Merlock and Earth Prime- The first/Last Riot Act story (3)

Earth Prime.
located on the edge of the Milky Way, third planet from the sun, calender year 2008.
Merlock and his others travelled through a conduit created when he and the female version of himself, The Duchess, mated and created sextuplets.
Each one of the children had the power to open up bridges between the worlds.
Four of the children remained, two had escaped and become Johnny haunted House and Dwarf Toss- but that's another story.

Somehow, upon arriving on Earth Prime, the all the Merlock were absorbed into a single body. Merlock thought that this would lead to a more powerful existence, but soon realized that he was near powerless in this form- on this Earth.

this was of no consequence to him. he would still do what he had to to destroy the Riot Act of this world.

Merlock began to search fr Riot Act, but found no leads- no clues. was it possible that they did not exist on this earth? he knew that they were hear- he could feel them.

he was being drawn to them.

for ten years, he conducted his search until he was nothing but a crazed shell of a man, traveling the night and sleeping in dumpsters. He was a man possessed. he had to find the Riot Act. He felt them. they were here, somewhere...

Soon, he would succumb to the elements, to the insanity, to death.

Merlock died without ever knowing the truth- that Riot Act did exist here- in the thoughts and dreams of they're creator, in the form of comic panels that had never been drawn and in the shape of a film that had never been written or filmed.
The Riot Act that Merlock sought here was only a dream, though a strong one, in the brain of a lowly writer.

The writers dream had created and destroyed worlds. The writer had made heroes and killed them with little more than a stroke of the keyboard.
Whats more, he had made Merlock, then killed him before he could ever realize his potential.



But Riot Act would live on, somehow, somewhere because ultimately, the writers brain was the only Earth that mattered.