Order of the Mystic Specters

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*"While heroes like you guys keep dangers borne of physical matter at bay, we specters safeguard it against more mystical threats."*
―Stanley[src]
The **Order of the Mystic Specters** was an order of non-binary mutants who were committed to protecting Sol from mystical threats. In 2043, Stan was Mystical Magoguru, the leader of the Mystic Specters. The organization possessed such paraphernalia as the Book of Zhoul and a mysterious phial.

## History

### Origins

The Order of the Mystic Specters were first founded millennia before the Battle of Quackville by Zhoul as a league of mutant practitioners, dedicated to learning to use their powers so to safeguard Sol from extradimensional evils. The threats they trained to face include wizards, ghosts, demons, and even corrupt deities that would enter their universe with malicious intent. One such mystical threat was Karkamel, whom Zhoul personally fought and defeated. Eventually, the group only accepted non-binary members into the organization.

### Erno Silva Multiversal Crisis

*"After the Melanization, I couldn't bear to leave them to fend for themselves among an oblivious universe already struggling to cope with the looming darkness. We go millennia back, to the Father of All Specters, the great Zhoul. But he always walked in light. The Commander in Chief, though, he has a new agenda to follow through with. We will find out who did this to us. And we'll kick his ass harder than an ass has ever been kicked."*
―Stanley[src]
The Order of the Mystic Specters did little to intervene in the Second NoHead War due to believing that the Police Grand Army was capable of defeating the NoHeads on their own, and that the use of powerful mystical forces would have had unpredictable and potentially disastrous consequences. Five years after the war ended, the Order's current Mystical Magoguru met a girl named Valhalla and agreed to help her after Lord Genesis had exposed her identity. Subsequently, he entered a vicious conflict with Needed Evil and fought viciously to protect Erno Silva from being destroyed and remade in the image of the evil Xitol. In the mix, the Commander in Chief also began training a boy named Stanley and a non-binary girl named Tori Newell, both of whom couldn't bear to be uninvolved after the Melanization.

### A new Mystical Magoguru

In 2043, the Commander in Chief had a new calling from an extrasolar location and departed the star system to answer his calling and gain new knowledge, claiming he would never leave the cause behind unless he had to. He bade goodbye to all of his followers, leaving notes for several of them, including Troy Zonko. He was impressed with Stan's victory at the Tower of Reincarnation and made him the leader of the Mystic Specters.

### Battle of Jupiter

In 2052, Specters from around the Eight Worlds convened on Jupiter in order to assist in the battle against the Resometh. Their leader, Lord Genesis, was halted by Stan, who accused him of getting rid of the Commander in Chief. Two bodyguards hurled three Matter Projectors at him to alarmingly no avail, with Barbon calling upon its energy to fuel his own attacks. Ten Specters turned up behind Stan and together they attacked Genesis, who swiftly countered their mystical attacks and took out two of them with a powerful combination of force field energy and kinetic strangulation before luring them all onto a different platform, at which point he began hurling enormous piles of debris at them, crushing the platform they were on and sending several of them, including Stan, into Jupiter's core, simultaneously throwing bullet-shaped clods of dark matter into their skulls to injure them too harshly to avoid their fatal plummets.

As one of them managed to unleash a flock of erutuls as the clod struck him, Genesis' field easily vaporized the birds, his voice echoing all around the chamber as he claimed that he was putting them out of their misery since they couldn't breathe indoors and that the Specters' knowledge was incomplete. Hurling several tendrils of dark matter at Bass to keep her at bay, he managed to deflect Krano's opening attacks with his sword but was soon knocked down by Bass' rapid and complex sword strikes and disarmed, with her having come out of nowhere right behind him. Once the phial's full power was unleashed, with Bass blocking a dark matter-enhanced killing blow to buy herself time, Genesis screamed out in immense pain, Lenrrek pierced him with a tremendous torrent of high-speed wooden projectiles, Cyborg fired a mystical beam. To save himself, Genesis began to teleport away; however, Sebiscuits Cardarphen turned up out of nowhere and channeled lightning to prevent him from leaving. Just as Stan was climbing up to safety — very much alive — and they believed their victory was all but complete, however, they realized that Genesis had teleported to safety and were assailed by a hundred Resometh in his absence.

### Imperiled by the Unifiers

Decades later, Stan retired, and her son, Kalixtus Newell, became the new Mystical Magoguru in her stead. But the Unifiers opposed the Mystic Specters, and Kalixtus was mortally wounded. Tage became the new Mystical Magoguru, as a loyal agent of the Unifiers.

## Members and ranks

### Mystical Magoguru

* Zhoul †
* The Commander in Chief
* Stan
* Kalixtus Newell

### Disciples

* Barbon †
* Bass
* Cyborg
* Krano
* Lennrek
* Troy Zonko (defected)

## Equipment

The Mystic Specters dealt largely in relics, due to their ability to hold certain mystical energies too intense to be bore by flesh. The most well-known of them is the Phial of the Lumiking, as the eponymous angel had personally stored a fraction of his divine power within its liquid contents. It was given to Stan to honor him, and he used it to destroy the Tower of Reincarnation, tearing down its walls and laying bare its pits so to reinforce the S.M.S.B. in one of their heroic endeavors.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *S.M.S.B.: The Return of the Verasect*
2. ↑ *Band of Justice: Omniverse*
3. ↑ *Agents of the S.M.S.B.: The Latest Threat*
4. ↑ *Agents of the S.M.S.B.: The Inferno Relit*

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