Previous Post Adventures in Parodyverse: Silver Age Dimension Part 2     At the far edge of Lair Island there was a sixty foot metallic statue.  It was a rendering in memory of the White Maiden, a powerless, nameless woman who fought crime with the Lair Legion using nothing but white metal armor, a sword, and an irrepressible spirit.     The woman who secretly gave her the sword and trained her in its use called the departed hero Yuki Shiro in Japanese.  That woman was very angry at her death, even after four years.  Every day she visited the tall, lighted statue before dawn to renew her rage.     She wore all black fabric in a wrap around her body, and it covered all but her eyes and her long hair; she was Ninja, the first of her clan.  She was called The Dreamer.  The name she called her departed heroic student was a little bit derogatory, for someone who was too pure and good hearted for the Ninja trade.     From her spot near the statue, she looked at the Lair Mansion and felt her anger well up again.  Someday she would enter that place and slaughter them all in their sleep.  But her Master, Akiko, forbade it just now.  She would have to be content to watch them, and plot, until her day came.     And until that day, she would visit that statue every day, and mourn the one person she took pity on, and paid dearly for it.     The Dreamer slid a single white rose out of the wrappings around her chest, and deposited it carefully at the base of the statue.  The sun was coming up; if she did not leave soon, she would be spotted.  It was time for her to go.     An hour later, once the sun had risen, a clean cut, suited butler named Flapjack - that was his last name, no one called him by his first - came by to dust the base of the statue as he always did.  He stopped and regarded the new white rose carefully, as he did every morning, but he did not disturb it.  Instead, he picked up the one from the morning before to discard it.   -- Story written and copyrighted (C) 2010 by Jason Froikin, and may not be  --    reprinted without permission.   -- Yuki Shiro designed by Jason Froikin, based on designs by Masamune Shirow --  Liu Xi Xian and the Psychic Samurai are original design by Jason Froikin --  Lara Night is an original creation by Jason Froikin

Three, if you count Flapjack being clean.

Fun to see Chiaki reimagined as a ninja, as well as the statue to the fallen hero.