With A Snap
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Chapter 40: Saving the World So You Don't Have To
The Middleman was an organization that worked behind the covered of being the Jolly Fats Weehawken Temp Agency. The Middleman solved exotic problems; they dealt with threats infra-, extra-, and juxtaterrestrial.
They dealt with mad scientists, and aliens, and monsters, and other supernatural things. The Organization was rather small, one middleman and one trainee, and Ida. Ida was a robot, and as far as the records went, there had always been an Ida. Ida was there to guide and help the Middleman. They got equipment from somewhere, Ida never spoke about them, and as far as the Middleman knew there was nothing she could say. He ended up calling them O2STK or Organization Too Secret To Know, they never told him anything really, never any message and he wasn't sure Ida wasn't really running everything.
He hoped they would drop the secrecy act, this time things had hit the fan.
Ida sat at the front desk when the dark young haired woman in a vest pushed the doors open.
Ida looked like a grumpy old woman; Wendy knew that Ida could look like whatever she wanted and never understood why she chooses to look like that.
Wendy Watson, the Middleman in-training, huffed, "What the f#$ is happening?"
Ida just looked at her, "What's got in your shorts tied up, Sunshine? You run out of your Maui Wowie? Because you sure took your time to get here."
"You think I didn't notice?"
"Again, are you out of the good stuff? Because you should have been here a lot sooner, I figured you were out of your gourd to be this late."
They entered the main office, by the wall of screens stood a man dress in an Eisenhower jacket and had the archetypical strong chin of a hero.
"Bossman?" Wendy called out, "What's going on? One minute I was with Tyler, Lacey, Noser, and the next… they were dust in the wind."
Wendy mentally hissed, it was painful to think of how Noser would have described the event.
"…I don't know," The Middleman admitted; he and Lacey had a chance one, but it was gone, and this just insured it.
He pushed the thought away and focused on the mission.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Wendy asked, "You have to know?"
"Wendy, I really don't know. I've never seen anything like this." The Middleman looked at the screens showing the same disaster happening in every corner of the world. This whole mess caught us with our pants down. Roxxy called in letting us know that some of her seers got a minutes warming before it happened. Not that it helped much, half her succubi dissolved around her. Half of all our allies are gone, we are all hands on deck for a Black Ball."
"Black Ball?" Wendy asked him, confused.
Ida sidled up, "Haven't you learned anything? A Black Ball is an endgame; we can't hide it, and whatever mess it is might just end this little mudball you call home."
"You're kidding me."
"I wish she was," The Middleman continued, "It's worse, we are getting reports that this hit the rest of the universe at the same time. Clothar is already broadcasting an emergency signal."
"What do we do?" Wendy demanded.
"We do what we always do," A voice spoke from the foyer.
It's was Wally Watson, Wendy's father, and the Middleman two middlemen before our current Middleman. He was reported missing in mysterious and as of then unexplained circumstances, though in reality, he went off into deep space to help fight a war and only as of recently had returned.
"Dubbie?" He called.
"Dad?" Wendy went to him and reached to hug him.
"You see," Ida told her, "He had to come from Florida and he still made better time."
"Why?" Wendy asked.
"All hands on deck," The Middleman explained, "we need every ally we can muster."
"I'm sorry," Wally whispered, "Your mother…"
Wendy clung to him harder.
Wally went back to his first words, "We will figure out what did this and put a stop to it."
That's what the middlemen did; this time would be no different.
Author's Notes: Okay, so this one is probably one of the lesser known series I'm doing. This one is one close to my heart, it had a short Tv series on ABC family and a comic series before that. Same creator for both, which then he got a comic to end the season and another comic to do a cross over between the OG comic and the series giving both series an end. The show has a certain tone which I found I couldn't do justice here and a loving satire for comics, sci fi and fantasy. if you guys get a chance check it out. Anyway leave a review.
Q&A:
msmeow1968: No, not doing RWBY. Even my friends who told me about it said, yeah don't. I know enough to know it really drops in quality after season 3. I've never seen it and because of those kind of recommendation I can't see myself even looking into it enough to try to find how to get the characters. If anyone wants to do a snap story I'd be happy to give it a shout out or even post it here with full credits.
S goku and Z Goku: The One Above All. The . Jack Kirby. The Voice. The Hand. The Source. The Presence. Stan Lee. The Do-Gooder. The Light. The Maker. The Man with the Bowler Hat. The Narrator? Yeah, whatever you want to call them, they are aware of what's happened. I mean, a couple of their winged messagers got dusted so they know. But they've never been one to get involved.
edboy4926: Asurans have digital souls and could get snapped. Yeah, flipped the coin and we lost Weir. I am taking some notes from the books that followed the series but since I never read them keeping it a bit limited. Asura might still be around or went with the Vanir. I'll let you decide.
Thepretenderakajarod: I know Warehouse 13 and did think of doing something for them but never got an idea. Plus I'm not taking request or suggestions anymore, I got a long list to get through.
Guest: One, the balls were used really recently so they have to wait at least a year. Plus depending on the wish the balls would have to confront the power of the stones, and the stones will win and cause the balls to break. And whose to say any of them are going to be around in years time to make a wish.