His name was Nathan Nopants.
He was the dastardliest naked bandit west of the Mississippi.
All the people in Quackhattan Bank turned away their heads or otherwise covered their eyes so that they could evade beholding Nathan’s quite revealing figure. The bank’s security guards were petrified, trying to move their body. But it was to no use as they had been foolish enough to stare directly at Nathan. The shock was too much for them. No one could do anything about the notorious nudist who was about to fill a big bag with money from the bank’s vaults.
No one… but Power Platypus!
As Damian Duckenstein, the mild-mannered rubber-chicken salesman passed the bank and noticed that his old enemy was back to his old tricks, he quickly tore off his jacket, revealing a bright yellow costume with a green cape. After donning his mask, he also tore off his fake feathery behind, making his beaver tail visible.
Power Platypus leapt into the bank to engage in combat against Nathan Nopants. It was quite an entertaining fight with plenty of slapstick humor and silly artwork. A fun little adventure that could be read in the first issue of the brand-new Power Platypus comic book series based on the old 90s cartoon show of the same name.
Unfortunately, it sold poorly. Issues that could be found in comic book stores around the country weren’t good for anything but collecting dust. Those who actually read them were usually jerks who downloaded them illegally online and then went to webforums and bashed the comic for no good reasons. The few loyal PP fans who bought the comic would have to accept that their new series was going to get canceled in no time. It was quite tragic, really.
Not as tragic as what went down in Downtown Springville.
Amymal gasped as she carried a pregnant lady. Her lower body had been replaced with 80 percent of a cheetah, making her look like a strange cat-centaur. Amymal had selected the fastest known animal to be her legs. She needed to be fast to save the woman from the hole that had opened out of thin air. A failed attempt at teleporting by traveling through a brimstone dimension had gone terribly wrong, the idiot who made the machine had been sucked into said dimension, and now the hole would suck innocent people into it. the power that sucked objects and humans toward it grew stronger and stronger for each minute that passed.
Amy had always thought that becoming a superhero would mean that she got to punch people a lot. And sure, she had her fair share of scraps, but she found herself running away from things more often than she liked.
Worse of all, she had forgotten the most important thing about cheetahs: The one minute limit. Cheetahs can run 65 mph in under three seconds... but they tire themselves out after sixty seconds of running.
After bringing the pregnant woman to some… Amymal wasn’t sure what you called those guys who drove ambulances… she could feel that she had pushed her limit and turned her legs back to human, hoping it would somehow make her less tired. It did not. All she could do was gasp and sweat. She couldn’t do anything to stop that rift in reality to go away. She felt utterly helpless, just like all the civilians who panicked.
But then, as Amy was about to transform into an elephant, she stopped as… something appeared. A creature unlike any she had seen before.
Or maybe she had? There was something familiar about it.
It wasn’t an alien or a magical creature she could recognize. And it couldn’t simply be a superhuman, it didn’t look human enough. Whatever it was, it lept directly toward the dimensional rift and…
Amy KNEW it didn’t make any sense. But that didn’t chance the fact that the creature somehow grabbed the hole and tied a knot on it. Then the creature crammed the rift into the shape of a ball as if it was a piece of paper and threw it into a nearby garbage can.
Amy had seen some weird %%%% in her short career as a superhero. But this was just too weird. ESPACIALLY now that she realized what and who the creature was.
“Well, that’s that.” The five-foot-tall humanoid duck cracked his knuckles and took a look around. It seemed like he was looking for something. Amymal was apparently that something as he was looking for. “Hey there.” He offered Amy a feathery right hand. “You look like a superhero. My name is-”
“Holy crab, you’re Power Platypus!” Amy took his hand and shook it intensively. This was too weird and awesome to be true. “I’m your biggest fan!”
“Yes, yes I am.” The duck with a superhero outfit and a beaver tail looked rather rattled at the apparently bald monkey that knew his name. “I take it I’m not in Quackhattan anymore?”
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