[MV] The Super Wizard From Space #9

[Wil Alambre]

Scott Eiler wrote:
> Wil Alambre wrote:
>
>> Using the warping walls as footing, Gavrilo crawled out of the airlock
>> just before the hatch closed behind him the rocket-ship turned into a
>> metal reflection of the other space-bees.
>
> Okay, I'll buy that these were-bees can turn a machine into a bee,
> because these are obviously Super Were-Bees. Say no more. 8{D>

LOL! super were bees... from space! :P Like I said, way too much fun.

>> A sonic boom blasted from the sky above them. The Super Wizard From
>> Space accelerated straight downward, the energy cocoon around him
>> flaring with bright power.
>
> Can the Super Wizard's super sonic boom outrace the Super Wizard himself?

Oops.

>> "The technology works, but the silver skull radiates the effect
>> outwards rather than into the machine. The entire universe that
>> travels through time, with only the pilot chamber actually changing.
>> The time machine works inside out."
>
> If I had a time machine that made the entire universe travel through
> time while I stayed put, that would be good enough for me.
>
>> "Any pilot gets shunted away as the machine's limited interior
>> realigns to a different time period. But since the controls are always
>> here with us, they're trapped forever. The machine is useless. It
>> always has been."
>
> Well, that's different. A time machine that can't take passengers *is*
> pretty useless.

Hopefully you've seen my explanation in a previous reply about my 
intention on how my silver skull machine works. I struggle to find a use 
for such a time machine.

Maybe a prison. Hmm.

>> And floating above it's forehead, set just behind it's golden eyes, a
>> wreath of bay laurels made of interlocking branches and tangled
>> leaves, radiating with a sickly green pallor.
>
> Is that like a crown for purpose of the Super Wizard Challenge? ... I
> guess we'll find out.

I haven't been going into too much detail about the crowns, but you are 
correct.

To clarify, of the seven super-champions, we have met...

- the Super Wizard from Space, with his white crown.
- Emperor-M of Planet M, with his red pschent crown.
- The Super Devil of Double Hell, with black thorn/razor circlet.
- Sharkasaurus Rex of the Infinite Ocean, and his green laurel wreath.
- the Secret Living Language (though we haven't seen his crown)

We haven't yet met the super-champion of the Invisible Monks. And though 
we haven't met her, the super-champion of the Monster Bees is Queen Buzz.

>> I'm having too much fun with were-bees. This issue was over 2200 words
>> before I realized it was too long and wasn't going to wrap up the
>> silver skull machine arc.
>
> Wrapping up arcs on schedule is overrated.

Call it penance for the raccowrimo contest I initiated in November then 
failed to participate in ;)

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