Roudini looked at the crowd of his people as he made his way to the asylum his adoring public as they were all so excited to see him. Oh how they cheered for him their screams filling the streets as they screamed his name. " Roudini!" They said as the ran off in a random direction truly eager to let everyone know that Roudini was around and he was performing. So with such an adoring public how could he deny them their due only the best of course for he did nothing less.

Roudini moved his hands in unnatural ways causing the bones in his fingers to break and bend back as a red energy built up in his hands. Then once the energy built a critical mass of blood red energy he let it loose and suddenly the streets were filled with red lions and blood elephants that kept appearing and disappearing as they went down the street. The panicking people redoubled their efforts to run as fast their legs could take them. " Do not worry my adoring public this is but the opening act of my show. So come follow me to the stage I have chosen." Roudini said with gusto taking the excitement of the screaming citizens that filled the air as applause for his trick instead of what it truly which was sheer terror at what he had unleashed upon them.

Roudini continued on his way towards the Asylum filled with skilled stage hands to bring his performance to even further heights as well as being filled with cells for him to use in his next act. " Truly my next performance will be one for the history books." Roudini said to himself as his strange illusionary yet solid red lions and blood elephants roared and charged through the streets bating aside anyone not quick enough to get out of their way.

Just as Roudini was crossing an intersection his entourage of red animal horrors clearing a path for him making sure his adoring fans didn't stop him from reaching his stage, he suddenly found his path empedded by a giant blue barrier that went around him and furry red creations in a giant blue prism. Roudini looked around for a moment trying to figure out where the giant blue barrier had come from and then spotted the source of it. " Ahhh Shaper back in the action I see and decided to use me as part of your come back tour. While I am delighted." Roudini said with a happy chuckle seeing the prison barrier as just a dash of extra color to his performance.

" No Roudini there isn't going to be a come back tour for me because I'm stopping you right here right now before zlyou can do anything big." Shaper said as he struggled to not only contain Roudini in his blue barrier but also his horde of conjured lions and elephants that were slamming and clawing at his barrier with everything thing they had and these were just the ones in the main prisim barrier he had around Roudini and his main stampede this wasn't including the smaller pyramids and cubes he had created to contain those red beast that had broken of from the rest and started to wonder of to side streets.

Shaper in his classic blue leotard costume was pushing his skill and power to their absolute limit. Shaper could feel from the pulsating in his skull he was dangerously close to busting a blood vessel from the strain he was under. " While it looks like I'm going to have to be creative! Luckily the animals aren't real or I wouldn't hear the end of it for what I'm about to do from the animal rights activist." Shaper said in a strained whisper before he began to twist the cubes and pyramids causing the red beast stuck inside them to be bisected in a bloody explosion of light. Now with his attention fully focused on the main prisim the strained lessened on the Shaper and he increased the power of the prism barrier.

Roudini had been watching what Shaper had been doing in silence enjoying what he saw as a fellow showman's performance before he began to move himself. Roudini in his red straight jacket covered in black chains began to speak in a loud book voice." I do apologize Shaper but it appears I have to be in the spotlight of your show I hope you can forgive me." Roudini said with a sad smile before the chains limiting Roudini movement suddenly snapped and disappeared.

As they did giant black chains would pierce through the Shapers blue energy prism each one causing huge crack to appear across the prisim. Shaper tried desperately to hold the his energy prison the blue prisim to together but as giant chain after giant chain pierced through it there wasnt enough blue barrier to hold together and the Shapers prisim barrier collapsed in a dazzling display of falling shards of blue light. Having his barrier suddenly broken after all the effort he kept trying to keep it together sent the Shaper reeling meanwhile the Roudini was taking a bow. " I thank you all for coming to see such a wonderful performance and Shaper most of all for providing such a wonderful light show." Roudini said with a happy smile sincerely thanking Shaper which pissed him right off.

" I'm not your fire works guy jack ass." Shaper said with venom before he began forming barriers once again though this time instead of traping anything with his 3d shapes he instead used it far more bluntly sending forth a blue cylinder barrier to crush the red beast with Roudini. The red beast were unable to dodge in time and were run over bursting in a dazzling display of red light. Now that Shaper had finally dealt with all of Roudini's red animal minions he then turned to Roudini who was floating in the air and proceeded to trap him in one of his most elaborate prison barriers he had ever created.

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Shaper traped Roudini in a cube that was layered he kept creating layer upon layer for his cube barrier to add to his cube barriers security he spun the cube as he added to it. So once he was finally done with his hundred layered prison cube it was spinning at twenty miles an hour. " Let see you get out of that you Houdini wannabe." Shaper said with venom as he maintained his ever turning cube prison.

For a few precious moments it seemed impossible that Roudini could escape Shaper's layered prison cube and that Shaper would just have to wait for back up from his fellow wonder heros to arive and help him put away Roudini. That's when the Roudini boisterous laugh began to feel the square they were fighting in the laugh giving shaper the feeling he was going to be disproven very soon. Then suddenly in a flash of bloody red light without his straight jacket but now in a classic red magicians suit with a red top Hot stood Roudini a good fifty feet away from where Shaper's prison cube still spun now empty.

" Tada I'm free once again proving no one can hold Roudini!" Roudini shouted towards his audience which was mostly people too stupid to run as they recorded the whole fight between Shaper and Roudini as well as those too wounded from the red beast earlier rampage to run. Shaper was about to try and even more elaborate barrier prison than before but before he could fellow through with that plan he found himself bound in Roudini straight jacket.

" Now it's my turn to help you to be the star performer." Roudini said to the now tied up Shaper before who could now only wiggle in his binds ineffectively as Roudini created a death trap he was supposed to escape from. Roudini used the surrounding cars as material by shifting them with his blood red magic. So Shaper quickly found himself staring down three cars turned into some type of spike trap that he was supposed to get through unharmed as part of a performance. " Now my guest appearance the Shaper shall go through this trap completely unharmed!" Roudini said to his audience then looked to Shaper and upon seeing the fear at what was about to happen whispered to him. "You got this." Roudini said trying to unironically encourage him

Shaper was about to tell him to shove his encouragement up his ass while Roudini was about dropp him into the supposed prop but was a death trap in every meaning of the word but both were stopped as gold king and the rest of his team showed up. Gold King on his chariot of gold let loose a good streak of light that shot across the street and hit Roudini's death trap turning it into a golden statue of a hand reaching for Roudini.

" While it appears the shows over. You were a great stage partner my friend." Roudini said with a sad tone towards Shaper as he began to make his escape. Before Shaper could make his opinion clear on being a part of Roudini's act very clear to Roudini he preceded to throw him into the Gold King's gold hand statue leaving him trapped in its grips as Roudini's straight jacket disappeared from him and the Gold King and his court passed him by in hot pursuit of Roudini.

Shaper would spend hours stuck in the golden hand as he told the first responders that came onto the scene to focus on those injured from Roudini's red beast. So it was a while before anyone could be spared to get him down and even longer before they could get the special equipment to get him out of the magical gold hands grip as it was very firm in keeping him unless Gold King told it otherwise.

So once Shaper was freed and finally out of costume he would have to put in hours at work for the whole thing claiming he had a family emergency. Sufficed to say Mark was not pleased with how his first big villain fight had gone and felt he could have done better. So before he went to bed that night he would write down a note to look up more sophisticated puzzles as examples to use for his energy prisons.

Meanwhile a certain duo who had been watching the whole battle through there special tvs began to give their thoughts on the matter. " While that was interesting one I gotta admit that Roudini could be quiet the crowd pleaser if he could rein in the danger factor of his act." Simon said thinking about the kinda viewer numbers a man like Roudini could pull in.

" I don't know seems like a scandal just waiting to happen. So even if you got viewer numbers for a while it would eventually just blow up in your face with some big scandal he caused and then were would you be." Robert stated for once going into the whole viewership side of things with Simon.

" Fair point but you could turn even a scandal into more viewer numbers." Simon said pointing out the age old tactic of using even bad press to get more eyes as people we're always wanting to hear about the latest scandal. Robert countered that point with his own thoughts on the matter.

" That my very well he true but it's also been proven that a bad scandal can ruin people's perception of what your trying to advertise. So while it will give you a small boost short term it will hurt you your numbers long term." Robert stated feeling like he had made his point well.

Simon and Robert would go back and forth on the subject on publicity good and bad the effects it had in numbers meanwhile in the back ground the numbers for Allyssa ticked up. It would not be long before the expansions were implemented and Allyssa for the first time since it's creation expanded. Though how those that lived on Allyssa deal with the new lands to be added to their world was what the true question was.