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The Titans of Justice Chapter 21 “Mordru – The Coming”
Written by: Power Guy
Co-conspirator: Scotty2Hotty
Editor: Marcus Mebes
The Hall of Justice, Metropolis U.S.A.
Celsius stood at the head of the meeting-table, glancing at the entire membership of the Titans of Justice assembled before him: Power Guy, Nightvision, Wonder Man, Green Lantern, Sargona, Strato Hawk, Junjie Quick, Jemstone, Venus, Black Vulcan, Starman, Nucleus, Sonic Boom, and the Huntress; plus the reserves, Icemanling and Vibe. “Thank you all for being prompt for this emergency meeting. I’m afraid that we could soon be facing our most dangerous adversary yet,” informed Celsius.
“Chico, don’t look so stressed out. We’ll lay it to rest just like we did the Legion of Doom,” commented a confident Vibe.
“You know Vibe, you really need to take this more seriously,” chastised Green Lantern. “Do you even know who Celsius is referring to?”
“No but not too many guys can last more than a few rounds against you and Power Guy,” Vibe said, completely oblivious to the situation. “This will be a piece of cake and I’ll be back in Detroit in time for dinner.”
“We’re up against Mordru, you idiot,” Sargona said in frustration,” and he’s stolen my ruby!”
“We certainly won’t accomplish anything by being at each other’s throats,” Celsius said in a stern tone.
“Maybe she should sit this one out. After all, she doesn’t have her pretty little jewel any more,” Black Vulcan said with a smirk.
Sargona gave Black Vulcan the look of death. “I don’t need my ruby to turn your undergarments into fiberglass.” Pointing her finger at Black Vulcan’s face, she added, “Bad dog! Sit!”
“Don’t waste your energy, Sargona. She makes one more crack and I’ll burn her hair until she looks like the black Britney Spears,” threatened Jemstone.
“I’ll bet you said something similar to the Toyman right before you fried him up, didn’t you?” insinuated Black Vulcan.
“Ladies – that’s ENOUGH!” barked Celsius. “I am not going to stand here and let the three of you exchange insults like a bunch of fifth graders. I realize everyone is tense. Sargona lost her ruby. Jemstone just got out of prison, and all of us are worried about facing Mordru. We’ve got to keep our heads clear or we might as well go pick out our headstones.” Celsius couldn’t help but feeling like an old schoolmarm, but he held his ground. It may have been their anxiety, but more than one of the team thought they heard Black Vulcan growling. “Moving along. Nightvision, have you determined any reason that Mordru would want Sargona’s ruby?”
“Well, it’s a known fact that Mordru has always been obsessed with gems but I’m guessing this more than simply completing a collection of hobby,” Nightvision presumed.
Jemstone then took the room by surprise and informed her teammates, “I think I know why he took the ruby. It’s from Gemworld.”
“Gemworld???” inquired a curious Sargona. “What makes you think that? By the way, I love your new look Jemstone.”
“Thanks Sar – it was time for a fresh start for me. Anyway, the energy signature to your ruby is similar to my own,” revealed Jemstone. “Most of you don’t know that I got my powers when Stormer of the Misfits blew up Synergy which imbedded my body with shards of my earings. My father, while a brilliant man, thought he had discovered hologram technology but he didn’t realize that the jewels he used to power my earings and Synergy were actually from Gemworld.” Jemstone, realizing that her teammates were fascinated with her revelation, stood and addressed the entire assemblage. “A few months after my accident, I was approached… and this may sound weird, but it’s true… by Amethyst, the ruler of Gemworld. She’s the one who shared this information with me. She gave me a memory… kind of like she put it in my mind… and I saw her face Mordru, but he was young, like twenty years old maybe, or even eighteen or nineteen. He had just killed his brother, and was exiled from his family. He was already amazingly powerful then, and the only way she could subdue him was by dissolving him into the substance of the planet… Gemworld, that is. If we do end up facing him, this won’t be a walk in the park.”
As Jemstone finished her informatory speech, a bright flash of light went off from the center of the meeting table temporarily blinding all of the Titans.
“Right you are my dear,” came a voice familiar to Jemstone.
“No! It can’t be!” shouted Jemstone in panic as she and the others struggled to regain their vision. As their eyesight became clear, Jemstone was horrified to see that her teammates had not been playing tricks on her. “Mordru…” she gasped.
“You are correct, my so-aptly named Jemstone,” affirmed the newly-arrived wizard of evil. “I have been watching you all for months and have been waiting to make my move. Now that you all know my so unglamorous origin, I thought I’d better act now before she says too much. After all, I really hate it when people talk behind my back,” Mordru said with a sinister grin.
“Speak of the devil…” commented Starman. He then saw the opportunity to lead the assault against the ages-old mage. He fired his Cosmic Rod at Mordru and scored a direct hit.
“Argh…!” exclaimed Mordru not expecting the Titans to recover and attack so quickly.
“Nice work Starman,” complimented Strato Hawk.
“Big mistake, boy!” growled Mordru as he waved his hand and turned Starman’s Cosmic Rod into a boa constrictor that quickly wrapped itself around Starman in an attempt to crush him.
“Oh my God! Oh my God!” Starman yelled, freaking out. Luckily, he was able to free one hand to hold the snake’s gaping jaws at bay.
Power Guy and Green Lantern took to the air to wage a direct attack on their assailant.
“Sending out your big guns so early?” teased Mordru. “Come with it then, gentlemen. I’m ready for you.” Mordru grinned as his body was soon covered with sleek armor that glistened somewhat like topaz.
Green Lantern used his ring to chain Mordru’s arms behind his back while Power Guy took a more direct approach and punched the wicked sorcerer several times.
“Where’s the Shadow Thief hiding, Mordru?” demanded Green Lantern. “Is he not able to fight unless he sneaks up on someone???”
“This is over before it even gets started,” stated Power Guy, sure that they had the upper hand.
Mordru just stood there, taking blow after blow from the Kryptonian powerhouse and allowing the rest of the Titans think that Power Guy was right.
Mordru’s eyes began to glow and he burst free from the emerald shackles that bound him. “Fools! To think children like you could subdue me!” He then fired two eldritch bolts at the attacking duo, sending them into unconsciousness.
“Ai Dios mio!” yelled Vibe. “This isn’t going to be the cake-walk I thought it was going to be!”
Strato Hawk was the next to confront the foul villain. He started flying towards Mordru and gave him his final warning. “Stand down Mordru or I swear that I’ll crack your skull open like an egg!!!” The avian avenger then proceeded to swing his spiked-mace into powerful mage but his mace was stopped short of its target by a swiftly erected force-field that glimmered a bright blue-green, almost turquoise. Strato Hawk continued to beat against the force-field in hopes of smashing through. Usually the young hero was a calm and rational man but thanks to Hawkman, he knew how serious of a threat that Mordru was and that there should be no holding back.
Junjie Quick noticed his teammates were having no avail against Mordru’s onslaught. A plan to pierce the force-field came to him but he would need some help. He raced over to Vibe and then to Sonic Boom, asking for their assistance. While Strato Hawk continued his assault, Junjie Quick, Vibe, and Sonic Boom surrounded Mordru. Junjie and Vibe collaborated in a vibrational attack on the force-field while Sonic Boom used her canary cry to try to penetrate the shield.
Mordru started to feel the pressure of his opponents’ attack. Between the disorienting vibrations from Junjie and Vibe combined with piercing sound of Sonic Boom’s cry, he was struggling to maintain his concentration. “Ugh…grr…” he grumbled as he started to sweat from the intense feeling of vertigo that started to overwhelm him. His stomach twisted in knots, and he began to double over from the agony.
“Pour it on! We’re almost through!” directed Junjie Quick.
The young speedster was right on the mark as the force-field finally shattered.
Celsius was the first to act after the force-field had finally dropped. “Icemanling,” he shouted, “let’s frost him up, mate!”
“I’m on it!” replied Icemanling unleashing a wave of sub-zero cold blasts at Mordru.
With that, both Celsius and Icemanling used their ice-generation powers to encase Mordru in a block of ice.
Wonder Man then joined in the fray. “Let me finish wrapping him up!” he said as he threw his magic-lasso around the frozen villain.
Starman—once his Cosmic Rod had returned to normal upon Mordru’s ice-encasement—was ready to celebrate their victory. “Vibe was right. This has-been was no match for us.”
But then within the block of frozen ice, Mordru’s eyes began to glow again.
“Uh oh! Maybe I spoke too soon!” shouted the nervous young hero. He gripped his Cosmic Rod in an attempt to protect himself.
Starman was right to second guess himself as Mordru simply vanished from within the ice.
“What? Where did he go?” Icemanling wondered aloud.
No sooner was Icemanling’s question answered as the voice of Mordru came from behind the Titans.
“I’m here,” stated Mordru “and now it’s my turn to rid myself of you incompetent fools!” His eyes were glowing red with a look of disgust on his face. His long brown hair and beard streamed out from him like the radiating rays of a sun. The evil and powerful sorcerer then opened his hands and unleashed a devastating eldritch blast at the Titans of Justice. Twin streams of golden yellow and turquoise blue energy streamed toward them in a matter of seconds, too quick for them to react.
The blasts encompassed the entire team. One by one the Titans started to fall. Even their most powerful members were not tough enough to withstand Mordru’s violent counter-attack. Within seconds, the entire team was down for the count.
“Idiots! You whelps were in no position to take me down,” gloated Mordru. “But then again, you are no Justice Society, and you most certainly are no Lords of Order.” He then walked over to Jemstone and looked down at her, “You, my dear, are the final piece to the puzzle. With your power, I will be unstoppable and Gemworld will finally fall before me!!!” Effortlessly, he gathered up and arranged the comatose bodies of several of the Titans into an arcane arrangement in the Hall of Justice’s meeting room, leaving behind only Nightvision, Huntress, and Sargona. “Two non-powered humans and half-powered stage magician are of no threat to me,” he thought to himself.
***
The Fortress of Solitude…
Power Woman and Superwoman had just finished preparing the new Supergirl’s outfit. There was a need to clear up any confusion about their names, since the younger heroine had used the name Superwoman when she encountered the Titans of Justice. Kara Zor-El, the former Supergirl, claimed the name now, and insisted that the youngster go by her old codename. Power Woman had to laugh, since she had given up the name Power Girl years ago. The two of them had been asked to steer the teenage girl in the right direction per Superman’s request.
“Now, you promise not to wear this outfit again Kristen?” asked Superwoman holding up Kristen’s previous Superwoman outfit.
“Umm…yeah I guess as long as I can be a hero!” replied Supergirl. “Thank you both for talking my dad into letting me follow the family tradition.” She winced in regret as her “aunts” used their heat-vision to incinerate the old costume.
“Remember the rules,” advised Power Woman. “You need to be honest with yourself and with those around you. A sixteen year old girl calling herself a Superwoman was probably a bit premature. In fact, I called myself Power Girl until I was almost thirty. Also– remember what we said about the glasses and wearing your hair up in a bun. It doesn’t work unless your entire ATTITUDE changes. A hairdo and eyewear won’t fool people, especially not reporters or photographers. You have to BE someone else when you’re not in costume. It’s easier to conceal your secret identity in your civilian life than it is the heat of battle against the likes of Solomon Grundy or Silver Banshee, so you can forget the mask and the red wig from here on out. They’re just an unnecessary hassle.”
“I will,” promised Supergirl as she took to the air.
Superwoman looked up at Supergirl and saw so much of herself in the young girl. “Kristen, you need to remember to think before you act,” she called after her. “When I first became Supergirl years ago, I was brash, irrational, and a lot of times I did things on instinct. Don’t make the same mistakes I made.”
“I won’t Aunt Kara,” promised Supergirl. “Oh this is going to be soooo cool! I can’t wait to join the Titans!” she said as she flew out of the Fortress headed for Metropolis.
Written by: Power Guy
Co-conspirator: Scotty2Hotty
Editor: Marcus Mebes
The Hall of Justice, Metropolis U.S.A.
Celsius stood at the head of the meeting-table, glancing at the entire membership of the Titans of Justice assembled before him: Power Guy, Nightvision, Wonder Man, Green Lantern, Sargona, Strato Hawk, Junjie Quick, Jemstone, Venus, Black Vulcan, Starman, Nucleus, Sonic Boom, and the Huntress; plus the reserves, Icemanling and Vibe. “Thank you all for being prompt for this emergency meeting. I’m afraid that we could soon be facing our most dangerous adversary yet,” informed Celsius.
“Chico, don’t look so stressed out. We’ll lay it to rest just like we did the Legion of Doom,” commented a confident Vibe.
“You know Vibe, you really need to take this more seriously,” chastised Green Lantern. “Do you even know who Celsius is referring to?”
“No but not too many guys can last more than a few rounds against you and Power Guy,” Vibe said, completely oblivious to the situation. “This will be a piece of cake and I’ll be back in Detroit in time for dinner.”
“We’re up against Mordru, you idiot,” Sargona said in frustration,” and he’s stolen my ruby!”
“We certainly won’t accomplish anything by being at each other’s throats,” Celsius said in a stern tone.
“Maybe she should sit this one out. After all, she doesn’t have her pretty little jewel any more,” Black Vulcan said with a smirk.
Sargona gave Black Vulcan the look of death. “I don’t need my ruby to turn your undergarments into fiberglass.” Pointing her finger at Black Vulcan’s face, she added, “Bad dog! Sit!”
“Don’t waste your energy, Sargona. She makes one more crack and I’ll burn her hair until she looks like the black Britney Spears,” threatened Jemstone.
“I’ll bet you said something similar to the Toyman right before you fried him up, didn’t you?” insinuated Black Vulcan.
“Ladies – that’s ENOUGH!” barked Celsius. “I am not going to stand here and let the three of you exchange insults like a bunch of fifth graders. I realize everyone is tense. Sargona lost her ruby. Jemstone just got out of prison, and all of us are worried about facing Mordru. We’ve got to keep our heads clear or we might as well go pick out our headstones.” Celsius couldn’t help but feeling like an old schoolmarm, but he held his ground. It may have been their anxiety, but more than one of the team thought they heard Black Vulcan growling. “Moving along. Nightvision, have you determined any reason that Mordru would want Sargona’s ruby?”
“Well, it’s a known fact that Mordru has always been obsessed with gems but I’m guessing this more than simply completing a collection of hobby,” Nightvision presumed.
Jemstone then took the room by surprise and informed her teammates, “I think I know why he took the ruby. It’s from Gemworld.”
“Gemworld???” inquired a curious Sargona. “What makes you think that? By the way, I love your new look Jemstone.”
“Thanks Sar – it was time for a fresh start for me. Anyway, the energy signature to your ruby is similar to my own,” revealed Jemstone. “Most of you don’t know that I got my powers when Stormer of the Misfits blew up Synergy which imbedded my body with shards of my earings. My father, while a brilliant man, thought he had discovered hologram technology but he didn’t realize that the jewels he used to power my earings and Synergy were actually from Gemworld.” Jemstone, realizing that her teammates were fascinated with her revelation, stood and addressed the entire assemblage. “A few months after my accident, I was approached… and this may sound weird, but it’s true… by Amethyst, the ruler of Gemworld. She’s the one who shared this information with me. She gave me a memory… kind of like she put it in my mind… and I saw her face Mordru, but he was young, like twenty years old maybe, or even eighteen or nineteen. He had just killed his brother, and was exiled from his family. He was already amazingly powerful then, and the only way she could subdue him was by dissolving him into the substance of the planet… Gemworld, that is. If we do end up facing him, this won’t be a walk in the park.”
As Jemstone finished her informatory speech, a bright flash of light went off from the center of the meeting table temporarily blinding all of the Titans.
“Right you are my dear,” came a voice familiar to Jemstone.
“No! It can’t be!” shouted Jemstone in panic as she and the others struggled to regain their vision. As their eyesight became clear, Jemstone was horrified to see that her teammates had not been playing tricks on her. “Mordru…” she gasped.
“You are correct, my so-aptly named Jemstone,” affirmed the newly-arrived wizard of evil. “I have been watching you all for months and have been waiting to make my move. Now that you all know my so unglamorous origin, I thought I’d better act now before she says too much. After all, I really hate it when people talk behind my back,” Mordru said with a sinister grin.
“Speak of the devil…” commented Starman. He then saw the opportunity to lead the assault against the ages-old mage. He fired his Cosmic Rod at Mordru and scored a direct hit.
“Argh…!” exclaimed Mordru not expecting the Titans to recover and attack so quickly.
“Nice work Starman,” complimented Strato Hawk.
“Big mistake, boy!” growled Mordru as he waved his hand and turned Starman’s Cosmic Rod into a boa constrictor that quickly wrapped itself around Starman in an attempt to crush him.
“Oh my God! Oh my God!” Starman yelled, freaking out. Luckily, he was able to free one hand to hold the snake’s gaping jaws at bay.
Power Guy and Green Lantern took to the air to wage a direct attack on their assailant.
“Sending out your big guns so early?” teased Mordru. “Come with it then, gentlemen. I’m ready for you.” Mordru grinned as his body was soon covered with sleek armor that glistened somewhat like topaz.
Green Lantern used his ring to chain Mordru’s arms behind his back while Power Guy took a more direct approach and punched the wicked sorcerer several times.
“Where’s the Shadow Thief hiding, Mordru?” demanded Green Lantern. “Is he not able to fight unless he sneaks up on someone???”
“This is over before it even gets started,” stated Power Guy, sure that they had the upper hand.
Mordru just stood there, taking blow after blow from the Kryptonian powerhouse and allowing the rest of the Titans think that Power Guy was right.
Mordru’s eyes began to glow and he burst free from the emerald shackles that bound him. “Fools! To think children like you could subdue me!” He then fired two eldritch bolts at the attacking duo, sending them into unconsciousness.
“Ai Dios mio!” yelled Vibe. “This isn’t going to be the cake-walk I thought it was going to be!”
Strato Hawk was the next to confront the foul villain. He started flying towards Mordru and gave him his final warning. “Stand down Mordru or I swear that I’ll crack your skull open like an egg!!!” The avian avenger then proceeded to swing his spiked-mace into powerful mage but his mace was stopped short of its target by a swiftly erected force-field that glimmered a bright blue-green, almost turquoise. Strato Hawk continued to beat against the force-field in hopes of smashing through. Usually the young hero was a calm and rational man but thanks to Hawkman, he knew how serious of a threat that Mordru was and that there should be no holding back.
Junjie Quick noticed his teammates were having no avail against Mordru’s onslaught. A plan to pierce the force-field came to him but he would need some help. He raced over to Vibe and then to Sonic Boom, asking for their assistance. While Strato Hawk continued his assault, Junjie Quick, Vibe, and Sonic Boom surrounded Mordru. Junjie and Vibe collaborated in a vibrational attack on the force-field while Sonic Boom used her canary cry to try to penetrate the shield.
Mordru started to feel the pressure of his opponents’ attack. Between the disorienting vibrations from Junjie and Vibe combined with piercing sound of Sonic Boom’s cry, he was struggling to maintain his concentration. “Ugh…grr…” he grumbled as he started to sweat from the intense feeling of vertigo that started to overwhelm him. His stomach twisted in knots, and he began to double over from the agony.
“Pour it on! We’re almost through!” directed Junjie Quick.
The young speedster was right on the mark as the force-field finally shattered.
Celsius was the first to act after the force-field had finally dropped. “Icemanling,” he shouted, “let’s frost him up, mate!”
“I’m on it!” replied Icemanling unleashing a wave of sub-zero cold blasts at Mordru.
With that, both Celsius and Icemanling used their ice-generation powers to encase Mordru in a block of ice.
Wonder Man then joined in the fray. “Let me finish wrapping him up!” he said as he threw his magic-lasso around the frozen villain.
Starman—once his Cosmic Rod had returned to normal upon Mordru’s ice-encasement—was ready to celebrate their victory. “Vibe was right. This has-been was no match for us.”
But then within the block of frozen ice, Mordru’s eyes began to glow again.
“Uh oh! Maybe I spoke too soon!” shouted the nervous young hero. He gripped his Cosmic Rod in an attempt to protect himself.
Starman was right to second guess himself as Mordru simply vanished from within the ice.
“What? Where did he go?” Icemanling wondered aloud.
No sooner was Icemanling’s question answered as the voice of Mordru came from behind the Titans.
“I’m here,” stated Mordru “and now it’s my turn to rid myself of you incompetent fools!” His eyes were glowing red with a look of disgust on his face. His long brown hair and beard streamed out from him like the radiating rays of a sun. The evil and powerful sorcerer then opened his hands and unleashed a devastating eldritch blast at the Titans of Justice. Twin streams of golden yellow and turquoise blue energy streamed toward them in a matter of seconds, too quick for them to react.
The blasts encompassed the entire team. One by one the Titans started to fall. Even their most powerful members were not tough enough to withstand Mordru’s violent counter-attack. Within seconds, the entire team was down for the count.
“Idiots! You whelps were in no position to take me down,” gloated Mordru. “But then again, you are no Justice Society, and you most certainly are no Lords of Order.” He then walked over to Jemstone and looked down at her, “You, my dear, are the final piece to the puzzle. With your power, I will be unstoppable and Gemworld will finally fall before me!!!” Effortlessly, he gathered up and arranged the comatose bodies of several of the Titans into an arcane arrangement in the Hall of Justice’s meeting room, leaving behind only Nightvision, Huntress, and Sargona. “Two non-powered humans and half-powered stage magician are of no threat to me,” he thought to himself.
***
The Fortress of Solitude…
Power Woman and Superwoman had just finished preparing the new Supergirl’s outfit. There was a need to clear up any confusion about their names, since the younger heroine had used the name Superwoman when she encountered the Titans of Justice. Kara Zor-El, the former Supergirl, claimed the name now, and insisted that the youngster go by her old codename. Power Woman had to laugh, since she had given up the name Power Girl years ago. The two of them had been asked to steer the teenage girl in the right direction per Superman’s request.
“Now, you promise not to wear this outfit again Kristen?” asked Superwoman holding up Kristen’s previous Superwoman outfit.
“Umm…yeah I guess as long as I can be a hero!” replied Supergirl. “Thank you both for talking my dad into letting me follow the family tradition.” She winced in regret as her “aunts” used their heat-vision to incinerate the old costume.
“Remember the rules,” advised Power Woman. “You need to be honest with yourself and with those around you. A sixteen year old girl calling herself a Superwoman was probably a bit premature. In fact, I called myself Power Girl until I was almost thirty. Also– remember what we said about the glasses and wearing your hair up in a bun. It doesn’t work unless your entire ATTITUDE changes. A hairdo and eyewear won’t fool people, especially not reporters or photographers. You have to BE someone else when you’re not in costume. It’s easier to conceal your secret identity in your civilian life than it is the heat of battle against the likes of Solomon Grundy or Silver Banshee, so you can forget the mask and the red wig from here on out. They’re just an unnecessary hassle.”
“I will,” promised Supergirl as she took to the air.
Superwoman looked up at Supergirl and saw so much of herself in the young girl. “Kristen, you need to remember to think before you act,” she called after her. “When I first became Supergirl years ago, I was brash, irrational, and a lot of times I did things on instinct. Don’t make the same mistakes I made.”
“I won’t Aunt Kara,” promised Supergirl. “Oh this is going to be soooo cool! I can’t wait to join the Titans!” she said as she flew out of the Fortress headed for Metropolis.