A TANGLED WEB Part 8: Endgame
Chapter 4 – Best Laid Plans
by Charlie Nelson a.k.a. Ordinaryguy2
AuThOr'S NoTeS: Just a bit of advice. I recommend you look up a picture of a Sleestak so you will be able to picture it correctly. They were the coolest thing in their day back in the mid 70's. Also check out a picture of a Dimetrodon so you'll have an idea when it pops up.
Crossovers in this chapter includes: Land of the Lost (1974-1976); ALF (1986-1990); Bionic Six (1987); Doctor Who (1987-1989); Farscape (1999-2003); Lost in Space (1965-1968); Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985); Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993-1996); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)
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IN THE SLEESTAK TUNNELS
Jack Marshall lay flat as he could on the hard rock floor. The tunnel he had followed brought him to a small cliff with a trail along the left edge that led to an earthen floor seven feet below him. He was peering into a large semi-lit cavern that was almost the size of a basketball court, but from what he could see there was no fun and games going on down there. It looked more like a H.P. Lovecraft version of the Frankenstein story.
In the area of the cavern various individuals moved with no auditory form of communication while still in synch with each other. Over one eye each individual seemed to have a red laser beam that seemed to stab out into the soft mist that rolled into the cavern from the nearby marshes. Humans that appeared to be wearing high-tech devices and had tubes sticking out of their necks and arms were moving around tables while removing body parts and attaching various technological oddities to Steestak. It was just too horrific to be real. And yet it was.
He was glad for about the seventieth time that he had not taken Will or Holly with him to look in these tunnels. As it was, he was going to have nightmares about this for a long time. As near as he could rationalize what was happening before him, the Human cyborgs were trying to process the Sleestaks into more cyborgs like them. For what reason he couldn't fathom?
He'd seen them amputate the left arm of a Sleestak and then replace it with a longer prosthetic device that looked like it might serve as a weapon of some sort. On another Sleestak, one of the large, dark insectoid eyes was removed and replaced with a cap that had a much smaller red laser coming from it.
He was trying to count how many there were when a commotion seemed to break out on the far side of the cavern. One of the pale cyborg people was thrown back as a small group of people ran towards where he was.
"They got Bionic-1 and I.Q.!" protested a young teenage girl with short blonde hair. She and some of those with her had on some type of orange uniform that made Jack think they were sports affiliated. When she fired off a sonic blast from her shoulders, he began to think they were something else altogether.
"We're outnumbered and underpowered, Rock-1! We regroup and come back!" said an older woman.
"The Power Rangers are right behind you, Mother-1!" said a young man in a blue brightly colored spandex suit that had a helmet with an opaque visor.
"F.L.U.F.F.I., clear a path!" shouted one of the orange and white uniformed boys who was using a baseball bat to bash away one of the converted Sleestak cyborgs. "My electromagnetic blasts aren't affecting them anymore!"
F.L.U.F.F.I. turned out to be a large robot built in the shape of an oversized ape and had a blue face and a brown body. It plowed forward, battering aside the slow-moving alien cyborgs. Finally, one of the foreign cyborgs used its prosthetic appendage to shoot some type of energy at the base of the robot ape that caused it to drop like a puppet with its strings cut.
A young woman covered in pink spandex leaped in front of the fallen F.L.U.F.F.I. and shot with a laser gun, but to no effect. A small force shield came into place over the area of the cyborg that she would have hit.
"Don't shoot! You've already used your lasers! The Borg have adapted to that type of weapon!" shouted a man hurrying behind them. He had an umbrella with a handle that was shaped as a question mark that he used to trip a cyborg that reached out at him.
Behind them the man in red spandex had been shot as he was attempting to fight with his sword. One of the orange uniformed boys rushed to help but was stabbed by small wire-like tubules that leapt out of the crab-clawed hands of one of the processed Sleestak.
"Red Ranger and Karate-1 are down!" cried Mother-1. "I need-"
Stunned before she could finish her sentence, Mother-1 fell to unconsciousness and her daughter raced to her side.
"Sport-1! I need cover!"
"Professor! We have to go!" shouted a young brown-haired woman in an oversized black jacket.
"The question is 'how?', Ace!"
She grinned and held up a canister labeled Nitro-9 that she had pulled out of her backpack. Before he could protest, she hurled it back the way they had come.
"Everybody down!"
Everyone was knocked off their feet by the explosion. As they got to their feet, Jack waved them toward him. "Hurry!" he shouted. "There's an exit over here!"
They came but the Borg rose to stop them. The Yellow Ranger fell first, then Sport-1, followed by Rock-1.
"We're losing everyone!" Ace shouted.
"It's my own fault," said the Doctor as he helped Ace climb up to Jack. "I shouldn't have come and scouted the area before the others got here." He looked back to see many of the drones injecting nanoprobes into the Power Rangers and Bionic Six teams.
Jack Marshall reached down and practically dragged the short Time Lord up by the scruff of his neck. No one else other than Ace had made it, so they hurried away down the tunnel without speaking. There would be time enough for that later. If there was a later.
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THE 2nd HOME OF THE MARSHALLS
– AN ABANDONED TEMPLE
The furry little hominid hurried out of the old temple that the Marshalls had turned into their residence deeply agitated. The Marshalls were nowhere to be found. Even worse, the back door to the second chamber was open and the lights on the crystal display console, which Jack Marshall believed was connected to all of the pylons, was blinking on and off in an almost hostile manner.
Outside, he found his new friend, Will Robinson, staring up in the afternoon sky with Dr. Smith and the Robot.
"It shouldn't be astronomically possible for a satellite to move that fast around a planet," comment Will.
"It isn't possible," answered the Robot.
"Sat-ell-ite?" the young Paku asked.
Will pointed at one of the moons that that was racing across the heavens. "That moon. A moon is also called a satellite because it's orbiting this planet."
"Speedy!" Cha-Ka grinned and pointed.
Dr. Smith nodded in agreement. "Yes, it does appear to be rather fast."
"Holly name sat-ell-ite Speedy. Pakuni call iram." He grinned at the sharing of information. As for the small moon, it quickly disappeared over the horizon.
"A very aptly named moon," said Dr. Smith, not caring to learn another language. "Now where are these marshals? This land is very dangerous and-" He paused to watch a pterodactyl fly overhead with something dead and hairy in its claws. "Make that extremely dangerous. We need the marshals' protection."
Cha-Ka looked downcast. He hadn't wanted to let down his new friends. "Marshalls not here."
"Not here? No one's here? Not even a secretary to man the post and relay messages?"
"Dr. Smith, look at this!" During Cha-Ka's discussion with Dr. Smith, Will had glanced inside the old temple. He had found an old leather wallet and had taken out a driver's license.
Dr. Smith snapped it out of the young lad's hands and gave the ID a hard look. He gasped in realization. "These people aren't marshals or any other type of law enforcement. Their last name is Marshalls!" He turned and scowled at the juvenile Paku. "You misrepresented them!"
Cha-Ka's feelings were hurt. He had no idea what the older man was indicating, but he knew from the tone from his experiences with Ta and Sa that he was most likely being unfairly blamed for something.
"Your conclusions were your own mistake," defended the Robot.
"Mind your own facts, you simpering, steel-jacketed tape player!" growled Dr. Smith.
The Robot paused as if unsure of something. Then it suddenly flailed its arms in alarm. "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"
From down the path that they had come from, they could just see the head of a large low ground dinosaur with a large back fin protruding into the air that had the appearance of a sail.
"Opi!" cried Cha-Ka. And he began pulling Will toward the doorway of the Marshall's dwelling in the old temple. "Torchy ota! Torchy ota!"
"Wow! It looks like it could be a Dimetrodon which lived during the last period of the Paleozoic Era back on Earth. That was about 280 to 260 million years ago if the scientists have the dating guessed right."
"Oh dear. Perhaps we should discuss this inside," said Dr. Smith as he began backing up into the stone temple.
"We'll be safe inside, right, Cha-Ka?" asked Will.
"Ota!" exclaimed the small Paku. He made deep breathing noises and gestures, but he couldn't convey his thought. He ran to the old fire pit that the Marshall's had. "Ota!"
"Fire?" said Will. "You want us to use fire to drive off the dinosaur?"
Cha-Ka shook his head. "Ota fire! Torchy breathe fire!"
Dr. Smith raised a skeptical eyebrow. "A fire-breathing dragon?"
Just then a blast of flames erupted from the Dimetrodon's mouth that shot out twenty-five feet.
The three of them ran into the temple and huddled behind its stone door.
"Hello! Anyone home?" came a male voice.
Dr. Smith and Will stared in disbelief at each other. "A talking fire-breathing dragon?" they both said.
Will cracked open the door but couldn't see anything. "Robot, is the Dimetrodon talking?"
"No," came the answer from outside. "It is the rider on the fire-breathing Dimetrodon's neck that is talking," specified the Robot.
"I hadn't seen anyone riding the beast," said Dr. Smith, wondering if it was a trick to draw them out to get toasted.
"That is because you were too busy running away like the coward you are," answered the Robot.
"Why you bubble-headed booby, how dare you accuse me of-"
"Dr. Smith, shouldn't we see who is out there?" said Will, ever the peacemaker of the group.
Considering himself a very sensible man, Dr. Zachary Smith raised himself to his full height, brushed off each shoulder, followed by the cuffs of his sleeves. "You are right, William. One of us must go out there and talk to this dinosaur rider. And who better than the member of our party that is already outside."
"Very well," said the Robot with a resigned tone. "But in doing so I show more courage in my cogs than you have even shown in your entire life."
"Oh! You-" Dr. Smith hit his hand on the stone door in anger, then put it to his mouth because of the pain. "I hope you get melted down to a slag heap!" he sniped.
"I hope he doesn't get melted down," said Will. "If he does, then we've lost our only source of protection."
"Oh my," said the older man. "I hadn't thought of that." He began wringing his hands in the anticipation of danger as he paced. "And there are all those horrible dinosaurs out there, too. How will we ever get out of here?"
Will Robinson and Cha-Ka weren't paying his ranting any mind as they had opened the door slightly so that they could try see how the Robot was fairing. Seeing that the Robot was unharmed, they slowly walked forward right behind the Robot.
Torchy, the Dimetrodon, didn't react to their presence and it seemed to be due to the feet of the short-legged rider rubbing roughly against the fire-breathing animal's neck, which appeared to be causing Torchy to almost purr with his tongue hanging half out of his mouth.
"The key is to stimulate these pressure spots on his neck," the rider said, answering the unasked question. "As long as I keep moving my feet like this, he's as docile as a baby." He looked at Will peeking around the Robot. "You're a Human, right?"
"Um, I am, yes. I'm Will," Will responded. "And Cha-Ka is… Cha-Ka, what are you?"
"Cha-Ka Pakuni." The young Paku was terrified, but he was determined to show the same bravery his new friend displayed.
"Greetings, Cha-Ka, Will and very strange looking robot dude. I am Gordon Shumway from Melmac. You can call me 'Alf'. Most of you Earth-types called me that." Alf appeared to be about three feet tall and covered in orange fur which was readily apparent since he wore no clothes. He had a large, rippled snout that protruded out with his lower jaw. His eyes were high on his head as were his ears which were the tallest part of him. He also appeared to only have four fingers on each hand.
"Why Alf?"
"It's short for 'Alien Life Form'. It's what my adopted Earth family called me." He leaned forward on the large reptile's neck. "And speaking of Earth, are we still on that planet?"
"No," spoke the Robot.
"Ye gods! It speaks!"
"Of course I speak," responded the Robot, slightly agitated by the little alien.
"Well, then tell me where I am?"
"I can not do that."
"Why? Is it a government secret? I've learned a lot of them before I snuck out of Area 51. Never heard reference of this place though."
"I can not do it because I do not know where we are."
"Oh." The Melmacian thrummed his fingers on the side of Torchy's neck causing the Dimetrodon to twitch slightly. Will and Cha-Ka drew in a gasp and were prepared to dive to cover if necessary. "Well, that's too bad. It's always nice to know where you are even if that's not where you want to be, right, boys?"
Will and Cha-Ka looked at each other in confusion. "Cha-Ka is right here," said the young Paku.
"Ha! Ha! You're right. Now, I was wondering if you boys could help me with a little problem."
"What kind of problem?" said Dr. Smith, sounding as snidely as he could as he walked over to the others.
"Leg cramps. I can't keep up this neck massage going much longer. But when I stop, he's going to get all hot and bothered again."
Dr. Smith swallowed. "Hot… and bothered?"
"Yeah," continued Alf. "And if I wasn't up on his neck, even I'd be a toasted fur ball."
"…toasted?"
"Anyway, I need a way to distract this guy so I can get away. Preferably, without me becoming flambéed."
The young Paku suddenly became very excited. "Cha-Ka know! Torchy eat rocks! Cha-Ka get rocks!"
They watched as Cha-Ka ran into the old stone temple.
"The kid doesn't have rocks in the head, does he?" asked the Melmacian.
Will shook his head. "We're still working on the language barrier, but he seems pretty smart."
"So, I take it the 'Torchy' he was referring to is the oversized lizard I've been using as a steed for the last five or six hours."
Will nodded. "That's what Cha-Ka calls him. He seemed really surprised that you were able to control him."
"Surprised me, too. I was scampering over some cliff edges trying to get away from a saber-toothed tiger, which was very ironic and scary by the way for reasons I'm not ready to divulge yet. Anyway, one thing led to another, and I fell down onto this guy landing on his neck. From then on it was learn as I go, and not getting eaten in the process."
Cha-Ka came out of the stone dwelling dragging a vine net filled with black rocks.
"It's coal!" concluded Will.
"Rocks," corrected Cha-Ka. "Fire rocks."
"Let's hurry, guys. My legs are on their last legs. Ha! I still got it."
"Robot, stand over here," directed Will. "If it looks like things are going to go bad, then zap Torchy." He turned to Alf. "Okay, can you direct him over by those low branches. Cha-Ka and I will leave a trail of coal leading away. When I call out you scramble up into that tree. Does that sound good to you?"
"Hey, it's better than anything I've come up with in the last couple of hours," he said. "What have we got to lose?" He paused, thinking about that very fact. "Never mind. Let's do it anyway."
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DEEP IN THE SLEESTAK TUNNELS
Hank flexed his fingers, letting himself feel the pull of the mystic energy string of the magic bow he held. "Enik, we are not going to let you sacrifice these people."
Enik waved the accusation away with a clawed hand. "I am not sacrificing them! My people are! And justifiably so!" He may not have liked many of the degenerative customs his people's descendants had taken on, but he tried to respect them. Since he had traveled about ten thousand years into the past by accident and discovered his once great people, the Altrusians, had been reduced to barbarism, and finally accepting the fact that he may never get back to his time to ensure that whatever calamity befalls his people never happens, he had worked hard to establish himself as a guiding force with them to try restore them or at least get them back on the right path for reconstructing his peoples society. "Those two were trespassing!"
"Technically, so were we when we arrived in your tunnels."
"Hank! Speed it up, buddy!" Eric, the Cavalier, stood at Hank's back using his shield to create a mystical barrier to deflect the crossbow bolts of the Sleestak. Though the shield he created was practically unbreakable, it did require some mental strain to keep erected.
"These trespassers committed vandalism!" accused Enik. "They entered into the Library of Skulls and destroyed two of the skulls."
Hank bit his lip. He didn't understand a lot of different cultures customs and laws, but he tried to respect them as much as he could. Still, he wasn't going to let two lives be killed over something like this. "These are living people; not the dead and departed!"
"Unlike your kind, we can communicate with the dead!" Enik explained angrily. "They were my people's repository of knowledge for thousands of years! But now two are forever lost to us!"
"It was an accident!" cried out one of the living sacrifices. There were two of them. One appeared to be a monochrome-colored young female while the other was, well, humanoid, but only about two feet tall. He had a leathery skin with two feathers that appeared over each eye, possibly something similar to an eyebrow. But while his appearance was alien, he didn't seem dangerous. They were tied together in a rope net hung over a misty pit where unearthly growls could be heard emanating.
Three Sleestak held the rope which extended over a beam above the pit where the two prisoners squirmed as they dangled. In unspoken agreement, the three Sleestak let go of the rope.
"Hank!" Diana was in motion immediately. She leapt over the large pit. Her magical wooden staff extended well over the length of both stone sides of the pit giving her something to stand on while she grabbed the very end of the rope before it slipped over beam. There was a reason that she was named the Acrobat. "I need a hand here!"
While the other kids hurried over to catch the end of the rope, Hank fired an energy arrow at the three Sleestak in their way. Instead of hitting the Sleestak, the arrow wrapped around them effectively tying them together. "Enik! It doesn't have to be like this!"
"While the Sleestak god is angry, my people will fight to placate him!" retorted Enik.
"Pull!" Sheila, Bobby and Presto struggled to pull up the two beings held captive in the net while Diana walked skillfully off the open pit so that she could give them assistance.
Meanwhile, Eric had moved over to provide better cover as well as pull with one of his arms. "Man, the things I do for this team."
"Shut up and pull, Eric!" snapped Bobby.
Slowly the net came up, but what concerned everyone was that with the foggy mist coming from down below they couldn't see how far the strangers had fallen below or for that matter how close they were to the creature down below.
"Pull!" cried out the male voice. "It's almost got me!"
The kids pulled and managed to raise it a few feet when the growling took on a high-pitched tone that seemed to puzzle the unseen creature as much as everyone else.
Enik went to the edge of the pit and looked down with concern.
The kids paused in their pulling long enough for Presto to call down to the captives. "Uh, what's going on down there? Is everybody alright?"
"Rygel farted!" came a high-pitched squeaky voice that sounded very pissed. "He farts helium! Concentrated helium! The beast was right below when Rygel went off!"
"It only happens when I'm frightened," said a different high-pitched voice.
Bobby snickered. And then the other kids did, too, though they managed to keep hold of the rope.
"Get us out of here!" screamed the two voices in unison with lots of high squeaks.
Enik seemed bewildered as to how to proceed. The Human youths with their powerful weapons had agreed to aid him against a new enemy that was attacking his people, but they stubbornly refused to begin when they saw the Sleestak about to deal with these vandals.
"Enik, the longer we deal with this situation the more people you lose to those invaders you were telling us about." Hank lowered his bow to his side as a gesture of peace.
From down below, the lone Altrusian could hear the slow breathing of the Sleestak god. "He sleeps. Perhaps from the helium." Enik seemed to resign himself. "Very well, I will talk to my people. I believe I can convince them to spare these two but only if they go and fight by your side. If they are found anywhere else in the tunnels without you, they will be killed and brought back to feed the god of the Sleestaks."
Hank nodded in agreement, then he went to help the others bring up the net and its prisoners.
There had been little progress in raising the two prisoners as Bobby, Presto and Eric would double over in giggles whenever one of the high-pitched voices called up from the pit, while the unicorn foal, Uni looked at his with curiosity. Finally, with Hank's help, they were able to bring it all the way up and over onto the stone floor.
The smaller one managed to disengage himself from the net faster than his comrade. "Oh my, I am so glad to be free of that accursed net. Those scaly fiends have no right to handle someone of my majesty!"
"Uh, who are you exactly?" asked Presto.
The short creature stood to his full height. "I am Dominar Rygel XVI, the ruler of Hynerian Empire with more than six hundred billion subjects."
"Currently deposed ruler you mean," called out his light grey female companion. She threw off the last of the net and then took the arm of the nearest person to help her up.
That proved to be Eric who was very taken with the idea of helping her. He stared in bewilderment at the alien beauty. "…hi…"
"Thanks," she said. She took a few steps away from the sacrificial pit and shivered briefly. Eric followed. "I'm Chiana and I am very glad you came this way. Not everybody would be willing to stop a sacrifice of sentients."
Hank shrugged. "It's what we do." He introduced himself and the others. When Eric's introduction came, Hank was dumbfounded when the cavalier took her hand and kissed it.
"So how did you end up here?" Sheila asked, hoping to bypass that unusual event.
"It was Rygel's fault, of course."
"How dare you blame me!" hollered the Hynerian. "How could I possible foresee the events that brought us here?"
"Anyway," she continued, while he made an indignant sound. "That ambassador from Ork, Mork, seemed benign enough so we went down to gather supplies while our ship was in orbit."
"You send me into orbit," Eric said, through half closed eyes. Then they snapped open. "What? You're an alien?"
Chiana raised an eyebrow. "Well, I'm certainly not a Sebacean like you."
It was Eric's turn to raise an eyebrow. "What's a Sebacean?"
Chiana was thunderstruck. "I thought it was your species, but I guess I was wrong."
Diana shook her head. "That's okay. We're from Earth."
"Yeah," said Bobby. "We're Humans. But I guess you can also call us Earthlings."
"Frell! Where is Crichton when I need him?"
"Who is Crichton?" asked Sheila.
"He's an astronaut from your Earth. He's been trying to get home for a couple of cycles now."
"Sooo, is this Crichton fellow your boyfriend or something?" asked Eric.
"Oh, please. He's not my type?"
"What exactly is your type?" asked the cavalier, trying for a seductive raised eyebrow.
"Eric! She was telling us about how she got here, remember?" Diana pulled Eric aside to whisper in his ear. "Ease up on the monochrome hottie, lover boy. You don't know if she has acid for blood or if she plants eggs in her mates for her babies to eat alive."
"What?!" he cried, his eyes popping out.
"Just ease off until you know more. Alright, Romeo?"
"Uh, sure. Okay." He distanced himself from the others and shivered a little whenever he glanced at Chiana.
"That was an awfully cruel trick. And quite well done, too." Diana hadn't seen Rygel sitting there.
"Oh, you… you startled me."
"You like him, don't you?" asked Rygel.
Diana's widened in surprise. "Me? Like Eric? Please. He's pig-headed. Arrogant. Rude. Obnoxious. Always talking about money and himself."
"And yet you still like him. Isn't love a horrible thing?"
"You know, if you don't shut up you may find yourself down that pit again really soon farting a lot of helium."
"Hmph, and people wonder why I say that females are always the more dangerous of the species, no matter what species they are a part of."
Diana just held up a hand and walked over to the group listening to Chiana's story leaving Rygel to harrumph to himself at being ignored.
"Once Rygel was done haggling," said the Nebari, "he asks my help to check out this local legend of a small impenetrable building that houses a chest of jewels. Only when we get there, the door is wide open, and the jewels are right in the middle on a display table. So, we go in to check it out. But before we could do anything, the door closes and the jewels on the display table begin flashing. And I begin thinking to myself, 'What has Rygel gotten me into this time?'."
Conversation stopped as Enik came over. "Very well. They can go with you. But the terms of our agreement stand."
"What agreement?" asked Chiana.
"I'll explain on the way," Hank said, then glanced at the others. "Okay, guys, we're heading out again."
To be Continued!
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Original AuThOr'S NoTeS: 8/14/2007
As you could probably guess my little run in that the Borg had with the Seventh Doctor and Ace was a sort of teaser as well as a means to give an idea of what kind of fighters the other Doctors are looking for. Boggles the mind, doesn't it? My apologies to any hurt fans of Bionic Six and the Power Rangers.
Torchy was a dinosaur character from the original Land of the Lost show and I just loved the thought of using him for my story. Please send any complaints you might have to Torchy.
As for Alf, at the end of the Alf show he was almost rescued by other survivors from his planet but was taken away by the American military. Sad way to end the show I thought so I set him free in the Land of the Lost. Maybe he'll join Starfleet or something. Haven't thought that far yet. Right now, he's just one of my cameos.
People have been requesting that I use Farscape for years, so here we go. Hope you enjoy it and let the fun continue.
And yes, the Sleestak did have some creature trapped in a foggy pit that they considered to be their god to which they would sacrifice others to. I just thought the whole Rygel and the helium thing was just too funny to pass up.
I was going to add more to this posting with the Star Wars bounty hunters taking on Q's Star Trek choices, but it'll have to wait. I'm really having fun with Part 8. More surprise guests coming next time. You won't believe my mind.
Send me some ideas and maybe I'll be able to use them. Or they may germinate some other bizarre but very useful ideas for me to use. But please know I am totally unfamiliar with anima. Sorry anima-lovers. It is too easy to mess up established characters when you don't really know them. And I know very little about anima.
Updated AuThOr'S NoTeS: 1-15-2022
I seem to be reposting this faster than I thought I would be able to. I enjoy rereading this even if I embarrass myself with catching mistakes in spelling and sentence structure. (Actually I can still be bad at getting sentence structure right).
ChArAcTeR InDeX FoR ThE ChApTeR:
'Ace' / McShane, Dorothy Gale (Sophie Aldred) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1987-1989)
Acrobat / Diana (voiced by Tonia Gayle Smith) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
'Alf' / Shumway, Gordon (Paul Fusco) – from the TV series ALF (1986-1990)
Barbarian / Bobby (voiced by Teddy Field III) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Bionic-1 / Bennett, Jack (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer) – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987) (mentioned only)
Cavalier / Eric (voiced by Don Most) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Cha-Ka (Philip Paley) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
Chiana (Gigi Edgley) – from the TV series Farscape (1999-2003)
Crichton, John (Ben Browder) – from the TV series Farscape (1999-2003) (mentioned only)
Doctor, The 7th / Professor, The (Sylvester McCoy) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1987-1989)
Enik (Walker Edmiston) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
F.L.U.F.F.I. – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987)
Frankenstein, Dr. Victor von (Peter Cushing) – from the movie The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973) (mentioned only)
I.Q. / Bennett, J.D. (voiced by Norman Bernard) – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987) mentioned only)
Karate-1 / Bennett, Bunji (voiced by Brian Tochi) – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987)
Magician / Albert 'Presto'(voiced by Adam Rich) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Marshall, Jack (Ron Harper) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1976)
Marshall, Will (Wesley Eure) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
Marshall, Holly (Kathy Coleman) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
Mork (Robin Williams) – from the TV series Mork & Mindy (1978-1982) (mentioned only)
Mother-1 / Bennett, Helen (voiced by Carol Bilger) – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987)
Ranger / Hank (voiced by Willie Aames) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Red Ranger / Scott, Jason Lee (Austin St. John) – from the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993-1996) (mentioned only)
Robinson, Will (Bill Mumy) – from the TV series Lost in Space (1965-1968)
The Robot / Robot B-9 (Bob May / voiced by Dick Tufeld) – from the TV series Lost in Space (1965-1968)
Rock-1 / Bennett, Meg (voiced by Bobbi Block) – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987)
Rygel XVI, Dominar (Jonathan Hardy) – from the TV series Farscape (1999-2003)
Sa (Sharon Baird) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976) (mentioned only)
Sleestak god – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
Smith, Dr. Zachary (Jonathan Harris) – from the TV series Lost in Space (1965-1968)
Sport-1 / Bennett, Eric (voiced by Hal Rayle) – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987)
Ta (Scutter McKay) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976) (mentioned only)
Thief / Sheila (voiced by Katie Leigh) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Torchy, the Dimetrodon – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1976)
Uni (voiced by Frank Welker) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Yellow Ranger / Kwan, Trini (Thuy Trang) – from the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993-1996)