Our mission went pretty smoothly all things considered. Hearing loads of confusion and shouting in the direction of the nightclub the distraction was definitely happening, so we headed through the tunnel and Velocity smashed through the concrete wall into a small corridor. Through a small slit I could see rooms with lots of books and records on a number of shelves, with two armed guards and two researchers or I guess keepers of the records. So, pretty easy, both the twins made some duplicates, and after teleporting us in they took care of the guards while I threatened the researchers with burning their records … I love people who are easy to manipulate! I also slammed up some illusionary walls where the doors were to make sure they didn’t try to scarper.
They directed us towards the census records so the speed readers began churning through the records looking for what we needed. We didn’t quite get to the exact information on who our heir was before the gunshot that the guard Velocity was taking down got a reaction, as we could hear pounding on the “wall” and shots for explosives to blow through. We’d at least got to the point where we knew the info we were after was in a pile of records that Velocity had identified, so we grabbed them, I grabbed a random other load of records and books just because I could, and I teleported us all out to the tunnels in front of the bunker, before heading back out to see if AJ and the Doll needed a lift
When I got there, I got to see the Doll catapult the Nazi AJ out into space using a huge slingshot, and even better, apparently they’d already destroyed his rocket pack, so hopefully that’s the last we get to see of him! There was however a tank trundling towards them so I put up a quick wall illusion (complete with anti-Nazi graffiti), let them know that we’d been successful so we just headed back.
We got let through into the bunker where they had been watching the TV broadcasts talking about a terrorist attack, so Abel at least was pretty happy. The twins finished off their research and found the last person matching the bloodline, “Priscilla Montgomery”. She was executed along with her human husband in the 70’s. Additionally they had a daughter but no record of what had happened to them.
So….at this point Maketh spoke up and said that Priscilla is the name of her grandmother…. So yep, we found the heir I guess? She seemed a bit blown away and was a bit pale, but yeah, guess that was crazy news, and definitely makes me feel more suspicious about what was going on. I mean, what are the odds that we crash land into a basement right next to a resistance member, who just so happens to also be working with the heir of Atlantis, where the others would probably be some of the only people who had specific knowledge of how to raise Atlantis, considering that their parents were the ones who helped raise it in our world. Yeah, even I know the name of the queen, and that it was her crowning that raised Atlantis, but we certainly didn’t get taught her genealogy, or the exact location of where the crown was found.
Anyways, not a huge surprise but that moved all our focus to where the crown had been hidden in our world, which was apparently an underwater bunker which was previously owned by Dr Destruction, and subsequently used by the Aquarian. It being underwater would probably cause an issue for the others, but Abel suggested scuba suits (that would take some time to get hold of, but would take at least a few days to source), and AJ suggested using a camera to get me a good look in there so I can teleport us there.
There was also a discussion about how similar our timelines were, but after talking about the fact that we had already seen that there were some people with Nazi duplicates (AJ, Stormrider, The Dandy at least) we figured that they had to be pretty close. Also turns out that Dr Tomorrow, the only super who was working with the resistance, was actually Dr Destruction… and was killed a few weeks ago.