BLACKPHOENIX'S NAMOR
Namor
Sixteen years ago, Atlantis was invaded. The queen, Fen, sent her only son, Namor, to the surface world to live with his human father, Leonard Mckenzie, altering his DNA so that he seemed to be a pale skinned air breather like his father. She cautioned her lover to keep the boy from being fully submerged in water, for that would restore him to his true form and the enemy that had conquered Atlantis would be able to find him. For the next sixteen years, Leonard kept his son out of the water, restricting his bathroom time and making sure he showered instead of bathing. Finally, Namor had enough; the water was calling to him. He drove to a nearby beach and dove into the water; it had an immediate mutagenic effect on him, turning his skin blue and giving him a superhumanly strong form. He flew home and confronted his father, who told him the truth about his heritage. Namor then set out at once for Atlantis, vowing to reclaim the city and destroy the occupying force that had claimed it.
The Lost Prince of Atlantis was going home.
BLACKPHOENIX'S WAR MACHINE
War Machine
A Time War broke out between Iron Lad, Rama Tut, Scarlet Centurion, Kang the Conqueror, and Immortus. The Avengers intervened and were caught in the middle of the conflict. Several of their members were lost in time and returned irrevocably changed. One such member was James Rhodes alias War Machine. He found himself wandering through Kang's Chronopolis, a city made up of slices of the past, present, and future. As he wandered, he had to replace his damaged armor with bits and pieces of machinery he found littering the various time periods: an arm from Ultron, Sentinel circuitry, the techno-organic carapace of the X-Man Warlock, etc. After several centuries, he found a portal that took him back in time to the moment he first got lost, astounding the Avengers (including his past self). No one--not even Jim himself--is certain how much of Jim is left. It may be that he is now nothing more than a machine with the barest trace of humanity left. He only has one goal now: to prevent his past self from being lost in time and erasing the hell that his life has become.....
Is this OK? I can scan it later if it's too grainy (I can't get to a scanner at the moment). Can I have #4 next?
*please don't be D-Man*
*please don't be D-Man*
EDIT: I finally got to a scanner, so here's a better version of my piece.