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Wait, Candle, I don't think Rose and Thorn HAD a Vertigo version. Gail Simone did a six issue miniseries of her but that was in the regular canon.

The Creeper, now, HE had a Vertigo counterpart. And so did Angel and the Ape.

Well, I'm not moving her unless I HAVE to.
Mystery Lad agrees that she wasn't in Vertigo, so I'll just have to go with her as an imagined Vertigo character.
And I might add one or two!

Anyway, here's a couple of Cargg entries:


by bluesemotion

and


by dance_jade

I want that cake.

The last on here tonight:
I LOVE white lions - you should see what the males look like when they grow up!
sigh


by bittyskitty94210

White lions. Yes.

White tigers. Played out.

Oh, and u might find some Vertigo esque ideas in here.

http://www.legionworld.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=11;t=000607

That's his sister, Tiffany Spiffany, who becomes a regular in MATTER-EATER LAD: THE SERIES!

Some sketches I did:
Craggite Mon-El - 1 is the gentle, Holy One, 2 is the standoffish, quiet observer, 3 is the crazy, tempermental one.

Bizarro Triplicate Girl - her am can become 1/3rd of herself.

Bizarro Dream Girl - her am ugly girl who can see past when she am awake.

Tiffany Spiffany - she looks like Paris Hilton in the trademark Spiffany violet with dollar sign earrings.

Gotta still scan and clean up the sketches, then post.

Hurray!

Oh, that Lester...

He needs to get smacked like an uppity rent boy is what he needs!

Yeah!

LESTER'S GREATEST HITS part 1

The following is an excerpt from MATTER-EATER LAD : THE SERIES # 2, written by Eryk Davis Ester and MLLASH.


PAGE 3

Panel One

Tenz's Dad, Renkil, and Lester are in a bar. Cameras follow them around. A not-so-attractive but very busty waitress waits on them.

Waitress: Can I take your order?

Tenz's Dad: Well, you seem like quite the dish!

Panel Two

Waitress: Sorry, I'm not on the menu.

Tenz's Dad: Alright, then, for me and my boy Renkil here, how about a silverale and gasoline? And get the nancy boy whatever he wants, as well.

Lester: Just a straight silverale, please.

Panel Three

Dad: Hmm... and send some drinks over to those cute little fillies at that table, will you? And if you could slip in the fact that we're on TV...

Waitress: Sure thing...

Panel Four

Lester: Uh, Mr. Kem... do I need to remind you that you have a wife at home? And that you're being filmed?

Renkil: Can I have a cigarette?

Tenz's Dad: Sure, son. (Hands Renkil a cigarette). Oh, Myrta doesn't care. She's too busy watching the Home Health Care Channel to even bother watching our show!

Panel Five

As the waitress takes the order of the girls at the other table, they exchange flirtacious looks with Tenz's dad. Meanwhile, Renkil eats the cigarette.



PAGE 4

Panel 1

Lester has glazed expression, is obviously bored out of his mind.

Lester: (thought balloon) Popping Hotties! How the hell did I-- heir to Earth's most ridiculously lavish jewelry slash bling-bling empire-- end up in this bar on Bismoll with these less than attractive men? Sounds like a good time for a flashback...

Panel 2

Lester caption: I was arriving home late from doing my charity work. (scene shows him stumbling into the mansion all drunken-like)

Panel 3

Lester caption: I was starved but didn't want to disturb anyone, so I attempted to fix myself some dinner. (scene shows Lester's drugged-up rampage through the kitchen, turning dials and pressing buttons and stuff)

Panel 4

Lester caption: My loyal staff must have heard me and came to my aid. (scene shows Lester screaming his head off in the servant's quarters)

Panel 5

Lester caption: And then... *choke!* Poor poor Chef C'nnonf'dder! And my loyal butler Splatters! And dear, dear Shirley... (scene shows Lester passed out in hallway when kitchen explodes)



PAGE 5

Panel 1

Lester caption: I spent days miserable because of what had happened to my loyal servants... (scene shows Lester out partying with his friends)

Panel 2

Lester caption: My dear father realized my misery, and suggested I take a vacation... (scene shows Pop Spiffany yelling at Lester)

Panel 3

Lester caption: After careful consideration, I chose Bismoll as the ideal place for a holiday... (scene shows Lester at the spaceport looking at ticket prices and counting the meager amount of cash he has; Bismoll is by far the cheapest)

Panel 4

Lester caption: There I spent my time relaxing and enjoying the sights... (scene shows Lester hard at work as a courier...)

Panel 5

Lester caption: Then, unexpectedly, I met my one true love... (scene shows Lester meeting Tenzil)

Panel 6

Lester caption: He needed money to run his political campaign, so I called my dad, who happily obliged... (scene shows Lester pleading with his father to send him money)



PAGE 6

Panel 1

Lester: Of course, I spent that money on setting up Tenzil's reality show -- which has been a massive success-- and now I have my own money coming in, which is nice I suppose...

Panel 2

Pa Kem: Who're you talking to, Nancy?

Renkil: Let's hit the racetrack, Dad!

Pa: Gladly, boy.

(Pa & Renkil exit)

Panel 3

Lester: Okay, sucks to this! If Tenzil thinks he's gonna ditch me with the in-laws while he's out doing Mordru-knows-what on the credits I enabled him to make, he's got another think coming!!

Panel 4

Bar patron: Who're you talking to, Nancy?

(Lester notices the gang of toughs that now surround his table)

Bar patron # 2: We don't take kindly to yer kind around here, Sally-Jo!

Panel 5

Lester: Oh, YEAH? Well eat THIS!! (reaches into pocket, throws hundreds of credits into the air)

Panel 6

(Lester exits bar while the patrons scramble to grab up credits)

Lester: Poor people are SoooOOoo predictable

LESTER'S GREATEST HITS part 2

An excerpt from MEL:TS # 5 written by me, in which Lester attempts to sway Sugyn and TwoFace Tess to the side of the angels...


PAGE 12

Panel 1

caption: Meanwhile, under Sugyn...

Lester: It's not that I mind being on the bottom, but THIS is mortifying!

Sugyn: Shaddup, kid!

Panel 2

Lester: What's Evillo paying you, fat boy?

Sugyn: Not enough to listen to your sorry-ass whining!

Panel 3

Lester: Oh yeah? Well, I'll TRIPLE it!

Tess: Your sorry-ass whining?

Panel 4

No, Trish, or whatever your name is... I'll triple whatever Evillo's paying you to join up with ME!

Panel 5

(Tess & Sugyn look at each other grinning)

Panel 6

(Sugyn rises off Lester)

Sugyn: Creds up front?

Panel 7

Lester: I'd like you to meet your new best friend... (pulls out huge pile of credits, seemingly from nowhere) Buttloada Moolah, meet chubby!

LESTER'S GREATEST HITS part 3

An excerpt from MEL:TS # 6 written by Eryk Davis Ester and MLLASH, featuring Lester saving The Super Companions from the Fatal Femmes...


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Panel 1

Anti-Lad: Foolish super-companions! You may have been safe from us on your all-male paradise of Thrann, but in open space we have the advantage! And once it's greatest champions are destroyed, Thrann itself will be next!

Panel 2

Lester: Popping hotties! Didn't I just go through with this with that Thora chick?

Panel 3

Anti-Lad: You know Thora of Taltar, sissy male? Bah! Her foolish matriarchal alliance will never work! The crazy woman actually wants to enslave stupid males to do her bidding! Only the total elimination of men is acceptable! Starting with all of you!

Panel 4

Anti-Lad: Attack, my Fatal Femmes!

Lester: Oh, jeebus!

Panel 5

(The Fatal Femmes attack!)

(Rainbow Girl projects a rainbow at Shower)
Shower: Eek! I'm vulnerable to the light force of a rainbow!

(Dyke Damsel punches Splash)
Dyke Damsel: Refusing to use your powers, eh? Well, my fists will prove as deadly as my ability to control your liquid form!

(Shaggy Lass pulls off one of Treehugger's limbs!)
Shaggy Lass: Rrrrargghhh!

(Utility Lass morphs into some sort of weapon and shoots at Mzgrzz!)
Utility Lass: I can change form faster than you can morph other objects, Mzgrzz!

(Anti-Lad presses a button on her visor)
Anti-Lad: Don't think for a second that you're safe, Shadow! One blast from my visor and the particles of your bodies will loose what little cohesion they have left!


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PANEL 1

*Lester watches the carnage*

Thought caption: Well, I see this is going badly for the Companions. I wonder why Oprah disappeared right when the action started? Maybe he had to clean his monocle. Anyhoo, guess I better do something about this...

Panel 2

Lester: This solid silver platter will deflect the rays of your visor, Anti-Lad!

Panel 3

Lester: And hurling it at Shaggy Lass will stun her temporarily!

Panel 4

Lester: My Venturan Walking Money will swarm over Rainbow Girl!

Walking Money: Meep! Meep! Meep!

Rainbow Girl: NooOOOoooo!

Panel 5

Lester: Even Utility Lass is vulnerable to the vapors of this Gas Money!

Panel 6

*throws a gold necklace bolo-style*

Lester: Looks like you're all tied up for the moment, Dyke Damsel!

For variety's sake, here's TIFFANY SPIFFANY'S GREATEST HITS part 1!

An excerpt from MELT:S # 9 written by Eryk Davis Ester:


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Panel 1

*Tiffany laying unconcious on a bed*

Panel 2

*Water splashes on Tiffany, waking her up*

Tiffany: Wha--?

Panel 3

*A large-nosed woman stands over top of Tiffany, having just poured the water on her*

Hazel: Ah... good! That finally woke you up!

Tiffany: Where am I? Who are you?

Panel 4

Hazel: Where are you? My poor dear! You are in the place you least want to be. They call me Nasal Hazel, but just Hazel will do. I've been a prisoner here for awhile.

Tiffany: "Prisoner"? *Gasp*!

Panel 5

Hazel: You're in Nardo's super-stalag of space, dearie! The prison-camp where no one escapes, or so they say!

Tiffany: "Super-Stalag of Space"? *Gasp*!

Panel 6

Hazel: Don't worry too much, though. Fortunately, the girl's wing ain't nearly as bad as the boy's. Nardo doesn't seem as interested in us, for some reason. Now get up. I've got a whole bunch of laundry to do, and you're going to help me.

Tiffany: "Laundry"? *Gasp*!

TIFFANY SPIFFANY's Greatest Hits part 2:

An excerpt from MEL:TS # 10 written by me...


PAGE 4

Panel 1

Tiffany: (to self) *sigh* It's times like these that makes me miss my multi-trillion credit fortune.

Itch Witch: Never you mind, dear... I'll do the cooking for Nardo tonight. I've got a special ingredient I'm just itching to use in the recipe... *tee hee!*

Panel 2

Tiffany: THAT'S a relief! At home I have 21 different chefs, 1 for each meal of each day of the week, so I never learned much about cooking.

Panel 3

*suddenly Took appears on table, the girls are startled*

Multi Maid: TOOK!

Negative Nell: But... HOW...?

Panel 4

Took: I've been with the team all along. I followed disguised as a dust mote. I've been at the boys' camp and discovered Nardo's horrible plans!

Panel 5

Took: The real reason you gals are making these clothes is... Nardo's super-fatass fetish!

Panel 6

Tiffany: Fatass? *gasp!*

Took: Yes, and your brother and his friend are next on Nardo's ass-fattening agenda!

Panel 7

Tiffany: Lester's HERE?

I promise to read this wonderful story ASAP!

But right now, I have to post this entry.
This photo is from a very fruitful MMaSM, season 2, shoot.
I've posted 5 from that session, but this is the first time that I've manipulated the photo.
I worked on the background, costume, hair and face, using my Paint.
I like it because I went very loose and sketchy with it.


The model and photographer weren't mentioned at the photobucket site that I downloaded it from.

Well, I'm read up through Utility Lass.

I've enjoyed the ride, so far.
The Companions piece is my favorite.

Spiffany using different types of money the way that Batman uses his utility belt is brilliant and pretty darn good!

Thanks for sharing, LLASH.

A Tale of the Bizarro Legion

Brainiac 5 glared in disapproval as the Coluan dignitary finished his speech. He knew that the other Legionnaires were humoring him, and failed to appreciate the inevitability that something would go wrong, but he had already done the math. There wasn’t even a *chance* that this event would end without some sort of disaster, and so it was necessary to have a Legion presence here, before things went horribly wrong.

Ever diplomatic, Luornu clapped politely, only noticing belatedly that the Coluans in attendance were not clapping, just standing there. A few looked at her, heads tilted, as if at a zoo, regarding some uncouth beast, and her hands froze before she stiffly forced them to hang at her sides. The Coluan high science whatever-his-title-was had finished his speech about ‘taking inspiration from the bold example set by Querl Dox, and reclaiming the name of Brainiac from the monster who tarnished it’ or some such nonsense, and she couldn’t miss that Brainy was furious that he was being touted as the rationale for this silly notion. And now the presentation was done, and the doors opened to the Coluan Science Museum, and its newest exhibit, a retrospective on the history and technology of the infamous 20th century villain, Brainiac. Gloating from the side of the Senior Speaker, the Coluan heroine, Augment strutted into the museum like she owned the place, having exchanged heated words with her Legion counterpart earlier about how perhaps it was time that Colu was known for a hero who *wasn’t* the legacy of some villainous anachronism.

While dozens of higher-status Coluans filtered in, the Legion was forced to wait to enter with the general population. Originally, Brainy had been one of those invited into the elite group, but after his vociferous debate with the Master Researcher and Chief Historian, he was lucky they were being allowed in with the general public, with the local authorities insisting that they, and Augment, could handle anything that could go wrong.

Long minutes passed, the higher-status Coluans stopping at the doors to chat, deliberately holding up those below them in status, but finally the doors swung wide for general admission, and the Legionnaires took advantage of the mobility provided by their Flight Rings to move in above the crowd, entering the museum as a group.

Greeting them, looming improbably large, a vast metal skull was suspended from the dome-like ceiling, with dangling tentacles of silvery metal reaching nearly to the floor. A mere landing craft, and nothing like the vast ship that Brainiac had flown throughout the galaxy during his reign of terror, the ship was still enormous, and Colossal Boy quipped, “They obviously used Imskians to get that in here…”

“No need for that,” Brainiac 5 said dryly, pointing towards an unfamiliar-looking device, “They had access to Brainiac’s own shrinking technology.”

As the Legion fanned out, Shadow Lass noted that a surprising number of the machines on display had extremely scanty notes accompanying them. She could not read the Coluan displays, but knew from long experience with one Coluan in particular, that if it was understood at all, there would be a massive amount of information about it prominently on display. Confirming her suspicions, she noted that one device in particular had a screen flickering through dozens of pages of schematics and text and diagrams, while the item she had noticed first only had a few unusual characters. She floated next to Brainiac 5 and pointed at the item in question, saying quietly, “They don’t even know what that does, do they?” and he turned and snorted, “Correct. They used thirty-seven words to say it, but it translates to ‘Unknown Device.’”

A cold mechanical voice interrupted the low-level chatter from the various Coluans admiring the exhibits, as a dozen reddish beams of light came down from above and centered on Brainiac 5.

****Identity confirmed. All systems powering up.****

The Legionnaires looked up as one, along with the seventy-odd Coluans in the room, to see the skull-shaped landing craft lighting up and flexing its monstrous tentacles, snapping free of the supports that had held it suspended from the ceiling, and yet not falling, it’s own propulsion system engaging with a sudden downwash of gravitational pressure that hurled dozens of Coluans heavily to the ground.

Supported by their Flight Rings, the Legionnaires were pushed down slightly, but recovered quickly, as Coluans began evacuating the building in a surprisingly efficient and panic-free manner. “Did I not tell them, on multiple occasions, that this technology should have been left buried for all time?” Brainiac complained bitterly. As one, the reddish lights shining down from the ship onto his position winked out, and the voice boomed again.

****Position compromised by unknown potential hostiles, initiating defensive countermeasures.****

With that, a signal went forth and a dozen machines on exhibit went berserk. The machine Brainy had pointed out earlier suddenly sat up on a three-legged tripod and fired a pale beam into the crowd exiting the building, and were it had struck, dozens of Coluans had completely vanished. But not completely, Triplicate Girl noticed, as she saw tiny specks moving on the ground, and realized that the machine had simply reduced the Coluans struck to the size of bugs! A pair of skull-sized versions of the landing ship, with tentacles twice the length of a man’s arm, began floating through the area, firing red heat beams from their ‘eyes’ while their tentacles lashed out and destroyed display cases near them. But the machine that drew the Legionnaires attention away from the moving ship above them, the same ‘Unknown Device’ that Shadow Lass had just been making note of, struck them all with a blinding flash of light and a strange sensation of lightness.

As their vision cleared, the Legionnaires stared in surprise at the figures that had appeared before them, standing on the ground directly in front of the mysterious machine. Duplicates of five of their number stood, there, surrounded by a dozen pale-green gorilla-like creatures, each clad in tattered version of the stately dress of the dozen Coluan dignitaries who had been standing closest to the Legion when the strange light down upon them.

The only one flying, like the levitating Legionnaires, Dawnstar’s double had pale skin and platinum-blonde hair, with the same angular features, as if made of crystal, and her wings were enormous black-feathered things, flapping as they held her aloft.

Colossal Boy just shook his head, seeing his own double in a costume much like his, with the red and blue colors reversed. The pale angular features didn’t trouble him so much as the solid black eyes, which contained no spark of life.

Chameleon Boy was surprised that his duplicate did not resemble him, or, at least, did not resemble the form he wore when away from Durla for the comfort and peace of mind of static-form sentients. The duplicate’s many tentacles dangled freely from the ragged purple and orange robes covering its bulk, and instead of the typical dark green of a healthy Durlan male, they were almost silver in their pallor, looking less like the limbs of a Durlan, and more like the metallic tentacles dangling from the skull-ship hovering overhead.

Shadow Lass was unimpressed by the appearance of her duplicate, wearing a white costume resembling her own black attire, and having grey skin to match her blue. Staring solid white eyes gave the impression that her double was blind, but she could see that this was not the case as the dead white eyes locked on her own.

Triplicate Girl, on the other hand, cringed to see her duplicate, in electric blue and a dusky golden-yellow, instead of the more aesthetically sensible orange and purple she favored. It looked like something a human would wear.

In the half-second the Legionnaires took to clear their eyes and identify the new arrivals, Triplicate Girl’s doppelganger raised its arm and pointed at Brainiac 5. “We save you, master! Kill all aliens!”

Brainiac 5 noted that there was no duplicate of himself, despite other Coluans present having been counterplaced by the ape-like throwbacks, and realized that the ancient technology had somehow misidentified him as an incarnation of their long-dead creator. His force field came up instinctively as he saw the twisted reflections of his teammates charge into the fray, each attempting to tackle their own mirror image.

Chameleon Boy watched curiously as the Durlan doppelganger surged forth, curious as to why it wasn’t assuming a faster or more dangerous form. His own body flowed around the lashing tentacles, evading them with ease as he took the form of a Sirlian squid-lizard, attempting to chomp down on the central mass of the duplicate, while countering its metal-colored tentacles with the squid-lizards’ prehensile mandible-tendrils. He was surprised when his jaws clamped down on a body as inflexible as steel, and the tentacles of the faux Durlan burst free of his attempts to grapple them with relentless and unnatural strength. In seconds, he went from having total control of the situation, to being picked up and unceremoniously hurled across the room by the apparently super-strong and invulnerable Durlan!

Colossal Boy’s double ran towards him with his arms raised, shouting, “Grow!” Gim ducked, confused for a second by the sensation that he was involuntarily growing and about to hit his head on the floating ship above him, as the doppelganger seemed to shrink away before him, and only realized as the tiny doppelganger leapt at him that it had indeed shrunk itself, and that he hadn’t changed in size at all! Like a sledgehammer to the chest, the mighty mite struck with both feet first, and Gim felt ribs crack as the tiny figure taunted, “Slow and clumsy, giant people!” The copy not only had retained full human strength at such a tiny size, but seemed, if anything, much, much stronger, and Gim rolled away from the tiny terror and began expanding in size. He might not be able to hit the little brute, but if he didn’t put on some extra mass, those unnaturally powerful blows would tear him apart!

Shadow Lass’s chalky duplicate raised its arms and a light began to shine from its position, along with a brief wave of warmth. Recognizing that the light and heat were only growing in intensity, Tasmia shrouded herself in protective darkness, closed her eyes and lashed out, pivoting smoothly on her hip to put the entire weight of her body into the blow, hoping to bludgeon the copy insensate before it could inflict any serious damage. She heard a loud crack and felt the force of the impact reverberate up her leg as her shin slammed into the creatures gut, and realized from the tingling sensation on her skin that she might have been just in time, as the heat had built up to brutal levels in mere seconds. She opened her eyes to see that the force of her blow had knocked the phony ‘Shadow Lass’ staggering back towards the doors, and into a last group of lingering Coluans, who were being herded towards the door in a fighting retreat by their own ape-like dopplegangers. The faux Talokkian turned and smiled a black-toothed grin, saying, “Me can make shadows, too!” as a pulse of incredible heat and light burst forth from her palms and incinerated both a pair of Coluans and three of their ape-like attackers, leaving behind only soot outlines on the wall. “See, shadows!”

Luornu regarded her garishly-clad copy with trepidation, splitting into three selves as much to draw confidence from the presence of her sisters at her side as for any tactical advantage. The duplicate laughed a guttural laugh as the four women maneuvered around each other, Trips playing ‘keep-away’ until she could figure out what the other woman’s power was. White parried a clumsy strike, only to have the duplicate seize her wrist in an impossibly strong grip and say, “Got ya!” In the blink of an eye, Purple and Orange cried out as one as White was sucked into the doppelganger, whose costume now included an element of white, and whose features were slightly less angular. “Two strong now.” The creature exulted, moving into a trijutsu pose that it hadn’t shown any talent for in their previous jockeying for position. Luornu reeled from the sudden loss of a third of herself, and yet could still feel her presence, somehow trapped within the creature advancing upon her. As she dodged backwards in separate directions, hoping to divide the dopplegangers attention, a green blur got in her way, and she was roughly shoved aside.

“This is all your fault, Legionnaries!” the Coluan heroine said coldly as she moved with impossible grace past Lu, not even pausing in her motion as her leg whipped out and cracked the false Luornu across her bone-white face with sufficient force to throw the creature back. “These constructs are clearly duplicates of your own so-called heroes, and would not be present if you had not somehow activated the Brainiac artifacts.” Triplicate Girl sourly noted that Augment was apparently able to blather on and engage in impossible feats of athleticism that were the trademark of Timber Wolf, using her self-proclaimed ‘ground-breaking’ cerebral augments to allow her to devote her vast Coluan intellectual resources to enhance her physical capabilities.

The voice of Brainiac 5, amplified through their Legion Flight Rings, interrupted everyone’s thoughts, as he called out, “These are lifeless artificial constructs, and their integrity requires constant maintenance!”

“What?” Colossal Boy said, flustered as he attempted to swat his tiny blue-and-red attacker out of the air.

“Break the machine!” Brainy clarified.

“Why didn’t you say so?” Gim said, with some annoyance, as his massive hand swept across the room and snatched up the offending machine.

As he leaned back to hurl it at a wall, Tasmia’s opponent shouted and leapt with incredible force, flying across the room and striking Colossal Boy in the chest with the force of a thunderbolt, staggering him back. As the machine tumbled from his nerveless fingers, Dawnstars black-winged double streaked across the room, followed a mere instant later by her white-winged predecessor. The pale fingers of the copy brushed it only a breath ahead of the bronzed fingers of the Legionnaire, and in the blink of an eye, the machine was gone!

“Ha ha!” the black-winged angel called out in a crude sing-song voice, “Me am Duskvoid. Me can lose anything!” She turned to the surprised Dawnstar and backhanded her across the room with force, sweeping around to try and strike her from behind, only to be buffeted back by a powerful blow from the Legionnaires wing.

Chameleon Boy flew back through the air again, allowing his body to turn amorphous as his Flight Ring slowed the force of his impact with the wall. His foe was impossibly strong, and no matter what form he took, he couldn’t seem to inflict any harm on the Durlan imposter. Grey-green tentacles thundered into the wall where he had just been standing, striking hard enough to burrow into the metalloplast walls, and tearing forth huge chunks that soon came flying in his direction like a swarm of meteors. In the form of a hummingbird, Cham dodged and moved with speed that the creature couldn’t match, but the battle seemed the duplicate’s to lose…

“What the hell…” Gim said, staggering back to his feet as the Talokkian doppelganger dropped to the ground near him. He reached down to swap her aside, only to see her brace her feet and place her arms up, as if to match her strength against that of his six-meter tall frame. The impact was like a knife entering his palm, as her comparatively tiny arms budged not an inch, and he pulled her hand back with an exclamation of pain as the pale-skinned duplicate laughed and held up her tiny fist, upon which a tiny band glistened. “Legion Might Ring, make us all stronger than you!”

Gim was startled to hear a ‘thud’ next to his head, and turned to see Brainiac 5 floating right next to his head, having just intercepted another brutal assault from his own tiny blue-and-red clad doppelganger, using his force shield to run interference and block its attack.

Brainy’s voice rang out again, “Dawnstar, we need the machine!” and the First Nations tracker stopped moving for a moment, floating in mid-air as her attacker overshot her position, lacking a Flight Ring of her own and unable to correct her movement as gracefully. “It’s no longer in this system…” and then she was gone, the thunder of displaced air in her wake, and an instant later, her black-winged doppelganger took off after her.

Recognizing the pointlessness of their current strategy, Cham’s voice also came over the ring, “Switch targets people!” as he streaked into the air to avoid his ground-bound opponent, and lashed out with an elongated limb to seize the phony Shadow Lass by the cape and toss her into the ceiling with a crash. The phony Talokkian flailed out to try and grab his arm, but to no avail as Cham’s limb moved like a serpent out of her grasp, and gravity brought her the eight meters back to the floor with a brutal crash.

Tasmia turned and threw a field of darkness around the indestructible Durlan doppelganger, and Colossal Boy took advantage of its blindness to seize a handful of the shattered wall and use it as an impromptu broom to sweep the writhing mass of tentacles into a corner and pin it in place. Steel-hard tentacles came piercing through the wall moments later, as the creature regained its bearings, but Gim had already pulled his hand out of the way.

The Coluan heroine, Augment, moved like with cold machine-like efficiency, and Trips was afraid to get in her way, focusing instead on trying to call upon herself. With a burning sensation, as if she’d just been pulled through a grater, Luornu managed to wrest her third self away from the duplicate, which shrieked and collapsed as Luornu saw her white-clad self tear itself free and stagger back into the waiting arms of her sisters. Augment slowed for a fatal instant, seeing her opponent collapse, only to shriek out an incomprensible squeal of numbers as the bizarre creation lashed out and seized her foot. In a second, she was gone, pulled into the pale construct, which now had pale green skin and whirring violet eyes. “We are so much more, now…” The construct said, beginning to move forward with the deadly mechanical precision of the Coluan heroine.

Tasmia turned to focus darkness upon this new threat, only to fly into a wall with bruising force, as a tiny blue and red figure seized her cloak and flung her aside like a rag doll. Gim winced as he could just make out a diminutive thumb being raised in his direction and heard a taunting reedy voice, “Good idea, big dumb giant!”