Adventure: Urr II 
Part I: Hung Be the Heavens wit 1 Black 
Urr I ives, despite what his enemies have achieved against him. He has tracke those who opposed hi most fiercely to th~ir he eworld. If LifeBr·inQer and DoamBr'eaker do not surrender' to hi , their world shall die , His technicians, few though they remain, are still able to construct powerful batteries which can absorb sunl ight in high concentrations. This power will maintain his fleet against whatever defenses the Dla et of 
his enemies can send into space. 	. 
Urr concentrates, bending the rays of this star and focusing them upon his batteries. The Earth goes dark. 
	Urr's technicians then br'eak in on all radio/television frequency bands. 	Urr addresses the Ear th , 
IELLIPSIS AND SHAMROCK: SURRENDER TO ME OR YOUR WORLD DIES~I He breaks contact. But he does not re .ain 
inactive. 
His enemies, on their homeworld, will no doubt seek help from others of their ilk. Urr shall cut them off as only he can~ 
Stephen Wolcott in Manhattan, does not generally I isten to news broadcasts. But he cannot help but notice the turmoil ol the crowds in New York City. he alien invader has blacked the sun out at midday~ And he wants Ellipsis! 
He remember's Urr: the battle Ur'r fought ui th him was the most cataclysmic ba t le Ell ips is has ever fOUQht~ He thinks of attacking Urr directly, but discounts the idea: Urr is undoubtably prepared, else he would not have issued the challenge~ 
Stephen Wolcott fears null for his own lif~, but he will not sacrifice his \IIorld in the ~rocess. Unless and until he deems it necessary. He intends to get help first! and quickly. He has always diSC ai ed responsiblilty for others; how can Ie now claim full responsibility for the defense of five billion people? 
This is the occasion for which he consented to rejoin the Balance. 
Molly Finnegan, in Dubl in where the evening sun is black, is told the news by her parents. She says, "No not again~· 
, If only the heroes of her childhood - the Avengers, the Fantastic Four - sti 1 existed~ 
Only her truest friends - and onlY those that Know her identity - may help her now. Ell ipsis mayor may not know her - his mind was not truly stable when she knew him. In any case, he will be too beleagured limself to help her now. Her only other hope is in her friend, the Image! 
Urr stands above the Earth, and begins his purpose. 
He intends to isolate Ellipsis and Shamrock on an Earth without help fr~li fellow heroes. To achieve thiSt he shall spl it their Earth in two: one \IIorld \IIithout them, and one world where they stand alone! He 
shal split the entire universe asunder if he can achieve this! 	. 
His thought-sensing unit tells him whom Ell ipsis and Sha~mrock most depend on. Ellipsis seeks heroes 
called the Balance; Shamrock thinks of a man called the Image. 
Urr breaks the Earth in twain,' between the two and what they seek. 
Neither Earth survives the division of universes. They break into space rubble. No matter. Ellipsis and Shamrock will survive ••. 
(In the Marvel Universe, Reed Richards' alternate universe event detectors detect something. He finds that an alternate Earth has oeen destroy.td. The Fantastic Fo I' try to investigate, but they can't get int~ 
that universe anymore.) 	• 
Part II: Worlds Destroyed 
Laura Greene, in Traver'se CitYj Michigan (well into the northlands), is doing her s n: er job in a Christian book store. The world fa Is apart around her. 
It starts as an earthquake. She shields the others in the store fi-am damage as she wonders: Michigan never has earthquakes~ As the earthquake goes on and the store is leveled, she ievitates herself and the others outside. 
The \IIorld must be fall ing apart! The earth heaves up in chunks to assault her. Then entire hillsides 
rise up against her. 
She stands against it. But by the time it's over, she's lost the others. The air is dissipating. 
Mike Roberts, in East Lansing, MichiQan for the MSU surr~er session, avoids the on y earthquake he's ever felt: he teleports. But he finds the Quake. everywhere he goesl In the end, he remains in his dimension of 
	transport to \IIait the quaKe out. 	. 
~irk Ryan, doing his sUlTiller job as a groundskeeper on a golf course in Bir'minghaJll, Mic dg~n (in the DetrOit metr~ area), is caught by the eartnquake. He shoots for the pper atmosphere. Just Tlke he used to do as Caliber. 
Below he sees the Earth exploding, as far as he can see~ Reaching the arc of his trajec'ory, he falls back down. 
The point of his impact br'eaks loose from the surroundinc terrain and rushes up at hi • He intens i+iss 
his bounCing pO\ller: the chunk of land recedes from him. 	- 
Again at the top of atmospher~, which is now much thin. er, Dirk realizes: When Ie used to do this for the Air Force they gave him an oXYQen masK. He ioses conscio sness. 
When he hits Earth this time fie does not bounce. 
Oominatra, rul ing her small criminal empire in New York City, finds it does her no good in this crisis. 
She dies I ike everyone else. 

A schoolchild in Arkansas, on a summer field tr-ip with his classmates, feels t re quake. This is a big 
one: everyone's about to get It~ This is a job for The Naker~ 
He takes his shirt off. A mystic talisman is revealed. ,'is body changes. A universa elder takes his place. 
As the earth heaves around them, he converts their school bus and some su orounding matter to a spacefaring vehicle and leaves the obviously doomed planet. 
Stephen Wolcott feels the earthguaKe. Be Urr damned! 
He feels his wife Julie's mental voice at the Daily News: it is crumbl inQ~ It is one of the first bui ldinqs within New Yorok City to be assaulted. BE URR OAtt~ED! He streaks there, despite the isk of spaceward detection. 
The building crumbles as he arrives. 
He senses for Jul ie . She is crushed within. Howl ing, he streaks through the masonry. 
As he reaches her, she is about to die. He enters one last mental communion with her, and never iets go. He finally leaves, thouoh. But as he goes, he hears Julie's thought within his mind~ 
·You saved me after all~· 
In Utah, Orville Stone runs foro his control armor, the ar-mor- of Red Sun, which ight al ow him to withstand the unpredicted earth tremors around him. He never makes it. 
In Massachusetts, Jonathon R. Gaunt decides: The power which once he lost can spare him this -atacly~~, 
if he calls it down now! Mankind and the Balance are in no position to oppose him now, in any case. 
Through the boiling skies, the darkness falls. He wraps himself in it. The darokness forms wings. The Raven Gaunt leaves the Earth. 
laura Greene, beginning to gasp from the lack of air, desperately draws all remaining air in the surroundinQ area toward her. It revives her. 
She l~oks beneath her. The Earth is no 10nQer there! All that re ain ar-e large drifting meteors and a 
very dark blue sky. 	- 
She panics. What can she possibly do now? 
Dublin, like every other place, is destroyed. Except for a section of town, twenty square blocks. 
Everything therein is frozen. 
Molly Fi negan, on her knees within that section dares not lose concentration. 
But a spaceship apP'!'oaches, and fills the sky. A transport beam stabs out; whe it dissipates, Urr 
stands in the streets of Dubl in. 
'Greetings to one of the only two who could best me together. Now you may die alone.' 
Moily howls "No! Not now!' While maintaining Dubl in in stasis, she tries to freeze Urr as well. 
But Urr, wilh his power, has surrounded himself with a directed gradient of non-causality. According to his theoreticians, he cannot be affected by anything originating outSide the pocket - and he may still striKe outside the pocket himself. And so does it work, to his relief. MollY's attack has no effect. 
Urr str-Ikes in return. He loo~ens the bonds between molecules outside the pocket. Mo]y is nearly 
overcome with pain. 
But she can't die now! The city of her birth needs hero! 
Her own power holds her together. Having survived Urr's attack, she glances sideways. What once was Dublin is now dust. She and Urr now float in space. 
Her parents dead! NO~ 
Hero power erupts l,IIithin the pocket f non-causal ity. Ur <s hsart bursts open within him. 
For a moment he staggers. But he then responds, "00 you think I need that piece of tissue to continue 
life?" Molly freezes in place. 
Urr strikes. Nolly is surrounded with fire, and streaks off for the heart of her sun. 
As Laura panics amono the remains of Michi9an~ she loses concentration. Her air begins to sl ip away. She real izes, No~ Slie still wants to I ive it she possibly can! She roegains composure. 
She notices: Above her drifts a chunk of land - surrounded by a sparkl ing field. She moves up to it. Within is a man s e has met before, who calls himself Superior. He calmly sits in a trance position, 
eyes closed, on a forested chunk of lakeshore. Animals, in pairs, rest still around him. 
She moves up to the field, and knocks upon it. No response. She raps the field with a soft force bolt. Still no response. 
She begins to disrupt the field with her stone, drawing a small portion of it toward her to make an 
	opening and Qain entry. 	. 
Sne hears a voice in her mind: "If you must insist, please enter without destroying our protection.' The field separates to allow her entry. Laura goes ui thin. 
Russell Anvernacht was alone upon the Moon at the time the Earth was destroyed. Alone upon the Moon, 
beyond the knowledge of his company Nightfall Systems, he had his own plan to destroy the Earth. 
But when the alarms sounded and he viewed the sKies, Ie was truly surprised. Beyond his expectations, this is the day he has I ived for~ 
	THI S IS D(tIESDAY!! 	- 
Except he did not cause it! 
Stephen/Julie Wolcott, now afloat in open space, ca easily survive there for Ii ited periods: Ell ipsis can .convert his exhaled carbon dioxide to breathable OXYQen indefinitely. He can even convert any matter to water, which takes care of the next immediate need. But-he's never tried to convert any matter to comestiJle foodioand under these conditions, he'll obviously never teach himself how. Unless he can defeat the enemy Urr or ot erwise get help, his I ifespan is measurable in days. 
He notices a comet overhead, streaking away from Earth. For two seconds he iQnores it, but then Stephen 
	real izes: this comet is thinking! He streaks afte it. 	- 

It is Mo 11 y Finnegan ~ He knows her fl'OIII the prev i ous time he [onfron ted Urr: she aided hin, a d saved his I ile then. He breaks her free from the fire around her, aid tries to speak with her e Itally. aut sle is frozen within the thought patterns he sensed! The thoUQhts repeat and are rouohly translatable to: I hey're 
Dead I' Dead What Can I Do?" Could Urr have done this? 	- 
But Molly lived: aybe others have as well! Ellipsis mentally searches two hundred fifty thousand miles into space, as far as the orbit of the Moon. 
Apart frclffl the manned sate l l i te Orbitum 1, in the L4 position in the Mool-'s or-bit, and some shielded presence upon the Moon, there are no others. 
Orbitum 1 mi9ht aid him and Molly: Orbitum must have state of the art medical facilities. And they would provide Ellipsis a temporary base of operations against Urr - W 0 must now die in agony for what he has done to the Earth. Ellipsis, carrying Molly, vectors there. 
Part III: The Last Survivors 
Laura Greene, with the man Superior-, retur-n to full awareness. They are within a netal-ea led chamber. 
A man in flowinQ robes addresses them. 
"I have cr~ated a craft to retain a minuscule fraction of Earthl iogs free from the destruction which assails them. To continue, I require two additional beings of mature sentient s'ature to man the craft, You ar-e such beingsj such is your task. Man your stations upon my cr-aft, and you all shall live. FollCM I.e,· Superior holds back. IHaw did you breaK our trance~1 
"It was at my need. Fo ICM me.1 
"I am responsible for the beings of Earth which I brought wit ,e. What has happefed to t' ern?1 
"They survive and thrive, in repl ications of their normal environment. What I can do for then, _ have done. Come with me,l 
"I must see them first.' 
The Maker stares at Superior. "00 you not commune with your animal I ife? You can feel their satisfaction! insofar as it can exist in these conditions." After a moment, Superior bows his head. 'Corne With me,· the Maker reiterates. 
Stephen/Jul ie Wolcott, as Ell i~sisl arrive in the space immediately outside rbitum 1. He emits radio waves to signal in Morse Code IELL.PSI~. WITH OTHER SURVIVOR. LET US N,· 
he security force of Or~itum 1 mobil izes against the ports of the spacecr-aft, accordi~Q to protoco. A sizeable reserve remains in the mobilization rooms, as decreed by operational plan which their employer Nightfall Systems negotiated with NASA: • he secur-ity for-ces shall be mobilized auainst forces assumed to be earthborne at the discretion of the security commander." The commander had previously been notified by the intelligence of Nightfall Systems (with purpose not to be questioned) to be pre~ared against an assau t by 
Ellipsis and/or the Balance. 	. 
Ellipsis sees no ports ooening to admit him on his humanitarian mission. He increases the stakesi and broadcasts on multiple frequencies, "ELLIPSIS AND OTHER SURVIVOR MUST ENTER BY Atrf MEANS AVAILABLE WI HIN HREE MINUTES." 
The cOIT!!1funications channels within Or-bitum ar-e buzzing: t ere are other survivor s! Let the in! Ths security commander, at the command of the satellite commander, finally lets them in throuQh one of the portholes. AccorrJlng to his discretionary order-s fr-om Nightfall Systems, he is not '0 oppose Ell ips is or the Balance vnless he feels the effort successful. With the Earth destroyed today, he doesn't feel lucky. 
On the ship of the Maker, Laura follows him to the bridge. Superior lags behind. 
Laura takes the station which the Maker assigns her. He quickly tells her how to react to which dials. 
Super-ior- stands behind. 
The Maker addresses him. "rou must ake the other- station. life sueport is enitored automatically, without your efforts. I thinK that is consistent with your eath in I ife. Superior still stands away. 
The Maker stands silent. He then replies, ·You must ••• I but then he listens to a voice that only he can 
hear. 
WHY COULDN'T YOU SAVE MY MOM ~40 DAD? 
He says "You must excuse me " and leaves. 
Laura still monitors her station. Monitors from the other station assault her, though, and she is 
overwhelmed. She says, "Help me!1 "J ••• cannot.' 
"?" 
"Life was not meant to be controlled or onito -I'd. I can rot help you troy to control i t ," "But you controlled it when you left the Earth!" 
"The conditions are different here. I let Nature survivej this Maker submits it to machinery.1 
	"He's letting it suruive~ Without him and this spaceship it'd die~· 	. 
• he Life here seeks other Life. We were prepar-e~ to wait forever for it, but we wait for it. We canno' 
accep t a subs t i tu te' we wou I d sooner 1 eave and I i VI' on our own.· 	-- 
"But.,.' An alarm bell rings. Laura, as she turns to it, says on~ last time, "Why can't you just heln us?" 
aura examin~s the monitors, A space warp has just mat~rial ized within the ship! ~ameras show the 
condition automatically: Fla~me is eruptinQ from 'he warp! What will that do to their ship? 
But Mighty Tim st -ides fr-om the flame! It disstpates in his wake! Praise God' 
Laura lasts until Mike Roberts reaches the bridge. Then she collapses fr ~ overexertio and exhaustio , 
On Orbitum 1, Molly is in sick bay. Stephen/Julie Wolcott have no time to worry about her condition, 
thoughj Ellipsis is briefing the Orbiturn captain and the security comma der about Urr. E I ipsis asks if Orbiturn knows of other survivor-s; the captain responds that one per-son is Known to be on the Moon. El l ips is re liesj "And I know him to be snielded against m~. Is it Anvernacht?" he captain nods, 
	Ell ipsis says softly, 'What am I to do?" 	- 
intermission: 

	

he survivors Ot Earth (known to Ell ipsis) a1 this time are: 
Stephen/Jul ie Wolcott: Ell ipsis Molly Finnegan: Shamrock . Russell Anvernacht: Domesday plus: the staff of rbitum 1, 
The survivors of Earth (known to the Balance) at this time are: 
Laura G eene: Morningstar Mike Roberts: the MiQhty Tim unknown: Superior unknown: the Maker 
Jonathon R, Gaunt: the Raven Gaunt 
plus: the passengers on the Maker's craft, 
Part IV: Reunion 
On the Maker's ship, Superior and the MiQhty im have assumed control of ship systems, The Maker has established that his passengers plus a shielded entity are the only survivors of Earth, 
Morningstar revives. She notices the Raven first, 
It envelops the craft, 
he Mi9hty Tim tries to break through it. 
They wind up elsewhere. 
The proximity alarm sounds~ An unknown craft is approaching the station! The setur i tr commander' asks Ell ipsis: "Is this part of his force?" 
"The make is unfam i 1 i ar to me. I s any Earth craft known to be in orb it?" The security man scans a monitor ••• "No,' 
• If I scan it menta 11 y I may be dstected. Your 1 i ues may be in danger if I do ~ Do you have detec i 0 I devices of your own?" 
"Urn,,' That's classified, Secr·tot by the U,S. Government and J tarnal Se s i t ive by NiQhtfal Systems. "r 
	don't know." 	- 
"Find out. Quickly.' 
	The ship of the Maker approaches the I an-made sate l l ite within the Ea ths orbit. 	is statio bui t by 
men is endangered by the invader that pursues him now. The Maker sha 1 offer the! efuQe. 
The ships of Urr pursue this craft in force. It is the only craft which ~scap~d tfie pJan~. in 
destruction! Could thiS home of Urr's greatest enemies be so primitive? 
Behind Urr's force, the wings of a raven obscure the stars. 
The ships of Urr begin to attack the Maker's craft, For the moment, the Maker's shields hold, 
On Orbitum. Ell ipsis begins rnelltal scan, Morningstar and Mighty Tim are in the craft Ut del' attack! He fl ies to save tfiem. 
The battle winds up on Urr's flagship, with all the heroes facing Urr, Mighty Tim, who's been told everything Ellipsis knows about Urr-, devises a scheme for maKinQ Urr restore the Earth. his scheme revolves around Ellipsis entally controlling Urr. Mighty Tim teleports-Ellipsis, Morningstar and Shamr-ocK to face Urr, staying behind on the Maker's ship, 0 destroy more of Urr's armada. 
On the Moon Russell Anvernacht deduces what's QoinQ on. Something up in space is warpinQ physical laws. 
This intermittently allows Anvernacht to monitor events UP there. He's determined that it's an alien beinG who's warpinQ events, and all the survivors of Earth are lighting it. IncludinQ the Ba ance. - 
	Db, what fun, 	- 
On Ur-r's ship Morningstar imrnobil izes Urr, Shamrock tries to neutral ize his power against them, and 
Ell ipsis tries to force him to restore the Earth, And it works, initiallly: the Earth taRes form again. But U r's power forces its way out of confinement, and starts stripping Ell i~sis of his sKin. 
It doesn't stop Ell ipsis. Morningstar wants to stop, but she can't. Ell ipsis enhanced her will and Shamrock's ear-I ier, to stand against Urr-j she can't change her mind now' 
Eventually the Earth is restored, Mighty Tim then opens a space warp on top of Ur-r-, and he disappears from the universe~ 
But the warp moves to consume E I ipsis! 
Ell ips is , without his skin, lands In Domesday's lunar' base, Dornesda,' looks up ir'om his machines and laug s. 
The tired heroes manage to rescue Ell ias i s from Domesday, By that time, Ell ipsis is coated with pol}'mer' instead of skin. Ell ipsis will never wield' energy powers again.