Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Yellow Path 3: The Court of Death's Knight


Ant-Man grabs for the Vision and Spidey as they disappear!

He doesn't get Spider-Man, but he does grab Vision. Both are spun around in four dimensions and deposited at Thanos' feet.


Ranged on either side of his high seat are various of Thanos' minions:

the bald woman MOONDRAGON, arching her eyebrows as though she has psychic powers. Most bald people do.

the bipedal white tiger BATTLE BEAST, brandishing a club and sword and flicking his white tail aggressively.

the hunched red armor-backed insect XXAN XXAR, armed with a series of complicated tube weapons, which can fit together to make even more weapons.

and the vegetable-man GORGAX, with masses of writhing snakelike broccoli hair.

Thanos grins. He seems to do that a lot.

"Moondragon," he says, "hold the Vision captive."

"I ... I cannot, my lord! His mind is too alien, too ... inhuman!"

"That is disheartening to hear," the Vision says, "but then, disheartenment is a human reaction. So perhaps all is not lost."

"No matter," says Thanos. "You Earth folk are forever exposing weaknesses in my servants. Gorgax, petrify him!"

With but a glance, Gorgax turns the Vision to stone! Except for the Mind-Gem, glittering golden on his brow.

Thanos nods and gets up ponderously from his chair.

"You I do not know," he says to Ant-Man. "But your people never have the good sense to stay out of the way. So I will kill you now, before taking the Mind-Gem."

And he prepares a bolt of sputtering blue energy, flowing from the Cube into his open hand!

(meanwhile)

The Super-Skrull whips out a pair of web-shooters and drags Spider-Man toward himself, while surrounding Spider-Man with alien wasp-creatures!

"The web-shooters are mechanical," he observes. "Breakable. Better, perhaps, if they were organic, perhaps cosmic-powered. But that is a matter for the Master Maker."

"Soon I will understand every mystery of your brain and body ... perhaps we will even be able to recreate you, exactly as you are now. But we will have to use different molecules. Yours will not be ... useable ... any more."


6 comments:

  1. OUT OF CHARACTER

    Sue Storm is glad she is not there! Xxan Xxar is probably still mad art Reed for rescuing Galactus which ate the alien's homeworld.

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  2. ANT-MAN

    Ant-Man is still holding the Vision. He shrinks himself down to ant-size and shrinks the Vision down even smaller and puts him in his pocket. He will bring a flying ant out from his belt and swell it up to ant-sized.

    He flies toward Thanos, dodging all beams, lasers, and blasts, and throws a shrinky disk at the space gem.

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    1. I got the impression from the movie that Ant-Man has two shrinking disks and two growth disks. If that's so, you're out of one or both of them. Did you get a different read from the movie?

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  4. SPIDER MAN

    Using his spider-senses and spider-reflexes, Spidey dodges the webline shot at him from Superskrull.

    If he gets webbed nonetheless, he attempts to breaks out of the Superskrull webbing with his Spider-Strength.

    If he is free of the web, he will web the Superskrull.

    If he cannot break out, he twists his wrist, aims at the superskull, and webs him up anyway.

    Then he punches him. If he is all webbed up, he jumps and kicks him in the head with both feet.

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