Birth of a Juke Box Hero pt. 11
To Wizard1: I don't get why you can't get Chapter 10. Maybe it's the site.
To HyperCaz: Will Razor get his sight back? Who knows. Xantor can't morph into Razor, because it'd be suicide for him. Remember, the Power of Rock is like acid to Xantor. If he turned into Razor, he'd gain some power over the musical energy, but it'd eat him alive.
To Dylan Wiles: Yeah, Wolverine's cool. Won't stop Razor from cracking jokes, though.
To Red Witch: Here's more madness!
Previously on Birth of a Juke Box Hero: The battle intensified for Kid Razor, after the evil demon Xantor trapped the fearless super-guitarist in a special dimension, forcing the other Marvel Super Heroes to watch on helplessly. In this dimension, Xantor showed off another power he had: Shapeshifting. Using this talent, Xantor ambushed Razor by morphing into the German X-Man known as Nightcrawler, gave Razor some electroshock therapy by mimicking Spidey's old buddy Electro, then to add further insult, Xantor blinded Razor by calling upon the light-based powers of the mutant disco singer known as the Dazzler. Xantor now has the Power-of-Rock- wielding superhero on the ropes! Can Kid Razor get himself a much needed advantage? Find out next!
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"GAHHHH!!! $^#&%^#&^$(@*#!(*#*@!!!!!!!" Razor screamed and cursed as he lumbered around, hands over his eyes. "I CAN'T SEE!!!" Xantor laughed.
"Poor Kid of Rock." Xantor laughed. "You can't blast what you can't see." He did another morph. "And try this on for size! XANTOR SMASH!!!" In the form of the Incredible Hulk, Xantor charged Razor, and hit the Heavy Metal Heartbreaker with a hard kick, knocking him into one of the dome walls.
"Okay, I was miffed before, but now I'm mad!" Jen hollered, pounding the dome. "You want to impersonate Cousin Brucie!?!? Now you've gotten me cheesed! You made your point, Xantor! Now let him out!" Spider-Man groaned.
"Hey Xantor, give the kid a chance to see, huh?" Spidey snapped. Xantor smirked at the heroes.
"The Kid of Rock chose to run his mouth. He should never have let his mouth make a promise his body cannot keep."
"Jean!" Ronnie whispered to Jean Grey. "Tell Razor to use his hearing. Razor has superhuman hearing. Tell him to use his ears until he can use his eyes." The red-haired telepath nodded in understanding. She concentrated.
{Razor...Razor...Come in, Razor...} Jean telepathically contacted the screaming and cursing Razor.
{THAT %^$&@#!!! I'LL KILL HIM!!!! HE'A A $%&#$@ DEAD DEMON!!!!} Razor mentally roared.
{RAZOR, SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE!!!} Jean snapped.
{Hey, babe.} Razor grinned, but he then sighed when he saw the state of her astral self. {Aw nuts! How come you ain't naked?} Jean rolled her eyes.
{Knock it off. Listen, your hearing! Use your hearing to fight! You can't see, but you can use your hearing! Xantor has just a big a mouth as you do. Use the noise he makes to track him. Your ears are sensitive enough.}
{Thanks for the tip, babe. Now here's one for you: Next time you enter the Kid of Rock's mind, wear something a little more...revealing.} Jean, with a grunt, left Razor's mind. She turned to Ronnie. "He's an idiot."
"He's the Ultimate Rockstar." Ronnie replied with a laugh. "He can't help himself."
"Oh brother." Jean groaned. Razor decided to use Jean's advice. He closed his blinded eyes and concentrated.
"RAHHHHHHHH!!!!" The Xantor-Hulk charged. Razor turned to Xantor's direction and smirked.
"The Kid of Rock may not have Spider-Sense, but he can always hear you coming!" Razor grinned. He did a backflip over the Jade Giant, socking him with a jarring kick to the back of the head. However, Xantor was near- invincible as the Hulk, and the blow only confused him.
"You think that little kick can hurt me?" Xantor smirked.
"Well, he certainly is smarter than the Hulk." Spidey quipped. He ended up on the receiving end of a glare from the She-Hulk. The webhead laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head. "Uh, heh heh...In a good way, of course. Heh heh." Spidey gulped. "Hoo boy."
"You got lucky this time, web-man." Jen warned. Spidey wiped his masked brow.
"Phew!" Meanwhile, Reed was examining the dome.
"If only there was a way to open the dome, we could free Razor."
"We could also end up helping Xantor out, Stretcho." Thing added. A lot of people tended to underestimate the Thing. Ben Grimm, underneath his straight-talkin', street-smart rocky exterior was a bit of a nerd as well, despite his constant bragging about being a high-school football star.
"Reed, hurry! Razor's trapped in there, and with Xantor's powers, he's widely outmatched." Sue said.
"Kid's got his hearin'." Wolverine watched Razor dodge Xantor. "But the bigmouth can't possibly match Xantor in raw power."
"Razor can't dodge forever. He'll have to fight back at some point." Scott nodded.
"He can't handle the Hulk! He's got to trick Xantor into transforming into someone weaker!" Wanda said. Razor overheard.
"Hey Xantor! You're nothing but a big fat psycho!" Razor laughed. Xantor growled.
"A psycho, am I?" Xantor morphed again. This time, he transformed into a figure in a red-and-black costume that looked like a psycho version of Spider-Man. The figure had claws, sharp teeth, and big white eyes. Red and black tendrils quivered from all over his body. "How's this for psychotic?" Spidey shuddered.
"Oh great. Carnage." He groaned. "That brings back some bad memories."
"You and me both." Cap agreed, remembering when he and Spidey faced Carnage during his first murder spree.
"Who's Carnage?" Ronnie wondered.
"Bad news for Razor!" Spidey replied. "A psychotic madman murderer with a symbiote!"
"Tell me, Razor..." Xantor formed an axe from the symbiote. "Do you like to be impaled now, or do you wish me to take a piece at a time?" Xantor threw the symbiote axe. Razor listened. He heard the whistle of the axe cutting through the air. Razor smirked.
"Nice try, Psycho boy!" Razor smirked. He twirled around, and hit the axe with his guitar like a baseball player. A couple seconds later, the axe crumbled to dust. Razor opened his eyes, and he saw a very blurry Carnage, slowly coming into focus.
"Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya!" Xantor jumped into the air, and dive- bombed down on Razor, slashing his Carnage claws. Razor ducked and dodged. When he finally got an opening, Razor blasted the demon with his guitar.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" Carnage clutched his chest, changing back into Xantor. The pain was so great, Xantor could not maintain his Carnage form. Razor's vision slowly returned, as was evidenced by the fact that his blurry vision was slowly refocusing. Razor glared at Xantor as he came back into focus.
"Razor, can you see?" Ronnie asked.
"Yeah, and I wish I couldn't." Razor glared at Xantor. "Man, he is still one ugly mother."
"Grrrrr..." Xantor growled. He rose to his feet as he slowly healed up. "I see you are smarter than you look. Using your hearing to compensate for your sight." With a grunt and some obvious effort, Xantor morphed into Sean Cassidy, the Irish former X-Man called Banshee. "Let's see how you fight without that hearing." Xantor started letting out a powerful sonic blast with his screaming.
"Yipe!" Razor leapt out of the beam's way just in time! "Deafen this, you Celine Dion-wannabe!" Razor fired some more blasts from his guitar. A couple hit the shapeshifting demon, forcing him to turn back to normal. He screamed as the Power of Rock burned his right shoulder and left leg. Razor slammed his guitar like he tried to smash it. The guitar's body got charged with energy. The Kid of Rock 'n' Roll put the guitar back on, then his body got charged with the Power of Rock. "Comin' at ya, Xantor! BON JOVI BOOSTER!!!" The energy exploded, making a huge KABLAM sound! Razor's body, covered by the Power of Rock, shot towards Xantor like a bullet out of a gun.
"What? AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!" Xantor screamed as Razor slammed into him, spearing him into the ground. The wound made on Xantor's body grew in size as more of the Power of Rock burned into his body.
"Bon Jovi Booster?" Reed scratched his head. Thing chuckled.
"Aw yeah, that's signature Razor alright."
"Who does he think he is? Cannonball?" Beast wondered.
"Razor's just doing what he does best; being the Ultimate Rockstar." Ronnie said, shaking his head. Razor whooped as he jumped to his feet.
"YEAH!!!! WHOOO!!!! I AM THE MAN!!! ALRIGHT!!!" Razor jumped around, pumping his fist. "YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!!! WHOOOO!!!!"
"Ugggghhhhhh..." Xantor growled as he struggled to get to his feet.
"I AM THE MAN!! YOU ALL WILL BOW BEFORE ME!! WHOOOO YEAH!!! AWLRIGHT!!! YEAH BABY YEAH!!! WHOOOOOO!!!! AOOW!!! I AM THE KING, BABY!!! YEAH!!!!" Razor, in his celebratory mode, was oblivious to Xantor's recovering.
"Razor, look out!" Spidey said.
What surprise did Xantor cook up now? Can Razor handle it? What're the people of Cleveland thinking about this? Can the other Marvel Super Heroes help? Find out in the next chapter of Birth of a Juke Box Hero!!
To Wizard1: I don't get why you can't get Chapter 10. Maybe it's the site.
To HyperCaz: Will Razor get his sight back? Who knows. Xantor can't morph into Razor, because it'd be suicide for him. Remember, the Power of Rock is like acid to Xantor. If he turned into Razor, he'd gain some power over the musical energy, but it'd eat him alive.
To Dylan Wiles: Yeah, Wolverine's cool. Won't stop Razor from cracking jokes, though.
To Red Witch: Here's more madness!
Previously on Birth of a Juke Box Hero: The battle intensified for Kid Razor, after the evil demon Xantor trapped the fearless super-guitarist in a special dimension, forcing the other Marvel Super Heroes to watch on helplessly. In this dimension, Xantor showed off another power he had: Shapeshifting. Using this talent, Xantor ambushed Razor by morphing into the German X-Man known as Nightcrawler, gave Razor some electroshock therapy by mimicking Spidey's old buddy Electro, then to add further insult, Xantor blinded Razor by calling upon the light-based powers of the mutant disco singer known as the Dazzler. Xantor now has the Power-of-Rock- wielding superhero on the ropes! Can Kid Razor get himself a much needed advantage? Find out next!
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"GAHHHH!!! $^#&%^#&^$(@*#!(*#*@!!!!!!!" Razor screamed and cursed as he lumbered around, hands over his eyes. "I CAN'T SEE!!!" Xantor laughed.
"Poor Kid of Rock." Xantor laughed. "You can't blast what you can't see." He did another morph. "And try this on for size! XANTOR SMASH!!!" In the form of the Incredible Hulk, Xantor charged Razor, and hit the Heavy Metal Heartbreaker with a hard kick, knocking him into one of the dome walls.
"Okay, I was miffed before, but now I'm mad!" Jen hollered, pounding the dome. "You want to impersonate Cousin Brucie!?!? Now you've gotten me cheesed! You made your point, Xantor! Now let him out!" Spider-Man groaned.
"Hey Xantor, give the kid a chance to see, huh?" Spidey snapped. Xantor smirked at the heroes.
"The Kid of Rock chose to run his mouth. He should never have let his mouth make a promise his body cannot keep."
"Jean!" Ronnie whispered to Jean Grey. "Tell Razor to use his hearing. Razor has superhuman hearing. Tell him to use his ears until he can use his eyes." The red-haired telepath nodded in understanding. She concentrated.
{Razor...Razor...Come in, Razor...} Jean telepathically contacted the screaming and cursing Razor.
{THAT %^$&@#!!! I'LL KILL HIM!!!! HE'A A $%&#$@ DEAD DEMON!!!!} Razor mentally roared.
{RAZOR, SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE!!!} Jean snapped.
{Hey, babe.} Razor grinned, but he then sighed when he saw the state of her astral self. {Aw nuts! How come you ain't naked?} Jean rolled her eyes.
{Knock it off. Listen, your hearing! Use your hearing to fight! You can't see, but you can use your hearing! Xantor has just a big a mouth as you do. Use the noise he makes to track him. Your ears are sensitive enough.}
{Thanks for the tip, babe. Now here's one for you: Next time you enter the Kid of Rock's mind, wear something a little more...revealing.} Jean, with a grunt, left Razor's mind. She turned to Ronnie. "He's an idiot."
"He's the Ultimate Rockstar." Ronnie replied with a laugh. "He can't help himself."
"Oh brother." Jean groaned. Razor decided to use Jean's advice. He closed his blinded eyes and concentrated.
"RAHHHHHHHH!!!!" The Xantor-Hulk charged. Razor turned to Xantor's direction and smirked.
"The Kid of Rock may not have Spider-Sense, but he can always hear you coming!" Razor grinned. He did a backflip over the Jade Giant, socking him with a jarring kick to the back of the head. However, Xantor was near- invincible as the Hulk, and the blow only confused him.
"You think that little kick can hurt me?" Xantor smirked.
"Well, he certainly is smarter than the Hulk." Spidey quipped. He ended up on the receiving end of a glare from the She-Hulk. The webhead laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head. "Uh, heh heh...In a good way, of course. Heh heh." Spidey gulped. "Hoo boy."
"You got lucky this time, web-man." Jen warned. Spidey wiped his masked brow.
"Phew!" Meanwhile, Reed was examining the dome.
"If only there was a way to open the dome, we could free Razor."
"We could also end up helping Xantor out, Stretcho." Thing added. A lot of people tended to underestimate the Thing. Ben Grimm, underneath his straight-talkin', street-smart rocky exterior was a bit of a nerd as well, despite his constant bragging about being a high-school football star.
"Reed, hurry! Razor's trapped in there, and with Xantor's powers, he's widely outmatched." Sue said.
"Kid's got his hearin'." Wolverine watched Razor dodge Xantor. "But the bigmouth can't possibly match Xantor in raw power."
"Razor can't dodge forever. He'll have to fight back at some point." Scott nodded.
"He can't handle the Hulk! He's got to trick Xantor into transforming into someone weaker!" Wanda said. Razor overheard.
"Hey Xantor! You're nothing but a big fat psycho!" Razor laughed. Xantor growled.
"A psycho, am I?" Xantor morphed again. This time, he transformed into a figure in a red-and-black costume that looked like a psycho version of Spider-Man. The figure had claws, sharp teeth, and big white eyes. Red and black tendrils quivered from all over his body. "How's this for psychotic?" Spidey shuddered.
"Oh great. Carnage." He groaned. "That brings back some bad memories."
"You and me both." Cap agreed, remembering when he and Spidey faced Carnage during his first murder spree.
"Who's Carnage?" Ronnie wondered.
"Bad news for Razor!" Spidey replied. "A psychotic madman murderer with a symbiote!"
"Tell me, Razor..." Xantor formed an axe from the symbiote. "Do you like to be impaled now, or do you wish me to take a piece at a time?" Xantor threw the symbiote axe. Razor listened. He heard the whistle of the axe cutting through the air. Razor smirked.
"Nice try, Psycho boy!" Razor smirked. He twirled around, and hit the axe with his guitar like a baseball player. A couple seconds later, the axe crumbled to dust. Razor opened his eyes, and he saw a very blurry Carnage, slowly coming into focus.
"Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya!" Xantor jumped into the air, and dive- bombed down on Razor, slashing his Carnage claws. Razor ducked and dodged. When he finally got an opening, Razor blasted the demon with his guitar.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" Carnage clutched his chest, changing back into Xantor. The pain was so great, Xantor could not maintain his Carnage form. Razor's vision slowly returned, as was evidenced by the fact that his blurry vision was slowly refocusing. Razor glared at Xantor as he came back into focus.
"Razor, can you see?" Ronnie asked.
"Yeah, and I wish I couldn't." Razor glared at Xantor. "Man, he is still one ugly mother."
"Grrrrr..." Xantor growled. He rose to his feet as he slowly healed up. "I see you are smarter than you look. Using your hearing to compensate for your sight." With a grunt and some obvious effort, Xantor morphed into Sean Cassidy, the Irish former X-Man called Banshee. "Let's see how you fight without that hearing." Xantor started letting out a powerful sonic blast with his screaming.
"Yipe!" Razor leapt out of the beam's way just in time! "Deafen this, you Celine Dion-wannabe!" Razor fired some more blasts from his guitar. A couple hit the shapeshifting demon, forcing him to turn back to normal. He screamed as the Power of Rock burned his right shoulder and left leg. Razor slammed his guitar like he tried to smash it. The guitar's body got charged with energy. The Kid of Rock 'n' Roll put the guitar back on, then his body got charged with the Power of Rock. "Comin' at ya, Xantor! BON JOVI BOOSTER!!!" The energy exploded, making a huge KABLAM sound! Razor's body, covered by the Power of Rock, shot towards Xantor like a bullet out of a gun.
"What? AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!" Xantor screamed as Razor slammed into him, spearing him into the ground. The wound made on Xantor's body grew in size as more of the Power of Rock burned into his body.
"Bon Jovi Booster?" Reed scratched his head. Thing chuckled.
"Aw yeah, that's signature Razor alright."
"Who does he think he is? Cannonball?" Beast wondered.
"Razor's just doing what he does best; being the Ultimate Rockstar." Ronnie said, shaking his head. Razor whooped as he jumped to his feet.
"YEAH!!!! WHOOO!!!! I AM THE MAN!!! ALRIGHT!!!" Razor jumped around, pumping his fist. "YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!!! WHOOOO!!!!"
"Ugggghhhhhh..." Xantor growled as he struggled to get to his feet.
"I AM THE MAN!! YOU ALL WILL BOW BEFORE ME!! WHOOOO YEAH!!! AWLRIGHT!!! YEAH BABY YEAH!!! WHOOOOOO!!!! AOOW!!! I AM THE KING, BABY!!! YEAH!!!!" Razor, in his celebratory mode, was oblivious to Xantor's recovering.
"Razor, look out!" Spidey said.
What surprise did Xantor cook up now? Can Razor handle it? What're the people of Cleveland thinking about this? Can the other Marvel Super Heroes help? Find out in the next chapter of Birth of a Juke Box Hero!!