The Wrath of Neutro
LAST WEEK, ON THE ADVENTURES OF PERCIVAL PHOENIX: The situation had gone from bad to worse. The rescue team now knew what had become of their colleagues, true --
BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
Sakura has been kidnapped! Anwei and Zouichi are convinced they're villainous henchmen!
Lash thinks she's A MAD SCIENTIST*in the audience, a man bursts into flames ( Read more... )
BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
Sakura has been kidnapped! Anwei and Zouichi are convinced they're villainous henchmen!
Lash thinks she's A MAD SCIENTIST*in the audience, a man bursts into flames ( Read more... )
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"HE STILL LIVES?!" Never mind all the other time she tried to kill him that had failed. "He must not find out all the details of my plans!" Never mind the fact that Daisy' cage was just behind her. "The Death Ray will speed up all the molecules of any target I point it on causing it to be reduced to dust! ...well either that or blow up the entire world. Either way it's going to be a blast."
The Lady Doctor paced back and forth in a circle massaging her skull. All these things were giving her a headache. She hated these headaches.
"And another thing! Neither Percival nor those three nitwits must arrive here. Stop them! Crush them! They ( ... )
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The outsiders had displayed powers far beyond mortal ken, but even they had been no match for Nuon and his clockwork army! At least, until the entrance of that thrice-accursed PERCIVAL PHOENIX!
"It shall be as you order, my Lady," he grated mechanically. Oh, what he wouldn't give to wrap his metallic hands around that Phoenix's throat and wring his perfectly-muscled neck.
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"I shall exert myself to the utmost to carry out your orders with absolute perfection," she purred. "Despite the poor quality of your - other assistants - I am certain that Percival Phoenix's head will at your feet by sunset."
With or without his body attached.
"And as for his sidekicks," she rose, eyes flaming with fury, "I intend to choke them, burn them, and then sliver them into teeny-tiny fragments and entomb them alive!" And thunder crashed (that sounded suspiciously like someone shaking a sheet of metal behind the nearest canvas scrim).
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With a roar of laughter, he disappeared in a brilliant bolt of light and sound.
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"Most powerful Doctor NEUTRO™, it I, your most loyal servant, who shall pluck the life from the faltering Phoenix and his abhorrent hench-creatures. Let all my efforts, all my skill and strength and beauty, only serve as a tribute to your own unstoppable power!"
She vanished with the sinister grace of a horizontal video wipe, leaving behind only the hissing sounds of sand rasping against stone.
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Nuon looked out across the labyrinthine maze of broken walls and rubble that would be his newest battlefield. His enemies were close and getting closer; he could feel it. And though he did not possess the intimate knowledge of these ruins that his rival did, his raw ability should suffice to bring about their most crushing of defeats.
Ah, blessed (though no doubt brief) silence, now that he'd left that dusty old Egyptian relic behind.
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That was the Blood Queen, sitting atop one of the nearly broken pillars, swinging her sandaled feet back and forth like a little girl. The girlish gesture contrasted rather sharply with her over-voluptuous body and sin-smeared eyes. Her robo-jackals sniffed about the pillar, nosing at bits of Styrofoam in the sand.
"They could run - or they could hide, crawling into some deep tomb to try and escape their fate. But no matter where they run or hide, I shall find them. I shall slay them." She rose to her feet in a single swift movement, her garments gleaming like the finest gold plate. "And you, you sham of a man - you'd best run too. It would be such a tragedy if my creatures sent you all to your deaths."
She tittered and jiggled, skipping into the ruins with her beasts trotting loyally after her. The sound of her passage was echoed by the rustlings and scraping of things that ought not to move, but did.
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From the shadows of the ruined labyrinth came the metallic sound of jointed, metal-alloy legs scraping against marble.
He smiled.
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"Do you hear THAT?" he boomed in his commanding baritone, ensuring that no one actually heard anything. "That scraping? By Orion's Belt, it reminds me of the time I faced off against the GREAT GOLDEN COCKROACHES OF CASSIOPEIA! Stay alert, friends, for I fear there is EVIL afoot!"
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And at an altar to ancient gods, the Blood Queen laid noisome resins on the fire and chanted, "Come, my lost ones, my loved ones. Move your withered limbs, unveil your stony bones, rise and walk and rend and tear!"
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he has just time to reply, before the feinting attack. Thing is, Chase was born a dog. He knows herding tactics. Figuring out that there's something else going on here doesn't take long.
"Keep backing up, and watch behind us. Got your backs."
Yeah, he really wished all his magic tricks were working right now - but he can improvise.
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Yes, that sound is Percival Phoenix tripping over a piece of the ruins and falling flat on his immensely handsome face. The Atomizer Ray goes flying into the herd of robo-jackals.
Oops.
"By Neptune's Nethers, who put this rock here?!"
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The others continue to menace the would-be heroes, but their giant gold-tipped ears flick again and again at the sounds coming out of the ruins all around them. Sounds that meant that the Queen's spells have succeeded.
The sarcophagi have opened. The dust pits have given up their dead. And now, the mummies walk. Wrappings brown and fragile with time, grinning mouths that stream beetles and the stench of time, skeletal fingers that seek living, supple, strangulable throats. They are moving through the ruins, crowding shoulder to rotted shoulder, and their numbers are past counting.
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