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Traveller's
Story "Timespan? Timespan!" The young girl Nadia runs down the road yelling for her brother. They had been playing a game along the sidewalk when a fight had broken out. In all of the confusion they had lost each other. Now it was dark and she was lost somewhere downtown. Not a good place for a young girl to be, especially since Vertigo had taken over the world. Mutants weren't safe anywhere anymore, especially those who were related to the head of the resistance against Vertigo and his band of human and mutant thugs that now controlled everyone's life. She ran down another alley, hoping to find her brother, but instead found only a dead end. "Well, this is just great," she thought to herself and turned around to head back the way she came and try a different alley. "Not a safe place to be dis time o' night," a man said. He was sitting in the shadows. The glow from the end of his cigarette was all she could see. "Who are you?" she asked, stepping closer to him. All of a sudden the light of the end of the cigarette was joined with two eyes, both as red as the end of the cigarette. "Dey call me Gambit," he said stepping out of the shadows. He held himself high, as a king or someone of great importance might. Nadia had a feeling that maybe he had been an important and powerful mutant once, but old age had caught up with him. He looked to be a ripe old age of 80, but if Nadia remembered her history right, this was the Gambit from the historical group of mutants led by Professor Xaifer. "The Gambit?" she asked getting a closer look. "De be only one Gambit chere," he said smiling. "But that would mean.." she started, staring at this legend before her. "Dat I be de oldest man alive chere? Non. Wolverine still be around dis place somewhere or another," he said walking over next to her. "And you be da Nadia girl everybody seem to be lookin for." "Yeah. I got lost," she said, her face turning red from embarrassment. "Well, maybe it be good ting you do get lost chere. Vertigo. He find da resistant's headquarters. Attack just few hours ago. Everybody be dead chere." Gambit said looking at her. "No," she said, tears falling down her face. "It's ok, it's ok. I'll take care of you," he said holding her gently. Nadia felt a shifting underneath her and looked up. "I'll take care of you sister," Timespan said, a solemn grin on his face. "Timespan?! I told you not to kid around and morph like that!" she said slapping him across the face. "I know, but I couldn't help myself," he said laughing lightly, "But I wasn't joking about Vertigo. Everyone's dead sis. We're all that's left of the resistance and Vertigo has sent his thugs out looking for us." "What are we going to do?" she said looking up at him, hoping he had a plan. "Well, I figure, we both can travel along the timestream and the more we travel, the least likely we'll be caught. There's not many that I know of that can travel the timestream like we can. It will be almost impossible for Vertigo to find us." "You mean, live on the timestream? Is that possible?" Nadia asked looking up at her older brother. "Nymph say it is. Your dad tell Nymph about him living on timestream for awhile, that's how he met your mother," Nymph said, appearing from out of the darkness. "Well, I see Vertigo didn't get you," she said sarcastically. "Hmph. Nymph glad to see you too," he said and scurried onto Timespan's shoulder. "Nymph will help us keep contact while were in the timestream. He knows both of our mutant signatures by heart," Timespan said setting Nymph back on the ground. "You mean, we're splitting up?" Nadia asked, tears welling up in her eyes again. "We have to. As long as one of us is alive there is still hope for the future," he said grabbing her shoulders. "So, I guess this is goodbye," she said looking at the ground. "We can keep contact through Nymph and we'll find each other again someday," he said smiling down at her. "Goodbye Timespan," she said as they opened the portal to the timestream. "Goodbye Traveller," he said smiling at her, "See you in the future." "Nymph, watch out for him," she said kneeling down to give him a hug goodbye. "Nymph keep watch on Traveller's brother. Nymph good at watching." he said, and jumped through Timespan's portal. "Bye brother," she said softly as she jumped into her own portal, and into the unknown worlds. |