From: LUCKE@NDSUVM1.BITNET
Newsgroups: alt.comics.lnh,rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Quest for Cheese, final part
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:13:05 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

The Quest for Cheese, last part

Freon sensed a cosmic disturbance, and used his link with the Coils of
Camembert to summon Cheeezarr.  Cheeezarr and Makkaroni immediately warped
into the Freonverse. "Cheeezarr, I have found out the hideout of Blacky,
Archer of Death.  But he is not alone.  He is with Limburger Lad."

"Limburger Lad is behind this?" Cheeezarr asked. "However will I defeat him?"

Freon continued, "And so is the Flying.Altogether.Too.Naked.Villain."

"WHAT!  Three specimens of Super-Villaindom, one of which we have yet to
see in any sort of net.appearance?  Is that really fair to the readers?"

"Sure.  The West Coast Avengers constantly fight new villains.  So why not
Cheeezarr and Makkaroni?"

"Since you put it that way, Freon, I guess I can see your point.  Send us
away."

Freon spoke again, "Be on your guard.  Beware of the Trident of Power.
Don't cross the street without looking both ways.  Don't take candy from
strangers.  And take him with you."  With those words, P.C.Person appeared
in the Freonverse, and immediately took to shivering.

"Where in the fabled otherworldly place of eternal torment are we?" P.C.
Person asked p.c.ly.

"You are in the Freonverse, on your way to go with Cheeezarr and Makkaroni
to go fight the trio of Supervillains known as Blacky, Limburger Lad, and
the Flying.Altogether.Too.Naked.Villain."

"Oh my.  What a dread--not the best situation to be in.  Let us be off."

With that, Freon transported them to the evil.hideout.of.limburger.lad.
LL, Blacky, and F.A.T.N.Villain looked up in surprise.  F.A.T.N.V. quickly
took stock of the situation. "It's three of those Legion of Net.Heros.  Ah,
P.C. Person.  I have had a special present waiting for you."

P.C. Person, intrigued, "How thoughtful.  What is it?"

F.A.T.N.V. pulled out his Trident of Power.  "The experience of experiencing
the power of my Trident of Power firsthand.  I deem your politically correct
powers insignificant!"  And with the magic words said, P.C. Person's powers
disappeared.  His P.C. costume warped into a black leather jacket.  His hair
greased up and metamorphosised into a huge pompadour.  And the once-P.C.
Person spoke, "Hickory Dickory Dock, this chick--"

Makkaroni quickly interrupted him, as this was a code-approved comic, yelling,
"F.A.T.N.V. has turned P.C.Person into the antithesis of P.C.ness!  He's
turned him into the Diceman!!!!!!"

F.A.T.N.V. again spoke, "I deem the Diceman's presence here insignificant."
And with that, the Diceman was sent back to wherever he came from, changed
beyond all recognition.  Who knew what would become of him? (Why,
javolk@ndsuvm1.bitnet does, of course.  Stay tuned for the next adventure
of the Diceman!!! plug.)

With P.C.Person/Diceman out of the way, F.A.T.N.Villain turned his attention
to Makkaroni.  "Pathetic sidekick who never says much.  I deem your existence
insignificant."  Which was true, when you really looked at it.  Makkaroni
was really only existing for cheap jokes at Cheeezarr's and Kraft's (tm)
expense, and so he winked out of existence, never to be seen again.

Which left Cheeezarr.  And his non-functioning Coils of Camembert.  F.A.T.N.V.
spoke again, "I deem your Coils of Camembert insignificant.  They have done
nothing but stink up your costume."  And with that, the Coils of Camembert
disappeared, severing Cheeezarr's link with Freon.  Out of his home net.verse,
Cheeezarr no longer had a way to contact Freon.  He was alone.  He had to
solve his dilemma by himself, and quickly, before he met the same fate as
Makkaroni.

Limburger Lad yelled, "Enough!  I can't continue serving you any longer,
F.A.T.N.V!  I must help Cheeezarr."

F.A.T.N.V. laughed. "I wondered when you'd take his side.  It's been coming
on for quite some time.  Remember Cheeezarr, when you were excessively rude
to your sidekick, back in the beginning of the Quest for Cheese?  That was
occurring at the same time that Limburger Lad here was discovering that I
was here, and knew he was gloating over 'his' plans to defeat you.  Well,
I corrected that notion, but he was thinking not-so-evil thoughts." LL
recoiled in horror, "I had no idea you knew that!"

"It was obvious, LL, especially knowing your origin as I do.  You see,
Cheeezarr, when you were chosen as Freon's little slave, he did something to
you.  He split the being who would be Cheeezarr into 2, one becoming you, and
the 'dark' side of you became the vile-smelling Limburger Lad.  Two halves
of the same coin.  When you both came to this new net.verse, away from the
majority of Freon's power, you began to merge again, each of you taking on
characteristics of the other, you becoming mean, LL becoming good.  And now
I will finish the job, so I have only one opponent.  I deem Cheeezarr's and
Limburger Lad's continuing separate existence insignificant."  And with that,
Cheeezarr and LL disappeared, and a LONE man stood in their place.

And finally F.A.T.N.V. turned his power on Blacky, Archer of Death.  "And you,
who have never said a word or actually appeared, are definitely insignificant.
And you are so deemed, by the power of my Trident of Power."  And Blacky
disappeared, never to be seen again.  Or ever seen for that matter.

"And so that leaves you and me, one who was Cheeezarr and Limburger Lad.
What do you have to say for yourself?"

The lone man thought.  And thought.  Finally, he spoke. "Well, F.A.T.N.V.,
I must commend you.  You have provided a very cheesy ending to a very cheesy
quest.  You have tied up all loose ends except two.  You.  And me.  And I
must be leaving now.  You see, I remember now who I was before I was
Cheeezarr."  The man who was Cheeezarr then pulled out a small black mask.
"This was mine.  It is mine again."  And with that, the man put on the mask,
and disappeared.

F.A.T.N.Villain was stunned.  What a stunning turn of events.  He did not
remember what the man who was Cheeezarr formerly was.  He did not even
see him leave. (He supposed that was one of his powers, whoever he was,
to leave without being seen to leave)  He began to forget about Cheeezarr.
The one thought that kept occurring in his mind was this:


                       "Who was that?  Masked Man?"


And indeed, Cheeezarr/Limburger Lad had been and were again, that man of
many faces.  Masked Man.  Masked Man smiled.  It was good to be a whole
being again.  Being two people was ok for awhile, but this was better.

And with that, Masked Man walked off into the sunset, to apply for his own
Legion of Net.Heroes membership.
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|    Kyle A. Lucke     | "Your character takes 16 Wounds, KO, and 5."  |
| lucke@vm1.nodak.edu  | "Yeah, can't forget those 5 shock."           |
| lucke@ndsuvm1.bitnet |          --Torg GM and now-dead Storm Knight  |
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