PLOT:
With nothing but time (if you can truly call it that) on his hands, Tom Tresser wanders the streets and corridors of
Electric City, mapping out every nook and cranny. He speaks aloud as he wanders the vacant city. Not to himself but
to the one controlling it all. The person behind the scenes - Forest's brother.
And as he stands looking at the monitors in the surveillance room, his map laid out at his feet, he realizes that
there's one giant hole in his map. One place that the monitors can't see right in the center of it all. And it's
then that he realizes something. The monitors aren't connected to any camera of any sort. They aren't monitors at
all in any practical sense. They are the view of one massive omnipresent Eye. Brother Eye to be exact. And the hole
at the center at the map is Him. There's a blind spot because the one thing He cannot see is Himself.
Closing your eyes in Electric City can take you to different whens and wheres, and at that moment Tom Tresser closes
his eyes and brings himself to the chamber of Brother Eye.
The glowing all-seeing Eye exudes great pride over Tom Tresser's recent accomplishments. Up until now Tom Tresser
has always existed as a side element to someone else's story. So eager to lose himself in the skin of someone else
that he never really established himself or staked out his own identity. He was just as faceless as the GPA agents
patrolling Electric City. And what does the GPA want? They want peace.
But all Tom Tresser wants is Escape. And after one final test he will have earned it, says Brother Eye. That test?
OMAC. The militaristic superweapon split-personality of Buddy Blank, the kind old man with the strange powers. And
as the electric blue hands of the OMAC tighten around Buddy's throat, launching him into the air and into a free
fall past the city's ever-observant skyline it dawns on him.
He's had it wrong from the start. It's true that Myron Forest augmented Buddy Blank and turned him into OMAC. But
the entire time Tom has been assuming that it's Brother Eye empowering OMAC. And at that moment he realizes he's
been wrong. Brother Eye isn't powering OMAC. He's helping OMAC keep the real power in check. And the person who
holds the real power here, and always has, is Buddy himself. He shouts that revelation
aloud and in doing so,
breaches the inner-psyche of the OMAC.
And everything stops.
"No. Not like this. This is wrong. This isn't how it happened" buzzes the electric voice of Brother Eye as he
dispatches his Bio-Mac soldiers to their location.
"No. But this is how it is." states Forest/Buddy as he destroys them all.
In the blink of an eye Tom is taken back to the surveillance room. The monitors are blank. Brother Eye is off-line
and now Buddy has assumed complete control of his consciousness. And it's about time that Tom Tresser learns the
exact purpose of the Global Peace Agency and Electric City.
"This is where we keep the end of the World."
One by one, the GPA has been removing the capacity for another crisis. The Cosmic Treadmill. The Wheel of Confusion.
The Time Pool. A massive disarmament of the human race in hopes of stopping them from ever destroying existence
again.
And with that it's over. Tom Tresser wakes up. It's 9:15 and he's back home in bed. A faceless yet familiar GPA
agent sits watching over him. It's Cameron Chase. She too was put through the Electric City
boot camp for the GPA.
But their timelines were not in sync. Every time their timelines would cross, though they existed in the same when,
they had been at different stages of their individual training.
Confusing for sure. But Electric City doesn't interact with reality in any way that's easy to comprehend. But Tom
Tresser has passed it all with flying colors. He's earned his GPA badge.
He reaches out to accept it, closes his eyes and then they're gone. A new adventure has begun.
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