[Merskelly Metalien]

/x} Yeahh, the future gets pretty complicated, since there are multiverse alternate realities. Bat would explain that, but Bat gets tired of taking his pacifier out all the time. <u< (Bat is the main time traveler.) In some futures there is required sterilization, and in others terminating population control, but in the future Bat is from, most humans can only survive below the equator, and overpopulation is no longer an issue due to a very strict government regulation. But a disease affecting all humankind and has no cure, driving humanity slowly to extinction. Some humans to escape the terrible plague are offing themselves accelerating the erasure of humankind. So, there's kind of a crisis, and Bat's gotta like travel to the past to find and bring back a cure somehow. Dr. West is like a cog in the wheel of that progress, albeit a kind of crooked cog, but a cog nonetheless. x}