Italy

Tom is standing outside the Uffizi museum. He has been standing there for quite some time, actually. At this points the weird looks people give him for his clothing don't bother him at all. He's still keeping the sun glasses, though. Not only do they hide the weird light that comes from his eyes, they also make him look cool.

It's starting to rain when he decides doesn't want to stay standing in front of that museum for the rest of his life. He must do something, he thinks.

"So..." he says, to no-one in particular, "what now?"

His question is answered with a word that pops into his mind: Berlin.

"Berlin, huh?" he says. He starts calculating the distance from Italy to Berlin. "All right, what the hell. Lets go..."

And with that, Tom starts walking, heading for Berlin...


Meanwhile, back in the Hall of Justice... er, I mean... the Fishhouse of... Revolution...


Danny is in his room, finishing packing his things, when Mick walks inside.

"Hey there," Mick says.

"Hey," Danny replies. "Did you finish packing?"

"Uh... I think..."

"Shirley doing the packing for you, eh?"

"Yup..."

"How does she find the time to do all the work she does AND babysit you?"

"She makes it! Anyway... You wanted to talk to M-X-Y?"

"Yes. Can you call him now?"

"Sure. I gotta warn you, he's been kinda weird lately..."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Mxy's--"

When Mick says those words, Ktl takes possesion of his body. When he traded places with Mxy, he decided to keep the whole "name" mecanism Mxy set untouched, to avoid any suspicions. He also made sure to disguise the black shadow that comes out of the eyes of the person he posseses and make it look like the light Mxy uses.

In the moment he "wakes up," Ktl realises Danny is standing in front of him. Immediatly, he connects with Mxy's mind, to find out exactly what his reaction would be to this situation. Another thing Ktl did when he traded places with Mxy was leave him imprisoned in a higher dimension (with the help of some "friends" he had made there...).

Ktl then found that acting like Mxy was impossible for him, and that if he tried doing that, Mxy's friends would realize he wasn't Mxy in no time. So, he decided to make a direct connection with Mxy's mind, to find out exactly how he would react to each situation. This, of course, would drain Mxy's mental energy and leave him weak, and that served the purpose of preventing he escaped.

The last couple of times Ktl connected with Mxy's mind to "steal" his reactions, he was surprised to see that he wasn't where he had left him, but in Hell. This made little difference. In fact, Hell was a more fitting prision for his adversary. And, as long as he remained weak, he wouldn't be able to go back to the third dimension.

Now Ktl tries to connect with Mxy's mind again, to face Danny, and, for the first time... he fails. This can only mean one thing, Ktl thinks. He's on the third dimension. Mxy's back.

All this passes through Ktl's mind on the moment Mick says the magic word.

Now Danny is looking at him. And he doesn't have Mxy to tell him how to react.

"Mxy, I made Mick call you to talk to you for a second..."