Post by qpq on Aug 28, 2012 21:14:33 GMT -5
Synopsis: Theodore "Teddy" Kord II is in Metropolis on business reflecting on some of the changes that the world has gone through. At the same time he considers the idea of change being constant and necessary and that while some changes are temporary others are permanent.
He also focus on the metal coin he received, a marker with an image of an eagle on it, a signal that change is about to happen.
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Metropolis it was the jewel of the America, the one place where crime had not dragged it down into the depths of despair like most cities. Unlike most cities that had gone through significant change, Metropolis stood alone among them all as the one city that was not twisted into some new version of what it was before. Instead it bore the death and decay of it's former years from within.
No matter what had been said Metropolis had not been spared instead it had simply been managed far better than the other cities that had fallen to the very criminals the world had fought hard to stop. Without the heroes, heroes of any kind the cities did not have the resources to fight against the storm of the villains. In most cities crime rose, but in Metropolis it was poisoned until it had no choice, but to surrender to the will and whim of Lex Luthor. He had finally won. he had triumphed and the world paid for it.
However that was the past and the past did not control the future. The future was guided by a the present. All it took was one person making a stand showing the world that someone could make a difference that they did give a damn. All it took was someone willing to rise above petty differences and showing the world the best it could be not only through words, but through actions. All it took was one person and then that one would become two and three and more until there were so many that injustice in the world slowly began to fade.
All it took was one person. The right time had nothing to do with it, it was all about taking a stand and not backing down. All it took was having the courage of your convictions to stand up for what what you felt was right. Everyone and everything has its time in the sun and eventually the sun will set upon them but it will rise again. The world as it was before is gone, but what has remained in it's place is far from a pale shadow it is anything but that. However like it has been said before it will be said again. All civilizations fall. All empires pass into time.
This to will pass. That is something that I had been told time and time again my father before his passing. He told me that he had important work that needed to be done and that one day it would fall to me. That one day his legacy would be my own in ways that I might not understand not in the beginning, but eventually it would become clear. It would begin to make sense.
Clarity would not be found instead it would present itself when it was ready and not a moment before. The sacrifices of the past would not have been in vein. He had to take a step back in order for Kord Industries to survive. In order to do the work that he needed to do he had to take a step back.
In order for the world to be ready for us all to be ready for what was to come and what was to happen he had to take a step back along with others. A period of darkness had to happen in order for the light to return and when it did it would be stronger than it had been before and nothing will be able to seal it away again.
I had come to Metropolis to see about a recent acquisition and potential projects, but it seems that clarity has chosen this time to find me. Not with words. Not with thoughts. Not with images at least not an image of my own instead it has found me with a simple coin, a marker.
Looking it over carefully I feel along one side the image that has been drawn into the metal and for the first time in a very long time I smile.
It's not a matter of whether it is the right or wrong time it simply time. Time to take back the world. Light is come back light is returning riding on the wings of an eagle. Looking down at the coin and the image of the eagle that has been laid into it I know what's being ask of me and I know what I need to do.
I don't need to know who or where. All I know is that the gathering has begun.
He also focus on the metal coin he received, a marker with an image of an eagle on it, a signal that change is about to happen.
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Metropolis it was the jewel of the America, the one place where crime had not dragged it down into the depths of despair like most cities. Unlike most cities that had gone through significant change, Metropolis stood alone among them all as the one city that was not twisted into some new version of what it was before. Instead it bore the death and decay of it's former years from within.
No matter what had been said Metropolis had not been spared instead it had simply been managed far better than the other cities that had fallen to the very criminals the world had fought hard to stop. Without the heroes, heroes of any kind the cities did not have the resources to fight against the storm of the villains. In most cities crime rose, but in Metropolis it was poisoned until it had no choice, but to surrender to the will and whim of Lex Luthor. He had finally won. he had triumphed and the world paid for it.
However that was the past and the past did not control the future. The future was guided by a the present. All it took was one person making a stand showing the world that someone could make a difference that they did give a damn. All it took was someone willing to rise above petty differences and showing the world the best it could be not only through words, but through actions. All it took was one person and then that one would become two and three and more until there were so many that injustice in the world slowly began to fade.
All it took was one person. The right time had nothing to do with it, it was all about taking a stand and not backing down. All it took was having the courage of your convictions to stand up for what what you felt was right. Everyone and everything has its time in the sun and eventually the sun will set upon them but it will rise again. The world as it was before is gone, but what has remained in it's place is far from a pale shadow it is anything but that. However like it has been said before it will be said again. All civilizations fall. All empires pass into time.
This to will pass. That is something that I had been told time and time again my father before his passing. He told me that he had important work that needed to be done and that one day it would fall to me. That one day his legacy would be my own in ways that I might not understand not in the beginning, but eventually it would become clear. It would begin to make sense.
Clarity would not be found instead it would present itself when it was ready and not a moment before. The sacrifices of the past would not have been in vein. He had to take a step back in order for Kord Industries to survive. In order to do the work that he needed to do he had to take a step back.
In order for the world to be ready for us all to be ready for what was to come and what was to happen he had to take a step back along with others. A period of darkness had to happen in order for the light to return and when it did it would be stronger than it had been before and nothing will be able to seal it away again.
I had come to Metropolis to see about a recent acquisition and potential projects, but it seems that clarity has chosen this time to find me. Not with words. Not with thoughts. Not with images at least not an image of my own instead it has found me with a simple coin, a marker.
Looking it over carefully I feel along one side the image that has been drawn into the metal and for the first time in a very long time I smile.
It's not a matter of whether it is the right or wrong time it simply time. Time to take back the world. Light is come back light is returning riding on the wings of an eagle. Looking down at the coin and the image of the eagle that has been laid into it I know what's being ask of me and I know what I need to do.
I don't need to know who or where. All I know is that the gathering has begun.