Truth in the Kitchen
Aaron walked downstairs and into the kitchen out of habit. It was nearly ten o’clock on a Saturday morning. In year’s past, it would’ve been tradition for Aaron to make pancakes with Sarah when the kitchen staff had the day off. Only Regina and Jeremy were at the house today.
But these days, Aaron wasn’t eating — didn’t need to eat. And the staff knew it. Regina, in particular, had become increasingly curious with Aaron about it. The closest thing to a mother figure now, she confronted him that morning.
“Sweetie, I know you’re gonna come down here and pretend to love my cooking. But you barely touch it. Then you bring the food to your vault and work for hours on end without a wink of sleep. And I know what plates look like when you’ve been eating food on them…and these plates haven’t been eaten on. You aren’t eating my food anymore, Aaron. I don’t know what you’re doing with it, but you sure aren’t eating it.”
Aaron had somehow avoided this conversation for months. But Regina wasn’t going to let him avoid her this time.
“Gina, I love you. And I love your food. But my appetite just isn’t want it used to be…”
He paused for a moment, considering what he could possibly tell her. “Gina, I’m an outlaw hero with powers from an alien civilization…?”
“I’ve been working a lot in the vault lately…”, he started.
Regina interrupted, “I know…you never eat in the kitchen anymore like you used to.”
Aaron continued, “You’re right. I don’t. And it’s hard for me to explain.”
Regina looked at him with rolled eyes. “How can it be so hard to explain? Either you like my food or you don’t. And you’re starting to hurt my feelings.” She half-smiled.
Aaron swallowed his anxiety and began to speak more slowly, “Do you remember that night all those years ago when the XPlore Corp plane exploded during its mission?”
“Yes…” Regina answered calmly.
Aaron continued with stuttering words, “I was…onboard the…space plane when it…exploded.”
Regina smiled as Aaron spoke the words that felt like a weight lifting off his lungs.
“I was beginning to think you might never tell me yourself.”, she said.
Aaron's Journal Ordered oldest to newest
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Justice Never Dies
2020 6 9
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DarkR Web Pillars
2020 6 10
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Day Zero
2020 6 14
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Maximum Resistance Joins the DarkR Web
2020 6 16
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Not According to Plan
2020 6 20
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Connecting The Dots
2020 6 23
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Falling Apart & Coming Together
2020 6 30
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COIL No Longer Exists
2020 7 1
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Working Through The Night
2020 7 2
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The Death of Soal
2020 7 3
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A Glowing Space Plane and A Star Capsule
2020 7 4
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Runes Etched Into The Wreckage
2020 7 4
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A Warehouse Explosion, A New Superhero, and a Wildthing
2020 7 4
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This is going to change everything
2020 11 26
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Algorithm and DESTROIDs Working Together?
2020 11 27
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Terror At The Bank: Three Killed, Others Seriously Injured
2020 12 6
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Fighting Snakes in a Courtroom
2020 12 10
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A “Celestial Body”
2021 1 15
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A North American Eclipse
2021 8 13
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On the run.
2021 8 14
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A New Champions Team-Up
2021 8 15
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A Vision of the Past?
2021 11 15
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Truth in the Kitchen
2021 12 27
2020 6 9
2020 6 10
2020 6 14
2020 6 16
2020 6 20
2020 6 23
2020 6 30
2020 7 1
2020 7 2
2020 7 3
2020 7 4
2020 7 4
2020 7 4
2020 11 26
2020 11 27
2020 12 6
2020 12 10
2021 1 15
2021 8 13
2021 8 14
2021 8 15
2021 11 15
2021 12 27
The major events and journals in Aaron's history, from the beginning to today.
Justice Never Dies
I always tell my daughter, Sarah, that Justice never dies if we keep fighting for it. But for months after Destroyer took over, I only ranted about his antics. I didn’t really fight for justice. In my normal fashion, I made some inflammatory posts on...
05:12 am - 09.06.2020DarkR Web Pillars
The Dark Web was always a source of cybersecurity threats for Xplore Corp. Before Destroyer’s takeover, we had teams of security analysts - red teams, blue teams, purple teams — and probably other teams I don’t even know about — focused on identif...
04:09 am - 10.06.2020Day Zero
As of tonight, there are now four — maybe even five — heroes on the secure network we now call the “DarkR Web”. The network is designed with proximity encryption to cover the devices (including voice calls) of those with FOBs. I’ve even created ...
03:19 am - 14.06.2020Maximum Resistance Joins the DarkR Web
Runeforce Meets Maximum Resistance The last message still on the screen was “>...Working...” This in response to my rashly typed command to “+join Cypher” to the DarkR Web. But now, freshly appearing on the screen was a new message: >SCRT: +...
04:29 am - 16.06.2020Not According to Plan
Even with the best preparations, our first coordinated mission together didn’t feel very “prepared”. Isobar, Faust, Field Effect, Cypher, Maximum Restiance, and I worked late into the night discussing how we might trick the computer systems at t...
06:00 am - 21.06.2020Connecting The Dots
Several days ago, while we were attempting to infiltrate the power plant, I noticed something curious about my runes. Particularly, as I was portaling toward the direction of the building where Isobar had been, I noticed a much warmer — maybe even “ho...
07:41 pm - 23.06.2020Falling Apart & Coming Together
At some point, probably just a month after the superheroes vanished, Destroyer began eliminating world leaders. News reports were almost daily. I remember the first headline clearly, “German Chancellor Murdered by Destroyer”. I was scheduled to fl...
06:41 am - 01.07.2020COIL No Longer Exists
The day the Power Plant mission, I worked throughout the day in my lab, breaking for a moment to help Sandcrab with a test at Homestead, but then returning quickly afterward — attempting to build a new DarkR FOB for Beth Schroeder, my contact at the Dep...
05:38 am - 04.07.2020Working Through The Night
I couldn’t think clearly. Beth was doing well but had warned me to be careful. Surely she didn’t know anything about the power plant mission...? There was no way she could’ve connected any of it to me anyways. I was just being paranoid. Still, I nee...
03:56 pm - 05.07.2020The Death of Soal
My dreams were vivid last night — more spectactularly vivid than I’ve ever experienced before. And, to be honest, it didn’t feel like a dream. I’ve experimented with all types of drug-induced, lucid dreaming in the past — trying to fight my inne...
03:55 pm - 06.07.2020A Glowing Space Plane and A Star Capsule
Jamie called me a few minutes after I woke from the vivid dream/memory of Soal’s death. I answered the phone immediately, because I <i>always</i> answer Jamie’s calls. “Hey Jamie...” I responded, groggily. “What’s up?” Jamie has been ...
02:31 am - 11.07.2020Runes Etched Into The Wreckage
After an hour-long drive, we arrived at the Xplore Corp secure storage facility at around 2PM in the afternoon. Regina had prepared some sandwiches and packed a few bottled waters for us to share with Jamie, so we ate together in the park overlooking the ...
06:05 am - 17.07.2020A Warehouse Explosion, A New Superhero, and a Wildthing
Sandcrab had been investigating what happened to COIL after Beth Schroder, my close confidant at the Department of Defense, offered the ominous morsel of information to me over drinks at the Town Pump Tavern, “COIL no longer exists”. Beth didn’t ...
01:55 am - 24.07.2020This is going to change everything
It had been roughly a week since the warehouse explosion — and in comparison, the quiet in Millennium City was beginning to feel abnormal. Not one to waste an opportunity, I began making daily trips to Flat Rock to investigate the XPlore plane more ...
01:49 am - 26.11.2020Terror At The Bank: Three Killed, Others Seriously Injured
Early on Saturday morning, the Millennium City Bank was terrorized by powered vigilantes — during the raid, three of the city’s fine young men were killed and several were seriously injured. Apparently aided by their superpowers, no video footage of t...
07:23 pm - 05.12.2020Fighting Snakes in a Courtroom
Over the last few weeks, my time has been dedicated almost entirely to the XPlore plane stored at the old Flatrock Metals Plant. The more time I spent with the plane, the more I [i]understood[/i] it. Like my knowledge of the Oqthcalian planetary system an...
06:02 am - 26.12.2020Algorithm and DESTROIDs Working Together?
After the scrapped-together form of Algorithm disappeared at the University, Socrates was able to locate him again, now at a hi-rise office building downtown. The New Champions moved quickly to trap him there. Sandcrab and Wildthing entered the buildin...
07:39 am - 18.01.2021The Crash
Jamie Richards was a ruddy tomboy who got picked on by the other kids in school. But even as kids, she and Aaron Sharpe were inseperable. Camping trips, after-school clubs, and even cross-country running for their high school athletic team — Jamie and A...
12:53 am - 20.03.2021A “Celestial Body”
Over the months since the New Champions have been working together more frequently, Jamie made arrangements for me to take a long-term sabbatical from work. In the public reporting, I would be more “focused on the charitable foundation and other causes ...
09:02 pm - 09.05.2021A North American Eclipse
After the last set of experiments and now months without eating and sleeping…a surreal thought began to occupy my mind, [q]“What am I?”[/q] Even when the runes of the Oqthcalian civilization weren’t outwardly visible, other unseen transform...
04:45 am - 14.08.2021On the run.
“We’ve been forced to move the XPlore Plane three times now because of NAGA raids…” Jamie argued with Aaron over a late breakfast at the Sharpe Mansion. Aaron looked at the food but didn’t eat. He kept the household staff even though none of...
12:33 am - 15.08.2021A New Champions Team-Up
Fazer reached out to Cypher for assistance with locating NAGA stations. [i]NAGA had been raiding XPlore Corp warehouses for weeks, searching for clues about the “North American Eclipse”, an unanticipated darkening of the sky across North America, ...
03:11 am - 16.08.2021A Vision of the Past?
Even with the increased frequency of attacks from Gigaton and the NAGA forces, Runeforce took some days away from Homestead and maintained his human appearance as Aaron Sharpe so that he could talk with his daughter, Sarah. She had nearly been captured...
07:53 am - 09.12.2021Truth in the Kitchen
Aaron walked downstairs and into the kitchen out of habit. It was nearly ten o’clock on a Saturday morning. In year’s past, it would’ve been tradition for Aaron to make pancakes with Sarah when the kitchen staff had the day off. Only Regina and Jere...
05:12 am - 07.01.2022The list of amazing people following the adventures of Aaron.
Social
Birthplace
Upstate New York
Current Residence
Millennium City
Contacts & Relations
Very close relationship with his personal assistant - Jamie Richards.
Also, very well connected with the Department of Defense leadership.
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Founder and Chairman of Xplore Corp.
Wealth & Financial state
Filthy rich, one of the richest people in the world. Sharpe is a multi-billionaire.
Social Aptitude
Well connected in elite, social circles. Is often followed by paparazzi and in magazines. Maintains an active social media presence.