A TANGLED WEB Part 8: Endgame
Chapter 25
by Charlie Nelson a.k.a. Ordinaryguy2
Updated: 2-10-20222
AuThOr'S NoTeS: This chapter will cover some of the fighters in the Doctors' Army who had already encountered the Borg in earlier parts of my story. Since many of these characters haven't been mentioned for years (this series started in 1997 I think… Could have been 1998, but you get the idea), I will just do a quick rundown of who some of the featured Borg fighters were and where they had first encountered the Borg. Let's see…
In the first part of A Tangled Web is where the Sliders group bounces off the TARDIS belonging to Doctor Who knocking them into the Star Trek universe. Q thought it would be funny to interfere, so he helped the Borg to learn about the device used to move throughout the multiverse. Once the Borg obtained that technology, the Q Continuum made Q take responsibility for the situation and have to fix it, but not directly.
When the Borg came to Coruscant in A Tangled Web Part 2 they faced groups from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Six-Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman and The Greatest American Hero.
In A Tangled Web Part 3 took the Borg to ancient Greece of the worlds of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. Help was recruited by way of the The A-Team and Seaquest.
Battlestar Galactica meets V-The Series, the TV series of The Incredible Hulk as well as an alternate version of Stargate: SG-1 in A Tangled Web Part 4. Aid came from Quantum Leap and Starman.
A Tangled Web Part 5 focused on a large convention with FBI Agents, cops and private detectives from numerous TV series as well as Immortals from Highlander. Characters from Smallville and Babylon 5 / Crusade were both brought to this parallel world to face the Borg.
A Tangled Web Part 6 took place on the Planet of the Apes populated with Gorillas, Chimpanzees, and Orangutans in Australia alongside characters from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Help is supplied from Robocop, Max Headroom, Gargoyles and Vincent from the TV series Beauty and the Beast.
Then we have A TANGLED WEB Part 7, which occurred in the late 1800's in California using many Western TV characters. Aid was brought in from characters from Due South, Alien Nation alongside several heroes from the late 1930's such as Tarzan, Indiana Jones, The Green Hornet and Kato.
And now we are in the Land of the Lost for A Tangled Web Part 8. Hopefully that was helpful for some of you readers.
The main crossovers in this chapter includes: The A-Team (1983-1987); The Addams Family (1964-1966); Babylon 5 (1994-1998); Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979); Bionic Six (1987); Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003); The Colour of Magic (1983); Crusade (1999); Doctor Who; Gargoyles (1995-1996); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-1999); Land of the Lost (1974-1976); Mandrake the Magician (1934-2002); The Munsters (1964-1966); The Phantom (1996); RoboCop (1994-1995); The Six-Million Dollar Man (1974-1978); Smallville (2001-2011); Star Trek: The Next Generation; Starman (1986-1987); True Lies (1994); V (1983)
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What has come before in A TANGLED WEB 8: The Doctors - his incarnations 1 thru 10 - have gathered an army from throughout the multiverse to stop the spread of the Borg. The gathered army were split into two groups. Those that had no prior experience against the Borg were to face off with the army gathered by the Master, while remaining fighters who already had experience fighting the Borg were asked to destroy the Borg… or die trying. Among those facing the Borg were the Colonial Warriors of the Twelve Colonies; Amazons led by Gabrielle and Ephiny; the lizard-like Visitors and the Human Freedom Fighters they had once fought against; the crew of the SeaQuest; the Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Orangutans and Humans that made up the New Eden Militia; Goliath's clan of Gargoyles; a mixture of Humans and Minbari from Babylon 5; the Defenders which was a newly formed fighting force, many of which had been attacked by the Borg during a law enforcement convention in their reality, and many others.
But even with their numbers battling against the Borg, they were finding it to be more difficult than they had first anticipated. The Doctor, the sixth incarnation to be specific, was the first to understand. "They've been holding back! Watch yourselves!" He pulled his companion, Mel Bush, back behind the shelter of a large boulder as a major blitz of various beams of energy were exchanged along with a variety of projectile weaponry. "This is a bit of a sticky-wicket, isn't it?"
Mel nodded even as she struggled to catch her breath. "It's almost as if they had been expecting us."
Indeed, the Borg Queen had been expecting a mass attack. Having gleamed some of the knowledge and personality of the Doctor's fourth incarnation on their early encounter in the 1890's of Stockton, CA of an alternate reality, she had been able to anticipate that he would come after the Borg and bring reinforcements. For this reason, she had not only held back a reserve of her forces, but had kept some of new drones with more unusual weapons and defenses from being seen in order to surprise her attackers and then assimilate many of them into her ranks.
The information she had learned from some of the recent drones that she had obtained proved most tantalizing. After taking over Gallifrey, she would try to locate those parallel worlds with advanced technologies in order to assimilate them. She was especially interested in taking over Cybertron, followed by the Green Lantern Corps, and any individuals that displayed powers.
For now, the Borg Queen chose to remove some of her more powerful opponents from the battlefield. Using her drone of Darien Lambert, a police detective from the late 22nd century, a time pellet was fired and struck the attacking form of Clark Kent in the chest. The time pellet had been originally used by Lambert to transport time-traveling criminals back to the time they came from in the future. An energy field encased the young Krytonian, and then, through the Borg Queen's connection with the assimilated connection with the Specified Encapsulated Limitless Memory Archive, otherwise known as SELMA, the Borg Queen projected Clark two hundred years into the future of the Land of the Lost where she planned on being ready and waiting for his arrival. There she would be able to capture and assimilate him into the Collective with little difficulty, as her forces would be in place controlling all of the Land of the Lost. She also made plans to gain more of the unique elements needed for the time projecting device from Lambert's reality.
Ralph Hinkley, a superhero who had never thought up a name for his alter ego even though he wore a red spandex costume that supplied him with superpowers, had seen what had happened to Clark, and had assumed that the young hero in the rough had actually been disintegrated. Facing his fears, he rushed forward to make short work of the threat before anyone else could be harmed. Yet the Borg had been prepared for people traveling at super-speed and Ralph bounced off a forcefield. As Ralph managed to stand up, he quickly ascertained that he was trapped on all sides by a cage like forcefield. Needing to get out, he jumped up and flew up and over the force field barrier only to be struck by three photon beams that blasted him back into the jungle.
The ringed metal chakrum thrown by Xena struck the Darien Lambert drone's hand that had been firing time pellets at other targets, destroying the device, but not before it had sent two of Gabrielle's Amazons, the Gargoyle Brooklyn, three of the Gorillas and a Chimpanzee of the militia volunteers from New Eden, Mike Donovan, three of the Visitor soldiers and Stringfellow Hawke to the future as well.
In retaliation of the missing men, Hercules lifted a massive boulder and threw it into a throng of drones. One of the newly processed drones, Sport-1 of the team of adventurers known as the Bionic Six, lifted his arm and used his electro-magnetic abilities to repel the boulder back at the attackers where Goliath leapt up and smashed it away with his fist showering the Borg with rock fragments.
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OSI agent Steve Austin barreled into a group of drones, knocking them over with his bionic fist. He was caught off guard when one of the drones, who had been I.Q. of the Bionic Six, fought back with a strength that rivaled his own.
"Resistance is futile," said the I.Q. drone as the tubules in his arm extended out to make contact with the cyborg agent.
"Resist this!" Steve spun and kicked, knocking the prosthetic arm partially off what remained of I.Q.'s left arm.
Seeing the damage, Steve almost felt like he should apologize. But the drone was not out of the game. It lashed out with the tubules of his right hand. Steve managed to catch the drone's wrist with his bionic hand. "That's how one of you guys tagged me last time. You aren't the only ones to learn from past mistakes." He twisted his hand, breaking the drone's wrist, which he knew wouldn't put it out of action for long.
"Sorry about this," commented Steve, before reaching out to pull some components out of the drone's chest. "I hope this only incapacitates you until we can make you Human again; if not, well…"
He rolled away as the elderly Gargoyle Hudson came crashing down out of the sky, having been stunned in mid-flight. The former astronaut checked to make sure that the Gargoyle was breathing. They had met in the TARDIS as it made its way to pick up more fighters. Steve had shared his pictures of his wife, Jamie, and their baby, Rudy, named after Rudy Welles, a family friend as well as the creator of bionics on their alternate Earth.
"Hudson?" Steve rolled the Gargoyle over so that he was facing up. "C'mon, buddy. We've got to face the bad guys."
A movement off to his right drew his attention. He looked up to see a drone aiming at him when something leaped over Steve and onto the drone.
The young boy riding on top of the canine Gargoyle waved his machete in the air, loping off the tubules. "You got him, Bronx!"
Steve's mind raced to remember the boy's name. "Kenny?"
"Bronx and I'll get Hudson out of here, Col. Austin! Don't worry about a thing!" answered Kenny, the forever youthful Immortal.
"It's too dangerous!" shouted the bionic man.
Two of their allies saw what was happening with Hudson and hurried over to lend a hand. The first was a dark-haired white man wearing a tuxedo of all things; the other was a large dark African man who wore a cheetah skin draped over his chest. Steve had met them on the TARDIS when he overheard them discussing an encounter they had recently had with an invading Martian fleet of all things.
"I'll distract them," said Mandrake the Magician, "you two lift the Gargoyle onto the canine Gargoyle's back."
Mandrake stood in order to get the drones attention.
"Hurry!" commanded Lothar. Steve and Lothar struggled to get the limp Gargoyle's body up so that they could drape it over Bronx's back. As heavy as Hudson was, Steve couldn't imagine lifting him up without his cybernetic strength. He looked with respect at Lothar's powerful frame, wondering if he had been cybernetically enhanced, too, or if he came by his strength honestly.
Looking back to see how Mandrake was doing, Steve was surprised to see that the nearest Borg drones appeared to be sinking into the ground as if they had just stepped into quicksand. He blinked because something didn't seem right with the image. Concentrating, he realized that he could see through the illusion with his bionic eye. And if he could tell that it was an illusion, then the Borg could, too.
To the magician's surprise, a Sleestak drone's stun beam struck Mandrake in the chest, and he fell. Steve, using his bionic enhanced speed, caught him before he hit the ground. "Get to cover!" the former astronaut shouted, hoisting the magician on his shoulder while leaving the master illusionist's top hat where it fell. Seeing one of the Visitors down, Steve passed the burden of the unconscious Mandrake to Mandrake's friend, Lothar. Then Steve jumped the thirty-five feet to the downed alien, knocking down the drone standing near him. As he was about to pick up the downed man, he saw that he was already too late. The Visitor convulsed, tearing the false outer skin exposing the green scales and the grayish veins that were spreading underneath them. "Sorry," Steve said. He took the energy rifle from the newly forming drone and bounded after the others, hoping to regroup. The Doctors had insisted in their battle planning session that if anyone was inoculated, they could only be aided after the Borg Queen was defeated.
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Nearby on the field of battle, Elizabeth led a troop of her people, who still chose to call themselves Visitors, which is much easier for the Humans to pronounce since the Visitors have forked tongues. She paused only to erect psionic shields in order to deflect energy burst back at those who had fired on her. Ham Tyler directed some of his fighters to take position in key places to try hem in the Borg.
"They won't survive out there!" proclaimed Elizabeth.
"Nah," replied Tyler. "There is plenty of protection with all these big boulders all around." He saw his mistake too late as some of the drones being fired on from by his people returned fire and vaporized the boulders as well as the people behind them. "Okay, I've underestimated them a little."
"The only reason they aren't blasting all of us like that is because they want to assimilate as many of us as possible," explained Juliet Parrish.
"Yeah, well, let them assimilate this!" Tyler tossed two grenades deep into Borg territory. The resounding explosion tossed some of the drones around. Those not killed outright began repairs on the minor damage that they had sustained.
"Don't give them a chance to recover!" shouted another new arrival. Hannibal Smith, of the A-Team, tossed a Molotov cocktail from a bottle of Romulan ale that he had obtained while in the TARDIS. The powerful explosion tossed more drones, adding to the damage by catching a few on fire as well.
"That won't distract them for long!" shouted Elisa Maza. She blasted away with a mystical weapon that she had commandeered from David Xanatos. The Alchemy Gun's effects depending on what the person was thinking of at the time. One drone became glass, and another became a puddle of nitroglycerine, the third became a pillar of magnesium. "Everybody down!"
The resulting explosion rocked everyone. The magnesium flare up had ignited the nitroglycerine. The explosion of nitroglycerine had caused fragments of the glass drone to fly around.
"Whose side are you on, lady?" shouted Hannibal. His words caught in his throat when he saw the hunk of glass impaled in her abdomen.
"Didn't think… it would be that dangerous." She grimaced again before passing out.
Tyler looked for Juliet Parrish or Elizabeth, but they had already moved on to another battle. While Smith provided him with cover, Tyler moved to pull the chunk of glass out. At the last moment a hand touched him on his shoulder. Paul Forrester leaned down next to Eliza. "If you pull the glass out now, she will bleed to death. Let me do it my way."
The Starman placed one hand on the glass and in his other hand he held a metallic marble. Paul closed his eyes in concentration, ignoring the sounds around him.
Tyler, seeing that the Borg weren't going to wait for whatever Paul was doing, he took the Alchemy Gun and began firing. Two drones turned to tin; another became a pillar of salt. "Ha! I feel like I'm in a video arcade!" Tyler said, turning another drone to aluminum. Realizing he made a pretty good target; he aimed the mystical weapon at the ground in front of him forming an iron wall between him and the Borg.
Glancing back, he noted a glow from behind him. Light shown from a metal ball in Paul's hand as well as from the wound itself. As Paul extracted the glass, the gaping wound seemed to heal closed, leaving not even a mark.
"I think I'd like to sign up with your medical program," Tyler admitted.
"You're not the only one," said Smith, eyeing the miraculous healing with wonder. "We sure could have used someone like you in 'Nam."
"Uhhhh." Elisa's eyes fluttered open. "What?!"
"Hello," Paul said, extending a hand to help her to sit up.
"I thought…" She stared at the hole in her blouse. "Then… I had died?" She glanced just past them. "Wasn't I just talking to you?"
"YES," said a new voice.
Tyler and Smith reacted instantly, turning and pointing their weapons at the tall, extremely gaunt figure in the dark hooded robes. Neither had recalled having seen him on the battlefield, but at the same time he seemed very familiar to both of them.
"All right, buddy. No sudden moves with that scythe."
"DO NOT CONCERN YOURSELF WITH MY TOOL OF THE TRADE, HANNIBAL SMITH. YOU ARE NOT SCHEDUALED FOR A FINAL VISIT FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS."
Smith chomped hard of his cigar and eased his weapon down. "That's nice to hear. I take it you are the incarnation of Death around these parts?"
"I AM AN INCARNATION OF DEATH," came the reaper's answer. "THOUGH THIS IS NOT MY NORMAL REALM. I AM HERE ON WHAT YOU WOULD CALL 'A WORKING VACATION'."
"Wait a moment," Tyler interrupted, turned to Col. Smith while keeping his weapon aimed at the skeletal form. "You believe this guy is actually Death?"
Hannibal grinned. "I've just spent the last four years living in ancient Greece in an alternate universe where they actually have Greek mythological beings running around. Me and two of my men even went down into the depths of Hades itself and brought out our friend who had died the year before after being turned to stone from seeing a gorgon. So yeah, I'm ok with the idea of Death coming around to ask some questions in the middle of a battle."
Tyler frowned. "I think you might have lost your marbles along the way here, but I've seen too many off-the-wall things to really try judge anyone else's grasp on reality."
"IF WE COULD STICK TO THE MATTER AT HAND," interrupted Death. "I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WOULD EXPLAIN HOW ELISA MAZA HAD HER LIFE CORD REATTACHED AFTER I HAD SEVERED IT AS IS MY ETERNAL DUTY."
"That would be my doing," answered Paul Forrester. He had never met an avatar of death before, but his people did have legends of encounters with such beings. And they were not to be taken lightly.
"AND HOW WAS THIS ACCOMPLISHED?" The exceptionally gaunt being did not seem angry or even upset that his work had been undone, though it was hard to determine what emotion he was feeing with such a bony visage, yet something in the glow in the eye sockets did suggest curiosity.
"By reweaving the tether while repairing the body," answered Paul.
"BUT IS THAT FAIR?" asked Death. "HER TIME WAS UP. HER LIFELINE TO THIS WORLD HAD BEEN CUT. WITH MY AID, SHE HAS SHOD OFF THIS MORTAL COIL ONLY TO BE ENTRAPPED IN IT AGAIN BY YOU."
"And some day she will die again," pointed out Paul. "I do not stop the function of death; to do so would be unnatural and foolhardy. I merely postponed it."
"HMM." Death contemplated this while tapping his fingers against his jawbone, making an odd, disturbing sound to the others. Both he and the alien Paul Forrester were strangers to this pocket dimension. Thus, they both were following the rules as they understood them from their home worlds. "I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU DO AND WHY, BUT EVENTS LIKE THIS ARE USUALLY VERY BUSY FOR ME AS I HAVE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT I NEED TO ATTEND TO." He paused, regarding Paul for a moment. "ALONE, IF YOU DON'T MIND."
The skeletal man in the dark cloak turned moving across the field as combatants, ignorant of his presence, battled all around him. He pulled out a small hourglass, glanced around to confirm that he was at precisely the right place. Then as a Borg blast caused a nearby boulder to blow up, one of the Orangutan Ape fighters that had been using it as cover was blown backwards up into the air. Death sliced upward with his scythe, cutting the silvery cord that had still tethered the spirit to the broken mortal form. The startled spirit gave a quick 'Ook?' before fading away.
Death glanced over to where Paul Forrester had been. But his concerns proved to be groundless as the starman was otherwise engaged in healing one of the injured Amazons while others fought hard to shield him as he worked.
Seeing that he had a few minutes before he was required to reap another soul, Death walked past a few combatants to where his golf ball had landed after it had bounced off of Mr. Atom's metal shell and into this combat zone. "I WONDER IF I SHOULD TAKE A MULLIGAN?"
The golf ball had somehow landed among the numerous gold necklaces that were worn by a large black man with a mohawk haircut who laid stunned on the ground. Death considered taking the shot but realized that if he swung in the manner that would not harm the man or his necklaces, the shot would take him in the wrong direction. He considered asking Gomez Addams or Herman Munster, but he could see that they were both busy; Gomez was happily engaged fencing with a golf club against the Batman foe, the Cavalier while Herman was giving a bear hug to Grizzlor of Hordak's Evil Horde.
He took another look around to see where the other members of their golf party were. Herman's father, who insisted everyone call him Grandpa, was locked in what seemed to be a passionate embrace with Circe, one of the notorious long-lived Humans. The butler, Lurch, was being tossed around by the seven-year-old powerhouse Cindy Collins, who was dressed in a pink frilly princess dress. Fester was joyfully being electrocuted by the villain known as Deathbolt. Each time the electrical villain blasted Fester down, the bald man would just get up laughing and ask for more.
The one person Death couldn't seem to find was Rincewind and his wandering Luggage. On a hunch, Death took out the hourglass that he used to measure Rincewind's remaining life. The grains of sand flowing backwards into the top half of the hourglass didn't really surprise him as much as made him wonder how it was happening.
Shaking his head, Death tucked the hourglass away and decided to take the shot. He lined himself up to take the swing on the golf ball resting on B.A.'s chest. Checking for obstacles in the ball's path, Death's eye, relatively speaking, spotted Dominic Santini, one of the Airwolf pilots who was also a young Immortal, had resorted to using his sword against one of the female Power Rangers drones who was wielding her ranger sword along with her Borg prosthetic arm. "THERE SEEMS TO BE A TREND FOR PEOPLE TO NOT STAY DEAD THESE DAYS." He decided to look into that more when he got back to the Discworld. He spotted another resurrected person known as Monolith of the superhero group called the Elementals, a large being made of soil, yet covered in Borg attachments, fighting a lion-visaged Vincent. "I WONDER IF THIS MEANS I WILL ONE DAY BE OBSOLETE?" He shrugged off that thought in order to line up his shot.
"FOUR." He drew back his scythe and -
Something blonde flashed in front of him, yanking his scythe from Death's grip.
"THAT IS MY RIGHTFUL PROPERTY! RETURN IT TO ME AT ONCE!"
Buffy Summers, the Slayer, twirled the scythe that was now in her hands feeling its balance. "Somehow I didn't think you would go down the easy way," she said, in a casual tone.
"THE EASY WAY?" he said in confusion. Then he looked down to see a stake of wood sticking out from between two of his ribs. He pulled it out in annoyance and cast it aside. "RETURN MY SCYTHE TO ME!"
"No way, demon. On second thought, I'll give you this end of it!" She leapt forward swinging the blade toward the robed figure forcing Death to jump back.
"YOU THINK I AM A DWELLER OF THE DUNGEON DIMENSIONS?"
She swung at him again. "In a moment it won't matter what level of hell you crawled out of." She frowned, surprised to find her target out of her reach yet again. "Geez, you're fast, whatever you are."
"'QUICK AS DEATH', IS THE APPROPRIATE ADAGE, I BELIEVE. I THINK IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH PEOPLE WANTING THEIR DEATHS TO HAPPEN ON TIME. YET SOME PEOPLE'S DEATHS ARE SLOW AND LINGERING. PERHAPS THAT IS WHY PEOPLE FOCUS ON A FASTER DYING EXPERIENCE."
"Not really up to expounding my thought on the matter with you right now," she responded as Death evaded the scythe again. She turned in frustration to slash at an intruding Sleestak drone with the mythical weapon. To her amazement Buffy gapped as the drone fell in half having been cut in half with as much ease as cutting through air. "My God, that is the sheerest cut I have ever seen!" She gulped air as some of the organs and various liquids began to slide or pour out. "And perhaps one of the more disturbing sights as well."
She turned her attention back to the grim reaper who now somehow had a pale horse beside him.
"AH, THANK YOU, BINKY." Death ran his bony fingers through his horse's mane. With his other hand he drew out his other weapon, a bone-colored sword. "YES, THIS SHOULD GIVE ME BACK MY EDGE."
In a rush of movement scythe met sword in a fury that seemed to cut the very air around the Reaper of Death and slayer of creatures of the night.
Seizing the opportunity, three men hurried forward to where B.A. Baracus lay on the ground. Templeton 'Faceman' Peck shook B.A. gently, but failing to get a response he tried slapping him across the face. "Come on, B.A., snap out of it!" He tried finding a pulse on his neck but there were too many gold chains in the way, so he looked for a pulse on his wrist instead. "Well, he's alive. I think he's just stunned like the others. No grey-veiny things on him either."
"Let's get him out of here then," answered Starbuck to his doppelganger. Both men looked almost exactly alike, although their lives could not have started off any more different. 'Faceman' had been a soldier in Vietnam as well as an extremely effective conman; Starbuck was one of the best Viper pilots of a lost space colony of Humans that had been trying to desperately find their way back to reunite with their lost cousins on Earth.
Both men struggled to get the larger muscular man up while the third man, Iolaus, worked on providing them cover. "Hurry it up, you two!" Iolaus called as he sent a drone crashing into two others.
Starbuck grunted. "I don't suppose he'd mind if we took off some of his necklaces weighing him down?"
Peck almost laughed. "I pity the fool that tries that."
"Umf, yeah, he doesn't seem like a very reasonable fellow."
"Hey, Face," called Iolaus. "That skeleton guy that Buffy is fighting, does he remind you of Charon, the ferryman for the dead?"
Despite their haste, Peck looked back to where Buffy faced Death. "Hate to say it, but I think you look more like Charon than that guy," he said, remembering his voyage to the Elysian Fields as well as the trip back.
"Hey!" said the insulted Greek. "What do-" A stun beam struck him in the chest ending his inquiry.
"Iolaus?" Starbuck glanced back just in time to see Iolaus hit the ground. "Frak! Face, take B.A., I'll get Iolaus!"
"Waitaminute!" Templeton Peck could not waste words as he was doing everything he could to hold up the dead weight of his very heavy, muscular friend. "Geez, B.A., you really have to cut down on the gold necklaces." He could feel his awkward grip slipping even as his knees began to tremble. "I really could use a little help around here!"
"One moment, Face."
Peck looked over to see Dagger throwing a drone into two others in an effort to give them some breathing room. Dagger was not one of Face's favorite people. He just couldn't read him like other people. Dagger was the result of an accident caused by the Greek goddess Aphrodite that merged Joxer, Tim O'Neill and Dagwood into one large composite being that could not be separated. Instead, the new being, Dagger, stayed in ancient Greece and after a number of adventures, later became the consort of Gabrielle, the Queen of the Amazons. Face wasn't sure what it was about Dagger that he didn't like, but if he had to guess he'd say it simply came down to the 3-in-one man's face; he couldn't read it like he could everyone else's.
Dagger picked up B.A. as easy as if he had picked up a child and put him over his shoulder. "I/We have him. The Doctor says we need to retreat."
Face took the moment to duck down low and shoot at some oncoming drones. "As much as I'd like to get out of here, I think we might not have much choice. We're being blocked in."
"What?" asked Starbuck who now came over bearing the weight of Iolaus.
"The Borg are cutting off our retreat!" Face shouted, now mad. "We're trapped here."
"You're wrong," said Dagger. He pointed over where they had just come. "The drones over there are on our side."
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The younger Luthor on the field was still living in Smallville when he had been transformed into a drone while trying to stop the Borg from overtaking a convention center in the Seacouver of a parallel world. Due to a unique shattering of the Borg Collective by the techno-mage Galen, Lex had survived in a shard of the Collective and took it over, taking the new name of Brainiac. For the past few months, he had stayed in that world reverting drones back to their Human singularities as well as rendering the new volcano that had erupted in the city inert. He retained eight of the surviving drones that had been mentally damaged enough that they could not function unconnected to him. They were his eyes, ears, hands and legs.
Having anticipated coming in contact with the Borg again someday, Brainiac had made sure that the Collective mind controlled by the Borg Queen would not be able to gain control of him or the drones under his control. In addition, he had modified his nanoprobes to incapacitate other drones while modifying the drone to respond solely to his commands. And to help his allies to tell which drones belonged to his Collective, his drones were armored in metal colored in green and purple.
Beside him came Robocop, a cyborg police officer from another parallel world. Robocop had faced the Borg in another alternate universe's Australia when the Doctor brought him to an apocalyptic setting where biologically engineered Apes of various types had risen to take over the world. The cyborg officer had been partially disabled after one of the first Borg encounters. Fortunately, the Time Lord had been able to use a few Borg spare parts to not only save him, but to give him a considerable upgrade that included sensors and shielding. Lex had offered to tie him in to his personal Collective, but the officer had declined, being a loner.
Dureena Nafeel, the apprentice of the techno-mage Galen, had been injected with nanoprobes on the same Earth that Lex had, but she had not been 'converted' physically. Instead, she used what she had learned as a techno-mage apprentice to overcome the Borg nanites in her body and control them, and in doing so learned a great deal about the Borg and applied it to her knowledge of techno-mage technology, thereby, changing her relationship with Galen - the student becoming the teacher/colleague – on many points in science, much to Galen's surprise and delight.
Galen had tried to use the same means he had used previously to cripple the Collective mind of the Borg; however, since the Borg had partially absorbed some of the Doctor's memories, they knew what kind of attack to expect from the techno-mage. Instead, Galen had to go on the defensive as he followed Brainiac's lead. He used mirror weapons or cloud walls to keep from being harmed by blasts from the Borg. He had also fashioned a large dragon made of neon green light that blew fire at the nearest drones to provide cover for Dagger and the others to get the wounded by to safety.
"You seem to be using dragon images a lot lately," commented Dureena, as she administered nanites to stop the Borg assimilation of three of their stunned allies -Commander Jonathan Ford and Miguel Ortiz of the Seaquest crew- until they can be checked and given a clean bill of health later.
Galen's look was grim. "I tend to do that when facing such an upsetting situation." He touched each of the unconscious men and they floated up on a bed of light that became a wagon being pulled by a small Pegasus-like pony. The Pegasus-pony trotted after Dagger and the others toward relative safety.
"I just meant that you should try to be more creative." A ball of blue fire appeared in her right hand. She drew back, and sent to rolling like it was a bowling ball, but this bowling ball was on fire and growing rapidly as it approached a group of Sleestak drones bearing down on them. It didn't so much strike the drones as it did flow over them as if they were being hit by a wall of water.
"That was more than just an impact related attack. What else was there in that attack?" Galen studied a small crystal ball in the palm of his hand. Numbers of various colors scrolled up and down in the small glass object.
"Hard to slip anything past you." She smiled. "Nanites. My own special brand made for the special task of taking those drones offline until this is over, and they can be returned to whatever is normal for them."
They repelled two more drones while pressing forward. "Brainiac looks like he might need a hand."
Lex had lost a drone as he faced off against a bizarre drone that had been fashioned between the Taelon Zo'or and the large gorilla robot F.L.U.F.F.I., who had been sort of a large gorilla-shaped robotic pet of the Bionic Six. Electrical energy poured out of the Taelon half of the drone forcing Brainiac to shield himself.
"That isn't anything like the drones we encountered before," commented the techno-mage.
"The Borg Queen was probably counting on that, so she made sure to have some unusual ones to catch us off guard." She began to do a preliminary scan of the unusual drone that Lex and his drones were facing off against. "It has a massive power output."
Galen looked into the crystal ball in his hand. "What's that other signal?"
She paused as she studied the wavelengths around them. "It's not mine. It's the Borg, but not from the thing facing Lex. The signal is being directed at…" She turned toward Robocop just as the cyborg cop fired a series of shots at her. Her body flew back hitting the ground.
Galen managed to shield himself with his already erected barriers. With this in place, he stepped between his fallen apprentice and the attacking Robocop. "What have you done!?"
Robocop's head was twitching horribly as the remaining Human part of him fought the cybernetic half. "Can't… control… actions!" His cybernetic hands fired off more rounds against the side of Galen's shield before turning to fire on Luthor and his drones. Two of Lex's drones stepped in the way in order to shield Lex only to be shot down in his place. The Zo'or/F.L.U.F.F.I. drone pushed forward to get to the enemy drones, killing another of Lex's drones in the attempt.
Before Robocop could fire again, the Gargoyle Broadway, flying overhead had seen what was happening, swooped down, knocking Robocop back a few feet. The Gargoyle moved to grapple with the Borg controlled cyborg law officer only to be hit by three separate stun beams from nearby drones, dropping him.
Galen used the opportunity to send a ball of fire that engulfed the possessed cyborg cop. The heat fused all of the external cybernetic joints while not harming the exposed Human tissues. The techno-mage had to erect another barrier to save himself from another volley of beams that started to push him back. Feeling desperate, he took out a tiny box from a pocket and tossed it through his shield and into the midst of a group of oncoming drones. Green scaly holographic creatures exited the box and grew to about two feet in height and scampered onto the drones, pulling tubes, parts of machinery and random biting. Each of the savage beasts bore a small collar with a small white chip that provided their energy source as well as their instructions. The small holographic monsters were based on a very troublesome creature called Gremlins that early members of his order had encountered on Earth in the late 20th century. The techno-mage knew that they wouldn't last long against the Borg, but they should prove to be a big enough distraction while Galen sought to stabilize Dureena and get her to safety.
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Kit Walker, known to those around him as the Phantom, held up Harry Tasker with his arm over his shoulder while on the other side of Harry was Helen Tasker, his wife, also helping to hold him up as they dragged him to safety. Unfortunately, Helen was struck by a blast from behind and fell. The purple clad masked Phantom almost dropped Harry, but managed to keep the knocked out man from hitting the ground.
"Hey! Help over here!" he yelled.
The quick response came in the arrival of the Minbari Lennier. "You are one of those people that are from other planets, right?" asked the Phantom.
"Do you wish to wait for someone from your planet to come render aid?" The Minbari bent down to see if Helen was still alive.
"Nope," grinned the Phantom. "I'm just still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that there is life out there among the stars. Sounds rather interesting. I wouldn't mind exploring other planets myself one day."
Lennier was surprised to see such a positive reaction from the Earthling instead of the suspicious, possibly racist, ones that it was his usual experience to encounter, and which sadly was one most Minbari often expressed towards alien races they encounter. "I am Lennier and my people are the Minbari." Lennier moved to pick Helen up but was stunned by a Borg stun beam.
"Lennier? Dammit!" The Phantom weighed what he should do. Carry Harry to safety? Or Helen? Harry would have probably insisted on Helen being brought to safety first if he had been awake to tell him. "Sorry, Harry," the Phantom apologized, as he eased the large man to the ground. "I'll come back for you. You, too, Lennier." He stepped around Lennier in order to pick up Helen only to suddenly be stunned as well. Nobody else seemed to have seen them.
Everywhere people were falling on the field. Detective George Francisco was one of the first to be led away to be assimilated, followed by Frank Parker, the Green Hornet, Kato, Ethan Hunt, two of the Gorillas, three Amazons, one Colonial Warrior, and six of the Visitors. The next wave to fall included Samantha Carter, A.J. Simon, Edison Carter, the Gargoyle Angela, Lord Bowler, one of the Human freedom fighters, two more Visitors, a Chimpanzee, two more Colonial Warriors, three Minbari Rangers and four volunteers from the Seaquest.
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Cliff Secord, known to those currently around him as the Rocketeer, charged forward knocking over a drone that had been leaning over one of Secord's new allies. Pulling his gun, he brought it in past the drone's shielding and fired twice, killing the Black Power Ranger drone. He looked back, sickened to note that his new friend Marcus Cole, a Ranger from the space station Babylon 5, had grayish veins spreading across his face.
"Ah, dammit!" Cliff took off his helmet and tried to think of what he could do. At the gathering in the TARDIS a few people had mentioned that they would rather die than let the Borg turn them into zombie-like drones; Cliff wasn't sure what Cole's view had been, but he wasn't sure that he could have committed cold-blooded murder even if he knew that that had been Cole's preference.
"Here, let me," said Leela as she hurried over. Leela had been one of the Doctor's companions who had quite a number of encounters with the Borg.
"What's that?" he asked, pointing to what the leather clad woman held in her hand.
"A Janus thorn. It will end his life painlessly."
"Whoa now! Just a minute! What if he doesn't want to die?"
"What he is about to go through will even be worse," said the former companion of the Doctor.
"How do you know that?"
She frowned, not liking the fact that her actions were being questioned. "Because I have talked to some people that had been drones before. Most of them stressed that death was very much preferable."
The Rocketeer nodded. "Then the zombie thing they do to people can be undone. Good to know."
She glanced around at the chaos around them not understanding why this man with the weird helmet chose now of all times to debate such issues.
A drone came around a large boulder, turned toward them and aimed. Suddenly, a figure tackled the drone from behind knocking it to the ground and then savagely bashed in its head.
"Max! Good save!" She turned and fired her plasma rifle at another drone, but it's shields had already adjusted to the weapon's energy frequency. She bent down as she recalibrated the frequency of her rifle.
Max jumped down next to her after shooting the drone that her weapon hadn't worked on. "What's going on over here?" he asked. "When I saw that you weren't further on, I thought the worst."
Leela smiled. She and Max had only been married a few months, but they knew each other very well as they were very likeminded. They had met when she and the Doctor had gone to help get rid of the Borg on a version of the Earth that had been taken over from man by intelligent Apes. The Doctor had been sad to see her go but he was not alone as he had just taken on the Immortal boy Kenny as his new traveling companion. "He does not want his Borg controlled friend to be killed."
Max nodded. He'd seen arguments like this get really ugly really fast. He glanced over at the grayish face of Marcus who was starting to sit up. Max knocked the feet out from under the pre-drone. He looked Cliff in the eyes. "He's your responsibility now. You can kill him, tie him up or sit on him; I don't care. Just don't let him get up or he will be just another cog that will be used against the rest of us."
To emphasize his point, he turned and shot down a young Gorilla that had been infected with Borg nanites and was holding a struggling Orangutan as a fully processed drone walked toward them with its tubules extended.
The Rocketeer felt the weapon in his hand becoming heavier and heavier with each passing moment. His decision for the life or death of another.
"Damn it!" swore Max. "They got some of those Gargoyles and that red costumed guy! We're being slaughtered out here!"
Max glanced back at the Rocketeer. "That thing on your back lets you fly, right?"
"Uh, yeah. That's why I'm called the-"
"I don't give a damn what you call yourself! Just fly back to where the TARDIS was and let them know that we need reinforcements now or this battle was all for nothing!"
"But who do I-"
Before he could finish his question, one of the drones, that had previously been the super-villain known as the Icicle, encased Max and Leela in a sheath of ice. The Rocketeer leapt back just in time to escape with just a touch of frostbite.
Keeping the ice barrier between him and the Icicle-drone, the Rocketeer made ready to fly. As he punched the button of his rocket-backpack, the Borg controlled drone of Marcus Cole grabbed onto him by his legs after knocking Cliff's weapon out of his hand. They flew up high above the chaos, almost colliding with the Horde drone of Vultak who had been chasing the small Gargoyle known as Lexington all over the sky.
Vultak flew after the Rocketeer and Cole, Lexington gave chase. The Rocketeer's erratic flight proved to his advantage as it proved impossible for the Vultak drone to stay on target in its attempt to shoot him down. In fact, it came around to the point that the Rocketeer and Cole flew into Lexington who grabbed on for all he was worth.
"You sure fly fast!" commented Lexington from where he clung desperately to the Rocketeer's helmet.
"I can't see!"
"Go up!" shouted the small Gargoyle.
"Which way is up?"
Lexington twisted the helmet the way that he wanted to go, and they turned.
"Not so hard! I'd like to keep my head attached!"
"What should I do with the Borg infected guy hanging on to your legs?"
"Get him off or we'll crash for sure!"
The small Gargoyle crawled down the front of Cliff's body until he was almost face to face with the drone hanging on to the Rocketeer's legs. Taking a breath, Lexington let go and let the two men fly past him and at the last second, grabbed onto Marcus Cole's head and let his wings flap open so that he peeled the drone off of the Rocketeer and then let him drop.
"Hey, it worked!" shouted the little Gargoyle, just before being stunned by Vultak.
The Rocketeer tore through the sky as he flew to rescue Lexington while the Vultak-drone fired upon him.
"Nuts!" He flew on knowing that to do so would mean almost certain death. "I need a miracle!"
Suddenly, a blast erupted around the flying drone. Glancing back, the Rocketeer saw the large space dragon Zok of the Herculoids shooting blasts from its eyes and tail at the drone. "Now that's what I'm talking about!" Cliff flew on managing to snag one of Lexington's back feet and then pulled out of the dive. Looking down he saw where Vultak crashed into the ground.
"Hey, thanks!" he shouted to the dragon. Wrapping an arm around the limp Gargoyle's waist, the Rocketeer flew back to where the TARDIS had been only to find it gone and to find an even more chaotic battle going on below him. "I've got a bad feeling about this."
To be Continued!
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Original AuThOr'S NoTeS: 3/9/2009
It's been a long, long time but I'm finally writing again. Sorry about the wait; I just haven't been taking being handicapped very well. That and a number of other life objects have been hitting the fan lately. That all said, I could really use some fan reviews to cheer me up. Hope everything's well with everyone else out there.
I am deliriously happy that the old 70's show 'Land of the Lost' that I have been using as my current setting for my story is now remade into a movie which opens in theaters in May. I've just seen the previews for the movie, and it is way campier than I expected. I still think I'll like it – unless deep down I discover I am just too much of a purist for the 70's TV series.
Okay, the only reason I mentioned Charon is because I recently learned that the same actor, Michael Hurst, who played Iolaus had also played Charon, the ferryman across the river Styx for the dead. A fun fact I thought I would share.
I also thought it would be kinda fun to have the A-Team bust Face out of the Elysian Fields which is supposed to be a sort of Greek heaven-like afterlife place.
And, yes, I made up the alchemy gun used by Elisa Maza; but you have to admit that it would be something that she would want to take away from Xanatos or some other enemy they were fighting.
Now for the Luthor problem. I have 3 Luthors in the Land of the Lost so I should probably remind everyone of them. The only Luthor to be mentioned in this chapter was the Lex Luthor from the early days of Smallville. That character had been part of the help that the Doctor rounded up in A Tangled Web Part 5: How Much Is Too Much? and been turned into a drone and taken over a small splinter of the Borg Collective, he also took the new name of Brainiac, which is similar to Picard being given the name of Locutus. The next Lex Luthor included in my story was the one from the Legion of Doom who co-led the group with the other Superman villain, Brainiac. The third Luthor I brought in is the original in comic history, and that is Alexei Luthor from Earth-2 in DC Comics. At this point I've either clarified everything for you or confused you to the point that you just don't care anymore.
Yes, I had Robocop be overcome by the Borg parts the Doctor had installed in him back when he was on the Planet of the Apes version of my epic in A Tangled Web Part 6: Planet of the Borg.
The little holographic creatures that Galen used against the Borg were based on the creatures from Gremlins. I had wanted to use them somewhere earlier in the story, but I didn't, so I thought I'd use this as the opportunity to do it.
Updated AuThOr'S NoTeS: 2-10-2022
Most of you know by now that the remake of Land of the Lost into a movie was really bad. So sad. Could have been done really well if they had tried.
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ChArAcTeR InDeX FoR ThE ChApTeR:
Addams, Gomez (John Astin) – from the TV series The Addams Family (1964-1966)
Amazons – from the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1996-1999), Xena: Warrior Princess (1997-2001)
Angela (voiced by Brigitte Bako) – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1995-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996)
Aphrodite (Alexandra Tydings) – from the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1996-1999), Xena: Warrior Princess (1997-2001) (mentioned only)
Austin, Rudy – my character, baby of Steve Austin & Jamie Sommers (mentioned only)
Austin, Col. Steve (Lee Majors) – from the TV series The Six-Million Dollar Man (1974-1978), The Bionic Woman (1976)
Baracus, Sgt. Bosco 'B.A.' (Mr. T) – from the TV series The A-Team (1983-1987)
Binky – from the book The Colour of Magic (1983) by Terry Pratchett, of the Discworld series
Black Ranger / Taylor, Zackary 'Zack' (Walter Emanuel Jones) – from the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993-1996)
Borg – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Borg Queen (Alice Krige) – from the movie Star Trek: First Contact (1996), (Susanna Thompson) – from the TV series Star Trek: Voyager (1999-2000)
Bowler, Lord (Julius Carry) – from the TV series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993-1994)
Broadway (Bill Fagerbakke) – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1994-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996)
Bronx (voiced by Frank Welker) – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1994-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996)
Brooklyn (Jeff Bennett) – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1994-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996)
Bush, Melanie 'Mel' (Bonnie Langford) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1986-1987)
Carter, Edison (Matt Frewer) – from the TV series Max Headroom (1987)
Carter, Samantha (Amanda Tapping) – from the TV series Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007)
Cavalier of Earth-1 / Drake, Mortimer – from DC Comics Detective Comics #81 (1943)
Charon (Michael Hurst) – from the TV series Hercules in the Underworld (1994), Xena: Warrior Princess (1996, 2001); Young Hercules (1998) (mentioned only)
Chimpanzees – from the movie Planet of the Apes (1968), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Circe of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Wonder Woman #305 (1983)
Cole, Marcus (Jason Carter) – from the TV series Babylon 5 (1994-1998)
Colonials – from the TV series Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979)
Cybertron – from the cartoon The Transformers (1984-1987), the movie The Transformers: The Movie (1986) (mentioned only)
Dagwood (Peter DeLuise) – from the TV series SeaQuest DSV (1994-1996)
Death / Door, Bill – from the book The Colour of Magic (1983), by Terry Pratchett, of the Discworld series; (Christopher Lee) – from the movies Wyrd Sisters (1997), Soul Music (1997), The Color of Magic (2008), (Ian Richardson) – Hogfather (2006)
Deathbolt of Earth-2 / Simmons, Jake – from DC Comics All-Star Squadron #21 (1983)
Doctor, The 4th (Tom Baker) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1974-1981) (mentioned only)
Doctor, The 6th (Colin Baker) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1984-1986)
Donovan, Mike (Marc Singer) – from the TV series V (1983), V: The Final Battle (1984), V- The Series (1984-1985)
Dracula, Sam 'Grandpa' (Al Lewis) – from the TV series The Munsters (1964-1966)
Dwellers of the Dungeon Dimensions – from the book Moving Pictures (1990), by Terry Pratchett, of the Discworld series
F.L.U.F.F.I. – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987)
Ford, Cdr. Jonathan (Don Franklin) – from the TV series SeaQuest DSV (1993-1996)
Forrester, Paul (Robert Hays) – from the movie and TV series Starman (1986-1987)
Francisco, Det. George (Eric Pierpoint) – from the TV series Alien Nation (1989-1990)
Frump, Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan) – from the TV series The Addams Family (1964-1966)
Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) – from the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001)
Galen (Peter Woodward) – from the TV series Crusade (1999)
Gargoyles – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1994-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996)
Gorillas – from the movie Planet of the Apes (1968), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Green Hornet / Reid, Britt (Van Williams) – from the TV series The Green Hornet (1966-1967)
Green Lantern Corps – first appeared in the comic book Showcase #22 (1959) (mentioned only)
Gremlins – from the movie Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Grizzlor (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer) – from the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1987)
Hawke, Stringfellow (Jan-Michael Vincent) – from the TV series Airwolf(1984-1986)
Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) – from the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-1999), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995)
Hinkley, Ralph (William Katt) – from the TV series The Greatest American Hero (1981-1983)
Hordak (voiced by George DiCenzo) – from the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1987) (mentioned only)
Hudson (Edward Asner) – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1994-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996)
Hunt, Ethan (Tom Cruise) – from the movie Mission: Impossible (1996)
Icicle of Earth-2 / Makent, Joar – from DC Comics All-American Comics #90 (1947)
Iolaus (Michael Hurst) – from the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-1999), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995, 1997)
I.Q. / Bennett, J.D. (voiced by Norman Bernard) – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987)
Joxer (Ted Raimi) – from the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess (1996-2001), Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1997)
Kato (Bruce Lee) – from the TV series The Green Hornet (1966-1967)
Kenny (Myles Ferguson) – from the TV series Highlander (1994-1995)
Kent, Clark Jerome / Kal-El (Tom Welling) – from the TV series Smallville (2001-2011)
Lambert, Darien (Dale Midkiff) – from the TV series Time Trax (1993-1994)
Leela (Louise Jameson) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1977-1978)
Lennier (Bill Mumy) – from the TV series Babylon 5 (1994-1998)
Lexington (Thom Adcox-Hernandez) – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1994-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996)
Lothar – from the comic strip series Mandrake the Magician (1934-2002)
The Luggage – from the book The Colour of Magic (1983) by Terry Pratchett, of the Discworld series (mentioned only)
Lurch (Ted Cassidy) – from the TV series The Addams Family (1964-1966)
Luthor, Lex / Brainiac (Michael Rosenbaum) – from the TV series Smallville (2001-2011)
Mandrake the Magician – from the comic strip series Mandrake the Magician (1934-2002)
Martians – from the movie The War of the Worlds (1953) (mentioned only)
The Master – from the TV series Doctor Who (mentioned only)
Maxwell, Elizabeth (Jennifer Cooke) – from the TV series V- The Series (1984-1985)
Maza, Elisa (voiced by Salli Richardson-Whitfield) – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1994-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996)
Minbari – from the TV series Babylon 5 (1994-1998)
Mister Atom of Earth-S – from the cartoon The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! (1981-1982), from Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel Adventures #78 (1947)
Monolith / Czuchra, Tommy – from Comico Justice Machine Annual #1 (1983)
Munster, Herman (Fred Gwynne) – from the TV series The Munsters (1964-1966)
Nafeel, Dureena (Carrie Dobro) – from the TV series Crusade (1999)
O'Neill, Lt. Tim (Ted Raimi) – from the TV series SeaQuest DSV (1993-1996)
Orangutans – from the movie Planet of the Apes (1968), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Ortiz, Sensor Chief Miguel (Marco Sanchez) – from the TV series SeaQuest DSV (1993-1995)
Parker, Lt. Frank (Jonathan LaPaglia) – from the TV series Seven Days (1998-2001)
Parrish, Juliet (Faye Grant) – from the TV series V (1983), V: The Final Battle (1984), V- The Series (1984-1985)
Peck, Lt. Templeton 'The Face-Man' (Dirk Benedict) – from the TV series The A-Team (1983-1987)
The Phantom / Walker, Kit (Billy Zane) – from the movie The Phantom (1996)
Princess / Collins, Cindy (Ryan Newman) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Rincewind – from the book The Colour of Magic (1983) by Terry Pratchett, of the Discworld series; (David Jason) – from the movie The Color of Magic (2008)
Robocop / Murphy, Alex (Richard Eden) – from the TV series RoboCop (1994-1995)
Rockatansky, 'Mad' Max (Mel Gibson) – from the movie Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The Rocketeer / Secord, Cliff (Billy Campbell) – from the movie The Rocketeer (1991)
Santini, Dominic (Ernest Borgnine) – from the TV series Airwolf (1984-1986)
SELMA / Specified Encapsulated Limitless Memory Archive (Elizabeth Alexander) – from the TV series Time Trax (1993-1994)
Simon, A.J. (Jameson Parker) – from the TV series Simon & Simon (1981-1988)
Sleestak / Altrusians – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
Smith, Col. John 'Hannibal' (George Peppard) – from the TV series The A-Team (1983-1987)
Sommers, Jamie (Lindsay Wagner) – from the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man (1975-1976), The Bionic Woman (1976-1978) (mentioned only)
Sport-1 / Bennett, Eric (voiced by Hal Rayle) – from the cartoon Bionic Six (1987)
Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) – from the TV series Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979)
Summers, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) – from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
Tasker, Harry (Arnold Schwarzenegger) – from the movie True Lies (1994)
Tasker, Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis) – from the movie True Lies (1994)
Tyler, Ham 'The Fixer' (Michael Ironside) – from the TV series V: The Final Battle (1984), V- The Series (1984-1985)
Vincent (Ron Perlman) – from the TV series Beauty & the Beast (1987-1990)
Visitors – from the TV series V (1983), V: The Final Battle (1984), V- The Series (1984-1985)
Vultak (voiced by George DiCenzo) – from the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1987)
Wells, Dr. Rudy (Martin E. Brooks) – from the TV series The Six-Million Dollar Man (1975-1978), The Bionic Woman (1976-1978) (mentioned only)
Xanatos, David (voiced by Jonathan Frakes) – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1994-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996) (mentioned only)
Xena (Lucy Lawless) – from the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001), Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-1998)
Yellow Ranger / Kwan, Trini (Thuy Trang) – from the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993-1996)
Zok (voiced by Mike Road) – from the cartoon The Herculoids (1967-1969), Space Stars 'The Herculoids' (1981)
Zo'or (Anita La Selva) – from the TV series Earth: Final Conflict (1997-2002)