Temporal Bullet
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
Temporal Bullet is a man from a bleak, dystopian future of Earth. (Will hereby be referred to as Earth 669.) He is brought to the past to search for some answers. But as time comes, he will discover that he will have more questions than getting answers. He will also learn that the others he has come to the past with, they all have secrets just like he does.
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The Beginning of his Time
As the second of two sons, he was born as Zion Zehrbach in New Albany, New York[1] on August 23, 2042. By this time, Earth was partially run by individual country's government agencies but are mostly run by the megacorporations around the world. Countries were now in a forced police state. Political parties have become violent towards each other. Technology has far advanced out into reaches that none of us probably thought possible. While metahumans were no longer much of a concern to the general society, magicians were becoming very far and very few in-between.
Magicians were highly sought after in this day and age because (depending on the type of magic practiced) they had the capability of doing certain things that machines and technology just couldn't and can't do. It didn't require physical resources, it didn't require much research, and it saved time and money.
The Zehrbach family lived a relatively normal life (as far as normal can be in Earth 669) in the eyes of outsiders. What no one but the immediate family knew was that they were 3rd generation time mages. The family knew that they had to keep this a secret at all costs if only to not be seen or known by the public and have these megacorporations after them.
Zion did very well in school despite the surroundings and the negativity. While college wasn't much of an option for him, there was something else that interested him.
The EPFA
At the age of 19, Zion decided that he wanted to be a part of the Elite Police Force. (Privately and partially funded by The Brauer Co.[2]) For that, he would need to enter their Academy and did so. Here, he would learn a few things about computer systems and coding but mostly about the field. During their weapons training, the training officers discovered that Zion had a knack for pistols. Even better when he had two of them at a time.
There would be a time that an unfortunate event would take place while in The Academy. Right after some field training, there would be an altercation between Zion and another trainee by the name of Donald Lee Chen. They had gotten into an altercation about accusations of test scores being manipulated and Zion was accused of doing it. The fight then started to become physical and after a few pushes and shoves on Donald's end, Zion blocked a push in self-defense and Donald's actions were stopped cold. Why? Zion prepared and cast (in his mind) a stop spell on Donald. It would seem that Donald did not take to the spell very well so as soon as the spell wore off, Donald would drop to the ground and suffer a concussion for halting everything within his person. His heart, blood flow, his breathing. Surveillance in the area did not catch everything that happened.
In a successful attempt of hiding what he is (a magician), Zion made a false confession that he hacked into the systems grading registry and immediately dismissed himself from The Academy. Despite having proof that he did no such thing and even after hacking experts coming to the same conclusion, Zion did not go back to The Academy to pursue his aspirations of becoming an Elite Officer.
Deus Tempus Circulus, Inc.
After seeing a posting for jobs on Bruce's List[3], Zion promptly applied to a bioengineering company called Deus Tempus Circulus, Incorporated[4]. Unfortunately, the position he applied for was nothing more than a front desk receptionist. He did things that people normally do in an office setting: set appointments, do office orders, make people wait if they wanted to see someone important in the company, forward outside and interoffice mail, etc. Everything he did seemed normal to him, and he wasn't bringing on attention to himself. He would do this for about two and a half years.
One day, he was about to head out after his shift when an assistant approached him and told him he had to speak with the Chief Operations Officer of the company. During this meeting, the COO was very upfront with Zion. He brought up things of the past like his time in the EPFA and his fabricated lie. Because of his talents in The Academy, he had asked him if he wanted to become a temporary field agent.
Zion was told, from the COO, that there were certain things that he didn't understand of what was going on today. He made Zion believe that the state of the country (and the world) should have stayed from what it was over fifty years ago. He explained of a forgotten city due to a war that happened in 2012 (which Zion knew about from his history classes) and was asked to explore it. Find answers. He informed Zion that this was a very private operation and that no other megacorporations were aware of what they were trying to do.
Of course, this struck as odd to Zion. Why is a bioengineering megacorporation asking him to do this? A field agent? He didn't even know DTC Inc. had field agents. After asking the COO some questions, he was convinced that the field agents act as security for the company. Nevertheless, he said yes to the job. For security and safety reasons, Zion was given a suit to help protect himself and manipulate time with it. He was also given two titanium alloyed polymer pistols.
Zion was then told that there would be several others who would be going with him but he was never given an exact number. When the time finally came, Zion noticed that the COO was trying to get him into a time portal as soon as undoubtedly possible so he noticed a sense of urgency. He was taken up to the dome rooftop of the DTC Inc. skyscraper and went through the portal as soon as he was able. Zion had a feeling that something bad was about to go down due to the urgency of getting him through the portal.
September 13, 2011 - Paragon City
Surprisingly enough, Zion arrived in Paragon City. But what he arrived to was not something he was expecting. He arrived in the middle of the ruins of Galaxy City[5]. Shivans had attacked the zone. Statesman and Recluse were having their own silly quarrel, and there were people that needed rescuing. He tried to help out as much as he could. When he realized this was more than he could bargain for, he went out to Atlas Park to start looking for answers. He also realized he was alone so he sought out others who may have been taken here.
More to come.
- ↑ Albany in Earth 669 and in this time was not the capital city of the New York state.
- ↑ The Brauer Company is a company of private contractors that provides an array of security solutions. Police Officers in the EPF actually get their paychecks from this company.
- ↑ Earth 669's then equivalent of Craig's List
- ↑ Deus Tempus Circulus, Incorporated (or DTC Inc.) is a bioengineering megacorporation that manufactures and sells human enhancements, human augmentations, and pharmaceuticals as well as research for augmentations that do not affect the human anatomy to eliminate the need for pharmaceuticals.
- ↑ As per the tutorial on City of Heroes: Freedom.
