Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board ROLL CALL: LMBers head count!

Damn! So My is dead in this timeline, and Brit is suffering from sever PSD! So, already, we're down Lolita, My, Brit and <shudders> whomever this mole rat thing replaced.

<goes over universal communicator> YK! Abin! Pagan! Lash! Whoever! Is there some way we can create a chronal force field or something to protect the LMBers on roll call from further manipulation? We need some defense against Phineas before it's too damn late!!!

<listens> Hmmm...all this crap that happened while I was away from Legion World...<strains to remember things he learned soley from now non-existent security files>...Okay, so My was killed by...the Riddler! That's right--Lolita saved her...but since there's no Lolita, there was no one to save My...damn! We've gotta bring Lolita back somehow...question is: is Lolita wiped out of existence...or has she been altered somehow?

Oh my! You are so funny, Lard! I'm going to go visit some of my other friends. See you around!

Outside my abilities Lardy. I can travel through time and generate a small stasis field but that's the extent of it. I can use my power to affect time a little but that's a side effect not the power itself.

The cat has a good idea. I'll bet the tesseract system is too spacially complicated to be temporally vulnerable.
What do you think?
Should we adjourn to the tesseracts?

Don't leave Mole rat Lad, we might need your super digging ability before we're safely out of here. Remember the escape tunnel you dug in Avalon?

You're right, YK--the Tessaract system may be our best bet! Can you get Triple G to get the word out? We've gotta stop the bleeding before we lose anybody else!

<Lardy's train of thought is interrupted by a loud noise>

I'm baaa-aaack!!!

<DARK LARD starts blasting away with powerful green beams>

Shit! YK--get everyone to safety! I'll hold him back! <erects Lardforce barrier between DARK LARD and the other LMBers>

You're not hurting any of them on my watch, @#$%er!!!

<grins evilly> That's okay--they can wait! Especially because it's YOU I'm here to murder to prevent you from @#$%ing up the plans of my partner and me! <fires unbelievably powerful green energy beam at Lardy>

<'ports out of beams way & reappera behind DL>

<boxes DL's ears, a favorite move of his>

<DL reels in pain momentarily>

You ARE crazy! You claim to be future-me, so how does killing past-you make any freaking sense?

Stretching his arms high and wide a glow of power surrounds YK. The formerly still air begins moving, picking up speed.

"Close In! We're out of here!"

The winds are now moving at cyclonic speeds the roar of high speed wind drowns out all other sound and the field begins to shrink around the gathered group of heroes, glowing ever brighter. In a FLASH of light and power the assembled figures disappear.

Inside the Tesseract Syatem

Oh, it makes perfect sense if you have a partner who can bend time to his will! The appeal is endless to me as I won't have to go through all the angst to come in your life...like that never-consummated heartache you had over Ro--oh, nevermind! Pointless to dwell on things that will never happen!

<manifests three green light duplicates of himself & all four surround Lardy>

Time to end your pointless existence!

<all four fire on Lardy>

<throws up a force shield>

Huh? It's holding? This shouldn't be enough--

<sees YK teleporting everyone else out from the corner of his eye>

Good, they're safe! Should I 'port out to the Tesseract system with them--or see if I can take this loser out?

<grins> Yeah!

<expands forceshield out, knocking the four DLs back--the three dupes fade out>

What the--?!?! That should have DESTROYED you! That was the power of one hundred Quanks!

<tries blasting him again>

<blast fizzles as it reaches Lardy, this time with no shield up>

Dunno, D.L....maybe I'm just invulnerable to your bullshit! <laughs>

What the hell? Well, he obviously didn't have those powers earlier...maybe he's been chronally power-enhanced by Phineas somehow--and maybe I'm just as invulnerable to those enhancements as I am to Phineas' alterations! Sweet Ass Sweet!

<blasts DARK LARD with some Lard Force>

Arrrggghhh!

<force of blast knocks DL into wall, which collapses>

Unh! Well, it's obvious these won't help me against him! <discards Green Lantern enhancements> But I won't be undone by one who is a comparative novice in his mastery of the Lard Force!

<blasts Lardy with a Lard Force beam so fast, Lardy can't hope to avoid it or deflect it>

Outside the Agents load equipment aboard the transport and prepare to move out. 3G's bike roars to life and with a wave to his guys he streaks away headed for the remains of the old clubhouse.

<blast his Lardy like a of bricks...only harder>

Shiiit!! Ungh--seems I've lost my advantage...time for the better part of valor, dammit...>

<'ports to Tesseracts just before a potentially lethal Lard Force beam arrives>

Unable to sense where Lardy has 'ported, DL returns to the Orrery in frustration>

Odd... how one so attuned to All That Is Lard must battle another of his own kind...

But this is not my fight.

Does this Child of Yellow have the answers I need, as I hoped?

No, he is but a warrior who cannot see behind his war.

where shall i go next? There is so little time...

<fades away>

The Shadow Seed-

Inside the depths of Legion World a thought formed. It thought itself into existence with no form and substance was as yet inconceivable.

In the Banned'em Zone An indefinable sub-sentient force directed by a malevolent entity plucked a form from the mind of a hero and created a solid image, created life. That entity named itself and joined the battle fulfilling it's purpose.

Unknown to the malevolent entity the newly created life was an image of one very strong willed and fanatically disciplined warrior. It refused the direction of the entity and assumed the life and identity it remembered. Blackout had been reborn in the heat of a titanic battle for the life of the world, a weapon forged in the eternal struggle between good and evil.

The Shadow is a force that lives in the hearts and souls of the Mallors and it was no different here. Ard ti Mallor, past Commander of the Talokian Planetary Defense Force is a master of the forms of Shadow combat but newly returned to life he discovered a deeper understanding than he had ever known. He was no longer simply a master of Shadow he was now a creature of shadow, a shade that could choose substance and density. He no longer used the power he was the power.

Still, the power called to him. A sound, a feeling, a yearning deep in his soul drew him to a place. A place where the Shadows waited.

An insubstantial patch of darkness slid across the floor and out the door.

This Yellow Kid gleans much... but still not enough.

The game unfolds once more...

"Where is everybody? Princess Crusader? Whiplash? Kid Chrome?"

He looks around at the battered room where the LMB had recently gathered leaps into the air and shrinks out of sight.