Within the hour, Golden Lion, Z-mage, Demonicuss, Slick, Greg and their new collegue T-1000 arrived at the Never Ending Board. Despite their best efforts to explain everything to him, T-1000 was still confused by the whole situation. Jack Tango's near assination, the mind manipulating of posters using terrible music and subliminal messages, it was all overwhelming. He generally considered himself good at mysteries but this one left him in the dark, especially since he wasn't sure who would have a grudge against Jack to begin with. However, T-1000 did understand about DeMonStar and Z-Mage, and understood the importance of keeping them back in the fictional pages of the NEB and out of the CBR boards.

However, by the time the Mystery Machine arrived at the NEB, it looked like a war zone. Writters were evacuting the area and running in all directions as fire balls, energy bolts, and shrapnel began flying everywhere. They had come to the right place. As the entire group go out of the mystery machine, Golden Lion pointed out two figures standing at the heart of the devestation and burning buildings. It didn't take a genuis to guess who they were.

"I don't believe it," said Slick as he watched DeMonStar and Z-Mage continue their battle. "How come this problem has never happened before and now all of the sudden these two characters of yours keep popping up?" he asked Demonicuss and Z-mage, who of course didn't know any more than Slick or Golden Lion, or anybody for that matter.

T-1000 didn't seem to ponder the question, he instead reached into his left jacket pocket and without hesitation, dialed a pre-programmed number into a cell phone that he carried on him.

"Base, this is command, authorization Banshee 135, I want all units to converge on the NEB, we have two super powered entities and we need containment, immediatly."

Everyone else looked in a confused manner at T-1000. He couldn't blame them and tried to explain as best he could.

"Well, you see everyone on the board, or at least most people, have their own little theme. Just as Z-mage is a Pokemon master with all 250 Pokemon, I happen to be a Nod field commander. I have total control of the Nod terrorist organization and its armies and technology and am allowed to use whatever funds and/or weapons they have as I see fit. I just placed the call for a large number of Nod troops and equipment to come in. We are going to seal the NEB off and bring our weapons down on these guys."

Nobody liked that idea at all. Although everyone had to admit that, since both the characters had surived the Moderator guns, they were left with little choice, the idea of turning the NEB into an offical war zone did not sound like the right way of handling it.

"Come on T-1000, you are talking about a full scale strike. You could destroy the NEB all over again and erase their archives." Z-mage said, determined to talk his friend out of this.

"What choice do we have. We use the Moderator guns and they just are put right back into the Infinities fiction were they can escape again. You know as well as I do that Z-Mage is capable of destroying whole worlds and could do the same to ours. As for DeMonStar, do you really want someone that cunning and dangerous running around here on the boards, even if he says he is good?"

Everyone hated to admit it, but T-1000 had a point. They were still not content to let T-1000 turn the NEB into a war zone though when all of the sudden several dozens vechicles seemed to burrow up from underground. Out of dozens of subterrainian APCs poured countless Nod infantry, while far behind them, Nod tanks, artillery and construction yards were forming a perimeter around the NEB. They were going to bomb the entire area.

"Listen to me," T-1000 seemed to plead to Golden Lion " I don't really know enough about Jack Tango or his enemies to help you out, but I know plenty about DeMonStar and Z-Mage and plenty more about Nod weaponry. Let me stay here and try and control these two while you find out what is going on. Whoever is behind this has to be the one bringing DeMonStar and Z-Mage out of the Infinities story line to distract the rest of us. My men won't be in position for another three hours. I have a lot of men coming. If you can stop whoever is behind this before then, there will be no reason for my army to attack. Just go."

Nobody liked this situation one bit. The idea of leaving T-1000 behind to lead an all out assault on two such powerful guys seemed absurd. For one thing, there was no guarentee all this millitary power assembled would even work. And wheather it did or didn't, the NEB would come out of it in ruins. But there was no choice left. The NEB would surely be destroyed in the cross fire between DeMonStar and Z-Mage anyway, and after that, perhaps the entire CBR. They had no choice.

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