BILLY STEELE: KID RANGER--THE DARK SKULL'S REVENGE

The force field was like a revitalizing shower, bathing the warrior in its lights of healing. The warrior’s massive wounds disappeared; he was now healthy and strong. But more importantly, the wicked blood that ran through the warrior’s veins became purged from his mind, spirit and body.

While the warrior’s evil blood ran into the Earth’s bowels, Lucy Fur screamed at the new Dark Skull, "Don’t listen to this feeble trickster, my love." Lucy Fur then became her seductive self once again. "White Eagle speaks in lies. He wants to rule the West and wants to be the puppet master to your marionette. I have all that you want. If you want to feel the warmth of my bosoms for a thousand eternities, while we rule the world together, I command you kill both White Eagle and The Lightning Warrior this instant!"

The new Dark Skull drew his monstrous six-gun aiming it point blank at the revived Lightning Warrior and the gigantic face of White Eagle. "Shoot them," Lucy Fur screamed, "Kill them!" But the humongous Dark Skull hesitated for a moment.

The new Dark Skull stared deeply into the Indian’s massive face in the clouds. White Eagle then conjured up a vision in the skies above. The great Indian sage projected the past upon the hovering clouds. It revealed the truth to the Sidewinder turned new Dark Skull, of how The Trinity Of Terror, led by his adopted father in fact murdered his birth parents, the Knox family. And how these masked marauders and their Legion Of The Lawless stole the Knox’s black coin and how they kidnapped him as an infant while leaving his younger brother to die in the desert. Next, White Eagle showed the new Dark Skull a vision depicting the former Sidewinder dead, his copse charred and burned while Lucy Fur, while in all of her satanic glory stands above him, laughing at his death as she enters the legendary mine.

White Eagle’s words revealing The Sidewinder’s inherently inner goodness struck deeply in his soul. After waiting a few breathless moments, the new Dark Skull placed his pistol back in his holster.

"How dare you question me," Lucy Fur shrieked at the new Dark Skull. "You are mine to command. I hold mastery over all," she yelled, as Lucy Fur went from an object of temptation and desire to become her true, satanically ugly self again. As her creamy white skin turned hellish red, she ordered her army of demonic outlaws to destroy the new Dark Skull and The Lightning Warrior.

All of Hades’ fury stampeded from Lucy Fur’s saloon. A herd of horrific horsemen of the Apocalypse charged towards the masked figures. "I am the thunder from God’s country," was The Lightning Warrior’s battle cry, as the newly revived frontier firebrand readied himself for this Wild West Armageddon. Once again mounted on his Thunder Rider stallion, The Lightning Warrior resembled the medieval crusader King Arthur as he charged his oncoming foes with enchanted shield and lance in hand.

The lone Warrior’s power for right was perhaps his greatest weapon as he mightily jousted and thrust the demonic horsemen from their devil horses in one fell swoop. The satanic Stetson wearing soldiers became disintegrated into tiny dusts of nothingness when they impacted the avenging lance of The Lightning Warrior.

As more demonic outlaws used their guns to blast hell fire at the warrior, the phantom protector of the plains used his mastery of fire to hurl the flames of righteousness at the creatures. The searing flames blasted by the demonic outlaws were useless against the impregnable light of right from the warrior.