LOG 6 – The Bunker – 06/02/2022

So, we had a joyous trip upstate, bundled in some crates that were loaded to trains and then a lorry, they did start searching it at one point but luckily the driver paid them off so we got dumped on the side of the road and the lorry driver headed off. We went to the site and given our not brilliant German skills the Doll used the nearby tree roots to create a tunnel into the building. We ended up in a storehouse where I just disguised everyone as guards (and AJ as a crate) and we started rolling it across the building. Some of the guards were talking about a VIP (luckily Velocity translated) so when we were part way across, the main doors opened, and not only did this world’s version of the Dandy (Eitler Mann) steps in, but crazily enough, another version of me also walked through the door. He was saying something about having a personal interest in her heritage, and assuming she was cooperative her unique talents could be very useful to them.
 
The Doll peeled towards the two, but rather than join her I kept with the others since we still needed to sneak in, and to be honest my brain was super overloaded, trying to work out how the hell there was another of me, especially since I’d figured my parents were dead or frozen.
 
We continued downstairs, just pretending that we were doing exactly what we were supposed to, which worked like a charm as always. Inside was some crazy experiment shit, with dudes floating in green liquid in these tubes, and of course loads of scientists around. We pushed the “crate” through to one of the other rooms with the scientists who were apparently waiting for something so they just directed us to slide the crate into the corner. While this was happening we saw the Doll leading Eitler Mann and the other Trickster through to another door.
 
While stacking up the crates we started to coordinate a plan, and the speedsters created a number of duplicates using the crate as a disguise. When we were ready I was ready to provide my distraction… in the form of a couple of massive bears appearing and causing a bit of a ruckus. Didn’t take too long for stuff to get crazy , with vast quantities of the speedsters running around and attacking the guards, AJ literally used a drill on someone’s chest and smashed up the place so much that it started to collapse, and I pretended to wreath my hands in fire and threatened to blow up the place, before rushing towards where the fake Trickster had gone, especially as the Doll sent a message to say that “Evil Trickster” was on the way … and pretty much at that moment she popped into the centre of the room and locked eyes with me.
 
It was actually really freaky, as almost immediately she burst into manic laughter while staring at me. I ran over yelling at her and she started almost talking to herself saying that she thought she was the real one and I was the copy, but I’m much more substantial. At this I tried to touch her, but my hand just passed through her.
 
I was freaking out at this, particularly since she started asking whether when we create illusions of ourselves, we kill them when we’re done with them. She said that she was created in the reactor room in Professor Echo’s base, and that when that rip in reality happened she was pulled through and ended up here, with no-one coming to help her.
 
I’d decided to experiment a bit thinking that if she was one of my illusions I could change her – and as soon as I did that she started to fight with me. I immediately stopped but I guess I learnt she’s got control of her own form… and I don’t. She also said that she was looking for a way back home and Eitler Mann had promised to help … she didn’t trust him, but she was hoping to use them at least, and with the ability to teleport figured she could ditch them as soon as she needed.
 
I guess that’s when I figured she really was like me… finally someone who gets it! Might be a bit of a mistake, but I asked her why she didn’t come with us. We’re of course working towards going home, and at least she seemed amenable to pissing the Nazi’s off.... I mean, I don’t trust her fully, and I dunno what would actually happen if we do manage to get home and I have a living illusion, but she’s like me, and I can certainly imagine how she could have felt. Plus, she’s too dangerous to be running around.
 
So… by this point Velocity had found the “Declaration of Independence” so we called all the others over, including the scientists and one of the unconscious guards. The Doll had reappeared at this point but no sign of Eitler Mann, and with a small seed planted by the Doll we split the group to teleport back out of the bunker and into the trees. The Doll asked to make sure she went with me but AJ and Impulse at least trusted her to teleport them…. except that she did manage to teleport one of the scientists into a tree!
 
Not long after we were out a huge tree erupted from where the bunker had been, with a couple of branches looking like it was flipping us off.
 
So, anyways, we were stood around with 6 random Nazi scientists who just seemed super grateful that we’d saved them, and a few unconscious guards. Initially just talked about taking them to the resistance, but my twin pointed out that we would be just leading them to their execution … weirdly enough some of the others seemed cool with that and yeah, we didn’t want them to identify us but seemed a bit cold blooded – till my twin suggested that we just pop them somewhere in the wilderness – that was a lot of fun, as I left my guy up a tree on a mountain… it did at least have a village close by!
 
Well, we decided to call my twin “Nebula”, since she kinda came out of that weird cosmic energy back from the Reactor. We agreed to teleport back to Central Park, yet again splitting the group, and then pop everyone to Lilith’s apartment, that said my teleport was a little wonky so everyone ended up split up. Hilariously, Nebula was in charge of the disguise for AJ, and she made him look like Inspector Gadget, after he requested a big trench coat and hat
 
I quickly popped to Lilith’s apartment to scout it out, but as soon as I got there I realised there was something wrong. It was all torn up and the secret cache was entirely empty… so no way that we could use it for hiding people. I just popped over to the hideout and found Samson who was sorting through a large crate of air cylinders and scuba gear for the others. I asked him if there was another safehouse that only a few people knew (Lilith, Maketh and Tyrone from another cell) and was quite new, so I got the details from him and headed over there to check it out before popping back to the park.
 
Everyone was just waiting around, with AJ over by Nebula and talking, so guess they’re getting along? Though pretty sure Nebula was teasing him, I recognised that smile! I filled everyone in and mentioned the old busted apartment … at which point the Doll mentioned a traitor in the resistance. Like seriously, she could have mentioned it earlier! So, super speed getting everyone settled in the hideout and then get everyone over to the hideout.
 
Still just Sampson there, gave him a bit of a drilling about where the others were and whether he trusted Lilith, plus the Doll gave me a bit more info on what she had talked about with her not-dad and we agreed that we needed to talk it through with Lilith and the others asap, and at least it did seem like Sampson trusted Lilith, and he seemed a bit too … slow … to be the traitor. We also decided that we should just leave uncovering the spy to Lilith herself since we had plenty on our plate!
 
Anyways, we gave Lilith some coordinates and I teleported us there too – going to the equivalent of the Doll’s hiding place in the other world – turns out this place had it turned into “The Fuhrer Memorial Grounds” but she was at least able to make a nice new hideout there that we were able to sneak into with Lilith and have somewhere to talk privately.
 
Speaking of Lilith, she turned up just as the Doll was finishing up. It was bit rough and ready but certainly worked well enough. Anyways, the Doll finally spilled more info on what went down in the bunker. Apparently she ended up actually talking to EitlerMann a bit more frankly rather than just tricking him – guess that’s not a surprise since she literally doesn’t know german! Apparently he is part of the Foremost Nazi Supervillain team who hunts rebels,but the Doll seems convinced that he was just faking. I dunno if I believe it, the Doll always seemed pretty attached to her Papa so I can imagine that she’d jump on any chance to think the best of him. He apparently had a black dude with him though (called the White Knight lol) which at least gives it a bit of credence.
 
Apparently he was hoping to use Nebula’s blood to do something with Atlantean tech (pity we started our crazy attack before he had the chance to try and fail cos that would have been hilarious!) As we mentioned her we had to fill in Lilith on our new “friend” and that she was a illusionary copy of me that gained sentience in a reactor/cosmic rift incident, and that we’d hidden her away with a load of Nazi scientists we saved… she seemed a bit overwhelmed at that point especially when we handed her the declaration of independence, but agreed at least to look into the whole traitor thingy while we decided to hit up the underwater base to look for the crown.
 
Stuff was happening on the Space Centre side of things with some major project starting, and some object crashed into the ocean but with the heir revealed felt like Atlantis had to be our priority – plus once Atlantis was raised we could leave a lot of retaking the world to them… at least that’s what I’m hoping! Maketh was at her job which is why she wasn’t around, better to carry on like normal so as not to arouse suspicion.
 
Anways, I’m just sitting here while the others are watching a dumb video about how to use the scuba equipment that they got for us- I did have some fun with creating illusions on the screen while the video was going on but figured it was a good time to write all this stuff down.