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Post by mh on Nov 30, 2013 20:31:11 GMT -6
"wait people, "don't just leave me here!" cries degaton.
"why shouldn't we," asks babu baboon.
"I don't have anything against you guys," he whines. "if you didn't get into my bidness -- which you always do! i can help you out! plus, i could realize my boyhood dream of fighting alongside the blue horse! my gosh, what a magnificent figure of a man you are sir! why if i didn't admire you so, i'd capture you, extract all your dna, inject it into my pancreas, and then just clone the crap out of you!"
"ummm thanks .. I guess." says the blue horse frowning.
"hey! he ain't so much!" cries tiny Mighty Mini Man, as Mighty Maiden locks a manacle around him.
"you're at your smallest, "big boy," she tells MMM, "and if you enlarge it's gonna hurt like the dickens."
"it's just weird seeing degaton act like this, "mutters babu.
"wow, that Might Maiden is something else," says mh.
leaning over the blue horse whispers, "I hit that."
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Post by Babu Baboon on Nov 30, 2013 21:25:05 GMT -6
As they go about freeing the other heroes, the room soon fills with confused, newly awaken costumed avengers. "Wow. Gimble really wracked up quite a collection," MH says. "Including the entire Justice Brigade, the Freedom Five, the Avenging Army, and the Kid Krusaders. Plus, a bunch of foreign heroes I've never heard of."
"We're gonna give that hoser what for, eh?" a teenager in a red and white costume says, walking up.
"Who are you supposed to be?" MH says.
"I'm Kid Canuck!" the Canadian teen says.
"Never heard of you," MH says
"This amulet the Undead Rajah gave me is supposed to let us know when we're getting closer to Gimble," Babu says.
"He'll have a whole army behind him," Degaton says.
"We've already dealt with his clone army," Babu says. "We're the ones with an army."
Gimble has been doing this for years," Degaton says. "Whatever you faced wasn't his army. It was just a sample."
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Post by mh on Nov 30, 2013 22:25:01 GMT -6
as they assemble and file into their specific teams, spats/gimble, looking out out a window exclaims, "oh no .."
"what gimble," asks babu, taking a look
it's the 'rainbow racer'!" cries gimble. "he who brings death to the anthropoidal fraternization! or any future incarnation, such as yourselves."
"why don't we know about this?! I've never seen him before!" exclaims babu.
"have any of your people died?"
"no."
"well, that's why!" says gimble. "his presence means this moment is most dire. he was an android originally built to guard our deserted HQ on neptune, but due to a programming glitch, he comes and takes us away when one of us croaks! we'd have destroyed him long ago, but we can never find him! he probably created a lair somewhere on neptune. he'll very likely have his work cut out for him today."
"isn't neptune uninhabitable?" asks babu.
"ha!" exclaims gimble. "that's what NASA would have you think. it's a lush garden of eden -- like florida!"
"this amulet is heating up, "says babu, "we're right on top of him."
as the numerous horde of heroes continue, at the end of a long hallway, they see a lone figure."
"you have one last chance, heroes." it says. "surrender now, and you'll all live. and you'll be free to go."
"it can't be -- he's dead!" exclaims gimble. "it's our old leader, 'monkey-mask jones'."
"jeepers creepers!" exclaims the blue horse.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 1, 2013 10:51:48 GMT -6
"And just how do you plan to stop us?" Babu asks with a smirk.
A pair of sliding doors suddenly open behind Monkey-Mask Jones revealing a large horde of costumed clones. "This is how," Monkey-Mask Jones laughs.
"What did I tell you?" Degaton exclaims. "They've been mixing and matching DNA for years to create all kinds of soldiers."
"Just a minor roadblock," Babu says. "Charge!"
The army of heroes charges forward to face the clone army. Babu slams into Monkey-Mask Jones, slamming him to the ground.
"Easy! Easy!" Monkey mask Jones says. "I'm just a guy in a gorilla suit!"
"You fought crime in a gorilla suit?" Babu exclaims. "That's ridiculous!"
"You're a six foor baboon in a cape and you're calling me ridiculous?" Monkey Mask Jones says. He pulls out his blaster. "At least I'm a guy in a gorilla suit with a gun." With that, he blast babu in the chest, sending him flying into the wall.
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Post by mh on Dec 2, 2013 11:45:26 GMT -6
among the clones are a mix of villains and turn-coat heroes, blasting away with photon rifles.
spats Malone/gimble, having taken the last of his power pills, and reaching a bruce willis level of buffness, kicks the gun from monkey-mask jone's hand and cracks him in the jaw.
"you're suppose to be dead -- I saw you die!" exclaims spats.
"I nearly was! "cries monkey-mask malone, "but not quite. at the moment of my near death, that stupid rainbow android grabbed me & I woke up in a cave in neptune with the mummified corpse of 'shootin' mcGee' and several other deceased a.f. members all around me! horrifying! i found my way to the neptune anthropoidal fraternization headquarters, and put myself in suspended animation. maybe a neptune-ian microbe slipped into my brain or something, I dunno. but I woke up evil!"
granny goodness blasts her photon rifle at 'mighty maid', who dodges, and mh deftly rolls behind GG, grabs her dress pulling it over her head, and ties it into a granny knot.
"get me out of this, "she shrieks. "everyone can see my bloomers!"
"hubba! hubba! 23 skidoo!!" cries spats.
'the juggernaut and his boy randy', are smashing thru a coffee table that gary degaton is using to defend himself. the juggernaut is a massive robot, with a small seat fitted above it for it's adolescent pilot. but by now "his boy randy" is a chunky, balding middle-aged guy hunched into the child seat.
"you can't win," randy exclaims to degaton, as his robot punches away. "we've got an army!"
"and we've got a blue horse!" degaton screams triumphantly. "btw, where is he?"
"wait! where the heck is route six anyway", exclaims a perplexed blue horse as he speeds away in his stutz bearcat.
suddenly he is blasted with blue light. it is the gamma radiation that the aliens* who saved his life after a drunken stutz bearcat crash, zapped into his system to keep him alive all those years ago.
"jeepers creepers!" he cries. "gamma radiation compelling me to return & perform stupid deeds of daring do! curse you horse aliens!"
as babu gets to his feet, he is kicked hard and sent sprawling by a flying figure.
"the other gimble!" cries babu.
"yes!" he exclaims sneering. gimble then tosses a green sphere into the area of fighting androids & heroes. quickly it grows & begins to spin, pulling heroes, clones, and villains into it.
"it's a transport sphere!" exclaims mr. mental. "it's pulling us out into the vicinity of the cricket pavilion! it's got to be a trap!"
as the butt load of bizarre figures are dumped into the m.a. cricket pavilion, and the heroes try to regain their bearings, a lined group of androids ready their weapons.
"fire!" cries evil-gimble. "fire now!"
suddenly a stutz bearcat, the horse-mobile, burst thru a hedge, crashes sideways into the android line, and sends them sprawling in different directions, and the blue horse rolls from the car, firing.
"horray for the blue horse!" screams gary degaton.
"dammit! he's not all that great!" cries an exasperated tiny Mighty Mimi Man, a shackle still around his body, dragging the remains of a chain that he partially burned off with a laser from his "mini belt".
cursing, evil-gimble hurls a sonic grenade just as babu cracks him over the head with a cricket bat and tackles him.
gimble lifts babu, and swings him by the cape into porcupine-man.
"gaah!!!" yells babu.
the sonic grenade, goes off nearest mh and the canadian teen heroes. they all are blasted upward and land together in a sprawl.
the rainbow racer, thinking an anthropoid connected member might be dead, flies down and starts to grab him out of the dazed group of canadian teens.
mh, his healing factor reviving him, rolls over & fires his 1916 mauser at the racer, who dodges and flies upward out of range.
"i'm not dead yet, you multicolored ghoul!" cries mh.
the battles rages on.
"this is going to destroy the cricket pavilion, "mutters doc quantum as he punches a clone." and we were playing the staff of 'mel's waterbed shed' this weekend."
*wayne bruston, millionare playboy crashed his stutz bearcat and was saved by the clydesdalians,
futuristic aliens who evolved from horses. as payment for saving his life they bidded him to fight crime
in a nearly indestructible injury resistant blue suit like they all wore. and the weird figure of the blue horse was born.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 3, 2013 17:05:45 GMT -6
"Ha Ha!" the evil Gimble laughed maniacally. "You asked to still be able to use the pavillion to compete. So you're competing. You just won't be able to live to talk about it!" With that, he takes a swing at Doc Quantum who quickly transports out of reach.
Super-Jesse slams into the evil Gimble. He gabs Super-Jesse's arms and sends him flying. "Stay off me, runt!"
"Holy crap!" MH exclaims. "He was able to take a hit from Super-Jesse!"
"He's been injected with the DNA of dozens of heroes. There's no telling how strong he is," Babu says. "e need to take out these clones and robots ASAP because it's gong to take all of us to bring us down."
Meanwhile, in the reception room, the crowd lets out a startled gasp as the room begins to shake and loud booms fill the air. The crowd enters the hallway and follows the noise. As they enter the cricket pavillion and file into the stadium seating, they are shocked by the battle taking place before them.
"What the hell is going on here?!!" Mayor Bruce Campbell says.
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Post by mh on Dec 4, 2013 13:13:12 GMT -6
the leader of the irish group, the shalaylee six says, "listen me beauties, we'll keep him busy while you git to murderin' those horrid clones."
they gather together and hold up a 'lucky charm' reciting a celtic chant, and a banshee appears & begins running around gimble screaming horribly and slapping him repeatedly
"omg, what is that thing?!" cries gimble. "ghaaa! shoot it! get it away from me!"
mighty maid snaps a clone's neck & says, "guy's what're you waiting for? there's no human in them, they're plastic!"
"that would've been nice to know," replies babu, as he smashes two clone's heads together, cracking them like eggs. |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 5, 2013 11:12:19 GMT -6
Realizing the clones were synthetic humanoids and the "no kill" policy doesn't apply, the amassed heroes begin to go to town on the enemy. SuperJesse turns his heat vision on a row of them. Hairbutt tramples several, crushing them beneath his feet. Drivtaan races past several with a karate chop, beheading them. Doc uantum grabs one after another, transporting them into other clones and making them explode.
Before long, the heroes have managed to take down Gimble's entire army. A cheer errupts from the spectators in the stands.
Rather than looking concerned, a smile spreads across the evil Gimble's face. "Did you think I needed them?" he says. "I have the DNA of countless heroes in me. I am more than enough for all of you." With that, he begins to grow.
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Post by mh on Dec 7, 2013 15:35:48 GMT -6
having yelled "ineck ate!!", the apache word for big daddy, gimble rises above everyone, his garb changes to a traditional apache war outfit, and his eyes burn blue. with a laugh, he flattens 10 of 15 heroes just by slamming his fist into the ground.
"one last chance," cries babu, "to the monkey-mobile!"
gimble comes forward in an attempt to stomp them, but super-jesse begins circling above him, blasting with his heat vision, while gimble swats at him like a knat. and a Humvee suddenly flies thru the air, hitting gimble with tremendous force in the face.
"ouch!" cries gimble. "i know that was you undead rajah! you did that in your sleep! wait ..! and that's my Humvee too. dammit! that was new, i just bought that!"
"babu, mh, doc quantum and drivaan managed to make it to the monkey-mobile, and are now hovering over him unnoticed.
"what now, "asks mh. "let toxic monkey-mobile crud lead down on him 'till he passes out?"
"i only wish, "says babu sadly. "we have no choice but to use the monkey-mobile's auto-destruct system, and doc will transport us away at the last possible moment. the blast will either incapacitate or destroy him. the people on the ground should be safe. it is however possible they'll get hit with flying gimble chunks.
"but this is against our "no kill" policy," says drivaan. "I won't do it."
"we only need three, "replies babu.
"do we put in our name, rank, and authorization code?" asks doc quantum.
"no says babu, "just say yer name & blow into this breathalyzer. so the monkey-mobile's computer brain knows we're not just blowing him up on a drunken whim."
mh grabs the tube and says, "mh." and blows into it. a computer voice says, "m.a. member recognition accepted. next!"
"goodbye, you proud old leaky s.o.b.," says mh.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 8, 2013 20:59:16 GMT -6
Babu is about to blow into the tube when Doc Quantum exclaims, "Wait! Wait! We don't have to blow up the Monkey-mobile!"
"We're out of options," Babu says.
"Not completely," Doc says. "We could dump the core."
"Dump the core?" MH asks.
"Yeah, dump it right on his big ol' wrinkly melon," Doc says. "That should take him out without sacrificing the Monkey-Mobile."
"Lets do it," Babu says.
The underside hatch of the Monkey-Mobile opens, releasing the nuclear core of the Monkey-Mobile. The glowing core lands on Gimble's head and he lets out a blood curdling scream. Gimble begins to shrink down until he's his old self and then continues to shrivel until he looks every bit his age. His eyes roll back in his head and he falls to the ground.
WIth it's core gone, the Monkey-Mobile begins to plummet. Babu flies from the vehicle and swoops underneath to catch it, slowly lowering it to the ground.
Spats Malone pulls off his gas mask and leans over his brother. Babu, Doc, Drivtaan and MH step out of the Monkey-Mobile and walk over. "Is he dead?" Babu asks.
"No," Spats says. "But not far from it."
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Post by Doc Quantum on Dec 10, 2013 6:46:59 GMT -6
Slowly, painfully, and with every muscle in his body shaking, Aulden Manfield "Old Man" Gimble prys himself off the floor as everyone watches.
"Babu, should we...?" asks Doc.
"No," whispers Babu. "No, leave him be. We've done enough. He can't harm anyone now."
After several moments, Gimble manages to stand erect, but his legs are wobbling, and he nearly topples over. But Drivtaan, using his super-speed, rushes off and returns a millisecond later with a wheelchair in his hands. Old Man Gimble sits down on the cushioned wheelchair, and sighs deeply. A shapely blonde nurse in a white uniform three sizes too small moves forward and places a breathing apparatus over Gimble's mouth, providing him with fresh air.
"You've... taken everything from me... now," says Gimble in a bitter, broken voice. In between his speech, his breathing is little more than a wheeze. "All I wanted was... to regain my youth... be young and powerful once more... I could have ushered in... a new Golden Age of Heroes... one that... need never end... We never needed to be enemies... you could have joined me... or simply stood by... and let me do... my great works. But now... now... I'm so very tired... and the dream.... is dead..."
"Bummer," says MH.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 10, 2013 16:33:05 GMT -6
"Joined you?" Babu says. "You mean as a lab specimen. I've been there." He casts a glance at Degaton. "I have no plans of going back."
"Good work as always," the mayor says, stepping forward. "Take Gimble into custody, Denny," he tells the police chief, who was also a guest at the party. "Him, too," he adds, gesturing towards Gary Degaton.
"Oh, I don't think so," Degaton says. He presses his belt buckle and in a flash, transports away.
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Post by mh on Dec 12, 2013 2:24:47 GMT -6
as the heroes all begin to disperse, only the monkey alliance and the anthropoidal fraternization are left.
"we'll need to get some landscaping guys out here, "says doc quantum. "the cricket pavilion is a wreck! at least there's still the squash court. and where's the blue horse? he just took off. also, i saw a big chest full of gold & jewels gimble had amassed. where'd it go?"
in the distance they can hear a 1930's speedster roaring away.
"that's the way of the blue horse, "says the momentarily disembodied voice of gary degaton, then reappearing, looking sad. like on his old radio show. 'who was that blue man? why wouldn't he stay & let us thank him? boy, that was no mere man, that was the blue horse!"
then degaton tears up, pulls out a hanky, and transports again.
"what a closet case, "says mighty maiden.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 13, 2013 19:14:31 GMT -6
"So where will you go now?" Babu asks.
"Where all retirees go," Spats Malone said. "Florida."
"Does that mean.....?"
"Gimble and Gimble is no more," Spats says sadly. "We'll pay for repairs to your old headquarters and to replace the core in the Monkey-mobile, but I'm afraid Gimble and Gimble won't be around to be your sponsor anymore." He turns and walks away with the remaining members of the Anthropoidal Fraternization."
"Well, that sucks," MH says.
"Yeah, but what'er you gonna do?" Babu says. "Lets get back to headquarters. "I got a new box from my 'Beers of the World' club I've been itching to open. Now seems like a good time."
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