LSH: The Battle For The Universe
By Bruce Wayne
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, I'm just borrowing then for a while.
The characters are owned by DC Comics and I'm writing this just for the fun of
it.
CHAPTER 17 - LEGIONNAIRE VS. LEGIONNAIRE
It wasn't long after Tazz escaped from the Legion clubhouse that
a Mark III cruiser flew to Hawaii and five Legionnaires were making another
deep-sea dive. Invisible Kid was notified while en route by Karate Kid in the
Communications Room that Phantom Girl was unable to track Tazz in the
fourth dimension. The five Legionnaires -- Invisible Kid, Brainiac 5, Sun Boy,
Shrinking Violet and Ultra Boy -- approached the sea-hatch door of the dome,
wary of blast-rays that did not blaze forth.
"That' s funny," said the Legion's leader uneasily. "If Tazz is back in
control of the dome, having somehow taken Colossal Boy prisoner, why
wouldn't he fire his rays at us? He wants us to come in. That spells -- and
smells like -- a trap."
"We'll be ready for anything," Ultra Boy said grimly.
But they were scarcely prepared for the stunning surprise awaiting
them ... being confronted by the huge menacing figure of Colossal Boy when
they stepped inside the sea hatch into the dome. Behind Gim stood Tazz.
"Ah, meet my bodyguard," Tazz announced gloatingly, "under my
electro-hypnotic control ... the other device I made in your lab. Go after
them, Colossal Boy."
The giant sprang among them, a human hurricane in action. One
mighty blow of his hand flung Sun Boy ten yards. His other balled fist
cracked against Invisible Kid's chin and sent him thudding against the
wall. One huge boot swung up and propelled Ultra Boy away like a ball
and he tumbled between two crossbeams and wedged fast. Luckily, he
had his invulnerability turned on.
Only Violet and Brainiac 5, who had turned on his force-field, had
escaped the giant's fury. Violet swiftly shrank to insect size and was flying
around frantically.
She listened in horror at what came next, while three Legionnaires
lay out cold, or too dazed to move.
"Finish them off, Colossal Boy," ordered Tazz. "Pick up that iron
club and see that nothing recognizable remains of them. Go ... do as I say."
But Colossal Boy was hesitating, a bewildered look on his face,
like that of someone coming out of a dream. "But they ... my friends," he
said brokenly. "Won't ... can't harm them."
"Hmm, I see you need another dose of my hypno-ray," snapped
Tazz. "Evidently your Legionnaire minds are so strongly loyal to one another
that it takes repeated hypnotic dosages to keep you under control. All
right ..."
While Brainy attended to the others, Violet helplessly watched Tazz
shine his headband device at Colossal Boy, who again subsided into a mind-
less slave with slack jaws and transfixed stare. In a trance, at Tazz's
repeated command, the mighty teen picked up a huge spiked iron club
that lay ready and strode toward the nearest limp Legionnaire.
But the delay, while Colossal Boy was being re-hypnotized, had
given the three Legionnaires a chance to come to, their senses swimming
back. So when Gim's murderous club swung down at Invisible Kid, Lyle
sprang away, gasping in horror at the first sight his eyes had seen after
opening.
"Colossal Boy is berserk!" yelled Lyle as he turned invisible. With
the help of Brainiac 5, Sun Boy began to stir and Ultra Boy was extricating
himself out of the wall. "Run for it. Hide in the dome somewhere till we can
figure out what to do," ordered Invisible Kid.
There was no chance to gain the sea hatch and their deep-sea boat.
Their only chance was somehow to survive within the dome itself, stalked by
a mad giant. Lyle reappeared and gave Brainy a hand with Sun Boy and they
yanked Dirk to his feet. Lyle patted Dirk's cheek a few times in an attempt to
wake him up faster. Then the three of them rushed to where Ultra Boy was
wedged.
The three began pulling and tossing bits and pieces of steel away
from Jo and helped pull him free. Then the four of them dashed away, just
in time, before the lumbering Colossal Boy could get within club range of
them.
"This way," ordered Lyle, darting among a group of curved cross-
beams, where they all converged. "Plenty of cover for us."
Following Colossal Boy, Tazz shouted, "You won't escape this
dome alive, Legionnaires. You're only prolonging the inevitable. Still, maybe
it's better this way. Through Colossal Boy, I'll have the excitement of
stalking and hunting you down, like wild animals for the kill. Thanks for
giving me some fine sport."
Violet shivered at the villian's fiendishness. But what could she do?
With tears in her eyes, she flew onto Colossal Boy's shoulder.
"I see you on my wrist-monitor, female," warned Tazz. "However
you cannot stop us. After Colossal Boy takes care of your four friends, I'll
send him after you with a fly-swatter," he laughed.
Violet turned pale and darted into a crack, trembling. Would it all
end in this tragic way, down in this isolated sea-dome?
Colossal Boy went charging among the maze of converging cross-
beams, but he was handicapped in swinging his club or in leaping, and his
agile quarry easily evaded his blows.
"Take a rest, Colossal Boy," ordered Tazz, hearing the giant wheeze
from his exertions. "It's time for re-hypnosis anyway. Come back to me."
This gave the four male Legionnaires a respite. Going into a huddle,
they were joined by Violet, who settled on Invisible Kid's shoulder.
"There's no protective aura around Tazz," stated Brainiac 5. "We
destroyed his force-field belt last time, and he has had no time to make
another. Therefore he's depending on Colossal Boy to shield him from us."
"We'd be on more equal footing," observed Lyle, "if we could get
that club out of Colossal Boy's hands. But that would be a miracle."
"Just what I specialize in," boasted Sun Boy. "I'll do it with a little
heat."
"Good!" said Invisible Kid. "Then each of us will tackle Colossal
Boy in turn -- Ultra Boy, Sun Boy, and myself, in that order -- trying to
weaken or defeat him. If all three of us tried at once, we'd get in each other's
way.
"Y-you won't hurt him, will you?" begged Violet with a sob in her
voice.
Lyle shook his head reassuringly. "We'll only try to knock him out,
Vi. But remember, the fate of Earth and of future worlds, is at stake. If we
fail to defeat him" -- Invisible Kid's face went deadly grim -- "then we'll
have to do whatever we can to win."
The tiny girl in green on his shoulder went white with shock. But
she said nothing against what plainly had to be. She flew off to find a
quiet corner to relieve the pent-up emotion within her.
"It'll break Violet's heart," murmurred Sun Boy, "if we have to use
plan two against Colossal Boy. We can't let that happen ..."
He stopped, flushing in embarrassment as the other three stared
at him in surprise.
"Look," he growled, "I don't mind beating her brains out in repartee.
But I steer clear of her heart."
"Amazing," said Ultra Boy to Lyle. "That guy is human after all."
"Hardly the witty cynic he pretends to be," agreed Brainiac 5.
"Okay, do your stuff now, Dirk," Lyle said and gave him a pat on
his shoulder.
Sun Boy crouched and crept away warily, peering over a beam
and through a latticework cross support.
Across the huge domed chamber, Tazz was ordering Colossal Boy
back into action, striding forward with his huge spiked club. Noiselessly,
Sun Boy moved in closer.
Dirk took careful aim and projected a heat blast that struck the
club and amazingly made half its length burn bright red.
"That thing must be getting pretty hot for him to hold," whispered
Sun Boy for the benefit of Lyle, Jo and Brainy behind him. "I just heated
up the upper half, I didn't want to burn him."
Dirk even took closer aim this next time and fired a heat blast near
Colossal Boy's hand that was holding the club. This time Gim felt the heat
and had to fling the club away. It still glowed bright red.
"It should stay that way for a while," said Sun Boy. "Colossal Boy
should've felt enough heat that would floor an elephant. However, he's not
an elephant but a Legionnaire, so he'll recover."
Pulling himself together, Colossal Boy strode forward, egged on by
Tazz. "So they eliminated your club," Tazz said, "but you still have two giant
clubs left -- your mighty hands. Smash the Legionnaires, Colossal Boy!"
"This is it," breathed Ultra Boy, dashing out of hiding to tackle the
teen-mountain. Jo flew forward with head down, slamming into Colossal
Boy's chest like a human battering ram.
Colossal Boy rocked back on his heels. That was all. Then he
straddled his legs, waiting for more. Jo began leaping and hit Gim will
blows from his fist, each one packing an incredible wallop.
Ultra Boy aimed again and again, raining blows at Colossal Boy's
face, chin, shoulders, mid-section, belt level. Gim's flesh quivered at each
spot under the impact, but he was not knocked down, not even brought
to one knee. He just withstood the storm passively, patiently. Ultra Boy
didn't dare to use all his strength.
"Tough?" muttered Jo to himself. "That big guy must be made of
iron harder than Ferro Lad." Then he spotted something. "Hmm ..."
Ultra Boy swooped around in the air and aimed his flash-vision
downward where some explosive material detonated violently and blew
a foot-wide crater in the concrete flooring of the dome, not more than
ten feet in front of Colossal Boy."
The concussion of the blast blew Colossal Boy off his feet and he
tumbled backward into a crossbeam that bent under his weight.
"Careful, Ultra Boy," Brainiac 5 yelled. "We don't want to bring
this dome down on ourselves."
By all odds, the titan should have passed out from the bruising
shock. But astounded Ultra Boy saw Colossal Boy clamber to his feet,
shake his head, then brandish his fists defiantly with all the massive power
he had before.
"Truly, this huge human is superhuman," said Tazz, himself impressed.
Then his voice rang out mockingly, "Come on, you Legionnaires. Try to
defeat this Legionnaire."
Ultra Boy closed in desperately, trying to hover on even keel with
Colossal Boy and hammer away at him with his steel-like hands.
Colossal Boy slammed back, in turn. Ultra Boy had to keep
switching his powers from super-strength to invulnerability. But even
though he was invulnerable, he could still feel the thuds of Gim's
hammering fists. And though Jo was, in effect, pulling his punches so not
to do any real damage to Colossal Boy. Gim, however, was not pulling
his punches and was hitting Ultra Boy with everything he had. And one
of Colossal Boy's fantastic blows sent Jo flying again across the floor
like a hockey puck, to end up against a steel post.
As Invisible Kid and Brainiac 5 dashed up to Jo and helped him
to his feet, Ultra Boy was a little groggy. "M-man, he hit me with every-
thing he had."
"Don't let it throw you," said Invisible Kid. "Remember, none of
us has ever had an all-out fight with Colossal Boy, for keeps. We just never
knew what a human powerhouse he was. Well, your turn, Sun Boy, good
luck."
"Uh, gee, thanks, leader man!" Sun Boy replied. "Look what he just
did to Jo, here."
Springing out into the open, with a clear shot toward Colossal Boy
across the floor. Sun Boy let loose with blinding light to cause Gim's eyes
to blur.
Straight and true, Dirk then let loose with a heat blast toward
Colossal Boy's feet, in essence to give Gim a hot foot. Like Ultra Boy,
Sun Boy didn't dare hit Colossal Boy with everything he had.
Watching from her aerial perch, Violet's blood froze. Flames
shot up at Colossal Boy's feet, but he just kept walking menacingly
toward his tormentor. Sun Boy tried another tactic. He aimed a heat blast
at Gim's chest. His uniform was singed but that was about it. Colossal Boy
kept coming.
"He's about as vulnerable as a brick wall," Sun Boy growled to
himself, unsure of what else to do other than blasting Colossal Boy with
everything he could muster.
Watching , Violet tried to choke down unwilling pride that welled
up in her. She was amazed at Gim's ability and determination. Her face went
gaunt. "But we don't want him to win, because then Tazz wins. Oh, Gim,
don't fight your best ... please ... please ..."
But Tazz, re-enforcing his hypnotic control with another charge of
the mental slave-ray, was exhorting: "Battle your best, Colossal Boy, as
you've never fought before."
"I obey, master," growled the titan, caught in his spell.
Sun Boy had one more trick up his sleeve. As Colossal Boy
continued to advance him, Dirk waved his arms and threw up an incredible
wall of flame, heat and brilliant light.
Colossal Boy stopped short of the wall of flame. The air near him
was getting bad and was being sucked in by the flames. Gim began
wheezing and fighting for air. His face was red. But he just dropped down
to the floor and started gulping the better air into his lungs. He started
crawling toward Sun Boy, going under the wall of flame.
Sun Boy groaned, "That guy isn't human."
In one bravely mad last try at victory, or at the very least, try to
slow the teen-mountain down, Dirk let loose with volley's of bright light --
one after the other, in an attempt to blind Colossal Boy.
But Colossal Boy just shrugged the blinding light off with little
grunts then seized Sun Boy by the arm and flung him through the air
like some debris that had gotten in his way.
"He went up so high he'll be killed by the drop," gloated Tazz.
Violet put horrified hands in front of her tiny face. "oh, no ... no!"
she thought ... that big tease ... every bone in his body will break.
In mid-air, twisting agiley, Sun Boy straightened his position and
his Legion Flight Ring did the rest. Dirk came down slowly and in total
control to land gently on the floor, no worse for wear. He landed about
two feet near Invisible Kid and Brainiac 5, who were in shock.
"Did you guys think I was a goner?" chided Sun Boy. But the
flippant tone in his voice ended, replaced with dismay. "Two down, one
to go ... against Colossal Boy -- and we're not winning."
To be continued ...
By Bruce Wayne
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, I'm just borrowing then for a while.
The characters are owned by DC Comics and I'm writing this just for the fun of
it.
CHAPTER 17 - LEGIONNAIRE VS. LEGIONNAIRE
It wasn't long after Tazz escaped from the Legion clubhouse that
a Mark III cruiser flew to Hawaii and five Legionnaires were making another
deep-sea dive. Invisible Kid was notified while en route by Karate Kid in the
Communications Room that Phantom Girl was unable to track Tazz in the
fourth dimension. The five Legionnaires -- Invisible Kid, Brainiac 5, Sun Boy,
Shrinking Violet and Ultra Boy -- approached the sea-hatch door of the dome,
wary of blast-rays that did not blaze forth.
"That' s funny," said the Legion's leader uneasily. "If Tazz is back in
control of the dome, having somehow taken Colossal Boy prisoner, why
wouldn't he fire his rays at us? He wants us to come in. That spells -- and
smells like -- a trap."
"We'll be ready for anything," Ultra Boy said grimly.
But they were scarcely prepared for the stunning surprise awaiting
them ... being confronted by the huge menacing figure of Colossal Boy when
they stepped inside the sea hatch into the dome. Behind Gim stood Tazz.
"Ah, meet my bodyguard," Tazz announced gloatingly, "under my
electro-hypnotic control ... the other device I made in your lab. Go after
them, Colossal Boy."
The giant sprang among them, a human hurricane in action. One
mighty blow of his hand flung Sun Boy ten yards. His other balled fist
cracked against Invisible Kid's chin and sent him thudding against the
wall. One huge boot swung up and propelled Ultra Boy away like a ball
and he tumbled between two crossbeams and wedged fast. Luckily, he
had his invulnerability turned on.
Only Violet and Brainiac 5, who had turned on his force-field, had
escaped the giant's fury. Violet swiftly shrank to insect size and was flying
around frantically.
She listened in horror at what came next, while three Legionnaires
lay out cold, or too dazed to move.
"Finish them off, Colossal Boy," ordered Tazz. "Pick up that iron
club and see that nothing recognizable remains of them. Go ... do as I say."
But Colossal Boy was hesitating, a bewildered look on his face,
like that of someone coming out of a dream. "But they ... my friends," he
said brokenly. "Won't ... can't harm them."
"Hmm, I see you need another dose of my hypno-ray," snapped
Tazz. "Evidently your Legionnaire minds are so strongly loyal to one another
that it takes repeated hypnotic dosages to keep you under control. All
right ..."
While Brainy attended to the others, Violet helplessly watched Tazz
shine his headband device at Colossal Boy, who again subsided into a mind-
less slave with slack jaws and transfixed stare. In a trance, at Tazz's
repeated command, the mighty teen picked up a huge spiked iron club
that lay ready and strode toward the nearest limp Legionnaire.
But the delay, while Colossal Boy was being re-hypnotized, had
given the three Legionnaires a chance to come to, their senses swimming
back. So when Gim's murderous club swung down at Invisible Kid, Lyle
sprang away, gasping in horror at the first sight his eyes had seen after
opening.
"Colossal Boy is berserk!" yelled Lyle as he turned invisible. With
the help of Brainiac 5, Sun Boy began to stir and Ultra Boy was extricating
himself out of the wall. "Run for it. Hide in the dome somewhere till we can
figure out what to do," ordered Invisible Kid.
There was no chance to gain the sea hatch and their deep-sea boat.
Their only chance was somehow to survive within the dome itself, stalked by
a mad giant. Lyle reappeared and gave Brainy a hand with Sun Boy and they
yanked Dirk to his feet. Lyle patted Dirk's cheek a few times in an attempt to
wake him up faster. Then the three of them rushed to where Ultra Boy was
wedged.
The three began pulling and tossing bits and pieces of steel away
from Jo and helped pull him free. Then the four of them dashed away, just
in time, before the lumbering Colossal Boy could get within club range of
them.
"This way," ordered Lyle, darting among a group of curved cross-
beams, where they all converged. "Plenty of cover for us."
Following Colossal Boy, Tazz shouted, "You won't escape this
dome alive, Legionnaires. You're only prolonging the inevitable. Still, maybe
it's better this way. Through Colossal Boy, I'll have the excitement of
stalking and hunting you down, like wild animals for the kill. Thanks for
giving me some fine sport."
Violet shivered at the villian's fiendishness. But what could she do?
With tears in her eyes, she flew onto Colossal Boy's shoulder.
"I see you on my wrist-monitor, female," warned Tazz. "However
you cannot stop us. After Colossal Boy takes care of your four friends, I'll
send him after you with a fly-swatter," he laughed.
Violet turned pale and darted into a crack, trembling. Would it all
end in this tragic way, down in this isolated sea-dome?
Colossal Boy went charging among the maze of converging cross-
beams, but he was handicapped in swinging his club or in leaping, and his
agile quarry easily evaded his blows.
"Take a rest, Colossal Boy," ordered Tazz, hearing the giant wheeze
from his exertions. "It's time for re-hypnosis anyway. Come back to me."
This gave the four male Legionnaires a respite. Going into a huddle,
they were joined by Violet, who settled on Invisible Kid's shoulder.
"There's no protective aura around Tazz," stated Brainiac 5. "We
destroyed his force-field belt last time, and he has had no time to make
another. Therefore he's depending on Colossal Boy to shield him from us."
"We'd be on more equal footing," observed Lyle, "if we could get
that club out of Colossal Boy's hands. But that would be a miracle."
"Just what I specialize in," boasted Sun Boy. "I'll do it with a little
heat."
"Good!" said Invisible Kid. "Then each of us will tackle Colossal
Boy in turn -- Ultra Boy, Sun Boy, and myself, in that order -- trying to
weaken or defeat him. If all three of us tried at once, we'd get in each other's
way.
"Y-you won't hurt him, will you?" begged Violet with a sob in her
voice.
Lyle shook his head reassuringly. "We'll only try to knock him out,
Vi. But remember, the fate of Earth and of future worlds, is at stake. If we
fail to defeat him" -- Invisible Kid's face went deadly grim -- "then we'll
have to do whatever we can to win."
The tiny girl in green on his shoulder went white with shock. But
she said nothing against what plainly had to be. She flew off to find a
quiet corner to relieve the pent-up emotion within her.
"It'll break Violet's heart," murmurred Sun Boy, "if we have to use
plan two against Colossal Boy. We can't let that happen ..."
He stopped, flushing in embarrassment as the other three stared
at him in surprise.
"Look," he growled, "I don't mind beating her brains out in repartee.
But I steer clear of her heart."
"Amazing," said Ultra Boy to Lyle. "That guy is human after all."
"Hardly the witty cynic he pretends to be," agreed Brainiac 5.
"Okay, do your stuff now, Dirk," Lyle said and gave him a pat on
his shoulder.
Sun Boy crouched and crept away warily, peering over a beam
and through a latticework cross support.
Across the huge domed chamber, Tazz was ordering Colossal Boy
back into action, striding forward with his huge spiked club. Noiselessly,
Sun Boy moved in closer.
Dirk took careful aim and projected a heat blast that struck the
club and amazingly made half its length burn bright red.
"That thing must be getting pretty hot for him to hold," whispered
Sun Boy for the benefit of Lyle, Jo and Brainy behind him. "I just heated
up the upper half, I didn't want to burn him."
Dirk even took closer aim this next time and fired a heat blast near
Colossal Boy's hand that was holding the club. This time Gim felt the heat
and had to fling the club away. It still glowed bright red.
"It should stay that way for a while," said Sun Boy. "Colossal Boy
should've felt enough heat that would floor an elephant. However, he's not
an elephant but a Legionnaire, so he'll recover."
Pulling himself together, Colossal Boy strode forward, egged on by
Tazz. "So they eliminated your club," Tazz said, "but you still have two giant
clubs left -- your mighty hands. Smash the Legionnaires, Colossal Boy!"
"This is it," breathed Ultra Boy, dashing out of hiding to tackle the
teen-mountain. Jo flew forward with head down, slamming into Colossal
Boy's chest like a human battering ram.
Colossal Boy rocked back on his heels. That was all. Then he
straddled his legs, waiting for more. Jo began leaping and hit Gim will
blows from his fist, each one packing an incredible wallop.
Ultra Boy aimed again and again, raining blows at Colossal Boy's
face, chin, shoulders, mid-section, belt level. Gim's flesh quivered at each
spot under the impact, but he was not knocked down, not even brought
to one knee. He just withstood the storm passively, patiently. Ultra Boy
didn't dare to use all his strength.
"Tough?" muttered Jo to himself. "That big guy must be made of
iron harder than Ferro Lad." Then he spotted something. "Hmm ..."
Ultra Boy swooped around in the air and aimed his flash-vision
downward where some explosive material detonated violently and blew
a foot-wide crater in the concrete flooring of the dome, not more than
ten feet in front of Colossal Boy."
The concussion of the blast blew Colossal Boy off his feet and he
tumbled backward into a crossbeam that bent under his weight.
"Careful, Ultra Boy," Brainiac 5 yelled. "We don't want to bring
this dome down on ourselves."
By all odds, the titan should have passed out from the bruising
shock. But astounded Ultra Boy saw Colossal Boy clamber to his feet,
shake his head, then brandish his fists defiantly with all the massive power
he had before.
"Truly, this huge human is superhuman," said Tazz, himself impressed.
Then his voice rang out mockingly, "Come on, you Legionnaires. Try to
defeat this Legionnaire."
Ultra Boy closed in desperately, trying to hover on even keel with
Colossal Boy and hammer away at him with his steel-like hands.
Colossal Boy slammed back, in turn. Ultra Boy had to keep
switching his powers from super-strength to invulnerability. But even
though he was invulnerable, he could still feel the thuds of Gim's
hammering fists. And though Jo was, in effect, pulling his punches so not
to do any real damage to Colossal Boy. Gim, however, was not pulling
his punches and was hitting Ultra Boy with everything he had. And one
of Colossal Boy's fantastic blows sent Jo flying again across the floor
like a hockey puck, to end up against a steel post.
As Invisible Kid and Brainiac 5 dashed up to Jo and helped him
to his feet, Ultra Boy was a little groggy. "M-man, he hit me with every-
thing he had."
"Don't let it throw you," said Invisible Kid. "Remember, none of
us has ever had an all-out fight with Colossal Boy, for keeps. We just never
knew what a human powerhouse he was. Well, your turn, Sun Boy, good
luck."
"Uh, gee, thanks, leader man!" Sun Boy replied. "Look what he just
did to Jo, here."
Springing out into the open, with a clear shot toward Colossal Boy
across the floor. Sun Boy let loose with blinding light to cause Gim's eyes
to blur.
Straight and true, Dirk then let loose with a heat blast toward
Colossal Boy's feet, in essence to give Gim a hot foot. Like Ultra Boy,
Sun Boy didn't dare hit Colossal Boy with everything he had.
Watching from her aerial perch, Violet's blood froze. Flames
shot up at Colossal Boy's feet, but he just kept walking menacingly
toward his tormentor. Sun Boy tried another tactic. He aimed a heat blast
at Gim's chest. His uniform was singed but that was about it. Colossal Boy
kept coming.
"He's about as vulnerable as a brick wall," Sun Boy growled to
himself, unsure of what else to do other than blasting Colossal Boy with
everything he could muster.
Watching , Violet tried to choke down unwilling pride that welled
up in her. She was amazed at Gim's ability and determination. Her face went
gaunt. "But we don't want him to win, because then Tazz wins. Oh, Gim,
don't fight your best ... please ... please ..."
But Tazz, re-enforcing his hypnotic control with another charge of
the mental slave-ray, was exhorting: "Battle your best, Colossal Boy, as
you've never fought before."
"I obey, master," growled the titan, caught in his spell.
Sun Boy had one more trick up his sleeve. As Colossal Boy
continued to advance him, Dirk waved his arms and threw up an incredible
wall of flame, heat and brilliant light.
Colossal Boy stopped short of the wall of flame. The air near him
was getting bad and was being sucked in by the flames. Gim began
wheezing and fighting for air. His face was red. But he just dropped down
to the floor and started gulping the better air into his lungs. He started
crawling toward Sun Boy, going under the wall of flame.
Sun Boy groaned, "That guy isn't human."
In one bravely mad last try at victory, or at the very least, try to
slow the teen-mountain down, Dirk let loose with volley's of bright light --
one after the other, in an attempt to blind Colossal Boy.
But Colossal Boy just shrugged the blinding light off with little
grunts then seized Sun Boy by the arm and flung him through the air
like some debris that had gotten in his way.
"He went up so high he'll be killed by the drop," gloated Tazz.
Violet put horrified hands in front of her tiny face. "oh, no ... no!"
she thought ... that big tease ... every bone in his body will break.
In mid-air, twisting agiley, Sun Boy straightened his position and
his Legion Flight Ring did the rest. Dirk came down slowly and in total
control to land gently on the floor, no worse for wear. He landed about
two feet near Invisible Kid and Brainiac 5, who were in shock.
"Did you guys think I was a goner?" chided Sun Boy. But the
flippant tone in his voice ended, replaced with dismay. "Two down, one
to go ... against Colossal Boy -- and we're not winning."
To be continued ...