[MV] The Super Wizard From Space #39: Do While Rw Nw Prt M Hrw, Part 3

Andrew Perron pwerdna at gmail.com
Sat Mar 2 01:12:56 PST 2013


On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:34:59 +0000 (UTC), Wil Alambre wrote:

> In the clarity of the desert night, a single point of light smolders
> against the blue-black curtain. And it slowly grows the closer it gets,
> falling toward Us through immense distances. The Super Wizard From Space
> is coming to Planet M.

Siiiiiiiiiiiigh. <3

> M is overcome with horror as the implications become clear. "What-
> about-everyone-else?" He sweeps an arm back toward the mechanized
> metropolis. "The-citizens, the-city... they-*need* that-power! They-
> won't-will-live-long-without-recharging!"
> 
> "Sacrificed," We say, "For the greater good."
> 
> "Being-*greater*-doesn't-make-us-*good*," he snarls back.

Yeah! M! Go! Woo!

> We
> will not share any responsibility for your erosive attitude. This
> resignation you have wrapped around yourself is *not* appealing, is
> *not* heroic, is *not* noble, and is *not* productive.

Honestly, I gotta disagree? When you stop doing something that's making
things worse, that's productive, and often noble and heroic.

> For a moment, We forget that We are transmitting from
> galaxies away, that We are not really here... and We feel cold and
> still.

Mmmmmmmm. <3

> And We cannot provide it any comfort... as we cannot
> fathom the gambit the wizard is playing. Leniency is not something that
> has ever been associated with the Great Disaster. What is happening
> here?

Innnnnnnnnnnteresting. Is this a change in the Wizard, or just another
plan?

> M stomps forward. And lets loose another crushing bass note. BOOM! The
> wash lava folds back onto itself, flowing off between the columns'
> remaining stumps. The corridor is blanketed with hellish reds.

Very creative use of abilities. <3 Good battle scene.

> We watch M's arm bend, the rope of the solar flare softening the robot's
> metal. It twists and drips, the heat of a star bleeding into it.
> 
> But M holds his grip. And yanks. The wizard is dragged down, unable to
> break the grip on his fiery weapon. And falls before Emperor M!

ESPECIALLY this bit. There's so much of this I can visualize, and I am so
envious.

> He's stomping on the still wizard. Over and over again, with little
> finesse. Barely keeping himself from tipping over. The iron foot bangs
> down on an arm. On a shoulder. On the ribs. Over and over. A stick oily
> fluid bleds and pools from the unmoving form.
> 
> Emperor M finally stops, his stored-up savagery expended. He takes an
> unsteady step back, trying to stand straight and finding his structure
> is incapable of it. Still, he squares what remains of his shoulders and
> looks back to the forum. Back at Us. Without eyes. Expressionless.

Holy shit. o.o

> After a long wordless moment, he bends down and grabs one of the
> wizard's feet. Then, Emperor M drags limp body away to the pyramids in
> the horizon.

Holy shit. o.o!!! I didn't expect this!

> AUTHOR'S NOTES
> 
> Would this have qualified for the "Ruined Forever" High Concept
> Challenge? I guess it depends on what happens next issue ;)

Heeheehee <3 <3 <3 Oh man I am SO pumped.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, AWESOME.


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