The Cartoon Convention! First stop is "THE INCREDIBLE SPACE CIRCUS"!

Well, you'll see...

See right now!

Scott Chen the Author (and full time chump) is playing a dangerous game, risking what he's risking. Then again, orders are orders and given the temper of the one who's giving him orders he figures (wrongly) that it's better to follow through than disobey.

Then again…. Ah, never mind, let’s get down to it!

His mission is simple enough to sum up, find suitable host located within a certain "quadrant" of the multiverse and plant Key Compents (when put all together make a Key to the Dark Tower, thus gaining vast power to the user) within them. The stipulation on "suitable" means that the host must be able to survive (i.e. in no danger of kicking the bucket) before Flagg (or some other crony of his) harvests the host. Uh, did I forget that Flagg ordered that the hosts have to be transformed (Flagg is on a transformation fetish or something right now). That makes the field even smaller... Anyway, if Flagg finds out that Scott just chose some person at random to be a host (like say Flagg finds the "host" dead), then there is going to be trouble. Slim pickings in this quadrant, let me tell you, and leave off at that. Oh, there are potential hosts out there, but Scott Chen does not have time to hunt them down . . . unless he takes extreme measures (which he did with those human sacrifices). His original plans had been to take some convenient "womholes" located at this one planet . . . but he'd run into a robot, so his Author powers are kinda low. That extreme measure (wormhole travel is dangerous in that reality), he instead opted for black magic: human sacrifices of various analogs (from Game 3) of the hosts he was looking for, you see? One trip (ending with each insertion and "grab" for each respective host) for each sacrifice, you see?

Why this corner of the multiverse?

This remote quadrant of the multiverse because it's not heavily monitored, but still suitable for Flagg's master plans.

So doesn't that make sense?

No? Well, you'll see. . . . or maybe . . . Uh, never mind. Just trust me and enjoy the show, okay?

...

There are hosts to be had on this first trip. Scott wishes that he could just net the lot of them in the first go around, but that is not the way this magic shtick works. Oh well...

He'd always had this thing for cartoons, Scott had. But this particular reality which apes one particular Superfriends episode: "The Incredible Space Circus" (http:// quicksitebuilder .cnet.com /rob_63/ willsultimatesuper friendsepisodeguide/id12. html) he'd rather been annoyed with. Being that he now was an Author, he had made it a business of striking back at those who'd annoyed him or humiliated him in one way or another. Besides, there was this one useful weapon he'd seen in it that would help him in upcoming encounters elsewhere. He was running low on certain things and this was also going to be a shopping trip. . . to restock. . . .

Luck just ran out for some Superfriends, alas. Then again, given the rather wooden dialog and acting in the episode, it's not much of a loss to the multiverse at large!

1. Scott appears in a out of the way corner of a situation already in play. Some young teens are holding up some "dudes" dressed up in a cowboy/spacemen combination motif, but the fools have the weapon pointed the wrong way!!

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