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Recently I've been batting around ideas in my mind for a new Justice League animated series, one to coincide with the New 52. I've put together a list of the episodes in the first season, along with brief descriptions. After working on it over the next year or so to get everything smoothed out, I plan on making a pitch to DC entertainment. I would love to know what you guys think about it. The starred episodes are ones that relate to over-arching plot that will lead into the season finale, and the unstarred episodes are stand-alone, not relating to the overall season plot. I feel like the first two episodes are slightly cliche, but after that it only gets better!
*Episode One: The Invasion pt. 1- The episode to kickstart the series. We meet each member of the team individually; Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Cyborg (Don't worry, Aquaman will join, just not yet) as they each deal with the invasion of none other than Starro. We see some interaction between the heroes, but they are quite unwilling to work together. However, as the infestation of mind-controlling stars grows, they begin to realize that the threat may be too large for any one hero to handle. The episode ends with Superman being infected, and brought under Starro's control.
*Episode Two: The Invasion pt. 2- After freeing Superman of Starro's influence, the team groups together and forms a plan. Flash, while scanning for non-infected people among the swarms of minions, comes across Snapper Carr, a young man who seems to be strangely immune to Starro's control (this is taken from the pre-new 52 comics). Flash takes Snapper to the team, where Cyborg analyzes him to find the source of his immunity, and realizes that the lime covering Snapper's hands (from doing yard work) is repelling the Starro-probes. With this knowledge, Cyborg builds the Cybomb, which, when detonated, will release a powerful concentration of lime extract over a wide area. The team then heads toward Starro himself, who has begun to drain the life energy of those under his control. While Superman, Wonder Woman and Flash distract Starro's attention, drawing his army toward them, Hal pilots the Bat-plane, which is carrying the Cybomb. Hal crashes the plane into Starro's eye, plunging them inside of the monster. Batman and Hal then battle their way to the center of Starro, where Batman unleashes the Cybomb, and Hal puts up a shield to protect the two of them. Starro is severely weakened by the blast, and Superman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg defeat him while Flash separates the weakened Starro probes from everyone who is infected. Then the Justice League officially forms, and Snapper Carr sticks around to record their adventures and serve as their Public Relations guy.
Episode Three: Jailbreak- A massive breakout attempt at Belle Reeve penitentiary draws the attention of the Justice League. The criminals at Belle Reeve have formed two factions. One faction is led by Anarchy, the other by Metallo. Metallo has taken Amanda Waller, warden at Belle Reeve, hostage, and is demanding immunity in exchange for her life. Anarcy, on the other hand, has taken over a last-resort security protocol on the island; a satellite laser defense system. Anarchy plans to use the satellite to wreak his special brand of havoc on the Pentagon, but Amanda Waller has the passcodes to activate it, which has led to war between the two villainous factions, since both want Waller. The Justice League arrives to help restore order to Belle Reeve. However, the team is in heavy turmoil over who should lead, with fierce debate between Superman and Batman. Due to lack of team work, the whole mission falls apart and the League is nearly defeated. Finally, Wonder Woman decides that Batman will be the teams "general," making plans/strategies and keeping the League organized, but Superman will be the field leader, and it will be up to him to lead the team in executing those plans. If at any point they cannot agree, Wonder Woman will be the mediator. Once this is decided, the Justice League springs into action and, through teamwork, defeats the feuding villains and restores order to Belle Reeve.
These descritpions are getting a bit longer than intended. I'll have to watch that more carefully.
Episode Four: Terror In The Seas- Hundreds of people begin to mysteriously disappear in coastal cities throughout America. The Justice League decides to investigate, and of course meets Aquaman, who is also interested in the disappearances. Together, they uncover a conspiracy by Black Manta. Manta has built a device capable of mimicking Aquaman's aquatic telepathy, and is using it to control The Trench, having them kidnap humans and bring them to his underwater lab where he is "experimenting." Through a fierce battle with The Trench and Manta, the League frees the captive humans, and Aquaman joins their ranks.
Episode Five: The Greatest Weapon- The Green Lantern is attacked by Epoch, Lord of Time, a time-traveling warrior who integrates the weapons and fighting techniques from every era into his armor. He is now determined to claim a Green Lantern power ring to add to his collection and, feeling that humans are the weakest organisms in the galaxy, has decided that Hal Jordan would be the easiest target. What he didn't count on, however, was an encounter with the Justice League...
*Episode Six: Trinity- While the rest of the League takes a much-needed vacation, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman stumble into a conspiracy to ignite a war between America and Russia. At the forefront of the plot are Lex Luthor, who plans to sell weapons to both sides of the war, and Ares, the god of war himself, who plans to feed off of the bloodshed to bolster his power. However, Batman notices something strangely amiss when Luthor has access to weaponry far beyond anything human scientists can even fathom. The three heroes wind up on Themyscira, battling Ares, and manage to lock him away in the Phantom Zone. However, because Diana brought men to Themyscira, she is banished from the island. The episode ends with Luthor talking to a mysterious, shadowed figure, talking about the next supply of weaponry. Luthor than states that Ares had served his role, and everything had gone according to plan...
Episode Seven: Chemical Warfare- The Chemo attacks the Eastern seaboard, and the League goes to stop him. Superman becomes infected with the Chemo's toxins. Batman recruits The Atom to help. Along with Flash and Green Lantern, Atom shrinks down and goes inside Superman to combat the spreading infection. Meanwhile, the rest of the League tries to halt Chemo's progress, and Batman traces the attack to its source... Ra's Al Ghul.
*Episode Eight: Dreams- In the beginning of this episode, Hal Jordan points out that Batman is the only one who has not revealed his secret identity to the team. That ignites a heated dispute about trusting the team. Later, Batman is attacked by Dr. Destiny. By probing through Batman's mind, Dr. Destiny finds the location of the Justice League HQ, and attacks the League in their dreams. Green Lantern eventually frees Batman from his nightmares, learning that he is Bruce Wayne in the process, as well as learning about the death of his parents. Batman defeats Dr. Destiny, and finally entrusts the team with his identity. Later, Luthor is seen speaking to the same shadowed figured as before, who states that Dr. Destiny failed. Luthor than states that it is time to move on to plan B.
Episode Nine: Mistakes of The Elders- The Justice League meets up with the JSA. However, the novelty of the meeting is short lived when Plasma Monsters attack Star City. It proves to be a front, however when Baron Blitzkrieg uses the distraction to sneak into JSA headquarters and use a large dimensional-device saved from an old mission. When the new Black Canary, who Wildcat made to stay behind, finds Blitzkrieg, the two fight and Blitzkrieg raves about the "man in his head" telling him what to do. Blitzkrieg defeats Canary and uses the machine to rip open a small portal, and out emerges... Triumph! I'm changing Triumph's history a bit here. He was still the son of an evil scientist, trained by Hourman to become a hero, but now he was a member of the JSA instead of the JLA. He was lost in the time stream on a previous mission, and forgotten about. Now he's made contact with Baron Blitzkrieg through his manipulation of radio waves, and used him to achieve freedom. Triumph, angry over being forgotten, attacks the JSA. He did not age during his time lost in the time stream, and is much more powerful than any of them. While the JSA try to clean up their own mess, the Justice League battle the hordes of Plasma Monsters, along with Black Canary, who Wild Cat would not let fight Triumph. After defeating the Plasma Monsters, the League finds Triumph draining the life energy of a defeated JSA. The team battles him, and Black Canary tends to Wild Cat's wounds, where she learns about the death of her mother. Then, realizing that sound is the one energy Triumph cannot absorb, she uses her sonic scream to defeat him. Black Canary then joins the Justice League, with Wild Cat's blessing.
*Episode Ten: Red Dawn- A distress call brings the League to Russia, where a devastating nuclear meltdown had wiped out a village. The mysterious part is that the village had no nuclear plants. Captain Atom, investigating for the U.S. Government, strongly suspects Red Star to be guilty of the destruction. Cyborg doubts Red Star's guilt, however, and tries to find proof against it. He winds up finding a massive Nuclear monster similar to the one in the first episode of JLU. Superman, Red Star, Cyborg, Green Lantern and Captain Atom battle the creature while the rest of the League try to find out where the monster came from. However, the only information they are able to find is that it "Came from the sky." At the end, Lex Luthor is shown saying that the new weapon was tested successfully.
Episode Eleven: Perfect Storm- A massive storm sweeps across North America. The League immediately suspects Weather Wizard, but are proven wrong when they are attacked by none other than Red Tornado. Tornado, recently built, is fulfilling his programming... to kill the Justice League. While the League battles Red Tornado and attempts to save as many live as possible in the storm, Cyborg is determined to convince Red Tornado that he can act beyond his programming, and that he can have free will. In the end, Tornado decides that Cyborg may be correct, and attempts to kill T.O. Morrow. He is again stopped by the League, and, after being convinced that killing is wrong, goes to try and "find his place" in the world.
Episode Twelve: Marvels- Billy Batson is granted the powers of Captain Marvel. At the same time however, Dr. Sivana brings Black Adam back to Earth and the two form an allegiance. While battling the forces of the Black Adam and Dr. Sivana, Superman attempts to teach Billy what it really means to be a hero.
*Episode Thirteen: Visitors From the Stars- Batman is investigating a series of arson crimes, and his search causes him to cross paths with Detective John Jones. Batman quickly determines that John is not human, and that he has a vulnerability to fire. Using a simple lighter, Batman forces John to reveal that he is a Martian. The two then encounter the Human Flame, responsible for all of the crimes they are investigating, and defeat him together. Batman tells Martian Manhunter that they will be in touch. While all of this is going on, Orion visits Superman, and tells him that he believes Apokolips may be active on Earth.
*Episode Fourteen: Targeted- A multi-billion dollar peace treaty makes Lex Luthor the target of several assassination attempts. Luthor contacts the Justice League for protection, and they grudgingly accept. However, they are facing a team of assassins led by Deathstroke the Terminator, meaning that protecting Luthor may be easier said than done. In the end, it is revealed that Luthor himself ordered the assassination attempts, and that the League's entire performance against the assassins was "recorded for study."
Episode Fifteen: Endless- Flash, insecure about his role on the team, has been having nightmares about being chased by a Black Flash. His feelings of insecurity are not helped when the League goes on a mission in which his powers would be useless, so he stays behind. However, the HQ is then visited by Dr. Fate and Death of the Endless. A cadre of magic-using villains have attacked The Endless, and want to obtain Destiny's book, with which they could re-write reality. Dr. Fate came to help the Endless, but his powers proved insufficient to battle the villains alone, so he came to the League for help. He is disappointed when Flash is the only one there, but Flash goes along nonetheless. Flash befriends Death, although Dr. Fate seems to not like him. During a battle with the villains, Dr. Fate's helmet is removed. Kent Nelson shares his own insecurities that without the helmet he is useless, but Flash tells him that its not the helmet that makes him a hero, its the man wearing it. Flash is killed during the battle, and winds up in a race with Black Flash. He is saved by Death, but when he thanks her, she says, "No need to thank me. You would have won." In the end, the villains are defeated and Flash leaves with a new confidence.
Episode Sixteen: Fallen Angels- The Angel Zuriel is cast out of Heaven by Asmodel the general of the angelic army, because Zauriel threatened to expose his conspiracies against Heaven's laws. Zauriel seeks out the Justice League for help, telling them that Asmodel and the demon Neron plan to ignite a war between Heaven and Hell that will devastate the Earth, and end with Neron in control of the Earth and Asmodel in control of Heaven. The team is soon joined by the demon Etrigan who has uncovered the same plot. While the Justice League battles the forces of Neron and Asmodel, Etrigan and Zauriel bicker furiously, having a deep rooted grudge against one another. By the end, however, the two form an uneasy friendship. The League defeats Neron and Asmodel and casts them both into the deepest pits of Hell.
*Episode Seventeen: Prometheus- After studying the footage from the episode "Targeted," Prometheus has formulated a plan to destroy the Justice League one by one. Given his weaponry by Lex Luthor, Prometheus infiltrates the Justice League HQ and proceeds to easily defeat each member one at a time. Eventually only Batman is left standing, and is forced to use every ounce of his skill to save his friends. At the end of the episode, Luthor is once again shown talking to his shadowed benefactor, and states that while Prometheus failed to kill the League, he did fulfill the first priority of his mission. It is then revealed that Prometheus stole the last remaining Starro probe, which was frozen in the League's trophy room.
*Episode Eighteen: Dead Space- Hal Jordan receives an emergency distress call from Kilowog, and heads off to see what is going on. In Hal's absence, Guy Gardner fills in for him on Earth. Hal goes to investigate the ship which the distress call came from, and finds a small squadron of Green Lanterns hiding within the ship, their rings low on power. Kilowog explains to Hal that strange spores had latched onto crew members on the ship, and turned them into bloodthirsty monsters. Hal and the few remaining Green Lanterns on board battle the infected crew members, but members of their group are slowly picked off one by one. Eventually, when Hal is the last man on the ship not affected by the strange spores, he steers the ship into the gravitational pull of a nearby sun and burns the spores off of the victims before narrowly escaping. When he returns to Earth, Batman has already punched Guy unconscious. At the end, Lex Luthor says that the spores were successfully tested as weapons, and his mysterious ally is finally revealed as Darkseid.
Episode Nineteen: Amazo- The last episode before the start of the finale. Amazo attacks the Justice League, Red Tornado returns, joins the League, and after a difficult battle they defeat Amazo.
*Episode Twenty: The Hyperclan- The Hyperclan comes to Earth to replace the Justice League as its protectors, and treats villains with lethal force. The League is suspicious of the Hyperclan, especially when people all around the world begin to disappear. Meanwhile, Aquaman goes back to Atlantis and learns that his brother Orm is now ruling Atlantis. Batman eventually learns that the Hyperclan are White Martians in disguise, but before he can expose them he is attacked, and Bruce Wayne is "replaced" with a White Martian counterpart.
*Episode Twenty-One: Harvest Pt. 1- Batman has joined the ranks of the humans held captive by the White Martians. Also among the captives are Big Barda, Mr. Miracle and, especially surprising to Batman, Hippolyta. Orion is still investigating Apokoliptian activity on Earth, and finds that LexCorp has been getting weapons shipments from Apokolips. He then traces a Boom Tube portal and realizes that LexCorp and Apokoliptian scientists are building something underneath Themyscira! Around the time he is discovering this, the Amazons of Themyscira declare war on Atlantis. Ocean Master, now ruling Atlantis, is quick to respond. The armies of Themyscira and Atlantis wage war, using the surface world as their battlefield. The League, especially Wonder Woman, are baffled by this. Wonder Woman attempts to return to Themyscira, despite her banishment, to see what is going on and finds that her "mother" is acting strangely. Diana then realizes that the Amazons not willing to fight have been infected with spores, just like the ones Hal fought in the previous episode, that drive them into a violent frenzy. Diana is infected with a spore and attacks the League. Once they subdue her, Cyborg analyzes the spore and realizes that it is made from a genetically modified Starro probe.
The war between Atlantis and Themyscira has decimated North America, and the U.S. Government prepares to respond with weapons a nuclear strike. When Batman supports this, the League knows something is wrong. Hal and Superman subdue Batman and his White Martian replacement is revealed. The League then battels the Hyperclan while Orion finds Martian Manhunter and asks for his help.
*Episode Twenty-Two: Harvest Pt. 2- After defeating the Hyperclan, the Justice League, along with Orion and Martian Manhunter, storm the White Martian nest. They free the captive humans, along with Batman, Mr. Miracle, Big Barda and Hippolyta. Wonder Woman then realizes that the "Hippolyta" currently commanding Themyscira is a fake. Batman defeats the remaining White Martians using gasoline and a lighter, and Mr. Miracle points out that the White Martians continually assaulted his mind searching for something called Anti-Life. They piece the issue together. Lex Luthor has been connected to Apokolips the whole time. The battle with Ares back in "Trinity" was only a ploy to have Wonder Woman banished from Themyscira, so that the White Martians, allied with Apokolips, could "replace" Hippolyta without Diana knowing. The war between Atlantis and Themyscira was set up to draw the U.S. Government into the fray, creating a massive nuclear fallout that would weaken the planet for Apokolips' invasion. The mind-controlling spores were engineered to ensure that the war would happen, without anyone in objection. The White Martians have been probing human minds for bits of something called Anti-Life, and a powerful weapon made from Apokoliptian technology is being constructed underneath Themyscira.
Aquaman goes back to Atlantis to battle Ocean Master and try to stop the violence among his people, while the rest of the League heads to Themyscira. However, as they get there, the weapon is unleashed... Mageddon.
*Episode Twenty-Three: Anti-Life, Pt. 1- Mageddon's influence throws the entire planet into swaths of violence. While the Justice League attempts to quell the violence and destroy Mageddon, Darkseid finally arrives and devastates the League. Superman manages to nearly destroy Mageddon, but it proves too late. Darkseid's forces have finished piecing together the Anti-Life Equation from fragments found within the minds of humans. Darkseid then telepathically links to Mageddon, and uses Mageddon's influence over the entire planet to infect all living beings on Earth with the Anti-Life Equation. Cyborg builds devices that will shield the lead from the effects of the equation, but the rest of humanity falls under Darkseid's Anti-Life spell, becoming mindless extensions of his will.
*Episode Twenty-Four: Anti-Life, Pt. 2- Having been betrayed by Darkseid, Lex Luthor offers Batman a radion bullet, saying that it is the only substance on Earth that can kill Darkseid. Batman refuses to use it, but Lex insists that he take it anyway. The Justice League rallies together and battles Darkseid, along with his army of now mindless zombies. In a fierce and bloody battle, Black Canary finds a sonic frequency that can counteract the Anti-Life Equation. Cyborg hacks several WayneTech satellites and modifies them to broadcast the frequency. However, it will only work if everyone infected with Anti-Life is hit within the same instant. Flash takes a device that will make him the receiver for the satellite broadcast. Flash must then run fast enough to hit every single area of the Earth within the same nanosecond. Flash pushes himself harder than ever before and manages to make it, spreading the signal across the globe and freeing people of Darkseid's control. While the world's armies and heroes gather together against Apokoliptian armies, the Justice League engages in one final fight against Darkseid. In a lengthy battle, Superman finally defeats him. Cyborg opens a Boom Tube to the farthest recesses of the universe in which Darkseid will instantly freeze and drift through space for all eternity. Superman casts him through the Boom Tube, and the forces of Apokolips are beaten back, finally retreating back home. The world is finally safe, and all returns to normal. Meanwhile, Batman keeps the Radion bullet Luthor gave him, just in case...
And there's season one! I'm already working on Season 2 now, which will expand even more upon the DC universe!


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Charles Kegan Paul (1828-1902) was an English publisher and author.
He was born at White Lackington, Somerset. He was educated at Eton and at Exeter College, Oxford; from 1853 to 1862 was a master at Eton, and, after twelve years as vicar of Sturminster Newton, entered the publishing business, from which he retired in 1899. Kegan Paul's business was continued by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. which merged with George Routledge in 1912. He left the Church of England for Positivism, and in his last years entered the Roman Catholic Church.
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That was what her species called "laughing their ears off," according to Jess's biovox, which translated body language, as well as speech. He could do without the translation this time. "Hey, Worthy," Kedra said, "if that's how you fly your own ship, how have you managed to stay alive so long in the Alien Integration Program?" "Stop joking, Kedra," Anfa said from the right column of seats. "Jess, are you hurt? What happened?" Jess rolled over and sat on the floor, feeling for bruises and checking for broken bones or blood. "I'm OK, I guess. Someone unbuckled my harness." He glared at the green blur behind his seat. "Worthy!" a voice boomed from the cockpit. "Stop goofing off. Get back in your seat. We just emerged from interspace on the wrong side of this binary system, and we're about to slingshot around a gas-giant planet. Double-check your harnesses, all of you." If Auron was worried enough to shout at Jess, then this bunch of misfits must be in for a rough ride. Nothing scared that mountain of muscle. The Thal could make an 800-pound gorilla run with just a glance. And that was his happy face. Jess scrambled across the floor toward his seat, sweeping his hands about in search of his glasses. "Jess, the pilot just gave you an order," Mallot said. "Get back in your seat." "I've got to find my glasses before they get smashed." "Just buckle up. Quick! You can find them later. Or make new ones in the facsimile generator." Jess growled and started for his seat. The ship dived and pitched to the left, and Jess flew into Saralestra's lap. "Get your smelly, oily, porous body off me!" The beautiful Veyan girl shoved Jess back to the aisle floor. "You know never to touch a Platinum Maiden. You don't need your biovox to tell you that." "Sorry! It was an accident! The ship's bouncing all over. Didn't you notice?" "Never insult the visual acuity of a Platinum Maiden of Exuus," the friendly biovox said inside Jess's head. "Are you insulting my powers of observation as well, Mr. Worthy?" Saralestra fixed her huge electric-blue eyes on him. "Did your acrobatics injure your brain or damage your biovox?" Jess crawled toward his seat, fighting the ship's roller-coaster maneuvers. On one of the ship's banks to the right, his glasses slid to his hand. That was lucky. He grabbed them and threw himself back into his seat, cinching his harness as tightly as he could. This time he kept one hand on the buckle to prevent further sabotage. He put his glasses back on and looked at Saralestra. "It wasn't my fault. Someone undid my harness. Did you see who?" The Veyan girl glared at Jess for a moment with that unfeeling look that said she was a Platinum Maiden, the highest social caste and beauty class on her home world of Exuus. The biovox's cultural prompts reminded Jess of that about a thousand times too many. Saralestra liked to remind him too. "No, Mr. Worthy. I was looking out my window at the time." She turned away. Then Jess felt a warm, wet puff on the back of his neck. "You're not sorry, human," Kedra said, leaning in closer. "Are you really that clumsy? Or were you just trying to touch the Veyan?" She puffed harder. "Actually, I would wager you're both clumsy and unable to control yourself." Jess couldn't see whether Kedra was laughing or doing the Cammardonian version of turning up her nose, or both. Cammardonians didn't have noses. Laughter was a combination of twitching their bat- wing ears and puffing through the nostrils at the corners of their mouths. But so was turning up their noses. An accurate translation depended on the ear-twitching pattern. Of course, even facing away from Kedra, Jess could have his biovox translate Kedra's body language. But why bother? This group survival exercise hadn't even begun, and Jess already was tired of Kedra's taunts and her bragging about her money. "Well, Worthy? Which is it?" Kedra poked at his shoulder from around the seat – an easy maneuver because Cammardonian arms bent in two places with their dual elbows. "Shoulder tapping is a sign of disrespect on Cammardon," Jess's biovox reminded him. "The proper action is to walk away, pretending to be too wealthy to respond to such an insult." "So, are you just clumsy, Worthy? Or are you going to blame your primitive human hormones?" Did Kedra unbuckle the harness? Jess had no idea how she would profit from a stunt that could have seriously injured him, possibly even killed him. But she's the prime suspect. With those long wiggly arms, she could have reached Jess's buckle without anyone noticing. It couldn't have been Mallot. He's an Ardan, a species from an advanced planet that has been in the Galactic Union for thousands of years. And he's studying to be an officer in Galactic Union Security. He'd never risk his career. Platinum Maiden Saralestra wouldn't risk touching Jess at all. He'd have to be a prince on Earth for her to even consider it. And Anfa? No way. The Emmon girl was studying to be a doctor on her planet, Olis, and she likes helping people, not playing jokes on them. That left one suspect, a green, one-eyed... "Shoulder tapping is a sign of disrespect on Cammardon..." This time, Jess was too fast for Kedra. He grabbed her finger and pulled forward until he heard her forehead thump on the back of his seat. "Puff! Ahh! Let go, human!" She tried to jerk free, but Jess clenched her long green finger with both hands as hard as he could. "On Earth, you know what 'pull my finger' means? I'll let go as soon as you fart." Jess grinned as the girl yanked again and again to retrieve her finger. "You're disgusting, human! Let go or I'll report you to Dr. Paragon!" "Did you unhook my harness?" "No!" "It must have been you. No one else could reach it." "I swear on the bank vault of my ancestors that I didn't do it. Now let go!" "Promise you won't touch me or anything of mine again for the rest of this trip?" "All right, I'll never lay a finger on you again, human. Let go! Mallot! Tell Worthy to let me go!" "Jess, please let her go," Mallot said. "You've made your point." "Sure. Whatever you say." Kedra kept yanking her hand over and over to release it from Jess's grip. Jess waited for her next yank to let go. She slapped into her seat with a thump and a sputtering "puff!" from her wide green lips. It wasn't as painful as flying into a bulkhead, but that smidgen of revenge was sweet enough. Anyway, Kedra swore on what? The bank vault of her ancestors? What did that mean? Was that some "stick a needle in my eye" kids' thing that didn't count if they crossed their fingers? "Cammardonians are truthful when they swear on their family fortunes," the biovox said in Jess's brain. But did Kedra follow her planet's rules when she was out in space? Jess didn't know. If only the biovox had a lie-detector function; that would be handy. But who else could have unbuckled the harness? "Oh, look at that!" Anfa said, pointing out her window to the massive gaseous planet's swirling colors. "It's beautiful. Look at the amazing patterns. I'm sure that no two such planets look exactly alike." The views Jess caught through his window and the other portals around the passenger module reminded him of Jupiter and its many moons. He couldn't tell if this gas giant was as big as Jupiter. But when he pressed his face to the window to see as far forward as possible, he saw a bright white moon that clung to some atmosphere. The ship was passing very near that moon. "That's where we should have come out of interspace – the other star in this binary system," Anfa said, pointing out her window toward a bright star. "Looks like we're going around the gas giant and then toward that other star." Jess could tell that the view of the gas giant excited Anfa. The hairs of her thick, horse-like mane bristled straight out. As an Emmon, short fur covered her wolf-like face and her body, while her mane ran from the bridge of her snout over her head. It was like a Mohawk haircut that continued down her spine. Actually, Jess had no idea how far down her mane went because her gown covered her like a long overcoat. She looked like a cross between a horse and a wolf wearing a wedding gown. As the passengers gazed at the huge planet to the ship's right or moons of vastly varying sizes and colors to the left, Jess looked around at the crew. What a freak show. Two furry animals that walked and talked like people, a green one-eyed dwarf, and a girl who made a Barbie doll look only slightly more feminine than a boy. "It is impolite to stare at someone on Exuus – even more so than on Earth," the biovox pointed out to Jess. But no one was paying attention to him. They were enjoying the scenery. Well, so was Jess. He stared at Saralestra. Falling in her lap moments earlier was the closest he'd ever been to either of the Veyan girls in the Alien Integration Program. And he'd never seen a human girl as stunning as Saralestra. Her skin glowed flawless bronze without a single freckle, mole or birthmark. Her piercing blue eyes must have been twice as big as a human's. At about 6 feet tall, she towered over everyone else in the passenger module, and the shuttle's weightless free-fall at the moment floated her long shroud of blond hair around her body like a mermaid underwater. Her swimming hair concealed the sudden left turn of her head to look out Mallot's window toward the moons. Her eyes caught Jess's. Busted! "You are staring at me, Mr. Worthy. Stop it." "I wasn't staring. I was looking back and forth between the windows." The ship lurched again, hard enough to throw all the passengers against their safety straps. Jess already was holding his harness with both hands, but the others gasped as though someone had slugged them in the gut. An explosion rocked the shuttle, and a blinding flash filled the compartment. Everyone began to talk at once, so frantically that Jess's biovox couldn't keep up with the translations. Words broke into squeaks and barks like a bad cell-phone connection from a caller at a noisy zoo. The passenger module's alarm light glowed blue, indicating a life- threatening emergency. "Aah! Puff, puff, puff!" "What's wrong, Kedra?" Anfa said. "Are you hurt?" "Worse! I lost my financial feed, along with my link to the I-network. It's gone! Completely gone!" Jess, who also sensed his biovox had lost its link, turned around toward Kedra. "We're in serious trouble, and you're worried about your money?" "My Galactic Union portfolio requires constant monitoring. The timing of buy and sell orders is crucial to..." "I've lost my link, too," Anfa said. Saralestra and Mallot also said they'd lost their links. Jess said he had as well. Without their biovox's links through the ship's nexus – more than a mere computer – to the Interspatial network, only life support and person-to-person communication worked. "Whatever that explosion was," Mallot said, "it must have done severe damage. But don't worry. Auron's a very experienced pilot." "Aren't we getting awfully close to that moon?" Kedra said. "What's going on? Are we going to crash?" "Auron," Mallot said. "Can you hear me? Can you tell us what's happening?" The pilot didn't reply. If he was incapacitated or dead, the passengers might be in trouble. The nexus could fly the ship, run all its systems. But Jess and the passengers had no idea if the nexus was working because their I-network links had died. If both the pilot and the nexus were out of commission, they'd be dead in minutes – a crater on an icy moon. The shuttle lurched to the left, and the crew felt the moon's gravity. Jess pressed his nose against his window. Barely within sight behind the ship, the moon's daylight side shrank into a crescent, and for a moment, he would swear he saw waves rippling through floating ice. But perhaps that was a trick of light through the misty atmosphere. The ship swooped entirely into the night side. The blue alarm light started to flash, and the craft began to shudder. It felt like riding a jackhammer. The glow of compressed gases blazed past their windows as they entered a meteoric plunge into the moon's atmosphere. The braking effect pulled the passengers forward with such force that they hung from their safety harnesses. Jess couldn't hold his head, arms and legs back, so he let them rest on the back of Mallot's seat. Jess twisted his head and saw that Anfa was doing the same thing, while holding her mane tightly to her scalp. That was the Emmon expression of terror. Kedra whimpered and puffed like a steam locomotive. Maybe she was hyperventilating. Jess didn't know. They were all as scared as he was. "Emergency landing procedure!" Auron's voice shouted. "Prepare to evacuate!" It sounded more like "Eeemmmerrrgennncyyy lllandddding ppproceeedddddure" because it felt as if the ship would shake itself apart. But it was a relief to hear Auron's voice. The giant Thal was from an advanced world. And he was Saralestra's "peer scholar" – a sort of mentor in the Alien Integration Program. Auron could get them out of this mess. The turbulent ride eased a bit, and the meteoric flame of plasma blocking their view faded and vanished. Jess looked out his window. Jagged mountain peaks swept past, and vast, white plains stretched below the ship. "Emergency matter transmissions initiating," Auron said. "Just follow procedure, meet at the survival kit." Jess saw the top of Mallot's head vanish. Anfa followed, and the sudden cessation of Kedra's puffing meant that she'd gone too. Jess watched Saralestra. She turned and looked at him. For the first time, the instant before she disappeared, her face made an expression. His biovox couldn't figure it out. It looked like a combination of pain and anger, as if she were blaming Jess for their shuttle's imminent crash. He braced himself for transmission to the moon's surface, tucking his chin to his chest so that he was ready to curl into a ball and roll onto the ground in case he materialized a tad too high. A tingly electric pulse shot through his body. And it hurt. Matter transmission never had hurt before. Then for an instant all light, sound, smell and feeling ceased, swallowed by oblivion. CHAPTER TWO The Frozen Body The nothingness of matter transmission lasted no time, and yet there was time to dream. Or daydream. It was impossible to say which, and not every species experienced these instant dreams. For Jess, it flashed like a movie clip in his brain – or mental pictures of a book he'd read a few weeks earlier – Jonathan Livingston Seagull arriving on one world even before the fictional bird had left the previous one. Jess didn't have time to analyze whether this dream held any meaning. Before he realized that he was no longer strapped into the starship's passenger seat, he hovered for an instant a couple meters above a vast snowscape, then belly-flopped onto the surface, flapping his arms like a seagull – as if that would help. It didn't. Jess made this world's first snow angel, face down, knocking the breath out of him for the second time on this trip. How could the nexus miss the surface by so much? Maybe this wasn't a good weekend for a trip across the galaxy. He gasped for air, which his biovox supplied in such a minimal volume that it felt as if someone were smothering him with a pillow. A sonic boom pounded his body as the shuttle rumbled overhead. Jess couldn't see the ship, but its roar rolled across the landscape, echoing over the lifeless, frozen snowdrifts long after a bright flash lit the horizon. Did the ship actually explode? Weird. Sure, vehicles crashed all the time on Earth, as well as the home worlds of Anfa, Saralestra and Kedra. But accidents were rare for Galactic Union technology. Maybe this wasn't an accident. Jess had no way to tell. He wasn't in the cockpit. Well, the ship's nexus surely sent a distress call to Galactic Union Security the instant something went wrong, so a rescue ship would be here any time. Jess stood in the powdery snow, and his feet sank nearly knee-deep in the soft upper layers. The fresh snowfall helped soften his landing, but he wondered why his biovox didn't cushion his impact at all. He surveyed the icy landscape. It shimmered like the land of Christmas under the binary twin's starlight, which bathed the vast plain as brightly as a full moon on Earth. But this world was itself a moon about as big as Earth. Rugged mountains surrounded the expansive lowland of snowdrifts, some taller than Jess. A faint breeze whispered in his ears, and he tasted the filtered and sanitized mixture of gases that his biovox provided. "Hello? Can anybody hear me? Auron? Mallot?" Although the biovoxes should be able to communicate with each other, Jess heard nothing. "Biovox check – what's wrong? Why can't I talk to anyone?" "Biovox telecommunications are not functioning." "How about a queue to the survival kit? Can you do that?" "No. All functions that require telecommunication are unavailable." "Why? Not enough power or what?" "Unknown." "OK, the survival kit and Auron must be somewhere between here and where I saw the ship crash. If I walk that way, I'll find something or someone sooner or later." Jess looked in the direction where he saw the ship's fiery impact and chose a particularly high, rocky mountain peak on the horizon to use as a landmark. He took a step, which sank with a hollow scrunch into the fluffy snow. This hike would take awhile. The survival kit could be miles away. After walking for a few minutes – more like wading – Jess trudged up one of the bigger snowdrifts in his path to take another look around. By the time he reached the top, he was so out of breath that he swore he wouldn't climb one of these big lumps again unless his life was at stake. He slumped with his hands on his knees, gasping for air. The biovox must have been struggling to provide him a breathable mixture of gases from this atmosphere, let alone insulate him from the biting cold. His stomach gurgled with hunger, so he looked forward to getting some food supplement and a biovox battery out of the survival kit, if he could find it. He straightened up and looked all around. Nothing moved as far as he could see. Where was everyone? They should have materialized a bit closer together. So Jess plodded ahead in a slow steady rhythm. Kathunk, kathunk. He wondered if this snow was made of water or whether this world was so cold that this stuff was frozen gases. After what seemed like an hour of wading across the icy quicksand, Jess saw a square shape atop a snowdrift. That wasn't a natural shape. It had to be the survival kit. Jess sloshed through the snow toward it and put his hand over the biovox-activated latch, anticipating a fuller stomach once he'd slapped on a battery and a packet of concentrated foodstuffs. "Open," he thought when he touched the latch. Nothing happened. He ordered his biovox to use its own power to activate the mechanism. He felt a brief sting of intense cold for half a second as some of the biovox's life-sustaining energy diverted into opening the survival kit. Bam! The lid flipped open from the force of a small explosion. Jess flung himself backward, blocking his face. He fell on his back, making the second snow angel in this moon's history. After a moment of silence, Jess crept up to the kit and peered inside. "Great! Just great." The kit had materialized almost entirely in the ice. Everything was ruined. It must have been one of the batteries that exploded, shorted out by the snow. Jess pulled items from the kit, finding one biovox battery intact. Everything else was embedded in ice, combined with it chemically the moment it materialized. Then he saw the medical scanner strapped to the inside of the lid. He grabbed it and turned it on. "A little scorched but working. OK, scan the contents of the survival kit. Is anything still useful? The food, the batteries, the regular scanner?" "One biovox battery and this scanner are functional. All the other contents are merged with native compounds and rendered useless." "What about the – what do you call it? – the emergency beacon?" "Destroyed." Nice. Nothing had gone right on this trip so far. "Auron, where are you? You should have been here before me." "You can't tell the difference between a Thal and a Platinum Maiden of Exuus?" Jess looked over his shoulder and saw the Veyan girl's silhouette approaching. He jumped up and wheeled around. For an instant, Jess caught her cold stare. Her icy blue eyes and cascading blond hair gleamed in the bright star's light. Jess's eyes darted around, and he turned back toward the survival kit. "I haven't seen or heard from Auron or anyone else," he told her. "And that's not all. Most of the survival kit's ruined. It materialized in the snow." Saralestra strutted forward with incredible poise considering how deeply her shiny boots sank into the snow. She looked into the kit and pulled at a packet of concentrated foodstuff, but the top tore off in her hand, leaving the rest embedded in the ice. "Mr. Worthy, where is the emergency beacon?" "I told you. Everything in there's ruined but the medical scanner and one biovox battery. We need to find Auron. He's got an emergency beacon with him." "Why haven't you used the scanner to locate him?" Because he'd just found the survival kit a minute ago. That's why. What else did she expect? A palace built of snow waiting for her? Jess stifled a growl and held up the scanner. "Display locations of all shuttle passengers." The device projected a three-dimensional map of the valley between Jess and Saralestra. The image glowed brilliantly in the night air, like a 3D role-playing game, but Jess stared straight through it at the Veyan girl's face. He struggled to pull his eyes away from her striking features and luminous blond hair. Earth to Jess – stop staring at her. Focus on the display. Tiny animated characters representing each of the crew members inched across the snowy wasteland. Names floated next to each figure – Jess saw them spelled in Roman letters, and he knew that Saralestra saw them in her world's written language. Images representing Kedra, Anfa and Mallot meandered toward the blue dot marking the survival kit and the standing figures for Jess and Saralestra. A dot representing Auron sat motionless a few hundred meters away. That didn't look right. "Medical emergency," the scanner said. "Auron's biovox is damaged and running out of energy. Failure estimated in seven minutes. Take medical scanner and biovox battery to his location immediately." Above the dot representing Auron, a set of red bar graphs popped up showing several vital signs. No respiration. No circulatory function. No brain activity. Body temperature well below the freezing point of water. Yet Auron's biovox indicated that it was keeping the Thal alive. Jess looked at Saralestra. She only returned the glassy emotionless gaze that infuriated Jess, even though he knew it was natural for her species and culture. "Give me a queue to Auron's location, the fastest route possible," Jess told the scanner, grabbing the battery and throwing himself into a squishy jog along the blue line that he now saw hovering over the snow. "Mr. Worthy, where are you going? You're no doctor. What do you know about medical aid or Auron's physiology?" "I know he's about to die. The medical scanner will tell me what to do! Wait here for the others!" "You have neither the right nor the status to order me..." Jess's vigorous gasps and scrunchy scramble through the snow helped drown out Saralestra's voice. He wasn't interested in listening anyway. He followed the blue line that stretched across the desert of ice, seeming to lead toward the distant twin star of this binary system. That's where they were supposed to be – on a boring group survival exercise on a planet orbiting that other star. How did the ship's nexus make such a big navigational error? What caused the explosion and the crash? Only Auron could answer those questions, if he survived. When the biovox queue led over a snowdrift, Jess scrambled on all fours over the crest and staggered down the other side. The drifts kept getting higher, like a storm brewing in a frozen sea. After a few minutes, Jess began to slow. His heart pounded, and he gasped three times for each step. His legs ached, then started to tingle into numbness. "Medical emergency critical," the scanner said. "The Thal's biovox has about three minutes of power remaining." Jess pushed forward as hard has he could. "How ... gasp ... much ... gasp ... far ... gasp ... ther?" Jess could have asked the scanner mentally, but he was in no condition to think of that. "Five meters." The queue arced over a wall of snow-covered ice. Jess slumped over the top and threw his legs over, letting his limp body slide down the other side. He plunged into the bottom of a long trench and faced an even steeper wall of ice. How many more of these did he need to climb over? "The Thal's biovox has one minute of power remaining." Feeling as if he'd just done a thousand pushups and needed to do one more, he climbed to his feet. His groan echoed across the cold silence, and the icy world moaned back. He could swear he felt its tortured rumble, like a monster inside an egg straining to crack its shell. Was that a moonquake? Maybe this glacier or whatever was sensitive to noise, like an avalanche-prone mountain on Earth. Better groan quietly from now on. Jess didn't want to trigger a quake that would split open the ice and swallow him. Jess threw himself against the blue line that led up the trench wall. What he saw next made him scream – Auron's head on the top of the ice. Jess fell back into the trench with an "oof." For an instant, he thought the Thal's head had been chopped off. Then he realized that Auron had materialized inside the ice up to his neck with his face frozen in a grimace of shock and agony. "Scanner, is Auron really alive?" "Yes, held in stasis by his biovox and allowed to freeze in order to more easily preserve his brain. However, the nano-components in his body are inoperative. Only the few remaining in his head are functioning. They will run out of power in 20 seconds." Jess placed the biovox battery atop Auron's frosty, bluish head. It stuck like a magnet. "Will that keep him alive?" "Yes." "For how long?" "It will keep the Thal in stasis for about 85 hours, with a margin of error of seven hours depending on how much energy his remaining biovox components can collect from this environment." "Good. That's a lot longer than we'll need. We'll be picked up long before then. Is Auron's emergency beacon OK? Can you activate it remotely, or do I need to dig it out of the ice?" "Nothing below the Thal's neck is functional." "Oh, man. No quick rescue today, I guess. If only Auron had materialized a meter this way. Hey, scanner, why didn't his biovox's pass-through work? Shouldn't it have let him walk right out of this block of ice?" "Apparently, it malfunctioned." "Duh. Why?" "Unknown." "OK. Fine. A ship will find us eventually." "I wouldn't count on that." It wasn't the scanner's voice. Jess looked around. "Who is that? I don't recognize your voice." "I wouldn't waste your only battery on your pilot. You're going to need it if you want to live." "Who is that?" Jess shouted at the top of his lungs, loudly enough to generate an echo over the ice. "I'll give you a hint: I offered you friendship from the beginning, before you even joined the Alien Integration Program. Our friendship went a little sideways, but I'm willing to forgive..." "Hah! You forgive me? Friendship? You tried to kill me. Twice." Jess dug his heel into the snow and growled. "Now it all makes sense. The wrong side of the star system, the crash, the survival kit, Auron. Did you unbuckle my harness too?" "You're clever considering your brain's size and primitive configuration." "Nice. Thanks. What're you doing here? What do you want?" "That was a compliment, but no matter. I just want to give you some advice. Take the battery off the Thal. Use it yourself. You're already tired and hungry. It's the only way you'll have a slim chance at survival. And it would be merciful to let the Thal die painlessly." "Well, that's about as useful as all the other so-called advice you've ever given me. If you want us dead, why don't you just shoot us?" "Take the battery and put it on. Leave the Thal behind." Jess held up the medical scanner and spoke to it. "What's the next step to rescue Auron?" "Place scanner next to the Thal's head," the device replied. Jess put it in the crunchy snow beside Auron. A red flash glistened around the Thal's neck, and the frozen head tumbled toward Jess. He caught it with both arms, and fell on his back yet again. This time, it felt as if someone had tossed a heavy bowling ball at him without warning. Jess was getting tired of making these accidental snow angels. He set Auron atop the wall of ice behind him and retrieved the scanner, putting it in his pocket. Then he threw himself over the wall of ice back the way he came and hefted Auron's rock-solid head. "You're going to wish you'd saved that battery for yourself. Now all of you will probably die on this moon." "Shut up."
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