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"The Final Victory"
By J.T. Magnus, Turbo.
Professor James Moriarty, for all his intellect, didn't know whether to be angered or to laugh. It angered the former-criminal mastermind that someone had dared to clone him after his death and to attempt to control that clone, but the aftereffects of that event gave him one of the few moments of joy he experienced not related to his beloved countess. Even though they existed as opposites, detective and criminal, logic and emotions, he considered few people to be worthy of the same respect he granted the adversary known as Sherlock Holmes.
Although he had been killed at Reichenbach Falls, and then the clone had been defeated many times, both by that insufferable detective, and he now existed only because of a command mis-interpreted by a starship's computer, he had finally had the last laugh. One of the aspects in which Moriarty and Holmes were alike was in the fact that each of them, gentlemen though they were, were unattracted by the women of the Victorian era who had no spirit nor minds of their own. Moriarty had finally found a lady who broke those traditional bonds in the countess he had befriended and eventually fallen in love with, but according to history, Holmes had died, alone, of old age - a rather unfitting end for such a foe, the Professor mused.
That was until, as he had noted before, he had been cloned. While Moriarty felt, as his adversary often had, that Scotland Yard was more a group of amateurs than a law-enforcement organization, he had to conceed to both the wisdom and the ability to swallow their pride of the inspector who had seen to it that Sherlock Holmes was brought back to life. Although he had been unable to experience it personally, the time-displaced ex-master criminal found even the thought of Holmes having to deal with someone as vexing to him as he had been to Moriarty... pleasing.
Even more pleasing was the later events that came from that assocation; Holmes, perhaps the most Bohemian person in Moriarty's vast knowledge, finally gave in to the charms of a female, courted her, and eventually wed her. Completely against the 'great detective's' beloved logic, but perfectly in-line with the emotions that Moriarty used to fuel his thoughts and plans over the years. Using yet another marvelous invention of this twenty-fourth century, the Professor 'replicated' a glass of wine and held it out to the image on his screen in a private toast...
"To Mister Sherlock and Inspector Elizabeth Holmes."
Oh, yes, it had taken four-hundred years, but James Moriarty had finally gotten the last laugh.