Quinn blinks.
"Ooookay. So *how* many people are we trying to return to the 30th century?"
"Four." answered Sam. "And from what Anthro here said, in English no less, it sounds like Ultra Boy is not with the others. Anyway..." Sam thinks back to try and think of a way to break his own spell. "YOu will help us, right Anthro?"
"Anthro find color people friends," he acknowledges. "Let Anthro move now?"
"Depends. Can I have my hand back?"
"Hand tap Anthro," he says, but he lets Chin-Su's hand go.
This causes Chin-Su's hand to snap back up into his shoulder like a pulled windowshade.
"Great. We're all friends now. I'm Chin-Su, by the way. Nice to meet you. Which way?"
"Sunwise," he says, pointing at the setting sun. He tries to walk that way, but his legs won't move.
"Anthro move now?"
"Hey Sam," Quinn says, "what exactly can you do with your magic? It would be nice to get a picture of exactly what we can and can't do as a team. And for that matter, I've acquired some gear here," he indicates the rope, tonfa, and other items, "and I honestly don't know what any of it does, other than the obvious. If you have any ideas what these things do, that might help."
ReplyDeleteSam shrugs "Well, I can make or brake something, control animate or inanimate objects, and, if i can say it, teleport between dimensions. my powers are only limited by how ease it is to say something. for example, it is easier to say rock brake, then teleport me to the stone ages." he then looks at Anthro. after a moment of thinking he casts, "Eerf Orhtna." in hopes of freeing Anthro from his other spell.
ReplyDeleteAnd just like that, klim-bim, Anthro can move!
ReplyDeleteHe takes off running sunwise.
Assuming the heroes follow him (please advise if you don't) Anthro fetches up in a forest clearing, with trees arching overhead. The White Witch, Karate Kid, and Tellus are suspended upside-down from vine ropes, while cavemen maneuver a wooden cage beneath them. Smoldering in the cage is a campfire.
"The smoke will dry the meat, allowing us to savor it for weeks to come!" says the young black-bearded caveman leader proudly. "None of it will go to waste!"
"But two of them are human," says another caveman. "Not meat."
"Human?" scoffs the leader. "With so little hair, and one as white as snow? Preposterous! Like the monkey, they
"Like the monkey, they are shaped like men without being men. Notice how they cannot speak, merely make bar-bar noises like dogs."
Delete"I am sorry, my friends," the White Witch says, "but I prepared no spells useful for putting out fires, or untying knots!"
"It's okay, White Witch," says Karate Kid. "For some reason, our telepathic ear plugs aren't translating our words to these jokers. Ah, but here is the Justice League! Our ear plugs are based on their signal devices; perhaps they can talk to our captors."
Tellus, meanwhile, has his big green frog-eyes open, but appears to be unconscious. There are no bubbles in his water-filled helmet, as there were before.
Quinn knows they probably shouldn't mess with the past too much, so he's going to wait and see what Anthro does. That said, he'll be ready to lasso the three futurists and yank them to safety.
ReplyDeleteChin-Su will, indeed, follow Anthro, staying just concealed outside of the clearing. "Anthro!" he hisses in a fierce whisper. "Friends NOT food! These your people?" he indicates the cavemen surrounding the futurists.
ReplyDelete"No, Anthro friends not they," replies the dawn-man. "Savages, hurt Anthro friends."
ReplyDeleteHe hefts a rock, taken from the undergrowth.
"Well then, lets beat these guys up." Sam says cracking his fist. "Esuod Erif."
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