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[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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[Nobody can be good at everything!]

like you mean were going to vote on it or somethin
is taht really a good idea its going to take forever
especially if they keep bringinig more people??
though i dunno if forever matters if were time travleing to solve the problem i guess

Maybe not a vote but we need to hear from guys who actually know what they're talking about. Scientists that get this whole clone stuff. People who have experience with time traveling. That kind of thing.

technically dont e all have experience with time traveling i mean
and i thought this was already a clone war why didnt the sceintist guys get asked before
like were we just hoping all the clones would go away on their own before or something

I mean better experience than what most of us have. Just because we've traveled in time doesn't make us experts or anything. I only heard about the whole clone thing pretty recently. You want to know why they haven't been asked yet, you gotta ask someone else.

well yeah...... ttechically the initiatives still around cant we ask them or something
they made the machine and stuff..

i only heard about it last month too when i got here
dyou know who else knows more about it??

I haven't been a big fan of their problem solving skills since I got here.

[...an understatement perhaps.]

And most of them stayed on Earth. With the bomb. I dunno who knows what around here but I'm going to try to find out.

well sue they kinda suck at the problemsolving but they can at least tell us what they know even if they got themselves mostly blown up
i mean i bet their machines has all kinds of quirks
like our toaster at home wont toast anything unless you iggle the switch three times and then hit it on the side twice

..anyway lemme know what you find!

I'm talking more about what we actually do there than the machine itself. Anyway I can put you on the list.

oh right thyeyd really suck at that wouldnt they
i havent heard about any really bad time paradoxes so far though??
did anybody eer meet themselves or anything is that a problem

ah im on a list!!
thats awesome thanks man

Nobody's from this world and we've never traveled around the same months or year or whatever. It's always seriously different time periods. We got to see dinosaurs once. That was pretty cool.

ya but wouldnt that be a thing if were trying to fix something specific though
like tring to stop the clones wed have to hit the same timeframe right??

..oh man whyd i miss dinosaurs
did anybody almost get eaten or what

If we want to save them yeah. We would. I'll have to ask if that's even possible. No nothing like that. They made a forcefield around this one big area so none of the big guys could get in. The little ones were harmless.

save them what do yo mean??
wouldnt we have to do the same thing no matter what were doing about them i dont know..

so i guess you didnt get velocraptors
but man you guys had a DINOSAUR DOME
im so jealous

If all we want to do is make sure that the UE can't make clones, we could go earlier in time and make sure they never get the right tech or research to do it. But if we want to save them, we can't do that. If we attack their resources before the clones are made, then all we're doing is killing them by making sure they'll never exist in the first place. Don't be too jealous. The bad that's happened before then pretty much outweighed the good.

[...even though dinosaurs were awesome and he got to touch one. Major high point of his life, right there.]

what are you gonna do if you save them though??
assumign you even could i dunno
itd be cool but are they gonna fight for us or somethin

was it as bad as the bomb
if not it might still be worth dionsaurs honestly

They're kids. They shouldn't be fighting in the first place. I don't know though, I hadn't thought that far ahead yet. I didn't even know they were cloens before today. An entire world was destroyed.

maybe but what fi they want to
i mean i think if we can save them and theyre into it they can help out a lot
anyways thats still doesnt solve the time problem

.... oh

[That's so insane it's actually a little hard to wrap his head around, even now. There's something, though...]

tha might actually be worse then
did the UE do it

Yeah. It was one of the Transports' worlds. The Initiative was trying to get access to it so they could send us back home if we wanted to go. The UE got there first.

..so i guess its really a no go on going back except by accident or something huh
wait does that mean the intiative doesnt send you back i thought they did??
do you just like
fall out of the world or something im confused now
but i did hear about the UE following them through the time machine...

I'm not really sure. I think it's always by accident. People who leave never get to choose to do it and it they don't get the chance to say good bye. If we could choose to leave, how many people do you think would still be here?

............. wow they REALLY suck at this

[And isn't that just a nice reassuring thing to know. Really, thanks, Exsilium.]

well im ean
this place sucks pretty hardocre but theres gotta be people who wanna stick around
cause theyre generous or hero squad or like
cause their place sucks worse i guess
i thik a ton of people would leave though i dunno how theyd fight then
probably kidnap more

Yeah I wanna say that maybe half would stay and half would leave? And that's probably being optimistic. I mean... would you stay?

yea it sounds kinda optimistic but whatever
it probably wont happen anyway right?
i guess imight stay i dunno i havent thought about it much cause too much going on
you??

Probably not.

[He really, really, really, wouldn't want to stay, but...]

I'd stay. Just call me part of the hero squad.

too bad

[Good thing this is text. It's debatable how sincere he'd sound otherwise.]

..wohoa thats pretty dedicated of you though i mean
this isnt even your home and stuff

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