PART 1 – THE BIG GUY IS BACK!!!
Deep in the forests of Yellowstone Park, a sinister figure began a strange ritual. In his hand was the Staff of Power, which had cost him much effort and suffering to regain from the mystical dimension to which it had been sent. Reaper was now determined to reap the reward for his unswerving loyalty to his greatest friend, the mighty and magnificent Magnaman.
Those do-good fools had thought he had reformed, but it was all an act so that he could bide his time and recover his power, and bring back his powerful friend. And now the time for his revenge and Magnaman’s was at hand!
The Staff of Power was held aloft. A few words in a long forgotten language were chanted aloud. A bolt of lightning hit the staff, caromed off, stopped in mid-air, and swirled around as if caught in a tiny hurricane that spun vertically in the air. The air turned cloudy as it spun faster and faster, and then it opened from the center outward. The opening expanded into a circular portal eight feet in diameter; revealing an utterly strange and eerie realm beyond.
A muscular gray figure seven feet tall abruptly stepped into view just before this strange portal closed again.
Magnaman had returned to Earth!
Jubilant, Reaper rushed forward and fell to one knee before his long missing friend.
“OW! Dammit!†cursed Reaper as he stood back up. “Damned mud is slippery!â€
“Greetings my friend!†said Magnaman in his booming bas voice as a disgusted Reaper brushed dried mud of the knee of his pants. “You are a true friend indeed to use the Staff of Power to free me from my imprisonment.â€
“Friend, shmend!†groused Reaper as he straightened up. “You still owe me over a thousand bucks from Poker Night! How am I gonna collect while you’re stuck in that dump huh? Now fork over the dough and we’ll call it even.â€
“I find myself a little tapped out at the moment, my dear friend,†replied Magnaman with apparent regret as he dramatically turned out his empty pockets. “But fear not. I will pay you back well for he favor you have done for me. But first I must get my revenge against all those – those vile, rotten people who stuck me in that dump and said good riddance! Oh, the things I wll do to them! Boundgal, Light Boy, Naughty Nats – all wil feel my awesome wrath. But most of all, I will utterly crush the despicable Cricks!!!â€
“Yeah, he’s been a pain in my backside too. Him and I have been fighting tooth and nail in at least four other forums now, and neither of us ever seem to prevail. I’d like to see his ass get kicked once and for all!â€
“And so it will be, now that I have the magic from the Staff of Power!†said Magnaman.
“Uhhh, actually I was thinking of keeping this stick for myself if it’s all the same to you,†replied Reaper hesitantly. “I went through a lot to get this stick, and why should you have all the power?â€
“Well, too late my friend,†said Magnaman with a laugh that was horrible to hear. “I absorbed all its power when you freed me. It’s power has already been added to my own already awesome might!â€
“What?!†yelped Reaper as he looked at the Staff of Power and realized to his dismay that it was true; the once beautiful object was now just a charred mass of useless wood. “Aw, man. I lose a powerful magical artifact like that for a lousy poker debt you can’t even repay?! God damn, what a stinking rip-off!!!â€
“Feat not, my friend!†Magnaman reassured his distraught friend. “You will receive your losses back a hundred-fold and more. But first, I must get my revenge. And can you guess who I intend to start with?â€
Reaper thought about it for a moment. “Umm, Light Boy?†he finally ventured with a smile. “You always seemed to have a thing for…â€
“No, not Light Boy!†growled Magnaman. “Read the title, fool! Who were the stars of the first story?â€
“Oh, oh yeah, okay!†said Reaper as he looked up to read the title.
“As they say, the victors write the history,†continued Magnaman. “Well, what a fucked up job they made of the one that concerned me!!! Now I will write the history of my return, and many will weep at the reading of it! Bwaahahahahahahaha!!!â€
Every animal in the woods within earshot of that horrible laugh immediately died of heart failure. Reaper himself felt a little faint, but managed to recover himself.
Magnaman was back, and this time there would be no stopping him!
Magnaman and Reaper set forth to kidnap and enslave Boundgal and Naughtnats!!! The mighty Magnaman positively drooled at the thought of what he would do to them when he got his hands on them.
If Boundgal only knew what was in store for her…
