As a mage who seeks the truth to the world, time is an inevitable topic to Teemo. He mastered space manipulation thanks to the teaching of Veigar when he joined Omega squad. As for time, his only way to manipulate time is to accelerate his own time to get a speed advantage in combat.
Yet the acceleration of his own time flow directly affected Ekko.
Ekko is a hex tech genius, but when it comes to manipulating time, his resort is outside force. The Z-drive's core is a crystal shard, it's the same crystal on Jayce's hammer and Viktor's hex tech core.
If Teemo was facing the original owner of this crystal, he would be slaughtered. But when it's Ekko, his time manipulation actually has some advantage.
At least most of Ekko's abilities won't have an effect on him.
And without the power of the Z-drive, Ekko is really just an agile young man, he has no chance against a yordle magic master.
Ekko tried to retreat. He thought this will be an easy test, but it seems that this is someone he shouldn't be messing with. Ekko is no noble knight, so he chose to retreat.
Yet this time, he failed again as the contorted space held him in place.
"The boy who shattered time, or should I say the leader of the lost children of Zaun. I want to talk to you for something."
Ekko's eyebrows raised. He is prepared to fight back if this little guy wanted him dead. Ekko's number one rule for surviving in Zaun is not to think yourself lucky.
"Oh, I'm afraid there's a misunderstanding.", Teemo waved his hands, "I held no animosity. I'm here for a purpose we both work for. To keep it simple, I want to take Zaun from the grasp of the Chem barons with some help from the lost children of Zaun."
"Good idea, but Zaun isn't a place where everyone can get on the big stage."
"You don't have to worry about that." Teemo smiled, "I got a lot more people on my side than you think there are."
"Well." Ekko clapped his hands together, "If that's so, I really want to get involved in this. Cause there are two things I hate. One is the Pilties, two is the Chem barons!"
"Here", Teemo tossed a gold hex to Ekko, "When it heats up and shine, come to the Omega tavern. I promise you there will be a big surprise."
As Ekko have no intention of hiding the information of his failure, the result of their battle (that destroyed half a street) got to Saito Takedo rather quickly.
Even though Saito knows that this mysterious mage is good, he is still surprised to know that Teemo can beat Ekko in combat.
Unquestionably, Teemo passed the test. Sure, Teemo asked for a payment of fifty thousand golden hex. But he's probably worth the price.
As such, Teemo had a wonderful meeting with Saito at the Chem baron's mansion. After a short debate for the pricing for Teemo's service, they signed a contract. Teemo got his earnest money – half of the fifty thousand golden hex. The rest will be paid after his service.
Putting all the money into his personal space backpack, Teemo walked out of the Saito mansion humming an old yordle tune.
To Teemo, this plan turned out to be pretty perfect. He got in touch with Ekko, earned a ton of cash, and most important of all, he learned his own power level in this Valoran.
(In league, the champions are all pretty balanced, even if they nerf Irelia every patch, it is still in a delicate balance, at least no one can do 1v5 with just one item.)
When in Valoran, some existences are far more powerful than mortals. Like Bard, even if you clone an army of Garen, Bard will probably kill them with one finger.
Ekko is a good measurement, he is a mortal with some unusual experience and some luck, little knowledge of Valoran and a lot of combat experience.
Teemo overpowered Ekko in combat, which means that his power level is about the peak of mortal power. If he didn't go to Shurima and dig Azir out, not to stick around in the Targon area or mess with the balance and shadow of Ionia, there should be no things that could threaten him.
If nothing can threaten him here, he can do something big.
Teemo is not joking about taking over Zaun. Singed is trying to take over the heritage of his teacher Warwick. That is the chance he has been waiting for.
Singed use to be Warwick's apprentice. But after Warwick was cursed by Soraka, he started trying to take over Warwick's heritage and making Warwick into his tool.
Everyone's plan is like this: Singed used the unequal information advantage to fool Saito and get himself some reinforcement; Saito is an Ionian spy, he is helping Singed in order to get Noxian armies out of Ionia; Teemo used the information of Twisted fate to distract Evelyn and took her mission to help Singed.
More detail of Teemo's plan will be further revealed as the book goes on.