Elijah is a little surprised to hear that he and Garrick have to talk .. briefly, he wonders if he'd stumbled upon some Planetary Guides from the '40s where he left his observations about the man's powers and his suppositions about what would eventually be called "The Speed Force." But this doesn't feel personal.
Jakita's parameter inspection doesn't escape his attention, either. And she's correct ... there HAS to be more people here than just the cat, if this is where Abdullah grew up. Surely, he didn't live here alone. The thought chills him, which is not a sensation he's accustomed to.
"The Century Babies are one of the planet's autonomic defense systems," he explains. "They're here to shepherd the planet from one century to the next, to protect it. Although from what isn't usually apparent until the moment. A slew of them died in the 1950s, defending the Earth from an extradimensional incursion by ..." He pauses, glances at Garrick, and continues "...superheroes from an alternate world, come to eradicate the population of our world and replace it with the people from their own, which was about to be destroyed. Another one, Jenny Sparks, died in space at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. She electrocuted a giant space monster that was coming to transform the Earth into its new home."
He pauses to see how his companions are taking the story. It would all sound a bit far-fetched, except ... well ... check them out.
"The last survivor, besides myself, Doc Brass, was murdered by an assassin from a fictional universe a few weeks ago. His missions done, he had dedicated himself to research, learning how the Earth's myriad defense systems worked. Brass had no surviving enemies, so I can only assume he was killed for that research ... research which would have lead the murderer to Abdullah, and the others."
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Jakita's parameter inspection doesn't escape his attention, either. And she's correct ... there HAS to be more people here than just the cat, if this is where Abdullah grew up. Surely, he didn't live here alone. The thought chills him, which is not a sensation he's accustomed to.
"The Century Babies are one of the planet's autonomic defense systems," he explains. "They're here to shepherd the planet from one century to the next, to protect it. Although from what isn't usually apparent until the moment. A slew of them died in the 1950s, defending the Earth from an extradimensional incursion by ..." He pauses, glances at Garrick, and continues "...superheroes from an alternate world, come to eradicate the population of our world and replace it with the people from their own, which was about to be destroyed. Another one, Jenny Sparks, died in space at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. She electrocuted a giant space monster that was coming to transform the Earth into its new home."
He pauses to see how his companions are taking the story. It would all sound a bit far-fetched, except ... well ... check them out.
"The last survivor, besides myself, Doc Brass, was murdered by an assassin from a fictional universe a few weeks ago. His missions done, he had dedicated himself to research, learning how the Earth's myriad defense systems worked. Brass had no surviving enemies, so I can only assume he was killed for that research ... research which would have lead the murderer to Abdullah, and the others."