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Cobalt Kid assembled his squad in the espionage room, although a sense of doom weighed down on them. This appeared to be a suicide mission.
With him was Lash, Super Lad Kid, Marvin of the Brood, Homecoming Queen, Poverty Lad, Icefyre, Outdoor Miner (who had to be sobered up by Faraway, who made his drunkeness go faraway), and puppy Stu (who was still a mage in his own right, although now a puppy). Super Lad Kid wondered why he was a part of this mission, although Cobalt had faith in him. Icefyre flirted with Lash, although to be honest, he was worried about Lash, since there was a rumor that the Time Mouse Trapper had an interest in him. Homecoming Queen let out a nervous titter, as Outdoor Miner relayed the information to them. "Ant-Man gave me the coordinates we need to find the Time Mouse Trapper. But our big-guns are needed to stop the invasion of the ants. It's now up to us. May the great Bug-god gsidndi help us". "That's it?" said Marvin, a bit surprised. "No" replied Cobalt, "there's a bit more to it..."
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All over other LMBPers and super-heroes joined the fight. Kid Therod, Kid Psychout and Seahorse joined the LMBP in the ongoing fight near Xanthu. Beagle Boy, Alternate Boy and Dedman helped fend off attacks on Legion World itself, which was now under attack. All over, old heroes and new joined in against the universe spanding threat. But still it seemed to be overwhelming...
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There was more to the plan. Kid Prime and Captain Lightbulb secretly rejoined the rest of the Light Brigade on their home base. Nobody and Flasher greeted them with a hug, while Antler Lass showed off those buxom breasts. Captain Lightbulb had a plan though, although this time it wasn't his. He told the Light Brigade, what they had to do: a virtual suicide mission into the labratory of Ant-Man, fending off the Giant Ants of the Cogaaad. From there, they had to work the cannon that had already been activated by the dying LMBPer, and fire it into the sun, changing the color of the sun from Red to Yellow, thereby depowering the Ants.
However, this was the largest cluster of the Cogaaad that they knew of. It was by far a suciude mission, and it didn't look like any would make it. "I cannot ask you to risk your lives so. Only volunteers step forward, and no one will think less of you." Everyone stepped forward (except Dormant Damsel of course). Kid Prime smiled. "Very well" said Captain Lightbulb! "Let this be known as the Charge of the Light Brigade!"
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Outdoor Miner looked at his motley crew of LMBPers and saw despair in their eyes. How could they defeat one as powerful as the Time Mouse Trapper? Granted, Stu, Cobalt and Icefyre were powerful, but even they couldn't do much against the Time-powered rodent tyrant. Still, he knew what had to be done. Cobalt nodded. Outdoor Miner teleported them to Ant-Man's coordinates. When they reappeared, they saw a smiling Time Mouse Trapper, his grin widening..
--------- Doctor One informed Crujectra of Cobalt's team leaving. She looked down for a brief second and said a quick prayer.
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As the soul of Ant-Man passed into the unknown, another LMBPer became aware of the trouble. She helped guide the soul through the light, and then turned back to the world of the living. She was the LMBP Spectre, and she was the most powerful of her peers. An LMBer had died. And his soul cried out for vengeance...
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The LMBPers teleported to the coordinates of the Time Mouse Trapper, via Ant-Man, who in his dying breaths figured out how to cross the time/space continium to the end of time. He stood there grinning, his rodent face covered by a purple cloak.
Immediately, he blasted back Outdoor Miner, knocking him to the ground. Cobalt Kid, Icefyre, Lash and Poverty Lad attacked him, using their various powers. Icefyre attempted to encase him with ice, Cobalt used his magnetism and Poverty Lad used his mighty martian strength to pound him. Flustered for a second, the Time Mouse Trapper blasted them all back to the ground. He smiled at Lash, "you I will save for last." Homecoming Queen and Super Lad Kid watched on as Marvin of the Brood leaped at the Time Mouse Trapper, only to be hurled to the side. The Time Mouse Trapper laughed as he blasted him fiercely, burning the Brood officers skin. "what can we do?" asked Super Lad Kid to Homecoming Queen, as the more powerful LMBers laid to the side. "We have to do something!" yelled Amber as she leaped at the Time Mouse Trapper as Lash wrapped his rope around him! Amber fought bravely, trying to take the Time Mouse Trapper off his feet, but the cloaked figure was too strong. He blasted her back, his power to potent to be categorized. He burned Lash's rope with a touch. He turned to Super Lad Kid and Lash now with a smile.
"WAIT!" echoed a voice suddenly. The Time Mouse Trapper turned, and his smile slowly drifted away. The LMBP Spectre, the spirit of Vengeance now stood facing him.
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The LMBP Spectre and the Time Mouse Trapper stood face to face, as Lash Lad and Super lad Kid looked on. The grappled across planes and dimensions, through ideas and brief notions, in ways that no one could understand. The other LMBPers looked up from their knees as the two powers grappled.
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At the labratory of Ant-Man, the Light Bridage made their charge. Pushing through the ants, Antler Lass and Robot Woman made up the first front, allowing the others to go through! The rest moved on, as the Flasher and Nobody allowed Kid Prime and Captain Lightbulb enough room to get through!
Captain Lightbulb saw the cannon, but was suddenly nailed by ants everywhere! Kid Prime now saw that he was the last hope for the universe...
...slowly making his way to the cannon, he fended off attack after attack. Still, he would not fall. Finally, reaching the cannon, Kid Prime pointed it at the sun, and blasted.
He blasted and blasted as best he could, not falling once. Into the sun it hit, and the reaction soon followed...
...the sun turned from red to yellow, and slowly the Ants began to loose all of their super-power. Their heads too began to clear up, as the yellow sun drained their energy reserves.
Kid Prime fell, as Captain Lightbulb scooped him up, and the Light Brigade regrouped!
---------- All across the universe, the Giant Ants lost their power. The LMBP began mopping them up, although most were not hostile once they regained their senses. Abin Quank and the Emerald Empress held them in status while waiting for orders.
"But what about the crew that went to fight the Time Mouse Trapper?" asked Lard Lad over the intercom.
"Still no word" replied a solemn Doctor One
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The LMBP Spectre fought against the Time Mouse Trapper as the fate of the universe hung in the balance. She fought bravely, and thoughts of her life flashed before her eyes. She had long ago made peace with what she was, a combination of three different people. She had taken the name Josephine, had developed a life outside of her existence of the spirit of Vengeance. She was head of the Museum for Fallen Heroes. She had a girlfriend named Jennifer. She enjoyed old movies. She was no longer a retconned entity that had no place in the world! She was a person! And she fought as hard as she could for the LMBP! (*thanks to the LMBP Spectre for the PM about this info !)
However, the battle raged on, and the Time Mouse Trapper's power seemed to begin winning. Time after all can outlast vengeance. Soon, the LMBP Spectre fell...
The LMBPers watched on in horror, as the LMBP Spectre reverted back to normal size and fell to the ground. Cobalt Kid caught her, laying her down. "Hang in there Jo..."
A de-powered Time Mouse Trapper flew back to where the LMBP where. He let out a loud laugh! "And now your most powerful have fallen! But I tire of this game!" he yelled, as he blasted Poverty Lad, Homecoming Queen, Icefyre and Marvin! "Now Lash Lad, it is you and I." "I don't know you want from me rodent, but your days are numbered" said Lash in defiance. "Numbered? I have all the time in the world" laughed the Time Mouse Trapper. "You did too once. You once had retcon powers. The power to change reality! Yet, you gave them up! You gave them all away! You could have controlled time! You could have controlled Reality! Everything!"
"Everything isn't what I want" replied Lash with a smile. "Smile all you like. You gave it all up. But in every reality you did not." Lash looked at him hard for a minute. "Do you begin to understand what I'm telling you?" smiled the Time Mouse Trapper.
Super Lad Kid watched on as the rest of the LMBP laid on the ground. He had been forgotten. The Time Mouse Trapper was weakened though, it was obvious. The Spectre had taken much of his power, and now was the only time they'd have to strike. Once, he questioned whether he had a place on this team. Now, he saw was a chance to prove himself wrong. His power wasn't much, and it was amost a bit dumb. But it was still his, and he was still an LMBer.
Using his power, Super Lad Kid replicated the smell of cheese in the air. He had direct contact with sun light earlier and had enough reserve energy left. He knew this would take a month off his life (using his power always did) and that he could never replicate the smell of cheese again. But he knew this might work.
As Lash and the Time Mouse Trapper spoke, the smell of cheese permeated in the air. Stu, as a puppy, suddenly reappeared after using his spell to hide himself for a time. He watched on as the Mouse part of the time mouse trapper reacted to the cheese. Stu, like SLK, understood the Time Mouse Trapper's greatest weakness was the mouse aspect of his being, that he could not control his urges. And as depowered as he was, there was no way to stop the mouse from controlling him now.
The Time Mouse Trapper reacted to the cheese, by turning his attention away from Lash searching for it! SLK smiled, seeing the Time Mouse Trapper succumb to a virtual Time Mouse Trap! Stu winked at SLK and let out his own wopper of a power, as his spell unleashed on the Time Mouse Trapper. He'd been saving it for himself to try and turn himself back into a human (from a puppy), but he'd gladly sacrifice that chance to stop the trapper! Using his spell, he suddenly zapped the Time Mouse Trapper and a cloud of purple smoke erupted!
When the smoke cleared, the Time Mouse Trapper was no more. He was two people now, too weak to counter the spell that tore him into two individuals. One, was a mouse, searching for cheese. The other was a human. And he looked like an older Lash.
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Lash watched on in horror to see the Time Mouse Trapper was him. A weakened Trapper looked at him, in disbelief that he had been attacked. "N-now you see...what I was telling you..."
"Yes, I do see. So you are me. You're me in a different reality where I kept the reality altering powers. Pathetic. What a pathetic creature you've turned into. I bet you don't even listen to Lucinda Williams anymore." The Trapper looked at him in anger, and summoned his power. But surprisingly, it wasn't there.
Stu smiled on. "Looks like the time powers are stuck in the mouse part of you. And it just left the end of time looking for some cheese. Looks like you're all out of luck Trapper!" yelled the puppy as the Time-Mouse (sans Trapper) exited the end of time! "Now you have no power!"
Cobalt rose carrying the LMBP Spectre. Icefyre and Poverty Lad helped up Super Lad Kid who was weak from using his power. "Nice job Kid" said Pov, as Icefyre added "we knew you had it in you!" "So did I, I guess" smiled SLK.
Homecoming Queen looked at the Trapper. "This is an alternate version of you?! How icky! You're not a good version of Lash, did you know that?" The LMBP laughed as the Trapper looked at them in anger. "You're finished Trapper" said Lash. "All this time you've hated us, and for no reason. Beacause in this reality I had the sense not to keep my reality-altering powers? That's weak. But don't worry, you'll have all the time in the world to think about it"
"No!" yelled the Trapper. "Oh yes" said Stu. "Have fun at the end of time. I'd say we'd call, but...you know how it is." "Consider it a gift from the universe after the Cogaaad fiasco" said Miner. "Yeah, in other words, toodles!" said Pov, who always gets the best lines...
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Outdoor Miner teleported them back to Legion World, where Crujectra and Doctor One rejoiced to see them. The Time Mouse Trapper was no more, as the Time Mouse searched time for cheese and the Trapper was left powerless at the end of time.
SLK and the LMBP Spectre were looked after by Doctor One, both weak, although they would easily get better. Jo didn't need the rest in all actuality, but they told her she deserved it.
The Giant Ants were all rounded up, and given their own planet of underground hills. Here, they promised to mine for minerals and give them back to the universe, in payment for all the harm they caused. It wasn't there fault, they were controlled, but they wanted to make amends anyway.
A statue of Ant-Man, an honorary LMBer, was ereced in the Hall of Fallen Heroes, as the LMBP honored their lost friend.
The Light Brigade and Kid Prime rejoined their LMB friends and were honored for what they'd done. Forever, the legend of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" would be known.
There were still questions concerning Eyrk Davis Ester's whereabouts, Numf-El and Harbinger's quest for Golden Girl's origins and the time-lost Rody the Super Rat and Dusty Baker. But as Poverty Lad pointed out to Lash: "we have all the time in the world..." Ouch Pov .
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And there is the end of the brief "Great Cogaad Saga"!
I hope somebody reads it, and I hope someone at least enjoys it !
Although it was hard to pull the early posts out here from the larger thread without making it too confusing or repetitive, I felt like doing it anyway.
And if anyone is curious about LMB continuity, this story might be interesting to them, without having to wade through 30 pages of thread.
Now, maybe Numf, Abin/Space Ranger, IB and others will do the same! There are also funny posts by FC, EDE and others well into the ending pages of the thread, who always were willing to lob some nice hand grenades into the stories!
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