Plot Summary

This arc is a step back from the intricate complexity of the previous two arcs. Containing a more straightforward, if not still complex, adjustment mission, while allowing for a slightly more character driven arc.

Following the end of the 3rd Story Arc, it was assumed that all of the TimeKeepers had been dealt with, and the organization destroyed, however it appeared that there was a core group that had survived. They set in motion an attempt to both destabilize the timeline, and also for personal reasons exact revenge on the team that had brought them down.

With the revelation that one of the remaining members was a high ranking TIA member, Falcon, who revealed herself when she managed to kill Mongoose, the TIA is now cleaning house and unavailable for intelligence. The team is sent back with the only real intel the slightly unreliable novel the Prisoner of Zenda, that tells the tale of the episode that they are to be involved in.

Finn, coincidentally a natural double for both Rudolf Rassendyll and Prince Rudolf, distant cousins, who are the key players in the scenario. It appears that Drakov has killed the prince’s cousin, and without the double the story of the switch could not take place, causing a split. The team goes back to try and fix the issue, largely unaware of the second reason that the TimeKeepers are striking out, both the remaining members have a deep history with 1st Division’s commander Moses Forrester. Falcon in an earlier identity before she was recruited into the TIA, already a programed mole for the TimeKeepers, was in Forrester’s squad in the Pathfinders, and they were in love, and Drakov was the son of Forrester’s that he had with a Russian Gypsy when he was stranded back in Minus Time.

The mission goes relatively smoothly, with Finn substituting for the now dead Rudolf, and proceeds to go through the motions of the story, while leaving Lucas and Andre to deal with the TimeKeepers. The only real wrinkle, that the Prince’s brother, who had drugged and kidnapped the Prince before his coronation, is now being aided by Falcon, in the guise of a visiting lady. And while they know they have to rescue the Prince, as that is the story that was told in the novel, they are not sure how, and have to trust that the course will present itself.

As the Zenda story reaches its climax, with the storming of the castle, all the parties converge. Falcon is distracted by conflicts in the Minus Time scoundrels that she has involved herself with, while Drakov confronts the Commando’s and manages to best them, capturing Andre as she scouts the castle, and catching Lucas in the numerous traps that he has had time to lay around the largely disused place. In the end his honor gets the best of him, and he allows for Andre to be clocked back to Plus Time, for medical treatment, before dueling his father. Lucas is seriously burned and injured, by a plasma pulser blast, and to try and deal with the traps, and escape, he detonates a warp grenade taking out a large chunk of the side of the castle with it.

Forrester and Drakov duel with knives and both are unable to take the final blows, and Drakov manages to escape, but Falcon escapes into the room that they had been fighting in, and Forrester takes her out. Finn is injured in his rescue of the Prince, now King, but manages to complete the scenario.

Plot Breakdown

• Prologue
• Chapter 01
• Chapter 02
• Chapter 03
• Chapter 04
• Chapter 05
• Chapter 06
• Chapter 07
• Chapter 08
• Chapter 09
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Epilogue

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