Homecoming

The world was ending. Fleeing to the Shadow Shard, Citrus Shocker, after borrowing some Crey Corporation equipment and making some frantic calculations, believed she had found a way to use the same dimension-spanning threads that allowed Pocket D to exist, to create a quantum mirror of her world and shunt all its inhabitants through the chaos to this new universe. Her plans went awry, fragmenting her own timeline. If any other heroes (or any people at all) were transmitted this way, she never found them. 

Deep in the Shadow Shard, though, the deserted halls of Pocket D flickered to life, and its proprietor, an entity known only as DJ Zero, reappeared. He set to work doing what Citrus Shocker had been trying to do before. After that, it got hazy for a while.

Citrus Shocker found herself in a burning building in King's Row, the fragment of exotic Shadow Shard material still secure in the backpack device she had used before. She was overjoyed to find Captain Scrappy talking to Detective Broyko of the PPD outside. 

Scrappy's memories suggested a different past than Citrus Shocker remembered, one in which they were beginning their careers here after years of struggle. Unfortunately, their weakened powers seemed to support his version of reality. They barely made their way through the district to the Atlas Park train. Citrus Shocker was horrified to learn that Galaxy City, where, in her version of the past, she and Captain Scrappy had first met, had been destroyed. This was already part of Scrappy's past, so it was no surprise to him.

Back in Atlas Park, the pair reconnected with Hero Corps to beat up some Hellions and snow men. Citrus Shocker stowed her failed gadget for further study and built a jet pack. They settled in and started working on finding their friends and rebuilding the Scrap Pile.