Issue 2.19 Starchild

The Vanguard returned to the Forbidden Zone only to discover that there beloved solar system had been conquered by the entirety of the Zen Kai master race. Each of the inner planets have been colonized with training camps full of superhumans from Earth who have been taken prisioner and forced to fight to the death to prepare for the coming of the Collaspsar. Earth itself has been completely subjugated, the non-powered populated stored as transor energy batteries fueling huge gargantuan robots that render all other technology inert around them. The Zen Kai themselves have invaded enmass, all one hundred and twenty five surviving members of the immortal and nigh unstoppable race. The only refuge our heroes could find was the AB-Originals hiding on the Moon, locked in debate over the best course of action. With the return of Crown Prince Scartax the Vanguard united the squabbling Moon dwellers and led a raid to recover the final two missing Chakra Crystals of Ultimate Power. Once they possessed all seven the Vanguard chose to keep them instead of trusting them to the merciless Zen Kai warlords or to the conviving Mon Kai perservers. The Mon Kai that sent them on this mission, The Gray Emissary, was stunned and enraged by their betrayal. He demands the stones for himself so he can fulfill his murky masterplan. Instead the Vanguard all agreed to entrust them to Mayor Amanda Talbot, and in doing so reingited her miraculous pregnancy. An event that did not go unnoticed. At this every moment the Zen Kai are converging on the comet while inside Amanda has begun labor. To matter matters even more dire the Sun is collapsing in on itself, and from within the ever growing dark spot emerges the dreaded Collapsar itself. This could very well be the long prophetized end of the universe. The Vanguard's only desperate hope lies in the birth of the...