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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Broccli_Head" data-source="post: 1103915" data-attributes="member: 105">Legion Extreme Issue#9: The Star of Karnak, Part III Jae Sun Lee did not know the half of it….Enter the Crowns of Krim!The well-dressed man wearing the most expensive and the latest aristocrat, casual winter fashion stepped from the stairs of the private linear jet onto the tarmac and sneered in the pre-dawn hour.  Near his side, an armored knight in black enameled plate-mail appeared in a swirl of mist.  The sun, as it peaked over the horizon, seemed to dim slightly as a shadow and three more arrogant looking men exited the plane behind the first one and the Black Knight. The first man spoke, his British accent taking a distinct sinister tone.“Sir Giles, see what the local supers can muster against us. The bearer of the Shadow Crown will provide back up, though I doubt it will be necessary. Nestor, see if we can muster any allies in the colony. I will search for that idiot myself. Hopefully, he has not gotten into too much trouble.”The knight bowed and vanished. A hideous, demonic-looking, bat-winged shadow flew after him.  The man addressed as Nestor began to walk towards the waiting, empty Rolls Royce limousine. The other two, one with eyes of fire, a handlebar mustache, and long, silky shoulder-length hair and the other with glowing white eyes looked expectantly at their master. He raised an eyebrow, “Unlike Temblor, please be discrete, and just do not go off killing everyone.” Then he chuckled, “Well, unless they really deserve it.” He motioned towards baggage handlers as they finished loading the limo with luggage. “Meet you at the Ritz-Carlton, of course.”Then a horrible transformation took place as the trio leaped into the air. The long-haired man became a being enshrouded in fire. His eyes glowed even more malevolently and a Crown of Fire rested upon his brow. The man who had white eyes turned into a being of force. A glowing, multifaceted crown swirled around his head. The leader turned into what first appeared like an angel, but no one would ever mistake the twisted visage, grey, pasty skin, and black wings for one of heaven’s seraphs. Upon his head he wore an Iron Crown. No, this was evil incarnate upon the earth. This was Dark Seraph. The handful of mortals on the ground cowered and tried to avert their eyes. Some screamed. Soon these cries were muffled and Phoenix and Force, their gristly task complete, turned their eyes towards Boston, following their master to wreak further havoc upon the city. **“…AND GET BACK THE STAR OF KARNAK!” yelled Mayor Tony Menshino, as the door slammed behind Slipstream, Cosmic Knight, Somnus, and Jae Sun Lee. Their post-museum robbery debriefing had not gone well. There had been posturing and bickering, and finger-pointing, and even though the detective had smoothed things over when he arrived, the mayor had not been pleased.  Still Meshino had signed off on the PRIMUS addition to the Harbor Tunnel Project, and for Jae Sun right now, that was a victory.Legion Extreme met Agent Smith and Silver Avenger Mel Flannagan on the way out and informed them of the mayor’s disposition. “As long as the S.U.B. project continues,” Mel spoke, “I honestly do not care how ornery Meshino is today. We’ll explain to him that the state department is doing all it can to aid in the recovery of the artifact, with your help.”“Good thing you are all registered, right?” added Agent Smith.Jae Sun suppressed a grimace. No one could read Somnus’s expression as he existed in public as glowing humanoid surrounded by a scintillating field of light. In the United States all those people exhibiting superpowers were required to register under the American Superhuman and Paranormal Registration Act.  Technically, Jae Sun Lee did not have to register since he was normal. However, if word ever got out about his aerial exploits….Then again the law was generally toothless. Somnus could have cared less. With a beaming smile, Slipstream innocently responded, “Of course all of us are.” They walked out into the bright sunlight avoiding the look down at the blinding snow.  Fanuiel Hall glinted behind them. <img src="http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/kallmann/frontend.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> “Guys, I can’t get this Hummingbird out of my head.”Jae Sun raised an eyebrow, “Tell me again what happened, Cosmic Knight.”“So this voice entered my head and was very persuasive. Then she left me,” Theo sighed inside of the suit of powered armor. It came out as a whiny hum. “I ended up at the bottom of the Charles with an awful headache. Good thing my armor has an extended air supply.”“You think you got problems, Dude?” interjected Slipstream. He walked up to the a pool of knee deep water that had formed from the snow melt near the entrance to Boston City Hall and stuck his head in the ice-cold puddle. “Have you lost your mind, Slipstream?” exclaimed Jae Sun pulling his head from the water.“No really, I can breathe underwater. Brrrr…that was cold.” He put his head back in the pool and held it there for a while.  “Aww, man! Slipstream has gills,” declared Cosmic Knight and he began to laugh. Jae Sun closed his eyes tightly suddenly wishing to move back to San Francisco. Thoughts like, Of all the self-absorbed, lunacy! Why do I have to keep baby-sitting for children! I wish they would work as a team! echoed in his mind. Somnus broke his episode of frustration.“Legion Extreme, I do not think we are alone.”Jae Sun pulled Slipstream’s head out of the puddle and they looked around as large black crows had gathered in the snow in front of them. Eerily none squawked or made ruffling sounds with their wings although many opened and closed their beaks and flapped. Then they just stared. “Too weird, man,” whispered Slipstream and he sped to grab a crow. While the bird attempted to fly away, he caught it and it did not make a sound as it struggled to be free of his grasp. Suddenly the others flew away, south in the direction of Boston Common. As if they were ghosts, or illusory images they left without so much as a whoosh!.“Hey this one has something attached,” Slipstream said as he held out the bird. Cosmic Knight grabbed the note and opened it.“I can’t read it. I think it’s in French.”Jae Sun motioned for the note. “Here, allow me.”The Detective scanned the note. His eyes widened and then he chuckled. “While this is medieval French, I do suspect, Cosmic Knight, that you have been challenged to a duel.”He read the note to them in perfect French. In unison, Somnus, Slipstream, and Cosmic Knight, already beginning to fidget, said, “In English, please!”“Very well.”  Jae Sun cleared his throat, “To the Pretender Cosmic Knight, Lancelot: If your knighthood be true, then meet me in battle in the Common of Boston at dusk.  And if not, your knighthood is false and thou art Craven.Giles de Morphant, Knight of the Crow” Slipstream was the first to respond, “Not good ‘Extremer-dudes. That’s the Black Paladin. Man, how’d you piss him off?”Inside his suit, Theo was perplexed. “So, Cosmic Knight, are you going to show?” asked Jae Sun Lee rolling up the note and tucking it away in his coat pocket. “I dare say that it is very strange for the Knight of the Crow to just arrive as a coincidence, and this might be a good lead.”Theo gulped and then took a deep breath.“I will do it.”</blockquote>

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