Timeport giggled like a little girl. He had a Mech suit. His very own Mech suit! A toy turned to a personal assistant that served him at his beck and call. And, what was better, he could teleport with it! He could stay inside of it and teleport around in it and-- Upgrade came up to him. "Timeport. Out. Now. You've been in there for forever. It's time for your tests." Timeport, very reluctantly, climbed out of his mech suit and droppped onto the ground. "Stay and wait for me," he told it, then walked with Upgrade over to a large area that had been cleared for testing. "Alright," Upgrade said, tapping his pen on the clipboard he held in his hand. "What are your normal abilities? Un-Upgrade-ed, of course." "Well, I can teleport anywhere within a 5 foot radius," Timeport began, "and travel to any point in the future up to 5 minues." He demonstrated by teleporting five feet away from Upgrade, jumping forward 30 seconds. When he reappeared, he suddenly knew that Upgrade had looked slightly surprised at the disappearance, and was now tapping his clipboard in impatience. "I also can only take inanimate objects with me." He wasn't sure if he should talk about his resurection powers yet, so he didn't say anything about them. Upgrade nodded, then took a few notes. "Alright then," he said, then held out his hand. "Take my hand and we'll see what you can do." Timeport grabbed his hand. And teleported across the room, almost thirty feet away. Timeport almost giggled again--he restrained himself from doing so because he was with another grown adult male--and raised his arms in victory. When he did, he noticed something. He was still holding Upgrade's hand. And Upgrade was bare naked. Timeport didn't know whether to laugh or apologize profusely. Before he could do either, Upgrade yelped, then ran back to where his clothes lay in a heap. Timport followed behind him, chuckling quietly to himself while Upgrade quickly got dressed. "Okay then," Upgrade said when he was done, his face still red from embarassment "Upgrade-ed, you can take sentient beings, though it's still skin-contact teleportation." Upgrade glared at him for that, and Timeport just shrugged. Like I would know if it was going to be different. "Were those thirty feet the maximum you could travel?" Timeport shrugged. "I don't know." Upgrade thought for a second, then started to head toward the exit. "Well then, let's go out and see."
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Timeport teleported 100 feet down the street. He landed holding Upgrade like he was dancing with him, holding one hand and touching his shirt and pants on his waist with his other. He reached under his shirt and pulled out the clipboard and handed it back to Upgrade. "100 feet maximum." Upgrade said, accepting the clipboard and making a few notes. "Now, future travel. How far can you go?" They'd landed somewhere Timeport recognized. Suddenly, he remembered something. Make sure to ask him to let you see Upgrade. Timeport took Upgrade's hand--and hip--and time traveled. Not to the future. To the past. They landed, and Upgrade checked his mobile. He seemed surprised. "It's a half hour ago," he said. "You took us to the past." "Yep," he said, looking around the corner of the brick building they were next to. There he was, teleporting to the bank, just as Timeport remembred it. Except this time, I'm the other guy. "Hey, Upgrade," he said, not turning around, "stay here a moment. I have to go do something." "Wait, we still have more--" Timeport turned around. "Do you want to destroy the entire space-time continuum? No? Didn't think so." He wasn't sure if it actually would destroy the space-time continuum or not, but he went with it. "I have to go. Be back in a couple of minutes." He started to teleport down the alleyway. He saw his past self stop, then stand there thinking about where he should go. The future Timeport teleported out of the alleyway and towards himself, reveling in the look on his own face, then stopped right next to himself. "Lost?" he asked.
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Timeport stopped at the armory entrance. He turned around and looked at himself in the face. "This is Corpsemaker's HQ," he said, then smiled wickedly for good effect. "And make sure to ask him to let you see Upgrade." Timeport step-teleported away, knowing that his past self was suddenly realizing that he'd been talking to himself. The future Timeport, the real Timeport, made his way back to Upgrade. The Epic glared at Timeport when he appeared. "What in the name of Calamity were you--" Timeport raised his hand. "First, please do not use the name of Calamity in vain. Secondly, what's it to you? Didn't you want to go back to HQ? Here, give me your hand." Upgrade started to say something, then gave up and settled for yet another harsh glare. "Take us back to HQ," he said, then thrust his hand at Timeport, "and travel as far into the future as you can." Turned out, "as far into the future as you can" turned out to be two hours. They walked back into the armory, and as soon as they were inside Upgrade stalked off, shouting "Your tests are done!" angrily behind him. Good riddance, Timeport thought. He walked back over to his mech, got inside, and commenced teleporting around and laughing like a kid on Christmas.