In fact, let me summarize what happens without any of the OOC stuff. Just the things that happen to the world in those first 10 pages.
New Beginning, A Retrospective by Gentleman Vaultboy
21, November 2012, 7:00 a.m. A date that will live in infamy. Dark Friday.
WHD, Myself and Greenday, and Wish all awaken on Earth to discover they have gained every superpower they have on the Superpower List. WHD and Myself immediately seek one another out and form an Dynamic Duo All Star Tag-Team, becoming almost unkillable because of a bunch of complimentary powers they can share, then start looking for Wulf. Greenday, meanwhile, plays some Maplestory and suddenly realizes he's dressed as his character. Upon discovering this he calls out to Neogenetica so he can shoot him with an arrow.
Meanwhile, Wish is having troubles. His Fictional World Interblending, while giving him a bunch of neat toys that any nerd would cut off their right hand to own, is bringing all manner of fictional characters to life and causing people to become them. After seeing the damage caused by a pair of rampaging supervillains in giant mechs and almost becoming Timmy Turner, he wraps himself in a protective ball to keep from getting mind controlled by his own ability. As I said before, this is pretty blatantly Bohemian Rhapsody so it's happening world wide. Maybe universe wide. Then the Devil shows up in the bubble with him.
Mark It: first villain ever.
Meanwhile, out in space, Wulf wakes up in his beautiful Celadon crib. Wait, let me back that up: Wulf accidentally a
planet in his sleep. It's a beautiful, mythical world where he rules as the Penultimate, emperor for life. It's like he died and went to Mormon Heaven. He says it's a combination of powers that caused this to happen, and I like to believe Wish's Fiction Merging had something to do with it too. Also three immensely powerful beings presumably appeared on Celadon when it did, but they haven't actually come into the plot yet. Just covering my bases here. Also it's unclear just how close Celadon is to Earth.
At this point Wish masters his powers and, to keep the normal people from getting too stressed, teleports all the superpowered mess to a different planet. He doesn't say which, so I'll just call it Rad World if it ever comes up again.
Myself and WHD clairvoyance Wulf to find him and teleport in front of him, integrating him into their tag-team which is now more of a Stable. I will be referring to this stable as The Holy Trinity. Myself has heard that Wulf enjoys bases, so he builds a base in his base so he can base while he bases. He then makes it impossible for anyone but him, Wulf, and WHD to enter Wulf's base, which I'm sure is going to be momentarily embarrassing for him when the servants can't get in.
WHD, meanwhile, heads back to Earth and uses technopathy to tell everyone to remain calm and that some people have just sort of become godheads overnight. This man that no one knows, who doesn't tell anyone why this happened because he doesn't know, then offers to train the superpowered people at a place he doesn't tell them how find and is in fact impossible to locate. This mysterious voice/video over every electronic device then tells everyone that "
there's a new sheriif in town."
I don't know about you, but my fears are completely assuaged.
Anyway, he builds an awesome Australian Xavier School as Myself comes back and helpfully points out that, not only have new superpowered beings come into existence, but some didn't like Rad World and came back. Presumably via teleportation. There is pandemonium, fighting everywhere. People with powers that give other people powers are doing just that, making huge gangs that are fighting in the street. It's like a plague. Myself, thinking quickly, teleports them all to WHDs base. Let that sink in: he teleports a whole riot into his friends living room. He does not tell WHD he is going to do this. I'm going to let him knowing about the base, being able to find it, and teleporting a riot through WHDs protections slide on the basis of Tag-Team.
Meanwhile, so far out in space that even space hasn't come into existence yet, Mik floats in the infinite. He is told by a being known as The Jester that someone has screwed reality a little and now everyone on the Superpower List has all their powers from the Superpower List. The Jester then throws all the bad things in the universe at him, to train him in the use of his powers so that he can keep existence from ending.
Meanwhile, Celedon, Wulf decides he's not going to do any fantasy stuff today. Instead, sensing all the troubles, he flies to Earth. This means that Celedon must be fairly close, like uncomfortably so. So not only is there superpowerd riots going on, but there is also a new planet visible to the naked eye just hanging out near Earth. He finds a riot and yells at them, then gets taken out by Killer Croc.
Considering the power scale here, I find this mental image hilarious. Kudos to you, random boulder hucker, where ever you may be. I bet nobody believes him when he says he once knocked out the Penultimate with a rock, but I know his story. I will carry it in my heart always.
Anyway Myself shows up because that guy is everywhere. He valiantly protects Wulfs prone form from the onslaught of deadly deadly rocks, shocks him back to life, and tells him that superpowered armies are now fighting for control of the planet.
Meanwhile Wish is chillaxing on Rad World, and comes to the realization that having all the super powers was super boring. Then the Devil shows up again and taunts him about the fact that, because the Devil comes from his imagination, he is just as powerful as Wish and can not truly be killed. Wish's own power is also his worst enemy. It is on this cliffhanger that Page One draws to a close.
Hey son, wanna' learn how ta' make witch balls?
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It's fine. We can wait.
We value quality over quantity.
