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09 : Hope City

The story starts in New Arizona 2506. A man by the name of Montgomery Tormaine is looking for a wife and a mother with whom he can have a son. His first wife was murdered by an assassin’s bullet meant for him. He has chosen Larna Fox to be his wife against all the advice of his assistant Lenon. They have a slight problem however; Larna hasn’t been seen alive since Hunter sent her through time. Lenon searches through time and finds her. There’s another problem they discover now. Larna has got permanent amnesia and cannot remember anything, even her name.

Tormaine wants her the way she was, full of fighting spirit and goes back through time. He goes back to just after the explosion in the warehouse at the end of the Hunter story. He picks Larna up off the street before the police picked her up and took her to the Everglade Recuperation home. They take her back to Fontana where they restore her memory to what it was before Hunter hit her with the ray. When her memory is restored Larna is forced to become his wife and have his children. The police find she’s back and give her orders to kill Tormaine. She tries when they are about to have S.I.C., but fails. Tormaine orders that her memory should be changed so that she can only remember being his wife. To avoid this Larna jumps through a Time Portal that appears behind her. This Portal sends her to the year 10,076.

Larna finds herself being worshipped as the Goddess Mathilda of Hope, Peace and Justice. Her old archenemy Shadow, who is calling herself the Goddess of Doom and Destruction, is back, after being returned to the time line by someone called the Time Guardian. With the help of an old face, and a new friend, Larna must quest for the seven Stones of Utopian Creation and the necklace that they fit in, to stop Shadow from claiming control of the new kingdoms of New Genesis.

The names of the stones are as follows:

  • The Daffodalon: This is yellow. They say it can make things grow, because it looks like the sun. However it can only do half the job, it needs the Emeralden Stone with it. This should have been found in Hope City. However, Shadow had stolen it from the city and taken it to her palace in Lipolina and Rhore City.
  • The Barkintan: This is brown and makes the earth. This is located in Rhore City, along with the stolen Daffodalon, in the palace treasury.
  • The Velveta: This is blue and is said to control the flow of water. It is found in an underwater city (Lake City) in Catalania and is guarded by sharks and other sea monsters. Protected by a swim underwater through an underwater tunnel and shoots, like at the swimming baths, that goes to a large storage of water where the stone can be found.
  • The Emeralden: This is green and is said to help the Daffodalon Stone to make things grown. This can be found in Jungle City in Terriocotic, a section ruled by men, in which women are merely slaves. This tribe protects the stone, which is protected by a bar going across a raging river and a long tiring climb up a rope to the tree house where the stone can be found.
  • The Necklace: This is a band of gold with holes for each stone to be put in. It is found in Mythalona in Dream City and a tribe of Amazonians, the rulers of Mythalona, protects it.
  • The Poppiat: This is red. It can bring people back to life if they are killed. This stone is to be found in Dromonas, especially Battle City the capital. It is protected by a large gorge that looks impossible to cross. There are also several other features to protect the stone including a false floor and an old rope bridge.
  • The Tarmacision: This is grey and makes the rocks. This is found in Grave City in Anthromena and is protected by an Army of the Dead.
  • The Glaciatican: This is clear and makes snow. This can be found in one of the ice caves of Ice City in Zerotansula and is guarded by a snow monster and a yeti sort of creature. Protected by a toboggan run and an ice passage that is hard to stand up in.

The story ends with Larna re-activating the Time Portal in Hope City.

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