Adventure: Domesday Magnus
Prologue: In Colorado, a harried housewife was waiting long into the night for her husband to return home.  She gaped in shock as he -staggered through the door.  He said one word: "domesday!" and then collapsed.  
The hospital says he's perfectly healthy, but his mind's been reduced to the level of a five-year-old.  The police can't figure out why.  But something must have done it.  Something must have! 
He said ·domesday ...  That reminds her of something.  
An article in People magazine:  Some armored guy named Domesday fighting a "Michigan glamor girl" across a college campus.  She looks for the old copy.  
Her public library still has it.  A team called “the Balance" fought the Domesday guy once; they might help her.  But she doesn't know how to reach them: 
Other old magazines she reads give her one clue: the mental powers guy from the Balance is named Stephen Wolcott, and lives in New York City.  Maybe she can call him? 
She'll try anything!
When Stephen and Julie Wolcott moved into their' new "secure" house, Stephen wanted to keep their phone number unlisted.  But Julie talked him into keeping their name in the phone book.  It might be interesting to find out what kind of crank calls they get, now that they're in the public eye.  They feed the public cal Is into an answering machine, and keep a separate unlisted number for private calls.
One night Julie is amusing herself by fast-forwarding through the answering machine's tape.  Somewhere inside the tape someone says "Domesday“.
Julie replays the message.  Then she calls Stephen over.  He listens to the tape.  After thinking for a minute, he picks up the phone, calls the Colorado woman, and says he'll meet her at the airport at 3 pm the next day.  To Julie he says, “Domesday.”  She knows his stories of Domesday; she understands instantly.  
Part I: Lisa Wallace waits for the superhero in Stapleton Airport in Denver.  He said he'd meet her there, but all the flights from New York got in an hour ago and he isn't on them! 
Ellipsis decided from the start to avoid commercial air transportation to Colorado:  Domesday could trace it too easily, and perhaps try to interdict the air transit.  It would never stop Ellipsis, but others might be hurt.  So Ellipsis flew on his own power.  He enters the Stapleton Airport as Stephen Wolcott and mentally finds Lisa Wallace.  
When they have returned to her tract housing on the north side of Denver, and when she has subdued her squalling infants, Lisa tells him her story.  
Her husband was working on a construction site well into the Rockies, with bonuses for daily travel.  But he found something, and got told not to tell anyone about it.  He was silenced anyway.  
Stephen first decides to examine her husband.  They go to the hospital that night, in the family station wagon.  
At the hospital the clerk insists that visiting hours a e over.  Lisa argues - successfully! (Much more successfully than she could have done without Ellipsis present.) They get in-to see Joe Wallace.  His mental state is that of an infant.  
he next day, Ellipsis decides to examine the area psychically.  He has recently determined that he can focus his being on the area he examines, instead of on his body.  Julie called this "astral projection" when she suggested it to him.  So far it seems to be more efficient than his usual form of psychic examination.  He is more-disoriented when he refocuses on his body, though, 
He focuses upon the Ragged Top Mountain in Wyoming, where Domesday had his base when the Balance fought him years ago.  There's still a base there, obviously,- 
As it was the last time, it is shielded from psychic examination.  From around it, though, Ellipsis gets the impression the base is prepared for a siege.  
Ellipsis feels an odd tugging toward his body, but he ignores it.  Long ago he learned that his will could overcome his physical needs.  
But finally he returns to his body - almost.  Long ago he knew what his own body should feel like .  Now it feels unnatural - too much like a vacuum: 
He focuses on Lisa Wallace, still in the house with her children.  She reacts to his mental touch.  
After some deliberation, he gets her as a psychic volunteer.  He then focuses her mental self on his own body.
Her mental self disappears~ The vacuum on his body goes away, 
He doesn't know what ls going on - but there's a prime suspect across the nearest state line , in Wyoming:  Ellipsis reenters his body, and flies back toward the Ragged Top Mountain. 

Domesday has, after all these years, developed his Master Plan.  
He wants to depopulate the Earth, preferably in a manner where the survivors know what's going on and can feel the most grief.  'He intends to sterilize mankind, via several orbital beam devices.  
He feels sure he can personally survive mankind's wrath while it still lives.  There's enough insulation between Russell Anvernacht and the incriminating parts of the orbital structures.
As witnesses ~o his triumph, he has abducted the minds of the original Balance to powerless robot bodies within his headquarters.  His research on mental structures came as a result of studying Ellipsis.  
Morningstar and the so-called Mighty Tim came easily.  Ellipsis, as was expected, put up about half an hour's resistance before the 'positive' response came from his powerless robot duplicate.  
The rest of the current Balance was not worthy of seeing his triumph.  Domesday arranged tor one Jon Gaunt, suspected of being the supernatural Raven, to be tranquilized at the time.  "Foad" was simply beneath his notice.  
So now he has three powerless robots representing the Balance observing him, and the view screens that he observes himself.  He turns to them.  "Do you enjoy the view?" 
Mighty Tim responds.  So does Morningstar, when he taunts her further.  But Ellipsis remains silent.  Domesday slaps the Ellipsis robot.  It cries out (the robots were designed to feel pain heavily, of course), but still says nothing.  Morningstar and the Mighty Tim begin to wonder.
An alarm goes off.  Someone's breached the perimeter!  It's hard to tell who.  Whoever it is, he's moved quickly, neutralizing all perimeter alarms in his wake 
The lights go out.  
Domesday feels a mental touch.  "I am here." How?? Ellipsis!
But Ellipsis is here before him now!  He slaps the robot again - 
"I am here.  You are a fool if you believe otherwise.”
 Domesday shouts one syllable (sort of like "Arrgh!"), then turns to his command console as the lights go back on.  
The Balance robots can't feel the mental interchange between Ellipsis and Domesday, and can't tell what's going on yet.  The Morningstar robot turns to the Ellipsis robot and asks, 'What are you doing?" 
The Ellipsis robot, hosting Lisa Wallace, cowers and only says, "Please make it end..."
Meanwhile, Ellipsis has made sure to neutralize all rockets in the launch bay.  He need only fly through their engines.  But he also flies through their warheads for good measure.  
There is some opposition.  Domesday has assembled a force of gymnasts, and armed them with weapons he designed to neutralize mental power and the Ellipsis Field.  Their agility and martial arts skils should defeat Ellipsis easily without his field.  Some of them attack Ellipsis as he flies against the missiles.  And he's still disoriented from his last out- of-body experience, which was longer than any before.  
It makes no difference.  Ellipsis went to space to fight alien invaders once, unknown to Domesday.  Ever since, the body of Ellipsis has become proof against normal human attack.  The aliens made his body stronger than normal, just so it could accommodate the Ellipsis Field.  And his control over this field is greater than ever.  
Those humans who are fool enough to fling themselves against him in midair bounce off.  Most land against the ground, and take severe wounds.  
Ellipsis, having destroyed Domesday's offensive capability, turns against the villain himself.  Ellipsis flies through the walls of the compound to do so, destroying all electronic links as he does.  
Domesday protects his final asset as Ellipsis enters.  Domesday states, "I'm the only one who can restore your friends to their bodies.' He stands by the Balance robots.  
Ellipsis considers momentarily: Domesday has found how to focus minds outside their bodies.  So? I have also.
Elliesis advances on the Mighty Tim robot - and chops its head off.  "I care null about them.  I shall have you.”  
Domesday thinks: On, shit.  Let me out of here!
He dives for a destruct switch, and activates it.  He then runs for the wall exits, and slides into them toward the escape latches.  
Ellipsis is inclined to destroy the mountain around Domesday, just to show him wrong.  However, Ellipsis has a greater responsibility - Lisa Wallace, who bore his own body when he asked her.  
The mind of the Mighty Tim is now divorced from whatever robotic controls Domesday had upon it.  Ellipsis beheads the Morningstar robot, just so they'll be in the same situation.  Then he guns their minds back to Michigan.  
With the Balance having served as test cases for his mental focus, Ellipsis carefully deposits Lisa's mind in her true body as the mountain falls around him.  He flies unharmed through tons of rubble when he's done.  
(Meanwhile, FOAD has done his level best to rescue the Balance.  He's now in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, headquarters of his old enemies the 101st Air Assault Division - having called in several debts.  He's about to airlift into Wyoming when he hears about the explosions at Ragged Top Mountain, Film at 11.  Disgusted, he turns around and hitchhikes home.)
Postlude: Lisa, when she returns home, wants to rush back to the hospital where Joe still is.  However, Stephen can tell that she needs a break.  (He knows these things.  He's long since resigned himself to that fact.) 
Because none other is present to take her out to dinner, he does it himself.  Presently they are in a restaurant far better than what Lisa usually frequents.  
Joe will never recover all his memory.  Eventually he can be retrained to fill a useful role in society again~ but that could take years.  Lisa doesn't know how she'll make ends meet for her family in the meantime.  
Stephen takes her home.  While she isn't looking, he manifests five bars of solid gold and leaves them behind the front door of her house.