by LLANCE, Chewy Walrus, BISONSIX, Rypta Gud'n and Shock Headed Peter
Lance: Hey, everybody! Time trip back to the signing of the Constitution! I hear HourGirl has been stranded there by Petey the dog, no less! (I knew there was something fishy about Shock Headed Peter!)It must be a variant Earth though! Instead of powdered wigs they wore powered wigs! The question remains: What powers do these wigs actually have?
Jonah'sWhale, do you still have the Amazon girdle? It may come in handy fighting powered wigs!
--------once over and twice twisted----------
Chewy, HNB, and Steve bust into SHP's lair to find...
...nothing.
CHEWY: Aww, crap! All right, you two, reread the post and find out what we missed...
Lance: Now, Chewy! We expect more out of our leader! It's only us members that are allowed to be out in the ozone!
------once over and twice twisted------------
BISONSIX: Hey, look in the corner. SHP left a heat seeking Chrono-Temporo-Whamorizo propped up in the corner. We can follow them to the ends of the time stream!
Chewy Walrus: And so, Chewy, finally seeing everyone else assembled, stretches his elastic arm into the time stream, pulling HourGirl back from the past before she could get it on with Ben Franklin. Chewy's other elastic hand lands a mighty fist to SHP's jaw, knocking him to the ground. At the first sign of violence, BISONSIX, Lance, and Jonah'sWhale all jump on SHP, pummeling him to the ground. As they beat the bejeebers out of him, HourGirl's aura of power rises from SHP, rebestowing itself into the body of the girl. She giggles with glee, and casts the villainous SHP into the dark abyss of time, until TOMB's next meeting with him. And, then, as the team gathered around, a job well done before them, Lance looks up and says with a grin: "God bless us, everyone! ... Now what the heck happened to Franta and the Docs!?"
Lance: The End!
BISONSIX: "gee, that was easy."
BAM! POW! BIFF!
In the centre of a dark room sat two chairs. The room was unlit, and the barest streaks of moonlight filtered in through the cracks in the wall.
In one of the chairs at Rhyme Guardian, the MBL's leader and longest serving member. In the other chair sat Shock Headed Peter.
To SHP, it was about a month after his battle with TOMB. But the point in the timeline which they actually inhabited was unclear.
SHP had materialised there moments ago, and a look of shock had crossed his face. Rhyme Guardian stared at him intently.
SHP: "Hey! Where the hell is this?! Wha... Rhymer. You again."
RG: "Hello Peter. Long time no world-shaking battle."
SHP: "Cut the crap, hero-boy. What the hell am I doing here?"
RG: "I brought you here."
SHP: "Ah, so you've acquired a time/space teleporter then, eh? Good for you."
RG: "I stole it from you. Well, I will steal it from you. In the year 2035."
SHP: "WHat year is it now?"
RG: "It's the year after whatever last year was."
SHP: "Well, that's handy."
SHP pulled a small device out of his pocket. It was what he'd used to steal HourGirl's powers. He pointed it at Rhyme Guardian, who did nothing. It flashed, and SHP laughed.
SHP: "Ha! Now I have all of your cosmic pow... hey, I don't feel anything... You're powerless, aren't you! The mighty Rhyme Guardian, without his powers!"
RG: "Shut. Up."
SHP: "So why the hell did you bring me here anyway?"
RG: "You haven't figured it out yet? It's a trap." Rhyme Guardian reached into his coat, flicked a switch, and disappeared.
SHP sat, shocked, in the room where Rhyme Guardian left him. If it was a trap, he was already dead.
Nothing happened.
Rhyme Guardian flicked back into the room.
RG: "Heh. Fooled you."
SHP: "Bitch."
RG: "Now, now. Is that any way to talk to the guy who could leave you stranded in time?"
SHP: "WHat the hell do you want?"
RG: "You're going to help me. I am powerless, as you previously deduced. You have the technology to repower me. Namely, the Bib Bob computer mainframe. Big Bob knows how to retrieve my connection to the rhyme force."
SHP: "And if I don't?"
RG: "The Message Board League destroys you."
Will SHP help Rhyme Guardian? If Rhyme Guardian is a past version of HNB, why doesn't HNB remember any of this happening? Why did I feel the need to cross over this thread with the MBL thread?! WHy?!?!
SHP: You want to reconnect to the 'rhyme force'? Does that mean you'll start spouting inane poetry again? I swear, every single time I fought you in battle you'd start going 'There was an old man from Nantucket...
Rhyme Guardian punches SHP to the ground.
SHP: owww...
RG:The Rhyme Force is more than coventional poetry. It's a manipulation of the principal creative force that drives this world.
SHP: Yes, yes, Stories, literature, we're all fictional characters blah blah blah...
RG: Hmm. You know?
SHP: My original writer killed me at the beginning of the year. I was forced back into existence to fill the need for a villain. I mean, what were they going to do, bring back Incursion? That guy sucked...
RG:Enough!! Contact Big Bob.
SHP: Wherever we are right now, my communicator is kaput. Take me to the control room...
RG:I would, but so you don't escape, I need to do a little pruning...
SHP:Gulp...Pruning?
Rhyme Guardian revs up a chainsaw.
SHP: Oh my.
The End