Preserved For History

**Preserved For History** is the 38th case of Time Check, the 3rd case to occur during Pompeii, as well as the 455th case overall.

## **Plot**

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## **Killer and Motive**

The killer turned out to be Fulvia.

We decide to talk to Fulvia about Yaonen's murder, only to find her dressed up in modern clothes. We ask her about the murder, but she says that she has no idea who Yaonen is. As soon as we catch her, however, Anna storms into the time machine and tells us that "Fulvia" is secretly Rebecca Bommarito, her daughter who escaped from the mental asylum two months ago and has been hiding in Pompeii ever since. This is how she knew about the virus Clemens started. Anna said that she can't control her murderous thoughts and could easily defeat a boxer if she wanted to. Anna said that if she's in that state, then she kills someone and immediately forgets about her murderous actions. We ask her why she became insane, and Anna told us that her best friend, Samantha, always made visits to 2100 because she loved how the future looked. Wynston later moved to 2100 and stayed in touch with all his friends and Samantha and Rebecca were closer than ever. However, during their first prom, Rebecca became extremely jealous of Samantha, who took her crush to the prom. This caused Rebecca to go to Wynston's house, where she attacked Samantha and ended up killing her older brother. Wynston then captured her and left her in his basement for years with barely any food and used that to make Anna give into his demands. This didn't work and Rebecca slowly turned insane over the years. One day, she decided to escape and stumbled across Wynston's wall of heads, where she saw her father, Anna's husband who's been missing for years' head. Rebecca broke down and swore to get revenge on Samantha during her senior year, as they were 17 at the time. Rebecca then grabbed a gun and entered the school, shooting several students and killing two. She was then taken to the mental asylum on Anna's orders and ever since then she's sworn to get revenge on Wynston for locking her daughter up for all those years. However, there was a recent blackout in the city, causing Rebecca to be able to escape and use Samantha's old time machine to go to Pompeii, where she stayed for two months. She convinced herself that she lived in Pompeii and convinced herself that the Clemens virus killed her parents. She then saw Yaonen and decided to kill one more time.

## Run While You Can! (3/5)

After Rebecca confesses, Anna tells us to lock her up in the time machine, but her behavior there seemed weird to say the least. We then talk to Anna about her more, and she says that she has doubts that the Rebecca we caught is her daughter. Anna says we should keep a close eye on her, since she thinks she may be Janette in disguise as her daughter. She said that she was recently nominated to the Shadow Ghosts leader and she saw someone that looked like Michael at her nomination. Anna said that this makes her a likely target of him and he thinks that he got Janette to pretend to be her daughter and kill her. We ask her why she thinks that this "Janette" is pretending to be her daughter, and she says that she doesn't know. Anna said that she went through a similar phase that Rebecca did and that she used to be insane after her father was raped and killed by a famous serial killer who was never caught and her and her mother were forced to run away from their home and all their friends. Anna said that her mother tried taking care of her but died in the 2060's after she caught a disease. Anna said that all her rage built inside of her and that she's still super paranoid, which is why Alice let her into the TDB and made her her second-in-command. She said that Alice gave her a life and that she's thankful for that. Anna said that she'll do anything she can to stop Michael and get justice for the person who gave her everything in life. We then ask her who "Janette" is, and she tells us that Michael lied to us about hating all of his family. Although he did hate many of them, there was always one family member he was really close to apart from his father, Kirk. This was his little sister, Janette. Anna said we definitely met her during our adventures through different time periods, as she overheard her talking to Michael about it, but she doesn't know who. Anna said that we can't trust anyone anymore, and that she can't even trust herself. We ask Anna what Janette looks like, and she says she doesn't know. She said she recently heard Michael and Janette talking to each other but Janette was wearing a hood. All Anna knew was that she had a high-pitched voice and was shorter than Michael. Siobhan and the player looked at each other and realized that this could be anyone. We then hear a zap and realize that's the sound a time machine makes when it enters a new era. This is when Siobhan, Anna, and the player decide to follow the time machine to see who comes out. The time machine's bottom opens, only for a white-haired woman dressed in black to come out and onto a platform where Michael, Wynston, and Imogen are waiting for her. They all shake her hand before Siobhan loads her gun. Michael said that before coming back, he killed one more team member's past self. Siobhan then jumped out of the bushes we were hiding behind and the player wanted to follow. Anna said that we shouldn't, as we're outnumbered by them and they're much more powerful than us. The white-haired woman then grabbed her shotgun and shot Siobhan thrice in the chest. Siobhan grabbed onto all of her wounds and managed to stay alive, before Michael whispers "look down" to her. Siobhan looks down, only to realize that she's fading.

Michael then walked up to a fading Siobhan and moved her chin so she would be looking up at him while she's fading. Michael then said, "You shouldn't have killed Diana you filthy poorly-dressed moron!" before Siobhan fades completely. The player told Anna that this is the final straw and we want to go out and kill Michael. Anna then tells us we can't do that, and that there's no way we'd stand a chance against any of them alone and that we should just walk away. We ask Anna if the white-haired lady is Janette, but she says to remember that Janette is Michael's younger sibling, before we hesitantly do what Anna says and we return to the time machine and deliver the bad news about what happened to Siobhan. Ava then acts relieved and says that since Michael is back, none of them will fade like them. Ava said she never really liked any of the team members Michael killed and that she isn't surprised Michael let her be. We roll our eyes and Heather says we should talk to Hernán and tell him the entire situation. We tell him everything, from our adventures to why he was kidnapped and who kidnapped him. He asks us why we're telling him this, and we tell him we're taking him back to Tenochtitlan and that he has to try to get rid of the Aztecs and that it doesn't matter how merciless he is: he just needs to get rid of all of them. We give Hernán a phone and we tell him how to use it. We tell him to text us back when the job is done and he agrees. We then use our time machine to send him back to Tenochtitlan, all while Magdalene is pulling out her knives and watching us in the distance.

Heather and the player hear something behind them, only for us to look around and see twenty knives coming at us. The time machine we lended Hernán disappeared and the knives flew right past them. Magdalene screamed "Damn it!" before running away. We decide to chase her before we find her and the white-haired woman. As soon as we see the white-haired woman, the player's jaw drops. The white-haired woman then held out two guns and told us to leave or else we'd die a painful death like Siobhan did. They then teleport near the volcano and we do too. The white-haired woman then aims her gun at the peaceful volcano and shoots. As soon as her bullet hits the rock, the volcano and ground begin to shake and the lava begins to rise out of the volcano. We ask her why she did that, and she said that they needed to cover their tracks after our entire team is dead. The two then fade away and say they'll be back. We then begin to wonder if the Pompeii eruption was actually natural, so we ask Rebecca, who's been in Pompeii for months, if there's been any sign of an eruption. According to Rebecca, the volcano has shown no signs of eruption so far. We rush back to the base and talk about everything that happened and we realized that we need to stick together. We realized that we would never defeat Michael individually, rather together as a team. We know none of us will fade since Michael is back from Ancient Greece, but we don't know what he has up his sleeves next. We then get a text notification: a selfie taken by Wynston while he's holding and pretending to kiss Siobhan's lopped off head. While Ava tries to order a wall online for her to put her enemy's heads, the rest of us decide to counter Michael, tackle him to the ground, take off his watch, and arrest or kill him. We then find Michael alone, FaceTiming the white-haired lady about the eruption. However, Caecilius, who's supposed to die in the eruption alongside Metella, heard them talking and decided to escape and flee Pompeii. We decide to attack Michael, but later realized that he always had backup. This obviously did not work in our favor.

As soon as we tackled Michael, we realized there was no pulse. We looked at the body again, only to realize that Michael was dead, before Michael shoots Heather in the back. We take her to Clive and demand answers from Michael, who laughed and said that the version of him we tackled was a clone, since he knew we would try to corner and arrest him somehow. He then panicked and whispered in his watch that one of their time machines is on the same street. We push Michael and rush to the time machine with Retro. We realize this one must be it, as there's a Shadow Ghosts logo on it. Retro then opens the door, before his hand is sucked into the machine and we hear a few beeping noises. The white-haired lady is then seen from a distance, laughing. She waves a button at us and then pushes it, blowing the time machine and Retro up. Michael then gets up, brushes the dust off his clothes, and laughs, calling us stupid. He then turns his watch and fades along with the white-haired woman. We return to the time machine, only to see that Clive has healed Heather's wound and AMETHYST tells us that we got a letter from Wynston, saying to meet us in the TDB's Pompeiian headquarters. We go there, and our jaws open.

## **Killer's Profile**

* **The killer is fit**
* **The killer knows first aid**
* **The killer eats figs**
* **The killer has O- blood**
* **The killer has a scar**

## **Chapter Arts**

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