Summary: In desperate need to stop Scion before he attacks, Taylor Hebert, or Khepri, is sent to the past to stop him with Phir Se's help during Gold Morning. As a result, she ends up in the year 1994, but unexpectedly lands in the middle of a baseball game, where Max Anders is playing. Coincidence? Well, the resulting collision between a Queen and Emperor can be felt through time. (Worm: Time-travel, Khepri!Taylor/Teen!Kaiser)

Author's Note: So in this story, Taylor goes back many years into the past. From June 2013 of Gold Morning to around Spring of 1994. So Max Anders will still be in highschool at this time and he is 18 years old, when Taylor arrives. Also, Taylor is in her canon age during Gold Morning in this story. Also, please check out the aesthetics that I made for Kaiser and cover art in the profile.

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After the deaths of billions and the number of defeats they experience during Gold Morning, Taylor planned for the chance to take Scion down before he can launch an attack all throughout the alternate earths. Fortunately, she has the mind to assemble an army and delay the inevitable destruction of every reality while Taylor swiftly move to enact her last plan to stop Scion.

Currently, Taylor is grateful that her passenger has completely stopped bleeding into her personality and her mental deterioration has ceased due to a specific cape she fortunately finds in Earth K, who has the ability to reverse and heal any kind of injury or ailment at an atomic level, even to the point that her Corona Pollentia is altered more for her benefit. In addition to that, Taylor is able to get her arm back as well. So she is now completely whole again, and if not for that, she would not have been able to find different ways to stop Scion from completely obliterating everyone for six consecutive days.

Now, as Khepri, she made use of Phir Se to create a doorway further back into the past, much further than the cape usually does with his power. Unfortunately, Phir Se can only send one person back in time and Taylor knew that this still requires a certain sacrifice for it to work. Thus, Phir Se would have to die in the end.

"Just keep in mind that this journey is going to be dangerous. You might not even end up somewhere on land in Brockton Bay. Or know how many years you are going to travel into. So you better be prepared." Tattletale tells Taylor right before Phir Se opens the doorway.

Not wanting to draw attention to herself upon her arrival, Taylor Hebert decides to leave her armor and anti-gravity pack while she chooses to bring her trusty knife. She knows that she has plenty of time to get a new armor and gear, one way or another while she's stuck in the past. So she forgoes in attiring herself in full battle regalia, but also mainly because her entire armor and equipment suffered too much damage during the Gold Morning attacks. Thus, she chooses to wear something that will make her remain inconspicuous when she arrives.

As she is transported back to the past, she is already prepared for the inevitable. She is even expecting to end up somewhere in the ocean, but what she doesn't expect is something like this.

The moment she arrives, Taylor already feels like she is ready to empty the contents of her stomach. Worst. She is dizzy, weak and about ready to collapse. She hasn't even able to scan her surroundings yet, or even notice the surprise shouts from all around her, when something suddenly hits her in the face so hard that her head whips back. A flash of pain immediately burst from her left cheek, where the object had hit her. Not a moment later, Taylor drops to the ground, groaning in pain.

She doesn't know where she is at the moment, but it seems there is a crowd of people all around her just base from the cacophony of noises in the area. And as she instinctively reaches out for her bugs, she soon realizes that her current weaken state had completely reduce her range into only a few meters away. At this rate, she can't even scout out her exact location or search the area completely for any potential threats to her person. She has nothing much to do about it but remain vigilant with only a few dozen bugs under her control.

Taylor is still lying down on the ground, when she hears the sound of running feet as someone quickly approaches her.

"I'm sorry!" A male voice says loudly and Taylor looks up in time to see a handsome young man with brilliant blue eyes and dark hair kneels down next to her. "I swear I didn't mean for the ball to hit you! I wouldn't have taken that pitch, if I've known you were about to appear out of nowhere!"

At the stranger's words, Taylor can only grunt in reply. She still feels faint and shaken from her time-travelling experience and being hit in the face by a ball just exacerbated her poor condition. She tries to sit up, but it seems her feeble body won't cooperate at the moment.

"Are you alright?" The boy asks shortly in concern while he places a hand behind Taylor's back to support her upright. Not seeing any other option, she reluctantly leans on him to keep herself from slumping down on the ground again.

"No, I'm not alright..." Taylor manages to say while she looks around her. She realizes that she is currently in a baseball field, where she just outed herself as a cape right then and there after appearing in the middle of a game.

Well, shit! She curses inwardly when she notices the people staring at her. Some are even making their ways towards her. Perhaps to question her sudden arrival.

"Where am I exactly?" She inquires after a moment.

"You are in Immaculata High." The boy replies, meeting Taylor's gaze. "But don't you know that already? Being a Mover and all."

"I'm not a mover," is Taylor's short answer.

"But you just appeared here all of a sudden and the capes who can do that are those with mover powers. A cape who can transport themselves anywhere with a destination in mind. So I immediately assume your power falls under this category." The boy informs, frowning at her.

"I'm sorry, but you presumed wrong. I arrived at this location because someone else transported me here," She is forced to explain to him. "However, I'm not going to say anything else...not when I really need to get out of here right now. But sadly it seems that I'm not in a state to walk at the moment. So can you please help me? Perhaps you can even take me to your school clinic?"

"Oh..." The boy says, "So do you want me to carry you then?"

At his question, Taylor's face turns scarlet.

"I...errr…Yes, I think so since I'm not quite sure if I can walk without getting sick to my stomach," She stutters in both uncertainty and embarrassment. She really doesn't want to be carried, but at her current condition, she can't even sit upright without support. It feels like most of her energy is sapped away during her travel and now she is left like a fragile husk.

However, more than that, Taylor seriously needs to leave from there before anyone can start asking her question.

"I've traveled far and it left me quite unsteady on my feet and more than a little dizzy. I'm certain I will fall flat on my face even if I stand. So I really need your help." She informs the boy, who now looks worried for her. Meanwhile, Taylor suspects that her face now resembles a tomato after her explanation.

"I see...If you are feeling like that, then I don't mind carrying you to the school clinic," The boy answers.

"Thank you," comes her instant reply while she gives him a small smile.

"But before I can lift you up, perhaps its best if you can wrap your arms around my neck first," the boy instructs, locking his brilliant blue eyes on her.

"Alright," Taylor responds, trying to control her furious blush even when she slowly does what the boy instructed. Once she has her arms wrapped around his neck, the boy then gradually moves his arms behind her knees and back to support her.

"I'm going to lift you up now and I hope you won't vomit all over me from the sudden movement." The boy states, meeting her gaze again.

"I'll try my best not to vomit all over you," is her only reply.

"Good," the boy remarks.

Thereafter, he carefully begins to lift her up from the ground and Taylor's stomach instantly lurch at the action. Fortunately, she is able to keep the contents of her stomach from spilling over. At the same time, she is more mortified at that moment when she lets a complete stranger carry her in bridal style. However, she doesn't have a choice on the matter.

"What's your name?" Taylor can't help but ask the boy the moment they begin to move.

"My name is Max Anders, and you are?" The handsome boy says while he strides steadily towards the school building.

However, the moment he introduces himself, Taylor nearly stops breathing altogether because...what the actual fuck?!

The one who is currently carrying her is none other than Theo Ander's father, Max Anders - or better known as Kaiser - the notorious Villain who holds an iron fist over Empire Eighty-Eight in the future.

Her brain can't even process the strange situation she finds herself in.

Would she even consider it a terrible coincidence that she happens to arrive in the place where Max Anders was playing baseball? She thinks so because now Kaiser literally has his hands on her.

In fact, Taylor Hebert is feeling slightly faint when she realizes that Kaiser - the Emperor of Blades - is currently carrying her bridal style in his arms, like some kind of sick fantasy in an alternate universe.

"What's your name?" Max Anders - or Kaiser - repeats the question.

It takes a while for Taylor to answer, but she does eventually.

"Taylor," She admits with extreme caution, not intending to reveal much of herself to him now that she knows his secret identity.

"Any last name, Taylor?" Kaiser asks curiously while he glances down at her.

"Just call me Taylor," She responds evasively.

"Well, it's nice to meet you Taylor-with-no-last-name," the strange boy comments almost in amusement.

"Yeah, it's nice to meet you as well," is Taylor's mumbled answer.