RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Writer's Block THE END OF THE MESSAGE BOARD LEAGUE

Last time we took a brief sight of the Courts of Light.

This time we go on the opposite side, the Circles of Darkness.

And if the former have nothing to be happy, down in Hell it’s time for celebration.

Many demons of the different ranks leaves their appointed Circles heading toward the lower point, the Mouth of the Pit, where the second in command of Hell, the lieutenant of the Abyss, the venomous Viper, is about to declare War on Heaven.

The horned, black giant stands on the distant part of the smoky cavern, appearing and disappearing between columns of yellowish sulfurous vapor.

What Viper is celebrating is a victory that he has waited since the moment of creation itself.

Viper, or, as many millions of years later would have been called, Lord Ahriman.

The Lord of Order.

And since the second after the Word has spoken, he had to divide the Multiverse with his twin, Ormudz, or, much more simply, the X.

The Lord of Chaos.

One force taught the stars and intellect. One taught fire and emotion.

Since that fateful moment, they were destined to fight forever, forever vying for the faith of the intelligent beings living on Earth.

The first of them were not humans. Sixty four millions of years ago, a reptilian race evolved on Earth. The Basilisks.

They at first followed the X. It’s the X that teach creativity, the gift that separates an intelligent being from an animal.

So, following the X, the Basilisks sewed and raised a civilization in a world trampled by the giant dinosaurs.

But then, their faith shifted to the V. Viper. Lord Ahriman.

Science and technology. The Basilisk became the lords of the planet Earth. The big dinosaur hunted to extinction, the planet polluted to the point that most of them starved to death, while some populations, the Basilisks nations richer and much more technologically advanced, built big space ark and began roaming the vastness of empty space.

Then, the Choir blown the planet with a big asteroids, to have evolution to begin anew.

Then, with Man, history repeated itself. Until now, we were at the fork, and humanity had to chose between the X and V. The choice only apparently was free to take, there were various powerful forces, secret societies, invisible government trying to impose one side or another.

But now that Pete McLebovich, the son of the former Moderator has been found, all these petty machinations have no justification. He is the key that will open the gates of Heaven to the forces of Hell, and the final War will be fought.

The winner will finally remodel the planet to fit their own agenda.

For it will be Heaven to win, Earth will be the home of the elected race, the bearer of the metagene, the sons and daughter of project Eden, the creatures that for the Courts of Light are intended to replace the imperfect, at their eyes, Human race.

While, if Hell will triumph, the demons will transform the Earth back into the perfect cradle for Viper’s race, the Basilisks, that right now are travelling the cosmos with their planetships heading toward our planet.

And now Hell is celebrating, because for the first time the V is not opposed by the X. The V and the X are allied, and nothing will possibly stand between the Darkness and victory.

That’s why all the demons are singing dark and revolting songs.

Because the War has begun.

And to see the probable outcome of it, we have only to go to one possible future of our Earth, in the Hyperboard Sector 4992150.3c.

There, the Klone Dome has just landed over the point where the computer has located Crush.

“What kind of place is this?” asks the young Eurostar.

“It is what’s left of Mandelovia” says a voice from the intricacy of the forest that cover nearly totally the soil.

The voice is of one tall man, with red flowing long hair and a bushy beard. He is dressed in red, with a hood. Near him, there are other men in red, and one boy.

“Crush!” exclaims Joker2, jumping in air and spinning on himself.

Eurostar marvels at such manifestation of joy, but for the other comrades of JAMB it seems normal.

“Guys, happy to see you, finally” says Crush. “These men saved me. They can actually be the last humans on Earth. We have to save them!”

“What happened here?” asks Eurostar, just an instant before the order Joker2 was to give to his team.

“What happened?” says hastily the tall man in red. “It happened that 26 years ago a great darkness covered the Earth. Just before, the MBL disappeared from the planet. Only Gooz, the leader of the tem survived, and gathered an army of heroes from all over the world. But one of his allies betrayed him, and his forces were destroyed at the final battle he had to fight with the Darkness.

Then, Hell appeared on Earth. Each bearer of the metagene was hunted and captured, and crucifixed on the wall of the Citadel, the headquarter of the MBL that became the residence of Viper. Every human, minus our group, which has found refuge here, under the ground, aided by some surviving TOMB members, was done slave, to work for Hell until death arrived to free them. Legions of demons began transforming our planet into the home of Viper’s race, the Basilisks. See there, up in the sky, that moon?”

The eyes of the kids go to the red sky. Near the red tainted face of the usual Moon, there is a slightly smaller different one, metallic and darker.

“That’s one of their planetship, they will land when the work of the demons is done” says the man.

“We have to prepare a plan to help these men” says Crush.

“Miss Hourlyquinn” says Eurostar, “ can you tell me if this is the future of my Earth?”

The girl smiles at the formal yet somewhat intriguing way the kid from the past has called her Miss: “Well, Eurostar, which Earth is YOURS?”

The boys is not unprepared: “The one in which I will die freeing the Message Board League from the Hyperboard Entity”

Hourly is impressed by the coolness with which the kid speak about his own future death.

She play a little with a device she produces from her belt: “Yes, this is a branch of time that’s sprouting from your past, Eurostar. It’s a possible future of a definitive past. A past where Hell will invade Earth”.

Eurostar is silent, seems to think hard.

Then he looks at Crush, then at the men, and then at Joker2.

“ We have to travel back to the year 2001 and go to help Gooz, Jo! It’s the only way to save the earth! Fight the demons here have no meaning, the Earth has been nearly all destroyed!”

“No way!” shouts Crush. We have to help these persons first, they have saved me! We can’t just leave tham here, at the mercy of the demon, while we go back in time. They will be destroyed!”

Joker2 leave that the two guys explains heavily their reasons, then take a big, deep breath and says: “Eurostar is right. It doesn’t make sense waste time here, when Earth has been nearly completely destroyed. Everybody back on the Klone Dome. Destination 2001”.

Eurostar doesn’t smile, and look at the red dressed men with a sad face. If the mission will be a success, the life of those men will be no more. Yes, a life of pain and struggle will be saved to those men… but can we really say that a better life await those men. If their life is change, can we rightly say that they are the same men?

Puzzled by the question, Eurostar gets on the Dome.

Joker2 jump at the commander seat: “Hourly, scan the signatures over Eurostar body. We have to retrieve his friends before to arrive at the year 2001!”

Hourlyquinn runs at the timelost boy, happy to have an excuse to be near him.

She touches Eurostar with her devices, and suddenly an expression of marvel mixed with fear appears on her face. “Jo, it’s unbelievable…”

“What?”

“The first person to retrieve is Max Yezpitelok… it’s on our own original homeplanet, in the Empire of Doctor Chaos!”