[JimmyDimples]

Don't feel bad, MGN.  Technically it WAS the 1st of April where I was when I posted this.  International Date Line and all.  😉

And by the authority invested in me, I dub you my Prime Minister.  Thus decrees James the First, King of the Amaz0ns. 😀 

[JimmyDimples]

Well, what I'd REALLY like would be a cartoon of an amaz0n casually, smilingly, affectionately draping her arm around my shoulder (or Monty's since nobody knows what I, Jimmy, look like… AFAIK) and presenting a bogus script binder for "Power Play — The Movie." And the caption:  No Movie… No Hard Feelings.  Happy April Fool's Day, 2006.

And her shadow would be strangling mine, a la Mad Magazine's Sergio Aragones.  😉

[JimmyDimples]

Okay, okay, okay.  Thanks to some big mouth n00b twerp who didn't catch my little "if you're in the know" "go along with it" hint in navy blue text in the press release *COUGH COUGH koff1moretimekoff  :wink:*… the jig is up.

Power Play is not coming soon to a theatre near anybody.  😥

It's going direct to DVD. 😀

*sigh* No, not even that. 

A quick little Mandarin Chinese lesson for everyone:

Wan Ju Yuan = toy money (as in, play money)
Bu Shi Zhinde = is not real

And Si Yue Xiao Chou = Four Month Clown… which is my very sloppy translation of…

in reply to: Power Play to hit the silver screen! #25503

[JimmyDimples]

What?! What makes you think this isn't for real!?

Look, in 45 minutes, we can all go to the chat room and get the real skinny, okay?

On second thought, never mind.  I'm there now. 

[JimmyDimples]

Hey, P-bird!  Welcome to the forum!

And I'm in total agreement with you.  I won't waste this at all.  I'm going to work with and enjoy it all I can. 🙂

[JimmyDimples]

Very lovely face and hair… and the rest of her ain't exactly harsh on the eyes, either.

If this is a rookie's work, I'd love to see your stuff when you're a polished veteran!

[JimmyDimples]

*COUGH cough koffsentinelskoff cough*

That is pretty freaky.  Thanks for sharing.  😀

[JimmyDimples]

And I thought Hello Kitty would send anyone screaming for the hills bare-handed. 😛

[JimmyDimples]

Ho-kay, so, here's the forum.

Dang, that is a sweet She-Hulk picture, we might say. (and I DO say.  :lol:)

Welcome, Gettar.  Hope you'll continue to rock on here.  🙂

[JimmyDimples]

Just as he glided through the cavern, he followed the ropes and the pitons that his captive had laid out.  "Right to the surface."  But when he emerged, he saw nothing but rock, trees, light, and the sea to the south.  He grunted.  "It's all below the water."  Rocketing with his staff forward, he formed a shield of wind in front of him, and launched into the sea.

***

Professor DeBuncombe blew a smoke ring over the ocean.  "So," he asked, "do you know anything about Greek mythology?"

Deena cracked a secret smile. "A bit."

He nodded.  "Atlantis' story came from Plato.  Just beyond the Straight of Gibraltar, 11,000 years ago, Atlantis was a giant island, larger than Lybia and Asia Minor combined in the middle of the ocean.  With mountains on the north, and a 330 mile wide plain and canal leading to the sea in the south.  The sea god Poseidon made it for his mortal lover Cleito, complete with rings of water and land around it like a bullseye, to protect her."

***

After going thousands of feet lower into the water, away from the light, Mezaros finally saw it.  The Temple on the hilltop.  Or what was left of it.  He floated past the ruins and perched atop the toppled gold statue of Poseidon in his chariot, towed by winged horses.  Way across the ocean floor, he saw the devastation.The grand number of houses, buildings, forums, were all knocked down.  Columns splayed out across buckled streets.  Walls lay fallen and breached over the ringed moats and canals.  The only thing marring it was the wreckage of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane from World War II.

"Hmmnh," he said.  "This would have been beautiful and glorious if this had been Athens.  Or Olympus.  So close.  Such a shame."

***

"Her children," the professor continued, "which included the giant Atlas, ruled over it.  They had lots of fruits and nut trees, and minerals, including orichalc, second only to gold in value.  Lots of animals, too, even elephants.  This island was a big center of trade, and the people were very wealthy, wise and powerful, having sway all over ancient Europe and Africa."

"Generation after generation they lived simple, virtuous lives.  But soon, all that prosperity started corrupting them.  They got greedy, power-hungry, and simply immoral.  In fact, their grasp for control had sent warriors as far east as Egypt, and on Greece's doorstep.  They had gotten so base and wicked that Zeus and the gods couldn't stand it anymore.  With one volcanic blast, in one night, the gods sent the island and everything on it all the way down to the bottom of the ocean."

***

Mezaros looked up toward the surface.  "Ah yes.  The power.  Still there… and a little nearer."  He looked down over the destroyed ancient megalopolis.  "I will need company for the journey, though." 

He waved his staff.

The rock bottom stirred.  Slowly from within the temples, the halls, the mansions, the barracks, the forums… things moved around.  Volcanic ash and stone swirled around, adding murk to the already dark water. 

As the sentiment settled, Mezaros saw them.  Fossilized skeletons.  Hundreds of them.  Some had stony ossified flesh, others were all bones, but there they stood in the coral and seaweed. 

"Well, why do you stand there?!" he shouted.  "We have a mission!  You will help your new leader get that vile power of light that still lives!  If we cannot exist with the light, neither shall it!"

And slowly, the minions reached down and scavenged for remains:  a pitted spear, a barnacled shield, a sword with one fourth of its blade broken off.  Fifteen of them cast aside the dead plane, one of them wrenching off the propellers for improvised swords.

Thirty minutes later, Mezaros cut through the sea water like a torpedo.  And so did his "freshly" equipped legion of the ancient corpses, bearing toward the Siren of the Sea.

***

"So that's the real story?" Deena asked her new friend.

He peered grimly at her as he tapped the ashes out of his pipe into the ocean.  "Atlantis, if it existed, is now quite dead."

To be continued…

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