MAJOR DEEJ UNIVERSE

In the year 2000, Saddam Hussein was still in charge of Iraq and was doing a proficient job of upsetting every nation around him.  He'd slaughtered thousands of Iraqi Kurds with his Revolutionary Guard and chemical weapons, creating terror across even his own lands.  In one such instance, the lands that had once belonged to the Yashid tribe had instead become a haven for the wounded and dying Kurds.  The once mighty Yashid clan had fallen after the many years of strife and war, leaving all that Hassan Yashid, the Arabian Knight of World War II, to nothing but ruins.  The Yashid clan had instead scattered to Jordan, Syria and even Kuwait to escape death, rape and torture.

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Amidst the rubble of what was once the proud Yasid Estate, now characterized by several large craters in and about the grounds and building,  Hamik Yashid and his starved and homeless family, returned home.

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Hamik and his family had been on the run since 1995 when he and his embattled family were bombed out of their Yashid estate by Suni terrorists, who promptly used their estate over the next couple years as a base of operations.  In early 1999, they'd been driven off the estate, but were now based only several miles further into the hills.  Hamik's father Masso Yashid, and his young sister, Jasmin Yashid, died in the initial attack on the estate.

 

Hamik's younger sister, Shara Yashid, along with his wife and son,  Hassan Jasar Yashid, escaped the raid on the estate and lived in and about other Iraqi towns and villages, always eluding capture and conscription into whatever militant force would most likely catch them first.  Sadly, Hamik's sister, Shara Yashid, was abducted one night in 1998 (she was found years later in 2015 in Syria as a slave-wife to a militant jihadist).  In 1998, Hamik's wife gave birth to their daughter, Terra Yashid. Destitute and starving, they continued to evade capture and death at every turn.

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In late 1999, Hamik ran out of options.  There was no place left safe to go, other than a chance to try and rebuild the bombed out family estate.  On the evening of 1 January 2000, Hamik, his wife and son, starved and weary, finally arrived at the Yashid estate after a long, harrowing trek.  Looking around, there was hardly anything left of the estate...except one thing: a lit candle in the window of what was once the master bedroom.

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Hamik grabbed a piece of burned wood for the estate's debris pile and motioned his family to behind a large bush.  Hamik then crept upon the candle's window, looking for who'd lit the only radiance in the absolute darkness of the estate.  In a rapid move, a man in a black military suit disarmed Hamik and put him in a headlock, demanding, in Arabic, 'How DARE you sully a hero's home! You have 3 seconds to tell me who you are! Three...', at which point Hassan Jasar left out from behind the bush and attacked the man in black with the ferocity of a lion, yelling 'Let him go! He has the blood of an Arabian Knight! He is Allah's gift to us all! STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING!'.  The man in black was surprised by the ferocity of the attack and tossed Hamik free and clear of his grasp.  Out from the bush came Hamik's wife with a stick, side by side with Hassan Jasar and Hamik, all ready to attack the man in black should he make another move against them.

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The man in black trained two pistols at the men and asked (again in Arabic), "Tell me your names or I'll drop you like yesterday's news!".  After a brief, yet awkward silence, Hamik stepped forward into the sites of the man in black's guns and said, "I am Hamik Yashid, grandson of the great Hassan Yashid, the legendary Arabian Knight of decades past.  Now drop your weapons and leave our home! Now!".

 

The man in black mumbled "Hamik...? Oh God...you're alive...".

 

The man in black then holstered his weapons and did something unexpected: he dropped to his knees before them with his hands in the air, feet crossed, and said, "I'm sorry, Hamik. I was supposed to protect you and your family.  I failed you.  Do whatever you wish to do to me." 

 

Hamik's wife slowly knelt down beside the man in black and asked him his name, which the man in black responded:

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John Brown. Captain...now Major Invader.

Your grandfather's war ally during World War II.

 

He then uttered, "Please....forgive me.  I am so...so...sorry. I thought your family was already dead."

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Hamik asked the inevitable question, "What are we supposed to forgive you for?  What is it you believe you've done to us?"

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John Brown then mentioned that in 1995, he had been asked by his father, Masso Yashid, to airlift the Yashid family from the Yashid Estate in Iraq and bring them all to safely in the United States.  Brown then mentioned that the helicopter sent to rescue the Yashids crashed while flying through a sandstorm, with the loss of the entire crew. At that same time, Brown said he was also grieving over the death of his wife. By the time the Major was told of the chopper's crash days later, intel came in saying the Yashid family was already found dead all about the estate.  Major Invader thought the entire Yashid family was dead.  He'd promised, on Hassan Yashid's deathbed, that he'd always be there for the Yashid family, no matter what. The Major then ended his story with "I failed in what I'd promised to do.  I didn't even go looking for you. I was a broken man at that time. Instead, I come here every year to light a candle for all of you...and usually kill whatever bastards dared to shack up on the remains of your estate. Regardless, I failed your family. If you can't forgive me, kill me...torture me, beat me...whatever you wish to do. I won't fight you."

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In the minutes of silence thereafter, all those around the dilapidated Yashid estate were deep in thought. All could see the frustration in Hamik's eyes, as he paced back and forth, at one point grabbing a gun from Brown's holster and holding it as if debating to kill Brown with it.  With frustration and emotion, Hamik finally ran up to the back of the penitent Brown, pointed the gun to Brown's head...and then dropped the weapon.  Hamik dropped to his knees and began crying. After a short pause, Hamik slowly and painfully said, 'Of course you are forgiven.'

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Of the few times Major Invader ever cried...it was then.

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They all hugged each other for what seemed forever...until they heard the sound of a drawn bolt of an AK-47 behind them.

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They were surrounded by a band of desert raiders.

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Brown immediately motioned with his head to Hamik to take cover with his family as Brown sprung into action as Major Invader.

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Four seconds later, 12 raiders were dead, with the 13th suffering from a magazine explosion of his own gun courtesy of Major Invader's shot into raider's magazine clip.  The Major pounced on the 13th raider, kicking the broken gun away and removing the raider's boot knife in one fell motion and told the raider (in Arabic), "You live ONLY because I allow it! Allah has blessed you to fulfill one mission for your miserable life of murder and cruelty! You will tell EVERYONE EVERYWHERE, where ever you go, where ever you EAT, you will tell them to NEVER tread foot on the Yashid lands EVER again! If I find ONE person stepping foot on this land, no matter how innocent they are, I will kill every you...or they... hold dear! Test me once, and I guarantee it'll be the last time you'd dare to do so! 10 miles in all directions from this spot is the Yashid Estate...defy me at your own risk, you bastard!".

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The Major then took his weapon that affectionately called "Devastator" and fired two stun blasts at the injured raider. When the Major looked back to ensure the Yashids were ok, they stood in amazement of wheat they'd just witnessed.  The Major then began talking to the Yashids all the while going through the raiders pockets and gear; "right now you have nothing here, and I need to fulfill a promise.  I have my stealth chopper  1/2 mile away.  It'll be tight, but I can at least...what a minute here..." as he looked over an Iraqi Intelligence Memo signed by Saddam Hussein himself to 'continue efforts on breaching the Yashid vault; troops are on their way for support.  Guard the estate grounds.'

 

​The Major then asked Hamik where his family's vault was, which Hamik said there was no such thing.  The Major then took out a device and started scanning the area, for which he received an enormous metallurgic detection 20 feet under the center of the estate.  The Major then told Hamik to follow him and for his son to guard the family. Hamik, not knowing what was going on, simply followed the Major...but carrying one of the raider's undamaged AK-47s...just in case.

 

In the area where the horse stables used to be, the Major found a secret passage down into the ground.  Both followed down dark, cut-out-of-rock steps with only a flashlight to help guide them.  At the bottom of the stairs, over a dozen enormous drill units, crates of explosives and a row of Bazookas greeted them to a nearly breached vault...and three sleeping Iraqi military engineers. The Major quickly knocked out and tied up the engineers and with Hamik's help, hauled them back up topside to where the other unconscious raiders were (some awoke, but Hamik's son was more than happy to 'knock them back out' with the butt of another raider's AK-47). Hamik's son stood guard over all of them, while Hamik and the Major went back down into the vault chamber.

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The Major the mentioned to Hamik, "This is your vault. I have no idea what's in it, but Saddam Hussein wants it and that can't be good. It's on your land, ergo, it's your to do with as you please. What do you want to do with it...because we've got maybe 10 minutes before a patrol comes and finds us and kills us".  Hamik asked, "can you breach it?" with the Major nodding, saying, "Hell ya." Hamik then said, we have 5 minutes to breach this then. After that, we must leave. I will not put my family in any more danger."

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Before Hamik could finish his sentence, the Major was planting C-4 plastic explosives on stratetic locations. A minute later, after hding for cover, they blew the vault door open.

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Before them stood the magical accoutrements of the legendary Arabian Knight: the flying carpet, the bands of protection and the Ebony Scimitar...as well as hundreds of bags of money in varying currencies, amounting to most likely several million dollars, gems, diamonds and stacks of bonds and a note simply labeled, "For the Heir of  the Arabian Knight".  Taking what they could over the next few minutes (which included all the gems, 4 bags of money and bonds and of course all the Arabian Knight items), they bolted out of the vault and with the rest of the Yashid family, ran off into the nearby desert to board Major Invader's Stealth Helicopter and return to the states...but not before leaving a timed incindiary grenade in the vault to turn the remaining money and bonds to instant ash.

 

It was a dangerous, rough ride, but the Yashids, the Major and their newfound treasures made it out safe and eventually back to the United States (the stealth helo, however, died a grueling self-destruct after a rough landing after it broke down just across the Jordanian border).  The Major first took the Yashids to the antiquated underground Allied Fighters base, where they vaulted their treasures, money and bonds there (Hamik was given access to the vault of course).

 

After a few hours of smelling the mold and rotted stench of the old abandoned World War II Allied Fighters base, Hamik asked the Major if he could take his family someplace more...healthy.  The Major got him a suite at the Hilton in Boston Back Bay under a new assumed named (using fake ID cards and passports) and handed them a few hundred thousands from the money bags in the vault to tide them over, get new clothes, and 'take in the sites' of Boston while he figured out their next move.

 

​While the Major was away, days later, the Soltan Star Empire invaded Earth.

 

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The Soltans landed over 100,000 Soltan warriors onto the streets of Boston. Within minutes, Hilton the Yashids were staying in was decimated and once again, the Yashids were on the run. The Yashid family made their way to the old Allied Fighters base that Major Invader told them to go in the event of an emergency.  There they hunkered down for the next few hours before Major Invader and a few other superheroes, two of which were already dead, entered the base.  The Major himself looked like he'd been through Hell. he'd been shot three times, his right arm was out of its socket, and the mesh of cybernetics up and down his legs were hissing and fizzing with sparks and smoke.

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Over the next couple of days, those who'd made it to the Allied Fighter old abandoned base recovered from their wounds.  The Yashids helped feed, care and comfort the wounded heroes and other rescued people as best they could.  The Major informed them all that the world had fallen to the Soltans and that there was no one left to stop them. Hamik was the first to step forward and say, "The Arabian Knight will stop them!  I will don the legendary role of my forefathers and ancestors and fight!  We shall all fight! If you chose not to follow, then this Arabian Knight will fight without you!". Minutes later, Major Invader put out the call to every last hero he could contact.

 

Over the next few hours, it was determined that there weren't too many heroes left.  Some had been beaten and were in hiding; most had been killed outright by the Soltans.  Regardless, the few remaining heroes converged upon the old abandoned Allied Fighters base.  In all, 13 of them, one of which was Hamik Yashid AKA the Arabian Knight of 2000, and without any team training or preparation, took the fight straight to the enemy.

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This team of "Allied Fighters" saved Boston and New York from absolute destruction, but at a VERY high price. Of the 13 Allied Fighters that went into battle, only two survived - Major Invader, who was hospitalized for years just to learn how to walk again, and Doc Alleviation, a mutant healer, who overtaxed his powers, placing himself in a coma he didn't come out of for over a year.

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Hamik Yashid, the Arabian Knight of 2000, died valiantly defusing the New York Soltan bomb, saving millions of lives in New York City.

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Months later, the world, united against the alien invaders and chased the Soltans off of Earth.  The Soltans retreated to the the dark side of Mars, where they have been ever since.

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Hamik's son, Hassan Jasar Yashid, was presented his father's Arabian Knight flying rug, bands and ebony scimitar at a formal international United Nations Ceremony in remembrance of the fallen heroes of the Soltan Invasion. Hassan held his father in the highest regards and considered him a hero, just as he did for Major Invader.

 

Sadly, the Yashids took they wealth and belongings and went back to the Middle East region, where, in 2004,  the new Arabian Knight, Hassan Jasar Yashid, began his fight protecting the innocent, all the while making the Middle East a much more stable place though his intervention and actions (See Arabian Knight III below).

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Hamik's run as the Arabian Knight of 2000 was short, but his actions added more to the Arabian Knight's heroic legend.  Hamik Yashid was honored with new songs, statues and ceremonies  decrying his selfless sacrifice to save  New York City and the world. As Hamik's wife said in an interview years later with WNN:

 

"Allah not only smiled upon Hamik, but Allah blessed all of us by giving Hamik unto us to save us all. Honor our blessed Hamik Yashid - The Arabian Knight of 2000. May the world never forget his sacrifice. Ever.".

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