//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: Equestria Girls: Time, Space and Justice // by Time Agent pony //------------------------------// Twilight and the others arrived at the address The Phantom Stranger had given them. "Well," Twilight said,"this looks like the place." It was an abandoned section of town, that had seen better days. "You sure this is the place, Twi?" Applejack asked. Twilight glanced at the address again, to make sue they were in the right place. "Yep," she replied, "this is address on the card." "I'm beginning to think that stranger guy was lying to us," Rainbow Dash remarked. "I don't think The Phantom Stranger was lying," Sunset said. "Then what did he except us to find here?" Applejack asked. "Right on time," a voice answered. All the girls turned to see a figure wearing trench coat, approaching them. "Who are you?" Twilight asked. "Rip Hunter," the figure replied, "I'm from east London, oh, and the future." "Have you been waiting for us, this whole time?" Rainbow Dash queried. "Yes," Rip answered, "one of the drawbacks of being a time traveller." "What?" Twilight and Sunset exclaimed, together. Rip nodded, "As it happens, I'm a member of the Time Masters, an organisation tasked with protecting history itself." "So if your a time traveller," Rainbow Dash said, "then wheres your time machine?" In response, Rip produced a small device from his coat. "First role of being a time master," he smiled, "never do anything that will disrupt the timeline, can you imagine what time machine would look like in the middle of, say, Victorian England?" With that, Rip activated the device and his time ship appeared. All the girls and Gwenpool, stared in awe at the futuristic craft. "It's called the Waverider," Rip continued, "it's been my ship for over a decade." He turned back to see the looks on the girls faces, "what?" he said, "were you expecting something else? Like a blue police box or a Delorean? That is so last century." "Anyway," Rip concluded, "now all that is out of the way, we can be on our way." With that, Rip headed towards the Waverider. Still with the awestruck looks on their face the girls followed Rip inside the Waverider. "Did you see that?" Twilight squealed, "holographic indigenous camouflage projection!" Kang the Conquer's ship, Damocles. Kang sat at a table, his wife Princess Ravonna Lexus Renslayer sat beside him, around the table sat different figures, each one a different version of Kang himself, these being: Scarlet Centurion, Rama-Tut, Immortus, Kangaroo the Conquer and Iron Lad, together the six of them formed the Council of Kangs. "So," Scarlet Centurion said, "these eight humans remember the Justice Force." "Who is this possible?" Rama-Tut asked. "It matters not," Kang answered, "when we have completely wiped the Justice Force from the fabric of existence, the eight of them will be nothing more than, insects to be crushed under foot." "Nevertheless," Immortus interjected, "they could prove to a problem, especially at this stage of our plans." "Agreed," Kangaroo nodded, "we should send some select individuals to hinder them." Back onboard the Waverider. The girls gazed around them as they followed Rip to the bridge of the time ship. "I've always seen this in the comics," Gwenpool squealed, "I can't believe I'm standing in The Waverider." "I just... I thought...! I can't...!" Twilight continued, looking around at the interior of the Waverider. Sunset was equally taken in by the time ship, only she was able to keep her awe of the ship under control. "This ship is impressive," she said, "it must take an enormous amount of power to run it." "It probably uses ionic propulsion," Twilight suggested, "I mean if you stabilised the quantum flux." Twilight paused for breath, Sunset smiled at that, "You sure know a lot about this stuff," she remarked. "I do a lot of research," Twilight replied. By now, the girls and Gwenpool had arrived on the bridge of the Waverider. "If this is your ship," Fluttershy commented, "then where is your crew?" "I don't need a crew," Rip answered, "I've have Gideon." Fluttershy was ask who Gideon was, when a holographic head appear on the console in the centre of the room. "Welcome aboard," the head greeted, "I am Gideon, an interactive artificial consciousness programmed to operate this vessel's critical systems and to aid Captain Hunter on his mission." "No way!" Twilight gasped, beginning to start another of geek out moments, "its a real, fully functioning AI!" "Twilight, breath," Sunset said. "Don't take this away from me!" Twilight replied. Sunset laughed a little at that. "Anyway," Rip continued, "Gideon's been helping locate any time period that Kang's forces haven't already been to." "And if we get to them first," Sunset finished, "we'll be able to save the heroes of that time period." "Precisely," Rip answered, "and then we take the fight to Kang himself, we takeout Kang and we can undo everything." "That sounds like a plan," agreed Rainbow Dash. "In that case," Rip concluded, "if we're all agreed, we can be on our way." He strapped himself into the Waverider's pilot seat. "I suggest you all strap yourselves in," Rip said, as the Waverider's engines began to start up, "the temporal navigation isn't something one whats to be standing up for." The girls all nodded, strapping themselves into the seats near and around the pilots seat. "I should warn you," Rip added, "the human body is used to time unfolding linearly, so you may experience some slight discomfort, in very rare instances there will be some," he hesitated, for a moment, "bleeding from the eyeballs," he mumbled. "Excuse me," Rarity exclaimed, "what?!" "Can you believe this?" Twilight squealed, "we're going to travel through time! This is so exciting!" With that, Rip activated the Waverider's time drive and the time ship took off into the sky, vanishing from the present. Kang the Conquer's ship, Damocles. "So," Kang said, "the heroes have joined up with the time master." "We must act," Rama-tut declared, "we must strike, before they unravel everything we have accomplished." Just then, one of Kang's subordinates entered the room. "My lords," he said, "the ones you sent for have arrived." "Excellent," Immortus smiled, "show them in." The subordinate stepped aside, revealing some shadowy figures, each one a evil, twisted or insane version of a Justice Force member. "Welcome," Kangaroo smiled, as he walked up to the figures, "Thank you, for accepting our invitation," One of the figures stepped forward, he looked like Superman, only instead of an S on his chest he had a U. "Happy to help," he smiled.