Well, it just made sense to me, Dino. Not all RAFians even have hands. For instance, the Yeerk RAFians have it on the true bodies and it doesn't appear on their host's appendage.
Edit: Yay! Fanfic of the Year! To think, I was going to delete this thread had Blocky not replied first!
The RAFians are sucked into a comic book made by Damien.
- Book XXIV: The First Master
Cloak meditates alone in a forest, and has a vision about the first Master . . . the first Elements Master.
- Book XXV: RAF -- The Musical
The RAFians find themselves trapped in a musical where everyone must burst into song occasionally.
- Book XXVI: Outage Outrage
The RAFians find themselves losing their powers.
- Book XXVII: Infinity and Eternity
The Infinity Gems and the Eternity Stones make themselves known.
- Book XXVIII: The Virus Rings
The RAFians are attacked by foes they never thought they'd see again.
The RAFians are attacked by Dementors, which have a rather large effect on Cloak.
- Book XXX: Mayhem of the Music Miser
Cloak recalls the RAFians' previous confrontation with the Music Miser three years ago.
- Book XXXI: The Metal-Maker
The RAFians must save their own from a Roboticizer.
- Book XXXII: Richard is Missing
The RAFians must cope without Richard.
- Book XXXIII: Emotional Food
The RAFians must confront a different kind of vampire.
- Book XXXIV: Transformation Confrontation
The RAFians must confront some strange machines.
- 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.
A Wildwethel-centric book, he must deal with his feral side.
- Book XXXVII: Predators and Prey
The RAFians are being preyed upon by some sentient predators.
- Book XXXVIII: A Protean Problem
The RAFians must deal with a powerful snot-nosed kid who, quite literally, can do whatever he wants.
Four RAFians are captured and converted into four Horsemen of the ancient, rogue Realm Walker Cataclysm.
- Book XL: Sizeable Pain in the Necks
The RAFians must deal with Heinlein aliens.
- Book XLI: RAF's Nightmare
The RAFians must survive their own nightmares.
- Book XLII: Unlucky Charms
The RAFians must contend with a rather bloodthirsty leprechaun.
The RAFians must contend with a pied piper.
- Book XLIV: Starlight Desire
The RAFians race Malice, Abomination, and the Banned to a wishing star (no, not Estelore).
Parker is outraged to see knockoffs of his rather unique armor and what they're being used for.
- Book XLVI: The Worst Plague
The RAFians must weather the worst plague to ever existed -- the Hate Plague.
- Book XLVII: Little Alien Napoleons
The RAFians are caught in the middle of a war between Helmacrons and Fmeks.
The RAFians must deal with the paparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them.
RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table.
The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments.
The RAFians must face their greatest desires.
Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread.
- Book LIII: The Pain Reliever
The RAFians must deal with an elderly Vulcan styling himself the "Pain Reliever".
- Book LIV: Beyond the Veils
Aquilai and Aila must confront old foes while the other RAFians must put up with a Czarinian bounty hunter.
Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals.
Malice seeks out the Unimind.
- 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.
The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's rather stupid Judoon jailer.
Estelore, Richard, Parker, and Cloak must survive when the entire city and forum have been reduced to two-year-olds.
- Book LX: The Replacements
The RAFians must contend with the fame-feeding Eidolon Consciousness.
The RAFians must contend with the Arachnoids and finding a cure for one of their own that was poisoned before it's too late.
- Book LXII: Personal Tissues
The RAFians must contend with some one misusing Bibliophaetos's discarded book shell.
- Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow
The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it.
- Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon
A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it.
- Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite
Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities.
The Universes begin colliding and merging.
The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky.
- 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.
- Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island
Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian.
The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor.
- Book LXXI: Artificial Skins
The RAFians must deal with symbiotes.
- Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety
The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus.
- Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians
The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks.
- Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea
The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac.
- Book LXXV: Vacation Photos
The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera.
- Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin
The RAFians must contend with gremlins.
- Book LXXVII: The Rust is Silence
The Rafians must deal with an oxidation ray wielded by a criminal.
- Book LXXVIII: The Toyman Cometh
The RAFians deal with a Toyman-esque character.
Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies.
Cloak battles an ancient being called Garrotik.
- 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.
- Book LXXXII: Shredding a King
The RAFians deal with a demonic Shredder-like ghost called Regiphaetos.
- Book LXXXIII: RAF -- The TV Show
The RAFians are forcibly recruited to Mojo's programs.
The RAFians must contend with a Spirit-Drinker.
- Book LXXXV: The Last Laugh
The RAFians must face Joker Gas.
- Book LXXXVI: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Villain
The RAFians must contend with mind control cards which are ineffective on them.
- Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen
Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind, optically-speaking.
- Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow
The RAFians must face a second Ice Age caused by a Diznee Ice Ifrit.
- Book LXXXIX: The Rachel Toxin
The RAFians must find a cure to a toxin that increases the fearlessness, hostility and aggressiveness induced in people which the Mark cannot protect the RAFians from.
The RAFians face a dangerous virus seeking a host.
- Book XCI: A Youthful Thief
The RAFians face a creature that siphons off the youth in its victims, provided they're younger than him.
- Book XCII: Calendar Creep
The RAFians face the Calendar Creep, a criminal whose crimes are holiday themed.
Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Saberhagen) for a magical branding iron in Faerie's possession.
Nothing like a "Subspace Emissary" parody. Sorry.
The RAFians' world is turned into yarn and fabric.
- Book XCVI: RAFian Gladiators
RAFians are kidnapped by Gamesmaster, another rogue Realm Walker, and force to participate in gladiatorial games.
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.
- Book XCVIII: From the Shadows
The RAFians must save their shadows and the shadows of everyone else from being absorbed (eaten) by the Umbraraptors, but not everything is what it seems.
- 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. One will die.
Everyone's trapped in a temporal loop, but the only ones that realize it are Cloak, Aila, and Aquilai.
The RAFians face a creature native to the planet Gossamer, who's under the control of Malice.
The RAFians must exterminate an epidemic of
Thread.
The RAFians must deal with a siren and her alluring song.
- 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.
The RAFians must contend with the Titan serum and its effects.
The RAFians must deal with a hungry Stone-Biter and a petrifying venom of a Diznee Stone Ifrit.
- Book CVII: Spritely Pests
The RAFians must deal with irritating sprites, which Faerie has had some rather tenuous experiences with.
- Book CVIII: Destroy All . . . What?
The RAFians must contend with a Furon incursion, and it turns out the Nyacs have knowledge of Furons. . . .
- Book CIX: Going Backwards
A grievious malfunction in Aquilai's TARDIS causes time to reverse its flow and flow backwards.
- Book CX: Death Takes A Holiday
The RAFians must convince Death to take up his role again. A RAFian will die in this book, and it is within the continuity.
- Book CXI: High Price Stakes
Shanker and Gaz must flee and elude Daphne, the vampire hunter.
- Book CXII: A Killer Housing Market
The RAFians must survive and either destroy or escape a killer house.
- Book CXIII: A Silenced World
The RAFians must cope with a world that has become muted and a young sorceress, Melissa Spellman.
The RAFians must save their own from the insideous Bureau of Lost.
- Book CXV: To Tell the Truth
Broken's apprentice, Melissa, accidentally casts a spell forcing everyone to tell the truth.
The RAFians, repulsed and revolted, must contend with Hundred (who eventually becomes
Thousand, then becomes Million, then Billion, and then, finally, Trillion).
- Book CXVII: School of Stepford Lies
The RAFians must save the children from a school that turns them into Stepford students.
The RAFians must deal with the Salt Man.
- Book CXIX: The Great Race
The RAFians hold a race that Aloth cons himself into. Who will win?
The RAFians must help super intelligent apes -- Caesar the chimp, Brutus the gorilla, and Maestro the orangutan -- reconcil their misanthropy.
- Book CXXI: A Different Kind of Unity
The RAFians must contend with a parasitic "unity".
- Book CXXII: The Great Brain Robery
Someone is stealing brains for an unknown purpose.
- Book CXXIII: The Bounty Hunter
The Knights, in their hypocricy, hire a Tsul'Kalu bounty hunter to collect select RAFians (to taxidermy).
- Book CXXIV: New Controllers
The RAFians confront Zirconians.
- Book CXXV: Creeping Crystal
A wave of crystallizing energy is sweeping the land. . . .
- Book CXXVI: The Element Feeder
The RAFians deal with a creature who feeds on a specific element and matures to a different element each time as it matures. . . .
- Book CXXVII: The Rider and the Walker
The RAFians come up against the Ghost Rider.
- *Book CXXVIII: Headhunters
What will happen when RAFians lose their heads? Seriously.
- *Book CXXIX: The Color Purple, Man!
The RAFians confront the
Purple Man, who manages to turn the entire government against them . . .
Sorry about the short chapter.
CHAPTER EIGHT:
Squish
"C'mon, guys," Gaz said, in rallying tones, "we've gotta get the other three free."
"This is going very slow, if we keep having to do it one at a time," Parker pointed out.
"Oh, shut up and do it," Cloak snarled, weary and worn.
They did, and there was the usual FLASH. Then they saw a black void of nothingness. There was a hard surface upon which to stand, but that was nothing compared to the spectacle in the center. There was someone or something there, it appeared to be a flurry of different shaped limbs, a different texture each time. It was all rather surreal to watch. But in a sad way.
Cloak knew right away whose nightmare that they intruded on, but was too awestruck and horrorified to think much about it. Ash was clamoring to stablize her form, to maintain her cohesiveness. But it was a sisyphian task, as each attempt met with bigger and bigger failure until she resembled nothing more than Polymorph glop. A Polymorph without the floating saucer thing to restore them.
Then the RAFians begun their chant. "IT'S NOT REAL. IT'S NOT REAL. IT'S NOT REAL. IT'S NOT REAL. IT'S NOT REAL. IT'S NOT REAL --" but this seemed to make no headway, as if Ash's consciousness was starting to lose its cohesiveness as well. But her friends persisted most insistently. They would not allow her to simply melt away into nothingness, to become one with this void. . . .
"IT'S NOT REAL!!!!"
Suddenly, a hand, human in morphology, reached up from the goo. An arm followed, then itself followed by a shoulder, then a torso and head, then another shoulder, arm, and hand. Then a midriff and legs. The feet were the next to form, and suddenly, Ash appeared, fully-clothed, in her usual appearance.
"It wasn't real. . . ." she said, to herself.
Then the usual FLASH and all of them, Ash included (although in fear muck), fell to the ground.
"So you feared becoming a puddle?" Faerie said.
"Faerie! Don't tease," Gaz said, reprovingly.
"No," Cloak said, in lieu of Ash actually having to explain, "she feared losing her consistency, her corporeal cohereance."
"English?"
Cloak flared his nostrils, "She feared losing control over his shapeshifting abilities, or that they might betray her in some extreme way."
"It's true," Ash managed.
She looked rather better than when she had melted into that flesh-colored puddle.
"Now, only Goom and Underseen remain," Parker said, turning back to the chutes.
