In the ruins of the Cyber Factory, a lone Cyberman managed to raise its damaged head to assess the damage to its current location. Most of the damage had been caused when Controlled Unit 721, better known as Registeel, had broken free of Cyberman control. The entire west side of the factory had been destroyed.

As its optical sensors scanned the area, it saw that Unit 721 had broken out of the area and was nowhere to be seen, but scanners detected five other life forms now stood amongst the wreckage of many Cyber units.

Three of them appeared to be human males. One wore green clothes including a hat with a red feather in it, whilst another wore white and green armor with a dome-shaped glass helmet. The last wore clothes resembling a sheriff or cowboy. Two were human-sized fur-covered creatures with large ears. One had blue fur, four arms and antennae, while the other had black fur and wore red robes and a blue hat, and looked like a giant anthropomorphic mouse.

There was also a sixth presence. It seemed to be moving of its own free will, no powersource detected, however there was no life detected either. And this Cyberman knew enough about humans to know what one of their skeletons looked like.

As they came closer, his programming kicked in. They must be deleted. It struggled to reach out a hand to try to grab the leg of one of the man in green.

"D...De...le", it began, but the man in the white and green armour spotted the Cyberman before it could grab hold and shot it in the head with a wrist-mounted laser, destroying it entirely.

"You should be more careful ensign Pan." Said the spaceman. "One of those things nearly got you. The signal's gone now, so it looks like that was the last one".

He turned to the blue-furred creature, who seemed to have noticedsomething. "626, have you noticed something?"

"These Cybermen look like they were destroyed by Registeel's claws or his Charge Beam." Said the blue furred alien, in a light Scottish accent. "But the ones outside look like something else destroyed them. Also, I found a left shoe." The alien gleefully picked a shoe out of the wreckage, no doubt belonging to one of the Cybermen before they were transformed, and he ate it greedily.

"Something else? What do you mean?" Asked the sheriff.

"Some of the ones outside look like they were cut up by one of those Japanese samurai thin sword things." Said Stitch. His memory wasn't what it used to be, but his mind automatically analyzed what could have made the cuts.

"You mean a katana?" The Sheriff asked. "But there's nobody else around here. Are you sure it wasn't just Registeel's claws?"

"There's no way Registeel could have done that, his talons are way too big." Stitch slurped up the last shoelace like a strand of spaghetti.

"Remind me again how we know Registeel was here at all?" Asked Peter. He didn't really care. He just wanted to find the guy who invaded Neverland.

"I checked the Cybermen's database." Said Stitch. He opened his mouth wide, and a laptop with the Cyberman logo poured out, riding on two tongues. "There was also something else... unusual".

"What?" Most of the group asked at once.

"How much do you know about the Instruments of Time?" Asked Stitch, with a wide toothy grin.

"Instruments of time?" said Tigress.

"There are many stories of the Instruments of Time", said Lupin. "They vary so much it's difficult to tell what they do, what they look like or even how many there are in total. There's one thing they all agreed on though; if all of them are brought together, they would grant the user mastery over time, with the ability to pretty much rewrite the universe as they wish. They could repair the broken timestream and return the world to what it once was, or rule over it like a god".

"Awesome!" Po cheered.

"Sounds like fairytales to me", said Tigress.

"Believe what you want." Shrugged Lupin. "But the Cybermen had a map to one of them." He pulled a small GPS from inside his jacket. "HAD being the operative word. And if the stories are true, the Orb of Continua could bring those missing friends of yours to you in an instant."

"Where is it?" Asked Po.

"Fragment 27 in London, 2 days from now", said Lupin.

"Fragment 27?" asked Peter. "What does that mean?"

"You probably already know how there are cracks in the world that, if crossed over, will send you to another time, right?" Asked Stitch. It was already elementary of course. He'd already explained it to them. "Well, the areas between these cracks are called Fragments. Looks like the Cybermen numbered them all. It's really quite impressive. Question is, why two days from now?"

"Where and when a crack leads to varies over time." explained the mouse-like creature in the robes and hat. "They usually tend to stay put for weeks though."

"Shut your magic-hole Mickey, I'm explaining this." Stitch mumbled. "Well, as much as I love to disagree with Mr. all-powerful-sorcerer over there, he's right. It'll stay open for about a week."

"That's our window." The Sheriff said. "And the earlier we get there, the better. We don't know if any Cybermen are still alive, and already looking for it."

"How are we supposed to get there, though?" Buzz Lightyear asked. "London is surrounded by cracks, if we go there we'll only end up arriving in the middle ages or World War II."

"Already taken care of", said Lupin. "The Cybermen planned it all out for us. They worked out a route that should lead us there in time".

"Then what are we waiting for?" asked Dante. "And why can't Deadpool just teleport there?"

"Teleportation between fragments doesn't work." said Lupin. "Don't ask me why, I'm a thief not a physicist, things that teleport through end up aging rapidly."

"Like me." Peter Pan grumbled, his red hair slowly growing a silver tint.

"Not to put too fine a point on it, but precisely." Stitch said. "The further you teleport, the more this happens. If you use a metal teleportation device, it's even worse, because the device tends to rust away and dump the user in a random place and time. Using it over short distances is fine, but any longer distance teleportation is risky."

"And here was me going to teleport to the shops to get some CheesyPuffs", said Deadpool. "How do you know so much about the time cracks?"

"Me and Jigen travel around a lot", said Lupin. "We've crossed a fair few Time Cracks along the way".

Little did either group know of a third group already arriving in London as they spoke.

"How much time do we have left?" asked the man at the front of the mobile lab. He had blond hair and wore a long black coat and black sunglasses

"Two days", said a young man with untidy white hair, before
spontaneously turning into a skeleton with living eyes for a split-second.

"Perfect", said the man in the sunglasses. "Enough time to make preparations".

"Preparations for what?" asked a creature which resembled a large purple bear.

"Our guests", said the man in sunglasses. "You don't believe we're the only ones who know when and where the Orb is, do you?"

Their other colleagues, who were a hideously scarred man with blades on his fingers, a man dressed as a clown with a white face and bright red hair, and a red creature which was mostly humanoid, but with huge claws and a monstrous head, said nothing for the time being.

Today's new teams were brought to you by Shneider-man. Apart from the new team introductions, not a lot happened in this chapter, I know, but I think it covers some of the irregularities to be expected in Brokentime.

By popular demand, I'm allowing everyone the option of adding a second team of the opposite alignment to their initial one. So those who have already given me heroic teams can now give me villainous ones, and vice-versa.

Next time, we'll be meeting the last of the initial teams (not that I'm not accepting any more, it's just that we won't see them until after the first big confrontation). And then after that, things really kick off...