TimeBreakers

• Writer - Tony Bedard
• Penciler - Mizuki Sakakibara
• Colorist - JC
• Lettering - Dave Sharpe
• Ass't Editor - Sean Ryan
• Associated Editor - Nick Lowe
• Editor - Mike Marts
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Summary

  Kevin isn't impressed with the Timebroker's décor; Namora remembers being here when she was recruited, but Clarice was taken to a desert (iss. 1), and Creed wound up in an ocean. Holocaust just wants to find the Timebroker and force him to free them. Creed orders them to move out and keep silent, using only hand signals, so Kevin gives him one.

  They find rooms full of observation scanners, all showing different ruined Earths. Clarice opens a door and finds her desert; Namora points to a room full of dead Exiles, encased in the crystal walls, and they're disturbed to see Thunderbird (iss. 11) and Sunfire (iss. 37). Further down, there's a hole in the wall, and next to it, Beak and Heather (iss. 59, 58). Calvin pops his claws to get them out, to see if they're still alive; Clarice wants to teleport them out, but Creed says they might be on life-support, and they need to learn more. He and Calvin nearly come to blows, but then Creed smells something and tells the team to hide.

  A waterbug-like being enters and jabbers in an alien language; the Exiles tackle and interrogate it, but it doesn't know what the Timebroker is, he's just worker caste. Kevin morphs to the Timebroker's form and asks if it knows him, the man in charge, but it says Panoptichron is charged by "ambient radiant quanta collected from adjacent solar clusters." Kevin, frustrated, changes to an alien form and orders it to take him to its leader, and it leads them to the sovereign caste.

  They wonder if the Timebroker is just a projection used to communicate with them. The bug takes them to a sealed door and is about to announce itself, but Clarice asks how thick it is and ports everyone into a large crystal chamber powered by a small sun. They attack the stick bug-like beings which operate the systems, but the bugs don't fight back and say they only wanted to help. The Exiles ask for the Timebroker, but Hyperion appears and says there isn't one. The Exiles explain to Holocaust just how bad it is, if he's running things; Hyperion agrees that every universe in existence will get used to calling him God. Holocaust blasts him and punches him into a wall, refusing to be enslaved, but Hyperion blocks his next punch. He bashes his head against Holocaust's helmet, breaking it, and sniffs, absorbing all the energy that is Holocaust, leaving nothing but empty armor. Now he's ready for some real fun.