Travin lets his brother go and takes a good look at him, "time is ****y? Hmm? Travin is strugglings to remember, yeh, is cops bad? Hmmm, cops feels bad, yeh yeh, like stormtrooper bad! Hmmm" Travin looks at the odd flying shark and shakes his head, no, not shark, motorbike? His head is still sorting things out. Extending a hand he whistles a note resonating with the engine of the beast, suddenly the metal body glows white hot, as trav casts heat metal on the fuel tank.

Dageron suggests, "Pull the break lever on this carriage. That should leave our two foes faced with one another. They may even fight as we escape, but will at least be disoriented momentarily.."

Ward finds the clearest spot and casts summon animals. 8 Hawks appear and Ward begins to give them things, with one of them him attaching 8 fireworks to it. Ward then pats Shavaris on the shoulder and creates some vine earplugs. “Here, since it’s about to get louder.” Ward says

Bloody hell, what is that noise? Johnathan closes his eyes for a moment and mutters an incantation. When he is done his eyes have become a white cloudy colour. He takes a few moments adjusting as he seems to stare off to the police vehicle. What in all the planes is in this carriage? I don’t sense any magic or stead. It looks like the box in the front is moving the wheels, fascinating. 

There are two humans in the other carriage. They look they have some guns, I can’t tell if they are with the troopers, do we need to stop them?

Adam is sitting in the van with his tongue stuck a little way out of his mouth, meaning that he is deep in thought.  You can almost see the light bulb over his head as he gets excited and has an idea.  “I knew these would be handy one day!  Finally I get to use them!  I packed these so long ago, when we were leaving, when the Childlike Empress sent us on our quest….”  He fumbles around in his pack, deep at the bottom and pulls out a bag of caltrops.   He pulls Jonathan and Travin’s sleeve and says. “Look, I’ve got these.  Can you make one of those mage hand thingys and take these caltrops and sprinkle them in front of the black wheels on those cars chasing us?  Maybe it will pop them and slow them down!  Can you do that?”  Adam tugs on their sleeves trying to get their help and he holds out the caltrops to be dispersed.  

"Yeah like...like...like I brought Hyborian time back with me?  Labyrinthian thirteen hour time?  I don't know.  But I wasn't the same when I got back.  Mom and dad and..."  

Gavin takes a dramatic pause, letting the sounds of revving engines and blaring sirens punctuate the situation.  

"...they acted like they didn't know me.  And I guess they didn't.  It uh...well.  It wasn't exactly a homecoming.  Sorry.  I uh, got sidetracked there.  But I aged, somehow.  Grew up.  Got robbed of my childhood."  

Gavin stopped there, trying not to say anything more on the subject.  

"No, cops aren't bad!  They're just doing their job!  No, they're not with the troopers!  They're..."  

"Brakes?"  Hawk says.

Gavin's words are cut short when the driver slams on the brakes, shifting everyone forward toward the front of the van during the sudden deceleration.  The cops sped past on one side, and the Stormtrooper on his weird mount went flying past them as well, coming up side to side by the police vehicle.  

"Tony!  What the f*&k is that!"  Came blaring over the loud speaker before the Stormtrooper fired on the police car.  

From behind them, a second police interceptor came barreling onto the street.  

All the colour drains from Travin's face as Gavin tells of what happened upon his return. Gavin wasn't saved, Travin's family don't recognise him, and he's aged beyond what he should be, "is... Is Gavin still six in here? Hmmm" Travin pulls his brother closer and points to his head, the junk persons demeanour solemn and serious despite the chaos going on around them, "what has Travin done?"

Once the ear plugs are in her ears, Shavaris thanks Ward and is just about to take stock of the situation when the brakes are depressed and she falls off her seat.

"What the hell?" She looks over at Gavin and Travin and notices the pain in Travin's face, "Travin, now is not the time.  We can hopefully talk later, but we need to lose these tails we got.  Come on!"

Leaning out of the broken window, she hurls Sick and Twisted at the sharkbike riding stormtrooper, catching them as they boomerang back to her.

Attack: 25 Damage: 12

Attack: 25 Damage: 8

Ward looks to those inside, "If I blow the horn, someone light the fuses if you could, birds, you start dropping our gifts to the stormtroopers. Gavin, tell these police to get out of the way, or to get bigger guns." Ward says, then opens a door and pulls himself to the roof of the van. Ward looks towards the shot-up cop car and begins to grapple toward it, looking to see if those inside are alright and getting ready to open up on sharkboy.

"What?"  Gavin says as they come to a sudden stop and Travin touches his forehead.  "Uh, no?  Dude I'm like sixteen.  What are you...oh.  No, Travin.  it's not like that.  Things are just...different now.  I wish I knew how to explain it but...wait.  Where's your friend going?"  

They all have time to see Ward climb out of the van and get on top of it before pulling himself to the cop car ahead of them with his hookshot.  Shavaris's swords follow, striking the shark creature...and then Ward winds up in a dual with a Stormtrooper that is clearly not an ordinary Stormtrooper as it proceeds to give him the business after teleporting to the top of the cop car to engage the Druid.  

As Ward gets his ass whooped and has to begin relying on spells to keep up, he drops concentration, and suddenly the birds in the van disappear as Hawk gets the vehicle moving again...and all of Ward's bombs are then rolling around in the back of the van with everyone while Hawk does his best to get everyone up close enough to help their friend...

A little lost with the explanation that Gavin gave, Travin resolves himself to fixing the situation around him first and then getting a proper explanation later. 

Grabbing a couple of explosives off the floor Travin pockets them and then pulls a patch off his robes, the patch transforms in his hands into four small bottles, Travin looks surprised and as Ward teleports back to where he was, Travin throws over two of the bottles, calling out as he does  "WARD! drinks up yeh yeh! Then gets back out there! Hmm?", and then pockets the remaining two

(2 potions of healing to Ward)

Johnathan grabs the caltrops from Adam and starts using mage hand to throw them on the road behind them. Once he has finished he looks up through the van to where Ward is. Ward you maniac, get back here now. You have just left explosives rolling in this carriage for crying out loud. Johnathan will go to grab the explosives and make sure that they are not damaged in any way. 

Ward continues trading blows with Sharkboy, at one point getting stabbed by his shark and shooting 7 darts into it, paralyzing the creature. Ward at one point points behind the stormtrooper, then ducks as he teleports the back tire of a car going the opposite way into the stormtrooper, knocking him off the vehicle before he teleports back onto it. Ward takes a handful more hits, and misses throwing 4 acid vials at the stormtrooper, who responds by removing its mask and sending some sort of gas towards Ward, who is unaffected. The cops, however, are and begin to veer to the side and slow down. Ward then, shakes his head and attempts to throw all of his acid vials at the stormtrooper. 6 fall onto the car and begin to dissolve its roof, and the other 6 hit their mark, sending acid into the trooper's face, who promptly teleports away. When the car stops Ward drags the two cops out of the vehicle, getting singed by some of the acid as he tries to wake them up and begins talking to them while he waits for the van.

Delphinium was amazed and a bit dazed at all the new and wonderous sights this "New York" realm had to offer.  Giant buildings, lights of a variety of colors such as Red, Yellow and green.  Moving lights too that looked like illusions.  So many people!  Delphinium has never seen so many.  It was almost overwhelming how many folks lived in this massive city.  So much so they were a bit unphased by the more common commotion of combat and fighting as well as yell.  The tiny fairy looked to the two humans in the front.  One seemed to be controlling the wagon while the other was just there.  Perhaps a backup in case the first could no longer drive?  Delph was sure it was complicated to control such a horseless ccontraption.  The fairy walked along the dashboard while Gavin and Travin talked about ages and time.  They got right in front of the circular object that seemed to control where the vehicle went.  Looking down at the dashboard as their eyes light up as they see numbers, letters and lights of all kinds.  They crawl down to be between the steering wheel and the dashbaord to look closer as some kind of yellow symbol starts blinking and Delph tries to tap it but finds a sheet of glass protecting it.

The fairy looks to the driver and says "You must be very skilled to control such a thing.  You can call me Delph, or fireflight.  I like both.  Would you be willing to teach me how to control this thing?" the fairy lands on their shoulder as they wait for an answer.   

It is then that ward seems to crawl out of the wagon and out to confront their foe.  They seem to be on some kind of shark thing.  Now, that was interesting.  Delphinium wasn't sure what these cops were but the stormtrooper was a clear enemy.  Delphinium also wanted the shark.  it was very cool.  The fairy flies out after ward to help them. "Hey Ward!  having trouble?  I think we don't want to hurt but stop the cops?  I wasn't paying very much attention.  I just want to explore!  this place is so amazing!  Oh!  Did that shark bite you?  Hold on, let me help!"  Delphinium begins to tap into his inner power with the intent to help out.  The stormtrooper giving Ward some trouble as the fairy looks at the storm trooper and instead of summoning the normal fists this time Delphinium seems to gather electrical power around them.  It is almost as if the very air is charging the tiny fairy as they watch the stormtrooper teleporting around and tries to time a blast of lightning to strike down on them. 

However, the stormtrooper seems to vanish leaving Ward with the trouble of saving the cop people.  To Delphinium the cop people looked like just normal humans but they were defiantly called cops.  Delphinium seeing Ward dragging the two cops out of their wagon says "Here, I can move them!"  He summons two big hands to hold/lift or whatever it is that Ward wants to do with them. Delphinium will follow Ward's instructions for how to handle them.

Ward chuckles at Delph picking up the two grown men and stops himself. “We can put them down now I think they are safe. Also the stormtroopers shark is back there, I may have had to paralyze it with my centipede darts. I do hope it’s alright I didn’t want to hurt that one, it was just doing as it was trained.” Ware says

Delph does as he is instructed and places the two cops right in front of Ward saying "Okay, I'll go get the shark.  I bet it's not too happy about how that stormtrooper treated them.  I'll help it calm down.  Do you have any fresh meat on you?  Food works wonders for angry predators.  Otherwise... I'll just wing it.  I'll be their favorite fairy in no time!"  The tiny fairy then zooms off to go find the shark and become good friends with them.

The van comes to a stop close to Delphinium and Ward and then Hawk rolls down the window and begins shouting.  

"Dude!"  He screams, reaching up to pull at his mohawk.  "What are you guys doing?  The cops are all over us!  We gotta go!"  

The other cop car pulls up fast behind the van and slams on the brakes, coming to a screeching halt.  

"Bro, we gotta go!"  Gavin says as he grabs Travin's arm and gives him a shake.  "That or we're going to go to jail and that's not something anyone wants to do dude believe me!"  

The cops both leap out of their car, both raising guns and aiming them at the van.  

"NYPD!  Hands in the air!"  

At Ward's behest Delphinium makes his way over to the unconscious and/or paralyzed shark and doesn't bother waking them as much as just picking them up with a set of large blue astral arms.  As they do so the tiny fairy says to the shark "Poor thing.  All tuckers out from the trooper and the poison.  Don't you worry.  A bit of patience on your part and perhaps I can find some food for you to have a full belly.  If you are nice maybe we can have some fun flying around the town later checking it all out!  Wouldn't that be exciting?"  The shark being awake or not it doesn't matter as this is what Delph says to them as they pick the shark up and fly their way over to the Van where folks are saying they have to go.  They fly past the cops telling those in the van to put their hands in the air which Delphinium finds very silly to ask someone.

They fly right in front of the cops between the van and them as they carry the shark with a set of 6 large blue spectral hands and quite politely say "Silly Cop people.  We already have our hands in the air see?"  They wave one of the big hands around "Kind of hard not to have them in the air actually.  Air is kind of all around us.  Anyway, we are taking the shark.  Don't let the storm troopers hurt anyone.  They always super mean."  With that Delphinium waves a big hand at them and says to those in the Van pleading for everyone to go "Okay okay.  I got the shark.  Let me place them on top and we can go."  They see the wagon isn't big enough to fit the shark so they set the incapacitated shark on the top of the roof instead and decides to sit up there with them so they don't accidentally roll off the roof of the strange carriage. 

Everyone comes to a moment in their life where they are confronted by an existential crisis, by something so unfathomable that their mind has trouble grasping what is happening.  For Charlotte Delaney, that day was today.  As her partner, Tom, slowly began to lower his revolver at the display of...

...of...

...of...

Well whatever the f&*k this was, NYPD Sergeant Delaney could only look at the tiny person with six big, blue arms, carrying a shark that looks like it has wings, and then she too lowered her gun.  She took a moment, holstered her weapon, reached up, and pulled her badge off before tossing it back into the patrol cruiser.  

"Uh uh."  She said, raising one hand and waggling a finger in the air.  "Oh hell no.  No, I ain't doing this.  Bye!"  

And just like that, Charlotte Delaney was on her way, walking away down the street, leaving her partner alone...

Ward comes around and waves dismissively at Hawk and Gavin before turning to the police. "Oh, hello there. Sorry about all the mess I tried to help out your other folks, oh, she's just leaving alright. There is some damage to one of your carriages, that while not my fault I do feel a bit responsible for if there's any way I can assist. Also, your other "cops" may need some medical assistance as they had a small collision." Ward says as he comes around, holding his arms not fully up but enough so they shouldn't get mad, in more of a shrug than anything.