Meanwhile, Beer-Drinking Lad wonders how to get back to the future. He misses Whiskey Boy, Pour-Me-Triple Kid and Sex-on-the-Beach Girl. Pulling another can of Budweiser out of thin air and knocking it back, he hears a noise. His teleporter is working, and he will soon be on the way, so he pulls a case of beer out of thin air, never caring where or how he got this power along with the power to turn beer into energy beams that shoot out of his mouth.
Rhyme Guardian and his teammates are gathered around the oval table at their new headquarters in Limbo. Before Kid Bucket had taken his leave of absence, the Rhymer had asked Bucket to use some of his power to create a teleporter machine that could transport the team to Limbo, along with a newly constructed headquarters as a backup. His justification was that the weather was nice, and the team would have privacy, which was what they had needed when their previous underground headquarters had been infiltrated by their enemies. After Gooz's death, the team voted to relocate to their Limbo headquarters indefinitely until they were sure that the Dark MBL and Viper were gone for good.
Now, everyone is gathered for a routine team meeting, but no one says much. Lone Survivor is the only one absent, sitting in his dorm area and wondering what to do next. All of a sudden, Beer-Drinking Lad bursts out of the teleporter machine, beers flying everywhere.
After catching one and chugging it, Rhyme Guardian asks the Lad what the hell's going on.
"The evil MBL... from that parallel dimension... they're wreaking havoc downtown in Thunder City! You've got to stop them. I held them off as long as I could." And the Lad collapses.
The MBL charges toward the teleporters and beam to Thunder City. Lone Survivor, hearing what went on, says, "The Dark MBL -- my chance for revenge!" Blinded by rage, he teleports into the fray.
The room is empty, and the teleporters start up again. Out walks a masked man known as Smasher. Smasher is a hero with the power of superstrength, and he can fire energy blasts, he can create a force field around himself, he can fly and has other unknown powers, all given to him by a small piece of stone with an unknown origin. He was a long-time friend of Gooz and has come to take his place on the MBL. But the headquarters of the MBL is empty, so he shall wait for the team's return.
Smasher notices the unconscious Beer-Drinking Lad, still passed out. He looks at him more closely and jumps back as the Lad spasmodically jerks and begins shouting, as if having a nightmare: "Hey, man, get off me! What are you doing? Helllp!"
Lone Survivor emerges from the transporter beam, shocked to find himself separated from his team and back in the new Infamous Bedlam Gang headquarters. Standing before him is Viper.
Viper: "You little traitor."
Lone Survivor: "You're the one that lied to me."
"Enough of this." Viper grabs Lone Survivor by the throat, picks him up, and tosses him across the room, where his head connects with the wall. A groggy Lone Survivor watches as Viper walks over to him with a wide, evil smile. Viper begins to reshape the shadows around him to look like Lone Survivor's coat.
Lone Survivor draws his gun and fires. Viper sidesteps the blast, which leaves a large hole in a far wall, just above a large metal crate.
Viper: "Idiot! You're going to set off the bomb doing things like that."
He grabs the gun, but Lone Survivor doesn't let go. Viper molds his left hand into a shadow blade and chops off Lone Survivor's right hand. Lone Survivor recoils in pain, trying to stop the bleeding.
Viper picks up the gun and walks over to the transporter. First he sends the nuclear warhead to the MBL headquarters, then he beams himself to Thunder City in his Lone Survivor disguise.
In the MBL Headquarters stands the man known as Smasher, waiting for the MBL to return, when Beer-Drinking Lad regains consciousness, jumping up and screaming about the Dark MBL.
"We... are... all... going to... die... we must go... to Thunder City... to.. stop... the..."
The Lad then passes out again.
Smasher: "The Dark MBL -- they were the cause of Gooz's death! In his honor I shall get revenge on the Dark MBL for what they did to him."
Smasher then walks through the set teleporter and into Thunder City to defeat the Dark MBL
Now alone in the MBL Headquarters is Beer-Drinking Lad, passed out on the floor of the meeting room, with a huge warhead speeding at the headquarters. Somehow Viper made the warhead so powerful that it breaks through Limbo and is heading straight for the MBL's headquarters there. Beer-Drinking Lad then wakes up.
Beer-Drinking Lad: "What the hell?!"
The Lad races to a teleporter just in time, and, as he teleports to Thunder City, the headquarters blows up into little pieces in Limbo. The new headquarters is no more.
In Thunder City stands the assembled MBL -- Rhyme Guardian, Nightwatch, Disco Stave, Grow Worm, Agent F7, and two new arrivals named Beer-Drinking Lad, who warned them about the Dark MBL's attack on Thunder City, and Smasher, who they met at Gooz's funeral.
They face the Dark MBL, which includes Blood Bucket, Deathwatch, Agent 7F, and Prometheus XI. Their leader, the evil Lord Rhymer, had been destroyed by Gooz, who sacrificed his life in the process, so they are fighting in disarray. The MBL easily takes the upper hand.
But Rhyme Guardian senses that there is something behind the scenes, something or someone pulling their strings. Suddenly, the Dark MBL vanish, presumably back to their own dimension, leaving the MBL standing there. Then a voice echoes in their heads: "The League... you dare to stand in the way of my plans? For that you will pay..."
Rhyme Guardian knows that this is the force behind the Dark MBL's return. They try to return to their headquarters to regroup, only to find that the teleporter records no receiving-end counterpart teleporter. They are stranded in Thunder City, having to return to their old Earth base they used before the Limbo headquarters was built. They are all uneasy.
The Rhymer says:
"Who on earth could this dark force be?
Well, that's a puzzle that sure beats me."
After watching the Thunder City battle from a distance, Renegade looks up and says, "The MBL cannot fight every villain there is. Maybe it's time for the Meta Teens to come on the scene."
The MBL regroups in their old headquarters, which was underground. Rhyme Guardian allows Smasher to join on a trial basis. While regrouping, Renagade, a member of the Meta Teens, comes through the teleporter.
Renagade: "We..." He pants for breath. "...need your help! A powerful villain... trashed us and our headquarters. I may be the only one left."
Agent F7: "It looks like Viper struck again."
Nightwatch: "Yeah, and it's up to us to stop him!"
Rhyme Guardian: "Wait up, 'Watch. We're exhausted, we have no idea where Lone Survivor is, and our headquarters is gone. We are in no shape to fight Viper!"
Nightwatch: "The MBT needs our help, and I'm going. If anyone else wants to help, follow me."
Nightwatch walks into the teleporter with Renegade, followed by Smasher (a new member of the MBL), and following him is Agent F7 (still hurt from Viper's attack on the MBL).
Right after the four teleport to help the MBT, the Dark MBL strikes again, this time in New York City. The remaining members teleport to NYC in their weak condition to fight the Dark MBL (while hoping Nightwatch, Smasher, Agent F7, and Renegade will be okay against Viper.
The icy winds howl through the large steel constructs surrounding the horizon. A light snow falls, snowflakes lazily tumbling through the ether to meet the ground in a silent collision. A hand gently scoops up some of the flakes, then just as casually as they had fallen to the frozen earth, a large tear of wind seizes the flakes in a chaotic cacophony, tossing and turning them in nature's blind dance, until, one by one, each of the flakes spontaneously bursts into flame, like a million stars all dying at once. Their minute embers leave a trail of incandescence that hovers and shakes before the eyes of a stranger.
"This will not do. This is not as it should be. They will fail without him, and this..." The stranger gazes out over the frozen landscape before him. "...this is what will come of it."
The stranger's breath is a frosty cloud in the chilling air, a cloud that slowly takes shape. The form of a face begins to solidify before him within the cloud of icy air.
"I must return to the past. I must make amends on the universe's behalf." The stranger pulls his gray overcoat close to him. "The order of things must be set right once more. He must return."
And with that, this stranger turns and melts through a nonexistent doorway as the wind continues to blow through the dead, frozen wasteland that was once Washington, D.C.
And, as this stranger slips away into the past, the cloud of air that had unnaturally held its shape, begins to dissipate, as does the face it held within it... the face of Gooz.
Meanwhile, in New York City, the MBL finds the Dark MBL (which wasn't very hard) and the Dark MBL reveals its newest member: Disco Bob!
Rhyme Guardian, Disco Stave, Beer-Drinking Lad, and Grow Worm stand assembled against Disco Bob, Agent 7F, Blood Bucket, Deathwatch and Prometheus XI. Although the good MBLers are outnumbered, they manage to put up a fight against the evil team. Then a voice rings in their heads, as before.
"Dark MBL, you are no longer needed." And they vanish. A figure stands where they were, the one who brought the Dark MBL to this Earth.
He speaks. "Meta Board League, you have come to face me?" He lets out a low chuckle. "I... am the Hypertime Entity. Such boundless energy as one that can manipulate time streams, like the ones within hypertime, cannot be contained within the fragile structure of hypertime... so I was created, a being of pure energy, as a channel for hypertime energies."
"That explains why you were able to bring the Dark MBL here. But why?" Rhyme Guardian says.
"All will be revealed in time... but you will not live to see that, as you are possibly capable of bringing about my defeat. You must die."
With that, the Hypertime Entity brings a huge Dark MBL through hypertime to face the good MBL. Villains of countless time streams... too many for the MBL to face.
Nightwatch, Renegade, Agent F7, and Smasher walk out of the MBL teleporter and into what they think will be the headquarters of the Meta Teens to face Viper, but they are wrong. It was really a trap set by the Hypertime Entity to divide the MBL into two so they would be easy to defeat. Now Nightwatch, a hurt Agent F7, Smasher, and Renegade are alone to face a huge team of members of the Dark MBL.
The team leader, Rhyme Guardian, notices that the Hypertime Entity is not putting up much of a fight while the other Dark MBLers are here. He comes up with a theory that it takes a lot of concentration to bring so many others through from other boards.
"Guys, fire at the big guy!" Rhyme Guardian shouts. "Distract him!"
The team -- Rhyme Guardian, Grow Worm, Beer-Drinking Lad, Disco Stave, Agent F7, Nightwatch, and Smasher -- all attack the Hypertime Entity at once. He looks up at them and scrambles to defend himself. While he is more than powerful enough to do so, when he does, the enemies disappear.
The Hypertime Entity thinks to itself, It seems I have underestimated these heroes. It disappears to regroup, leaving the original Dark MBL of Prometheus XI, Agent 7F, Blood Bucket, Deathwatch, and Disco Bob as something of a parting gift.
The teleporter of the old headquarters fires up, which is near the battle site, and out steps Smasher, Agent F7, and Nightwatch.
"We came as soon as those weird us-but-not-us guys disappeared... by the way, what was up with that?" Smasher says.
"I'll explain later," says Beer-Drinking Lad. "Right now, get these guys!"
Flying toward the Dark MBL, the Rhyme Guardian says:
"The entity left, after doing wrong,
But he'll probably be back after not very long."
The stranger known as Prometheus X arrives on the shores of the sandy, white isle with nary a whisper. The sharp contrast of the warm beach is not lost on him as he recalls the desolate, ice-scorched landscape he has just come from. The freezing devastation of Washington, D.C., in the not-so-distant future is freshly etched in his mind.
Pushing aside these images in his mind, he seems to float across the sparkling sand toward an unassuming, quaint little bungalow. Prometheus X hears laughter and senses feelings of tranquility and amusement coming from the small dwelling. Upon reaching the bungalow, the stranger passes through the wall, startling the occupants inside.
"What the...?" shouts Albino Chameleon.
"Please do not be alarmed, my friends," Prometheus X says reassuringly.
"I really hate when you sneak up on us like that," groans Caped Cadet. "You're apt to give one of us old-timers a heart attack one of these days."
Prometheus looks with surprise on the good Cadet. "I still fail to understand why members of the Seven Senses perceive themselves as such aged creatures."
"Hey, we know we're not that old," chuckles Albino. "But compared to these newbies out there today, we might as well be a bunch of old farts."
Albino and the Cadet laugh at this little bit of humor. Prometheus X fails to understand such mortal characteristics and proceeds to explain his presence on the isle.
"I have come here, gentlemen, to enlist your aid in an event that has set our universe on a path of destruction never seen across hypertime."
Albino looks at the Cadet. "Do you know what he's talking about with this hypertime rap?"
"No," replies Caped Cadet. "You been sniffing at the cosmic borealises again, Promy?"
Albino and Cadet burst into laughter again.
"Gentlemen, I am very serious in this matter."
"What do you want us to do," asks Caped Cadet, "bring some dead guy back to life?"
At that, the two beachcombers once again burst into laughter. The hilarity soon dies down, though, when Prometheus X looks at them dead on and replies, "Yes!"
After much discussion, Caped Cadet asks, "And you really think that we will be able to do this?"
"Yes," replies Prometheus.
"I don't understand, though," questions Albino. "Wouldn't the power of all of the Seven Senses be needed for something of this grand a scale?"
"No -- only the power of you two is needed."
"Uh, excuse me. You seem to forget that I lost my reality-warping powers when I helped to change the outcome of the plans of Dark Ener-G's evil machinations, and..."
"Actually," interrupted Prometheus, "your power was just severely reduced. It is still there."
"That's baloney!"
"No, it is true! All that is needed is, for lack of better words, a jump-start, which can be provided by Albino Chameleon, here."
"Okay," Albino interjects, "this is really morbid to me personally, as I'm sure it is to the Cadet, here, but if you're on the level about saving the future of our universe, then I guess we're all for it. Agreed, Cadet?"
"Yes! Agreed!"
"Then let us leave to assist in the salvation of the universe."
Clouds of dark shadow substance rises up and envelops the three, whisking them away from the tropical paradise.
The three appear out of the shadow, stepping onto a lush, grassy noll. They look down upon the rows of tombstones in different shapes and sizes. The trio proceeds toward a tombstone that had been freshly placed upon a plot that Albino and Cadet instantly recognize. The name on the tombstone reads: "GOOZ."
The battle rages on. Nightwatch and Agent F7 use teamwork to take out Deathwatch. Disco Bob is quickly taken out by Disco Stave and Grow Worm. Beer-Drinking Lad takes out Blood Bucket by beaming him with six-packs. Smasher takes out the evil Agent F7, and Rhyme Guardian takes out the powerful Prometheus XI.
"Now what do we do? Follow the H.E.?" asks Disco Stave, speaking of the Hypertime Entity.
Smasher: "No, first we have to save Renagade. While we were fighting the Dark MBL, he was taken and might even be dead now."
Rhyme Guardian: "Okay, first we save the young hero, then we go after the H.E., wherever it is."
The MBL walks through the teleporter and into the unknown to save a friend.
Albino Chameleon and Caped Cadet stand solemly, their eyes entranced upon the tombstone of Gooz, as the words of a stranger weigh upon their minds.
"So, you don't exactly want us to reanimate Gooz's body, in that you really want us to... what again?" asked the good Cadet, confused at the perplexity of the situation.
"Time is eternal, but its shape is as varied as ripples in the ocean..." The stranger known as Prometheus X stares at the sunset over the horizon, its golden light sparkling against the opal hue of his eyes. "...and to change Gooz's fate at this temporal juncture would cause a chronal ripple that would eliminate a billion timelines... erase them all..."
The stranger turns to face the duo, reasserting what seems to be a falter in composure for the briefest of an instance.
"No, Cadet, I need your special atunement to the cosmic thread of reality for a much more complex purpose than bringing life to a decomposed mortal shell. I shall return to the moment in history where Gooz sacrificed himself. That shall NOT happen. It must not."
Albino Chameleon interrupts, "But, WITHOUT Gooz, as I understand it, won't Viper be victorious?"
"Allow me to worry about such things. The task I need you two to perform is one of unity. You must unite your abilities and create a 'temporal dam.' It is up to you to hold on to this timeline and solidify its foundation as the main time stream. When I prevent Gooz's fate, the universal order will rewrite history from that point on, as the rushing chaos of hyper-shifting will occur. You must warp reality to allow the tidal wave of chrono-entropy to pass harmlessly through the ages, where all that will change, should, in effect, be the disappearance of Gooz's tombstone and his return to this life. Do you understand?"
Albino Chameleon just stares at the stranger as if being spoken to in a foreign language.
Caped Cadet, with a look of utter sincerity, is the first to speak. "You know, Pro, ol' boy,I think that is the MOST I have ever heard you say..."
The two burst out laughing, as the stranger, completely unmoved, just turns to stare at the last wisp of the sunlight as it escapes into the darkness.
"We must not fail... or this..." He turns to face the two, the night's shadows slowly playing over his features. "...this is what life will be..." He waves his arms into the darkness.
"We understand," Caped Cadet says seriously this time.
Albino jerks his head around at the Cadet. "We DO?"
The Cadet looks straight at Albino. "We do. Do what you can, Pro, and we will do wha..." He turns to face the stranger, but he is already gone, backward into the past.
Albino looks around. "I hate it when he does that."
"I hate it too," replies Caped Cadet. "Well, let's get to it."
"You know, Cadet, I have a strong feeling that this is going to hurt."
"I can guarantee you that, my friend."
The two friends approach Gooz's tombstone. Caped Cadet lays his left hand on the marker as Albino Chameleon places his right hand on it also.
"Ready, buddy?" Caped Cadet asks with a slight waver in his voice.
"As ready as I'll ever be," groans Chameleon.
The two heroes grasp each other's unoccupied hand, and a wave rips through their very essences.
In the near past, Prometheus X arrives at the scene of battle between the MBL and its evil counterpart. No one senses the arrival of the stranger except for the villainous Viper, who detects a faint familiar presence.
"The fool," Viper sneers. "He knows not what danger he can potentially cause by coming here from the future."
Viper's attention is immediately drawn elsewhere as Agent F7 launches an attack on him.
Prometheus X realizes that Viper has sensed his presence and proceeds with his plan before Viper's attention can be redirected toward him once again.
Lord Rhymer floats in the air, ready to set off the rhyme wave.
"YOU WILL ALL DIE!" shouts Lord Rhymer, and in a big burst of energy he sets off the wave, but the wave is contained by a force field created by Gooz.
Lord Rhymer: "What?!"
Gooz: "The o-only one you will k-kill is your s-self!"
Lord Rhymer: "No, you little bastard!"
Blood is coming out of the side of Gooz's lip through his ripped mask, and he is shaking, trying to keep the force field up. The rhyme force hits with full power, and Lord Rhymer is disintegrated on the spot. Gooz keeps the force field up just long enough to stop the wave. He then falls to the ground, hitting it hard.
Agent F7: "He did it!"
Nightwatch: "Yeah, we won!"
Disco Stave: "Oh, man, Gooz, are you okay?"
Gooz: "I... had to... contain the blast, b-but I was... not strong enough... D-did I stop it...?"
Nightwatch: "Yeah, you did good, man. You saved us all."
There is a smile on Gooz's face as he says his last words. "I'm sorry for the pain I... caused as the Dark Gooz... What...? Who's there?"
Disco Stave: "Who's he talking to?"
Nightwatch: "Poor guy's delirious."
Gooz: "Pro... what do you mean ice...? Frozen...? But shock wave might kill them... I'm not more than them..."
Agent F7: "What the hell... his body's fading out!"
The heroes rush to save their dying friend from disappearing inside what looks to be a cocoon of shadow, which then itself disappears.
In the present, Albino Chameleon and Caped Cadet's bodies writhe with the pulsating force of the hypershift wave, the first of many they encounter. The chaos felt by the two heroes as the universal order attempts to rewrite and reshape history is beyond description. Caped Cadet makes the mistake of opening his eyes to take heed of his surroundings. He is instantly struck blind and just as instantly given the ability to see layer upon layer of reality simultaneously. The sensory overload almost drives him insane.
The first wave immediately passes just as a second chaos wave strikes the two heroes. Chameleon exerts his power to start the reality warp and create the temporal dam. He senses that something is wrong with the Cadet.
Chameleon attempts to speak, "Caaadddeeettt, wwwhhhaaatttsss wwwrrrooonnnggg???"
"IIII cccaaannn'ttt dddooo ttthhhiiisss. III'mmm aaafffrrraaaiiiddd."
The second wave subsides.
"We must do this. Quickly, before the next wave strikes. Look into my eyes and concentrate. My power is helping to jumpstart your reality-warping power. We must build ttthhheee dddaaammm."
Caped Cadet opens his eyes and look directly into Chameleon's eyes as a third wave strikes. The Chameleon's clothing changes continuously, as does his body and features. One transformation puts Albino in an actual chameleon's body. This startles the Cadet, and he almost pulls his hand out of Albino's grasp. Albino tightens his grip as he reverts back to human form. The third wave passes.
"Cadet, it's still me. The hypershift is changing us into alternate versions of ourselves."
"I-I know. I'm okay now. Let's finish this."
Thousands of additional waves pound the Cadet and Chameleon. Suddenly, in their peripheral vision, the two heroes see another wave coming and brace for the impact. They both notice that this new wave advancing on them is different. It has a dark, shadowy look. The wave approaches rapidly and slams into them. Caped Cadet and Albino Chameleon both lose consciousness.
The Cadet opens his eyes to someone gently patting him on the cheeks. His hazy vision gradually clears to reveal Gooz propping his head up gently.
"Hey, watch the cheeks, man," Cadet yelps.
"Sorry."
Cadet continues, "You don't have to be so rough on a guy, you... GOOZ! Oh, my gosh, you're alive! Oh, my gosh!"
Gooz's grin broadens into a wide smile. Caped Cadet grabs Gooz and gives him a big bear hug, checking to make sure he's not dreaming.
"Oh, no! How's Chameleon?"
"Well, he's pretty messed up," Gooz replies darkly and then breaks into a laugh.
Chameleon says, "Har-de-har-har-har!"
"Of course," Gooz replies, "he's always been pretty messed up."
Caped Cadet sits up and looks over toward his friend to see him being tended to by Prometheus X.
Prometheus X says, "Don't worry, my friend. I'm only wrapping Albino's head because he sustained a minor concussion when he struck his head on a tombstone."
"Speaking of tombstones," says the Cadet, looking around to see that Gooz's tombstone no longer exists, "can I assume we were successful?"
"Extremely, except for Viper."
"What about him?"
"He sensed my presence in the past. This may not be important, but he may find a way to use this information against us and the rest of the universe. The worst-case scenario would be if Viper leaked word of this rescue to the Hypertime Entity."
"What can we do?" asks Gooz.
Prometheus X replies, "You, Caped Cadet, and Albino Chameleon must help the new lineup of the MBL to defeat the Hypertime Entity and then gain their assistance in capturing Viper. Beware of Lone Survivor, though. He is susceptible to the dark streak that runs through all of the multiple versions of himself that exist throughout the multiverse."
With that warning, Prometheus X envelops the heroes in a cloak of shadow and speeds them to the location of the MBL before Caped Cadet can ask how they were supposed to explain where Gooz has been since his disappearance.
There is a bright flash of blue, and the MBL are teleported to an unknown location. This is the domain of the Hypertime Entity. It is a dark cave with steam rising from little holes in the ground. In the distance is a shadow figure of a man on a throne, and by his right side is a man in chains who is missing his left hand, and by his left side is a man bloody and in chains.
The members of the MBL -- Rhyme Guardian, Smasher, Agent F7, Nightwatch, Beer-Drinking Lad, Disco Stave, Grow Worm, and Lone Survivor -- walk closer and closer to the Hypertime Entity. The figure on the throne stands and lifts his right arm.
Lone Survivor: "HA HA HA... IT'S GAME TIME..."
Lone Survivor turns on his gun and does a spinning move, shooting Beer-Drinking Lad in the left arm, Agent F7 in the right arm, and Smasher in the right side of his chest. Lone Survivor stands proud, and his body gets engulfed in shadows, which show his true form: Viper. With a quick wave of the arm, Rhyme Guardian heals the wound in Smasher's chest and on Agent F7's arm. Beer-Drinking Lad is so drunk that he feels no pain.
Viper: "WHO WANTS TO BE THE FIRST?"
Rhyme Guardian: "Stick to the plan, everyone -- SPLIT!"
The members of the MBL all run in different directions. From afar, the members start attacking until Viper gets enraged and starts crushing everything in sight. The roof of the cave starts falling in on him, and Viper is down for the count. The MBL all group together and start at the Hypertime Entity.
Hypertime Entity: "Do you really think you can defeat me in my own reality?"
After he finishes his sentence, the ground comes alive, and the MBL begins sinking into it. Nightwatch breaks free and frees Smasher. The two use teamwork to attack the Hypertime Entity from both sides. The Hypertime Entity blocks the attack with two energy shields. Smasher falls next to Renegade, who is chained up and bloody. Smasher blasts the chains to pieces, and Renegade is free, but he falls to the ground, unconscious from his wounds. Smasher drags him away from the battle to keep him from getting hurt any more until Rhyme Guardian can heal him. On the opposite side, Nightwatch slams into the real Lone Survivor. Nightwatch frees him.
The other members are now free from the ground, and all at once the MBL attacks the Hypertime Entity. It looks like he will fall, when he places his right hand up and sends a shock wave into the MBL, knocking them back. Smasher shoots an energy blast at the Hypertime Entity, which breaks off part of his armor, proving that the Hypertime Entity has been hurt.
Rhyme Guardian jumps in and starts punching him with everything he has, then moves as Disco Stave gives the Hypertime Entity a powerful jump-kick, which breaks off the rest of his armor. Lone Survivor comes up from behind the Hypertime Entity and tries to drain his powers, but Lone Survivor gets knocked out by a powerful energy blast from the Hypertime Entity.
Hypertime Entity: "You might have destroyed my armor, but I still have enough power to destroy all of you!"
Hypertime Entity lifts both arms and sends out a powerful shock wave to kill the MBL, but it passes them with no effect!
Hypertime Entity: "What? But... how?"
The ground around the Hypertime Entity opens up. It is a tunnel to Hell, which sucks up the Hypertime Entity. While falling, he yells, "I'LL BE BACK!" And the Hypertime Entity is defeated.
Nightwatch: "Okay, what just happened?"
Rhyme Guardian and the others find the near-dead body of Renegade on the ground, away from the scene of the battle.
"Stand back," Rhyme Guardian tells the others as he kneels down in front of the body and uses his healing powers to revive the young hero. Renegade looks up, happy to see that they came back for him.
As Renegade stands up, healed, a light appears, and three figures are suddenly standing before the team, who are surprised to recognize Prometheus X, the Caped Cadet and Albino Chameleon.
The Cadet says, "Oh, you could thank our power to warp reality, which allowed us to defeat the Hypertime Entity."
"Prometheus, good to see you," Rhyme Guardian says. He is a little wary of the other two due to their involvement in the old Infamous Bedlam Gang.
"Don't worry about them," Prometheus X tells the Rhymer. "They have more than made amends..."
He lifts his arms, and the entire team is back in the underground headquarters of the MBL, where they see Viper trapped in an energy cage. Prometheus X gestures to the doorway. Rhyme Guardian looks. Coming out of the shadows to stand before him is... Gooz.
"Oh my God... Gooz..." Rhyme Guardian gasps. He runs across the room and bearhugs his old friend. The other MBL members follow suit. "You're... alive?"
Gooz: "Yeah... thanks to some good friends."
"What's a Gooz?" Beer-Drinking Lad asks Smasher.
Smasher grins to see his old friend alive but holds back until his teammates have had a chance to greet him. There will be plenty of time for catching up. "I'll tell you later," he replies.
Beer-Drinking Lad lets out a huge belch.
Agent F7: "I am afraid I will have to go on a leave of absence on a secret mission. I will give you full details when I get back. Don't worry -- I'm not leaving the team!"