LoH/story/Unraveling the Upstarts

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Storyline: Unraveling the Upstarts

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Beginning of Issue
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: Line is wrong the time! ...
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: We are sorry...sometimes we get out of synch during our time shimmers. The timeline is wrong!
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: We are a shard of Shimmerstorm from more than 20 years ago. And we have come seeking your assistance.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: Two fiends have escaped back in time from the now. We know that you have fought them before.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Warning|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: Unless we are getting the details mixed up again... We guess there is only one way to find out. Come with me!

Ghost of Culverton Past

End of Fight: Shimmerstorm : Warning
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: Very impressive. We were right to choose you. Now be very careful...an old foe is lurking about. And you are going to need quickness or cleverness to defeat him.

Familiar Symmetry

Beginning of Fight: Diamonoid
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Light Jab|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Diamonoid: Listen, kid, I don't wanna fight you. Just walk away and we don't have to do this.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Light Jab|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Diamonoid: I know I look like one of your super-types... But I am just a cat buglar who fell the wrong vat of synthetic diamonds.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Light Jab|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Diamonoid: Diamonoids may be not real diamonds... But if you insist on stopping me yer gonna find out how though they can be.

Beginning of Fight: Southside Sentry: Upstart
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Southside Sentry: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Southside Sentry: Upstart: I don't know which gang you are with stranger... But the Southside Sentry is getting a little tired of you all making life tough on the citizenry.

Beginning of Fight: Shimmerstorm: Upstart
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: Upstart: Forgive my spotty notifications of the other three members of The Upstarts... And forgive me for starting one more fight with you.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Shimmerstorm: Upstart|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: Upstart: But we are both being tested for the task at hand.

Beginning of Fight: Scarlet Tiger
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Scarlet Tiger|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Scarlet Tiger: I thought I detected my pawprints on your fghting style whem last we met. It stands to reason that Shimmerstorm was involved.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Scarlet Tiger|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Scarlet Tiger: I am Scarlet Tiger: I am in Culverton helping to refine the fighting skills of the Upstars. Before I join up with The Genesis Squadron to help them set up The Phaeton Project.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Scarlet Tiger|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Scarlet Tiger: I have no quarrel with you but for reasons that will become clear later... I must, quite literally, teach you a lesson.

The Thing from Beyond

Beginning of Fight: Little Susie Homewrecker
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Little Susie Homewrecker|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Little Susie Homewrecker: If you had a chance to undo every bad decision you ever made... Wouldn't you do everything in your power to make that happen?
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Little Susie Homewrecker|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Little Susie Homewrecker: An innocent family is dead because of me... ...The Crime Blotter hates me...
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Heartbreaker|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Little Susie Homewrecker: The Upstarts hate him because he let me escape... ...and blame him for those people that died.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Little Susie Homewrecker|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Little Susie Homewrecker: I can't let you stop the coming of The Schism. I may never have another chance to start over.

Beginning of Fight: Trebuchet
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Trebuchet|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Trebuchet: You must be quite a discomfort in someone's posterior... Because they are paying me good money to stop you.

Beginning of Fight: The Undone
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Nick of Time|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: Something terrible is coming... The Undone have frayed a hole om this corner of the universe!
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Nick of Time|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: Something not of this earth... or even this reality... Is going to be here soon and we have to send it back.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Nick of Time|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Shimmerstorm: First things first... We need a little help with the task at hand.

End of Fight: The Undone
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/...the Hand|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Southside Sentry: All hands on deck... no pun instead! This is even worse than you foretold, Shim!
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Remand...|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	It is a celestial being known as The Shism. It is trying to claw its way into our reality.

Beginning of Fight: The Schism: Handhold
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Schism: Handhold|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Can we stop? I don't know... but we cannot let it get a handhold in our world.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Schism: Handhold|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Or our entire reality may come undone.