Justin started to feel a little dizzy as the mirrors spun faster and faster around him. Seeing his reflection pass by him in various shapes and sizes, it was like someone had stuck him in a hall of mirrors and spun him around. Well actually that was what was going on. He tried to shut his eyes, but that did little to help. When the mirrors stopped spinning and he found himself forcibly moving forward, he was too dizzy to know which mirror was in front of him.
As he pressed up against the mirror, he felt cold. Like he was touching ice. His body moved past the reflective glass and it felt like he was being submerged in a tub of ice water. He was cold and numb. But the sensation quickly left him as he passed through the mirror and stumbled onto the other side.
He looked up amazed to find himself in a hallway of sorts.
"Where am I?" Justin asked. He looked around. There was nothing but an empty hallway decorated with a few statues on both sides of the hall. Actually, now that he was looking more carefully, he could see that there was a statue every four feet. Each statue was different, but they all shared similarities. Each one was of a physically fit person, the girls were slim and atheletic while the males were muscular and well hung.
Justin walked down the hall cautiously. He didn't know what Jester Lord's mirror did or where it sent him, but he knew he had to be careful.
Finally, he found himself at the end of the hallway, standing in front of a golden door. He clenched his hands into fists. THis was it. Whatever was behind this door had to be something Jester Lord came up with. He concentrated and felt his powers pouring through his veins. His muscles tightened as they got thicker. His lean muscles grew bigger and tighter as he gained more definition. His hair turned golden blond and his eyes turned green. He was now back as Forceman. A little more concentration and he managed to get glad in his tight sky blue spandex singlet, red boots, silver arm bands, and belt.
"THank you Kelly," he grinned, referring to the Power 5 technition. She was the one to realized how their villains had a fetish for ripping their costumes and installed and emergency costume in a small barely noticable earring. It could be used once to let nano fibers to clad them in their costumes. However, it would only work once.
"Bet you didn't see this coming you Pedo-Clown," Justin grin. Using his power, Forceman kicked the door open and charged in.
Only to find a horrifying sight.
The room he had charged into was huge, almost as big as the tent he had came into. However, what really shocked him were the various statues within the room. Not just any statues, but statues of various nude superheroes. He saw old faces of long ago missing heroes like Shock Master, Superdude, Batboy, and Commander America. There were looks of shock, horror, and defeat on each statue's faces. THeir bodies were posed in various manners from kneeling in defeat to standing with hands on their crotch. In addition, behind each statue was the the perfectly intact costumes of the frozen heroes.
"What is this?" Forceman asked in surprise and disgust. He walked over to one statue and realized it was the missing teen hero Green Archer. They had met once and Justin recognized the scar on the brunnet's brow. Something that would be normally hidden by his mask, which was on display behind the statue. He heard Green Archer was missing a month ago. "T-This can't be Greg."
"Oh, but it is," a voice said from behind him. Justin turned around and saw a hunched over figured in a tattered cloak.
"You're not Jester Lord. Who are you?"
"Jester Lord...that clown is working with me. He needed to get you and your friends out of the way so he could be free to turn civilians into his mindless clown army. In exchange, he get another hero for my Hall of Fallen Heroes."
"That still doesn't explain who you are," Justin growled.
"I have no true name. But I have been called the Puppet Meister."
"And why would they call you that?" Justin asked as he got into a fighting stance, ready to jump and attack. However, before he could, hidden doors on the floor opened and spider shaped puppet jumped out from the floor and shot thick sticky webbing that wrapped around him, pinning his arms to his side. "What the!?"
"Welcome to my Puppet Show Forceman. Or should I call you Justin?"