(any apparent delay in this post's arrival may be due to volcanic activity)
So it is Jimmy, and only Jimmy, who sees three individuals materialize from a purple cloud of energy, hovering in mid-air!
One is a red-headed muscleman with a long red ponytail bound in leather cords, wearing a helmet decorated with lightning bolts and swinging a huge hammer which also has an axe blade on the other end! His costume is green with pentagonal silver shields on it.
One is a thick-bodied green-gray metallic robot with little eye slits in its helmet and a long radio antenna sticking up from its left shoulder. In the palms of its clumsy-looking armor are big guns.
And finally, the third individual is a woman in a green leotard with buzzing bee wings on her back. They appear mechanical, attached to an elliptical metal backpack. She flicks out two long knives from her sleeves, extending well past her hands, and shrinks to an inch in size.
These three flying beings look around, locate Grodd, then head for Cap'n Bill. Well, the Axe Guy and the Armor Guy do. The Bee Girl buzzes around from here to there, flitting across the battle area as if searching for something.
MEANWHILE, Vina says to Superboy:
"Grodd's this way. He does mind tricks. Oh, and the other ones with me are Jimmy Olson--you know him? He's got some of the Super powers. Like I do. Just. Not as much. And we've got a .... venerable king of the sea. I think he really is a sea captain."
She blows her bangs out of her eyes with a puff of air.
"Can you fly? Now, I mean?"
"Oh! and is Tana someone Grodd would target, too, for powers?"
"Naw," says Superboy. "Tana Moon is a reporter for the Honolulu TV station. We were just chillaxin' on the beach, you know, waiting for the city to be in danger. She doesn't have any powers, and gorillas don't go for beach-betties."
He hovers in the air, his leather jacket waving faintly like a cape. He's got the "S" shield on the back of the jacket, too.
"So, I don't have super-vision, but with my handy x-ray sunglasses, I can see ... who the heck are those guys!"
Superboy describes them.
"Tank Man, Stormguy and Bee Girl," he says. "Are they Teen Titans? Seems like anybody can join the Titans these days... they let Beast Boy in."
"Hey, are your Sea King and Semi-Super-Jimmy hip to the green scene? Or should we clue them in?"
"I am without a clue as to what they know and do not know... I can buzz them, but wait a sec..." She goes through her mental Hawk Police Rolodex. Or a gadget. Whichever works better."
ReplyDelete(Having conferred with the referee.) "Nope, the Hawks have no idea who these guys are. So, they are either brand-spanking-new or from some alien place we've never heard of or ... someone extremely powerful has shielded them from discovery so far.
She radios this information (what they see ... and that Super Boy is free) to the Sea Lord and Semi-Super-Jimmy.
Steve: I did not get an email for the two posts prior to this one.
ReplyDeleteCap'n Bill, upon spying the figures heading toward him, calls out a cheery ahoy, and shouts, "Stand clear o' the squall, ye lubbers! 'Tis a right nor'easter to blow the man down!"
If they give him any hard looks, or come at him as if to attack, he will flourish his trident, and command the sea wave to pluck him up and toss him back away from the island and under water. He will sink six fathoms (36 feet under the surface), and stand on the back of some convenient manta ray, waiting to see if they dare follow.
Then he will call his kragen closer, as well as humpback whales, killer whales, giant squid, bobtail squid, southern bluefin tuna, pike, pickerel, pollock, porgies, sea breams, frigate mackerel, blue marlin, spearfish, tiger shark, moray eels, monk seals, Hawaiian green sea turtles, sea urchins, stingrays, a devil scorpion fish, a pod of bottle-nose dolphins, and a barracuda. I also ask starfish and clams to stand by, just in case.
Capn Bill will also summon up a sandlance (Limnichthytes fasciatus) which has telescopic vision, send it to the surface, and have him report on the movement of the flying men.