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Anything Else? (Superhero Black Hole, pt. 107)

“Woah! So wait…,” Zoe butted in. “…You stay in the In-Between long enough, you recharge your batteries, gain extra power and possibly even extra lives?! Does this mean that if we defeat Lettie in that universe, she’ll explode into 7 billion coins and we’ll gain a special item for our inventories?!”

The level of excitement with which she breathlessly spouted all that was both adorable and slightly disturbing.

“Zoe,” I said, “this is not a video game.”

“Coulda fooled me, dude!”

If we thought it was possible for Al to feel impatience, we’d have thought that was what drove him to interrupt us so abruptly when he said:
“The other iterations of your form all originated from multiple parallel universes that exist alongside ours, and Letrodacta’s. All of You had been manipulated by the same Letrodacta, who used her universe to break into all the others that contained another version of You.”

Oh, yes, dear Reader.
Our dear Al had now taken us into pure J.J. Abrams territory…

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