“Confusion?” asked Miguel, unfocused while he watches a YouTube video about ants. “With Superheroes?”

  “Yes… To Monopolia, it seems you signed an electoral vote… WITHOUT READING, MIND YOU… That Superheroes be deemed illegal, with overwhelming majority for the very statement,” The Reaper grunted and grumbled while he gardened Beatle’s old flower field behind the house. He is on video call with Miguel, who doesn’t pay attention at all. “AHEM!!!”

  “So…?” asked Miguel.

  “Monopolia seems to hate Superheroes because they confuse them with vigilantes. To them, Vigilantes and Superheroes are the same: Bad Guys. Since they seem to follow this one guy… Guy Ninjaheim. He twisted the ideology of Superheroes on Beatle’s Earth a long time ago… Into something darker…”

  “You mean the guy that Beatle kept on complaining about during dinner?”

  “Yes. THAT Guy… Guy Ninjaheim is a This. Meaning he’s considered Satan to these people. Long ago, Beatle once ruled the world of Post-Apocalypse World, and he allowed registration for the Superheroes. Beatle would be left with a heavy decision… when he and the popular Bluford Ninjaheim killed them all… slaughtered them…”

  “Why!? Sorry… I mean the ants. STANLEY THE CRICKET DIED, DUDE!!!”

  “What in the world are you watching?”

  “A channel about some cool Canadian dude’s pet ants! Super cool!” smiled Miguel, with so much adorable joy. He rocks himself foward and backward, bouncing his leg excitedly.

  “I thought we feared ants.”

  “Not THESE ones!” Miguel smiled. “WHOA!!! IT’S A WEAVER ANT!!! Damn, that vivarium’s huge!”

  “Just… listen…” Reaper’s eyebrow twitched. ”Superheroes have different morals… Makes them… US… Divided. Guy Ninjaheim became a terrifying ruler. Do you know why the world of Beatle lost resources? Why Bluford became the King Regent before Red II, or Gerard, came to the picture?”

  “Because of Guy, right? Gerard told me… He’s keeping Monopolia together right now.”

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  “Bluford was a puppet, Miguel. So is Gerard now. Unter is the real Emperor of Monopolia. He kept Monopolia together for nearly 700 years.”

  “What? Sorry… Distracted a bit, here.”

  “Unter came from Maharlica’s prehistory. Where the Americans began cloning Neanderthals into soldiers. He didn’t like how he was treated and rebelled… established Akteon… A walled city… Though it was Authoritarian… Or so it seemed… Unter was a humble farmer. He only ever ruled when war would come… And would allow for democratic elections when he wasn’t… functional. Unter had a brother… He made Red his King, but Red and Unter had a disagreement with morals… Red was brutal, tyrannical, while Unter aided Liberty. Red believed Liberty was an American Ideology, and it was the thing that kept them… slaves… Unter was forced to remove him from power… Red… was banished… But many consider Red the rightful King… Unter then had two children… Bluford and Greyhound. Bluford ran away… with Greyhound… Due to some disagreements with their father since they were heirs to so much responsibility. They ran… became pirates… As pirates… they would do petty thievery in the land of disarray, eventually seeing one country, Leg. A country constantly being bullied by the Empire of the North, Casin. So, with heart, they helped rebel against King Dur of Casin and established order… Soon, Bluford would establish order over all of Monopolia… And they had kids… Greyhound, the eldest, had one. Guy Ninjaheim. Then Bluford’s, America Ninjaheim, named after his ideals, and Calvinus Ninjaheim. They were inseparable… Meanwhile, Superheroes would soon begin to multiply over time as a separate race… Reemerging after the Apocalypse Beatle and Aurora inadvertently caused… Beatle, the Emperor of Earth, allowed this, sadly… They soon gained one ideology… Became followers of Guy Ninjaheim, who believed that Heroes should ALWAYS have a villain… And that is the rest of the world. He believed that heroes only exist if there were villains… So, he prompted a war for resources by placing all of the world’s farmed resources on the Moon… burning crops all over the world, leading to a famine… The people of the world starved… including the Philippines… And Beatle’s solution was to farm on the Moon. He did so with good intent, but Guy twisted it, saying that Beatle’s plan was to let the world starved… that he burned the crops, and he could keep the Moon for himself. Guy was an extremist… Joined Casin and other empires after he was crowned Emperor. Bluford was forced to retake his throne… and Beatle gave him help… Since then, the world lost its Superheroes… Superheroes in that world became his army… and wiped out half of the Earth’s population. And… that’s why Beatle didn’t want to team up with anyone anymore… Until he met you… Until he believed again… But… that was that… Came the downfall of Beatle’s Philippines… ergo… now…”

  “Why…” Miguel looked down, realizing the severity of what’s happening, with a calm twitch from the vein in his forheaad. “...didn’t you tell me…?”

  “I did! I sent you THE EMAIL TO KEEP MONOPOLIA OUT OF THE REGISTRATION!!!”

  Miguel checks the spam folder in the Smart TV. “Shit… Yeah… Sent to Spam…”

  “GOD-!!!”