Two more chapters to go. My computer decided to have a mind of it's own and decided to back me out of the "post reply" screen -- I didn't even click on anything. So, I'm rewriting the entire chapter in WordPad first, then posting it again.
Oh, new page.
- 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.
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.
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 three years ago. 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, who received it from a RAFian traitor. Twenty chapters planned.
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 by some sentient predators. 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.
Four RAFians are captured and converted into four Horsemen of the ancient, 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.
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.
Parker is outraged to see knockoffs of his rather unique 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.
The RAFians must deal with the paparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them. Twenty chapters planned.
RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table. Twenty chapters planned -- a RAFian story per chapter, discounting the intro.
The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments. Twenty chapters planned.
The RAFians must face their greatest desires. Twenty chapters planned.
Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LIII: The Pain Reliever
The RAFians must deal with an elderly 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.
Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals. Twenty chapters planned.
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.
The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's rather stupid Judoon jailer. Twenty chapters planned.
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.
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. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow
The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon
A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite
Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities. Twenty chapters planned.
The Universes begin colliding and merging. Twenty chapters planned.
The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXVIII: They're Such Cards
The RAFians are sealed into cards, which end up trapped in an ancient leather-bound book, and it's up to three kids to free them. An out-of-continuity book. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island
Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian. Twenty chapters planned.
The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXXI: Artificial Skins
The RAFians must deal with symbiotes. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety
The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians
The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea
The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac. Fifteen 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 oxidation ray 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.
Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies. No chapters planned out yet.
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.
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.
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.
Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Saberhagen) for a magical branding iron in Faeries possession. No chapters planned out yet.
Essentially gonna be a "Subspace Emissary" parody. No chapters planned out yet.
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.
The RAFians must cage thirteen Revenants released from Pandora's Box -- each representing and amplifying a particular feeling (i.e. hatred), while looking for the perfect host. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book XCVIII: From the Shadows
The RAFians must save their shadows and the shadows of everyone else from being absorbed (eaten) by the Umbraraptors. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book XCIX: Grimm Prospects
The RAFians discover Malice controlling several "wesen" with control collars akin to April's in
"Catwoman from Channel Six" and get stuck in one-on-one battles to the death with them. Might be one of my longer books -- and, no, I haven't watched Grimm. I've only recently discovered it via "Face Off". No chapters planned out yet.
Everyone's trapped in a temporal loop, but the only ones that realize it are Cloak, Shadow, Aila, and Aquilai. No chapters planned out yet.
The RAFians face a creature from the planet Gossamer, who's under the control of Malice. No chapters planned out yet.
The RAFians must exterminate an epidemic of
Thread. No chapters planned out yet.
The RAFians must deal with a siren and her alluring song. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book CIV: Resistance is Futile
The RAFians must deal with a hybridization of the Borg and the Hive chips (
Ben 10: Alien Swarm) -- which the Mark cannot protect them from, nor the Unity energy can destroy. No chapters planned out yet.
The RAFians must contend with the Titan serum and its effects.
CHAPTER NINETEEN:
Deathly Devolution
The two Realm Walkers were battling it out with Gemini, who decided to actually fight this go-round. Neither of the Realm Walkers were using the full zenith of their abilities, as they both were trying to keep collateral damage to a minimum. They were both aware that they could quite easily end this contest by simply removing their cloaks, but the consequences of that were intolerable. If they kept being uncloaked, they might irreparably damage the reality enough where it could not heal itself.
Imagine a powerful flame thrower being used on a lake. A small spritz from the flame thrower into the lake would not hurt it, if at all. But if this imaginary flame thrower was flowing a sustained stream and the handler was consistant and unrelenting, the lake's damage would be more severe. It would be something like that.
Gemini's tactics were far more brutish than the elegant, flowing techniques of the two Realm Walkers that complimented each other. Gemini's attack repertoire consisted of levitation (mostly for keeping his gigantic head aloft), telepathy (useless against the Realm Walkers), mind control and manipulation (again, useless against the Realm Walkers), telekinetic throws, telekinetic pushes, psionic pulses, and psychokinectic blasts. But unlike Cloak and Shadow, Gemini did not care about collateral damage or harming the innocents, yet he didn't try to use that against them. Surely, he must have been aware of it.
Suddenly, Cerulean came zipping up, and stopping on a dime to Cloak's left. However, the dust that he trailed with him, felt no such compunction, and, as such, the three were obscured in a cloud of dust.
"A futile ploy, RAFians!" Gemini shouted, unaware that Shadow wasn't technically a RAFian. "But you'll soon see it was a meaningless diversion!"
"He . . . just likes hearing himself talk, doesn't he?" Cerulean guessed.
"Give the gun here, Cerulean," Cloak said.
"But I thought you hated guns, Uncle." Shadow inquired innocently.
"I do," Cloak said. "But this is a Darwin gun, Shadow. It's a necessity for what must be done."
"I don't understand," Shadow said.
"Oh, you will soon enough." Cloak said, turning to Cerulean, "Quick, back to RAF, before Gemini reads your mind!"
"But --"
"Cerulean!"
"Oh, okay."
And he zipped off, as Cloak took careful aim. Then he fired the Darwin gun, and it was fortunate that Gemini had such a large cranium, for when it came to guns, Cloak was a notoriously bad shot. But the beam connected with the stuffy, haughty, self-important former bioengineer. It was working he was devolving.
Cloak assumed he would devolve into a regular
Homo sapien, so he used his mastery over metal to smash the gun into a crumpled mess, as if it was a mere soda can. However, this assumption was premature, because Gemini did not regress to a
Homo sapien. He regressed further, and it was, with a sinking in the pit of Cloak's stomach, that he realized that he must have squeezed off two shots, not the one he assumed it to be. Now, because of his own actions, Cloak has condemned Gemini to life as an
Australopithecine. Cloak felt a guilt akin to the feeling of letting his grandfather down.
***
Estelore was finding the asteroid difficult to dislodge from its trajectory. She didn't want to flare up and go into full stellar-mode. It could be devestating for the Earth, and she had a certain fondness for the planet.
But to her surprise, suddenly, the asteroid's stubborn will seemed to relinquish, and she found it rather easy to alter it's trajectory to the opposite way it came.
"What brought that on?" she wondered idly, before deciding to return to the forum.
***
Then he heard a sigh. "Such a waste of such potential."
Then he turned round when he heard a terrified screech, and saw a lifeless body at the feet of Malice, with Abomination hovered behind her, saying nothing about the brutality and the utter indifference to life Malice had just showed.
"Malice," Cloak said, feeling his ichor bubbling, nearing boiling point. "It was you, wasn't it? You were behind this all along."
"Oh, how astute. Maybe next time I will leave clearer signals -- a big sign saying 'Malice's Handiwork'?"
Shadow sensing what was coming, and why Malice was goading Cloak, swiftly said, "Uncle! Don't! She's goading you! She
wants you to lose control. She
wants you to go to your strongest --
wants you to destroy buildings and kill innocents."
This snapped Cloak out of it. Shadow was right.
"Infernal whelp," Malice said, distastefully, at Shadow. "One day, little girl you'll get yours."
"Don't you threaten her . . ."
But Malice continued to address Shadow, "One of these days, girly, you won't have your uncle here to protect you. And you'll be mine."
Cloak moved to seize Malice, but she and her lovesick toady were gone. Cloak looked over at Gemini, his body was still that of an
Australopithecine. It was with a heavy heart as he returned to RAF with Shadow.
