WOOO! I love it! And me, although I pictured me wearing black. It's your story have tons o' fun with it and make me wear whatever you want _________________ Proud member of the Ultimate Marvels!
Don't worry about it, it's completely fine. It's your story not mine, she's not much like me except for the fact that I get pretty angry pretty fast _________________ Proud member of the Ultimate Marvels!
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ULTIMATEA1 PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS...
THE ULTIMATE MARVEL TRIVIA GAME!!!!
Issue #4
A1 Steak Sauce and Emo-Girl walked down the streets of New York City towards some place that would make a costume for Mike. Mike covered his face with his hand as he walked down the street in fear of someone recognizing him and alerting the cops. All of a sudden Emo-Girl stopped and froze. Mike stopped too and looked at her, "What's wrong?"
"Didn't you hear that?" she asked him.
"Hear what?" he asked back, a little nervous.
"It sounded like a swarm of bugs or something. And it sounds like it's getting closer," Emo-Girl answered in fear.
"Ah, I don't hear anything. Maybe you oughta get those ears of yours checked, huh?" Mike chuckled.
Emo-Girl looked up into the blue sky, squinted, "GET DOWN!!!" she screamed as she tackled Mike to the sidewalk.
"Hey, what gives, Nicole?" Mike asked, irritated.
"That, you goof!" she replied as she pointed up.
Mike looked up, "Oh, I see, hehe" he said, embarassed.
"Yeah, so stay down." Emo-Girl ordered trying to stay calm. What she and Mike had seen was a bunch of black things in the sky that looked like a swarm of miniature bugs. The things were coming towards Emo-Girl and A1 who were flat on the ground. Mike realized that they were bugs and that were not gonna stop, so he got up dragged Emo-Girl a few feet and watched as the bugs made a deadly swoop. They missed Emo-Girl and A1 by a few feet, and then they swooped back up into the air again. They prepared for a second attempt.
"Emo-Girl, are you ready to fight?" Mike asked as he looked up at the bugs.
"Yeah, more than ready, A1." Emo-Girl responded as she adjusted her cape.
"Y'know, I just realized that those buggy things look a lot like those bugs from Ultimate Fantastic Four #8 and #9..." Mike commented as the bugs started geeting closer to them.
"Hey, yeah; you're right, they do! But man, that's an old issue!" Emo-Girl replied.
"Well, we better think up a strategy, huh?" Mike suggested to her.
"A1, I don't think there's enough time!" Emo-Girl exclaimed.
"Well then... good luck!" Mike said as he flew towards the bugs in the sky.
"Uh, you too, and uh... you're flying!!" Emo-Girl notified with wide eyes.
"I know! Come and join me!" Mike motioned as he flew closer to the bugs.
As he got close, he could tell that he was right: they DID look a lot like those bugs from the comic. They were made of metal and had camera lenses for eyes and also had a big needle-like pincher sticking out their front.
"Hey Emo-Girl, be careful if you're comin' up; these bugs are nasty! Oh, and they aren't real!!" Mike yelled back from up in the sky. Mike couldn't tell how many of them there were, but he guessed at least a hundred. The whole sky was filled with them. Mike could also noticed that they were being controlled somehow. There was a small attena on their back that blinked red every ten seconds. That was a sure sign of an electronic signal coming from somewhere nearby. Mike had only one guess as to who could have sent these killer bugs to attack him and Nicole: Mr. Dark; his arch-enemy he'd never even met, but didn't have to. He hated him. He had tried to kill him and his family once with missiles. Then again with the gas on the plane. Mike knew this was the last straw. He was sick of Mr. Dark trying to hurt him and his friends and family. This was his third attempt on Mike's life. Well, it's just like in baseball, Mike thought, Three strikes and you're out.
The bugs were on top of Mike now. They swarmed him in the air and covered him competely. Mike tried carefully not to get cut by the needle on them. He was sure the needled were posion tipped. A dozen bugs were getting real close to stabbing Mike with their deadly needles. They were getting close to putting their needled into his skin. Mike could only think of one tactic now: A1 Steak Sauce. Mike put his hands towards the bugs and released steak sauce out of them. They engulfed the bugs with the thick brown stuff. The sauce shut down their circuits and they fell to the ground, drowned in A1 Steak Sauce. Mike looked down quickly before the next batch of bugs attacked. Emo-Girl was down on the sidewalk trying to hold off a deadly pack of about forty or so. Mike knew he had to help her before she getting hurt. Before he could fly to the ground and help her, another pack of deadly bugs swarmed over him blocking his field of vision.
Meanwhile on the ground, the hero called Emo-Girl tried to hold all the bugs off, with little luck. Come on Nicole. Use the training Kevin taught you; do something, she thought to herself as she swatted five more away. She started to get angry at all the bugs who tried to cut her. Her face turned red. She raised her left fist in the air and punched about ten of the bugs. They all shattered immediately upon impact. Her fist had turned so rock-hard, the needle could not penetrate it. Emo-Girl did this with about ten more. She smashed them all with her right fist. She jumped in the air and kicked five more. SMASH They all shattered and fell to the ground too. Emo-Girl smirked as she continued to smash all the bugs. A group of fourteen of them circled around her head and tried an assualt form the rear-- it was no good. Emo-Girl whirled around with lightning speed and slapped nine of them out of the air. They broke upon reaching the ground. The other five changed course and went up into the sky. They continued up flying towards their other target: A1!
A1 flew into the air trying to escape the robotic bugs' relentless attacks. He flipped a few times in the air, trying to make the things miss. No luck for him. They shredded his shirt a few times, almost grazing the skin. He was almost done. Nothing he could do now would work. All of a sudden, a figure flew right into the swarm that was attacking Mike, and started kicking, punching, and slapping them all. Mike gasped as the bugs started to fly in every direction, only they wern't flying. They were falling to the ground below. A few more bugs flew right for A1's face. Emo-Girl reached from behing the bugs, and snatched them out of the air with her right hand. She looked at Mike, "Watch this, A1." she said. She squeezed her hand hard and the bugs cracked under all the pressure. Their little glass wings flew off and their insided cracked, "Cool, huh?"
"Yeah, uh, thanks for saving me Nicole. I dunno how I would've gotten out of that if it weren't for you." Mike acknowledged her.
"It's no prob, except there's like a couple dozen more of them." Emo-Girl replied as she pointed to the ground.
Sure enough, there were a few more rushing towards A1 and Emo-Girl at high speeds. Their camera eyes were focused right on the two heroes. They were locked on target. A1 and Emo-Girl hovered there in the air, watching the bugs' quick approach. Neither one of them had even a glint of fear in their eyes. They were calm and ready.
"Just use your super strength, if you can, and the force will smash them." Emo-Girl advised as they got closer.
"I gotcha." Mike nodded as he stuck his hands out outward a little. The bugs' red camera eyes analyzed the two heroes and transmitted information, wavelinks, signals, and footage back to their master and creator.
At a tower not to far away...
A man sat on a computer chair and watched a ton of monitors in a small dark room. The man was angry knowing that the two heroes were destroying all the bugs he had sent to kill them. The man was dressed all in black. His name was Mr. Dark. "They cannot win! They cannot!!" the man roared as he threw a pen from his pocket. "They must die!! HE must die!!! I sent those bugs primed to go; posion needles, rocket speeds, superb manuverability, all functioning control modems! They should be slaughtering the children!! How can they beat these bugs? I am THE MASTER of darkness and death! I spent years making those bugs. I even blessed them with my dark magic... Why are they not killing them? They are supposed to be shatter resistant! When the fools punch them, the neeedles should go right through their skin!!" He stopped and calmed himself down. "DAMMIT!!! Dragynwulf will have my head for this! NO, NO, NO!!!" Mr Dark screamed as he punched through a computer screen. He looked up at another screen in anger and saw that the bugs were in range to attack. Mr. Dark snatched a controller and pushed a few buttons. He then set it down and watched, hoping the adjustment he made to them would do the trick and annihilate them this time.
A1 Steak Sauce and Emo-Girl lifted their fists to strike the bugs as they arrived, but something strange happened. The bugs made a sudden left turn, and they all turned away from the 2 heroes and flew back towards the ground.
"Wha-- what are they doing?" Emo-Girl asked, puzzled.
A1 watched silently and observed their every move.
"A1?" Emo-Girl called upon him.
A1 said nothing. He just watched.
The bugs hovered over the ground and started to come together. The whole big bundle of them seemed to connect with each other and started to from into something big. They were forming into a big black machine of some sort.
OH, MY GOD... I know what they're gonna do! "Nico-- Emo-Girl, get to the ground! Hurry!! We don't have much time!" Mike cried.
"What's going on A1? What's wrong?" Emo-Girl inquired in confusion.
"Just hurry and folow me! QUICK!!" A1 called as he started to fly towards the ground.
"Hey, you're gettin' pretty good at flying, this being your second time!" Emo-Girl commented as she followed him to the ground.
"That's not important now!" A1 yelled angrily.
"Jeez, relax!" Emo-Girl replied as they landed on the street.
Emo-Girl looked around. The street was empty. Everyone had run away as soon as the bugs had started their attack. Emo-Girl then turned her full attention on the bugs. Only they weren't bugs anymore. Standing in front of A1 Steak Sauce and Emo-Girl was a huge figure. It looked to be two stories tall. It was all the remaining bugs. Only they had grown, formed together, and turned into a huge robotic killing machine now!
"OH, BOY... A1 what's going on?" Emo-Girl asked as she looked up at the thing.
"It's just like I saw from the sky! Those tiny bugs have been made with a plan B in their modems." A1 explained as he glared at the towering monster.
"And that plan isss?" Emo-Girl asked dramatically.
"You're looking at it, joemama." A1 answered.
The bugs had formed into this huge thing. It had two broad legs with little robot feet on the bottom. It also had a full body, torso, arms thick as tree trunks, hands (the left was a big canon), and a big head with two red eyes which were also camera lenses. The bug things were not even visible anymore. A black metal plate had covered them up and acted like the skin of it. From a control room the man known as Mr. Dark, laughed maniacally. "Now I have them..." he laughed.
"Oh, man, we're offically screwed..." Emo-Girl muttered.
"No, we can beat it! We have to or this thing could destroy half the city!" A1 cried.
"Yeah, you're right, we have got to try!" yelled Emo-Girl as she took flight again.
"WAIT, NO!!!" Mike yelled to Emo-Girl as he frantically waved his hands.
"What?" Emo-Girl looked down at A1.
ZZZAAAPPPP!!!
Emo-Girl was struck by a bolt of blue energy and fell limplessly out of the sky.
"NICOLE!!!!" Mike screamed as he sprinted and caught her before she hit the ground. He looked at her and cried out. She was knocked out! "No, I need your help..." Mike whispered in sadness. A1 sighed and gently set her down on the sidewalk. He made sure she was out of harm's way and got ready to fight the enemy all on his own.
Oh, now I'm just $%*@#$ Mike thought.
And from a control room...
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! The girl is down! Now I have you, boy!!" Mr. Dark lauged violently. "After my robot crushes every bone in your body and leaves you a rotting corpse on the ground, I will kill her, personally..." he grinned.
Back at the scene of the fight...
A1 jumped back, dodging the left fist of the huge death machine. When the giant lifted his fit from the ground, it revealed a huge hole there. Mike gulped. It punched at Mike again. He avoided it yet again. It left another hole in the ground. Hmm, it's powerful, that's certain. But it's slow and that's how I'll beat it. He ran to the robot's left. The robot turned it's head slowly, but Mike raced way ahead of it's vision. He was not in the thing's sight anymore. A1 raced to the back of the giant robot. He looked up at it's back. He spotted a little bump on it, the size of a small TV. He figured that was where the plating that covered up the bugs' had ended. He also knew that it was probaly a weak spot so without a moment's hesitation he flew up the robot's back and blasted the bump with steak sauce. It had no effect as the plating merely bounced the steak sauce away. A1 would need to expose the bugs, then he could fire his steak sauce in there and shut this giant down.
So he thought long and hard as Mr. Dark watched his efforts from a control room across town. A1 thought about how Emo-Girl had shattered the bugs before with her strength. That's what I have to do! Break this stupid plating. A1 thought as he smacked his right fist into the robot's back. The robot moved forward slightly, due to the hit. The robotic giant tried to turn around to destroy A1, but it was too slow and A1 laid one punch after another on the robot. Smack! Crack! P-rsah! Over and over A1 hit the robot's back chipping the plating away. A1 tried again and smacked the giant harder than he ever had in his life. He hit it so hard, that when his fist made contact with the back of the robot, it glowed green and the robot's back sparked. BAMMMM! The bump that had been on the giant's back cracked and a huge part of it's protective coating fell off exposing it's first major weak point.
Finally, now I can get all crazy on this piece of tin... Mike expressed a big grin. And with that evil smile on his face, A1 flew straight into the hole on the robot's back. As he entered the darkness he saw all the bugs that had attacked Emo-Girl and himself. He saw that within the mess of bugs that had formed together, what appeared to be a big red power console. Most of the bugs had transformed into mechanical insides for the giant robot. A1 knew he had to take out that control panel to stop this thing from doing any damage. So without a moment to spare, A1 released as much A1 Steak Sauce from his hands as he possibly could, at once. The steak sauce flowed over the console and it started to glow blue. A1 knew he must have been frying the circuits in the controls. He kept the sauce flowing and flowing, exerting every bit of the thick browns stuff from his hands as he could. He finally stopped and panted for air. He had exceded the limit on how much he could spray. He was weak and really hot.
All of a sudden the bugs that had formed the insides of the robot started to glow from yellow to orange to red. A1's eyes widened in terror, IT'S GONNA BLOW!!!!! A1 screamed in his head. He knew he had to get out of here and far from here. Using the last bit of his strength A1 flew as fast as he could out of the giant robot's inisdes. He knew he'd have to get to Nicole and save her, before she got blown up from the robot. Before he could turn around or fly any further, A1 collapsed in mid-air and fell to the street. He had only gotten maybe ten or fifteen feet away from the robot. He thought to himself as he laid on the ground weak and helpless This is the end. The explosion is gonna kill me and worse yet I let Nicole die, too. Mike turnd his head and watched as the giantic robot turned bright red. So Mike laid collapsed on one side of the exploding robot and Emo-Girl laid unconscious on the other side of it. A1 watched as the gigantic robot blew up from the inside out. He covered his eyes as he heard a loud BOOM!
From a control room, the evil moderator known as Mr. Dark laughed as he watched the computer showing the robot blow up. "Hahahaha... It didn't turn out like I planned: I wanted it to vaporize the fools, but nonetheless it all woked out just fine..." Mr. Dark spoke to himself with a chuckle. "Dragynwulf will be most pleased with the end results." Mr. Dark laughed once more, as he raised his hands up and cocked his head. He had accomplished his misson. A1 Steak Sauce and Emo-Girl were dead.
All that remained of the robot was a rubble of black ashes and black smoke. A building was on fire as a result from the explosion. Nothing was visible. All was covered in smoke. No sounds were heard except a cough. But that cough came from A1-- A1 was alive. The shakey hero got up slowly, becoming visible through the smoke. He leaned over and coughed again. He was covered in black soot. The explosion had barely grazed him. He had miraculously survived the explosion without even the smallest of burn marks. Just when A1 was about to take a big sight of relief, he remembered Emo-Girl, OH, GOD, NO... He ran through the smoke and rubble. He reached the spot where he had put Nicole. She was gone. "NO!!!" Mike screamed. He put his head down. Surely she had blown up in the explosion. She must be dead Mike thought gloomly, "It's all my fault..." A1 sighed with a tear. But before he could mourn something rose up from the gigantic robot's ashes, right in front of A1. A1 looked up at it. It was a humanoid looking robot. It looked a lot like the big one, only this robot looked like a regular human and was only a foot or two taller than him.
When will it end? Mike questioned as he ran at the robot and kicked it in the chest. Nothing happened. He punched the robot in the stomach twice, then once in the head trying his super strength. Still nothing happened. "DAMMIT!!!" A1 cried as he performed a high kick to the robot's chin. Mike then slugged it in the cheek. Nothing and this time the robot fought back. It grabbed A1's left hand and squeezed down on his wrist. "Owwww!! Errrr..." Mike howled in pain. No matter how much A1 struggled to get free, the robot would not release it's death grip.
Mr. Dark frowned from his control room. "KILL HIM!!! WHY WON'T YOU DIE, BOY???!!!" he screamed in fury.
"Aarrrr!!! Let go!!!" Mike screamed in agony. He could feel his wrist starting to break. Then, just before the robot broke his wrist, it let go of him, and smacked him in the face. The robot kicked Mike in the stomach hard. A1 fell down holding his stomach. The robot stuck out it's right hand and started to electrocute him. The robot released blue bolts of electricity and watched as A1 screamed in pain. Mike's body wouldn't be able to take much more of this. Just as Mike was about to lose consciousness from the blast of electricity, a fist came right through the robot's chest from behind. The electricity stopped coming out of it's hand, and the robot powered down. Mike still could not see who had saved him.
"Kevin?" Mike asked grogilly at the figure standing before him..
"Nope! It's me, ta-daa!!" Emo-Girl revealed as she took her fist out of the robot's chest and appeared in front of A1. "You okay?" she asked him.
"I'm f-fine, but I thought you died in that explosion..." A1 cried still recovering from the electrocution.
"Nah, I woke up just in time to fly out of there. It was you I was worried about!" She replied as she pulled Mike off the ground.
"Well that should do it for the killer bugs and uh, robots..." A1 commented with a faint smile.
"Yeah, guess so. But any idea who sent them?" Emo-Girl asked looking at A1.
"Uh, yeah, I know exactly who sent them..." Mike answered brushing the black soot off his clothes.
"Who?" Emo-Girl wondered flinging her arms.
"An evil moderator from Marvel.com, a guy who's tried to kill me three times now..." Mike answered, "I've never seen the guy before, but his name's Mr. Dark. He's a guy who's messed with my life too many times, he's gonna suffer now..." A1 stated in a dark tone.
"Hunh, well the guy sounds like a jerk! We have to make him pay..." Emo-Girl commented.
"Oh, I will... I will." Mike said as he noticed the building on fire. He flew towards it and used his A1 Steak Sauce to put it out.
"NONONO!!!! DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT IT ALL!!!!" Mr. Dark screamed as he smashed all of his monitors in the control room. "You will die boy!! I'LL SEE TO IT PERSONALLY!!" He squeezed his fist, "Even the damned robots failed to kill him! What makes you so difficult to kill?! WHY are you still living?!" He yelled to him, "Well, since all of my attacks have failed, you leave me no choice. The time has come for me to kill you personally. I will rip out your heart and serve it to my master, Dragynwulf. I'll tear out your spinal cord and use it to impale you, wretched boy! Then I will display your corpse for the world to see..." Mr. Dark chuckled as he smashed all of his computers. In his hands he formed purple fire, and in that fire was a projection of A1 being incinerated alive. Mr. Dark growled once more, then a big smile came on his twisted face, when he pictured murdering A1 himself.
"Nice work putting out the fire!" Emo-Girl congratulated A1.
"Yeah, it's all in a job of a superhero!" Mike responded as he raised his arms.
Emo-Girl laughed.
"Well, we should probably get back to Kevin and tell him about all this..." Mike suggested suddenly.
"No, we have to get you your costume first, A1" Emo-Girl exclaimed as she led the way.
"Uh, okay. I'm coming..." A1 said as he jogged to catch up with her. "You know we have to hurry. The police'll be here soon and then I'll get arrested."
"It's not much further. Follow me..." Emo-Girl ordered as she half ran. Mike followed quickly. They reached a turn and went onto the next street. They went half a block more and finally Emo-Girl stopped in front of a small store. The sign above the store read 'AweSome Comics'.
"A comic book store?" Mike asked in confusion. "How am I gonna get a costume here?"
"Just come on already, slow-poke!" Emo-Girl said as she tugged A1 into the store.
DING! The bell rang as they opened the door. Standing behind a counter on the wall next to Mike and Nicole was the store owner. He wore a blue shirt and baggy white pants. He had a pair of glasses on, with short white hair. He looked to be about 50. Mike looked around quickly. There were shelves of comic books and boxes of back issues. On the walls were superhero posters. There were even a few action figures in packages. There was no one in the store except the owner, Nicole, and Mike.
"Oh, hey Nicole. How you doing today?" the owner asked her.
"Hey how ya doin' Ted? How's bussiness?" Nicole greeted him.
"Oh, you know... it's there..." the man smiled. "What can I help you with today, Emo-Girl?" the man asked.
"Well, my friend here needs a costume like me and Kevin." Nicole told him. "C'mere, A1." Nicole motioned him.
"This guy knows your real name?" Mike leaned over and whispered into her ear.
"Yeah, of course..." she whispered back.
"Wondering how I know Nicole and Kevin, eh?" the store owner asked Mike.
"Um, yes" Mike replied.
"Well let me tell you a little story..." the man bagan.
"Well, my name's Ted Runder and I've owned this little store for 17 years," the man continued, "About 4 years ago, things were going bad, I was having a mighty hard time paying my bills, and feeding the dog. And y'know biz wasn't doing so great. So I got overwhelmed one night. I went up to the top of the Muzitz Hotel a few blocks down and jumped off. Thing is right when I jumped, I knew I'd done the wrong thing. I realized killing myself would've made more problems for others and wouldn't have solved any o' mine. I wanted to live again. So I was about to hit the ground, when a certain superhero named UltimateKevin jumped off the ground and caught me. He told me that I should never try that again, and that life isn't worth throwing away. I agreed with him and thanked him with all my heart. I realized what true heroes are and I invited him to my store for some comics. Then I met him and he told me who he was, and everything about his heroic career. I decided to make him a costume then, because I'm pretty good with sewing and all. I stitched him up a fine costume and everytime he needed it fixed he would come here and I would make him a new one. And of course he buys comics all the time and helps me pay the bills and feed the dog. And when he got Nicole as his new trainee or sidekick, I made her one too. And I learned everything about her too. Best of all, she buys comics, too. So that's that, and I'm glad to be alive ever since that day!" the man finished his story and gave a warm smile.
"Okay, uh, good story, yeah..." Mike said nodding his head. "Kevin's a great guy." Mike agreed.
"Wait you know Kevin?" the man asked.
"Oh yeah, he played my internet trivia game all the time, and now I'm training with him and Emo-Girl here." Mike answered.
"Yeah and we're here to get A1 here, his costume!" Nicole proudly declared.
"Oh, you want a costume, huh?" the man said rubbing his chin, "Well a pal o' Kevin is a pal o' mine"
"Yeah, thanks, my name's Mike, but my hero name is A1 Steak Sauce." Mike said boasting a little.
"Heh, what in the hell kinda name is that for a superhero?" the owner said with a snicker. "Hehehehehe HEH..." The owner laughed.
Mike glared at him. "All right then whatever..." He wiped a tear from his eyes, "I'll get you a costume if it pleases ya." the man said as he went into a backroom of the shop.
"Wow, what a guy..." Mike sarcastically stated, in anger.
"Oh, he's not so bad once you get to know him..." Nicole assured him.
The man came back, "Alright I have five costumes that are already made, if you don't like any of the color combinations then you'll have to tell me what colors you do want, but if you order a custom one, it'll take a few weeks to make" He told Mike.
"Well, what are the ones you do have done?" Mike asked.
"One is blue and red; another is yellow and purple; one is orange and red. Uh... another is green and brown; and the last one..." the man got interupted by Mike.
"I'll take the green and brown one!" Mike exclaimed with a smile.
"Uh, okay then. I'll go get it." the owner said as he went to the backroom to get it.
"Brown and green? Why would you want brown?" Emo-Girl asked as she stuck out her tongue.
"'Cuz brown is the color of A1 Steak Sauce and green is my all-time favorite color!" Mike replied with an annoyed tone.
"Whatever then..." she shrugged.
"Okay, here it is..." the owner came back and held the costume in his hands for Mike to see. The whole front of it, the stomach area, torso, and shoulders were all brightish-darkish green. The sides, hips, arms, and pants were brown.The gloves were the same green color and the shoes were a mix of brown and green. It was made of spandex-type material so one size fits all. "Well?" the owner asked Mike with a frown.
"Dude... it's... it's incredible!!! I LOVE IT!!!!" Mike shouted with excitement.
"Well, it's yours: no charge." the man replied with his trademark smile.
"Yeah, that's great! Thanks! Oh, but it needs to have my own symbol on the chest!" Mike pointed out.
"Aw, picky, picky, picky..." the man groaned. "What symbol do ya want on it?" he asked from inside the room, less than enthusiastic.
"I want a big capital A1 on it, but in red letters like on the bottle!" Mike told him.
"Sure sure, I'll get on it now. Only take a sec..." he replied.
"Oh, and he needs a mask and cape too, Ted!" Emo-Girl called to him.
"Aw, jeez... Anything else?" the owner called back.
"No, that should do it!" Nicole grinned.
When he finally came back out, he was holding the finished costume, a green cape, and a mask. The costume now had a big red "A.1." stitched on the chest of it. On the back of his green cape was the same "A.1." symbol, only it had "steak sauce" stitched underneath it. And the mask looked like Robin's mask or Nightwing's. It covered up only the eyes, upper nose, and forehead. The mask was also green. "Look good?" the owner asked.
"Wow, it looks incredible-- no ULTIMATE!!!" Mike shouted as he grabbed it and beat on his chest like he was hot stuff. The owner rolled his eyes, and Emo-Girl laughed. "I'll take it, thanks" Mike cried in excitement.
"Sure sure, now go out and save the world or somethin'!" the owner said.
Mike looked at the counter and saw a comic book then gasped. "Whoa, is that Ultimate Moon Knight #15?" Mike asked the shop owner.
"Yup, just came in today..." he replied.
"I'll take it!" Mike yelled quickly.
"Alright, that's $3.65, with tax." the owner said as he rang it up.
Mike slipped him a 5 and said "Keep the change, my good man."
The owner took the money and said "Gladly! Well, you two better be running along, I got a business to run here, and give Kevin my regards!" the owner said as he put the money into the cash register.
"Thanks for everything, Ted!" Nicole called back as they left the shop.
Mike walked down an alley as soon as they got outside and changed for the first time into his new costume. He came out dressed in his new costume, "Do I look good or do I look goooo-ooo-ood?" he asked Emo-Girl.
"Wow, you look amazing!" she answered in disbelief.
"Thanks, I can't believe I'm finally a real superhero now!" Mike gushed with excitement.
"Yeah, a hero without any experience or training. You'll be a lot of help to innocent people in danger!" Emo-Girl added.
"Hey, I have experience! I kicked that robot thingy's square ass, and besides, Kevin is gonna give me all the training I need!" A1 stated in protest.
"Speaking of which, we gotta get back to help Kev set up the training course!" Emo-Girl said.
"Let's fly!" A1 suggested with a smile.
And so with that Emo-Girl and A1 Steak Sauce took off the ground and into the air. They flew towards the warehouse that was to be A1's new home and their training grounds. The wind whipped Emo-Girl's hair back, and A1's cape blew back in the wind also. Mike was extremley proud of his new costume and when he saw a girl on the street he waved, and gave her the "call me" sign. Emo-Girl nudged him and gave him a dirty look.
"What?" A1 asked, ignoring what he did.
As they got close to the warehouse A1 flipped through the latest issue of Ultimate Moon Knight, he had bought at the comic store.
"HEY NICOLE, MY LETTER MADE IT AGAIN!!!" Mike announced happy.
"How come you always get in?" she asked shocked.
"I'm just that good!" Mike said with a laugh.
A1 and Emo-Girl entered the warehouse only to discover more furniture. There were three more chairs, two more couches, five tables, seven lamps, a dining table, kitchen appliances, and the fridge and cupboards were loaded with all sorts of food. There were some comic book posters on the walls and some decorations in the main room. The place really looked good now.
"Wow, interior decorating." Nicole said as she looked around A1's new and improved home.
"So what do ya think, A1?" UltimateKevin asked A1 as he came down the stairs.
"I-I don't even know what to say! This place is great! There's a ton of room in here!" A1 answered in astoundment.
"Yeah, you can thank my wife on that! She went and got the groceries and helped me fix this place up." Kevin smiled as he came into the living room. "You just missed her, too." Kevin mentioned to A1.
"Wow, well tell her thanks for everything!" A1 said gratefully.
"Yeah, I will. What took you guys so long? Oh, and sweet duds, A1!" Kevin congradulated with his "thumbs up" sign.
"Yeah, the th-thing about that is, we k-kinda... Um..." A1 stuttered.
"Let me tell him, A1." Emo-Girl said.
"So we were walking down the street and a pack of killer bugs tried to kill us, then we beat them, but they turned into a giant robot that zapped me, but A1 beat it, then it turned into a human looking robot, and I kinda destroyed it, and A1 put out a fire, then we went to the store and got the costume..." Emo-Girl quickly uttered in a huge run on sentence.
"Um... The what now?" Kevin asked in major confusion.
"Don't worry about it, Kevin. We took care of it, and I'll take care of the guy who sent the robots, too." Mike vowed as he seemed to talk in a darker mood.
"Listen A1, I don't wanna preach to you, but you're not taking care of anyone until you can learn to control your powers and learn to fight better." Kevin said sternly.
"You don't understa--" A1 was interuppted by Kevin.
"Yeah, I do. I've wanted to take revenge before, but you have to learn to control your emotions and powers, or you could turn out like any other villian out there, understand?"
"Yes, I do." Mike said hesitantly. I'll respect Kevin's wishes, but I don't care what he says! Nobody tries to harm my family, then my friends and me! I'm gonna find Mr. Dark, and I'm gonna KILL him! A1 thought angrily. Mike had always sworn he would never kill. Would he really go that far? Little did he know, he was strutting towards a dark path. Little did he know he'd need a little light if he was gonna stay on the path of angels.
"Good..." Kevin responded, breaking him out of his thoughts. "Now come on upstairs, A1. You'll never believe what I discovered." Kevin led the way up the stairs.
Kevin led the way into the hall upstairs. They went all the way to the end to what appeared to be just a dead end. Kevin stopped pressed a button that was hidden by a poster of some flowers. Stupid poster... Mike thought to himself snickering. A big tough guy like The Red Bull and he's got a poster of flowers; what a pansy Mike thought with a silent chuckle. All of a sudden the wall at the end of the hallway opened up, revealing a hidden room. The room wasn't huge, but what it contained was amazing! On the wall right in front of the three heroes was a whole wall of monitors, computers, controls, keyboards, printers, modems, wires, buttons. Everything on that wall looked like it was pulled out of a NASA control room. On the wall to the left a huge computer covered it completly up. There must have been at lease thirty different monitors in this room. All with full internet access.
"Get outta here..." Emo-Girl said shocked, "All I have is this ghetto laptop back home!"
"Whoa, this is incredible!" A1 said in amazement.
"Yeah, crazy, huh?" Kevin nodded.
"What do you do this room? Where did all this crap come form?" A1 asked in astoundment.
"I dunno, but it looks like it's been abandoned for quite some time..." Kevin assured him.
"What in the world are you gonna use all this for, A1?" Emo-Girl asked him.
A1 was quite for a few seconds as he thought long and hard. Then a big smile came on his face and his eyes brightened up. "Five words:" A1 replied. "The Ultimate Marvel Trivia Game!!!" A1 yelled in happiness. "With this, all this equipment I can bring my Trivia game to a whole new level!" Mike said with eagerness.
"Yeah, you could become a worldwide sensation!" Kevin proclaimed.
"That and establish my daytime identity, A1 Steak Sauce! Trivia host by day, A1 Steak Sauce butt kicking hero at night!" A1 cried in excitement.
"Yeah, but then people will find out who you really are, by tracking your I.P. address!" Emo-Girl reminded him.
"Hmm... Which computer? They'll all be different!" A1 countered.
"Plus this is high tech stuff! I'm sure you can just fiddle around and put on some stealth thing or something" Kevin added.
"Yup, can't wait to do trivia again..." A1 proclaimed anxiously.
"That'll have to wait, A1." Kevin told him.
"Why?" Mike asked him.
"Because it's training time!" Kevin exclaimed as his eyes lit up.
"Wait you said not until tommorow!" A1 reminded Kevin.
"Yeah, I know, but the sooner we start, the sooner you can become the hero you were always meant to be." Kevin said in a heroic tone.
"Aww..." Mike and Nicole groaned as they followed Kevin out of the secret room.
A1 and Emo-Girl followed their teacher, UltimateKevin down the stairs and onto the 1st floor of the warehouse. From there, Kevin led them through the tiny kitchen and down another flight of stairs into the warehouse's basement level. It was down here that was to be their training base. There was one huge area down here. Almost as big as half a football field. There were boxes to the sides stuck on the walls, and nothing but hard floor in the middle. It was plenty big enough to train on.
"Welcome to the training grounds, wannabe heroes. My name is UltimateKevin and I'll be your trainer-slash-mentor today and the rest of your pre-hero days." Kevin announced with a big smile. "So let's get training!!" Kevin yelled as he motioned for Emo-Girl and A1 to run. "Run back and forth, form each end to each end, five times!! Let's work those legs and increase that speed!!" Kevin barked.
They obeyed and ran as fast as they could. Emo-Girl was much faster than A1, as she'd been practicing for over a year now. "Man, is he gonna act like a drill sargeant or something?" A1 asked Emo-Girl.
"Ha, don't worry about it. He's a real nice instructer. He's got a lot of patience and he clowns around a lot." Nicole smiled as she ran. Mike ran too.
After they had completed five laps, they came up to Kevin, panting, and asked together, "Now what?"
"Now some fighting moves. You gotta learn these if you wanna beat the bad guys." Kevin said as he got into a fight stance.
Kevin grabbed a box, brought it over to A1 and Nicole, and set it down, "Nicole, I want you to focus and harness your feelings. Use your strength to punch through this box." Kevin instructed her.
"Easy as pi." Nicole winked back.
She concentrated all her emotions balled up a fist and punched the box hard as she could with her left fist. SMASH! The box cracked open and pieces of it flew everywhere. Nicole made a huge grin.
"Nice job Nicole" Kevin congradualted.
"No prob! It's easy!" she winked back.
"I'll cut things a little short today, seeing it's A1's first day of practice." Kevin said as he rubbed his right hand. "A1, I want you to do what Nicole did, break this crate, and you can be done until tommmorow." Kevin said as he held up a tattered brown crate.
"Okay, but I'm not incredibly strong, except when I'm in danger, then I'm Hercules." Mike joked as he held up his arms in a pose.
"Just give it your best shot. Focus and concentrate." Kevin instructed him.
A1 got quiet and he looked at the crate for what seemed like hours. Finally when he was done studying it, he threw his right fist forward and made contact with the crate but instead of it breaking, it only slighly cracked and Mike's fist bled a little.
"Oww... My fist is throbbing..." Mike winced in pain as he held his right fist.
"You all right?" Kevin asked, a bit concerned.
"I'm fine. It's not broken, just hurts a little." A1 replied. He turned around and slapped himself. Little baby, it hurts-- it hurts a lot! Get a life! he thought to himself, angry for making a big deal of a slightly bloody fist.
"Well, we're done today. C'mon I'll help you get that fixed up." Kevin motioned to A1 as he went up the flight of stairs.
"Right..." Mike said quietly.
Nicole trailed behind Kevin and Mike. When they got to the first floor, Nicole plopped on the sofa and turned on the TV while Kevin and Mike went up to the second floor and into the bathroom. Kevin got some first aid cream and bandages out and put them on Mike's right fist.
"You doing trivia tonight, A1?" Kevin asked as he put on the bandages.
"Count on it, in about... an hour." Mike replied looking at a clock.
"Cool, I'll be playing from home tonight." Kevin said with a grin.
"Speaking of home, I gotta call my parents and tell them I'm staying here." Mike said.
"Do ya miss your home?" Kevin asked.
"Nah, I was planning on getting a place here in New York, although I miss my cat a little..." Mike admitted.
"What's your cat's name?" Kevin asked as he put away the bandages.
"Tiki, he used to be my sister's cat and when she got him when he was a kitten she named him that after Tiki Barber." Mike explained.
"Tiki's a cool name." Kevin nodded as he patted the bandages.
"Do you have a pet?" Mike asked Kevin.
"Yup. A dog." Kevin answered. "I'll bring him over sometime, you can meet him" Kevin told A1.
"What's his name?" Mike asked Kevin curious.
"It's name is Canelo! Oh, and if it matters: in Spanish, "canela" means cinnamon, but since usually when you add an "a" at the end of the word it means "girl" but when you add an "o" it usually means "boy"! So, replace the "a" in "canela" with an "o" you get "Canelo"! Make sense?" Kevin asked after a long explanation.
"Um... I think I got all that..." Mike said in confusion.
"Good..." Kevin said with a smile. Mike and Kevin went downstairs. On the way down, Kevin turned to Mike, "I'll have to introduce you to my nephew sometime, he's just about your age; he likes comic books, too"
"Sure, sounds good..." Mike agreed.
"Hey guys, I'm goin' home. I'm a little tired." Nicole said as she adjusted her cape. "I'll see ya tommorow!" Emo-Girl said with a wave.
"Bye, Nicole." Kevin and A1 said in unison.
"I won't make it for trivia. Sorry, A1." Emo-Girl called back as she flew away.
"Hey, that reminds me, I'm taking my wife out for dinner tonight, I guess I won't make trivia either." Kevin said as he grabbed his gear. "I'd better be going, see you tommorow for more practice. Later, A1." Kevin said as he walked out of the warehouse.
"Uh, bye then." Mike said silently to himself. Mike kicked a loreboard. He was bored now. No one to talk to. Maybe I'll call my parents and see how they're doing. Mike thought to himself.
After getting off the phone after a thirty-five minute conversation, Mike realized that it was 6:30. Which meant it was time for trivia. Gotta remember I'm on the east coast, so it's 5:30 back home, which is trivia time. Mike thought as he ran. Hey, I should use that new computer room upstairs! That'd be sweet! Mike thought as he climbed the stairs. When he entered the room, he turned on a big monitor. He sat down on a nice, padded, green computer chair and logged onto Marvel.com. He put in his username: a1 steak sauce !. Then he put in his password. He got on his "Ultimate Marvel Trivia Game!! C'mon it's Fun!!!!!!" thread and posted:
"Someone reply and I'll start the next...
The Ultimate Marvel Trivia Game!!!!!!!!!!
"
A1 waited ten minutes and no reply. Man, it's dead on here tonight. he thought gloomly. A1 had almost given up hope when all of a sudden a person with an Iceman avatar posted: "I heard about this. It's become so popular there are whole fan club sites for this, the whole world is into this. I know a lot about the Ultimate U, so I thought I'd give it a shot"
"Welcome to my trivia game, bobby drake." Mike posted back. A few minutes later he posted: "Thanks, A1 Steak Sauce!".
"Call me, A1."
"Okay, A1."
After bobby drake answered all the questions correctly, A1 said goodnight and logged off. When he was done, he realized it was kinda creepy staying in this warehosue all alone at night. Mike was bored too. He didn't want to read comic books or play video games, he wanted to fly. Kevin won't care if I go out and fly for a while, and maybe do a little crime fighting... Would he? he halted, Nah... He changed into his new costume and cape. He put on his mask and flew away into the night sky. He flew way above all the towers and skyscrapers of NYC. He looked down and screamed "I'M A SUPERHEROOOOOOOOOO!!!" He laughed and smiled gliding easily in the night sky. The fresh cold air felt amazingly great on his face. He flew for ten minutes straight and then he lowered himself down a little and became level with the buildings. As he rounded a corner, he stopped flying and hovered in the air in shock. There in front of A1 was a big black figure. He was hovering in the air also. He had a girl hovering in the air. The girl was screaming. He had her in his grip by black gas. It was some kinda dark magic that was wrapped around the girl's waist. He had her prisoner. A1 squinted at the evil looking man. He saw that he was wearing a black costume with scales on it. He had no cape or mask. He had long black hair, a pointy beard, and a curly moustache. His eyes were pure evil. On his chest, sewn in purple read "Mr. Dark"
"No..." A1 whispered, "It can't be... YOU!?!?" A1 was horrorified.
"Hello, young hero. Lovely evening for a flight, don't you think?" he laughed as his lips curled up in a sick twisted grin.
"Finally, something good happens in my life..." A1 grinned.
"What are you talking about boy? I am evil; I am your worst nightmare; I tried to kill you three times (once even your family too)!" Mr. Dark alerted angrily.
"I know, and that's why I'm gonna kill you, now... tonight" A1 replied glaring.
Mr. Dark put the captive girl down and glared in anger. A1 shot a ball of steak sauce out of his hand and flew straight at him as fast as he could. "TIME TO DIE, YOU DIRTY SONNUVA-- UNGHHH!!!!" A1 was cut off as Mr. Dark let out bolts of lighning from his two hands. He started to electrocute A1, cajun style.
"Now you will see what happens to foolish children that cross paths with Mr. Dark!!" He screamed.
A1 winced in pain as his whole body was covered in electricity. He started to black out. A1 knew he would be dead within seconds. "Can't resist pain... any... more... got... got... gotta give in... to... blackness... gotta.... ARGGHHH!!!!" A1 Steak Sauce screamed as he got blanketed in electricity. "NOOOOO!!!!" A1 screamed in unbearable pain...
TO BE CONTINUED... _________________ "THE ULTIMATE MARVEL TRIVIA GAME! C'mon it's Fun!"
A1 Steak Sauce
Proud member of THE ULTIMATE MARVELS!!!!
MOON KNIGHT
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Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 3932 Location: Wisconsin
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject:
Thanks a ton Tom! I think it turned out well! Kevin made it 10 times better thanit originally was, when he edited it! So a big thanks for you Kevin! Great job! Thanks for making this issue GREAT!!!!! _________________ "THE ULTIMATE MARVEL TRIVIA GAME! C'mon it's Fun!"
Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 3932 Location: Wisconsin
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject:
Thanks! But your editing helped a ton! Especially the "bugs turn into a ginat robot" part! I thought the way I wrote it, it would be confusing, but you fixed that up! _________________ "THE ULTIMATE MARVEL TRIVIA GAME! C'mon it's Fun!"
Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 3932 Location: Wisconsin
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:
Yeah, and you do a awesome job!
Also for everyone itching for #5, I will be starting it tommorow! Hopefully it dosen't take too long, but it's gonna be pretty long again! _________________ "THE ULTIMATE MARVEL TRIVIA GAME! C'mon it's Fun!"
Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 3932 Location: Wisconsin
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject:
Well I have started #5! I have a 2 day start on it! I have a good amount done so far! I hope to have it done as soon as next week! Here's what you can expect in issue 5:
~An awesome fight between me and Mr. Dark! This fight has been brewin' since issue 1
~How I got my steak sauce powers will finally be clarified
~Me, Kevin, and Joemama doing some 3 way fighting on crime
~More training
~And a cliffhanger that will leave you clawing at the walls for more!
~PLUS: A few other suprises _________________ "THE ULTIMATE MARVEL TRIVIA GAME! C'mon it's Fun!"
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