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

I was telling you about my younger self, which right now is in front of the Indestructible Man and Brickhouse, bruised and beaten, and tied up to crosses in the midst of a crowd of thousands hippies.

Jack and Guy, you see, were displaced by Pete McLebovich in a particular Hyperboard where the Indestructible Man ended up before, last year I think, during the battle with the HE that saw my death. America, here, in the sixties was overrun by the FlowerPower revolution, and the organized anarchy that ensued, was challenged only by a few rebels, under the the Republican Underground flag. Their heroes, the Ultraconservative and Ele-fantry.

Now, bear in mind that I am, or maybe I was, in my native Italy, a communist, so don’t ask me to take side in this war; but when I was seventeen, and ended up in that Hyperboard to rescue my two professors, I only saw my teachers caged by a strange fat clown.

So I attacked wildly. But let’s see that live.

The young Eurostar charge at the Clown, which is the head of the Hippie Non-government. His title his Slave Supreme of the happy People, but basically he is the Emperor of America. Fat and heavy, he keeps jumping on the scaffold haranguing the crowd.

He doesn’t see the approaching Eurostar, due partially to the supervelocity of the hero, partially to his drug induced madness. But his bodyguards are well aware after a few seconds, and strike at Edulcore with all their armaments.

But Eurostar is totally focused over his goal. It was the first lesson John Grey taught him at TIAMAT: it is not the powers, but the experience that makes you a hero. He can’t fight all those men, but he can surely free one of the men.

And since their obvious most valued prey is John, he goes at full speed toward Guy Smiley, which is less guarded. To avoid being hit by the bodyguards, he must be as fast as he never has been before. His iron strong body can shed the bullets, but the lasers can cut his skin.

So, when he feels his body hitting the cross where Guy is tied, he is relieved, and can roll away, far from the scaffold, in the distant darkness.

The collision was hard, and he is about to loose his senses. The last thing he hears his the noise of a fight, and than the darkness wrap him.

After a time that seems to last forever, the rays of the rising sun warm his body. He opens his eyes, and in front of him are standing the familiar figures of John Grey and Guy Smiley.

Eurostar manages to sit. “Prof… professor Grey… Professor Smiley! You are alive!”

“Yes. And you, Cicciotto, had a big part in that” says Guy.

“Yeah, Edulcore, we owe you our life”.

“I… I don’t remember…”

“Oh, your stunt did freed Guy, and he quickly untied me, all while fighting those freaks, then we take flight. This morning we came to search for you, after the crowd had left” explains the ex-Indestructible Man.

The young Eurostar looks around. He had ended his blind run in a dry ditch, behind a hedgerows.

“Doesn’t have dogs, them? Dogs could have smell me even here…” wonders Eurostar.

“No, they don’t use dogs, or any other animal. They say that animals shouldn’t work, so they haven’t any trained dog, or horse, for that matter…” says Guy.

“Hey, I’m starting to like them” whispers Edulcore, so low that the two don’t understand.

“What?”

“Nothing important. Anyway, I found you, so now we can come back to our Hyperboard. Get ready, I am about to signal our position to…”

“Stop!” shouts the Indestructible Man. “We are not coming with you!”

“What? The MBL is decimated, stranded away in the Hyperboards, the Colony has captured all the kids at TIAMAT and Hell is about to break loose of the planet. How can you possibly refuse to come, Professor Grey? They are your students…”

“First, call me Jack. Jack Eimann. Grey is a name that I don’t want. As for Hell, don’t you see that here hell has spread before?”

“But… but JAMB, heroes from the future, are coming to help, and you, the most powerful metahuman of the planet, don’t want take your place on the upcoming war?”

The Ultraconservative sighs, and sits near Eurostar.

“Edulcore, life asks us sometime to take hard decisions. I have been in this place one time before, and was brought back before I could do anything good. Then, casually, I’ m here for the second time, and with Guy, which is, maybe you don’t know, my matter-counterpart from your planet, being me originally from the anti-matter uniboard. Well, this time I can’t leave without at last try to rectify the evil that permeate this world”.

“But the Earth need the Indestructible Man…”

“No. Even if the whole MBL has been displaced, there is always TOMB. And the ex Leaguers. And M.A.N. And the Young Boarders. And many heroes we never heard of. This Earth has only the two of us. I can’ t feel being a coward for my decision, Edulcore, because that would be meaning that I consider all these heroes good for nothing, and that I think the war could be won only by me.
But, Edulcore, that’s not the case. I trust Gooz. I trust Prometheus. I trust Avatar. I trust LLance. I trust Tobias. I trust you, Eurostar. You can win that war. Only I and Guy can win this”.

Eurostar stand up, without a word gives his hand to Jack and than to Guy.

Then he is about to talks into the Intercom, when, abruptly, asks: “Why I should call you Jack, and not John?”

“Because, you see, Grey was the surname of my father, Lord Entropy. Before I arrived here, he and me were amalgamated, like two mind into one body. Here, is mind is shut down. I don’t know why. And, without his influence, I am able to see that he was about to take control. I did things that I would have never done, like brainwashing that reporter or leaving Klone deaf and blind in the sewers of Athanon. Stupid things, I can see now, other than pitiless. So, for the time I will be here, I’m sure Lord Entropy will not harm anymore Earth.
But, sadly, I know my future. I saw it more two years ago, during a meeting of the MBL. In the future I will fought with my father to the end, and will be forever lost in the Hyperboards. So, I’m sure I will return, one day. Farewell, Eurostar”

“Beam me up, Crush”.

One second later, Eurostar is in the Tactic sector of the Klone Dome.

“You are alone, Eurostar. Didn’t you find anyone?” asks Joker2.

“I didn’t find any leaguer. But I did find a great hero. The greatest of them all".

Hourly then notices something on the rim of Eurostar's mask. She goes near him, and wipes something off the eyelids. She observes her finger: “Eurostar… you are crying…”