A TANGLED WEB Part 8: Endgame
Chapter 22
by Charlie Nelson a.k.a. Ordinaryguy2
The main crossovers in this chapter includes: Challenge of the Super-Friends (1978); DC Comics; Doctor Who (1963-1965); Galaxy Quest (1999); Ghostbusters (1984); The Incredibles (2004); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); Men in Black (1997); Predator (1987); Sky High (2005); Special Unit 2 (2001-2002); Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
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Inside the walls of the TARDIS, Elastigirl had her arms wrapped tightly around her daughter's waist. "You are not going out there again, young lady! It's just too dangerous!"
Violet Parr, otherwise known as Invisible Girl, sighed dramatically. "Moooom! I'm a superhero now. Just like you and dad. Besides, of all of us, I have the best chance of actually catching that speed freak that's chasing after Dash."
"No, you don't. Marsha's boyfriend is going to do that," stated Elastigirl. "After all, he's a speedster, too." Her head elastically turned completely around to look at Marsha.
"If he ever comes back from the bathroom," said Marsha. "I can't understand what is taking him so long."
"Times like this I'm glad I can just go just about anywhere," commented Frank the Pug, who had been left behind by Agents K and J for 'communication support'. The annoyed look he got from the first Doctor, who was checking some of the valves, made him nervous since this Time Lord could give glaring tips to Agent Kay. "Not that I would do that in here." He snuggled closer into Susan's lap.
The door to the bathroom opened, but the person who stepped out from it was not who they expected. Tucker Williams, otherwise known as Mega Boy at where he studied at the military funded Academy for Superheroes, adjusted his belt before looking up. "Did you know that the Doctor calls the bathroom the 'loo'?" he said. At their stares continued, Tucker began to feel uncomfortable. "Did I leave my fly down again?"
"What? No!" Marsha shook her head to stay in task. "We thought Zoom was in there?"
"No," said Tucker. "Jack knocked on the door earlier, but I told him I was going to be awhile and that he might want to find another bathroom - I mean 'loo' - to use."
Cindy Collins, a very young blonde girl who had chosen 'Princess' as her superhero codename, waved her hand in front of her nose. "But what do I do now? I have to go number one and you made it all super stinky in there."
Elastigirl and Marsha looked down the long corridor that led deeper into the TARDIS.
"You don't suppose he went down there?"
The Doctor, the first of his incarnations, looked up from his view screen at the console. "Are you suggesting that your friend is wandered about inside my TARDIS after I specifically warned everyone not to do that very thing?" The older looking, gruff Doctor moved to another part of the console and began checking for signs of another presence while Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, two of his companions, took over observations. "I should have realized that some of you wouldn't heed my warnings. That's what comes of rushing things."
Marsha shrugged. "Oh, he probably got turned around. But with his super speed he should find us in no time. After all, how big could it be in here?"
The Doctor gave her a cold but frustrated glare. "My dear lady, I'll have you know that the inside of the TARDIS is roughly the size of a small planet. Not just the surface, mind you, but the entire dimension of the space that a planet would fill."
"Grandfather." Susan stepped over and took a hold of his sleeve. "Isn't there anything you can do?"
The frustrated Gallifreyian considered. "We'll have to try find him later. Our priorities have to be helping our side who are battling for their lives against the Master's troops and the Borg."
"We should go out there and help them!" said Mega Boy. Both of his fists expanded to five times their normal size as he slammed them together.
A number of the kids from the superhero training school Sky High, who had come along with their teachers for a class field trip, agreed.
"We could give a lot of help!" said Will Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, two of his world's most popular heroes who were already fighting out on the battlefield. "We could help end this fight before anyone else gets hurt." Layla, Will's girlfriend, simply nodded in agreement.
Mr. Boy, who had once been known as the All-American Boy, former partner to the Commander, and trainer of the Hero Support group, hurried over to Marsha and Elastigirl.
"I thought you were watching the door with Tarra," said Marsha.
Gasping, Mr. Boy managed to speak. "Warren Peace and Concussion rushed by us." They could see that he was starting show a black eye for his trouble of trying to keep his charges in a safe place.
"That does it." Marsha turned to the corridor. Taking a deep breath, she began to whistle, which her super blowing powers augmented immensely.
The TARDIS began to shake due to the stress of the sound and wind and a few alarms sounded on the Doctor's console until suddenly a figure seemed to appear far in the hall straining to come forward only to be rebuffed by the wind and sound.
Marsha stopped whistling and Zoom rushed forward at superhuman speed. "You would not believe how big this place is! It might have taken me a week to find this chamber again if I hadn't been able to home in on your whistling."
"Later," she said. "Right now Elastigirl's boy, Dash, is being chased around outside by some super-fast bad guy."
"Right, rescue time it is then." He gave her a quick peck on the cheek and was gone out the door of the TARDIS in search of Dash and his antagonist, Johnny Quick.
"Oh dear!" said Susan. She held the stunned form of Frank the Pug delicately in her lap. His tongue hung piteously out of his mouth. "I think your whistling stunned him."
"Oh well," said the Doctor with a sly grin. "At least it was for a good cause."
A young teen in a white and neon yellow outfit came up to Mr. Boy. "Mr. Boy, it's time for us to go out there and bust up some of those villains." Zach Braun, who was trying to get people to accept his superhero name as Zach Attack, winked slyly to one of his classmates, Magenta, who rolled her eyes.
The five feet seven inches tall Mr. Boy, frustrated and embarrassed at having been hit and pushed aside by one of his students, was determined to prove himself. "All right. We'll all go outside then."
Zach froze in surprise while Mega Boy, Princess and Will Stronghold whooped for joy. The rest of their classmates were not quite as thrilled. Neither were Marsha Holloway and Elastigirl.
"You can't take those kids out there!" began Marsha. "It's too dangerous!"
Mr. Boy was not daunted. "We'll only go out to the perimeter of the fighting. Help one or two heroes, maybe bring back some of the wounded, and then come back here."
Elastigirl couldn't believe her ears. "That's not a good enough reason for us to allow the children out there!"
Mr. Boy noticed that she was using her elastic powers to make herself look taller. "What if we also tried bringing back those underaged fighters that went out anyway. Like your son and your daughter."
"Zoom will bring back Dash," she said. "And Violet is right… Where's Violet?"
Houdini, one of the tall, older teens spoke up. "She made herself invisible and took a walk outside."
"You saw her? And you didn't stop her?"
"What? Am I her mother all of a sudden?"
His girlfriend, Summer Jones, a.k.a. Wonder, was not at all happy with his attitude, slugged him in the shoulder. "He can make himself invisible, too. See her, too, is my guess. That being the case, he'll help bring her back if he knows what's good for him."
Houdini gave her a mock grin, followed by a deep sigh after Summer turned away.
"You may have to act fast," said Susan, who was sitting in front of the monitors. "Some of your friends aren't doing so well out there."
Marsha got to the screen first, but Elastigirl stretched her neck so that her head was just above Marsha's. "Who is it?" demanded Marsha.
"A number of people seem to be having problems," said Barbara. "I don't know all of the names. Most of them were very unusual."
On screen, the spectators in the TARDIS could see Mr. Incredible was being held up in the air by a mentally powered villain while the rest tried to break him open like a piñata. The Commander was being overpowered by a young man in a green outfit while his wife, Jetstream, was battling against a geriatric man on a flying platform and a young woman in a gold outfit who appeared to be skating on thin air. Warren Peace, who was still debating superhero names like 'Pyro' and 'Firestarter', was faced off against a bald, cold themed villain. Concussion was taking on a number of figures that appeared to be the tattoos one of the villains was somehow bringing to life off of his own body. Rommie was facing a large robot called Chrome Dome, who she determined to be rather primitive.
The Doctor adjusted the controls in frustration. "Confound it. Why did my other selves have to change everything in here? I liked the TARDIS just the way it was! But, no, I allow myself to regenerate into other incarnations of myself and suddenly I'm changing everything! It was much simpler when-" But no one was listening to him as he continued to rant.
Mr. Boy ground his teeth after seeing his onetime partner, The Commander, being pummeled about by one of the villains. "Let's do this quick," he said in a hard, dangerous tone that made his students do a double take at him.
Elastigirl scanned the screens for any sign of Violet or Dash while returning to the gruesome beating her husband was enduring. "Okay," she said, tensely. "But it's a quick hit the villain, grab the wounded, and run home play."
Marsha, seeing the insistence in her eyes, nodded in agreement. Mr. Boy organized everyone at the door and began issuing a buddy system though half of the teens didn't care or follow through on.
Susan reached out to tug at her grandfather's sleeve. "Grandfather, I've been looking everywhere on the monitors, but I can't find him."
"Who, dear?"
"The Master. He seems to have disappeared from the battlefield."
oOoOoOo
Outside on the battlefield, Brain Wave held Mr. Incredible in the air by mental telekinesis and kept flipping him around so that he couldn't get his bearings while Superwoman from Earth-3's Crime Syndicate, and Silver Slasher and Titania of the Legion of Super-Villains in the 30th Century, beat on him mercilessly.
I'm surprised that someone with such an elevated intellect could sink to such barbarism, said Mr. Medulla telepathically, one of the professors at Sky High.
Brain Wave released his hold on Mr. Incredible, letting him drop to the ground where the others jumped on top of him. Seeing Mr. Medulla about fifteen feet away, he noted the grotesquely expanded cranium. So you wish to duel with me, do you? He snarled as he began to lash out mentally only to have it have it rebuffed.
Both mental contestants began to war against each other on another plane. To their perception the physical world seemed to fade away and Brain Wave's image seemed to change from that of a tall, athletically built man in a fancy red and blue outfit to a small skinny man with an enlarged bald head which was his true physical form that he usually masked mentally.
Mr. Incredible, meanwhile, now was able to lash out at his tormentors. He kicked Titania thirty feet away and grabbed Silver Slasher's hand and thrust her metallic razor-sharp fingers into Superwoman's shoulder. Both women screamed in agony as while Silver Slasher's fingers did pierce Superwoman's near impervious shoulder, the impact had also broken Slasher's metallic fingers on that hand.
The Persuader rushed in to finish off Mr. Incredible with his atomic axe but was suddenly being wrapped up by the elastic limbs of Mr. Incredible's wife, Elastigirl.
"I leave you alone for just a few minutes and I find women crawling all over you!" teased Elastigirl.
Mr. Incredible managed to give a sheepish grin even though he was bleeding in several places and his back was threatening to seize up on him. "Aw, honey. I-" But before he could complete his sentence, Superwoman struck him again, knocking him head over heels a couple of yards away.
Will Stronghold's goal was to get to get to his father or mother. Seeing the beating his father was taking, Will rushed over only to be suddenly tackled by a very strong, yet surprisingly buxomy, female fatal, Titania.
"Going to help someone, kid?" snarled Titania. "Well, guess what? You're the one who needs help. I'll going to break your scrawny neck!"
Will tried to throw her off even as she tried to crush him. Both were surprised to see that they were about the same strength. "Fine. You're tough. But you got to breathe." She put a choke lock on him.
As she pulled him back to choke him, he found he couldn't look or call to anyone for help. All he could see was straight up. And then he saw his mother. Somehow General Immortus or the Golden Glider had managed to ensnare a cable around Jetstream, and the heroine was being dragged to Immortus' flying platform.
Improvising, Will used the other power that he had inherited from his parents. He flew. Straight up with a startled Titania still clutching at his throat, he flew even though he starting to see spots due to being oxygen deprived.
"Heights don't scare me." The angry female wrapped her legs around his middle to secure her position. "I can easily survive a fall from here. But you better hope that when you finally do give out that we crash hard enough to embed you in the ground because that's the closest you'll get to a burial. Do you hear me, you stupid pi-"
Aiming right at the flying platform, Will did an abrupt turn so that Titania's back took the brunt of the impact against the energized underbelly. The resulting impact knocked General Immortus over the guardrails and sent him plummeting downward. Golden Glider left from where she had been antagonizing the semi-roped Jetstream and skated like the athletic champion she used to be down to catch the elderly mastermind in order to repay the earlier saving of her hide.
"Hee Hee." General Immortus grinned at her. "I knew you liked me."
She shook her head and then looked for a safe place to land. "Whatever. Just no groping."
"Yes, dear." He grinned leerily at her, tracing one of his withered fingers along her cheek.
"I see I'm going to have to introduce you to my brother, aren't I?" she said threateningly. "You remember him. The overprotective brother with the very lethal cold gun."
The dirty, old man's grin remained. "Do I get to meet your parents, too?"
oOoOoOo
On the ground, the Commander was getting beaten in a hand-to-hand fight against the Nemesis Kid, who currently led the Legion of Super-Villains. "I love going against you super-strong types. You never seem to know what to do when you come up against someone stronger than you." He had an evil knowing grin as the powers that he had adapted his body with the necessary abilities to overcome any one foe that he faced in battle, and this time in particular against the Commander. He gripped the hero with his left hand and then repeatedly hit him in the face and gut until the Commander fell to his knees.
The Commander coughed and felt an unfamiliar sharp pain in his chest which he figured might be a cracked or possibly a broken rib. With a stunned look on his face, he reached into his slightly bloody mouth and wiggled one of his front teeth back and forth. "Actually, we have trained to fight stronger foes. The key is to improvise." He struck out for a below the belt blow, but the Nemesis Kid caught his arm and twisted it behind the Commander's back. Then he clocked him from behind.
Before the Nemesis Kid could make any more remarks to the barely coherent Commander, he was startled by a yell behind him. Turning to look, he caught a haymaker right fist to the side of his face from the Commander's former sidekick, the All-American Boy. Jonathan Boy didn't stop at one hit either; he tackled the Nemesis Kid to the ground, pinning the futuristic villain beneath him by sitting on his chest and then began raining punches down on his face while screaming at the top of his lungs.
Nemesis Kid was dazed and confused but using his powers, his body adapted the strength needed to overcome the All-American Boy, who happened to have no powers at all. He grabbed one of Jonathan's arms and began to roll the hero off of him, but then he felt the Commander grab a hold of his ankle. No! Not two of them! His powers, only able to focus on one opponent, faded away, leaving him to his non-powered physical abilities.
Before the Commander could hit him again, Jonathan Boy, once known as the All-American Boy, battered the Nemesis Kid to unconsciousness.
"How… how did you do that?" asked the baffled Commander.
The Commander's former sidekick stared down at the foe whose shirt he was gripping with his left hand while his right hand was still clenched in a shaking fist above the Nemesis Kid's face. "I… I don't know." Neither of them knew how the Nemesis Kid's power worked and they never would. But years later they would look back and laugh together at the memory and heal some old wounds between the two of them.
oOoOoOo
Meanwhile, Warren Peace was expending vast amounts of heat aimed at two villains who were countering him with cold-based weapons. At first, he had just been going against Mr. Freeze and that had just been fine for him, but then Captain Cold came over to help his fellow villain out.
"We have him on the ropes!" shouted Captain Cold.
"I had him on my own before you meddled in," responded Mr. Freeze coldly.
Captain Cold just sneered. "Sure you did. Do you want me to just leave you two to fight it out on your own then?"
Mr. Freeze snarled under his glass helmet. "Just shoot at him."
Warren never did understand why people would try to have a conversation during a fight. It just didn't make sense to him. Their cold-based weapons were starting to get the best of him. He had tried to step directly between them so that he could duck out of the way, and they could freeze each other solid, but they evidently knew that maneuver and would move in such a way that that situation couldn't present itself to Warren. Evidently, they had faced at least one smart and agile superhero before.
But then something happened that no one could anticipate. Giant Man a.k.a. Ron Wilson was in his fifties and had previously been the bus driver for Sky High. Even though both of his parents had been super powered superheroes, he had never exhibited any sign of powers until he inadvertently fell into a vat of toxic radioactive acid which led him to display growing powers less than a month ago. Being new to his powers, the teachers took him along in this venture as part of his training to which he was thrilled.
For his assignment, Coach Boomer had sent Giant Man to deal with the plastic androids of Garguax. There were about twenty of each of the three designs making almost sixty in all. The androids were humanoid in design. The red androids radiated heat, the silver ones moved fast, while the blue ones were super strong. After he had super-sized himself up to eighty feet in height, Giant Man proceeded to stomp the androids into ground, along with a couple of the Rock soldiers.
Garguax thundered in fury that someone would dare to trash his creations. In appearance Garguax was a green skinned humanoid alien, but of such a vast girth that he mostly just reclined in his hover chair. Today he was sitting up and shouting instructions into his handheld control device. "Stop letting him step on you! Destroy him! Crush him! Take the fight to him! Climb up him and attack!"
The androids took their cue and began leaping on Giant Man's legs. Ron swatted at the androids, but the red ones flared up. "Ahhhh! Ah geez! They're like fire ants!"
The silver ones climbed the fastest and were causing him more problems as they proceeded toward his head. The blue ones were tearing holes in Giant Man's costume in order to allow the red heat generating androids access to his bare skin.
"Coach Boomer! What do I do?"
Coach Boomer had some troubles of his own. The musical villain known as the Pied Piper, one of the Flash's foes, was making him dance around like a ballerina to the tunes he was playing. Giant Man's call did snap his attention to what was going on even though he still couldn't control his limbs.
Coach Boomer turned to the Pied Piper while standing on his tiptoes and holding his arms over his head. "KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE SISSY STUFF!" The powerful meta-human vocal cords blasted the Pied Piper backwards into unconsciousness. The boisterous hero was now free to offer advice to Ron, but it was too late. While trying to get the android off of him, Giant Man tripped over the TARDIS.
"Whooooooa!" The colossal, inexperienced hero thrust his hands out and managed to catch himself somewhat from falling flat. But he had disrupted several of the battles going on around him.
Warren found himself looking straight up at Ron's head. "Hey, man! Watch it!"
Mr. Freeze had been knocked over with one of the blue androids lying motionless on top of him, causing the front of his glass helmet to be stuck in the ground. Warren quickly heated up the ground around Mr. Freeze's helmet until it fused together, effectively trapping him. He looked for Captain Cold, but the rogue couldn't be found. He trembled, partially in relief, since he was physically spent. The heat he generated came from burning the calories in his body and he had used up a good part of them in facing the two cold villains. "Man, I could use a couple of greasy burgers right now."
oOoOoOo
Zach Braun, who had recently been trying to use 'Zach Attack' for his superhero codename, found himself alone in the midst of all the battles going on around him. While he liked to try talk tough, much to his friends' chagrin, Zach wasn't much of a fighter. For that matter, his superpower wasn't all that great either. His sole claim to being able to attend Sky High was his ability to glow in the dark. He could do it in the light, too, but no one would be able to tell that he was glowing. This being the case, he had been placed in the Hero Support group along with those others that did not have offensive or defensive powers.
He watched as Marsha Holloway used her super breath to blow away the green vapor-like villain that he would later learn was called Mist Master. Wonder, who Zach had been introduced to as Summer Jones, was having a mental battle with what seemed like a large headed paraplegic man who was reclining in a floating chair, who didn't use an alias, was named Hector Hammond. Layla, who was not only connected to plant life, but she could control and augment plants at will, was going against the Earth-2 villainess, Thorn, who had giant thorny vines at her command. Near the TARDIS, he could see that the girl he likes, Magenta, had even managed to capture one of the villains in her guinea pig form. Micro Lad struggled weakly between the rodent's teeth as she brought him to the entrance of the TARDIS to deposit him in the hands of Dorno of the Herculoids. Clayface struggled to contain Mega Boy who was expanding and decompressing various parts of his body, but what was really annoying the malleable villain was the youth's lack of fear.
The seven-year-old Cindy Collins, who insisted on the codename 'Princess', was currently using her super strength to bash the large, sentient gorilla, Monsieur Mallah, by using her grip on one of his legs and swinging him up and down on either side of her. She had called out dibs on the French gorilla's beret when it flew off of Mallah. The villain called Neutrax, whose power was to neutralize the powers in others, had managed to temporarily remove Principal Powers superhuman abilities just after she had used her comet abilities to take out Sun Emperor. But not having her impressive abilities didn't stop Principal Powers from chasing after Neutrax, who flew away in surprise from her in his hover chair.
Zach considered how Sky High's Principal Powers, who had been rendered powerless, still went on the attack. Well, he thought, if she can do it, then I will too. "All right, you bad guys! It's time you faced the awesome might of… the Zack Attack!"
He was unprepared for the sudden rebuttal off to his left. "Foolish teenage miscreant! I'll burn that tongue right out of your head!" The cruel, sneering visage of Dr. Light froze Zach in place even as the villain of light fired his light gun directly at him.
Zach's world became white light upon contact with the beam of super concentrated light. At first, he thought he had been killed, but then Dr. Light fired again and again using different ranges in the light frequency and still with lethal intensity. Then Zach began to understand how his powers actually worked. Before, he could only glow when in the dark because he had been absorbing the light from around him. The light from the florescent lights in the classrooms since he didn't spend a lot of time outside; he was a teenager after all. The most sunlight he ever got was what managed to touch him through the windows of the bus on the way to school. Even the refrigerator light had probably added to his abilities, but he had never really noticed. However, he had never been exposed to such a concentrated amount of light before. Empty reservoirs inside him, began to fill up with solar energy, charging him up. And it felt great!
Dr. Light suddenly realized his mistake. He was feeding the teen power. Fortunately, he had devices that absorbed light as well. He moved to make the necessary adjustments to him devices.
Zach snapped out of his revelry that his powers had been improved exponentially just in time to see Dr. Light pulling out some device from his cape. Zach pointed and a beam of light shot out and burned the piece of technology in the villain's hand.
Watching Dr. Light drop the device and curse continually while shaking his burnt hand brought Zach yet another revelation. "I did it! I beat my first super villain!" He jumped for joy only to discover that he had taken off at near the speed of light flying around and around the Land of the Lost. Only then did he realize the problem of his new situation. He didn't know how to stop.
oOoOoOo
Concussion, having defeated the Tattooed Man, found another foe in Lightning Lord. Both of the fighters blasted away the others attacks while slowly closing on each other with a very lethal possible outcome. Ethan, one of the Sky High Hero Support group, snuck in behind Lightning Lord crouched low. Lightning Lord, somehow hearing something over the crackle of lightning and the explosions of Concussion's blasts, turned just as Ethan went to tackle his feet. But before the electrical villain could blast him, Ethan used his abilities to turn himself into a liquid puddle. Lightning Lord was caught off guard as the sudden puddle that he was standing in began draining his electrical energies into the ground. This let Concussion land a stunning blow against his opponent.
"Did I ask for any help?" shouted Connor. "No! Because I had everything under control!" As some of the steam cleared, Connor began to realize something was really wrong. Ethan, who's one claim to power was his ability to turn into a puddle, lay still underneath Lightning Lord. He didn't appear to be breathing either. "Ah, crap." He hurried over to get Ethan to first aid in the TARDIS.
oOoOoOo
Agents Kay and Jay of the Men in Black had decided to hold back from fighting the Borg at the Doctor's insistence in order for them to give a hand against the villains that had joined the Master, of which a number were alien. Working alongside the MiB agents were Special Unit 2 officers Det. Nicholas O'Malley, Det. Kate Benson, Captain Richard Page and their coerced ally, Carl the Gnome. Though there was some similarity to the dangers that both were exposed to on their jobs, the differences were in how they approached their jobs; The MiB dealt with law-breaking aliens and keeping the existence of extraterrestrials secret while Special Unit 2 dealt with evolutionary links which resembled mythical monsters that they had to regulate or use force to destroy the more destructive evolutionary links while also maintaining the illusion of the creatures' non-existence.
O'Malley saw the unusual form of the fifteen-foot-tall Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, who was actually a very manic Dr. Sven Larsen, charging toward him was a composite humanoid made of oak, bronze and octopus tentacles. "I don't know if that is a link, an alien, or what, but I'm definitely using the blue ammo on it!" He loaded one of the precision impact blue bullet cartridges into his standard Special Unit weapon and fired. The A-V-M Man saw the threat of the weapon and changed the front part of his body to diamond while reinforcing his legs with those of a brontosaurus and his back with a mighty oak. O'Malley fired, which resulted in knocking the A-V-M Man back but not out.
Agent Jay had the alien despot Kanjar Ro in a headlock and was giving him the noogie of a lifetime when he spotted Nick's trouble. "O'Malley! Catch!"
Nick caught the weapon and only managed to get a good look at it when it was in the palm of his hand. "Is this a joke? What is this? A toy?"
"Just use iiiiiit!"
Kanjar Ro managed to twist around and trip the MiB agent so that he fell backwards. Agent Jay's head hit the ground hard, but he managed to kick out and keep the alien despot from reaching his weapon on the ground.
Nick fitted the tiny weapon in the palm of his hand. Once he took the safety off it began a weird chirping noise. Having nothing else to do and with the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man bearing down on him, he aimed it and fired. An explosion of force knocked the enormous being back twenty feet in the air where he bounced off of Giant Man's butt. The A-V-M Man, having seen Nick about to fire on him again, converted more of the front part of his body to diamond, while his head took on a starfish shape and the backside of his body became a flexible pine. The blast from the Noisy Cricket weapon struck the diamond part of his body, sending vibrations coursing through his frame leaving cracks. The pine and starfish part of his body were almost completely torn off.
The A-V-M Man swayed back and forth for a moment. Agent Jay was about to call out 'timber' when suddenly the starfish-pine-diamond humanoid took on mercury-like substance all over his body. It flowed around and then seemed to solidify. "You tried to kill me!" he shouted at Det. O'Malley. His form changed to that of a Tyrannosaurus for the head while his left side of his body became that of a thick, thorny vine and the right side changed to and iron statuesque shape.
Before the A-V-M Man could sink his teeth into O'Malley, Giant Man, towering at sixty feet tall, tackled the villain.
"Now this kind of foe I can deal with!" shouted Giant Man gleefully just before the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man struck him to the side of his face with iron fist.
"You can have him!" O'Malley called out.
Coach Boomer stepped up next to him as they watched Giant Man tearing at the thick vines that were wrapping around his throat. "KNOCK HIM OFF BALANCE, THEN GET THE VINES OFF FROM AROUND YOUR THROAT!" he advised.
Nick wiggled a finger into his ear. "You know that you shouldn't use super-sonic powers near a normal person without warning them first."
The Sky High coach snorted. "Buck up, man. It's our turn to fight." He pointed to where Garguax's remaining plastic androids were charging toward them. Nick quickly reloaded his weapon with some blue shells while finding time to pull some earplugs he used when investigating banshees out since he was going to be fighting right next to Coach Boomer.
Agent Kay of MiB, Captain Richard Page of Special Unit 2, and Allan Quatermain were hunched down behind a barricade that had been created earlier by Dr. Alchemy. They were being fired on by Tyr of the Legion of Super-Villains, Signalman, and Owlman of the Crime Syndicate who were behind another barricade. Det. Kate Benson had already been stunned and was lying next to the stunned figure of Tom Sawyer. Carl the Gnome, a pest and sometimes stooge to the Special Unit 2 division, was checking for vital signs on the two stunned people, starting with Kate.
Captain Page barked at the Gnome. "Carl! Leave her shirt on!"
"I was just trying to remove constricting clothing that might interfere with her breathing." He smiled as innocently as he could.
"When she wakes up, she may decide to interfere with your breathing."
"Some things are worth the risk."
Captain Page frowned. "And I may decide to try removing your beard by shooting it off."
Carl froze in mid-button. "You know, I think I'll just leave this on her. It's feeling a little chilly around here."
Agent Kay glanced at Captain Page. "You said that Carl's species is near indestructible."
"Pretty much durable as they are annoying. But if you know their weaknesses, then it's only a matter of-"
Kay didn't wait to hear. He reached over and grabbed Carl by the ankles. He swung him up into the air and toward the other barricade. The villains took the bait and began firing at the screaming Gnome falling toward them. He landed amongst the villains and immediately grabbed onto Owlman's knee and began striking and biting for all he was worth.
Agent Kay shot Signalman's weapon from his hand and the villain ran for cover holding his hand only to meet unseen resistance that struck him in the chin.
"That would be Skinner," said Quatermain. "He's the League's invisible man. So try not to shoot in that general direction."
"That red alien with the mohawk was the most dangerous of them," said Captain Page. "I think that golden gun is actually mounted on his right arm. In that way, he is similar to the Borg."
"Unless I miss my guess," said Agent Kay, "I think that the weapon attached in place of his arm is actually a sentient machine that is aiming itself."
Tyr, the Tyrrazian, began shooting again and Captain Page's fake hand was blown off before he could duck all the way. "I just bought that hand!"
"It's going to be tough outgunning that guy," said Agent Kay.
"All you have to do is shoot," responded Quatermain, as he lifted his rifle and fired. Tyr went down with a slug in his shoulder. "And that should be that."
Agent Kay was not so sure. "Unless the sentient gun can move on its own accord and attack us." Right after he had said it, the right arm on the Tyrrazian detached itself and fly up to attack them from above. They all scattered.
Meanwhile, the invisible Skinner had evidentially tried to attack Owlman while he was busy with Carl, but Owlman grabbed Carl and began using him as a bat against his invisible adversary.
Mr. Hyde, another member of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, was battling against King Kull from Earth-S, one of the Marvel Family foes. Captain Page jumped behind their raging forms just in time to be missed by Tyr's sentient weapon. The weapon flew after Agent Kay next, but he bumped into Violet, the Invisible Girl, who formed an invisible barrier over them. After a few frustrated shots at the two, the sentient gun went to seek Allan Quatermain.
Quatermain thought that the sentient weapon would come back after him, so he was ready holding Try before him with a revolver to the alien's ear.
The golden weapon faltered high in the air, unwilling to harm its host. As it worked out what to do, a tractor beam gripped it and began pulling it toward some Sleestak-Borg drones far away.
"Well, that takes care of that, I guess," said Quatermain.
"A temporary solution at best," said Kay, who had returned with Violet. "If the Borg absorbed that particular weapon into their arsenal, then they'd all soon have detachable arms that could continue to fight on after their drone body is incapacitated." He brought out a collapsible rocket launcher and aimed it at the sentient weapon. A second later and Tyr's detachable arm-gun was destroyed before it reached the Borg.
Kay turned to Violet. "Now what are you doing out here? I thought all you youngsters were supposed to stay in the TARDIS."
"Uh, I'm helping?" she answered.
"Actually, she's not supposed to be out here," said Dylan West who suddenly became visible a few feet from them. "But she's also the reason the rest of the younger generation have all been allowed outside. We are supposed to help out one of the good guys who seemed to need it and also try bringing back any of the adult wounded. As well as bring her back."
Kay glanced around and could see a lot of the kids fighting their own battles instead of helping anyone. "Take Det. Benson and Sawyer here to the TARDIS, and then get your fellow classmates to break off their fights and return post haste to the TARDIS."
Violet's head sunk, but she used her powers to form an invisible platform under the two unconscious people. Dylan sat down on the platform and gave a mock salute. "Right, chief. We are on it."
oOoOoOo
Meanwhile, Peter Venkman of Ghostbusters' fame had managed to catch a ghost, namely the Gentleman Ghost, one of Batman's villains. No one interfered with his capture because even while training his proton pack on the ghostly villain left Peter very vulnerable to a rear attack, nobody seemed to want to get near all the dangerous energies Peter seemed willing to throw around.
Egon came to Peter's hails with a ghost trap. "That was an interesting specimen."
"That's one cultured ghost taken down. See any others?" They were reluctant to use the proton packs on living beings, but if push came to shove, or more likely kill or be killed, the bad guys might be fried.
"I got one! I got one!" Ray Stantz called back like he was fisherman with a fish on the line. What actually was caught in the proton stream was a super suited man in a yellow costume with two red 'X' across his chest.
"Whoa! Check out the X's on him! Are you sure he's a ghost?" asked Peter. "There's a lot of people around here with some strange abilities."
Egon held up his PKG meter. "Inconclusive. He registers similar to a ghost, but… these other readings… I need to run more tests."
Peter rolled his eyes. "This isn't a lab, Egon. If you have to do anything, you are going to have to run field tests as you go."
Ray smiled. "Or in this case it's more likely battlefield tests."
Egon gave an annoyed look and pushed his glasses up on the ridge of his nose. Peter whistled a cheery tune as he set out the ghost trap.
Something caught Egon's eye, and he raised the wand of his proton pack. "Hold off. I think we have an explanation coming our way."
Running toward them was a man dressed in a costume similar to how the snared ghost to Ray's proton stream. He had to dodge around a fight between Agent Kay and the mantis-like Zorak, plus a struggle by Alexander Dane and Guy Fleegman who were trying to free their fellow actor Tommy Webber from the super strong hair tendrils of Entrapta. Winston Zeddmore, one of the Ghostbusters, was trying to pull a man out of one of the ghost traps after he used it on the supervillain known as the Mist who wasn't a ghost yet. Egon was about to investigate what Winston was up to, but Peter put a hand on his shoulder.
"Let me guess. One of them is the evil twin brother, right?" guessed Peter.
Egon did a quick wave of his PKG meter at the approaching costumed man. "More like one of them is the evil astral projection of the other one."
Dr. Simon Ecks, also known as Doctor Double X, ran over all out of breath. "Don't contain him! He needs to go back in me! We might die without each other!"
"Oh," was all Ray could say as he cut the power to his proton pack.
The exhausted astral form of Doctor Double X faltered as he flew straight into the body of the similarly attired Dr. Ecks.
"Better?" asked Peter.
"Yes," he sighed gratefully. "Thanks."
"Don't mention it." Peter landed a haymaker right onto the evil doctor's chin, effectively knocking him out.
"Peter." Egon shook his head. "That could have been handled much more diplomatically."
"Egon, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he one of the bad guys. You know, those guys that are trying to gain power over the good guys by defeating the Borg before us."
"Hey guys, look what I got!" came a shout that caught their attention. Louis Tully was actually the Ghostbusters' accountant and not an official Ghostbuster, though he had helped out on occasion in the field. When the Doctor came to call at the Ghostbusters Headquarters, Louis was the first to put on a uniform and proton pack. To say he was enthusiastic was to put it mildly.
They all turned to stare at the creature caught in Tully's proton stream. Validus was a twenty-five-foot monstrosity from the 30th century. He was mainly purple with a clear window in his forehead exposing his brain from which mental lightning shot out. His feet each had two claws protruding while his hands had three fingers each.
"I suppose you want to handle this diplomatically?"
"Ah, I…uh." Egon managed to hold out his PKG meter toward Validus which promptly exploded.
"Don't burn out a lightbulb, Egon. Peter and I prepared for something like this," said Ray, as he searched through the items on his person.
Egon gave him a look of amazement. "You prepared for this?"
"Yeah," said Peter, who unstrapped a ghost trap off of his waist that had green tape shaped into an X on it. "Once we knew that it was the Doctor who needed our help – those body changes of his get me so confused – Ray and I decided we needed a backup plan since he said we were going to be part of an army." He tossed the trap out in front of Louis who was still walking backwards toward them.
Egon gulped as he realized that Validus wasn't actually hurt or stuck in the proton stream of energy that Louis was shooting at him. Instead, the lumbering giant was following the proton stream like a little child trailing after a balloon it was trying to catch. "Guys, whatever you are going to do, do it fast." He fired another proton stream at Validus.
"Fire in the hole!" Peter hit the button that released the ghost trap he had placed in front of Validus.
Up from the ghost trap flowed two ghostly figures. The first was a small lumpy green specter that they called Slimer. The second ethereal form was large and white ectoplasmic entity that had been formed and shaped by their nemesis, Gozar the Gozerian, into the iconic form of the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man.
Instead of being intimidated by the new being that was his size, Validus rushed toward Stay-Puff who was roaring threateningly.
"No!" shouted Egon.
"What is it?" asked Ray, who usually wasn't far behind Egon in thought.
"That creature is emitting pure mental lightning, while Stay-Puff is an ectoplasmic entity!"
Ray slapped himself in the forehead. "Uh, oh."
Peter, undaunted turned to Egon and asked, "What does 'uh, oh' mean this time?"
Louis Tully, having turned off his proton pack, ran to join the other Ghostbusters, huffing with a massive grin across his face.
Egon swallowed. "Short version. Mixing the two of them is like throwing a match onto a puddle of gasoline. Only this is a lot more than a puddle."
"Take cover!" shouted Peter. Egon and Peter pulled the frozen Ray back for cover with Louis leading the way.
The resulting explosion knocked almost everyone on the battlefield off their feet. Marshmallow goo was everywhere. Validus stood in the epicenter of where the blast took place and marshmallow covered the front part of his body. His brain made a small spark of electricity before he toppled backwards unconscious.
Ray, Egon and Louis picked themselves up while covered in white marshmallow goo. Peter, who had stepped behind Giant Man's leg had just a few traces of marshmallow on him. "Well, that's a bit of déjà vu for us," said Peter. He watched as the vampiresses Mina Harker and Vampirella screeched while trying to get the marshmallow goo off.
"What were you thinking?" shouted Egon. "Putting Stay-Puff against a creature like that?"
"We are alive, aren't we? Besides, Stay-Puff should be able to pull himself together in a couple of days."
"That's not the point!"
"Uh, guys?" Ray said in a low tone. "Could you look at this for a minute?"
Both Ray and Louis were staring at the outline of person that was about seven feet tall partially revealed by the marshmallow covering it. As they watched, it's camouflage field failed due to the ectoplasmic material with which it was in contact. Revealed, the Yautja hunter stood over its most recent kill. It leaned down and ripped the skull and spine from the fresh corpse of the Persuader. After placing the two trophies into his net-like bag, he reached down to also claim the atomic axe, Persuader's weapon of choice.
"Why do I have a feeling that he isn't on our side either?" asked Peter.
To be Continued!
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Original AuThOr'S NoTeS: 5/1/2008
No one can be more surprised by my use of the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes than myself. But it was cute and once I decided to use the movie Sky High the two movies seemed easy to combine together.
In the end credits of Sky High, they showed a clip of things happening to the characters, the one I remember most was the bus driver character mentioned in a newspaper headline saying that he had fallen in a vat of toxic acid and gained growing powers.
I thought it would be fun to increase the abilities of one of the Sky High characters in the battle, So I choose Zach. In the increase / decrease powers thing, that is an old comic book ploy that's been used for years.
I'm glad to have been able to use the TV series Special Unit 2, as I've come to really like that show. Very imaginative. Wish they were still making it.
I hope to use the movies Galaxy Quest and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen more in the next posting.
I still have more plots to work on so this whole giant battle scene will go on for at least one or more postings. See you next time.
ChArAcTeR InDeX FoR ThE ChApTeR:
All-American Boy / Mr. Jonathan Boy (Dave Foley) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man of Earth-1 / Larsen, Dr. Sven – from DC Comics Doom Patrol #89 (1964)
Benson, Det. Kate (Alexondra Lee) – from the TV series Special Unit 2 (2001-2002)
Boomer, Coach / Sonic Boom (Bruce Campbell) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Borg – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988)
Brain Wave of Earth-2 / King, Henry – from DC Comics All-Star Comics #15 (1943)
Captain Cold of Earth-1 / Snart, Leonard (voiced by Dick Ryal) – from the cartoon shows Challenge of the Super-Friends (1978), from DC Comics Showcase #8 (1957)
Carl, the Gnome (Danny Woodburn) – from the TV series Special Unit 2 (2001-2002)
Chesterton, Ian (William Russell) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1963-1965)
Chrome Dome (voiced by Peter Renaday) – from the cartoon show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1996)
Clayface of Earth-1 / Hagen, Matthew (voiced by Lou Scheimer) – from the cartoon The New Adventures of Batman (1977), Tarzan and the Super 7 'Batman' (1978), from DC Comics Detective Comics #298 (1961)
The Commander / Stronghold, Steve (Kurt Russell) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Concussion / Shepard, Connor (Kevin Zegers) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Dane, Alexander (Alan Rickman) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
Dash / Parr, Dashiell 'Dash' (voiced by Spencer Fox) – from the movie The Incredibles (2004) (mentioned only)
DeMarco, Gwen (Sigourney Weaver) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
Doctor, The 1st (William Hartnell) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1963-1966)
Doctor Alchemy of Earth-1 / Desmond, Albert – from DC Comics Showcase #13 (1958)
Doctor Double X of Earth-1 / Ecks, Dr. Simon – from DC Comics Detective Comics #261 (1958)
Doctor Light of Earth-1 / Light, Arthur – from DC Comics Justice League of America #12 (1962)
Dorno (voiced by Ted Eccles) – from the cartoon shows The Herculoids (1967-1969), Space Stars 'The Herculoids' (1981)
Elastigirl / Parr, Helen (voiced by Holly Hunter) – from the movie The Incredibles (2004)
Entrapta (voiced by Linda Gary) – from the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1987)
Ethan (Dee Jay Daniels) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Fleegman, Guy (Sam Rockwell) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
Foreman, Susan (Carole Ann Ford) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1963-1964)
Frank, the Pug (voiced by Tim Blaney) – from the movie Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), Men in Black 3 (2012)
Garguax of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Doom Patrol #91 (1964)
General Immortus of Earth-1 – from DC Comics My Greatest Adventure #80 (1963)
Gentleman Ghost of Earth-1 / Craddock, Jim – from DC Comics Flash Comics #86 (1947)
Giant Man / Wilson, Ron (Kevin Heffernan) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Golden Glider of Earth-1 / Snart, Lisa – from DC Comics Flash #250 (1977)
Gozar the Gozerian – from the movie Ghostbusters (1984) (mentioned only)
Grant, Dr. (Chevy Chase) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Hammond, Hector, of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Green Lantern #5 (1961)
Harker, Mina (Peta Wilson) – from the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Holloway, Marsha (Courteney Cox Arquette) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Houdini / West, Dylan (Michael Cassidy) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Invisible Girl / Parr, Violet (voiced by Sarah Vowell) – from the movie The Incredibles (2004)
Jay, Agent (Will Smith) – from the movie Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), Men in Black 3 (2012)
Jekyll, Dr. Henry / Hyde, Edward (Jason Flemyng) – from the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Jetstream / Stronghold, Josie (Kelly Preston) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Johnny Quick of Earth-3 – from DC Comics Justice League of America #29 (1964) (mentioned only)
Jonathan (Jonathan Togo) – from the TV series Special Unit 2 (2001-2002) (mentioned only)
Kay, Agent (Tommy Lee Jones) – from the movie Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), Men in Black 3 (2012)
Kull, King, of Earth-S – from Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel Adventures #125 (1951)
Kwan, Fred (Tony Shalhoub) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
Laliari (Missi Pyle) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
Lightning Lord of Earth-1 / Ranzz, Mekt – from DC Comics Superman #147 (1961)
Magenta (Kelly Vitz) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Mallah, Monsieur, of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Doom Patrol #86 (1964)
The Master / Koschei – from the TV series Doctor Who (mentioned only)
Mega Boy / Williams, Tucker (Spencer Breslin) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Micro Lad of Earth-1 / Muldron, Lalo – from DC Comics Superboy #212 (1975)
Mist of Earth-2 / Kyle – from DC Comics Adventure Comics #67 (1941)
Mist Master of Earth-1 / Sti-Tuan, Yer – from DC Comics Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #253 (1979)
Mister Freeze of Earth-1 / Fries, Victor (voiced by Ted Knight) – from the cartoon shows The Batman/Superman Hour (1968), (voiced by Lennie Weinrib) – The New Adventures of Batman (1977), Tarzan and the Super 7 'Batman' (1978), from DC Comics Batman #121 (1959)
Mister Incredible / Parr, Bob (voiced by Craig T. Nelson) – from the movie The Incredibles (2004)
Mister Medulla (Kevin McDonald) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Nemesis Kid of Earth-1 / Druiter, Hart – from DC Comics Adventure Comics #346 (1966)
Nemo, Capt. (Naseeruddin Shah) – from the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Nesmith, Jason (Tim Allen) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
Neutrax of Earth-1 / Muur, Wi Kan – from DC Comics Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #253 (1979)
O'Malley, Det. Nicholas (Michael Landes) – from the TV series Special Unit 2 (2001-2002)
Owlman of Earth-3 – from DC Comics Justice League of America #29 (1964)
Page, Capt. Richard (Richard Gant) – from the TV series Special Unit 2 (2001-2002)
Peace, Warren (Steven Strait) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Persuader of Earth-1 / Ti, Nyeun Chun – from DC Comics Adventure Comics #352 (1967)
Pied Piper of Earth-1 / Rathaway, Hartley – from DC Comics Flash #106 (1959)
Plastic Men of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Doom Patrol #91 (1964)
Powers, Principal (Lynda Carter) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Princess / Collins, Cindy (Ryan Newman) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Quatermain, Allan (Sean Connery) – from the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Ro, Kanjar, of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Justice League of America #3 (1961)
Rock Soldiers – from the cartoon show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987, 1993)
Rommie (Lexa Doig) – from the TV series Andromeda (2000-2005)
Sawyer, Tom (Shane West) – from the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Signalman of Earth-1 / Cobb, Phil – from DC Comics Batman #112 (1957)
Skinner, Rodney / The Invisible Man (Tony Curran) – from the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Sleestak / Altrusians – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
Slimer – from the movie Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)
Spengler, Dr. Egon (Harold Ramis) – from the movie Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)
Stantz, Dr. Raymond (Dan Aykroyd) – from the movie Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)
Stay-Puff – from the movie Ghostbusters (1984)
Stronghold, Will – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Sun Emperor of Earth-1 / Douglous, Nigal – from DC Comics Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #63 (1962)
Superwoman of Earth-3 – from DC Comics Justice League of America #29 (1964)
Tarra (voiced by Virginia Gregg) – from the cartoon shows The Herculoids (1967-1969), Space Stars 'The Herculoids' (1981)
Thorn of Earth-2 / Canton, Rose – from DC Comics Flash Comics #89 (1947)
Titania of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #253 (1979)
Tully, Louis (Rick Moranis) – from the movie Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)
Tyr of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Superboy #197 (1973)
Validus of Earth-1 / Ranzz, Garridan – from DC Comics Adventure Comics #352 (1967)
Vampirella – from Warren Vampirella #1 (1969)
Venkman, Dr. Peter (Bill Murray) – from the movie Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)
Webber, Tommy (Daryl Mitchell) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
Williams, Layla (Danielle Panabaker) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Wonder / Jones, Summer (Kate Mara) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Wright, Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1963-1965)
Yautja – from the movie Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990), AVP: Alien Vs. Predator (2004), Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Predators (2010)
Zach Attack / Braun, Zach (Nicholas Braun) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Zeddmore, Winston (Ernie Hudson) – from the movie Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)
Zoom / Shepard, Jack – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Zorak (voiced by Don Messick) – from the cartoon Space Ghost (1966)