“Ah! Yes I see you’ve noticed my statue! I’m sure you all recognize him, yes that is a statue of IO screaming in agony. It’s a funny story how I got this statue. You see, some… hundred years ago within the Blessed Prime Timeline, IO got ahold of a Time Machine, we all remember that right? Some poor sap of a Volt got euthanized by the Magpie IO while visiting the dreamers. Had his memories pulled right out of his spinal column and straight into IO’s forehead. Soon enough he’s traveling the multiverse causing all sorts of nasty problems. I remember the panics over him possibly stirring a war with the machine men and their paltry god computer! What a time to be alive! It was so bad, Lord Edison sent out a request for aid to all sorts of… collectors, including myself, to help solve his dilemma. Now I knew where all the others would fail, and it was quite simple: overengineering the problem. IO is a slippery snake, and giving him more things to work with is never a good thing. Every robot drone, perfect virus, and army of soldiers would just give him more than enough resources to leverage his own escape. And any attempt at lethality had to be solved with non-violence or we’d simply have to track down IO again! The solution I came to was really quite simple. I jumped on over to some 2010s timeline about to be struck with the Planet X and stole a cement mixer. I then skipped on over to IO and poured it onto the fucker. The magpie had made his form too perfect, forgoing oxygen and with perfect cell replication, his body will live 1000 years before it will give out and the hunt will begin anew. I very much can’t wait to add a second statue to my gallery”
-Quote from an eccentric collector and his gallery in the prime timeline