[spoiler]O damn I'm gonna have to give you the history lesson...[/spoiler] Ryker nods solemnly. "If you had seen what Harbinger had done to the Golden City..." Ryker walks to a monitor, pulling up a video. He played it, the once beautiful and nearly impenetrable Golden City being destroyed by the absolutely massive dreadnought that belonged to Harbinger. Yellow streaks rain down from orbit where his ship lays, carrying drop pods of his deadly elite soldiers. Skyscrapers in ruins, massive fires engulfing parts of the city, screams could be heard from everywhere, gunfire and explosions everywhere. He stops the video. "Harbinger... did this to a city that was thought to be impenetrable. He contacted Terra, saying that as a race we were past our due date, he says he's the keeper of time, and that we had had far to long to develop. It was the natural way of the universe for races and entire lifeforms to be exterminated in preparation of a new one. Of course we fought back. Learning of a ring that gives ultimate power to the one who wears it, we threw everything we had at it. We obtained the ring and then fought our way to the Dreadnought where my friend Cobalt Phoenix took the ring and bore it, destroying Harbinger, but the power of it was to much, and it destroyed him, a long with the ship exploding in a massive fireball..." Ryker says gravely. "He caused so much suffering without breaking a sweat, I thought he was gone forever, but now he's back." [spoiler]Im off to bed for tonight.[/spoiler]

"And now he needs to be stopped again I assume?"

"Yes. Very much. I'm surprised he only came back locally and not a mass invasion. I don't know what he wants.... it must be something relating to my powers... he must be severely weakened, he must need my powers." Ryker says, shaking his head. It was the only thing that makes sense. Why else would he contact Ryker?

"What's so good about your powers? That he would want them that badly?"

"The artifact I obtained my powers from is... incredibly powerful. I can detect these artifacts, I could seek them out. If he was to obtain them he could detect them to, he could find them, and extract even more power. The total yield he could have in his hands would be enough to wipe us out, he would be unstoppable." Ryker says gravely.

"I highly doubt that. Unstoppable is hardly the word. There have enemies that have been told to be unstoppable and been stopped"

"We barely stopped him. That ring is gone now... I don't know what we'll do if he obtains more power." Ryker says as he stands.