"The Hyperions Return"

"The Hyperions Return" is the first issue of the first series of "The Portals of Power", making it the first issue ever. Despite the title, the Hyperions did not appear in any connected franchise before "The Portals of Power", instead they are 'borrowed' from the Doctor Who franchise, as well as the Doctor himself. This issue introduces many key plot points and characters that are vital to the story ahead.

## Plot

#### Previously

There is no previously for this issue, instead there is an introduction to the main cast, introducing Finners, Dylan, Riley and Jack, who are called awesome, and finally, The Dark Lord.

#### Main Story

Dylan boasts about how cool it is to be the army's agents, with Riley agreeing, while Jack gets angry at a Fly. Jack decides he now likes it, before ultimatley deciding it's dumb again, and proceeds to kill it, Jack then announces that he is good again, before running into the house for coffee.

Suddenly a portal opens infront of Riely and Dylan, and a Hyperion jumps out, stating "Hypris rises! and the universe falls", which Riley is excited about. Jack then comes back with his coffee, and Finners joins the three. The Hyperion picks up Riley, dropping his 3 books in the process, then jumps in the Portal. As he is traveling to The Pyramid, the TARDIS pulls up, with the 12th Doctor inside, shooting a laser, killing the Hyperion and flinging Riley prematurly through the vortex, into space, leaving him unable to breathe.

With Riley in spae, Dylan reads the books to find out answers. Book one says "time", book two says "will" and book three says "fall", with an ice cream flyer blowing from it's notice post, into the third book, then away into space, where it flies past Riley, who is getting picked up in a tractor beam, taking him to the Pyramid.

Inside the pyramid, the Dark Lord is about to kill Riley when the ice cream flyer blows onto his skelatal face, promting him to go down to earth to collect his free cone, leaving Riley behind.

Dylan phones the army, which helps Finners to track down Riley. Dylan states his anger to kidnapping of Riley. The tank has a hidden message on it, when revealed by the General, points to an emerging figure, which when the Dark Lord and Hyperion arrive for their cone, reveals themselves to both be working for them, ad to be a Cyberman.

Riley teleports down from the Pyramid, but his icon jumps off last second, and is killed by a loose wire. When Riley beams down, Dylan is zapped by the Cyberman, which Riley is jealous of, so the Dark Lord orders the Hyperion to turn Riely into ashes, which he does.

#### Next Time

We get a full back page of the next issue's cover.

## Characters

* Dylan Marshall
* Riley Doherty
* Jack Doherty
* Finners
* The Dark Lord
* Fly
* Hyperion (1)
* 12th Doctor
* General
* Cyberman (1)
* Commander
* Riley's Icon
* Hyperion (2)

## Mistakes

#### Errors

* Awesome is spelt awsome, as it is with every other mention of it
* The first bubble, "Being the army's agents is cool" is done wrong twice, meaning it is scribbled out, and there is no room for the right version, forcing it to be in the panel below.
* Riley says "Yeh sick" twice when the first portal appears.
* The title is misspelt "The hyerions return".
* The Dark Lord has two left hands when saying "Let's go".
* The "Look Out" message appears differently in many panels.
* Dylan is the one holding the binoculars, but he seems to be the one asking Jack what the creature is, despite Jack having a hindered view.
* The Later heading is spelt "Laler"
* The exclimation mark on "Kill him" is scribble out and another one is put after it.

#### Continuity Errors

* When the Dark Lord is introduced on the first page, he has different hands than he does for the rest of his appearances.
* The Hyperion magically gets eyes when confronting the Doctor.
* In two frames, the Dark Lord;s colour pallet changeds from black cloak and grey face, to greay cloak and black face, these panels aren't beside eachother either.
* If as revealed in issue 3, the portals transport you from one dimension to another, that means the Hyperion was traveling to another dimension, and came from one to begin with, instead of the Pyramid, as we can clearly see it above our Earth in multiple frames, nd have seen normal teleportation work from it to our Earth. This also means for the Cyberman to have logically come through, he was in contact with the Dark Lord in either the void or the alternate universe.

## Notes

#### Continuity

* Two things are present in this issue that slowly fades away the further you read on, Finners speach being formatted like this: >speech<, and Riley's shirt changing expressions randomly. Even in this issue, Finners has that format of speech for 3/4 times he speaks. Also Riley's shirt being prooved alive, leaves you to wonder why it stops later in the series.
* This issue leads directly into the next issue.
* The army returns in later issues.
* The ice cream message returns in issue 3 and 4, playing into Riley's second death.
* The Riley arc begins this issues and carries on till issue 10.
* Dylan being angry is a small storcy arc that will end in issue 2, along with the coffee arc.

#### Facts

* The books were originally going to be revelaed slowly, with mystery surrounding them, but it was decided that they should be revealed immediatly.
* This is the only issue where the Next Time cover is a full back page.
* Riley was only intended to have the XD face as a way to diferenciate him from Dylan, but then prooved pointless when the sshirt was updated, but it stuck and slowly became his only expression.

#### References

* Elements such as the TARDIS, 12th Doctor, Hyperions and Cybermen are borrowed from the Doctor Who franchise
* The three books are inspired by Gravity Falls.
* The Dark Lord is a character from Crossy Road, BUT, this is a huge coincidence that they have the same name and look exactly similar, I only discovered him many years later, and was shocked to see him in the game.