Claimed:The Hero: Part I [Final: 6/6]

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The Hero:

Origins

When we left off, George “The General” Patton was in France. He had come from Yukon Territory, where he had received a pep talk from his friend and fellow member of the Yukon Rush, Torez, Ukraine, native Fedir Okranitz. Before that little conversation, The General had met Emil Zola who had informed him that HYDRA, a terrorist sort of group previously known to George Patton as a piece of the fictional Marvel universe, existed in the real world, as well.

He also learned that he had been created anew by HYDRA after having been brought to the United States after his death in Heidelberg, Germany, during a secret part of Operation Paperclip, which had officially brought to the United States Nazi scientists. He learned that the United States government had created him, then – for some very strange reason that he did not know – allowed him to run off and play hockey. He learned that he was one hundred and twenty nine years old.

He also learned that the threat was real. He learned that HYDRA was amassing power, and that they would soon do very bad things to the entire world. He would admit that most of that had been learned in the Captain America movie, but if everything else in the movie about HYDRA was true, he had a feeling that this would be, too.

According to his research, however, Captain America was not as real as his HYDRA opponents. There were no Avengers to fight the threat of evil. In fact, the only person who knew for sure was himself, George “The General” Patton (and you, my dear readers, but George “The General” Patton doesn’t know about any of this). The French had not understood him, and surely Zola had found his a way to get his computerized behind out of the Yukon arena. If only one person knew of the threat, only one person could fight the threat.

He was the only one who could do what was necessary, and he would do his very best. And so it was that George “The General” Patton became a superhero. Granted, George “The General” Patton would be a superhero like Batman, self-made and without actual powers. He didn’t have very much at all. He had some hockey player strength. He had some resources. He had some army training, but that training was now over one hundred years old, and so it was probably slightly outdated. He also had an unnecessary and unexplained pin up girl sidekick, named Cherry Baxter. In short, he had everything needed to be a superhero except for super powers.

With his background appropriately established, George “The General” Patton and Cherry Baxter boarded a plane out of Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, or Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. The General was armed with a short novel, a soda, a buttered croissant, and a deli sandwich. Cherry Baxter was armed with the same stuff, as well as her disarming smile. Their plane took off, and off they went to…

 

Come back next week for…

HIS SUPERPOWERS DONT

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START A FIRE

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Content: 3/3

Engrossing like always.  Always a pleasure to read

Grammar: 2/2

I'm sure there were some issues in there somewhere, but nothing jumped out immediately.

Appearance: 1/1

So many photos.  I want a Cherry Baxter too.

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