Chapter 1: Zedd's Back!
It was the middle of a hot day in the Sahara. Reed's parents and their co-workers had been digging for almost a month and a half and still found nothing. This bored Reed to death. For him, there was nothing to do but sit in front of the fan and read. He hated reading!
One of the diggers then hit something. Removing the dirt from around it, he noticed it was something metallic. He dug a little deeper until he found that he had uncovered a metallic "Z." "Hey, Luke!" he cried. "Take a look at this!" Luke Brand, Reed's father, came over to his friend. "What is it?" he asked. "Well," the digger answered, "it's not much, but it could be valuable." "Reed might be interested in this," Luke said.
"Reed!" his mom called. "Come here, we've found something that may interest you." "Interest me?" Reed said to himself quietly. "Fat chance." He then said, "Coming, mom."
Reed came out to where the others were. To his surprise, what he saw did interest him! "What do suppose it is?" asked another one of his dad's co-workers. "I don't know," Luke answered. "Let's get it out of the ground." Three diggers then started digging around it. "What are you doing that for?" Reed asked. "Just pull it out of the ground!" Reed's mom then said, "Reed, that was rude! You apologize right now!" Reed ignored her and went over to where they were digging. He then grabbed the Z and pulled it out of the ground effortlessly. This surprised everyone, except Reed. That dirt wasn't supposed to be soft enough for him to pull that object out of the ground!
Once it was free, it was revealed that Reed was holding a staff. The moment it was out of the ground, energy began to envelope his body. "Yes! Yes!" Reed yelled triumphantly in his normal voice. "It has chosen me!" "What is that thing?" a digger asked through the noise. "Power, you puny wimp!" said Reed, now in a deeper, more evil voice. "This is power!" Then his body began to change. Everyone watched in horror as he grew taller and more muscular. His skin shredded off, revealing his muscles and brain. Metal began to literally grow from different points in his body, including a horn with a smaller Z on top of his head. His mouth was now a metallic mouthpiece and his eyes were now a glowing red visor. Reed's mom asked, "Reed, what's happening to you?" "Reed?" said the new villain mockingly. "Reed no long exists! I am Lord Zedd, emperor of all I see!" He then held his staff high in the air and from the points of view of his parents and their co-workers, everything went black.
When everything was clear, the newly reincarnated Lord Zedd was the only one standing. He then tapped the bottom of his staff on the ground. Once he did, Goldar and Scorpina appeared along with several Z putties. "My emperor," Goldar said bowing. "It is good to see you again." "Spare me the chit-chat, Goldar," Zedd said. He then blasted one of the putties with his staff, causing it to fall. He blasted it again and disguised it as Reed. "Lord Zedd, why did you do that?" asked Scorpina. "To avoid suspicion," he answered. "That way, anyone who comes here will think everyone died, but they won't know how. Come, it is time for us to rebuild our power base." The evil trio then teleported away.
Meanwhile, on a distant planet, alarms began blaring like mad. "Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi!" screamed Alpha 5 as he frantically tried to figure out what was wrong. "A massive surge of evil energy is overloading our sensors!" A male voice said, "This is the day I have feared for centuries. The second Z staff of Lord Zedd has been discovered. We must travel to earth and stop." "But how are we going to do that?" a female voice asked. "With a little help from some old friends," said the male voice. "Preparing for teleportation," said Alpha. He pressed a few buttons, and the three figures teleported toward Earth.