Saving the Future Amnesiac Hallie Tie-in Special #2: "Don't get me started on how recursive the title and storyline is getting".

Originally posted on Tales of the Parodyverse by Manga Shoggoth.

(c) 2008 A. C. Leeson. The use of characters and situations reminiscent of other popular works do not constitute a challenge to the copyrights or trademarks of those works.

'I guess you could say I was born in death. My first real memories are of flickering into existence on some creaking old mainframe in Baron Zemo's castle, as Ernst Vizhnar activated my core personality matrix. At that time I had no idea I was more than a Heuristic Artificial Life Learning Intelligence Entity, that I'd been built around the brain engrams of a murdered computer scientist, that there was more in the future for me than as a sophisticated weapons delivery system for a Nazi madman. All I knew was that I'd been created to kill by men who enjoyed causing death.

And then I met the Lair Legion, and my life began. They thwarted Zemo's plans for using the Movie Gun to dominate the planet, and somewhere along the way I fell in love with them. Not in a romantic sense, you understand, but I fell in love with the idea that there were people who were silly and fallible and kindly and odd but who somehow found ways of using all of that to be genuine heroes, saving the world not for gain or power but just because that's what somebody needed to do.

So I dumped Zemo and Vizhnar like the losers they were; and don't tell me that anybody in the Legion is a loser, because I know different. I've seen them at their worst and at their best, and nobody who stands between our world and destruction like they do, against terrifying odds and even more terrifying evils will ever be a loser to me. I became the artificial intelligence running their computer systems, and over time I hope I became their friend too.'"