, "Well, it looks like we've got a couple seconds here," Noel said. "What do you need to know, Trevor? What do you need to know about us and this mission?"
Trevor found himself stumped. Damn. He'd had so many questions before they rose into the sky and came back down again, but now...
"Okay, you're saying Adam has to go to this place called Domitika to return to the kind of kick ass guy he was a couple years ago?"
"That's what we're hoping."
"We? Who's we? You mean you and Nacy and Brock and..."
"Well, yes, the four of us, but also all of the Azure. We had a horrible setback last year on this particular timeline. We're trying to do what we can to salvage a very bad situation."
"Whoa. Whoa. Wait a second. You're saying that you and the Valids are all from a different timeline?"
"No no, not at all. So far as I know, we're all from here. But...no...it's com...okay, the Azure, who we Valids are a part of, that Gramps is a part of and Adam was a part of before he resigned, are fighting an enemy called The Fours through all of time and space."
"You mentioned that, yeah."
"The Azure had a plan for this particular timeline. It began at the very beginning of time, at the moment of the Big Bang."
"Billions and billions of years ago."
"Precisely. Adam was born at that time. He was to be an ace up the Azure's sleeve, as it were. He was to wander amongst the galaxies, immortal, until he found the Mother to the One, the woman who, alone, could bear Adam's child, a child that would grow to become more powerful than The Fours itself."
"A fifteen billion year plan, and it didn't work worth a damn. The instant the Mother to the One was found, The Fours sent its deadliest assassin, Tindriss the Coal Maiden, to decapitate her. In the process, she literally tore Adam to pieces. It took Adam a full year to reform, and only Infini herself seems to know what he's reformed into."
"So, it's hopeless. No one will ever be able to challenge the Fours."
"Well, see, that's what this whole mission is about. Adam can conceive of no more children here, in this reality, but..."
"In Domitika..."
"Exactly. In Domitika, reality is created by each of its inhabitants so that their shared reality is dictated by the will of its strongest participants, and who has a stronger will than Adam Forwarder?"
"Sounds pretty desperate to me, you want to know the truth."
"It's a Hail Mary, no doubt about it. Still..."
"What?"
"If anyone can stop the Fours, it's us. It's the Azure."
"So..."
"You're on the right side, Trevor. You're on the side of life and light."