Benjamin Timewatcher

**Benjamin Timewatcher** is the former thief and now a redeemed hero for the Legionnaires, having joined the NEW/G to settle things right, and experience the feeling of being a warrior, again.

## Biography

### Antecedent Background

Following his supposed death, he was able to clone himself and the duplicate corpse was picked up by INTERCEPTOR-409 and PROJECT troops, who mistook him for dead. In fact, he has revived himself and place the clone in the exact spot by silently using CONTINUUM BREAK when they are distracted by something else, allowing himself to escape and live a life of secrecy as he stole supplies from various locations in Ruj, before returning to his hometown of Blacksmith Roads, which provided him with the ideal opportunity to hide and repair his gadgets, but he discarded his PROJECT armour to avoid being tracked by authorities.

He has lost his memory, and the only thing he craves is non other than revenge. His death gave him an idea: To enact his vengeance upon the rebellion that gave him a chance to be a hero. Believing that Fiona Vance was a selfish second-in-command, he strives to kill her if he earned the opportunity to do so. Using his teleportation ability through the TIME WINDER, allowing him to freeze the time for a while, as he makes it into the NEW/G headquarters and use the chance to steal their power core, effectively rendering the base useless. His armour was custom-made after stealing a handful of components in a secret room.

This allowed him to open portals to separate countries, hopping to portal to portal, as he gets pursued by an unknown force, who throws his scythe at him, which means he also became a target by ADLEHR, a reaper that hunts the souls, whom has returned for vengeance against Eion Brightblast.

### Brightblasting Adventure

Cadence Shatterer is now on the run from the NEW/G, as Fiona Vance has discovered of his theft in the headquarters. As a result, she enlists the help of Spartacus Brightspear and Gwyneth Forgesteel in an attempt to apprehend him. He scoffs, and makes his way to Heliga after a series of endless pursuits that tests his own speed and agility, mocking the three of them for being predictable, and dodging a spear in the process. After a few hours, he is far ahead of them, losing them on his tail.

That stays that way, until someone shoots him relentlessly. It was Eion Brightblast. He looks in disbelief, knowing that he looked very familiar from a bygone era. As Fiona and Eion had a reunion, he used the moment to escape, only for Timewatcher to get his right hand shot, with Gwyneth and Spartacus later apprehending him in holographic cuffs, taunting that it won't hold him effectively.

He was then imprisoned. Benjamin is guarded by Lunar Frost and Night Breeze, whose names he inquired about. He attempted to take advantage of the women by attempting to reach his equipment a few metres away from him, but Madeleine quickly notices and pulls it out of reach. Ben then tries to flee with by throwing a TIME WINDER grenade, but Alissandre kicks his arm after his grenade is disabled. As a result of his failed escape attempt, he is left disappointed.

He is able to learn their names, and has a small conversation. Moreover, over the course of the days, Benjamin is able to regain more and more of his memories, such as his relationship with Jinx and his history against PROJECT.

### Unshakeable Revelation

#### Prelude

Benjamin now requests Fiona Vance's presence because as wishes to speak privately. The latter accepted the request only after she had finished enforcing measures to increase the readiness of her own base, knowing that it could be attacked at any time. Fiona later granted him time for questioning. She got straight to the point and asked about his intentions, to which he replied that his thievery was due to poor judgement and a loss of memory, implying that he now remembers her from a previous era.

Now believing that the thief is EQUINOX-612 is alive, Fiona questions on how did her survive, even though his corpse was found by PROJECT forces. He simply emphasises the fact that he was able to clone himself and place the clone on his exact death spot, all while leaving his armour there to avoid suspicion, as he stole supplies and necessities just to escape to his country, Ruj and spent his time in solitude resting, admitting that the megacorporation's era was far too heavy for him to handle.

#### Invasion, Separation

As the base became suspect of a massive attack, Fiona Vance freed him as she became motivated for him to reverse the effects of a possible tragedy. Bloodlust was to be thanked for his escape because she suggested it to the leader before he knew everything. While the fighting has gotten much worse, Fiona resorts to him using everything he has to turn the tide. However, just as he was about to reverse time to save their base, the CHIMERA fires an Aether beam that ruins the base, but the shield is also destroyed but still provides some protection to the fallen heroes and warriors.

He was forced to leave Vulcanuschetts as S.O.L.A.C.E stormed the ruins of the building, whilst Fiona Vance accompanied him to someplace safe, away from the aftermath.

#### Redemption of Heroes

While inside their safehouse, Benjamin informs Fiona regarding Skullface opening an encrypted channel for the legionnaires, intending to unite them all. Fiona asks him to come with her, declaring that he is a part of her Legion now, to which he reacts in both a sense of honour and shock. Unfortunately, instead of just spending minimal time thinking he is found in the Panamoan Republic, the signal's location is centred in the Northern lands, much to their astonishment. Fiona states that the cold of Brimstone, Freya that she experienced should be more enough for her to endure the cold of Avarshi.

As they both go to the Northern lands, he observes that, despite their gear, Avarshi is significantly colder than he thought. According to Fiona, the locals are known as Iceborns, and are known to be extremely resistant to cold temperatures, which explains their minimalistic outfits that only have fur or a huge coat or cape for insulation, with Benjamin stating that they "dress like normal people with fur and a cape, despite the cold." They carefully evaded the patrols, and after waiting for the right moment, they found Skullface's safehouse where the signal's location is found.

#### The Next Warmother

Benjamin decided to trail Fiona despite her request to explore the war unfolding at Frostvile. Like the rest, they have to kill several renegades. However, he was later after falling into a trap, that he nearly died as a result of his predicament, using his time reversing abilities to prevent an unfortunate death. When he arrived at Frostvile, he is surprised to see a large amount of people, and seeing a tribe that is in front of Fiona herself. The NEW/G then forms behind his back, instructing him to go forward to show the Iceborns who they truly are.

To his surprise, the once Lunar Frost is now a Warmother. As she refused to rejoin them, all of them has left after thanking the tribe on their role on defeating the renegades. They all teleport away, alongside a new member, which surprised him due to his huge armour and a large sword. They are relocated to Area 91, much to his surprise.

### New Heroes, Another Ultimatum

#### The Calm Before the Storm

Benjamin has spent the entire time pondering, if Jinx would come back to him, or should this new war end. Regardless, he knew that they will have another fight of their lives, and they will win, without any external interferences like two years ago, during *Bleeding Edge: Ultimatum*. Fiona then informs him that they should all expect the unexpected, as nothing has been really certain since the legionnaire's reunion way back in Christmas day.

#### Preluding the Finale

Benjamin made it back to Avarshi, this time, he is adapted to the cold. Like the legionnaires, they are seeking to an end for the renegades, having learned that S.O.L.A.C.E has fallen due to the Iron Man himself. As he awaits her order, one thing is for sure: He has the entire mission to redeem himself, and this is the time for a second chance. As they now traverse through the frigid environments, they later split in two teams after a few renegades have found their position, which they all eliminated to prevent them from alerting their base.

#### Salazar's True Power

He observes the renegades have snipers on top of an almost inconspicuous hill, which Fiona pulls him back to avoid being sniped. When Gwyneth Forgesteel told them that one sniper has found their position, they stayed moving to avoid being shot, only to be interrupted when they saw one renegade getting his head blown off, he then looks for the bullet's origin, which came from the Clemirosans, the shooter being Nightfall herself. This was later followed up by Brienne CRIMSONITE delivering JUDGEMENT, sundering the renegades and they are forced to disperse. The Panamoan military is seen deploying their tanks, jeeps and infantry, giving them the chance to engage the enemy up close.

He fought valiantly. What happened next is just as expected, he survived. When they celebrated the war's end, he has pointed out that Ezreal "Troublemaker" Francis is still out there, Fiona takes note of his concern as they left and prepare for capturing him.

#### The Truth

As they returned to the Area 91 base, he has spent the entire time formulating all the moving patterns of Ezreal "Troublemaker" Francis, knowing that he can escape traditional arresting methods utilised by various authorities, so they implement their use of teleportation to halt his chances of escaping their grasp. The Legionnaires, despite their grief over Gwyneth Forgesteel, has decided to pursue him and arrest him to prevent any tampering with the timeline, ever again.

However, Ezreal was able to anticipate their methods, except him, which the chase extended to an endless series of loops and pointless usage of teleportation, forcing them to halt their efforts.

### True Ultimatum

#### It All Comes Together

Having concluded that their attempts on apprehending Ezreal as pointless, Benjamin has spent his spare time traveling in his home, Ruj. He hopes that Jinx is alive, no matter the condition, but despite his efforts to find her, it all goes in vain, and Fiona suggests him to return, which he accepted after seeing a bunch of shady people stalking him. Upon returning to the base, he asks about what seemed ominous, to which they all replied that it is LORD ANNIHILATOR after Fiona informed them.

#### Eion and Benjamin: Unlikely Duo

Despite their differences, the two have been assigned by Fiona to scout and investigate the current disturbance that is going on, at Avarshi. Realising that they have been going to the same place thrice, he grew unsurprised of the cold and its wonders. Now, they managed to navigate around the storm of debris and Aether, slicing anything that gets in his way whenever he can't use his agility to jump or dodge the circling rubble. When the dust settled, they have finally discovered the true extent of the disturbance: The return of their old enemy, ANNIHILATOR.

In disbelief, Eion ran away after asserting that it is pointless to interfere. However, he stood behind. He wanted to die like a true warrior unlike his previous life, where he felt his supposed death was out of place.

#### Legion's True Intervention

Benjamin trails behind Eion, only to realise they are stuck in Vuraki and the NEW/G has teleported right on top of them after an unseen force has botched their pathways that lead to their portals entering a forest in Vuraki. With deadlocked terrain and LORD ANNIHILATOR revealing their position, there was no time to argue as the holographic army is now charging towards their path with sheer aggression, firing bullets and throwing blades at the same time. He prepares his DRIVEs in case they got stuck into a horrendous situation/

He then pulls out his sword in anticipation of the army.

## Personality

Benjamin Timewatcher lives for one reason: vengeance. He wants vengeance on the rebellion for failing to save him during his supposed death at the hands of INTERCEPTOR-409 back then. As a result, he disregards their contributions to the planet's new, bright future and plans his retribution. He is more devious than ever, stealing technology to create his own armour and gadgets, then seizing the power source of the NEW/G headquarters, stating that the newer generation of heroes are lame and unworthy of their own base, and blaming everyone for his death and unfortunate resurrection.

As for when he took up the "Cadence Shatterer" persona, Benjamin was unpredictable, unapologetic, snarky and slippery. Following his on the run from the NEW/G, He completely abandoned the G/NEX's ideals, quickly becoming obsessed with only one thing - revenge against the same movement who gave him his life. However, he reverted back to his old self after regaining memories of his past life and was able to open up to Fiona Vance in an interrogation, now using his newfound life to enact redemption and serve the Legion of the new generations.

Fortunately, when he was arrested, he had a change of mind and quickly returned to his old self, sporting the witty, sarcastic and helpful persona that usually has before. Perhaps he owed Fiona the opportunity to restore his own memory.

## Abilities

The Benjamin Timewatcher is a redeemed Time Prodigy. Having created his suit of armour from scratch, this ensures his protection while allowing a variety of combat and defensive features, all of which are primarily designed to disrupt and manipulate time within its radius and his vicinity the way he sees fit, either to fix glaring mistakes that can cost lives, or to revive deceased individuals, which tends to make them stronger as demonstrated in the past with White Lotus.

### Moveset

* **TM-DRIVE RESONANCE**: Every third attack grants him additional attack power, due to plasma inside his suit.

* **TIME WINDER**: He throws a disruptor grenade designed to destroy robotic units and disable mechas. It also affects time that is under the blast radius.

* **TIME CONVERGENCE**: His basic attacks deal bonus damage to heavily injured enemies. He can cast Time Convergence to split the timeline, creating an anomaly after a few seconds that slows enemies caught inside. If Benjamin enters the anomaly, he gains shielding and quickly stuns enemies by suspending them in time.

* **PHASING TIME**: He rolls evasively while charging up his TM-Drive. His next attack deals higher damage and efficiently warps reality, teleporting him to his target.

* **CONTINUUM BREAK**: Benjamin Timewatcher shatters his timeline, becoming invisible and rewinding to a more favourable point in time. He returns to whenever he was a few seconds ago, and heals for a percentage of the damage or injuries received in prior. Enemies nearby or caught in his arrival zone take massive damage, and it is guaranteed to cause instant kills or destroy surrounding objects, such as vehicles.

### Skills

* **Master Combatant**: Benjamin has dramatically improved his skills in combat. He implemented proper sword and hand-to-hand techniques with far better proficiency than ever before. He was able to briefly match Fiona Vance in a sword fight.

* **Indomitable Hacker**: He still holds the greatest skill for hacking. In fact, he is able to hack into the firewall of Nexima Robotics Corporation to gain access to Michael's technology, which earned the latter's surprise.

* **Master Strategist**: His skill in tactics are also impressive. Notably, his strategies in combat are far beyond exceptional, employing instantly quick and efficient methods to defeat the opposition, and his ability to manipulate time allows him to correct any incorrect strategy that he or his allies has pulled in a fight.

## Trivia

### General

* His main motivation for his actions was to enact his revenge against the group that failed to save him, during his death way back then.
* Blaming Fiona Vance and Eion Brightblast for not being able to save him, he uses stolen technology in an attempt to kill them.
* He bears no memory of what good he has done in the entire *PROJECT-G/NEX War*.
* Seeks to reunite with Jinx, though the latter is nowhere to be found and is living in a hermit.
* Benjamin has became 12.6% more intelligent as a side effect of cloning himself.
* His cloning act was done through a device that he implanted on his old armour's mask that allowed him to survive getting shot in the head, and it materialised a perfectly identical clone in the process.
* As he uses a clone body, his metabolism is way different.