Sources Cut

**Sources Cut** is the 34th case of Time Check, the 4th case to occur during the Altered Present, as well as the 451st case overall.

## **Summary**

### **Victims**

* **Carl Kent**
* **Scarlet Atlacoya**

### **Killer**

* **Magdalene Thompson (in disguise as Alice Davis)**

## **Plot**

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## **Killer and Motive**

The Killer turned out to be Magdalene.

Magdalene revealed herself to be a professional hitwoman from the non-altered version of 2100. She said that after her grandmother died, her family's money has been very tight. She said that Wynston came to 2100 and hired her to take out any enemies they had: this started with the TDB. After Wynston started the explosion at the castle, Alice and Carl were called to check it out. Magdalene used this opportunity to kidnap Alice and Carl. Magdalene said that her boss, Wynston's friend, wanted to have a little chat with Alice but Carl knew too much, so she was forced to silence him. However, Scarlet saw her kidnapping Alice and Carl and decided to try and stop her: this didn't work in her favor. In order to look good in front of us, she disguised herself as Alice after kidnapping her once we found out Siobhan killed Diana. Anna later came to the scene after she didn't hear from Alice or Carl. She saw the explosion and a black shirt in it so she assumed that Magdalene was dead, when in reality it was the bloody clothes Magdalene wore during the murder.

## **Where Air Smells Different (4/5)**

After our confrontation with Magdalene, she says that her boss told her to kidnap and kill someone else, so she'll have to get going now. We pull out our guns and handcuffs, and Magdalene simply pulls out seven knives from her right hand and says "Leave or else I'll take you out too. Try me: I'm not scared." We put our hands up and leave and luckily Magdalene doesn't strike us down. She says that her boss wanted to deal with us themselves. We realize that many people may know about Wynston or his friend, Magdalene's boss' identity. We decide to rush back to Heather's mansion, where we bump into Gus, who says that he's on his way out to go back to his time, and that he's had a lot of fun with us, even if we only bumped in to each other twice. We tell him that we need his help in order to stop an enemy we have: Wynston. Gus says that he wants to do some good for the world too, so he agrees to help in exchange for us to let him go back to his time: six months before everything happened in Greensin, 2033. We take him to Heather's mansion where we regroup. We tell Wynston that we're going to arrest him and that his days are numbered, before he challenges us to a gun duel, gives us the time and coordinates, and hangs up. We prepare our guns and Harlin puts extra shielding on them, just to make sure that Wynston doesn't try any tricks. We immediately decide to tell Anna everything and she says that she'll want to help us take down Wynston once and for all. We're then approached by Albert, who panics, saying that based on what Carl said before his death, Wynston's friend is almost definitely a member of our team, which he'll definitely use to our advantage. Albert then says that we should investigate Carl's office to see if he left any hints about who Wynston's friend could be before he died. We rush over to Carl's office, where we find a burnt paper that seems to have a faded name on it. We manage to recover the faded text which has the name "Albert Miracle" scribbled out on it. Next to the paper, it said "Couldn't be Wynston's friend - Locations and money don't match up." Just to verify that this is indeed Carl's handwriting, we send it to Retro, who says that it was indeed written by Carl. He also found Anna's fingerprints on it. We talk to Anna about this, and she said that only Carl and Alice knew who Wynston's friend were but she was with Carl as he narrowed Albert off of the list. This proves that Albert could not have been Wynston's friend. We then enter Wynston's mansion to see if he has any tricks up his sleeves, but the only thing we find is that he has a slot for a fourth head. We also find it weird that Wynston wrote "I'll avenge you, Samantha!" on his walls. We realize that it's written with a red substance which we're sure isn't paint. We send it to the lab and AMETHYST said that the red substance we found is the blood of none other than Samantha. We knew that Wynston was a lunatic before, but this proves just how insane he's become. We realize that this will probably be incredibly easy, as every time Wynston aims for the head, he ends up missing. He shot Elizabeth in the torso and Nolan in the top of the head, scraping a part of his scalp. When the time finally came, we told Clive to stay at the time machine alone to take care of Nolan and to stay there just in case anyone gets hurt. Clive agrees and the rest of us go onto the battlefield apart from Yoda, who AMETHYST wanted to stay back. We begin our gun fight, and we realize that our guns do indeed have ammunition in them. Wynston said that he wanted to win this fight fair and square, and we laugh, as we know it is going to be too easy. As the team, Anna, and Gus draw their guns, Wynston said that he brought a few friends along. He snaps his fingers and Yaonen, Harris, Megadalene, and Leon pop up behind him. Ava then yells at Wynston, saying "You're outnumbered! Just give up already!"
Wynston laughs and said, "Do you really think I'd come this far just to go out like a nobody?" Wynston then says he has a little surprise for us, before bulling out Clive's taped up body. He's trying to wiggle his way out, but he can't do anything. Wynston then holds a gun at Clive's head and says "So why shouldn't I just kill him now?" Before he can even blink, however, Ava shoots at Wynston, hitting him in the chest, before saying "Because I'm in charge, bitch." We manage to free Clive and he rushes back to the time machine. However, the rest of us are ready to continue the fight. Bullets soar, with the first hit being from Magdalene, who hit Siobhan in the leg as she was trying to run from one place to another. Ava says "meh" while Retro runs over to Siobhan and tries to perform CPR on her. Siobhan said that she can simply use her sock as a bandage and that she'll be fine. She said not to worry about her and to just get Wynston. As soon as she says this, however, Harris shoots Retro in the chest, making him turn off. Mid-battle, Harlin looks at Retro's gear and says that once the battle is finished, he can take Retro back to the time machine and fix him up, before Harris shoots him in the arm as he tried to raise his gun. Gus then runs away and turns on his phone, only for a time machine to show up right next to him. We ask him why he betrayed us, and he said that he needed to get back to his time and that his leader needs him. He says this adventure was fun, but we won't see him again. As soon as he's prepared to hop into his time machine, however, a wooden stake is forced through Gus' heart, making him drop to the ground. Heather then leaps over and checks for a pulse, but there is none: Gus was dead. We then look up and see Wynston, holding a bloody stake with his hair all crazy. He said "God damn vamp!" before using the non-sharp side of the stake to bash Heather on the head, making her unconscious. We then decide to retreat and rush back to the time machine, taking all of our casualties with us, while the rogue time travelers stand there laughing, untouched. We scream at Wynston and ask him why he killed Gus, and he replied simply by saying "Killing someone as important as Gus six months before everything happened in Greensin has to shake things up a bit. Plus, that's who I was saving that spot on my wall for." We continue to retreat, only for Harris to click on a button he had in his pocket. Immediately after doing this, everything begins to blow up as Magdalene gets a good shot at Anna's back. After Magdalene shoots Anna, we rush back to the time machine where Clive says "Oh, boy. I've got a lot of work to do..." After a few days, Harlin, Siobhan, Heather, and Anna are all cured but still have casts for their wounds. During this time, Harlin and AMETHYST managed to fix Retro and he now functions perfectly again. We then ask Albert what affect Gus' death will have on the timeline, and Albert said that Greensin is bound to be different without him, but that they'll probably just use a different vampire in Gus' place as mayor. We then get a news report from one of Clark's colleagues, saying that some crazy person came into the royal palace, killed everyone in the royal family including seven guards, and now sits on their throne. For some reason, everyone now worships this person instead of the previous Aztec royals, but they live in fear of what is to come. We're then tipped off by Siobhan that she saw something happening at an abandoned warehouse. We decide to go with Albert and enter the warehouse, only to see a hooded figure leaving with a bloody knife. We hold our guns out, but they shoot at us and leave. We then see a bomb at the right of the warehouse set to explode in five hours. We have Harlin look at it, and he says that since the bomb is impossible to defuse, the entirety of New Tenochtitlan will be nothing more than a pile of ashes in five hours

## Suspects

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## **Killer's Profile**

* **The killer eats beef jerky**
* **The killer owns a robotic pet dog**
* **The killer drinks Champagne**
* **The killer has blue eyes**
* **The killer has grey hair**

## **Chapter Arts**

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