"What do you mean we are out of time? You said three hours?!?" Greg Hatcher yelled into a cell phone that T-1000 had give him earlier.

On the other end of the line, T-1000 shouted over the sound of heavy weapons fire. The attack had begun.

"That was before all hell started breaking loose. My scouts have already reported that al fictional walls of the NEB are breaking down. It is like Ozbat took the last century off or something. Everything is crashing down, the Infinities, Silver Lantern, all of the heroes and villains of the NEB are coming out and are in the biggest free for all I have ever seen. They are already tearing the NEB apart, it won't be long before this fight spills over into the Rumbles board. How long do you think it will be before they reach the community board?" T-1000 spoke into the other end of the line.

At that last question, everyone, howyadoin, Z-mage, Demonicuss, Papergirl, Wolvies girlfriend, Golden Lion, everyone froze. The thought of all those characters and their fighting spilling into the rumbles, where the defensless patrons of the CBR waited them scared just about everyone to a full silence.

Back on the other side of the phone line, T-1000 put the phone down to his shoulder and away from his mouth as a report was handed to him from his scouts.

"Oh by the way, you might want to mention to Demonicuss that DeMonStar has just been confirmed as having left the target area. I repeat. where ever DeMonStar is, he is not in the NEB."

Greg relayed the message to Demonicuss, who was a lot less worried about what DeMonStar was up to then what the rest of those fictional characters might do if their fighting spilled into any other board.

"T," Greg asked with a tone if desperation " can you tell us anything that might be helpful."

T-1000 put the phone down for a moment and began looking at the reports his spies had gathered from the damage assesment files. He analyzed them carefully and then spoke into the phone again.

"Yeah, whoever did this knew what they were doing."

"What do you mean?" Z-mage said, picking up the phone from Greg and speaking to his friend on the other line.

"Well, apparently all of the safeguards that were in place were literally ripped to pieces, rather savagly I might add. My commander notes in this report that they weren't just disabled, they look like they had a bazooka taken to them. I guess what I am trying to say is that whoever was messing around here earlier knew exactly what they were doing, and probably had some kind of grudge against the NEB. I don't suppose that means anything to any of you over there?" T-1000 added.

Everyone on the other side looked at each other with expressions of dread.

"No, it couldn't be HIM, it just couldn't. Could it?"

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