Can you do 4 or 9 please?
Part 2 of Goodbye Marvel: What does the Justice League think about this? (Part 1 is the post below this)
After Billy decides to quit being Captain Marvel, he realizes that means he's quitting the Justice League as well. No more monitor duty, meetings, patrol, and going on missions that lasts for days, sometimes weeks. He never realized how much time being Captain Marvel took from him. Maybe it was the fact that he didn't have much of a personal life before any of this; he spent more time as Cap then he did himself. Well, it was time to change that.
Billy doesn't outright quit the League. He knows it would be easier to tell them, but he doesn't want to confront them after lying to them all this time. They would probably be more understanding if he had told them about his identity in the first place. And he's still not turning into Captain Marvel because he's wary of what the gods would do.
Instead, Billy sneaks out one night and goes deep into the woods in Fawcett City with a shovel and a shoebox containing his JL communicator. He digs a hole that takes hours while he's having conflicting emotions, he feels sorrow and resentment at the same time. Is he really doing this? Yes, he is. He buries the shoebox several feet under the ground and leaves. But not before saying a few words, having a makeshift funeral for his dead alter ego.
Meanwhile, the Justice League start to wonder where Captain Marvel has gone. He has not been seen in weeks. When the weeks turn into months, they start to worry. His absence does not go unnoticed in the hero community nor the public.
Eventually, they got to a point where they have to go looking for him. They track down his comm and to their surprise it shows it's in Fawcett, Cap's city but no captain in sight. They all go down there to see what's going on. They're led deep into the depths of some woods close to the city and they find nothing.
Everyone spreads out to look for clues. It's not until Batman points out a patch on the ground that looks freshly dug up that Superman uses his x-ray vision to look down and finds the Captain's comm buried inside a shoebox. They're able to dig it up in no time and Batman is able to confirm that it is indeed his. But what is it doing there? Did Cap bury it? For what reason?
With Captain Marvel's comm in their hands, they realize that there is no way to have their questions answered if they have no way to find him. That's when they have the idea to call Zatanna. Maybe she has a spell that shows what events happened in this forest. And she does.
When she gets there, she points out that there was a strong magical aura left in the area and it will take her a while to do the spell. They wonder if it's Cap's, maybe he was the one who buried his comm. But when Zatanna performs the spell, they see a small, hooded figure instead. They see him dig the hole and placing the box there and burying it, but they are unable to see his face because of the hood and it being nighttime when it happened. It's obviously a child. The figure finally finishes and stays there for a moment in total silence. It's when he starts talking that they are left frozen in shock. They can't believe the words coming out of the kid's mouth.
"I'm sorry it had to be this way, captain. You used to be the best part of my life" He started off.
"I looked forward to seeing you more than anyone else, even myself at one point. You really were a ray of light in the darkness. You were able to make everyone's day better, but not mine." The league stared at him confused.
"You ended up being more trouble than your worth. You only bring chaos with you" Some league members gave him a look of disapproval.
"I think... I'm glad I got rid of you" That got everyone's attention
"My life actually improved now that you're gone. And I think that's kind of funny. I would have said the opposite about a year ago." What the hell is this kid even saying?
"Your responsibilities only caused disturbance to my life" That caused more confusion. Why would Cap's hero duties cause a disturbance? Was the kid secretly a villain?
"The only thing that will be a nuisance now is the fact that everyone will probably be worrying about where you've gone. But they won't be able to find anything" Some members got a stern look on their face.
"I have no doubt that the Justice League would come looking for you. But I think I'll just give it a few months before they stop looking. Were you even that great of a hero?" Who did this kid think he is? The league members got angered on the captain's behalf.
"Well, you were my hero. Even if I was the one that made you disappear, I'm still going to miss you" How dare he? A ghost of smile can be seen on face when he turned towards the moonlight. But the upper half of his face was still not visible. Oh, how they wanted to smack that smile off his face.
The words that came out of his mouth was like a messed-up eulogy. The kid started off praising Captain Marvel to degrading him, calling him a nuisance.
"Goodbye Marvel" are the last words he says before he turned around and left. Zatanna's spell stops there, unable to track him any further.
The league has no idea who the kid is or what kind of relationship he had with Captain Marvel, but they are certain of one thing: the kid was responsible Cap's disappearance. He killed Captain Marvel.
Some of the heroes were still in denial. There's no way they couldn't save one of their own. No way Cap would lose to some kid. Maybe the kid just thinks he killed Captain Marvel. But he had magic strong enough that not even Zatanna can track him down. And he was right about them not being able to find anything. He made Captain Marvel disappear off the face of the earth without any of them knowing.
Most of them left in tears that day.
A day later, they're all in the meeting room discussing yesterday's events and their newfound piece of knowledge.
Zatanna says something that ignites hope in them. Captain Marvel can't be dead because he was the Champion of Magic, a title the league doesn't know much about, but Zatanna assures them that if Cap really dead, the world as they know it would be thrown in complete chaos and destruction. However, there were cases where the Champion would be sealed away in a magical prison by powerful magical beings.
So, the kid did not kill Cap. To be fair, he didn't say that he did, just that he got rid of him. Maybe he was referring to sealing the captain away. That still angered them. How dare he do such an awful thing to Cap. He did nothing to deserve this! He was the sweetest person anyone could ever meet!
They hoped they could find him soon. Zatanna said some champions were locked away for centuries.
If they are able to find the kid, Zatanna would be able to assess his magic level and see if he was a threat. They could get answers as to where he hid the captain and why he did it.
The Justice League had a new goal. Find the kid and get answers. Some of them weren't above kicking his ass.
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Okay, I know its not a good thing and its not the future I want for my man Gale, but....God of Ambition!Gale is kinda....👀
"He's a god now; why does he insist on impressing this mortal?" Shar asks.
"Don't you understand ambition? Nothing is ever too much to impress his lover," Lathander replies, glancing over at Gale, who'd plucked you far from the mortal plane, refusing to release you and keeping you with him.
The God of Ambition was like a lovesick puppy - chasing after a mortal, building structures, creating lands, painting the skies - every ounce of his ambition driven by a mortal. Lathander pities the day you will pass; Ao knows what Gale will become.
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On another episode of "WAKE UP MIKE!!!" aka Mid-Atlantic, Mike and Sweet Brown Sugar have a pre-match interview with Bob. Mike starts off the interview being very soft-spoken, talking about:
"It's great to be here, Bob. Tough competition out here. Me and sugar have been training very hard in and out of the ring and now we're going to face some veterans. Sugar is a man I can trust, and I'm glad to be tagging with him."
And then here comes Sugar right out of the gate, delivering a fiery promo and update of what's going on backstage with:
"Well, first off Mr. Bob Caudle, it's great to be here,
BUT MIKE IS TOO SOFT TO SAY THAT THERE'S BEEN SOME BULLSHIT HAPPENING HERE IN THE MID-ATLANTIC AREA. FIRST OFF, WE HAVE PEOPLE RUNNING AND KICKING PEOPLE IN THE FACE LIKE JOS LEDUC'S NOSE WAS BROKEN BY DICK SLATER. YOU GOT JAKE ROBERTS TAKING PEOPLE DOWN ON THEIR HEADS ON THE CANVAS. THEN YOU GOT PEOPLE LIKE GARY HART AND KABUKI PULLING NUNCHAKUS AND SILVER KNIVES AND WHOOPING FOLKS WITH STICKS...WHEN ME AND MIKE ROTUNDO PULL UP AND THE FANS SEE US COMING, YOU'LL SEE NOTHING BUT ACTION."
You can even see Bob start to crack up before he goes back to Mike, who comes into frame like this, looking so forlorn 💀:
The interview ends with Mike FINALLY remembering that he doesn't have the TV Title anymore (Dick Slater stole it from him, but now Roddy Piper has it) and that:
"Oh Yeah...there certainly have been terrible things happening, Bob, like uhh...they brought a guy who's an assassin from Japan and knows 'the martial arts (tm) Gary Hart has been making him nothing but money...(painfully long pause) and uhh...if we have to get down and dirty, I guess we'll have to."
He is so painfully awkward and bland, it's so delightful. Then he proceeds to mat wrestle Red Dog Lane for 6 minutes, forgetting that it's a tag match.
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"Ophar had never been deceived – he understood why the Custodians looked the way they did. If you concealed your killers in the armour of gods, then they would be worshipped even as they raised their blades. Ophar had lived through the darkest of times, witnessing atrocity from coast to mountain, and knew murderers when he saw them. It didn’t matter what they wore, nor how politely they expressed themselves – Valdor’s soldiers had been created to kill, and kill, and kill again. They had no other function. Emotion had been knocked out of them, replaced by a horrifying sangfroid that bordered on the mechanical. They were devils. They were products of an age of nightmares." - Valdor, Birth of an Imperium, 100
Murderers? That’s calling them lightly. I prefer what that one Thunder Warrior called him:
“You’re a lying, murdering bastard, and we were all supposed to be cracking down on them.”
-That One Thunder Warrior(Whose Name I forgot)
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