The Toad Chronicles
As the teen figure wonders through the halls, his father sits in his favourite armchair in front of the fire on the phone.
The teen walks silently into the room, trying at least to be as silent as possible. The father out of the corner of his eye notices his son walking into the room; he decides that the news that he had just received would be perfect for this exact moment.
The Father gets from his armchair and faced his son. "Son." The orange-headed teenager nodded his head. "We got good news I just got of the phone with a military supplier, His Company is worth billions, and I just bought it." The Father said triumphantly.
"Father." The teen said softly. "I also have something to tell you."
The Teen pulled out a fifty calibers revolver. The father started to walk backwards blindly.
Coming home is not as easy as Todd thinks when everyone thinks your dead, who knows what trouble he can get into. The Riddler Kid is proud to present...
The Toad Chronicles
The Return Home, Well sorta.
By: The Riddler Kid.
The small shuttlecraft that Todd had been flying in for about twenty minutes, reached our Galaxy. Todd swung around the ship, as a happy guy should be full of thoughts of who he thought was meant to be his true love.
When Todd reached the top of the craft there was a skylight he could look through he started the conversation with Bob. "So Bob, Why?"
"Why what sir?"
"Why did you give yourself up for me. You knew you were gonna die why did you bother for me?"
"Because sir I love you as a friend."
That love part sent a shiver down poor Todd's spine. "When do we reach home?"
"Currently five minutes and counting."
"Wonder what's happened while I was gone."
As soon as the ship had landed it cloaked making no appearance to the eye. Todd stood on American soil again. "It's great to see earth again." Todd exclaimed.
Todd started to walk in the dark out of the park in New York. Todd pulled down his headset and headed to the nearest streetlight he could find. When he got to the lamp he realized that he was probably in the slums of New York. Then again you never know what's around the corner. Todd walked down the street he was on and turned the corner.
To Todd's surprise he was in a blank patch of cement with not houses or trees surrounding it, but in the middle of the place was a castle. A nice medium sized carnivalish castle. "Well that's weird."
Todd walked closer to the castle looking at around at the blank scenery. When he reached the castle he looked up at the giant door and knock a very small pounding knock as if he was shy or something. The big door opened and Todd sighed in relief.
Inside the castle it was dark and spooky with cobwebs on all the walls. "This is like a damn haunted house." Todd thought to Himself.
"I wonder what happened to the person who lived here last." Todd said aloud.
"You really want to know?" A happy voice came behind Todd.
Todd turned around slowly and looked at the figure. "Yah!"
"Well then." The figure cam closer revealing a teenager that looked like he was seventeen or eighteen, He had a light orange hair followed by the not so great white suit that looks like it came from a disco dancing floor. The guy's bow tie was red with yellow poka-dots all over. And in his small purple-gloved hands was a revolver in his right and two dice in the other. "The man who lived there fell out of the back ledge of his deck and fell to his death."
"Seriously." Todd said it sarcastically but he truly meant it.
The guy came closer. "No, but there are other ways that the guy who lived here could have died."
The guy put his hand around Todd and leads him towards a door on the wall. As soon as they reached it a circular saw blade fell from the ceiling. Todd jumped back in fear. "He could have died that way." The guy pulled the saw blade from the ground. "Or he could have died where you're sitting now."
Todd leaped over to the guy and crouched down behind him and looked on in fear. "Just joking," the guy smiled as Todd got up. "Now then my name is Arcade, Well come to my world." He stuck out his hand in a friendly way.
Todd shook his hand. "My names Todd, Todd the Toad Tolansky."
"I see." Arcade was referring to Todd's Toad like appearance. "It looks like your looking for a place to stay, am I right?"
"Well now that you mention it, actually I am." Todd replied.
"Well then you may stay if you wish we'll talk later, but first lets eat."
The two new friends sat at a table that was fairly long, Todd was sitting on one side in a big comfortable chair, Arcade was on the other but was in what looked like a more comfortable and larger chair than that of Todd.
"Arcade what exactly do you do here?" Todd asked from his side of the table.
"I'm a free lance hit man." Todd choked on those words. "I work here as my grounds, don't be alarmed your not on the list."
Todd felt better but still had a nagging feeling that maybe Arcade was possibly lying. "Any chance you could do something for me?"
Arcade dropped his fork and knife on the Table and smiled.
It was a beautiful day in New York city the sun was shinning and Warren other wise known as Arc Angel flew around the city watching the as the kids from below smile and cheer at the sight of him.
"Johnny don't do it!"
"Come on Ben why would you care to notice."
Johnny Storm other wise also known as The Human Torch was waling away from his "Big Brother" Ben Grimm Also known to all of New York as The Thing.
Johnny being himself was trying to pick up a bunch of hot chicks buy a bunch of his own merchandise and show it all of at the university.
"Well good luck Johnny." Ben started to walk away amongst all the people a couple people smiling and others scared at the Hero.
Arc-Angel flew down to a deserted sidewalk where Ben was standing. "Ben, Right."
"That's me." Ben took off his wide brim hat.
"Your Friend, the torch guy just took out a thief back there and accidentally blew a gas line in the store."
"Was there anyone hurt?"
"No, everyone was evacuated before the place blew. Ahh, he lost the girls though."
"Like we didn't know that was bound to happen.
The two heroes, one a mutant and the other a meta-human walked down the street together as friends talking about the latest event in there life.
In a not so far distance Todd crouched upon a light pole looking in on Arc-Angle. "You say sir that this guy made you mad?" Bob asked nicely.
"Yes, I'm going to get him into our friends world, get him killed and ruin his friends lives.'
"You mean the X-men."
"Yes indeed I do."
"Hey, you got any main super villains in your career yet?"
"Nah, I'm still taking out those small petty crooks."
The two friends to the step to cross the road Todd jumped down. "What the!" Warren yelled.
Todd jumped and kicks the thing back onto the sidewalk. Todd got crouched down as Arc Angel got into his fighting stance. Todd spat a glob of spit that hit Arc's face, he fell to the ground. Todd quickly pressed a button on a remote in his hand and instantly a trap door opened under Arc Angel. Arc Angel now unconscious fell through the hole. Before it could close however The Thing charged Todd grring at Todd. The Thing found the hole and fell right through with Arc Angel.
"Gulp, double trouble." Todd said worriedly.
Back at the castle the two villains in the story, those two being our "Hero" and Arcade plan out there plot to kill the two great heroes within their castle.
Arcade sat back in his computer chair tinkering on some small square device. Todd was pressing buttons on the remote. "So you have trap doors all over the city, right."
"More or less." Arcade replied. "The trap door I told you to use was efficient for our matter."
Todd pressed a red button on the remote and instantly a robotic butler appeared in front of him. "That was awesome! What can this guy do?"
"Anything you want him too." Arcade replied putting down his square object. "Ohh our guests are waking up."
Warren was the first to wake up from whatever he was asleep from. Not knowing where he was he looked around from where he was standing. The place was full of metal, metal floorboards, metal roof, metal walls, you get the picture. Warren realized he was in trouble wherever he was it wasn't good news.
The Thing got up and walked towards his new friend. "Do you know where the hell we are?"
"Not a clue, do you remember how we got here?"
"Well not really I remember a small green guy who knocked you out and then I chased him. That's about it." The Thing replied.
"Well where ever we are, we know it's foreign to us, we best start exploring."
The Two heroes started to head through the maze together, Angel thought of flying but didn't know what could be up there so decided to stay together till they found away out or blast there way through.
Are you sure were gonna be able to kill em off?" Todd asked in wonderment.
"Trust me no one has ever gotten out of here alive." Arcade replied as if he knew the future.
"Well what ever you say man." Instantly the floor disappeared under Todd and he pushed a button.
The Thing and Arc Angel continued their voyage through the maze. "Do you think there's a way out of here?"
"I don't know and don't care. ITS CLOBBERIN TIME."
The Thing had spotted hundreds of drone robotic men. He smashed his way through them all and took a good beating to go. Arc Angel flew in and gave a big upper cut to the Robot in his flight path. The robot through high in the air and flew apart mid way to the roof by some sort of electric field. "Happy I didn't fly!" Arc Angel commented as The Thing broke a robot in two.
As soon as the Robots onslaught was depleting, more robots appeared, The Robots raised their hand in the air and two barrels came from their hands. They were indeed shooting at the two heroes.
"Damn it." Arc Angel flew in the other Direction only to find himself in more trouble.
The Thing was beating the shit out of the shooting robots. He picked up a wall and chucked it at the poor helpless machines. Causing great special effects on paper that can only be seen on TV.
The Thing moved to a wall where the Machines got out. "Angel get the Hell over here!"
"No, Damn it, No, Damn it, No, Damn it. Why the hell won't you die?" Arcade was pounding the computer board. "Todd get the shit out of here."
"I'm going I'm Going!" Todd jumped away unhappy.
Todd however how dumb he was ran ion the wrong direction and ran into the Heroes that are real Heroes in the story who broke through the wall in the maze.
The Thing grabbed Todd and chucked him into the maze. Todd let out a big sigh of agony. The thing grabbed him and pushed him up against a maze wall. "Why on earth did you put us here you shitbag."
"It wasn't really me."
"MY MONEY NOW!"
"What?" All three of our heroes said at the same time. Arcade stood there; gun in hand and one hand out to collect his money.
"Hey I've heard of you before, Arcade is it." Angel asked.
"Yes, and if that ugly thing isn't gonna give me my money then I'm gonna blow his brains out." Todd gulped when Arcade put the gun up at his face.
Angel pushed Arcade farther away from Todd. "There is a easy way of solving this." Angel looked towards Arcade. "There is a better way Toad can pay back the dept."
All the other three stood puzzled to how.
Six Months Later...
Todd is wearing a janitor suit and sweeping up some dirt as kids run by him with lazar tag guns. "Dang stupid red head kid." He mumbles to himself.
"Sir this story has been recorded." Bob said through the earpiece.
"Thank you Bob." Todd yelled back sarcastically.
Todd could here metal footsteps coming towards him. Metal ones. A man in Wickedly cool armour and a green cape and tunic passed Todd. A person that looked similar without the cape walked ahead as the one with the green cape stood where he was.
The guy with no cape returned with Arcade in one hand. Arcade smiled as if he knew trouble was coming.
Arcade and Todd were instantly spanked out of the door of the castle to where a bunch of kids had flocked up.
Todd took one look at Arcade and jumped off as fast he could.
"We'll." Todd told Bob. "It turns out the castle wasn't abandoned nor owned by Arcade, Rather the "most" powerful Villain in the world Dr. Doom. I haven't paid my debt to arcade yet but if I can stay away long enough from him I won't owe him anything."
Todd walked down the sidewalk of a busy New York street. "Now to find my true love."
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Next time,
Toad goes on his search for his true love only to be sucked into misery. What is gonna happen to the poor Toad boy.
Riddler Kid