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Insane Interdimensional Interlude

Roar Comics

on Feb. 11, 2010

Having had a bit of trouble in the last reality they visited, (One in which the public library system somehow became the ruling governmental body and the IRS sent flesh eating cyborg zombies after those who were delinquent in paying their taxes) Monroe, Quinn and Bjorn once again began their omniversal jaunt to find a new Earth to settle on.
The next one they found was a nightmare.
The tallest of buildings had been torn asunder. There were no children anywhere. Everyone that they could see was 25 years old and above. People were toiling away in the streets building monuments… monuments that looked like 4 tailed foxes. This world reminded them all of Kit's world!
Dammit! It looks like they stumbled into another reality that Monroe's deranged ex-wife, Kit had taken over.
How wrong they were.
They used theor powers to track Kit down, hoping to find some way to make her stop what she'd done.
They found her rather swiftly. Only, there was a difference.
The Fox Spirit was native to this Earth. She was not the Kit they knew.
They found her in Dallas, Texas, chained up in a ridiculously large bedroom on the top floor of the only skyscraper they'd seen in the hours they'd been on this Earth.
The chains that held her were mystical. The boys couldn't break them. During their attempts, Kit regained consciousness. She took one look at them and began screaming incoherently. She yelled jibberish. Between the 3 of them, the boys spoke almost every language known to man on several different parallel Earths, but none of them could figure out what she was wailing about. Finally, unable to comfort her, Monroe cast a sleep spell over her. He noted that itwas very easy to do so… TOO easy for a being of her power level. That's when they noticed… she had no power. Not only that, but this was not her natural state. What could possibly drain and contain a powerful Fox Spirit like Kit? The Kit they knew from their own lives was damn near more powerful than the three of them put together, and it stood to reason that this Kit, when she was at maximum was equal to her analogue.
The boys got their answer when they heard the door to the bedroom get kicked off it's hinges behind them.

There stood a cracked mirror image of Bjorn, Quinn and Monroe in the doorway of the room. These demigods were the same as them, yet different.
They each wore a bizarre red, white and black variant of the same uniform. Each of them wore tight pants and jackboots, and bore what looked to be a symbol created by Corporate America to look arcane. They're doppelgangers sneered and cackled and said awful, depraved things to them about trespassing, punishment and enslavement.
They each wore their hair a bit different from Our Boys, but their faces and bodies were the same…. save for one detail, that Monroe was the first to notice.
Where the Misfits' eyes were a golden yellow, these "evil twin"s' eyes were a sick, bloody red and full of malice, madness and mayhem.

The battle was swifter than anyone could have calculated. The red-suited heathens weren't like the original Q, M & B.
They were bloodthirsty. They were relentless. They were depraved.
Bjorn, Quinn and Monroe classic didn't stand a popsicle's chance in The Human Torch's ass.
They were defeated, enslaved, molested and tortured by their duplicates…. their new masters.
Their powers were drained just like the alterna-Kit's were.
They were kept weak by way of the enchanted leashes that were put on them, and made to degrade themselves for what seemed like an eternity.

But, you can't keep a good demigod down, much less three of them.
Evil Bjorn, Quinn and Monroe had enslaved the entire planet, much like Kit had done to her own Earth. But, they had one weakness. Here, on their world, they were the demigods of Destruction, Oppression and Avarice.
They were vicious, malicious and violent… but they weren't as bright as they would like to think themselves.
Our Boys were still Trickster Gods.

It took a while to set up, but in the end, they sweet-talked, cajoled, lied, manipulated, seduced, reverse psychologied, distracted and hoodwinked their dastardly doppelgangers into letting their guards down.
When that finally happened, the original Monroe, Quinn and Bjorn showed those parallel reality punks that revenge is a dish best served with fava beans and a nice chianti!