A TANGLED WEB Part 8: Endgame
Chapter 32
by Charlie Nelson a.k.a. Ordinaryguy2
Updated: 2-26-20222
The main crossovers in this chapter includes: DC Comics; Doctor Who; Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985); Fantastic Four (2005); Farscape (1999-2003); Galaxy Quest (1999); Gargoyles (1994-1996); The Herculoids (1967-1969); Jake 2.0 (2003-2004); Land of the Lost (1974-1976); Men in Black (1997); Mystery Men (1999); The Rocketeer (1991); Special Unit 2 (2001-2002); Star Trek (1967); Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988-1993); X-Men (2000); Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
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The fighting against the Borg had begun in earnest once again. This time the Master's army of villains and the heroes brought by the Doctors would fight on the same side. Or at least on as much of the same side as they could.
After fighting each other with such ferocity, neither side was at ease being in such close proximity with each other. Tempers were high and wounds were fresh in a very literal sense. In order to remove that liability as much as possible, Professor X, Enik, Mr. Medulla, Brain Wave, Dr. Psycho and Hector Hammond had used their telepathic abilities to place the heroes on one side and the villains on the other to take away potential temptation of 'friendly fire' accidents. In between them was the mystically warded circle that had been created by Wotan in which the drones inside said circle were cut off from communication with the Borg Collective. Just behind them was a steep hill that they didn't have to protect as much since most of the drones could not handle that type of terrain.
With an alliance in place, both sides released any prisoners they had captured. Professor X allowed Teth-Adam to awaken and say the magic word 'Shazam' turning him into the powerhouse Black Adam. The Wizard turned the stone statue of the Shoveller back to living form and released Ookla the Mok from his hypnotic control. The pseudo-magician Abra Kadabra took the time to turn the somewhat battered cardboard cutout of the Parasite back into his former self (for which he profusely apologized for accidently doing so in the first place, because let's face it, no one wants the Parasite going after them). The Ghostbusters freed the Gentleman Ghost, Scare Glow and a very traumatized Mist from their ghost traps. Owlman reluctantly freed Carl the Gnome after giving him a promising threat for the next time they met. Unwinding some of the many large vines under her control, Thorn freed the bleeding, unconscious form of Layla to Will Stronghold, who looked like he wanted to tear the villainess apart. And while freeing captives did raise the two teams' collective strength, feelings of good will towards each other was certainly absent.
In order to make some protective barriers to shield themselves from the advancing drones, the heroes had taken to moving large boulders around their side. Princess Ariel and Willow Rosenberg were using their magical abilities to form a spell that would reinforce the rock wall to make it resilient to the Borg energy weapons. The simian stone ape Igoo of the Herculoids dug down into the ground, unearthing large rocks which he tossed up to the super strong little girl code-named Princess. She, in turn, tossed the massive rocks over to the organic-steel mutant Colossus, who stacked each boulder in place. Nearby, the Commander was throwing truck-sized rocks to his son, Will Stronghold, a cadet at the superhero academy, Sky High. Ben Grimm, also known as the Thing of the Fantastic Four, caught rocks from the green alien Tonk Or'Molloe and placed them in the makeshift wall from Mr. Incredible and Mr. Hyde, of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. In order to give the wall-builders some protection, Thor called down lightning to strike at the drones, leaving small mounds of sand-fused glass and black ash.
Meanwhile the villains had taken a different approach. While the drones approaching their side were battling a large tentacled eldritch demon summoned by the magician Felix Faust as well as being blown back by Bizarro's super fire breath, two of the sound-based villains, the Fiddler and Sonar put up a sonic barrier so that the cold-based villains could erect a more physical barrier. Captain Cold, Mr. Freeze and Minister Blizzard joined together to focus their cold energies into the very ground between them and form a mini-glacier. Aiding them were Matter Master and Major Disaster, causing the mini-glacier to push up the ground as it slowly grew toward the oncoming drones.
While that was being done, on the edges of the growing wall of defense that hadn't been filled yet, the defenders had to focus on repelling the Borg.
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"Hurry up, you guys!" shouted a black haired teenager on a Renaissance-like outfit consisting mostly of chainmail. The boy, Eric, also known as the Cavalier, bore an orange shield with a black circle with a white silhouette of a predator bird on it strapped to his left arm. A clear magical force field generated by the magic weapon was blocking the blasts of the approaching drones, but the constant hits were draining the will power that he used to reinforce it. "This isn't getting any easier."
"Quit your blubberin'! We're almost done with this, ya big baby." The Thing slammed two massive rocks in place, and then caught a third boulder which he pitched at the nearest drone. The Borg unit's personal force shield flared green for a moment to deflect most of the impact, but the drone was still knocked down by the force of the blow and rolled back a few feet. Taking only a few seconds to run a diagnostic and repair the minor damages it received, it was soon climbing back to its feet. "These things sure can take a lickin', can't they?"
Eric gritted his teeth. "How about we stop admiring them, and figure out how we're going to survive them?"
One of the blasts made it over the edge of the mystical shield, striking the Thing in the shoulder knocking him back onto the ground. The orange rocky hided member of the Fantastic Four sat up and gingerly touched his slightly smoking shoulder. "Now they're makin' it personal."
Eric looked back with eyes wide with fear. "Well, get back up here and make it personal back at them! They're almost up to me!"
Two blasts of yellow struck the closest drones to Eric's position, knocking them back into the drones right behind them. Keeping his shield in place, Eric looked up at the hill behind him where the bolts of yellow energy had come from. What he saw raised his hopes instantly. "It's about time you guys got here!"
There on the hill stood the rest of his friends. They had all been just kids living regular lives before that fateful day when they had gone on the Dungeons & Dragons roller coaster ride at the amusement park. Soon after the roller coaster had started, they had been somehow transported to another world. They hadn't been close friends then, but after many adventures together, watching each other's back, rescuing each other, foraging for food together, and so on, they had become a type of family. And Eric knew the others liked him even if he could be rather annoying at times.
Hank stood at the top of the hill and fired bolt after bolt at the drones with a magic bow that had no visible string, yet each time he motioned to draw an arrow a yellow energy string and arrow would appear. Upon arrival in the magic lands of the Realm, Hank had given the bow by a mysterious, short old man only known to them as Dungeon Master, as well as the title of Ranger. As Eric received the shield and title of Cavalier and was given the clothing to match, so did the rest of their group. Bobby, the youngest of the team, an eight-year-old with an attitude, was given the title of Barbarian and an outfit to match, along with a large magical club with which he could inflict massive damage; now he used that club to knock boulders out toward the Borg drones like they were baseballs. Bobby's older sister, Sheila, was given a magical hooded cloak with which she was named Thief, much to her embarrassment, that could render her invisible. For now, Sheila just stood next to Bobby and pointed where he should aim towards. Diana, an avid gymnast at her high school, was given a magical staff that extended, shrunk and was unbreakable and given the designation of Acrobat. Diana let her staff grow in length down towards Eric and then, when it touched the ground, she pushed away from the top of the cliff on the hill, using the staff's retracting ability to control her descent. And the last to appear on the hill was Eric's closest friend, the socially awkward Albert, a certifiable genius they had nicknamed 'Presto'. Dungeon Master had given Presto the hard-to-control magical green cloth hat as well as the title Magician. With the magical hat, Presto could do all sorts of fantastic feats of magic but seemed to have little control over what the results would be. Even now, as he tried to rain down lightning on the attacking drones, the results were instead a sudden shower of flowers of every type and size.
Diana dropped to the ground next to Erik, glancing all around at the hodgepodge of unusual and extremely bizarre people working on barricades and repelling the oncoming Borg. "Geez, Eric, how is it that you always manage to get yourself in the worst messes?"
"You don't know the half of it!"
"Yes, I do. Your telepathic friend, Professor X, has been filling us in on everything ever since we started climbing the other side of the hill."
"Oh, well… Then good." He flinched as another series of blasts struck the mystic shield that he held in place; he automatically turned, and then a quick flash of bright psychedelic colors came through the invisible mystic barrier and struck Eric right in the face.
"Eric!" Diana dropped to the ground and swung her staff, hitting Eric at the back of his knees, knocking him to the ground and out of reach of the next round of stun beams.
"Wha-what happened?" He rubbed his eyes while trying to get his bearings.
"The Borg found a way to get past your shield."
"Yow!" came a cry from the Thing. "Hey, kid, get your magical doohickey up and block their shots! Those things hurt!"
"Sure, but in which direction? All I see is stars!"
Diana came up behind Eric and put her hand on his arm that was holding the shield. "Face it this way, Eric. Yeah, that's it. Now lift up the shield and focus your mind on a barrier in front of us."
"I-I dunno if I can! My head…feel so disoriented." Turning to the side, he suddenly threw up.
"Oh geez, Eric! That's gross."
"My-my head keeps spinning," Eric said apologetically before attending to emptying more of the contents of his stomach.
"I think that's what these Borg guys intended to do since they didn't have another way past your shield." She pulled Eric down low even as others began to duck for cover as well.
"Have no fear! Rygel is here!" An emerald wall of light slammed into place blocking further phaser fire followed by a small brown alien that gracefully came down to a tall pedestal he created and was surrounded by a green aura. "Ah yes, you may thank me now as is my due."
"Rygel?" Diana watched in wonder as Rygel seemed to effortlessly hold the Borg assault back. "I didn't know you could do anything like that."
"He couldn't," spoke a feminine voice behind her. "Or at least he couldn't when you last saw him."
Diana glanced back in time to see Chiana get up from a metal slide that Presto had managed to conjure at the top of the hill. Behind her came Bobby holding Uni, the young unicorn.
"Ah, Chiana!" Rygel floated over toward her and, she noticed, was two feet taller than her, which she assumed meant he wanted her to look up at him in more ways than one. "It is good to see that you are well."
"No thanks to you!" she snarled. "Frell, Rygel! You just ran away and left strangers to rescue me!"
Rygel snorted. "I don't see what you are fussing about; you seem fine to me."
"Fine? Frell, are you kidding me? After those alien creatures carried us off, they built me into a subterranean wall and then used my stomach as an incubator for one of their young. And if that kid magician hadn't managed to abort the fetuses, those little monstrosities would have torn their way out of our chests! So you can understand when I say I'm not fine!"
"Bah! It is only a little matter." Rygel ignored her look of outrage. "What truly matters is that I have found a most wondrous magic ring." He held up the ring before his face, basking in its emerald radiance. A green ring that he had found on the edge of the battlefield. A ring that had belonged to the Earth-3 super-villain known as Power Ring, an evil doppelganger of Earth-1's Green Lantern. A ring cursed to bring corruption onto its bearer. "And with this ring –this ever so precious ring- I shall recover my throne and lead the Hynerian Empire against the Peacekeepers until they are made our slaves!"
"Rygel?" Chiana looked at him oddly. "Are you drunk?"
"Ha! If drunk with power is what you mean, then yes!" He rose up in the sky, reveling in his abilities, forgetting about the energy wall he had erected, it faded away to nothing.
Chiana ducked down low on the ground to avoid being struck by a fresh volley of stun beams even as Rygel flew out to engage the Borg once more. "Magic ring or not, you're not getting off the hook so easily, Rygel. Just you wait and see."
"They got Sheila!"
Diana looked back, and seeing Bobby awkwardly easing his sister's fall to the ground, knew she had to act. Pushing Eric onto his back, she pulled his shield off his arm.
"What are you doing?" Eric exclaimed.
"It's just temporary," she answered. "Just until your head clears up. Which could take a while now that I think about it." Once the magical shield was on her arm, with her head turned away she stood up and focused on a barrier between her and the Borg. And it was there.
"Good going, girly." The Thing gave her a thumbs up before he renewed his efforts on building the stone wall.
Hank jumped off the metal slide and raced over to where Bobby was leaning over the still form of his sister.
Bobby looked up at him with tears in his eyes. "She isn't moving. Why isn't she moving?"
After examining her, Hank let out a breath he hadn't realized he had been holding. "She's fine, Bobby. Just stunned is all."
"Re-really." He wiped the tears out of his eyes. "Well, she shouldn't scare me like that." He grabbed hold of Uni and pulled the started unicorn into a tight hug. "You won't tell her I cried, will you?"
"Our little secret."
Pardon me for not getting back to you sooner, came a voice in their heads.
"Professor X?"
We have established a triage area off to your right. Look for your friend Enik. He and I are right on the edge of the triage area.
"Right." Hank handed Bobby his bow, and then picked Sheila up in his arms. Looking down at her, he wondered why, at moments like these, he didn't just tell her how he felt about her. He turned to go and then paused. He looked back at the others, noting that the Marshalls –Jack, Will and Holly– had made it down the slide along with the two children they had found, True and Uly. Khan Noonien Singh was just being helped to his feet by the Human/Romulan hybrid Sela. "Khan, they have a triage set up over this way."
Khan reluctantly nodded. "Sela, you should stay and fight. I'll be back in a few moments. My leg needs to be properly bandaged."
Sela frowned, wondering if he was trying to purposely put some distance between them. Then she looked down at his leg, where one of the xenomorph aliens had speared his leg, and felt ashamed at her growing emotions toward him. "You can hardly walk. I-"
"I'll help him," volunteered Holly, eager to help with anything that would put some distance between her and all the fighting going on. She looked up at Sela and smiled, looking for approval for trying to help. Sela gave a rare smile and nodded to the teenager.
"And I'll help her," added Holly's uncle, Jack. "Besides, I want a few words with Enik."
Relenting, Sela let Khan's weight shift from her shoulder and onto Jack's. She let a small smile come to her lips when Jack realized that Khan was a lot heavier than he thought. She took a moment watching them go with the two children, Uly and True, following after them. Then taking a look around, she was surprised to see such a varied group of beings working together. Even Starfleet would be hard pressed to put together a more diverse group of races and individualities. It went against everything she had been taught while growing up on Romulus. But here they were doing it. And the abilities they possessed, and the weapons wielded were nothing less than spectacular.
"Excuse us."
Sela looked behind her and saw two men supporting a third man, who'd evidently been wounded in some way.
"Hey lady," said one of the supporting men, who wasn't wearing a shirt. "Can you get out of the way sometime this light-year? We have an injured man here."
The injured man lifted his head groggily, showing a lot of blood on his forehead. "Itzz okay. I told them I can't die. I'm the plucky comic relief in the show-show-show. You know! Ow! My head hurts. Did I tell you my head hurts?" He took a moment to look at both of the men that were supporting him. "Well, it does."
"He's not going to be much use for a while," Sela say in her cold, calculating tone. "This may be all over by the time he is able to reliably aim a weapon without killing one of us by mistake."
"Well," said the shirtless man. "He's one of my men. And I mean to do the best I can for him. If you don't mind, we'd like to get him to the triage. So can you move already?"
In spite of herself, she smiled and stepped aside. "I'd ask you to 'keep your shirt on'," she said, using one of the few Earth colloquialisms she had picked up from her Human mother, "but looks like you already lost yours."
The other supporting man, wearing a battered false skull cap, looked up in annoyance. "He always manages to lose his shirt during a fight scene."
"No, I don't," responded the shirtless man.
Responding to the talking voices, the injured man raised his head again. "Did someone say 'action'? Do I have any lines in this scene?"
"No, Guy," said the man with the strange head piece, "Jason's keeping all the lines to himself again. Just like always."
The shirtless man, who was evidently Jason, rolled his eyes so far back his head rolled, too. "Dane, do you really think this is the time for complaining about something I don't have any control over. If you want to complain about the number of lines you have on the show, then take it up with the writers, and not me!"
"Fine, I will!"
"I will, too!" exclaimed Guy, "But I'm going to have the raspberry swirl in a waffle cone… with a cherry on the side."
Jason gave a look of concern. "A cherry on the side? Oh, he isn't well at all."
Sela watched them as they went, unsure of what to make of the strange Humans. Their bizarre antics annoyed her, but somewhere within her, she noted some amusement as well. Could that be something she inherited from her mother, Tasha Yar? She surely didn't get it from her father.
There were a collection of aliens in similar black and white armor firing on the Borg.
One on a lime-green skinned alien with a metal helmet spotted her and whistled appreciatively.
The leader of the group's lower body was a long serpentine tail. "Jugger! Focus!"
"I was, captain," he said with a chuckle.
A group of Humans in a gray uniform fought next to the alien group. One was blasted back and Sela could see his name on his helmet 'Hawkes'. The man patted his shoulder and quickly scrambled back to the firing line with a speed and dedication than Sela found she admired.
Her eyes latched onto one figure in the moving mass of desperate defenders. The android Lore stood near the middle of the rock wall, but she saw no sign of her other companions. Keeping her head low, she moved toward him while trying to stay out of the defenders' way. Just before she passed, the undead Divine Assassin known as Kai was shot by one of the Borg right in his towering black beehive hairdo, causing his hair to fall all over in disarray. Uncaring, the alien zombie fired a tethered bladed brace that came out of his wrist at the shooter over seventy feet away. The sharp blade struck the Sleestak Borg drone in the neck, decapitating it, and then retracted back into Kai's wrist.
"Get your head down, miss." The man, wearing a dark suit and tie had actually grabbed her wrist and pulled her down even as some more firing had struck through the air above them. Even so, she had to hold down her irritation and anger so as to not strike the man for daring to lay a hand on her.
A darker Human, wearing similar attire, turned to his partner. "Kay, I thought you said this was going to be an easy job?"
"Slick, you've been a MiB agent for a couple of years now. You'd think by now that you'd realize that none of the jobs we are given can be evaluated as easy."
"You think this is hard?" said Captain Page, the head of Special Unit 2 in Chicago. "I once had to lead an assault on over a hundred zombies in Central Park during the Thanksgiving Holidays. In the middle of the day. And then I had to cover it up, even though it had been televised and had dozens of wounded victims and casualties."
"Zombies, huh?" Agent Jay smiled and shook his head. "Well, we've dealt with a giant, super-strong alien bug that would have sent your zombies running for their mummies."
Nick O'Malley, one of the operatives of Special Unit 2, ducked down from firing, and gave a big grin. "Well, we'll see you your alien bug and raise you one large flying dragon."
"A dragon? Seriously? Well…" Taking a moment, he sat up and fired a few rounds at the Borg. "Hah, I once had to deal with a giant alien worm that once ate all the cars on a subway train. While they were in motion. And I was on the train."
"Oh, yeah?" Nick's grin faltered for only a moment. "Well, we have to deal with Carl." For emphasis, he pulled the kicking Gnome over.
"What? Small fry here?"
"Trust me," Nick said with a grin. "The longer you are around him, the more the horror grows."
"Very funny, O'Malley!" Carl grabbed hold of Nick's shirt and pulled himself up until they were face to face. "But if it's scary you want, you should send him to visit with your mother. Now that's scary."
Nick frowned. "What did I tell you about playing the 'mother' card, Carl?"
Sela moved on. She had experienced comrades exchanging stories – mostly after the battle with several bottles of Romulan ale – but to do so during exchanges of fire? Any Romulan soldier who behaved in such a manner would most likely face a firing squad as soon as the fighting was over.
"I'm telling you that when we fought those villains, the guy with the magician's top hat turned me into a statue!"
Another group of oddly dressed Humans stood next to the wall. Sela regarded them carefully, but couldn't figure out why they were here with the other fighters along the wall.
"What did it feel like?" asked the Invisible Boy.
The Shoveller considered it for a moment. "Stiff."
"How do you know he didn't just hypnotize you into thinking you were a statue?" queried the Spleen, skeptically.
"Because he turned me into a statue, damn it! That's why?"
The Sphinx elbowed Mr. Furious, who was sitting next to him. "What do you lose when you leave the door of your house open on a cold, winter day?"
Mr. Furious, nodded, taking his cue, answered: "Your TEMPERture." He clapped his hands together. "Okay guys, group huddle. And keep your heads low, the wall isn't that high." They had to wait a minute for the reluctant Bowler to join them. "Alright guys, this is the biggest battle of our lives. I know it looks like it might be our Alamo, but if we stand together and do our best, we just might survive this."
"This is your idea of a motivational speech?" exclaimed the Blue Rajah, who was polishing the few forks he had left in his arsenal.
"I'm not finished."
"According to your speech, we pretty much are!"
Mr. Furious held up his hands in a 'just wait a minute gesture'. "If some of us die-"
"There you go again!"
"-we will be giving our lives to save untold billions of parallel universes from an insurmountable Borg invasion. Here, we have a chance to stop them. If we had never come here, and the Borg won and began to assimilate the multiverse, there would be no way we could have stopped the Borg from claiming our planet and the rest of our universe." He looked at each of his teammates in the eye. "This is our stand. This is why we became heroes." He held his hand out palm down. The Shoveller was the first to put his hand over Mr. Furious' followed by the Invisible Boy, then the Sphinx, the Spleen, the Bowler, and then reluctantly, the Blue Rajah.
Sela moved on as the Mystery Men returned to the fighting. She paused only for a minute to watch the Bowler send a clear glass bowling ball with a skull inside it flying through the air, weaving about and striking down drones like they were bowling pins. She wondered how the young woman controlled the ball, and thought about inquiring until she saw the Spleen's method of attacking, and turned away in disgust.
She came to a gap in the wall and stopped, not daring to continue on into the open with the Borg so close. Sela saw a blond woman in a tight-fitting blue uniform standing out in the open unafraid. The Romulan's first thought was that the woman was suicidal or just frozen in panic. Then she noticed that the blasts from the Borg were hitting an invisible barrier right in front of the woman.
"Don't worry," said a feminine voice behind her. "The invisible barrier Sue's making is able to keep them from us."
Sela turned to face a brown woman. "Are you telling me that she's generating a force field that's powerful enough to block Borg attacks?"
"So far, yeah." The woman smiled. "I'm Martha Jones."
Sela turned back to watch as Sue Storm-Richards rebuffed blast after blast of fire from the drones. "How is that even possible?" She imagined the scientists on Romulus digging through all the scientific possibilities of what she was now watching. How she wished she had a tricorder to record all this. The information from a tricorder scan of this Earth woman named Sue could create an army of unstoppable Romulan agents, leading them to take over the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Founders and perhaps even the Borg and the Sinhindrea.
"And you are…?"
"What…oh, Sela." The Romulan woman looked around again, amazed as a man with wings on his back flew overhead, a seven-year-old little girl caught boulders thrown to her like they were plastic balls, a muscular man with some kind of hammer in his hand seemed to call down lightning from the sky, in the distance she could see a giant cyborg woman fighting a giant ape. "How is any of this possible?"
The woman nodded, and had just a bit of a smile. "I ask that myself all the time. I find it easier to just go with it. You know what I mean?"
Sela didn't. But before she could ask, someone shouted, "Incoming!"
All eyes turned upwards. A figure was rocketing toward them from out of the sky. Two figures, actually, entwined in battle.
"Wait!" someone yelled. "I recognize one of them. They're heading for the circle!"
"I got them! I got them!" exclaimed Mega Boy. The young teen began to expand like a balloon, becoming taller and wider, as he used his powers. Several people scattered to give the youth a chance to grow even more. Then, before the two plummeting people hit the blubberous teen, another figure leaped up and seemed to encapsulate them. Mega Boy expelled a great 'Oooof!" and then stumbled back a few feet, until Mr. Incredible helped to steady him.
"Good catch, boy," said Mr. Incredible, patting Mega Boy on the back.
"I –I had them. And then someone tried to catch them first," Mega Boy said, irritated at having his moment of heroism taken from him, he began to deflate down to his normal size.
"Gloop wasn't trying to steal your thunder, boy," said a red-headed man who was dressed for a much warmer climate. He reached out and helped a yellowish colored gelatous mass that flowed off of Mega Boy with the two falling figures intact. "Gloop knew that they would have a much greater chance of surviving their fall if they were doubly cushioned." The man offered his hand to Mega Boy. "I am Zandor and this is my friend Gloop."
Mega Boy took Zandor's hand and shook, but could only stare at Gloop. He had seen the strange protoplasmic creature here and there on the battlefield, but not up close. Up close it seemed a lot bigger, as well as more intimidating with the two people struggling inside it. Two dark circles floating toward the top seemed to be eyes that regarded him intently for a moment. "Um…good job," Mega Boy managed to say.
Gloop stretched upwards toward Mega Boy who tried not to flinch. Gloop gurgled in its language and then turned to release the two persons from within itself gently onto the ground.
Zandor helped the first person up. He recognized him as someone he had briefly met on the TARDIS. "The Rocketeer, right?"
The Rocketeer pulled off his rather unique helmet and gave his head a shake to get rid of the kinks his helmet caused him with prolonged wear. "Call me Cliff."
Zandor smiled. "I never understood why you people have dual identities. My friend, Space Ghost, has tried to explain the concept to me, but…" He shrugged.
"I've discovered that it has its ups and downs." The Rocketeer stretched as he checked his body for any sign of injury, wincing when he came to his bloody left arm. "By the way, good catch, kid." Cliff nodded to Mega Boy who suddenly became embarrassed.
A little bald man in a white lab coat pushed his way past the curious onlookers. "Clear the way! Move it or lose it!" Dr. Sivana hurried forward with a large, nasty-looking syringe. "Where is the infected bastard? Ah ha!"
Now that he was in the large circle, Wotan's Collective Free Zone, the Gargoyle Lexington sat up slowly as his mind cleared so that he could reflect on all that had happened. He looked down in horror at the darkish silver webbing that had spread under his tough hide. One of the drones that the small Gargoyle had been fighting in an aerial battle had managed to infect him; he'd felt the pain of the entry wound, but he'd been running high on adrenaline and fear so he hadn't noticed at first. He'd been knocked unconscious but rescued by Cliff. He'd been fortunate to have only received a very small dose of the Borg nanoprobes in his system or who knows what would have happened to him by now. Once he'd woke up and realized what had happened, he'd tried to break away from Cliff who'd been flying them to safety. Due to that airborne scuffle, they had flown all over the sky of this small microverse they had been brought to. Cliff had finally been able to render Lexington unconscious, but not before the nanoprobes had been able to mostly take over Lexington's actions and do some critical damage to Cliff's arm. Cliff's rocket pack had to have been running on fumes to bring them back.
Dr. Sivana stepped up behind the small Gargoyle and jabbed the needle deep into Lexington's arm, pushing the syringe down fast.
"AAAAAK!" Lexington jumped to his feet and batted the mad scientist across the ground. "What was …?" The small gargoyle wobbled on his feet. A circle of onlookers from both camps, heroes and villains, stood ground to make sure the foundling drone didn't escape to become a fully processed Borg drone.
All eyes watched Lexington wobble first one way and then the other, sometimes with eyes rolled back in his head.
"What the hell was that?" demanded the Rocketeer. "What did that little gnome put in him?"
T.O. Morrow, a regular foe of the Justice League of America, looked up from where he'd been helping Dr. Sivana get to his feet. "Trust me. You don't want to know what he was injected with. Just be happy that it works."
"Works? Works how?"
Lexington fell on all fours, opened his mouth and began to expel blackened, destroyed nanoprobes. If that wasn't bad enough, more of the no longer functioning nanites began pouring out from the Gargoyle's loin cloth as well.
Dr. Sivana adjusted his glasses. "It'll clean him out. But he'll be in recovery for quite a while. This kind of quick fix has its drawbacks."
"Now you have a cure for when one of us gets sick, right?" asked the Rocketeer.
Morrow chuckled. "We should send this boy to the head of the class, eh, Sivana?"
The Rocketeer ignored the insult. "So how close are you to having a vaccine?"
Both scientists looked up at him. "What did you say?"
"A vaccine! You know, something you put in our bodies to keep whatever the hell those things are that the Borg put in you from taking effect."
"We know what a vaccine is!" snapped Dr. Sivana.
"Are you even trying to make one?"
Both scientists stared at each other for a minute, before running to where their makeshift lab was.
"We'll get back to you on that!" called out Dr. Morrow.
The Rocketeer sat down with a weary groan. "Why is it that those two don't inspire me with confidence?"
Sela turned back to Martha Jones. "There seems to be some difficulty in working together."
Martha nodded. "Considering that we mostly came in two groups, each charged with taking down the other, as well as defeating the Borg, I'd say we are functioning together remarkably well."
"Two teams?"
"Yeah. No one told you?" They ducked down as something exploded nearby. "Well," Martha continued, as if they were just chatting during a chance meeting on a street, "the people on this side are the good guys literally. There are heroes and heroines gathered from various worlds and times by my friend the Doctor."
Sela tensed. She had been told of the Doctor by Q2 and knew that he was an enemy. "And the other side?" she asked, thinking she already knew the answer.
"Villains: thieves, murderers, tyrants and worse. They were gathered by a Time Lord called the Master, though it appears that the Master has abandoned them. With the Borg having taken down the first wave of heroes, we had to make an alliance with the Master's army."
"I see." The Master was another name she remembered from her discussion with Q2. Originally her team was supposed to have met up and join the Master in their quest to be the ones to destroy the Borg in this strange microverse world.
A movement over by the trauma center caught her eye. Holly was there and waving for her. She could see Khan sitting on a fallen log while a large, blue-furred man bandaged his leg with surprising care and skill. "Excuse me," she said to Martha Jones, "but I see a …a friend wanting me to come over to her." Something seemed to catch in her throat when she had tried to say friend. Was that really what she thought of the young girl? How had that happened so quickly? Was this another damn weakness she had inherited from her mother?
As she came closer, she noted Enik, who she had met earlier, standing next to a man in a wheelchair. It was Captain Jean-Luc Picard. She went to reach for her phaser only to discover that her arm wouldn't move.
I am not this Captain Picard you picture so loudly in your mind, came a voice in her head. Although the feats you credit him are quite remarkable, I am afraid my resume is quite different. My name is Professor Charles Xavier.
Get out of my head! she roared
Technically, I'm not in your head. I'm merely skimming your surface thoughts in order to communicate with you.
How are you doing this? she thought back while trying to calm herself and erecting a mental shield that all Romulan officers are expected to learn as a defense against Vulcan spies.
A nice attempt at shielding your thoughts, but I think your teachers never dealt with a telepath at my level. And, no, I am not a Betazoid, though I'd like to meet one. It would be nice to compare notes with another telepath. I've had to teach myself practically everything I know. He paused for a moment in realization. You are one of the Master's allies.
She felt a moment of fear and guilt. Both of which surprised her.
And you don't want Holly to know that, stated the voice in her head.
Sela could see that the bald man who looked like Picard was considering the information he had scanned from her. She slowed down her walk, letting some other people pass through the maze of makeshift pallets or bare earth where the wounded or those being reclaimed from the Borg were laying.
Be at ease, Sela. It has become a hobby of mine to give people a chance to reform.
By mental manipulation no doubt, she rhetorically accused.
No. That would be too easy. Plus, when a person does the hard work of changing themselves, their character strengthens in ways that mental manipulation could never accomplish.
There was a small explosion of dark smoke and a whiff of sulfur on her left. She whirled to see what it was but was once again surprised when her right arm refused to pull her phaser from its holster.
It's all right. Only one of my students, explained Professor X.
Sela eyed the dark, blue skinned man with only three unusually large digits for each hand and two large toes for each foot as well as a long, barbed tail. He's definitely not Human, she though even as she watched him gently lay down one of the dark robed ninjas who had been injured.
Actually, he is Human. Or perhaps I should say a Human Mutant, like I am.
How could he be a Human? His appearance is too different.
I've heard that argument a lot where I come from. Sela thought she heard Xavier give a telepathic heavy sigh. Perhaps the universal laws are different, but in the universe I am from, such mutations are possible though extremely rare. I developed telepathic abilities, while other mutants can turn their body to steel, manipulate the weather, walk through walls, or bore holes through mountains with beams of energy fired from their eyes.
For a moment, Sela contemplated what it would mean to bring genetic samples of these mutants back home to Romulus, then froze, remembering she was dealing with a powerful telepath. She stole a glance at Xavier and saw disappointment in his eyes.
Being a telepath can be very frustrating. Do you know why?
Sela was still, afraid to answer.
It's not so much that I can know what people are thinking; it's that I can know why they think or do certain things when even they don't understand it. For example, your affection for Holly does not stem from a maternal instinct, but rather from your memories of your mother.
Feelings of anger and outrage built up within her. My mother tried to take me away from my father! She tried to take me away from Romulus!
The only home you had ever known. The Romulus I see through your eyes functions in a cold, manipulative, back-stabbing environment. But your mother wanted you to grow up in a braver, kinder environment like that of the Federation.
She paused, somewhat unsettled that he knew that, and knowing that he had to be reading her mind in order to know that. She watched the blue humanoid that had bandaged Khan's leg. He was husky and hairy, something that she would normally believe to be very savage. Instead, he seemed very caring and intelligent. She stood by and watched as he instructed a woman in a red and gold outfit who has channeling electrical energy through a device on her wrist in an attempt to weld shut a large wound on the back of a large, orange silicon humanoid.
That's Dr. Henry McCoy; he's another one of my students.
He looks like a beast.
Beast is a codename he uses due to his appearance. But he is actually quite refined, and would be considered a genius on many levels even in your universe.
She was about to state that she doubted that when she realized that Xavier could very well compare what she knew to what he knew. Damn telepaths.
Xavier seemed amused. The woman goes by the name Electra Woman. Dr. McCoy is instructing her as she uses a device she calls her ElectraCom to weld close a potentially life-threatening wound on General Tragg, who I should inform you is who the Master left in charge of his forces. Unfortunately, he's unconscious right now. If you wish, I could connect you with one of my villainous counterpart telepaths who could direct you to wherever you wish to go.
No! She felt conflicted. At least not yet.
Very well then. I have some pressing matters to attend to as I am sure you do as well. But before I go, here is a little gift that may help you while you are here.
A rush of data entered her head before she could even think to try put up a mental shield to block it. She blinked, and then she realized she now knew the names of everyone there as well as who arrived with the Master and who came with the Doctors. She also could tell that Xavier was no longer in her mind.
From across the way she saw Khan look up at her with a curious look in his eye. She mentally abashed herself when she realized she had stopped walking all together. She nodded to him, and then motioned towards where Lore was. He nodded, in agreement.
Passing by some more people, she made her way over to where a young man appeared to be giving instructions to Lore. With as much as Lore looked like Data, she was glad for the damage Lore had received on his face which left some of his android components exposed.
"C'mon, Lore! Shoot them down, my man! Show them that they can't mess with us!"
Lore ducked down from his spot on the wall, recalibrated his phaser, then stood and fired. "First off, I'm not your man or anyone else's! I'm an android! Secondly, there is no us! I'm the one doing the fighting, not you!"
"But we can be buddies, pals, amigos. Give this arrangement a chance."
"Thirdly, if I ever get purged of those damn robot laws that doubly damned Time Lord put in me, then you will see what kind of amigos we can be!"
Sela's ears perked up at that. So Lore's been compromised. She thought about it for a moment and then decided to go ahead and make contact.
"Lore."
The android ducked down from firing. Turning to her, he greeted her with a smile. "Ah, Commander Sela, it's a pleasure to see you." His eyes quickly scanned the background. "And I see you managed to rescue Khan as well, though he looks a little worse for wear."
"You seem good. Your arm is still attached; I guess that means the Professor knew what he was doing when he reattached it."
Lore's face was venomous. "Oh, he knew what he was doing alright! He knew enough to add some new priority protocols to my system without anyone else realizing it, including myself!"
"New protocols?"
"Um, hello?" The young man stepped in between her and Lore. "Hi, I'm Jake, Jake Foley."
"Commander Sela of the Romulan Empire," she stated coolly.
"Um, I hope you don't mind me asking, but are you an Elf?"
Her left eye twitched, but beyond that Jake had no idea how close he came to being killed on the spot.
"It's just your ears, you know, they are pointy and that is one of the characteristics Elves are supposed to have." He smiled at her sheepishly.
Lore closed his eyes and shook his head, one of the Human traits he had picked up. "For all intents and purposes, he's an idiot."
"Hey!" exclaimed Jake. "What did I tell you about the insulting comments?"
Sela saw an ever-so-brief struggle in Lore's face before he complied. "Insults are not appreciated," Lore said in Jake's voice.
"Wow! You do voices, too! Now that's cool!" Jake said, ecstatically. "Can you do accents?"
"No, I'm not an Elf," Sela interjected before Jake could ask anything else of Lore. "How did you come to control Lore?"
Hesitation crossed Jake's features, but before he could respond, there was a large explosion nearby on the villains' side that rocked the wall knocking them all over.
Sela struggled to get back on her feet, her ears ringing. Looking over she could see a man that, thanks to Professor Xavier, she now knew was called Lightning Lord firing bursts of lightning bolts from both of his hands at Borg drones trying to come through a breach in the wall. The Nemesis Kid rushed the first drone that made it through the breach in the way, attacking the Ferengi drone brutally. King Kull, Zorak, Beast Man, Scorpia, Lurker, One-Eye, Rocksteady and Bebop hurried over while Kanjar Ro, Tri-Klops, Dr. Light, General Immortus, Jack of Clubs, Mirror Master and several Horde Troopers fired over their heads.
Looking around Sela could see several wounded individuals that had been on that part of the wall. The Space Ghost villain known only as the Sorcerer was the first to return to fighting, using his magic wand to change the nearest drones into small, harmless animals. Next to him lay the corpse of Dr. Nightmare, whose body had shielded his former cellmate, even if by accident. Catman was groggily coming to, but the Monocle was dead due to head trauma.
She heard Lore say something to her, but the ringing in her ears blocked out the meaning of whatever words he was saying. He was firing from his place at the wall, but when he ducked down to recalibrate the energy frequency of his phaser, she saw three red lines on his chest that made the shape of a triangle.
At that moment she knew the hunters had returned for them.
To be Continued!
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Original AuThOr'S NoTeS: 10/5/2010
For those that don't remember, the Dungeons & Dragons kids first encountered Enik in chapter 2.
Sela and Khan first met Enik and the Dungeons & Dragons kids in chapter 13.
Lore had his arm blown off by one of the Predator hunters, to which Lore retaliated by shooting off arm of the leader of the alien hunters which all happened in chapter 3. The Professor (also known as the 7th incarnation of the Doctor) reattached Lore's arm in chapter 8 along with programming him with Asimov's three laws of robotics.
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ChArAcTeR InDeX FoR ThE ChApTeR:
Abra Kadabra of Earth-1 / Citizen Abra – from DC Comics Flash #128 (1962)
Acrobat / Diana (voiced by Tonia Gayle Smith) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Adair, Ulysses 'Uly' (Joey Zimmerman) – from the TV series Earth 2 (1994-1995)
Ariel, Princess (voiced by Nellie Bellflower) – from the cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian (1980-1984)
Barbarian / Bobby (voiced by Teddy Field III) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Beast / McCoy, Dr. Henry 'Hank' (Kelsey Grammer) – from the movie X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Beast Man (voiced by John Erwin) – from the cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983-1985), She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1986)
Bebop (voiced by Barry Gordon) – from the cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1996)
Betazoid – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) (mentioned only)
Bizarro of Earth-1 (voiced by William Callaway) – from the cartoon Challenge of the Super-Friends (1978), Super Friends (1980-1981), from DC Comics Action Comics #254 (1959)
Black Adam of Earth-S / Teth-Adam / Adam, Theo (voiced by Lou Scheimer) – from the cartoon The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! (1981-1982), from Fawcett Comics The Marvel Family #1 (1945)
The Blue Rajah (Hank Azaria) – from the movie Mystery Men (1999)
Borg – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (mentioned only)
The Bowler (Janeane Garofalo) – from the movie Mystery Men (1999)
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 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)
Catman of Earth-1 / Blake, Thomas – from DC Comics Detective Comics #311 (1963)
Cavalier / Eric (voiced by Don Most) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Chiana (Gigi Edgley) – from the TV series Farscape (1999-2003)
Colossus / Rasputin, Piotr 'Peter' (Daniel Cudmore) – from the movies X-2: X-Men United (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
The Commander / Stronghold, Steve (Kurt Russell) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Dane, Alexander (Alan Rickman) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
Danziger, True (J. Madison Wright) – from the TV series Earth 2 (1994-1995)
Data, Lt. Cdr. (Brent Spiner) – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) (mentioned only)
Doctor, The 2nd (Patrick Troughton) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1966-1969)
Doctor, The 3rd (John Pertwee) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1970-1974)
Doctor, The 4th (Tom Baker) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1974-1981)
Doctor, The 5th (Peter Davison) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1981-1984)
Doctor, The 6th (Colin Baker) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1984-1986)
Doctor, The 7th / Professor, The (Sylvester McCoy) – from the TV series Doctor Who (1987-1989) (mentioned only)
Doctor, The 8th (Paul McGann) – from the TV movie Doctor Who (1996)
Doctor, The 9th (Christopher Eccleston) – from the TV series Doctor Who (2005)
Doctor, The 10th (David Tennant) – from the TV series Doctor Who (2005-2010)
Doctor, The 11th (Matt Smith) – from the TV series Doctor Who (2010-2013)
Doctor Light of Earth-1 / Light, Arthur – from DC Comics Justice League of America #12 (1962)
Doctor Nightmare – from the cartoon Space Ghost (1966)
Doctor Psycho of Earth-1 / Psycho, Cyril – from DC Comics Wonder Woman #160 (1966)
Dungeon Master (voiced by Sidney Miller) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985) (mentioned only)
Edgar Bug (Vincent D'Onofrio) – from the movie Men in Black (1997) (mentioned only)
Electra Woman / Hall, Lori (Deidre Hall) – from the TV series The Krofft Supershow 'Electra Woman and Dyna Girl' (1976)
Enik, the Altrusian (Walker Edmiston) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
Faust, Felix, of Earth-1 (voiced by Peter Cullen) – from the cartoon The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, from DC Comics Justice League of America #10 (1962)
Federation – from the TV series Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
Fiddler of Earth-2 / Brown, Isaac – from DC Comics All-Flash Comics #32 (1947)
Fleegman, Guy (Sam Rockwell) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
Foley, Jake (Christopher Gorham) – from the TV series Jake 2.0 (2003-2004)
Founders – from the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (mentioned only)
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)
Ghostbusters (Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. Raymond Stantz, Louis Tully, Dr. Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddmore) – from the movie Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)
Giganta of Earth-1 / Zuel, Dr. Doriz (voiced by Ruth Forman) – from the cartoon Challenge of the Super-Friends, from DC Comics Wonder Woman #9 (1944)
Gloop (voiced by Don Messick) – from the cartoon The Herculoids (1967-1969), Space Stars 'The Herculoids' (1981)
Grimrod, Jugger – from Epic Comics Alien Legion #1 Vol. 1 (1984)
Hammond, Hector, of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Green Lantern #5 (1961)
Hawkes, Lt. Cooper (Rodney Rowland) – from the TV series Space: Above and Beyond (1995-1996)
Horde Troopers – from the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1987)
Igoo (voiced by Ted Cassidy) – from the cartoon The Herculoids (1967-1969), Space Stars 'The Herculoids' (1981)
Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell) – from the movie Mystery Men (1999)
Invisible Woman / Storm-Richards, Sue (Jessica Alba) – from the movies Fantastic Four (2005), 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Jack of Clubs of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Justice League of America #6 (1961)
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)
Jones, Martha (Freema Agyeman) – from the TV series Doctor Who (2006-2008)
Kai (Michael McManus) – from the TV series Lexx (1997-2002)
Kay, Agent (Tommy Lee Jones) – from the movie Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), Men in Black 3 (2012)
Klingon Empire – from the TV series Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager (mentioned only)
Kong – from the movie King Kong (1976)
Kull, King, of Earth-S – from Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel Adventures #125 (1951)
Lexington (Thom Adcox-Hernandez) – from the cartoon Gargoyles (1994-1996), Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1996)
Lightning Lord of Earth-1 / Ranzz, Mekt – from DC Comics Superman #147 (1961)
Lore (Brent Spiner) – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988-1993)
The Lurker (voiced by Vic Perrin) – from the cartoon Space Ghost (1966)
Magician / Albert 'Presto' (voiced by Adam Rich) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Major Disaster of Earth-1 / Booker, Paul – from DC Comics Green Lantern #43 (1966)
Marshall, Holly (Kathy Coleman) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
Marshall, Jack (Ron Harper) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1976)
Marshall, Park Ranger Rick (Spencer Milligan) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1975)
Marshall, Will (Wesley Eure) – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
The Master – from the TV series Doctor Who (mentioned only)
Matter Master of Earth-1 / Mandrill, Mark – from DC Comics Brave and the Bold #35 (1961)
Mega Boy / Williams, Tucker (Spencer Breslin) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Minister Blizzard of Earth-2 – from DC Comics Wonder Woman #29 (1948)
Mirror Master of Earth-1 / Scudder, Samuel – from DC Comics Flash #105 (1959)
Mist of Earth-2 / Kyle – from DC Comics Adventure Comics #67 (1941)
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)
Mister Freeze of Earth-1 / Fries, Victor (voiced by Ted Knight) – from the cartoon The Batman/Superman Hour (1968), (Lennie Weinrib) – The New Adventures of Batman (1977), Tarzan and the Super 7 'Batman' (1978), from DC Comics Batman #121 (1959)
Mister Furious (Ben Stiller) – from the movie Mystery Men (1999)
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)
Monocle of Earth-2 / Cheval, Jonathan – from DC Comics Flash Comics #64 (1945)
Nemesis Kid of Earth-1 / Druiter, Hart – from DC Comics Adventure Comics #346 (1966)
Nesmith, Jason (Tim Allen) – from the movie Galaxy Quest (1999)
O'Malley, Det. Nicholas (Michael Landes) – from the TV series Special Unit 2 (2001-2002)
One-Eye – from the cartoon Space Ghost (1966)
Ookla the Mok (voiced by Henry Corden) – from the cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian (1980-1984)
Or'Molloe, Tonk – from Epic Comics Alien Legion #1 Vol. 2 (1987)
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)
Parasite of Earth-1 / Jones, Rudy – from DC Comics Action Comics #340 (1966)
Picard, Capt. Jean-Luc (Patrick Stewart) – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) (mentioned only)
Power Ring of Earth-3 – from DC Comics Justice League of America #29 (1964) (mentioned only)
Princess / Collins, Cindy (Ryan Newman) – from the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Professor X / Xavier, Prof. Charles (Patrick Stewart) – from the movie X-Men (2000), X-2: X-Men United (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Q2 – one of my own characters (mentioned only)
Ranger / Hank (voiced by Willie Aames) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Ro, Kanjar, of Earth-1 – from DC Comics Justice League of America #3 (1961)
The Rocketeer / Secord, Cliff (Billy Campbell) – from the movie The Rocketeer (1991)
Rocksteady (voiced by Cam Clarke) – from the cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1996)
Romulans – from the TV series Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
Rosenberg, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) – from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
Rygel XVI, Dominar (Jonathan Hardy) – from the TV series Farscape (1999-2003)
Sarigar, Captain – from Epic Comics Alien Legion #1 Vol. 1 (1984)
Scare Glow – from the cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1985)
Scorpia (voiced by Linda Gary) – from the cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1987)
Sela, Cdr. (Denise Crosby) – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)
The Shoveller (William H. Macy) – from the movie Mystery Men (1999)
Singh, Khan Noonien (Ricardo Montalban) – from the TV series Star Trek (1967), from the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Sinhindrea – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (mentioned only)
Sivana, Dr. Thaddeus Bodog, of Earth-S (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer) – from the cartoon The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! (1981-1982), from Fawcett Comics Whiz Comics #2 (1940)
Sleestak / Altrusians – from the TV series Land of the Lost (1974-1976)
Sonar of Earth-1 / Wladon, Bito – from DC Comics Green Lantern #14 (1962)
The Sorcerer – from the cartoon Space Ghost (1966)
Space Ghost (Gary Owens) – from the cartoon Space Ghost (1966), Space Stars 'Space Ghost' (1981) (mentioned only)
The Sphinx (Wes Studi) – from the movie Mystery Men (1999)
The Spleen (Paul Reubens) – from the movie Mystery Men (1999)
Stronghold, Will – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Thief / Sheila (voiced by Katie Leigh) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Thing / Grimm, Ben (Michael Chiklis) – from the movies Fantastic Four (2005), 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) – from the movies Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Thorn of Earth-2 / Canton, Rose – from DC Comics Flash Comics #89 (1947)
T.O. Morrow of Earth-1 / Morrow, Thomas Oscar – from DC Comics Flash #143 (1964)
Traag, General (voiced by Peter Renaday) – from the cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987, 1993)
Tri-Klops (voiced by Lou Scheimer) – from the cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983-1984), She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985)
Uni (voiced by Frank Welker) – from the cartoon Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
Williams, Layla (Danielle Panabaker) – from the movie Sky High (2005)
Wizard of Earth-2 / Zard, William I. – from DC Comics All-Star Comics #34 (1947)
Wotan of Earth-2 – from DC Comics More Fun Comics #55 (1940)
Xenomorphs – from the movie Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien³ (1992), Alien: Resurrection (1997), AVP: Alien Vs. Predator (2004), Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) (mentioned only)
Yar, Lt. Natasha 'Tasha' (Denise Crosby) – from the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1988) (mentioned only)
Yautja – from the movie Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990), AVP: Alien Vs. Predator (2004), Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Predators (2010)
Zandor (voiced by Mike Road) – from the cartoon The Herculoids (1967-1969), Space Stars 'The Herculoids' (1981)
Zorak (voiced by Don Messick) – from the cartoon Space Ghost (1966)