Memoirs of a RAFian

[Underseen]

It was a good disney movie...

[Cloak]

Right, new page.  Now something's gonna be a little different about this list. . . . And, remember, any of it might change when we get to these books.  And, don't read if you don't want small spoiler nuggets to be revealed.

• Book XX: The Darwin Gun

The RAFians must contend with a ray that causes its target to devolve or hyper evolve into "ultimate" forms.  Twenty chapters.

• Book XXI: Other Side of the Tracks

The RAFians experiences significant differences which allow them to see the other side's point of view.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXII: Pits of Terror

The RAFians fall into pits that show them their greatest fears. Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXIII: RAF Comix

The RAFians are sucked into a comic book made by Damien. Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXIV: The First Master

Cloak meditates alone in a forest, and has a vision about the first Master . . . the first Elements Master. Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXV: RAF -- The Musical

The RAFians find themselves trapped in a musical where everyone must burst into song occasionally.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXVI: Outage Outrage

The RAFians find themselves losing their powers.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXVII: Infinity and Eternity

The Infinity Gems and the Eternity Stones make themselves known.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXVIII: The Virus Rings

The RAFians are attacked by foes they never thought they'd see again.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXIX: Soul-Suckers

The RAFians are attacked by Dementors, which have a rather large effect on Cloak.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXX: Mayhem of the Music Miser

Cloak recalls the RAFians' previous confrontation with the Music Miser.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXXI: The Metal-Maker

The RAFians must save their own from a Roboticizer. Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXXII: Richard is Missing

The RAFians must cope without Richard.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXXIII: Emotional Food

The RAFians must confront a different kind of vampire.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXXIV: Transformation Confrontation

The RAFians must confront some strange machines.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXXV: Richard's Horn

The RAFians must get Richard's Horn, a mystical musical instrument, back from Malice.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXXVI: Feral Scream

A Wildwethel-centric book, he must deal with his feral side.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXXVII: Predators and Prey

The RAFians are being preyed upon.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXXVIII: A Protean Problem

The RAFians must deal with a powerful snot-nosed kid who, quite literally, can do whatever he wants.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XXXIX: The Horsemen

Four RAFians are captured and converted into four Horsemen of the rogue Realm Walker Cataclysm.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XL: Sizeable Pain in the Necks

The RAFians must deal with Heinlein aliens. Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XLI: RAF's Nightmare

The RAFians must survive their own nightmares.  Nineteen chapters planned.

• Book XLII: Unlucky Charms

The RAFians must contend with a rather bloodthirsty leprechaun. Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XLIII: The Piper

The RAFians must contend with a pied piper. Nineteen chapters planned.

• Book XLIV: Starlight Desire

The RAFians race Malice, Abomination, and the Banned to a wishing star (no, not Estelore). Eighteen chapters planned.

• Book XLV: A War of Armor

Parker is outraged to see knock-offs of his armor and what they're being used for.  Twenty-two chapters planned.

• Book XLVI: The Worst Plague

The RAFians must weather the worst plague to ever existed -- the Hate Plague.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XLVII: Little Alien Napoleons

The RAFians are caught in the middle of a war between Helmacrons and Fmeks.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XLVIII: Go Away!

The RAFians must deal with the papparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book XLIX: RAFian Tales

RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table.  Twenty chapters planned -- a RAFian story per chapter, discounting the intro.

• Book L: Maul

The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LI: Erised Orbs

The RAFians must face their greatest desires.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LII: RAFians Alive!

Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LIII: The Pain Reliever

The RAFians must deal with a Vulcan styling himself the "Pain Reliever".  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LIV: Beyond the Veils

Aquilai and Aila must confront old foes while the other RAFians must put up with a Czarinian bounty hunter.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LV: Dangerous Deals

Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LVI: Of One Mind

Malice seeks out the Unimind.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LVII: The End of Time

The RAFians must contend with two Kryptonians (who think they're Time Lords) and prevent them from ending time altogether.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LVIII: Hematomimic

The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's stupid jailor.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LIX: Sins of Youth

Estelore, Richard, Parker, and Cloak must survive when the entire city and forum have been reduced to two-year-olds.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LX: The Replacements

The RAFians must contend with the fame-feeding Eidolon Consciousness.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LXI: Arachnoids

The RAFians must contend with the Arachnoids and finding a cure for one of their own that was poisoned before it's too late.  Twenty chapters planned.

• Book LXII: Personal Tissues

The RAFians must contend with some one misusing Bibliophaetos's discarded book shell.  Twentychapters planned.

• Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow

The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it.  Three chapters planned out thus far.

• Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon

A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite

Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXVI: The Merging

The Universes begin colliding and merging.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXVII: Be A Doll

The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXVIII: RAF Captors

The RAFians are sealed into cards, and it's up to Jack and Shadow to free them.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island

Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXX: Corrupted

The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXI: Artificial Skins

The RAFians must deal with symbiotes.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety

The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians

The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea

The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXV: Vacation Photos

The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin

The RAFians must contend with gremlins.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXVII: The Rust is Silence

The Rafians must deal with an ocidationr ay wielded by a criminal.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXVIII: The Toyman Cometh

The RAFians deal with a Toyman-esque character.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXIX: RAFian Idol

Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXX: Savage Heart

Cloak battles an ancient being called Carrotik.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXXI: Slave Islands and Juggernauts

Three RAFians are taken prisoners by the Knights and sold into the slavery of New Genoshia, while the others deal with a juggernaut.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXXII: Shredding a King

The RAFians deal with a demonic Shredder ghost.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXXIII: RAF -- The TV Show

The RAFians are forcibly recruited to one of Mojo's programs.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXXIV: The Drinker

The RAFians must contend with a Spirit-Drinker. No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXXV: The Last Laugh

The RAFians must face Joker Gas.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXXVI: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Villain

The RAFians must contend with mind control cards.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen

Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow

The RAFians must face a second Ice Age.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book LXXXIX: The Rachel Toxin

The RAFians must find a cure to a toxin that increases the fearlessness, hostility and aggressiveness induced in people.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book XC: Virus Alert!

The RAFians face a dangerous virus seeking a host.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book XCI: A Youthful Thief

The RAFians face a creature that siphons off the youth in its victims.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book XCII: Calendar Creep

The RAFians face the Calendar Creep, a criminal whose crimes are holiday themed.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book XCIII: The Branding

Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Zat) for a magical branding iron in Faeries possession.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book XCIV: The Void Zone

Essentially gonna be a "Subspace Emissary" parody.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book XCV: An Epic Yarn

The RAFians' world is turned into yarn and fabric.  No chapters planned out yet.

• Book XCVI: RAFian Gladiators

RAFians are kidnapped by Gamesmaster, another rogue Realm Walker, and force to participate in gladiatorial games.  Contains the parodies of "It's Like A B-Movie" and "Worthless".  No chapters planned out yet.

Well, I hope I haven't given too much away.  Anyway, turns out that I'll be rather busy today -- but I might manage to get another chapter up.  If not, I'll post two tomorrow.  If not then, then three chapters.

[Underseen]

It's cool. I might be gone for a week or two so I won't really mind.

[Cloak]

Well, I've found some time.

CHAPTER NINE:
I Think I've A Clone Now*

"Are you crazy?" Phoenix blurted, when the four had described the events of earlier.  He had his arms folded in disbelief.

"Yeah, we're crazy, Phoenix.  Real loonies, 'kay?" Parker said, feeling rather nettled.

"But why?" SuperNate interceded.  "You could have died.  You could have been seen."

"That's the point, Nate," Cloak said.  "We wanted to be seen.  What people would have saw would be two Gazes, two Parkers, and two Ashes."

"And what would that prove, exactly?" Goom asked.  "People have already made up their minds about RAF's culpability.  We're already guilty in the court of public opinion."

"Little ray of sunshine, aren't you?" Gaz muttered, and Goom made no reaction as if he heard.

"It's true," Cloak conceded, "but not all have casted their votes as guility -- some have not cast a vote at all."

"Besides," Gaz said, speaking up, "Laserbeak caught sufficient footage of it.  Didn't you, Beaky?"

The little Cybertronian bird chirped and appeared to throw his tiny little chest proudly.  He remained firmly perched upon Gaz's shoulder, as if to be sure that she wouldn't leave him.

"Cute bird," Goom said, flatly.  Then, in normal tones, he continued, "So, what was it this time?  Skrulls again?"

"I do not think so, to be perfectly honest, Goom," Cloak said.  "The Skrulls in their incursion did not really know how to act like us.  Not to mention, completely lacked our powers."

"They have your powers?" Richard spoke, for the first time since the meeting began.  "They mimicked them perfectly?"

"Yes," Ash said, "and they knew our tactics as well.  What moves and techniques we'd be more inclined to use.  And they used it against us."

<But why clone us?> Noelle said, sure that she had a clone as well.  <Why ruin our reputation?  Why ruin our relationship with the city?>

"Because," said a new voice, "Gemini is upset with Faerie, Cloak and I putting him in prison for cloning me several times."

"Of course . . ." Cloak said, facepalming.  "Why didn't I see it before . . ."

"And he probably went completely bonkers while in the big house," Faerie put in, "not that he was all that stable to begin with."

"But how did he escape?" Kelly asked, who attended while still trying to prepare a defense of the forum.  "There is no release record of him and it hasn't been released in any media that he was let out on parole or anything."

Cloak hesitated a bit before saying, "I have a shrewd notion who did."

"You mean -- ?" Underseen began.

"Who else?" Cloak said, with a casual shrug of his shoulders.

Suddenly, a screen behind the mods glowed to life with static on it . . . the screen that was used to communicate with the RAFians en masse. . . .

---
*Anyone get the reference?

[Underseen]

That Weird Al song. I expected it from you...

[Cloak]

Yep.

CHAPTER TEN:
Dr. Damien Nathaniel Aloysius Gemini

On the screen appeared . . .

"Dr. Gemini," Faerie said, drily, "as butt ugly as ever."

She was right -- he wasn't the most, uh, pleasant face to look at.  His skin was marred with scars and slight burns.  His graying brownish-red hair was a mess.  He work a plain t-shirt, slacks and a dirty lab coat.  He also decided the occasion called for a monocle.

"Dear RAFians," he said in a voice rather like Eric Idle, "I present to you an opportunity.  To join me."

"He can't be serious," Parker said, tonelessly.  Then after a few minutes, replied again, "Shut up, Tyr."

Suddenly, music began to play from the screen.

"You've gotta be kidding me," Aquilai said with disbelief.

"It's gonna be a song, isn't it?" Underseen commented benignly.

"I was far too smart
From the very start.
I never was too dim.
I began to grow,
Little did they know,
I had my own plans for them.
They thought I was tame --
HA!
Just my little game.
Until this all became MINE!
They all do as I say.
No one stands in my way!
Everybody here is happy
Or I'll have them slightly altered!"

Gemini demonstrates this by lobotomizing an Az clone.

"I can do as I please,
I can change things with ease.
Horn or hair or fin or feather,
I control the wind and weather!"

"Well, this proves his state of mind," Cloak said quite audibly to everyone except, apparently, Gemini.

"We can rule the world together,
If you come with me.
You'll be happy,
Oh, so happy,
When you come with me.
You'll be kings of everything,
Of all that you can see.
Ah hahaha.
Just say yes, heroes --"

This was greeted with a resounding, "No!"

"Just think what we few can do,
All of us, me and you.
Buck yourself up,
Don't look so sad!
We'll have more
Than dear old normals had!
Butterflies and pretty flowers,
Sunny skys and superpowers!
Silver streams and fluffy kitties,
laser beams and rubble cities!
Take your chance!
While you can.
Join in my master plan!
You wont tell me I'm too blabby,
When I'm ruler of Forum Valley!"

"I knew there was an ulterior motive," Cloak said, more to himself than anyone else.  "Malice would allow him to fulfill any insane ambitions . . . as long as it was entertaining."

Meanwhile, Gemini was continuing:

"All of it will be mine.
Every day will be fine.
All the trains will run on time,
And they'll be no more wars and crime
And I'll reduce your brain to slime!
Unless you just say yes!
You'll be happy,
Oh, so happy,
If you just say yes!"

Then he caressed the Az clone's face looking very much like a pedophile.

"Oh, poor fellow,
Mind like jello!
Such a nasty mess!"

Then he turned his attention back to the RAFians.

"Come on in,
To the greatest kind of life,
To the best,
And the latest kind of life!
You'll be happy,
Nice and happy,
Perfect happiness beyond measure!
Purest pleasure,
If you just say yes!"

Again, with a resounding "NO!", but Gemini continued:

"It's our chance to rule
To let it slip away
Don't be upset
It won't hurt much.
You wont regret it.
If you just say yes . . .
Just say yes!"

The RAFians replied to the deafening silence that followed with another resounding "No!", but Gemini countered with, "EHHH! Wrong answer."  Then he terminated communications.

"Well," Gaz said airily, "that was pointless."

"Not so much, actually," Goom said.  "Yarin?  Aquilai?  Guy?  Did you get it?"

"Yep," Guy said succinctly.

"You'd think for a guy who claims to be a genius," Aquilai noted, "he'd keep his coordinates more secret."

"Unless he wants to lead us into a trap," Cloak pointed out.

<It could very well be a trap,> Noelle agreed.

"But, exactly, what choice do we have?" Dino put in.  "If we don't do anything, those clones are gonna continue to ruin our reputations and worsten our relations with the city."

"Looks like a Hobson's choice, then," Richard said, rubbing his chin wearily.

[Underseen]

I like things with poems/songs in the middle because I switch from reading it poetically to reading it normally. 

[Cloak]

I like things with poems/songs in the middle because I switch from reading it poetically to reading it normally.

Then you'll probably like Books XXV (25), XXX (30), and LXXIX (79).  There'll be a lot of that in them.

CHAPTER ELEVEN:
A Trap Made for You

"The coordinates lead to . . ." Yarin began.

"Don't leave us in suspense, Nyac," Sakki said, "spit it out!"

Yarin looked up and gazed in Sakki's general direction, "the old abandoned amusement park."

"That place again?" Demos said, no humor, ironic or otherwise, in his tone.

"Must be a chronal nexus of malignant energies converging there," Aquilai suggested, "or it's one heck of a coincidence."

"It's a trap," Blocky said.  "It's guaranteed now.  That's too much of a coincidence."

"What choice do we have but to go there, though?" Gaz said heavily.  Laserbeak tried nibbling her ear affectionately in an effort to try and perk her up.  Didn't work.  "Nice try though, Beaky."

Laserbeak chirped sadly at this.

"We must go and take the fight to these impostors," Parker said.  "We cannot let them ruin both our reputation and that of RAF any longer.  We must find a way to stop them."

"They have all your powers -- and apparently your skills as well -- so I must advise extreme caution." Goom said.  "But I won't stand in your way.  This is a violation of one the deepest ways, and those that were cloned must do what they must."

There was a brief murmur of agreement.

"Excellent," Parker said, fists clenched at the thought of his impostor.  Then apparently Tyr noted Parker's anxiety or something because Parker then muttered, rather audibly to Cloak, "Shut up, Tyr."

Gaz, Parker, Underseen, Horse, Bear, Ash, Faerie, Demos, Blue, Blocky, Aquilai, Noelle, and Dino (hesitantly, due to being the thirteenth, but mustering a brave face) got up and began to proceed toward the coordinates.

"Wait," came Cloak's voice.  "I'm coming with you."

Dino relaxed a bit.  Fourteen was better than thirteen in her opinion.

"Why?" Underseen asked.

"I have my reasons," Cloak said repressively.

"Which are . . ." Faerie said, motioning with her hand in a hurry-up gesture.

"Mine," Cloak replied simply.  "And mine alone."

Horse eyed Cloak, then said sagely, "It's because you suspect Malice's hand in this mess, isn't it?"

Cloak said nothing, which said everything. He turned to Gaz and said, "I'll need Laserbeak to feed live footage to the city's media outlets."

"Cloak -- what are you planning?" Gaz said, as Laserbeak hopped to Cloak shoulder as Cloak activated his wireless device to beam the footage to the router that Cloak had with an omni-interface.

"Don't want to jinx it," Cloak said, stiffly.

The fourteen left and made for the abandoned amusement park.

[Underseen]

A lot of things will happen in these next 9 chapters

[Gaz]

This is exciting!

[Cloak]

Right, a new chapter.  Possibly later -- and it'll be a chapter every other day or so when my White2 game arrives.  But I'll let you know -- but it'll give people a chance to catch-up, I suppose.

CHAPTER TWELVE:
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

The group entered a rather elaborate funhouse that looked far larger on the inside then it did on the outside -- appeared to have no ceiling.  The fourteen had split up into three groups, with Cloak going off alone while Laserbeak was to locate each of the RAFians when they confronted their clones.  Gaz, Parker, and Underseen entered into a hall of mirrors.  They glanced around and saw many reflections of themselves.

"Perhaps coming into a hall of mirrors while looking for clones of ourselves wasn't the brightest move," Underseen commented, hiding his true feelings of anxiousness and apprehension.

"Let's not jump to conclusions." Parker said steadily.  "This isn't the time to panic."

"When is the right time to panic?" Gaz asked rhetorically.

Parker answered her anyway, "Never."

Then they heard an energy discharge, and Parker managed to parry it with his energy sword.

"Where'd that come from?" Underseen asked.  "You can't tell anything with these stupid mirrors!"

Gaz was suddenly suspicious, "You'd think some of these mirrors would have been broken over time.  This place is abandoned after all."

Then, with a kamikaze yell, Underseen2 dived for the original, who dodged it.  Underseen battled his clone fiercely, but it was a deadlocked match.  They both knew all their techniques, moves and powers.  It was, in the most literal sense, like Underseen was fighting himself.  But the other two RAFians weren't standing around twiddling their thumbs.  Both their clones had attacked them shortly after Underseen2 did.

Laserbeak hovered above them all, filming it all.  He still wanted to help Gaz but he knew his mission, and he was intelligent enough to know that it would help her out more in the long run to do what he was doing.  But that didn't mean he had to like it.

The three RAFians pulled away from the battle, out of breath but not injured -- they knew their tactics well enough that no punch, kick or blow landed.  But their clones had them surrounded.

"This is impossible!" Underseen gasped.  "They know us too well!  They have all our powers and abilities!"

". . . No," Gaz said, after an idea snapped into place.  "They don't have all our powers."

"What are you talking about, Gaz?  Yeah, they do!" Parker said.

"No, they don't!" Gaz said, talking excitedly.  "They don't possess the Mark!"

"Huh?  What --" Underseen said at first, looking confused.  Then his eyes widened as he understood.  Parker's face remained inscrutable because of that helmet of his.

"It's worth a try, guys," Parker said.

They faced their clones, their back to one another.  Then they shut their eyes momentarily.

"Look, they've accepted defeat!" Underseen2 said eagerly.

Please tell me that I'm not that stupid,* the real Underseen said.

They felt the unity between the three of them and their Marks glowed brightly and brilliantly.

"What's going on?" Underseen2 hissed.

"It's a trick!" Parker2 declared.

"Their hands are glowing, how is that a trick?" Gaz2 said, though she sounded unsure.

"Unity Pulse!" the RAFian trio said in unison, firing the Unity Pulse at their clones.  After a few seconds, the clones were reduced to rather disgusting looking glop.

"Ugh," Gaz said, as the smell was horrid.

"Clean up, Aisle Three!" Parker said, smirking beneath his helmet.  He wasn't perturbed at the smell -- an indescribable stench.

Underseen pulled a face, "Let's get away from this spot.  Please."

They did, trying to open communications with the others.  But they got too much static interference.

"Gemini must have jammed communications," Parker speculated.

Gaz looked up and waved at Laserbeak to descend.  And, in spite of himself, Laserbeak acquiesced.  "Beaky, you saw how we destroyed those knockoffs right?"

Laserbeak chirruped affirmatively.

"Then I need you to go find the others," Gaz said.  "Tell them.  Then find Cloak."

Laserbeak would have giving her a salute if he could, and then he was on his way.

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* There is some degeneration in the clone's brains, so they would be undoubtedly loyal to Gemini and won't ever conceive of revolt.  So, yeah, they're dumber than the originals, in some ways.

[Sakki]

<_> That glob sounds like my mother.

[Underseen]

Wow Sakki. That comment was interesting, also so was the chapter. I am guessing that this is going to be all action from here out.

[Cloak]

Well, I confess that it might peter out when it gets to me . . . but maybe not.  But, all signs point to yes, Underseen.

And, Sakki, I'm afraid I don't understand . . .

And I'll confess right now, this entire book is loosely based on the "Double Jeopardy" episode of "Gargoyles", and a bit of "The Reckoning" episode of the series.

[Underseen]

I never got into that series.