Editing Back Issue Bin - Arc 6 (section)

===issue # '''34''':6===
*  ''' "A Nice Place to Visit" ''',  June 15, 2006.
** ''RECAP:''  And the blood ran freely in Seattle.  This episode starts off with a bang.  Jack Marx, and Arthur are assulted by a large group of apparently controlled animals...most of the Seattle zoo it seems.  Jack starts the show by seperating himself from his body and draws the telekinetics soul from her body and traps her in Astral Space with him, thus nutralizing most of her powers.  Marx and Arthur waste no time in clearing out a vast majority of the animals when a bright spear of red energy flashes out of the darkness and snakes it's way across the open parking lot, weaving around animals and obstacles to hit Marx dead in the chest.  He is injured as parts of his flesh slough away from the power of this attack.  Jack, having gotten a respite from his struggle with Kimberly reaches out with his ultimate control of all things mechanical and starts a demolishion derby with all the cars in the lot.  As Marx reels from the energy blast, he is jumped by a lion which rends his abused flesh neigh unto death.  As Arthur prepares to rush to Marx's aid (No really!!! He was going to...honest) a flying monstrosity flies over the battlefield screaming instructions to another survivor to take out Arthur.  A young girl responds with a withering bolt of crimson energy at Arthur, who thanks to the flying bat was ready.  Holding up Excaliberedge first, he splits the beam and reflects half up at the Man/bat, and sends the other half back at it's owner.  The Man/bat manages to survive by shedding body parts and mass and reforming himself as good as now...sort of.  The young girl is not so fortunate.  The blast knocks her through a tree which disintigrates from the power of her own blast returned.  The Man/bat streaks out of the sky, and swooping across the battlefield, blindsides Arthur and sinks his taloned legs through Arthur's stomach and drives him into the ground bleeding and dying.  

**Meanwhile, across town, Brian has grabbed the old man and rushed him to a nearby hospital for aid, passing a macabe gruesome crucifix with a man attached by his own skin and bones.  Upon enteringthe Hospital, he is almost immediatly recognized as "Horizon" and welcomed as their savior.  The elation is short lived however, as several members of Progeny arrive on the scene looking for trouble.  Two members stalk down the street past Brian and he takes the opportunity to strike first.  After holding a brief council with gravity as to which way it should be influencing a car, Brian launches a auto at the Progeny called Bleach...who apparently has little protection from Fords.  The other member looks at Brian and with a tremulous voice states, "Dude!!  You are SO FUCKED!!  You are really fucked man!"  And promtply runs away as the earth buckles and shakes around them.  As Brian watches, a large golem like being made rock and debris forms up and starts digging through the wreckage of the car and Bleach.  As the golem pulls out a viscous white mess, he seems to go mad.  In rage he "reaches" out and grabs the two buildings next to Brian and topples them ontop of him.  Brian struggles valiently to preserve the buildings and more importantly the innocent people within them, but Brian is overmatched and buried alive.  Buried but unharmed, Brian looks through the rubble to spot the bodies of the other people this man sacrificed to strike him.  Perhaps, for the first time in his life, Brian sees a large scale willful extermination of life right in front of his eyes.  As he rises to his feet, he confronts the Titan now standing before him.  Rage and grief overwhelming them both the surge twoards each other and lock.  After severl moments, Brian manages to get the upper hand and force his opponent away from the earth that gives him his strength, and rockets him upwards twoards the vacuum of space and hangs him there to suffocate.

**Back across town, Arthur has just regained conciousness to find the Man/bat standing over him grinning. "What shall I make of you?"  he almost croons to Arthur.  Realizing this may be his final moment, and too hurt to do anything else, Arthur surges forward and grabs the Man/bat by the throat and utters one word,"SALSA!!"  Then the world goes white...<br>