It'll be explained in the next chapter. When I get around to writing it . . .
Anyway, a new page, so . . .
- 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. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXXV: Vacation Photos
The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera. Twenty chapters planned.
- Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin
The RAFians must contend with gremlins. One chapter planned thus far.
- 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-like ghost called Regiphaetos. 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 which are ineffective on them. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen
Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind, optically-speaking. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow
The RAFians must face a second Ice Age caused by a Diznee Ice Ifrit. 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 which the Mark cannot protect the RAFians from. 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, provided they're younger than him. 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. 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. 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 native to 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. No chapters planned out yet.
The RAFians must deal with a hungry Stone-Biter and a petrifying venom of a Diznee Stone Ifrit. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book CVII: Spritely Pests
The RAFians must deal with irritating sprites, which Faerie has had some rather tenuous experiences with. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book CVIII: Destroy All . . . What?
The RAFians must contend with a Furon incursion, and it turns out the Nyacs have knowledge of Furons. . . . No chapters planned out yet.
- Book CIX: Going Backwards
A grievious malfunction in Aquilai's TARDIS causes time to reverse its flow and flow backwards. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book CX: Death Takes A Holiday
The RAFians must convince Death to take up his role again. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book CXI: High Price Stakes
Shanker and Gaz must flee and elude Daphne, the vampire hunter. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book CXII: A Killer Housing Market
The RAFians must survive and either destroy or escape a killer house. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book CXIII: A Silenced World
The RAFians must cope with a world that has become muted and a young sorceress, Melissa Spellman. No chapters planned out yet.
The RAFians must save their own from the insideous Bureau of Lost. No chapters planned out yet.
- Book CXV: To Tell the Truth
Broken's apprentice, Melissa, accidentally casts a spell forcing everyone to tell the truth. No chapters planned out yet.
The RAFians, repulsed and revolted, must contend with Hundred (who eventually becomes
Thousand, then becomes Million, then Billion, and then, finally, Trillion). No chapters planned out yet.
CHAPTER NINE:
The Gendreconcido Wave
Six hours had passed, and the surge had surpassed Estelore, making her way back rather sedately, in stellar terms of speed. She even felt its "slipstream" of sorts buffet her -- but it did not affect her. However, she did not fail to notice that the surge was headed to Earth.
Great, she thought,
as if the others hadn't enough to deal with.If she had the presence of mind at the time to call to RAF, the whole mess probably would have been adverted -- but not likely. It would take it about seven hours to reach Earth and Estelore had to beat that time.
She had attempted to us her stellar might to disintegrate the surge, or diffuse it somehow, but her blasts missed by mere fractions of an inch. It was infuriating to the star, like an opponent who spams Protect, Detect, Sand Attack or Double Team*.
But Estelore is nothing but persistant. She continued this futile assault, until they came the solar system's space, and she had to encapsulate herself into her humanoid avatar before entering the Earth's atmosphere.
Unfortunately, the few seconds Estelore required to do this gave the surge wave a big honkin' headstart. To big of a headstart -- it made landfall just outside the city and RAF. The resultant shockwave razed everything all over the planet. But it did destroy anyone, no. It just made them androgynous and neuter. It basically removed all sexual dimorphism as well as all genders.
It turned the Earth into a world of hermaphadytes -- except Parker (whose armor shielded him), the Lanterns (whos Lantern aura protected them once more), and the still-comatose Cloak (who was born of energy, so it affects him a different way instead, allowing him to communicate with . . . well, that would be telling).
And, the wave managed to somehow wreak the emitter and barrel for the reversing ray. The now genderless Aquilai, Goom and Yarin looked aghast at their reversal ray lying there in pieces.
"At least we managed to capture a spectral scan of it," Aquilai said quietly and sheepishly.
"Well, we better work fast," Yarin said, "before we get disgruntled RAFians storming in here."
***
"You must accept the elements for what we, what they are," said Earth Cloak. "The very nature of each element is different and easily can be used for malicious or altruistic purposes."
"They are what they are, and we are what we are." Fire Cloak added.
"Yes," Cloak said. "I guess I've always know that, but I was too afraid . . ."
"You weren't afraid of us, you were afraid of losing control of yourself," Air Cloak supplied smartly.
"Yes."
With that, the elemental Cloaks vanished, returning to the Realm Walker. Cloak opened his eyes and saw that he wasn't in a vast black void, but he wasn't back at RAF either.
"What the . . . not another test!!"
"No," came a voice that was entirely unfamiliar. It belonged to a Realm Walker who Cloak had never seen, who had his back to Cloak. "But I need to talk to you. I'm sure you don't know me, but I am your distant ancestor. I'm the first Elements Master."
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*Pokemon references, to those unfamiliar with the franchise.
