Meanwhile, an orange ray conducts Sue Storm and Thor straight ahead, around the Sun and down to a planet much like Earth!
Indeed, it has buildings, cars, trees, dogs, newspapers and smog. It seems like Earth in every detail, but Sue recognizes immediately that everyone is smoking dried herbs rather than tobacco. That makes this Counter-Earth, the duplicate on the other side of the Sun!
"Ho!" says Thor, because of course he does. "Let us inquire of yon constable whereat the miscreant Doom may be found."
Yon constable is already speaking into a big, bulky walkie-talkie, since Counter-Earth is a duplicate of Earth in the 1970s. But he's having to raise his voice, because passersby are exclaiming in alarm while copters and tanks rush to the shores of the Chicago River (this is Counter-Earth's Chicago), where a massive, bloated leathery monstrosity is heaving its batracian bulk onto the splintering docks!
"All units," says the television, speaking in the voice of an orange-skinned blond man with an orange jewel in his forehead. "Proceed to within six blocks of the riverfront, but do not engage! We dare not attract the monster's attention before we are ready to deal with it!"
"A monster!" exclaims Thor. He spins his hammer.
INVISIBLE GIRL
ReplyDeleteSue knows from dealing with Ben Grim that there is no stopping a fight once it starts. She says, "We are here to stop Dr. Doom. We have to find the orange men and protect the orange gem in his head."
"Eh?" says Thor. "But yon monster ... very well."
ReplyDelete"Constable! Sayest thou sooth, whereat may we find he who doth direct thine monster battle! He who weareth the jewel 'ponst his brow."
"Oh, Warlock?" says the cop. "Yeah, he's not ackshully in Chicago. He's out West in San Francisco, at the court of the Man-Beast, ruler of the world. Lissen, I gotta go. Monster."
INVISIBLE GIRL
ReplyDelete"If the Man-Beast is ruling the world, that is really not good. He is like the Loki of this world, a criminal madman of pure evil. But we cannot simply let a monster rampage. Why don't you hit it a few times? It cannot be bigger than a Frost Giant."
Sue will put a force bubble about the monster's head, both to cut off its oxygen and to prevent it from biting anyone.
Once Thor trounces the creature, Sue says, "What is the fastest way to get to San Francisco? I had to leave the pogo plane behind."
"Aye!" agrees Thor. "Have at thee!"
ReplyDeleteThe lake monster is not as tough as a Frost Giant, though rather larger. Thor hammers it into submission.
"The fastest way is via the power of mystic Mjolnir!" says Thor. "I shall place my arm firmly about thy waist and hurl mine Uru hammer, catching its unbreakable leather thong a split-second later so that its speed propels us through the skies!"
INVISIBLE GIRL
ReplyDeleteSue blushes slightly, but reminds herself that evil Reed Richards of this world is not here, and Thor DOES look like Chris Hemsley....
"Well, of course," she says. "We are professional superheroes on a job! It is only reasonable that we use the best method of traveling... I mean, flinging a hammer and catching its unbreakable thong as a means of sudden acceleration ... perfectly safe ..."
She winds her shapely feminine arms about his brutal, manly neck, crushing her frail yet shapely body up against the harsh, masculine planes of his well-muscled yet virile masculine form. She pauses to take a deep breath or two, suprised at the hammering of her delicate yet warm and loving heart, while she tucks a stray strand of blond hair behind her ear.
"Ready!" She sighs.
(She is thinking: http://www.scifiwright.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/thor-kiss.jpg)
(Of course, being a girl, she is unaware that he is thinking about chariot racing or frost giant bashing, or something.)