REVENGE OF THE GODS
by William Read Woodfield & Allan Balter
Doug and Tony become engaged in the war between the ancient Greeks and
Trojans.
Somewhere on the Mediterranean, before 500 B.C., battle trumpets blow and Tony
and Doug discover they are in no-man’s land between the converging armies of
the Greeks and the Trojans, outside of Troy. Captured immediately, they are
taken to Ulysses, leader of the Greek army, and his aide Sardis. When Doug and
Tony predict that the Greeks will win this ten year conflict, Ulysses takes
them for gods. Sardis, disgruntled that Ulysses listens to the Time Travellers
instead of heeding his military advice, challenges Tony. As the Time Tunnel
crew focuses in on the event, Tony and Sardis are engaged in battle, Tony
defeating but not killing his foe. Thoroughly humiliated ,Sardis sneaks off to
Troy to join forces with Paris, the Trojan prince, who holds Helen prisoner
against her will. He returns with a small patrol and kidnaps Doug while Tony
is talking to Ulysses, forecasting his plans to use a wooden horse to
penetrate the walls of Troy. Inside the Trojan palace, Doug demonstrates his
knowledge of the future when he precipitates a quarrel between Paris and
Helen. Helen warns Paris that to kill one god is to offend them all, so Paris
orders that Doug is not to be harmed. The next day, when Tony leaps into the
fray to fight the Greeks' fire trap with a torch, the Time Tunnel crew must
send someone in to rescue him from the Trojans. The fire trap worked and the
Trojans are beaten back into their city. That night the wooden horse is
finished and Ulysses pretends to depart. The horse is left outside the city
gates as a supposed tribute to the victors, so Paris brings it inside for all
to see. But during the night Greek soldiers slip out of the horse and open the
city gates letting in more Greek troops. Sardis sounds the alarm, but the
Trojans, are taken by surprise. Tony forces him to tell where Doug is and he
rushes to save him. Sardis is killed; Ulysses cuts Paris down; Helen is
rescued; Troy is burned; and Tony and Doug are switched back into the Time
Vortex.
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