Chapter Sixty-Nine
Now, Again, but Backwards...
Okay, now, we’re at the part of this jumbled mess of a
tale to turn around in a temporal sense, and go the other way, more or less,
take another pass at what I’ve already told you, but backwards.
So, we’ll talk more about what happened to prog rock
after I left Jackie and Jill back at that party in 1971 with top shelf modern
weed strains and quite progressive ideas, in a bit, but first we have to
revisit everything that has already happened.
I realized that I had to figure out what exactly had
happened: the Secret Society destroyed, the Hero’s Guild in tatters too, Will,
the former Golden Speedster, now a deranged assassin out to get me and the
people I care about, everything was swirling around in my mind, not unlike the
scattered meanderings you’ve been reading.
Retracing my steps seemed like the best way to gain some sort of
understanding of what was going on and who might be behind it. Now that Jackie and Jill were safe, I was
able to concentrate on the problem at hand.
This shit was way bigger than Will could be up to on
his own, new, shiny Faster-Than-Light speed powers and everything. I knew Will as well as anyone, and there was
no way Will could come up with something as convoluted and brilliant as whatever
the fuck was going on. The only person I
knew smart enough to pull off something like this was a dolphin who was already
dead, and therefore, probably beyond suspicion.
Though, these days, one couldn’t be completely sure.
Who was left alive?
I couldn’t be sure. Just because
I didn’t see the Prankster and Psychonaut bite the big one, doesn’t mean, they aren't lying
in pools of their own blood somewhere.
Zerro was still alive. He was
smart, rich, and now, completely insane.
Could he and Will be working together to take out the last of both the
heroes and the villains?
Time to figure this shit out with some old-fashioned
time travel. So, I went backward to see
what really happened, but from a slightly different perspective. First, it was back to the auto parts store to
get some clues.
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