| Text | - You've seen how this video ends before, but Doc Delilah skips straight to the missing beginning.
It's the same scene, only with sound this time. You recognize AkashiKnight there, and Delilah points out that the other villain with the strange widget is PsiCurse, a psychic gadgeteer. PsiCurse is holding up the device and cackling, Faultline looks like he's in agony, and everyone looks confused.
'Confused?' PsiCurse laughs. 'You tiny minds can barely comprehend the power of my PsychoChronoMetron!'
'What's wrong?' shouts AkashiKnight. 'You fiend, what did you do?'
'My PsychoChronoMetron allows me to turn psionic energy into temporal energy. I can use my mind to alter history itself, as I have just done! And now, he who was once Faultline, my greatest foe, is now Faultline, my staunchest ally!'
Faultline clambers to his feet, stunned as a young Jim Temblor runs out from behind Blue Shield to grab his father's leg.
'What... What's going on?' gasps Faultline.
'Now, Faultline, my new ally, use your Earthquake machines!' PsiCurse shouts. 'Destroy this base while we escape to begin your new life of crime!'
'Earthquake machines? What are you talking about?' Faultline's face contorts with pain. 'What did you do? The feedback! I can't control it!'
The rest of the tape plays out as you've seen before. Doc Delilah shuts it off and looks at you in stunned silence as the mind-shattering revelation of what you've just seen sinks in.
- Confront Nocturne about trying to kill me.
- Have hero who helped me assassinated
- Investigate ruin. PCM confirmation?
- Arbiter Sands is back, and this time it clearly isn't to fight alongside you to get his revenge. He dropped this list of things to do:
'To Do:
- Order someone to get flowers, nice card.
- Organize next excavation expedition '
- Request back-up for Sky Raider problem.
- Greetings. You can call me Agent G. I'm glad you brought this to me. It puts a name on our opponent: Arbiter Sands. We've been trying to find out why Arachnos is here, and what they're planning. Right now, allthat we know for certain is that they're having trouble with the Sky Raiders. It's slowed them down, but it's also made them tighten security, making it harder for us to find out what they're really up to. Hm. PCM? I wonder...
I'd suggest you keep working with Dr. Stein for the moment. She's trustworthy. She's also onto something I've suspected for some time. I may ask for your assistance later. If so, I'll send a message to your through her.
Thank you for your assistance.
- Leonard P. Conway had modified his desk to hide a hidden cache. It was still intact, an unintentional time capsule of his life as a hero right before he died. The key to his supergroup's base was there, but there was much more, too. There's a spare costume, a case book, and a date planner with which identity he had to be in and when. There's a spare copy of his city ID card, notes on his latest cases, and a hero gear catalog from the year Overbrook was destroyed. It's sobering to think that all of this is what remains of his double life.
- This old wallet once belonged to the late hero AkashiKnight. He was supposed to be a techno-mystical warrior gifted with supreme knowledge through a mixture of ancient wisdom and modern science, but even he didn't see the Faultline Event coming. His wallet contains some useful information, including his personal ID, a driver's license identifying him as Leonard P. Conway, several business cards that reveal his place of work, and a reminder written to himself on a sticky-note that he left his magnetic key for the team base at work.
- Hey. You're lucky you caught me, Fusionette and I were gonna go and visit Blue Steel later. She talked me into getting my ID card. I can't be afraid of myself forever, you know? What's this? The full recording! I'm not sure I really want to see it, but... No. I need to.
I remember PsiCurse. Never knew why Dad worked with him.
Oh, my... No...
This... This is...
I, I can't... Please, shut it off. I can't stand to... I knew it was all wrong, but this. THIS!
Oh, Dad, what did he do to you!
I, I need to... Promise me. Promise me this: If that thing, that Psycho-thing, if it's still out there. Destroy it. You've got to destroy it!
Thank you. I needed to see that, needed to know. And I'm still going to see Blue Steel tonight. Now, more than every. Thank you. Thank you.
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