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#404 – River of Time – The Council meets and some changes are made: Helios is made co-Security Chief instead of Neutron, and Perihelion, Sir Rathos, Summoner, and Rune are moved to inactive status. Accepting an invitation by Dr. Ralph Boescher of George Washington University, Psypher watches as Helios, Spirit, and Kensai undergo an experimental hypnosis treatment to make subjects resistant to illusions; disappointingly, it does not seem to work. Days later, the group is contacted by Professor Michael Robinson, an expert in Egyptology. He asks the heroes to come to Egypt, to lend credence to his theory as he presents it to other scholars. Three days later, the four heroes meet him in Cairo at the Ramses Hilton, and he explains that a discovery has led to his new belief that the ancient Egyptians used super-strength to build the pyramids. As his meeting is delayed for a few days, he arranges for the curator to give them a private tour of the Cairo Museum. Later, as they view the exhibits, most of the adventurers notice a display of bronze weapons change to iron, the description by Dr. Manuel also changing mid-sentence! Outside they perceive other changes, and when on the phone Dr. Robinson mentions his magnetism theory (for how the pyramids were built), they realize that some alteration must have happened to the timestream! Helios recognizes that a news story he was following (of missing iron from a mine) has disappeared, so team pilot Hammond flies him and Psypher in the Guardian Angel to the Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota; they don’t notice that Hoshi Carter also sneaks aboard. Helios impresses security at the front gate, and when their craft hovering above registers strange readings below, the starstruck guards accompany him to the main processing building. Psypher, Kensai, and a hidden Ryutsume also make their way into the building, where an energy sphere swirls around a hooded man stealing iron. Helios convinces Hourglass to power down his time travel powers, but when he threatens him with arrest, the paranormal reveals that he is Felix McClain, owner of McClain Iron Company. The guards are sent away, and Hourglass agrees to take them with him when he returns to the past. When he does so, Ryutsume also jumps through at the last second, and they all find themselves in a desert with a cliff and a new pyramid nearby, surrounded by many ten-foot tall, bald men! Hourglass orders the Super-Slaves to attack, and the four vigilantes make quick work of Hourglass and the seven gigantic Egyptians. After looking around and seeing a great army of Super-Slaves outside the pyramid, they are greeted by a wise old man, Scribe, who takes them back to his humble home in a nearby cave. Scribe explains that a false god named Pharaoh has imprisoned their leader, the divine Ramses. He believes Pharaoh is trying to help Egypt, but Scribe feels it is not right. He tells the travelers how they must overcome the Sphinx, slip into the pyramid, and defeat Pharaoh and those that came with him, rescuing Ramses, the only one who can rally the people and restore history.
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