(Dutch: Het Geheim van de Nitronstralen)
Art by Don Lawrence & Script by Dick Matena
The human traitor Benjamin again faces execution by the Azurian pirates who want to shoot him into space on what looks like a surfboard. Bitak again intervenes with her powers, explaining that if they killed him, she wouldn't have anyone to play with.
Meanwhile on Venus, Storm and Ember gear up and dive into the lake. They find the drowned ruins of the mysterious temple and the room with towering statues of Storm. Suddenly, a door in the chamber opens. The water drains from the room and it fills with air. Then:
The fishmen appear to worship Storm as the living lord of the statues. They found them when a ship crashed into their lake home. Storm theorizes that they must have been made to honor him by some weird cult after he disappeared into Jupiter (which seems a bit of a stretch, but ok).
The fishmen have a surprise for Storm and Ember. So that they can worship them forever--they plan to turn them into fishpeople! Before they can go to work, the door is blasted open and some soldiers from the surface come to the rescue. They can looking for Storm and Ember when they knew it would be time that their tanks would be running out. The fishmen are chased off.
Storm and crew return to the surface. He's got a plan to catch the Azurian pirates.
TO BE CONTINUED
2 comments:
Yes, you're right, that was a bit of a stretch. This whole statue/fishmen part was totally unnecessary. It just distracted from the main plot for no obvious reason.
Probably just padding for serialized storytelling.
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