John Sunlight has been raising the dead, but in ways which spare them the constant pain of most zombies. One he raised with fire, one with ice, one with radiation. In each case he has resurrected geniuses in various fields, coordinating their efforts to construct a negative-matter inverter. This turns regular matter into negative matter, which reacts explosively with regular matter. (Moderns would call it antimatter.)
As a first test, he blew up a section of the ocean near Catalina Island. Then he plans to do a second test shot on Los Angeles, to impress his buyers: a Japanese spy, a Soviet spy, and a Polish spy.
On the way to John Sunlight's hideout at Griffith Park observatory, Francis and Dex shoot a pursuing car off the road. It turns out to be driven by Count Ramadanoff and his daughter, Ludmilla. He's a Heavy, she's a Brute, and they wreck Francis' armored car pretty thoroughly until Dex fraudulently identifies himself as a fellow Communist. Then they let them go.
A fight breaks out at the observatory. John Sunlight has drained all the electricity in the greater Los Angeles area for his demonstration shot. The Japanese spy turns out to be a Massive, and nothing we do can hurt him. Francis levitates a wire onto the Japanese, then flicks switches to direct the stored electricity into him. This explodes the observatory, and incidentally explodes the Japanese.
Tadeusz Byreika, the Polish spy, grapples with John Sunlight. John Sunlight is hurled through a glass cabinet, but not only survives, but pops up dressed in brightly-colored formal garb with a monocle and a huge brass revolver. He demands to know "who's got fire?" in this group, but then everyone shoots him.
Byreika turns out to be Doc Caliban in disguise. The Ramadanoffs arrive, and are taken into custody by Agent Franks of the War Department.
Sources:
Byreika is from Monster Hunter Legion.
Ludmilla is Ludmilla X from Tom Strong comics.
John Sunlight is the Doc Savage villain from Fortress of Solitude and The Devil Ghenghis.
Franks is from the Monster Hunter series, especially Monster Hunter Nemesis.
"Who's got fire" is from Doc Sidhe, by Aaron Allston.
No comments:
Post a Comment