Monday, March 22, 2010

The Horsemen of Apokolips Vs. The Right Wing

The Horsemen of Apokolips are Hal Jordan Parallax, Destroyer, Annihilus, Exitar the Exterminator, Juggernaut, Dakken, Luke Skywalker Grand Jedi Master, Ce Ce Denowi, Aron the Rogue Watcher, & Havok.

The Right Wing is Superwoman, The Volturi: Aro, Marcus, & Caius, Jool Nooret, Victoria (with a red lightsaber), Red Sonja, Silver Surfer, The Incredible Hulk w/ The Pantheon: Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, Andromeda, Atalanta,Cassiopiea, Delphi, Hector, Jason, Paris, Prometheus, Perseus, Ulysses I, & Ulysses II, Blue Lantern #2, Lyra the She-Hulk, Droid Fighter Ship #1 & 2, & Ninja #1.


Possibly the most anticipated interleague match of the year, will begin with The Right Wing’s Head Coach Mike Huckabee addressing his team. Governor Huckabee says: “I realize that we are about to go up against the 2 and 0 Universe Bowl Champion Horsemen of Apokolips. Possibly the most feared team in all of Fantasy Fantasy. A team that has never lost an interleague match, and hasn’t lost a match at all since way back last season some time. But I am here to tell you, that I’ve been an underdog before. When I took on the Clinton machine down in Arkansas, no one thought it could be done, but I did it. I became governor with nowhere near as much money or backing as my opponents. When I ran for president in 2008 they claimed that I had no chance of victory” “And victory is exactly what you did not achieve” Agamemnon says to rudely interrupt their head coach. The Huckster keeps going with: “That may be so Agamemnon, I didn’t win the presidency, but they said I would never make it out of Iowa, many thought I wouldn’t even be able to afford to continue making it to the debates; but I continued on and took my candidacy all the way to the convention. Now I think we can win this fight. I think we have it in us, but if taking it all the way to the convention is the best we can do, than all I ask is that you all give it your best until the very end; and if it doesn’t look like victory is even a possibility, then just keep on trying as if nothing has changed from this very minute. Now, lets go out there and try and bring apocalypse to the Horsemen”. The Right Wing splits into 2 factions, one led by Agamemnon and one by Aro. They know that although the Horsemen have some major power, that will be extremely difficult to contend with, that they have them outnumbered, and that if they can surround the Horsemen in the center of Coruscant that they may have a chance. Luke Skywalker takes command of The Horsemen, even though many of their squad are not exactly people that take orders or follow a plan laid out by someone else (individuals with limitless cosmic power, don’t typically care for meetings or team plans). But the “fighters” on the Horsemen do form up behind Season 2’s #1 overall pick. As Agamemnon and his squad rush up the left flank Luke and the boys are more than ready for them. The beautiful Ce Ce Denowi ducks under a sword attack from Red Sonja and then removes her of her head, while The Incredible Hulk jumps into the air and takes a page out of his red counter-part’s playbook when he punches Aron in the face. Aron the Rogue Watcher is phased by this attack but not so much that it affects him to negatively. Aron uses his cosmic power to knock the Hulk down, but what Aron obviously does not realize is that what he is doing is merely making the Hulk angry, and as we all know, the angrier Hulk get, the stronger Hulk get. With this being said The Hulk jumps up to punch Aron in the face once again, but this time Aron hits the Coruscant ground very hard. Aron attempts to defend himself, but Hulk manages to get on top of The Watcher and pound him into a cosmic pulp. Havok blasts Ninja #1 to bits before he can do anything to ninja-ey, but he is then met by the Hulk’s old buddies The Pantheon and his daughter Lyra. Havok takes out Cassiopiea & Atalanta, but his attention is averted by Achilles and Hector while his face is inverted by Lyra and her fist. Dakken pops out his claws and begins moving his way into the fight, but he is soon met by Jool Nooret. The 2 of them match up fairly well and move against one another with much grace. Dakken goes in for the kill against Nooret, but the son of the best at what he does is no match for the greatest Ginaz Swordsmen in history. Nooret is just to fast for Dakken, and although it takes several stabs from Jool’s knives for Nooret to realize that this mutant is not going to die until his head is separated from his body, it is that that Jool Nooret does next as he uses his Ginaz sword to slice thru the neck of Dakken. If Dave Attell was writing this match it would go something like this: Hal Jordan Parallax………… Let’s talk about him. Possibly the most controversial character ever drafted in FFL history, Hal Jordan Parallax, for the record was a Commissioner approved pick. The jokes and criticisms of this character have yet to cease or slow down, and there are many who will never be convinced that this is not total bullcrap (although it is far from unprecedented that a character have more than one incarnation of him/herself in this league i.e. Anakin Skywalker, Superboy, Gandalf, etc….). Hal Jordan Parallax is after all an extremely powerful character, who would be a value to any team, much like Superman, or in this case the Mr. Mxyzlpltk created female counterpart of Superman: Superwoman who blasts thru Hal Jordan Parallax completely ripping him apart. Silver Surfer is being flanked by Blue Lantern #2, who is not at her full power without a Green Lantern around, but does have more than just her base abilities due to the fact that she was within a decent proximity of Hal Jordan and his green lantern rings, even if they were being corrupted by the Parallax power. Although, it is the Blue Lantern’s powers of hope that tip the scales for Silver Surfer and make his victory over Annihilus much easier that it should have been. Annihilus’ want for destruction was tamed by the hope of the Blue Ring. Annihilus was then driven by his basic need to destroy this hope, which he did by ripping thru the protective aura of The Blue Lantern with his Cosmic Control Rod to kill the Lantern, but then the Surfer was able to simply use the power cosmic to destroy Annihilus after he had used up so much energy in his battle against The Blue Lantern. Destroyer’s body is just barely moving without a host, but that is shortly fixed after he takes control of Paris from The Pantheon. Once the armor is on Paris (who is nowhere near strong-willed enough to control it). Then Destroyer is at his full capacity to inflict damage; which he does to both Delphi and Jason whom he easily takes out. Aro touches the dying body of Annihilus in order to gain access to every thought he has ever had. With this knowledge Aro can share The Horsemen’s game plan with his fellow Volturi, as well as the rest of his team. But Exitar the Exterminator has no desire to allow such a travesty to happen to his team. Exitar flies down from high above the Coruscant skyline and takes out both Droid Fighter Ships with his massive hands. The warrior Celestial then comes down and eliminates the threat of the Volturi and their powers when he destroys all 3 members. Ce Ce Denowi takes out Perseus, Andromeda, & the wise leader of The Pantheon Agamemnon with her lightsaber, before she is met by the Silver Surfer and taken out by the power cosmic, which she is unable to block with her force powers, even when aided by her lightsaber. Silver Surfer is done with his strafing run, when he meets up with Superwoman, high above the Republic Senate building. As the only 2 remaining flyers on the team, they briefly discuss what must be done, before they begin their attack on Exitar. Meanwhile down below Luke Skywalker is met by a small army led by Victoria, who has just ignited her red lightsaber. Victoria moves against the Grand Jedi Master along with Jool Nooret, both Ulysses, Achilles, and Lyra. Luke easily bests Victoria with his mastery of lightsaber techniques as he stabs her in the chest and then removes Jool Nooret of his head before he can make one of his amazingly quick moves. Ulysses I and Ulysses II both manage to parry Luke’s lightsaber with there own energy swords, but the lightning fast, force-fueled speed of Master Skywalker’s is just to fast for them to counteract. It isn’t until Achilles jumps in front of Luke to basically sacrifice himself that Ajax and Lyra can corner The Grand Jedi Master to overwhelm him with sheer brute force. Even then their victory over Luke is so short lived as the spice-addicted Juggernaut comes in with his own display of brute force and runs right over Ajax and Lyra, killing both of them where they stand. Destroyer and Juggernaut easily wipe out the last 2 members of Hulk’s Pantheon crew Hector and Prometheus on their way to double-team the green goliath, while miles away in the air, Superwoman and Silver Surfer zip around the massive frame of Exitar. Exitar receives a massive punch from the daughter of Jor-El, that could have leveled an entire city, but he then grabs a hold of the last daughter of Krypton and begins to squeeze. Superwoman attempts to break free of Exitar’s grip but shockingly enough cannot do it. She uses the last bit of her strength to look up and focus as much Heat Vision as she can muster at the neck of Exitar before he squeezes the life out of the female version of Superman. Silver Surfer sees what his new teammate has done, and focuses his own cosmic blasts in the exact same spot as he flies in at his top speed. While Superwoman’s lifeless body falls to the Metropolitan ground below, Silver Surfer at the last second before impact stops his heavy stream of cosmic energy and jumps off of his board, grabbing it with his hands and then swinging it with all of his might into the weakened spot of Exitar’s neck to knock the Celestial’s head off of his body. The dizzied surfer is caught by his mentally controlled surfboard even though he is having trouble even knowing which way is up after the brutal collision with the Celestial of Death; but he knows that when he last looked his sole remaining teammate the Hulk was being double-teamed by 2 heavyweights. The Silver Surfer does his best to pull himself together and then races back to the original battle site at light speed. When he arrives, he is shocked at what he sees. And who wouldn’t be at the sight of Hulk pounding on the already dead bodies of Destroyer and Juggernaut while he shouts: HULK SMASH HORSEMEN!! In a more earthly than normal fashion Silver Surfer replies with “you’re damn right we did”
THE RIGHT WING IS VICTORIOUS!

2 comments:

Josh the Commish said...

The Red Lightsaber was given to Aro of The Vultari. Cost is plus 3 on his own. No extra cost if played with the whole group.

Ryan said...

Hmm.


Good match Shannon. Congrats on the win.