A Future Altered

Vulcan winced as he staggered around the building, his body aching immensely as he dismissed the Shotriser as well as the Wolf and Scorpion Progrisekeys into his personal dimensional pocket so they'd not be lost or stolen. His gaze scanned around warily and cautiously.

His head was pounding as he staggered around the building, seeing nobody, thankfully. He took a deep breath, noticing that the air was warm and slightly humid, but cooling slowly but surely. He noticed the beams of moonlight roaming about as if searching before they receded, fading from thick, almost searchlight-like beams, to faint glittering streaks through the dissipating cloud cover. 

He didn't see any of the mares that he'd run across, but did get the awareness of being watched. He didn't realize that the building was the local massage parlor and spa as he cautiously crept around the edge, spotting what he recognized as azalea bushes framing not just the building but also what appeared to be a packed dirt path rather than a sidewalk leading to the door of the building. He blinked as he exhaled softly, shaking his head. 

"I would call this strange or abnormal, but my life hasn't been normal since that shit in Shinjuku," he muttered. His gaze rose to the clearing cloud cover, examining the constellations in the skies above. 

"That crap was horrible, even looking through the records of it gives most greenies shudders." A woman's voice said. "Did to me as well."

Vulcan shifted his weight, instinctively shifting into a fighting stance. "Yeah, there was a shitload of corruption and that incident with Mad Gear overrunning the entire fucking district with their loyalists was what drew that fucking Shadaloo group into watching me… and what followed. Only reason I even know was because I found the files on the BLECE Project that Bison shared with Kazuya Mishima… of which there were three survivors. Kasugano Sakura, myself, and one Tsukasa Kadoya," he growled. If one looked closely, two jagged tribal lightning bolts were visible on his bicep… the visible Sigil of the Devil Gene. His true name: Gabriel Azrael Tsukino.

"Too bad there's no Earth to go back to now," Gabriel grumbled.

"That is actually wrong. Thanks to the efforts of me and my compatriots in the SPD/Time Force timeline stabilization squad we were able to restore Earth. But considering what happened, we changed the history of the world to remove the event, so sad to say you still cannot return, Gabriel." The woman said, stepping from the shadows and revealing her similar outfit to a certain dog alien.

"Harmony ranger Queen but you can call me Tempe." She said as her armor disappeared revealing an eerily familiar mare.

"I personally volunteered for this task due to my family being involved." Tempe said "I look a lot like my mother/father I admit."

 Gabriel snorted. He noticed her fur had the slightest red tint to it, though rather than a pink streak it was a deep reddish orange, borderline scarlet. Her eyes were a deep sea green as well. "You are aware that I'm not the only one that ended up here. So did the Sailor Senshi. Though it seems to me Setsuna's calculations were seriously fucked up… or she unknowingly played into someone's hands," he deadpanned. "Though where they landed, I have no clue. Though who else escaped that, I don't know, as I saw at least three other teleportation jets," he said grimly. 

Unknown to him, in the dim light, the fact that his pupils were narrowed into slits that were glowing a slight golden shimmer was painfully obvious. If one looked closely at both his fingernails and toenails, they'd realize they were, in fact, denser than human fingernails with the slightest opalescence to them… despite being carefully filed to appear human. His long and wild, slightly wavy dark reddish black hair that fell to just beneath his shoulder blades hid the fact that his ears were, in fact, subtly pointed.

"I know." Tempe said sadly "What happened to change the future is now in a separate timeline, this one. We created copies of each of you who were displaced by the event, placing them in their proper places when we fixed the changes. Time will go on as it should but we can not interact with it as it once was. Timeforce  regulates interactions with timelines typically only sending their best agents to separate out changes in history and alternate timelines. Another event that radically changed the future was the destruction of Earth via black hole and then the adverting of the mass extinction event of the dinosaurs before it happened to via mystical time travel via the energems both of which were linked we created a separate timeline based on the extinction event not happening when it did but still happening later allowing community to still evolve while not wiping out all of the species of dinosaur that were wiped out in the main timeline. That event was before I was placed on the timeline stabilization force. This is actually my first deployment as timeline stabilization has not needed to be enacted in a good 40 year period from the future's point of view."

"The hell?!" Another woman's voice said from a distance. "Timelines and time travel and all that? What the hell is going on!"

"I gave up trying to figure that out years ago, lass. Especially after that bullshit in Italy after the BLECE Project that essentially ripped my life apart from the roots up. I still have that Driver your counterpart made, Twilight," Gabriel grumbled as he half turned, seeing Twilight lingering far enough back that most wouldn't have even noticed her. He, however, not only noticed her, but could sense her quite clearly. "You too, Dashie. Don't think I can't hear your wings flapping. Just because I choose not to act like I'm aware of shit going on around me doesn't make me unaware," his tone was blunt and cool.

His hand dipped into his armored vest, pulling free a deep reddish orange USB with a opalescent silver tip. It had the word 'Spirit' emblazoned on it as well as the 'S' formed by a ghostly flame that was a deep blue upon a dark reddish gray background. "And just because we're technically 'displaced' from our timeline… just how exactly are you going to pull off my connection with Natasha Romanoff believably with a 'copy'? She was the one that found me in Italy… and it was a dumb luck encounter, as the one who'd actually had her appointment just happened to 'call in sick'... which we later found she hadn't been the one to send in the 'sick' call," he growled. A faint misty aura of deep green with hints of lighter emerald green and gold flickered around him.

"Have you ever heard of variants?" Tempe said "that's how we did it, literally a temporal clone of you from right before the change to the timeline."

Gabriel rolled his eyes. "Of course. As Kain put it, 'nature abhors a paradox'," he drawled sarcastically. He didn't notice the specter of both the Elder Vampire as well as his Wraith 'son' behind him, the former looking satisfied, though the former looked mildly annoyed.

"Are they going to just stand there?" Tempe asked, pointing to the group of mares. "Mom I get seeing me like this probably has broken her brain for a bit, but the rest that's getting creepy."

"Hell if I know. Never met them before, nor their counterparts. Only knew about that from a letter… which consequently burned due to an insane sociopathic Spanish nobleman turned serial killer who tried to shish kebab my ass and destroyed my bike instead," Gabriel drawled sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

To him, the dim moonlight made it closer to the equivalent of sunset rather than almost midnight.

"Um, where did you come from?"Twilight said hesitantly.

"And what did you do to your clothes? They look like you got into a fight or something, darling," Rarity interjected.

"I got into a fight with the ground, which do you think won?" Gabriel drawled sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

"Aunt Rarity, your vanity is showing!" Tempe teased not realizing that the joke hadn't been started yet.

Rarity's head tilted in mild confusion. "I'm not vain, darling," she commented. "Dramatic, perhaps, but not vain. Confident in my appearance," she continued.

"But you like talking about yourself, yes? Pretty sure that's vanity to a lesser extent rather than being arrogantly vain. So that's a good thing," he commented wryly, seeing her cheeks flush.

Gabriel was unaware that due to a certain pendant hidden beneath his vest which he'd found as a child, his body was, over the years, in fact, becoming less human and more feline in nature.

"So what are we going to do besides gathering the sailors?" Tempe asked. "Obviously something that has changed in this world seeing as something like a Reaver Hulk wouldn't have existed before the timeline shift."

"No clue. I do know the Scorpion Progrisekey was very effective against their species… but then that thing did look like a Kabutomushi on steroids," Gabriel sighed. "Though how did Metallia and Wiseman get taken out? True, you may be able to create 'temporal copies' but experience is far harder to duplicate," he deadpanned dryly, his eyes on Tempe. He didn't realize what was within the pendant was known by a very particular name… the Eye of Omens.

Rainbow snorted from where she hovered. "Who cares? You gotta," she started before the human cut her off.

"Go to the hospital? Not really necessary… what I need at present is a lot of rest and," Gabriel sighed before his stomach grumbled rather loudly.

"Something to eat, perhaps?" Rarity quipped teasingly.

"Sweet potatoes, if possible… something on the higher end on carbs, honestly," Gabriel sighed.

"That makes no sense! From the amount of blood…"Twilight started. 

"Most of my injuries were borderline puncturing the dermis layer of tissue, some were, at most a fifth to a quarter of an inch deep but no deeper. Youmas, even when numerous, tend to go quantity over quality. They were trying to weaken me or capture me… I just didn't give them the opportunity. Though I do hope that Rei, Makoto, and the others are all right… though the fact that Misato was transported here with us has to mean something… despite the fact she was from the future," Gabriel drawled before he exhaled. He completely missed his Twilight was blushing as she shivered.

"Ponder later! Eat now!" an energetic voice quipped before he blinked as something was pushed into his hands. He looked down in confused surprise to see….

Louisiana Catfish and Shrimp Gumbo.

He blinked, cocking his head to see a new mare.