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[khajidont]

[This is Jaime's first post to the network as Blue Beetle, and the name displayed on the tablet has changed accordingly. For any hackers out there, it can't be linked back to him as he's not actually using his tablet; he's posting directly from his armour.]

Hey. Blue Beetle here.

I know that after all this, the last thing we're thinking about is the UE's soldiers, but something's been bugging me. Everyone who was on the distraction team with me, you must have noticed the new soldiers, right? They didn't have anything like them on Elmer's world, and I'm pretty sure that war was an all-hands-on-deck sort of deal.

The normal soldiers were really well equipped as it was, but these ones must have been metas. They were stronger, and faster. It was so busy on the field that I don't know whether or not I was seeing ones with different powers or if they all had the same skillset going on, but the ones I noticed could fly and had elemental powers.

And they were small. Like children.

[Which is deeply off-putting.]

I'm not sure what their deal is, but consider this a heads-up for what the UE's got in store, and the kind of technology we might find on them. For some reason, I don't think an army full of tiny meta-soldiers is something they just managed to find one day. If any of you ran into them too, I think it'd be good if we could get some sort of list of how much they can actually do.

Oh yeah, one last thing. Since we don't exactly have space suits around here yet, if there's any maintenance that needs to be done outside the base, let me know. I'm guessing we don't have a whole lot of people who can breathe out there, and my suit's built for space travel.

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[bittertears]

They have no right to use children in such a manner! Those vile...[this is a touchy subject for Alice.

you might wanna say something before she flips out.]

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[khajidont]

I know, it's awful.

We need to try to do something about this too.

[She won't be getting any arguments here. UE, you are super shitty.]

[bittertears]

Yet once again, we are unable to do much.

[khajidont]

We have to try.

Maybe we can't do much right now, in this time. But that's what the time travel's for.

[bittertears]

And I suppose we'll all be doing much more of that now that we've been backed into this corner.

[khajidont]

That's right. At this point we don't have a choice.

[bittertears]

At the very least, it's preferable to simply doing nothing.

[khajidont]

Anything's preferable to doing nothing. If you've got any suggestions, I'm all ears.

[bittertears]

I cannot claim to know how their technology works, or the apparent limitations of it. The simplest course of action would be to go far enough in time in order to prevent the city from being destroyed.

[khajidont]

That's what everyone's been saying. The hard part is figuring out how.

[bittertears]

Perhaps once we've managed to build up our own resources.

[khajidont]

Hey, nothing stopping us from getting some sort of plan together while we're doing it.

[bittertears]

Have you anything in particular in mind?

[khajidont]

Not yet. I still need to do a lot of reading before I can even begin to understand most of this stuff.

[What goes into a nuclear bomb? He has no idea.]

[bittertears]

You're likely to have better luck with that than myself. Experiencing such events is one matter, but knowing how it all actually behaves would be beyond me.

[khajidont]

Do they not have this kind of tech back where you're from?

[bittertears]

Hardly. Comparatively speaking, the time I come from cannot even begin to compare.