by agent57, Nowhereman, Eurostar and Eurotsar
Agent F7, Nowhereman, Eurostar, and Electric Power Torque found themselves in Russia in the year 1900. It was February, 1900, and they were in Moscow.
"This is too crazy for me," Electric Power Torque muttered, and flew away, sparks trailing in his wake.
Since they had been thrown out of the pub, Nowhereman had been pissed off that the Nowherecard didn't work. He now thought to himself that maybe due to a quirk in the laws of time and space, the card had somehow acted as a time machine and transported them back in time. If this was the case, he reasoned, Europe still existed, and they could set up defenses to stop this disaster, thereby changing history. For some reason, in his mind, France was not included in this deal.
After exploring the area, the three had been seen using their powers by Vladimir Lenin himself, who introduced himself to them. Lenin had been illegally visiting Moscow at the time after having been banned from major cities in the Russian empire for his insurrectionist work.
Lenin: "Tovarisch, your help will be invaluable for ending the czarist monarchy. This year will be the first of a century of red hope!"
Eurostar groaned, irritated at the common mistake. "This is the LAST year of the century, not the first!"
The three said goodbye to Lenin and made their way elsewhere to discuss what to do next.
Nowhereman: "Hey, let's go to Tunguska to solve the mystery. After all, we were going to check out Siberia on our house-hunting trip, right?"
Agent F7 muttered something foul.
After a moment, Nowhereman said, with a pleased look on his face, "Hey, if Lenin's alive, where's McCartney and the rest of the Beatles?" He then started singing Back in the USSR.
Agent F7: "What the fuck is he on?"
Eurostar: "Who knows? It's all his fault, anyway!"
After Eurostar carried the other two into Siberia by superspeed, the three located the place they had sought.
Eurostar: "Here we are! Tunguska!"
Nowhereman: "There is no trace of the big explosion!"
Agent F7: "Maybe it's too early? I think it happened in 1908 or so."
Eurostar: "Look in the sky! It's a meteor? It's a spaceship? It's a blob of antimatter? No... it's a dog dressed in green?!"
The powerful canine hero crashed on the permafrost of Siberia, digging the biggest hole ever dug by a dog. He and the three heroes were kept safe by the providential bubble of green power.
Nowhereman: "Oh, divine dog, may we ask you to help us undo the great evil that will destroy Europe in a mere hundred years?"
And while the main dog scratched his head and back, strange flashes lit the forest in the distance. Was it ball lightning, or was it Electric Power Torque?
Sometime later, Eurostar, awakening from dreaming, looked around him to find himself in a place of nothingness, and he was the only person there. "I started thinking I was a ghost. Maybe I'm real and everyone else is a ghost!"
Unknown to him, he had been cloned. Was the clone the classic evil duplicate? Had the rest of the world actually disappeared, or had Eurostar been transported to a parallel world? Was he, or were the others, in the Phantom World? Only time would tell.
Back in Tunguska, the fumes from the smoking crater made by the dog had begun to affect the MBLers.
Agent F7, overjoyed that Lenin was still alive, decided to reform the Beatles. Nowhereman became Ringo Starr and the dog was George Harrison. Agent F7 became McCartney, but he decided to leave halfway through to form Wings. All of them high as kites, the intrepid heroes forgot where Eurostar was.
"Why should I have to be Ringo Starr?" shouted Nowhereman after a few moments. "There is no way I'm gonna be destined to read Thomas the Tank Engine!"
In the Phantom World, Eurostar had begun to see visions himself and had made horizontal sport with a beautiful woman he met there. He now slept and wondered if he truly was the last man in the world.
And where was his evil duplicate? Would he ever be seen again? Only time would tell.
"I am here," said a dark figure, laughing maniacally. He was in a dome-shaped headquarters after bashing the little furry pest across the world. And he was keeping the ghost of Eurostar well locked up. He laughed again. His pet cloned sheep, Dolly, was next to him.
Had Eurostar, overcome by the autocracy of the former Russia before Lenin took over, somehow become EuroTsar? No, but this was near the truth.
It had been a freak accident from the double actions of Electric Power Torque's sneak attack on the MBLers and Nowhereman's holding the Nowherecard in his hand as the man attacked that somehow caused the Nowherecard to shunt Eurostar off into the Phantom World while also creating an almost-identical version of himself.
This duplicate, split from the real Eurostar, was an imperfect duplicate, one without the hero's conscience or morality to guide him. He had taken the name EuroTsar partly as a joke inspired by his being created in tsarist Russia.
Now the real Eurostar was a ghost trapped in a cage with the EuroTsar's monetary serpent! Only the MBL could save him, but it was not an easy task. In order to save him, they had to answer his telepathic distress call.