Chapter X
Counterpart
The days after the event, there was only chaos: The news only talked about the defeat of the Indestructible Man on the hands of heroes, finally the monster was stopped.
Cheers on the street a world party all over the net. We are safe again. Only few people noticed the small news blogs on news: some new negotiations for the peace treaties or just dismissed them all together. Like children just waiting for daddy to leave the house so they can play their wicked games.
Rorschach, or whoever his name was, was regarded as a hero by everyone on the world, he tipped the government the location of Dr. Manhattan. Many websites were open on his honor and even some people started to imitate his philosophy,
Carlos was the one the hero gave the interview, it was a long manifesto talking about his life, about Kitty Genovese, about the guy that killed Blair Roche and feed her to his dogs and specially how he came back to action, he told the story of how Dr. Manhattan killed him but a great injustice brought him back from the land of the dead: The Oklahoma bombings.
The idea that a man, an American could grow up so deformed and perverted that he became the enemy within, was the fuel that brought him back from his ashes and since then he has been bringing justice to the world and making sure no low lifes like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols killing children and good men and women that serve the country would rise again to destroy their beloved America.
He had to comeback: the world needed Rorschach and he couldn't disappoint them…He never compromised not even on the face of death.
For Dan and Laurie the world already ended when their daughter was killed by a fellow hero, and lover. They feared this, since Laurie's knew of her pregnancy. They though they could stop it, but it was a stupid idea.
They were watching the news holding hands motionless like mannequins.
Then something broke. The Russian premier left the country on a rush and the president Julie Nixon went to her war room. The party stopped and news of more hostilities amongst the countries started to rise: alliances broken and formed now all the countries had nuclear weapons and all of them hold grudged over their former friends over all this twenty years of forced peace.
No nation wanted to be the first on to launch the attacks, but no nation wanted to be the last either. Just a button away from madness.
And then he came back.
Dr. Manhattan, in all his glory, appeared on Washington, D.C. where The doctor's killer was being exhibited like a war trophy for everyone to see, how great America was and destroyed it; growling like a madman, calling humans filth and insects. The defense systems were ready to try and get another shot no matter what, but when they were about to fire, a half naked female shaped figure with blue glowing skin and light eyes, destroyed the ray with her bared hands. The soldiers ran like crazy, the people stared, too scared to move, to frighten to speak. The news anchors were speechless till one of them said what everyone was thinking:
"Dr. Manhattan has a bride!"
Lady Hiroshima they called her.
Dan and Laurie were angered at first, thinking that in the end, their daughter's murderer didn't really paid but then the female appeared and Laurie saw the earrings Jon gave to her that October when they still were lovers as he did to Janey, this time, a third time he had given them to the right one, the one that did what none of them could, the one that had the right request to ask to Jon.
"Turn me into you"
And Jehovah God saith,
`Not good for the man to be alone,
I do make to him a helper -- as his counterpart.'
Genesis: 2:18, The Holy Bible.