This series may be "Romance and Death", but something's refusing to die!
Powernaut 1992 Part 2 continues.
http://www.eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/1992b.htm#21
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Bonus Section: 2005 Reprint Commentary from Wyatt Ferguson! Swordhand
This guy has earned some separate mention. He was a member of the
villain minion Counter-Ellipsis Force, and then the U.S. Gov's minion
force Counter-Conversion. In that latter force, after Ellipsis fled the
United States, they were the Gov's most reliable source of national
defenders. So when the Mad Axeman from Venus attacked, they became heroes.
His team included at that time Rad-Man and Rolling Thunder. Those
others had energy powers. But against an axe-wielding super-being from
Venus, that didn't help. Only Swordhand had the weapons to stand up to
that being for any time.
Swordhand seemed to survive this encounter, but has withdrawn from the
public eye. The fates of the rest of Counter-Conversion are uncertain.
I've heard rumors that Rolling Thunder survived, 'cause energy powers
which largely consisted her body. Or something. Rad-Man, not so much.
During this encounter, the Powernaut actually turned his back on his
enemy, to check on his ally! The Mad Axeman from Venus was so
interested and alien, he checked also!
Then that peaceful Powernaut actually made his own weapons and took them
up against his enemy! Probably he was too busy to find out if firemen
had evacuated *everyone* from the battle region. So he still defended everyone. The Mad Axeman from Venus reacted as expected.
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"Your Royal Highness, instead of devoting yourself exclusively
to Minerva, should, instead, rather offer sacrifice at the altars
of Bacchus, Orpheus, Venus, and Morpheus."
- Advice to Prince Duarte of Portugal. From "The golden age of
Prince Henry the Navigator", by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins.
Coming soon to Project Gutenberg.
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