SWORDS of DEFENSE

"This Eternian Palace; is it a place of good or evil?" he demanded.

"...Tormack, a force of pure evil, seeks its conquest." Galtar answered for him.

"...and Overlord is no kinder of a soul." Blackstar insisted. "It has to be a place of goodness."

"It is." He-Man reassured them. "Lion-O, stand together with Blackstar, Thundarr, and Galtar here. She-Ra and I know what is really happening here and know where we are needed."

He-Man and She-Ra had departed for the Snake Mountain mission. Thus left the misplaced heroes to defend the borders of the Sands of Time before the villains could reach Eternos and the royal palace.

"We are abandoned here!" Thundarr bellowed.

"As are Blackstar's and my traditional enemies." Galtar added, prepping the Golden Lance for the fight. "That tells me that this He-Man and She-Ra are on our side."

"Nothing like an unfriendly familiar face, eh?" Blackstar demanded, swinging his Star Sword back and forth even as Overlord withdrew his Power Sword.

"You fool boy; would you choose to test me here?" Tormack retorted.

"My Golden Lance bested you when you wielded the mighty Silver Sword, you tyrant; a weapon that you presently don't have!" Galtar reminded him.

With that, the youngest swordsman stepped forward with his weapons. Tormack, in turn, began to back away. Galtar could only smirk at the response.

"No armies to hide behind, or Otar's muscle to fight your battles, or the sniveling Krym's magic to meddle in the fates here, Tormack?" Galtar demanded.

Tormack then dropped a silent signal and Skeletor's Hover Robots started forward. Nevertheless, Thundarr's Sun Sword cut through several of the machines as Lion-O's Sword of Omens fired a bolt of energy to decimate several others.

"Boy, Astronaut Voyager; you two contend with your primary adversaries." Thundarr advised. "The Lion Man and I will handle these tin toys!"

"My derivation is Lion-O, Savage One." Lion-O reminded him. "Blackstar and Galtar, was it? Thundarr here had the right idea."

With that, the clash continued between Overlord and Blackstar and Tormack and Galtar while Thundarr and Lion-O took on the robots. As the clash continued, thereby distracting the evil warlords, the sky seemed to glow with a green energy dome that seemed to stretch out all over Eternia.

"That!" Lion-O shouted, swatting aside the last of his half of the robots, "It must be what friends He-Man and She-Ra went to the enemy's lair to stop!"

"A green sky?" Thundarr asked.

"It' an...(UNGH!)...energy dome of some kind!" Galtar amended, finally managing to force Tormack backwards for a moment with a well-placed boot.

"If that dome is the villains' real plan, then it's the true threat!" Lion-O declared. "It needs stopped; and maybe our extra efforts can help. HO-OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The Sword of Omens fired its energy bolt straight at the oncoming energy field that had been intended for Castle Grayskull's defenses. However, at the same moment that the sword's blast made contact, the heroes in Snake Mountain had successfully broken the energy dome spell...

Overlord advanced on Blackstar once more; then suddenly began to vanish into a phantom image. The same began to happen to Blackstar himself.

"What is the meaning of this?" Overlord demanded in a distant voice.

"The breaking of the spell ended our time on Eternia!" Blackstar answered. "But our fight continues on Sagar. Thundarr, Lion-O, Galtar; Fare-welllllllllllll..."

With that, Blackstar and Overlord were distant memories to the people of Eternia. In the meantime, Thundarr and Lion-O were mysteriously vanishing as well. All speculations pointed to that meaning that Gemini and Mumm-Ra, respectively, being beaten as well.

As the heroes and villains vanished, Tormack stood amongst the wreckage of Skeletor's damaged robots.

"So, I'm still here?" Tormack chortled. "Good; I have a conquest to make of this world; and I'll begin with the mountain fortress of the sniveling sorcerer who called me here! Farewell, boy!"

With that, Tormack pivoted on his heels and marched away. Galtar watched his enemy go for only a moment; then it occurred to him that he wasn't vanishing either; if only because Tormack had found some way to stay on Eternia.

"I'll see you sooner than you think, Tormack; because your evil IS evil WHEREVER you are!" Galtar replied.

With that, the young herald of the Golden Lance followed as swiftly as possible. He had a long stretch of sand to travel...

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SORCERESS:

"Greetings again, dear friends. Today, our displaced champions had to fight side-by-side with one another. Only through working together could they buy He-Man and She-Ra enough time to accomplish their own mission. There will come times in your life as well where you will find it easier to work with a team. It may not always seem easy at first; but the results of a job well done shared between friends will be well worth it.

Until next time, good-bye..."

Thanks for reading this VERY SPECIAL Part 3.5 of this Fan-Fiction project Obviously, if this epic were real, it would have involved no fewer than FOUR animation studios, and their respective voice actors and writers, to work TOGETHER under one umbrella ("Filmation" for He-Man, She-Ra, and Blackstar [Overlord; Blackstar], "Hanna-Barbera's" Galtar and the Golden Lance [Tormack; Galtar], "Ruby-Spears's" Thundarr [Gemini; Thundarr], and Lorimar's "Thundercats" [Mumm-ra; Lion-O]).

Alas, such a project could have only come from a fan's fevered imagination...