Author's Note: Hey Descenders, I'm back with another chapter and it's mostly about the past with Stan Lee, So notice during the flashbacks you see bold words, that's Stan talking during it, just something I thought and try. So enjoy the reading.
Chapter 29: Curse of Mordo
The gang were all here in their lovely suite having drink like Jordan, Jane, Ally, Herkie, Audrey, Aziz and Lonnie, sitting around Mal, Ben, Eliza, Quincy, Chad, Freddie, Trevor, Carlos, Doug, Evie, Lumière and Cogsworth. They all patiently await for the legendary Stan Lee, who agrees to go with the kids, Dude, Lumière and Cogsworth so that they can discuss with what's been happening since last night. Stan was currently watching the news about a fire happening at the convention center with Snow White broadcasting live in her Captain Marvel costume.
"So…do we wait?" Herkie asks Quincy.
"I'm not sure, he's been sitting in that couch for a while now." Quincy said.
"He should've been ready to talk." Freddie said. "I mean we invited him in, let him have a drink, and he's just gonna watch the news on how much of a hot mess you created."
"Too soon." Quincy says to Freddie.
"Guys, he's seen a lot, I just think he needs time to process this whole thing." Mal said.
"A wise choice, Lady Mal." Stan Lee said without looking away from the screen.
"Huh?!" Everyone said.
"I didn't wanna believe this at first, but after what I saw today, I fear that the worst has yet to come." Stan said.
"Whatever you mean, Mr. Lee?" Lumière said.
"Please, call me Stan." Stan said.
"Oh, Ok." Lumière said smiling.
"And what I mean is that something from my past has finally come to haunt me." Stan said.
"It's about the comic book, isn't it?" Jane said.
"Mmm-Hmm." Stan said. "It's where my troubles begin."
"Tell us." Quincy said.
He, his friends, Lumière and Cogsworth all have a seat either in chairs or on the floor.
"It was over 20 years ago…."
Nearly 21 years ago….
A building over 20 feet high was seen by Corana, the kingdom where Rapunzel was taken back to by her one true, Flynn Rider.
"Marvel was our successful company, with lots ideas for our comics like heroes and villains." Stan Lee said. "We've come up with Fanstastic Four, Avengers, X-Men even, Until one day, me and my old partner, Steve Ditko, came up with an entire new story."
Stan Lee and Steve Ditko were younger and writing on lots of paper, Stan mostly.
"I was writing the story while Steve is the artist. That was same year we've created Dr. Strange." Stan Lee said.
"Love that guy." Quincy said.
"Anyways, one day, Steve went on a lunch break and on his way back from it, he spots a pen. Not just any pen, he says, a special kind of pen." Stan said. "At first, I thought he was just saying that, but when he starts working on his art with it, it felt like…it had a hold to him."
As days go by, Steve was sketching a page per day without much of a break, barely talks to anyone. Basically, he was acting like a different type of person.
Present
"Steve was working non-stop on each page of the comic, nearly never taking his eyes off of it as he continues to draws. When someone says hi, he either murmurs or doesn't say anything at it. He barely eats and even when in the same room with me, we barely had a conversation." Stan says.
"What did this pen look like?" Mal asked.
"Dark, Black really, And something more which I thought I never knew myself." Stan Lee said.
Flashback
"It was the final draft for our first Doctor Strange comic and it was the craziest day ever." Stan said.
Steve was bring the comic over to Stan to show him all the work they've put into it.
"Come on, Stan." Steve said. "Have a Look."
"Steve still had that pen wherever he goes and it's been weeks since he found it. He almost growls at me for when I wanted to see it, saying it was his precious." Stan said.
"So it's done? The coloring and everything?" Stan Lee said.
"Yes, with your writing and my art skills, this could be the next best thing since Spider-Man!" Steve said excitedly.
"Ok, someone's drinking to much coffee." Stan Lee said.
"As I was about to open the pages and then suddenly, I noticed something different, even with Steve's personality." Stan said.
"Where's your pen at?" Stan said.
"Oh, It fell out of my hand, then suddenly, I felt as if I was coming back to normal, like it's was all rushed outta there, you know?" Steve said.
"Oh, well good to have you back then." Stan joked.
"When I opened that comic, I never knew the next thing to happen." Stan said.
Stan opens the the comic a few pages ahead and then suddenly, it turns bright green and flashes at Stan's face, who then drops it in panic and the light shines the whole office, leading Stan and Steve to close their eyes. Then what happens next was that a person was coming out of the comic and it was a man, a man who's heart is darker then the Evil Queen's. He comes out wearing mostly green, including a long green trench coat. He landed on the floor in front of the book and the book closes, making the light disappear. His head was down since he came out and slowly, he raises it up with his head staring at the two quivering comic lovers. His lips starts to grin evilly at them before he starts to speak.
"Well, well, well." He says. "If it isn't my two creators."
"I-It can't be!" Stan said.
"That's impossible!" Steve said.
"Oh, it is indeed." The guy says.
"Baron Mordo!" Stan and Steve said.
Present
"BARON MORDO?!" Everyone expect Lumière and Cogsworth said.
"Wait a minute, you're saying the archenemy of Doctor Strange is real?!" Aziz said.
"How's that even possible?!" Chad asked.
"Patience, I'm getting to it." Stan said.
Flashback
"But you're just a character from a comic book." Steve said.
"Or at least supposed to be just that." Stan said.
"I was just in that comic book, waiting for you to finish it. Thanks to you, I now have all the power of the dark arts, awaiting to fulfill my destiny!" Mordo said.
"And what would that be?" Stan said.
"To take over Auradon!" Mordo said.
"No, you can't do that!" Stan said.
"Oh, But I can And I will." Mordo said.
Mordo creates a green portal with his hand and walks towards it, but not before he turns back at Stan and Steve.
"After I conquer Auradon, I'll be sure to keep you two around as my thanks for making this possible." Mordo said before disappearing.
Stan and Steve were shocked as Mordo vanished into thin air, still processing of the events just now.
"What have we done?" Stan said.
"I don't know." Steve said.
Then, a woman came in wearing periwinkle clothes and a large pink bow.
"Oh, Thanks goodness I've found you." The woman said. "There's no time to explain, I'm looking for a black pen with a green tip, do you know where it is?"
"Black pen? You mean my pen?" Steve said.
"That's no ordinary pen, Mr. Ditko. It's dangerous if you write or even draw with it. Please tell my you didn't use it." She said.
"Oh, then I have some bad news unfortunately." Steve said. "And its all my fault."
"Oh dear, then this is not good, tell me everything that happened." She said.
Present
"We told her everything we know and did, what we'd seen and heard, everything for her to know, without skipping a detail." Stan said.
"Wait, this woman, you said she wears a pink bow?" Jane said.
"Yes Jane, that woman is your mother." Stan said.
Jane gasps.
"Fairy Godmother was in on this?" Mal asked.
"She was tracking that pen because it was cursed, by your mother." Stan says to Mal.
Everyone gasps at that, especially Mal, whom Ben holds hands with.
"I knew I felt something familiar with that comic book." Mal said.
"While she was collecting all the magical items that belongs to the villains and putting them in the museum, she lost the pen during the process and has been trying to find ever since." Stan said.
"Wow, your mom really gets around even as a geeko." Ally said to Mal.
"It's a gift." Mal said.
"When Fairy Godmother decides to find Baron Mordo, we decided to go with her since it was our doing in the first place, and she made sure to put that in a special glass case she created with her magic, so that nothing else can happen." Stan said.
"So that aura I felt from that case was from my mother." Jane said. "I felt it cause my magic felt that, just like with Mal."
"This is crazy, man." Herkie said.
"It gets even crazier when we all finally found Mordo at the top of Beast Castle." Stan said.
Flashback
Screaming and crying was heard when Fairy Godmother, Stan and Steve all went around the castle and everyone was running away from the roaring, winds blowing and rain dropping everywhere around the castle and the weather is so tough even Beast and Belle can't get out. The three got close and saw Mordo doing his blasting at the ground, creating holes and does his evil laugh.
"You two distract him and I'll put him in the comic book." Fairy Godmother said.
"Ok." They both said.
"As we did Fairy Godmother's Plan, it was working like a charm, a little too much charm." Stan said.
Baron Mordo held Steve down with his magic and holds Stan in his right hand.
"Your lame tactics aren't enough to stop me. And just when I was gonna let you live and experience my rule!" Mordo said. "Any last words?"
"Yes." Stan said. "Bye Bye."
"What?" Mordo said.
Mordo turns back to see Fairy Godmother with the glass case open at her feet and her wand out in her hand.
"Send him back from wince he came, Bibbidi Bobbodi Boo!" Fairy Godmother said waving her wand.
Mordo felt as if he was being pulled back and was struggling to get free.
"No, No! This is not how it's supposed to end!" Mordo said.
"Oh Baron Mordo, you're a villain, of course you'll lose." Fairy Godmother said.
Mordo drops Stan down and tries to claw his way away from the comic book as it was pulling him back into it, but fails miserably.
"NOOOOOOO!" Mordo said.
The comic book has him twirling in swirls before it pulls him in completely and the comic closes along with the case. And just when Fairy Godmother was about to pick it up, the wind picks up strong making her lose her balance and the glass case blow away along with the wind.
"No!" She said.
She tries to her wand to bring it back, but it was no use as she couldn't concentrate get it back until the case was gone and not too long, the weather finally calms down and the sky was blue and sunny again. Stan and Steve got themselves up and looks to Fairy Godmother, who was starting to worry about what could've happened to the comic book.
"She stopped him for good, locked away in that comic book, which was lost. We didn't know if that was a good or bad thing. She tries to search for it, but no luck and after 3 months of searching, she finally decides to give it up and hopefully one day it'll show up." Stan said.
Present
"Wow." Quincy said.
"I can't believe it." Trevor said.
"My Mom stopped a super villain." Jane said. "And I thought she couldn't be more interesting."
"This whole thing with the comic been just missing was a cover story?" Carlos said.
"And it was good one too since no one even saw Mordo that day. After the whole thing, it took us a while to see if we can continue doing Doctor Strange until we decided that it was because we used a pen with dark magic and it shouldn't be part of the reason why we shouldn't do it. We still wanna give our fans something good to read and boy, did we deliver. It became a huge success with all the magic lovers around Auradon for specific reasons." Stan said.
"I hear you, you shouldn't stop what you love because of a tragic event." Quincy said. "The only way you can get anything done is to not give up."
"I like your spunk, True Believer, and you should take the same advice from me." Stan said.
"Oh, I get what you doing. And you're right, I shouldn't let my powers scare me into quitting, that's not how I roll." Quincy said.
Stan chuckles.
"Speaking of our powers, how did we get ours?" Eliza asks.
"Well, Jane's mother mentioned that the pen's magic was able to make the characters from written story or a picture book that belongs to a universe from where that book originates into reality and since all of you were dressed from the Marvel Universe, that comic book was able to give you the powers and or abilities of what you wear, even made your costumes, weapons and body parts real.
"We kinda figured that part on our own." Audrey said. "My wig became so real that I can see my scalp."
"And I guess that if my costume was real, then that means it's fireproof like in the comics, which I didn't figure out until a minute ago."Quincy said.
"I think CJ and Mordo must've knew that which was why they switch yours and Ben's challenges." Doug said.
"She said this was just the beginning, which means this is far from over." Mal said.
"We need to prepare before they strike again." Jay said.
"I agree, cause if Mordo and CJ are working together, then there's no telling what they'll do next." Ben said.
"You're all going to try and beat them?" Lumière said.
"It sounds dangerous, maybe someone else should handle it?" Cogsworth said.
"There's no one else to stop them and we've got the power to stop them." Ben said. "I just don't want any else to get hurt, you know that, right?"
Lumière and Cogsworth breath deeply and sigh in defeat.
"I know, and we're not gonna try to stop you." Lumière said.
"Even if there's danger involve, you are the king." Cogsworth said.
"Thanks, I won't let you down." Ben said then turns to everyone. "Who's with me?"
"All day everyday." Mal said putting her hand on top of Ben's.
"Me too." Jay said with his hand.
"Count me in." Herkie said.
"Us against the world." Jordan said.
Pretty soon, almost everyone had their hands in, except for Quincy.
"Quincy? What do you say?" Chad said.
Quincy looks both both ways before raises his shoulders for a second.
"I need training, both of course I'm not gonna let this opportunity go to waste." He said then puts his hand along with everyone else, including Dude's.
"Yeah!" They all raise their hands together in agreement.
Stan watches the kids as they vowed to save Auradon from impending doom. It made him tear a bit behind his shades.
"True Believers, all of them." Stan said.
Author's Note: Awesome, right? The True Believers Are now official! What training will Quincy Get? What more adventures lie awaiting for our heroes? Find out next week on Chapter 30 and Have a Wicked Day!
