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Since when did Duo ever do that?

He moved on to the door, but even the door seems to be stuck, so he goes to the big doors, pressing the red button on the side and the blast doors rise up, only to show a pile of rubble pile in.

It was clear on his face that Duo was concerned, worry all over it. "Aw man..."

"Uh..." She took a step back to avoid being covered in scrap.

"I'm guessing it's not supposed to do that."

"It is a hanger in the middle of a scrap yard... things tend to..." He coughs from the dusted concrete and waves it away moving around the pile and ducking under the blast doors, only to see a city in ruins.

"...Aaah. God... Goddamnit!"

Steph follows, half-climbing over the rubble to get through the doors.

"Wanna tell me what's going on?"

"I don't know!" Duo looked around, climbing over the pile and standing atop of it.

"Looks like there was another war here!"

She climbed up next to him and took stock of their surroundings. It looked bad, yeah, but she hadn't seen it before. She had no clue what was standard and what was sign of disaster.

"Well, what now?"

"We should find the old man." Duo replied.

"The old professor's a creep but he'll beable to give us information C'mon, go back inside."

"Alright," she agreed, "let's go." It was much easier to get back in than it had been to climb out.

Duo leads the way to a back panel as he grabs a pair of flash lights. Just hope they didn't find the base. From there he closed and locked the blast doors and entered the compartment down to the tunnels.

"Welcome to the rebellion."

"An honor, I'm sure." She points the flashlight around the ceiling and walls of the tunnels as she follows. You can never be too careful.

The subterranian maitenance tunnels were used mostly by the sweepers considering most were legit despite turning a blind eye to the more underground opperations. Duo knew the tunnels like the back of his hand.

He turned around a corner, flashing his lights onthe roof as a car went over.

"At least this colony is still habitable. That's a good sign. Let's hope that its just a non issue. I can call the preventers and find out what happened."

"Just be careful," Steph warns. "Who knows what's changed in four months?" She follows with an eye on the ceiling for cave-ins.

"I remember hearing talk about some insurgents and terrorists, but I thought it was just propaganda. We mighta won the war but that didn't mean much as far as attaining any kind of peace. Besides that..." The Earth wasn't exactly spared.

Down this hall there's a large door, Duo presses a button.

"Hey old man! Open up!" He'll hack the door if he needs to.

"We are sure he's in there, right?" Steph isn't confident in anything right now. It's a strange world with strange circumstances. Anything could happen. And she doesn't have her belt.

"I'm hoping he is. He doesn't get out much." Duo replied. A flicker on the screen can be seen then. A series of beeps in reply to his request and the doors open.

"Looks like the God of Plague is in after all." Duo said with a wry joking smirk.

Meeting them inside however, is the man himself. Short with a long nose and a long scar on his left cheek. This old man was the very definition of mad scientists. Bonkers even.

He glared at the two with his sharp eyes.

"Duo. Where have you been? In four months, you've already been declared dead."

Duo greeted the old man with a curt nod, then glanced to his comrade briefly.

"Ah... Hard to explain, but I've been stuck in an alternate universe believe it or not."

"I do not."

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"I borrowed him," Steph explained, as though that should answer any and all questions.

"For important stuff. It was important. Totally not the issue here."

Duo tensed a bit at Steph's explanation, a brow raising at that too. The old man wasn't going to accept that. Duo sort of scowled at the old geezer's reaction.

"What happened?"

"Since you left there have been several minor conflicts in space. Former soldiers unsatisfied with the new regime."

"What about the preventers?" Duo asks, a brow raising. So just like he thought? Those bastards at Century Discover and the White Fang.

"Preventers do what they can with what limited resources they possess." His look is still hard, like drilling daggers into Duo.

"Figured... great." Now he was gonna get the blunt end for this. A nice swift kick to the ribs metaphorically.

Duo turns from the old man and gazes around the room. "It's not like I could do anything about it, yehknow." He started up the stairs. Get to the elevator to the surface from here.

"C'mon, Steph."

"Well it was," she muttered. Hundreds of people being kidnapped across dimension scored pretty high on her priority list. And if he wouldn't believe a truth, why was her explanation any worse?

"Where are we going?" she asked, but followed anyway. He knew what he was doing more than she did.

"I've gotta check on some people as long as I'm here." Duo glanced to her. He was worried, and besides that what were the odds he was staying here this time? 50/50 far as he knew.

"Ky, Darwin... My dad. I gotta go see my dad and his old man."

She gave him what she hoped was a comforting smile.

"Maybe I should do my hair first," she joked.

"Eeeeh. It's alright." He padded his chest and pockets, then pulled out a hair tie. Hey, he had long hair once!

Duo moved into the elevator.

She waved to the doctor with a cocky smile. She didn't particularly like him, she decided.

"So I get to meet your dad. Exciting."

That's okay because he didn't really like the old professor either. But then he didn't have to like his boss, now did he?

He smiled a bit and nodded. "I thought he was dead all these years. He lost me in a riot he says, when I was three."

She bumped him gently with her hip.

"Lucky you, finding him again. Think he'll like me?" Not that she was really worried. But maybe she was. Just a little.

"Babe, my dad's awesome. Plays guitar even." He grins widely. "Sings even!"

"I think he'll love you. Still lookin' for my mom if she's even alive though."