Welcome to Gaia! ::

It was evening it had been six years since the battle on the former site of the lab that had mysteriously held general captive and Gaia had been fully rebuilt and defensively equipped for the villains whom mostly had mysteriously vanished.

Phantom had been dealing with the civil war in his home land but now that it was over he saw it fit that he return to gaia and so he did.

It was evening late summer children where playing in their gardens and parents where laughing talking about how the market had thrived now that alot of the alien technology the government salvaged had gone public stimulating the economy.

there was a sky scrapper in durum the Van Helsing family had re claimed their company and had built this tower as its HQ and ontop of it stood a figure looking down at the city he had once ruled smirking he raised his hands in the air a giant fire ball forming in it he throws it into the air and it flies off u turning and crashing into the Van Helsing building burning it as it slides around forming Phantom's Logo at once there was a reaction. people shouted shrieked even "he's back! The Phantom Slasher is back!" they cried in dread soon it echoed throughout Gaia News stations where at the spot in a instant Phantom points a hand at one of the news helicopters striking it with lightning from his finger tips he had regained control over the rest of his elemental powers. the helicopter smoked and started to head to the ground. Phantom pulls his cloak around himself turning into mist he swoops over the city sending even more horrible shrieks of terror throughout it he then speeds odd making his way to the now finished base of the villain group but it was not there.

Phantom smirked looking at where the foundation had been there was now only a circle of rocks the builder phantoms had fused technology he had salvaged himself with his own magic (no not demonic magic he is not a fing demon) Phantom steps into the circle sinking into the earth witch was actually a selective teleporter only allowing phantom general or jack to enter he finds himself in a underground entrance hall with a sort of Gothic mansion feel to it one of the Phantom Butlers he had appointed bows at him in honor "We have been awaiting you're ariveal my lord" he comments Phantom only smirks breathing in the air "and now we wait for the others" he says to himself heading to the media room to scan the news both for reactions to his ariveal and signs of the others

A dark figure wrapped in a tattered black cape landed onto of the roof of one of the houses in Barton, kneeling, with the only visable thing being his earie glowing eyes. The figure grinned, and that grin glowed as well, as if it were lit by fire. It slowly crawled down the roof, head first on it's belly, it's claws sinking into the surface of the roof, a chuckle coming from it as it slowly decended. When it reached the edge of the roof it peared over. Suddenly it flipped over the edge, hanging on by it's right hand like a gorilla. It peared into the window, seeing a rather undecorated room. It was simple, a bed, a dresser, and a closet. At the end of the bed was a chest that it knew was filled with few toys, but toys nonetheless. It smiled and opened the window, stepping inside the dark room. It quitely turned around and closed the window. No sooner had it done so when the lights suddenly turned on, blinding the figure, causing it to jump back and cover it's firey eyes with a hiss.
"Jack!" a high pitched voice screamed. It wasn't a scream of terror though, but a scream of joy.
The figure lowed it's arm to reveal a pumkin head with a quirky smirk on it.
"Well, hello there Molly" Jack said with a chuckle.
"Did you bring me candy?" The little girl in the bed asked.
"Don't I always?" He said, opening his palm to reveal a small brown leather bag. Inside was exactly what the girl wanted. She quickly jumped out of bed and took the candy, opening the bag and squealing in excitment.
"Its my favorite" she said, suddenly hugging the giant pumpkin around his thights, for she couldn't reach much higher.
"Don't eat it all at once now." Jack said, turning her around and pushing her slightly back to her bed.
"I've got to go hand out some more candy to the others, but I'll see you again sometime." Jack said.
The girl quickly turned around, but Jack was gone. She raced to the window, hoping to find him, but he was nowhere to be seen.
"He never wants to stay and play." She said with a sigh, before closing the window and going back to her bed.
Jack kneeled above the window on the roof, and chuckled at the comment.
"Mabye if she wanted to play something other than house and tea parties, I might be interested." he laughed again before jumping off the roof and moving on.

Over the years Jack helped his master with his duties in exchange for training. He was always happy to help, especially on Halloween. That day he was in his element. It was the one day he really belonged in the Gaian world. It also ment a lot of candy and a lot of pranks. He had also become somewhat of a Candy Claus over the years too, going from house to house at random, handing out candy to the kids whose parents denied them it. Even though it was an act of kindness, Jack still saw it as an act of villainy as well. Excluding the breaking and entering, he was also going against the wishes of the parents. Jack always did identify more with children. They liked candy, they liked pranks, and they loved halloween. He wouldn't go so far as to say he liked them, but he wouldn't mind if everyone in the world suddenly died except the children. At least they didn't look at him in disgust when he walked down the street. Jack hadn't done any real big crime during the six years since that fight on the island, but he had played many more pranks, such as filling the reservoirs with liquid laxatives. He got a good laugh out of that one.

Jack saw the fireball from Barton and tilted his head in confusion.
"Now what would cause that..." He said with a chuckle. If his hunch was right, things would probably be getting a little more interesting.
"If hes really back...I wonder if he'll want me to go to him...or if he'll be coming for me? Hes probably to lazy for that, Ill have to go to him. The children won't be happy...but I'll make it up to them later. Mabye give them double the candy next time." Jack said with a sigh, quickly dashing off towards Durem.

When Jack arrived he found the teleporter and entered the lair.
"Lucy, Im home!" He shouted.

He willingly took the billy club, and walked into another room, putting on the new pimp clothes. He walked back and threw the old ones into the air, casually vaporizing them with his laser vision.

"Heh, I'm glad you were able to find clothes in my size."

Of course he sighed when he saw the gift for Jhonny though.

"Jhonny turned 10 recently. Double ******** digits. I'm missing out on my own son's life, being kept up in... ********, I just don't know where! Those ******** could kill him in a second! THEY HAVE ME BY THE BALLS, PHANTOM! BY THE BALLS!"

He didn't even know if Jack and Phantom knew what was going on. But there were people keeping a close eye on him.

"Jhonny was meant to be free, but there's just nothing I can do at this point. I need to strike a deal with that ********, but I just don't know how to do so without getting my son killed."

He just shook his head. "I've been too busy for the past few years to look for you guys anyway. I love taking the life of another living thing, but having to constantly kill for some piece of s**t... I'm really ruining the mood, aren't I? This was supposed to be a good old reunion but it got ********."

(crap hat! we forgot to talk about what happened to ace! last thing that happened is jack carried him off)

"We'll just need to figure out a way without him killing my son first..."

And after that sentence he was silent for a moment.

"I like this new hideout, Phantom."

(*Crickets chirping*)

Meanwhile, on another uncharted island (this time somewhere to the south of Durem), John Michaels was in a giant lab, standing in front of a large tank where Jhonny was swimming around. On the ground of this small aquarium, there were a few pool toys.

Michaels: Heeeey Jhonny! I bought you some new toys!

Jhonny: *Giberish* ******** YOU! *More giberish*

Michaels: Guess your father taught you some words after all!

Jhonny was now six feet tall, and his tentacles looked thicker. If it weren't for the nearly indestructible glass that the aquarium was made out of, poor Jhonny would've escaped long ago.

And now, a penguin walked into the room. He was wearing a tophat and a monocle. Two large penguins, five feet tall and four feet wide, followed the other one. Both of them carried M60s.

Penguin Kingpin: Ah. So this is his son. You know, my problems with him and his family go back a long way, and while I guess I could send a hit squad of my followers after him, I might as well screw with his son's DNA.

Michaels: And our deal is still intact, right?

Penguin Kingpin: Yes. You'll have your robo-suit soon enough.

Michaels: Excellent. Now, where's the chemical?

Ten more penguins entered the room, one of them holding a giant syringe.

Kingpin: Are you sure we need this many?

Michaels: Yes. Once I open the tank, that thing's gonna go crazy. You'll see.

He went over to the control panel and pressed a button, the giant tank was now open on the top. The ten penguins jumped in, five of them getting ripped apart by Jhonny instantly. One of them finally managed to inject him with the syringe, causing Jhonny to fall to the floor of the tank.

Penguin Kingpin: Well then. I'll be leaving now. You'll want to evacuate the island. When this thing mutates it'll probably make its way to Aekea or somewhere on the mainland of Gaia. Everyone will be trying to kill it. Some may even succeed. Once this creature's dead, I'll have one more member of the McSlap family to eliminate.

John Michaels: What did Pimp McSlap do to you anyway?

Penguin Kingpin: Let's mind our own business. And no, it was nothing sexual! (Decided to throw that in there, knowing that a lot of our minds are in the gutter.)

Back at the new hideout.

"I can try talking to her, chances are she doesn't know about me, and if she does, she probably won't recognize me. If I'm doing anything violent nowadays it's probably on some uncharted island. I think I'm stable too, it's been a while since I've had any violent outbursts that sent half of the GPD after me."

He looked around.

"Where's the exit anyway?"