Disclaimer: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" is created by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Apart from the narrator of this story, not one character used here is mine.

Note: this story takes place in continuity with the comics, not the movie (and no, there's no category for this in the comics section)

My life in a nutshell (or some form there-of):

I wasn't born when World War III started, but I was before it ended. So I can say that I lived to see how many bombs were dropped, which nearly wiped us all out. And then I haven't begun to talk about the many occasions in which our planet was invaded by extra-terrestrials, the millennium bug, or even that time when global warming caused such a storm, it nearly catapulted us back to the ice-age. Ironically, it was global warming which caused it to come, but it was the same that caused it to go away just as soon.

All in all, I'm surprised anyone, or anything, managed to survive such devastating events. Including myself. After those things took place, one of the first things humanity thought of doing was to rebuilt everything. I have no idea why they decided not to rebuilt the Channel Causeway, I can only assume that they wanted to rebuilt it but only just spent all the needed money. Oh well, I guess this would be just another one of this world's many oddities.

So now that you know how I feel about this world, or how I witnessed many devastating events, I suppose you now want to know more about me. Strange as this may sound, I remember when I was a kid, during one of these school outings in the woods, I saw something. To this day, I'm still not sure of what it was that I saw, but when I was a kid it looked like there were little blue creatures in the woods, wearing white clothes and a white hat, living in mushrooms. When I told people I saw exactly that, not only did nobody believe me, it gave my classmates a reason to make fun of me for the rest of my school life. The strangest, and perhaps even the funniest part of that, is that a point came that my classmates didn't even remember why they were making fun of me, they merely did it out of habit rather than with reason. What's really strange about all this is that similar creatures were mentioned in the legends of Gargamel, which I read once I was older. So if what I saw was a trick of the mind, how could I possible think to have seen creatures of which I had never even heard about?

Altogether, it's safe to say that I didn't have much of what you'd call a happy life, if at all a life. I don't think anyone could have because once something was built up, something came (storm, aliens, meteors,...) to wreck it all. So far, I've managed to find a job in cleaning up factories. Not much fun, but it pays quite well. Besides, since I'm still a single man, without kids or pets to take care of, I can say that economically speaking I'm much richer than anyone else I know. Still,... having nothing to do but to watch some TV, watching my entire DVD-collection over and over again, I can't even say how many times I've watched the "Stab" or "Jack Slater" movies so far, or even read all the "Captain Baseball-Bat Boy" comics over and over again. Bottom line is, I can sit here being bored out of my skull only for so long. That's why I asked the months of July and August off, so I can take a trip around the world.

According to my resources, it's cheaper to go to France, through the Chunnel into England and buy a ticket to go to the US, than it is to buy a ticket here in my own country. How this works, I'm not sure. This wouldn't be another one of our politicians tricks to make life more difficult than it already is. So anyway, today I'm preparing everything for my trip. Other than my journal, I'll be taking some of my favorite music, the first "Tracer Bullet" novel, all for all the boring times, and of course some clean clothes, or other ones depending on the weather conditions. Which reminds me that I still got to buy myself a Swiss knife and a lighter. I don't smoke, but such things could always come in handy all the same. Hopefully I'll be ready in time, as I'll be leaving in only a few days.