Posted by on July 30, 2001 at 15:51:42:
“Can you believe this?” Swift asks to no one in particular.
The constant hum reveals that they have materialized on a ship. The giant
veiwscrean confirms this, as PhantomGhostGirl, Pigeonman, Kid Produce and Jackie
Rabbit look out at the blue-gray planet known as Transvalonia. “DON’T IGNORE ME SCOTT!” Janeen yells, “YOU-ARE-NOT-DIEING-ON-ME!”
“So basically the being who built you, the D’Boring, a race of intelligent
broccoli people, were killed and their ship, you, were held here under
Galactivac’s World Ship all this time?” PhantomGhostGirl checks.
Power Cosmic sizzles through the air towards Amazing Guy as he flies out of
the way.
Janeen, in a space suit left over by the previous occupants of this ship,
looks out at the speeding lightshow as the ship warps after AG. The medical room, where John’s injured shoulder and broken leg is being
mended by his closest friend. Strange thing is, he knows very little about her.
AG wanted him to ask her about her real life but this mysterious teen, known
only as Plantgirl, always changed the subject. Now he has noticed her bandaged
arm. To be concluded, for real this time! Amazing Guy in hiding! JBH continue to
desolve! Galactivac vs. the Pigeonmen of Thonggar! Amazing Guy in a show down
with the Living Death That Sucks!
JBH #3, The Darkness Without Part 3
He and the
rest of his JBH cohorts along with three of the surviving heroes of this planet
are staring at an incredible site.
“What the devil is that?” Brad Stroker,
leader of the Revolutionaries of Transvalonia (A group of native heroes that
spent there every waking moment trying to rid their planet, Transvalonia, from a
nasty group of Hero Feeders called the Nosferatu).
“That is Galactivac, the
Living Death that Sucks. Apparently he wants to eat your planet.”
PhantomGhostGirl replies. She and the rest of the JBH were sent here, millions
of years in the past, millions of light years from Earth, to save this planet
from the Feeders as a way of passing some sort of test for the Hooded Hood. A
test that apparently isn’t over.
“No, not that tall giant. I mean the strange
metal machinery he’s setting up on Mount Frankenweiner!” Brad replies. He and
his two surviving friends, Wolfbite and Flabluka Van Hellsing, are just amazed
at the new developments in there life.
“That’s his World-Sucking Device
(Copyright Galactivac, 2001).” MacyMom answers.
“And it looks like he’s
already preparing to suck!” Kid Produce shouts, pointing at the World
Sucker.
“IS’NT ENOUGH TOM DIED TO SAVE US FROM THOSE FEEDERS? Now the big “G”
is going to finishes us off!” Jackie Rabbit cries. Tom Pymer, the reluctant hero
known as Little Guy, sacrificed his life to stop the Feeders. Everyone feels a
sence of loss and uncertainty with his passing. After stopping their fair share
of foes without a scratch, they have finally had a loss. Jackie is doubly hurt
sence the woman she grew close to, one Elisabeth Dracu, from Earth’s past, a
revealed vampire, also died saving them.
“Easy Jackie, we all miss him, but
we have bigger fish to fry.” The golden age Pigeonman states. His wife,
Pigeonwoman, however, clutches closer to him. This time his bravery does little
to calm her fears.
“Yeah. Much bigger!” Plantgirl replies while clutching her
covered damaged arm.
“Wait! LOOK AT THE SKY!” The second Pigeonman shouts.
In all their shock and confusion, the heroes hadn’t noticed the solar system
sized ship covering the whole sky.
“I’ve been there before,” Amazing Guy (now
covered in a aura filled with stars and galaxies) says with fear, “It’s his
World Ship. He must have something bigger planned.”
“Indeed he does! My
master has not just come for this world. He has come for you!” the Crimson
Cyclist, harald of Galactivac states, looking at Amazing Guy. “My master and I
picked up you powerful energy signature and altered course from the planet
Makluos to come here, to your planet! We believe your power will be enough to
cure my master from his unquenchable hunger! Please surrender yourself up for
processing.”
This brings lots of protests.
Swift: “Tell your boss to shove
it up his…”
Kid Produce: “But…but were not from this planet…”
MacyMom:
“Over our dead bodies buster!”
Amazing Guy, after a pause, says, “Wait. If my
power can stop Galactivac and end his hunger, think of all the races I would’ve
saved. All those lives!”
“Exactly. If you would please follow me, we can
begin your absorbing process..”
MacyMom steps in the way, “Scott, no! Let’s
find another way! I’ll not let you throw your life away!”
“Hon, we don’t know
if it’s fatal. Maybe..”
The Cyclist interrupts, “The absorption process will
indeed end your existence, but think of the joy at finally filling the master’s
appetite!”
“If it means saving all those future people, then yes. I will!”
Amazing Guy responds as he joins the Cyclist in the air. The two fly towards
Galactivac.
“SCOTT!” Janeen (MacyMom) screams. She knows her dairy producing
powers cant help here, but she creates a cheese slide, propelling herself in the
air.
PhantomGhostGirl thinks on her feet, “Carl! Shelly! John! Plantgirl!
Follow her! Get AG away from there! Convince him he’s wrong!”
At once
Pigeonman, Pigeonwoman, Swift and the green leaf garbed female with no real name
take off after AG.
“What do we do Tonya?” Kid Produce asks.
“Simple. AG
told me once about a weapon Galactivac has on his world ship. The Ultimate
Humidifier, or Humiliator, or something. Jasper, you, Jackie, the second
Pigeonman and I will stow away on his ship, find this thing, and use it on the
big guy. Stroker, I don’t suppose you have any ships?”
“We have nothing of
the sort. Our technology cant possibly..” Stroker’s words are cut off as the
four heroes vanish in a spectacular light effect.
With the off worlders
gone, and the Night Feeders destroyed, Brad Stroker leads his two friends’ back
to their base. There’s a lot to clean up. A world to rebuild. He wonders, as he
looks at the awesome sight of all things Galactivac, if there will be a world to
rebuild.
“We’re on a
ship!” PGG observes, “Instant teleportation. Haven’t felt that sence I was back
in the 31st century.”
“But who teleported us?” Pigeonman wonders. Jasper and
Jackie just stare out the window in awe.
“I figured you might want to watch
the planet explode. It’s a great sight from up here, that if your into that sort
of thing.” An unusually sad female voice replies. Everyone looks around, only to
find no one in the darkened bridge of this ship.
“WHO SAID THAT??!!”
Pigeonman demands as he brandishes his Chakostar, “Answer or I swear by the
trees of Sparroweoeo that I’ll gut you where you stand! Speak
shadowthief!”
The depressed female voice responds, “I did not mean to offend,
Thonggarian. It is I, Vessel. I am the ship you are standing in, not that I
blame you for ignoring me. I have always been worth ignoring.”
She is
standing on a solid cheese-slide, looking in Amazing Guy’s bewildered
face.
“B..but hon..”
“LISTEN MISTER! If someone has to sacrifice
themselves, let it be someone who doesn’t HAVE kids at home, waiting for him!
Finny, Exile, Hatman, any of those guys, but not you!” she’s sobs.
“WAIT!
What did you say?” AG asks.
“Not you!” Janeen replies. Her four teammates and
the shiny harald just stare in confusion.
“No, the other thing you
said.”
“Let Finny or one of the oth..” Janeen starts.
“THAT’S IT! Of
course!”
Everyone just stares; figuring AG has lost his marbles.
“Uh, hate
to break it to ya AG, but the dragon isn’t here.” Plantgirl
replies.
“EXACTLY! And from what the Red Biker said..”
“Crimson Cyclist.”
Crimson Cyclist corrects.
“Whatever, anyway, he said the big G was going to
eat the planet Makluos.”
“So? Who cares what aliens he was going to off?”
Swift says.
“Soooo, every fourth Thursday I meet with Fin Fang Foom and Cap
to discuss what our teams did that month. It’s kind of a correlated Earth watch.
During one of those meetings Finny told me that his planet, millions of years
ago, was eaten by Galactivac. Guess the name of his planet?”
“Makluos?” the
golden age Pigeonman asked.
“BINGO! I can’t stop him now, cause if I do, he
will never eat Makluos. If he doesn’t, Finny will never come to Earth, and all
the people he saved will die!”
The Crimson Cyclist charges up his power
cosmic and replies, “One thing you haven’t considered, future human, and that is
that you have no choice!”
The female
computer voice sadly answers, “Yes. All these years, just hanging around, with
nothing to do.”
“Ship, can you undock and escape?” Jackie asks.
“The
name’s Vessel and I guess, but with no purpose, where would I go?”
“To Earth!
We could pilot you home! I don’t know how we would get through time, but at
least we could travel to our home planet!” the Lady Lupine excitedly
responds.
“We have bigger things to worry about right now.” PGG interjects,
“Vessel, do you know where Galactivac keeps his weapons?”
“No.”
“This is
foolishness! I’m looking around to see if there’s a way onto the World Ship!”
the impulsive Thonggarian announces. Soon he has strides off.
“Your winged
friend is a lot like his people.”
“Huh? You know about Pigeonman’s race?” PGG
asks.
The monitors start flashing with thousands of worlds.
“I have
Galactivac’s whole intergalactic library on file.”
“Of course! We’ll lead the
big ‘G’ to a different world! Undock us! And focus on those heroes near
Galactivac. Er, please?” Tonya orders.
“Something to do? Weee. I’m soo
thrilled. Doing as ordered….. ‘Captain’.”
The heroes could’ve sworn they
heard a touch of appreciation and graditute in the machines’ voice.
"Looks like your having a hard time firing blasts at me with one
hand while holding on to your bike with the other. Maybe Mr. Big-Eater should’ve
given you a surf board or something, instead of a bike?"
"Insolate mortal!
Dare you mock me as I stand in the service of my master?" the Crimson Cyclist
states while peddling faster, "Lo! These many years I have served him! I, who
lived and breathed as a man on the planet Gin-La, I, who traded my life to be
transformed into.."
"Oh brother! Another suffering martyr harald dialogue! Do
we HAVE to listen to this?" Plantgirl asks as she sends vines into the bike
wheels, flipping the Cyclist into some mean looking trees.
“Try to kill AG
will you?” Swift says as he repeatedly hits the Harald on the head at super
speed. A quick cosmic blast sends Swift flying for miles.
“ENOUGH! I WILL NOT
BE MAN HANDLED BY LESSER FORMS!”
More cosmic blasts prove his point. Luckily
everyone dodges.
“It’s my power they want! Everyone hold back! I’ll lead them
away!” Amazing Guy states as he radiates a large energy pulse, attracting he
attention of Galactivac. He then shoots forth into the stratosphere and pulses
his Multiversal energy into a larger flash.
“Forget this tiny planet
Galactivac! I’m the one you want! Come on! Come and get me!”
The mighty lurching almost tears the ship called Vessel to shreds, but she
manages to keep her shields up.
“What was that?” Jackie asks as she uses the
medical equipment Vessel supplied on the recently transported unconscious
Swift.
“It appears the Living Death that Sucks has brought in all his
equipment at a rapid rate. The World Ship is now moving, slightly.” Vessel
explains.
“SLIGHTLY? I’d hate to see what happens when it moves fast!” Jasper
comments.
“Vessel! Transport the rest of our team up here! Did you finish
unclamping from his ship?” Tonya questions while trying to keep her eyes focused
on the rapidly traveling Amazing Guy as he flies through the solar
system.
MacyMom, both Pigeons and Plantgirl appear, quite shocked at their
new surroundings.
A large jolt and the scratching of metal are heard as
everyone looses their balance.
“We are now independent from the World Ship.
Now we can be left behind to dwindle in boredom.” Is Vessel’s reply.
“Follow
Amazing Guy!” Tonya watches as AG enters light speed, the Crimson Cyclist
followed by the World Ship, in close second after him. “Can you go
lightspeed?”
“I guess. If it’ll make you happy.” The strange space ship
answers with as much excitement as a third grade history teacher.
“THEN DO
IT! Don’t let AG out of your sensors!”
Everyone falls as the ship goes into
warp.
“Janeen,
where is your MacyMom costume?” Jackie Rabbit asks as she approaches.
“Folded
up. When we get back to our time and finally go home, I’m telling Macy I quit.
I’m retiring Jackie. I’d rather let Scott do the hero thing. It’s more his style
anyway. From now on, its back to my real job. A mother.”
“Miss the
kids?”
“Horribly. I know their ok, but the distance, the uncertainty.. you
know?”
“Of course.”
Jackie doesn’t tell Janeen about the strange
uncertainty that has surrounded her life. The strange dreams, the aversion to
sunlight, the heightened senses at night. And most of all, the images in her
head of the Countess and the mysterious stranger in the park. He brooding is
interrupted.
“How’s John?”
“Hmm? Oh! Plantgirl’s with him.”
“Here, let me help you PG. Your arm looks like it could use a better
clean up job..”
“NO! DON’T TOUCH IT!”
“Hey! Back down PG! I just..” his
super fast reflexes start to unwrap the bandage. To his shock and horror he sees
the machinery and wires under her skin. “What?! What the heck?”
Plantgirl,
her arm revealing her true nature, stands apart and hangs her head in
shame.
“What’s going on Plantgirl? Who ARE you? What did you do
with..”
“John, you’re so stupid! I AM PLANTGIRL!”
PhantomGhostGirl and
Pigeonman 1 enter the room. The stare in shock.
“Fine! I told the master he
couldn’t keep the secret long! I knew I’d be found out. If only..”
PGG
demands, “Who? Who are you working for ‘Plantgirl’? I knew it!”
“This cant be
happening! No &*^%en way!” Swift swears.
“Oh it’s true enough! I’ve been
assigned to you sence you were Speedstreak! Someone wants you dead John! My
master assigned me to watch you so that he would learn why! If you’re important
to HIM, then you’re important to my master as well! Well I guess there’s nothing
left to do but leave!” Plantgirl wraps the injured speedster to the bed,
aggravating his wounds. She also ties up the winged hero. PGG phases through the
vines.
“Who are you working for Plantgirl? Who?”
Just before leaving the
medical bay she looks at Swift and gives a cold stare, “No man excapes the
ManManHunters!”
She opens an escape hatch and falls into subspace, laughing
to her apparent death.
PGG watches in horror as the turbulent sub space rips
off Plantgirl’s left arm (her remaining good one) and her right leg. Tonya then
closes the hatch to the sound of Swift’s screaming.
“NOOOOOOOO!!!! FIRST I
LOOSE INA AND NOW YOU??? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
“PhantomGhostGirl, excuse me, but I
think you and Pigeonman should get up to the bridge!” Jasper’s scared voice
could be heard over the intercom, interrupting the scene. There’s a strange
lurching motion, as the whole ship seems to stop.
By the time the two heroes
get to the bridge they realize they’ve come out of warp.
The sight the
assembled JBH see chills their blood.
Above a planet they see Amazing Guy
getting fired upon by an angry Galactivac and the hero doesn’t look good.
Hopefully sooner then this
one!