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By Guang Yap.
A lot of running around and fighting in the caves of the Underlord. There is a battle
between Kohl and the Underlord which Kohl wins thanks to the DragonRing--which up
until now hasn't been all that useful. Miles is found and somehow they all get home
using the Underlord's dimensional-portal machine. This storyline concludes with this
issue.
No Blair art. The inside rear cover contains a full-page ad by McEown for the one-shot
Underground.
CHAPTER 5: Kohl fights the monsters but has to run and almost falls
into an acid pool. Hanging onto a vine, the three boys climb down and find a statue
of a giant monster (looks like Underlord). Bakita tells the other two boys that the
statues were once alive. He gets these sensations and they are true. A leech creature
lands on Yue and more attack. Alex gets it off Yue. Kohl gets out of a secret room
by breaking through the wall. In the next room is gold Shiva statue and other relics.
A gorilla monster attacks him. Yue is singing. Alex gets a headache. The boys cross
a bridge in total darkness except for the torches they've managed. Alex tells Yue
he doesn't like heights and has claustrophobia. Yue suggested they go into a hole.
Bakita senses this is the right direction. As they crawl through the tight hole,
Alex feels like the walls are closing in on them. Drake defeats the ape thing and
finds a new way to go. At the end of the hole tunnel, Yue and Alex see things that
are gross. Something grabs Yue and Alex (who has asked Yue 10 times if he saw anything)
from the holeóósomething gross.
CHAPTER 6: The Underlord holds Yue and Alex up off their feet. Yue calls him a Rick
Baker reject. Kohl arrives and taunts the Underlord into a mortal combat test of
power. He tries to fry Kohl and manages to burn his shirt to shreds. The true form
of the Underlord is shown to Drake. Kohl's face starts turning to total bone. Kohl
is able to strike its physical form (no human has ever been able to). The Underlord
seems to realize why and then vanishes.
EPILOGUE: Miles works the controls to open up different dimensions. Yue is telling
Alex he never knew his parents who died when he was a few months old in a car accident.
His dad and Miles were pretty close so he adopted Yue (who likes the drunk, calling
him an old fartóóand Miles hears it and lets them know, calling Yue a brat). Miles
would always change the subject whenever Yue asked him about what dad did for a living.
Alex tells them he woke up on the streets of Calcutta and the police picked him up
when a car almost ran him down and took him to an orphanage. Alex can only remember
the last two years of his life. He can't ever remember his name. Yue tells them three
years ago, Miles and he were fishing in the boat. After the end of a storm in a bay
in the South China Sea, there was garbage all over and debris...and after a flash
of lightning which covered the entire sky...Kohl was found floating. Kohl refuses
to talk about his past. Miles opens the portal to the universe of STARK: FUTURE,
ELFLORD, and some other world with a one eyed robot, a wolf like boy, and a gladiator
like warrior. Bakita tells them it is his home and he goes through to it. The kids
ask Miles about what happened to Zeek. Miles doesn't want to talk about it. The monkey
must be dead. They go home, too, through the portal. The Underlord threatens that
once he learns how to defeat the Dragonring they and all their kind will be doomed. |