User:Schroeswald/Challengers Pilot

We see the Challengers in front of their classic spaceship with laser guns as they are shooting at a strange Raanian dinosaur.

Prof: According to my research this dinosaur is weak to a concentrated laser blast to the test.

Rocky: But we don’t have enough laser power to destroy it.

June: Luckily I just finished a machine to do that!

Red: Well that’s nice sweetie, why don’t you get it out.

As June runs in the shuttle Rocky asks another question.

Rocky: But how can we reach the chest?

Ace: Well we have a brilliant pilot! I’ll distract it and get it to stand up, then June can shoot it.

''We see June leave the ship with her cannon while Ace gets in it and starts flying. He flies above the dinosaur which starts to move to its back feet. As it is about to bite down on the ship it is hit by a giant laser beam to the chest, causing it to collapse to the ground.''

Prof: Hooray! My brilliant plan has succeeded!

Ace lands down and gets out of the ship.

Rocky: Together we were able to defeat this monster, save Rann and Challenge the Unknown.

We fade from that celebration to the set of what looks like a talk show, the Challengers and Adam Strange sitting in a semicircle.

Rocky: But what we did wasn’t that unknown to the adventurer Adam Strange.

Some canned clapping is heard.

Adam Strange: Yes, though I’ve never had to fight a dinosaur l have had to fend off several such attacks on Rann.

Haley: While our characters we only there for a bit you have returned their time and time again, tell me about your life there.

Adam Strange: I have been brought by the temporary zeta beam many times. Though I often was there to stop a threat I had the time to fall in love with a Rannian woman. We married about a year ago, I actually plan on moving there soon.

June: But how will you be able to move there if the Zeta Beams are temporary?

Adam Strange: Since my marriage my father in-law has been creating a permanent Zeta Beam, I plan on catching it tonight.

June: Well this world will be worse without you in it.

Suddenly we hear a loud noise coming in.

Adam Strange: God Damnit! Why’s it early!

Red: What the hell is happening?

''As they panic we see June grab a backpack, before the room is filled with yellow and the six disappear. We see the Challengers logo appear, as we cut to the surface of Raan, this time looking real, by a large alien city.''

Haley: Where the hell are we?

June: Raan? We’ve clearly been caught up in Strange’s Zeta Beam, you were the one who researched it.

Haley: Well miss know-it-all we can’t all research thoroughly every bit of the setting.

June: It requires asking Strange what a Zeta Beam is like!

Red: Why the hell did you bring your backpack with you here?

June: I grabbed it instinctively, that’s what I do when I hear a loud noise.

We move from the Challengers’ bickering to see Adam Strange looking at the city and talking to himself.

Adam Strange: Why did the Zeta hit the wrong place? Why did the Zeta arrive early? (Looks over to the Challengers) And what do I do with them?

We see a visibly pregnant Alanna Strange and her father walking up to them, looking surprised.

Alanna: Adam!

Alanna and Adam run up and embrace, as they pull back Alanna asks a question.

Alanna: What happened? Why are you here? And who are they?

The camera pans back to see the Challengers a second from a fist fight before returning to the Strange family.

Adam: I don’t know, someone must have messed with the Zeta Beam and taken me and these… Challengers early and in the wrong location.

Alanna: Challengers? That name sounds more impressive than they look.

Adam: They star in a tv show, they were interviewing me about Rann when we were caught up by the beam. But let’s leave them for later, how are you doing?

Alanna: A bit sick but coming along. Rann hasn’t had any problems I couldn’t deal with while you were gone.

Sardath: We are going to need to figure out how to bring these … fools, home.

June finally realizes what’s going on.

June: Not all of us are fools, just eighty percent.

Alanna: And who are you?

June: June Robbins, genius, inventor, creator of Earth’s first artificial intelligence, and cast member of the Challengers of the Unknown.

Sardath: And how does such an important person in science star with these idiots?

June: The first AI didn’t exactly last long before it rebelled, the only reason it was defeated is that my former mentor, Dr. Ray Palmer, is also a superhero and destroyed it. Joining the Challengers was the best way to help my PR.

Haley: Hey wait! Stop trash talking us! I’m Walter Haley, the leader of this group, how can we help you.

Red: Come on dude, June is the most qualified person here, she should be the one to figure out how to return home.

Sardath: Well that will be a problem, since your planet is too far away for our technology to travel.

Kyle: Are you saying that your advanced civilization doesn’t have faster than light travel?

The Strange family fall into laughter.

Alanna: Do you understand how impossible that is? Even Thanagarian fighters can only make it to your planet in a few months, only the Green Lanterns can make it that fast. The fastest you can get back is six months, but with our resources we could barely do nine months.

June: We could barely survive a week in this.

Adam: Well I don’t think we could stand to give up anyone with the war.

Red: Are you saying that we’re stuck on the planet?

Rocky: In the midst of a war?

Red: I have a family, surely you understand what it’s like to be stranded without them.

Adam raises his voice to a yell.

Adam Strange: And I have just made it back! I’m not risking it for anything.

Kyle: We may be fools on TV but you are a hero, we have no chance without you.

Haley: Of course we do! We challenge the unknown, the unknown doesn’t challenge us!

Everyone sighs at him.

Rocky: Please help us, we understand why you don’t want to but we have no chance to survive without you, if you would please consider.

Haley: Give us a shuttle and some weapons and we’ll make it.

June: No, we won’t leave without an escort.

Haley: I’m tired of you four challenging my authority! I am your leader and I say what we d-

Rocky punches him in the face, knocking him out.

Rocky: I apologize for our compatriot, if you need a real leader speak with Kyle.

Before we have a chance to see anything more an explosion is heard, the city is under attack.

Adam and Alanna: We have to go!

''The two’s suits spread over their body and they jump up and begin to fly. Haley looks up as they fly.''

Haley: I didn’t know she was a hero too.

June: Who the hell wrote the script of the post-show then?

Kyle: He has me ghostwrite them.

''As June stares at Haley like he’s a dead man we move up to see Adam and Alanna fighting the invading forces, in similar suits. We also see a group of warships.''

Adam Strange: I’ll take the ships, you take the soldiers.

''Alanna whips out two handguns and starts shooting her opponents. She weaves in and out of them, hitting them with the butts, shooting them and letting them shoot each other. We see Adam shoot through the hull of the largest ship and start shooting at some guards.''

Voice: You didn’t need to save me.

Adam looks around to see Captain Comet walk out of the darkness.

Adam Strange: Who the hell are you?

Captain Comet: You can call me Captain Comet, the epitome of human perfection, bringer of peace to the universe, and former prisoner of your dear enemy, now if you’d please move out of the way I have to leave, I wouldn’t suggest staying as this place will blow up soon.

''Comet flies off through the hull, and Adam flies off after him dumbfounded. He sees that Alanna has managed to defeat most of the soldiers, and then turns to see the main ship explode, catching several others in its blast, as Comet throws a soldier at another. The remaining forces retreat back to the sky, but before we feel the victory we turn around to see the city is devastated. We finally change scenes as we see a memorial service attended by everyone we’ve seen.''

Rannian Official: Despite our victory over the invaders we have suffered an incredible loss. Half of the city is damaged in some way while millions have died or been injured.

As he continues to talk we see Comet and Adam standing and talking.

Adam: I and every single Rannian thank you for your service, I’m not sure we could have won without you.

Captain Comet: I’m sure you could’ve, if you're even half as powerful as your wife they wouldn’t stand a chance.

Adam: I used to think she was the one half as powerful as me, but these past months, I’m not as sure.

Captain Comet: Why?

Adam: She’s defended the entire world almost single handedly, do you know how many people it takes to defend Earth?

Captain Comet: I think when I was last there it was ten.

Adam: Exactly! Now there are even more I believe, but Alanna has kept the place stable without me for so long, I don’t know if I should go with the Challengers.

Captain Comet: The Challengers?

Adam: TV personalities from Earth, they were picked up with me, they can only come back with an escort but I’m the only one available.

Captain Comet: Do you honestly think that this world can spare you?

Adam: It’s not just that, I’ve worked so hard and for so long to be with my wife, and now here I am, considering leaving her again.

Captain Comet: I’ve never been married, I’ve never even fallen in love, but I left my family to help people nonetheless. While I don’t regret leaving I do regret not talking with them and figuring out if the consequences really outweighed the good. So please do one thing, talk to your wife, no matter what you decide she deserves a choice in the matter.

Adam: Will you be staying here for awhile, if I choose to leave that is.

Captain Comet: I will stay where I am as long as it needs me.

As Adam goes in to hug Comet we move to the Strange household, where Adam is sitting on a couch when Alanna walks in.