to do... but don't do anything until you've milked him of everything he knows... got it?"

With a nod the world around Roderek spun and soon he felt a cold breeze blowing by him instead of the warm air of the chamber in whcih the officers were standing around in, light was no longer emminating in from the window, outside of course there was nothing but what the human imagination was limited to... "Now arriving at 36^3%x45^7%-Beta7G..." a cool female electric voice spoke, and with that the world of ancient times appeared... The date... Irelivant... it could have been like this for a million years or ten minutes... all that matered was now... THe glove attached itself to his hand, and he felt some screws fall in place...

"Roderick... are you reading me? This is Captain Fissure... we're already getting a track on abnormal interdimensional activity, all we can tell at the moment is that two other people entered from outside, that's all we've got right now... Good luck Roderick..."

The sky was growing dark, storm clouds... Rain would be arriving soon, lightening was flashing off in the distance, thunderclaps resounded alongside the lights. Before Roderick was a large town, asorted temples and houses all bearing the same Japanese-style artwork and roofing. The farthest visible structure in the distance appeared to be a large standing tower. It had many large poles rising up around it, and firey lights were burning inside of the windows, making it look almost as if it had electric power...

He could feel something big was about to go down...

"You there..."

A voice echoed from behind him... Roderik turned and saw a figure who appeared to be in a kemono... but there was something other-worldly about him... like he didn't belong where he was...

"I'm Kineda... and you're in my way..."