Titans of Justice Unlimited Vol. 2 #7 – “The Monsters of Society”
Written & edited by: Power Guy
Maxi-micros by: Power Guy


An undisclosed location within Fawcett City, Earth S…

In a dimly lit room, an alien green worm rests a top of table surrounded by ten other people. “Look at you all…..labeled monsters by society for one reason or another. Captain Nazi – still loyal to the cause of Adolf Hitler. Chain Lightning – electrical executioner. The Sivana Twins, Thaddeus Jr. and Georgia – continuing your father’s work of subjugating this world before your mental might. Ibac and King Kull – both of you are powerhouse brutes whose power rivals the Marvel Family. Mr. Atom – radioactive robot of destruction. Nefertiti – seductive succubus of the Middle East, also called the anti-Isis by some. Oggar – called ‘the world’s mightiest immortal’ and former pupil of the Wizard Shazam. Weeper – a brutal murderer who weeps for his victims. Each of you has been defeated by the heroes of Fawcett City on your own but by us working together, we can crush them and soon take over the world!”

“An interesting proposition, worm, but the heroes have their own team as well,” reminded Nefertiti. “What makes you think by us joining forces we can overcome them?”





“Because, my dear, never before has the Monster Society of Evil held such a powerful roster plus we have the element of surprise and we shall use it to our utmost advantage!”

Then, without warning, the door to the room was kicked in. The assembled villains turned to see a teenage boy with long black hair with a single purple streak in it, wearing a fishnet-like material on his upper torso and arms with black leather pants, and black mascara around his eyes. He had several razor blades attached to his belt and he was carrying a noose. “Hey dudes…..and dudettes…..heard you were havin’ a party. I hope you don’t mind that I crashed it.”





“Who are you and what do you want,” growled King Kull as he smacked his enormous wooden club into the palm of his other hand.





“I came to see this old chap,” he answered putting his arm around the Weeper.

“Unhand me, you wretched whelp,” replied the foe of Bulletman and Bulletgirl as he went to push the boy’s arm off him only to have the boy put him in a headlock.





“Chill out man…..you’re my idol,” revealed the emo teen. “I’ve read about all of your capers and how you plundered Fawcett City with your gruesome murders, crying for your victims afterwards. You see, you’ve inspired me to become just like you but there’s a small problem here….”

Suddenly, the Weeper started crying profusely, tears drenching his cheeks.

“If I’m gonna make a play at this game,” the boy started up again, “I’ve gotta eliminate the competition,” he said as he pulled a razor blade from his belt and handed it to the Weeper. “Go ahead, gramps. It’s hopeless.”

And with that, the Weeper wasted no time in slitting his throat, his juggler vein squirting blood all over the wall in front of him. Nefertiti wiped up a few drops with her finger and then licked it clean.

“Hahahaha!!!!” cackled Thaddeus Sivana Jr. “You made him commit suicide.”





“Yeah, I have that affect on people,” explained the boy as he started to whimper and cry a bit, his black mascara running down his face. “You can call me the new Weeper. So, what’s the plan, greenie?”

***

Later in the sky over the WHIZ television station, Ibis the Invincible and Spy Smasher soar along in Spy Smasher’s flying Gyrosub.

“What a beautiful evening,” observed Ibis. “The moonlight is even reflecting off the water below. I guess even the forces of evil are taking a break and enjoying this night.”





“It’s too quiet if you ask me,” Spy Smasher commented as he changed course towards the Rock of Eternity.





“Well, I for one am grateful. I’m supposed to meet Adam and Isis at their palace for dinner in an hour,” Ibis said as he straightened his tie in the mirror in front of him. “I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if you tagged along.”

Suddenly, the ship began shaking violently, causing Ibis to lose his balance. “What in the name of the Golden Sphinx?!?!?”

“It’s definitely not just turbulence….” Spy Smasher shouted as he struggled to steady his craft and then noticed two figures floating in mid-air, “Shoot…..it’s Mr. Atom and Chain Lightning.”

“I’ll handle Chain Lightning if you can take care of Mr. Atom?” purposed Ibis.

“You got a deal, Prince,” agreed the green and black clad hero.

Ibis immediately flew out the side-door to confront his electrical adversary, “Halt this insanity at once!” he ordered.

“Now why would we do that when we’re having so much fun……….or at least I am. I don’t really think my walking tin-can of a partner here knows the meaning of fun but never-the-less, he’s not going to stop any time soon either,” she giggled as she blasted the man otherwise known as Prince Amentep.





The immortal hero saw the attack coming and shouted, “Ibistick – shield me from her blast!” The powerful bolt of lightning was instantly reflected off the force-field to Chain Lightning’s dismay.

She became very angry and kept on hurling bolt after bolt of lightning at her foe, not letting up for one instant.

Ibis then noticed a junk-yard below with several old tires lying around. “Ibistick – send those tires below hurling at my adversary.” With that, over a dozen rubber tires began berating Chain Lightning left and right, making her head spin a bit.

“Urrrrrrghhhhhh!!! You’ll pay for this you turban-wearing twit!” screamed the electrical assassin.

Meanwhile, Spy Smasher and his Gyrosub were locked in battle with Mr. Atom. The radioactive robot kept firing off blasts of his signature deadly energy at the sleek fighter craft. The Gyrosub’s shield had been holding up but they couldn’t take much more and Spy Smasher was well aware.





“I think I’ve bitten off more than I can chew here. Mr. Atom would have been tough for both Ibis and I to take down together…..still, I’ve got to try or we could both be goners. Maybe these will put him down,” he thought to himself as he fired two electromagnetic missiles, which, with his spectacular aim, scored a direct hit on the robot.

Mr. Atom began falling from the sky as Spy Smasher started rejoicing, “All right!!!” he yelled as he watched Mr. Atom’s body fall through some clouds below. “I’d better go salvage the body in case he starts leaking energy,” he mumbled as he steered his ship downward but once he began passing through the clouds and visibility wasn’t at it’s best, Mr. Atom came soaring towards him with great speed and blasted his craft. The force of the blast was so powerful that it broke through the ship’s shields and knocked Spy Smasher unconscious. The Gyrosub began plummeting towards the ground but luckily, Ibis had witnessed the tragedy transpire and went to act.

“Ibistick – cushion the Gyrosub’s fall!” With that, a beam of energy shot forth from Ibis’ magic-wand and gently set the Gyrosub on the ground but with his attention consumed by the task, it was enough to weaken his concentration on his personal shield allowing Chain Lightning’s latest attack to get through and knock him out of the sky.

“Nice work, metal man. That’s two down!” squealed the electrical executioner.

***

Half-way across the city, Corporal Marvel and Bulletboy were flying home from a late night high school football game.

“Dude, we totally kicked butt tonight!” Bulletboy shouted with excitement.





“Yeah, we’re nine to one this season,” smiled Corporal Marvel.





Before either hero could say another word, a voice came out of nowhere, “If you’re talking about your victories over super-villains, your score is about to take a serious beating as are you!”

Corporal Marvel and his best friend turned to see King Kull and the new Weeper riding a top of a pterodactyl(a flying dinosaur). The Weeper jumped off the stone-age beast and grabbed onto Bulletboy’s neck, squeezing it tightly, which was forcing the metallic hero to the ground. Once on the ground, the Weeper smacked his new adversary a few times in hopes of infuriating him.

The ploy worked and Bulletboy grabbed tightly onto the Weeper’s arms not realizing he had sealed his fate that day. “Hands off, goth-boy!”

“You jocks are all the same…..you don’t know a goth guy from an emo dude,” smirked the Weeper as his emotion-manipulating powers began to overcome the human machine gun. “You’re all stupid and useless for anything beyond tossing a ball around.”

Bulletboy suddently froze up and admitted, “Y….you’re r…r….right. I am just a big, dumb jock. I even have a tutor for Algebra.”

“Once you get out of high school, you’ll be worthless,” chastised the Weeper. “You’ll be stuck working at fast food joints for little pay, no benefits, and customers who have no regard for all of the stress you’ll be under. Better to end it now…” he said, presenting Bulletboy with a noose.

“Yes, I’m just taking up space on this planet,” Bulletboy said as he tied the noose around a tree branch. He then jumped up and slipped the other end of the noose around his neck which promptly cut off his air supply.

In the air above, Corporal Marvel was taking quite a beating from the savage King Kull. The Neanderthal was in berserker mode, bashing the son of Captain Marvel and Star Girl with his club. After several hits in the face, Corporal Marvel had enough and snapped. He quickly ripped the club from King Kull’s hand and threw it over the horizon. He then pulled the cave-man off of his pet and started flying downward, slamming him into the ground below. Before he could finish off his foe, he noticed Bulletboy hanging from a tree and gasped, “Oh no! I’ve got to help him!” he said as he turned to assist his friend.

***

In a small suburb right outside Fawcett City...

Diamond Jack attends to an apartment building on fire. After being briefed by a fireman, he creates a slide from the top story to help some of the residents make it out before the fire got to them.





“I think that’s everyone,” the fire marshall said, confidently.

“Alright, I’ll create a giant wave with my ring to extinguish the fire….” Diamond Jack said, pointing his right hand upwards. He began to conjure up an image of a wave in his mind until he noticed, “Wait! I can see someone is still in the building. It’s hard to make him out but I’ve got to try to get him out of there first. The wielder of the black diamond ring streaked into the air surrounded by an opal colored force-field and then entered the building on the floor where he saw this final resident. “Sir? Madame? I’m Diamond Jack of the Squadron of Titans. I’m here to help you,” he called out as his eyes darted back and forth looking for this person. The smoke had grown extremely thick and it was nearly impossible to see….that is unless every muscle in your body, including your ocular muscles were enhanced by the forces of evil such as Ibac’s were!





Ibac’s steel-like fist suddenly collided with Diamond Jack’s jaw knocking him through the blazing wall behind him.

“Dammit – it’s a trap!” huffed the tuxedo-clad hero. He then heard a voice talking to him.

“Some say Ibac not smart but me am smart enough to trick you! Hahahaha!!!”

Diamond Jack was finally able to see his opponent and materialized a set of iron chains around him. “You started this fire just to lure me here? You’re as sick as you are stupid!”

“Thank you for the compliment,” smirked Ibac as he snapped the chains around him with little effort.

“He’s as strong as Black Adam,” Diamond Jack thought, becoming a bit worried. “Got to try something else.” He then created some sleep gas around Ibac which the sinister brute just blew back at him.

“No! The gas is coming back this way….” he shouted as he tried to create another force-field around himself but it was too late. He had inhaled too much of the gas and was beginning to pass out. “I’ve got to……got to……..”

“Go to sleep!” Ibac said, finishing his foe’s sentence right before he punched him in the side of the face, sending him off to dreamland.

***

The royal palace in Khandaq…

“Ibis should be here shortly, my love,” Isis said, smiling warmly at Black Adam as they sat across from each other at an extremely long table. “Would you like some wine while we wait?”





“Yes, my beloved Adriana. By the way, these flowers you placed in the center of the dinner table are most beautiful, much like yourself.”





“Thank you. I have been nurturing them for several months in anticipation of a special occasion such as this.”

Then without warning, the roof above Black Adam and Isis came tumbling down upon them.

As Captain Nazi and Nefertiti began descending downward, the former aid of Adolph Hitler commented, “Nice work, sand-snake. Your power to decay objects worked perfectly on the roof.”





“Was that a slur, Captain?” demanded the Egyptian villainess.

“Does it matter? We have bigger fish to fry!”

“Lucky for you,” Nefertiti mumbled under her breath while giving her racist partner the glare of death.

As the two villains just about reached the ground, Black Adam erupted through the rubble that was on top of him and Isis. “Captain Nazi! Nefertiti! You two jackals shall pay for invading our home!”

“Ah Adam, you still haven’t gone for anger management, have you?” taunted Captain Nazi and he and the king of Khandaq began trading blows.

As Black Adam punched the champion of the Reich in face, he barked, “I should have finished you off at the end of World War II.”

“Little did you know that your mercy would come back to haunt you?” Captain Nazi teased as he elbowed Black Adam in the gut.

This attack only made Black Adam even angrier. He grabbed the Nazi villain by his cape and swung him around in a circle several times before letting him fly into the wall beside them. The King of Khandaq then lifted up his stone dinner table and prepared to crush Captain Nazi with it.

At the same time, Isis was locked in battle with her arch-enemy, Nefertiti.

“You are a fool to come here,” Isis declared as lightning came down from the sky at her command and struck the dark champion of Anubis.

Once the lightning stopped, Nefertiti lifted up her head and asked, “Aww….are you upset that I crushed your pretty, little flowers, Isis?” She then blasted the heroine of healing and hope with a small sandstorm. “I’m going to crush more than flowers before I’m through today!”

Isis was struggling against the deadly sandstorm and used all of her will to summon a series of winds to overcome Nefertiti’s onslaught. “You’re going to get more than you bargained for, you walking vessel of rot!” Continuing to use her control over the forces of nature, Isis made the vegetation in the room grow to enormous proportions. Hundreds of vines reached out and restrained Nefertiti tightly for Isis to finish subduing. “It’s over, Nefertiti!” declared Isis as she cocked back her right arm, ready to punch her evil counterpart.

***

Meanwhile at the Rock of Eternity...

“We’re almost there!” announced Mr. Mind as he flew forward in a miniature spaceship, leading the Sivana Twins and Oggar as they entered the Wizard Shazam’s chamber.

The ancient wizard immediately appeared before them, quite angry, “What are you fiends doing here?”





“Greetings, my former teacher!” Oggar said as his hands lit up with magical energy.





“Oggar, you are fool to come back here!” Shazam said as he and Oggar became locked in mystical combat. Spells of all ages and intensity were cast back and forth between the duo as each one tried to take out the other.

“Now! While he’s distracted, Sivana Twins!” ordered Mr. Mind.


"Let's get him, brother!" cackled Georgia Sivana.





The son and daughter of Dr. Sivana wasted no time in putting Mr. Mind’s plan into action. They quickly assembled a small machine with a barrel on the end of it. They aimed the barrel at Shazam and fired an energy blast at him. As the ray struck the ancient wizard, it began to put him in suspended animation but Shazam was no pushover. He channeled all of his magical might into resisting the beam and he would have succeeded too if Oggar hadn’t added a final, mystical finishing touch to the ray which finally brought Shazam to a complete halt, freezing him in time and space. With the Wizard neutralized, the power he had bestowed over the various champions of Earth S was cancelled out and Corporal Marvel, Black Adam, and Isis were returned to their normal human forms where King Kull, Captain Nazi, and Nefertiti made short work of them.

About fifteen minutes later, Mr. Mind became ecstatic and announced, “We’ve done it! Shazam and his Squadron of Titans are defeated! Earth S belongs to the Monster Society of Evil!!!”


TO BE CONTINUED!

***The new Weeper co-created by Corporal Marvel & Power Guy