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Navy
Navy Part 1
In the park Michael, Tara, and Malcolm are enjoying a game of soccer with other kids. Claire stands by the side lines and cheers while Kenny sits in a park bench watching. Finishing her cheer Claire walks over sitting down next to Kenny. As a 3rd girl joins them a large keg like device on her back.
“Their great aren’t they?” says Kenny
“We all have talents, their totally athletes, you’re like a mega-brain.”
“And you’re just a bundle of positive energy.”
“She’s also pretty damn limber.” Says the 3rd girl. “You know that team out there?”
“A few better then the others. Were something of a team.” Kenny begins but is distracted a moment as Claire elbows him. "Ow…We’ve been friends for what seems like forever. Meet in the youth center ironically all of us wanted to learn karate.”
“Oh? Seems like a strange hobby the 5 of you share?”
“We totally had our reasons!” defends Claire “Besides we met like our best friends because of it!”
“I’m a geek, I know that, and geek get picked on. I didn’t want to be.” Kenny pauses and looks to Claire “What about you?”
Claire blushes “I kinda, sorta, well…there was this guy I liked…”
The other 2 chuckle as a sweaty Tara comes over panting and exhausted “I liked the…>pant<…self control…Michael focus, Malcolm wanted atonement…any water?”
“Sure…That’s what this thing is for. Call me Hydro Hag if ya want.”
“Your no Hag!”
Pulling a cup from the side of the keg she moves it to the opposite side where a faucet is and begin to fill the cup from the spigot.
“That is like TOTTALLY COOL. You have to go like be at every one of our school games!”
Hydro Hag flushes as Tara drinks the colored water.
“Can Claire and I get one, it’s a bit hot out.”
Hydro Hag prepares 2 more cups handing it over. The 2 drink them down quenching their thirst. As Tara returns to the game. Hydro Hag looks at her watch a moment and gets up “Will you look at the time, I have to meet my mother soon!”
“Come back any time!”
Not much later, The Moon Palace Ra looks at a strange frog like figure covered in a robe with a large barrel on its back.
“How did it go Hydro Hag?”
The creature pauses, Ra grows agitated.
“How did it go creation?”
“Oh sorry master, I was lost in thought, I met many humans and yet I can not confirm just who is a marine and who is not. Not even confirm if that boy who’ s device you altered was one of them. He might just have been unnaturally intelligent. He seems to have a record of being that dating back years.”
“But you did treat him right?”
“Yes.” It pauses “And 2 of his friends.”
“And how many others?”
“About 12 master.”
“All brave, courageous, moral? The Traits Zardoz likes in his champions?”
“Yes”
“Good then there is a chance that at least 1 of the 5 marines are affected.” Ra now pauses looking thoughtful “Now I need to draw them out separately so the unaffected can not reinforce their affected brothers…Go creature I may have need of your potions later if the first wave did not succeed.”
The Hydro Hag nods dissolving into a puddle of water and vanishing. In the workshop Coffret works about his machine make sure all its parts are in good working order.
“Coffret my friend I need 5 generals, and I need them in a hour.”
“A hour? I can’t create 5 worthwhile general in an hour! You know the process is intensive.”
“They don’t need to be quality, tougher then the clay men and independent thinking is all I need.”
“But what good will they be, they will be weak, pathetic, sir.”
“Trust me.”
Earth – Angel’s Basin In the Park Tara and Kenny look over their latest mind reader device build.
“How do you think it will work this time?” Asks Tara.
“I think ive worked out the kinks but I’ll need a test subject, and I just don’t see any way it would be a good test on one of use we need a outside object for a true test.”
Tara pauses looking around spying a middle age man on a bench feeding the ducks by the lake with bread crumbs. “Well if we must we must, how about him.”
Kenny looks over and again hugs Tara “Your brilliant, you have such a knack for these sorts of decisions. Though looking back it probably who’d have been best to use my parents.”
“True but we did learn something using me….” She pauses mid sentence “We did learn something right. From what I gathered we were able to jump lines but it was a soul transfer not a mind read how did that happen.”
Kenny looks thoughtful “I thought I had made more extensive changes to the device but on second look I noticed I hadn’t maybe I was tired and some of the changes I thought I made were just in my head.”
“So basically you were working with a lightly modified core not the intended device we have now?”
“Yup I even double and triple checked it this time.”
“Well fire it up.”
Kenny smiles pointing the small antenna dish of the device at the man, their a quent barly audible hum as it turns on at first nothing and then the man begin to rub his forhead.
“Anything?”
“Nothing”
“Hummm…look he’s having some kind of reaction.”
As the mans mingrages get more and more intense the two watch until his nose begins to bleed and his hold his head in pain. Casually Kenny shuts off the device. When the man stop holding his head but still seems pained Tara draws attention to him.
“Anyone got a phone, That man over there doesn’t look good!”
Suddenly their communicator watches beep, this alien occurrence, Zardoz actually calling them, startles them both, Kenny make his way off to respond while Tara, emotionally unattached to her hand in the man’s condition finds a pay phone and gets the paramedics on the way. Genuinely concerned for his well being if she can do something about it but not worried that the ill will was by her hand. Shortly the 5 are gathered in the command center before Zardoz.
“Reeva is up to something, something big, she has sent down 5 of her generals to Earth, in fives different locations. I do not like this, I do not wish to split you up but I’m afraid I may have to.”
“How are we suppose to defeat a general each, those things normally take a team effort!” Kenny wonders aloud.
“You will have to try, how many lives will be lost if you don’t?” Rotoscope pitches.
The 5 sigh and teleport off. Kenny arriving in the park to face some kind of plant creature.
“Ok what are you up to Flora Person.”
“Oh? Me? Lord Ra needs some supplies, some herbs that grow here. Care to help me?”
“Why would I do that?” Kenny inquires suspiciously.
“We will help you in return if you help us. A fair trade of services.”
“And you’re not here to kill people?”
“I am not no!”
“Alright, I have a device that’s giving me some trouble, I’ help you with your herbs you help me with my invention, Deal?”
“Deal”
The rock quarry out side of town, Claire in the dark pink arrives to see a mechanical man who resembles Rotoscope.
“Your…one of Reeva’s generals?”
“Yes…I could use a hand finding some minerals for Ra, I’d be willing to help you out in a trade of services.”
“And nobody dies?”
“I make no promises, but it wont be intentional.”
Claire looks thoughtful “As long as no one dies, sure I’ll help.”
The beach where Tara in faded yellow arrives, a large serpent like creature is there combing the beach. He sees Tara and gets defensive.
“Don’t attack!”
“You work for Ra and Reeva yes?”
“Yes, Yes I do but I’m not hurting anyone…”
“Yet!”
“My mission is to map out the city, not attack it. If you help me I’ll leave peacefully, I’m even willing to help you out in return.”
Tara pauses giving the creature’s words thoughts “We I do feel weak at times, a good starin partner, a good trainer like Ra would be good. You think you could get Ra to put off destroying my city to train with me?”
“I think that can be arranged.”
The Youth Center, Malcolm in black arrives only to meet up with a brutish ogre of a creature.
“Wait! I mean no harm.”
“Your one of Reeva’s goons right? What do you want.”
“Nothing dangerous, a few supplies from this building.”
“No deal! Reeva isn’t going to bolster her forces with our resources.”
“Then defend yourself!”
Lastly Michael in burgandy arrives at the last scene, the warehouse district where he meets a creature that looks like a mega clay man.
“What are you doing here!”
“Ra needs some supplies, help me out and I’ll make it worth your while!”
Michael growls firing off a warning shot with his gun “I don’t make deals with terrorists!”
Navy Part 2
The Moon Palace – Coffret’s Chamber where we find Kenny, Tara and Claire gathered around in non powered form confering with Coffret and Ra.
“So like Reeva’s power is like letting us breath here on the moon?”
“Yes, her technology is very advanced, as is all of her race.”
Kenny helps finishing the sorting of the new herbs he helped acquire “So what her big problem with Earth.”
“I think it goes beyond just her dislike of inferior races.” Muses Ra “Some time your progenitors crashed her here, then their decedents trapped her up here in a prison device. Though she does seem to focused on your destruction. I don’t think she really hates you as say you might hate a man starting a war on your planet it more of anger at being beaten by wild animals. In her Point Of View. I think.”
“So why do you work for her?” Tara wonders.
“For me it to show my strength so I can get back in the good graces of my previous employer. For Coffret here it’s the chance to make the creatures he loves, virtually on a weekly basis.”
“I guess I can relate to that, though I can’t relate to the murder.” Growls Kenny.
Just then Reeva enters the chamber “Yes and I image our alliance will end once our bargain is concluded, still it is amusing to work with you 3.” She glides across the chamber to run her long fingers around Tara cheeks and chin. “You are the one who wanted strength, yes?”
Tara nods “And the map, Ra what do you think?”
“Very good, not terribly detailed but better then any we would have produced on our own.”
“I see, and the Command Center of Zardoz, is it marked on it?”
“No my master, but they claim they do not know because Zardoz transports them about directly.”
“Damn ass, don’t know who’s worse a mass murder like you or a egotistical megalomaniac like Zardoz” Kenny growls.
Reeva chuckles “And the herbs?”
“More then sufficient for our needs Master.”
“And the Minerals?”
“The girl, Clear was it?”
“Claire, Kla-Air, Cha how hard is that to remember?”
“Yes well…” Ra caughs “I’d like to see you pronounce perfectly a alien name the first time you hear it.”
“Cha? Yer the alien here not us!”
“Not for them their perspective Claire, if you went to their home world you’d be the alien you know.”
“Cha but there like here at Earth, ok like the Moon so they’re like the alien.”
“To us, we’re also aliens to them.”
Claire shrugs “Cha, right.”
Ra coughs again “In any case she was a big help getting the minerals unfortunately our other 2 agents were destroyed by their 2 friends.”
The 3 don’t react at to the news. Kenny sighs “Predictable they just saw you as evil and kicked your butt. I say if you not causing trouble now no reason to throw away a good bargain.”
“Well everything is mostly in order then, isn’t it?” Reeva musses “Then I will lead you to finish your work while I prepare my next plan.”
With that Reeva leaves, any normal hero would be even slightly distressed by a villain plotting their next action but the 3 are unfazed, the future is unimportant only the present, why sweat what might happen. Kenny moves over to join Coffret at the worktable along side Claire.
“So Coffret what are your thoughts on my device.”
“Cha, and like when is my potion going to be ready?”
“For the later talk to Reeva she is a master of potions, The same with you and your request Tara.”
The girls nod “Thanks!” before heading out.
“Now...” Coffret pauses, “The problem your having is that to read a mind you need to tap the frequency of the mind. You been using a crow bar to open the door, that’s why the man suffered the way he did. You need to crack the lock once the lock is open and the door opens normally theirs no damage. Not that damage is a bad thing, but pain interferes with reading the signal. Once the door is open its only a small jump to expand the range to read the soul. Here let me show you. Ra come over here!”
Ra growls heading for Coffret “What is it?”
“Just stand still I must show Ken’s Knee here how the fixed device works.”
Ra growls and rolls his eyes. “Fine.”
Kenny watches closely as Coffret adjusts the second mini dish to point it at him and the first dish at Ra. Powering it up it hums for a few minutes and then Kenny rubs his head in a bit discomfort. Coffret shuts of the device smiling.
“Learn anything enlightening?”
“Ugh some weird images, a metal staff toped with a Z. Lightning. An alien planet in turmoil. Big black wings.”
Ra gasps “How did you know that!”
Coffret smiles “The Soul Reader seems to be functional.”
“Amazing work there, now if your theory holds true then I just need some sort of storage device then a way to extract the signal to transfer a soul to a new body right?”
“Yup, I’ll provide you a vessel for the end test but you’ll have to find the first body to extract the soul from once you finished with the work.”
“I don’t think finding a subject will be hard.”
Elsewhere Claire stands impatiently in a large room, a large cauldron in the center tables off to the side lined with potions.
“This place is so cool!”
“You have a good eye, for a inferior being, but you don’t know what half theses thing can do you?”
Claire tilts her head looking around and smiles “Totally no clue.”
“At least your honest.” Reeva lifts up a bowl and carefully pours the contents into a small vial like a container of perfume of calogne, Sealing it she hands it over to Claire. “There all done. Now get out of my sight you insect.”
“Cha, ‘tude much?”
A shadowy chamber where Tara in her powered form lays battered and beaten on the floor, Ra looming over her as the power crashes on her leaving her human at the edge of his blade.
“Pathetic, that was the best you could do?”
Tara growls pounding her fist to the floor “This was why we made a deal! This IS the best I can do.”
“I could train you for years, but you will still be weak, you facing a creature who is several times as strong as your best human warrior.”
Tara growls defeated.
“Oh but I won’t kill you we had a deal and I plan to uphold my end.” Ra moves over to a corner of the room as Tara gets to her feet weakly “What was the name of your powers again? Strength of a prehistoric beat, will to something or another.”
“The Saber Tooth Tiger, and Will to Resist Domination.”
“Ah yes, now if you want power you going to have to agree or your power will see any sort of boost as a attempt to dominate your natural abilities, to force improvement.”
“Do it!”
Ra draws a golden manacle from a box its 8 articulated legs giving it a spider like appearance, its back a large oval topaz crystal. In his other hand a curved crescent blade that can be held in one or two hands. Ra tosses the manacle first Tara catching it she slips it onto her right arm at the wrist. The legs closing in around her wrist and forearm. She growls arching forward feeling suddenly sick and pained.
Navy Part 3
Reeva enters Coffret’s chamber with a dark grin. “It is time for the next phase, I need a creature, a powerful blood thirsty one. For my goal to be completed the Earthlings must be destroyed, I need their soul energy.
Kenny looks up “I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, collecting supplies, mapping the city that’s one thing. Killing people for energy is another.”
“Ah but sacrifice for ones own goals are something you didn’t have a problem with before.”
Kenny pauses “I guess your right…except I never killed anyone.”
“No you just put one in a copy and invaded another’s soul. And if I’m not mistaken to perfect yoru device you willing to transplant a soul into a container.”
“Temporarily, I’m not planing to siphon them off to fuel some monster like you. Im transfer them to save them!”
Reeva growls “Ra dispatch this creature!”
“Triceratops!”
“No wait…” A Ra approaches the navy blue marine the Hydro Hag enters and protests. “If you just modify your plans I’m sure Kenny will continue to help us. It’s not a big request to simple not kill people.”
“Who are you?” Kenny asks looking curiously at the Hydro Hag.
“We met in the park, I’m the Hydro Hag.”
“Cha you’re that girl with the keg?” Suddenly Claire enters “So like what’s up?”
“Reeva plans to steel the souls of Earthlings and uses them as some kind of weapon.”
“Pterodactyl! Cha like that’ll happen!”
Reeva growls “Hydro Hag destroy these 2!”
Hydro Hag pauses “Yes master”
“You don’t want to fight us! Not if your that same girl from the park!”
“That was a disguise, this is what I really look like, I just wanted to get close to you so I could get you to drink my potion.”
“P…potion?” Kenny chokes on the words “What did you do to us!”
Reeva smiles “Hydro Hags potion striped you of your inhibitions, your self restrictions, those drives that keep you from doing what you really desire.”
Claire tilts her head “That doesn’t sound to bad, hardly the act of…”
“Stop it!” the Hydro Hag shouts “If your going to fight me you going to do it as the real you, not this unrestricted version!”
Upholstering from the sides of the keg Hydro Hag blasts the 2 with twin streams of water! Reeva and Ra growl angrily at the creature.
“Ok you have them back to normal now destroy them!”
“Yes master!” the Hydro Hag shouts charging at them.
The duo dodge the counter attack “You don’t want to do this!”
“I have no choice! Fight me!”
“Cha, whatever, you don’t have to listen to them your just a nice girl!”
“I’m not a girl! I’m this, the Hydro Hag, a monster created by Coffret’s machine, nothing more.” The Hydro Hag fires a stream of rapid freezing water from her hose cannons Kenny extends his staff deflecting it.”
“You may have been born in that machine but you don’t want to fight!”
Claire swings around behind the Hydro Hag as Kenny sweeps his staff low and the Hydro Hags feet out for under it. Claire charges in from the back kicking one of the hoses from the Hag’s hand. The Hydro Hag spins around placing the free hose to Claire’s face. It’s hand trembling on the trigger.
“Hydro Hag, you don’t want to fight, come on just leave with us.”
“Cha, your totally our friend!”
“But…I…corrupted…you!”
“Being human means making mistakes and all you didn’t hurt anyone…” Kenny pauses, “That was us, our own actions, our own drives. All you did was show us our dark side…You didn’t create it.”
Hydro Hag loosens her grip, breaking down into Claire’s arms “But…I’m just…a…construct!”
“Ra destroy them!”
“Claire get her out of here!”
Claire nods holding the Hydro Hag close the duo vanishing in a flash of pink light. Kenny quickly grabs the Soul Reader of the work table and is gone in a flash of blue. Ra growls as they escape but Reeva only smiles.
“It doesn’t matter, Tara, come here please.”
From a adjacent room enters Tara her dull gold suit accented with gold and black trimmed shin and foot guards, gold and black gauntlets and a gold and black chest and hip armor. On her back hangs the crescent sword. “Yes my master?”
“The Hydro Hag, and your friends have betrayed me. Destroy them, and the city they love.”
“At once, Master!”
In a flash of gold she is gone.
“So did you bind her power to the ash candle like the last green one?”
Reeva sighs, “No, her power to resist domination makes her very hard to control, even with perceived intent. She is still bound to there core and working as her own power. But as long as she holds the Tiger Crescent she will remain in our control. But if she were to drop it we’d loose her.”
“And you sending her to fight her friends, the chances of her loosing a weapon in a fight are high!”
“Do not question my methods.”
“As you wish boss.”
The Command Center on Earth, Where Michael and Malcolm are surprised by the appearance of Kenny, Hydro Hag, and Claire
“What? Who? Where the hell have you been! Get away from that monster!”
“Cha! She’s a friend, she was being manipulated by Reeva!”
Malcolm narrows her eyes at the Hydro Hag “If you say so.”
“Where the hell have you be the last week?”
“On the Moon with Reeva, it’s a long story. Has Tara come back?”
“No, she was missing like you.”
The Hydro Hag hangs her head “It’s my fault, I used my potion to remove her inhibitions and she must still be on the moon with Reeva. I’m sorry…”
“You better be sorry, you made my 3 best friends into heartless monsters!” Malcolm growls shoving the Hydro Hag. Kenny and Claire catching her on the fall.
“Oh niiiiiiiiiiice, this from the guy who was a gang banger who shot people.” Michael’s glare cuts into Malcolm like the sun.
Suddenly Malcolm is 3 inches tall his voice a whisper “I…I’m sorry.”
“Champions, Tara has been located…” Zardoz’s voice trembles, terrified, Rotoscope is unable to breathe. “She is destroying the city…” The viewer comes to life and they seen the new Tara and her blade. “And her new armor, it is the same armor that Reeva gave to our 6th marine when she boosted his power. The same armor that let him best the 5 of your predecessors alone.”
“She has corrupted another of ours, even though hers is the will to resist domination.” Rotoscope is trembling quaking his voice fluctuating, and then he sees the Trembling Hydro Hag “This is your power isn’t it?”
“No! I can’t control people I remove their inhibitions, If she is killing people that was something she was willing to do but always restricted herself.”
“Cha! That is not Tara! No way!”
Zardoz trembles “Then Reeva has over whelmed her resistance somehow…marines…you…must…stop…. her.”
“I want to help maybe if I reverse my effect she might reign in some of her destruction.”
And in a flash the 5 are gone.
Navy Part 4
Tara looms over a slain man, a small device in her hand as he extracts his energy as the 5 arrive. She’s caught off guard but the counter fluid from Hydro Hag’s weapons and hesitates a moment.
“Come back over here, your better now right?” Kenny asks hopefully.
“Triceratops, I will enjoy killing you for my master.”
In a flash Ra stands beside Tara and looks at the Hydra Hag “And while Saber here kills her friends it is time for you to go bye bye. We have no use for a soft minion.”
“Wait! You can’t just like just kill her. She has a totally good heart.”
Tara prepares to change but Ra holds out a hand for her hand to stand down. “Well there is one thing, there is a meteor in space we would like. Get it for me And I’ll release Hydra Hag.”
“What the hell do you need with a space rock.”
“Well a uncooperative minion is pretty pointless, it’s more of a token gesture.”
“No deal!” Michael shouts.
Ra smirks “Alright then, Saber kill the Hydra Hag!”
Malcolm growls and looks to Michael, As does Kenny and Claire “We can’t just…”
Ra tells Tara to stop again.
“But she’s just a monster, something created to destroy our city.”
“Has she destroyed our city?”
“No but she…turned…” Michael sighs “You win Ra, You win. How do we get to space to get this rock. And how do we move it. Oh and you need to release Tara there.”
“No she is ours.”
Michael paces angrily, “Fine, you win. Just release your hold on Hydra Hag.”
Ra smiles and in a flash 6 rocket like motorbikes appear, slowly Tara, Hydra Hag, and the others load on.
“Tara, make sure they do their job.”
“Yes master.”
The other 5 sigh blasting into space approaching the Meteor on Tara’s lead.
In the park Michael, Tara, and Malcolm are enjoying a game of soccer with other kids. Claire stands by the side lines and cheers while Kenny sits in a park bench watching. Finishing her cheer Claire walks over sitting down next to Kenny. As a 3rd girl joins them a large keg like device on her back.
“Their great aren’t they?” says Kenny
“We all have talents, their totally athletes, you’re like a mega-brain.”
“And you’re just a bundle of positive energy.”
“She’s also pretty damn limber.” Says the 3rd girl. “You know that team out there?”
“A few better then the others. Were something of a team.” Kenny begins but is distracted a moment as Claire elbows him. "Ow…We’ve been friends for what seems like forever. Meet in the youth center ironically all of us wanted to learn karate.”
“Oh? Seems like a strange hobby the 5 of you share?”
“We totally had our reasons!” defends Claire “Besides we met like our best friends because of it!”
“I’m a geek, I know that, and geek get picked on. I didn’t want to be.” Kenny pauses and looks to Claire “What about you?”
Claire blushes “I kinda, sorta, well…there was this guy I liked…”
The other 2 chuckle as a sweaty Tara comes over panting and exhausted “I liked the…>pant<…self control…Michael focus, Malcolm wanted atonement…any water?”
“Sure…That’s what this thing is for. Call me Hydro Hag if ya want.”
“Your no Hag!”
Pulling a cup from the side of the keg she moves it to the opposite side where a faucet is and begin to fill the cup from the spigot.
“That is like TOTTALLY COOL. You have to go like be at every one of our school games!”
Hydro Hag flushes as Tara drinks the colored water.
“Can Claire and I get one, it’s a bit hot out.”
Hydro Hag prepares 2 more cups handing it over. The 2 drink them down quenching their thirst. As Tara returns to the game. Hydro Hag looks at her watch a moment and gets up “Will you look at the time, I have to meet my mother soon!”
“Come back any time!”
Not much later, The Moon Palace Ra looks at a strange frog like figure covered in a robe with a large barrel on its back.
“How did it go Hydro Hag?”
The creature pauses, Ra grows agitated.
“How did it go creation?”
“Oh sorry master, I was lost in thought, I met many humans and yet I can not confirm just who is a marine and who is not. Not even confirm if that boy who’ s device you altered was one of them. He might just have been unnaturally intelligent. He seems to have a record of being that dating back years.”
“But you did treat him right?”
“Yes.” It pauses “And 2 of his friends.”
“And how many others?”
“About 12 master.”
“All brave, courageous, moral? The Traits Zardoz likes in his champions?”
“Yes”
“Good then there is a chance that at least 1 of the 5 marines are affected.” Ra now pauses looking thoughtful “Now I need to draw them out separately so the unaffected can not reinforce their affected brothers…Go creature I may have need of your potions later if the first wave did not succeed.”
The Hydro Hag nods dissolving into a puddle of water and vanishing. In the workshop Coffret works about his machine make sure all its parts are in good working order.
“Coffret my friend I need 5 generals, and I need them in a hour.”
“A hour? I can’t create 5 worthwhile general in an hour! You know the process is intensive.”
“They don’t need to be quality, tougher then the clay men and independent thinking is all I need.”
“But what good will they be, they will be weak, pathetic, sir.”
“Trust me.”
Earth – Angel’s Basin In the Park Tara and Kenny look over their latest mind reader device build.
“How do you think it will work this time?” Asks Tara.
“I think ive worked out the kinks but I’ll need a test subject, and I just don’t see any way it would be a good test on one of use we need a outside object for a true test.”
Tara pauses looking around spying a middle age man on a bench feeding the ducks by the lake with bread crumbs. “Well if we must we must, how about him.”
Kenny looks over and again hugs Tara “Your brilliant, you have such a knack for these sorts of decisions. Though looking back it probably who’d have been best to use my parents.”
“True but we did learn something using me….” She pauses mid sentence “We did learn something right. From what I gathered we were able to jump lines but it was a soul transfer not a mind read how did that happen.”
Kenny looks thoughtful “I thought I had made more extensive changes to the device but on second look I noticed I hadn’t maybe I was tired and some of the changes I thought I made were just in my head.”
“So basically you were working with a lightly modified core not the intended device we have now?”
“Yup I even double and triple checked it this time.”
“Well fire it up.”
Kenny smiles pointing the small antenna dish of the device at the man, their a quent barly audible hum as it turns on at first nothing and then the man begin to rub his forhead.
“Anything?”
“Nothing”
“Hummm…look he’s having some kind of reaction.”
As the mans mingrages get more and more intense the two watch until his nose begins to bleed and his hold his head in pain. Casually Kenny shuts off the device. When the man stop holding his head but still seems pained Tara draws attention to him.
“Anyone got a phone, That man over there doesn’t look good!”
Suddenly their communicator watches beep, this alien occurrence, Zardoz actually calling them, startles them both, Kenny make his way off to respond while Tara, emotionally unattached to her hand in the man’s condition finds a pay phone and gets the paramedics on the way. Genuinely concerned for his well being if she can do something about it but not worried that the ill will was by her hand. Shortly the 5 are gathered in the command center before Zardoz.
“Reeva is up to something, something big, she has sent down 5 of her generals to Earth, in fives different locations. I do not like this, I do not wish to split you up but I’m afraid I may have to.”
“How are we suppose to defeat a general each, those things normally take a team effort!” Kenny wonders aloud.
“You will have to try, how many lives will be lost if you don’t?” Rotoscope pitches.
The 5 sigh and teleport off. Kenny arriving in the park to face some kind of plant creature.
“Ok what are you up to Flora Person.”
“Oh? Me? Lord Ra needs some supplies, some herbs that grow here. Care to help me?”
“Why would I do that?” Kenny inquires suspiciously.
“We will help you in return if you help us. A fair trade of services.”
“And you’re not here to kill people?”
“I am not no!”
“Alright, I have a device that’s giving me some trouble, I’ help you with your herbs you help me with my invention, Deal?”
“Deal”
The rock quarry out side of town, Claire in the dark pink arrives to see a mechanical man who resembles Rotoscope.
“Your…one of Reeva’s generals?”
“Yes…I could use a hand finding some minerals for Ra, I’d be willing to help you out in a trade of services.”
“And nobody dies?”
“I make no promises, but it wont be intentional.”
Claire looks thoughtful “As long as no one dies, sure I’ll help.”
The beach where Tara in faded yellow arrives, a large serpent like creature is there combing the beach. He sees Tara and gets defensive.
“Don’t attack!”
“You work for Ra and Reeva yes?”
“Yes, Yes I do but I’m not hurting anyone…”
“Yet!”
“My mission is to map out the city, not attack it. If you help me I’ll leave peacefully, I’m even willing to help you out in return.”
Tara pauses giving the creature’s words thoughts “We I do feel weak at times, a good starin partner, a good trainer like Ra would be good. You think you could get Ra to put off destroying my city to train with me?”
“I think that can be arranged.”
The Youth Center, Malcolm in black arrives only to meet up with a brutish ogre of a creature.
“Wait! I mean no harm.”
“Your one of Reeva’s goons right? What do you want.”
“Nothing dangerous, a few supplies from this building.”
“No deal! Reeva isn’t going to bolster her forces with our resources.”
“Then defend yourself!”
Lastly Michael in burgandy arrives at the last scene, the warehouse district where he meets a creature that looks like a mega clay man.
“What are you doing here!”
“Ra needs some supplies, help me out and I’ll make it worth your while!”
Michael growls firing off a warning shot with his gun “I don’t make deals with terrorists!”
Navy Part 2
The Moon Palace – Coffret’s Chamber where we find Kenny, Tara and Claire gathered around in non powered form confering with Coffret and Ra.
“So like Reeva’s power is like letting us breath here on the moon?”
“Yes, her technology is very advanced, as is all of her race.”
Kenny helps finishing the sorting of the new herbs he helped acquire “So what her big problem with Earth.”
“I think it goes beyond just her dislike of inferior races.” Muses Ra “Some time your progenitors crashed her here, then their decedents trapped her up here in a prison device. Though she does seem to focused on your destruction. I don’t think she really hates you as say you might hate a man starting a war on your planet it more of anger at being beaten by wild animals. In her Point Of View. I think.”
“So why do you work for her?” Tara wonders.
“For me it to show my strength so I can get back in the good graces of my previous employer. For Coffret here it’s the chance to make the creatures he loves, virtually on a weekly basis.”
“I guess I can relate to that, though I can’t relate to the murder.” Growls Kenny.
Just then Reeva enters the chamber “Yes and I image our alliance will end once our bargain is concluded, still it is amusing to work with you 3.” She glides across the chamber to run her long fingers around Tara cheeks and chin. “You are the one who wanted strength, yes?”
Tara nods “And the map, Ra what do you think?”
“Very good, not terribly detailed but better then any we would have produced on our own.”
“I see, and the Command Center of Zardoz, is it marked on it?”
“No my master, but they claim they do not know because Zardoz transports them about directly.”
“Damn ass, don’t know who’s worse a mass murder like you or a egotistical megalomaniac like Zardoz” Kenny growls.
Reeva chuckles “And the herbs?”
“More then sufficient for our needs Master.”
“And the Minerals?”
“The girl, Clear was it?”
“Claire, Kla-Air, Cha how hard is that to remember?”
“Yes well…” Ra caughs “I’d like to see you pronounce perfectly a alien name the first time you hear it.”
“Cha? Yer the alien here not us!”
“Not for them their perspective Claire, if you went to their home world you’d be the alien you know.”
“Cha but there like here at Earth, ok like the Moon so they’re like the alien.”
“To us, we’re also aliens to them.”
Claire shrugs “Cha, right.”
Ra coughs again “In any case she was a big help getting the minerals unfortunately our other 2 agents were destroyed by their 2 friends.”
The 3 don’t react at to the news. Kenny sighs “Predictable they just saw you as evil and kicked your butt. I say if you not causing trouble now no reason to throw away a good bargain.”
“Well everything is mostly in order then, isn’t it?” Reeva musses “Then I will lead you to finish your work while I prepare my next plan.”
With that Reeva leaves, any normal hero would be even slightly distressed by a villain plotting their next action but the 3 are unfazed, the future is unimportant only the present, why sweat what might happen. Kenny moves over to join Coffret at the worktable along side Claire.
“So Coffret what are your thoughts on my device.”
“Cha, and like when is my potion going to be ready?”
“For the later talk to Reeva she is a master of potions, The same with you and your request Tara.”
The girls nod “Thanks!” before heading out.
“Now...” Coffret pauses, “The problem your having is that to read a mind you need to tap the frequency of the mind. You been using a crow bar to open the door, that’s why the man suffered the way he did. You need to crack the lock once the lock is open and the door opens normally theirs no damage. Not that damage is a bad thing, but pain interferes with reading the signal. Once the door is open its only a small jump to expand the range to read the soul. Here let me show you. Ra come over here!”
Ra growls heading for Coffret “What is it?”
“Just stand still I must show Ken’s Knee here how the fixed device works.”
Ra growls and rolls his eyes. “Fine.”
Kenny watches closely as Coffret adjusts the second mini dish to point it at him and the first dish at Ra. Powering it up it hums for a few minutes and then Kenny rubs his head in a bit discomfort. Coffret shuts of the device smiling.
“Learn anything enlightening?”
“Ugh some weird images, a metal staff toped with a Z. Lightning. An alien planet in turmoil. Big black wings.”
Ra gasps “How did you know that!”
Coffret smiles “The Soul Reader seems to be functional.”
“Amazing work there, now if your theory holds true then I just need some sort of storage device then a way to extract the signal to transfer a soul to a new body right?”
“Yup, I’ll provide you a vessel for the end test but you’ll have to find the first body to extract the soul from once you finished with the work.”
“I don’t think finding a subject will be hard.”
Elsewhere Claire stands impatiently in a large room, a large cauldron in the center tables off to the side lined with potions.
“This place is so cool!”
“You have a good eye, for a inferior being, but you don’t know what half theses thing can do you?”
Claire tilts her head looking around and smiles “Totally no clue.”
“At least your honest.” Reeva lifts up a bowl and carefully pours the contents into a small vial like a container of perfume of calogne, Sealing it she hands it over to Claire. “There all done. Now get out of my sight you insect.”
“Cha, ‘tude much?”
A shadowy chamber where Tara in her powered form lays battered and beaten on the floor, Ra looming over her as the power crashes on her leaving her human at the edge of his blade.
“Pathetic, that was the best you could do?”
Tara growls pounding her fist to the floor “This was why we made a deal! This IS the best I can do.”
“I could train you for years, but you will still be weak, you facing a creature who is several times as strong as your best human warrior.”
Tara growls defeated.
“Oh but I won’t kill you we had a deal and I plan to uphold my end.” Ra moves over to a corner of the room as Tara gets to her feet weakly “What was the name of your powers again? Strength of a prehistoric beat, will to something or another.”
“The Saber Tooth Tiger, and Will to Resist Domination.”
“Ah yes, now if you want power you going to have to agree or your power will see any sort of boost as a attempt to dominate your natural abilities, to force improvement.”
“Do it!”
Ra draws a golden manacle from a box its 8 articulated legs giving it a spider like appearance, its back a large oval topaz crystal. In his other hand a curved crescent blade that can be held in one or two hands. Ra tosses the manacle first Tara catching it she slips it onto her right arm at the wrist. The legs closing in around her wrist and forearm. She growls arching forward feeling suddenly sick and pained.
Navy Part 3
Reeva enters Coffret’s chamber with a dark grin. “It is time for the next phase, I need a creature, a powerful blood thirsty one. For my goal to be completed the Earthlings must be destroyed, I need their soul energy.
Kenny looks up “I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, collecting supplies, mapping the city that’s one thing. Killing people for energy is another.”
“Ah but sacrifice for ones own goals are something you didn’t have a problem with before.”
Kenny pauses “I guess your right…except I never killed anyone.”
“No you just put one in a copy and invaded another’s soul. And if I’m not mistaken to perfect yoru device you willing to transplant a soul into a container.”
“Temporarily, I’m not planing to siphon them off to fuel some monster like you. Im transfer them to save them!”
Reeva growls “Ra dispatch this creature!”
“Triceratops!”
“No wait…” A Ra approaches the navy blue marine the Hydro Hag enters and protests. “If you just modify your plans I’m sure Kenny will continue to help us. It’s not a big request to simple not kill people.”
“Who are you?” Kenny asks looking curiously at the Hydro Hag.
“We met in the park, I’m the Hydro Hag.”
“Cha you’re that girl with the keg?” Suddenly Claire enters “So like what’s up?”
“Reeva plans to steel the souls of Earthlings and uses them as some kind of weapon.”
“Pterodactyl! Cha like that’ll happen!”
Reeva growls “Hydro Hag destroy these 2!”
Hydro Hag pauses “Yes master”
“You don’t want to fight us! Not if your that same girl from the park!”
“That was a disguise, this is what I really look like, I just wanted to get close to you so I could get you to drink my potion.”
“P…potion?” Kenny chokes on the words “What did you do to us!”
Reeva smiles “Hydro Hags potion striped you of your inhibitions, your self restrictions, those drives that keep you from doing what you really desire.”
Claire tilts her head “That doesn’t sound to bad, hardly the act of…”
“Stop it!” the Hydro Hag shouts “If your going to fight me you going to do it as the real you, not this unrestricted version!”
Upholstering from the sides of the keg Hydro Hag blasts the 2 with twin streams of water! Reeva and Ra growl angrily at the creature.
“Ok you have them back to normal now destroy them!”
“Yes master!” the Hydro Hag shouts charging at them.
The duo dodge the counter attack “You don’t want to do this!”
“I have no choice! Fight me!”
“Cha, whatever, you don’t have to listen to them your just a nice girl!”
“I’m not a girl! I’m this, the Hydro Hag, a monster created by Coffret’s machine, nothing more.” The Hydro Hag fires a stream of rapid freezing water from her hose cannons Kenny extends his staff deflecting it.”
“You may have been born in that machine but you don’t want to fight!”
Claire swings around behind the Hydro Hag as Kenny sweeps his staff low and the Hydro Hags feet out for under it. Claire charges in from the back kicking one of the hoses from the Hag’s hand. The Hydro Hag spins around placing the free hose to Claire’s face. It’s hand trembling on the trigger.
“Hydro Hag, you don’t want to fight, come on just leave with us.”
“Cha, your totally our friend!”
“But…I…corrupted…you!”
“Being human means making mistakes and all you didn’t hurt anyone…” Kenny pauses, “That was us, our own actions, our own drives. All you did was show us our dark side…You didn’t create it.”
Hydro Hag loosens her grip, breaking down into Claire’s arms “But…I’m just…a…construct!”
“Ra destroy them!”
“Claire get her out of here!”
Claire nods holding the Hydro Hag close the duo vanishing in a flash of pink light. Kenny quickly grabs the Soul Reader of the work table and is gone in a flash of blue. Ra growls as they escape but Reeva only smiles.
“It doesn’t matter, Tara, come here please.”
From a adjacent room enters Tara her dull gold suit accented with gold and black trimmed shin and foot guards, gold and black gauntlets and a gold and black chest and hip armor. On her back hangs the crescent sword. “Yes my master?”
“The Hydro Hag, and your friends have betrayed me. Destroy them, and the city they love.”
“At once, Master!”
In a flash of gold she is gone.
“So did you bind her power to the ash candle like the last green one?”
Reeva sighs, “No, her power to resist domination makes her very hard to control, even with perceived intent. She is still bound to there core and working as her own power. But as long as she holds the Tiger Crescent she will remain in our control. But if she were to drop it we’d loose her.”
“And you sending her to fight her friends, the chances of her loosing a weapon in a fight are high!”
“Do not question my methods.”
“As you wish boss.”
The Command Center on Earth, Where Michael and Malcolm are surprised by the appearance of Kenny, Hydro Hag, and Claire
“What? Who? Where the hell have you been! Get away from that monster!”
“Cha! She’s a friend, she was being manipulated by Reeva!”
Malcolm narrows her eyes at the Hydro Hag “If you say so.”
“Where the hell have you be the last week?”
“On the Moon with Reeva, it’s a long story. Has Tara come back?”
“No, she was missing like you.”
The Hydro Hag hangs her head “It’s my fault, I used my potion to remove her inhibitions and she must still be on the moon with Reeva. I’m sorry…”
“You better be sorry, you made my 3 best friends into heartless monsters!” Malcolm growls shoving the Hydro Hag. Kenny and Claire catching her on the fall.
“Oh niiiiiiiiiiice, this from the guy who was a gang banger who shot people.” Michael’s glare cuts into Malcolm like the sun.
Suddenly Malcolm is 3 inches tall his voice a whisper “I…I’m sorry.”
“Champions, Tara has been located…” Zardoz’s voice trembles, terrified, Rotoscope is unable to breathe. “She is destroying the city…” The viewer comes to life and they seen the new Tara and her blade. “And her new armor, it is the same armor that Reeva gave to our 6th marine when she boosted his power. The same armor that let him best the 5 of your predecessors alone.”
“She has corrupted another of ours, even though hers is the will to resist domination.” Rotoscope is trembling quaking his voice fluctuating, and then he sees the Trembling Hydro Hag “This is your power isn’t it?”
“No! I can’t control people I remove their inhibitions, If she is killing people that was something she was willing to do but always restricted herself.”
“Cha! That is not Tara! No way!”
Zardoz trembles “Then Reeva has over whelmed her resistance somehow…marines…you…must…stop…. her.”
“I want to help maybe if I reverse my effect she might reign in some of her destruction.”
And in a flash the 5 are gone.
Navy Part 4
Tara looms over a slain man, a small device in her hand as he extracts his energy as the 5 arrive. She’s caught off guard but the counter fluid from Hydro Hag’s weapons and hesitates a moment.
“Come back over here, your better now right?” Kenny asks hopefully.
“Triceratops, I will enjoy killing you for my master.”
In a flash Ra stands beside Tara and looks at the Hydra Hag “And while Saber here kills her friends it is time for you to go bye bye. We have no use for a soft minion.”
“Wait! You can’t just like just kill her. She has a totally good heart.”
Tara prepares to change but Ra holds out a hand for her hand to stand down. “Well there is one thing, there is a meteor in space we would like. Get it for me And I’ll release Hydra Hag.”
“What the hell do you need with a space rock.”
“Well a uncooperative minion is pretty pointless, it’s more of a token gesture.”
“No deal!” Michael shouts.
Ra smirks “Alright then, Saber kill the Hydra Hag!”
Malcolm growls and looks to Michael, As does Kenny and Claire “We can’t just…”
Ra tells Tara to stop again.
“But she’s just a monster, something created to destroy our city.”
“Has she destroyed our city?”
“No but she…turned…” Michael sighs “You win Ra, You win. How do we get to space to get this rock. And how do we move it. Oh and you need to release Tara there.”
“No she is ours.”
Michael paces angrily, “Fine, you win. Just release your hold on Hydra Hag.”
Ra smiles and in a flash 6 rocket like motorbikes appear, slowly Tara, Hydra Hag, and the others load on.
“Tara, make sure they do their job.”
“Yes master.”
The other 5 sigh blasting into space approaching the Meteor on Tara’s lead.