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Titans of Justice Unlimited Vol. 2 #8 – “The Monsters of Society Part 2”
Written & edited by: Power Guy
Maxi-micros by: Power Guy
The Titans of Justice Satellite – Vanishing Point…
It had been an eventful day. Supergirl, the daughter of Clark and Lois Kent, had been on monitory duty much of the day dispatching various members of the Titans of justice left and right. It had come to the point where she was mentally drained yet restless at the same time. “Sigh…….my shift is over in five minutes. I can’t wait for Hermes to walk through that teleporter.”
As the modern age girl of steel took a sip of her green tea, the teleporter tube lit up, “Hermes!” she exclaimed.
Sadly, it was not the son of Max Mercury who appeared in the transport device but instead, Constellation and she was frantic.
“OMG! OMG! OMG! I made it!” the former Girl of Two Thousand Gimmicks shouted in relief. She ran over and grabbed onto Supergirl’s biceps and began rambling, “Jenna, OMG! They almost got me! They’ve taken over Earth S and I think they may have killed all of the Titans from there!”
“Sherry…..calm down a bit,” urged the Metropolis Marvel. “Who almost got you and has taken over Earth S?”
“Mr. Mind and the Monster Society!” answered Constellation, her heart beating rapidly.
“That little, green worm? You’re kidding me, right? Who else is part of that group? Some guy with a banjo and some human-crocodile hybrids, right?”
“No! It has the most deadly villains from Earth S now,” revealed the girlfriend of Corporal Marvel. “The Sivana Twins! Mr. Atom! Ibac! Captain Nazi!”
“Ok, ok, I get it…” Supergirl said, contemplating the situation. “Those last three guys are almost as powerful as Power Guy. How many others are there and how did you find out about this?”
“There’s around a dozen members from what I can remember and I went to Earth S to visit Freddie. I arrived at the Rock of Eternity and the Monster Society had taken it over. All of the Squadron of Titans were lying motionless in pile on the floor along with Shazam. The villains noticed me and I took off. They almost captured me when I finally made it back to the teleport tube. I think Freddie and the others are all dead!!!” Sherry said, beginning to cry.
Supergirl pulled Constellation into a firm hug, “Easy, Sherry. We don’t know that for sure. I’m going to put together a task-force and we’re going to go confront the Monster Society and set things right on Earth S.”
Just then, Hermes teleported in.
“Oh, thank God!” smiled Supergirl. “Hermes, I hate to rush you but can you jump on monitor duty right away? There’s a situation on Earth S that the Titans need to handle and I’m putting together a team to take care of the situation,” she said as she stepped over to a computer console. “Let’s see who’s available.”
Minutes later, eight other heroes arrived at the satellite and were briefed on the situation. Those who had arrived to help were Power Guy, the Huntress, Green Lantern Daniel Jordan, Starman, the Arachnid, Quake, Thunderbolt, and Offspring.
“We’re one Titan short,” noted Power Guy.
“I’m trying to get a hold of Sargona to counter Oggar,” advised Green Lantern.
“Don’t bother,” instructed the Huntress, “We’re going to need Dr. Fate for this one. Oggar is almost as powerful as Shazam himself.”
“Good freakin’ luck,” interjected Starman. “The last three times I tried calling Dr. Fate in for a mission, he didn’t show up a single time. He always says he has more ‘pressing matters’ to deal with.”
Suddenly, a golden ankh-shaped portal appeared in the room and the Lord of Order stepped out, “You called, Huntress?”
“Yes, I’ll fill you in on the way. We need to get going immediately.”
“I guess you haven’t been asking him nicely enough,” the Arachnid said as he elbowed Starman in the stomach, lightly.
“Get moving bug breath before I shove my Cosmic Rod where the sun don’t shine,” spat Starman, extremely annoyed.
The Arachnid responded with a quick punch to Starman’s right shoulder, “Will you shut up already before your cooky aunt walks in and starts making incorrect assumptions again?”
About five minutes later, the teleport tube began transporting the collected heroes to Earth S when suddenly there was a backlash and the heroes found themselves back in their satellite.
“What the heck was that?” asked a surprised Arachnid.
“Felt like some kind of backlash….” Replied Thunderbolt.
“Indeed it was,” confirmed Dr. Fate. After a quick gesture, a ball of light appeared before him. After gazing into it for a few moments he continued, “Oggar has used his magic to seal off Earth S from the other earths. I sense he is leaching off Shazam’s powers to augment his own.”
“They must have known I’d be back with reinforcements,” concluded Constellation.
“There is another problem…” revealed the Lord of Order. “The Suspendium device they are using is much more powerful than any of the Monster Society understands. Not only has it frozen the heroes of Earth S and Fawcett City but it is starting to slow their entire earth as well and if their earth stops spinning that will cause a ripple effect through the multiverse causing all of the other earths to stop moving as well!”
“What can we do?” asked Green Lantern, hoping someone had an idea.
“My magic is powerful enough to slightly pierce Oggar’s spell in order to send four of us to Earth S but no more. We must choose the four wisely.”
“But we’ll be outnumbered three to one!” pointed out Constellation.”
“We’ve faced worse odds before, Sherry,” Supergirl said, trying to offer some hope.
“Power Guy – it’s your call,” Quake said, looking the team’s leader directly in the eyes.
“Sherry knows Earth S the best out of all of us so she’s a definite. The rest of the team will consist of Quake, Supergirl, and Green Lantern. The rest of us will remain here until Oggar’s spell is cancelled out and we can teleport in.”
Starman walked over to Supergirl and held her close and whispered, “Be careful. I’ll be waiting for you until you get back.” With that, the two briefly kissed and Supergirl made her way over to join Green Lantern and the other members of the group going to Earth S.
“While the four of you handle things on Earth S,” began the Huntress, “We’ll keep things as stable as we can on the other four earths with the help of our super-speedsters. By having them race around their respective earths, they will diminish the effects of the Suspendium device until it is shut down or destroyed. The Flash and Hot Flash will handle nU Earth, Lightspeed and Liberty Belle can take care of Earth Two, Thunderbolt can keep Earth Four moving, and I’ll relieve Hermes from monitor duty so he can tend to Earth X.”
“Prepare yourselves for the trip. My spell will also prevent the Suspendium device from affecting you but it won’t last forever so you must hurry,” instructed Dr. Fate as his hands lit up. Within seconds, the four heroes vanished and reappeared just outside of Fawcett City.
Supergirl immediately took to the air followed by Green Lantern who created a power-bubble to carry Quake.
“Power Guy must really trust you, Jenna, to pick you to go on this mission instead of himself,” noted Quake.
“Power Guy trusts ALL of us to do the best we can possibly do,” clarified Green Lantern.
“Plus the fact that we’re cousins – one earth removed, doesn’t hurt either,” smiled the female Kryptonian.
Constellation quickly called out to the emerald warrior, “Lantern, can I get a ride too? I haven’t quite mastered how to fly with my belt yet.”
“Of course,” smiled the son of Hal and Carol Jordan as a green ladder appeared in between his power-bubble and Sherry’s feet.
As the heroes flew over the city, Supergirl started scanning it with her telescopic vision, “Great Ceaser’s Ghost! Everyone and everything has come to a complete standstill! Wait! There’s someone or rather, ones, moving down there. It looks like a group of cavemen!”
Constellation gasped, “That must be King Kull! He’s part of the Monster Society!”
The four heroes descended towards the ground to see King Kull and his Beast Men ransacking a small Italian deli.
Quake was the first to speak, “Playtime’s over, boys!” right before he emitted a series of vibrational waves at the Cro-Magnons, scattering them about.
The Beast Men made a quick recovery and began attacking the heroes. Two of them grabbed Supergirl by her arms. “Big mistake, fellas,” smirked the modern age Girl of Steel as she began flying upward to about twenty feet in the air and then began spinning around like a top which caused the two cavemen to lose their grip and go flying several blocks away.
Three more of Kull’s lackeys piled on Quake but the Puerto Rican hero made short work of them with another vibrational attack. “Phew…….those guys obviously haven’t learned the concept of an antiperspirant!”
Meanwhile, Green Lantern and Constellation were working on taking down King Kull himself who was firing off beams from his large club.
“Don’t let his blasts hit you,” advised the star-spangled heroine, “They’ll devolve you into one of his Beast Men!”
“Then we’ll just have to take his primitive weapon away from him!” declared Green Lantern as a jade beam shot forth from his ring and battered Kull’s hand, causing him to drop his club, which a green hand quickly snatched up.
“RARRRGHHH! Kull want his club back!” roared the alpha male.
“How about I get you a razor for your back instead?” teased Constellation as she fired off a stream of shooting stars at her opponent’s face, leaving him temporarily blinded. Her right fist remained glowing as she gave King Kull an energized punch, leaving him groggy.
About a half-hour later at the Rock of Eternity, the Monster Society was in the midst of celebrating their victory and dividing up the Earth for each of their individual rulings.
“Eastern Europe is mine!” shouted Captain Nazi.
“The Middle East belongs to me,” Nefertiti said, marking her territory on the map in front of the villains.
While the Monster Society of Evil continued to chatter, the four members of the Titans of Justice observed and made plans to get their hands on the Sivana Twins’ Suspendium device.
“My ring can handle this,” assured Green Lantern to the others as emerald beam short forth slowly and dimly to retrieve the device but just as it was about to make contact, Captain Nazi saw what was transpiring out of the corner of his eye and whipped a golden disc that was hanging on the wall, in front of the beam, cancelling it out.
“Nice try heroes but it’s over before it even got started,” bragged the Nazi strongman as he and the rest of his group surrounded the four Titans who stood back to back, readying for the oncoming onslaught.
“Prepare to join your friends in suspended animation, fools!” cackled Mr. Mind.
“NO! Your stupid machine is toast!” vowed Constellation as she shot a series of shooting stars at the device, super-heating it and then destroying it. “Ha! It’s over, you slimy worm!”
“The only ones it’s over for is you and your friends, girl!” countered Mr. Mind. “By destroying the Sivanas’ device, you may have saved the rest of the world but the Squadron of Titans and Fawcett City will be frozen in time forever!!!”
TO BE CONTINUED!