The Balance of Nature
Chapter 1
Invocation
This is fanfiction of the fanvideo at youtube com/watch?v=3JeLcP7Xa5o,
which you should watch before reading.
Hard and necessary words have been spoken. In truth, the Planeteers should not have put this off so long; they should have given their old friend more time to process, to come to terms. But now there is an emergency, and the luxury of time is gone.
Duty calls; the Planet is in danger.
Saving our planet is the thing to do.
Five voices call out, in turn...
"Earth!"
"Fire!"
"Wind!"
"Water!"
"Fire!"
...and in unison.
"Go Planet!"
A figure rises from the Earth; the form of a man, his body like that of a Greek god, sculpted in terracotta instead of marble. His eyes are sunken shadows, not yet fully articulated; yet, in the same instant that one might notice this, colors are already beginning to wash over him. The brown of the rich soil turns to red, for Fire; then yellow, for Wind; blue, for Water; and finally red again.
The figure hangs in the air, not with his familiar appearance of many colors, but a uniform glowing red like magma, the deep Fire of the Planet's mantle. His voice is a hard baritone, as he answers their summons.
"By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!"
His face is all determination. There is work to be done.