Two Original

   

(This is an excerpt from a piece of prose that I am thinking about going back to because I left this poor girl hanging!...art by Lyron)

  I am awash in a sea of agony.  I feel pain, pain and confusion.  Before me, beside me, and behind me, all in remain in darkness.  Then through a haze I make out a City; or more correctly, a seeming shadow city, a "Something Not Quite There".  I know I must look for the weapon, surely it is here, and the reasons or answers I seek for why all of this must occur when it did.  For there must be some connection between the murder weapon and the occult; they would not have contacted me with questions about it unless it has some kind of magical significance or they think I committed the murder foul.
     Why would they believe that I would do such at thing?  Was telekinesis involved in the murder?  If that were the case why didn't they just arrest me?
     Then I can't even think to myself.  I just feel, afraid, exhilarated, and I just wish the other shoe would drop right on the head of my answers!  
     My spirit aches; I feel a scream as well as hear it with my spiritual ears.  Who screams and why won't they stop?  And the pain it near rips me in two as the scream intensifies.  I'm nauseous, the city slips away and I wake before I have even begun to explore the hidden city for the treasures I desire to find.

              To be continued...
                                                 The Marc Kane 2009



Aboard an Avengers Hover Cycle, Jennifer Walters, a.k.a. the sensational She-Hulk, pops her knuckles, watching the beacons on the first three Avengers to converge, waiting to see if Iron Man has detected the location of the expected villains. “It’s too bad we couldn’t have caught them around the world where they started,” remarks She Hulk.
“If we could’ve gotten everyone there as quickly as Thor signaled” says Iron Man, “we barely had a team able to use Thor’s information to head them off at the pass, as they said when this west was wild!”
“I lived in L.A. too long not to know Hollywood when I hear it,” she returns, “ but he came up with a good way to keep them climbing around guessing. They just happened to have eliminated most of the possibilities by the time he got word to them of a sherpa to guide them to the spot.”
“Glad it worked long enough for us to get here----wait, I’m picking up an impact that’s either a landslide in the making,” says Iron Man,” or Thor’s moved in on them.”
“Iron Man! I’m closing in on the scrap from the northern side in half a minute!” says Captain America over his communicator.
“Looks like you’re round a tenth of a mile from the spot, Hawkeye,” says Iron Man. “See anything?”
“Been riding this hog hell bent for leather,” says Hawkeye, “hardly time to---“
“Bogie, overhead!!” shouts Iron Man, whose radar has spotted Midnight Sun.

Hawkeye is finishing his mumbled sentence: “ look over my shou---whooaa!”
From his gauntlet, Iron Man's repulsor nearly tracks the lithe form, twisting out of reach atop his flying discs. While Iron Man doesn't recognize Midnight Sun as a former pawn of Fu Manchu, he finds the physical skill a nuisance to his plan to quickly knock him out before he can draw another bead on Hawkeye. With the two of them to fill the air with peril, however, Midnight Sun can't attack either of them, and so he speeds into a crevice, almost vanishing before the naked eye, as Hawkeye's last arrow travels in a near-perfect arc to pulverise the stones beside the speeding criminal, who is showered by loose dirt and stones. He plunges within the mountain with Iron Man in hot pursuit.

Sabretooth roars, right in the face of the She Hulk, whose eyebrows arch as though disappointed. She then roars back, and says, "happy?" He sniffs the air, says, "no sweat." She connects much of a powerful punch to his face, saying, "Probably."
He's tantalized by her colossal power. "I've never killed a green babe before," he snarls, smiling.
"Put up or shut up," she says, advancing on him, "you're not stopping me from going into this cave. You don't look the type to surrender."
"But it might be a good idea," says Hawkeye, drawin his arrow. "Just sayin'."

Sabretooth turns and lopes away, full bore, for the crevice that received Midnight Sun.
"Can always finish you off in the dark," he says, darting in. But an arrow flies towards him, with a shaft full of gas that imparts to his steps a drunken lethargy.

"Of course," She Hulk says, "that's the direction we're going, too."
"Es nada, Shulkie," quips Hawkeye; "We'll have this sky-bike you safely parked going before you can say, 'two in the hole!'"
"Think I can withstand the gas cannister," retorts She Hulk, "how bout I use some of that marksman ship you showed me and just pitch you into the cave?"

"That's an X-Men cliche, this is the Avengers," says Hawkeye. "but I'm flattered you'd like to thrust me into..."
"There's a fine line between jokes and sexual harassment, Robin Hood," says She Hulk, righting the Avengers Sky Jet. "if this thing's in running condition, grab a seat on the back, we've got to catch up!"
"The BACK? Well, I...CaN i HOLD on?"
"No."

If you would like to read this story from the beginning... http://ceaseill.blogspot.com/2010/05/iron-man-heart-of-mountain-feat.html