William Carter stood before the shadows, weakened, beaten. His assistant Charlie had already been taken, and he would be soon as well. As he stood before the dark, he remembered an old saying. "As long as there is one to stand against it, no evil can truly win" and with this in his mind, he stood against the darkness. He brought the dark book he carried up, and created clones of himself to fight the shadows. the fight raged for hours, with no end to the shadows in sight. William heard a voice from the shadows proclaiming he would serve their will upon the Nightmare Throne, though he knew not what that meant. As his clones fell, William began to become desperate. with the saying in his mind, he sent his thought through the book into another world, where it found a radio, and a scientist. The man who was once William Carter, now becoming corrupted by the shadows, with his last gasp of sanity, found someone who would stand in his stead. "Say Pal, looks like you're having some trouble!"