INTERLUDE
“Your three whishes” says the Time Trust.
“I must express them now, before beginning my mission?” I ask.
“Yes, Eurostar. Your three whishes.”
“OK. I want body, powerful comrades and a place to hide.”
“Why?”
“I need a body to hold my son, comrades to help me in rescuing him, and a place to keep him away from the ones who haunt him.”
The android smiles. “Granted. But tell me, aren’t your friends powerful enough?”
“They are. But I can’t risk their life for my own scope, even if it’s saving a baby. They are important for the Revolution. I can’t send them directly in the fangs of that monsters that want to enslave all the metahumans”.
“And you? You are the living flag of the Revolution”.
“Naecken or Mxy are more than worthy to led the revolution, and Tobias, Kristogar and the other to help them”.
“So, after you’ll rescue your son, you will retire?”
“You know what will happen, so I don’t get why you are asking me. But, yes, I will retire from the action. But not from the Revolution. There is need to begin a new stage, more politics and less actions, I think. I will see…”
“Good luck, Cicciotto. Are you ready for your first mission?”
“Of course”.
A complex shaped armor forms around my body.
“This will protect you from the harshness of the timestream. Your first mission is to go to January the 30th, 2002, in the Mandelovian Malvan-X headquarter, just moments prior to the destruction of your body. You are warned: don’t alert them, or the future will be at stake. You have only to convince Danny to be operated by Quantos, and to give your past counterpart this disk. Say him: “In the time of fire, the Green will emerge from the Red, bringing life where none existed before; put it on Naecken´s forehead at the crucial moment I told you about." He hand me a small disk.
“OK. Consider the mission completed. I remember doing just that!” I say, smiling.
“Yes. But you have yet to do it, at last form your actual perspective. So, hurry up”.
And everything vanishes around me, while I am sucked by the timestream.
