Amidst the Mists

"The last time we saw you, you had been turned into an alien and were about to go nuclear." Robin was glad to see Anne whole -- well at least mostly whole. He could see the pink and purple clouds surrounding the Tandy Garden teens THROUGH the red-headed Wotch. Jason appeared solid - even when he appeared to be Sonja, Psyque, or a she-satyr. Robin's own hands appeared to be solid, male, and staying that way. He had a feeling that this wouldn't last. This had been so crazy since the Venusian saucers attacked Tandy that he hadn't had a moment to think.

"First, I'm not your Anne. I'm not actually Anne at all. Sorry to disappoint you but I'm only the memory of an Anne in a world where the Venusians destroyed my best friends and conquered the world." Anne seemed to draw back from embracing Robin and looked almost ashamed. "In my world, I was used to help subjugate the planet because I was trying to avoid bloodshed. I gave up my powers, my life, and my world to create the chance to prevent that domination."

"And joining your power to Melleck, the Worlock, you sent a capsule with the tools and information necessary to repel the Venusian invasion backwards through time to Robin Ericson in a tangential timeline." Jason looked up from his comic book and stared at the Shade of the Wotch. "Only in this timeline, Robin was being obliterated by Venusian Evolutionary Telekinesis while being supported by Miranda West's teleportation spell and the echo of Anne's magic was able to save her friends by fusing them into one Devolution resistant Avatar of Chaos" Sonja tapped the Comic in her hands and the cover transformed to show Psyque-1976 rising from a pool of blue ooze.

"How did you...?" Robin stammered.

"One... encyclopedic knowledge of comic references. Two... intimate association with Anne and the way she works. Three... since her memories fused us all together to prevent our untimely demise, I have just as much access to her memories as she does. You could do the same except for your more limited imagination. Anne thinks that your sense of strategies from playing with Gabriel... Gabrielle?.. Whatever! She thinks that you are the best person to lead the Attack against the Venusians whether you are a wotch, a blue haired psychic, or just an ordinary human."

Robin was taken aback by his friend's confidence. He always had wanted to be the hero, but he never expected that anyone would select him to save Anne... the world! He suddenly remembered months of studying the Venusian Liberation Force - their strengths and weaknesses... They couldn't have transformed Anne! Her magics would be incompatible with the group-mind that linked the Venusian troops. The feedback would be... If the Terran assault forces would wear bio-genetic Exoskeleton then the immunity... Robin began to feel overwhelmed by all of the new information when suddenly her mind expanded and began to work faster. She had never appreciated that Robyn could take in more information while Robin was better able to focus on a single task. Anne had saved him from a fate worse that death and given her the opportunity to save the world!

"Same old Anne!" Sonja was wearing a Grey leotard with and eight pointed gold star on the chest. Black knee high boots and black elbow length gloves contrasted with a gold sash belt held by a gold eight-point star. "It does make sense that since the Venusian are evolving females, that females make better fighters, but don't forget that their mind control works better on female brains!" The Spandex clad teen examined her outfit "Nice - needs a CoMiX logo to be complete, but a girl can't complain."

Robyn's outfit had changed to a black with blue accessories version of Sonja's with a Knight's Helm emblem and a sheathed silver short-sword attached to a silver sash belt. She concentrated for a moment and Robin appeared next to Anne -- both now in their usual outfits.