Berthed in the hanger bay of the old Sac-Norad Base (Now the RACE programs headquarters) Russ Carlin’s Avenger and Jeff Calan’s Defender were being loaded for travel, time travel that is, with stops all along humanities history from the first organized conflict up to the last war of chemical explosives (combat after World War three being deemed too much a push button affair).  First to give tham all the time they needed to accomplish their task Jeff and Russell’s ships had transported ADAM and the metallurgists to clothe the mountain itself in a metal time net so that when they arrived with their cargo Chambers would be able to grow his army in an accelerated time field.  This was ADAM’s suggestion, the Shapers jumped backward in time, stashed their embryos in the past then jumped forward again to recover the adults.  Chambers could have done this but with unlimited fusion power to command ADAM was sure a sustainable time field would enable maturation in a matter of days at most, Chambers agreed.  With ADAM’s help, all the systems to support the embryos were automated to the greatest practical degree.  Workers inside the field wore regressor suits, which countered the acceleration of their aging process exactly, without the suit a person entering the field would die in a matter of hours.  The Acceleration was set at a constant one minute inside equalled one day outside thus in five days and ten minutes an embryo reached adulthood and emerged from the Mountain into Chambers training compound twenty years of age and ravenously curious.  Chambers began on another of ADAM’s suggestions the day Jeff, Russell and two hundred volunteer operatives prepared to leave.  ADAM accompanied Russ’s ship on its journey.  Dr. Hopewell boarded Jeff’s Defender with a device ADAM had provided the blueprints for, a dimensional communicator, by this device the two ships could communicate with each other or Chambers while still in the past.  While his was still the only ship outfitted with the time net Russ had transported Chamber, historians, and archeologists three months into the past hidden in the Norad mountain they researched and compiled a list of targets for Chambers operatives.  Before taking the long hop back Jeff and Russ made a short shift back one week in time to get the list and pick up the research party itself.  Now with each ship at one hundred eighty souls, they were fully manned and ready to go ‘hunting’.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.