"It's horrible," FlameStar remarked as she watched the monitor. "I know," T'Omm replied. He and she were in the main Moderators Control Room, watching total chaos and carnage erupt on their message board security cameras. So far the hostile NEB activity had been slowly spreading into the Rumbles Board, but there was no telling when it could spill over into the Community Board, shocking the residents like a bumper crop of swearing newbies. In fact, the results might be strikingly similar.

"Can't we do something?" FlameStar pleaded?

"Maybe you can," T'Omm offered. "I can't do anything but stay here and keep people posted. I'm like the weatherman now, I'm a permanent fixture with an awesome responsibility for informing and updating the public. Unless you'd like to take over?"

"Oh no, go right ahead," FlameStar permitted.

"Ugh," T'Omm grunted. Just then the phone rang. He picked up the receiver. "Moderators Hotline, over," T'Omm answered. "What?" a look of horror enveloped his face. He held his hand to the mouthpiece as he whispered to FlameStar. "...there's a BOMB on the Community Board!"

"WHAT?" she gasped. "WHERE?"

"I don't know," T'Omm answered. "But our warning systems are going off, and we haven't located it yet. If it goes off before we get to it there'll be destruction throughout the entire system! If the Comm Board goes, everything goes!"

"Who's that on the phone?"

"It's Conn Seanery," he answered. "I asked him to look after the board while I came up here to the main control room. From the sound of things, I'd better get back there. Maybe I can locate the bomb and disarm it before it goes off. Then I can just delete it." He holstered his deletion gun.

Suddenly another phone rang. "Moderators Hotline, go ahead," T'Omm answered as he lifted the receiver. "WHAT?" he screamed. He turned on the security camera monitor to the Superman Board. "What's going on over there?" FlameStar watched the screen and nearly had a heart attack! The large red monstrous DeMonStar was engaged in combat with a poster thought long dead! "Oh my gosh," T'Omm said, "Not the Superman Board! Now what am I going to do? That place is my home!"

"Don't worry," FlameStar said. "I'll go help them out at the Superman Board. You go to the Community Board where you're needed!" The two of them rushed down the hall, then took opposite directions from there on out...

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