ALLWTEEBTF: Prelude
THROUGHOUT PARADOX SPACE, THERE IS BUT ONE CREATURE THAT HAS BEEN PROPHESIED TO LAY WASTE TO ALL. ONE NAME STRIKES FEAR THROUGH ALL THOSE WHO HEAR HIM.
SWORD ENGLISH.
ALTHOUGH MANY SPECIES AND CIVILIZATIONS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DISCOVER A WAY IN WHICH TO PREVENT HIS EVENTUAL INCARNATION..ONLY A SINGLE WORLD DEEP IN THE REACHES OF THE MILKY WAY'S EDGE HAVE EVEN COME CLOSE TO A SOLUTION. THIS WORLD IS ONLY KNOWN..AS GALGOR PRIME.
DESPITE NOT BEING THE SMARTEST, STRONGEST, OR FASTEST CREATURES ALIVE, THEY ONLY NEEDED THEIR STRONG WILLS AND TENACITY TO GROW INTO A RESPECTABLE KINGDOM. THEY KNEW THAT IF NO-ONE THROUGHOUT EXISTENCE WAS ABLE TO PREVENT CALAMITY, IT WAS UP TO THEM TO DEFEAT THIS MIGHTY FOE.
THEY CREATED A PROPHECY. ONE OF THE GALGORIANS, A SKITTISH MEMBER OF THEIR RACE KNOWN AS PLOOGNAR, WOULD ONE DAY COME OUT OF HIS SHELL AND BANISH SWORD ENGLISH TO THE DEEPEST REACHES OF THE FURTHEST RING. THE BATTLE WOULD BE KNOWN ACROSS ALL WORLDS, AND EVERY ALIEN SPECIES WOULD REJOICE AT THE DEFEAT OF THIS GREAT EVIL, PROMISING TO BETTER THEMSELVES AND LIVE IN PEACE AND HARMONY.
...UNFORTUNATELY, A DIFFERENT TYRANT ENSLAVED THE GALGORIANS BEFORE THE MIGHTY SWORD COULD ERADICATE THEM FIRST.
LORD AKYVETON, RULER OF THE ZUGSECTOID EMPIRE, DEVASTATED THE FORCES OF THE GALGORIANS, WHO WERE NO MATCH FOR HIS ARMY, HIS GENERALS, AND HIS INSURMOUNTABLE MIGHT.
PLOOGNAR, DEVASTATED BY THE REVELATION THAT HE WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO FUFILL THE PROPHECY, AND SAVE ALL OF TIME AND SPACE..SLUNK DEEPER INTO HIS RECLUSE. HE THOUGHT HE WOULD SPEND HIS DAYS IN ETERNAL SERVITUDE TO THE CRUEL MONSTER THAT AKYVETON WAS.
HOWEVER..A RAY OF HOPE EMERGED. LORD AKYVETON, IN HIS CONQUEST OF THE PLANET KNOWN AS EARTH, COMPETED IN A GAME-SHOW KNOWN AS CAMP LIFE. DURING THE SECOND CHALLENGE, LORD AKYVETON FACED OFF AGAINST HIS LONGTIME ADVERSARY THE MIGHTY MIGHTY RAY. ALTHOUGH HE WAS VICTORIOUS, AND RETRIEVED THE ITEM NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE CHALLENGE..HE HAD TO RECOVER FROM THE WOUNDS HE HAD WHILE FACING HIS NEMESIS. BECAUSE OF THIS..HE HAD NO TIME TO RECOVER FOR THE THIRD CHALLENGE..AND HIS TEAM UNKNOWINGLY VOTED HIM OFF..THINKING HIS RECLUSE WAS A SIGN OF GOODWILL..THINKING HE WAS SACRIFICING HIMSELF TO THE GREENHOUSES FOR THEIR SAKE.
LORD AKYVETON..HEARING OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT LED TO HIS ELIMINATION FROM THE SHOW'S HOST, MIKE HORIZAL, WAS SO OVERCOME WITH ANGER AND RAGE..HE UNKNOWINGLY ACTIVATED HIS LATENT ABILITY TO SELF-DESTRUCT. IN A SINGLE INSTANT, HIS ENTIRE UPPER BODY EXPLODED RIGHT IN-FRONT OF MIKE, KILLING THE EMPEROR INSTANTLY.
HIS EMPIRE, HEARING OF HIS DEATH, WAS STRICKEN WITH GRIEF, AND TURNED TO PERIL. ALL PLANETS CLAIMED AND COLONIZED BY THE ZUGSECTOIDS WERE SUDDENLY DESCENDING INTO CHAOS! TO QUELL THE INSANITY..THE ZUGSECTOID ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPUTER SYSTEM, ERIZON.NET, ASSEMBLED FOUR OF THE ZUGSECTOID EMPIRE'S MORE WELL-EQUIPPED GENERALS FOR COMPLETING AND WINNING CAMP LIFE IN LORD AKYVETON'S HONOR.
LITTLE DID THEY KNOW THAT LORD AKYVETON'S NEMESIS, THE MIGHTY MIGHTY RAY, HAD HIS COMPLETED HIS SEVEN-YEAR LONG SURVEY OF THE GALAXY, AND CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS SAFE ONCE AGAIN. AS SOON AS HE RETURNED TO EARTH, HE WARNED HIS FELLOW SUPERHEROES OF THE THREAT AKYVETON POSED, HIS ALTERCATIONS WITH HIM, AND REALIZING THAT HIS FORCES HAD BEEN SPOTTED ON HIS HOME PLANET OF EARTH.
ALTHOUGH THE LAWS OF EARTH DICTATED THAT SUPERHEROES MUST NEVER INTERACT WITH OBJECTKIND, THE CRUSADER OF THE DARK AND DEFENDER OF BLOTCITY, SHADOWKNIGHT, ALONG WITH HER FORCES, INTERCEPTED THE ZUGSECTOID GENERALS DURING ONE OF THEIR CHALLENGES. ALL BUT ERIZON.NET, THE IMPOSING BUT COWARDLY GRUSIER MAKORTI, AND PLOOGNAR WERE CAPTURED.
ERIZON.NET, DESPERATE TO FULFILL HER MASTER'S CONQUEST OF THE GALAXY, TRANSFERRED HERSELF INTO A MECHANICAL BODY, AND AIDED THE LAST GENERAL GRUISER IN COMPLETING CAMP LIFE. HOWEVER, GRUSIER HAD ALSO BEEN IN TALKS WITH PLOOGNAR, FORMING A CLOSE MUTUAL BOND, WHICH ALLOWED THE LADDER TO COME ALONG WITH THEM ON THEIR ADVENTURE TO THE NORTH POLE, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN SANTA'S MAGICAL GIFT TO FINISH THE CHALLENGE.
ELSEWHERE, SHADOWKNIGHT AND HER TEAM OF HEROES DECIDED THAT WITH THE ZUGSECTOID ARRIVAL ON EARTH MEANT THAT THE LEAGUE OF HEROES NEEDED TO EXPAND THEIR FORCES IN ORDER TO COMPETE WITH THE SURGING NUMBER OF THREATS TO EARTH. THEY DECIDED THAT RECRUITING CHARACTERS FROM POPULAR TRADITIONS AND FOLKLORE WOULD BOLSTER THEIR FORCES. ALONG WITH MIGHTY RAY, WHO WAS BROUGHT WITH THE GROUP SO HE COULD GET READJUSTED TO HERO-WORK. WHEN THEY CAME FACE TO FACE WITH THEIR FIRST TARGET HOWEVER, TENSIONS RISED BETWEEN RAY AND SHADOWKNIGHT, WITH THE FORMER NOT LIKING BEING SIDETRACKED BY HERO-WORK SO EARLY AFTER HIS RETURN TO EARTH.
WHEN ERIZON AND THE OTHERS UNKNOWINGLY ALTERCATED THE HEROES, PLOOGNAR REALIZED THIS WAS THE OPPORTUNITY HE WAS WAITING FOR, NOW THAT LORD AKYVETON NO LONGER HAD WATCH OVER HIM. COMING FACE TO FACE WITH SANTA CLAUS, PLOOGNAR SHOT HIM DEAD IN-FRONT OF HIS ALLIES AND THE HEROES, ABSORBING HIS POWER. ALL THE HEROES BUT MIGHTY RAY AND SHADOWKNIGHT FLED FROM THE HORRID SIGHT BEFORE THEM. CHRISTMAS WAS CANCELLED, AND PLOOGNAR WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER.
PLOOGNAR ENSLAVED BOTH GRUSIER AND ERIZON, ALONG WITH THE TWO HEROES LEFT USING HIS ENERGY. HE UNITED ALL ALIEN SPECIES ABOARD THE ZUGSECTOID SHIPS THAT WERE CAPTURED AND USED FOR LABOUR BY AKYVETON.
WITH THE ALIENS UNITED, THEY WORKED TOGETHER TO ENSURE THAT THEIR GOAL OF STOPPING SWORD ENGLISH COULD COME TO FRUITION. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE RECENT GLOBAL DROUGHT WHICH SAW ALL OF EARTH'S WATER TURNED INTO TOILETS, PLOOGNAR AND THE ALIEN ALLIANCE MADE A FORTUNE SELLING WATER FROM THE GALACTIC TRADE TO THE DESPERATE HUMANS OF EARTH. THEIR MONETARY GAIN ALLOWED THEM TO BUY MULTIPLE CORNERS OF THE PLANET. THE MOST IMPORTANT OF WHICH INCLUDED TWO-THIRDS OF NEW YORK CITY, WHICH WAS SET UP AS A HEADQUARTERS FOR THE ALIEN ALLIANCE, AND RENAMED TO PLOOGNARWORLD.
UNKNOWINGLY..THE ABSOLUTE POWER ABSOLUTELY CORRUPTED PLOOGNAR..AND MADE HIM BECOME EXTREMELY POWERHUNGRY. HIS CONQUEST OF EARTH STARTED TO MIRROR AKYVETON'S CONQUEST OF HIS HOME..AND WORSE WAS THAT THEY WERE GETTING NO CLOSER TO HOW THEY COULD STOP THE ARRIVAL OF THE DESTRUCTION THAT WOULD GRIP REALITY. IT SEEMED ALL THE MORE LIKELY THAT THE GLAGORIAN PROPHECY WAS MERELY A FLUKE, JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHERS.
IT SEEMED THAT THE WORLD WOULD CONTINUE TO WORSEN IN THE INSURING CHAOS...
UNTIL A FATEFUL DAY..WHERE IN THE DEEPEST REACHES OF THE UNDERWORLD..A SWEET BUT EXTREMELY SINISTER HOPE GLIMMERED IN THE DARKNESS..