Triple Threat

(G.M.'d by Ash- This adventure is out of the book Villains Unlimited (tm) of Palladium Books, and this adventure is one of the best that I've played in a while. Go out and BUY Villains!)

Group Status

We say good-bye to a guy I hardly even knew, he risked his neck for us, and got a bad brake, we say good bye to John Ross. The rest of us are still around and kicking some bad guy butt. Dark Rider will continue to work on his Super Van to bring it up to full speed again with the Metal Juggernaut at his side to help him out. Shroud is also still around and is earning a reputation to match that of the Metal Jugg's and Dark Rider's.

A lot can happen when you're away

We arrived back into the garage, vehicles, time machine, and all. I look up and see a guy in the garage working on a car. After looking around a little longer I notice all our cars and other stuff have been cleaned out!

The guy turns around and I see it's the Protector. He looks as equally surprised as we are, and he comes over and greets us all, saying how he thought we all died. He flipped open his cellphone (my trademark I believe?) and called up Gats.

We hear Gats running down the stairs and the door swings open and he comes over to us and tells us how much the city has missed us. (We were gone for a lousy 3 month's for god sakes, what happened?) He then starts to tell us about everything that's happened including the dinosaur he found in out closet / jail cell. Here's basically what we find out:

-Our little baby Dino has been mutating into a human child from dimensional jet lag or whatever the hell someone said.

-The Protector, Lukewarm, Polterghiest, and Pancho Villa had taken our positions when we unexpectently time warped away. Unfortunately Polterghiest had died in a gang war.

-About 3 months ago (right when we left) the governor of N.Y. was kidnapped and held for ransom and it was about to turn ugly when the kidnapper died of a heart attack. He was later found to have unknown drugs in his blood stream.

-1 month ago Joseph Roth, a Bank President, reportedly went crazy and destroyed 2 million dollars worth of city property. He was finally gunned down and was later found to have puncture wounds on his right arm (needle) and the same unknown drugs flowing through his veins.

-Also one month ago 23 drug related deaths have been found out about. They too had that unknown drug.

-2 days ago - 3 bodies were found in the Hudson River. They looked as though they had brain surgery on them and ultimately ended up in mutilation. A serial killer is suspected. No evidence of drugs was in there veins as far as I remember.

-All in all: There have been violent gang wars going on, $9.5 million in robbery's, a sabotaged N.Y. city Gov. Chemical Plant, that was burned down deliberately.

The Very Abridged Version

(Note: Because of the complexities of this adventure and the fact that I can't recall every detail even with the use of my usual notes leaves me left with just giving you the overall gist of what's going on, I'm truly sorry. All I can say is buy the book and of course, don't read on from here if you plan to be a P.C. in this adventure)

Along our travels we found out about a man they call the Mouse. We tracked him down and found him to be a previous assistant to a Dr. Lawrence Mindstone. He no longer know where Mindstone was, but a long time ago Mindstone had a plot to take over countries with his Army of psionic Minions. He was foiled previously but up to his old tricks again.

We also found out about a cybernetic microchip that had been implanted in the Mindstone's unwilling victims that would do the controlling for him.

Other people of mention are Stanly Livingstone, and Merlin Spellstone, who we quickly put them together as the same person as Dr. Lawrence Mindstone. Stanly was a gun-for-higher, and Merlin was a wizard of old.

We encountered Stanly Livingstone (a.k.a. Livingstone and Spellstone) once for a short time when he was with a gang and they were fighting with anther "Gang". Our old friend Nighthawk up to no good. It was looking pretty messy for awhile because we broke up the fight before it started and Nighthawk was going to send this small dinosaur at us, but the dino refused because we didn't do anything. I don't know what was up, I don't want to. All during that time Shroud was catching Livingstone who was building hopping to get away. He brought Livingstone back and we magically questioned him and found out his real name was Arthur Bronson, and we basically confirmed that he was the one that was behind all the drugs and cybernetic chips, but right when we were about to haul him into the police station for more questioning he teleported into thin air and we lost him.

On a tip we went down to the cemetery, and with-in the cemetery we found a small house of the cemetery keeper, a Mr. William Stone. We searched the house thoroughly, but found little of consequence. And then I started searching the graveyard for anyone with the word "stone" in their name. We found one by the name of Bankstone. So there we sat in the middle of the night unearthing a coffin. We eventually dug it up and lifted off the cover to find $500,000, an auto mag, ammo, and 2 knives.

We called Det. Miller to the graveyard and he arrived there and started getting everything in order so he could take it to the labs for fingerprints etc. and just then I got a call from the Mouse (a.k.a. Emilio Rodriguez) and he said that Mindstone just called him and told him to join with him again. If he decided to, he should call Mindstone back. (Emilio wants nothing to do with Mindstone)

We went over to Emilio's and got the number he was supposed to call Mindstone at and had it traced by a police operator and Emilio also told us that his girlfriend, Carmen, has been missing. 15 minutes later she called back with the address of the number. We all went over to the address to find a huge plant. We all went inside including our new little dino friend who actually spoke really good English and seems quite intelligent. However we did leave Emilio outside. We got in there and inside we found zounds of lab equipment that looks like it was used to make the drugs and a computer. We heard something downstairs so we went down with our weapons pulled.

4 people, a short guy, a guy with a five o'clock shadow on his face, a woman, and really tall guy. The woman sent a bolt doing little damage to Shroud and before I could do anything Dark Rider had pulled the trigger on his shotgun and blew the tall guy away. I didn't dare get into this battle because I figured these people were just innocents being used, however the others got right in and eventually half of us were paralyzed. The fighting stopped and it almost started again, but I left back upstairs and started looking around. I found in a smaller room surgical equipment that I guessed was being used to implant the chips.

Just then I heard people running upstairs and the battle ensuing once again. I yelled to Dark Rider to grab the computer, and he went to ripping out the harddrive while the others had the door shut from the 3 enemies. BOOM!! The door flew open and I believe it was either Shroud or the Dino guy that was with us that used a mystical shield to trap the 3 of them. I called the police to get them over here while they tried to figure a way out of there. The police arrived and the women and the guy gave up without a fight, but the little short guy came charging out of the now dropped mystic shield and ended up getting gunned down. We had our fill for the night, and were extremely tired seeing as how it is about 3 a.m. in the morning and we've been running around all day. We dropped off the Hard Drive with Larold (we knew it had names on it of his victims, but didn't know much else) and we went to bed.

Day 2

We woke up the next morning and I went down to the Stone residence at the graveyard for lack of a better thing to do, and the others took off for who knows where. While I was sitting at the graveyard, it occurred to me that I never searched the downstairs of that plant so I took the Hippy mobile on over to the plant and searched down there and low and behold, under the staircase I found one huge ass bag of cocaine. Obviously the police did a mediocre job of searching the place.

(Next Update) I was just thinking as I was leaving the drug lab that we never questioned the 2 people that we caught last night. I called up DR and told him to have the gang meet me down at the police station in couple of minutes.

I got down there and I asked Det. Miller (who also never sleeps) if we could see the two we caught last night. He gives me a look like I'm in for some trouble, but I tell him we want to see them anyway. We entered the room and found our two friends sitting there waiting for us. Just then a policemen's shirt started on fire, so I went over and punched the lady in the face and it suddenly stopped. Hmm... We tried questioning them but they really didn't feel like cooperating so we got very little to nothing out of them. I wasn't very thrilled.

I thanked Det. Miller and then we started off for the morgue to see about our unfortunate casualty the other night. We all headed in, including Dark Rider, but the mortician, namely Lukewarm at the time wouldn't talk to us unless Dark Rider left, and he refused to leave....So I left.

After hopping back in my style'n Hippy-mobile I gave Lukewarm a call with my trusty cellphone. After him telling me not to ever bring Dark Rider in again, he went on to tell me that the short man had about 23 puncture wounds in him and the drugs were most likely in him but the blood was still being tested. Nothing else was found however. I was bummed.

The J.P. Gang

As a last ditch thought I headed on down to where I could find the J.P. Gang to see what I could get out of them. The others followed me in their cars. We found a couple little gangsters and I told them to bring me to their base, and I used some excuse or another. We followed the kids for a while until we found a warehouse which they disappeared into. We headed into the warehouse and inside we found a whole bunch of kids, and a man. The man we assumed was the main dealer so we went to talk to him.

I told him right off we were after info. on a Mr. Livingstone. He seemed reluctant to replay so I went to an easier question and asked them about what the initials for there gang stood for. We had a seat and he simply replied that it stood for J = Jackhammer, what people refer to him as, and his assistants names are Ping and Pong which gives you the P.

(Next Update) We didn't really find out all that much from the J.P. gang, except that Mr. Livingstone will visit them and help them out sometimes. They had no idea where to contact Livingstone though, he always just showed up at the right time. We decided to leave, after giving Jackhammer my number of course.

Dark Rider decided to take off for home to work on his van. Shroud and Takrel (formerly known as the dinosaur guy) decided they go check out the last Chem. Lab another time, and I went to hospital to see the "Tall Black guy" that DR shot.

I cruised on down to the hospital in my swank look'n hippy mobile and went in. I found directions to the guys room, and when I got there, there were 2 policemen standing guard outside the door. According to them the guys name was Dion and he was about 21 years old, and he'd just woken up from the coma recently, but was sleeping now.

I decided to wait outside the door to the room for awhile until he woke up so I could question him. One of the policeman I was with was a real jerk though. His name was Sal, and everytime I tried to talk to him he'd give me the cold shoulder, but his partner Zack was pretty cool.

I was just sitting around when I see a flash news report on T.V. : It showed live footage of the last Chem. Lab on fire! I took off down out the hospital and started up the Hippy-mobile and then I gave DR a call, and told him to get his arss down there.

A few minutes later I arrived to a raging inferno with about 10 firetrucks and swarms of fireman trying to control the blaze that look like it was fueled with rocket fuel. The blaze was starting to spread, and I was trying to think of stuff I could do when I remembered a question I had to ask Det. Miller, so I gave the Police station a call.

"NYPD, what can.."

"Hello, This is the Metal Juggernaut, I need to talk to Det. Miller please."

"I'm sorry, Det. Millar is out investigating a bank robbery that happened just a few mome."

"What!, Where?"

I got the address from her and told the other guys I was taking off for the bank, and left.

I arrived at the bank to find a couple squad cars and a troubled Det. Miller. The bank had been robbed while everybody was paying attention to the chemical plant explosion. On duty at the time was only one security guard who said he never noticed anything. All the vault doors were sealed tight, the cameras were shut off, and the alarms were bypassed. The thief left no trace of his being there.

After I finished looking around I got yet another phone call..

"Talk to me.."

"Jack, this is Dark Rider, get your butt over to the corner of so and so street, I'm being chased by Lukewarm right now, can't talk, you'll see a man in black there...invunderable...gotta go"

I hung up my phone, excused myself, and took off for the street corner.

When I was going there, I saw Dark Rider fly by on his motorcycle with Lukewarm in hot pursuit. I finally arrived to find the street corner pretty empty except a news van. I looked in the news van and found all the reporters dead and dripping blood all over the place, a couple had deep bite marks in there necks, but unfortunately the mysterious man in black was no where to be seen, however I did find a napkin from some 70's disco club.

Later on, I finally got together with all the guys and we discussed what happened to us all to try and figure out any clues...we didn't do to well. Dark Rider took the time to tell us about the guy on the street corner whom was dressed in all black. DR shot a good 4 or 5 rounds into the guy with his shotgun but it didn't seem to affect the guy. That's when Dark Rider saw Lukewarm and had to run. Being it 2 in the morning or so, we thought we'd turn in for the night.

It Begins to Unfold

I woke up the next morning sleep deprived and my mind going crazy with the events of the past few days. I ate a little something and trudged on into work with DR. We stayed there for most of the day, but we he to skip out early to go to the graveyard because Takrel called us and told us about Merlin being down there.

Me and DR hopped into the Hippy-mobile and high tailed it down there only to find the van abandoned, and Takrel no where in sight and Merlin no where in sight. We started looking through the house in the graveyard again, and found nothing different...just then I heard a hissing sound. We ran outside to the sound to see the Merlin just finished slashing all our tires. I started to run up to him, but he teleported away before I could get close enough. I had to give Shroud a call at his martial arts school to have him pick up some tires for us and come on over right away.

We had just finished getting our tires on when somebody remembered the tape from the News Van. I gave Det. Miller a call right away, and to my relief, he had gotten a hold of it, I told him about the man in black, and that we thought he might be, as silly as it sounds, a vampire! Miller said that's what he was thinking, with the tape...we went down to the station right away to take a lookie at it.

"Ch-ch, BOOM, DR's shotgun went off right into the guy who dressed in black's head. He few down and started to get up again. BOOM, he was flatten again...started to get up"....fast forward....ack, stop!..."The man in black is holding one of the reporter's head with Black Ithaca shotgun at his chin. He opened his mouth to speak, two fangs jutted from his mouth, 'The Claw challenges the J.P. gang and you super hero's to try and stop us' BOOM! The camera's covered with various parts of the reporter's head" Blank screen.

"That's all we got" Det. Miller said, "Looks like he wanted this publicly aired, of course that won't happen. Boys, that's all we got to go on and we're counting on you to solve this thing quick for a little piece and quiet in N.Y., good luck stopping the Vampire."

We went and tried to remember everything we could about the mythical vampire, and found some stuff out about them like the wooden stake to the heart and the norm...now if only these ways of defeating a vampire were real.

We decided we'd go on over to the 70's Disco Club that was on the napkin, suspecting that maybe the Vampire hung out there. We all got into our Disco garb and headed over.

Upon arriving the speakers were pumping out "Stay'n Alive" and the disco ball in the room was turning top notch. The place was packed and there in middle of the dance floor was the vampire. Of course this called for my own disco ability, so a grabbed a chick and we started to really get going. Before I knew it, it was just me and my girl, and the Vamp. and his girl in center stage with everybody else watching us. Pretty soon the girls even got tired and fell out, and it was just me and the vamp. doing are best disco ever. The crowd was chanting and thankfully the end of the song came, and me and the man in black headed for the bar. I didn't really feel like encountering him right here, so I figured I'd wait for him to leave the bar, where I could have the rest of the guys with me to take him on. We talked for a little while, and pretty soon his girl came over and they went into the "back room".... A few seconds later I see the pimp daddy Dark Rider going into another back room with a fine look'n chick.

Time passed...and passed....until finally DR came out with his girl, I was starting to worry about what the Vampire was doing in there. I finally decided to have Shroud distract the barkeeper while I looked through the keyhole.

In the room I could see the girl just laying there...dead still. I told the barkeep about it and he went and checked it out with us. The man in black was nowhere to be seen and the girl had two huge fang marks in her neck. We gave Det. Miller a call told him about it, and then Me and DR headed off one direction while Shroud and Takrel made way for the graveyard once again.

Driving along in the Hippy-mobile I get a call from Takrel that me and DR better get down the graveyard as of yesterday!! I ran and hopped into the hippy mobile and I got DR on his way also. I got down there to find Shroud and Takrel staring at guys moving bodies around the graveyard. I decided to go on in to see what was up. The people should have obviously seen me but didn't for some reason. I got a closer look at them, and I see that half of their flesh is missing, like walking zombies and they're burying someone!

Shroud put a forcefield of sorts around the two zombies, and the rest of us went into the graveyard to get a better look at what was going on. We searched the graveyard and me and DR even dug up the grave and found that they were just burying the short guy that the police shot down earlier. Takrel went to check out the mauselium that stood wide open while we were digging. We'd just finished up covering the bodies when for some reason Shroud had let down the forcefields. We all started running for the cemetery gate where we saw the Vampire standing before Shroud, and Shroud was just sitting there as though he was being mind controlled (cough). Dark Rider got out his shotgun and started moving in for a better shot, and I protected his back by taking a shovel and whaling on the two zombie guys. After rendering them useless I turned around and saw Dark Rider just disappearing around the corner. I ran after them, and caught up to them at a street corner. They said that the vampire went down the sewer (curb kind). Somehow Shroud in the process had accidentally gotten shot by a shotgun (Although Dark Rider denies that he did it :). I told them to take him to my friend Karl's place, and I asked Takrel if he could teleport me down into that sewer.

What a rush... I stepped onto the slimy surface of the storm sewer immediately having 4 ways to choose from. I had no idea where he went so I just started running through the sewer system looking for him......

I ran into a room of sorts in the sewer, wider then the halls, and he was standing there waiting for me. I went to go punch him, and he tried shooting me with his Ithaca but the bullets just ricocheted off of my metal skin. I grabbed hold of his gun and we were wrenching back and forth, until finally I got control of it. He turned into mist, so I shot fireballs into the mist, but they had no effect on him. He had gotten away...again.

I returned to the surface of the city with the Ithaca, and went back to the graveyard to find my tires slashed again (grrrrrr!!) and gave the others a call. They said they'd bring over the tires, and pretty soon Takrel and Dark Rider showed up. (Shroud is at my uncle's recovering from a wound he got) We took the broken remains of the zombies from earlier and shoved them into some grave (hehe) and then went about fixing the tires...again.

DR and Takrel wanted to head down the Disco Club again so I thought, ya know, why the heck not :) We got down there and DR found his girl and while he was "in the backroom". We were sitting around having a drink or two when I hear this yell from DR, I went over and flung open the door, and a chick went running top speed past me, and I see Dark Rider laying on the bed with to teeth marks on his neck. We rushed him to the hospital right away, and then we finally decided to turn in for the night.

Ugh.... Stupid Case! (what original names I come up with eh? :)

(Next Update) I woke up the next morning to my phone ringing...

"Hello...(yawn)" checks clock.. 4 a.m... "Listen buddy, this better be important"

"Jack, this is Det. Miller, Dark Rider was kidnapped from the hospital a little while ago, thought you'd want to know"

"What!, Aw f**k, yeah, thanks for calling detective, we'll be right down"

I stumbled into some clothes and went and woke up Takrel.

"Looks like we get an early start this morning, put on some clothes, we got to go..I'll explain on the way"

Dialing phone....

"Hello, Shroud man, sorry to wake up like this, hows it going, how ya feeling?"

"I ache a little, but nothing that will stop me from help'n out, why?"

"Umm...let me talk to Karl for a sec." Momentary pause...

"Hello" Karl said sleepily...

"Yeah, hi Karl, how's Shroud doing? We he be alright if he has to go help us with something?"

"He'll be fine" (Off in background.."I feel great!!") Of course I'd rather have him rest a couple of days, but I can't really stop him from going."

"Ok, tell him to get his ass over to the hospital as soon as possible, and if I hear any whining out of him about how much pain he's in, he's going right back to you, Thanks again Karl"

"No problem...now let me get some sleep, good bye"

Takrel stumbled out of his room and we hopped into the hippy mobile and started to the hospital. The sunrise was rather entertaining, however I couldn't keep my mind off of what might have happened to Dark Rider.

At last we arrived at the hospital and a short time later we saw Shroud getting shoved out of Karl's car. We all headed up to Dark Rider's room, where it looked like there had been a small struggle but nothing else was noticible through the hallways. None of the staff knew anything about it of course.

I didn't know what and I started to worry big time about my friend. I knew I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep so I just fueled up the hippy mobile and started looking around the town. Takrel and Shroud did the same.

Hours dragged on by.....

Ring...I picked up my telephone and turned down the tunes.

"Jack, it's me (Dark Rider) I'm stuck in a warehouse, not sure where the warehouse is located though"

"Ok, call the police and have them trace the call, I'll call em' then and find out where, good luck buddy, we'll be there ASAP"

"Cya"

I waited a few agonizing moments, and then called the police department.

"Emergency 911, what can we.."

"Hello, a man by the name of Dark Rider just called you and told you to trace the number for me, where is he"

"I'm sorry sir, I received a call, but the line went dead within seconds"

"(A lot of swearing takes place here), Thank you, Good bye"

I called up Shroud and Takrel and told them that we had it narrowed down to a warehouse. (Not to many of them in N.Y.C. ...ugh!

I started driving around looking for suspicious warehouses, if there were such a thing.

Ring... (Hour later or so)

"MJ, this is Shroud, go over to old Ginus Warehouse, I found him. Hurry"... Click.

Gasoline pumped through the engine of my kick butt hippy mobile and I was on my way. Flying over bumps and curbs, trying to avoid 11 (am) o'clock traffic. As I'm going I see an accident with a sleek dark black sports car and a old Cadillac. I decided to stop, to check it out quick. I jump out of the car and see Dark Rider talking with an old grannie who's still in the Cadillac along with Emilio and Carmen, and Shroud beating the hell out of a man in black...more specifically the Vampire. Takrel was off inspecting the sports car.

From what I gather, Dark Rider was taken to a warehouse and thrown into a prison room of sorts with Emilio and Carmen. Together the three of the managed to escape, and the nearest car passing by was some old grannie. Supposibly she floored it and the Vampire was giving chase. Then they got into a car crash..and not that I look at the Vampire more closely, it looks like he has tire marks over his body also.

We decided to bring the Vamp. back to the warehouse with us for lack of a better thing to do to him. He was really starting to smell now and his flesh was pealing from the midday sun. We all caravaned over to the warehouse.

Upon arrival, we debated about what to do with the Vamp., I finally settled that argument by taking a split from a broken wooden door and shoving it through the Vampires heart, then we went inside, just leaving the vampire slumped against the wall :)

The warehouse itself was huge and had a few crates in it, but other then that, it didn't have anything worthwhile. We ventured into the office from inside the warehouse, and inside we started looking through all the desk drawers etc.

Upon opening the left top drawer, I found a little book, that has a huge list of names in it. (Your guess is as good as mine...the other Vamp's in the city) The girl that bit DR was on the list, and that jerk police officer, Sal, was on the list. I should have known it...

Then of course DR and Emilio (Carmen was taken to the hospital to recover because she was there the longest and the food wasn't that great) showed us the room where they were being kept.

We decided to head on down to the police station to have a friendly chat with Sal, but we didn't know what to do with the body of the Vampire so we figured we just leave it there for now.

We got about halfway down to the police station, and suddenly decided it wasn't so bright to leave the body back there, so we went back...

I hopped out of the hippy mobile to go get the smelly Vamp. Something's not right...

I see Merlin's head poke around the corner of the building where the body is, and then he teleported away...the body of the Vampire with him.

Slightly ticked because all that effort had gone for naught, I don't know what Merlin plans to do with the body, but it can't be a good thing. Of course we do however know that Merlin and Vamp's are in on "it" together. (Whatever "it" may all encompass, I'm not entirely sure)

We decided to drown our anger with a little Saturday Night Fever, and headed on over to the Disco club. When we got there, in a chair sat none other then Mr. Livingstone. We cautiously approached him, and to our surprise, he asked us to join him.

We talked to him for a little while and learned that 4 people have control of the body at different times (Merlin Spellstone, Mr. Livingstone, Dr. Mindstone, and William Stone). Livingstone wasn't sure how it all worked, but he thought that he died in a gang war a while back, then he just started sharing this body with the others. He said he'd be willing to give up his existence to help out William Stone, however William Stone doesn't seem to care to much. We asked him where they're hideout persay was. He told us an address and went on to tell us how Merlin sometimes takes over the body, but it takes a full 30 secs for the body to morph to it's new form. Merlin was the only one who was actually able to teleport, it just looked like the others were doing it. We were starting to ask another question when Mr. Livingstone teleported away...

We decided we'd check out the address he gave us and found that it lead to a small building in the main streets of the N.Y. city. We cautiously entered the building but the place was empty.. Except for a few crates. I went over to check the crates when I hear this faint ticking from the crate. I opened the crate and there sat one big bomb with only 30 seconds left. I called everybody around, and Shroud took the bomb and started flying up into the air, and let it drop, exploding harmlessly.. That was too close..way to close.

We went outside the building to join Shroud and then I hear the hissing of air coming out of tires....again! Merlin stepped from behind my car and teleported away. I was not happy..(but since I always seem to be low on funds, I got Dark Rider to buy new tires for me). Well, after all that we finally headed on home.

(Next Update) We sat around for awhile at the house and just kinda watched the news and Dark Rider was busily working on the super van again.

After the 10:00 o'clock news I decided I'd go over to the graveyard one more time for another look. Shroud and Takrel were going back to the warehouse and Dark Rider wanted to stay back to work more on the van. As I was leaving I saw our little baby (dino / human)saur helping out Dark Rider.

I cruised on down to the graveyard in my style'n Hippy Mobile only to find out that it's pretty quiet here tonight. I looked through the house again, and just as I was finishing the rounds Shroud and Takrel showed up at the gates. Shroud asked us if we ever checked the attic yet in the house. Doah!, we were just about to go check that out when I get a call.

"Hello...............Helloooo"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", a tiny kid screamed in the background.

"Everything's all right, this is just a...a prank call" said another voice that clear as day belonged to the Vampire.

Click.

After a few seconds we figured it came from Dark Rider and that was the Dino/baby saur's voice we heard in the background. I was just about to hop in the Hippy mobile when Takrel tells me he can warp us or teleport us there..whatever.

Takrel said some magic mumbo-jumbo and I stepped through the teleportation gate into the garage back at the base.

The screeching wheels of our corvette were pulling out the garage just as soon as we arrived. Me and Takrel jumped in the minivan and Shroud started flying after the corvette. We drove after the corvette going around corners and through the whole city of N.Y. until for some reason the Vampire just decided to pull over to the curb.

I parked the van and jumped out. Dark Rider sat in the corvette with a glazed over affect in his eyes, much like that of Shroud's from earlier on....mind control..ugh! I was just about to go over to him when I remembered the last time he caused a really big distraction, the back got robbed.

I told the guys I was off to the bank, and I floored it on down there.

I got to the bank and pounded on the door of the bank (it was closed). A security guard came wandering over and let me in. I looked around and saw four guards, but just in case I asked to see the vault anyway. They allowed me too and it was o.k. I left the bank, hopped in the minivan, and gave Dark Rider a call.

From the sound of it, they were trying to question the Vampire without much luck. I told em good luck and headed back to the graveyard to check out that attic, and also to make sure that nothing happened to my beloved Hippy mobile.

I got back to the graveyard and there sat the hippy mobile, so with a sigh of relief I headed on up to the house. The door was locked, but I unlocked it (hehe) and went upstairs. I found an entrance to the attic, headed up and looked around. After a good half hour of searching and not finding anything but old furniture, I decided it was time for bed.

I went outside, gave Shroud a call telling him to pick up the minivan on his way back, and I drove the Hippy mobile back to base. Dark Rider got back just about the same time I did and he mentioned something about the Vampire said he killed his father a long time ago, and that the vamp. was at the prison right now. I crashed into bed...

Breakout, an Apartment, and a Setup (Continuing coverage from the Metal Juggernaut a.k.a Jack Morris)

"Ring..." Fricken phone I thought to myself as I rolled out of bed onto the floor, way to early in the morning.

"Hey, this had better be good"

"Hello Jack", Det. Miller said, "Sorry to wake you up but I thought you might want to know that the prisoner that your friends brought in last night escaped this morning about a half hour ago."

"Thanks, Detective, I'll let'em know"

I hung up and crawled into their rooms and told them the bad news, then went and crashed back into bed.

I woke up later on again still in a bad mood, but up none-the-less. Shroud made us some breakfast and I got some coffee from Wallace (our maid (sorry, inside joke :)) and we all sat down at the table. About that time Dark Rider mentioned something.

"Hey Jack, what'd you ever do with that notepad you took out of the Vampire's car, the one that had that address in it?"

I can't believe I forgot entirely about it. I ran to the laundry room, and the damned Wallace was all caught up with the laundry so I had to pick through all the clothes and I finally found the notepad in one of my pants pocket's. The writing was smeared, but you could still make out the address.

We decided to head on over to the address to see what was up there.

The ten story tall apartment building stood as all the others far below the N.Y. city skyline. We walked on in to see what we could see, and took the elevator up the third floor. People were kinda looking at us funny because Takrel doesn't exactly blend in all that well being a dinosaur and all. Shroud decided to go scout out the room from the outside of the building through the window.

I gave him a call on the cell phone a few minutes after he left so we could stay in touch. He got outside the room and told me the curtains were shut, so we decided to knock on the door. We waited a few seconds and then the door slowly opened and Livingstone popped his head in the crack of the doorway.

"Umm...Hello guys" Livingstone said.

"Hello, could we talk to you for a couple of minutes Livingstone?"

"Ahh, sure, just one moment please."

He shut the door and we sat there waiting and waiting...

Suddenly, Bullets poured through the door and Takrel fell on the ground dead. I turned to Metal form and Dark Rider unlocked the door with his shotgun. I yelled for Shroud to go in through the phone. We came through the door and Livingstone stood there and looked like he was transforming. Dark Rider took a good shot at his hand and did some serious damage to it and Shroud came up behind Livingstone and put his hand over Livingstone's mouth. Livingstone fired a bullet into Shroud's stomach and Dark Rider fired again at Livingstone's knee but at the last second Livingstone disappeared and the bullet hit Shroud. Just then 3 zombies came into the room from the hallway and Shroud and D.R. started beating on them. Meanwhile I ran past them into one of the doors in the hallway, and found myself in Merlin's room.

From the look of the room one would think you just got back from Woodstock. Everything was tie-dyed from the bed sheets to the guys underwear. I started ripping apart the place hearing only the faint sounds of zombie screams from the other room. After I searched the whole room, I decided to look at a few of the books on the bookshelf. They were all books of magic and even a few videocassettes on magic also. Dark Rider came into the room as I heard the last zombie flop to the floor with a groan. Shroud yelled to us that he was going to fly to my Karl's place for some treatment. We took the pillow cases of the bed and shoved a whole bunch of the books and videocassettes in them, and we got out of the room. In the hallway of the apt. building Dark Rider flung Takrel over his shoulder and we made a break for the hippy mobile before the police showed up.

D.R. flung Takrel in the back and we pulled away just as we heard police sirens arriving. On the way back to the base we dumped of Takrel at the morgue with Lukewarm, and then I drove Dark Rider to Karl's house so he could get some of those zombie punch marks fixed up. At last I finally got back to the base.

I called Larold to have him help me look through the books for a way to stop the magic, and I had Wallace start cleaning out the blood from the Hippy mobile. Then I started looking through the books, eventually Dark Rider showed up to help, we worked on the books most of the afternoon into the evening. Shroud (The Gimp :) eventually showed up also with crutches and a cast on his leg and he started to help us search for a way to stop the the magic.

Dark Rider, through his searching found out that vampires, according to Merlins books, could only be hurt by sunlight and a stake to the heart will temporary kill the Vamp. To entirely kill the vamp., you must separate the head from the body and burn them in different places.

Ding-Dong.. the doorbell sounded. Not to often that happens so we were somewhat careful answering it. Gats stood there with another guy when I opened the door and we all went and sat down around a table. Gats introduced us to "The Hunter" an old friend of his that said he'd be willing to join up with us to help us out. He also mentioned that the two of them would be attending a party tomorrow night for the mayor. (Gats gets invited every year and he can bring along a friend if he wants - I guess I'm just chopped liver...sigh)

We let the new guy have Takrel's old room and by this time we were all getting tired, so we went to bed.

The next morning came and I slept in nice and late. Felt good. I got up and ate a little something and then went to help Dark Rider with his van some more. When we were working on it D.R. got a call from his uncle down at the car shop. From the sound of the conversation it looks like D.R. gets to go the mayor's party that evening also.

We basically blew off most of the day. D.R. managed to go out and get a machete just in case he has to chop off any vampire heads, but other that we just lollygagged around the house.

Later on, Hunter and D.R. left for the party and me and Shroud sat on our asses doing nothing until we got a call from Livingstone. He apoligized for what happened yesterday, and wanted to make sure that we understood that that was Merlin's doing. I told him we understood, and then he told me how he thinks he found the hideout of the vampires. He gave me an address, and I told him me and Shroud would meet him there in a couple minutes.

We got into the hippy mobile and cranked her up and set off for the address. We arrived just about the same time Livingstone did. Shroud (The Gimp) didn't want to get hurt any more then he already was so he decided he'd fly around the outside of the building letting us know if he sees anything. Me and Livingstone headed in.

The Warehouse

The main warehouse was huge, but only contained a number of crates that were mostly empty. I saw an office door at the other end, so we headed over there. The office was mostly empty so we headed into another room full of crates.

"This is the place, I think" Livingstone said.

"What makes this different then any of the other rooms?" I asked

"Because this is the place where I'm going to kill you!" Livingstone said more in Merlins voice.

Jackhammer and his two associates Ping and Pong from the J.P. gang stepping out from behind some crates. I turned to metal and Livingstone is just starting to turn into Merlin.

(Next Update) (Continuing coverage from the Metal Juggernaut)

"Jackhammer, Ping, go get the one waiting outside, me and Pong will dispatch with this annoyance", Merlin said with an air of arrogance.

"Ring..Ring" the cellphone sounded, not one of the better times to go off, Metal Jugg. (MJ) continued to let it ring, suddenly Pong's arm stretches out 6 ft. and lays a glancing blow on him. Before he could react Merlin shot a fireball right into his chest singeing the metal skin. Using Shrouds suggestion from earlier Metal Jugg. went right after Merlin's staff to try and get it away from him but missed. Before MJ knew it the arm of Pong came flying at him again, he just barely knocked it away in time, but couldn't do anything about the Merlins next fireball...it went square into the shoulder knocking MJ back a couple feet.

Metal Juggernaut leapt for Merlin's staff and yanked it away from Merlin.

"No my staff, give it back" Merlin pleaded as MJ went down hard with it against his leg sending wood splinters into the air. One more time, and the staff cracked some more.

"I guess I'll have to rely on my Lighting Sword" Merlin said as he pulled out a sword from his belt, lightning crashed around the room and went straight into MJ's head.

MJ dizzily swung the half broken staff at Merlin's sword knocking it from his hands to the floor. Pong started to literally wrap herself around MJ, but he had more important things to worry about.

"Crack" The staff came down on MJ's knee again sending more splitters around the room. "Crack" it landed again.

"I guess I'll have to rely on my Dagger of Blindness" Merlin cackled as MJ's vision started to go blurry, finally to total darkness.

"CRUNCH!" the staff splintered in two against MJ's knee. Merlin drove the dagger into MJ's metal skin with petty success. MJ, now blind felt Pong finish wrapping around him, he found he head and pulled it back a few feet and and Snap!

Pong let out a cry of pain as she bounced off of MJ and went flying through the room hitting Merlin, next to follow was a huge cracking sound as Pong bounced off a main beam in the 3 story tall warehouse. The second floor started to give way and the whole warehouse started crashing.

Merlin let out piercing cry that was cut short by a large thunking noise. Still blind, MJ searched around for Merlin's body so he could be brought to safety so William Stone could live. 1 minute passed...2 min.. Things started crashing all around MJ as he searched for the body.

The bending of metal started to sound above MJ's head like a weak bridge on a windy day. He decided to let Merlin go and he ran into the wall. Still blind he at last found the doorway, and started running down through the rooms that he remembered seeing. Meanwhile the building crashed violently behind him.

The sounds of cars headed down distant streets and the smell of fresh air greeted him as he at last reached the outside.

"Stop Jackhammer", the voice of Shroud called.

"So you finally appear Shroud, that will be the last mistake you'll ever make" Jackhammer said, and the laughter of Ping could be heard beside him.

MJ shot a fireball at the voices and started to run full force when he was suddenly immobolized. Battle crys ensued as Shroud and Jackhammer fought it out, soon to be followed by the sirens of police squad cars pulling down the street.

As vision returned to the weary Metal Juggernaut, to police were taking care of business and Shroud stood proud yet obviously in pain. Jackhammer, Ping, and Pong were being handcuffed and put into squad cars and the unconscious body of William Stone was hauled into an ambulance.

We followed William Stone back to the hospital where it was learned that he had gone into a coma. One of the doctor's approached Shroud and said they found an address inside William's pants pocket and thought it might interest us. We were just about to leave when the cell phone went off again. This time MJ answered.

"Hello?"

"Hey Jack, this is Dark Rider down at the Mayor's party, me and the Hunter just picked off Ezekiel Vega and Daisy, two of the vampires. We have stakes in their hearts right now, but I want to burn the bodies according to that book as soon as possible. Can you come and pick us up?"

"Uh..oh..well we just got in a tangle ourselves. William Stone's in a coma right now and we just got an address that we wanted to check out here".

"Well, we'll burn the bodies first, then check out the address, besides right now me and Hunter are covered in blood and people are looking at us funny. Get here fast."

"On the way Dark Rider."

MJ hung up his cell phone and he and Shroud went and picked up Dark Rider, The Hunter, and the two vampire bodies, once again covering the Hippy Mobile with blood. It was decided to decapitate and burn the bodies at the graveyard and then head down to the address from there.

Merlin's Crib

The deed was done and we all headed on down to address. When we arrived at the address it appeared like a normal house in an average neighborhood. We found the key under the doormat and went into the house to be immersed in 60's. Hippy everything..courtesy of our good friend Merlin Spellstone. Nobody was home so we began searching the house.

We were all searching when we heard a yell from Shroud upstairs. We ran to help him and saw that he was bashing away at 3 zombies. We all helped him finish the job, and behind the zombies was Merlin's bedroom. Inside the room we found a truck.

We opened the truck to find roughly 30,000 dollars, books on magic circles and symbols, books on vampires, summoning books, and even some components for the spells. We confiscated some of the books for our own personal library (ok, bookshelf) back at the base, and then gave Det. Miller a call and let him and his crew clean out the rest of the house for evidence and recovery of stolen goods.

We returned to our base for a good long nap, satisfied that this was case closed for now with the police having recovered the stolen goods, the vampire threat was over for now it seemed, we haven't heard a word about drugs in a while so we must have found the only drug producing plant, and William Stone and all his little personalities are in a coma......for now.

The stories of our adventures are far from finished.... but I have decided not to write up our next adventure "Truck'n Turtles", read why over on the Current Exploits page.

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