The Pollyannaish-Jabez

Issue 136# "The reason behind Jabez's rejection."

{The Alike house} 

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"You've connected yourself with the world?! Why would you do such a thing!" Jalex exclaimed outwards the shorter figure leaning against the wall. "Aah did it because, without someone to balance the world, it'd be chaos." Jabez brushed off the thought of being connected to it. "Do you know what consequences may happen if you die?! Tell me! Did you think this one thru?!" Jalex was concerned about Jabez's wellbeing, that part hadn't mattered to him, its all thanks to his 'personal mastery'. "Its responsibility, something nobody else was going to carry." Jabez reciprocated, she pursed her lips for a moment. 

'I can't change that part of him, he's gone too far the edge of being a hero.' Jalex scratched the back of her strands. "Yeah, you're right. Nobody else is going to do it, because it has sacrifice." Jalex walked away from the albino; letting him alone. "And here I thought I did things thru pure luck!" Josiah suddenly ruined the silence for Jabez, from the shadows he unfolded himself into the light of the hallway. "You know, you could just give up the whole protecting innocence for once, nobody really cares." Josiah harshly inferred about Jabez's reputation. 

"Darlin'! Bless your heart!" Jabez brushed off the being's presence, walking towards the exit, unveiling the portal to earth. 'Does he really intend to withstand a role that requires unbelievably notable heroism?' Josiah watched him leave the house quietly. He found himself acknowledging something Jabez says without implying anything else, he really needed to get that thru his head, especially getting a little sense of clarity from his younger sibling. "I still can't believe he told me to screw off."  Josiah huffed a breath. 

{Earth} 

{Los Angeles} 

"Why do I feel goodness.. encircling the world?" An atheist had been staring down into the reflection of the puddle. "It's strange, its like, there's a change." He looked upwards at the skies, inhaling the air he hadn't felt pollution. Its cleaner than ever had humanity perhaps taken a chance in changing. 'Well, my name is Thomas. And I'm an atheist.' He stood up straight and looked around the community of people, people were more open than they used to be. "How could the world have changed so quickly?" Thomas looked up at the skies, thinking that there was a real god helping the people. 

"Perhaps, brother. I've my standpoint to help planet earth, you mustn't connect yourself with the planet. There are dangers awaiting beyond after death and resurrection." Juma and Jabez were on the Pacific ocean, talking to one another whilst walking on the water like solid concrete. "See what I've done for it?" Juma unveiled the goodness all around the planet itself. "Undo it. Inevitable destruction awaits beyond this, brother." Jabez stated, it didn't matter to him if things had changed, it will only cause more problems. 

"Too much good isn't right, it will become hectic for the forces of good. Good becomes evil, evil becomes good if both aren't balanced." Jabez wanted him to give this effort up. "I just wanted to help you, brother, you've given me a reason to continue on my life as an alike." Juma turned his head towards the shorter figure. "You've done enough for me, Juma, I've got the power to fight and protect my city already." Jabez wasn't willing to let all of this happen onto the planet, deep down, he knew it wasn't right at all. 

Juma lifted up a smile. "That's.. the greatest thing I've ever heard in my existence, you are indeed a hero. Little brother." Juma wrapped his arms around the albino, tightening his grasp on him. "All right... I will undo the good so that the evil may continue existing so that the planet will be in place." Juma slowly lets go of the albino, while Jabez knew that this is what needed to be done. Sure, the evil existing in humanity may be overall contemptuous and disdainful. But what else is there going to control when too much isn't a good thing. 

'Aah know aah might've besmeared the lives of others, wanting the goodness to exist in this world. But there is a zero chance anybody is ever going to live like this, not because you want it to be under your whim. Even wanting a life full of good people and communities would be best for them, but aah'm, not the one to decide the life of people. It's theirs, nobody should be playing God out of the entertainment of it.' As the two depart from each other, Jabez returning to L.A while Juma awaits dormant within the alike realm. 

'Aah can only do so much for L.A, but for the world. Ixnay, aah keep my hands off it. Aah don't want to be those types of heroes, there are already people doing their jobs for the world. No need to take away their jobs.. just like them, aah have something to protect.' Jabez's being fabricated before the old Chinatown central plaza. It was like a small part of eastern vibes sprawling throughout this junction, it reminded him of his dead girlfriend, Bai, she was Chinese. 

'Aah'll keep protecting those in need, even those inhumane because life has a POINT.' Jabez casually performed a series of unbelievably impossible acrobatics within the area, passing by the bruce lee statue. He aimed to find the crimes within his city, and only his. 

'My duty as a hero, caint be surceased. It's an unending journey that lead nowhere, yet, here aah am. Doing this one objective; protecting those in need!' Jabez handled the crimes happening in certain areas, such as hold-ups, people being mugged, preventing rape from occurring. Thru means of physical force, this just implied how much it meant to him being a hero really means. 

"He really intends on being the hero forever? That shall be changed!" From another universe, Kate perceived the things Jabez had been doing. "For there shall be a fight for his entitlement as a hero!" Kate added, laughing at the top of her lungs.