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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Broccli_Head" data-source="post: 1067441" data-attributes="member: 105">issue#7, part III“WAH!WAH!WAH!”The proximity alert alarm woke Theo Coolidge from his blackout. I'm alive!!!!It took a few precious seconds to get orientated and then Cosmic Knight was flying again.  He looked beneath him at the stark desert some thousands of feet below. It had been a close call. He checked in with the rest of the team. “What took you so long, Cosmic Knight?” called Jae Sun over their radio frequency.“Umm…just a little blackout. All systems fine now. Where’s Cyclone?” “That is un-important right now. Radium is hurtling to the earth at terminal velocity. I suspect that if he hits the ground hard enough things will not be pleasant for us. You are the closest.”Cosmic Knight shuddered at the thought and sped towards the glow that was Radium’s falling body.  He caught him not a moment too soon, just shy of one thousand feet above the earth.  With a sigh of relief, he flew towards the homing beacon the PRIMUS agents had sent. Darkfire, meanwhile, with her amazing strength, slowed the descent of the plane enough so that it did not explode in a huge fireball, but skidded along the dust and sand. They met in the desert were Ken Yamaguchi and the other two agents were folding up their parachutes and securing camp. Slipstream was already racing back and forth putting up the shelters. Valor, supporting Dragonfist and the fried corpses of the two pilots, soared down a few moments later.  Lastly, Jae Sun Lee floated down using a parachute, with Somnus closely guarding Blackstar—and keeping him asleep--flying alongside. Finally, Cosmic Knight, directed away from the camp, landed with Radium. The agents, after donning radiation suits, threw lead blankets on the supervillian. Cosmic Knight passed out again, this time from radiation exposure. He came to, with Jae Sun standing over him and channeling healing ch’i into his body. “I saw you fly?” Cosmic Knight asked incredulously. “I thought you were just a normal. No offense.”“None taken. I do not think you saw me fly in the conventional sense. I would call it riding the air currents. I have an acute understanding of Bernoulli’s principle. I used it to the fullest near the plane.”Jae Sun smiled and walked away, leaving Theo more perplexed than before. He did some quick formulations in his head. Bernoulli’s principle did not apply. The detective had defied physics!**The others were gathered around the two fallen PRIMUS agents who had piloted the KC-141. “Dang!” exclaimed the Silver Avenger. “These guys had families.”He was about to zip up the body bags.“Wait!” cried Slipstream, “this one’s alive.”In response, one of the burned men groaned. Slipstream quickly sped up his hands until they were a blur and adjusted the molecules in the man’s skin. The third degree burns became mostly second. The man would be scarred, and not nearly as bad as he could have been, but he would live.  Unfortunately, the other man was beyond help. Darkfire paced back and forth.  She was extremely distressed at the loss of the two agents.  They had mates and young. What would they do now? You cannot help them, but I can, called a voice from the recesses of her mind. Stay away! You’re not wanted here. I like the way I am now.So is it about you now? What of the families of these beings? Think about someone else for once.I do, I do! Why do you think I haven’t found a way back?  Viv and these men have helped to see that I have purpose. Tears came to her eyes and she turned away from the others so they would not see. Sister, you were always the more emotional, a chuckle. Sigh….(although anyone who would have heard would have thought it was more of a “Snort”…) We can work together, you know. Each taking advantage of the others strengths. Let me help this poor being.Darkfire nodded her head and a strange sensation filled her. From her perception she shrunk and moved to the back of a room of indeterminable size while the Other grew and grew…Legion Extreme, Meteor Man, and the PRIMUS agents gasped in amazement as they saw Darkfire transform into a great, jet black unicorn standing two meters at the shoulders. Streaks of red coursed across her flanks and her eyes were filled with blue fire. As she stamped on the ground fire also erupted from her hoves and steam escaped her nostrils. She neighed in triumph. It was good to be free!The rest of the group stepped back as the unicorn-thing moved forward to the dead body. Her horn touched the downed PRIMUS agent and he was covered with a nimbus of healing fire. Soon, he who was dead, coughed and groaned.  Then the unicorn heard an unfamiliar whirring sound and became afraid. This place she had come into was very alien and strange. It began to terrify her. Before anyone could act and communicate with this being that Darkfire had changed into, it disappeared. Over the horizon, helicopters appeared.  Yamaguchi smiled, “Yes! Backup!”**The rest of the morning, Legion Extreme called for Darkfire. Jae Sun, Cosmic Knight, and Dragonfist caught glimpses of her, or rather the dark unicorn phasing in and out across the desert, but then it would always blink away when they approached. Slipstream quickly tired of the game and returned to camp where Valor, Somnus, and the “ever helpful” Meteor Man monitored the prisoners. “Dudes, I gotta go back to Hawaii. Tournament to win and all. See ya back in Boston!”He sped away trailing a cloud of dust. Yamaguchi radioed to the rest of the members, “Guys, we need to get to Stronghold as quickly as possible to get these guys into hot sleep chambers. These coffins won’t last much longer.”While Jae Sun did not relish the idea of leaving Darkfire behind, he was also tiring of chasing what Slipstream had named, “My Little Pony” across the bleak landscape. He was just about to give up when Dragonfist spoke over the comm.“Found her, Uncle. She’s a bit traumatized, and like crying, but I think she’ll be alright. Tell ‘em not to leave without us.”Jae Sun climbed over a couple of dunes to reach the extraction area where C.Knight was already helping load equipment and coffins into a couple of UH-60 Blackhawks.An Apache flew over head.  From behind another dune, and through the dust kicked up by the choppers, Anaka Ai Lee carried a shaking Darkfire. Soon the team was en route to Stronghold. They arrived without further incident. **Very tired and soaking wet, Brian Parker exited the ocean with a big grin. His smile grew even wider as he saw the judge’s scores. He had won!“Hah! And I did it all m’self!” he said looking at a discolored section of his right ring finger. He rushed over to the stands hoping to get a congratulatory embrace from Elisa. The crowd pressed at him with many pats on the back and hand shakes. He spotted Elisa. “Congratulations, Brian,” she said extending her hand. Brian was stunned. She had a big smile and seemed genuine, but definitely not affectionate. At lest not in the way he had hoped.  He took her hand and pulled her towards him giving her a hug anyway. He felt her awkwardly push away.“Brian, you’re all wet!” exclaimed Elisa trying to play the weirdness off. He laughed and spotted Grandma Shannon and Dr. Lu. He made his way through the fans towards them.“Haha! Good job, Mr. Parka. You ride waves like you born in sea!” Dr. Lu shook his had vigorously. His grandmother had a young woman in tow.Brian had a sinking feeling.His grandmother heaped accolades on him, but all he could do was stare in fear at the young brunette woman who looked at him with deep green eyes that wanted to possess him.All he heard from his grandmother was, “Brian, meet Margie Preston. She’s such a nice girl.”Brian wanted to scream…End Issue #7</blockquote>

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