LSH: THE EVIL DR REGULUS

By Bruce Wayne

Based on the plot in Adventure Comics 348 "Target: 21 Legionnaires"
by Jim Shooter

Disclaimer: The characters that appear in this story belong to DC Comics.
I am writing this for pleasure, and sharing it with friends. I am, in no
way, getting paid for it.



CHAPTER 11 - REGULUS HAS HIS WAY


A very unconscious Phantom Girl lay prone on the floor of the
bridge of Regulus' ship. She was unmoving. Her angelic-like face looked
straight up with her eyes closed.

Only a cackle of a laugh was heard and the evil Dr Regulus, with
lust in his eyes, was on his hands and knees crawling toward the unmoving
form of the female Legionnaire. Slowly he crawled over her body without
taking his eyes off her lovely face.

Still on his hands and knees but not quite touching the young
Tinya, Regulus layed above her prone body on extended arms.

"Ah, my future queen of the universe ... so lovely ... we'll
preside over thousands of worlds!" he said to her.

Regulus brushed a strand of her dark hair away from her eyes.
He couldn't resist the temptation and kissed her unresponsive lips. He
moved his head back up and looked at her again and found himself
becoming aroused. The evil scientist began kissing her neck and
started fondling the unconscious young woman.

His hands started to pull at and unclasp the belt at her waist.
Regulus had some difficulty and had to raise himself off of Phantom Girl
in order to undressher.

He never got that far. A hard kick to his solar plexus stopped
him cold and he rolled off of Tinya's body. His roll ended with him on
his stomach and he started to rise when he sustained another kick to
the abdominal area. This time, he heard an accompanied female-sounding
"Uhhhh!" along with it.

Duo Damsel was hitting Regulus with everything she had. While
stunned by the blows, he started to get to his knees, and was promptly
slammed down to the floor by the angry girl, who had woke up from the
effects of the sleeping gas before Tinya. Luornu had clasped her hands
and crashed her arms and body down on Regulus' back.

She rolled away from him and screamed, "TINYA! Wake up!"

The brave Legionnaire split into two as she saw her opponent
start to get up. Duo Damsel-2 grabbed Regulus' right wrist and pulled
his arm out straight as Duo Damsel-1 punched him with everything she
had into the jaw with a right cross.

Regulus dropped to the floor like a sack of potatoes, seemingly
out cold.

Duo Damsel rejoined herself and rushed to Tinya's side. Luornu
picked Phantom Girl's head up and cradled it her arms.

"Tinya ... Tinya ... are you okay?"

Phantom Girl began to stir and slowly opened her eyes.
"Wh-what ...? Wh-wh-where am I?"

"It's okay, Tinya. You're alright."

"Lu? What happened? Where are we?"

"I guess we beat the boys to the bridge," she smiled.

"Indeed you have," a deep voice said from the other side of
the ship's bridge.

Both heads of the Legionnaires turned toward the voice.

Regulus stood smiling at them with one hand on some sort of
lever. Looking at Phantom Girl in particular, he said, "I see that
I let your beauty distract me from the real purpose of my mission."

"And what might that be?" Luornu asked.

"To rule the universe, of course!" he laughed. He looked
Tinya straight in the eye and said, "And you, my darling, will be
my consort!"

Shocked, Tinya screeched, "Me?!"

"The Galaxy shall be yours! Just be at my side -- I must
have you."

Nausea was one of the many emotional feelings Phantom Girl
was going through. The thought of being with someone ... "someTHING"
... like Regulus was revolting. She wanted to run.

"Oh my stars!" was all Duo Damsel could say. "Tinya, this
old guy is off his rocker."

"You're telling me, Lu?!" Tinya said in a frantic voice.

"Why is it everyone wants to take over the universe?"
Duo Damsel asked Phantom Girl.

"Whoooo cares?! He says he wants ME!"

Luornu turned back to the man on the other side of the room.
"Uh, Mr ...? I'm sorry, we don't even know your name?" she asked
sweetly.

"It's DOCTOR to you! Doctor Regulus! I should kill you for
stopping me a few minutes ago."

Tinya asked Duo Damsel, "Stopped him? What's he talking
about?"

It was Luornu who now became nervous. Not wanting a screaming
girlfriend on her hands at this particular moment, she merely said,
"I'll tell you later, Tinya."

Duo Damsel turned back to the mad scientist. "Doctor Regulus,
surely you must realize that such an ambitous plan couldn't be ..."

"Enough! I will hear no more from you, female! You have
interferred and for that you shall pay."

Hearing him threaten her friend angered Phantom Girl. "Hey!
We're ..."

Both girls screamed as Regulus pulled down on the lever and
an electrical-like bolt came from stun guns above them and shocked
both Legionnaires back into unsconsciousness.

Once more, Dr Regulus just laughed.


***


In another corridor, only two levels below the bridge,
Superboy was moving rather quickly. He came across what appeared
to be two ancient suits of medieval armor.

"Strange," he said to himself, certainly not expecting to
see such things on a 30th century ship.

He stopped to examine the armor more closely. Suddenly,
they began to move quickly and Superboy began to feel weak. The
only thing that could make him feel this weak was ... "Kryptonite,"
he said.

The two suits of armor, which were in reality more of
Dr Regulus' robots, tossed a green chain of Kryptonite around
the Boy of Steel. Green K clamps were locked to his wrist so
he couldn't throw the chain off.

The two robots wrapped the deadly chain around and around
Superboy. The pain he was feeling was intense. He was growing weaker
and weaker by the second.

Within moments, the mightest member of the Legion team was
unconscious from the pain and had been easily captured by Dr Regulus!

***

Back on Earth, at Metropolis Nuclear Power Plant No. 9, Sun
Boy was starting to wake up in one of the nuclear reactor rooms. He
felt better. Dirk came under the realization that he now knew who
he was again. But he wasn't sure what he was doing in this room.

As Brainiac 5 would later tell Sun Boy, the nuclear radiation
that he was exposed to apparently cleared his memory and allowed him
to remember who he was.

All he knew was that he didn't belong where he presently was
and rushed out of the room in search of his comrades. He wasn't sure,
but his gut told him that they were in trouble.


TO BE CONTINUED ....


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