Part III: We Don't Need Another Hiro!

He was in some sort of cave, he could tell that by the open rock formation he was sitting in. Up above him was a smooth open cylinder, with the hole he had fallen through some fifty feet above.

Momentarily cursing his luck, he saw his only possible means of escape was a passage ahead of him. Pulling out a torch from his backpack, he lit it and headed down the passage. It seemed to stretch on for miles, and so he momentarily cursed his luck. Then his torch went out, and he momentarily cursed his luck.

He soon noticed that the cave seemed to be giving off it's own source of light. He headed further down the passage, until he reached a solid wall. The wall was covered with strange markings, and had a handle on it. Hiro suddenly realized it had to be a door, as doors had been invented only several weeks earlier. Wondering how one had gotten down in this cave, he pulled the handle, and revealed the source of the light.

There, sitting in the center of a small room, in front of some steps, on an altar, in a bowl, almost covered in stone, was what was soon to be known all over the world as... the X-Ball. But to Hiro, it looked like delicious food*...

*He was very hungry.


NEXT WEEK: A Hiro Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich


THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF X-BALL:
PART I       PART II       PART III