Mission:Tip - My Other Selves

My Other Selves

Villain Morality Mission

You find an odd circle with a small button on it. Upon pressing the button, a small holographic image springs to life - and it's an image of you!

'Character, listen to me. I am you from many years in the future. I have spent nearly all of my incalculable power to send this message back in time so that you can correct the one critical flaw that I - you - made in my - our - master plan'.

Deep down inside, you know that the person you're seeing might truly... be you. And if it is - and in the future you can span time and space - then you MUST know what that mistake is... and see to it that you never make it!

WARNING: This is a Morality Mission. Completing this mission will change your alignment to Villain. Becoming a Villain means you will be unable to travel to Paragon City. Any ties to the heroic world will be lost.

• Learn where your master plan went wrong... and fix it!

WARNING: This is a Morality Mission. Completing this mission will maintain your current alignment of Villain, removing any progress you may have made on any other alignments.
Are you sure you want to do this?

• Learn where your master plan went wrong... and fix it!

You continue listening to the message sent by your future self.

'Crey Industries has a secret lab that they are using to conduct experiments on the time-space continuum. I found it many centuries ago, and this is where I - you - would begin forming your - my - master plan. Within the lab are three matrices they're using to open rifts in time. Encoded in this message are three keycodes that will locate me - you - in the past - er - in your future.

You MUST know what you did wrong or EVERYTHING will be ruined!

• Speak to your future self to learn your master plan!

Within the message projection device is the location of where your destiny lies. Go seek it out while you still have... time!

Unnecessary Solicitation

You still have a date with destiny. Find the Crey lab and use the keycode on the Time Matrix... then speak to yourself from the future!

Mission Objective(s)

This place looks unfamiliar, but you have a very odd sense of deja vu as you look around the place. You're sure that Crey has this place locked up tight, so you'll need to find someone in charge to give you access to their computers. Hopefully they'll put up a fight first.

• Speak to your future self!
  • Find and Capture a Chief Scientist
  • Capture the Chief Temporal Scientist!
  • Access the Primary Matrix Terminal!
  • Speak with your Future Self!
  • Defeat Frostfire!
  • Speak with your Far Future Self!
  • Defeat Far Future Forstfire!
  • Access the Tertiary Matrix Terminal!
  • Speak with the Ultimate You!
  • Defeat the Ultimate You!

Ambush! Anomaly Containment Operative attacks several times throughout the mission
After accessing the Primary Matrix Terminal

Your Future Self: Where... Where am I?

Anomaly Containment Operative: Containment team acquiring target...

Your Future Self: WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!?

Anomaly Containment Operative: Anomaly contained and awaiting quarantine extraction...

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When Far Future Self spawns

Your Far Future Self: So... You draw me into the past once again, do you?

Anomaly Containment Operative: Containment team acquiring target...

Your Far Future Self: Kneel before me and gaze upon my glory, pathetic little child beast!

Anomaly Containment Operative: Anomaly contained and awaiting quarantine extraction...

Enemies

Crey

Doppelgangers

Paragon Police Department

Longbow

Notable NPCs

• Frostfire (Boss, enemy)
• Far Future Frostfire (Boss, enemy)
• Your Future Self (Boss, ally)
• Your Far Future Self (Boss, ally)
• The Ultimate You (Boss, enemy)

Primary Matrix Terminal

This is one of the Time Matrix access terminals. The designation in bold letters displays the word - Primary.

TIME MATRIX ACCESS TERMINAL ALPHA.

ROOT ACCESS PRIVILEGES INITIATED.

ENTER MATRIX ALGORITHM.

• Enter algorithm from the matrix key

ALGORITHM ACCEPTED

Initiating Time Sequence: 7,300 revolutions.

SEQUENCE COMPLETED. ALL URANIUM DEPLETED - INITIATING SHUTDOWN.

• SHUT DOWN

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Speak with your Future Self

How is this possible? It's like I'm looking into the mirror, yet I'm so young.

Explain yourself at once or I will snuff out your pitiful excuse for a life.

• You contacted me from the future. I'm you from the past!

What?! That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Aha...

This is some foolish trick Frostfire has come up with, isn't it?

• Frostfire? What does he have to do with anything?

Do you expect me to believe that you're me from the past, but yet you don't seem to know Frostfire is the bane of my - our - very existence?

He is there to foil my every step! Even now, as my minions complete the serum I have spent decades perfecting, Frostfire and his hero sidekicks are battering down the doors to my base.

And you! You interrupt me at my moment of triumph?!

• You told me there was a critical mistake in our master plan.

Mistake?! I do NOT make mistakes, cretin! My immortality serum is PERFECT! How DARE YOU speak to me this way, insect!

Now it is time for you to --

• Continue

You hear a loud zapping sound coming from the direction of where the Primary Terminal was housed.

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Speak with your Far Future Self

Note: Your Far Future Self will have a costume based on your current costume, modified to look more demonic.

It sickens me to look at you - at what I once was. How is it possible that I - the most powerful being upon this world - came from this pitiful embryonic cluster of snot and pus that stands before me?

• YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME TH--

With a flick of the wrist, your future self fills you with the most excruciating pain you have ever felt in your existence. Another flick and it's over.

Were anyone else within my empire to speak out of turn as you just did, well, I would pull out their skeleton through their mouth - and then let them die weeks later. However, I do not know what would happen were I to kill my own self in the past.

You are pitiful because you could not stop Frostfire all those centuries ago. And now, he is all that stands in my way of global domination! ALL BECAUSE OF YOUR SIMPERING, PATHETIC WEAKNESS!

• Frostfire? Is that why you contacted? To tell me about Frostfire?

SILENCE! Your ignorance knows no bounds! Frostfire was there when I drank deeply from that mysterious well in the former continent of Europe! He, too, acquired the limitless power I now possess. BECAUSE OF YOU!

Had you stopped him, he would not have supped from that ambrosia of the gods! I have exterminated all those upon the planet who dare to show an inkling of power, yet HE STILL MOCKS ME!

But his time has now come. I will finally be rid of this thorn in my side.

• What's the mistake you wanted to warn me about?

I CARE NOTHING FOR THE QUESTIONING OF AN IGNORAMUS THE LIKES OF YOU! I have no desire to 'warn' you of anything. You failed. And now, centuries later, I shall be the one to correct the mistakes of my past - mistakes such as you.

Even now, as I listen to your incessant prattling, my dear friend Frostfire is feeling his power ebbing away. Even he can not withstand the soul-draining effects of Nethermatter.

This is where our conversation ends, my shame. I now depart to finish off my lifelong nemes--

• Continue

You hear a loud zapping sound coming from the direction of where the Secondary Terminal was housed.

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Speak with the Ultimate You

Note: The Ultimate You will have a costume based on your current costume, modified to look more angelic.

Ah... It is good to look upon a person again after all these millennia, even if it is only myself from the past.

I knew you would be able to find me.

• You were the one who contacted me, weren't you?

Yes, it was I. I am you from thousands of years in the future. Or rather, you're me from thousands of years in the past. It required the power of a god to break the timestream to get you this message, and a god I am.

• You mean... I'm a god in the future?

Not 'a' god. The only god. And this is why I need to warn you of the greatest mistake I made - you will make.

We stole the power of the gods forever ago - or many years in your future, from your point of view. A man named Frostfire was there in the chamber, pleading for me - us - to not drink from source of the gods. He was standing in front of that well as he begged for me not to go through with it. I could have pushed him in and taken all the power for myself, but in my hubris I chose to taunt him instead. For just a few moments, the same amount of time it took to insult my former foe, I could have prevented the greatest failure I have ever performed.

But with this knowledge I give you, YOU CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE!

• So you're saying I should push him into the well when I have a chance?

No! You don't understand! That power was meant for him! Not me! He drew from the well, but only half of it. It wasn't enough to stop me from killing him with Nethermatter.

The Nethermatter was as dangerous to me as it was to him, for we each possessed only one half of the power of the gods. If he would have had all the power, he would have been invulnerable to the Nethermatter. Perhaps he would have been powerful enough to even create life itself!

• Hold on... with *all* the power one could create life?

Yes. It was the source of creation. However...

Had I listened to him instead of insulting him - had I turned away from my deadly course - had I understood that my path only led to destruction...

Then he would have taken all that power unto himself... and used it to turn the world into a paradise Man has only ever been able to dream of.

But instead I used that power to ERADICATE all life on the planet.

All life in the galaxy.

And yet I still live. All alone. For the rest of Eternity.

• I see. So... I have the chance to change the future?

Yes! And that is why I speak to you now. You can change that one moment in your near future. You can do what is right.

Why are you looking at me that way? Your eyes... they burn in a way mine did when...

• When we learn from our REAL mistakes?

No... No, you musn't! You must give the power to Frostfire or we're doomed!

• Actually... you're the one who's doomed. *I'm* going to be a full god!

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Crey dialogue

Before Combat:

Confound it! We've spent months researching and yet STILL no way to trigger the Time Matrix!

If only there was some kind of Matrix Key

Combat Start:

What is Character doing here?

We were assured there would be no interruptions!

Chief Temporal Scientist dialogue

Before Combat:

Chief Temporal Scientist: The third failure this week alone? We'll never unlock the Time Matrix at this rate!

Combat Start:

Chief Temporal Scientist: What's this? No! I will not tolerate any more distractions!

Chief Temporal Scientist: Security! Take care of this miscreant at once!

Special Projects Security Captain: Yes, Doctor! You have nothing to worry about with us on the job.

After Combat:

Chief Temporal Scientist: You want what?!

Chief Temporal Scientist: One second...

Chief Temporal Scientist: Passcode: Terminus...

Chief Temporal Scientist: There! It's unlocked!

Future Self dialogue

On Approach:

You... Why do you look so familiar...

Player Defeated:

Needs more information

Frostfire dialogue

Combat Start:

Frostfire: You can not escape me, Character!

Frostfire: What? Two of you?!

Frostfire: Then so be it! I shall defeat BOTH of you!

Frostfire: You must face your crimes, Character!

At 50% health:

Frostfire: If you surrender, you can start all over again like I did, Character!

System Alert! Time Matrix Sequence Alpha - Terminating.

All Foreign Organisms Are To Be Immediately Resynchronized.

Frostfire: What is going on? Character! What did you do!?

Frostfire: Character! You still have hope!

Your Future Self: You ARE me from the past! There is something I have to tell ---

Far Future Self dialogue

On Approach:

Well, well, well... Once again.

Bow your head as I bequeath my words unto you!

Player Defeated:

No...

Far Future Frostfire dialogue

Combat Start:

Far Future Frostfire: Ah...you've had a clone the whole time, I see.

Far Future Frostfire: Character. You have won.

Far Future Frostfire: It matters not.

Far Future Frostfire: I will face you both as my final act.

Far Future Frostfire: Please listen to me, Character.

Far Future Frostfire: You still have time to turn away from the darkness that swallows you.

Far Future Frostfire: You can still change before it's too late!

At 50% health:

Far Future Frostfire: Please...

Far Future Frostfire: I'm sorry I could not stop you, Character.

Far Future Frostfire: I'm sorry I could not prevent you from drawing upon the power of that ancient well.

Far Future Frostfire: But I am even more sorry that I could not save you from the damnation that awaits you.

At 25% health:

Far Future Frostfire: You are immortal, Character. You will still be here when everything is gone.

Far Future Frostfire: And you will still exist when everything has died...

Defeat:

Far Future Frostfire: Thank you for releasing me of this burden. I am most sorry... for you... Character...

Your Far Future Self: Now I return to a world that I shall shape in MY IMAGE!

The Ultimate You

When Appearing:

The Ultimate You: At last...you have found me.

The Ultimate You: Hurry...there is little time...

The Ultimate You: I must tell you our greatest mistake!

Combat Start:

Frostfire was our only hope! You must believe in him!

At 75% health:

How...how are you able to...to hurt me?

At 50% health:

No... The Nethermatter... Some of it is still here!

Defeat:

NOOOOOOOOooooooooooo......

Mission Exit

You - from thousands of years in the future - attempted to sway you towards the pathetic and pitiful path of righteousness.

Instead, you learned how to become a being of untold power one day. And you can make sure this happens with nothing more than one short, swift kick to the face.

In time, your master plan will be fully realized. In time.