Eddy: "Okay, freeze-frame, and skip back! Who the heck are you!"

Figure: "My name is Lance, but that's not really significant for the moment. There are more important things to say."

J-Dude: "More important things? You're a Saiyan other than us who has discovered his heritage, and achieved the mighty level of Super Saiyan, AND single-handedly annihilated the very enemy that we've been struggling to take out for months! There is no other topic I can imagine to be more important!"

Lance: "I didn't defeat Payne. That wasn't the original. That was just an Operative, probably one of his first."

Jason: "Operative? What's an Operative?"

Lance quickly explained Max's plan.

Lance: "The next place he'll strike is Peach Creek, to lure you out into the open. But he would have expected J-Dude here to be locked in the chamber, so now we can get there before him, or at least before he finishes the job."

Edd: "Excuse me um, Lance, but how is it that you know all of this?"

Lance: "That's superfluous. We don't have time."

Sarah: "In case you haven't noticed, the hyperbolic time chamber turns seconds out there into minutes in here. We've got all the time in the world."

Lance breathed out. He couldn't deny that he'd been expecting this to happen ever since he planned this interference.

Lance: "You'll probably think I'm crazy for saying this, but I'm from the future, thirteen years into it."

Eddy: "You're right; I do think you're crazy."

Edd: "Oh, as crazy as beings with the power to annihilate planets and travel at the speed of light? I've long given up on rationalizing the profusion of circumstances set in what would be the physically impossible. At this point, I'll believe almost anything."

Lance: "Okay. Back in my timeline, on this day at this moment, Max had come to this time chamber with the hopes of sealing you all in it. J-Dude, you would have just made it after the doorway was destroyed, and held it open long enough for the others to escape. You were trapped inside. That's where it all began. That's why I chose to come here first. I knew you in my timeline, and I also knew that had you been around at the beginning, we would have had a chance. Now I've changed history, so now you aren't trapped."

J-Dude: "What happened originally?"

Lance: "You were only trapped here for eight days, but it was long enough for him to take over. After eight days, everything was ruined. Most forms of life on Earth were extinct. He was quick and thorough. Like I said, he originally went to Peach Creek to lure you guys into the open, or at least crush your will to fight. In my timeline he destroyed it before you guys could get involved. He spared nothing and no one. There was only one survivor…me."

Eddy: "You? Wait one cotton-picking minute here! We know everyone in the Cul-de-sac! There aint nobody else that looks like you!"

Lance: "I can't tell you anything about that, since I don't know myself. Anyway, after those eight days, J-Dude finally escaped the time chamber, and had trained well past any degree we could imagine. During those thirteen years before my present, you J-Dude, had gathered all of the remaining special forces of Earth. You know, like super heroes and such. Everyone fought just on Earth all those years, hiding. You all trained me to fight, taught me to use my true potential. I grew up, never seeing the way the Earth was, as you all take it for granted now. I lived in a post apocalyptic Earth, where all cities were ruined, and going into the open was a death-wish. After all those years, the others of the super hero group were tracked down and eliminated one by one. I was about eight years old when the last were finally killed. As they dwindled, we forged closer ties of friendship with the survivors, one group that was a sort of team, even before Max took over. I can barely remember them, but I remember just how big a loss it was to you all. After about six years, when I was old enough and strong enough to fight, we decided to take a last stand. In a forest near the ruins of the ancient city called Gingertown, J-Dude called Max and his entire fleet of Operatives into the area. You Double D, forbade me to join in the fight, and I guess you were right, because after a last attack, Max and his Operatives had wiped you all out. I had to watch as you were all killed, in less than a second. Talking to you all now, it's like your all back from the dead or something like that. Anyway, he destroyed you all, and the Earth with a single attack. I was there."

Jason: "Hold up there. If you were there the second Earth was taken out, then how did you survive? How did you get here in the first place?"

Lance stared blankly, reminiscently into the floor.

Lance: "After the attack hit, I ran. I ran until I caught my foot on something, and found a machine that I've hidden at the moment. It was a miracle. It was a time machine. It was ancient, maybe even centuries old, but it worked as well as the day it was made. I escaped by a hair, and landed on a distant planet. You see, I never even knew I was a Saiyan, so what happened next was a true surprise. It was there that I gained my Super Saiyan powers, where I trained for weeks, planning for the time to come and set things right. It was almost too much to believe I'd be seeing my friends again. I've planned every possible phase, taking steps to ensure that things would turn out okay. As far as I could tell, I knew that the first thing to change was you getting trapped in here. I've done that. The next would be to stop Max's first attack, Peach Creek. If we save that town, we might be able to find out where I came from, and maybe even find a new ally. If I had any older siblings, they would have the same potential as I did. After that, I think we'll have to make it up as we go. Changing history like this could cause all manner of effects to come from a single cause."

J-Dude: "So, onward to Peach Creek. Eds, would you kindly lead the way?"