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Atlantean General Behind Laval Attack, Arrested; Elections to Be Held in 2 Weeks

By Skip Daverman

PANAMA CANAL – In an abrupt turn of events, a rogue Atlantean General was arrested for staging the Laval attack on the Atlantis-Pacifica meetings, and King Morn A’Ganor has agreed to holding an election for Pacifica’s independence two weeks from now.

With the aid of Adonis, Titana, and Micro-Man, who’s been in hiding during the investigation into the attack, Atlantean and Pacifican forces joined together to arrest Jor Q’Rell, a high-ranking General in the Atlantean military. Suspicions that Atlantis was behind the attack had been bubbling for some time now, and using his diminutive size, Micro-Man gathered evidence on Q’Rell’s activities. The General wanted to use the Laval attack to sabotage the meetings and unite both sides under a common cause. He did not think the Lavals would be able to kill six Atlanteans and two Pacificans with the Atlantic and Pacific Guards protecting the meetings. When confronted by King Morn and Viceroy Parr’Ell Montae, Q’Rell surprisingly surrendered without a fight.

At this point, accounts of what transpired become muddled. Everyone present in the meeting rooms of the Panama Canal all have multiple accounts of what happened with many similarities. One account suggests that Q’Rell didn’t surrender but fought the King and Viceroy when confronted, and this spilled out into a full-blown battle between Atlantis and Pacifica. Another account suggests that a battle ensued, and one of Q’Rell’s soldiers detonated a bomb, killing hundreds. There were more accounts, but they all ended with a white light and with a reset to the moment Q’Rell was confronted.

According to ATOM Labs, these accounts are all telltale signs of time travel. “My guess is that someone either traveled back in time to prevent the battle,” said Professor Simone Givens, spacetime scientist at ATOM Labs, “or someone showed them possible futures in order to prevent the battle. Either way, time travel shenanigans.”

“And yes, that’s a technical term.”

Whatever calamity was supposedly averted, Q’Rell and his forces were peacefully arrested and will be charged with several crimes. The General’s forces will likely receive a variety of punishments, but Q’Rell will certainly receive the death penalty. Their trials have yet to be set.

After the arrests, tensions between the two sides eroded. Atlanteans were just as upset over Q’Rell’s actins as the Pacificans, and King Morn and Viceroy Montae hammered out an agreement to hold an election to grant Pacifica its freedom. It’s a startling turn for King Morn who was staunchly opposed to Pacifican independence.

“Whatever he saw must have been worse than giving Pacifica their freedom,” said political observer, Luis Mendoza of the University of Panama. “I can only speculate what he saw, but it’s not hard to imagine that he saw a civil war tear apart his kingdom.”

The election will be held in two weeks.

September 6, 2016
LA Gridlock: Cat People vs. Dog People, The Breach, and Where Are the Superheroes?

By Buffy Bolivar

LOS ANGELES – While Governor Jerry Brown has called a state of emergency for southern California, the residents of the new Greater Los Angeles Nations have dug in their heels for the long haul.

The nations simply called Cat People and Dog People are predictably at war with each other. Both nations reside in the quadrangle between the 710 & 605 and the 91 & 405, comprising a large portion of the cities of Long Beach and Lakewood. Divided down the middle by Lakewood Blvd, the Cat People live on the west while the Dog People live on the east. It’s not known how each nation became based on the love of feline and canine pets, but their natural rivalries quickly coalesced into a feud.

Their battles have raged since day one as each vie for territory across Lakewood Blvd. The Lakewood Center mall, which lies on the eastern side of the border in Dog People territory, is a hotbed for attacks from the Cat People as it has a Costco, Target, and Macy’s. The Lakewood Regional Medical Center lies on the western side of the border, and the Dog People regularly let their canines loose to distract the doctors while they steal medical supplies. The biggest hot spot in the Long Beach Airport as one of its runways crosses the border into Dog People territory. Last night, thirty-five people were injured when the Dog People tried to gain more runway. Ultimately, they failed, and tensions remain high.

Meanwhile, more information has come in as to what exactly “The Breach” is, and apparently, there’s a 3-mile long tear in the fabric of spacetime from Brentwood to the Sunset Strip “hovering” ominously in the sky. People who stare at the tear reportedly “see the cosmic truth of reality,” or at least, that’s what they chant 24 hours a day as they can’t turn away from The Breach. So far, nothing has come through The Breach, and no one knows how it tore open.

But the big question is where are the superheroes? The West Coast Peace Force is still in space, and the East Coast Peace Force has their hands full with everything else going on in the world. The most powerful local heroes work for the WCPF, so only the street-level heroes are around, and they seem to be trying to maintain peace rather than solve the gridlock.

Dr. Amazing has been called in to help solve the problem, but help may take a while to get there as he’s currently stuck in a pocket dimension with Micro-Man.

October 9, 2015
City Council Nixes ‘Micro-Way’ After Mutant Bacteria Attack

By Packie Williams

When Daisuke Honda, a.k.a. Micro-Man, set out to demonstrate how his “Micro-Way” would work to the city council, he never envisioned it would go quite like it did today.

Honda had been working for years on perfecting the Micro-Ray technology for common use and for everyday applications. His “Micro-Way,” essentially a miniature subway system, was going to be his first commercial endeavor, and with the streets of New Romford still largely in disarray, he figured now would be the perfect time to implement his dream.

Unfortunately, he didn’t do enough to protect his prototype, and the city council, from mutant bacteria.

This morning, Honda invited the city council to his office at ATOM Labs, where he showed off his prototype. It was a “Micro-Way” from his office to a park bench just outside of ATOM Labs. The shrinking process went off without a hitch, and the council members reportedly didn’t feel any ill effects from it. Once tiny, Honda showed off what a Micro-Station would look like with fake plastic store fronts and two Micro-Trains. At normal size, this all fit into the area of a shoe box, but at micro-size, it was the size of a normal subway station.

Then, they boarded the Micro-Train and fastened their seat belts. The trip to the “station” out by the park bench also went off without a hitch, lasting one a couple minutes to make the 200-foot journey. Honda remarked that the speed of the train can vary depending on express and local trains, and it’d still be easy to install dozens of train lines alongside a single street, and that’s when the mutant bacteria broke into the Micro-Station.

How it got in is still unclear, but Honda grabbed his laser gun and fought them off. One bacteria swallowed up a council member (who wished to remain anonymous), and Honda had to cut him out with his laser sword. But the bacteria horde began to overwhelm them and blocked their escape either back to Honda’s office or to the reverse Micro-Ray gate. They would’ve been killed if it weren’t for the last minute heroics of Krok, who had been hiding in the grass above the station all day.

Together, Krok and Honda were able to defeat the mutant bacteria horde, but the attack ended any hope of the “Micro-Way” becoming a reality anytime soon. Honda could not be reached for comment, and the city council only remarked that they “would be going in a different direction, probably one where people won’t get swallowed by mutant bacteria.”

Krok grunted and flew away on a dragonfly.

January 9, 2015
Micro-Man Preps ‘Micro-Way’ for Proposal

By Julia Crumpleman

ATOM Labs scientist, Daisuke Honda, a.k.a. the superhero Micro-Man, has been prepping a new transportation proposal for city hall ever since the Dino-Day Disaster. Calling it the “Micro-Way,” it’s essentially a miniature subway, and he says it’ll solve the city’s traffic problems.

“There’s only so much space for public transportation,” said Honda. “Subways, buses, monorails, pneumatic tubes, they all suffer from one problem: they take up space,” said Honda. “You have to tear up whole streets to lay down new subway lines or tear down buildings for monorails, and that not only costs billions of dollars but also years of construction time. But imagine if the subways were the size of an electrical wire. Now imagine a whole network of subways that small. You could lay down hundreds of subway lines all across the city at a fraction of the cost and space as standard subway lines.”

Honda’s proposal* would be to build “Micro-Stations” all across New Romford. People would enter the “Micro-Stations,” pay for their ticket, be shrunk down by a Micro-Ray, and then ride the “Micro-Way” like they would a subway train. Once they reach their destination, they get reverted back to their original size as they exit. The “Micro-Way” trains would run much the same way as normal trains do, but at a significantly faster pace than their larger version to make up ground.

“That’s not all,” he added. “The major terminals could also have ‘Micro-Businesses.’ You can have convenience stores, restaurants, clothing stores and so on down there, but at a smaller scale. One city block may have a dozen businesses, but if they were ‘Micro-Businesses,’ you could have hundreds of taxable businesses per block.” Honda emphasized this point several times as he will at city hall.

But there already are detractors with some reasonable concerns in the “micro-community.” “They’ll never go for it,” said Paul Gershwin, the original Micro-Man. “It’s a good idea, really, but no one will want to subject thousands of people to the Micro-Rays needed to make it work. Even if people weren’t wary of being shrunk down, which not everyone can handle by the way, there’s still the possibility, however small, that something goes wrong. Maybe the body shrinks but not the head, and then you crush your body. Unfortunately, these things happen.”

“Personally, I know not how he plans to beat back the rats and armies of ants,” said Krok, the size-changing alien warrior. “Somehow, someway, they will break into this ‘Micro-Way’ and wreak untold havoc on innocent lives who do not know the first thing about fighting giant rodents and insects.”

“And do not get me started on mutant bacteria.”

Honda acknowledged the concerns of his friends but was adamant that he could handle these challenges. “The Micro-Ray has progressed since Paul’s time. Of course, there’s no way to eliminate all errors, but the machine is now built to detect any slight error and to shut down immediately. We’ll take every precaution to stop that from happening. And the rail lines will be coated in five layers of titanium. There will be no way for rats or insects to enter. Even so, we’ll have guards stationed in each terminal and train just in case.”

“And, well, mutant bacteria is mutant bacteria.”

Honda will give his proposal next week.

*Professor Honda is not affiliated with the Honda Motor Co.

November 28, 2014