Call me Eurostar, just Eurostar.
The forces are gathering. Even a puppet, a sawdust stuffed puppet will put his life at stake for the safety of the humankind...
But let's take a look at where JAMB is...
“We are entering this Hyperboard right now” says Super Sloth from his console, looking at the star filled space taking form on the main monitor. “Solar System at two parsec”.
“We’ll be there in a few minutes, Eurostar” says Joker2, turning his head to the right, where the time displaced young Italian hero sit.
In the pilot room of the Klone Dome, with SS, Jo and Ed, the newly coined nickname for Eurostar, are Jo’s sister, Hourlyquinn, that doesn’t stop to fix her eyes over the European runner, Ed’s teacher from the year 2000, Max Yezpitelok, and Crush, that watch a little worried the two guest.
The arrival of Eurostar coincided with the disapparition of one of their teammates, Jake the Warrior Sprite, and alos, the kid convinced Joker2 to leave the Hyperboard where they were fighting demons reigning over that Earth, to come back in time to stop Hell to conquest the planet. The plan could make sense, yet Crush is worried for the men and women that saved him when he was trapped there, and that now are totally at the mercy of the demons. And just a minute ago, they have found that another teammates, Igor Jr, has disappeared, at the same time of the resque of Max.
Are those two really heroes? Could they be enemy disguised? Is this a sort of elaborate trap? Crush promises to himself to keep his eyes wide open over those two.
“The Hypertrack signature is coming from Washington, DC” exclaims Hourly.
Joker2 stands up. “Ok, Ed. Now we’ll beam you down on the planet. Find your friends, and then call us with this iBell. We’ll beam you up. OK?”
Eurostar eyes are wide open. “Go there… all by myself?”
“Why? What do you mean? It would be easier for one person alone to meddle in the environment… we can’t go down in a dozen of colorful dressed guys… the people would be scared… And you are the European Phenomenon, one of the most famous superheroes of all the Galaxy… who would better suited for this mission?”
The young Edulcore Cicciotto is embarassed. Obviously thy don’t understand that he would be a great hero, but in the future, well, in his future, even if it is the past for Jo and Hourly. But he can’t say that he has fear. What hero in the World knows fear? “Ok, beam me down, Crush!”
The effect is not really different from what he has experienced many time, coming and going trough the timestream between the TIAMAT Institute in the year 2001, and his hometown of Bologna, 1984. But this time there is a huge difference. This time he doesn’t know whare he will end. A peaceful garden? A post-apocalict world? An alien invasion?
Then, the blurry crimson phantasms of the travel dissipates, and he finds himself… in Woodstock?
Thousands of young peoples are dancing on a field, others are sitting smoking weeds or from a pot. In the distance, among sulphoureus smokes, there is a stand, but it is not a rockband over it. There are two persons, tall men, tied up to two crosses, and another man, colorful dressed, fat and heavy, jumping all around them.
And Eurostar suddenly realizes that it is not a bandstand, it is a scaffold.
He needs to know more. He take out his mask, borrows a wooden necklace from a sleeping woman, and slowly, painfully slow for a superspeedster, try to reach the scaffold.
After some minutes, the amplificated words coming from the loudspeakers becomes understandable.
“…so the Hippie Non-Government is proud to present you the last two members of the hipocrite resistence to the Holy Anarchie, the last two soldiers of the Republican Underground: the Ultraconservative and his sidekik Ele-fantry. Now I, the Clown, Slave Supreme of the Happy People, will give the start to the reconditioning of these two poor marginal men, and in a few months they will embrace Peace and Love!”
The blabbering of the fat Clown continues, but the attention of Eurostar is all over the form of the two tied man. He has never seen them in these costumes before, but their features… the curl over the fron of the taller one… the chin of the other…
They are his teachers, John Grey II and Guy Smiley! Indestructible-Man and Brickhouse!
