Sleeping gas filled the room. Before Visionary 5 could stand up, the gas had already risen past his head. The green skinned young man slumped in his chair.
After five minutes, the young woman responsible for the gas attack walked in. Lorno Booko was garbed in a protective suit which allowed her to breath in the hazardous environment.
“There. I should kill you for what you did to the others. There is a lot of blood on your hands, Pox. You thought you had killed me on Gurrithax but you forgot that I had the ability to duplicate myself three times. You killed one of my duplicates. Why did you do it? Why did you turn on us and murder so many Legionaries? We’re just lucky Jayth and some of the others survived the destruction of Gurrithax. Yes. There were survivors. I contacted them and soon they’ll be here. You’ll stand trial for what you did, Pox. I hope you get the airlock for your crimes.”
Lorno walked to the consoles to get a better look at the readings. The surviving Legionaries had just arrived and were exiting their ship. The Legionnaire did not notice that the gas had been vented out of the room. She smiled as she looked at the screen. “I used to call myself Triple L, but thanks to you I’ll have to come up with something involving two bodies.”
A simple laser tore through her chest. As she fell to the floor she looked up at her killer. Visionary 5 stood over her with a fiendish smile. “No need for that. Now you have only one body. No powers, no need for a catchy name, Miss Booko.”
As the light faded from her eyes, the lab door burst open.
“Query Pox, also called Visionary 5. You have been charged with twenty-two murders. Stand down and prepare for apprehension.” Jayth Razz, the Legion leader known as Lightning-Hat commanded. The hero was draped in shreds of his costume. Behind him stood Bouncing thud, WildYofire, oBlok, De X Streak, Ultra Thunder Boy, Exferno and his twin sister, Lightning-Hatress. They were all similarly dressed.
“Now Jayth, I counted twenty.” Visionary 5 replied smugly. “You shouldn’t count poor Lorno, here. We both know there is still one more of her hiding out.”
“YOU #$%@!” Bouncing thud shouted as he inflated his fat.
“Chuck! Wait!” Lightning-Hat called out.
In his rubber ball shape, the hero bounced towards Visionary 5. “You killed Lorno’s selves! I love her! I won’t let yooooAARRGH!” The laser punctured the bouncing hero, popping him into shreds.
“Now see? Do you see why it was so easy to kill all of you?”
“NO!” shouted Lightning-Hatress as she and her brother fired electrical bolts at Visionary 5. They had no effect against his shield.
The Legion charged as one. De X Streak was the first to approach. Using her super speed, she smashed as many of Visionary 5’s controls as she could. Exferno and WildYofire helped by using their powers to fry everything.
Visionary 5 laughed from inside his bubble. Then pressed something on his belt. A trapped opened up. De X Streak screamed as her molecules started to get sucked into the trap.
“Kari!” several Legionaries called to her. Exferno tried to grab her hand but there was nothing to grab.
“Enjoy the speed farce, Miss Brown.”
“BUTCHER!” Exferno blasted Visionary 5’s shield with the full power of his fire.
“Derek! Your flame is starting to crystallize oBlok! You’re frying Jon! Simmer down!” Lightning-Hat commanded from behind the invulnerable Jon Nahnah. As Ultra Thunder Boy, Jon could one of his five powers at a time. He was using his invulnerability, but his skin was turning red and his clothes where getting singed off.
“I’ll do you a favor, Lightning-Hat. I’ll stop this fool’s silly game.” Visionary 5 pressed his now smoking belt again. The force field was starting to wobble.
Nevertheless, lasers from the ceiling opened up on Exferno. Four ripped through his torso. The smoking corpse fell to the ground. “There.” Visionary 5 said. “I’ve wanted to kill that snug show off for years. ARGH!”
The force field gave up to WildYofire’s energy blast. The hero charged up his fists for another blast. “Not so smug now, are you? Time to die, uncute villain!”
Two reinforced mechanical arms shot out of the walls. One latched onto WildYofire’s head and shoulders. The other grabbed his legs. They ripped his protective energy suit in two, allowing the energy form that was his body to get sucked up by another machine.
Visionary 5 got back to his feet as the machine made a sinister noise.
“YEE!” Lightning-Hatress shouted. “Let him go!”
“Why? Whether he calls himself Drake Burpups, or his thought being name of Yee, he’s still just as useful to me.”
“Let . . . him . . . go!” Ultra Thunder Boy warned dangerously as he took a burnt step forward.
“If you insist.” Another press of a button and the energy that was WildYofire was redirected into the weakened Ausgardian, Ultra Thunder Boy. In a sickeningly beautiful display, Ultra Thunder Boy was vaporized. Both heroes were dead. “JON! He keeps killing us!” Lightning-Hatress turned to her brother in horror.
“That’s the idea.” Visionary 5 leveled his De-Atomizer at the twins. “Three left.”
The massive rock Legionnaire, oBlok, charged him from the left. A beam of energy shot out behind the Legionnaire. An energy cocoon enveloped him, shook him and then reduced him to rubble.
“Make that two left.”
“Why did you do this, Vishy? You were our friend!” Lightning-Hatress shouted at him. Her brother stood in front, protecting her from Visionary 5.
“Don’t call me that! Visionary was a stupid human who did stupid things!”
“He was president of the United States on two different occasions. He couldn’t have been that bad.”
“Aylalala! Don’t bait him!”
“You should listen to your twin brother, Miss Razz. Nevertheless, I’ll tell you why. And don’t even consider using your lightning powers on me. The sensors in this building are ready to act the minute any Legionnaire show any hostile activity to me. Just look at your friends.”
“You could have said something before we attacked you!” Lightning-Hat replied bitterly.
“And spoil your fun? Besides, I wanted to keep your annoyingly large membership down to reasonable numbers. Now where was I? Oh yes. The reason. Well, I already explained that. It’s time I used my genius to conquer this era. I am meant for better things. After I kill you two, and capture that annoying Lorno, then I will use all the inventions and machines I’ve built for the United Systems, and take absolute dictatorship of this time period. Then, with armies at my disposal, I will attack other time lines and conquer them as well!”
“Somehow I don’t think people will fear your green face.”
“This face? Don’t you get it? I have already invented the means to permanently change my looks. I can’t become the master of time and all there is looking like a 21st century simpleton! I will alter my face and start a new life! First, however, I must remove the old one.” He pressed the De-Atomizer. A lethal beam struck Lightning-Hat just as a blurring figure flew into the room. He smashed his way through, grabbed Lightning-Hatress and sped out of the way of the De-Atomizer beam.
“JAYYYYTH!” Lightning-Hatress shouted as her brother’s body unraveled.
A look of deep pain crossed his face as he called to his sister. “Aylalala! Get away!”
Visionary 5 turned to Lightning-Hatress and her savior with hate in his eyes. “The De-Atomizer has to recharge! I can’t use it for twenty-four hours! Why did you save her?”
Torn and bleeding, Heroic Von-el used his heat vision to melt the weapon. “DIE!”
Searing heat vision lanced towards Visionary 5. A force field, similar to the fizzed one he used in his now useless belt, blocked the lethal beams.
“No, Heroic Von-el. I don’t think I will. I thought you may have survived the explosion of the ship in space. I knew you’d be returning to get your revenge but I didn’t dare hope it would be this soon.”
“Von?” Lightning-Hatress was in shock. “But you died.”
“You killed the Legion, Visionary 5. You killed all of them except us. I don’t care about trails. I just want you dead.” His eyes started to heat up again.
Visionary 5 smiled as a strange green substance blasted over the two remaining heroes.
“NO! NOT THIS!”
“Yes, Von. You are Von-el. The last survivor of the planet Maxell. Enough of this stuff can kill you. You’ve got super strength, flight, super speed, vision powers and invulnerability, yet exposure to lime Jell-O with carrot shavings in it weakens you like a baby. Stupid, really. Now, do you recognize this device?”
Von moaned in pain. Lightning-Hatress started to spark her lighting powers. “No! That’s the Phantom No Parking Zone Projector! You can’t send him back in there! It would kill him to go back!”
“Your point? Besides, who said he was going alone?” Visionary 5 turned on the device, and before the Legionaries could do anything, they were sucked into that pocket dimension. The evil scientist then smashed the projector to bits. “There! No way out!”
Epilogue: Six months later;
The dark, damp cell opened up to reveal the tattered, bruised young woman chained to the wall. Lorno Booko had seen better days as the Legionnaire Triple L. That was all over, as the Earth now belonged to its new master. It took the man formally known as Visionary 5 a single week to take over the planet. Establishing an army of mercenaries, Visionary 5 made sure he was the unquestioned ruler.
Lorno looked up at her former teammate with broken, exhausted eyes. “Why, Vish? Why? Why did you do it?”
Her eyes flew open when the light hit his face. His green skin was as white as hers was. His blonde hair was black. He had the same posture and voice, but everything else looked different. He no longer resembled the 21st century hero known as Visionary.
“It was my destiny, Miss Booko. Simple as that. I have conquered this era, and thanks to my machines, I will conquer more.”
“You changed your looks.”
“Yes. Visionary 5 died the day Jackie Rabbit died. It was a foolish name. I have also abandoned the name Query Pox. The world will not fear my real name. No, I came up with something that will strike terror in my subjects’ hearts. Now and forever more, call me . . .”
He covered his face with the purple sock-like mask in his hand.
“ . . .Kink, the Conqueror!”
Yup, that’s it. Now you know. Our shared character, Kink, was in fact Visionary 5 all along.
So, in other words, Brainiac 5 became Kang.
This is the end of the Lair Legion of Super Heroes and their story.
Hope you liked it.
Footnotes:
A note from Brian on his character:
“I think it would really evil of Vish 5 to have Lorno split up into her three parts & then torture two parts of Lorno to death but leave the now mentally scarred from "dying" twice Third Lorno alive. Why? Just because he's evil & killing the third part would end her surfering. This would also leave Tonya someone to connect with in the future if you wanted.”
Lair Legion of Super Heroes 3205 AD Roll Call:
Phantom Ghost Girl (Tonya Wazzo), the Last Legionnaire, currently in the 21st century
Triple L (Lorno Booko) 1,(2nd and 3rd selves dead) Captive of Kink the Conqueror
Visionary 5 (Query Pox) became Kink the Conqueror.
Honored Dead.
Mailbox (Drew Noland) (died stopping the Sun Hugger)
Chemical Hwk (Condoo Airlip) (died in battle)
Invisible Archer (Kyle Norm) (died during Crisis)
Matter Eating Musician (Tenzon Kermal) (died during Crisis)
Saturn-Ziles (Ima Arlee) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Princess ProjectrAsil (ProjectrAsil) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Karate Knight (Val Amorry) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Dream Cheryl (Nurall Nett) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Natstar (Tum Kalling) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Big-Bird (Gym Allin) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Von R Harper (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Amazingly Cosmic Boy (Rocc Grinn) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Chameleon Dragon (Beeep Dangle) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Pegistar from Havenstar (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Shrinking Fern (Saluu Digme) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Golden Elemental (Jan Arrah) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
NTU-4000 (Tobias Batista) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Frog Boy (Mikk Bungii) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Shadow Dancer (Tazmania Mellon) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
WolfWolf (Brim Lobo) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness) Frozen Produce (Brak Banning) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Bug Babe (Lisette Langer) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Bouncing thud (Chuck O Riley) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Exferno (Derek Morgnan) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
WildYofire (Yee, Drake Burpups) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Ultra Thunder Boy (Jon Nahnah) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
oBlok (‘Mike’) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
Lightning-Hat (Jayth Razz) (Victim of Visionary 5’s madness)
De X Streak (Kari Brown) (Sucked into the Speed Farce. Passed on to a new form of existence)
HappyBouncyElasticLad! (Jimee Olssoni) (M.I.A., presumed dead)
White Sorceress (Mysa Nalley) (M.I.A., presumed dead)
Heroic Von-el (Von-el/Victory) (Forever exiled in the Phantom No Parking Zone, possibly insane)
Lightning-Hatress (Aylalala Razz) (Forever exiled in the Phantom No Parking Zone)
Scott
ag aka muse-slave aka Jack_Roberts aka just 'Scott'
My blog, THE BLOG OF THE NIGHT CHILDREN.
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Scott
ag aka muse-slave aka Jack_Roberts aka just 'Scott'
My blog, THE BLOG OF THE NIGHT CHILDREN.
Come see!
