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    Lost Cause Boy kept a stoic vigil beside the bed in which Panta
slowly recovered from her injuries from the battle with Harras.
    "Don't blame yourself," Ultimate Ninja called from the next bed. 
"That's so, well, cliched.  She'll be all right.  This AutoDoc's one of
the best!"
    "That's easy for you to say," Lost Cause Boy snapped, angst-ridden. 
"You have a ninja(tm) metabolism boost to heal quickly."
    "That's true," Ultimate Ninja replied, chowing down on a large tray
full of food.  "But she'll heal."
    "I couldn't even avenge her."
    "Not all of us are walking machines of death," Ultimate Ninja
replied.  "Once you got Panta out of that imprisoning tube, you were
willing to lay down your life to protect her.  She's lucky to have a
friend like you."  As ninja, I can never trust anyone to that extent, he
added silently.
    "I guess that we're all just lucky we got out of there at all, even
though all of us but Continuity Champ were badly injured.  For a minute
back there, I thought that we were going to be the ultimate lost cause. 
You're especially lucky to be alive after all those gunshot wounds.  I
guess that's why you're still recovering after the rest of us are
healed."  Lost Cause Boy paused for a moment, thinking.  "Wait a
minute...How did you survive being riddled with thousands of bullets in
the first place?!"
    "I shifted my vital organs out of the path of the bullets," Ultimate
Ninja answered nonchalantly.
    "That's impossible!"
    "Am I not ninja?"

    Kid Kirby looked up from his console at the anxiously waiting Sing
Along Lass.
    "Well," he began, "all of the excess energies were burned up in
transit.  You're normal again."
    "Kid, when you healed me, you gave me a new costume, a Kirby
costume.  Why?"
    "Your old outfit was shredded by the explosion, Lass, and I can only
make Kirby items.  Besides, I like it.  Consider it a gift."
    "Good.  I like it, too.  I think I'll go to List Lad and make it my
official costume."
    "Good idea," Kid Kirby responded as he turned to leave.
    "Wait, Kid!" Sing Along Lass called.  "You sang with me when I was
hurt.  Will you sing with me again?"
    "Sure.  How about 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat'?  What's one song among
friends?"

    "What happened to us back there?" Rebel Yell asked Continuity Champ
as they walked down one of the LNH HQ's many corridors.
    "I'm at a loss to explain.  Even my vast power was challenged."
    "I think I know what happened," Doctor Stomper interjected, running
to catch up with the two net.heroes.  Exercising his ability to explain
storylines, he began.  "First, I'll bet that Continuity Champ was acting
somewhat out of character, right?"
    "Yes, my behavior was, indeed, strange at times."
    "That's because the very nature of that dark place was
discontinuous!  You, being attuned to continuity, were the most
affected.  I caught Marvel_Zombie Lad acting in a 'Boy'-ish manner, too."
    "But what about Obscure Trivia Lad's stretching?" Rebel Yell asked.
    "The weird physics of the place!" Doctor Stomper declared in an
'isn't it obvious!?' voice.
    "Oh!" Rebel Yell and Continuity Champ responded.  Doctor Stomper
smiled.  He still had it.

Jameel
Physicist-At-Large
Kid Kirby, net.hero

P.S.  I'm glad that Doctor Stomper's around to explain things, aren't you? :-)