Unbearable

by charles duncan

At the turn of the century, after bringing about the defeat of Renegade, Casey and a small group of incorporateds, years before the days of the Grand Neverrest and a cosmic crisis yet to come .. took care of some end-century business.. perhaps, after it'd seemed like years.. where Casey, Zephyr, and Scarf were busy taking care of some millenium- end  buisness left over from the past year.. namely, looking for a few 'old school' villians who'd vowed to end the career of a entity called manchine.. and taking them away to the justice they finally deserved. And Scarf, for one... was wondering indeed if something was up as they were near a junkyard that manchine was supposed to be near.

With Casey standing on top of the car, he gazed the area where a love of his, named 
nightmute, and some others, were awaiting manchine's coming when suddenly, something from the heavens came down, nearly taking the group.. a giant bear who, seeing manchine come nearby, took him out early.. and tried to take out the rest of the group.. indeed, Casey felt indeed, as if the bear was familiar, akin to renegade somehow, so cautioning the other group to personally stand back, he attempted to take on the bear using many of his avian skills via an ostrich capacity....but somehow, the bear was able to resist most of the attacks as they tore through the junkyard, bringing havoc throughout the area.. and Casey, thoughh he was skilled , found himself matched by the bear... when he sensed something nearby..

.. A strange, floating hyena who, despite being 4-legged... took the bear on with surprising skills after coming out of nowhere.. and though the hyena was nearly taken out due to some lacking in its training at the time... the bear was defeated, causing the bear to stagger back and fall to the ground.. then take off.

"What the", Casey said as he stared at the Hyena , who glowed in a soft field of orange.. and the hyena said.. "I am Moore. the Hyena. And I have come to save you ."

"Indeed", Casey said.. "Nice skills.... What was that Bear, btw?"

"Perhaps, ", Moore said as he floated to the ground.. "ONe of Renegade's friends I've sensed over the months that i've learned of my powers...And indeed.. I do hope.. personally.. That I can be of help to you..as well as your friends.. And all I ask is to be trained."

Casey said.. "Yeah.. I suppose so"... ", as the sun rose and Moore joined the Incorporateds.. Though Zephyr did have his doubts.

Later at the hospital, some of the Incorporateds were still recovering, along with nightmute, a stranger named Amy Miami who'd helped Manchine a lot.. and Mindninja, who'd been called out of retirement recently to try to handle things while Wilson and Speedster still recovered.. as well as Arden, who tried to get an ex-wife on the line about some 'old times' they wanted to discuss. And Moore, though injured himself.. was able to keep most of the group in good spirits... which made Casey wonder.. was his luck changing for the better in how a group that hadn't been much together in the 90's was coming together after all..

or what?

Attempts at the time to call someone called Nel weren't very well.. but it did seem like the Incorporateds's decade in the sun.. had finally begun ...

one way or the other.