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Multi Sharp: Whiteout #1

Christmas, 2019

 

Everytime I say I’m picking up on things, it always jumps ahead of time. Here we are two months later. In Palestine, preparing for Christmas. I enjoyed watching Unforgiven on the flight here.

 

Doc: “How long can vacation be till we run out of money?”

Multi: “Long enough.”

Doc: “John, I’m serious. We’ve been laying low for so long, don’t you think it’s time...”

Multi: “I’m not ready yet. I don’t think I am.”

 

In a blinding flash while seeing the beautiful Christmas lights, I disappear. Not again...

 

***

 

Multi: “How am I back on the plane again? I didn’t want to come back after the dimension...”

Voice: “Perhaps, you did want to. It’s the reason you kept on living.”

Multi: “No, I don’t. You may have read my mind, but not my soul or heart.”

Voice: “Then why let go?”

Multi: “Because I made a promise...a promise to keep. After his death, I wanted to give up on superheroics...and retreat back into the land of peace.”

Voice: “But the world may never be that peaceful.”

Multi: “It’s reality, I know. Then in weeks we’ll be getting another year. A new decade. And who are you anyways? Where was the previous guardian?”

Voice: “I am Ethereal. Now the new keeper of the Energy. I have been here for the many centuries, but guarding and overlooking the spot...in human or earth numbers, it would be 44 years.”

Multi: “He died?”

Voice: “Yes. He fulfilled his destiny. Thousands of years of promises—he kept your powers alive in the family, and now he knows it’s safe with you.”

 

I can’t say that I’m trapped here, if I did, there would be no escape, but I assume the last essence of the previous guardian brought me here again. The new guardian—this lady, she seemed know me a lot. A being of pure physical energy reading everything out of my like a book.

 

Multi: “I’ve done something...which I already had to shy away from my team. I gave up my position, I lost my apprentice, and I wanted to have these powers go away...”

Ethereal: “But you couldn’t. You held back. You knew the existence of some younger ones—the new wave of heroes.”

Multi: “I acknowledge that too.”

Ethereal: “And your adventures in the dimension?”

Multi: “What?”

Ethereal: “You went across dimensions and have saved it multiple times. That is a great feat to be achieved...and is no easy task. The guardian also left a message saying that you should be in charge of all powers. You’re the last person to ever do so, Multi Sharp. He trusted you for a reason.”

Multi: “He did?”

Ethereal: “Yes. He saw the pain consuming you. But he did not take that power away...it wasn’t for punishment reasons, it was for you to learn to let go, which you had with your friend.”

Multi: “Yeah. Can’t explain why I’m still single, eh?”

Ethereal: “Love is a path that you must discover, so I cannot answer that. But that love...it can heal. It can mend wounds. You’ve already answered questions yourself, and you solved it. And shelving the past...you have to let go.”

Multi: “I still can’t...I need time...”

Ethereal: “But it would be too late when your friends truly need you. You’re very powerful. Capable of demonstrating much abilities. And that is my purpose to guide you in enhancing your powers—taming it and meditating as well, among other things.”

Multi: “Well then...perhaps I have gained a new friend here today. And where do I start first?”

Ethereal: “Reconnection? Multi Sharp, this is your own path of journey...you have to figure it out to to self again. Forge it. Now, close your eyes...and feel it.”

 

***

 

I swear that was almost out of a Star Wars segment, it’s seriously Force like. Very spiritual and scientific in many ways speaking. Only I could inhabit that. Her words still rung in my head. Journey. Perhaps...it’s come to an end here but a new beginning? With some next gen heroes on the way? I don’t know, but I have to find out.

 

Then I woke up.

 

Doc: “John? You asleep? You’ve been out cold for 10 minutes. I guess jet lag has a toll on us, eh?”

Multi: “Yeah, feels like hours to me...I had a great dream, going inside the plane again...”

Doc: “Plane? What plane? We landed a couple hours ago.”

Multi: “No, it’s a higher state...only I can reach it. But anyways, I just wanna say we should stay here for two more nights, finish our fun and then leave.”

Doc: “Huh, ok then. What are your plans?”

Multi: Christmas dinner first. Decorating my home again. It’s about time I went back to see my dog and my friends. And some potential recruits which I kinda know a lot about them.”

Doc: “You don’t say...”

Multi: “Yes. We’re going to forge more bonds on the way. I have much info we maybe able to reform.

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