The Master Machine

The Master Machine is the last of the comics in the Captain N: The Game Master series.

Plot
The comic begins with Princess Lana showing Kevin Keene the new Master Computer System for the palace defenses. With it, the princess never has to worry about sneak attacks by Mother Brain ever again. Kevin reacts in a jealous way, because he is meant to defend the palace.

However, Mother Brain sends an electrical lightning bolt to corrupt the computer into thinking that Princess Lana is Mother Brain and vice versa. While Lana and Kevin take a walk outside, enemies from Metroid, Punch-out!! and Kid Icarus attack. The palace defense system creates a force field to beat them back, but just as Lana and Kevin are about to go back inside the palace, a warp zone in space is created and Lana is kidnapped, while Kevin is recognized as an ally. He demands the computer to tell him what it did to Lana. She is rendered unconcious by stun gas and, because the computer thinks she is Mother Brain, states it will kill her in one minute.

However, Kevin makes up a plan to convince the computer that it is making an error despite its claims that errors are impossible by shooting a hole through the palace. He manages to make the computer pause killing the princess, and is given fifteen minutes to get to the power core in the palace. While on his way, Kevin deals with challenges that the computer presents him, such as work robots, auto-piloted vehicles and animated cookware.

Meanwhile, Mother Brain joins her army outside the palace, and walks right through the force field, since the computer mistakes her for the princess. Kevin makes it to the power core and hooks his gun to central power core, threatening to destroy the computer. However, Mother Brain intervenes and scorches Kevin's hand, making him drop the gun. Kevin tries desperately to convince the computer that Mother Brain is the enemy, and not Princess Lana. Kevin then realizes that the whole plot was Mother Brain's doing, and suggests that Mother Brain turn over her weapons, calling her "tall, wet and ugly." Mother Brain complies, but Kevin thinks that she has not turned them all over. Then, she destroys the computer, saying that "she has brain power." Now that she has destroyed the computer, her army can enter the palace, but Kevin uses his belt to pause her and reprograms the palace defenses to attack Mother Brain. She and her army retreats, with Kevin kissing princess Lana to wake her up.

Trivia

 * This is the only Metroid specific Captain N comic where Samus Aran does not make any appearances.
 * The end of the comic mirrors that of fairy tales such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty where the princess is kissed by their one true love to wake them from the spell they are under.