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

Avatar wondered what purpose his suffering would serve, but it was his destiny to do so. Death was his entry into the universe of paradox and pain, of unending terror, and of the ceaseless flaying of his soul. It was his only hope that an enternity of torment would so twist and warp his soul that nothing of his life would be remembered. He didn't want to see Chewy's face staring at him in disbelief as Viper consumed him, didn't want to recall the utter look of betrayal on Bibbo's face when he had joined the Siecle Draco, and wanted to forever rid his soul of the memory of outliving his wife by hundreds of years.

He was dead now, life could not touch him; or so he thought.

The demon led him by the handcuffs down a corridor that was black and yet at the same time colorless. He saw fires, but knew they did not exist. There was no lake of burning sulfur, and yet it existed all the same. The demon unlocked his handcuffs and howled an evil cackle. Avatar knew he had reached his final destination. The demon vanished and Avatar was left floating in the place of everything and nothing. He waited for his ceaseless punishment to begin, but nothing happened.

He knew that he posessed no lungs, but still his breathing quickened and "body" began to shake and sweat. The anticipation was the worst part he knew, once it started he could simply succumb. But when would it start? Would there be the sounds of flaming chariots to announce his torturer, or would it take him by surprise? What form would it take? And then it hit him.

It would never start.

This was hell.

To exist for eternity in a place of everything and nothing without even being able to see your own hands. He would not escape his guilts with torment. His guilts would be his torment. Avatar cried. He wept and wailed and gnashed his teeth as his torment joined the cacophany of the billions of similar souls who shared his fate, though he could hear none of it.

And thus he existed with only himself to cause him pain, but being unable to die for a second time.

And then, there was something. Another thing in this realm to divert his thoughts. Avatar turned quickly and could not help but catch his breath. There before him stood an Archangel. In hell, the angel Michael stood with his flaming sword flashing and lightning flaring from his eyes. His face was white as snow while his body glowed like burning bronze. There was a voice like that of rushing waters and of an army, but it did not come from Michael.

"Milliard Kreagan. You are my servant. Perform this one last task for me. Cast down the Dark One in my name."

Avatar was confused, "Was that?..."

Michael responded, "Yes. That was the One Above All who was, and is, and is to come. I am here to give you your mission, and enable you to complete it."

Tears of joy now streamed down Avatar's face. "Yes I am ready. But how can this be? I was consigned to hell."

"Special times and special circumstances. You were fated to die, to experience hell, so that you could complete your final work. Now, as the gifter of magic I return your power to you. Only by first relinquishing it did you prove that you were worthy to be entrusted with the power to change worlds as they are."

The flaming sword passed in an arc through the air and phased through Avatar's soul. As it did so he felt the magic returning, but much differently than before.

"Before, your true power was hidden. Now it will come as easily as a breath. Go. Banish the evil that plagues the universe."

Avatar's body erupted in a pillar of silver light. He was what the ancient magi referred to as the Primarch, long before it was ever used as a title of leadership. Light flashed around him and he saw the glory of the One as it passed before his sight and he became afraid.

Michael saw this and reassured him, "Go. The V awaits. The One is with you and none can stand against you."

Avatar sighed and the barriers of existence parted before his vision. He passed through one plane after another as he searched for his prey. Light and dark mixed and exploded. Sound and silence cancelled one another out. Then he had arrived.

Viper stood before him with the regality of an emporer, but what he saw puzzled and unsettled him.

"Viper. I am the Avatar and your excecutioner. I have come to reclaim what is not yours and destroy you for all time."

The V did not waste time in resisting. All the power at his command was directed at the small, silver form. It fluttered and flashed, but did not go out.

"I am that which you cannot defeat. I am sent by the One, you are powerless against Him. Now die."

Avatar advanced and Viper threw the force of a supernova at his head, but Avatar had experienced hell and continued to stride forward. The shining, silver hands pierced through Viper's hide and all manner of evil began to pour forth. Avatar had been steeled by the Pit however, terror held no sway over him now.

The hands pierced deeper and found what they had wanted. The form of a man began to shimmer in Viper's chest. Avatar pulled it free and Viper roared in defeat.

"I cannot die! I will find a new host and destroy the Earth, to be remade in my image!"

"No."

Avatar held Chewy's shining form under one arm and cast his hand towards Viper. A silent clap of thunder shook the plane for miles and Avatar spoke in a clear loud voice, "Viper! In the name of the One and by the power granted me by Him I cast you down to the Abyss. There never to rise again!"

The shapeless dark form quivered and howled. It was defeated at last and could do naught but fade into eternal non-existence.

Chewy's head lolled to one side and he looked up at Avatar's shining face.

"Is that it? I'm free now... Thank you dear friend."

"Chewy, I'm afraid I have to tell you that we are dead. I can't take you back to Earth now."

"That's okay Avatar. I know you did everything you could, I just wish I could see TOMB one more time to say goodbye."

Both men turned as a new voice spoke. "The world is slowly dying Walrus. You will see them all again in time."

"Michael..."

"Yes Avatar, I am here now that Viper's presence does not hold me at bay. I have one last thing to tell you."

Chewy became impatient, "Well come on, out with it! We've both gone through enough to at least be spared the dramatic foreshadowing."

Michael smiled, "Yes of course. Avatar, there is another. Then Elysium awaits."

Avatar knew what he meant. "Thank you Michael, thank you so much."

"Thank not me, thank the One Above All."

"Yes, all glory and honor be to the One."

Once again the planes of existence parted before Avatar and he was moving.

"Excuse me, where are we going?" Chewy replied.

"Someplace special."

He stopped in a white void. The only thing in the void was the form of a sleeping woman. Sleeping as if she was waiting for someone to come wake her up.

Avatar set Chewy down now that he could stand on his own two legs, and he approached the woman with tears on his face. He bent down and kissed her lips and brushed a lock of her luxurious hair away from her face.

She stirred.

Her eyes fluttered open and she took in the form kneeling above her. "Oh Milliard! You've come back! It's been so long."

Avatar clutched her to his chest. "My beloved princess. I have waited years for this day. I have done so much you would despise, but you are still waiting for me. I love you Delilah."

She held his face in her slender fingers. "Of course I'm still waiting for you. We all do things which we regret. I forgive you because I love you."

Avatar cried again as he kissed her passionately. He then picked her up and turned around.

"Come, we must away from this place. And I have someone I would like for you to meet."

The End: Avatar.

15 minutes ago

Something has been bugging Max "Mxy" Yezpitelok since he came back from the mission to rescue Lorelei.
When he first got to the Klone Dome after they rescued him, he only remembered the last moments of what hapenned to him in the other hyperboard. When the minutes passed, even those short moments faded away. He thought this would happen to all the rescued people, but when Lorelei started talking about her friends in the other hyperboard (and the other rescued leaguers after her), Max saw he was wrong.
Maybe it was the effect of the drug someone (he still hasn't asked his rescuers who or why) injected him shortly after leaving the other hyperboard, or maybe it was the fact that when he got there his memory was replaced by the memory of his parallel version (Doctor Chaos)...
But he knows the reason why doesn't remember what hapenned to him over there is other.
He knows he deleted his own memories.
He knows his subcouncious did it to try to protect him... from what?
He has a very strong subcouncious, he thinks.
Maybe it has hapenned before... Maybe this is not the first time he uses his powers to hide things from himself. Maybe he has done even more... maybe he has even altered reality without knowing it...
All this scares him. That must be the reason why his subcouncious did those things... His mind is too normal. And, therefore, fragile.
If something ever hapenned to his mind, and he went insane... he could use his powers for evil. This is what his subcouncious is protecting him from; insanity.
Now that he sees this he feels even worse. He alsways kind of superior becuase of his powers, but the truth is he doesn't deserve them. He's like a little kid pretending to be a super-hero.
But he has still changed, at least a little bit, since he joined the MBL... he remembers the time when he was naive enough to think Nobody Else was a super-hero and not a puppet made by I-man to make him think his MBLI had another member.
One of the advantages of having a multi-dimentional mind (normal, but multi-dimentional), is that whenever he thinks about someone, his mind authomatically uses his powers to "check on" that person and inform Max of his current status.
And he just thought about Nobody Else...

Max stands up from his chair and says
"How is it possible..."
"What are you talking about, Mxy?" Disco Stev asks, but Max doesn't hear him. He's trying to figure out why Nobody Else is alive... and fighting in the war.
Then he remembers the day he said "goodbye" to Nobody Else... I-Man had told him Nobody was very sick and couldn't be a hero anymore, and Max said to him "You are a hero. If you are ever needed again, you shall come back" and then used his powers to make sure that would happen.
Someone must have said the words "You are needed near him, causing Max's words to become true, and bringing Nobody to life.
But, if he's now alive, he must be like a child... a child fighting in a war.

"This can't be" Max says "I can't let him suffer like this"
"Let who suffer?" Joker2 asks "What are you talking about?"
"I'm leaving. I'm going home"
"Oh, are you? And how are you planning to do that? You know you can't, Max"

Yes. Yes he can. He can do anything.

Joker2 grabs Max's arm and starts saying "Look, Max..." but a bright light surrounds them and they start dematerializing.
Hourly sees her brother fading away and scream "JO!!!!" as she jumps to him. She touches him with her hand and the bright light covers her too.
The next she knows is that the three of them are in the middle of a warzone...





Another Hyperboard...

Two months after our last visit

"It's finally over. My time machine is finally over."
Nowhereman II/Disco Steve looks at the fruit of three months of work.
"I will finally have my revenge..."
He didn't have any distractions while completing it, since two months ago he killed Doctor Chaos and freed the world. Now humanity is healing itself and he is no longer needed.
"He will pay for betraying the MBL... For betraying ME"
Now he will use his time machine with the same mission he gave his Team MBL some time ago.
"If you want a job well done, do it yourself. I should have seen that a long time ago."
Now he doesn't need Wave Byker to travel through time. Even if he did, he got lost in the tides of time after the first mission failed.
"That fool..."
The same night he killed Chaos he had the chance to kill his past version as well. For some reason Mister Mxypltk, the past version of Chaos was using Chaos' body. How could they lie to him like that? He had the chance to kill two birds with one stone, but...
"Fools..."
Joker2 and Hourly Quinn came back, only to betary him. They took the past version of the bastard away, so now he has to hunt him. They said this wasn't the same Mxypltk... just an alternate version trapped in Chaos' body. Joker2's words before leaving really hurted him...
"Fools..."
Now he is ready to use the machine and prevent the deaths of thousends... including his Team MBL... He puts on the machine, taht has the form of a belt, sets the aproximate date, presses a button and...

"...revenge... finally..."

...he appears in an alley. He says "I'm here*"
*(As seen on the "MBL: Total Armageddon 2010" tradepaperback)
He uses an artifact to hide identity to walk freely on the streets. He looks for a newspaper to see the exact date, and he is shocked when he sees it...
"How odd... this is about the same date the Team MBL arrived when they were I sent them on their mission... I must be carefull not to run into them... I don't think I could take seeing the ones that died because of me"
In a matter of minutes, he locates his victim: Mister Mxypltk is fighting some super-villian in a main street.
Excited, he runs to find the street, and when he does, he hides in an alley.
"Take this, Cow-Man!" Mxy shouts.
"Mooo!"

"It's here. My revenge is here. How could he betray my frie-- honor?"
He lifts his gun and points him. When he starts charging it, he hears a voice in a rooftop over him...
"There they are" the voice says.
He looks up and sees Wave Byker, Joker2 and Hourly Quinn looking at the fight.
"Shiiiit..." he thinks, as he tries to hide from them.
Wave Byker then asks "Should we act now?"
"No" Joker2 answers "We should wait for the whole team to be together, it will be easier that way."
"Yeah, and we should also wait for Dark and Stu to get here... In case soemthing goes wrong" Hourly adds.

Seeing Dark Agent 64 or Disco Stu would have saddened him, because he feels responsible for their deaths (after all, he sent them ot a suicide mission knowing they'd die) but the ones up there are the bretayers...
"The only people in this world I don't want to see... And they had to come here"

"OK, I guess I should go get them, then..." Wave Byker says as he flies away "I'll be back in a minute"

Nowhereman II/Disco Steve decides he can't wait anymore. He doesn't care if they see him, he has to destroy the bastard NOW.
He starts charging his weapon when another unfortunate coincidence happens... Disco Steve, a younger version of himself joins Mxy in the fight against the super-villian.

"This never happened

I can't remember fighting him

This never happened

It doesn't matter

I will destroy him now

Even if I have to destroy this street

And destroy myself

And those damn betrayers

And this whole damn city

And--"

A conversation between Joker2 and and Hourly he can't help hearing distracts him...

"Now that we are alone, let me ask you something, Jo..." Hourly says

"Focus..."

"What is it?" Joker2 asks

"Don't listen"

"Why do you think Nowhereman sent us here instead of coming himself?" Hourly says.

"Focus..."

"It would have been a lot easier, since he knows who the betrayer is, and he is better prepared than us" she adds.

"Don't let them..."

"Honestly, sister..." Joker2 says "I think he was afraid of screwing things up"

"WHAT? Stupid kid, what does he know?"

"Haven't you noticed the way he gets when we talk about the MBL?" he continues "That's why he never talks about the Chaos... It hurts him"

"They're..."

"In fact... I think Chaos must have been a good friend of his" Joker2 says
"So you are saying he's afriad his feeling may compromise the mission?" Hourly asks.
"Yes. Maybe compromise more than that... Imagine if he went mad and killed civilians... or destroyed the city to kill Chaos."
"But... he'd never do that... he's a hero..."
"I know. He's like a father for me. Seeing him losing his mind would make me... I don't know... that's my worst nightmare."

"...right..."

He looks at the fight again, and sees Mxypltk saving Disco Steve from the super-villian.

“Thanks!” Disco says.

“Ah, you have saved me a hundred times, and I know you would do it a hundred more” Mxypltk says.

“That never happened...” Nowhereman II/Disco Steve thinks “Joker2 is right... That’s why I sent them... He’s right... He’s right...”

He takes the loaded gun and points it at his chest. At the same time, Disco Steve and Mister Mxypltk prepare to give Cow-Man the final strike. The sound of the punch they give him “hides” the sound of Nowhereman II/Disco Steve shooting at himself.




Yet Another Hyperboard...

13 years after our last visir (Year 2001)...

“It’s over, Thenz, can’t you see?” Ack, leader and only surviving member of the good robots says.

“Maybe in this universe... But there are plenty more to conquer!” Thenz yells, as he opens a portal “13 years ago some friends of you from other universe... or ‘hyperbaord’... left their adress when they left. That’s where I’m going now! Of course, I’m gonna need another body, but I guess I’ll have plenty to choose.”

‘Friends from another universe’? Ack has known many people from other universes, none of them have been his friends... He thinks about letting him go, so the madness finally ends, but then it hits him... 13 years ago...

“LORELEI!” Ack yells as Thenz gets into the portal. Ack follows him and finds himself in the middle of a warzone...

Thunder City TV News HQ...

A few days ago...

“OH MY GOB!” Buzz E. Rante shouts “Y-You... you are right!”

“See, Buzz? I told ya” his boss says “Those damn bastards tricked you! Now, be a good boy and tell me what hapenned when you infiltrated in TIAMAT now that you remember it”

“I-I...” Buzz says, still shocked by the revelation. He just found out he wasn’t really abducted, he infiltrated as a student in TIAMAT and discovered what it really was about: training young metahumans to be heroes, but he is more shocked by the way he acted when he was there... and the fact that he bought superpowers, that might still be there...

Suddenly, the image of Gooz appears in front of them. It tells them, like people all over the world of the upcoming war and the MBL needs people with powers.
Buzz stands up and quickly leaves teh office.

“Where do you think you are going???” his boss yells.

“I’m going to redeem myself!” he answers.




The Warzone...

10 minutes ago

Max starts looking for Nobody Else as the confused Joker2 and Hourly Quinn try to figure out where they are...
“Where the hell have you taken us?” Joker2 asks.

Max looks at him and says “SHIT! Why are you here?”

“That’s what I’d like to know!”

“I was suppoused to come here alone, you must have touched me while I was teleporting” Max says “You’ll have to wait until I recover some energy to—“

Max then sees what he looking for...
Nobody Else, along with his old teammate Walter and some other guy... or gal... fighting an undead version of the C-Men.
Max runs to the fight, and Joker2 and Hourly follow him.

“Mxy???” Walter and Nobody say at the same time when tehy recognize him.

“I’m here to save you!” Max yells at Nobody.

“Well then you better give us a hand!!!” Nobody yells back.

Max joins the fight, as Joker2 and Hourly do the same thing.

“We gotta get ourselves busy somehow while we are here...” Hourly says.

Max, trying to end this quickly, tries to use his powers to take down the demoniac Birdman, that is obviously the leader. He’s shocked when he sees he has no effect on him.

“You idiot!” Birdman yells “Don’t you realize I’m more than just a simple demon? I AM EVIL ITSELF!”

Near there, Buzz E. Randall uses the powers he once used for evil to try to redeem himself and help in this war. With him are two mistery men... One dressed in an armor (like a videogame hero) and the other one wearing a mask in his face. When they defeat the undead soldiers they were fighting, the armored man, Ack, says...

“Well, gentlemen, that was a good fight, I guess we—“ then he sees Joker2, Hourly and Max and says “Wait a moment... I think I know them! Lorelei’s friends!”

“Lorelei?” Buzz says, as he looks and recognizes Max.

But the masked man is even more schocked when he sees Joker2 and Hourly. He takes his mask off, revealing the face of Nowhereman II/Disco Steve, and thanks God for the oportunity he has just been given. Months ago, when he realized the blast he gave himself didn’t kill him, only destroyed his time machine, he did the same thing. Since then he has been in the shadows, helping as much as he can.

The three of them run to help in the fight against he C-Men.

“Good to see you are on the right side now, Buzz...” Max says.

Because of the 13 years on him, and the short time they spend with him, noone recognizes Ack. Only Birdman does. Or the entity from another hyperboard that has taken possesion of his body.

Tough they had never seen him without his helmet, Joker2 and Hourly inmediatly recognize their former leader. There are no words between them, just the look on his eyes tells them he’s the same man they considered their father again.

Max realizes Birdman/Thenz was right, he’s too powerfull for them. If he wanted, he could destroy all of them in a second.but it looks like he likes to play. Everyone realizes it. Because of this, he must take a fast decition...
He contacts mentally everyone in his side of the fight, except Joker2 and Hourly, and they all give him the same answer...
“Yes, I’m willing to give my life to defeat them”
Max creates creates a cricle of shinning energy putting inside Nowhereman II/Disco Steve, Buzz, Terry (He/she), Ack and Walter. He puts Joker2 and Hourly in a safe place, as he elevates Nobody.

“MAX!!!” Joker2 yells “WHAT ARE YOU DOING???”

“You are needed somewhere else! Stay there!” Max says.

“Trust him!” Nowhereman II/Disco Steve says “And remember... I... I love you...”

Max then teleports Joker2 and Hourly back to the Klone Dome.

“IDIOT!” Birdman yells “You can’t hide from me! I’ll destroy your barrier in two seconds!”

Max forms a big ball of energy with everyone except Nobody inside. Before getting into it, he says something to Nobody. He gets into the ball, and it starts getting smaller.

“He... killed himself?” Birdman says “Coward... cowards...”

Then the ball of energy gets into Nobody Else’s body, causing a big explosion of light. When the explosion clears, a new being is standing where Nobody was. Everybody Else would be more apropiate now...
He lifts his arm and shoots a blast of energy at a terrified Birdman. The C-Men collapse as soon as Birdman fades away.

The new being, with the pure soul of Nobody Else and everybody else’s power realises it’s over. Not just his battle; all the other undead soldiers are gone. The war is over.
Then he looks at himself. He feels the power insides him and remembers the person that made it possible.
He looks at the sky and says
“Thank you... father”

The End: Mxy

"Your dad would be real proud of you." Tobias said as he held Lucky's hand. It was only an hour later that Lucky passed, arriving to his greater reward.

Tobias left that afternoon. No goodbyes, no "I'll be seeing you". He just walked away. No one has heard from him since.
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"Hello? Where am I?" Lucky asked as he looked around and saw a beatiful landscape.

"Welcome home, son." Walker said as he came out to meet his child for the first time.

"Daddy!" Lucky said as he ran into his father's arms.

The End: Tobias & Lucky

Call me Eurostar, but my true name is Edulcorael. I’m an angel, you know.

Well, the War has ended. In the Multiverse there is no more X, and no more V. As it had to be since the Finale, now stand the W, Ry-Chard, the Watcher, the keeper of Light and Darkness.

Has peace really landed on Earth, finally?

I’m sorry, but it’s not so. The prophecies have not been fulfilled, yet. The X and the V have fallen, their hosts finally dead. Chewy has found peace, with his friend Milliard. God bless them. But for Earth, peace is a thing yet to conquer.

Because in Hell, now, many are laughing, as many are hiding in fear. The High Lord of Evil, Viper, is dead, banished in the Pit. His minions shiver in pain, but others makes plan. The king is dead, live the King!

The others that were in the shadow, now can rise. Cancellation! Azazel! Dark Fury! XXX! The generals of the hell’s army now have the change to step to the highest seat, second after the Abyss itself.

And so, now, in Hell, begins the inner war for leadership. The goal? Absorb the remaining energy of Viper? How come is possible that there are still Viper residual energies around?

Because whenever there is X, there is also V.

And the X has not really left the Hyperboards altogether. Chained to the wall of the Circles of Darkness, captured from the much distant parts of the Multivers Barriers, are the nine remaining Promethei. Prometheus I, II, II, and so on until the IX.

Only one time before they showed up on our planet, our timeline, our Board of Existence. Two years ago, during one of the countless battles between the MBL and IBG. Who are they? Where they come from? Nobody knows, and I suspect nobody never will. But Hell has captured the God Continuity, and for him, locating the nine Promethei was an easy task. A task he had to perform, a move on the checkboard he did to free some others players in this perilious game.

And now the Promethy are being sacrificed, killed with long knife made of pure darkness, to collect the remaining Viper energies for a new Hell Lord to rise. Tied all around the mouth of the Abyss, the Prometei, one after the other dies, as only Gods can dies, making whole Universe collapsing at the vibrational frequencies of their screams.

Many demon Lords laugh. Only one, in the shadow, observes the scene with a serious face. Lucifer Morningstar.

Meanwhile, in Promethean City, it’s the moment of the mourning of the friends. The surviving heroes gathers. There is no more a MBL, but also TOMB seems severely shattered. At the burial site, near Bibbo there are the few remaining mebers of the Time Ordkeepers: Joker1, LLance, Shock, Danny, Captain Nemo. Prometheus has disappeared, with Malvana, Avatar has killed himself, and Ghaleon has been sucked into a transdimensional portal. He has not returned. Also Mordecai has disappeared. He went invisible, and has never been seen since.

For the MBL it’s the same. Only Gooz, with his son, now a deity, the Watcher, daniel page and Changeling. And the just returned Sir Justin, on the back of his Hawk pigeon Palinor. With them, many new or old heroes gathers over the wreckage of the castle. Ry-Chard speaks: “The X and the V are no more. Gooz is free, he walks the Elysean Fields”.

A tears appears over the face of Bibbo. Chewy, the best friend of everybody, is dead. Gooz ponders over the words of his son. Without the X, Gooz will never become Prometheus X. Maybe Prometheus has not died in the Battle in the Castle. Maybe he never existed. The paradox of time will never cease to amaze him.

But not every demons has left the Earth.

My attention is quickly diverted from the battleground to the Citadel. The basement, the hiding place of the kids from TIAMAT.

There is a battle, over the wounded body of Lucky. I-2, the future son of Guy Smiley is battling two demons. Bem and MeDuSa, the mother of my son. I-2 has recognized Bem, finally he is about to fulfill the task for which he has returned from the future. Stopping Bem to take opossession of the Snake Headed Son. But altough they fight valiantly, the stone vision of the demonesse is unavoidable fro the teen heroes. And now he stand, thransformed into a staute. I know the effects will wore off eventually. But now nothing stands between her and her son. My son.

I can’t hope to influence anyone to help the kid. There are only two demons and my son. Hundreds of powered kid are in the next room, closed in. They are powerful as an army of MBCorpsmen, but they are scared to death. In no way I can succeeded into having them overcome the two demons.

They are here, behind a wall of steel, that for some of them would be like butter.

Yet, it is like they are hundreds of miles away.

And my son is alone, happy to see her mom.

“Mee wanna mommeee!” he smiles.

MeDuSa smiles, too, and her smiles is the most horrible thing I ever seen.

And she is walking toward my kid, and he is opening his little arms to her.

And I can’t do anything from here, I’m intangible, I could go up and ask to talk with God himself but she will hold him and bring him in Hell.

Oh God oh God oh God what I can do it can’t be end like this I don’t want to loose him another time he is my son i love him so much.

She touch him.

And I let myself to fall.

Every angel can do it. One time .

Fall. Fall from the grace of God on the hard soil of Earth.

Most do it for the love of a woman. Many have fallen for that.

I do it for the love of my son.

I would lie saying that is easy. No, it is not.

The warm of Heaven is not easy at all to left behind. But the smile of that theetless mouth will warm me as well.

The light of the Empirean sky will be hard to never be seen again. But the glows of those tiny black pupils will reward me a lot.

Many thing to leave. The clouds around the Silver City, the breeze over the Elysian Fields, the golden chariot of the Rhymer, where we were remembering the time spent in the MBL.

But many thing to have. The giggling little sounds from his mouth, the grasp of his tiny hands over my index finger. His strnge snore during the night. His smiles at the sight of the feeding bottle. How little I have of those moments before dying.

So.

I.

Fall.

I let myself down.

In the fall, my wings are ripped off. My unlimited sight is blinded.

But I keep my memories.

And like no one before me, I fall on my feet.

But I was a Leaguer before.

The face of MeDuSa has to be seen.

“Eurostar! You… you died!”

“Reports of my death were… of fuck off, fiend!”

She blast her stone vision to me. I know her modus operandi. Her battle skill. I was in love with her, years ago, altough I can’t believe how that could happen.

Anyway, I simply jump away. And the stone vision reflects over the steel walls, and hits her. She is a stone now.

What I’m going to do is not really an act of heroism, but she tried to steal my son before, and I can’t let happen again.

I take a steel bar, a leftover of the wreckage of the battle of months ago with the minions of Entropy, and with it I hit the stone statue which is now MeDuSa. Of my once lover, now there is only dust.

“Mommee!!!”

“It was not mommy, son.”

He raise his head, to see me.

“Da… daddeee?”

“Yes, son, I’m back.”

From the Klone Dome's command deck, the young Eurostar observes the millions of windows dottet sky. Every one of those window, a way to a parallel Hyperboard.

"What's that trubles you?" asks Lorelei to the kid champion.

Edulciore turns, and point to the people gathered in the vast room. "I shuldn't worry, I know. I saved you, Patrick, Jason, Disco, Giovacchino... but the mission I took was to retrieve the Message Board League. Have I accomplished that? Tobias, UUG, Indestructible Man, Brickhouse, Drax, even Max are not here... and Joker2 has just returned from Earth saying that there is a battle so great, with so many victims... Lorelei, there is not a MBL anymore...

MBL: the end