Ver 06

So you think the story of Ver is over? No, we've only just begun.

In the aftermath of the Problem incident, Heudringottingenberger-und-Hzyepterzchwagenoftereich became a messy place. Emergency feeding areas were scattered by the government throughout the city for the survivors of Problem's rampage and the battle between him and the Heudringottingenberger-und-Hzyepterzchwagenoftereich Police Headquarters Mecha. Construction workers proceeded to repair the rippled roads for the government food trucks, while the rest were rebuilding their homes, offices, and commercial establishments.

The Mythical David's Sling was returned to the local museum, the CEO of some DIY fortune-telling kit company disposed his ruby-encrusted glowsitck because it doesn't glow as good as when he purchased it, the police mecha was repaired and is now back in its site, camouflaged as the Heudringottingenberger-und-Hzyepterzchwagenoftereich Police Headquarters, and the police are now on alert after a spate of food robberies typical of disaster sites.

Since Problem disappeared according to the available local witnesses, and they are the whole of Heudringottingenberger-und-Hzyepterzchwagenoftereich, the police are having a hard time with the report.

Eventually the city returned to normal the way Townsville (Do you really need the Townsville link?) always does everyday when I watch it, with no one afraid of future attacks by giant strongman supervillains, no one fearing the police headquarters suddenly standing up and falling on them. No one even had scars or phobia from the mass electrocution; simply put, no one was that affected by the event. Except for one person.

He is a person whose details I forgot (My sketch notebook, where the storyblog is based, is not with me.). The thing is, he was once a friend of Ver who became thin due to the artificial famine caused by food-looters, but survived. Because this unnamed person was very thin, he was often teased by people around him, including Ver. But this all changed when Ver exclaimed "Nothing could possibly be thinner than you!"

"POOF!"

The unnamed person became very, very thin indeed. He became a mostly 1-dimensional man, but with a circular 2-dimensional face, hands, and feet. (Think of him as a stick character, or better yet, click this.)

And because his body was mostly one-dimensional, no one at that time saw him (He could be seen only as a stick, and when his two-dimensional features reflect enough light to hit the light receptors.) He then fled in the sort of shame someone normally gets when interdimensionally transformed, which I think is similar to a garment malfunction shame. But don't worry, he will return in the next story.