Zapper Inside a dark, grey reality, a young woman in a business suit was being pursued by others who had a dark vendetta.. the control of their world and ensurance that beings from the inside out wouldn't fall in .. as she ran through the topmost area of the highest tower, trying to evade two others who didn't like her very much.. especially one catlike one with a sword who made a lot of noise... when she began touching walls indeed close by, looking for a way out.. and she fell from the building into a abandoned department store.. which was mostly deserted indeed.. save for some furniture and some unsold goods. She didn't look too happy, but she felt like she'd evaded her pursuers who apparently wanted her for trying to 'expose a conspiracy in her reality' to keep it black and white.. and after shutting down the place for a couple of blocks around as time seemed to stand still around her.. she began clearing the place out and left, with few noticing her from her own dimension.. but likely from others, she sensed, for she had an innate gift for sensing things in multiple realities.. even beyond her own.... And once she found enough to get by, she sought someone she'd thought who'd help as the two others slowly tried to get in who pursued her.. someone named harrison who'd lost his way while trying to join the incorporateds a long time ago, but never really was used much, and another named fairfax who was trying to apply to this 'group' but she'd never really got touch. She told them of her reality, a strange reality where incorporateds were part of a conspiracy well above any normal reality, to keep the universe in black and white in spite of every attempt to colorize it, led by a entity named francis who kept touch on a lot of things.. and asked for protection.. and with little else to do at the time, they offered to help and bring her to this one group.. as long as some 'old grudges', weren't brought up. So indeed, Casey, who'd mostly regained his manhood after the use of a ray that was designed to remove it at a celluar level.. and was planning his strategies of which there were many...for what'd be his final battle against an ultimate darkness he kept seeing in visions.. offered to send henrietta with them in the hopes that maybe what these beings represented could be of future use in peaceful endeavors.. and not just the dark ones.. and she indeed, went with them in all the hopes that someday, some nightmares would end. Casey, wondering indeed what the world would bring him once the battle was over and he'd go on into eternity at last, had wondered much about the old days when they'd lived in dogelia and personally had the time of their lives. As two dark pursuers entered reality, they began doing great damage indeed to the location but somehow, harrison, perhaps a bit like a combination of terrel and wilson, managed to keep them at bay while zapper, who'd had this strange ability to create walls, was able to open a doorway into the world..where it seemed like the color was completely gone. "So indeed,", said Harrison... "Your Reality, Huh?" "Yes", said zapper.. "there are legends where people once knew color and music wasn't as restricted, but indeed a group that backed our incorporateds called the dark harm wanted, indeed, to have dominion in this world.. because color was such a depressing thing to them , fought over, that the only way to ensure their so called harmony was to darken it all.. It's rumored there are heros in our world who never joined with either the dark harm, who spent many of their years in darkness, but indeed, they've not shown and mostly are in legends.. some of which apparently tried to leave and never returned. " "You're making a comeback", said Harrison as the two were defeated.. and the doorway was opened as Harrietta took the two back in through the gateway where indeed.. none knew if it rarely opened. Once in the city, which reminded them of a much darker mega where the clouds were constantly grey, the group managed to evade most detection and hired a cab to take them to this underground area, where Zapper had felt safe, most of all.. someplace she called .. home. Harrison, who'd never really felt at home, tried to make himself felt at home, but sadly, he wasn't really comfortable, though harrietta, very hyperactive, seemed to take things likely, as Zapper said.. "She seems so full of light it's beyond belief. Tell me.. is it rarely bright " Harrison said.. "From what little I know of my past days, I haven't seen much light indeed.. but it is nice to be out of there.", as he saw some of the ruined paintings of youth.. "by the way, nice art gallery in here, mostly." "Most of it was from kids I taught before the harm took them to this universe where it was nothing more than a giant river where land was around, whom I haven't taught in ages.. some of which weren't too happy in my darker days when some of them I graded a little too much... especially towards their choices of clothing." "Well, makes you wonder.. indeed.. how strange kids can get.. I have visions of seeing thousands of them below me after the years I pass on", Harrison said as he got him a whole bunch of milk and drank it down, as Harrietta sat down and slumbered.. "Really", said Zapper. "I rarely see any children any more." ---- Later that day, the group snuck into the building, trying to not draw any attention as they all looked for a easy way to get in without drawing attention .. and wondered indeed about the two they depowered suddenly vanishing in the middle of the night, vowing to one day become pirates as their current jobs sucked.. but that little mattered now, as they went up the building. After depowering the security, Harrison managed to personally lead the small group up the stairs to the top floors, as something that looked like scarf briefly fluttered by.. but Harrison didnt' notice it much as Henrietta managed to personally knock it down the stairs.. and Harrison, not young anymore, managed to get the upper hand mostly. Despite armed guards, Harrison managed to get to the top floor, where indeed, the francis entity was busy on the phone, and a dozen similar ones appeared.. and indeed it was Harrison who said.. "I have to talk to you about some things." "I don't have to talk to any one of you about anything", said francis, who personally threw the desk at some of them, and dozens of scarves seemed to appear out of nowhere, grabbing harriet and tossing her into the window.. almost throwing her out.. But not before Harrison managed to run over and grab her, as zapper was nearly grabbed herself.. jumping away in time as dozens of scarves seemed to converge out of nowhere. "Well, tell me, where do dozens of children go over the years you've been here?", Zapper said. "As far away as I can throw them, yeah.. I know of a world where they become machines when they're older, then indeed, suffer much of their years fighting indeed for independence from those much older than them.. most of them frozen for many years while they believe they grow up and matter. Well, I'm not going to tell trespassers anything I wouldnt' tell my closest of friends!", francis said, as dozens of other scarves tried to reach the group, but sadly most of them missed as harrison picked up the desk and threw it back at francis hard enough to knock her out for the count. Somehow, though many police came into the building, Harrison managed to make his escape, while defeating many incorporateds he thought were familiar indeed.. and Zapper took francis with her after quite literally folding her up and putting her in one of the briefcases she had.. taking her out of there. And indeed it was chaos, but Zapper said .. "I feel a lot better now." "Tell me, ", Harrison said as they disappeared into the darkness, "Think we can find these kids and return them back. "Only if we know where indeed what planet they're on", especially in the reality we came from, Henrietta said... "Because somehow, if this reality is indeed above many planes out there.. Even getting to a point where we can tell people where these kids are that deserve a happy ending instead of an eternity of suffering.. might be next to impossible." "I know of a lot of impossible things", Harrison said as he personally got to safety, and made notations of many of the incorporateds he saw somehow triple fusions of realities he'd known over his many years. "But bringing justice to the universe isnt' an impossible thing.. just a hard one." Later on, just days before Casey's great battle, Harrison returned, though mostly alone, and was given a world after much deliberation.. especially from a sangurian named Poacher who was somewhat galaxywise at the time, and was giving out the final directions to where it was believed, in all the dark realities beneath them, that the world where all those children were taken to.. as a likely stop where a Wilson once lived centuries ago.. that a bunch of people from one dimension was stranded as it was said.. as well as a notation of a darker, grey realm above theirs where beings often came into from the past as well as the future.... perhaps bigger than they ever were where even peace might have not been indeed, seen in such a long time. Casey went ahead and sent the message on with a Speedster of days gone by, who was looking for work.. wondering indeed.. when the great battle of their lives was over.. Would childhood itself be saved from eternal darkness.. a dark side had consigned them to? where noone younger than 18 seemed to matter? And why was his thoughts on what would happen millions of years from now..as well as in the past.. that he had nightmares about? And what indeed happened between Casey and Harrison back in the old days.. that might have made the future much bleaker? Especially for the survival of them all? Even Casey wasn't sure anymore.. for time indeed.. changed every day as his days seemed to be.. ...numbered. And as for the Francis, you say? Some say there are worlds indeed.. where she's both sinner and saint.. but perhaps the one where she was a sinner.. she found something that was 'worth living for.' It's believed, in one world.. that she was a saint.