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The History of the Superguy Altiverse, Version 4.0, is Copyrighted (c) 1994
by Gary W. Olson.  The History is a Derivative Work based on stories and
concepts created by the authors who have written works that have appeared on
the Superguy list in its various forms over the years.  All characters named
or referred to herein are Trademarked by their respective authors, and are
used here by implicit permission of said authors solely for the purpose of
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(continued from part one...)

Solutions?, in space at the time of the destruction of Washington DC,
makes arrangements for the return of the junkyard to Earth, and are
attacked by enemies of the Canapians.  Stealing an enemy Vacational
Assault Yacht, they head to Canap, where the team meets Katrianna,
Qwyntor's wife, who joins Solutions? when they leave Canap.  Qwyntor
defends his research project.

ManMan is rescued from La-La land by Dadaman, ManMan's repressed
interesting side, only to be attacked by the Plain People's Liberation
Front, for harboring a threat to plainness.

The destruction of Washington DC turns out to have several major
consequences, first and foremost the creation of over five billion
George Bushs, through a complicated set of circumstances involving
multiple "Save the Pres" plans, metaphysics, and numerous high order
scientific improbabilities.  FlatPhoot is the first to learn of this, and
plots to use the Bushs, each of whom only possess a shadow fragment
of George Bush's intellect, to destroy the heroes.  The explosion
opens a dimensional hole to the Scary Dimension, bringing Scary Woman
to Earth and sending Wonder Grunion, who had been on his slow way to
the Phollies, into the Scary Dimension.  It also brings Dangerousman to
the attention of the Phil Donahue-led, talk show host dominated SNUCCI
(Supremely Nasty Undead Cthuloid Cultists, Incorporated).

For many years, it was believed that the heroes and villains and politicians
who had been in Washington D.C. at the time of the blast had all escaped
death, through a variety of means.  Many had already left the city.
Bush had teleported out, while Congress mutated.  However, it is now known
that at least one hero *did* perish in the disaster: Force, a.k.a. Jan Taylor,
Trashman's partner and lover.  This incident became the foundation of
Trashman's longstanding animosity towards Dangerousman.

The Punk with a Gun, napping in the Stealth Beetle, is thrown by the
blast into space, breifly encountering the battle between the Space
Shriners and the Deadheads from Planet X before crash-landing back in
ThatRatherLargeCityOverThereOpolis.

Dangerousman, Relativity Woman and Lulu visit the Awesome Force in
Hartford, but are thrown out by Ramrod.  The Awesome Force blames their
creation on Lars, because they were created when Lars' shoggoth-destroy-
ing blast knocked over one of Andy Awesome's experiments, giving them
their powers.  Frustrated, Lars blows up a mugger, a blast in which
high-jinx is apparantly killed and the Rad Dudes are created, although
Lars does not realize this.  Later on, after temporarily parting with
Relativity Woman, who unwittingly causes Jesse Helms to die, he blows
up a CRASH task force, causing the SNUCCI-led cultists to reveal them-
selves to Lars.  Gus, the Awesome Force's AI, gets fresh with Lulu.

Ramrod goes out to investigate random killings in the Hartford area.  He
finds the Batsman and duels her.  She escapes, but not before Ramrod is
smitten.

J. Danforth Quayle, the acting President, is taken over by the psychic
villain Gorgax, and Galaxy Hunter tries to kill him in the rubble of
San Francisco, which was razed by a machine Gorgax built.  Galaxy
Hunter fails, and Gorgax/Quayle heads to the temporary office of the
Presidency, Hazel Park, Michigan.

Figuremaster has a prescient dream about a mutated gerbil created by
Andy Awesome.  The gerbil is hooked up to a generator serving all of
New England's electrical needs.  The Awesome Force then mourns the loss
of high-jinx, unaware that he is alive, found by a woman named Linda,
having lost his high-jinx powers.  To alleviate their grief, they go
shopping, where they defeat the Supermarket Cowboy.

Max Vax's CACH is replaced by a Pinto, and his disk gun is replaced by
a .357.  He goes out and encounters Dr. Pop, who is killing off noted
doctors with inanimate objects he has brought to life.  After saving
the life of Dr. Laura Laffalot, he defeats Dr. Pop and sends him to
prison.

The Punk with a Gun sets out for Custer National Park in his Stealth
Beetle.  On the way, he experiments with the Gun and is impressed with
the destructive results.  His discovery worries the Shriners from Space,
who have just caused the Deadheads to crash land.  The Punk is confused
when a George Bush emerges from the trunk of the Stealth Beetle.
Apparantly, the Beetle was a receptor for the teleportation of Bush's
body away from the Washington DC blast, although this Bush evinced no
more intellect than the other Bushs.  The Axe-Man is released from prison
only to be captured and sedated.  The Deadheads recover and head back
into space to battle the Shriners.

Scarywoman learns her purpose, and is sent to Orlando, obtaining the
Scarymobile to help her get there.  On her way, she passes by Lulu.

Galaxy Hunter picks up more equipment, including his weapons droid,
Starblazer.  He attacks Gorgax/Quayle, who has outlawed dramatic fan-
fares, only to be betrayed by Starblazer, whom Gorgax is controlling.
He has Starblazer blow up the temporary capital, Hazel Park, Michigan,
and retrieves Starblazer after the blast dies down.  Bored, Gorgax
leaves Quayle and Earth, leaving the incompetent acting President with
no memory of what happened during the time Gorgax controlled him, and
the now-defunct Starblazer.  Unknown to Gorgax, Galaxy Hunter survived
the blast, due to a force field generated by his armor, but lapsed into
a coma, and was taken to a hospital in Detroit.

A "strange energy field" enters the skull of a man in while lab clothes.
The man calls himself George Bush.  Unlike the other five billion Bushs,
this one retains his full intellect (such as it is), and as such does
not fall under FlatPhoot's influence, although some mistake him for
being "just another George Bush."  It much later turns out that the man
was actually Dana Carvey, and the mind was Surplus Man's, although Surplus
Man at the time thought he was George Bush.

Lars is brought by the Cultists to the center of the Earth, where a bomb
capable of destroying the planet resides.  To destroy this planetcracker
bomb, which Lars blows up the chamber, sending cathedral-sized hunks of rock
spewing out all over the Earth, nailing Montreal and Borneo.  The main cultists
(Donahue, Oprah and Geraldo) escape to their base on the dark side of the moon,
where Phil reveals the bomb was really a fake, designed to discredit Lars in
the eyes of other heroes, and hacks up Oprah and Geraldo with a weed-whacker.
Dangerousman is rescued in the nick of time by Relativity Woman.

Jake Hawthorne, aka the Annihilator, finally turns up, in a bar in the
south populated by western types.  When he leaves, the bar is no longer
standing.

Dominic (the former high-jinx) and Linda are discovered by She-Devil,
sent on vacation by Andy Awesome.  On their way back to Hartford, they
are bombarded by cathedral-sized hunks of rock, which the She-Devil
carves up easily.  The rest of the Awesome Force arrives, and Andy
Awesome notes that one piece of debris resembles an elevator that had
led to the center of the Earth.  Dominic mutates into Demon-Ick and
Linda mutates into Rat.  Both join the Awesome Force.

! rescues California from sliding into the ocean, then heads off to
build his fortress, somewhere in the U.S.

The Nun on the Road, aka Sister Mary Ellen Hatchetnose, hater of
Protestants, emerges onto the Virginia highways, heading towards
Florida.  She runs through cathedral-sized hunks of debris, cars, tanks,
and a National Guard unit commanded by George Peppard.

Dangerousman, after parting with Relativity Woman, who goes out to
help in disaster relief efforts, heads back to the lab where he was
created, as per orders.  It turns out to be a trap, plotted by Dr.
Unethical, FlatPhoot, and Secret Secret Agent Richard Less.  Gus depowers
the lab and knocks out BIGCHIP, the AI that created Dangerousman along
with Kilohertzmann and Unethical.  Lars and Lulu escape with the help
of Kilohertzmann, who decides to take his sinister-looking black car to
Maine, trade it in for an RV, and retire.

The Rad Dudes (Giffbeast, Pepkadecimal, and Sonic Guy), having been
created by radiation from one of Dangerousman's blasts, discover their
powers and decide to become a force for good.  They haven't been seen
since, although they were briefly glimpsed by members of the Awesome
Force.

The Punk with a Gun learns of the emergence of the Nun on the Road,
and sets out to face off against her.  As with FlatPhoot, the Punk soon
forgets all about her as well.

Mark Kent learns of his destiny as Superm00se from Leviam00se.  In his
first recorded battle, he defeats Dorito-Breath-Man and his Limburito
bomb, and the possibility of him getting off with his boss, Cherri,
looms.  The Marbleites are created in the process, and Mark sends them
to Leviam00se for guidance.  Leviam00se, in turn, sends them to the SfStory
altiverse on a quest for a carrot-leek drive, so he and them can go to
Qualaquentas 14 and scope some awesome babes.

Hordes of George Bushs begin appearing all over the country, as FlatPhoot
begins turning them loose.  The Awesome Force notes this on their way
to investigate the now-defunct lab where Dangerousman was created.  They
miss encountering Dangerousman, but they find FlatPhoot and Secret Secret
Agent Richard Less still around.  T blasts the two villains into the
horizon.  The Scarlet Shrubbery appears, but disappears soon thereafter,
not to be seen for a while.  Andy Awesome learns Dangerousman is heading
towards Florida, and sends part of the Awesome Force after him.

Eldron the Avenger arrives on Earth, followed by the Crimson Blob, who
spends quite a time in finding Eldron.  Over a year, in fact.

Dangerousman arrives in Florida, and convinces the Florida National
Guard, led by Sir Alec Guiness, to allow him to confront the Nun on the
Road.  He tries, but fails, merely nuking most of DisneyWorld in the
process.  She-Devil, who was on her way back to Hartford from her
vacation in Florida, already pissed after learning her fiance, Mike, had
gone to Hartford to see *her*, witnesses the blasts and vows to remove
Lars' testicles through his nose.  Lars escapes the Nun's car, which
crashes into Cinderella's castle, causing the castle to roll with her
car into the Atlantic.  She-Devil is picked up soon thereafter by the
half of the Awesome Force sent after Lars by Andy Awesome.

The Solutions? Ultd. team finally returns to Earth, and helps BiggCity
and Orlando with recovery efforts from the multiple disasters that have
ravaged the peninsula.  They find a piece of the false planetcracker bomb
covering the Junkyard, which the bomb shell shielded from Dangerousman's
atomic blasts.

An explosion in the air above California punches an ultraviolet beam
into the excellently tanned Joseph Moroboshi.  Encouraged by his friend
and sidekick Manny Seconds, he trains and becomes the superhero called
Rad.  He meets his significant other, Glum, soon thereafter, at a party
celebrating the release of "Batman", with Walking Disaster Area as the
band.  Rad dumps Kim Basinger for Glum, a move proving to have repercuss-
ions later.  Months later, Rad learns that Willard Scott has taken over
the weather patterns of the U.S., with the help of the Greenslimy Aliens.
With the help of Manny, Bryant Gumbel, and Jane Pauly's Ninja Death
Commandoes, Rad defeats Willard's minions (Ms. Coffee, Quaker Oatmeal
Guy, The Wind, and Herb Villachez).  Rad learns Willard is his biological
father, and turns him over to Eric Idle's psychiatric dairies for safe-
keeping.

The Plain People's Liberation Front kidnaps Superguy and forges an
alliance with the Greenslimy Aliens.  Jane Plain holds an "ultimate
weapon" in reserve - a cube she does not recognize as the Next-to-the-
Last-Avatar of Cthulhu.  Bush/Carvey orders her to stop her plans.  When
she doesn't, he orders Phil Donahue and his SNUCCI cultist organization
to stop her, in order to prevent the digest from crossing the gothic
event horizon.  Manman learns the power of mediocrity prevents him from
dying a non-mediocre death.

Juan Valdez sends Robert Smith back to the Earth dimension, but a matter
duplication occurs when the temporal rift created by Dr. Gigawatt's time
machine intersects with the beam, creating two Robert Smiths.  Juan
thinks he fixes an error, and teleports himself back to the Earth
dimension.  By this time, the PPLF has already kidnapped the two Robert
Smiths.  Juan soon meets Manman and Dadaman, and helps them convert a
Howard Johnson's into Manman's new secret base.

Adam West, the new identity for former Batman Bruce Wayne, and Burt Ward,
the new identity for former Robin Dick Grayson, try to help Commissioner
Gordon as their new selves - out of work eccentric actors, despite
Alfred's pleas to end such nonsense.  They are quickly sent away.  A kid,
doused with radiation from one of Dangerousman's blasts, has some weird
dreams of ancient, cyclopean cities, but nothing comes of them.

Captain Idaho, Kid Wisconsin and Girl Harvard, in their never-ending
struggle against the imaginary villain Nebula, defeat Dr. Frauchlin in
his attempts to control college football.

In Orlando, Lulu and the ScaryMobile collide, creating the
Dangerscariousmobile.  Scary Woman kills an armed CRASH squad sent by
Hoogland, and explains to Dangerousman that he must take her to Akron,
where the barrier between the Earth dimension and the Scary dimension is
weakest, and use his atomic blast generating powers to send her back,
or else both dimensions will perish.  On the way, they are plagued by
more CRASH squads, led by Patrick Swayze (killed by his own men) and
Rhetoric Man (eaten by the Dangerscariousmobile).

The Nun on the Road, still driving with Cinderella's Castle stuck on top
of her car, drives on the Atlantic seabed.  Ernest Hemingway is dragged
to his death, as he realizes she has left her left turn signal on.  The
Nun's power prevents the car or the castle from being destroyed by ocean
pressures or falling off of the continental shelf.  Eventually, she
reaches France, where she snags the Eiffel Tower, and later Egypt, where
she snags the Great Pyramid.  The Great Pyramid, in turn, starts firing
destructive weapons, which obliterate the Greenslimy ships in space.  The
whole structure rolls through Siberia, on its way to Alaska and a meeting
with Mike Polinski.

The Winaprize warps into Earth space, its crew (Jimbo T. Quirk, his hand
puppet Splock, Dr. "Boner" McFly, Chakoff, Sulu and Mr. Spot) looking
for some r&r on Barbados, Planet of Physical Delights.  They watch the
lasers from the Earth decimate the Greenslimy fleet, and all of them
beam down to Earth for some r&r, except Spot, who must fix the ship.
Unbeknownst to everyone, George Bush materializes on the transporters
as they warp in.  It is the re-integrated George Bush, accidently flung
back through time and space by Rad's recovery effort.  No one notices
George, and they leave him on the ship when they beam down to the planet.

After battling Willard Scott, Rad and Manny buy a Lambourghini using Dan
Quayle's C.U.A. credit card, and take the scenic route back to
California.  Key and Yury, voluptuous but demented psychopaths who have
a keen interest in Rad, follow him and attempt to seduce and kill him,
but he escapes.  Jane Pauly's Ninja Death Commandoes hack up Deborah
Norville, who is recruited into SNUCCI soon thereafter.  Dan Quayle has
Dr. Gigawatt build a time machine that, used by a hero, could collect
all the errant George Bushs in one location.  Gigawatt does, using the
apparantly defunct robot "Starblazer" that Quayle possessed.  Bushs are
seen disappearing into temporal rifts all across the country.  The
temporary capital is moved to Camp David.

Intercontinental Salvage begins the huge task of reconstructing
Washington DC, while contending with a band of mutant Congressmen known
as the "Cult of Tip O'Neill."

Fred's Raiders, having escaped from BiggCity prison during the recent
upheavals, decide to lay low for a while.  Orlando annexes BiggCity, and
Hoogland chews out the BiggCity mayor for failing to stop Dangerousman.
Solutions? Ultd, meanwhile, investigates the incident at the center of
the Earth and learns that the planetcracker bomb was a fake, although
Dangerousman was likely was unaware of that.  Qwyntor designs inertia-
negating shoes for Lars, and prepares the team for the trip to Akron.

! learns of the plan Dangerousman and Scary Woman had concocted, and
races to Akron to stop them, heedless of the gathering group of George
Bushs advancing on that fair city.

Dangerousman and Scary Woman are joined by Relativity Woman in time to
battle the Awesome Force and ! in Akron.  Lars finally tells Ramrod he
killed Dagon/Trachtenburg, and Relativity Woman zips She-Devil off to
Cairo, Egypt.  Andy Awesome and the rest of the Awesome Force, along
with the entire Solutions? Ultd. team arrive, and reveal how Lars was
tricked.  Andy Awesome and Qwyntor get an idea about how to send Scary
Woman back to her dimension without destroying Akron.  Reports start
coming in then, that the city is surrounded by George Bushs - all five
billion of them, sent by FlatPhoot to crush the heroes.

Mark Kent is sent to San Diego, but is misdirected by FlatPhoot to Akron,
where FlatPhoot presses The Button, and Superm00se drops into a herd of
Bushs.  Unbeknownst to FlatPhoot, the Scary Effect causes The Button to
become sentient.

J. Danforth Quayle is appraised of the rapidly developing situation in
Akron, and learns that Rad is approaching Akron.  He orders the CRASH
team of Faith (Gary Shapiro) and Healer (Elizabeth Tirkoff) to Akron,
to retrieve Rad to work Dr. Gigawatt's time machine.  Rad leaves Manny
in a parking garage, and encounters Max Vax, whose Pinto was trampled
by the legions of Bushs.  Together, they fight Bushs, Key & Yury, and
Faith & Healer.  Glum, meanwhile, locates Manny.

Jake Hawthorne, the Annihilator, ignores the situation in Akron to focus
on the overheating reactor in Peaceful Brook, North Dakota.  He soon
finds it is a trap set by Beowulf, a cyborg created by Cyrebrax, like he
was.  He escapes, blowing up the plant and killing the computer wasp
constructs.

The assembled heroes in Akron, joined by the retired Ignorant Man, fight
the hordes of Bushs converging inwards, where Andy Awesome and Qwyntor
work to build a shield to contain the blast Dangerousman will generate.
After numerous fierce battles, the entire horde of Bushs vanish into the
space-time continuum, abducted into the future by Rad and company.  That
settled, Lars releases his power, and sends Scary Woman back into the
Scary Dimension, simultaneously returning Wonder Grunion to the Earth
dimension.  Afterwards, the remaining heroes (Lt. Justice of Solutions?
Ultd. was killed in battle, and Ramrod of the Awesome Force left with
Batsman to begin a solo career) go to a still-standing bowling alley
and party heavily.

(to be continued...)
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Gary W. Olson         swede@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu         swede@drycas.bitnet