The Legendary Roz Raven/Volume 1/Specials

The Legendary Roz Raven specials are comics released first to those with a Drive Digital subscription, making them timed exclusives, though they are eventually released physically it's usually months after the digital release.
This line of specials all take place during the events of Volume 1 and usually tell sidestories or events from the perspective of other characters, sometimes these stories even introduce new characters which later show up in the main comic.
==Issue #α - Episode ZERO: The Blossom of the Legendary Rose==
Released a few weeks after the release of Issue #3, this special is chronologically the first event in the timeline, showing the line of events that leads to the beginning of Issue #1.
===Characters===
*Supreme Overlord Reese - A Reese hailing from the Neotendoverse and a dark conqueror, conquering many planets and galaxies and making many races go extinct. He is emotionally unstable and insane, though incredibly clever and immensely powerful, however, he's starting to grow old and his powers are starting to weaken. He's currently working on a project he dubs the "Memory Gears Project", in order to develop unique devices with immeasurable data on every species known in the Neotendoverse to power his army and achieve heaven.
*Reese II - A succesful clone of Supreme Overlord Reese and the Supreme Overlord's favourite, often bringing him to his missions, giving him special priviledge and training and the like. Reese II seems cold and calculating, as he shows little emotion except during fights, however, he cares deeply for his army and his "brother", even if his father doesn't.
*Reese III - A second clone of Supreme Overlord Reese, this time with Dryad DNA added (which supressed his Catalyst genes), made more as a personal experiment by Maria Needlenam rather than as a succesor to Supreme Overlord Reese, unlike Reese II. Reese III was raised by Maria Needlenam and Supreme Overlord Reese's slaves due to Supreme Overlord Reese's lack of care for him, seeing him as worthless due to his lack of Catalyst genes. He becomes close friends with Leah Needlenam and lives through the first years of his life oblivious to the horrible deeds that his father commits until he becomes a teenager, after which he starts connecting the dots, and becomes disgusted.
*Neotendoverse Leah Needlenam - A genius scientist in every meaning of the word, but particularly excellent when it comes to mechanics, one of her main passions, Leah has been raised since she was born to succeed her mother as the main scientist and right-hand woman of Supreme Overlord Reese, which means she didn't have much free time growing up, however, she would often talk with Reese III, eventually becoming friends with him. Leah Needlenam is considered weird by most people in Supreme Overlord Reese's base, as she has a dark sense of humour and can seem rude at first glance, but she's actually a nice person deep inside who holds her friends close to her.
===Transcript===
The issue starts with a pattern of alternating panels, first a black panel, then a panel showing a blurry and very distorted version of an upcoming event, then another black panel, however, after this repeats for a couple of panels, it suddenly shows a very clear image of somebody's eyes, glaring with a deadpan look. Afterwards, we get a panel of a muscular red humanoid creature with rugged skin and horns, wearing black armour, standing in front of a pale man with blonde hair and a royal-looking coatjacket sitting slumped over to the side on a throne.
:Red Humanoid: "...And that's exactly why it'd be most benefitial for your army and my army to ally up! We already have a number of galaxies with unique resources under our belt, and sharing our conquered planets will only bring benefits to both of us!"
BEELZEBUB
FATHER OF ALL DEMONS
(NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH SATAN)
:Beelzebub: "So what do you say, Reese!?"
Reese keeps staring at Beelzebub completely deadpan and silent, not making any movement until after a couple of panels of awkward silence, he sits upright in his throne and takes a deep breath.
:Reese: "Okay, so I thought about it and I think my decision will benefit us both greatly..."
:Beelzebub: "...Really!?"
Reese, whilst still mantaining his deadpan stare snaps his finger, causing the wall behind him to turn around revealing millions of laser guns that instantly fire at Beelzebub and his army, desintegrating them instantly. Suddenly, Reese breaks his deadpan look to laugh maniacally...and instantly afterwards he goes back to his deadpan look and slumps over his throne.
SUPREME OVERLORD REESE
GALACTIC CONQUEROR
(ALSO POSSIBLY INSANE)
Reese gets up from his throne and snaps his fingers again as a computer screen appears before him.
:Reese: "Set ship coordinates to that Artizz planet that used to be under Beelzebub's possesion."
Reese suits up in armour and leaves the room, heading towards a big ship with around a hundred monsters inside, he sits in the driver's seat and pushes a button as the ship heads to the coordinates inputted by the computer, in other words, Artizz. The ship flies over the planet dropping the monsters in escape pod-like capsules before landing in front of a huge fortress.
:Reese: "Okay, so apparently this is where most of the army is concentrated...I'm ready."
Reese calls forth a sword from inside the ship and it is shot out from a cannon at him at a high speed, however, he catches it and doesn't even flinch as he moves forwards towards the fortress, with the Demons inside noticing him and becoming confused and worried. Reese grins inside of his armour before his emotion suddenly shifts into intense anger as he holds his sword up in the air.
(If the comic is being read in the Drive Digital App, then the following song starts playing as the panels scroll by automatically and cinematically)
~Taro Kobayashi - Armour Zone~
Reese slashes the air in front of him, causing the castle in front of him to be sliced in half.
:Who are you, the me inside of me?
:Show me the figure hidden in the shadows!
:Oh...the depths of derivation!
A flying demon is taken aback by the sudden attack but quickly recomposes himself when he sees Reese approaching and gets out a walkie talkie-looking device to communicate with the rest of the troops.
:Flying Demon: "This is an invasion from Galactic Conqueror Reese, I repeat! This is a--"
Suddenly, Reese's sword flies through the sky and slices the demon in half before falling back down as Reese catches it. It then cuts to the demons that received the warning, who suddenly suit up to deal with the threat.
:Trembling bodies are red and minged!
:Where is my heart? Also looking for the pain!
Reese is met by a group of big armoured demons wielding maces and cannons, but he doesn't seem phazed and just keeps calmly walking forwards.
:The heart is overflowing only!
:Hey! We live in Armour Zone!
One of the Demons opens fire, but Reese deflects it with his sword and the cannonball blasts the Demon's head off, the other Demons look nervous but dash forwards as Reese smiles.
:The wind cuts with a hoarse voice
:In this city where beasts are laughing!
:To eat or to be eaten, is your fate?
:Oh yeah!
One of the Demons attempts hitting Reese with a mace but he gets out a shield at the last moment and blocks it, leaving the Demon vulnerable as Reese stabs his head through his helmet and lets go of the hilt, leaving it stuck to the Demon's head. Reese suddenly crouches and sweep kicks the other Demon off of his feet, knocking him to the floor before hitting him with an axe kick as his armour electrifies his boots.
:Look, the taste of sorrow is in my throat!
:My claws held up, I disappear nastily!
A cloaked figure with his face covered in shadows, way smaller and thinner compared to the previous Demon stands menacingly in front of Reese, his eyes glowing yellow as he wields a silver katana.
:???: "Pathetic...Those fools may have been weak, but I shall not be that easy of a challenge..."
The figure lunges at Reese as his cloak comes off, revealing him as a Demon wearing traditional japanese attire with white hair and glowing reptile-like eyes.
:???: "Remember my name, because I, Acala, will be the one who'll send you to hell!"
:What do you eat in order to live?
:Betraying...all races!
Acala tries to hit Reese with his blade, but Reese blocks with his shield, however, Acala's katana suddenly lights on fire and manages to break through Reese's shield, leaving him shocked and stunned.
:HOW DO WE SURVIVE!?
Acala slashes at Reese with all of his might and sends him flying backwards and in pain as he lands on the ground.
~End song~
Reese looks at his torso and finds his armour burnt and sliced diagonally down the center, with blood pouring out, he touches some of it, staining his hand, and holds it up to his face.
:Reese: "...B...B-Blood? I'm...bleeding? When was the last time I-"
While Reese is distracted, a group of flying Demons fire flaming arrows at Reese from crossbows, almost all of them hit, causing Reese to recoil in pain as Acala closes in.
:Acala: "Where did that incredible strength from before go? After that initial display of power, I expected a much better fight from you."
Acala dashes at Reese, who's still in the ground in pain until, at the last moment, he grabs one of the arrows that hit him and throws it at Acala. The arrow doesn't hit him directly, as Acala dodges at the last second, but it still grazes the side of his face, leaving a big scar. The flying demons are shocked as well and are about to shoot again until Reese stands up and rips out more flaming arrows and throws them at the flying Demons, shooting them out of the sky and leaving Acala stunned.
:Reese: "...I'm...not done yet..."
Reese takes the opportunity to jump up and push Acala onto the ground, allowing him to run up to his sword, once stabbed into a demon, now laying on the ground after the Demon melted into red smoke. Reese grabs his sword and holds it high in the air, making it start glowing, as Acala stands up again and tries to lunge at Reese, however, Reese retaliates by stabbing the air in front of him with his charged sword, releasing a bolt of lightning that paralyzes Acala and leaves him vulnerable to a slash by Reese that cuts him in half.
:Reese: "...*sigh*...Finally..."
Reese turns around and stares at the remnants of the fortress before cracking his knuckles and heading in, the comic doesn't show what happens inside, instead showing it from the outside, at first looking perfectly normal...before the next panel shows it exploding from the inside, afterwards what's left of the fortress crumbles to the ground as Reese comes out with a damaged armour and dirty face, he walks into the ship and sits on the driver's seat, noticing that his army of monsters has already returned from their own battle.
:Monster: "...Whoa, master, are you okay?"
:Reese: "Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?"
Immediately after saying that Reese's expression shifts into intense anger as he throws the sword against the wall with such force that it's left stabbed in the titanium inner walls of the ship.
:Monster: "It's just...I don't think I've ever seen you be this injured after an invasion."
:Reese: "Yeah...I guess I used up all of my energy with that initial blow...That's weird though, I could swear that I used to be able to do that like 15 times in a row and still have tons of energy left in me..."
:Monster: "Well, sir, you have to remember that while you may LOOK 20 years old...You're over a hundred years old...You're growing old."
Reese looks at himself in the mirror frustrated before suddenly bursting into tears.
:Reese: "You're right! My time in this world is getting shorter by the second! Oh goodness, all those planets that I still haven't conquered...my Memory Gears project...I still haven't even achieved heaven! This is terrible! Absolutely terrible!"
Reese's expresion instantly shifts back into his usual deadpan look as he stares at himself in the mirror for a while longer in silence.
:Reese: "...I need to figure a way to build a legacy..."
:Monster: "Uh...Haven't you thought of simply having a child?"
:Reese: "Urgh...Those disgusting non-Catalyst genes would overpower my own...What would even be the point then?"
:Monster: "Have you considered...cloning?"
Reese ponders for a moment.
:Reese: "...I do remember we had some sort of cloning project back in the day...I remember I ended up rejecting it though...I honestly can't remember why, but I think it might be time we brought it back..."
Reese pushes some buttons on the control panel as the ship heads back to their base.
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Reese walks up to a woman with a lab coat slumped over a table with a massive amount of papers, charts and tablets containing long math formulas and blueprints. The woman, as soon as she notices Reese, stands up and salutes him.
:Reese: "Hello, Maria."
:Maria: "Greetings to you too, Supreme Overlord Reese, conqueror of this grand universe!"
:Reese: "Leave the titles for later, I want answers on something...Didn't we use to have a cloning program that I rejected?"
:Maria: "Hmm...I do remember something like that...Now that I think about it, I remember that I had a project that was rejected due to lack of funds and resources, at the time your conquest was on its early stages..."
:Reese: "Remind me, please."
:Maria: "We tried traditional cloning methods, but everytime we did so, the host would go insane and die, we had no succesful results, so my plan was to create an...artificial womb of sorts; with my plans, we could've theoretically produced a succesful clone without sacrificing Catalyst genes."
:Reese: "...An...artificial womb? As in mechanical?"
:Maria: "...Yes, sir. It would've taken a massive amount of resources and funding, and at the time all of our funding was focused into our army, which lead to us gaining the massive army of Gaianoids we have today."
:Reese: "...Just name your budget and how much time it'll take and I'm sold."
Maria suddenly stumbles around and looks around her tablets and papers in a hurry.
:Maria: "U-Uh...T-Thanks, sir! I-I'll start planning out the budget, and unless there are any sudden or unexpected setbacks, I should be done with the first working model in...Two years or so?"
:Reese: "...I guess that'll do. I seriously hope that weird purple-haired daughter of your's ends up being better than you."
:Maria: "Oh, trust me, the program I developed is impeccable, she's practically already guaranteed to be a genius."
The next panel shows a young newborn baby inside of a testing tube filled with a strange liquid (though she has a breathing mask on), she's strapped to a number of wires and IVs. The panel after that zooms in to a small label on the tube that reads "Sarah Auvic". Afterwards, Reese walks over to his throne room and opens a secret door, which reveals a guarded gate that can only be opened with a special pass, he opens the gate and enters a room lined with shelves filled with items that look like flashdrives.
:Reese: "Well...It's time to update the Memory Gears..."
Reese's expression quickly shifts from deadpan seriousness to an expression of jollyness and happiness as he snaps his finger and one of the Memory Gears, a dark red one lined with a stylized D in the center, flies out of one of the shelves and into his hand, he catches it and slots it into a computer-like machine with a port in the center before starting to flip and twist parts of it, making it look like a gear stick.
:Reese: "I've got to constantly update these so that they always contain the most up to date information on every species! Good thing I made those Demons practically go extinct, it sure makes my job a lot easier!"
Reese, after a few minutes, unplugs the Memory Gear and throws it back at the empty spot in the shelf as it suddenly aligns itself once more and lands perfectly still in the shelf. Reese walks around the room and stares at all his Memory Gears.
:Reese: "My project sure has progressed far! I just need to keep this up and I will reach heaven in no time!"
Reese laughs earnestly and smiles as he exits the room.
:Reese: "And if I'm unable to finish it, I'll at least have somebody to continue my legacy and finish it for me..."
Reese returns to his usual expression as he shuts the gates and the lights inside the room turn off by themselves.
TBA
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