Call me Eurostar, or Edulcorael, or Cicciotto, as you like.
My supervisor, Michael (not to be mistaken for that Michael) has just returned from the Courts of Light with the news that the Book has been opened, and the first four seals have been broken.
He doesn’t know more, but he’s also sure to have more news from, well, someone within the higher ranks.
Meanwhile, let’s check on the rest of the Eurostar Family.
First, Amuro “Eurostar” Rei. He’s my counterpart in the Hyperboard where Disco Steve have landed, where Japan is the center of the whole world, and the MBL is a peacekeeping force, fighting the robotic minions of the evil Emperor Moon.
Why a Japanese superhero is called Eurostar, frankly, is out of my knowledge. But he is very different from the token American hero. And it is the same for all the other members.
They are now around the meeting table, and a tall, mustached man, with an iron hand, adjourn the heroes about the recent actions of the evil Moon. He is Doctor Quantum, the scientist that runs the MBL Headquarter.
Eurostar, dressed into a red costume with various white ornaments, and a white, and silver helmet, is very young, like the other Leaguers, no one older than twenty. He is tall, with long hair, and a shy appearance. He stands far from the table, his back on the wall, looking outside the window, while his comrades, an assorted mix of tall, short, slim, fat boys, discuss the plans. The only female of the team, half naked in her transparent uniform coupled with a bio-armor that covers her arms, neck and head, sits at the computer.
More on them later.
Giovacchino is quickly defeating his opponents, thanks to his superpowers, when a robot produces a bunch of cat’s grass. The supercat is suddenly out of commission, but instead of being terminated, he is put inside a bag and brought away.
My younger self, sits near Joker2 in the Klone Dome, which is moving toward the point where the computer has located Crush. They are talking…
“So, you know who we are, it’s time you explain how and why are you here, Ed” says Joker2 to Eurostar, which is marveling at the features of the Tactical station.
“Ed? Short for Edulcore? OK, Jo! Well, I was in the year 2001, when a friends of mine displaced me, and I presume some other friends of mine, to this Hyperboard. Maybe each one in a different board…”
“The year 2001? The MBL? Hey, do you know that I have been in the MBL headquarter the year before?”
“In the year 2000, you mean? Which year is this?”
“2027”.
“Why did you come to the MBL? I have never read this story in the files!”
“Is there anything about a meeting where suddenly each Leaguer felt being grabbed in the butt?”
“Well, yes, I read something about… Care to explain, Jo?”
“Well, it’s a long story. You see, in the year 2010 in many Hyperboards the MBL have been destroyed by a member of the team, that betrayed his friends and arose to rule the World under the name Doctor Chaos.
Nowhereman, the only surviving leaguer, had gathered the kids and protegee of many leaguers, to form a group, Team MBL, to fight Chaos.
When Nowhereman found a meta with time powers (at the time Hourly didn’t have yet developed her own), called Wavebyker, he send a mission to your time to explore the future of each member of the MBL, to discover the would be betrayer and kill him, to prevent the advent of Doctor Chaos.
The team was me, Hourly, DiscoStu and DarkAgent 86, along with Nowhereman, which joined us later”
“What did you find?”
“Nothing. Wavebyker grabbed the butt of everyone, but he didn’t find anything. So, we had to come back to our time. But in the time travel back, Hourly manifested her powers, and we were stranded away. Then we met Eeg and I2, and… and another kid, and we founded JAMB. ”.
“What have been of that world?”
“Chaos rule it like before. There was no way of defeating him, that’s why we tried to travel back in time to kill him. But that didn’t work. That world, our original world, sadly, is doomed”.
Eurostar seems to think, than asks: “Which were the members that you scanned?”
“Well, there was the Indestructible Man, Time Trust, Nowhereman, Smasher, Darknight 007, Disco Steve, Farenheit 451, Speedy, Hourgirl, Joker1, Kid Psycho, Steely, Speedyboy, nuriko and Mr. Mxyzptlk” answer Joker2.
“Mxy!” shouts Eurostar. “ You grabbed the butt to MXY and saw his future! Mxy is a five dimensional being, it is simply impossible for a 3D like us to even understand the concept of his future. Time goes in two directions for him. If one of them was to become Doctor Chaos, I bet it was him. Rthere was no way for you to read his future”.
A strange light appears in the eyes of Joker2, just when SuperSloth exclaims: “Jo, we are on the target!”
