| Synopsis |
Ace, Red, Rocky, and Harold Moffett gather at the graves of Prof and June. Now what? Moffett explains Duncan Pramble blew up Challenger Mountain. The guys saddle up. They find Challengerville a mess. Rocky figures they'll need their stuff. At a warehouse piled with their old gear, they pull out weapons and tools, and adopt new "uniforms": civvies with just a red-yellow hourglass logo. Rocky will lead The New Challengers of the Unknown. By night they fly for Challenger Mountain, but Ace is possessed by snarky little demons. They bail out as the aircar hits the mountain. A newscopter fires bullets. Rocky covers with a smoke grenade. Climbing, they finally see the ruins of Challenger Crater. All the locals have gone nuts, carousing, raping, and worshipping at an altar. Gunfire chases off the locals. Ace thinks the altar holds a tear in reality. He tries to patch it, and the Challs get sucked to farm country in broad daylight. They ring the farmhouse door. Prof and June welcome them. Except they're ghosts, though June looks eight months pregnant. So... are they dead? "Not exactly." Panning back reveals the farm in a fishbowl. Looming over them, larger than a mountain, is a wild-eyed demon named N'Zrath. "Welcome to Hell!" |