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Solar Opposites in: Ultra Opposites Episode #15: “New Ultra Opposites Pt. 2” (by @avaveevo)
When we last saw our heroes, they escape the wrath from a furious Romelle. Now, the heroes landed on a foggy Rocky Mountain as they catch their breath
Jamie/Firey: What were you thinking? I mean, stealing the orb?!
Darcy/Miss Darcina: Yeah Chloe. We were supposed to earn Romelle’s trust, not steal from her!
Princess Chloe sighs.
Princess Chloe: sigh Look I am sorry. I didn’t have a choice okay?
Solar Flare starts flaring up.
Terry/Solar Flare: Are you nuts? What you did back there was out of line! I had no idea you would go this low!
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Honey, calm down.
Princess Chloe: Well, I am doing the best I can, Solar Flare! Ugh! Sometimes I wonder why you’re all heroes in the first place! You’re all too useless and think about yourselves! How lazy can you all be anyway?!
Solar Flare snaps.
Terry/Solar Flare: Hey don’t talk about my family and my friends like that! Judging from the way you are acting, you’re the only princess who doesn’t trust us heroes!
Princess Chloe’s anger flares up.
Princess Chloe: WELL MAYBE WE WOULD’VE BEEN BETTER OFF WITHOUT FUCK UP HEROES LIKE YOU!
Solar Flare gasps and starts to tear up. The rest of the Ultra Opposites are shock, saddened, disgusted and furious over what Chloe said. Princess Chloe is shocked at what she said
Princess Chloe: Terry… I-
Solar Flare: I just can't be here right now...
Princess Chloe: But Terry, let me explain-
Solar Flare: JUST LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!
Solar Flare then turns into his Mundane form and punches Princess Chloe to the floor as he runs off in tears without a word. Ms. Perez and the rest of the Ultra Opposites look at Chloe in disgust.
Korvo/The Legendary Super Shlorpian: What the fuck is the matter with you?!
Cherie/Agent Red: You heartless royal fuck! How could you?!
Nova/Lady Roseus: How could you say that about our friend?! And to us?!
Princess Chloe: Wait a minute! I can explain-
Yumyulack/Psylock: What is with you, your highness, don't take your anger out on us, we all stuck together because our newfound friendship and relationships really mattered, but I guess I was wrong...
Darcy/Miss Darcina: Yeah, look Chloe, you're a cool Princess and all... But that wasn't cool, your highness. That was totally out of line. You... You've become a cold person! All head and no heart!
Princess Chloe snaps.
Princess Chloe: Ugh! Look, just-
Ms. Perez slaps Chloe in the face as Chloe screams, much to the other Ultra Opposites’ surprise and Mia’s smitten.
Mia: smitten whistle
Legendary Super Shlorpian slaps Princess Chloe in the face
Princess Chloe: Ow! What was that for?
Ms. Perez: For hurting my friend's feelings.
Princess Chloe: But they-
Ms. Perez: I don't wanna hear it, okay?! What is your problem, Princess?! You had no right to yell at Terry and the others like that! And you had no right to treat us like that too! You’ve changed! All you care about is yourself! And you know what? Terry’s right! You're not the same princess everyone know anymore, and Terry’s feelings are probably hurt now! So what are you now? her face turns into a sad look ...Certainly not the princess everyone knew and loved. But if you feel like you're better without heroes and friends, you can be alone all you want now…
Princess Chloe gasp in remorse.
Princess Chloe: Ultra Opposites, wait! Give me another chance! I-
Kevin/The Flamethrower: I think you've said enough already.
Yumyulack/Psylock: Yeah! Yeah princess, it's too late, the damage has already been done…
Everyone leaves. Electra gives the princess a cold look. Princess Chloe sighs. Later, Ms. Perez sighs as she looks up at the sky while Mia watches her.
Ms. Perez: takes a deep breath I just need to clear my head….
Mia: Ms. Perez?
Cue Song:
[MS. PEREZ, spoken]
I just need to clear my head and start... fresh. (sigh)
[MS. PEREZ]
Gotta be unique but gotta blend in
Hide my inner geek and keep pretendin'
Gotta keep ’em laughin'
Though I'm only half in
Gotta put a show on ’til I know they like me
Gotta be aloof, make a good impression
Gotta hide the proof of my self expression
Never be revealing
Gotta be appealing
Suddenly I'm feeling
Like I'm getting so
[IMAGINARY MONSTER]
Small
[MS. PEREZ]
Breaking into little pieces
Losing power
[IMAGINARY MONSTER]
Getting weaker
[MS. PEREZ]
Gotta do whatever plеases
'Til they let mе in
So we try to be more than enough
Trying to be strong and tough
Try to be something we're not
Try to fit a different plot
Proving we're bold
Without causing a fuss
We're trying so hard to be us
Will it ever be enough?
Gotta be unique but gotta blend in
Hide my inner geek and keep pretendin'
Gotta keep ’em laughin’
Though I'm only half in
Gotta put a show on ’til I know they like me (like me)
[IMAGINARY MONSTER, UNDER Chorus]
Breaking into little pieces
Trying to be strong and tough
[BOTH]
Like me, l-like me, but I know there's nobody like me
[MS. PEREZ]
Doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doo
So we try to be more than enough
[MS. PEREZ]
Trying to be strong and tough
[IMAGINARY MONSTER]
Try to be something we're not
[MS. PEREZ]
Try to fit a different plot
Proving we're bold without causing a fuss
[IMAGINARY MONSTER]
We’re trying too hard to be us
[MS. PEREZ]
We're already more than enough
[BOTH]
In a world where no one wears disguises
We would all be free
But being divided is what was decided
So that's how it has to be
*Suddenly Ms. Perez starts glowing as she starts to float up and looks at the city*
But if we try to uncover what's real
[MS. PEREZ
I'm already strong and tough
[BOTH]
Put down our armor and shield
[MS. PEREZ]
Gonna fit the plot I've got
[BOTH]
And just remember, you're never alone
If the back that you've got is your own
[MS. PEREZ]
Gotta be unique but gotta blend in (trying too hard to be us)
Hide my inner geek and keep pretendin'
Gotta keep 'em laughin'(trying too hard to be us)
Though I'm only half in
Gotta put a show on 'til I know they like me
*Then in a shocking moment, Ms. Perez’s clothes turns into her own Ultra Opposites form.*
No more trying too hard to be me
*Mia blushes lovingly*
'Cause that's one thing it's easy to be
Take the trying away and be free
'Cause it's their turn to try to see me
After she finishes singing, Ms. Perez, or whoever is she is now, looks around her outfit in surprise and shock while Mia comes up to her.
Mia: Woah. You look...beautiful...
Ms. Perez blushes then the other Ultra Opposites came in while looking for Solar Flare.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Ladies! We need to find Solar…. Huh?
Miss Frankie/Shadow Lady: No way…
Ms. Perez laughs and does a twirl.
Jesse/Electra: Ms. Perez?
Korvo/The Legendary Super Shlorpian: What happened to you?!
Ms. Perez: Ms. Perez is gone. I'm Shout Out now!
Ms. Perez does her own superhero form as the other adults gasp in joy and then embrace her. Agent Red, Legendary Super Shlorpian, Master and Lady Roseus watch as they smile.
Jesse/Electra: Holy shit! One of our best teachers in the world is now one of us?! This is so cool!
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: Thanks
Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpian: We can celebrate later. Right now we have to find Terry!
Lady Super Shlorpian uses her super sense and hears Mundane Solar Flare sobbing.
Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpian: Oh dear… I found him… and he is so heartbroken…
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: Oh no… poor Terry…
Jesse/Electra: Oh no...
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Oh my poor Terry… I can’t believe Chloe said something horrible like that… I would never want to say that to you guys…
Rest Of the Ultra Opposites: touched by the bottom of their hearts Aaaawww.
Nova/Lady Roseus: Come on. Let’s go comfort him…
The rest of the Ultra Opposites finds Mundane Solar Flare lying down, curled up while sobbing in his arms as they go up to him in concern and sadness.
Super Shlorpian Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Terry?
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: Go away.
Super Shlorpian Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Oh Terry.
Mundane Solar Flare looks at his friends and family in sadness as he continues sobbing.
Sherbet/Violet: Are you okay?
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: I’m sorry guys… Chloe is right… it’s all my fault…
Super Shlorpian Legendary Super Shlorpian gasps.
Cherie/Agent Red: Oh Terry.
Principal Cooke/Super Cooke: No…
Kevin/The Flamethrower: Don’t blame yourself…
Jesse/Electra: Yeah. You were just trying to help…
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: But I'm a fuck-up.
Montez/The Master: Of course not.
Yumyulack/Psylock: That’s bullshit!
Nova/Lady Roseus: Yeah.
Super Shlorpian Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: You're not a fuck-up.
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: Yeah. You're just trying too hard to be you.
Mundane Solar Flare looks at his husband weeping while Super Shlorpian Legendary Super Shlorpian holds him and brings him close to him.
Super Shlorpian Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Shh. It’s okay my darling. We’re all here for you. Shh.
Mundane Solar Flare stops sobbing and hugs his husband while sighing lovingly.
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: You know, you're very warm, Korvy.
Miss Frankie/Shadow Lady: We’re sorry Chloe said that about us. But you are not a fuck up
Principal Cooke/Super Cooke: Yeah! You were the one who creates the Ultra Opposites and brought us together! I mean look at the past stuff you have done when you became Solar Flare!
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: Like what?!
Montez/The Master: You saved me from Ophelia and brought peace to the Wall that freed us!
Mundane Solar Flare thinks about when he first became Solar Flare.
Yumyulack/Psylock: You stood up to that evil empress when Jesse and I were in danger with brave courage
Miss Frankie/Shadow Lady: You helped show me the light!
Nova/Lady Roseus: You even stood up to pirate when Jesse was in danger!
Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpian: You even risk your life to save Korvo form Brian out of the love for him in your heart!
Daryl/Dark Matter: You were our inspiration Terry.
Mundane Solar Flare smiles.
Jaime/Firey: We believe in you dude.
Super Shlorpian Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: And Terry, we will never leave you. Ever. Because, we will always love you
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: cries with happiness Come here, Korvy!
The two superhero monster alien husbands kiss while the others hug him. Then, Mundane Solar Flare notice Shout Out
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: Ms. Perez?
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: Hey Terry.
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: You’re an Ultra Opposites now?
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: giggles Yep. What do you think?
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: You look great!
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: Thanks.
Then, the gang looks up at the sky in determination.
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: You guys, I don’t know about you but we got a town to save!
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: Let's kick some ass.
Miss Frankie/Shadow Lady: Fuck yeah! Mia, come with us! This is your chance
Mia: Really? You mean it?
Jesse/Electra: Of course!
Janice/Master Smasher: H’no I think you do great y’know!
Mia smiles tearfully.
Mia: hugs Mundane Solar Flare Thank you…
Mundane Solar Flare smiles and hugs back.
Super Shlorpian Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Come on Ultra Opposites! Let’s go save our town!
And with that, the heroes take off to save the day while Super Shlorpian Legendary Super Shlorpian helps carry Mia. Back with Princess Chloe, she is sobbing over what she has done and said, as well as being mean to the Ultra Opposites.
Princess Chloe: tearfully What have I done? I ruined everything! There’s no chance to save the planets now… it’s all my fault…
Suddenly, Ophelia appears
Ophelia: Got ya!
Princess Chloe screams. Ophelia grabs the princess and traps her in the cage.
Ophelia: You’re mine now.
Princess Chloe: No no…
Back with the Ultra Opposites, Psylock looks at Lady Super Shlorpian.
Yumyulack/Psylock: Hey Aunt Janiz?
Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpian: Yes?
Yumyulack/Psylock: Since when did you receive your own suit?
Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpian: I honestly don’t know but…it feels nice to be able to have one.
Flashback shows Janiz looking out the window as she sees Terry leave to rescue Korvo. Suddenly, an icy pink orb piece makes its way as it merges with Janiz who wasn’t looking. As Janiz feels the sensation, she suddenly develop ice pink breath as she gasp. She then grows determined and leaves while the others follow her. The flashback ends as Janiz smiles.
Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpian: But I felt like something woke in me, like another orb piece
Lady Super Shlorpian wipes away a tears. Suddenly, a reference to the first Incredibles movie, Cherie gets a phone call from Pezlie’s babysitter.
Cherie/Agent Red: Hello?
Baby sister: voicemail Hi this is Amy. I want you to know that you baby is in good hands, she has special needs. I’m so glad you in that replacement and…
Cherie/Agent Red: Replacement?! I didn’t call for a replacement!
Sherbet/Violet: What’s wrong, Agent Red?
Cherie/Agent Red: It’s Pezile’s babysitter.
Montez/The Master: What did she say?
Cherie/Agent Red: Something about a replacement.
Agent Red then gasp. Later, the Ultra Opposites raced to Cherie’s house where they gasp upon seeing Pezlie held captive by Ophelia and Robo Korvo.
Cherie/Agent Red: Pezlie! No!
Solar Flare notices Robo Korvo.
Ophelia: Shh. The baby’s sleeping…
Terry/Solar Flare: Oh my god! You made an evil robotic version of my husband?! That’s fucking sick! Nobody messes with the Shlorpian I loved and married!
Legendary Super Shlorpian blushes.
Cherie/Agent Red: Give me back my daughter you bitch!
Ophelia: Make me.
Suddenly, Pezlie wakes up and starting crying as tears fall down her eyes, and suddenly, Ophelia’s skin burns as she screams and lets go of Pezlie. Lady Super Shlorpian then turns into her Super Shlorpian form and grabs Pezlie.
Super Shlorpian Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpian: Got ya!
Pezlie giggles but suddenly starts glowing tickle me pink as she coos. Then, after the glow fades, Pezlie received her own super suit as Agent Red catches her.
Cherie/Agent Red: Pezlie?
Pezlie/???: giggles Mama! Mama!
Terry/Solar Flare: Oh my God! She’s adorable!
Jesse/Electra: D’aw, an Ultra Opposites baby….
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: What should her superhero name be?
Cherie/Agent Red: How about La Oscuridad? Because, of her painful tears that burns people’s skin off?
Pezlie, now La Oscuridad, does her cute superhero baby pose as she giggles. Then, Ophelia wakes up and growls.
Jesse/Electra: That could work!
Ophelia: It’s too late Opposites! I have Princess Chloe locked up! Fight me and I will release her!
Terry/Solar Flare: Oh we fucking will!
As Ophelia and Robo Korvo flies off, the heroes nod at each other as they make a resolve.
Terry/Solar Flare: You know what? Sure Chloe made mistakes, but we should still forgive her!
Montez/The Master: I agree!
Principal Cooke/Super Cooke: I agree. Like Korvo said, heroes always make mistakes and get on each other’s nerves. But they always make up
Legendary Super Shlorpian smiles.
Darcy/Miss Darcina: Good point! It would be hard for a hero to give up anyway.
Miss Frankie/Shadow Lady: No one serves to be left out in the cold cruel world. Chloe may have hurted us, but we should still forgive her. Let’s go save her guys!
Jesse/Electra: Yay!
Rest of the Ultra Opposites: Alright! Let’s do this! Let’s go do the right thing! Let’s kick some fucking ass! We go this! Woo-hoo! We can do this guys! Yay!
Terry/Solar Flare: You did good, Korv.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Thanks dear. Now let’s go save the world!
We then cut to Ophelia’s fortress.
Ophelia: It’s too late Princess… I once had friendship… but I was turned away after I realized I was unfit to rule… let’s face it.. you abandoned them… you’re just like me… a princess… all alone… no power.. face it princess… friendship has failed you…
Princess Chloe: Why are you doing this?
Ophelia: For revenge. As here to the throne, I wouldn’t stand a chance. I knew I preferable of course but sadly that went to Sabine. Then I heard about the cosmic and decide to take it. But, then the four aliens beat me to it.
Cue the song Open Up Your Eyes:
[Ophelia]
It's time you learned a lesson
It's time that you understand
Don't ever count on anybody else In this or any other land
I once hoped for friendship
To find a place among my kind
But those were the childish wishes
Of someone who was blind
Open up your eyes!
See the world from where I stand!
Me, among the mighty...
You caged at my command...
Open up your eyes!
Give up your sweet fantasy land!
It's time to grow up and get wise
Come, now, little one
Open up your eyes
We all start out the same
With simple naïve trust
Shielded from the many ways
That life's not fair or just
But then there comes a moment
A simple truth that you must face
If you depend on others
You'll never find your place
And as you take that first step
Upon a path that's all your own
You see it all so clearly
The best way to survive is all alone
Open up your eyes!
See the world from where I stand!
Me, among the mighty...
You caged at my command...
Open up your eyes!
And behold the faded lights!
It's time to grow up and get wise
Come, now, little one Open up your eyes!
Open up your eyes!
The song ends as Princess Chloe finally realize how horrible she has treated the Ultra Opposites.
Ophelia: It’s too late now… no heroes to help you… no queen to save you… face it princess… these heroes have failed you…
Terry/Solar Flare: Hold it right there!
Princess Chloe and Ophelia gasp upon seeing the Ultra Opposites and Mia.
Princess Chloe: Ultra Opposites!
Ophelia: And Perez?!
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: It’s Shout Out!
Ophelia: Oh, whatever! Robo Korvo, demolish them!
Robo Korvo nods and get into a fighting stance. The heroes nod at each other as they get ready to fight.
Terry/Solar Flare: eyes glow orange Let’s go!
Ophelia: What the?!
Solar Flare’s skin turns black as he grows muscular. He then grows bigger as his suits and boots rip apart into pieces. Finally, Solar Flare finishes turning into his Mundane form as he roars. Legendary Super Shlorpian blushes and grows horny because of Mundane Solar Flare.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Damn honey. You have so turned on right now…
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: Wow! I had no idea Terry can do that!
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: Aw, thanks babe.
Yumyulack/Psylock: What the fuck are we waiting here for?! Let’s go kick some ass! Guys, roll out!
All: Yeah!
The heroes then get into a big fight with Ophelia. Lady Roseus uses her gift powers that made confetti. Then, Miss Darcina pummels the guards with her strength while Super Shlorpian Lady Super Shlorpian uses her ice powers to slow the guards down
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Good job, sis!
Super Shlorpian Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpian: Thanks bro! Agent Red, La Oscuridad, Flamethrower, Violet and Master! Now!
Cherie/Agent Red: You got it!
Agent Red uses her martial arts, that kicks the guards towards La Oscuridad who cries out her painful tears, then Flamethrower blows fire on the guards’ ass, Violet changes colors to confused the guards and kicks them to Master, who uses his psychotic powers to blast tjem away. Agent Red hugs La Oscuridad in joy!
Cherie/Agent Red: D’aw, Pezlie’s first bad guy!
Pezlie/La Oscuridad: giggling
Ophelia: Stop fucking sucking up to that kid!
Shadow Lady throws her weaponry at the guard as they duck but then got blast by the brai waves caused by Psylock and Dark Matter and then they kiss. The guards then got shoot by Super Cooke’s laser eyes. Firey uses his fire powers to burn the floor which made the guards fell as they get by Electra’s electric wrecking ball.
Jesse/Electra: You just got Electra’d!
Ultra Man and Master Smasher then combine their strength powers and throws a beak at the guards. Master Smasher gives Ultra Man a kiss on the cheek as he blushes. The guards then look up and see Shout Out standing near them.
Guard: Uh, what can she do?
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: This!
Shout Out uses her screaming powers that blast the guards away. But, Robo Korvo is still standing.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Bring it on you knock off!
Robo Korvo: Must eliminate.
Legendary Super Shlorpian turns into his Super Shlorpian form as he starts to fight with Robo Korvo. Mia then sees the keys and sneaks past Ophelia as she secretly grabs the keys and unlocks the cage Princess Chloe is in.
Mia: Hold on.
Princess Chloe: Thank you.
Suddenly, Ophelia shoots a ball at Mia, but Mia uses her new powers and shoots a beam that destroys Ophelia’s fireball.
Ophelia: Damn it!
Suddenly, Mia starts glowing neon green as it consumes her, as the light fades, a mysterious new hero appears.
Mia/???: Look out Ophelia! You just met… Shine Light!
Shout Out blushes. Mia, now an Ultra Opposites named Shine Light does her own pose as she smiles in joy.
Cherie/Agent Red: No way? Mia?! Is that you?!
Nova/Lady Roseus: You look amazing!
Mia/Shine Light: Thanks. So, Shout Out, what do ya think?
Ms. Perez/Shout Out: Wow, I think you’re amazing just the way you are. That’s why the neon green orb piece chose you because of your kindness towards others.
Shine Light giggles. Then the rest of the Ultra Opposites notices Legendary Super Shlorpian struggling to defeat Robo Korvo.
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: Shit! Korvo needs our help!
Mia/Shout Out: Say no more! Let’s help him guys! But first, Solar Flare, go help your husband before you give us the signal!
Mundane Solar Flare nods and runs up to help his husband, who is growing frustrated by his ice breath reflects off of Robo Korvo’s skin.
Robo Korvo: Face it! Ice powers inferior!
Super Shlorpian Legendary Super Shlorpian growls
Super Shlorpian Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: No. I am not giving up! You may be powerful than me, but at least I got friends and family to help me out! uses his super Shlorpian strength then enraged Robo Korvo who grabs him by the neck which starts enraging Legendary Super Shlorpian into going savage
Super Shlorpian Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpian: Oh no! Stay back! If a Shlorpian gets enraged enough, he or she goes savage!
Super Shlorpian Legendary Super Shlorpian roars loudly.
Jesse/Electra: Oh no! We have to help Korvo!
Mundane Solar Flare growls
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: How dare he makes my Korvy go savage! I got this!
Super Shlorpian Legendary Super Shlorpian snarls as his savage instincts take in.
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: Korvo, no!
Legendary Super Shlorpain snarls but luckily Psylock and Master manage to make Robo Korvo power down by destroying the brain piece in him as the others cheer. However Legendary Super Shlorpian is still going savage.
Super Shlorpian Janiz/Lady Super Shlorpain: Oh no! Korvo! We have to help him before he goes out of control!
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: Hey, Korvo?
Super Shlorpian Legendary Super Shlorpian snarls at Mundane Solar Flare, who begins to feel a connection to this as he remembers the time he lost control because of his fears of hurting Korvo. Then, Mundane Solar Flare, for the first time, will full control, know what to do now!
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: I got this.
Mundane Solar Flare bravely heads towards his Super Shlorpian husband and suddenly pummels him, but it was in a romantic embrace as Super Shlorpian L.S.S. shed tears of rage in his eyes. Mundane Solar Flare grabs his husband by the shoulders and gets ready to kiss him. Super Shlorpian Legendary Super Shlorpian then starts whimpering in tears as Mundane Solar Flare gasp and soothes his husband’s face.
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: It’s okay. It’s okay. Would a kiss make you feel better?
Super Shlorpian Legendary Super Shlorpian starts weeping as Mundane Solar Flare rubs his sweetheart’s back softly, as he comforts his overwhelmed husband.
Super Shlorpian Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Terry…I love you.
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: And I love you too Korvy, I always will…
The two monster alien husbands kiss as the others cheer.
Ophelia: No! This isn’t over Ultra Opposites! I’ll get you yet!
Jesse/Electra: We’d like to see you try!
Cherie/Agent Red: grinning with an idea Pezlie, sick ‘em!
La Oscuridad coos and pounces on Ophelia.
Ophelia: Wait! What are you-
La Oscuridad cries a painful blast of tears as Ophelia gets blown away screaming.
Ophelia: CURSE YOOOOOOOOUUUUUU!
Ultra Opposites: Alright La Orscuridad! What a brave baby! Mommy’s little hero! What a cutie! Yay Pezlie!
Mundane Terry/Solar Flare: Well, how about that?
Cherie/Agent Red: Come here! Mommy is so proud of you! kiss La Oscuridad on the forehead
La Oscuridad giggles. Then, Princess Chloe remorsefully walks towards the heroes.
Princess Chloe: Look. I’m sorry. I was wrong to-
Terry/Solar Flare: Chloe, I don't want to hear it. puts his hand on Chloe’s shoulder before pulling her into a tight hug I'm sorry too. Even princesses mess up sometimes, I don't know what came over us but we never should've let that argument get so bad...
Princess Chloe: sighs in relief I don't even know why I said we’d be better off without heroes considering you're the defenders of Earth, will all of you ever forgive me?
The Ultra Opposites: Sure! Why not! I guess I’m sorry. All is forgiven.
Jesse/Electra: But on one condition, learn to trust others and don't ever say stuff like that again, that really hurt our feelings.
Princess Chloe: I know. I’m so sorry.
Jesse/Electra: It’s okay. Now let’s go save our queen…
Back at the festival, it is back on the Queen is unpetrified, all is forgiven when Princess Chloe admit the truth over what happens, Romelle apologizes to our heroes. And best of all, peace has been restored for the four planets. Everyone is celebrating while the Ultra Opposites watch from below.
Jesse/Electra: So what now? Should we go to the festival?
Terry/Solar Flare: Yeah. But right now, I am so happy that everything is back to normal. Except with Ophelia being back. Yeesh.
Montez/The Master: Yeah. But we’ll be ready when she comes back. Right guys?
Rest of the Ultra Opposites: Right!
The Ultra Opposites murmur in agreement. Legendary Super Shlorpian, however is looking down sadly, feeling awful for nearly losing his sanity.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpain: I’m so sorry I almost went out of control back there. I don’t know what came over me…
Terry/Solar Flare: Korv, it’s okay. Maybe dancing at the festival tonight will make you feel better.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: smiling through tears of joy I would love that my darling…
The two alien husbands kiss. We then cut to the night of the festival where Christina Aguilera is about to perform Rainbow from the MLP Movie:
[Christina Aguilera]
I know you, you're a special one
Some see crazy where I see love
You fall so low but shoot so high
Big dreamers shoot for open sky
So much life in those open eyes
So much depth, you look for the light
But when your wounds open, you will cry
You'll cry out now and you'll question why
Human Terry: Sure is beautiful
Human Korvo: Yes it is. kiss Human Terry on the lips
Human Yumyulack gags.
[Christina Aguilera]
I can see a rainbow
In your tears as they fall on down
I can see your soul grow
Through the pain as they hit the ground
I can see a rainbow
In your tears as the sun comes out
As the sun comes out
Human Terry: Wanna dance, Korv?
Human Korvo nods as the two husbands get in a romantic slow dance. Then, the family and their friends watches as fireworks appear through the sky.
THE END
#solar opposites#solar opposites au#tervo#the ultra opposites#ultra opposites#super shlorpian korvo#mundane terry#terry/solar flare#korvo/legendary super shlorpian#mia/shine light#ms. perez/shout out#pezlie/la oscuridad#janice/master smasher#yumyulack/psylock#jesse/electra#janiz/lady super shlorpian#cherie/agent red#montez/the master#nova/lady roseus#miss frankie/shadow lady#principal cooke/super cooke#kevin/the flamethrower#jamie/firey#darcy/miss darcina#daryl/dark matter#christina aguilera#rainbow sia#my little pony the movie reference#Spotify#randall/ultra man
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Ultra Opposites Movie Scene: Korvo learns that Terry is Solar Flare
While Solar Flare is fighting crime, Korvo confronts the replicants about Terry’s behavior. Jesse panics and tells Korvo everything despite Yumyulack’s attempt to stop her. Korvo gets enraged. Suddenly Solar Flare comes in and sees Korvo staring angrily at him. Solar Flare tries to leave but Korvo stops him and yells at him before storming upstairs in tears. Solar Flare feels guilty and turns back into Terry and goes to comfort his husband
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Dark Desires October Masterlist
Once I finish Fresh Start, my next post will be on October 1st, and I'll be aiming to post 1 part of a fic EVERY DAY in October! Some of these are based on your requests; here's what you're in for! These aren't in any official order yet (with the exception of the last one, I think!), so if there's one you really want to see let me know! While I've currently planned for these fics to fill all 31 days of the month, if you have a creepy, dark idea feel free to submit a request! (If I don't get to it in October, I will eventually!)
TW: Most of these are quite dark (because, y'know... Halloween), and some involve non-con, dub-con, or consensual non-consent. Specific warnings will of course be added to the fics as I update them.
"Unjust Reward" (request from @terrysilv): Complete! Part 1 here!
A dark non-con with KK3 Terry. Daniel warns Reader that Terry is nothing but trouble, and she tries to avoid him, but when she's being chased by a group of men she turns to Terry's dojo for help. He swoops in to save the day, but expects something in return...
"Disorderly Conduct": Complete! Part 1 here!
A dark Reader x Cash fic. Reader is a cop who has been working at the same precinct as Cash for awhile, and gets the vibe that something is... off. Trusting her instinct, she follows him to an abandoned building one day and catches him in the act. Unfortunately, he also catches her, and keeps her as a hostage while he tries to figure out his next move. (Takes place before events of the movie)
"Heirloom" (request from @hopes-handicrafts): Complete! Part 1 here!
An enemies to lovers fic with Jan Valek. Reader is Jack Crow's daughter and a vamp-hunter-in-training. When Valek attacks the old Catholic school where the Black Cross of Berziers is kept and discovers Crow's daughter is a student, he kidnaps her and takes her with him, hoping that Jack will take the bait...
"Scream for Me": In Progress! Part 1 here!
[Finished for DDO; Happy-go-lucky follow up to come... maybe]
Part of the "Fresh Start" universe! A dark CK Terry x Reader fic. Reader makes the mistake of telling Terry that she can't believe he was ever scary, and certainly isn't that way anymore. Terry decides to teach her a lesson, hunting her in their own home until she admits that he is still very much something to fear...
"All's Fair" (request from @terrysilv): In Progress! Part 1 here!
A dark KK3 Terry. Reader has been dating Terry for awhile, and he's been patient. When she surprises him with a date at their local funfair, he thinks she'll be willing to finally make their relationship physical. At the top of the ferris wheel, he makes his move...
"In Deep Water" (anonymous request): In Progress! Part 1 here!
A dark non-con with Gus Travis. Reader is an undercover cop who has gotten in with Gus's gang to get the dirt on him and Malcolm. Gus gets wind of your deception and decides to punish you - for lying, for making him fall for you, for everything.
"Clear as Mud":
A dark non-con with KK3 Terry. Reader pushes Terry too far asking him about his time in the Vietnam War. He does his best to describe the fear of being stalked through the jungle, but doesn't feel like he's doing it justice, and decides to help her experience it for herself...
"Solar Flare":
The OC x Valek romance fic I've been babbling about for awhile! Rose is forcibly turned into a weapon by the Catholic Church to help them hunt down vampires, but their ritual goes wrong. Inexplicably drawn to Valek, Rose slowly falls for the world's first vampire as they struggle to stay alive and search for a cure together.
"[Currently Untitled CK Terry is a Stalker]":
CK Terry x Reader fic. Terry can't help himself; what started as innocent snooping around Cobra Kai's biggest obstacle for dominance of the Valley (Reader) has escalated into full on stalking. He can't keep himself from watching your every move, stealing into your home in the dead of night... wanting. But how far will he take things?
"A Tale of Two Terrys: Masquerade":
In this much anticipated sequel (well, I've been looking forward to writing more, anyway), CK Terry plans a masquerade at his and Reader's manor for Halloween. He's planned for a special guest to join them, but how long will it take reader to recognize them? And what do they plan on doing with her once she does?
#update#october#october writing challenge#thomas ian griffith#terry silver#cobra kai#terry silver x reader#karate kid#kk3#smut#the karate kid 3#jan valek#john carpenter's vampires#Cash#the kidnapping 2007#black friday 2007#I'm very excited about this#fresh start#dark desires october#gus travis#black point 2002
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1.02c Chameleon
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: James Crocker
Cinematographer: Bradford May
Summary:
In orbit above the earth, a spacewalking astronaut notices a strange blue light flashing off part of the space shuttle Discovery. When the shuttle returns to earth, two engineers, Brady (John Ashton) and Gerald (Steve Bassett), are asked to inspect one of the exterior cameras after it malfunctioned in orbit. When Brady removes the camera, he is engulfed in blue light and disappears—leaving just the camera. The camera is moved to a sealed observation lab where a team of NASA scientists can securely examine it. Dr. Curt Lockridge (Terry O’Quinn) and his team try to reason through what happened while they wait for consultation from a higher ranking scientist, Dr. Vaughn Heilman (Ben Piazza).
The camera flares up in blue light again, but now the observation lab is occupied by, what appears to be, Brady. “Brady” pleads with them to let him out. They attempt to reason with him, but “Brady” becomes increasingly irate. In a fit of desperation, “Brady” shape shifts into the form of Brady’s wife, Kathy (Lin Shaye). Kathy then pleads the case to the scientists to let “Brady” go home. This reveals that when this shapeshifter absorbs someone, it also absorbs their knowledge and memories, as the real Kathy is safe at home.
The scientists catch the shapeshifter up in its misunderstanding. It morphs back into its Brady form and begins to lash out. They decide to forcibly sedate the Brady-Thing, and Heilman enters the room to examine it. The Brady-Thing wakes up and absorbs Heilman. Rather than taking on Heilman’s form, it morphs into a bomb with a clock counting down to detonation. As it turns out, Heilman used to work in weapons R&D. Lockridge decides to enter the room himself as a sign of trust, to reason with it and set it free. When the countdown reaches zero, another flash, and out of the room runs the shapeshifter, now in the form of Heilman.
Lockridge chases after it, out onto the tarmac of the airfield. The shapeshifter explains to Lockridge that it ended up on earth out of pure curiosity and assures him that Heilman and Brady are not being held prisoner. Unable to explain its nature in human language, it offers Lockridge the opportunity to merge with it as well, and travel the universe. Lockridge declines and the shapeshifter transforms into a swirling ball of light, launching itself into the open night sky.
Closing Narration:
“Imagine yourself a visitor to many worlds, drifting on the solar wind, a thousand voices singing in your memory. Now imagine you're this man, who can only guess at the wonders he might have known, wonders that exist for him now only as a riddle... from The Twilight Zone."
More about Chameleon:
Chameleon was conceived and written by supervising producer James Crocker. On the DVD commentary for this episode, Crocker explained that his inspiration for writing this story was simply that he liked shapeshifter stories. It was refreshing to hear to be honest, as sometimes producers who envision themselves as creatives build up grandiose creation myths for their creative output. Anyway, I think that this approach worked out well for Chameleon as a Twilight-Zone story. Crocker successfully took inspiration from preexisting stories about shapeshifting alien beings and synthesized something original from it. (My assumption is that his inspirations were The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Thing (1982) (or The Thing from Another World (1951)), and maybe just a touch from the Star Trek TOS episode “The Squire of Gothos.” But, that’s just my speculation!)
Superficially, Chameleon reminded me more of a story that might appear on The Outer Limits. However, the shorter runtime of the episode gives it a Twilight Zone-y flair of presenting the viewer with a strange premise for them to mull over on their own. That is, Chameleon is relatively fantastic, rather than explicative, which would be more in line with the more sci-fi leaning Outer Limits.
No specific episodes of the original series immediately come to mind to pair Chameleon with, which is a good thing. If every episode had an analog in the original series, this reimagining of the series wouldn’t be showing much imagination! However, if I’m pressed to pair it, I’d go with The Lateness of the Hour (2.08) for depicting the panic response of suddenly not comprehending who or what you are or The Invaders (2.15) for depicting a fundamental difficulty in communicating between people from different planets. While this isn’t a Twilight Zone episode, The Outer Limits episode Corpus Earthing also came to mind when watching this story for the first time.
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I just saw Captain Marvel and I have never been gayer
#terry rambles#marvel#captain marvel#listen im a space nerd with a thing for heliophysics#so when she started glowing like a solar flare? i swooned
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everyone else was making Shlorpian OCs, so here’s my lil family. more info under the cut!
so because I never half ass anything that’s not important, I thought way too hard about what it would be like if they appeared on the show and how they’d fit into the mix so here’s some fun facts, including potential voice actors:
Viyma
- would be voiced by Chelsea Peretti
- worked as the Shlorpian equivalent of a doctor, specializing in the process of cutting plant material off of people to use to create replicants
- on Shlorp she was a total bombshell, I mean look at the curve of her head godDAMN
- used to using her looks to get stuff/favors
- actually really smart and works hard on things she gives a shit about (her job, family, bocce ball)
- was in the same class in the Academy as Korvo
- they fucking hated each other
- they also hate fucked each other
- robe looks like it flares out for dramatic effect but really she's just got A Fat Ass
- Big Top Energy
-started growing her replicant later than others in her age range because she was Married To The Job and didn't prioritize creating her own as opposed to helping others create theirs
- Wine Mom, but never says no to vodka
- has a soft spot for replicants (not just hers, she's pretty nice to Jesse and Yumyulack as well)
- makes fun of Korvo for not having his ship repaired by now and refuses to help
- partially because she has no idea how because she had someone do her Ship Repair classwork in the Academy but Korvo doesn't need to know that
Xechee
- probably voiced by Kristen Schaal idk lmao
- Viyma's replicant
- struggled to grow during her incubation and emerged from the soil earlier than normal
- real pipsqueek
- not actually dumb but def naive
- never knows wtf is going on but is just happy to be there
- chose female pronouns relatively early for her age
- likes flowers a whole lot, hence why she wears one (it's not fungus from lack of handwashing, Viyma's checked)
- her fingers never grew properly, just her thumbs, so her hands look like little mittens
- will only eat food if you put maple syrup on it first
- too young to really be helpful on the mission as of now but she's fun to have around
Phin (full first name is Zelphin)
- would be voiced by Joel McHale
- pupa expert, and unlike Terry, he actually knows shit about the pupa
- he and Viyma were kind of into each other before news of the asteroid came out
- was friends with someone on the committee to assign mission partners and might have... influenced him to partner him and Viyma together
- used to be a huge fuckin dweeb
- Terry pantsed him at the Academy once but considering they wore robes nobody saw anything and it wasn't actually that funny
- he's still salty about it though
- Shlorp version of Be Careful Who You Made Fun Of In High School
- Terry doesn't hate Phin but Phin definitely hates Terry
- gets into microbrewing at some point probably
- really into the Rugged Camping Dad aesthetic, owns 12 flannel shirts
- petty af
- cocky and constantly overcompensating
- a pretty good dad to Willow and Xechee regardless
- Don't Talk To Him Until He's Had His Coffee
Willow
- would be voiced by Ilana Glazer
- Phin's replicant
- mellow as hell, kind of a hippie
- doesn't wear shoes
- won't eat meat, and won't even eat fruits or vegetables bc they're technically living
- eats straight up dirt to survive (Shlorp version of a vegan)
- still smokes weed, and will eat anything while high
- a little older than Jesse and Yumyulack, like 16-17 in earth years
- discovered yoga pants and can never go back
- was training on Shlorp to work in the Solarium and take care of incubating replicants
- as a result, she's really into gardening and plants on Earth
- got made fun of a lot on Shlorp for picking a dumb name like Willow and not a proper Shlorpian one like Xanthiolix or Greg
- probably has a yoga and mediation Instagram
Yeah but then I was like ‘wait why would they interact with the Earth fam if they’re supposed to be on another planet? so here a basic summary of what would go down:
A new neighbor moves in across the street from Terry and Korvo named Brent and they NEED to get to know him better.
Korvo believes he would be able to assist with ship repair because he saw him changing the oil in his car once and I mean, come on, he would definitely be able to lift things Korvo couldn't. With those arms?? (also basically he wants to be friends with him and maybe fuck him but doesn't want to admit that). Terry wants to be friends with him because he saw the big screen tv in his living room and also thinks he'd be into doing butt stuff. He doesn't seem offput by aliens either, so that's a plus!
After a few failed attempts to befriend him they notice a space ship, very much like theirs, in his driveway. Was Brent in disguise this whole time?? Could he be a Shlorpian who could help them with ship repair??? And then Terry doesnt have to hear Korvo complain about how he never helps with ship repair???? Even better!
Then they find out the actual Shlorpians are Viyma and Phin, Korvo and Terry's respective rivals from their homeworld. Not only would they never help them with ship repair or the Pupa, but apparently they're both dating Brent? And they're going to constantly be around to spend time with him???
GREAT.
Yeah I haven’t drawn Brent yet but I like poly couples and I figured it’d also give these clowns an excuse to visit earth and annoy the Solar Opposites fam. They met Brent at Trader Joe’s because their uninhabited planet doesn’t have one so they would make the trip idk shut up
I’m new to digital art (and it’s been a while since I’ve drawn at all because of reasons but I’ve been wanting to get back into it) and I drew Viyma first, so she looks kind of rough but I think I’ve already improved! I did Willow and Xechee (pronounced Zee Chee btw) last and I feel like I was starting to get the hang of what tf I was doing. Hopefully I’ll be able to draw the canon characters soon (and maybe Brent and their pupa)
#solar opposites#solar opposites oc#solar opposites ocs#these took way too long#Xechee has my entire heart btw#Willow too but#c'mon look at Xechee
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Hank Henshaw first appeared as a crew member on board the doomed NASA Space Shuttle Excalibur in Superman (vol. 2) #42, and Henshaw and the other crew members were next seen in Adventures of Superman #465.[4][5]
Hank and the other three members of the Excalibur crew, including his wife Terri, are part of a radiation experiment designed by LexCorp that is affected by a solar flare, causing their shuttle to crash.[1] As a result of their radiation exposure, the human bodies of two crew members were destroyed. However, their minds survived and they were able to construct new bodies out of cosmic radiation and bits of earth and wreckage from the shuttle, respectively. Initially, Henshaw and his wife suffer no ill effects from the radiation (though Hank's hair turns white), and the crew travels to Metropolis in the hopes of using LexCorp facilities to cure their mutated crewmates. During a brief battle with Superman, one crew member, now composed of radiation, becomes unhinged and flies into the Sun, destroying himself. By this time, Henshaw's body has started to rapidly decay, while his wife is beginning to phase into an alternate dimension. With Superman's help, Henshaw is able to use the LexCorp facilities to save Terri. The remaining member of the shuttle crew commits suicide, using an MRI booth to tear apart the metallic components of his body.[6]
Though Henshaw's physical body expired, he was able to transfer his consciousness into the LexCorp mainframe. Now able to control technology, Henshaw appears to his wife in a robotic body. The shock of this bizarre rebirth is too much for Terri to bear and in a fit of insanity, she jumps to her death. By this point, Henshaw's electronic consciousness has begun to disrupt Earth's communications networks. Using NASA communications equipment, Henshaw beams his mind into the birthing matrix which had carried Superman from Krypton to Earth as an infant.[1] He creates a small exploration craft from the birthing matrix and departs into outer space alone.[7]
Henshaw spends some time traveling between planets, bonding with local lifeforms to learn about the culture and history of various worlds. Henshaw comes to believe that Superman was responsible for the tragedy of the Excalibur after learning that around the time of the accident, the Man of Steel had thrown a rogue Kryptonian artificial intelligence (the Eradicator) into the Sun. Henshaw believes that this created the solar flare that resulted in the Excalibur crew's transformations (although Superman had shared this concern with Terri after he had saved her life and she had confirmed that the flares would have been triggered before Superman disposed of the Eradicator).[8] Over time, Henshaw becomes delusional and paranoid, believing that the Man of Steel had intentionally caused the deaths of himself, his wife, and his crew, then driven him from Earth. Arriving on a planet controlled by alien overlord and Superman foe Mongul, Henshaw learns of Warworld and forcibly recruits Mongul as part of a plan for revenge against Superman.[9]
Reign of the SupermenEdit
Main article: The Death of Superman

Cover of Superman (vol. 2) #79. Art by Dan Jurgens.
With Superman apparently dead after his battle with Doomsday, Henshaw decides to pose as him in order to destroy his reputation. To that end, the Cyborg claims to be Superman reborn, the result of the hero's body being pieced together and revived with technology. The Cyborg then uses knowledge obtained from Superman's birthing matrix to construct a body that is genetically identical to Superman's.[9] When analyzed closely by Professor Hamilton, the Cyborg passes for the real thing, due to components within himself that include Kryptonian alloys, combined with the fact that the replaced body parts correspond with those parts of the original Superman's body that were most severely injured in his fight with Doomsday.[10]
After destroying a Superman memorial plaque in front of the Daily Planet, the Cyborg exiles Doomsday into space, prevents a nuclear meltdown, and saves the President of the United States from an assassination attempt. The White House then endorses the Cyborg as the 'true' Superman.[11][12] When confronted by Lois Lane, the Cyborg claims his memory is "blurry", but he can see a "spaceship on a farm and the name Kent", suggesting that Henshaw may be aware of Superman's secret identity.[10]
Henshaw's arrival as Superman is simultaneous with that of three others: John Henry Irons (the self-styled Man of Steel), the Eradicator (the self-styled Last Son of Krypton), and the modern Superboy.[11] The endorsement of the President ensures that the Cyborg eclipses the rest of the heroes claiming to be Superman's heir. During this time, two cults spring up in anticipation of Superman's return from the dead: one that deifies the Eradicator and another that venerates the Cyborg. Supporters of both eventually come to blows over which is the real Superman.
Destroying Coast CityEdit
When an alien ship appears over Coast City, the Cyborg attacks and severely injures the Eradicator, allowing Mongul's craft to destroy the city. The Cyborg also murders an entire family of vacationers trying to find a way out of the devastated area.[13] The Cyborg was then able to convince the White House and the public that the Eradicator was responsible.[14] After tricking and defeating Superboy, Henshaw prepares to launch a nuclear warhead intended to convert Metropolis into a second Engine City.[14][15]
Superboy is able to escape and warn John Henry Irons, Supergirl, and the resurrected (but powerless) original Superman of the Cyborg's plans.[9][16] The quartet travels to the site of the former Coast City, and Superman (whose powers are slowly returning), Supergirl, and Steel confront Mongul and the Cyborg, while Superboy stops the missile from hitting Metropolis.[17] While Green Lantern defeats Mongul, the Cyborg lures Superman and the Eradicator to the Engine City main reactor and attempts to kill Superman with the kryptonite that powers the engine. When Henshaw tries to kill Superman with a concentrated blast of kryptonite radiation, the Eradicator intercepts the blast at the expense of his own life. As the kryptonite energy passes through the Eradicator, the radiation is altered and acts to fully restore Superman's powers. Superman is then able to easily defeat the already weakened Cyborg by sticking his arm through Henshaw's chest, killing him and shattering his body. When Henshaw panics and states that he will "somehow" find a way to come back, a doubting Superman simply says that if Henshaw does, he will be waiting.[18]
It was later revealed that Henshaw chose to attack Coast City first because he and his late wife were former residents. This was part of an effort to erase his former life.[19]
ReturnEdit

Hank Henshaw in Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #1, drawn by Dan Jurgens and Brett Breeding
Before exiling Doomsday into space, Henshaw had installed a device on the monster to allow him to detect if Doomsday were to ever escape. After the destruction of his Cyborg Superman form, Henshaw transfers his consciousness into this device as Doomsday is "the safest place in the galaxy" for the Cyborg to hide. Doomsday is brought on board a space cruiser and, despite frantic efforts of the crew to jettison him, kills the crew, and upon landing on Apokolips, proceeds to pillage the planet.
When Superman, his power now boosted by being repowered by "purple kryptonite", arrives; Henshaw emerges by reconfiguring an armored Apokoliptian trooper, brutally murdered by Doomsday, into a new body (which, by all accounts, had its DNA overwritten with the Kryptonian DNA Henshaw had obtained while in Superman's birthing matrix, and thus still retains a portion of Superman's abilities and still looks the way the Cyborg Superman looked, except for a change in the color of the Cyborg's metallic components) and proceeds to lay siege to the planet alongside Doomsday. The Cyborg successfully takes over most of Apokolips but is captured by Darkseid's Omega Beams during a battle with Superman.[20]
Apokolips and beyondEdit
Darkseid did not kill the Cyborg; rather, the Omega Effect captured Henshaw in a small orb, with Darkseid planning to use the Cyborg against Superman at a later date.[21] Darkseid eventually frees Henshaw with the understanding that Henshaw is to leave Apokolips and never return.
The Cyborg eventually aligns himself with an intergalactic Tribunal which is seeking to bring Superman to trial for the crimes of his ancestors. Henshaw assists the Tribunal in capturing the Eradicator, Superboy, Supergirl, Steel, and Alpha Centurion, who had intended to rescue Superman. However, the Cyborg betrayed the Tribunal and attempted to conquer their planet for conversion into a new Warworld. Superman and his allies stop the Cyborg's plan and, when Henshaw's involvement in the destruction of Coast City is brought to the attention of the Tribunal, they find him guilty of genocide and sentence him to death. As an electronic consciousness, Henshaw cannot be killed by normal means and is transported beyond the event horizon of a black hole, where not even light can escape from the gravity.
Rather than being destroyed, the Cyborg is transported (unknowingly by another villain, Thanos) to a Marvel Multiverse dimension designated as 616, as seen at the beginning of the Green Lantern/Silver Surfer: Unholy Alliances crossover one-shot issue. The Cyborg destroys a planet in another attempt to recreate Warworld, attracting the attention of the Silver Surfer. Their short battle is interrupted by the arrival of Parallax, who has been tracking the Cyborg for some time, seeking vengeance for the destruction of Coast City. In the confusion, Henshaw escapes and is returned to the DC Universe. Parallax undoes the destruction of the planet that Henshaw had caused using power donated from the Silver Surfer.

Henshaw in his later, less Superman-based configuration. Art by Doug Mahnke
The Cyborg encounters Hal Jordan again at the Source Wall,[22] a nexus of statues that channels vital energy to preserve the Fourth World. Parallax uses his powers to generate representations of the victims of Coast City, which tear the Cyborg's body apart. Jordan then disperses Henshaw's consciousness, and the Cyborg is seemingly destroyed once again.[1]
During a crisis involving the Godwave, Superman (wearing his blue energy costume at the time) travels to New Genesis and encounters Henshaw again. Henshaw has taken part of the Source Wall's structure and crafted a small world made up of his memories, which he uses to taunt Superman before being defeated again. Unknown to Superman, the Cyborg stored his own consciousness in Superman's high-tech containment suit. After Superman returns to Earth, Henshaw escapes and constructs a new body, this time posing as an art teacher at a high school in an attempt to start over. He is a popular teacher and befriends the blind Ashbury Armstrong (daughter of Dirk Armstrong), but ultimately his rage towards Superman causes him to reveal his true identity and his new body is lost in a fight with Superman. To escape detection, Henshaw stores his consciousness in a clay statue. This statue is later stolen by the Toyman and the two villains join forces to kill Superman. To this end, the Cyborg designs a machine that will break Superman's energy form down into multiple components and beam them to different points in the galaxy, preventing Superman from reforming. A malfunction in the machine causes Superman to split into Superman Blue and Superman Red, the latter of whom eventually defeats and recaptures the Cyborg.
The Cyborg later attempts to take over Kandor, but fails when he is defeated by Superman and sent to the Phantom Zone. Shortly after the Superman Y2K story, Henshaw escapes the Zone and attacks Superman, who was suffering from Kryptonite poisoning. Henshaw is defeated with the help of the Kandorians and sent back to the Phantom Zone, swearing revenge. However, he is not encountered on subsequent visits to the Zone.
ManhuntersEdit
Henshaw returns in a form similar to his original body, when he is revealed to be the Manhunters' new Grandmaster.[23] With his influence, the Manhunters have been upgraded with organic material, most notably with blood. On the Manhunter home world of Biot, in sector 3601, Henshaw is holding captive several assumed-to-be-dead Green Lanterns, most of whom appeared to die during the Emerald Twilight saga.
Henshaw has also used Kryptonian technology to upgrade the Manhunters. During the Green Lantern story arc No Fear,[24] Kryptonian robots are seen servicing the Manhunters. Henshaw, the Grandmaster, allowed the Green Lantern Corps to rebuild for unspecified reasons as a part of his master plan. While Henshaw explains that he first encountered the Manhunters around the time he was imprisoned in the Source Wall by Parallax, it has yet to be revealed how the Cyborg was able to escape the Phantom Zone and take control of Biot. Henshaw is defeated when Biot explodes, destroying most of his body aside from his head.
Henshaw's head is then brought by a Guardian back to Oa so that they can learn of how he was able to take control of Biot, what he has learned from the Manhunters and to learn about "the 52"[25] (referring to the 51 alternate Earths created during the second Crisis as well as their own reality). It is also revealed that the Cyborg knows of the 52, though exactly how he came by this knowledge is not made completely clear. It is stated that he has explored "The Bleed"; the space between dimensions, which could have occurred either when he was imprisoned there, when he was imprisoned in the Source Wall, or in his past exploration of the Marvel Universe.
Sinestro CorpsEdit

Cover art for Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Cyborg Superman #1, by Ethan Van Sciver.
Henshaw's head is taken by the Sinestro Corps after their invasion of Oa to Qward. Henshaw is later seen as a herald of the newly returned Anti-Monitor. He reconstructs his cyborg body and replaces the S-symbol on his chest with the symbol of the Sinestro Corps. He now wields ten Qwardian power rings.[26] It is revealed that Henshaw has joined the Sinestro Corps so that the Anti-Monitor can later kill him and allow him to rest in peace.[27]
Henshaw was the focus of the Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Cyborg Superman one-shot that was released on October 3, 2007.[8][28][29] In this book, Henshaw and his Manhunters head to Earth to assist the Sinestro Corps in their attack. En route, Henshaw stops leading the Manhunters which continue to their preprogrammed destinations. As he watches them go, he remembers everything that has happened to him, from their dreadful shuttle accident to his wife's suicide when she sees him in his robot form. He finishes this journey down memory lane by going to his wife's grave. He digs her corpse out and rips it into two, shouting that all he wants is not to be with her, but for these memories to fade.[8]
Meanwhile, the Manhunters begin an assault on the JLA satellite. Hawkgirl, Black Lightning, and Red Arrow retaliate; however, all three are neutralized when Henshaw assists in the attack and he successfully tampers with the mechanics of the satellite core. As the satellite is thrown out of orbit, Superman appears and engages Henshaw in battle. Their fight continues on Earth, while Sinestro transports his crew and his ship from the anti-matter universe. At first Superman seems to have the upper hand; however after two punches, Henshaw strikes with great power and rage, punching him through the Statue of Liberty. By the end, Henshaw has Superman in a choke hold, thinking that the victory is near.[8]
He is later seen briefly in Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Superman-Prime, having presumably been beaten back by the combined strength of Superman, Supergirl, and Power Girl.[30]
When the Green Lantern Corps decide to detonate New Warworld and the central power battery of the Sinestro Corps to destroy the Anti-Monitor, Henshaw allows himself to be trapped behind a shield and exposed to the massive explosion. Before he is destroyed, however, he thanks the Green Lantern Corps.[31]
Most of Henshaw's body survived the explosion, but it took further damage when Superman-Prime hurled the Anti-Monitor into space. The upper part of his skull was retrieved by the android Manhunters. Unable to detect any life signs and confused without his leadership, the Manhunters reanimated the brain of the Cyborg Superman. He shed a tear when he realized he was still alive.[31]
Death and retrievalEdit
In the Brightest Day crossover, Henshaw would eventually return and work with the Alpha Lanterns as they attempted to augment every Green Lantern, including Ganthet, into an Alpha.[32][33] This was apparently at the suggestion of the robed figure holding Ion and Parallax, who told him that Ganthet held the knowledge to destroy him permanently, after Henshaw's attempts to provoke Nekron into killing him during the Blackest Night failed because he lacked a heart to attract Nekron's interest.[34] By threatening to make the Alpha Lanterns kill themselves if Ganthet does not cooperate, Henshaw forces Ganthet to work on reversing the augments that turned the Green Lanterns into Alpha Lanterns, hoping that he can use the resulting information to restore his original mortal body.[35]
Henshaw was seemingly killed when his lifeforce was finally separated from his nearly indestructible body by the combined full powered blasts of several Lanterns and Ganthet, and appeared on the mental plane of Alpha-Lantern Boodikka in an attempt to take her bio-mechanical body over, where both beings were their original, un-powered selves. Her essence, gifted with her innate, formidable combat skills, engaged his in one-on-one combat, and she quickly overpowered and killed his astral form.
Afterwards, however, Ganthet noted immediately that there was something different about her. Boodikka claims this is because Ganthet's newly discovered emotions allowed him to see her as she is (Boodikka's true self, now in control of her body again), not by what she is (an Alpha Lantern).[36]
In the Reign of Doomsday crossover, Boodikka was attacked by Doomsday while investigating the remains of New Krypton, and Henshaw was revealed to still be alive inside her, forming a new body out of her internal circuitry to fight Doomsday while Batman and Supergirl were trying to repair Boodikka.[37] Henshaw uses his abilities to take control of the JLA Watchtower and uses the satellite's defenses in an attempt to kill Doomsday, reasoning that if he could manage to destroy the creature that killed Superman, it would prove once and for all that he is superior to Superman. After the creature is violently dismembered by Henshaw, it somehow absorbs the nanotechnology from Henshaw's body and repairs itself, becoming a new being dubbed Cyborg Doomsday. Cyborg Doomsday somehow manages to negate Henshaw's ability to repair himself, which leads Henshaw to believe that he might finally meet his demise. Supergirl bursts onto the scene and attempts to stop Doomsday herself, but Henshaw fires an energy blast at her, stating that he would not allow her to defeat the creature that had humiliatingly beaten him only moments before. With Supergirl distracted, Cyborg Doomsday knocks her out and then tears one of Henshaw's arms off before departing with both of his unconscious captives.[38] Trapped in a satellite with the other Supermen, the heroes conclude that Henshaw has been trapped with them to keep them disorganized due to the tensions caused by his presence, prompting Henshaw to depart and search the satellite himself. After Superman arrives to rescue his comrades, Henshaw reveals that the Doomsdays that fought them were actually all clones of the original created by Lex Luthor.[39] Henshaw tries to fight them, but Superman rips his central node off, knowing that they would not survive a confrontation with the Doomsdays.[40] After the Doomsday clones are sent to another dimension, Henshaw is in custody of S.T.A.R. Labs.[41]
The New 52 and DC RebirthEdit
In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, a fully human Henshaw appears as a doctor working for the Advanced Prosthetic Research Centre and colleague of Caitlin Fairchild. He is tasked into reactivating the android Spartan.[42]
While in space and after saving a planet called I'noxia, Supergirl discovers an amnesiac Cyborg Superman living there. This version is revealed to be Zor-El, who survives Krypton's destruction and is reconfigured as a half-human half-machine by Brainiac to be his scout looking for stronger species in the universe. His heart was switched with that of a human to remove his ability to be affected by kryptonite.[43]
When the human Henshaw is sent into space on the Excalibur on a long-term mission, he is monitored by the Clark Kent and Lois Lane of the pre-Flashpoint universe, who were trapped in the New 52 world following the Convergence, with Superman seeking to prevent the rise of some of his former adversaries in this world. When the Excalibur crashes after returning from a ten-year journey to Jupiter and back, Superman saves the ship, but is puzzled to see that Henshaw is the only person on board.[44] Taking Henshaw to a base he has established in the Arctic regions to better assess if this Henshaw is a threat or not, Superman is briefly forced to face both Henshaw and a new foe called Blanque, who possesses powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities and was also kept in the fortress, but once Blanque is focused on fighting Superman, Henshaw helps Superman defeat this new foe with the weapons of a spaceship that was also kept in the fortress. It is later revealed that Henshaw acquired part of an object known as 'the Oblivion Stone' on Jupiter, with Superman forced to face an alien warrior seeking both Henshaw's part of the stone and another part kept in the fortress, but Superman drives her off, Henshaw claiming when questioned that he had no memory of anything that happened on the Excalibur or between it landing and him being discovered.[45]
After the reality disruption caused by Mister Mxyzptlk caused the histories of the pre-Flashpoint and New 52 Superman to merge during the DC Rebirth reboot, Henshaw's memories of his past as the Cyborg Superman were restored. With this knowledge, he set out to assemble various old foes of Superman like Metallo, the Eradicator, Blanque, and his old 'ally' Mongul to form the Superman Revenge Squad before using the Oblivion Stone to restore his body to its Cyborg Superman state. He even expressed interest into recruiting General Zod to his group.[46] The new Superman Revenge Squad then set out for Kal-El's Fortress of Solitude to obtain the Phantom Zone Projector, still in need of Zod's Kryptonian army to defeat the Superman family. What the Cyborg did not realize was that Zod was using the Squad to achieve his own ends. After finding his family trapped within the Zone's confines, Zod betrayed them, leaving Henshaw trapped within the Phantom Zone.[47]
He would soon be released by his hated enemy, Superman, on account of an epiphany Clark had while on a time traveling excursion with Booster Gold. To keep the maddened bionic menace docile while he came up with a more humane means of detaining him, Superman gave Henshaw a Kryptonian memory crystal that would pacify the Cyborg Superman's rage by letting him relive his happiest memories in an fantasy world fabricated by his own mind.[48] This self-imposed incarceration would not last, however, as the demented machine man found another means of escape. While he was trapped, a part of his mind escaped into the universe, where he sought to manipulate the Guardians and their appointed intergalactic law enforcement bureau, the Green Lantern Corps, to facilitate his escape.[49]
Even trapped within Superman's Kryptonian dwelling, Henshaw was able to influence the Central Power Battery back on Oa a universe away. From within his cell, he orchestrated a mystery surrounding the death of a Guardian to find a powerful weapon, the Phantom Ring.[50] After hacking into the Lantern ring network, Henshaw used the unsuspecting Corpsmen Simon Baz, to break the Cyborg out of the Fortress of Solitude and deliver him the Phantom Ring.[50] Though Henshaw was able to capture the Green Lanterns as his hacking into their main central Power Battery rendered their rings useless,[51] however due to John Stewart and Simon Baz using the Kryptonian weapons that Simon borrowed from the Fortress, along with the fact that any Green Lantern who had not recharged their rings prior to Henshaw hacking into the main battery (such as Hal Jordan and Kilowog) were immune, allowing them to fight back.[52] In retaliation, Henshaw retreated to Earth with the intention to recreate the disaster of destroying Coast City with the power of the Phantom Ring. With the help of other Green Lantern Corpsmen (such as Sodam Yat), Henshaw was defeated and forced to retreat with the Phantom Ring
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Rek, Nevan, a slime, and terry showcasing different types of armor represented in Dragon Quest 6.
As seen in the Dragon Quest 6 Official Japanese Guidebook.
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The Cyborg Superman, Hank Henshaw of Earth-96.
History and Powers are below the Read More.
Name: Hank Henshaw
Nickname/Alias’: Superman, Cyborg Superman
Titles: Grandmaster
Species: Human (formerly), Kryptonian Cyborg (currently)
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Eye Color: Brown (formerly), Blue, Red/Yellow (currently)
Hair Color: Brown (formerly), White (formerly), Black (currently)
Height: 6’ 2”
Weight: 500 lbs
Gender: Male
Orientation: Heterosexual
Birthday: May 9th, 1956.
Timeline
1956- Hank Henshaw is born
1981- Hank Henshaw marries Terri
1989- Hank Henshaw obtains a Ph. D in Computer Science.
Hank and Terri Henshaw are hired by LuthorCorp as astronauts
1990- Hank and Terri Henshaw, along with two other astronauts are sent to experiment radiation in orbit by LuthorCorp. The shuttle is affected by a solar flare, mutating the occupants. Attempting to reverse their mutations, the other two astronauts commit suicide. Hank’s body is destroyed in saving his wife from phasing into nothingness.
Hank’s consciousness survives and, using the LuthorCorp labs, constructs a robot body for himself to reunite with his wife.
Terri Henshaw commits suicide after discovering her husband’s new body.
Hank Henshaw steals a rocket from the Fortress of Solitude and leaves for deep space.
1991- Hank Henshaw becomes paranoid and delusional from his journeys in space. Having come to the conclusion that Superman allowed his wife to die.
1992- Hank Henshaw finds and subjugates Mongul. He then begins building a body to combat Superman.
1993- Hank Henshaw arrives on Earth ahead of Mongul to discover that Superman has died fighting a monster known as Doomsday. Hank steals Superman’s body and returns to Mongul with it.
Hank returns to Earth, using Superman’s cybernetically revived body, and makes the public believe he is the real Superman
First public appearance of the Cyborg Superman.
Hank Henshaw’s identity is revealed and he destroys Coast City to aid Mongul in creating a new Warworld. Jonathan Kent takes up the Superman mantle after learning of the Cyborg’s origin. The combined effort of the Justice League, Superboy, Power Girl, Steel and the new Superman they defeat the Cyborg and Mongul.
1994- Hank Henshaw’s body is modified by Darkseid to combat a rampaging Doomsday on Apokolips.
2000- Brainiac discovers Hank Henshaw and they conceive a plan to destroy Superman and his legacy.
2003- Hank Henshaw returns to Earth and fights Supergirl II.
It’s revealed that Cir-El is a sleeper agent designed by Lex Luthor, Brainiac and Hank Henshaw to destroy Superman II
2006- Hank Henshaw is given a Yellow Lantern Ring and a commanding position in the Yellow Lantern Corps.
Powers and Abilities
Electronic Consciousness: His mutation from the Excalibur shuttle accident made Hank a being of pure energy. Allowing his consciousness to be transfer between electronic bodies, he is able to use this to take control of nearby machines to add to his current body or complete tasks his current body cannot achieve.
Kryptonian Cyborg Body: Having stolen and cybernetically revived Kal-El’s corps, Hank has access to all of Superman’s powers and abilities.
Solar Radiation Absorption: The ‘main’ ability of Kryptonians is the ability to absorb solar radiation. Depending on the wavelength of solar radiation, they can gain super human abilities. Their powers also depend on the amount of radiation absorbed.
Super Strength: Hank is much stronger than he once was in a normal human body.
Super Speed: Hank can move faster than the eye can see, while not as fast as experienced Speedsters, he can hold his own in a race.
Unlimited Stamina: Due to his mechanical body, Hank does not tire. Even if his solar battery is depleted, he will not lose stamina.
Flight: Hank is able to fly due to gravity manipulation tech in his body.
Heat Vision: Hank can fire beams of intense heat by concentrating. This ability was altered by Darkseid to fire specifically Red Solar Radiation to combat Doomsday.
Super Senses: Hank has a variety of super senses due to his Kryptonian Cyborg body; he can hear sounds far away and on a larger frequency than humans, he can see further away, on the sub atomic level, the EM spectrum, heat and through everything but lead.
Computer Memory: Due to his brain essentially being a computer, Hank has perfect memory and can easily learn any skill he needs to complete tasks.
Hacking: Hank can send his consciousness into computers and databases to hack them for information.
Self-Subsistence: Due to most of his body being robotic in nature, Hank does not need to eat, sleep or hydrate to live.
Intimidation: Hank is an intimidating figure to behold, he has instilled fear in the hearts of many people since his true nature was revealed.
Equipment
Yellow Lantern Ring: Hank has instilled great fear in a number of heroes and villains alike. This has earned him a Yellow Lantern Ring and a position of authority in the Yellow Lantern Corps.
Fear Empowerment: Users who wear the Yellow Lantern Ring gain an unnerving aura about them. Any Fear the User instills on a Subject (those who don’t have the Ring) will aid in powering the Ring.
Yellow Energy Constructs: Users of a Yellow Lantern Ring can create energy constructs by willing them into existence. Typically the constructs of Yellow Lanterns take the form of something frightful to the Subject , in order to further power the ring. If the User knows the fear of a Subject, they can make a specific construct of that Fear to enhance the power gained from the Subject.
Constructs can be manipulated to allow certain people or objects to pass through them, become transparent or opaque, or radiate certain wavelengths like Kryptonite. It is only limited by the knowledge and imagination of the User.
Kryptonian Charging: By attuning their constructs or energy blasts to the wavelength of a yellow solar radiation, Users of a Yellow Lantern Ring can charge a Kryptonian’s solar battery.
Force Field Generation: A Yellow Lantern Ring can generate a force field around the User to protect them from harmful environments.
Energy Blasts: A Yellow Lantern Ring can fire blasts of energy. The energy are typically lasers or plasma in nature. The Energy blasts can be attuned to different wavelengths.
Phasing: A User can phasing through objects they normally cannot pass through, this takes considerable effort and energy from the Ring’s battery.
Universal Translator: Yellow Power Rings, being based off the Green Lantern Power Rings, will automatically translate spoken word into language the User can understand and translate the words of the User.
Energy Absorption: The Yellow Lantern Ring can absorb a variety of energies; from technological, magical and alien.
Genetic Lock: The Yellow Lantern Ring is genetically locked to the User, so no one except the User or those genetically similar to them can use it.
Scanning/Playback: The Yellow Lantern Ring can scan the environment in a variety of ways and playback recent events as energy constructs.
Wormhole Generation: The Yellow Lantern Ring can allow the User to enter hyperspace to travel great distances in little time, this takes concentration to maintain the wormhole and emerge unscathed. If multiple Users use the same wormhole it becomes easier to maintain.
Limited Cellular Regeneration: The Yellow Lantern Ring will automatically attempt to heal it’s User if they are damaged. However, it can only do so much.
Yellow Lantern Battery: A Power Battery in the shape of a yellow Lantern, it’s handles resemble the Symbol of Fear. Yellow Lanterns use these to recharge their Rings.
Earth-96 Story
Hank Henshaw is an interesting character. More interesting than a lot of Superman’s other villains in my opinion. His whole identity is based around destroying Superman’s image, and that worked. Then DC took that away while turning him into a Green Lantern villain. While making him the villain to more than one hero is nice, especially given how he destroyed the hometown of Hal Jordan, it takes away from the focus of his motivation and primary target; Superman and his legacy.
This is why on Earth-96, in probably the ballsiest thing I am doing and going along with the ‘No Resurrections unless it’s an essential part of their Character’ Rule, Hank uses Clark’s actual body to aid in his quest to destroy Superman’s image and legacy. This allows a setup for Jonathan, Clark and Lois’ son, to become the new Superman and have a major villain to face in trying to reclaim his father’s body back.
This doesn't mean Hank won’t be a Yellow Lantern, he’s still a very intimidating figure in the super community because he complete disregard for respecting the dead and his willingness to do horrible things to destroy Superman’s legacy, making him a perfect agent in commanding the Yellow Lantern Corps.
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Dust Volume 6, Number 5
Courtney Marie Andrews
The lockdown continues, and live music has disappeared, replaced by a somewhat antiseptic and unsatisfying spate of live streamed shows mostly one person with a guitar on the couch in their living room. We salute the courage and the effort but miss bands and audiences and even the chatter drifting in from the bar area. In the meantime, at least for now, there are still lots of new records vying for our attention. We present this Dust to catch up with some of them. It’s an ecletic survey of contemporary classical, vengeful hip hop, psyche, jazz, folk and metal artists, all continuing to try to navigate a very difficult period. Our writers this time include many of the usual suspects, Bill Meyer, Ray Garraty, Jonathan Shaw, Andrew Forell, Tim Clarke, Jennifer Kelly, Tobias Carroll and Patrick Masterson.
a•pe•ri•od•ic—For (New Focus Recordings)
for a•pe•ri•od•ic by a•pe•ri•od•ic
Silence is a rhythm, too, and a•pe•ri•od•ic dances to it repeatedly throughout their second recording. The Chicago-based ensemble has traversed the new music continuum, performing music by composers from Peter Ablinger to Christian Wolff. Sometimes that silence isn’t quite what you want to hear — the COVID-19 pandemic cut short its tenth anniversary spring season one concert too soon — but it proves to be rich loam from which to grow music on this CD. All four of its pieces were composed specifically for the group by individuals who recognize the merit of non-imposing sounds. That knowledge derives in part from the fact that three of the composers also perform with the group, but also from their long-standing engagement with post-Cage-ian and Wandelweiser material. Director and pianist Nomi Epstein’s descriptively entitled “Combine, Juxtapose, Delayed Overlap” feels like a ceremony intermittently perceived through an opening and closing door. Billie Howard’s “Roll” tucks the composer’s whispering violin behind muted French horn and voice, wringing intensity from the effort one must apply to following its retreating sonorities. Vocalist Kenn Klumpf’s “Triadic Expansions (2)” moves in the other direction, sprouting ivy-like from the slenderest branches of sound. By comparison, Michael Pisaro’s stately “festhalten/loslassen” is a veritable riot of unwinding tonal colors. As the decade ticks towards year eleven, rest assured that a•pe•ri•od•ic is searching for the next promising idea.
Bill Meyer
Agallah — Fuck You The Album (Propain Campain)
Fuck You The Album by Agallah
This is a personal vendetta album. After more than 25 years in the game, Agallah has got to settle the score against the whole world. To say he just has a chip on his shoulder would an understatement. Thirteen songs of pure hate with the title quite properly reflecting its content. In his fight, the rapper strips down all the artistry, including the production. Known for making beats for other hip hop acts, Agallah here not only uses barely serviceable beats, he doesn’t even makes pretense he needs beats. Almost all the tracks work as a capellas. His gruffy voice and arrogant flow don’t need sonic support. And what support can you expect from the world full of phonies, liars, actors, pretenders, cowards and fair weather friends? “Stop pretending, my career is not ending,” he almost screams on “Telling Lies To Me.” If this CD feels like a dinosaur in 2020, then it says that it is not something wrong with this album but with the world.
Ray Garraty
Courtney Marie Andrews — “Burlap String” single (Fat Possum)
Old Flowers by Courtney Marie Andrews
As the eponymous song of 2018’s May Your Kindness Remain amply demonstrated, Courtney Marie Andrews’ pipes are not to be fucked with. But while that was perhaps the most vivid depiction yet of her abilities, the Phoenix native’s delivery can be just as powerful on a muzzle. Such has been her approach thus far with what we’ve heard from Old Flowers, originally slated for an early June release but since pushed back to July (or beyond, who knows). The post-breakup lyrical territory was initially revealed with first single “If I Told,” but it’s the gently loping “Burlap String” I’ve had on repeat for much of the past month. Ever ended a relationship with someone and regretted it? Lush piano and a sighing slide guitar tell you Courtney has without her ever having to utter a word, and much of the song is an illustration of the internal conflict that lingers long after you’ve made the call. I’m inclined to write out the whole second verse here, but it’s the end of the third that lingers as Andrews evokes barely holding back tears: There’s no replacing someone like you. That ensuing pause runs bone-deep, its implication clear — no amount of Mary Oliver can save you from yourself.
Patrick Masterson
Dennis Callaci — The Dead of the Day (Shrimper Records)
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Some albums could be said to hum. In the case of the latest from Dennis Callaci, that’s meant literally: many of the songs on his new album The Dead of the Day feature warm clouds of feedback or droning organ notes. It’s a companion piece to his recent book 100 Cassettes, which features thoughts on musical icons throughout the year. This album’s focus is more insular: some of the songs have a drifting, improvised feel to them. But Callaci also taps into some terrifically subdued songwriting veins here — “Broadway Blues Pt. II” recalls the haunted dub-folk of Souled American, and Franklin Bruno’s piano lends a propulsive dimension to the ruminative title track. And on “Scoreless,” Callaci teams with his Refrigerator bandmate (and brother) Allen Callaci for a song that slowly builds from acoustic foundations to something modestly grandiose. Contrary to what its title might suggest, this album feels very much like a document of one man’s life.
Tobias Carroll
Cameron / Carter / Håker Flaten — Tau Ceti (Astral Spirits)
Tau Ceti by Cameron / Carter / Håker Flaten
Tau Ceti is a planet that is hypothesized to be similar enough to Earth that it could potentially support similar life forms. The three musicians that recorded this tape may come not come from the same system, but they fall into a harmonious orbit around a common circumstance — they were all in the same swanky studio, Halversonics, on a particular winter day in early 2019. One supposes that whatever they were rotating, they move towards the source of heat, since Tau Ceti builds slowly from chill acoustic exploration to a fuzzed-out solar flare. As they progress, abstraction burns away and velocity increases. It’s a gas to hear Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Lisa Cameron lock in behind Tom Carter’s increasingly gritty sound-bursts.
Bill Meyer
Tim Daisy — Sereno (Relay)
Tim Daisy - Sereno :: music for marimba, turntables and percussion (relay 028) by Tim Daisy
Sometimes the timing of even the most tuned-in drummer is foiled by external circumstances. Sereno was supposed to signal the end of an intense phase of solo practice by Tim Daisy. His intentions for 2020 included making an album of duets and writing music for two ensembles. But at press time he, like everyone else, is hunkered down with his family, and everything he had planned is on hold.
Daisy’s stint as a primarily solo artist coincided with a reconsideration of identity; he wasn’t just a drummer, but a multi-instrumentalist and an orchestrator of electro-acoustic sound. Sereno is split between three elegiac marimba solos that showcase Daisy’s instinct for deliberate melodic development and five much denser constructions for imprecisely tuned radios, playing and skipping records, and Daisy’s strategically reflective drumming. If this record is the only new music that Daisy puts out this year, it leaves us with plenty to think about.
Bill Meyer
Kaja Draksler & Terrie Ex — The Swim (Terp)
On the surface, this looks like quite the odd couple. Terrie Ex Is a Dutch electric guitarist in his mid-60s who still goes by his punk rock name. He’s a ferocious improviser whose scrabbling instrumental attack incurs intensity from any ensemble that doesn’t want to get bowled over, and he knows more Ethiopian tunes by heart than anyone on your block. Kaja Draksler is a Slovenian pianist exactly half his age whose recent projects include a fast-paced, idiosyncratically balanced trio with Petter Eldh and Christian Lillinger, and an octet for which she sets Robert Frost poems to a combination of chanson, Baroque chamber music, and thorny free improvisation. But neither got where they are by letting fear deter them from a musical challenge, and both of them have a fine awareness that one way of understanding their respective instruments is that they are pieces of wood with wires attached. Given that common understanding of music as a combination of coexisting textures and assertive actions, they work together quite well on this CD, which documents a performance that took place at London’s Café Oto in 2018. Scrape meets sigh, jagged fish-hook pluck meets sparse wire-damped drizzle, instinct meets intuition, and when the disc is done, it’ll seem quite sensible to dive back in and swim the whole length in reverse.
Bill Meyer
Errant — S/T EP (Manatee Rampage Recordings)
errant by errant
Errant is the one-woman project of Rae Amitay. Some listeners of metal music may be familiar with Amitay’s work, as vocalist for death-grind-hybridists Immortal Bird and as drummer for the folk-metal act Thrawsunblat. For Errant, Amitay has created songs and sounds that have little in common with those other bands’ aesthetic extremities. “The Amorphic Burden” may prompt you to recall the melodic black metal that Ludicra was making toward the end of that band’s storied run, or the sludgy drama of Agrimonia’s most recent record. In any case, Errant’s sound skews toward more luminescent atmospheres. Production values are largely pristine; Amitay wants you to hear clearly every string and cymbal strike. It makes sense. She plays a bunch of instruments well, and that’s part of the point: that one woman is producing all the sounds, and all the affect. She ends the EP with a cover of Failure’s “Saturday Savior,” and it’s the least interesting thing on the record. But even there, she presents the listener with something worth hearing. Her clean vocals are lovely, disarmingly so. What may be most impressive about this early iteration of Errant is the extent of Amitay’s talents, and how those talents allow her to encroach on the hyper-masculine territory of the “one-man” act.
Jonathan Shaw
Field Works — Ultrasonic (Temporary Residence)
Ultrasonic by Field Works
Stuart Hyatt’s latest compilation in the Field Works series is an absolute beauty — and timely given it’s being released during a pandemic whose origins may be linked to bats. The field recordings that the contributors used to create the music on Ultrasonic come from the echolocation of bats, and the approaches tend towards rhythmic or atmospheric. At the rhythmic end of the spectrum we have Eluvium’s majestic opener “Dusk Tempi,” akin to his work on Talk Amongst the Trees. Mary Lattimore’s glimmering harp patterns are fitting accompaniment to the chittering bat sounds on “Silver Secrets.” And Kelly Moran’s prepared piano on “Sodalis” sends the listener down a hall of mirrors, chased by gorgeous bass tones. At the more abstract, atmospheric end of the spectrum we have Jefre Cantu-Ledesma’s radiant “Night Swimming.” Christina Vantzou blurs the line between the sounds of modular synthesis and bat sonar on “Music for a Room with Vaulted Ceiling.” And on Sarah Davachi’s “Marion,” the listener is immersed in a luminous halo of nocturnal overtones. Wherever the artists venture, this is a varied yet consistently evocative collection.
Tim Clarke
FMB DZ — The Gift 3 (Fast Money Boyz / EMPIRE)
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The Gift 3 was initially set to be released in December 2019 but was postponed until now. DZ’s “Merry Christmas, pussies!” on one of the tracks doesn’t sound so odd, though, because the whole world has plunged into a constant holiday. The new album continues two trends. It carries on the “ape” theme from the previous album Ape Season. “Ape Activities,” “Keep It on Me” and “No Features” are the grittiest tracks from a disc where the prevalent mood is a sick worry. DZ made it out of the hood but had to be on the lookout as the enemies are out to get him. The other trend is that The Gift 3 continues the ideas of The Gift series. The songs have a usual verse-hook structure, are poppier and more relaxed than on Ape Season. DZ, thankfully, doesn’t try to sing anymore but hires some singers on choruses. The hardest track here is “High Speed” with Rio Da Yung Og where Detroit/Flint duo spit vicious lines.
Ray Garraty
Hala — Red Herring (Cinematic)
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Detroit multi-instrumentalist Ian Ruhala wears his heart dripping from his sleeve on “Red Herring” his latest record as Hala. Skipping from the yacht rock of “Making Me Nervous” to the country blues of “True Colors” via power pop, The Kinks and Tom Petty, Ruhala manages to create a thread with deceptively simple melodies and the sincerity of his delivery. There’s more than a touch of Kevin Barnes in the voice and the delight in throwing genres at the wall to see what sticks and, like Barnes, some of it fails to adhere. The pleasure here is in the sense of eavesdropping on the process and reveling in unexpected flourishes that refuse to be ignored.
Ruhala writes a smooth love song and isn’t afraid to turn up the guitar or address politics on standout “Lies” - “I’m eating breakfast with the fascists/Oh man they stand about ten feet tall/My mouth is bleeding at their proceedings/They get their courage through a plastic straw” It may not be Guthrie but he makes it work through a leavening wit and a mid-tempo vamp straight from the solar plexus. “Red Herring” suffers somewhat from its stylistic roaming but a fundamental big heartedness and willingness to reach makes it an enjoyable trip.
Andrew Forell
Las Kellies — Suck This Tangerine (Fire)
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Suck This Tangerine opens with a loose groove and a grime smeared highlife guitar line, the voice enters with ironic invitations over choppy Gang of Four chords. In the new one from Las Kellies, Argentinian duo Cecilia Kelly and Silvina Costa sling taut bass lines and slash guitars over mutant disco rhythms for 12 tracks of slinky indie dance. Drawing on elements from Leeds, London and the Bronx, Kelly and Costa add dubby space and South American humidity to their sound, to elevate the album beyond the sum of its influences.
Kelly handles guitar and bass, wielding the former like a cross between Andy Gill and Viv Albertine and unfurling loose funky serpents with the latter. Costa swings between ESG and The Bush Tetras and incorporates an array of hand drums that deepen and enliven the rhythmic pulse. There is a palpable and joyful chemistry between the two evidenced by their easy interplay and enhanced by the production that gives clarity and elbowroom to each instrument. If the lyrics can tend toward the perfunctory, they are delivered with a winking insouciance on put downs like “Close Talker” and “Rid Of You”. Suck This Tangerine is a worthy addition to the growing collection of feminist post-punk inspired albums we’ve been dancing to of late.
Andrew Forell
Mint Mile — Ambertron (Comedy Minus One)
Ambertron by Mint Mile
Silkworm, the band, may have ended in 2005 with the death of drummer Michael Dahlquist, but its legacy of slow, gut-socking heaviness, mordant wit and muscular guitar lives on, first in Bottomless Pit and now in Tim Midyett’s new band Ambertron. Midyett’s voice and clangorous baritone guitar is instantly recognizable, of course, to anyone who loved Silkworm, but the band diverges somewhat with the pedal steel played by Justin Brown of Palliard, weaving eerily though the slow buzz and moan of “Likelihood.” Jeff Panall, from Songs:Ohio, plays the hard, heavy drums that undergird these songs, giving them structure and forward motion. Other players include Matthew Barnhart from Tre Orsi and Horward Draper from Shearwater. Greg Normal of Bitter Tears contributes a mournful bit of trumpet to “Fallen Rock,” and Chicago alt-country mainstay Kelly Hogan takes the lead in “Sang.” The music is raw and morose; even dense strings can’t quite lift the gloom in “Christmas Comes and Goes,” a song as raw as late November in Chicago. And yet there’s a sort of resilience in it, a strength that comes through persistence. “If we could only find a way to bank the time we had together,” sings Midyett in “Giving Love,” his hoarse voice full of ragged loss, his guitar raging against it all and not quite beaten down even now.
Jennifer Kelly
Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra — If You Listen Carefully the Music Is Yours (Odin)
If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours by Gard Nilssen´s Supersonic Orchestra
Perched atop his drum stool, Gard Nilssen sits where styles converge. He’s supplied the controlled boil that drives the free-bop combo Cortex, laid down some heavier beats with Bushman’s Revenge and exemplified long-form lucidity with his own trio, Acoustic Unity. In 2019, the Molde Jazz Festival recognized his versatility and forward perspective by anointing him the artist in residence. Besides showcasing his ongoing projects and accompanying heavy guests from abroad, most notably Bill Frisell, he got to put together a dream project. This 16-piece big band, which includes members of Cortex, Acoustic Unity, and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, is it. With the assistance of co-arranger André Roligheten, Nilssen has taken some of his trio’s sturdy melodies and turned them into frameworks for boisterous but subtly colored performances. With three basses and three drummers, this could have been either a mess or an uptight game of “you first,” “no sir after you.” But the rhythm crew shifts easily between swinging unisons and refractory elaborations. Roligheten often plays two saxophones at once in smaller settings, and one suspects that he has a lot to do with the rich colors that the horns paint around the featured soloists.
Bill Meyer
Matthew J. Rolin — Ohio (Garden Portal)
Ohio by Matthew J. Rolin
The ghoulish image on the j-card belies the sounds encoded upon this tape. Matthew J. Rolin is a relative newcomer to the practice of acoustic guitar performance; the earliest release on his Bandcamp page was recorded in late 2017. But he’s catching on fast. Switching between six and twelve-string guitars, he serves up equal measures of ingratiating lyricism and immersive surrender to pure sound. Opener “Red Brick” slots into the former category, with a heart-tugging melody that keeps doling out turns that’ll keep you wondering where it’s going and backtracks that’ll ensure that you never feel lost. “Brooklyn Centre,” on the other hand, grows filaments of string sound out of a pool of prayer bowl resonance centering enough to make you cancel your mindfulness app subscription due to perceived lack of need. Rolin develops ideas situated between these poles over the rest of this brief set, which runs just shy of 28 minutes and definitely leaves one wanting a bit more.
Bill Meyer
Nick Storring — My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell (Orange Milk)
My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell by Nick Storring
What Jim O’Rourke did for the music of Van Dyke Parks and John Fahey on Bad Timing, Nick Storring does for Roberta Flack’s on My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell. The Canadian composer may not have O’Rourke’s name recognition or past membership in a very famous rock band going for him, but consider these parallels. He’s a handy with quite a few instruments, he’s an inveterate assistant to other artists across disciplinary lines, and he functions with equal commitment and fluency in a variety of genres. For this record, his first to be pressed on vinyl (albeit in miniscule numbers), Storring uses the lush string sound of Flack’s 1970s hits as a launching point for deep sonic immersions that are considerably more emotionally oblique than their inspirations’ articulations of loneliness and surrender. When he goes melodic, the cello-led tunes seem to reach for something that they never touch, and when he goes for slow-motion density, the music imparts an experience akin to watching the sort of cinematic experience where you can’t tell if you’re seeing a really slow take or the film has frozen at a single frame.
Bill Meyer
Sunn Trio — Electric Esoterica (Twenty One Eight Two Recording Company)
Electric Esoterica by Sunn Trio
Sunn Trio, from Arizona, makes sprawling, multi-ethnic psychedelia that juxtaposes the scree and groan of heavy improvisational rock with the otherly chords and rhythms of the Middle East. Opener “Alhiruiyn” slicks a trebly sheen over its surging, rampaging improvisations, more in the vein of Black Sun Ensemble than Cem Karaca. But “Majoun” layers antic percussion and tone-shifting bent notes in a limber evocation of the souk. “Roktabija The Promulgator” blasts a strident, swaggering surf riff, about as Arabic as “Miserlou” (which is, in fact, Arabic). “Khons at Karnak” buzzes with hard rock aggression, but shimmies with belly dancing syncopation. Because of the name, the preoccupation with non-Western cultures and the Phoenix mailing address, you might think that Sunn Trio is aligned somehow with Sun City Girls, but no. All kinds of weirdness lurks in the desert out there, lucky for us.
Jennifer Kelly
Turbo, Gunna & Young Thug — “Quarantine Clean” single (Playmakers)
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Despite the subject matter’s potential (ahem) virality, “Quarantine Clean” slipped out almost unnoticed in early April and is the kind of muted performance Young Thug doesn’t get enough credit for (while, curiously, his followers often get too much derision for). For all of Thugger’s hyperfluorescent hijinx over the years that have produced earworms like, say, “That’s All” and “Wyclef Jean,” there’s another side that shows up in stuff like “The Blanguage” and “Freaky” where he lets the words do the work; that’s the subterranean sonic world we’re living in here as he opines on God’s role in the pandemic and why he’s lost so much money but still has to pay for his parents’ penthouse (which: welcome to the revolution, pal). Thug’s acolyte in slime Gunna, meanwhile, does most of the song’s heavy lifting with duties on the first verse and chorus, but it’s pretty hard to tell the two apart, such is the slippery restraint both opt to exercise here. The real star, then, is beatmaker Turbo, whose buoyant anchor melody is complemented by what sounds like a lilting flute. It’s a light touch from all parties, a mellow mood well suited to our time of collective party-eschewing shelter. Run that back in prudence.
Patrick Masterson
Various Artists—Ten Years Gone (A Tribute to Jack Rose) (Tompkins Square)
Ten Years Gone : A Tribute to Jack Rose by Various Artists
A decade on from the too early passing of the great American Primitive/blues/raga player Jack Rose, Arborea’s Buck Curran gathers friends, collaborators and younger artists inspired by Rose for a gorgeous tribute to the master. Mike Gangloff, who played with Rose in Pelt and Black Twig Pickers, leads off with a plaintive, sepia-toned fiddle lament (“The Other Side of Catawbwa”), while next generation experimental droner Prana Crafter closes with an expansive, space folk reverie (“High Country Dynamo”). In between, old friends like Sir Richard Bishop evoke Rose’s full-blown orchestral guitar playing (“By Any Other Name”) while young pickers like Matt Sowell take up the trail forged by Dr. Ragtime. Isasa from Spain and Paulo Laboule Novellino from Italy attest to Rose’s global appeal. It’s mostly guitar, but not entirely; Helena Espvall from Espers contributes a brooding, reverberant “Alcantara” on cello. Curran’s own “Greenfields of America (Spiritual for Jack Rose)” is slow and thoughtful, letting long bent notes ring out with liquid clarity; it’s a hymn and a prayer and a testimony to the wide influence of an artist gone too soon.
Jennifer Kelly
Emily Jane White — Immanent Fire (Talitres)
Immanent Fire by Emily Jane White
Emily Jane White gets tagged as a folk singer, but on this, her sixth full-length, the Oakland songwriter brings a fair amount of goth-tinged drama. Taut string arrangements and big booming drums lift “Infernal” well out of the woman-with-guitar category, and White sounds more like PJ Harvey or even Chelsea Wolfe than a sweet voiced strummer. Immanent Fire sticks, topically, to environmental concerns with track titles like “Washed Away,” “Drowned” and “Metamorphosis.” A foreboding creeps through the songs, pretty as they are, even piano lit “Dew” asks “Does poison drop like the dew?” Arrangements, by Anton Patzner, the composer, arranger and violinist of Foxtails Brigade and Judgment Day, give these cuts weight and heft, punctuating eerie melodies with thick swathes of strings, rumbling percussion and keyboards. The disc culminates in “Light” which begins in a whisper and climaxes in drum-shocked, orchestral swoon. Soothing background music it is not.
Jennifer Kelly
Z-Ro — Quarantine: Social Distancing (1 Deep Entertainment / EMPIRE)
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An unexpected seven-track EP bears an expected title from a Dirty South legend. Z-Ro’s usual topics — trust and loneliness — gain a new meaning in the time of social distancing. To keep away women who only want his money is a necessary precaution now. To be at the corner at the party is a rule for survival. Z-Ro is on his ground counting his dough alone in the house. Earlier he did it so no ‘shife’ (the title of one of the tracks) friends could rob him, now it’s just to obey quarantine rules. The first half of this EP is a bit muddled by unnecessary intros and reggae tunes but the second one hits hard. As always with Z-Ro, the hardest content takes the gentlest form (“Niggas is Hoes” especially is almost a pop song). On the final track “Life of the Party” Boosie Badazz drops by, giving his verdict on the pandemic: “Fuck Corona!”
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Solar Opposites: The Ultra Opposites Episode #5: “Rise of The Empress”
(for @avaveevo and @crazychanuwu77)
(artworks made by @crazychanuwu77)
Characters:
Terry/Solar Flare
Korvo/The Legendary Super Shlorpian
Yumyulack/Psylock
Jesse/Electra
The Pupa
AISHA
Janiz
EVA, AISHA's Cousin
Daryl
Ophelia
Principal Cooke
Miss Frankie
In a lovely afternoon, the Solar Opposites were doing their usual activities. Yumyulack is even hanging out with his boyfriend Daryl.
Daryl: So, how are you doing?
Yumyulack: Oh y’know. Just the usual. I was just hanging out with my family. Nothing much.
Daryl: Oh.
As for the adults were fixing a machine, with Korvo’s sister Janiz helping tighten the screw. Suddenly, an alarm rang.
Janiz: Oh shit! That’s the Ultra Opposites signal!
Korvo: What?! What the fuck is happening?!
Terry: I don’t know. Better go get the kids.
Terry then head to a school and head into the Principal Office, with Cooke annoyed.
Principal Cooke: What the fuck is your problem Opposites? You better have a good explanation.
Miss Frankie: What the hell are you doing this time?!
Terry: Only a family emergency. Just call our kids up here!
Principal Cooke: Ugh! Fine! uses his speaker Yumyulack and Jesse Opposites! Come into my office!
Yumyulack and Jesse head into the office.
Terry: Kids! Big emergency stat!
As Terry grabs the kids and takes them home, Daryl was busy taking his stuff out of the locker. Until, someone grabbed him.
Back at the Ultra Opposites HQ, Janiz was busy typing down what is happening.
Janiz: Oh shit! It’s that ruthless empress Ophelia! She might be out to destroy Earth!
Aisha: Hmm. According to my settings, she’s here to rule Earth! Damn, that bitch is evil and nasty!
Korvo: Hmm? Something is up with that Empress! Ultra Opposites, time to transform!
Terry, Yumyulack and Jesse: Right!
The Solar Opposites transforms into Ultra Opposites as they get into their superhero stance and they prepare to head out to stop Ophelia.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Come on Ultra Opposites! Let’s go stop that empress!
Pupa: Go Ultra Opposites!
The Ultra Opposites head off to stop the empress.
Janiz then got busy to figure out why Ophelia is attacking Earth right now.
Janiz: Hmm? suddenly hears Ophelia talking on the radio Uh oh, I don’t think Yumyulack is gonna like this. Eve, get to Ultra Opposites! Stat!
The heroes made it to where Ophelia is at.
Terry/Solar Flare: Not so fast you evil bitch! We’re here to stop you!
Ophelia: Oh, the Ultra Opposites! What a surprise! Time to fucking crush you superhero aliens!
Yumyulack/Psylock: Nice fucking try! We got very powerful super powers!
Korvo/The Legendary Super Shlorpian: So Don’t try to stop us!
Jesse/Electra: Yeah! What they said, bi-atch!
The Ultra Opposites get into a fight-pose stance as they prepare to stop the Empress. Suddenly, Yumyulack notices sometime he knows tied up.
Yumyulack/Psylock: Oh my God! Daryl?!
Daryl: Ultra Opposites, look out! She’s here to- gets shock by Ophelia as he screams in pain
Ophelia: Shut up bitch!
Yumyulack/Psylock, horrified that Ophelia hurt Daryl: You...YOU MONSTER!
Ophelia slaps Yumyulack/Psylock, causing him to fall.
Jesse/Electra: YUMYULACK!
Ophelia: Don't fool with me, you little rat. You are powerless against- Ophelia is suddenly slashed on the cheek. She looks to see EVA
Ophelia: Why you little fool...
EVA: Not on my watch!
Ophelia and EVA fights while Yumyulack recovers and helps free Daryl as he unties him.
Daryl: Damn, thanks babe.
Yumyulack/Psylock: No problem honey. But, I better get you to safety. uses his mind reading powers to get through Ophelia
Ophelia: What are you doing?!
Yumyulack/Psylock: Nobody messes with my boyfriend, you motherfucker! uses his psychic powers to blast Ophelia away Electra!
Jesse/Electra: On it babe! Uses her electric wrecking ball that shocks Ophelia, but Ophelia uses her gravity powers to try to hurt Jesse as she fell on the floor
Ophelia: Nice try you little brat!
Jesse/Electra: gets back and uses her electric ball to shock Ophelia Nice try fucker! uses her anger to unleash a massive lightning blast Ophelia away as she screams
Ophelia: Grr! You! suddenly gets hit by a fireball from Solar Flare
Terry/Solar Flare: Fire time, motherfucker! uses his fire powers to distract Ophelia
AISHA: made it with Pupa Go get ‘em Terry!
Pupa: Solar Flare!
Suddenly, Solar Flare gets hit by Ophelia as he fell on the floor. Korvo then sees his beloved sweetheart in danger as he gasp once he notice Ophelia about to throw a purple fireball at Solar Flare until the Legendary Super Shlorpian uses his ice powers to destroy it with his ice breath.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: That does it! You mess with my Solar Flare, you mess with me!
With a huge growl, the Legendary Super Shlorpian transforms into his Super Shlorpian form as he roars.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Aaaahhh!…… that’s better.
Solar Flare gets back up as he and the Replicants stare at him shockingly. Solar Flare ignites himself whenever he’s turned on (or whenever he sees SS Korvo) as the kids flew up.
Yumyulack/Psylock: Damn Terry!
Jesse/Electra: Jesus Christ!
Terry/Solar Flare: cools down Damn honey. You so strong!
Jesse/Electra: Wow! You really getting good at handling your super Shlorpian form!
Yumyulack/Psylock: What's it like to transform?
Korvo/The Legendary Super Shlorpian: I can't describe it. It's very intense and...erotic...
Terry/Solar Flare: And they say I'm the horny one?
Ophelia: evil laugh No one can stop me now!
The Legendary Super Shlorpian roars as he uses his ice breath to blast Ophelia away as she screams. Solar Flare blushes at his sweet hubby as Korvo continues to fight Ophelia as he lands by his wing, Ophelia tries to throw a fireball but then Solar Flare ignited and punches Ophelia in the face as she screams.
Terry/Solar Flare: That’s right bitch l! You done!
Yumyulack/Psylock: That’s for kidnapping my boyfriend you bitch!
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: Stand down you motherfucker! Janiz?!
Janiz: made it On it! uses a machine to tie up Ophelia, who escapes
Ophelia: This isn’t over Ultra Opposites! I’ll be back! transports away
Janiz: Damn it, she got away!
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: That’s okay, when she comes back, we’ll be ready for her!
Psylock flies over to Daryl as he smiles.
Yumyulack/Psylock: So, what do you think?
Daryl: Babe, you were fantastic. kisses Yumyulack as he blushes
Jesse/Electra: So, what do you want to do now?!
Janiz: Who wants pizza?!
Yumyulack/Psylock and Jesse/Electra: I do! I do! I do!
Terry/Solar Flare: Easy there kiddos. Just head home, Janiz will order pizza in a minute.
Yumyulack/Psylock and Jesse/Electra: Okay.
As Janiz takes the kids home, Solar Flare and Legendary Super Shlorpian stayed behind as the two super hero alien husbands stare at each other lovingly.
Terry/Solar Flare: Huh? Looks like we done it again, huh Legendary Super Shlorpian?
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: You got that right Solar Flare.
Terry/Solar Flare: Mmm, tell you what, I love it when you turn into your Super Shlorpian form.
Korvo/Legendary Super Shlorpian: chuckles You sure you wanna do our thing later?
Terry/Solar Flare: If you say so.
The two Ultra Opposites husbands share a kiss as the sunsetsets and the two husbands fell on the grass softly in an embrace as they French kiss away. Even if Ophelia got away, she always be stopped, and the world will always be save, thanks to the Ultra Opposites.
The End
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Ultra Opposites Movie Song
After hearing that Ophelia has kidnapped Daryl, Yumyulack, driven by rage, is ready to fight Ophelia but Korvo stops him saying that he isn't ready. Terry takes Yumyulack to a training course that Korvo made when they first landed on Earth. Solar Flare then sings "Out For Love" from Hazbin Hotel. As the song ends Yumyulack becomes Psylock for the first time and becomes amazed of his transformation.
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Saariselka - The Ground Our Sky
An absolutely perfect collab between Marielle Jakobsons (Fender Rhodes, organ, synthesizers) and Chuck Johnson (pedal steel guitar and treatments) that delivers on the promise of their recent Longform Editions contribution -- and then some! The Ground Our Sky is a spacial/glacial trip, with Jakobsons’ Terry Riley-esque keyboards melding magnificently with Johnson’s solar flare pedal steel. Mostly instrumental, but the two vocal pieces are great, too — Jakobsons’ goth-y turn on “Into The Wind” makes me think of Kendra Smith, while “The Void” is a gorgeous slo-mo pop song that suggests that sometimes when you stare into the abyss, the abyss smiles back.
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Our bodies are changing and we are going through extreme releasing so that more light can enter our cells, and other previous dormant, or what scientists believe as junk DNA can activate. As our old karmic imprints are being burnt away by the sacred fires of alchemy, higher light is able to enter because of these purifying fires. It's been quite a whirlwind as these new energies are infiltrating.
We are all feeling the many subtle changes going on around us and within our bodies and this will continue to happen so that our energy has time to adjust to the new frequencies being transmitted down, helping us to not only clear the old blockages, but to integrate the very new rays that have new signature patterns.
Many are feeling the battle wounds of this and are feeling incredibly tired and spent. As the frequency rises it may be hard to see the benefits yet and easy to lose sight that progress is being made at all.
We are all going through a cleanse of eliminating toxins and emotional dross that have slowly built up over many lifetimes. Solar flares will continue to be released amplifying and helping us in upgrading our DNA, shifting our vibrational frequency. Heightened sensitivities, electrical surges and buzzing through the body, heightened sensitivities to sound and energy. Muscle cramps and heat flashes that are connected to the releasing of kundalini energy moving through the body. Sleep disturbances and a need for more stillness and quietness.
Dizziness, unexplained flu-like symptoms, feeling lethargic and headachy, and brain fog for no apparent reason. Feelings of exhaustion and burnout and the Thymus fluttering, heart palpitations as the heart charkra awakens like a sleeping giant stirring, are all indications of the change. Our life force readjusting as gentle waves of light moves through us. These unpleasant symptoms will pass as our vibration continues to rise and we correct ourselves and release the energy blockages and distortions we have been carrying around.
These internal adjustments are here to attune us and clear away the inner pollution we have been carrying.
The more we can continue to process our shadow selves and the more we tend to the house where spirit lives the more effortless our transition will be and the more light can enter. We really are like baby switchboards learning to plug in to many more circuits that previously were not available to us. We can only handle a certain amount of energy at a time running through us otherwise we would literally blow our circuits. Our job is to be open to working the amount of increased voltage that is coming in.
We are opening up to the lines of extra-sensory communication that hasn’t been previously available to us. For this to be done successfully our spiritual, emotional, physical and mental bodies must be purified.
- Terri Morehu, excerpt from 'The Age of Unity'
art: Silvio Vieira
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solar flares and salt
by IsleofSolitude
An angel and a demon stood on a wall while in the distance, Adam and Eve made their way...
...In his peripheral, Aziraphale can see red locks that have gotten wet clinging to perfect skin.
Words: 437, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Prompt Fic, Eden - Freeform
source https://archiveofourown.org/works/24724474
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I was tagged by @kanawolf to post these facts :) Thank you very much! I usually don't post personal stuff here so if you're interested, go follow my personal blog @goldenhornets
Nickname/s: Aww, these are kinda personal. Nobody calls me nicknames except for my family but I'm the Apollo to my Hades (you know who you are and I hope I won't forget to tag you below)
Zodiac sign: Cancer
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
Last thing I googled: Night of the Prog 2019 Lineup
Favourite Musicians: Temples, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Led Zeppelin, Alan Parsons, Billy Idol, Depeche Mode, Hatari, Van der Graaf Generator, Royal Republic, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple, New Order, Rory Gallagher, The Pretty Things, Syd Barrett, Rammstein, Extrabreit, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The Black Keys, Jack White, T. Rex, Sweet, Iron Maiden, Greta van Fleet
Last movie I saw: All My Loving at the cinema yesterday
Last book I read: If comics count, The Sandman by Neil Gaiman which I highly recommend (but only to mature readers). If they don't, The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.
Song stuck in my head: Enter Sandman by Metallica
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Amount of sleep: I'm actually living a pretty healthy lifestyle; it hasn't always been this way but overcoming depression and suicidal thoughts and regaining an urgent wish to live, I'm trying to take care of myself by sleeping 8-9 hours.
Lucky number: 13 and 23
What I'm wearing: A shirt with an art nouveau flower print, a black blazer, black flares and platform pennyloafers.
Dream job: Biologist or owning a cozy record store. Maybe both some day?
Dream trip: I don't know tbh, somewhere I've never been before.
Favourite food: Fruit! God, I love fruit. And greek salad, stuffed vine leaves, olives, artichokes... The good Mediterranean shit.
Instruments: I used to play the violin as a kid but switched to the guitar. I'm rather proud of the fact that I practice every day.
Languages: German is my native language, my English is mostly self-taught from reading extraordinary amounts of porn on AO3 and some broken French.
Favourite songs: My favourite at the moment is Fire Walk With Me by The Black Keys.
Random fact: As some of you already know, I damaged my eyes by looking straight into a solar eclipse in my early teenage years. I was fucking dumb and had to be taken to a doctor as an emergency because my eyes kept hurting for days afterwards. Luckily, it doesn't really affect my sight in terms of blurriness but I see shadows where there aren't supposed to be any.
Aesthetic: The smell of bonfires, daffodils, opening a new book for the first time, the sound a record player's needle makes when it hits the vinyl, the golden hour before sunset, calloused fingertips, 70s wallpapers, summer rain, listening to the radio at night, corkscrew curls, the smell of chlorine and the ache of your muscles relaxing when finally laying down to sleep after a busy day.
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