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Date Posted: 13:25:24 08/11/01 Sat
Author: Lieutenant Junior Grade Justin Grey
Subject: "Rana..."
In reply to: Mercado 's message, ""Friend-Rana! Excuse me..."" on 01:27:15 08/11/01 Sat

Justin had overheard some of his friend's conversation with the robed stranger with some concern. When Mercado arrived he felt some relief; he knew well the measure of the Nebulan's heroics, remembering how he had saved Justin and many others from the TLA when the NOVA*Beacon and the SP Boardhopper battled. But when he said that name. "Rana", something clicked in the back of Justin's mind.

He remembered something else that happened aboard the Boardhopper on their way home. En route, the vessel known as the Red Eye, piloted by Dart Lavitz, docked. In addtion to the entire Electriad being aboard as prisoners and some wounded Manarian Fairies with their concerned Queen, the was Deborah.

Justin was starting to shake now, and put his hand on a chair to steady himself. He remembered his anguish when, in the midst of kidnapping Deborah, on eof the Electriad had teleported through Ice Comp! Justin had felt so helpless when he leapt through the portal after them only to leap right back out! But Mercado was there, and warned him how dangerous a move that was; Justin didn't care. So when Deb was rescued by someone else, the mysterious Dr. Phillip Karlson, aka the explosive Powderkeg, and agreed to marry he new hero, Justin was on the edge. That's when he met Wanda.

Wanda was a beautiful stowaway aboard the Red Eye. Other than being incredibly beautiful and the fulfilment of every male fantasy in Justin's subconscious, there was nothing out of the ordinary. She filled the void left by Deborah's choice, and Justin thought he was happy. But when the fantasy turned darkly to killing Karlson, and he found it to be real as he pulled a trigger on the groom, he knew too late Wanda was too good to have been true. If "Karlson" had been anything more than a Pretender shell for TM II BoGo�, Justin would have murdered him that day. The Rugby pilot would have been a coldblooded killer, all for a woman who was not what she appeared, all for the WR@. Justin began to wake up from the nightmare that day, thanks to the intervention of one called Seraph, and he was more fortunate than most WR@-Usurped. But echoes still remained, and as he recognized where he had heard the name "Rana" before. At the very center of the WR@ was WR@NA, and Justin would die before he saw that nightmare spread once more.

"MERCADO!" he cried, drawing his blaster, "CHRIS! Get back, both of you! You don't know who--what--he is!!"

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"Wait, friend-Grey, wait..." -- Mercado, 13:44:21 08/11/01 Sat
- "Fool...you're ALL fools!!" -- Rana, 00:45:21 08/12/01 Sun