He does not bow, but does answer her last question. He says:
"I do. I stand in your way." he then immediately prepares to use his vast (but inferior to his father's) psychic powers to defend himself from her mind control pollen.
Starman and the Monkey King have both disobeyed the Queen Bee. She sweeps her translucent amber-colored wand from left to right, spraying BOTH heroes with mind pollen!
Or at least, trying to. Starman turns the head of his Gravity Rod parallel to the ground, and the pollen crashes to the pavement as though yanked down by the massive gravity of the Sun itself!
"Whew," says Starman under his breath. "I wasn't sure that was how that worked ... did Dad ever fight the Queen Bee? I don't remember that issue ..."
Meanwhile, the spray of nanorobotic mind-erasure engines splashes across the Monkey King, right up his nose to his brain.
Where it erases a section of his brain, which is immediately backed up by a segment of the Intellect Fortress, a mental defensive posture he learned from his father. Therefore, nothing is lost.
(A lot of father-given lifesaving going on here! I approve.)
The forms of xin ling fu, mind-way, teach that Intellect Fortress can be rolled into Amnesia Burst or Spear of Deflecting One's Aim (which makes the target devote his efforts to something other than his primary goal). If you wanted to use Ego Whip or Id Insinuation, however, you first have to assume the stance of Tower of Iron Will, which brings the emotions up into ready position.
THE SHADE:
From his concealed location in the shadows, The Shade, dark agent of justice, throws one of his father's famous Batarangs at the Bee Queen.
He then uses the shadows to slip away to a new spot before he is found.
QUEEN BEE:
"Uhhff!" she says as she's hit by a Batarang and knocked down.
ALL the Drone Soldiers immediately cluster about the Queen to protect her. So if she wanted to attack the Shade, or anyone, she'd have to shoot through her loyal minions.
Which she may be perfectly willing to do.
Overhead, the sky turns red and then darkens. A fat saucer with many golden pylons ranged parallel to its bulk cruises slowly overhead, firing energy rays which levitate it above the city. Crowds of lizards in golden spacesuits, wearing wings on their backs which have jet engines on the ends, leap from the ship and fly down, wielding golden staffs which crackle at both ends.
THE SHADE:
ReplyDeleteThe Shade, form his point in the shadows of Opal City (Or are they in the copy? The Shade doesn't Know!), stares up at the approaching horde of winged lizard-men.
"Probable Perademons," matters the dark agent of justice to himself.
The ghost of good (all the best heroes have at least two titles) looks down at the Lasso of Truth and nine or ten Batarangs he smuggled under his coat. He wonders why he did not bring something like a Utility Belt, or a quiver of arrows. He sighs.