Ant-Man: Earth Duty!

A special warrior-vigilante (Ant-Man) must use wits and style to contend with the dark regions of Earth's troubled destiny.

A tale of Earth-wits and Ant-Man's funny intercessions into the dominion of troubles/dilemmas. Enjoy, 

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The Red-Mask unit of warriors from Venus were camping out in the Wingate hotel in South Jersey, United States. One of the members, Amlan Satan, thought about going off on his own as a valiant costumed miniature super-hero named Ant-Man and bid his buddies farewell at the Wingate.

RED-MASK: We're sure you might return to us someday, Ant-Man of heroics.

ANT-MAN (Amlan Satan): Perhaps...but until then, maybe we'll 'catch' each other for Facebook-IQ!

ANT-MAN: Now, in flight with great super-liberty and thoughts of heroics, I set out for sectarian-troubled Belfast (UK).

On his way to Europe, Ant-Man had an idea to make a detour to SETI's Aracebo satellite-dish/signals-analysis center and took photos for Facebook-IQ. He hoped to tell people of Northern Ireland (UK) how modern sci-fi stories dissuade sectarian woes and encourage humanity to think about the 'deep' universe questions that may unite all human beings in intelligence/imagination.

ANT-MAN: Now, in Northern Ireland (UK), all I get senses of is the sheer splendor of human traffic and the drama of troubles!

Well, there are such things as aliens as SETI investigates from Aracebo. In fact, a Martian spying on human civilization from Earth's moon, an insect-dragon being named Endymion, tracked this curious space-warrior/vigilante 'Ant-Man' (Amlan Satan) and challenge him to a game of chess, seeing if he'd have the 'patience' to draw a stalemate with him or some kind of draw (no-win decision), which requires an 'extra-human' sense of goodwill and patience. Endymion was a calculating alien and wanted to measure the 'value' of beings on Earth creating troubles...or stories.

ANT-MAN: I play you in chess, in this Facebook online format, but remain unconvinced you're a real Martian, Endymion.

ENDYMION: I assure you I am, but that's no bother now; I play my queen-knight advances against you, Ant-Man.

ANT-MAN: What choice do I have now but to counter-balance with a rook-bishop double-line array to interrupt your diagonals.

ENDYMION: Damn...this child-like Toy-Story chess-set we've been directed to play on in this online-format is quite funny.

ANT-MAN: What...did the potential stalemate draw out a 'human' confession from you, Endymion (ha)?

ENDYMION: Well, I didn't anticipate you soaring into a stalemate-worthy game with such speedy humanness, Ant-Man (ha).

ANT-MAN: That's the odd beauty of this Toy-Story chess-set we're using now, Endymion --- child-like distancing.

The alien conceded not to invade Earth, having been contented in spirit by the stalemate-play of Ant-Man (Amlan Satan) whose swift responsiveness to Endymion's brand of queen-knight fury-advance paved the way for a diplomacy-oriented conversation about the 'value' of Earth-competition psychology! The alien Endymion resigned himself to the Earth's deep-ocean abyss as a (permanent) isolationist-exile, contented to sit in his underwater-built neon palace, hidden with an invisibility dome-shield, and read/re-read his favorite Earth-work, a searing Bobby Fischer biography (chess!).

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