Wildcard saves the day!

The fight between Dante and Vlad was interrupted by Isao. He made his hand in a Kunai-Rope and stabbed Dante's spine.

"Get over here!"

Isao pulls Dante closer to him and saves Vlad.

His face was covered by his mask.

"Who the fuck are you?" Dante asks.

"Wildcard…" Isao kills Dante's clone by pulling the Kunai out.

Isao heads forward and gets Vlad up.

"You good?"

Vlad nods.

"Been worse." As everyone was happy about this event ending, a reporter wanted to conduct an interview with the two heroes, but another clone makes an appearance, grabs the reporter and puts a knife to her neck.

"Alright, Wildcard, this is how the events are gonna go. You let me kill Vlad, and I'll let the girl live. Deal?"

Isao turns his hand back and looks Dante into his eyes.

"You see, you've done something none is proud of. Holding a hostage. That's weak of you to do, but who am I to ask how villains act?"

He turns his palm in some sort of device.

"Let's talk about something, like time you know. You know that time is only present and past and no future, right?"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Don't Interrupt me!" He clears his throat. "So yes, time has no future, but has past and present. The thing is the future does not exist because of our actions we take on a daily basis. A good example is when you have a cat and a box. Your mother wants to put the cat in the box, you don't want to do it, you want to keep the cat, so your decision matters whether you're a good boy or a bad boy."

Isao gets a bit closer.

"You try to get closer, you Idiot?!" Dante takes a step back.

"Another good example is this chain of evvents. Do I charge you now or test my theory and let my theory defeat you. You see, you already lost, because I made 4 decisions while taking 4 steps. All I've done is to make correlations with other timelines. The decisions we don't take, are taken by us also, from a time remnant."

"And what about this reporter, what about her life."

"You see, you let me prove my theory."

He pulls his hand up and shows the device embedded in his palm. He takes the finger off the button. and 4 other copies of Isao from other timelines charge because they took the decision to attack and not talk with Dante. They save the girl in a flash and as soon they save her they disappear.

"What was that?!" She said.

"Timeology, at its finest."

She slaps Isao.

"What if your thing didn't work"

Isao closes his eyes, turns and goes back to Vlad and opens his eyes.

"Miss Jenny L. Lorrance. I already had a plan B, C, and D. The last thing I would've let happen is to let someone get hurt because of my Idiocy. I'm no hero, but also no monster. Hope your article at W.W.N will make me look like a psychopath, to get that type of juice for a promotion."

He grabs Vlad and leaves.

On a distant building stands a man with a skull mask, dressed in navy-blue ninja clothes, with a binocular in his hands.

"You think you're so smart, Isao… We will meet again… no more than 3 months. That's a promise" He disappeared in thin air by pressing on a similar device Isao had embedded in his palm.

Isao and Vlad arrive back at Lady Shreds's gym and office.

Everyone there was watching the news.

The same reporter Isao talked to was talking on the TV about her experience on a talk show.

"So this guy with the mask, on one of the videos he called himself 'Wildcard'. What do you think of him?"

The girl didn't say a word for a few long seconds.

"I know he'll be watching this. So Wildcard, he is a smartass, and I believe he is a good person inside. All I have to say about him is that he could've save me sooner."

Isao smiled. Rebecca was mad at him.

"Remove your grin, Mr. Wildcard!"

"What did I do now?"

Rebecca points at the TV.

"Was that the theory we spoke about a few years ago?"

Isao nods, and looks at the recording.

"Damn my mask looks cool!"

Rebecca slaps Isao.

"THIS is not what MATTERS, what matters is that you made yourself more curious to everybody else. Now that people find out that WILDCARD knows how to use time in his encounters, it will be-"

"It will be NOTHING! I did it to prove it to myself. I'll never use it again."

Isao said that before falling to the ground.

Vlad takes Isao to his bed.

"Do we have a healer?"

Rebecca shakes her head.

"Stay with him, I have a favor to ask from someone. I'll be back."

Vlad takes off, as Rebecca takes care of Isao as much as possible.

Shreds comes in.

"What happened to our time traveler and prison escapee?"

Rebecca goes to her and looks her in the eyes.

"Isao is my friend since I was 10, if somethings happen to him, I- I don't know"

She starts crying, Shreds sees that and hugs her tightly.

"Calm down little child, Isao is a strong Individual. If something happens to him, his orb will defend him at all cost. He doesn't have an orb like ours and you know that."

"I'll do anything to help him, you know?"

Kalista materializes, again. And look at the two.

"As much as you don't know about us, Shreds, I am protecting his physical state, but his heart and brain are not working properly, I can't help with that. He couldn't even access my blank space"

Kalista looks at Isao worried.

"As for now I'll go in my orb and make sure he will still live.

She disappears. As the two were confused about the actions of Isao's orb.

Rebecca sits in Vlad's bed and looks at him, trying to find a solution to this problem.

Vlad stormed to a nice hotel. He storms the doors of the hotel.

"How can we help you?" The receptionist couldn't say anything else because of Vlad's rush.

"I want to have a room, golden sheets, with the view in the garden with yellow apples"

The receptionist understands what Vlad said and brings him to the elevator.

"You'll find my lady on floor 14."

He arrives on the floor. It was all a giant garden. Clara was swimming in a lake.

"Clara!" Vlad screams.

She looks at him, gets out. She was wearing a blue, one piece black swimsuit. Her hair was wet. She grabs a towel and she uses it to dry her hair.

"Vladdy boy! Not so long time no see?"

"Enough with this, Isao needs you. He… I don't know what happened, but he needs your healing."

"Give me 3 minutes to dress myself up, wait for me at the reception."

Vlad exits the inside garden. He arrives at the lobby and sits in a chair.

A few minutes flew by and she came out of the elevator in a sporty outfit. Vlad gets up and grabs her hand. "We have no time"