King of Time Part 4

(NOTE: The following is an off-season collab that has no bearing on 2018 and 2019 RP. Special thanks to TheDeleter for writing Vince and Draco for writing Parsee.) 

Kouta Tokiwa, looking at the stranger, had a bad feeling. He’d been having them a lot recently, but this one was the most severe. There was something subconsciously wrong about the newcomer, an underlying sense that he felt out of place and didn’t belong. There was a faint aura around him, barely perceptible - a kind of haze that made him look as though he was a badly-applied sticker in a children’s picture book.

The body of the middle-aged man lying in front of him didn’t help matters.

“What do you mean?” he asked, at last. “Change the future how?”

The stranger’s mouth turned up in a smirk. His voice was oddly soft and quiet. But he never took his eyes of Kouta as he spoke.

“His daughter was dying. The Bugster Virus is due to claim her life in a week. So I gave him the power to save her. The power of Ex-Aid, the rider who cured disease. By defeating him, you’ve stopped the future from changing and doomed her.”

“That’s horseshit,” said Vince from behind Kouta. “I’m pretty sure we have, like, five doctors who could cure that shit without thinking.”

The smirk widened. “That’s not what the history books say, Ex-Aid.”

“Fuck the history books, they’re written by assholes.”

Kouta decided to chip in before things got ugly. Not that they weren’t going to anyway, but still.

“...and who are you?”

“My name is Heure,” the stranger explained. “I’m one of the Time Jackers.”

“Gross,” said Vince.

Heure ignored him. “We’re from the year 2068. As you already know, that world is ruled by Emperor Zi-O, who commands all of time and space. The entire planet is a dictatorship and all those who oppose his rule are destroyed.”

“Let me guess.” Kouta rolled his eyes. “you want to stop Zi-O from becoming Emperor. Look, I already dealt with a guy who-”

“Of course not!”