9p.m, Friday night. Communication room at the LL HQ. Only one hero can be found there (Who but Nats would be at home Friday night anyway?)
*Knock being*
-Hi again, Yo. Pegasus will join us in a sec. She was slightly injured in the mission, but Finny sent her back to the infirmary anyway. The rest are still busy or getting drunk..or dating, dammit. Can I get you something, tea? Coffee?
“Grabing some reality firehead, yes?. Got any whiskey?” Nats noticed Yo was in his male form. The Zorro outfit was tighter “there” than he remembered or cared to remember, the shirt bottomless on the chest. “er…sure. But I thought we were back on business” surprised he pointed out.
Suddenly, with a very girlish blush and wearing a black leather mini Yo changed again “Tea please…with fatty free milk. Sugar no”
“er..sure” Nats turned to look at Pegasus who came just in time to see the odd scene. Whispering at Nats she commented “ Is that the so reputed Yo? From the legendary League of Regulars? It looks to me she is in urgent need of a shrink.”
“She is sick. And yes, the LoR were legends” Nats professed an admiration for his childhood heroes and wasn’t going to let a newly reformed villain mock at them. “Okay, here is the plan…”
“A sucker for rosebuds, I am betting. “said Yo handling her a potted plant from the close table. “And sexy enough to being eating in three quick bites. Wanna tango between sheets, sugar?”
Nats only had time to grab Pegasus winds before she jumped over Yo “Let me Nats, I am going to knock him down. Just a bit. Let me hit him just once” Being a strong willed, sharp mouthed woman herself, she didn’t care for all this macho behavior.
“You two stop that now. Here is the plan…”Nats was interrupted again by an unearthly wind. In the middle of it, the cosmic entity known as Chronicle of Stories faced them. “What now..?”
Good century. The Book has talked. The planets trembled and the birds cheeped. A galaxy is down, humanity at lost. From the collision came a great disturbance seven times seven. The Yo beings lost the stars. The Book has talked hopping to clarify the cataclysm to you, lesser beings. Overcome your fears and find the key” And with that he was gone, leaving behind our heroes open mouthed
“He is gone” Disappointed Yo woman said. She hasn’t even had time to mess with her hair in front of him.
“Don’t pout baby. We will buy you a pink ribbon. Nats, is only me the one who is clueless about that rambling?”
“I am at lost too, Pegasus. The Chronicle only makes sense at the end of the missions, when making sense is pointless. But he doesn’t ramble. If only he has been more forwarding….Must be a clause in comics entities contracts forbidding them to talk straight”
“Some mouth smart was he being. I some sense in his fuzzy head could have put ” Yo-man was getting grumpy seeing how first CoS and now Nats were “hitting” on the only babe around. “Got a bear?”
“Oh, no…more unearthly wind…Is everybody going to pop out in my solo story?.. Even dead ones?” Nats grumbled seeing the Hooded Hood in the middle of the wind.
“Good century indeed” His eyes gleaming under the hood.
Jumping at the same time Pegasus and Nats tried to content him while Yo-woman was just mumbling about how sexy hoods were. Unfortunately, the HH was just a hologram so Nats found himself lying on the floor over a very pissed of horse-woman. Suddenly an implosion, and with it the three heroes were in the Hood dominions and in front of the Hood himself.
“So That was your doing the whole time. Lisa was right!. But this time we are prepared for you. Right Nats?..Nats? Pegasus looked at his teammate. He just shuddered.
“I’m afraid the Hood is always three steps ahead of us. Why don’t you explain what is going on here” Nats said. “Weren’t you dead?. I am tired of changing files every time someone gets better”.
“My pleasure. But first I welcome you to my humble castle. And yes, I imagine I am not alive in your time. But who said I am from your time. And, please. Don’t insult me, I don’t retcon death, even mine. Anyway, seeing how Chronicle’s warming was waste on you three, let me rephrase the situation. First, I am not the, how do you say, oh, yes…the mastermind behind Yo’s problems. From time to time, there are disturbance in the comics continuum…
“Wohoho..football time!”
Without paying notice to Yo’s outburst the villain continued, “Normally they go unnoticed. Unfortunately for you, this time there has been more than one in a short period” HH seeing the lack of understanding in two pairs of eyes sighted. Yo-woman wasn’t paying attention while flirting with the Hood, so didn’t count. “Perhaps you understand me better if I use the common term. Lately, there has been several “Changes of The Message Board” in a short piriod . Yo beings are especially sensitive to changes in the reality, being pure thoughts…but even humans have been more restless than usual.”
“So, you are saying that Yo is basically okay. That is just temporal till she accommodates to the new situation?. That we can go home and relax?” Nats relaxed.
“That would make the story end to soo, wouldn’t it?. True, I am not responsible for your problems, but who is to say I cannot get the situation to my advantage? Yo-woman is useless to me, however entertainment. But with Yo-man, several like him, … fearless, rude, strong and easily manipulated I could conquer the world, even the Universe. Millions thoughts beings, clones of wilds Yo-man, unstable enough to follow my orders. Yo has not fulfilled his incommensurable powers by now, due basically to his childish character...”
“I am a grown up!” Yo-woman interrupted and began to cry.
“Without this debility he could be invincible. And me with him” The Hood finished
“I am not being hurting nobody. But date you I can” Yo-woman retorted cheerfully now, winking inefficiently one of her eyes to the Hood. The whole effect was funny, but sweet Nats thought. “Here is your first problem. Yo’s changes dosen’t fit any pattern. You cannot contain her in one form long enough to clone him.”
“A delay of my plans, for sure. But There must be a trigger behind the use of one of both personalities each time…. And Meanwhile I sort out this petty mystery, I hope you find your cell comfortable enough. Mind the rats.”
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“Nats? How can the Hood clone Yo? S/he is a thought, right? You cannot clone thoughts” Pegasus in her human form pointed out. She was on the floor, as far as possible from Yo-man. Yo-man kept getting closer to her every sec, so she ended up on Nats lap. Nats was trying to look as much inconspicuous and harmless with her in his arms as possible, in case Yo got jealous again. Funnily, as soon as s/he was close to both, Yo didn’t look as manly or feminine as before. Nats thought she could see the old Yo there for a second.
“Perhaps the HH dosen’t know all there is about Yo. Yo-beings are “born” every time one human think. I don’t believe they can be cloned. But that it is not common knowledge. Let the Hood worry about that. We better escape now. Could you try again changing to horse form and knock down that door? My powers seem to have abandoned me as soon as the Hood got us” And his luck, he thought. Two babes alone with him in a tiny room. One a mentally disturbed serial-dater, the other with big hooves.
“Honey, I am homeee!” Yo tossed in
“Same here, don’t have my powers neither. The door is heavy but old fashioned. We just need the key, but I don’t think the Hood will give it to us if we politely ask. Wait, didn’t say Crow-guy something about finding the key?” Pegasus remembered.
“CoS? Right, but find it were?” Said Nats jumping from the floor and looking around the empty cell.
“Is there any coffee?” Yo-man asked to noone in particular
“What about Yo-thing? Couldn’t he think himself as a key?…No, I forgot. Our powers are not working here.
“You are a genius Peggy” Nats said, giving her a full kiss in the mouth “Yo-thing is not a power. Is just another personality of Yo.!”
“Remind me to kill you for the kiss later. Okay, now we only have to make psycho-Yo change into a key….”
“Do you come here often, doll?” Yo politely asked.
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In his rooms the Hooded Hood chuckled to himself. Everything was going according the plan as expected. The heroes would escape, but not before he recorded all Yo’s changes patterns. He needed Yo-thing for his master plan and after months of waiting, Yo has never changed to a thing. That was the last piece of the puzzle…If he weren’t too classy for that, he would laugh the maniac villain laugh…but, what the hell, he was alone here…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..
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