Issue 16

A Black and White World

A Library

Kara finds herself in monochrome school library. She's being lectured to by a librarian - she knows Miss Honey. She lectures Kara on how guys don't want smart girls. Her hair is up in some old timey pigtails, and she's clutching a pile of books. She and setting are all black and white.

A Kitchen

Danny, also in monochrome. Finds herself in a kitchen, in front a massively packed breakfast table. She avoids getting picked up by Goliath and Mr Mercury II and given a lift to school, and heads out herself.

A Street

Jen finds herself on a strange street. She's walking along on her way to school. She sees an old timey Fire Engine pull up to a tree bell ringing. The firefighters climb up a ladder and rescue a cat. Everything is strangely idyllic.

She sees the sign in front of a high school, her high school. Red Bastion High School. She sees that she's dressed in an 50s vintage cheerleader outfit and surrounded by others. Pinky, seemingly Jen's best friend asks her about her date with Pip last night. Jen gets angry as she's questioned and is confused about what's going on.

Red Bastion

The Headmistress moves Jen along, and admires her domain. After finding a phone booth with no dial tone Danny bumps into Jen outside the school and they catch up. Pip and Phillipa (here known as Pippa) drive up, and Pip asks Jen if she'll wear his school pin. She has no idea what that means and escapes after he says something about the hall monitors.

In History class they bump into Kara and are able to briefly catchup. They head a kerfuffle occuring out in the hall - a voice shouting. Jen gets herself excused to see the nurse and gets Danny to come with her. They see a jock they know as Kevin get dragged away into a room by a hall monitor screaming something about how they don't belong here.

While in the classroom Kara tries to keep tabs with her powers on where Danny and Jen are but she struggles to connect with her powers, and manages to just about keep track. They go to the room Kevin was taken but there's nothing there but an empty classroom and a Janitor.

Danny remembers that this is the Red Bastion that Jen told here about. This is a prison - some of the people here are constructs and others are inmates