Once Again...the line-up of the 12;
Toadboy: President extrodinair, with the great hair
B-Cool, or Terrax, or Power, or Nemesis Enforcer, or justaboutanyoneelse: VP
Maverick: Ex-President, former list administrator, and knowledgable friend
"Sin Sin" Sinister: Runner up in Presidential race & a great guy
Morpheus: Humorous creator of the original 12 story
finar: One of ClubNate's funniest guys and campaign manager of Toad/B-Cool
Nature Boy, Stone Cold Zenith 230, Hero of the Beach: Gotta get that guy to shorten that name someday
Sparky, Girl Wonder: First female member of the 12
Galvatron: Guy with Supreme Nately Knowledge, Aced Bro'hood test
Dark Scorpion: Generous gal who gave comics to Bro'hood members
Jinx: Sci-fi guru and all around good guy
Glenna B, G, or G-Woman: final initiate of the 12 and keeper of the "Letter Opener of Death"
The heros watched as the Terraxian Nemesis B-Cruel powered downinto The ICON...Power. They shake their heads in disbelief at how much ability and how many personalities a person can have. Terrax walks over to the control panel, pushes a few buttons, and out pops a picture and a video cassette. Toadboy peaks at the picture and sees that it is one of the VP blasting the Hitman.
"You recorded that battle?"
"of course, I like to have pictures of each incarnation of myself. Now, the rest of you can go and find Morph and Zenith..just drop me off at the safehouse. I've gotta test our trainees and watch my video...soon to be on sale for only $29.95 plus shipping and handling."
"If you want to be dropped off, I'll have to take you through Limbo, 'cuz we aint stoppin'." Magik tells him.
"Fine, I'll just get out here." Terrax says, then steps out of the Pac-Rat and flies himself home.
The rest of the heros continue to the stadium where Man U and the Celtic faced off. fantastic finar leads them to where the missing officers were seated.
"This wind is ruining my hair." Toadboy declares, and starts combing his hair.
"And where did they vanish at?" Maverick asks.
"friends Zenith and Morpheus were right herre...then they weren't here and finar was left alone," finar tells them, then he points to the brown stain, "only that was left."
"That's not a Nately substance," Galvatron declares.
"We need someone with tracking abilities, and since Barry went home, anyone have any idea where we can get that being?" Sparky asks.
"Howabout oe of Magik's demons?" G-Woman asks.
"NO! finar don't like demons." finar says.
"Come on finar...you want to find Zenith and Morph, don't you?" Scorpion asks.
"ok, but finar wants to stand near Magik so demons won't bother him." finar walks over to Magik.
"Wait," Sinister yells," did anyone bother to follow the trail of pizza and Marlboros?"
Looking down, the heros notice an unusual amount of pizza crusts and cigarette buts. They begin to follow the trail.
"I'm hungry," 2FLI tells Nexus," lets go find something to eat."
"Good idea," Nexus says in agreement. As they walk down the hallway, they see a room with a mini-fridge and a Cyclops dartboard (with a dart through Cyc's neck). The two agree to check it first. As they walk into the room, Nexus trips on an empty beer can. 2FLI starts laughing. He then notices some writing on the walls. He reads for a while then runs out of the room screaming because of the language and descriptions of how to kill Cyclops. Twenty seconds later, Nexus runs out...also screaming.
Calming down, Nexus tells 2FLI," Guess we know which room is Stone Cold's."
"How can Nature Boy eat so much pizza?" Sinister asks.
As they walk out of the stadium, finar stops by the Pac-Rat and trades his hammer for 2 really big guns. "Now finar ready to find friends."
The heros start walking down the street, not noticing the funny looks they are getting from the unNatelies. (If you saw 10 people walking down the street, one looking like a cyborg, one with a sword and body armor, a guy in a green suit with great hair, a man with 2 big guns, a guy in robes, a girl in black with a cloak, a girl with a 'G' on her costume, and other strangely dressed people, you'd look at them funny also). Walking along, SinSin notices a Taco Bell (these things are everywhere) and recommends running in for a quick bite.
2FLI and Nexus continue, still looking for the kitchen. They pass a room with a lot of pictures around it. Opening the door to the room, they notice costumes strewn all around and spot a shiny crown. "No fridge," they say and walk on.
They continue...and hear a crunching sound. thinking there's food near by, they open a door. Mockweed looks up from his meal...angry. He flies over and, rather than breath fire on them, he uses his fire to create a black cloud which deposits ash all over 2FLI and Nexus. they close the door coughing.
"This is where the trail ends...any ideas?" Jinx declares. Everyone looks to Toad and Maverick for answers.
Toad takes a deep breath and says," Magik, would you please release a tracking demon?"
"All you had to do was ask," Magik replies and opens a portal releasing
one demon from Limbo. 'Now you behave, Wannabe, or I'll slice you with my Soul Sword."
The demon grunts in acknowledgment (mumbling something under his breath) ...and begins following the scent.
G-Woman looks at where the trail of Marlboros stops, and notices a store near by. She walks over and notices a match on the floor. The demon comes over...still following the trail. "Anyone notice that Zenith, at least, doesn't seem to be a prisoner?"
"I noticed that too," Sparky replies," guess someone either fears or respects the Nature Boy too much to do any damage to him."
Continuing on the trail, they arrive at an airport. running his fingers through his hair, toadboy ponders the possibilities.
Nexus and 2FLI come to a split in the hallway, "You know, this place didn't seem this big from the outside," 2FLI says.
"I think it has something to do with a spell Jinx put on the building during construction...making the inside larger than the outside. Combine that with elements from B-Cool's pocket dimension and Zenith's alternate universal transport...and you've got the safehouse," Nexus explains," Left or Right?"
"Left"
Moving two steps, the two start running back, chased by Angel, Keeper, and Sandi (the dogs of finar, Glenna, and B-Cool respectively).
Magik summons (demon #1) and sends him back to Limbo...replacing him with (demon #2) (a demon with wings).
Toadboy snapps his fingers.."Why don't we just track them using their communicators/signal badges?"
The heros smack themselves in the forehead with their palms...realizing that they could have done this immediately and saved some time.
Having finally found the fridge, 2FLI and Nexus start back towards the communications room with sandwiches and sodas. Along the way, they notice a room with the most advanced video gaming systems in the world. They sit down to play "X-Men vs. Everyone". (the two miss the message comming in through the com-screen, so we'll just let you know that it shows Cable's face).
Galvatron flies to get the Pac-Rat. Meanwhile, (demon2) runs over and starts chasing finar, who begins running circles around Magik, Toad, and Mav. Magik tells the demon to go sit over by Sparky.
While landing the Pac-Rat, Galvatron wonders why finar is running circles around Mav, Magik, and Toad. The heros, except for those four board the Pac-Rat.
"You can stop running any time now finar," Toad says, combing his hair yet again.
"I don't think he can hear you," Magik says as the sunlight reflects off her SoulArmor.
"STOP!" comes the telepathic command from Sinister. finar stops running and notices that the demon stopped chasing him. Seeing the Pac-Rat, he runs abouard with his 2 big guns.
"I could have done that, but I was enjoying the sight," Maverick said as he, Toadboy and Magik got aboard.
"Ok, Magik, you take the co-pilot's chair. G, see if you can locate Morph and Zenith's signal. finar, prepare a press release. Dark Scorpion, contact Nexus and 2FLI and see if anything has happened. Jinx, see what's happening at Godzilla network. I'll sit back and style my hair," Toad says.
"I'm getting no answer from Nexus and 2FLI," Scorpion says," think they might bve in trouble?"
"Well, B's on his way over there. If there's any trouble, I'm sure he can handle it," Maverick said without looking up from his computer journals.
"I've got their signal," G-Woman announces," head towards New York."
As the Pac-Rat flies over to New York, the heros wonder what whould bring Stone Cold and Morph to the Big Apple.
The Icon..Terrax arrives at the safehouse through his secret enterance.
Putting the picture and video down, Terrax prepares his battle axe and
starts through the hallways towards the communications room..."Empty?" Terrax thinks, then walks over to the system and begins a transformation into Identi-fax, computer programmer/user extrodinair.
"Let's see who we've got and where." he says to himself. "Ah, so that's where our two trainees are..." Identifax spots a TV comercial that captures his attention. "That's it, that's where Zenith and Morph are. Let's go scare our trainees then go see Morph and Zenith."
After getting their buts kicked for the kazillionth time, Nexus and 2FLI finally give up on the game. They notice a shadow move across the floor. As the two prepare for anything, they start looking for a weapon.
Suddenly they see the shadow split into 3, then merge back into one. The lights go out and immediately come back on. the two heros-in-training find themselves in another room...or is it a room?
"Where are we?" 2FLI asks, and the echo almost knocks him over. Nexus looks around and sees a Joseph statue with pins all through it. Walking over and whispering tin 2FLI's ear, Nexus says," We're in B-Cool's pocket dimension."
They are immediately pulled back into reality by B-Cruel," Next time we tell you we need the communications system watched, I don't want to find you in our game room." B-Cruel gives them a dirty look," Now get back in there, we've already had to record one message because you two weren't on duty." B-Cruel marches the two back.
"How did he put us in his pocket dimension? We are to big to fit in there." Nexus whispers to 2FLI
"Don't know, don't wanna know, aint gonna ask," is 2FLI's response.
After putting them back in the the room, B-Cruel {now as the Bad Guy...Scavenger} uses his huge wings to fly and check his suspicion.
Upon reaching New York, the heros release Magik's demon (he got tired and hitched a ride, but was told he had to leave finar alone). The demon headed straight for Madison Square Garden, and landed on the roof.
"Alright crew, let's hop to the rescue," Toad said with a smile, "I always wanted to say that."
"There are too many people for me to locate them telepathically," Maverick says.
"Guess we'll have to go in as civilians," Sparky states.
"Alright. We've got dressing rooms in the Pac-Rat. Guys on the right, Ladies on the left...and finar, no using your X-Ray vision to look in on us," Glenna says.
A few minutes later everyone emerges and starts down. "Maverick and SinSin, use your telepathic abilities to get us in without tickets. Once inside, we split into twos and try to find them," Toad says.
"'bout time y'all showed up," someone said. Looking around, the heros spot the TRUE Icon...Power.
"How did you.."
"I saw a comercial that told me where they were. Our friends are sitting in the front row."
"Who's playing tonight?" Magik asked.
"Playing, we're at one of the greatest sporting events ever and you don't know what it is?" Power looks at them in disbelief. He leads them down the front row.
The heros notice Morph and Zenith sitting next to someone vaguely familiar. They continue towards their seats.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the WWF In Your House!"
finar says, "oooh, wrestiling. Great."
The heros finally arrive at the seats.
"'Bout feckin' time. I've been kidnapped, mates, and made to attend this feckin' sport! Help Me! Can't take the Lycra tightness on such...oozing bodies." Morph starts rocking on his chair, hugging his knees.
"Don't worry, Morph, we'll get you out of here. Magik, why don't you teleport yourself and Morph out of here, since we know you aren't interested in wrestling either," Maverick suggests.
"Like Hi there, dudes," the third person says.
"Aren't you Anal Dude?" Socrpion asks.
"Anal Dude," Jinx thinks," that explains the brown stain."
"Let's watch the show." Power says, as Steve Austin's music begins to play.
Epilogue: Stay-Puft sits in his room trying to formulate another plan to eliminate the 12...his pudgy fingers tapping his bald skull.
Now that the Twelve are finally assembled, how long will it last?
Stay tuned to see what startling events happen in Chapter 7.