Ultimate Central: The Fanfic - volume 6

slimjim said:
Anybody want to explain "PROMETHEAN VALUES" to me?
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He was the original hero, bringing fire to the humans.

So, it's probably something like Heroes values. I'm thinking Rene makes the team realize they are superheroes, and have them stop acting like idiots.
 
I think the government will kidnap one of the Avaters to get them to tell what
site they got their powers from.

Here come the cavity searches....
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I will spawn a clone and my shadow will leave me, as I become more powerful and the new leader of the Avatars.


What? It's possible! :p
 
Some people are very close indeed. In fact, some of you are downright correct.


Though... not necessarily correct about #45...
 
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ULTIMATE CENTRAL #45
"Promethean Values"​
Halfway issue! The Avatars have had their most dangerous secret revealed to the world - they got their powers randomly from a repeating and easily accessible power source. Several important officials and the media turn up at Ultimate Central to discuss what to do with the site - now would be a bad time for something to go wrong.

Something goes horribly wrong.

The entire team is taken out and held prisoner within Ultimate Central, while their assailant, a brand new Centralization, works towards his own ends. Hacking his way into Ultimate Central's database, just what is he up to? It's a shame no one has told him what lurks in cyberspace...

From the writer critics are calling "What's With All The Greek References?", witness a turning point in Ultimate Central history as a brand new team debuts, and marvel as Rene makes his triumphant return in the next exciting issue of Ultimate Central!
 
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Damn, I was sortof off.

And don't forget who rescued Rene for no apparent reason.

That's right.

Me.

Cause I'm Ultimate, *****es.

And I had nothing better to do
 
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Was the reason not apparent?

You went to the town of Pholus, as you are a wanderer. You stayed there and met with Magical Trevor and his people. Whilst there, you stumbled across his vault and found Rene. They beat you up, took your sword, and threw you out.

You then came back and kicked their asses and freed Rene.

Was this not apparent?
 
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No it was, but I never met Rene before.

We must have had time to have a discussion when I discovered him.

And they did take my sword, I mean, if they beat me up and left me my sword, I may not have needed to kick all their asses to get it back.

I could have simply ported in, killed Trev, and got Rene out easily.

But no, those bastards took my sword, and I had to show them why I'm Ultimate.

They had no chance, none of them did.

Poor poor people.

The moral, don't **** with Ultimate Houde.

Regular Houde will just sling out insults, crafty as they are, no real damage is done. Ultimate Houde will rip off your head, then say 'Word' and walk away.
 
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Ultimate Houde said:
No it was, but I never met Rene before.

We must have had time to have a discussion when I discovered him.

And they did take my sword, I mean, if they beat me up and left me my sword, I may not have needed to kick all their asses to get it back.

I could have simply ported in, killed Trev, and got Rene out easily.

But no, those bastards took my sword, and I had to show them why I'm Ultimate.

They had no chance, none of them did.

Poor poor people.

The moral, don't **** with Ultimate Houde.

Regular Houde will just sling out insults, crafty as they are, no real damage is done. Ultimate Houde will rip off your head, then say 'Word' and walk away.
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Word.
 
Bass said:
ULTIMATE CENTRAL #45
"Promethean Values"​
Halfway issue! The Avatars have had their most dangerous secret revealed to the world - they got their powers randomly from a repeating and easily accessible power source. Several important officials and the media turn up at Ultimate Central to discuss what to do with the site - now would be a bad time for something to go wrong.

Something goes horribly wrong.

The entire team is taken out and held prisoner within Ultimate Central, while their assailant, a brand new Centralization, works towards his own ends. Hacking his way into Ultimate Central's database, just what is he up to? It's a shame no one has told him what lurks in cyberspace...

From the writer critics are calling "What's With All The Greek References?", witness a turning point in Ultimate Central history as a brand new team debuts, and marvel as Rene makes his triumphant return in the next exciting issue of Ultimate Central!
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Ultimate Central

The Man Without Fear: "We really can't get out of this?"

Icemastertron sighs and shakes his head. Sincerely, he speaks.

Icemastertron: "We've got to."
Nurhachi: "Where's Rene?"
The Man Without Fear: "In his room. He's not up for meeting anyone, I think. He can't even return to his human form yet."

For the last two days, the Avatars had been making their headquarters presentable for the arriving dignitaries. Moonmaster blurted out how all the super powered beings of Ultimate Central had received their powers – completely at random. From the power battery of the Ultimate Central website. Which they now control.
The Avatars are very tense.

DIrishB: "That's it."
Icemastertron: "No. They smell it, we get in more trouble we don't need. Just be nervous."
Ultimate Gambit: "Still no one's explained this to me. What are they going to do? What CAN they do?"
ProjectX2: "Look what they do when they want oil."
Nurhachi: "They're on their way."

The transporter room flares, and the dignitaries arrive. Ambassadors from several of the nations on the UN council; America, China, England, Russia, Japan… Each bringing with them an aide or translator, and a journalist for their own papers. Some corporate, some political and some governmental lobbyists All in all, about three dozen people, all wanting a little piece of heaven for themselves.
Icemastertron whispers to ProjectX2.

Icemastertron: "Is it me or is it hot in here?"
Nurhachi: "Shut up!"

That's a little harsh, Icemastertron thinks.
Smiles, some sincere, some not so, on both sides, fill the room.
The Man Without Fear steps up to the dignitaries, who begin taking photos of the room and of him and they start surrounding him. The other Avatars hang back a little. Not being a leader isn't so bad.

The Man Without Fear: "Welcome, to Ultimate Central. We're the Avatars. If you'd like, we'll begin the tour…"
Cristian Manzano: "Actually, I'd rather you answer a question. This transportation system is really quite clever. Did you invent it?"
The Man Without Fear: "No, it was already installed when we took over this place…"
Cristian Manzano: "So why didn't you share the technology?"
The Man Without Fear: "Something tells me that's a rhetorical question."
Cristian Manzano: "It strikes me you could have shared this technology, a seeming breadcrumb from the wondrous technology you seem to have here, with the world. Its applications for rescue services should be apparent to you considering what you use them for. Imagine being able to appear instantaneously anywhere on the planet to save lives."
The Man Without Fear: "That is what we use them for."
Cristian Manzano: "I meant trained professionals."
The Man Without Fear: "And you are?!"

The Man Without Fear is obviously annoyed. Cristian Manzano offers his hand out. The Man Without Fear accepts and shakes it.

Cristian Manzano: "Cristian Manzano. Call me 'Ultimate Bigby'."

A small 'click' sound came from their handshake. Suddenly, The Man Without Fear vanished. He disappears with the same localized psychedelic effect that occurs when anyone uses the Ultimate Central transporters.
The room is filled with shocks and gasps. The dignitaries panic and shake as the Avatars stand ready.

Ultimate Bigby: "This place isn't yours anymore."

When the site Ultimate Central began giving people incredible abilities, its creator, Ultimate E created a team of heroes to bring justice to the world and deal with the astounding effects of the site. That team rebelled against Ultimate E and dedicated themselves to protecting Earth from all superhuman threats. They are the Avatars.​


~ NURHACHI PRESENTS ~
ULTIMATE CENTRAL
THE FANFIC
"PROMETHEAN VALUES"
Volume 6, Issue 45, By Bass​


The Avatars roll call
DIrishB - recreational marijuana user and historical mastermind, he has the power to control plantlife and vegetation
Icemastertron - the team's secretary and accountant, who needs to use his ice control powers in order to finance the Avatar's binging
Nurhachi - arguably the possessor of the strangest superpower of all - prehensile blood - he is the team's moral and artistic compass
Rene – Insecure and pensive nice-guy, who can hack into any computer system and turn into a green goblin and throw fireballs
ProjectX2 - the rock-skinned old-timer who's random thought patterns make him a terrific lateral thinker and strategist
The Man Without Fear - the team's maverick leader, with heighetened senses, capable of powerful energy blasts from his eyes
Ultimate Gambit - decisive, repentant, and hedonistic hero who has the disconcerting power to make anything he touches explode

Ultimate Central

Stunned.
Ultimate Bigby stands, surrounded by anxious and worried and terrified VIPs. The Avatars still stood on the outside. They can't protect the people from Bigby from where they are.

ProjectX2: "Okay, 'Ultimate Bigby'. Where's the Man Without Fear?"

As he says this, the other Avatars start slowly moving through the people, round the sides.

Ultimate Bigby: "In one of your holding cells. I rigged the transporter."

They give Icemastertron a glance telling him to freeze Bigby as soon as he has a clear shot.

ProjectX2: "This obviously isn't going to work. We each have our own transporters. The Man Without Fear will be back in a second."

DIrishB moves a couple of VIPs out of Icemastertron's shot.

Ultimate Bigby: "I'm smart (no, no seriously) and I uploaded a static jammer when the teleport triggered. The entire system is inoperable for at least an hour. More time than I need. I've already defeated five of you."
ProjectX2: "Actually, you've just incapacitated one, and pissed off the rest. Ice."

Icemastertron motions to make a solid ice beam and take down Bigby, but instead, his hands drip with cold water. Icemastertron panics.

Icemastertron: "I told you… it's too hot… oh god, I'm melting…"
Ultimate Bigby: "I'd recommend turning into your normal form."

Icemastertron does so, and collapses.

Ultimate Bigby: "Dehydrated."
Nurhachi: "OH! You made it HOT! And that took out the ICE guy! Are you trying to impress us to death?!"

Ultimate Bigby smiles.
The Avatars start trying to make it through the people, as they push the other way trying to escape.

Nurhachi: "GET OUT OF THE WAY! GODDAMIT!"
DIrishB: "Nur?"

Nurhachi starts pushing and punching those people next to him, his blood carapace starts forming spikes and sharp objects.

Nurhachi: "YOU DAMN COWARDS! TRY TO TELL US WHAT TO DO?!"
Ultimate Bigby: "You fools do remember what happens when Nurhachi gets really hot?"
ProjectX2: "His blood…"
Ultimate Bigby: "That's right. Now which of you has tough enough skin to hold him so he doesn't kill all the innocent people? Hmm, let me see…"

ProjectX2, covered in his rock skin, runs up and holds onto Nurhachi in a bear hug. Nurhachi's spikes hurt ProjectX2, but they don't break his skin. Nurhachi keeps ranting and screaming, and it gets worse.
Ultimate Bigby turns. All the people have run, but the journalists stay, off to the side, taking notes and pictures. Ultimate Bigby faces off against DIrishB and Ultimate Gambit.

DIrishB: "Your math sucks."
Ultimate Bigby: "Oh really? What threat are you? No plants. No teleporters. I doubt a fern will stop me."
DIrishB: "Fine."

DIrishB puts up his dukes and runs for Bigby. He can't use his powers, he'll just beat the **** out of him the old fashioned way. Ultimate Gambit joins him.
The two run right at Bigby, and just as DIrishB is about to throw a punch, he collapses on the floor and starts vomiting. Ultimate Gambit, astonished, stops in his tracks.

Ultimate Bigby: "It's not hot because I lit a match. It's radiation, idiot."

DIrishB crawls away from Ultimate Bigby and passes out.

Ultimate Gambit: "So mon ami. It is just us."
Ultimate Bigby: "Don't try to be cool. Your operating solely on instinct. I've already beaten you too."

Ultimate Bigby motions out his hand, and a blast of radiation, knocks Ultimate Gambit to the floor, hurling his guts up.
Ultimate Bigby looks at the Avatars. DIrishB and Icemastertron passed out. Ultimate Gambit throwing up. ProjectX2 holding onto a raving Nurhachi.
Ultimate Bigby looks at the journalists. He bears a wide smile.

Ultimate Bigby: "Avatars. Pwnd. Headline news."

Ultimate Bigby keeps his wide smile as he smugly walks to the main Ultimate Central database.

Ten Minutes Later

One of the VIPs touches the shimmering wall in front of him. It burns him and he steps back.

DIrishB: "Again: Stay away from those! They don't listen."

The Avatars sit in the main living room of the mansion. Ultimate Gambit is still throwing up a little now and again. The temperature has returned to normal, and Icemastertron and Nurhachi are fine.

Nurhachi: "I think we should 'Leeroy Jenkins' his ***."
Ultimate Gambit: "How? He's set up those weird… wall things. He's penned us into the living room."
Icemastertron: "I'm pretty sure they're firewalls. Cyberspace barriers. I don't know why he made them hot."
DIrishB: "What about Mwof?"
Icemastertron: "What about him? He's stuck in a holding cell."
Nurhachi: "We need to get the transporters working."
Ultimate Gambit: "We got schooled."
ProjectX2: "We did didn't we? He took us out. Quickly. Effectively. Think about that. He knew us inside and out. All our powers, how they worked, what weaknesses to exploit. He even messed up our transporters."
Icemastetron: "I feel better."
ProjectX2: "Think about it. He could've taken us out any time. At night when we're asleep or drunk or high. If all he wanted was Central, he could've come and taken it over while we were out saving the world."
Ultimate Gambit: "He probably only could teleport to the holding cells."
ProjectX2: "No. If he could make a transporter, even a one-way one… no. He could've taken this place from us without even fighting."
Nurhachi: "He wanted a fight."
DIrishB: "In public. … He thinks he's a hero."
ProjectX2: "We need to know what he wants Central for."
Icemastertron: "What was that he said to Mwof? Those questions he's asked?"

Icemastertron nods his head as he remembers. He got up and walks to the database room. The door is open, but he can't see Bigby or the computer database. But the firewall only prevents physical movement. Icemastertron can talk. And Bigby will hear.

Icemastertron: "So what you doin'?"
Ultimate Bigby: "Go back to the others, 'Ice'."
Icemastertron: "You're taking the transporter technology for yourself?"
Ultimate Bigby: "Myself?"

Ultimate Bigby, annoyed, gets off the database and walks up to Icemastertron who is standing at the doorway.
Icemastertron smiles.

Ultimate Bigby: "These transporters are the merest breadcrumbs from this place. This is…. an alien time capsule. Technology for all aspects of life. The things here… and just what have YOU done with it?"
Icemastertron: "We save lives."
Ultimate Bigby: "From monsters and zombies and aliens."
Icemastertron: "We saved the world."
Ultimate Bigby: "You're selfish. YOU want to save the world. People die everyday from all manner of 'mundane' things; disease, famine, war…"
Icemastertron: "We can't involve ourselves so directly – it's more complex."
Ultimate Bigby: "Do you not even realize how shallow your argument is? YOU don't need to. Look at this place. All you had to do was give it over to the world and it could save itself time and time again."
Icemastertron: "The world? We give this over, and it goes to corrupt politicians and bankers."
Ultimate Bigby: "People wouldn't stand for it."
Icemastertron: "We don't know nearly enough about this place and what it can do, let alone mass produce it for the common man."
Ultimate Bigby: "Did you ever even try?"

Icemastertron just looks at Ultimate Bigby.
Neither one flinches.

Icemastertron: "What are you going to do?"
Ultimate Bigby: "More than your team has ever done. I'm accessing the power battery. I'm going to overload it. Super powers for everyone. Everyone. A little gift of the gods to the mortal man."
Icemastertron: "Did you ever even read Spider-Man? Power and responsibility?"
Ultimate Bigby: "Like you're one to talk."
Icemastertron: "The Avatars are pretty much the only good guys to have come out of this damn thing. Everyone else has either been crazy and tried to take over the world, or a horrific, uncontrollable monster. The guy who came up with this place turned out to be a megalomaniacal world conqueror. You want to hand it over to everybody? We don't know who'd get powers and who wouldn't – and we don't even know what powers they'd get. Not everyone will get an ideal ability, some will end up cursed and you cannot just force it upon them.
Ultimate Bigby: "I got the ability to manipulate weak nuclear forces. Not a particularly pleasant power. It took me a while to learn how to control it so I could see other people again, so I could eat again."
Icemastertron: "Exactly. You want to give THAT to the world?"
Ultimate Bigby: "Here's what I did with my powers. I went to nuclear dump sites and broke down the radioactivity. There are areas of the planet which won't be inhabited for millions of years. It almost kills me, but I've managed to make them livable within the next century or two. No one's even noticed, but it's been done."
Icemastertron: "You're being reckless."
Ultimate Bigby: "I think I've already proven that I'm not."

And with that, Ultimate Bigby turns around and goes back to the computer. Icemastertron starts to head off to the living room, but stops when Ultimate Bigby curses.

Ultimate Bigby: "What… you BASTARDS! You locked me out! I can't even hack through the encryption!"

ProjectX2 and Nurhachi look at each other and smile.

Project X2 & Nurhachi: "Rene."

From inside his room, communicating through the interior comm system;

Rene: "Bigby. It's over."
Ultimate Bigby: "Like hell it is."

Ultimate Bigby pulls out a small transporter, presses the button and disappears.

Icemastertron: "Rene?"
Rene: "He's gone into cyberspace."
DIrishB: "Can you drop these firewalls?"
Rene: "Sure."

The firewalls disappear.

Nurhachi: "We need to go after this son of a *****."
ProjectX2: "He said the transporters were down, but he transported out of here. Can we get Mwof back?"

The Man Without Fear appears in the living room.

The Man Without Fear: "Let's go kick his head in."

The Heart Of Ultimate Central

Deep within Ultimate Central, lies its supposed heart. A tube, wires connecting to everything.
Ultimate Bigby stands in the heart, fiddling with it using tools and a palm computer.
The Avatars come into cyberspace behind him.

Ultimate Gambit: "That's the heart?"
ProjectX2: "It looks broken. Ripped."
Nurhachi: "Interesting. Let's take a tour. After we beat the **** out of this guy."
The Man Without Fear: "Okay, you guys rush him, I'll keep back…"

PHWWWWWWWWWWWWOWOWOWOOOOOOOOOOWWWSSSSSSSTTTT.

The tube flashes and warps, ripples and turns in random, dizzying and chaotic intervals. There is no up, no down. No sideways. No angles. And then there is all sides at once. All angles, all directions, all points, existing simultaneously in a fractal spiral of possibilities, eventualities, and most disturbingly – inevitabilities.
It begins to settle and hum in a repeating pattern.

The Man Without Fear: "Leeroy his ***."
Nurhachi: "LEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOY! JEEEEENKINS!"

Nurhachi, Icemastertron, and DIrishB charge at Ultimate Bigby. The Man Without Fear, Ultimate Gambit and ProjectX2 bring up the rear.
Then, all of a sudden, Nurhachi, Icemastertron, DIrishB and Ultimate Bigby… vanish. What's more, so do entire sections of where they're standing. The Man Without Fear grabs Ultimate Gambit and ProjectX2 and pulls them back.

The Man Without Fear: "What the hell?"

Ultimate Central

The Man Without Fear, Ultimate Gambit, and ProjectX2 appear in the Ultimate Central database, which is where Rene just transported them.

Ultimate Gambit: "What the hell is going on?"
Rene: "Look at this."

Rene shows a video screen that is showing the heart of Ultimate Central. The frequencies on the screen are constantly altering.

Rene: "It starting messing up like this when Bigby messed around with the heart. Just look at the screen closely."
ProjectX2: "What are we…"

For a second, a split second, they see humanoid shapes, seemingly feasting on Nurhachi and the rest.

Ultimate Gambit: "What is that?"
Rene: "Not sure. Some kind of… invisible cyberspace bogeyman."
The Man Without Fear: "What?"
ProjectX2: "These guys… they don't' register. They seem to be a localized phenomena – they exist out of reality, and consume that reality which they're near."
The Man Without Fear: "That doesn't make much sense."
ProjectX2: "Think of it like this. All the world's a stage. These are the backstage crew. They come on, and they take stuff off stage."
The Man Without Fear: "How do we get rid of these guys?"
ProjectX2: "How can we see them Rene?"
Rene: "The modulating frequencies… I think at certain points it connects with what they are. But it's never the same frequency or I could hold it. I've tried. I can't."
ProjectX2: "But they are existing on their own frequency?"
Rene: "Seems like it."
ProjectX2: "Hah. I've got an idea. But you're the one who's gonna have to make it."
Rene: "Oh?"
ProjectX2: "Make a repeating modulating jammer… a rattle. If it's resonating their frequency, it should be quite painful if these things only manage to co-exist with us due to dimensional frequencies – I mean, they've got to exist somewhere right? It won't last, and it'll only work in spurts, but it should get our guys out. They like to lurk. I say we turn on the lights."
Rene: "And just who is going to risk walking into them with a rattle?"
The Man Without Fear: "That'll be me."

The Heart of Ultimate Central, About Twenty Minutes Later

The Man Without Fear steps up closer. He can't see anything of the heart left, yet it doesn't look like the heart has ever been there.
He switches on the rattle – a copper and bronze foot-long stick. It starts to hum and pulse in a completely erratic fashion. It is actually quite annoying.
He starts moving "forward" as best as he can. Nothing happens. He turns and goes another way. After seemingly walking circles, suddenly, new ground starts to appear. And he sees a body.
Ultimate Bigby. He goes up to him and feels his neck. There's a pulse. He puts a transporter on him, and Bigby disappears.
He keeps walking and… the rattle stops working.
He shakes it. He hits it. He… loses his train of thought. What was he supposed to be doing? Why can't he feel his legs? Is there something in his hand? A… ra… ruh… he doesn't know the world. He's supposed to do something with it. Something good. Good. He hits it. It makes a sound. The sound is annoying. He wonders why he even turned it on. Then he remembers. And he sees clearly. His mind returns. He can see at his feet, his friends. One transporter each, and he's gone.

Ultimate Central, Later

The dignitaries returned home. They came to the conclusion that they will appoint UN observers to help catalogue and create an inventory of Ultimate Central and it's capabilities. But they claimed it wouldn't be intrusive, which perhaps had something to do with the Avatars saving their lives. However, as soon as the people were appointed, it would have to be done. The Avatars are no longer allowed to just waste the potential of Ultimate Central with their inactions, no matter how well attentioned.

And then, there's Ultimate Bigby. He is in a holding cell. How long for, considering his hacking abilities, is uncertain.

DIrishB: "So what do we do with him?"
The Man Without Fear: "I don't know. Frankly, we've got to worry about all the new 'Centralizations' he's just created."
Icemastertron: "I agree. That, and working what the hell is going on with this site, are our priorities."
Rene: "But you're already trying to save the world. That's your priority."
Nurhachi: "So what do you suggest?"
Rene: "I was thinking of finding these people. All the new 'Centralizations' as you put it, those due to Bigby's actions, and those from before who we've not yet found, people like Ultimate Bigby himself."
Ultimate Gambit: "You don't want to stay with us?"
Rene: "It's not about that. You all realize that we need to pay more attention to this thing that dropped in our laps. I'm the most qualified. So I'm going to do it."
The Man Without Fear: "On your own?"
Rene: "And Ultimate Bigby."
Nurhachi: "Are you crazy?!"
Icemastertron: "After what he did to us?"
Rene: "He didn't do us any lasting harm. He just trapped us and tried to help people. He was pissed off, he was reckless – but he was right. We need to sort this out, and I'm sure he'll gladly help."
ProjectX2: "I like it."
DIrishB: "Have you been hitting my stash?"

And so it is done. Rene and Ultimate Bigby will search the planet for Centralizations. They will work to uncover the secrets of Ultimate Central. They will look for those who deserve superpowers and as soon as they can, willingly grant them powers of their choosing. And they will not do so alone. Taking his offer of help, Rene and Ultimate Bigby are joined by Hawkeye101, the eagle-eyed archer.
Within just a few weeks, already Rene, Ultimate Bigby, and Hawkeye101 are joined by three new heroes, as they travel the world on their mission. Iceman, the hero of sub-zero temperatures. Rufus, the man who can talk to the future. And The Watcher, who can extend his senses for miles.
Together, they are
THE SUB-NICS.​


THE END


NEXT ISSUE – DOC COMIC AND THE GREAT MONSTER HUNT​


Epilogue 1 – An Unanswered Question

Days later, in Ultimate Central, The Man Without Fear plays the encounter with Ultimate Bigby in his head, over and over.
Frustrated and going nowhere, he decides to speak to ProjectX2. He's in the living room where the Avatars have manage to get an old NES working.

The Man Without Fear: "Proj, something's been bothering me."
ProjectX2: "Can it wait? I'm playing Duck Hunt."
The Man Without Fear: "Something's bothering me, about Bigby."
Nurhachi: "Dude. He took us all out be surprise."
Ultimate Gambit: "He cheated. Let it go."
The Man Without Fear: "It's not that. How did he know so much about us? He knew a lot."
ProjectX2: "He just did his homework."
The Man Without Fear: "But where did he get the information from?"
Icemastertron: "We were Hollywood media darlings for a week – or at least some of us were – do you really think there's a part of your life not on public record?"
The Man Without Fear: "Yeah, you're right. It's just… no, you're right."

The Man Without Fear will still be bothered by it tomorrow.

Epilogue 2 – A Conspiracy of Three

Deep under the Earth, bearing to the core of the planet, is the Burnham Stalactite.

Ultimate Bigby: "They used something like this."
Ourchair: "Cute."
Compound: "And the data you retrieved?"
Ultimate Bigby: "Maybe 50% of what was available. I tried to get more, but those lurkers…"
Ourchair: "Indeed."
Ultimate Bigby: "So, what are we waiting for now?"
Compound: "The fourth member."
Ultimate Bigby: "Ha. Then?"
Ourchair: "Then – we save the world."

Epilogue 3 – The Red Star

RED STAR APPEARS IN NIGHT SKY by Tasty Q Rock-A-Fella
Three nights ago, astronomical observers noted a new star appearing in the sky, one that is completely red. At first it was believed to be the light of a supernova, billions of light years away, but more evidence has uncovered something disturbing. "The 'Red Star' seems to actually be more like a moon, and not a star at all. It does have the same appearance as we would expect from a red dwarf" said leading astronomer, Brigadier Moore. "It could be a moon, an asteroid, meteor or some kind of other satellite, but that wouldn't explain the light it's emanating. It could also be light from a source other than a star. Light or satellite, whatever it is, it seems to be coming closer." More on this story as it develops.
 
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Great stuff Bass. Awesome cover and dialogue.

Just one thing... it kind of reminds me of The Authority... I hope you didn't parody one of the arcs I haven't read yet... :?
 
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