Incubus Operator

Valor and Invisigirl were taken into Nightmare's lair. The soldiers carried them down a long hallway until they got to a black door that had the words "Incubus Room" on it. Valor regained consciousness and saw that the Containment room he was being carried into was a dark area with a big machine and three table-like bed with cuffs on the corners. Valor was able to see a boy in an expression of shock, disbelief, and sorrow. He was also in tears as he examined Invisgirl's beaten body.

"NO VIOLET!" Tony cried, as the guards placed and cuffed Valor on the left bed-like table, and Invisigirl on the middle. Since she was barefooted, the metal cuffs felt cold. Tony, on the right wailed at his battered girlfriend.

"Stop your crying boy; I could've done a lot worse to her." said Nightmare.

"You . . . you monster!" Tony said through his tears.

Nightmare laughed and walked over to Invisigirl. "She was easy: weak, powerless and completely inadequate in our world." Without warning, he gave Invisigirl a hard, solid punch in the stomach. The blow made her regain her consciousness, but also, she groaned and coughed in pain.

Tony, angered by Nightmare's action used all his rage to break from the confined grip the cuffs gave him. As he struggled Nightmare laughed at Tony's unsuccessful efforts.

"Don't fight it." said Valor to Tony. He too was enraged at his father. Still, he just asked him, "What do you want with us? What are your plans?"

"Oh it's very simple. You were the only obstacle in my way from my goal of world demolition. Since you have countlessly thwarted my plans, I needed to get rid of you. That was the hard part. Fighting you on your own turf. Then it came to me. Instead of me coming to you, I wanted you to come to us, where I had my trap baited and set. There was one minor flaw. The problem was how to get you on my island. I finally figured it out. I just had to kidnap someone and make sure that you would take the bait. Alternatively, I got two Supers willing to stop me. My plan executed to perfection. Now with you out of the picture, I can continue for my Armageddon with the world. I will show the earth the greatest NIGHTMARE!" he continued to laugh.

"And exactly what are you going to do with us?" asked Valor, "Bore us to death with your monologues of nightmares to the world?"

"Now that you mention nightmares, why don't you look up."

Valor, Invisigirl, and Tony looked at what was above their heads. They saw right above them was a grayish, blackish helmet with two light bulbs on it.

"What is it?" Tony questioned.

"I'm glad you asked." Nightmare continued to explain what the machine was. "This is my favorite mechanism for torturing people. I call it, the "Incubus Operator". This baby, when you have the helmet place on, will put you in trance. While in your little trance, you start dozing off into dreamland, or should I say nightmare world. You will be stuck in a deep slumber while all your fears, sadness, and misery all come together. As a result, you will experience one of the greatest nightmares ever in your life.

Invisigirl finally spoke. "So you are saying if you activate this machine with that dorky helmet on our heads, we will be stuck in a nightmare without waking up?"

"Exactly." said Nightmare. "Hey, I love tormenting and excruciate peoples fears. It's my preferred way of anguishing people."

"Oh, like any of us want to be trapped an eternal nightmare, get me out of this thing." complained Valor, struggling to break from the metal cuffs.

"Too late son. Face it. It's over. Evil triumphs over good this time. And there is nothing in the world any of you can do about it." Nightmare said.

Nightmare pressed a button on the Incubus Operator, which made the helmets lower on to the young captive kids. They all began to try to break free before the helmet came down. The efforts were proved fruitless as the helmet was placed on Tony's head. The light bulbs turned red and Tony fell in a Nightmare. Invisigirl, frightened after seeing what happened to Tony, wanted to form a force field around herself so she could free herself and the others. She wanted so badly to but her pain and weariness kept distracting and hurting her. Her incubus helmet was placed, the light bulbs flashed red, and she to fell in a nightmare. Valor saw his helmet come down and knew there was nothing he could do. Before his helmet was put on, he was able to notice one thing before he fell into his nightmare. Valor was able to distinguish Invisigirl's pink IV on her thrashed up super suit beep.