Special #6: Richard's Revenge
A figure flew ran to a lonely school on the hill. He took no hesitation to run into the notorious Pomperaug High to search for something of value. He sharply turned right and ran as fast he could to the nurse’s office about 3/4 the way down the hall way. He busted through the door and a large group of friends he recalled hovered an individual. “Joe...I don’t think he is gonna make it. Zuk can’t hold this attack any more.” said Caitlin, who was monitoring his status the entire time. A gruff cough echoed through the building as several as then a choke of breathlessness and then a sign. Zuk closed his eyes and released his spirit to the other world. Caitlin felt his heart, and then his pulse. “He’s...he’s...dead....” Everyone’s sorrow for their esteemed hero built up, as the huddle burst into a tearful group. Many would think a wish of the medallion could solve this and wish Zuk back to life, but alas, he was already wished back once and this time died of natural elements beyond his control.
Joe Zukoski has died....
Everyone took the grief of this event in their own ways and split up to their own separate lives. Then, after about half a year later, an invasion took place. A pair of clones with mechanical and some organic parts. These “android clones” of Joe the Strong and a Majin Philibuster began to rage havoc within the town of Middlebury, close to Pomperaug. But with the gifts returned the Calabro Crew they took on these opponents without thinking. But alas, each fell victim to the incredible power of the android clones. First, Bastedo...felt his arms being ripped off as the evil ones used his truck and tied him to it and ran him off a cliff. Gilday felt the wrath of an explosion bigger then any known, from Joe the Strong. Calabro was sliced by Joe the Strong and was burnt to a crisp.
15 years later.....
The menacing Android clones took apart every city near Pomperaug. But the school and the surrounding area was disastrous, like a ghost town. It was wrecked up looking like an Earthquake took it out. But the Clones were attacking another important establishment...Rochambeau Middle School. The pair landed in the large parking lot, only yards from the learning area. Each giggled at the thought of how this building will crash to the earth. They reached out they hands and flattened them parallel to the Southbury middle school. A ball of “chi” appeared around their flattened palm, “Heh, BOOM.!” Joe the Strong shouted as he fired his shot, followed by Majin Philibuster’s toward the school. A massive explosion sounded through the serenity of the surrounding as the whole middle school blew up. But before this pair was ready to turn and run, a lone figure flew in from behind them. A middle age man wearing armor of the warrior race of the Saiya-jin. A composed battle vest-like jacket that protected the user from bodily damage. He landed in front of them and snickered at their destruction. “Well, well, Brian. We meet again, except this will be the last time for you...” Majin Philbuster hissed. “Damn bots, you’ll never take me down. I am stronger then you and this is your end....AHHHHH...” As the man named Brian shouted at the top of his lungs, his hair burst into a heavenly gold and his eyes a brilliant emerald. A flame aura of fired wrapped it’s mystical power around the hero to heighten his power slightly. “So Brian, you change to your most powerful self. That of a Super Scholar, well you’ll need more then that to stop us!” Joe the strong shouted to the Super Scholar. Both Android clones dashed toward the hero, Majin Philibuster zanzokened behind him and Joe the Strong attack from the front. Brian ducked once from each strong and slow punch. He maneuvered quite easily through each wave of punches. But finally, Brian caught a punch from Majin Philibuster and kneed him into the stomach. Giving the opportunity to leave Joe the Strong temporaily disabled as he watched his companion get hurt. For that opening, Brian Overhead slammed him into the ground. He took a leap into the air and flew up higher to avoid any nasty attacks by these clones. But the two followed a minute afterward. They flew past our hero and lunged at him from above him. Joe the Strong landed the first hit and nailed Brian into his chest with his head. Brian took a dive way below. Majin Philibuster zanzokened to the ground and caught the hero. He held him firmly in a bone cracking headlock. “Prepare to die....Warrior!” hissed the demonic incantation of Philibuster. As Brian was about to let go of himself and die, another figure from behind flew in and kicked the ma-jin, releasing his grip on Brian and he flew a few feet forward with a smacking headache. He got and turned to see another hero, “Wha...so, you finally healed after that nasty broken arm I gave you...you bitch. Why doesn’t Philibuster have to come.
“Well, bring it on!” Philibuster shouted back to his enemies. He helped Brian up to his feet, “Brian, we have to fuse and vanquish these foes. We have to try, I know we keep messing up, but we have to try.” Brian agreed. Meanwhile, Joe the Strong hovered off the ground, watching relentlessly what was to happen. Our heroes stood next to each other, parallel to each other. There they performed the fusion dance. A rise in the left leg to a turn of the right arm. After a few maneuvers the pair got closer into the dance and to each other and connected together by touching each others hands. But unfortunately, Brian put his finger up when they touched, breaking the perfect reflexive dance. The two were sucked into each other in a whirl of energy. But instead of the muscular and powerful fused warrior of Broe2, another being emerged. A very elderly and frail image of Broe2. “Oh...well, it seems some asshole in your little party messed up the dance. Well, you are going to die.” As was seen by the evil ones, Broe2 was more as a very skinny old man with no powers at all. “Oh bummer, we are doomed.” Broe2 stated. He tried to run away, but he was too old to really run and tried to just walk. “We gotta break fusion, we gotta.” shouted Broe2. But the icy blade of death from Joe the strong shattered across the head of Broe2. There the fusion broke into two separate entities of their former selves. Philibuster was bleeding very badly and lost his arm in the process. Brian was unconscience, but still intact. Joe reached into his pocket, a coffee caplet. “I gotta let him live. I have no chance of making it through this one.” Philibuster whispered to himself. He fed the caplet to Brian and the power began to surge back to into his body. The Android clones flew off, believing they defeated the pair. Philibuster then fainted into his own death. Brian got up suddenly, aware what has happened. He picked up Philibuster and flew him off back to the high school.
When he landed. He found a young boy of 16 sitting near the basement doors near the destroyed school “sanctuary” for the refugees whom survived. “Father, what has happened to poor Mr. Philibuster.” asked the youth. “Richard...he is dead. The clones killed him and decided to save me by giving me the last coffee caplet.” The boy stared wide-eyed at him and began to weep. “My master, my friend...dead. I can’t take it anymore.” Richard said to himself. He ran all teary eyed into the school as Tara walked out. “Is he...?” she asked. “Afraid so, here. I’ll put him down at your lab so you can see what you can do for his genes. I know you want to breed more Super Scholars, so here you can try it.” answered Brian. Brian walked into the school and proceeded to the old science section of the building and laid the body of his friend onto the table. “Rest in Peace my friend. We won’t for all eternity.” he said to the dead body. He sat for a moment, when Richard walked in. “Father, is it possible that I can be strong enough to help you fight.” asked the youth. “No, I will not allow it. Sure, I did fight as a lad. But I was no where near strong enough to win. You haven’t become what you blood has allowed you to become. If you can prove to everyone you can change to become a Super Scholar, then I may consider it. But no.” quoted the fatherly figure. He wanted his son to live through this mess, and he knew that his son may never change. He gets too emotional a lot of times. But isn’t strong enough. If somehow, his anger can be used to upgrade his power, it’s killing two birds with one stone for him to change. “But dad, Mr. Philibuster trained me well! I can fight very much so better then you think. I may not be able to change, yet. But I am not going to sit around and let this place fall apart even more.” Brian could only stare back into his son. “You need to stay here and protect everyone. Your mother is very important to me, and everyone else. You have to make sure she lives as well as everyone else. But I am off now. I have to take vengeance on these clones for the blood on their hands they faced to Philibuster.
Brian took off from the lab and into the air to find the menaces he hated so. All Richard could do was wait. “I know, I will try to get angry and take my anger to add to my power. Then I can change. I’ll show my father, I can help him against this menace.” the boy thought. He walked to the outside of the school and clenched his fists and tried to power up. He growled in a sense to get angrier each time. Then a burst, he felt a golden “chi” flame wrap around him. He was almost there. Now for the ignition factor. Richard tried to recall the moments he saw what happened. The faces of Joe the Strong attacking the cities, the people, and even his own friends. The flame exploded into a larger one. “I am almost there, just a little more.” Then, Richard felt fatigued and fell down on his face. “Dammit, so close. I will never change.”
Richard walked out toward the soccer field to breathe in the day. A figure flew across the sky and landed beside him. “Dad, your back! What happened?” His father panted a little and looked up at the sky and two other figures flew toward them, “RICHARD, GET INSIDE.....THEY’RE HERE!” the Brian shouted. Richard ran as fast as he could to the entrance he came out of, as he saw his father prepare to battle. Two figures landed, Majin Philibuster and . Joe the Strong had landed and were ready for a fight. The father of Richard charged up his new found powers and he burst into a Super Scholar. Richard was awed at the site of seeing the power of that. He always wanted to have the power that his father had. Brian dashed toward the Philibuster clone, but he blocked it and nailed him to the ground with his elbow. Then he picked him up and slapped him a few times. He turned him around and faced him toward Joe the Strong. Joe the Strong clenched his fists and a blue aura covered it, “Now, we finally got the second Super Scholar.” He punched the Super Scholar in the chest, which punctured through him. Blood gashed out of his stomach and he fell to the ground in a loud cry... The hero grabbed at his chest and felt the very life of him escape. He knew there was no way to live through this. He fell felt on his face and breathed his last.
The clones laughed a little and flew off away from the school. Richard left his hiding spot and ran to his deceased father. He hugged the dead body and cried aloud. “Father, I should have been with you to help you. Just like Mr. Philibuster told me too when he was training me. You pushed me out of the way, because I haven’t been strong enough to fight the clones yet. You said I needed to....BECOME A SUPER SCHOLAR......AHHHHHHH!” Before Richard finished his sentence he felt the hate rise...the anger of the death of his father, his fault...He cried harder, as his eyes changed from the blue they were to an emerald green, then back to the blue. His hair stood up, phasing from the brown hair it was to a gold. Then in a burst of anger and pain, he burst into a Super Scholar. He had achieved his goal. But he realized that one boy cannot take on the both of them. He weeped and released his power as he ran into the refugee camp of his family. As he ran across the darkened hallways, where columns broke through walls and concrete fell to the floor, he ran to the once Nurse’s station of PHS. There, Caitlin stood, washing dishes from a meal. The 36 year old woman turned to see Richard running into the office in tears, “Mother, mother, Dad is dead...He tried to save me from the clones, but died...” He said. “Oh...Brian....” Caitlin replied, she remembered her lover of twenty years, Brian. The one who fathered her child that stood before her. She embraced her son as she too weeped. After clearing away the tears, Richard broke the embrace. “Why did Zuk have to die on us, why did that asthma attack kill him, allowing all the others to be killed. All they did was try to save the world. But those super clones were too strong for them.”
He stormed out of the room and wandered the hallways. Until he reached upstairs to the science department of the school. Inside, a woman was performing an autopsy on a dead body. “Miss Tara, can I talk to you for a moment.” Tara turned to see the lad, “Richard, why are you here, you know your mother told you not to see me again. She is very upset with me, you should know that.” Richard nodded, “I know, I need some time to rest up, since my father just died. What are you doing?” Tara stood perplexed, another death she figured, the toll was so high it didn’t phase her much. “Well, I found Philibuster’s body intact, and have been studying the gene structure of his DNA. I want to find a way to create an Artificial Super Scholar. If we had an army of them, we can destroy those clones.” Richard glanced over and became disgusted at what he saw. “Miss Tara, I have a better idea, can you create a time machine for me. Something for me to go back into the past and warn everyone before the clones appeared. I know you can do it. Mother told me a few times your intelligence and skill to build anything got you out of a few problems.” Tara pondered the thought, she had a basic u understanding of the Space time continuum. She could do it. “Well, for you I will, just I dunno if you should go. You haven’t gotton strong enough to fight strong people yet.” she said. Richard walked out of the room a happier person, “I can go back into time 21 years into the past. The day before Zuk returns to Earth. I will warn them to become stronger when the super clones appear.” he thought to himself.
He ran to his room next door to the nurse’s room and fell asleep, as Tara worked busily at the time machine.
The next morning, Richard woke as quickly as he could. He got ready as fast as he could and ran to Tara’s lab. He saw her busily working a domed egg shaped object about the size of a car. “Miss Tara, is it done?” Richard blurted out from behind her. “Almost, Richard, I need a few hours to fix a few kinks and power it up.” she said. Richard sat for a while as he watch her hammer, nail and fizzle with a few components of the time machine. After an eternity, she rubbed her brow from the sweat and said, “There it’s done.” Richard ran in joy to the ship and examined it a bit, he wandered inside and looked at the controls. They seemed pretty straight forward. He ran to the corpse of Philibuster and grabbed a kitana blade from his x sheathes. He sheathed it into his own and ran into the ship. He powered it up and set the date, June 1st, 2001. The egg ship span wildly as it sped to speeds faster then light, and then to the speed of time. In an instant, the ship disappeared.
He fought valiantly through the battle with the Android clones and even this warrior, Super Perfect Calabro. But Richard returned to the future to finish what he left off before hand. He had to go back to fix his world so at least it can rebuild. The time machine of his traversed through the space-time continuum back to the future. The machine returned in the very same spot in Tara’s lab at it had left. “ Tara turned to see the return of the machine. “Wow, that was quick. He was gone for five seconds. But it doesn’t matter he could have been away for years and not realize it. But let us see.” The pod opened up and the Richard of about 17 years old left his time machine and to see Tara. His long brown hair that he never once cut while in the past because of the dedication for the mission. Tara walked toward the teen, “Richard, what happened. Did you succeed?” Richard nodded his head with a smile, “We killed the Android clones of the past with much ease. But another being showed up. I better find and kill those androids quickly before anyone gets hurt. With the possibility of this new villain may be running around I have to kill those clones.” he stated He flew off, straight through the hallways and to the outside. But something was a miss. Outside was a body lying on the ground beside the two evil ones. The body turned a little bit toward Richard. “Ri....ch..ar...d....they got me...I...uhhh..” Caitlin was the one lying on the ground, dying from the attack of the clones. Richard was in a lot of despair. He laid his head low for a minute. He felt his anger rise some more. Richard blew into a Super Scholar and the flame from his “chi” blew away the clones like a tormenting hurricane to trees. “You bastards...how dare pick on an innocent woman. Just then, a sudden change appeared over Richard. His long and bright golden hair pulled itself up higher on his head. He felt his muscles greatly increase in size. Lightning raced along his body. His eyes shifted to a darker tint of emerald. Then after one loud burst of anger, Richard shouted at the top of his lungs and a large crater formed from his power up. A brilliantly large “chi” flame formed around him. With tears in his eyes, Richard had reached, Super Scholar level 2. “Oh my, I think we’re goners. This is no power I had ever felt.” said Joe the Strong to his companion, who also agreed. “But it’s no problem, we can take him. Let us try the technique we we’re trained to use in this emergency.” said Majin Philibuster. Then the two stood parallel to each other and performed the fusion dance, with leg up high, then a simple turn and arm swing, they did it well. On the final step, the two met together perfectly as they were pulled together as one being. “Haha. We are the ultimate fusion, meet Majin JoeJoe. Richard just powered up even more as he saw the fused ma-jin rush at him at full force. JoeJoe began to wildly punch at Richard intent on intimidating him. But Richard easily just stepped back once and easily moved through the wildness as poetic as a falling leaf. Then he leapt into the air and performed an air roundhouse kick to Majin JoeJoe’s face. The fusion fell down to the ground and slid against the ground and even down the hill. Richard ran after him and jumped into the air and then lunged himself into a Dynamite Kick fashion as he plummeted onto JoeJoe’s face. He kicked wildly around into his face, then chest, and stomach. By that time, JoeJoe got a chance to flip back up. He was dazed around a bit, but was ready to stop him. Majin JoeJoe placed his fist forward and fired a large ball of energy to our hero. It raced toward him. But the youth stood with an emotionless face. He reached his hand out and smacked the ball away like it was nothing but a common ball. “Now evil ones, feel my ultimate wrath. It is time to repay your debts on those whom you have killed.” Richard threw back his arms behind his back and powered up a large ball of blue energy. After a second or two, it grew to a size that of a large medicine ball. “Here it comes....FINISHING BUSTER!” shouted our hero. He threw himself all out as the ball raced to it’s destination, the ma-jin fusion. “Oh shit...I think we had it.” quietly spoke the evil one. The ball ran through its victim and the whole thing exploded into nothing, but a cloud of smoke and a head of the fusion. In which Richard walked over and squished his head and then releases his power.
He ran to his mother. She was very death and wasn’t much left of her. But Richard pulled from his pocket, the Bastedo Cookie he was given, but never consumed. He fed it to his dying mother and her life was restored. A look of peacefulness filled her body. “Thank you...Richard.” Caitlin said to her son. But Richard flew off, waving to his mother. “I have one last thing to do, and that is the find Miss Stephanie, whom is locked away somewhere. I have to find them.”
