Chasing Shadows (comic story): Difference between revisions

|hero(es)= [[Captain Evening (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Captain Evening]]<br>[[Merv the Griffin]]<br>[[The Blue Knight]]<br>[[Armstrong Fatbuckle]]

|featuring= [[Amanda Allen]]<br>[[Shadow-Captain-Evening]]<br>[[Shadow-Merv]]<br>[[Shadow-Blue-Knight]]<br>[[Shadow-Armstrong]]<br>[[Professor Madison]]<br>[[XYZ-2000]]<br><small>(recording)</small><br>[[Americana]]<br><small>(recording)</small><br>[[The Big Bad Wolf (Reality Z-25 31-H)|The Big Bad Wolf]]<br>[[Red Riding Hood (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Red Riding Hood]]<br>[[Grandmother]]<br><small>(recording)</small>

|setting= [[New York City (Reality Z-25 31-H)|New York City]], [[Reality Z-25 31-H]]

On a previously-normal afternoon in [[New York City (Reality Z-25 31-H)|New York City]], a supervillainess calling herself [[the Shadow Queen]] begins to rampage through the streets using a [[Shadow-Ray]] to bring people's shadows to life as physical entities loyal to the Queen, who immediately set about attacking their originals. [[The Odds]] intervene, and, at first, seem to be on the losing side, with their punches going right through the shadows while the shadows are able to hurt them.

However, the battle is brought to an end by the sun setting: without light, there are no shadows, making the Queen's army begin to disappear. She retreats to her home with her remaining Shadow Warriors, though not before Evening manages to throw a tracking device at her. After pledging to summon even more shadows in the morning she goes to bed, guarded by a ring of Shadow Warriors. Tracking down her home, the Odds attack it, with [[Captain Evening (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Captain Evening]] cutting the power-line, making all the shadows inside the Queen's house disappear; however, she has a backup generator for just such a contingency and soon summons them back again, just in time to face the Odds making their way into the building.

Elsewhere still, in an airport, a disguised [[The Big Bad Wolf (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Big Bad Wolf]] and [[Red Riding Hood (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Red Riding Hood]] are preparing to skip town for an anonymous vacation away from the travails of the lives of spies gone rogue. Red Riding Hood is anxious about whether their disguises will be enough; the Wolf tries to assure her that they're foolproof, only for the little boy ahead of them in the queue to turn out to be an android who swivels his head to give them a recorded message from “[[Grandmother]]”, pointing out that the spy organisation knows full well where they are and what they've been up to — although, in recognition of their heroic work helping to rebuild New York, they also say that they will no longer try to arrest the two for going rogue, so long as they stick to themselves and don't engage in any criminal activities. They eventually make it to a luxurious hotel bedroom in [[Acapulco]] where they finally take off their disguises and begin to enjoy their vacation, for which everything is ready — down to the Wolf having brought some breath-mints as Red Riding Hood asked him.

*The [[New Protectors]] plotline introduced in [[COMIC]]: ''[[Epilogue to Destruction (comic story)|Epilogue to Destruction]]'' is further developed. Additionally, [[The Big Bad Wolf (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Big Bad Wolf]] and [[Red Riding Hood (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Red Riding Hood]]'s help in repairing the city in that story is mentioned.