Pink Dawn

Throughout the New Lincoln City, straight men are persecuted, as are lesbians. In many cases, they're persecuted to death. Overhead, the pink sky, and its clouds, don't cut the new city any slack. And to think that it's all just an elephantfish-generated illusion...

A lot of the new gay male warriors here are Marvel/DC characters. Most of them are gay men.

Ray flies here and there, generating light as he goes along. He's poised to blind President Grant II, if he ever tries to come back to Lincoln City.

Bron-Char, a Kree warrior with blue skin, flies the Helion, his spaceship, here and there, around Lincoln City. He's prepared to dismount, and get to work with his energy gauntlets.

Pink Flash speeds here and there, all over the city. He leaves a lit pink blur in his wake.

Citizen Cold is on patrol, too, with an ice-generating firearm in hand. He's got plenty more, where that comes from.

Every now and then, Ray flies over him. Citizen Cold smiles, and straightens his fur coat, each time this happens...

Here and there, all over the city, rats crawl, and try to keep a low profile. Pied Piper lands near one. The rat scurries. One sonic blast later, and the rat's skull gets busted.

Comanche stands atop a tower, keeping watch. He wears a robe, and carries a bow and arrow. He's prepared to use it, if he sees President Grant II try to make a homecoming...

Obsidian hides, and generates his own hideout. He can control darkness. If President Grant II returns, he won't see Obsidian coming...

In a shop, Cyborg Hephaestus forges a hammer. He's already armed all the gay male armies in this city. Now all he's got to do is arm himself.

He's finished the hammer he's been working on. Now all he's got to do is test it.

Via prosthetic legs made of Uhr metal, Cyborg Hephaestus walks into the open. He swings his new hammer, and throws it. It flies around town, knocking down straight men and lesbians in droves. It returns to Cyborg Hephaestus's hand...just as Mjolnir would to Thor's.

Northstar speeds around town; sometimes on his feet, and sometimes airborne. O, how he sometimes misses Canada. At least he's from Saskatchewan. Cyrus probably wouldn't have recruited him, if he were from some place like Nova Scotia, or Newfoundland and Labrador. Or Quebec; CERTAINLY not, if he was a Quebecker...

Abroad, and among the Helion, Alan Scott flies, clad in yellow. He's a Yellow Lantern, now. Every now and then, he shines a light upon his son's darkness, just to check on him. That's right; Scott is Obsidian's father.

And to Obsidian, that's a MUCH bigger relief, than Luke Skywalker finding out that Darth Vader is his father... Although, it's a bit similar to Axel Walker/Trickster II finding out that James Jesse/Trickster is his father...

Negative Man flies abroad, in an F-22. In the cockpit, he's dressed as a mummy...as he usually is.

Every now and then, the negative energy in him leaps out of his corpse, leaving him dead at the yoke. Above, the F-22 precariously glides around, without a pilot, as the negative energy swoops down, and persecutes a lot of straight men and lesbians.

Iceman is just outside the city, building a fort around it. The fort is of ice, of course. The X-Men, bless their souls, probably still haven't forgiven Jean Grey for looking into his head, and discovering he's gay. But as far as Iceman's concerned, he thinks he's getting used to it, now...

William Clayton stalks around, as Mr. Terrific, releasing T-spheres into the air. These T-spheres ascend, and spotlight targets for the other gay male warriors to persecute.

In a street, John Constantine opens a portal. He walks through it, smoking a cigarette, and closes it behind him. He sees a straight man. He reaches his hand towards that man, and tortures him, while trying to "exorcise him of his primitive sexuality..."

Sir Louis, a time-displaced knight from France, drives here and there, in an infantry fighting vehicle. (He's been told that this is what they use now, instead of barded horses.) In his time, he's destined to become Louis XIII of France. But for now, the elephantfish trio needs him.

As the Eden Archer, Keven Dale swings from building to building. He looks a bit like the Green Arrow...only with a lighter green costume. Most of his trick arrows are grenade-tipped.

As the Pink Arrow, Nick Anastas swings from building to building, clad in pink, and armed with a bow and quiver. He used to hate costumed vigilantes; now he loves them.

As he looks around, here and there, he sees one of Clayton's T-spheres, doing reconnaissance. Pink Arrow smiles, and keeps working...

The warriors who defend this city, for Cyrus, are just as likely to be gay and male as they are to be electricity-generating. Elephantfish are, after all...

Static, a metahuman, has gone bad. He dives into the city's power grid, and comes up behind straight men and lesbians, torturing them...and sometimes killing them, if he goes too far.

Static wants a SFBF (straight female best friend)… Alas, that'll have to wait, until Cyrus, or one of his allies, rearranges Grant II's bones into turkey style...

He sometimes clashes with Blackout, another metahuman, who also spends some time down there. So far, at one point, he's accidentally de-powered Pink Flash...

Speaking of whom, a pair of stalls are full, in the bathroom of an Irish pub, just down the road. At its sink, Bobby, a mutant dressed in Alpha Flight attire, washes his hands...after having accidentally traveled here, through this building's power grid, with his powers.

He also shocks himself, as he washes his hands. He cusses, dries his hands, and storms out, needing to rejoin his patrol with NorthStar.

In Bobby's absence, the two stalls empty, simultaneously. Two speedsters come out. One is clad in yellow and red. The other is clad in pink and white. They both bear the likeness of Matt Letscher.

"You got," Reverse-Flash asks Pink Flash, hypnotically, "any lipstick? I'd like to make an impression, if I have to fight for a gay army."

"Sure," Pink Flash says, taking a tube of it out of his gear. "I always keep a few tubes, just in case I..."

Here, both suddenly notice that they're twins. They whirl, and look at one another.

"Wow," they both say, simultaneously. "Are we related?!"

Back in the streets, Lucy Fugue wanders through the city's streets. She dresses like a Goth. She wears metallic lipstick on her lips. Electric arcs dance between her fingers...

She's surrounded by a pack of straight males. They're here to hit on her; she can tell.

She grins, generates metal, and shapes them into spelled words, as she says them. "YOU," she says and forges at the same time, "ARE, SO, FUCKED!" With that, she stabs four of the guys with the metal YOU, the metal ARE, the metal SO, and the metal FUCKED. She uses the SO like a shuriken, and turns the FUCKED into a sword, which she uses to impale the boy with, through his chest. Against the rest, she generates electric arcs, and tortures them with electricity.

Electro, too, dives around in the city's power grid. He breaches, and lands atop Iceman's ice wall, while still made of electricity. Under his feet, part of the ice wall melts.

For fun, Iceman sprays him, from behind, with ice. Sadly, Electro melts the ice as fast as Iceman generates it...

Livewire, a metahuman, dives around in the city's power grid, too. She surfaces, and tortures many ex-boyfriends she's had, while writing stories for CatCo here. She enjoys it. This beats frying Cat Grant's ass, for sure...

Frankly, it's a VERY nice ass; especially when Callista Flockhart flaunts it on the CW. Alas, Livewire is very straight; and hence, is a bit of an SFBF, among this mostly-gay-male posse.

Isis hovers here and there, generating lightning as she goes along. If she seems less enthusiastic than usual, it's because she's just witnessed the Fish Eagle Force destroy her husband, Black Adam. Lincoln City just wasn't big enough for the both of them...

Lincoln Campbell, an Inhuman, has gone rogue. He's just learned how to go diving in the city's power grid.

In this posse, there are gay men. And there are electricity-generating mercs. There are also fish-themed mercs. Elephantfish are fish, after all...

King Shark is among the biggest and strongest. He bares his shark teeth, leaps, dives, and consumes straight men, on the spot...all in the name of three telepathic elephantfish who want to live in the Grey House until they die...

Mr. Fish is here, too, from the East River in New York. In the streets, people avoid him, because of his human/fish physiology. Too bad. Mr. Fish leaps, dives, aims a pair of pistols, and shoots a pair of lesbians, as they run. He slithers in, later, and nicks their purses from their corpses.

Eel's here, too. He crawls around the city, looking for straight men and lesbians to prey on...

Some of these mercs are also of sentimental value to Cyrus, Novak, and/or Ambruso. Many of them bear the likeness of Billy Chambers...a local man, rapist, and killer, now known as the Pink Flash.

There's Maj. Mills, from the CSI: Crime Scene Investigations universe. He's Negative Man's wingman, as he flies an F-35.

A time-displaced Col. Ames, from the American Civil War, is here. He drives around the city, in a Stryker mortar carrier. As much as he misses the cannons of the Civil War, he must confess that these Stryker mortar carriers are MUCH more versatile than those gunpowder rigs, that he's used to using against the grey-coated rebels. O, how he often dreamed of just running a sabre through the first President Grant's chest, in life. NOW, if he's lucky, he'll get to run the same sabre through President Grant II...

Alas, if only he were the Reverse-Flash. He wouldn't need a sabre; he could just super-vibrate his hand, and run it through Fitz's chest...

A time-displaced Capt. Love is here, the 19th century. He drives around in a JLTV; a higher-tech Humvee. He hasn't been in this time for very long, and yet, the back of his vehicle is already overstocked with the bagged heads of lesbians and straight male locals... He's even got some in wine jars, buried beneath the bags...along with some of their finger-amputated hands...

Among the posse, there are also orders of state governors/premiers of Illinois, New York, and Zion, from the peaks of their military careers. The one from Illinois calls itself the Order of Springfield. The one from New York calls itself the Order of Watertown. The one from Zion, whose knights are also of Buenos Aires and New York heritage, calls itself the Order of Zion Bueno.

The Order of Springfield consists of fourteen time-displaced warriors who, later in their careers, become governor of Illinois; Jeff Perry's home state. They're all clad in Illinois rural battledress, and bear an Illinois flag IFF patch on their upper sleeve. They are Green, Ryan, Fifer, Beveridge, Hamilton, Palmer, Tanner, Duncan, Ogilvie, Oglesby, Yates, Bissell, Stratton, and Old Ranger (i.e. Reynolds). All are right-wing political, where and when they come from; otherwise, Cyrus wouldn't have recruited them.

The Order of Watertown consists of eight similar men who, later in their careers, became governor of New York; Dan Bucatinsky's and Matthew del Negro's home state. They're all clad in Adirondack-themed battledress, and bear a New York flag IFF patch on their upper sleeve. They are Morgan, Dix, King, Wilson, Clark, Fish, Fenton, and Teddy Roosevelt. Again, they are all right-wing political, where and when they come from. Otherwise, neither Novak nor Ambruso would've recommended them.

The Order of Zion Bueno consists of seven warriors who're not only time-displaced, but reality-displaced. In their native reality, Buenos Aires is a Jewish colony, and they were premier of there, rather than their precious Israel. They're all clad in urban battledress, and bear an Israeli flag, a Buenos Aires flag, and a New York flag IFF patch on their upper sleeve. They are Sharon, Netanyahu, Weizmann, Begin, Katsav, Rivlin, and Shamir. Matthew del Negro's a Jewish Buenos Airean New Yorker; Ambruso recommended the Order of Zion Bueno's recruitment.

Ah, if only the real Netanyahu could see himself younger, in a Buenos Aires/New York uniform, persecuting straight male and lesbian gentiles in Lincoln City... Yahweh-forbid if he reads this fanfiction, and tries to imagine that. Poor guy; he probably loves Yahweh more than he loves his own wife...if he has one. Frankly, I'd laugh out loud if I found out he was single...or that he married for love, in case he is married...

Among the posse, there are supersoldiers, too. Each one is patriotic-themed.

Citizen Illinois wears a white costume. He carries a round metal shield, which is white, and has a bald eagle symbol in its center. The shield's outer fringe is red. The top of the fringe has the year number 1868 printed on it, and the bottom fringe has 1818 in the same spot. He carries a Springfield rifle, and wears the ammo for it on his harness.

Citizen New York wears a navy blue, sky blue, and yellow costume. He has a round metal shield too, which is navy blue, and has a mountain symbol in its center. The word EXCELSIOR is printed around its bottom fringe; its whole fringe is white. Capt. New York wears red gauntlets.

Commander Buenos Aires is here, too. His costume is white. His round metal shield is the same color, with a Habsburg symbol in the center. He can control gases, and guides his shield in flight, when he throws it like a discus.

Commander Israel is here, too. His costume is also white. His shield is the same color, with a blue Star of David in its center, and a matching blue outer fringe. His harness is stocked with silver bullets.

This roster may seem excessive. But as you can probably tell, Cyrus, Novak, and Ambruso refuse to fail. They refuse to give up the Grey House. They just love not having a boss too damn much... And even worse, so does this posse...