"Guards!"
Ten men in armor came into the church whilst being led by the one and only daughter of Joey. He knew because she looked and talked that way. Scott, on the other hand, was easily beating his evil counterpart to a bloody pulp. It felt good for the better of two evils. Alexandria on the other hand, was moving so fast that Mistress couldn't put her down. The guards were dispatched by Joey hitting them so hard over the head that you could hear their helmets and skulls crack. Sears had thrown around the commander whilst also breaking the muscles and collarbones of the men.
"Can we hurry this up?"
One second later, Alexandria had kicked out Mistress's feet and nearly placed her blade in the one-time ally's chest. Joey was trying to stay composed. the simple sight of her after all this time had put him under a lot of stress.
"We should get going."
"BB, you're the dumbest genius of my life. Grab the girl and help me kill this, thing!"
Scott and BB were still good friends during the fight as BB used some brass knuckles to break Alexandria's nose before trying to drag her out of church. The evil Scott was almost beaten to death before almost the entirety of the city watch fired bullets through the walls of the church in a terrible attempt at killing the invaders.
"Come out slowly and make sure to leave the leader alive. If he isn't, don't desecrate the body."
That voice sounds... like mine. He looked out one of the windows and saw a dark figure in the night. The man was tall with fixed posture. He had been thin but was well fed enough that he could have looked like he was on the leaner end. Unlike BB, he was dressed in a nice suit with no coat and a brown and white striped vest. He wore grey khakis and a white shirt underneath. A dark black tie sat on his chest. One thing that set him apart from BB was the fact that he had no lifespan or scene of death above his head.
"Who are you?"
"Well, I'm you."
The man had an odd feature to him; he was dark, darker than the evil Scott and it made him almost blend in with the environment with it being impossible to tell where his dark hair met his head. The only white on his head was in his eyes that were covered with two red irises. This man wasn't like BB, he was BB. He was evil. He was the evilest creature of this world.
"Go away!"
BB spent the last eight years trying to bury his past, but it always came back to him. Whether it was him skinning a rabbit or him using his skills to teach the kids, "things that matter."
"I see you are a creature of the TODD's making. He probably is using you."
"How stupid of you to believe I haven't already deduced that."
BB was out of breath. It was like being near this superior version of him made him feel like he was getting dwarfed. Like how divers leave their submarines and go from normal air pressure to their chests being collapsed in on themselves until they eventually drown or had their organs crushed.
"BB, get a grasp. We need to move. I managed to beat some information out of this one and there's some tunnels under the church."
"How many are out there?"
"One."
"Okay, we don't have to run."
Scott nodded to Joey who paused time for a minute and a half. The plan was to go outside and beat the daringly new BB to a bloody pulp before they could run away. There was one problem with that plan.
"You are such a poser. I read your file. Did you know what was supposed to happen before the machine took you? You killed the mother before leaving your own child to die in the woods."
Joey was horrified. So much that he didn't even realize that BB had moved in paused time.
"Why, no, I wouldn't."
The un-detective took a switch blade and threw it to his adversary.
"You still have time. TODD is manipulating all of you. You go missing for three years after being caught walking into an unmarked car. You reemerge and have a kid at the age of thirty-five before... you know the rest."
"Are you saying you want me too-?"
"It's that or you kill TODD, and we both know there's no way around that."
The fake's plan was in motion. The second he finished; Joey had a knife held up to his own neck whilst everyone watched. It's better to prevent it altogether. A boom rang as Joey mourned two fingers on his left hand.
"Not what I meant. Just make sure he dies and not you. I still got plans for you, my man."
The evil version of Scott had made his escape. BB had assumed what to be the stuff he used. He knew necromancy existed and that time manipulation was a science. That meant that he had most likely learned some kind of magic or some magic.
"BB, get back to work."
With a thump over the head, Alexandria was out cold and he was dragging her through the streets with himself on his own trail.
"Why were we letting Scott take over?"
"He's technically our democratic leader."
"Please come back. We're ready to get you the offer. We know that you're willing to listen."
A moment of fear hit BB as he was running for his life. A lightning bolt hit the top of the church as the Headless Heckle pursued them.
"You idiots can't do anything right. All of you would've died if it weren't for me."
"TODD, shut up."
"Go back out there and fight, now!"
"No."
Mistress took the group to the med bay as something tried to enter the time machine. It was the most loyal follower of Scott, the Headless Heckle. BB took time to relax and listen to his thoughts as he wrote in his journal.
I'm a bad person. And I don't mean like before, somehow, I can be worse. Joey lost two fingers, Mistress was beat to a pulp, he even outplayed me. He could be a match for Dials even.