LogFAQs > #917171682

Yup, I called it right. Delta, who they call Q, is holding the shotgun. Or maybe it's actually Zero. Delta invites them to call him by his given name, and directly gives it as Delta. Diana looks pissed, and Delta tells her there's no need to look so threatening, as she was the one who named him. He first addresses the members of C- and D-Teams and confirms that they all know that they're SHIFTers. He asks them to think back on their path to this moment, and if they came here from a linear flow of time. None of them did. And not just this once. They've been SHIFTing back and forth many times, allowing them to boldly take chances, like jumping from tree branch to tree branch. They've forgotten that, possibly because of the medicine, possibly as a side effect of SHIFTing. But their memories have been kept firmly intact, in the morphogenetic field. They've regained those memories, like a levee collapsing at a slight trigger. Sean is a similar case, because his thought center is located in the Quantum Computer. Eric asks about himself and Mira, and Zero says they're like him, in that they can't SHIFT. Mira's surprised to hear that about him. Frankly, so am I. He says he has another power though. The power to Mind Hack. He can read other people's minds, and knows the thoughts that go through their heads. That's why he knows what Phi is trying to do right now. ...Damnit Delta, this is supposed to be serious, and you had to pick the one member of the party that we'd believe you had a mind link with even if this wasn't a crazy sci-fi setting. Oh, she was trying to set her brooch into the Force Quit Box. He tells her to step away from it. Akane confirms that Zero saw through their ruse when they blocked the injections. He wants them all to play the final Decision Game. He finds human decisions fascinating. Specifically, the branches they create. That's why, after learning of SHIFTers through their minds, he set this up. Carlos says he did this all out of curiosity. Hmm, sounds familiar. Zero says when a person does something significant, it's often hard to boil their motivation down to one word. To fulfill several objectives, it was necessary to trap all of them in here. Diana asks why he did it. Delta confirms what I suspected. It was the stable time loop. It was to ensure that Diana gave birth to himself and Phi. Eric, as expected, is the one to ask for clarification, because he represents the everyman thrust into this crazy world. Delta explains that he and Phi are the children of Diana and Sigma. Junpei's confused now. November 16, 2029, Phi and Delta were born in this shelter, in another history. Shortly after, the atomic data that makes up their bodies was transported to April 1904. At the time, the transporter was located in a German research facility. Carlos realizes what this means, and Delta confirms that he's 124 years old. Mira points out that Phi isn't, and he reveals that a German researcher sent her to 2008. Records indicate she was part of an experiment. Sigma says that in 2008, the device was being studied in an American research facility. That's when an old couple who were researchers took her in. Delta says they've gone off topic, but that was one of the major goals. Everything that happened here, in all histories, went into creating Delta and Phi, in their current forms. Sean wonders about this last bit, and Delta says he should already know about epigenetics. Oh, right the environmental factors that determine which switches are activated. And reproductive cells are the ones most affected...hence, why he had to make his parents play the Decision Game. ...Wow. This actually hits close to home for me. Time to jump out of the game world for a moment, and jump into the real world.

March 4, 1986
Approximately 10 AM Eastern Standard Time
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Also known as Cyberchao X.