Beckerman's Backyardigan's: Beeyatches Vs. The Horsemen of Apokolips

Beckerman’s Backyardigan’s: Beeyatches are Orion, The Arc Troopers, Strom Trooper #15, Darth Vader & R2-KT in an X-Wing, Red Hulk, Vulcan, Vehicle Voltron, Sentinal #1-12, Krypto, Doomsday, Star Wolf in an Arwing, Triggerhappy & Blowpipe, Slugslinger & Caliburst, Flywheels, Cyclonus & his Armada, War Skrull #6-10, Skrull #1-4, Brood #1-5, Dark Phoenix, & Arkillo.

The Horsemen of Apokolips are Darkseid, Supergirl, Superboy Prime, Sinestro, Star Scream, Sun Storm, Ramjet, Six Shot, Tripticon, Circuit Breaker, Grand Jedi Master Luke Skywalker & Astro-droid #11 in an X-Wing, Plo Koon in an Arwing, The Silverhawks: Blue Grass, Quicksilver & Tallyhawk, Steelheart & Stronghold, Steelwill & Rayzor, & The Copper Kid & Mayday, Gozar the Gozarian, Zuul, Vince Clortho, Parasite, Monarch, The One Above All, Exitar the Exterminator, Serci, Cable, Polaris, Havok, Phoenix, Elixir, The Sentry, Captain Marvel 2, Daken, Moonstone, Josh Houslander in an Exo-Suit, & Charleton Heston.


To avoid boring delay between these 2 A.L. powerhouses both teams are instantly teleported onto the same large asteroid located in the large belt between Mars and Jupiter. Both the Hanibal led Backyardigans and the Hanibal led Horsemen have similar plans of aggressive attack but they both require patience, so every member of the 2 teams that has flight capability immediately takes to the air, leaving what is left of the 2 teams to do battle on the asteroid. All 15 parts of Vehicle Voltron form together and prepare for battle causing the One Above All to take notice. Before this battle began, The One Above All was unsure as to whether or not he would even bother to partake in it due to the fact that he highly doubted that the opposing team would offer anything to be considered an actual threat to him or his Celestial counterpart Exitar. But after sensing the power that the Voltron of the Near Universe possessed he decided that this team may possess a fly worth swatting after all. The One Above All sends Exitar the Exterminator on a simple mission to destroy Voltron. Exitar, being bred and created to do one thing and one thing alone gladly flies toward Voltron at amazing speeds. The 2 huge combatants pound on one another ferociously while they both emit cosmic energy at each other from numerous parts of their armored bodies. Voltron fights well but in the end finds himself no match for Exitar who simply rips the once 15 part Voltron into about 150 parts. The One Above All then summons the Celestial attacker back to him until another being worthy of their attention presents themselves. The Arc Troopers take cover in the rocky terrain of the asteroid while Red Hulk stands out in the open with his army of 5 Broodlings 6 Dark Phoenixes and 5 Doomsdays behind him. The jet portion of Flywheels has taken off along with Triggerhappy & Blowpipe to form a Seeker group gladly leaving behind the tank portion of himself to fight alongside Blowpipe & Caliburst. While the Backyardigan Seekers patrol one third of the battle area the other areas are being watched by Cyclonus and his Armada to the left and Darth Vader being flanked by Star Wolf in their respective ships to their right. Luke Skywalker and his wing man Plo Koon fly by to do a strafing run on the assembling Backyardigan forces but the Arc Troopers are ready for them. As the 2 jets approach The Arc Trooper Captain gives the order for the troopers to cover their heavy weapons man while he uses his air to ground weaponry to target the 2 ships out of the sky. The well-trained Arc trooper locks on to both of the incoming ships and fires. Plo Koon’s lasers take out Storm Trooper #15 as well as Arcs #3 & 5 while Luke targets both Arc Lieutenants as well as Arc #1 & 2. The Arc Troopers know that although they are the best of the best that they are still expendable tools in the battle so they gladly put their lives on the line knowing that the heat-seeking weaponry fired at the 2 ships will not stop until it destroys them. Luke works some amazing evasive action to stay away from the rocket but it is still hot on his trail while Plo Koon on the other hand, though a skilled pilot is unable to get out of the missiles way in time as it clips the wing of the Arwing and sends him flying out of control into the side of the asteroid. If Luke Skywalker’s flying was any more graceful you would think that you were watching either Nick or Josh Houslander play Shadows of the Empire on N-64. The Jedi Master is more comfortable in the cockpit of an X-Wing than just about any person in the entire New Republic which is how the amazing pilot has still not been hit by the rocket behind him. Luke continuously evades the projectile using everything around as a possible obstacle to slow down the attack but he knows that he will eventually have to do something more drastic about it if he is going to stay alive. “What kind of missile is following us R6” Luke asks of his astro-droid R6-o3. Luke, during a brief bout with impatience thinks to himself “R-2 would have had it by now” but he quickly recovers as he sees a way out of his predicament. Luke comes flying at full speed toward the Backyardigan seeker group led by Triggerhappy. Luke uses his X-Wing’s proton torpedoes to target both Triggerhappy and Flywheels blowing them to bits as he flies right thru the Decepticon ranks. Slugslinger, who was just as oblivious as the rest of his comrades to the presence of the stealth Rogue Squadron leader wonders for a brief second why Luke did not blow him out of the sky as well instead of flying right past him; But just then the missile that was intended for Luke detonates on impact as it hits Slugslinger directly, blowing him apart. The 12 Sentinels fly back toward the asteroid to begin their attack when an X-woman below takes immediate notice of the situation. Polaris simply raises her 2 hands into the air in the direction of the 12 huge metal mutant hunters and the daughter of Magneto then crushes all 12 of them one by one with her mastery of magnetism. Darkseid who has thus far stayed far behind the asteroid levitating with Supergirl, Superboy, Sinestro, & The Sentry orders Superboy to fly down and simply throw his favorite collateral damage piece, Circuit Breaker into the mix. Superboy then flies down to the asteroid and launches Circuit Breaker on top of the tank portion of Flywheels. The Decepticon is instantly shorted out and left an empty fried shell as the dizzied Circuit Breaker rolls off of the tank and slowly comes to her feet. Blowpipe runs toward Circuit Breaker to attack her but once he gets close she simply touches Triggerhappy’s sidekick and kills him. Dark Phoenix then simply lifts her pinky and blasts Circuit Breaker with a firey blast of cosmic energy to finish off the poor pawn in Darkseid’s game. Starscream leads his seeker group blazing thru the skies when they see several targets approaching. Starscream orders Sunstorm and Ramjet to split up and head toward these oncoming opponents (more because Starscream is very uncomfortable flying in such a close proximity to the extremely unstable Sunstorm than for any true tactical purpose). But despite Starscream’s somewhat selfish reasoning the Decepticon does decide on what appears to be the most difficult opponent as he flies toward Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter at top speed. While Ramjet gets himself into a battle with Star Wolf. Sunstorm attempts to target Vulcan. Vulcan is flying around at amazing speeds due to his beyond Omega level mutant powers (which as any X-Men geek can tell you doesn’t really make any sense because Omega level means that their power has unlimited potential????? I can’t wait for a couple years from now when Marvel decides to completely jump the shark and introduce the lost 4th Summers brother whose powers are beyond-beyond Omega level or for them to introduce the lost Summers sister who is so powerful that they will have to establish a new tier of mutants whose powers are beyond, beyond-beyond Omega level…….. Who was probably raised by Corsair’s brother the lost Summers uncle who is the most powerful of all of the beyond, Beyond-beyond Omega level mutants (since by then their will be like 17 of the new tier mutants). But then they will, oh crap that’s right I have a match to write). Vulcan blasts the wing of Sunstorm with a huge burst of energy which blows off one whole side of the Decepticon. But the somewhat insane Sunstorm then transforms back into what is left of his robot form while he still barely functions. Sunstorm has only one arm and one leg but is still moving towards Vulcan with all of the momentum he had while in jet form. Sunstorm reaches out with his one remaining hand and grabs a hold of Vulcan. Vulcan struggles to get free and is almost loose when Sunstorm’s nuclear spark explodes killing both of them. Darth Vader and Starscream engage one another in a jet-powered battle that would probably make the 30 year old dudes working at Toys R’ Us literally crap their pants. Starscream seems to have the edge as he uses his ability to quickly transform back and forth from robot to jet form to his advantage but despite his great moves he is still unable to hit the Dark Lord of the Sith. Darth Vader has little to no love for the piece of rebel crap that he has been given to fly, but he knows that with him in the cockpit, even this mass-produced jalopy can do wonders. Vader tries spinning (cause that’s a good trick) and ends up behind the Decepticon warrior for merely a split second. But as anyone knows a split second is more than enough time for Lord Vader to blast anyone out of the sky, which is exactly what he does. Not far from that spot, Ramjet learns the hard way that the best way to win a dog-fight is to bring a wolf as Star Wolf in his Arwing targets the Conehead turned seeker and blasts him apart. Star Wolf is about to get on his com to let Lord Vader know that he is ready to rendezvous with him when he completely loses control of his Arwing’s controls. His ship starts slowly moving back toward the asteroid on a crash course when he runs a quick scan to see what is doing this. He quickly realizes that Polaris has got him in her magnetic grip and is about to simply crash his Arwing into the side of the space rock. Star Wolf, like any great pilot stays calm and gets behind his laser targeting sights. He locks in on Polaris’ general area which at this point is only a couple of hundred meters away and blasts her apart, releasing his ship from her mutant powers. Once released Star Wolf grabs a hold of his controls and has just barely enough time to pull up before crashing into the asteroid. The One Above All notices another combatant that he believes must be destroyed in order to prove the undeniable superiority of The Celestials. He begins to tell Exitar that his services will be once again required but he does not need to because Dark Phoenix and her minions are already on their way. It is painfully obvious which one of the 6 is the real Dark Phoenix because this incarnation of Jean Grey has no desire to trick her opponents into submission. War Skrulls do not typically obey the very person that they are imprinted to imitate but with Jean Grey’s phoenix enhanced telepathic powers, gaining mental control of them was not difficult. The skrull phoenixes instantly attack Exitar which begins a vicious cosmic battle while The real Dark Phoenix and The One Above All merely float before one another without moving. After a decent amount of time has passed The One Above All plainly say to Dark Phoenix “Your powers are impressive earth dweller, but you must know that I am The One Above All”. Dark Phoenix than smiles at the Celestial ruler and says “perhaps, but are you the One Above THIS”! As she says this Dark Phoenix unleashes the full power of the phoenix force engulfing the area with cosmic flame and wiping every molecule of the 8 combatants off of this plane of existence. Back on the asteroid Red Hulk leads his band of brutes against the Cable led rock bound members of the Horsemen. Krypto flies down toward Parasite but Parasite grabs a hold of his arch-enemy’s dog and absorbs the very life out of it before he brutally kills it Vick style. 4 of the 5 Broodlings attack Gozar and his crew. Gozar’s powers are more than a match for the 2 Broodlings that he takes on but once Broodlings #6 & 10 wrestle Zuul and Vince Clortho to the ground and come up with their powers fueling their parasitic bodies; Brood #6-8, & 10 are able to overcome the Gozarian. Orion flies down to do battle with the futuristic tyrant Monarch, while Cyclonus & his armada begin chasing the Maraj, being flown by Bluegrass. Red Hulk goes on a rampage reminiscent of his green counter-part as he attacks Moonstone ripping her in half. He than grabs a hold of the heads of Phoenix and Serci, and smashes them together; which results in an explosion of cosmic power that kills them both. Rulk than jumps ridiculously high into the orbit and punches me (the watcher not the character in the Exo-Suit) in the face…………………………….. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Sorry about that, I was unconscious for a couple of minutes. I am not sure what happened while I was Uhhmmm… sleeping but when I came to Daken was dead as well, presumably by the hands of Rulk? Cyclonus blasts Maraj out of existence with his Cybertronian lasers, but not before the Hillbilly pilot Bluegrass ejects the 4 Silverhawks and their weapon birds out of the ship and into the battle. Cyclonus’ blue Cybertronian space ship sidekick misses his targeted shots against the fast moving Quicksilver but hits Talleyhawk instead. The Armada then hits both Stronghold and Mayday head on with his nose killing those birds as well. Steelheart and Steelwill, being as tech-savvy as they are seem to know exactly where to attack the Transformer as they land on the smoothed back of Cyclonus’ Armada. Steelheart first blasts the bottom of what I guess is supposed to be the command tower of the ship that has no pilot and weakens it enough for the muscular Steelwill to get underneath it and rip out all of the vital parts, which sends the Sweep spinning off uncontrollably before he explodes. Cyclonus flies in and avenges his Sweep Armada by blasting the sibling combo of Steelheart & Steelwill, stopping their steel hearts from beating. Quicksilver and The Copper Kid both jump onto the back of Cyclonus. The quick-thinking, quick-acting, and quick-moving Quicksilver orders the last remaining Silverhawk other than himself, The Copper Kid to use his razor claws to rip open the back of the former Insecticon. Once open Quicksilver moves quicker than the eye can see to quickly blast apart Cyclonus and avenge the death of the friend he was always quick to love and quick to care for, Talleyhawk. After witnessing this pure show of quickness. I thought to myself that I wish a vintage 1999 version of Nick Houslander was here, because he would undoubtedly say that what he just witnessed was in fact: “Quick”! Charleton Heston and fellow NRA supporter Josh Houslander are engaged in a fast-paced (I promise I won’t say quick anymore) battle with Broodling #2 and Doomsday. Josh looks over to the gun-laden Heston and says “Dang Charlie you got more weaponry than I do, and I’m wearing an Exo-Suit”. Hestizzle moves out and Izzle with the fanged Broodling, who knocks him to the ground and then moves to jump on top of him. But Heston pulls out his space approved Flame-Thrower and blasts the Broodling off of him. Heston than gets to his feet and finishes off the Alien with about a dozen rounds of .44 Magnum from an AMT Hardballer. Heston than runs over to his homeboy Josh to help him out with Doomsday but Josh kicks over the gray skinned creature and then lights him up “Stallone Style” with his Cybertronian inspired weaponry. “Hells yeah! That’s how we do it in the hood, Right Chaz”! Josh screams to Charleton over the dead body of Doomsday. “Superman ain’t got nuthin on us” Heston replies in his best Ali voice. But as he is saying this Doomsday’s body shifts back to its original Skrull form. “Ahhhhh crap Chuck, I thought we actually killed the real Doomsday”. Josh says with disappointment as Arkillo flies in to fight them. A defiant Josh shakes his fist at Arkillo and says yellow sucks Yo! Kilowag would waste you”! As the yellow lantern crushes the 2 gun enthusiasts with a huge yellow hammer. Cable notices what just transpired with the Doomsday Skrull and realizes what is going on. The 4 remaining Doomsdays are running at Cable’s new forces when Cable telepathically informs Elixir of the situation. Elixir uses his powers to molecularly revert the Doomsdays back to their original Skrull form. This of course works on all but the true Doomsday who keeps running at them unaffected and crushes Elixir. Six Shot Flies in, in his jet form blasting Skrull #3 and then turns into his flying wolf form to rip apart the remaining 2. Doomsday continues his rampage, laying waste to Havok, whose blasts were just about useless on him, as well as Cable and Captain Marvel whom he crushed as if they were made of crumbling bread. This prompts Darkseid and his minions to begin to work their way to the battle to lend their hands in this heavyweight bout. Orion after a brutal fight with Monarch finally finishes him off. Orion took an amazing amount of damage from Monarch but it is nothing that his healing factor can’t handle. This Apoklopitian’s victory over a member of The Horsemen of Apokolips, prompts Darkseid to turn to Supergirl and say “Supergirl, I feel that we have established quite a connection over the last 2 seasons. In fact I would in many ways consider you to be like my daughter. Which is exactly why I want you, to go kill my son”. With that comment Supergirl does not say a word but simply flies at Orion at amazing speeds and begins pounding on him. Six Shot transforms into his Cybertronian Tank form and blows away Broodling #3 but then transforms back into his robot form to fight with the incoming Arkillo. The Decepticon assassin stands ready for whatever Arkillo throws at him but it is not enough as Arkillo blasts a hole right thru the spark of Six Shot with his yellow energy ring. Arkillo at this point sees how easy it is to destroy a Transformer and decides that he is going to take out the lumbering Tripticon. Arkillo flies at the massive Decepticon/Dinosaur/City but he finds that with this one he may have bitten off a little bit more than even his huge gross mouth can chew. Arkillo’s yellow energy blast puts quite a dent in Tripticon’s shoulder but Tripticon opens his mouth and blasts Arkillo with a huge laser bolt that stuns him, and send him floating backwards. Tripticon then grabs the yellow lantern out of the air with his massive hand and begins to squeeze. The powerful and yellow energy protected Arkillo comes to, just in time to feel his body crushed into mush. Darkseid and Sinestro fly in to the battle to assist the Krypto enhanced Parasite and Superboy in their fight against Doomsday. The 4 of them surround the mammoth gray beast and take turns taking pot shots at him without getting to close to the powerful creature. The Sentry flies in to help but Darkseid orders him to take on Rulk instead. Star Wolf comes flying in to do a strafing run on the Horsemen but Luke Skywalker comes in from behind and targets him out of space with his last proton torpedo. This prompts Luke and Vader to begin an epic father and son X-Wing battle in the space far above the asteroid (or it could be below, they tell me that there isn’t really any up or down in space). The Arc Trooper Capt. leads Caliburst and the 3 remaining broodlings in a last ditch effort against the massive Tripticon. The Arc Trooper comes up with a fairly good plan of attack and manages to get in some great shots with his twin pistols but it is simply not enough. Tripticon moves toward the Brood first, as he systematically stomps the remaining 3 Broodlings. The Arc Trooper Heavy Weapons Expert (who is now out of rockets from his attack on the Jedi in their Starships) catches a transformed Caliburst and attempts to blast Tripticon with it but even when he hits his mark, it does very little damage to the monstrous & menacing Decepticon. With a single laser blast Tripticon finishes off the Arc Trooper Capt., his weapons expert, Arc Trooper #4, and Caliburst. Orion takes quite a beating from Supergirl but he manages to keep fighting thru it. “O.K., now it’s my turn” Orion says to Supergirl as he comes at her with a feeling a rejuvenation. The son of Apokolips then takes the upper hand in the battle but it is far from over. Doomsday lunges at Parasite, who tries to block Doomsday’s blow with his arms. He gets the block up in time but the enraged Doomsday rips Parasite’s arms right off of him and then uses them to bludgeon Parasite to death. Darkseid yells to his team “let’s finish this”, which prompts Superboy to blast Doomsday with as much Heat vision as he has ever conjured out of himself, and for Sinestro to do the same with his Yellow energy powered ring. Darkseid then aims his Omega Beams at Doomsday which target him even as he jumps out of the way. Darkseid’s Omega Beams manage to morph with the power of Superboy and Sinestro to cause enough power to finally put Doomsday out of commission but not before Doomsday lands his powerful body on top of Darkseid, killing him as well. Red Hulk is quite bothered by The Sentry’s want to stay flying above him where he believes that he has the upper hand, so Rulk jumps in to the space sky and pulls The Sentry down to the rock bed below. The Sentry struggles to fight back against Rulk but eventually the “heated up” Hulkster brings his fists down hard on The Sentry with enough force to break his neck. The Red Hulk is severely heated up, but not to much to continue fighting. So he runs over to where Doomsday’s dead body lay on the ground to see if he can do what Doomsday could not. Rulk runs at both Superboy Prime and Sinestro but Rulk finds that he does not quite have it left in him to take them on. Sinestro knocks Rulk back with a fierce burst of yellow energy which leaves him more than just stunned. Superboy than takes this moment of opportunity to fly in and lay waste to The Red Hulk with a flurry of building leveling punches. Supergirl is knocked to the ground by Orion who begins to draw some energy from his Astro-Harness when Supergirl kicks him in the face to knock him off guard. Supergirl than pops up and gives Orion and brutal uppercut to the chin. Supergirl than rips a large piece of space rock out from the ground under them and throws it on top of Orion before he even hits the ground. Supergirl, in a blink of an eye than flies a few miles and than comes rocketing back down on the spot where Orion lay. Pushing them both thru the asteroid where the battle was taking place and destroying both the Astro-Harness and the New god who was wearing it. As much as it is difficult for either of them to admit it, the 2 Skywalkers are locked in what seems to be an endless draw. It is not until Supergirl, Superboy, Sinestro, Tripticon, and the few remaining Silverhawks (Superboy & Supergirl are carrying Tripticon) begin to fly over to their vicinity of the battle and take pot shots at Vader is Luke able to gain the upper hand in the battle and clip one of Vader’s 4 wings. Vader begins to recover from the space tumble but Luke takes instant advantage of his father and laser blasts him out of the sky.
THE HORSEMEN OF APOKOLIPS ARE VICTORIOUS!