Scarletspeed7 Plots a Comic Crossover With User-Nominated Characters

The following is a project undertaken by Scarletspeed7. Using almost 50 user-nominated characters, Scarlet put together this ongoing comic book storyline, each issue aside from the first eliminating one character as it went along.

The Story
=== The Space In-Between #1 - "Beyond Newcastle" http://s23.postimg.org/5znwk9rsb/the_space_in_between.jpg We open to a black image slowly being overtaken by a white cloud. A narrator explains to us that the order of the multiverse is maintained by the antibody-like In-Between, which fills the cracks between universes and prevents them from crossing between one another. The white cloud continues to expand until a stir stick is plunged into it, swirling it around. We pan out to see it's a cup of coffee held by John Constantine. Constantine gets a phone call; he continues to explain the In-Between in narrative boxes as we see just his side of the conversation. He begrudgingly agrees to something, pays for his coffee and leaves, getting his trademarked trenchcoat from a coat rack as he exits the diner. Elsewhere, Jack Bauer enters the Situation Room of the White House; President Charles Logan, in obvious crisis mode, has aides all around him who he sends away at the sight of Jack. Behind him on a wall-sized screen is a map of the US covered in red dots. Logan explains that there are flashpoints of unusual activity all over the country with strange beings appearing. Constantine arrives at his destination in Newcastle, England, meeting Superman. Superman shows a Phantom Zone projector that has been shattered. As Constantine looks past the projector, he sees a large dining hall coated with blood, organs and bones. Superman points out a specific face - that of Ursa, General Zod's right-hand woman, plastered to a nearby wall; someone has purposely pulled people from the Phantom Zone as some sort of message. Meanwhile, Jayne Cobb is returning to the Serenity after an extended shore leave. His ship is suddenly dogged by Dominion warships piloted by Jem'Hadar. Cobb's evasive maneuvers eventually pull him into a wormhole. President Logan explains to Jack that the biggest focal point of activity appears to be in New York, where everything from talking animals to vampire-like creatures have been sighted around the city. Logan wants Jack to investigate what is causing these appearances, but before the mission can begin, secret service swarms the area. Outside of the White House, we see a large-scale assault force led by Revolver Ocelot. Meanwhile, John Constantine and Superman are investigating the grotesque scene in front of them. Superman believes that the perpetrator of the massacre must be a Kryptonian criminal, but John senses a strong magically-based presence. We learn from John through a short monologue that the Phantom Zone is just one aspect of a greater primordial realm - The In-Between. As John explains the In-Between, we see Cobb fall through the wormhole, chased by Dominion warships. We also see secret service agents being murdered by Ocelot's team as they enter the White House. On a screen behind Bauer and Logan we see security camera footage of New York, where pandemonium is in the streets. Specifically, a large steamer trunk is running down Broadway, while in another part of the screen we see a small goth girl beating a tourist senseless with a wooden plank bedecked with a hastily-scrawled face. Cobb eventually pops out the other side of the wormhole with a few Dominion ships still in pursuit; they are quickly shot down by an unseen third party. Cobb receives a message on his comm ordering him to surrender peacefully, and Cobb demands to know why he should listen to some unnamed person. The voice points out that he doesn't have enough firepower to take on a fully operation space station. Cobb maneuvers his ship around to reveal Deep Space Nine. Constantine concludes his diatribe to Superman; as he is about to begin another sentence, Superman cuts him off, claiming he hears something. Out of the darkness of the room, we see a blue blur knock Superman down. It's Superpoke. ===

=== The Space In-Between #2 - "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc" http://s1.postimg.org/w0sgxdaal/the_space_in_between_2.jpg "All actions are reactions," states Doctor Doom at the beginning of this issue. We open to a dirt path; we see individual components of the Doctor Doom costume in several panels; his iron boot, his gauntlet, a bit of his cape. On the second page, Doom is revealed in a full-page spread. Doom is adjusting one of his gauntlets as he prepares to face Gary Oak in a Pokemon battle; Gary laughs and throws out some insults to Doom as he throws down his first Pokemon. Doom tells the reader that, "To defeat your opponent, you must find the pattern in their reactions." During the Pokemon battle, we intersperse the battle sequence between Superman and Superpoke. Superpoke is blinded by an insane rage; he screams obscenities at Superman as he attacks; Superman yells at John Constantine to get the hell out of there, which Constantine promptly does. Between this battle and Doom's battle, the tide appears to be going in the favor of both Superpoke and Gary Oak respectively. We pause at an interlude as Jayne Cobb docks his ship at Deep Space Nine. He is greeted by Worf and Sisko, who explain that Cobb isn't the first individual to fall through a wormhole in recent days. Apparently there have been several wormholes opening and closing over the previous few weeks; something has riled up the Dominion during this time period as well. They ask for Cobb's help to protect the station while they monitor the wormhole anomalies, searching for one with the right resonant frequency to return Cobb to his own timeline. Cobb begrudgingly acquiesces. John Constantine has ceased escaping from the Newcastle manor when he stumbles over a tear in reality that leads to the blinding white Phantom Zone; Constantine is inspecting this when an attack by Superman on Superpoke causes part of the structure to collapse, accidentally knocking Constantine into the tear, where he begins to plummet through the In-Between. We return to DS9, where Cobb is having a drink. Elim Garak, sitting on another stool at the bar, strikes up a conversation with Cobb; Garak has heard rumblings from Cardassia about an individual who has been creating the wormholes menacing multiple universes. Garak says that to go to Cardassia right now would be a suicide mission, but that he's been putting together a team of refugees from other universes to help him stop this individual from screwing with his homeworld in exchange for finding them a way home. Garak introduces Cobb to Garrus Vakarian and Rocket Raccoon. We return to the battles with Doom and Superman. Once again, we cut between them as Superpoke begins to disintegrate; his body is unable to handle the laws of physics in the DC Universe while exerting himself under this pressure, and he is beginning to wear down. We see his veins bulging as his muscular structure withers away, his arms worn down to bony husks. Doom, losing his Pokemon battle, has had enough of Oak's foul and impertinent demeanor; he powers on his hand blasters and vaporizes Oak's Pokemon. Superman meanwhile, has SuperPoke by the collar as SuperPoke ultimately completely disintegrates into dust, leaving only his costume behind. Superman floats above the ground slightly, holding only the suit. Mirroring this, Doom is holding Gary Oak by the collar, his hand cannon pressed against Gary Oak's temple. ===

=== The Space In-Between #3 - "Fractals and Cutlery" http://s9.postimg.org/i192xpyh9/the_space_in_between_3.jpg We open to a full-page splash of John Constantine falling through a white void. John narrates this issue for us. "There's a school of thought that says for every choice we make, there's an alternate reality where a different version of us made the opposite choice." "It gives me little satisfaction at the moment to tell you... that's bull****." We return to Doctor Doom holding Gary Oak, around Doom are the corpses of Gary's dead Pokemon; we see Alakazam with a hole in its chest, Arcanine's mangled body, etc. "You're you, and that's the one you get," John narrates. Doom taunts Gary with his impending death. "Where are your funny comments now? Can you not speak without ill-bred monsters at you beck and call?" Gary reaches to his belt, pulling out his final PokeBall, opening it between the two of them. Rhydon expands, forcing Doom to break his grip on Gary. As both men are knocked back, Rhydon pounces on Doom; Doom blasts the head off of Rhydon, but not before Rhydon rips the mask off of Doom's helmet. At the same time, Gary grabs Alakazam's spoons. Before Doom can get back to his feet, Gary leaps atop of Doom, stabbing the spoon handles into Doom's eyes. We see several panels of Gary stabbing downwards, Doom just out of frame. Gary is yelling at Doom, obviously enraged at the death of his Pokemon. Eventually he stands up, spoons and sleeves dripping blood. Meanwhile, Jack Bauer and President Logan are moving through the White House, their panels juxtaposed with Revolver Ocelot. We witness both Ocelot and Bauer's marksmanship and hand-to-hand prowess as both men converge at the Oval Office. Superman has returned to the Justice League Watchtower, meeting Batman in a laboratory to inspect the remains of SuperPoke. Batman suggests that this alternate version of Superman appears to have disintegrated at a molecular level, suggesting that he came from a universe beyond the 52 known universes, as none of those universes have laws of physics incompatible with their own. Superman wonders how such a far-flung universe even would be able to reach the DCU. John Constantine continues to fall, but he begins to see some barely perceptible figure in the void, far from him. He tries to angle his trajectory towards the figure; as he gets closer, the figure is revealed to be a black-hooded person sitting cross-legged in the middle of the white nothingness. The individual suddenly stands up, extends her arms and ceases John's fall. John finds himself floating slightly below the hooded figure. His first question is to naturally ask how "the hell you're sitting on nothing?" The figure explains that in the In-Between, the laws of physics are defined individually. If you choose to move, you can. If you choose to stop, you will. Constantine, disbelievingly, gingerly attempts to put his foot down, but it keeps sinking. He gives up. "You don't belong here," the hooded figure says. "Does anyone belong here, love?" Constantine replies. From beneath the hood, the figure smirks. "Nobody." Suddenly the figure's arm glows and a large, exquisite key appears in her hand. The figure places the key in John's hand. "Constantine, you have a job to do." "I always have a job to do." === The figure ignores John, explaining the In-Between is being weakened and that John's magical talents make him an ideal candidate to track this person down. John is told how to use the keyblade to open doors, and he tries with moderate success; the door he opened is not back to the DCU but a dark jungle somewhere else. John does not want to enter, but is promptly kicked in the back by the hooded figure and pushed in. The door closes. The figure says, "Good luck John."

Gary Oak, sitting with a blank expression on the ground next Doom's corpse, idly picks up Doom's hand. He inspects the gauntlet and its blaster cannon. Removing the gauntlet and placing it on his own arm he simply says, "Hmm." We see Gary's face with his hand in front of it, firing the gauntlet at the reader.

Bauer, Logan and Ocelot all converge at the Oval Office; Bauer and Logan are treated to a speech about Ocelot's patriotism and how Logan is a traitor to the country. A brief scuffle lands Logan behind a desk and Jack behind a couch, separated from his gun.

=== '''The Space In-Between '''http://s24.postimg.org/rgsd0gvsl/the_space_in_between_4.jpg  New York City, Earth-24. We see a city on fire. Chaos in the streets. Over the following action, a narrator explains (with some bumbling difficulty) the difference between space and time. Pandemonium through rapid scenes – Wednesday Addams is beating the crap out of a hot dog vendor with Plank from Ed, Edd and Eddy. Across the street Jack Donaghy is fleeing from a squadron of Wizard of Oz’s winged monkeys. A tear abruptly opens and closes leaving Missile the Dog on the sidewalk in front of Jack. Without pause, he scoops up Missile and avoids a swooping monkey. The monkey howls, “I’ll get you and your little dog too!” The Defenstrator is clashing with Tir McDohl before another tear removes the sidewalk between them and replaces it with a sheer 100 foot wall; Travis Touchdown is tearing apart a T-800 Terminator but pauses to hit on a Starbucks barista before she is trampled by a runaway steamer trunk – Touchdown remarks “b****” and gets back to the dilapidated robot. Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan are shown huddling before a minotaur. The narrator explains that while it’s generally not their territory, sometimes Time Lords have to step in to prevent time from being corrupted by space. The TARDIS appears in the middle of Times Square, crushing Bill, Ted and the Minotaur as it manifests and lands. Out steps Donna Temple Noble; we learn that in Italian, her name literally translates to “Lady Time Lord.”  She pulls out a map of New York from her jacket as she is rushed by a stormtrooper and Toad from the X-Men. Ignoring them as she tries to get her bearings from the map, she proceeds forward, the trooper and Toad colliding with each other, knocking themselves out cold. Donna mentions hoping she gets a chance to see the Statue of Liberty before she’s done here. In the foreground the Nameless One lifts a slab of cement that’s trapping Fifi la Fume between a wall and a US postal box. Donna looks up to see the Nameless One and says, “Oi! Zombie guy!” In the White House, Jack attempts to dive for his gun, but Ocelot has him covered, preventing any action. This leaves Logan open to reach for it from under the desk. Jack watches on as Logan snags the gun and returns to the cover of his desk. From behind the desk, Logan offers Ocelot a proposition: in exchange for sparing his life, he’ll provide Ocelot with significant monetary compensation and a full presidential pardon. This causes Jack to drop his jaw in disbelief and Ocelot to consider for a moment. Ocelot says he’s willing to negotiate. Logan stands up and immediately shoots Ocelot in the chest. Ocelot drops, and Logan fires three more rounds into Ocelot’s skull. Dusting himself off he turns to Jack. “Now I was trying to tell you about New York.” “How the hell long do we have to sit in this crate?” asks Jayne Cobb as a supply ship piloted by Kira Nerys streaks towards the surface of Cardassia. Garak’s team of four is packed pretty tightly in a cargo container, Garrus notably fidgeting with his sniper rifle. “We’ll confirm our identity and manifest with the Air Traffic Monitor and when we burn off thrusters in preparation for landing, we’ll drop the container.”  That’s Doctor Bashir. Jayne grunts noncommittally, toying with a knife idly. The doctor and Commander Kira successfully con the Cardassian military control about their mission and drop the crate, which uses safety thrusters to land the team to safety. Garrus kicks out the door of the ship to reveal Cardassia covered in lush green Earthlike jungles, replete with Terran flora and fauna. “You ever see a real raccoon?” Cobb asks Rocket. “You ever **** yourself?”  Rocket responds. John Constantine, meanwhile, picks himself up and dusts himself off as he observes his jungle surroundings. He’s not remotely put off by a pair of eyes observing him from the brush, and he pulls out his lighter and a cigarette. From the brush jumps Sabor from Tarzan; John closes the lighter, cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth and simply says, “You’re about to become someone’s rug, there, chief.” Sabor leaps for John, but a BOOM throws Sabor sideways; we see Sabor’s corpse laying on its side bleeding out. John turns to stretch out his hand and introduce himself, “John Constantine.” “Clayton,” responds a hunter stepping from the brush. “Got another?” Constantine and Clayton converse as they head back to Clayton’s camp; Clayton eventually gets around to asking what Constantine is searching for in the jungle as Jane Porter emerges from a tent in the center of camp. “A way out,” John responds. He slings the keyblade over his shoulder and proceeds forward. Batman, Superman and several Justice Leaguers are standing around Rip Hunter’s Time Sphere with the tattered costume of SuperPoke. The Flash is making calculations based on the resonant vibrational frequency of the costume in order to determine the location of SuperPoke’s home universe. Booster Gold is programming the Time Sphere to pick up on the location of said frequency; Batman expresses apprehension at taking the Sphere to the other universe; after all, the Sphere’s integrity might not hold under the laws of physics from where SuperPoke comes. Booster dismisses his concerns in his typically arrogant fashion. The Flash and Booster finish programming the sphere and the Flash jumps on a Cosmic Treadmill in order to jump start the Sphere to the right vibrational frequency. Booster hops into the Sphere. “Do you even know where you’ll end up?” asks the Green Arrow. “Another time, another place,” Booster dismissively responds. He extends a hand. “Who’s coming with me?” ===
 * 1) 4 – “Spacetimes Square”

=== '''The Space In-Between '''http://s9.postimg.org/tno8ub9n3/the_space_in_between_5.jpg  “All ends arrive at the beginning,” says Hal Jordan, sitting on rocky outcropping jutting into the white abyss of the In-Between. Hal tells us a little of his story, how – after the 1994 DC event Zero Hour – he was left to die at the dawn of time by his friends. We see the end of Zero Hour replayed from a slightly new point of view; after the heroes leave, Hal re-emerges from a dissipating illusion depicting the Spectre binding him. He teeters, doubling over with the infamous arrow sticking out of his chest. We learn that Hal spent some time recovering from this wound and also by trial and error learning a little bit about the Dawn of Time. Namely, that the Dawn of Time is also the Dawn of Space, and before the first bits of creation began to form, the nothingness that held it in place was already there. Hal conjectures that this nothingness is the raw stuff of creation itself, and that by tapping it, molding it to his own will, he can reinvent the multiverse as he sees fit. Hal decides that the only tool that might allow him to do this, however, is at the End of Time. He immediately disappears, leaving the bloody arrow behind on a lone rock at the Dawn of Time. Cerulean City-zens are going about their daily business until blasts from the skies above began to tear people and buildings apart. Gary Oak, dressed fully in Doom’s garb has come to call. From the gym run trainers, including Misty, chasing after Gary. They confront him at the door to the Unknown Dungeon; Gary claims he’s here for a “friend”. He dispatches three trainers, clocks Misty and enters. Superman makes motion to enter the Time Sphere with Booster; Batman gently but firmly places a hand backwards on Superman’s chest. “Kal,” he says. Superman nods understandingly. Batman mounts the steps to the Time Sphere. “Welcome aboard, Bats!”  Booster enthusiastically exclaims, slapping Bruce on the back. “If you get me killed, so help me Carter, I will haunt you for eternity.” Booster ignores this threat. “To the undiscovered country! Or whatever. Final frontier. Something.” Batman sighs. The Sphere disappears. At the White House, President Logan and Jack race for a chopper on the South Lawn amidst gunfire. Logan is on comms with an army commander in New York, where evidently several War of the Worlds-style Martian warships have manifested in Soho. Their destructive terror is halted quickly however by a spontaneous AT-AT at 5th Ave.  More alarmingly, there are now two Statues of Liberty fused to one another on Liberty Island, with the head of another in downtown NYC covered in reptilian spider-like creatures and yet another Liberty head on the docks at Battery Park, but news of this apparently remains sketchy as that head is guarded by heavily-armed talking apes. “What do you expect me to do, Mr. President?” Jack asks. Logan stares back blankly. “We have a… contact. Someone who might be able to sort this out for us. I need you to, ah, facilitate interactions with the asset.” This quote is interwoven with a panel showing Donna Noble, alongside the Nameless One who is carrying Fifi la Fume like Paris Hilton carries a dog. Tir McDohl streaks by the trio, shoving the Nameless One out of his way. Hot on his tail comes Travis Touchdown shouting obscenities at him, followed in turn by a horde of Mole Man’s moloids. “Perhaps we should go somewhere less… hectic,” Nameless One suggests sullenly. “Oh, so Lurch speaks!” Donna retorts. She agrees though, and they duck through the broken display window of Macy’s. Within the Unknown Dungeon, Misty is climbing her way deeper into the cave with her party when Gary appears, returning to the entrance. She tries to block his path, but he just pushes her down. “Why are you doing this, Oak?” she demands. He pauses. “I used to hate Silver. You remember him? Wore a leather jacket, tried to make a run on the Elite Four. He treated his Pokemon like abused pets. Beat them. Kicked them. And why was that?”  Gary pauses for a moment, extending his hand towards Psyduck. He simply pats it on the head. “Because they were weak. He didn’t understand that being a trainer was about being a brother. Forming a bond. At least, that’s what I thought.”  He slaps Psyduck who falls to the ground. “But that doesn’t matter. There’s no power in Pokemon. There’s no power in trainers. There’s only power in this…” he points to his left hand gauntlet. “And this,” his right. “The sooner you realize that, the sooner you accept that this society has been corrupted and misled, centered on the notion that Gym Badges and championships are the foundation of supremacy…”  Gary stands at the entrance to the cave. “The sooner you accept that, well… follow me. Let me make a believer out of you.” === From the ground Misty fires back, “Why would I ever follow you?”
 * 1) 5 – “In Xanadu Did Kubla Khan a Stately Pleasure-Dome Decree”

Gary cocks his head. “Oh. I wasn’t talking to you.”  Misty turns her head back to the recesses of the cave to see Mewtwo’s hand.

In New York, Jack’s chopper sets wheels down fourteen blocks south of Times Square. Soldiers immediately swarm in to set up a makeshift command center and begin sweeping the area, one soldier in particular knocking the coffee out the hands of a bespectacled bald man, spilling it on his shirt. Enter George Costanza. Costanza whines about the inconvenience, then turns to head to his apartment, entering a nearby alley. As he turns a corner, he’s bludgeoned in the back of the head by Wednesday Addams, still carrying Plank. This is Wednesday beyond anything we’ve seen before – very haunting lullaby sort-of American McGee’s Alice meets the zombie daughter in Cabin in the Woods. She’ll scare the crap out of you. Costanza goes down, and Wednesday raises the plank over her head.

=== The Space In-Between #6 - "The Trick is Not Minding" http://s3.postimg.org/5ps820ckx/the_space_in_between_6.jpg In New York, we’re treated to a narration juxtaposed between panels depicting various battles and scenes of destruction. The first panels show TV screens in the Yankee stadium, where an old baseball game from the Mickey Mantle era is playing. The narration is commentary from this game; as we pull back, we see Tir McDohl run into the stadium. He’s followed by Travis Touchdown screaming, “Get back here you son of a *****!” Following Touchdown is an empty stadium panel, then a deluge of orcs, zombies, moloids and Cylons swamping through the entrance. The narration continues as Nameless One, Fifi and Donna watch from the relative safety of the ruined Starbucks, their view directly into Times Square. We see the TARDIS and the corpse of at least Ted beneath it. Ted’s head is trampled by D’Artagnan from the Three Musketeers who is being pushed backwards in a swordfight with Kratos from God of War; Kratos, moving forward, trips over Ted’s head allowing D’Artagnan the chance to escape. Near the top of the Empire State Building, King Kong is trying to gain the high ground against Titano (from Superman) as Nazi Gorillas shoot at them from the Hindenberg. Near the docks, Marty McFly pull Ewoks from a burning AT-AT before the Kraken from Pirates of the Caribbean unleashes several tentacles, pulling them all into its maw and the sea. At this point hit a full-page spread where Wednesday clocks George. We get a really graphic view of George’s face taking a Plank – teeth are flying, blood is leaking from an eye socket, nose and mouth, glasses are shattered. The narration gives a nice home run caption. Addams turns away from the corpse of George and slowly drags Plank behind her, the hastily-scribbled face of Plank covered in George’s blood. John Constantine shares dinner with Clayton, Porter and the Professor. He learns that they’ve seen a key like this before, but the user of it has since disappeared along with an ape-man who they had only just met a week prior. That was roughly a month ago. Constantine charms Porter a little bit. Hal Jordan appears outside of the Vanishing Point – this is the End of Time in the DCU. Jordan surprises Liri Lee and Waverider, but calm them, saying he’s here waiting for something. Outside of Vanishing Point in the technicolor death knells of the universe begins the battle between Hourman, Atom and Dr. Mid-Nite against Extant (again, another major moment from Zero Hour). Just like in later JSA comics, however, the robotic Hourman known as Matthew Tyler appears and rips Rex Tyler Hourman out of the fight, taking his place. Hal jumps at his chance – he joins the battle, rips the robotic Hourman’s arm off and disappears. In New York, Bauer is told to make contact with Logan’s asset in Times Square. Logan will communicate with Jack via earpiece; Bauer exits the command HQ and begins his trek north. We get views of several things – a pterodactyl tangling with the Snoopy-Red Baron’s biplane, a Ravenclaw student being gutted by a Ringwraith, the Defenestrator chasing after Spider Jerusalem, Grandmama being attacked by demonic soccer players from Portugal. As he turns the corner of a city block, Bauer literally runs into Jack Donaghy and Missile, all of them spilling over onto the sidewalk. Behind Jack Donaghy comes several winged monkeys (who we saw in an earlier issue menacing him). Donaghy somewhat calmly says “f***”, and grabs Missile as he attempts to keep going. Bauer pulls him back down as one of the monkeys swoops down, narrowly missing them. Bauer, with lightning speed and precision, pulls out his sidearm and dispatches four other monkeys, then turns around and kills the remaining monkey as it circles back. Donaghy is grateful, but in a cool, matter-of-fact way. He dusts himself off. Bauer introduces himself; Donaghy asks if there’s a military evacuation going on, to which Jack replies that he has no knowledge of such. He explains his own goal – Donaghy tells Jack that’s a suicide mission: “There’s mer-people crawling out of the sewers and fighting talking karate turtles, there’s government agents from other centuries arresting cell phone users for being witches, there’s chimera eating the remains of what I thought was Natalie Portman in Star Wars. Trust me, that’s the last place you want to go. Your friend, whoever she is, isn’t going to be there anymore. I know.” Jack looks down to his free hand which he opens, showing a bloody namepin inscribed with “Lemon.”  “I’ve tried going back. It doesn’t end well.” Somewhere, somewhen in the vastness of space, Hal Jordan opens a rip and appears. We see him tear into the robotic arm, retrieving a thing that can only be described as looking like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WZyV2Spm-hQ/TvNmlVEQ60I/AAAAAAAAER8/vtMZtLUNOlM/s400/lexwor.jpg It expands in size to gargantuan portions. We learn from Hal that this is the “Worlogog,” the map of reality. He floats toward a section of the Worlogog that appears to be pulsing a bright red. Moving his hand over it, we see a planet appear within the Worlogog. “Cardassia,” Hal simply mutters. We once again return to the Yankee Stadium. Tir trips and falls, causing Travis to catch up with him. Travis grabs Tir and launches into him about getting the two of them screwed up in some sort of ridiculous apocalyptic affair. Tir keeps saying, “Travis” over and over but to no avail. Travis continues to lay into him. Eventually Tir shouts “TRAVIS!”  Touchdown shuts up for a moment, allowing Tir to extract himself from Travis’ grip and point behind him – where a horde of monsters, mutants, creatures and supervillains awaits. '''The Space In-Between #7 - "In the Tangled Skein" '''http://s2.postimg.org/9e2mb6mmh/the_space_in_between_7.jpg This issue is slightly different; every page is divided in half horizontally; the top half of the story follows the Nameless One and the bottom half follows Tir. I’ll cover each story separately here. The Nameless One wakes up once again in the Dusties’ mortuary, his back in severe pain. He pushes himself up, grimacing. Looks around a little; he spies a mirror and goes to check his back, where he finds it covered in new tattooed writing. The message is quite long and detailed – he has been called upon by the Lady of Pain to travel to another universe where a cosmic imbalance is threatening to destroy the world border. He is to meet with his contact – Charles Logan. Nameless One has never been requested by name by the Lady of Pain, much less spoken with her at all aside from one short instance – The Nameless One is concerned with the stakes at play. After all, Lady of Pain is a god-tier figure in the Planescape mythos. Nameless One scrounges around the mortuary slab room for some junk, and eventually finds some lodged in a slack-jawed walking corpse’s chest, which he rips out and takes. Nameless One takes a jump into a portal and uses the junk to navigate himself to the coordinates provided by the Lady of Pain. The Lady of Pain has been awakened to the knowledge that a multiversal map called the Worlogog has been activated – she requests that the Nameless One return this object to her. In exchange, she will restore his lost love Deionarra to life with no memory of his supposed betrayal. Nameless One acquiesces and he’s shuffled off to another universe to begin his search. Nameless One arrives in Earth-24’s New York, which is only in the beginnings of the chaos. Nameless One is the first person to notice that for every manifestation from an alternate universe, an equivalent individual or object disappears mere seconds before. Apparently something or someone of equal mass is transposed elsewhere when a tear in the In-Between brings someone here. Nameless One also notices a variety of other minor bits of chaos – most notably Jack Donaghy standing over the body of Liz Lemon. A plaintive cry of pain causes the Nameless One to spot Fifi La Fume under a slab of concrete, which brings us to the moment we first encountered him in this story. Tir McDohl is at an inn with a few of his Suikoden party members when a commotion from outside causes alarm for patrons downstairs. Checking on the situation, Tir is confronted by Travis Touchdown and Loki – a de-aged Loki however; not that Tir would know this, but we do. Kid Loki essentially demands the Soul Eater rune from Tir. Tir balks at this request. Loki urgently pushes for the rune, “We don’t have TIME! Come with me, give me the rune, I don’t know how it works, just get that thing out of here!” At this moment, Libra appears with his spear topped by balanced scales. He begins to enact some ritual of an unknown nature. Loki rips a hole into the In-Between with an ancient Greek scythe. “Get him out of here! He tells Travis.” Travis shoves Tir into the hole as Loki seals it up; the moment before the seal is complete, Tir glimpses Libra thrusting the tip of his spear at Loki who screams in agony. Then there’s nothing but white void. Travis grabs Tir and begins running into the nothingness. We get a rushed conversation between the two – the Soul Eater rune is highly prized because it apparently can serve as some form of a conduit, for what Travis doesn’t know. Loki apparently solicited Travis’ service to help him claim some sort of gauntlet prize of cosmic importance. Travis hasn’t figured out what it does – he holds up his free hand to show the Infinity Gauntlet. Travis tells Tir that there are 5 artifacts from across the universe that a looming evil force is seeking to unite. Tir’s Soul Eater is one of them. Before Tir can question any further Travis takes his laser sword, slashes at the void, making another tear into New York City. They jump through. From here, Travis tells Tir not to activate the Soul Eater rune so no one can track them here. However, the Defenestrator comes at them and in the midst of the fight Tir attempts to attack him with it in order to kill him. Unfortunately for Tir, another rip has opened between Tir and the Defenestrator and Speed Racer and the Mach 5 appear – the Mach 5 is hit by the blast from the rune and destroyed. With the Soul Eater activated, Travis flips his ****. We have to run… now! The two are separated as the Defenstrator goes after Tir and a few Wookies come for Travis. Travis is able to escape the Wookies, but while doing so spots Libra across Time Square, with some monstrous creatures (probably a couple Moloids, Tusken Raiders, Goombas, etc.). Travis hightails his butt back to Tir who is leaning against the 100 ft wall from an earlier issue. “You son of a *****! You just brought them right to us!” We see the chase scene ensue from earlier, although it turns out that Travis is just following behind Tir as they run from monsters. After they’re first spotted, Libra brings more and more forces to bear on them, resulting in more and more New Yorkers disappearing. We reach the stadium. As they’re surrounded the two unleash hell upon their foes; we see the heads and limbs and weapons of enemies go flying. Doombots are dismantled. Drowners from the Witcher and decapitated. Men dressed in suits that look like the Iron Maidens of the Spanish Inquisition are disemboweled. Unfortunately the legion of enemies seems to just grow and grow. Eventually, the enemies suddenly stop attacking. They part like a sea to allow Libra to enter. He demands the Soul Eater; Travis leaps at him but is easily thrown aside by Libra, who doesn’t seem to notice or care about the Infinity Gauntlet. Tir tells Travis to run, and begins powering up the Soul Eater rune; Libra runs at him, spear at the ready. He leaps as Tir unleashes a massive blast. Travis is running down the street away from Yankee Stadium as it implodes releasing a massive shockwave; the force knocks him over and rips across the New York area, shattering windows, knocking over people and trees, etc.  We see Wednesday Addams raising Plank over her head to murder Grandmama who lays on the ground in terror as the wave rips towards them. The Space In-Between #8 - "Death at the Dawn of Time" http://s27.postimg.org/67bofmwmb/the_space_in_between_8.jpg We open with the blast ripping towards Grandmama and Wednesday; it hits Plank high above Wednesday’s head, knocking her forward a bit. Undeterred, she brings Plank down on Grandmama. We notice Plank glowing light blue, rippling electricity all about it. When Plank makes contact with Grandmama, she’s vaporized in a pool of metallic blue light. Wednesday stares for a moment at the back of Plank, where burnt into the base of the board is the symbol of the Soul Eater rune. Wednesday turns Plank around and rests its top at her forehead, so she is staring into the dead scribbled eyes of her weapon. Constantine is trying to activate the Keyblade to no avail; he’s smoking a cigarette and trying a variety of familiar phrases while waving the Keyblade around. “Klaatu barada niktu.”  “Shazam.” “Fus ro dah.”  He throws the cigarette down and stamps it out in frustration. Jane comes up behind John and talks for a moment with him. She tries to show John how the previous keybearer she saw held the Keyblade – she gently moves John’s arms, standing close behind him, her body pressed against his. We get a nice quiet moment between the two as they kiss. Jane, embarrassed, finds a poor excuse and leaves. The Time Sphere pops into existence at the Dawn of Time – Booster Gold and Batman are stunned to find thousands of planets floating in the abyss. Most are cracked open or shattered. The Sphere picks up a significant energy reading to which Booster navigates; both Batman and Booster exit to search for the source of this reading amongst several rocky outcroppings. Booster is sort of blathering on and on about nonsense; time travelling and the like. Batman tells Booster to shut up as he bends down, inspecting something. Booster walks over to where Batman is as he holds up an arrow caked in dry blood. Elim Garak and his crew is camped out for the night on a bluff on Cardassia. They discuss the many unusual sights they’ve encountered thus far. Major portions of Cardassia appear to be terraformed for Earth life. Garrus has put down dinosaurs and lions and even mammoths as they’ve trekked across Cardassia. Rocket and Jayne are both nonplussed by all of this – no one really cares, they claim, as long as they get themselves back home. Garak says that on DS9, the science officer noted that bursts of energy on Cardassia were immediately followed by wormhole openings across the galaxy. If they can find the source of the bursts, they can get home. It’s another night in the jungle as Constantine continues to vainly activate the Keyblade. His frustration has turned to visible rage; he starts hacking at plants and trees. Exhausting himself, he collapses to the ground and reaches for a cigarette. His pack is empty; he chucks it into the treeline. Jane comes out of her tent at the sound of the outburst, and sits down next to him. The two have a quiet conversation that begins to turn intimate. Along a high ridge on Cardassia, Rocket spots a brilliant emerald palace in the distance, which the DS4 make their way towards. Batman and Booster are trying to riddle out how one of Oliver Queen’s arrows ended up at the Dawn of Time when a Greek scythe rips a tear and through it collapses Kid Loki. Loki is obviously wounded; before Batman can question Loki, Loki rasps “Run.”  From behind him in the tear comes Libra, charging the three of them. We see simultaneously panels switching between Constantine and Jane getting it on and Batman and Booster fighting Libra. Libra appears to be pretty powered up – Booster grabs the kid and Batman and jets back to the Time Sphere, leaving the scythe behind. Libra throws his spear like a javelin as Booster attempts to key the Sphere back to the DCU, but the spear lodges itself in the mechanics of the sphere and it disappears to a location unknown. Constantine and Jane lay under the canopy of the jungle. Constantine comments on the futility of activating the keyblade, but when Jane idly picks it up, it screams to life, creating a doorway to a dark alleyway in another universe. John stands up, zips his fly and thrusts Jane’s dress towards her. “Come on, love,” he smiles. Donaghy and Missile still are fleeing from Times Square as they cross paths with Travis Touchdown. Travis stops them. “You don’t want to go that way,” he warns. “And you don’t want to go THAT way,” Jack replies. Before much else can be said, the Defenstrator spies the three of them and launches himself at them. '''The Space In-Between #9 – “T-Minus 60 Minutes”''' http://s9.postimg.org/783ly4j6n/the_space_in_between_9.jpg For every scene change, we see a stopwatch and “X Minutes Ago” in the upper left-hand corner. Sixty minutes ago. Sweden, Present-Day Marvel Universe. We encounter Iago for the first time, standing before Gorr the God Butcher. They shake hands. “Leave none alive,” Iago cautions Gorr. End scene. Forty-five minutes ago. 953 BC, Athens. Kratos is hacking away at the hydra; we get a nice showcase of his strength. When he finally puts the beast down, a hole in the sky opens and Kid Loki drops to the ground. He stands up and dusts himself off. “Hiya.” Kratos sort of just stands there in confusion. Loki grabs for one of his chained scythes. “I’m gonna just borrow this okay?”  He yanks at it. Kratos shrugs him off and starts walking away. “Hey, buddy, I’m trying to do you a favor here, dig? You don’t even really need two of them. That’s just greedy. Loki bounds after him. Sixty minutes ago. In the realm beneath space and time. Libra stands in front of a shadowy figure on Apokolips. Imposing profile. He is directed to bring “balance” to the multiverse by allowing the In-Between to merge with realities, destroying the barriers between them. This will supposedly fulfill the Anti-Life Equation. The first step is to find and capture or kill Loki who holds one part of the key to achieving this goal. However, A Boom Tube opens; Libra steps through to… Forty-three minutes ago. 953 BC, Athens. Loki is getting on Kratos’ nerves. Just when Kratos is about to snap, Libra’s Boom Tube opens and Libra comes charging for Loki. Loki turns and launches a blast at Libra with the Infinity Gauntlet, which we only now see for the first time. It’s only encrusted with 2 of the Infinity Gems. Libra attempts to hurl his spear at Loki, but Kratos blocks it with one of his chained scythes. The scythe and spear glance off each other, scythe landing near Loki. He grabs the scythe and uses the Gauntlet to melt the chain. Slashing with the scythe he opens a tear into the In-Between. “Thanks pal. No hard feelings.” Sixty minutes ago. Earth-24. Donna Noble is trying to read her map; it constantly changes, showing new tears in the In-Between and also where they are linked. The Nameless One is chatting with Fifi; Fifi is bewildered by her sudden arrival on Earth-24. Nameless One attempts to explain what he’s seen so far – how the mass of arriving individuals and objects is being displaced equally. Fifi wants to know if she can get back to her own universe. Donna suddenly looks up. “Oi! Wombat girl c’mere. I think we can do just that.” Thirty-seven minutes ago. Earth-51. Travis Touchdown lays the beatdown on a few punks at a pizza joint. In warps Loki with his scythe. “Hi!” Loki says. “Touchdown right? Big fan.” Travis, ever the arrogant braggart, sticks his hand out (covered with blood), which Loki shakes. While shaking it he clasps the Infinity Gauntlet onto Travis’ hand. Travis freaks out, tries to get it off. Loki says, “Oh it’ll come off. When I’m done with you. In the meantime… he tears a rip into the In-Between. Thirty-nine minutes ago. 953 BC, Athens. Libra recovers enough to call his staff back to him. Kratos charges the Mobius Chair, but Libra levitates it up and fires some cover blasts from the armrests. Kratos launches his scythe at the chair. Libra grabs it, and swoops in firing with the chair again. Kratos is missed by the blast; he scoffs at Libra. “I wasn’t aiming for you,” Libra comments. A Boom Tube opens behind Libra, through which he uses the pendulum force of the chained scythe to swing Kratos through. It closes and Libra opens a new tube. Fifty-five minutes ago. The Marvel Universe. Loki is taking gems off of the Infinity Gauntlet and handing one to each of four individuals gathered before him – Sif, Dust, Captain Britain and Rocket Raccoon. He explains that he needs them to protect them and hide them in places that cannot be easily found. The group splits; Sif heads to Asgard, Dust hops the Blackbird to Genosha, Captain Britain bounces into the Marvel multiverse, and Rocket takes off in his ship, heading for a backwater Kree planet. While Loki attempts to enter the portal with Sif, Libra appears and opens a tear, knocking Loki into 953 BC. Thirty-five minutes ago. Earth-51. Travis is refusing to go with Loki until Libra shows up. Loki blasts at Libra but misses; he grabs Travis’ wrist and activates the gauntlet which scores a hit; he yanks Travis with him into the In-Between. Twenty-eight minutes ago. Earth-24. Kratos shows up in Manhattan. Searching for Libra, he spies a hooded black figure walking calmly through the chaos of Times Square. Thinking this is someone related to Libra, he accosts them to interrogate further. D’Artagnan stands up from the ground about 10 yards away, and while getting his bearings, sees Kratos harassing what appears to be a small child. D’Artagnan draws his weapon and demands Kratos stop. Twenty-two minutes ago. Outside the Marvel Universe Terran Solar System. Rocket’s ship is attacked by Dominion fighters before a wormhole opens. He falls in. When he pops out the other side, he’s in front of Deep Space 9. Twenty minutes ago. Earth-24. Nameless One, while watching Kratos and D’Artagnan fight (we saw this earlier), spies the black hooded figure. He leaves Donna and Fifi silently to investigate further; it appears the figure is holding a keyblade. He happens to walk right by Jack Bauer, who is facing a different direction. Fourteen minutes ago, an inn in the Middle Ages. Travis and Loki show open a rip out of the In-Between. They appear to be ending a conversation, Travis replying with affirmation that he understands Loki’s plan. Tir McDohl comes downstairs. Nine minutes ago. The Dawn of Time. Libra stands up on a rocky outcropping in the In-Between. He picks up the scythe and slashes a tear that shows the surface of Apokolips. He steps through. Eight minutes ago/Forty minutes ago. We see Tir and Travis enter Times Square. We replay a little of the scene where Travis tells Tir not to activate the Soul Eater. Five minutes ago. Yankee Stadium explodes. As the wave rips across Manhattan, we see several reactions to it – from Donna and Fifi, from the Nameless One (standing near the hooded figure and the corpse of King Kong), from Jack Bauer, from Charles Logan, and we see a one-panel reminder of what Wednesday was doing during the wave. Four minutes ago. Amid the wave, D’Artagnan has escaped Kratos. He begins to head south to find him. One minute ago. We replay the scene of Jack, Missile and Travis meeting. The Defenstrator is leaping forwards at Missile and Jack. We see his head get sliced off. Kratos stands behind the falling corpse, staring at the three almost-victims. Spying the Infinity Gauntlet on Travis’ hand, his eyes widen in recognition. “YOU,” he commands, pointing at Travis. The Space In-Between #10 - "Keeping Up with the Cardassian" http://s22.postimg.org/hf3pygd9d/the_space_in_between_10.jpg We open to the grand emerald palace. As we pan down, our four space-based heroes walk towards the entrance. This is very Wizard of Oz. Jayne is heartless, Garak could use a little courage, Rocket could use a brain, and Garrus just wants to go home. We get a little juxtaposition to that as we move around the emerald castle. When it goes completely behind a green column, the setting around it shifts to space as the time sphere pops into view. Booster and Batman both recognize this handiwork as that of Hal Jordan. Within the Emerald Castle, Jordan sits with his hands folded in front of his face, observing the Worlogog. Apparently, Cardassia is at one of the weakest points in the multiversal border integrity; Hal has built his palace on a focal point of the In-Between where it is at it's weakest, so it actually exists in several universes. We zoom out of a window to see the Emerald Castle also floating above Earth-24. Garrus, Rocket, Jayne and Garak enter the Emerald Castle. Their way is easygoing; no enemies, no traps. None of the four have any inkling as to what is happening here. Garak, at the front of the pack, pushes open a door to the throne room, where he sees Hal. At the same time, Gorr the God Butcher enters the In-Between; however, he picks up a trail of crimson and blue that slowly fades into thousands of old comics panels from Marvel Comics. It's like a long hallway cobbled together in comics from the 60s, 70s, etc. He races down the pathway to find Captain Britain. Britain is trying to dive as deep into the multiverse as possible; when Gorr reaches him, Britain calls open "the Corps." From hundreds of panels around him leap various alternate reality versions of Captain Britain who battle Gorr back out of this rabbit hole, incurring heavy losses along the way. They seal up the tear in the In-Between. Gorr decides to go after a different gem. Constantine and Jane (who is still trying to properly situate her dress), wander out of the alleyway they've found to find themselves in a bustling Middle Eastern-style bazaar. Shops are full of a variety of humans as well as other types fantastical beasts: bunny-like warrior women, short plush-doll shaped floating bears, etc. John starts looking for a stand somewhere that sells cigarettes. Jane is simply in awe of what is around her. Gorr has tracked the aura of one of the gems to Genosha, where he finds Dust. Dust and Gorr have a battle (the details of which I really am too disinterested to come up with), but at the end of the fight, Gorr grabs the gem and uses it to superheat Dust while she is in her "dust" form, turning her into a pile of diamond flakes, effectively neutralizing her. He takes the gem, knowing that he can likely stop the Captain Britain Corps with its power. Garak and the crew ask for Hal's help in sending the three other team members home. Hal thinks on this for a moment, but eventually acquiesces to this request. He states that the various hallways of the castle all exit in different universes. If wormholes have opened in their home universes, that meant that one of the hallways exits to said universe as well. Garak asks why Cardassia is being terraformed; Hal explains that he's going to remake the multiverse in his image, devoid of pain and suffering, based entirely on his willpower. Fear will be eliminated in this universe. Garak asks how he has this level of power, to which Hal points at the Worlogog, stating that it is like a map of creation. Batman and Booster dock the Time Sphere at the entrance to the Emerald Castle, Batman commanding Booster to stay with the injured Loki. Batman enters the Castle. Constantine buys a pack of cigarettes, conning the stall owner with a little magic. When he returns to Jane, he finds her in the midst of a squabble; apparently she has broken some custom or made a social faux pas. Just when things being to turn violent, a loud shot rings out. The crowd parts to reveal Balthier and Fran. Batman, moving in the shadows, reaches Hal's throne room, where he continues to share his "master plan". Garak has been slowly moving his way around the room towards the Worlogog. When Hal moves towards the window, espousing more virtues of his remade universe, Garak grabs the Worlogog and makes a run for the door. Hal slams it shut, realizing Garak's intent to steal the creation map. Batman throws a Batarang at Hal, catching him off guard and injuring his hand (minor wound). He uses the opportunity to catch the fleeing Garak in a hallways, grabbing him and pushing him to the wall. Elsewhere in the castle, the other three DS4 members are looking for the correct hallways to get them home, but not before Gorr appears in front of them, holding the severed head of a Captain Britain and two Infinity Gems. The Space In-Between #11 - "3 Earths, 3 Deaths" http://s7.postimg.org/7u7goqrrv/the_space_in_between_11.jpg Rocket opens the issue saying, “Run.” Jayne responds, “Like hell.” Garrus cocks his sniper rifle. Gorr laughs. The fight, as they say, is on. Garak and Batman argue about the Worlogog; Batman knows it’s not safe to keep in anyone’s hands, while Garak thinks he could restore the Cardassian Empire to a glory beyond imagination. However, the castle begins to rumble and change around them as Hal’s anger rises. The floor changes; they slide down into the throne room, which now has a massive gladiator pit in the middle. Hal stands at the ready, armed with a jade sword and shield. Gorr is knocking the crap out of the DS3 when a yellow energy blast hits Gorr in the back and takes him by surprise. Booster Gold and Loki emerge, Loki being propped up by Booster. He casts a magical barrier to separate Gorr from the other five. Batman, Hal and Garak tangle for the Worlogog; Garak is knocked unconscious pretty quickly. Despite Hal having the powers of a god, Batman dodges some blows and pulls out a pellet from his belt. He throws the pellet to the ground and it explodes, dispersing a heavy yellow mist. Hal angrily finds himself forced to go hand-to-hand against Batman with the color yellow blanketing the room. Loki, weakened from his earlier injury, is clued in to the situation with Hal Jordan. The DS3 explain they were separated from Garak and Booster knowingly guesses that Batman must be behind the rumbling and changes in the emerald castle. As they try to come up with a plan to find and rescue their respective friends, Loki drops to the ground. Booster asks someone to take Loki back to the Time Sphere; Garrus agrees. Gorr begins to crack the magical barrier with his sheer physical strength. Batman and Hal are playing a game of cat-and-mouse in the fog, Batman appears to have the upper hand but the mist begins to dissipate. Before it’s cleared too much, Batman goes for a final assault on Hal while Jordan is unaware of Batman’s location. When he grabs Hal from behind, he realizes he’s holding a lantern construct. From the mist steps about 20 energy constructs just like Hal but decked out in a variety of old Green Lantern designs. Batman leaps into the fight. Gorr cracks the barrier further. Loki and Garrus barely make it into Sphere from the castle before a portion of it collapses, sealing the path behind them. Garrus hastily figures basic piloting maneuvers, turning the ship to find another entrance, noting that the castle is in space and not on a planet. Loki explains that they won’t be able to find another entrance unless they travel to another universe that the castle occupies, or the In-Between. Booster, Jayne and Rocket reach the throne room, where they see the fight in front of them. Booster goes for the fray while Rocket and Jayne take cover, sniping at Hal from afar. There’s no sign of Garak. Batman is nearly down for the count, but Booster’s entrance saves him from taking a killing blow. However, things get worse quickly as Gorr bursts through the barrier and rushes the throne room. The castle is crumbling quickly now; Gorr knocks Booster against a wall and proceeds to attack him. Hal, focused on the new combatants, fails to see Garak go for the Worlogog. When Garak grabs for it, Gorr sees it and assumes that it houses the Infinity Gem. Hal, Gorr and Garak all play tug-of-war for the Worlogog, but Booster knocks Gorr back. Garak and Hal tangle further, Garak using a discarded batarang to slice at Hal. Hal, injured, opens a tear in the In-Between, but Garak pushes, knocking both of them into the tear, which closes as they fall with the Worlogog. Batman shouts to Booster that the castle is going to collapse. Jayne and Rocket both notice this, but during the fight the two have become more and more separated. Gorr attacks Booster, but his attack misses, shattering the throne room in half, walls and ceiling crumbling so that Batman and Rocket are trapped on one side, and Jayne and Booster are trapped on the Earth. Batman yells for Booster to head for the Time Sphere before they are completely cut-off. It’s a race against time now;  Booster and Jayne race not only against the crumbling of the castle but also Gorr, who chases after them. When they reach the path for the Time Sphere and find it blocked, Jayne says that there are supposedly entrances for different universes down every hall. They pick one at random and run. Gorr hot on their heels and the ground beneath them about to give out, they see a bright gateway at the end of the hall and jump through. They pass through the gate and arrive in deep space. The rumbling in the castle ends; on the interior it’s in ruins. Batman and Rocket are trapped in part of the throne room; Rocket is flipping out about the situation they’re in, but Batman calmly pulls out a tracking device and turns it on. Finding a signal, he connects to its source; we see Hal and Garak still fighting and falling with the Worlogog. On one edge of the Worlogog, a small bat-symbol begins to flash bright red. In space, Booster quickly puts up his energy field, but Jayne, with no protection, asphyxiates and freezes immediately. Booster tries to get Jayne into his energy field, but to no avail. Booster, frustrated, hits Jayne’s chest. Behind him, Gorr appears through the gateway. The Space In-Between #12 - "The Plague Shall Fall Among Them" http://s29.postimg.org/pahdtn0rb/the_space_in_between_12_fw.png ===

We open to a darkened hallway. A voice is singing from off-panel. Slowly the glow of a lantern brightens the darkness of the floor and we see a leg. Climbing up, we see the face of Bray Wyatt. “Beautiful Abigail’s got demons in her pockets, and I have seen her chasing down the hall.”  There are several rooms Wyatt peers in as he sings; in one we see a skeleton bedecked in a purple dress and covered in cobwebs seated on a rocking chair. In another room are broken doll’s and dilapidated toys. “Beautiful Abigail’s got diamonds in her sockets, and I have seen her walking through the wall.”  He reaches a doorway near the end of the hall, dusts it off to reveal some arcane magical script. Reaching into a satchel, he brings out a skull which he holds to an indentation in the doorway. “Beautiful Abigail, she’s done a lot of thinking, and I will always fear her kind of grin.”  The skull pulses with light and the door cracks open, revealing the white nothingness of the In-Between.

Jack Bauer sees Donna and Fifi, and he asks them if they’ve seen a tall, corpse-like guy. Donna goes to point just past Jack but notices for the first time that the Nameless One has disappeared. Jack leaves to track down the Nameless One. Donna and Fifi return to the map; on it the changing images of tears in New York continue to move around. “You came in here, yeah?” Donna asks Fifi.

Together, they find another tear to the same universe Fifi fell out of, and Donna tracks another tear attuned to the same vibrational frequency, due to pop up in about seven minutes in Times Square.

Meanwhile, Misty has gathered the remaining gym leaders of Kanto – Blaine, Sabrina, and Koga. They discuss a strategy to stop Gary and his rampage of destruction of human settlements on the continent; through flashbacks we learn about some of Gary’s conquest. Using Mewtwo, Gary has garnered an army of powerful Pokemon – ghosts of dead spirits from Lavender Town, the legendary bird trio, and the Pokemon of Team Rocket. We see Rocket HQ destroyed, Gary and Mewtwo killing Team Rocket grunts and absconding with their Pokemon. We see Gary alongside Zapdos who has skewered Lt. Surge against a pier of the docks, the S.S. Anne sinking in the background. We see a skeletal Aerodactyl released from the Pewter museum and tearing through the Pewter City gym as Mewtwo crashes Brock’s windpipe. The four gym leaders decide to make a stand against Gary at the Indigo Plateau alongside the Elite Four.

The Nameless One tracks the hooded figure to the rooftop of an apartment complex; the figure stops, knowing she is being followed. The Nameless One can sense the power of the keyblade and asks the figure why they are here with it. The figure smiles beneath the hood and simply says, “this is existence’s last stand.” She waves towards New York. “Within the next 24 hours, 5 pieces crucial pieces of power will be in this city. 5 conduits through which all of reality can be unmade or remade. You see that wave of energy earlier?”

Nameless One nods. “That’s one piece. Another piece will come from there,” she points to the sky where a ruined green castle is barely visible above them. As she points, Nameless One notices her arm is covered in scars. “Another one is partially in the city, pieces are scattered across the multiverse. But not to worry. They have a knack for finding their way back to the source. You’ve seen another one; your friend with the map came with it.”

“And the last?”  asks the Nameless One.

The figure smiles again from under the hood. “I’ve spent millennia making sure it gets to the right place. But that’s up to me. Your job,” she uses the keyblade to point at the Nameless One, “is to bring the other four together. Fulfill your mission.”  She turns, tears a hole into the In-Between and disappears. The Nameless One returns to find Donna.

Bray Wyatt walks carefully through void of the In-Between. With the skull in his hand, he begins to call for someone. “I know you’re here, you foul demon, you devil filth. Show yourself!”

Around Wyatt, the In-Between darkens to black. Wyatt smiles and continues forward. “I call upon you… Spawn.”  In the darkness a faint glow of two eyes manifests. It grows and materializes into Spawn. Wyatt convinces Spawn to hear him out. “You have in your legion of souls a recent acquisition. I seek to exchange it.”  Spawn is hesitant, but Wyatt offers an enticing prize. “I can provide you the soul of a hero, of a people’s champion, the blood of a man worshipped as a god. All I seek in return is one you would call a fighter. The pinnacle of strength. An ultimate warrior.”

Bauer encounters the Nameless One his return to Times Square; finally reaching his target, he explains who he is. Both he and the Nameless One pool information, realizing that Bauer is working for Logan (who the Lady of Pain sent Nameless One to contact). Nameless One is about to share about the 5 items of power, but several dinosaurs burst out of the subway across the street, including a large purple one with a green underbelly.

Donna and Fifi find the correct tear and Donna tells the little creature goodbye before lifting her up and into it. As Fifi enters, Donna sees another tear open and drop a small jet black creature in Trojan armor, Marvin the Martian. Its helmet falls off and it cracks its skull open leaving a corpse and a ray gun on the ground in its wake. Fifi bounds across a field as the tear closes and Donna picks up the ray gun.

Spawn agrees to Wyatt’s terms, reaching inside of himself and pulling a veil filled with wisps of light. “Your Ultimate Warrior,” Spawn announces. He hands it to Wyatt. Bray takes the veil and reaches into his satchel, removing the head of the Rock, eyes lolling backwards and mouth hanging open. “Pleasure doing business with you.”

Spawn takes the head, dematerializes and leaves Wyatt alone with the veil. He walks back towards the doorway, singing, “Beautiful Abigail is very happy sinking and will crumble when I win…”