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Boomer: An expert at building deadly robots and weapons. Boomer often keeps to himself and his machines. Despite this, he's incredibly strong and shouldn't be underestimated in a fight.
In appearance I made Boomer slightly more pudgier than Rotor. And his arms and head attachments are removable.
Boomer doesn't like socializing but when called to, he will show up for the squad and work with them begrudgingly.
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Distant Twin (sneak peek)
Anti Mobius Sonic (later Scourge the hedgehog) has just escaped twice from No zone prison after Zonic rearrested him for stealing spare parts of giant borg (sonic super special issue 10) and vandalizing the wall "Sonic is here" in the dimension of Litigopolis where J.U.D.G.E. ruled (sonic super special issue 14). Unhearthened by his Anti boom counterpart and Anti St John, Anti Mobius Sonic returned to his dimension, overthrow Anti Sally and kicked out St John. Anti Freedom fighters weren't willing for his return but at least its better than under Anti St John. At this point, they are running out of ideas since they lose against Freedom Figther and Anti Boom Team Sonic. Hence, Anti Sally suggested that they invade Mirror Boom world, Alternate boom world and Sonic boom world as they are weaker dimension. Plus, the border between Sonic Boom world and Anti Sonic boom world is less guarded. Hence, Anti Freedom Fighter managed to invade Mirror Boom world and Alternate Boom world. As Anti Freedom fighter reached Sonic Boom world, they defeated Team Sonic easily even go as far as strangling the leader. All hope was lost until Team Sonic's villain counterpart from Anti Boom dimension defeated Anti Freedom Figther. Zonic arrested Anti Mobius Sonic to zone cop again however give strict warning to other member of Anti Freedom Figther and confiscated their weapons for 2 months. Afterward, Zonic legalized the Anti Boom dimension invasion of Anti Green Hills as reward for helping Sonic Boom world after all Anti Green Hills zone is always part of Anti Boom dimension. However, Zonic knows the main reason Anti Boom Team Sonic helped its non antiverse counterpart is to prevent Scourge from taking over his dimension.
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#Antifreedomfigther#anti sonic#Anti Sally#anti tails#Anti Antoine#Anti rotor#Anti bunny#Anti st John#anti mobius#sonicboom#boom!sonic#boom!amyrose#Boom!knuckles#boom tails#sticks the badger#anti boom dimension#Anti boom team sonic#Anti boom sonic#anti boom amy#Anti boom tails#Anti boom knuckles#Anti boom sticks#zonic the zone cop#zonic the hedgehog#nozone#archie sonic#sonic super special comic#sonic fanfiction#myartwork#sonic multiverse
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Anti Rotors got some rules
Q:I don’t know why but after seeing Rotor in that leather daddy outfit, I could picture a pair of hands going straight for his nipples❤️ A: Leather jacket Rotor can be a little bit of a handful though so watch out
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Been rewatching Satam a bit ad I noticed something. Almost every post-pubescent Mobian Male on the show wanted to fuck Sally. She was such. an it-girl. Even Antoine and a random goat dude named Griff in an episode wanted to fuck her. The one of the very very few exceptions was Rotor, and that's probably because as the token fat "ugly" dude he knew his place.
Yeah they were fatfobic which is sad because begin Chubby or fat isn't ugly.
I'm Chubby myself and I consider myself and okey Girl; not ugly or beatiful. That's where my sister shines more than me by the way.
If I was the writers of that show I would have change It for admiration afterall how could the Young princess escape the evil claws of Robotnik and still getting away from him? That's something remarkable if we go by the context if the show
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SEGA Mandates explained with their exceptions
Game characters cannot have family members unless they were established in the game canon (Because Archie went overboard).
Game characters cannot be killed off.
Sonic cannot cry or get too emotional.
Exception: Sonic Prime didn't follow this rule despite being canon.
The terms Mobius and Mobians are banned, during the early 2010s, Earth was called "Sonic's World" because they wanted to appeal to 90s Boomers who hate Sonic living on Earth without calling it Mobius, it died down later though.
Exception: Ian Flynn has stated SEGA recanonized Sonic Spinball, which takes place in Mobius, so it exists somewhere in game canon, Veg-O-Fortress even has a cameo in Sonic Origins, Ian also stated Spinball takes place in between Sonic 3 and Knuckles and Sonic 3D Blast.
The heroes must always win at the end.
Characters and elements from Non Canon media cannot be used, Cosmo and the Metarex were potentially allowed to appear but according Ian Flynn, they're off the table now, the Metal Virus serves as a replacement for Robotization, Eggperial City serves as a replacement for Robotropolis, Restoration serves as a replacment for the Freedom Fighters.
Exceptions:
Sonic liking Chili Dogs (90s Cartoons)
Eggman's "I hate that Hedgehog!" and "Snooping as usual" lines (Aosth)
Scratch and Grounder appear in Eggman's livestream in one of the covers for IDW 40
Sonic's "Let's do it, to it" line (Satam)
Sonic being referred to as the "Fastest thing alive" (Satam)
Sonic Spinball being canon again, somwhat canonizes Sally, Bunnie, Rotor, Muttski and Scratch, Ian Flynn has clarified they're just cameos for now but could be a backdoor to make them canon if SEGA chooses to (Aosth, Satam, Archie)
In one of the covers for IDW 31, Storm's mugshot mentions he was arrested by the Knothole Village Police (Satam, Archie)
Tails being afraid of lightning (OVA)
Knuckles's cowboy hat (OVA)
Vector's crush on Vanilla (Sonic X)
Cream's favorite show, the NEXT Show (Sonic X)
The Chaotix Office building appears in the Sonic Channel Comics (Sonic X)
Sticks the Badger appears in the Sonic Channel Comics and is mentioned in English Sonic Frontiers (Sonic Boom)
The Eggnet has been canonized in both IDW and the Games (Archie)
The GUN Commander's name, Abraham Tower (Archie)
Bark being mute (Archie)
Bean and Bark working with Fang as a trio, Sonic even calls them the Hooligans (Archie)
Sally and Bunnie cameo in one of the Sonic Forces prequel comics with their Archie designs (Archie)
Shadow's Chaos Spear being shaped like an actual spear that he can throw or use as a melee weapon (Archie)
Badniks from Sonic Mega Drive appear in Classic IDW (Archie)
The term, Super Badnik (Archie)
Male characters that aren't humans, can't wear pants.
Exception: Tails Nine is allowed to wear pants.
Classic Era characters aren't allowed to appear in Modern Era and vice versa, during the 2010s there was the Two Dimensions retcon because of it, however they later removed it, Team Chaotix are also not allowed to appear in Classic because they considered Sonic Heroes to be their first appearance, however Knuckles Chaotix was recanonized in Tailstube, in the same episode, they acknowledge Mighty, Ray and Fang's Gang and teased a Modern Trip, recently, SEGA is considering retiring Classic Sonic after the disappointment of Sonic Superstars.
Exception: a Classic Froggy appears in various Sonic PICT artwork
Only one Metal Sonic is allowed, not multiple (They must really dislike Shard and Metallix)
Exceptions:
Metal Sonic 3.0 from Sonic Rivals 2
Chaos Sonic and Grim Sonic from Sonic Prime were allowed
Shadow: He has the most guidelines out of any character, most of them come from SEGA wanting Shadow to remain an Anti-Hero and not be too heroic, however SEGA has easied up on these with Shadow Generations
Knuckles: Knuckles is the only Echidna and only resident of Angel Island besides Chao and Baby Animals, (Ken Penders lol), Knuckles is also not allowed leave Angel Island without a reason now, prolly due to critiques with games like Heroes
Silver: Silver's Future is off limits, only SEGA can explore that, if they ever choose to
Super Forms: Male hedgehogs are the only ones allowed to go Super, this has been changed with Sonic Superstars and Otherworld Comedy.
Humans: Due to complaints from 90s Boomers, Humans besides Eggman weren't allowed until Shadow Generations
Romance: Characters can have crushes but they can't date or get married.
Money: Only Team Chaotix can talk about money
Rings: Ian Flynn was told Rings were no longer canon, however Rings appear in Sonic Prime and cutscenes in The Final Horizon, which Ian didn't know about
Special Stages: No longer canon and Fang's bio of living in the Special Stages is retconned
Off Limits Characters: These characters can only be used by SEGA/Sonic Team only:
Eggman Nega
Black Doom
Solaris (Mephiles and Iblis)
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#sonic the hedgehog#SEGA Mandates#IDW Sonic#Sonic Prime#Sonic Spinball#Mobius#Sonic Origins#Aosth#Sonic Satam#Sonic OVA#Sonic X#Sonic Boom#Archie Sonic#sticks the badger#cosmo the seedrian#Scratch and Grounder#Sally Acorn#bunnie rabbot#rotor the walrus#Muttski#abraham tower#bark the polar bear#team hooligan#Tails Nine#Classic Sonic#Metal Sonic#Chaos Sonic#shadow the hedgehog#knuckles the echidna#silver the hedgehog
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7x03 analysis part 1 — Everything Air Ops
I promised helicopters, so now we get helicopters. I want to look into how Air Operations work in the 9-1-1 universe, in comparison to its real life counterpart in this first part. Then, I will try to figure out the location and intensity of "hurricane Ethel" during the clandestine operation in the second part. And finally, I will prove how risky it is to fly a helicopter into a storm and why Tommy deserves every bit of his Medal of Valor.
Location
Real!LAFD Air Ops operate (Station 114) out of Van Nuys Airport (VNY/KVNY). It's not only one the busiest general aviation airports in the world, it's also smack dab in between major green areas of the city of LA itself.
This location makes perfect sense in real life. Air Ops might get the occasional highway car wreck or urban structural fire calls, but most of their missions still consist of wildfire suppression and rural search and rescue. Being based at Van Nuys makes sure they can respond to emergency in a timely fashion.
in the 9-1-1 universe, the LAFD Air Ops are based at "Harbor Station", or Station 217. (Harbor and 217 are the same station, Chimney especially asked if Tommy was still at the 217 in 2x14 when requesting air support, unless the 911-verse LAFD has 2 different air operation units, which I highly doubt.) Obviously it has to be at an airport, because that's where the hangers and helipads are, and going by "harbor" I can only speculate that it's in the Harbor Region of LA.
The only non-military airport in the LA Harbor Region is Long Beach Airport (LGB/KLGB), but it's quite a busy commercial airport, probably not a good one to run emergency services from. There's also the Zamperini Field (TOA/KTOA) nearby in Torrance, although not exactly inside the Harbor Region, it's coastal and close enough to the 2 LA ports I guess? Feel free to create a whole new airport using your imagination though, as you know 9-1-1 is set in an alternate universe where geography and physics work differently.
Helicopters
The LAFD Air Ops have 5 medium (FIRE 1-5) and 2 light duty (FIRE 6/7) helicopters, you've heard Tommy in 7x04. Everything applies to the real world counterpart, but the medium type that real!Air Ops operate is AgustaWestland AW139, the Italian-made medium sized twin-engine helicopter with a 5-blade main rotor primed for emergency response and off-shore oil rig transportation.
It has auto-pilot, an anti-icing system for harsh weather and even auto-hover suitable for hoist rescue missions. In a passenger transport configuration, it can carry up to 15 passengers in a 3 row seating plan. In an SAR (search and rescue) configuration though, the middle row can be removed for gurney space. It's big and powerful enough to transport multiple patients, but at the same time, light and agile enough to get into difficult terrain.
The AW139 is designed to be flown by 2 pilots, flying solo is also possible, but only under VFR (Visual Flight Rules), with an additional certification, which LAFD pilots can and do. To fly it under IFR (Instrument Flight Rules), it always requires 2 pilots according to the FAA last time I checked.
The light helicopter type real!LAFD flies is the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X, a single engine twin-blade made in Canada. It's an relatively new airframe, set to replace the aging Bell 206, which the LAFD used to operate. It's quite a bit smaller than the AW139, it can only fit 1 pilot and 4 passengers.
While it's perfectly capable of carrying a Bambi bucket to assist with aerial firefighting missions, it's mainly used as a training aircraft for new pilots and HLCO (Helicopter Coordinator) when there is a major catastrophe that requires on-the-site air traffic coordination.
These are all brand new and sophisticated aircrafts that a mere TV channel can't get their hands on without a government budget. So for 911!LAFD Air Ops, ABC went to their usual helicopter service company for prop aircrafts.
Helinet Aviation provides all sorts of helicopter services from aerial journalism, medevac, delivery to regular chartering. All the 911!Air Ops scenes in 7x03 and 7x04 are naturally filmed in the Helinet hanger, for convenience's sake, at VNY, just a runway across from real!Air Ops.
911!Air Ops
Helinet hangar Street View
I believe I've identified all the helicopters shown in 7x03 and 7x04, but let's get the 2 in the background which probably do not belong to 911!Air Ops out of the way:
N72EH, a Sikorsky S76C++, still in its Boston MedFlight livery. Sold to Helinet in 2022, possible used as a medevac vehicle currently? Unlikely to have anything to do with 911!Air Ops, probably just happened to be in the background to make it seem like there were many helicopters.
The one Tommy flies Eddit to Vegas in is N67TV, an Eurocopter AS350B2 Écureuil (aka squirrel). No fire department would ever let employees take their expensive equipment out for a joy ride so it's likely that in universe, Tommy rented it from somewhere outside of the station. IRL though, according to this forum post, it's used as a backup helicopter for all its customer news stations, but also any TV or film production purposes outside of journalism.
Now, for the one seen in the hangar, therefore explicitly belonging to 911!LAFD:
N29HD, also an AS350B2, also a news helicopter. According to this reddit comment, it used to be shared between CBS and FOX, but now it seems to be configured as a dedicated aircraft for ABC7.
The one the who cares gang stole to rescue Bobby and Athena though has a fake registration number on it:
You just have to look up Helinet's fleet, and you will see this is obviously a DHL livery, and it's quite easy to find out that this is actually:
N211FN, an AS350B1 (so an even older variant than the previous two), operated on behalf of DHL for package delivery service.
Don't get me wrong, the AStar (how the AS350 is called in the US) is a versatile and reliable aircraft. It the 4th most produced rotorcraft in the world, someone even managed to land one on top of Mount Everest. But it's kind of small? It can seat only up to 5 passengers with 1 pilot, and there is hardly room left for any gear. There is also no space for stretcher, so anyone they rescue would have to sit upright. It's just not very realistic.
I have no idea what medium duty helicopters 911!Air Ops operate, we're unlikely to see them in the future. There is this Bell 205 in 4x12 Treasure Hunt, but it clearly says L.A County Rescue on the tail.
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Pilots
Real!Air Ops pilots wear beige flight suits, it's the aeromedics who wear blue, and helitac crews wear orange. I'm not complaining too much though, Tommy looks good in blue. (I think the chief pilot wears dark blue, but I'm not sure.)
Helicopter pilots in general usually wear helmets, in case a particularly strong pocket of turbulence slams you against the body of the aircraft, or a bird decide to fly through the windshield into your face, but I get that it gets in the way of the camera, so I'm just gonna enjoy Tommy's beautiful face.
Real!Air Ops pilots work on a 24/48 shift schedule just like any platoon firefighters. Due to the danger of pilot fatigue on aviation safety, they do try to limit their continuous flight time to 6 hours before taking a prolong break.
There are 5 levels of pilots: pilot I (trainee), pilot II (probational), pilot III (full pilot), pilot IV (lead pilot) and pilot V (chief pilot). The chief pilot oversees the entire Air Ops and work on a 10 hour per day, 4 days a week schedule. The rest of the pilots are put into 3 shifts, each shift with a pilot IV, 2 pilot IIIs and 2 trainees/probies, together with 4 aeromedics. (Can't find the most updated version, the lastest one I can get my hands on is from 2022, so good enough?) Therefore Tommy's Bobby would not be a captain, it would be a lead pilot.
I've already explained in detail the timeline of Tommy's career as a firefighting pilot, but here is the short version of it: Once accepted into the LAFD pilot training program, he would have to train with the LAPD for 180 hours then back to the LAFD for 200 hours, that takes around 2 years, and by then he would be a probie. After that, he would have to slowly build up flight hours then train and certify for all types of missions on the medium duty helicopter, that would take another 2-3 years, and after that he would be promoted to a pilot III, which is probably the rank he holds now.
We can see from the form Hen submitted in 7x03 that she initially asked for Lucy as their pilot, as she's forgotten that Tommy also worked there. Fortunately Chimney called Tommy, as Lucy most likely would've still been a probie if not just a trainee.
Melton
I have no idea who he is.
I can sort of see his badge says "firefighter"? At real!Air Ops, everyone wears a flight suit as uniform, so that they can hop into a chopper in an emergency. I don't know what a dude in a regular uniform with the regular LAFD patch on his arm doing there.
Tommy's arm has the Air Ops helicopter patch on it.
Real!Station 114 though do have a crash unit staffed with regular firefighters, maybe Melton is with them? But then, why is he doing with Hen's helicopter requisition?
#911 abc#911 on abc#911 show#911 meta#tommy kinard#tagging the ship for fic writing reasons#bucktommy#tevan#kinley
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the problem is no one these days wants to work. no one wants to climb up and start the rotors on the anti-mass spectrometer. no one wants to get away from the beam
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Swapping out the knife in favor of other weapons seems to be a ways off from my programming skills just yet, but I'm toying with some concepts for other weapons you can use against the evil hordes (all names pending):
Summon the Doss: a huge friendly statue flies through, destroying any enemies or obstacles in her way. (The statue in question is the Dame of Saint-Sernin, a Neolithic menhir or kurgan stelae of unknown significance because the French hadn't invented writing when it was carved around 3000BC)
Bell: ring it with your knife and it shoots in random directions
Eyeball Friend: this one's been with us since the earliest concept art, just your standard shmup assist shield
Knife Halo: standard video game invincibility powerup, just in the form of a spinning ring of knives
Friendly Spikeball (distinguished from other Spikeballs by its gold spikes and Zirc-teal body): poke it with the knife and it bounces away from you, hurting enemies and destroying obstacles
Good Soda Bottle: break it to release a splash of Anti-Enemy Juice (yes this does imply the existence of Evil Soda Bottle, a hazard that is harmless unless your knife or an enemy projectile breaks it, releasing a similar splash of pink Anti-Zirc Juice)
Kiwanocopter: seems to be a normal if stupid enemy until you stab its propeller off, then it falls and damages enemies underneath. Wait helicopters have rotors on top not on the side, this needs a new name
Cool S Storm: collect enough Cool S's and summon a storm of enemy-damaging Cool S's in random spots around the screen. BTW I checked and no the Cool S is not connected to clothing brands, Superman, or Nazis as various urban legends have tried to say; technically it is trademarked by a guy named Mark May but he says he just secured the trademark to prevent some big corporation from getting it first and then suing kids about it and that he's not planning on stopping anyone from using it. Guess we'll find out
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I was playing around with the idea of evil Queen Sally either banning the Internet from her kingdom or having Rotor or Nicole heavily censor it(blocking anti acorn/pro democracy sites). You see the internet allows people to exchange ideas/messages in a blink of an eye, and she can't have the peasants getting ideas or see anti-acorn receipts ...
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AL-12, M4A1, and SPAS-12 reacting to their Pilot S/O who should be in the infirmary recovering from an injury suddenly pulling them out of a tight spot!
(GFL) AK-12, M4A1, and SPAS-12's S/O saving them
THIS IS FIREBRAND, WE'RE IN THE PIPE FIVE BY FIVE CENTRAL, THIS IS BIG SKY. STRIKE TEAM IS TOUCHING DOWN NOW. STANDING BY FOR YOUR ORDERS THIS IS PEQUOD, ARRIVING SHORTLY AT LZ
...Sorry, had to get all those references out of my system.
12 hears the unmistakable noise of Griffin's Black Hawk approaching her location.
Her glowing pink eyes glance over to the distance and indeed see extraction was coming in hotter than expected.
(AK-12) "Clear the LZ. Anti-Air threats are to be taken care of first."
The other members of DEFY comply with her orders and take down the enemies surrounding them with startling efficiency.
Their ride out of the area doesn't even get a chance to touch down before everyone quickly hops on and nail every single gunner attempting to shoot them down.
Finally escaping and getting out of the combat zone, 12 turns back on her emotional processors, her eyes closing and a smile returning once the mask goes back down onto her neck.
Seeing who the pilot was made her mood all the better.
(AK-12) "Well now. Not that we don't appreciate the lift, but you should be back in base."
S/O chuckled as the bandages on their arm slightly shifted.
(S/O) "Not without you girls. Figured I could do one last fly before I take a well earned break."
12 and RPK-16 chuckled at that, AN-94 simply nodded while AK-15 sighed.
(AK-15) "Taking influence off her, I see."
12 ignored her comment and gently caressed their injured arm.
(AK-12) "Thank you, S/O. I'll make sure we put in a good word for you.~"
She sits herself in the co-pilot seat to help out, the Black Hawk escaping into the moonlight.
(S/O's Voice) "M4! Coming in hot!"
(M4A1) "What?!"
Hearing the unmistakable noise of the Black Hawk's rotors, M4 turned to the rest of the AR team.
(M4A1) "CLEAR THE LZ!"
The four of them pin their enemies down with concentrated fire, making sure they couldn't aim at their extraction.
After getting on, they continued to open fire until they were out of immediate threat range.
Finally getting a breather, ST AR-15 and M16A1 closed the doors as M4 approached S/O, realizing their leg had makeshift bandages.
(M4A1) "What are you doing?! You could have been hurt worse than before!"
(S/O) "Thought I'd take a page out of your books and try a suicidal rescue. Commander gave me the green light, if it makes you feel any better."
M4 opened her mouth, but quickly found she had no retort. Admittedly, AR Team did have a tendency to do that.
She put a hand on their shoulder as she nodded in defeat.
(M4A1) "...Fair enough. Thank you, S/O."
S/O put a loving hand on hers before returning their attention back to the controls.
(SPAS-12) "THANK GOODNESS, RESCUE'S HERE!"
Using her shield to take the oncoming gunfire, she and the rest of her echelon backed further into cover as the Black Hawk came in, letting them all hop on.
Her shield acted as a makeshift barrier, as some of the other T-Dolls fired back, using SPAS as cover.
She had no issue, her shotgun would be ineffective at this range anyway.
Once her scanners indicated they were out of the combat zone, she breathed a sigh of relief.
(SPAS-12) "Whew, thanks for getting us ou-...S/O?!"
(S/O) "Hey, SPAS. Glad to see everyone's doin' well."
Her eyes immediately saw their head which had a bloodied bandage still on.
(SPAS-12) "You're not, the heck are you doing?!"
(S/O) "Heh, don't worry. I'm not gonna crash, autopilots helping pull the weight too."
(SPAS-12) "B-But you can't just!...You might have gotten-"
Before she could say anything else, S/O gave them a gentle smile before pulling out a bag of chips, enough for the echelon.
She pouted but took the chips and smiled back.
(SPAS-12) "We're having dinner after we get you back resting in the medbay. Got it?"
(S/O) "Deal."
#girls' frontline imagines#girls' frontline headcanons#girls' frontline x reader#ak 12 x reader#m4a1 x reader#spas 12 x reader#ak 12 gfl#m4a1 gfl#spas 12 gfl
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Bob (24/24)
This is written in the style of the series 24.
Events occur in real time.
Hour 24 of 24: 09:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
09:03:32 p.m.
Aft deck of the yacht:
When you arrived at the helicopter, Tony and you were still laughing and cuddling. According to the plan, Gibbs should show up here any minute and then every second would count.
At that moment he came around the corner and suddenly his behavior changed from reserved to raging with anger.
“I knew it!” he yelled loudly, walked quickly towards the two of you, threw himself at Tony and knocked him to the ground with a well-aimed punch.
But DiNozzo recovered quickly and hit Gibbs in turn.
The men who were supposed to guard the helicopter initially just watched the fight.
The investigators continued to hit each other while you climbed fortunately undetected into the helicopter quickly, put on your colleague's helmet and then waited until the two of them had climbed in.
You sighed inwardly, because you had imagined the first test of this new development to be different.
However, immediately after takeoff you had to activate the newly developed and as yet untested whisper mode so as not to attract even more attention than you probably would have already.
At first the distraction didn’t seem to have the desired effect. But luckily the guards decided to intervene and end the fight.
But things didn't go as the guards had intended, because as soon as they reached the two fighters, DiNozzo and Gibbs attacked the men and knocked them unconscious after a short time.
The investigators then quickly climbed into the helicopter, you started the machine and immediately activated the whisper mode.
You all hoped that the machine's silent mode would give you enough time until take-off speed was reached.
And you were lucky, because the machine started up very quickly, but the other guests, startled by the sounds of the fight, were already running over.
There was great indignation when they saw that the rotor blades were moving faster and faster and the machine was ready to take off. They didn't like the fact that their new acquisition was literally about to disappear and so they ran towards it.
John, who had also rushed over, was horrified for a different reason. He couldn't believe it when he got to the landing platform as he saw who was getting into the plane.
"Those are NCIS agents!" he shouted loudly, blowing their cover.
Don saw the whole thing completely differently, because he was completely astonished when he saw the helicopter take off and could only mumble: "I knew I knew that Kitty. That's Y/N Y/L/N. I didn't know she could look so hot..."
Admiral Connelly, or Bob for that matter, was furious, because he was in danger of losing his money if the plane took off. He had to prevent that with all his might.
He stormed onto the bridge and shouted at the crew on duty there:
"Arm your weapons, they mustn't escape!"
09:10:34 p.m.
In the helicopter:
The engine was now running at full speed and the rotor had reached the speed required for takeoff when Gibbs and Tony jumped into the helicopter.
“We have to get off the ship as quickly as possible, everything is about to blow up!!!” Gibbs yelled and you took off.
But as soon as you lost contact with the boat, you three saw machine guns and an anti-aircraft gun emerging from the deck of the yacht.
“Go, go, GO!!!” Tony shouted now too.
Under fire you climbed and climbed into the air. The helicopter had some secret new developments, but unfortunately it was not bulletproof, which is why you were hit several times.
Due to the range of the guns on the boat, however, it was difficult for you to escape without being shot down first. So you activated the on-board guns, armed the missiles, aimed at the yacht... and fired.
It was a direct hit and the boat was destroyed with a huge bang in a large explosion.
The large fireball and the pressure wave of the detonation hit the helicopter, which you were able to intercept quickly.
Relieved to have survived, you said: "Let's get home now," pulled the throttle lever and you flew away at top speed.
Fortunately, you didn’t encounter the FBI's F-18 Super Hornets on their way.
09:45:12 p.m.
Stillwater, Pennsylvania:
Since the helicopter was obviously not housed in a particularly secure location at the Quantico base, you flew to a completely inconspicuous location where there were more than enough opportunities to hide it until better accommodation was available.
In fact, you landed outside Gibbs' hometown of Stillwater and you put the machine in a disused mine there.
To be on the safe side, you activated stealth mode and called in NCIS internal guards.
After Gibbs, Tony and you had secured everything, you decided to rent a car in the nearby small town for the trip back to Washington, D.C.
You set off and walked silently next to each other for a while. Then Tony and you started talking about the past 24 hours.
A lot had really happened. And there were many developments that no one had expected.
In the middle of this conversation, Gibbs suddenly intervened and said: “That was a good job, Y/L/N. NCIS has a new job for you. Report to headquarters tomorrow morning at 08:00 a.m.”
You looked at him confused and replied: “Yes, sir.”
“Don’t call me ‘sir’,” he reprimanded you, grumbling.
You nodded. Then he turned to you again and grinned mischievously: “And as soon as we arrive in Washington, I’ll invite you to dinner so we can get to know each other better.”
You looked at him in amazement. What was he planning?
At that moment, DiNozzo spoke up enthusiastically: “Wonderful idea! I suggest we go to the new restaurant in…”
He didn’t get any further because he was rudely interrupted by Gibbs:
“You’re not invited, Tony. There are only two of us going.”
Poor Tony stopped and gaped in amazement. He looked like a fish.
Gibbs instead hooked your arm through his, walked with you towards his hometown and maybe he would introduce you to his father while he was there.
The End
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Overhaul/Update version for one of my proudest works, a main cover art(?) for my little project call Robotnik AU.
Characters list:
Upper row/section (above Movie Eggman's hands), from left to right: - Sonic.exe (the utmost terrifying OC/FC from the creepy pasta thingy) - Queen Boom Boo, Merc version (OC/FC made by Dan-Habiki/@Dan_Daymaker) - King Boom Boo - Lah - Su & Uh - Shadow the Hedgehog (Team Dark) - Rouge the Bat (Team Dark) - E-123 Omega (Team Dark) - Dr. Eggman Nega - Doctor Albert W. Wily (Megaman, Archie comics) - Honey the Cat - Breezie the Hedgehog - Bocoe & Decoe + Bokkun - Dark Oak/Lucas - Dark Queen/Merlina - Erazor Dijinn - Coconuts - Scratch & Grounders - General Helmut Von Stryker - Anton Veruca (Shogakukan magazines) - Junior Robotnik - Captain Whiskers & Johnny - Opal the Jellyfish (Pirates of the Setting Dawn) - Dive the Lemming (Pirates of the Setting Dawn) - Blade the Shark (Pirates of the Setting Dawn) - Captain Shellbreaker (Pirates of the Setting Dawn) - Mr. Bristles the Yeti Crab (Pirates of the Setting Dawn) - Mephiles the Dark - Silver Sonic - Dark Enerjak (Knuckle) - Nazo (appeared in Sonic X's last teaser) - Eggette/Omelette Robotnik (famed OC/FC originally designed by Alpha Gamboa (blackbookalpha)) - Infinite the Jackal - Solaris - Black Doom - Eclipse the Darkling - Black Death - Dark Gaia (Perfect form) - Metal Sonic - Iron Queen aka Regina Ferrum - Time Eater - Mammoth Mogul - Iron King aka Jun Kun - Imperator Ix - Wendy Naugus - Bearenger the Grizzly (Witchcarters) - Carrotia the Rabbit (Witchcarters) - Falke Wulf (Witchcarters) - Walter Naugus - Fleetway's Super Sonic - Shade the Echidna - Boomer Walrus aka Anti Rotor - Patch D'Coolette aka Anti Antoine - Princess Alicia Acorn aka Anti Sally
Middle section (below Eggman's hands), from left to right: - Speedy (both Pre and Post-Super Genesis Wave versions) - Sage - T.W. Barker - Dave the Intern - Sleet & Dingo - A.D.A.M. - E.V.E. - Lyric the Last Ancient - Zor - Zash (OC/FC made by @saccharinerose) - Zeena - Zazz - Zomom - Zavok - Master Zik - Agent Stone (Sonic movies 2020/2022) - Orbot & Cubot - Wes Weasely - Snively Robotnik - Dr. Robotnik (Sonic movies 2020/2022) - Thunderbolt the Chinchilla - Predator Hawk (Destructix) - Anti-Miles - Scourge the Hedgehog - Storm the Albatross - Wave the Swallow - Jet the Hawk - Rosy the Rascal - Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg (Destructix) - Sergeant Simian (Destructix) - Fiona Fox (Destructix) - Duck "Bill" Platypus - Bark the Polar Bear - Bean the Dynamite - Drago Wolf (Destructix) - Nicolette 'Nic' the Weasel - Razorclaw - The Foreman (Grandmaster) - Hugo Brass - Diesel - Flying Frog (Destructix) - Geoffrey St. John - Hershey the Cat - Nack the Weasel/Fang the Sniper (Team Hooligan) - Fleetway's Chaos (Darkon fish form)
Lower section, from left to right: - Dr. Finitevus - Grimer Wormtongue - Dr. Fukurokov - Dimitri the Echidna - Maw the Thylacine - Mecha Sally - Mecha Sonic - Mecha knuckle - Jackal Squad, named by Nibroc-Rock as Uno, Deux, Trois, Quatre, Cinq & Sei (Shadowy figures) - Kayseri Valaedshkova (OC/FC made by dirtthefox/@Its_Dima_V) - Strike (OC/FC made by @speedofsoundsketches) - Surge the Tenrec - Kit the Fennec - Sofia the Gorgon (OC/FC made by Sofia-MMD/@GorgonSofia) - Clutch the Opossum - Kaibette the Genet (OC/FC made by @kaibette) - Rough & Tumble the Skunk - Battle Lord Kukku XV - ***Mecha Robotnik - Akhlut the Orca (both Pre and Post-Super Genesis Wave versions) - Tundra the Walrus - Mordred Hood (drawn with @adokle's style) - The Foreman/Tassel boy (Post-Super Genesis Wave) - Mimic (the Mimic Octopus) - Byte the Goat (OC/FC made by @bunniibones) - Lightning Lynx - Iblis - Phage - Conquering Storm (Post-Super Genesis Wave) - Bride of the Conquering Storm (Pre-Super Genesis Wave) - Dr. Starline - Biolizard - Sigma (Megaman, Archie comics) - Axel the Water Buffalo - Abyss the Squid - Cyani the Cobra (OC/FC made by @bunniibones) - Cipher the Owl (OC/FC made by @bunniibones) - Bleak (OC/FC made by HT-Doodles/@HtDoodles) - Clove the Pronghorn (my top fav among all the characters here) - Cassia the Pronghorn - Lien-da - Chaos - Tikal the Echidna - Pachacamac - Gae-Na - Kragok - Thrash the Devil - Warden Zobotnik & Znively (Zone Cop) - Belinda & Charlie - Nephthys the Vulture - ??? (Behind Nephthys) - Trevor Burrow the Mole (Desert Raiders) - Sonar the Fennec (Desert Raiders) - Spike the Porcupine (Desert Raiders) - Razor the Shark - Queen Angelica - Rusty Rose - Robo Tails (Brain-washed, based on Sonic Lost World's designs) - Beauregard Rabbot - Jack Rabbit - Matilda the Armadillo - Zefir (my main OC/FC) - Gamer Deer (aka 'Aleko' the Northamer Guard or the 'Gamerdeerdude' by @adokle) - Zonic (Zone Cop) - Chesah the Tarsier aka No.29 (my OC/FC) - Sandy the Caterkiller (OC/FC made by @the-hydroxian-artblog)
For the Alt version: FeReinsm on Instagram: “Overhaul/update versions for one of my proudest works, a main cover art(?) for my lil’ project - Robotnik AU. For the 2nd and 4th pics…”
#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sonic fanart#idw sonic#archie sonic#sonic au#sonic fan character#sth#jim carrey#dr robotnik#dr eggman#eggman#egg bosses#sonic characters#sonic villains#crossover#dr starline#clove the pronghorn#cassia the pronghorn#surge the tenrec#kit the fennec#shadow the hedgehog#rouge the bat#team dark#babylon rogues#team hooligan#metal sonic#agent stone
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Sonic Crack Ships
So lately I've been going through a Sonic phase though its mostly a Tails phase if im being honest with myself. I've been trying to watch all the Sonic media and read all the Sonic comics that I can while playing a few Sonic games here and there. So my messed up brain came up with this stupid idea. What if I put every version of every canon Sonic characters from all Sonic media into multiple rounds of the hunger games simulator until only ones left. So I did that and even though I literally did it yesterday I already forgot who won I just remember it was something stupid. I also did it with all the diffrent canon and AU versions of Tails I could find and the winner was actually Tails from Sonic Boom. But anyways im getting off track where im going with this is that today while I was doing nothing lying in bed my brain came up with an even more messed up idea. What if I put all the Sonic characters not including the humans into a random wheel picker on Google to form a bunch of crack ships. So I did it for every character on the wheel. I now have a list. And I have decided to post this list because I find it funny. And I dare people to draw a couple from this list together or make a short cute crack story about one of these ships. And if you do please send a link to me. Ill die laughing if anyone does this. Sorry if I misspelled some names. P.S. I tried to put pictures on here for each character but I couldn't figure out how. I already have a part 2 for this in the works with even more characters.
Rosy the Rascal x Dark Doom
Scourge the Hedgehog x Trip the Sungazer
Mephiles the Dark x Silver Sonic
Ray the flying Squirrel x Rouge the Bat
Espio the Chameleon x Whisper the Wolf
Sage x Metal Amy
Storm Beard x Tumble the Skunk
Tiara Boobowski x Duck Bill Platypus
Cat (from Sonic Freedom Fighters) x Sonar the Fennec Fox
Hangry x Johnny Lightfoot
Gaia (Light, Dark, or both) x Megan Acorn
Tangle the Lemur x Silver the Hedgehog
Thrash the Tasmanian Devil x Sails
Thorn Rose x Vector the Crocodile
Monkey Khan x Fang the Jerboa
Jack x Tikal the Echidna
Prim x Chip
Werehog Sonic x Blaze the Cat
Nicole the Holo Lynx x Catfish
Knuckles the Dread x Sonic the Hedgehog
Zector the Zone Cop x Metal Tails
Wave the Swallow x Morian Blackthorn
Infinite the Jackal x Mighty the Armadillo
Vermin the Cybernik x Super Mecha Sonic
Porker Lewis x Zails the Zone Cop
Geoffrey St. John x Nazo the Hedgehog
Metal Sonic 3.0 x Manic the Hedgehog
Rocket the Sloth x Eclipse the Darkling
Marine the raccoon x Metal Scourge
Sonia the Hedgehog x Red
Black Rose x Dingo
Metal Knuckles x Nine
Charmy Bee x Neo Metal Sonic
Zknuckles the Zone Cop x Knuckles
Vanilla the Rabbit x Ebony the Cat
Rusty Rose x Perci
Mecha Sonic x Jet the Hawk
Bark the Polar Bear x Emperor Metallix
Mangy x Amy Rose
Sally Acorn x Griff
Fleetway Sonic x Tails the Fox
Bean the Dynamite x Zonic the Zone cop
Nasty Hyenas (the whole group) x Sticks the Badger
Metal Sonic x Stripes the Tiger
Batten x Storm the Albatross
Fiona the Fox x Cream the Rabbit
Anti Tails x Shade the Echidna
Bunnie Rabat x Shadow the Hedgehog
Antoine x Zooey the Fox
Sonic.exe x Jules (yes I know this is Sonics dad in the comics)
Ifrit x MinaMongoose
Rocket Metal Sonic x Tekno the Canary
Avatar x Big the Cat
Zantoine the Zone Cop x Gnarly
Chaos x Rotor the Walrus
Bunny Bones x Anti Sally
Zouge the Zone Cop x Zespio the Zone Cop
Denizen 1998 x Tails Doll
Mecha Knuckles x Honey the Cat
Rebel x Sleet
Knucks x Pseudo Sonic
Solaris x Zally
Nack the Weasel x Athair
Ball Hog x Carrotia
Grand Battle Kuku 15th x Lupe the wolf
Roxy the waiter x Lien-Da
Number 16 Speedy x Alicia Acorn
King Max Acorn x Bearenger
Lawrence x Burning Blaze
Elias Acorn x Fiest the Panda
Ari x Roller
Sallybot x Queen Aleena
Da Bearz (both of them) x Fockewulf
Julie-Su x Dr. Finitevus
Ms. Possum x Catty Carlisle
#crackship#sonic the hedgehog#rosy the rascal#mephiles the dark#silver sonic#ray the flying squirrel#rouge the bat#espio the chameleon#whisper the wolf#sage#metal amy#tiara#cat#art challenge#hangry#johnny lightfoot#gaia#tangle the lemur#silver the hedgehog#sails the fox#thorn rose#vector the crocodile#monkey khan#fang the sniper#fang the weasel#fang the hunter#tikal the echidna#prim rouge#sonic the werehog#blaze the cat
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🎵 Hope in Work and Joy in Leisure
4. "Nothing in history is guaranteed. But revolution is still a possibility."
THE DESERTER - "No." He blinks his black eyes. "The material base for an uprising has eroded, the working class has betrayed mankind and themselves..."
"The historic opportunity for a revolution has passed. It will not come back anymore. However hard I try, whatever I do."
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - So that's why he's 'the deserter.'
"Once a deserter, always a deserter."
Don't say it.
THE DESERTER - "I have done everything a man can do. What have *you* done?"
KIM KITSURAGI - "We keep people alive. We help them survive, whatever the ideological situation. Day in and day out."
THE DESERTER - "Survive?" The old man spits into the dead fire. "For *what*?"
2. "You said you deserted your unit?"
THE DESERTER - "I was just sixteen years old, fifteen when I volunteered. I had a lapse of faith..." He clears his throat. "And of courage too."
"Lapse of faith?"
"Understood."
THE DESERTER - "You could say I misunderstood the historic role of the proletariat, and thought Mazovian socio-economics were fallible. For a second I doubted the irreducible laws of historic materialism."
"A second is all it took."
"For what?"
THE DESERTER - "For Reaction to take hold."
"What's Reaction?"
"It wasn't Reaction -- you were just afraid."
"Yes. We all have a tiny bourgeois person in us, trying to run away."
"And when was this exactly?"
THE DESERTER - "Petty-bourgeois terror. It's in all men."
2. "Yes. We all have a tiny bourgeois person in us, trying to run away."
+1 Communism
THE DESERTER - He does not seemingly react to what you said. Only his right brow moves a little.
RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - He does not believe a police officer is genuinely revolutionary.
KIM KITSURAGI - "And this was... when?" The lieutenant instinctively looks to his notebook, but does not take it out.
THE DESERTER - "May the 13th, '08, 44 years ago," he looks north. "The horizon was black with Coalition airships. Their petroleum rose to the sky and it looked like... like it *formed* the clouds. Storm clouds. When they started shelling it was... dark magic."
"Dark magic?"
"That's enough. Another thing..."
THE DESERTER - "The combined might of international capital, all at once -- all the greed and terror in the world -- tore into Revachol. It lifted streets from the ground and turned houses into ghosts. We were in the flak tower..." He gestures toward it.
"…huddled on the floor. The artillery was eighty kilometres away in Ozonne but I *knew*, I knew the Commune would fall. We would all be turned into ash. So I said I was going to the map room…" He looks east.
AUTHORITY [Easy: Success] - A terrible shame, still within him. The lobes of his ears are red with it, the shame and smallness of what he became.
"You didn't go to the map room."
"What then?"
THE DESERTER - "No. I climbed the chain link across the water and hid inland. In the bunkers there, like the weakest of the weak... a mouse. Frightened of the ordnance all night and the sound of the rotors in the morning, whirring -- *thith-thith-thith...*" He looks at the sky.
"What was that?"
THE DESERTER - "Airships. I climbed out." He closes his eyes: "Into hell. The Landing was complete. The chain was submerged, I had to swim back. The fortress was half submerged too. Shattered."
"They'd all drowned in the lower levels, or got torn to shreds above. The anti-aircraft gun had malfunctioned -- so had I. I left them without ideological direction..." He opens his eyes and stares right through you. "It was real. I'd seen it. I'd seen it *in reality*."
HALF LIGHT [Medium: Success] - Some kind of great terror. Worse than you've ever seen.
"Seen *what*?"
"That's definitely enough now."
THE DESERTER - "The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone -- everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed."
"And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death… the sweetest, most courageous people in the world." He's silent for a second. "You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*."
"What?"
THE DESERTER - "That the bourgeois are not human."
"You've lost your mind."
"I've always suspected the same..."
"That's definitely enough now."
Say nothing. Let him finish.
+1 Communism
KIM KITSURAGI - "Now is not the time, Lieutenant-Yefreitor..." The lieutenant says, gently.
THE DESERTER - "I had to. I *had* to fight it. I could not stop anymore..." The old man falls silent. His black eyes keep piercing your skin as he looks to some great distance behind you, shaking his head slowly -- retreating from it.
3. "What is this place? This island..."
THE DESERTER - "It's not an island, droite." He looks around. "It's a defensive fortification of the Commune of Revachol and I am its last surviving defender."
"What was it used for?"
"Understood." (Conclude.)
THE DESERTER - "The congenitally deformed King Filippe II built it to restrict access to the Bay of Revachol. We captured it in '02, retrofitted the fort with an AA gun to defend against an airborne landing -- against the whole world."
"You mean the Landing? Retaking of Revachol?"
THE DESERTER - "Coalition military called it Operation *Death Blow*." He winces. "I later found out, on the radio. They called it..."
"*Death Blow*. You're one of them. Tell me, who speaks like that? We had 50 million people on Caillou alone..."
"First, I'm not *one of them*."
"Coalition military."
"Someone who's come to end this madness."
"Murderers. I know what you mean."
"Tell me something else."
THE DESERTER - "Sure you are, you're RCM. Answer me -- who calls an operation against 50 million people *Death Blow*?"
3. "Murderers. I know what you mean."
+1 Communism
THE DESERTER - "You *don't* know. You haven't seen it..." He shakes his head, slowly. "Iblis..."
"Iblis?"
"Understood -- Iblis."
THE DESERTER - "The black-eyed angel," he nods.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] - Sha'i'tan, Ahura, The Darkened One.
4. "How have you survived all this time?"
THE DESERTER - "How does anyone survive?" He looks at his worn running shoes. "I *steal*."
"What do you steal?"
THE DESERTER - "Supplies, vegetables..." He winces. "I collect rainwater. It's the life of a dog, not a human being." He coughs once more, then puts his hand on his belly...
KIM KITSURAGI - "How is your health, Mr. Dros?"
THE DESERTER - "I've been throwing up blood since winter. Red, like beet root -- been passing it in stool too..."
VISUAL CALCULUS [Medium: Success] - He does seem frail, gaunt for his age, more like 75 than 65. Trouble putting on weight could mean cancer.
KIM KITSURAGI - "The RCM can provide medical services. You need to be looked over."
THE DESERTER - "I *need* to die." A droll smile stretches across his mouth. "You don't have medical facilities, you have guns. That's all they give you, toy guns."
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Medium: Success] - You also have Drouamine.
"We have *drouamine*. And other opioid based painkillers. You must be in pain."
"This is a serious situation. You need to be looked over and we can do it."
"How have you coped -- mentally?"
"Thank you for clearing that up." (Conclude.)
THE DESERTER - "I *have* been running out of that stuff..." A light goes on in his eyes. He smacks his dry lips.
PAIN THRESHOLD [Medium: Success] - - There's no way he could manage the pain without them. It's safe to say he is addicted to painkillers by now.
2. "You like that drouamine, don't you?"
THE DESERTER - "It's the little joys..." A crooked smile appears on his face. "A dark joke. A sunshiny day. Morphine..."
3. "This is a serious situation. You need to be looked over and we can do it."
THE DESERTER - "There's nothing to look over. The triage is in and it's black. Administer morphine. Moribund."
4. "How have you coped -- mentally?"
THE DESERTER - "I haven't. I have holes in my brain. Years missing, others filled with pain only. A decade of..." His eyes roll into his skull and back...
"I don't even know what… *Inferno*?"
(Nod appreciatively.) "I also live in Hell."
"I also have holes in my brain." (Point to your head.)
(You notice the lieutenant is about to say something.)
KIM KITSURAGI - "I would imagine it gets tremendously difficult -- mentally -- to live in isolation."
THE DESERTER - "Traitors. It's better alone." He nods toward Martinaise. "I watched the people of this city turn the lights back on, more and more each year. Ruins, glimmering in the dark, like a fucking merry-go-round..."
"It's disgusting…" He looks down at his shoes; his face parched from the sun and the wind -- there's a wince of pain in there somewhere.
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - Are they not heartbroken? How could they have moved on?
5. "How have you concealed yourself all these years?"
THE DESERTER - "It was hard in the '10s..." He shakes his head. "I didn't have partisan training, they were searching for stragglers, those bloodhounds..." He closes his eyes. "Floodlights on the water at night."
KIM KITSURAGI - "There were posters. Campaigns."
THE DESERTER - "We communards still hoped and they needed to snuff that hope out. The East capitulated, Martinaise and Coal City were turned to dust..." He looks south. "But Jamrock, Faubourg, even Couron; and Boogie Street of course -- those fucking kipts had Mazov coursing through their veins..."
"And others too. Some cordons of Revachol were still fighting. There were cells, I tried to contact them..." He shakes his head. "Soon they all went silent. The frequencies, dead."
"How did you get between here and the mainland?"
THE DESERTER - "At night. I used a dinghy..." He nods toward the deflated tyre in the reeds. "I only went after dark then. When I got to the city I stayed underground. Patrols. You lot. The commons too, they'd started snitching..."
KIM KITSURAGI - "In the city you move underground?"
THE DESERTER - "From bunker to bunker..." He nods. "Not anymore, no one cares now, I don't even have to hide. They think I'm another antisocial vagrant. I could walk straight into that town if I wanted. I just..." He falls silent, his gaze fixed on the shacks huddled together across the water.
"Why don't you just walk there?"
"The weapons cache under Saint-Ghislaine 22B." (Point to it.) "In the basement. Have you been there?"
"There's a small bunker under the Feld building. Have you stayed there?"
"One more question -- do you smoke Tioumoutiri cigarettes?"
"Tell me another thing…" (Conclude.)
THE DESERTER - "I don't want to. They're all traitors -- pigs, rabbits, and dogs. Men without ideals are only animals."
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - He does not want to see life moving on. People forgetting. Drinking. Laughing.
2. "The weapons cache under Saint-Ghislaine 22B." (Point to it.) "In the basement. Have you been there?"
THE DESERTER - "So you finally found it." He looks at you -- then pulls the raincoat tighter around his neck. "There must have been a small squadron's worth of arms in there. Belle-Magraves, right?"
"They were."
"They were damaged beyond use."
THE DESERTER - "Useless now. Rusted away..."
KIM KITSURAGI - "So you've been there?"
THE DESERTER - "Sleeping..." He coughs. "Some nights. Ammo-scrounging on others. Those Magraves were shit even before they corroded -- some had bullets in the chamber, however."
+5 XP
VISUAL CALCULUS [Medium: Success] - You *feel* the dots connecting. Little dots on the map he's walked across.
3. "There's a small bunker under the Feld building. Have you stayed there?"
THE DESERTER - "The propaganda bunker?" He coughs. "I used to, but not anymore."
+5 XP
KIM KITSURAGI - "Propaganda bunker?"
THE DESERTER - "They stored leaflets there, broadcasting equipment too. Made broadcasts, I think. Propaganda officers... I buried them with their leaflets. They killed themselves. Two young boys."
"Killed themselves?"
THE DESERTER - "A lot of our boys did... I spent some winters there. Never liked it. Kept thinking of them..." He stares at the ruins of the Feld building. "No need to go underground anymore. It's better in the ruins on the ground."
4. "One more question -- do you smoke Tioumoutiri cigarettes?"
THE DESERTER - "I do." He coughs.
"Ever smoke them on the mainland?" (Point to Land's End.)
THE DESERTER - "They're good." He nods. "Plenty of tar. I like that boy on the pack too. Reminds me of the last century."
+5 XP
5. "Tell me another thing…" (Conclude.)
THE DESERTER - The old man looks inland: at the city, the ruins, the motorways rising above it. The new *batiments* twinkling in the evening sky.
6. "You said this is your *termless surrender*."
THE DESERTER - "You're with the RCM --" He waves in your general direction. "The Coalition-appointed mob that enforces bourgeois morals in Revachol. A so-called 'lieutenant double-yefreitor'..."
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3 March 1953. First flight of the Bell XHSL-1 (Model 61). American anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter built by Bell Helicopter company, the only tandem rotor design designed by Bell.
@ron_eisele via X
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Are the ArchieSonic comics actually an 80's/90's syndicated cartoon? Episode 58: We have to save the environment, and so do you!
Welcome back to my look at the ArchieSonic comic series, and how it shared a lot of the same story tropes as a typical ‘80s or ‘90s syndicated cartoon! Hey kids, did you know that saving the environment is a totally radical thing to do?
Episode 58: We have to save the environment, and so do you!
Environmentalism was a big part of cartoons in the 80’s and 90’s, which often would have episodes dedicated to telling kids about the dangers of pollution or the importance of recycling. There were some cartoons whose entire premise even revolved around this, such as Captain Planet and the Planeteers, and Widget the World Watcher.
Many ArchieSonic stories used environmentalism as a plot device, especially in the early issues. But that’s to be expected when the main villain of the series likes polluting just for the sake of polluting. Honestly, Dr. Robotnik would have fit in quite well with the Captain Planet villains.
Let’s start by looking at issue #3’s story, “The Bomb Bugs Me!” where Sonic overheard Robotnik planning to wipe out his enemies with a bomb. The Freedom Fighters decided to set up a fake protest to keep Robotnik and his forces occupied while they stole the bomb.
This led to a pretty funny sequence where Rotor attempted to sneak into Robotnik’s office in disguise.
But when they got the bomb back to Knothole and attempted to disarm it, it turned out to be not what they were expecting:
Whoopsie doopsie.
Then there was issue #7’s story, “Uncle Chuck’s Treasure.” After coming across a treasure map belonging to Sonic’s Uncle Chuck, the Freedom Fighters headed out to the Natural Park to track the treasure down. Things didn’t exactly go to plan though.
To make matters worse, a pair of patrolling Swatbots overheard the Freedom Fighters were on a treasure hunt and informed Dr Robotnik, who came roaring in with a bunch of badniks to ruin the day.
Sonic cleverly turned the toxic environment against the robots, but Robotnik managed to get away with the treasure.
For all the good it did him. 😛
Issue #11’s story, “The Good, the Bad and the Hedgehog,” started out with Robotnik trashing the environment again, but took an unexpected turn when Sonic tried to take a shortcut to get there quicker and accidentally wound up on Anti-Mobius, encountering his evil twin for the first time.
But of course Sonic managed to defeat him and get home in time to save the day.
Issue #12’s story switched gears a little bit with Robotnik being savvy enough to use his anti-environmentalism to lure Sonic into a trap. When Robotnik started cutting down the Great Forest with his new mobile monster chainsaw, Sonic of course raced to stop him.
But the chainsaw secretly housed a time teleporter that was able to zap Sonic when he got close enough and send him back to dinosaur times. …and then this happened.
Bleh.
There are probably other issues from those early days that I could cite, but you get the idea. After the comics had been around a couple of years there was less focus on stories about pollution, but they still popped up every now and then. One of the most significant stories to focus on saving the environment was in issue #110. In a prior issue, Princess Sally had turned over all intelligence they had on Dr. Eggman to their allies in Station Square. Unfortunately Station Square’s defense systems were run by an AI, and after that AI had analysed all the data it had decided that Dr. Eggman was a threat that had to be taken care of immediately. Thus it decided to go full Skynet and launch nuclear missiles at Robotropolis. That was great news in that Eggman would be wiped out, but not so great news for the residents of Knothole, who would get poisoned by the nuclear radiation.
Sonic and Tails raced to Robotropolis to warn Eggman of the incoming peril so that he would shoot down the missiles before they got too close, but Eggman smugly reminded them that he didn’t need to do that - his impenetrable forcefield would keep his city safe while the surrounding environment got wasted. Luckily Sonic and Tails were able to interfere and made sure that Eggman only activated the forcefield after the missiles were already within its radius.
Eggman and Snively were robots and so they were eventually able to download themselves into new bodies, but they had to set up a new base of operations because from this moment onwards Robotropolis was a nuclear wasteland contained within a radiation-proof bubble.
You would think that after getting nuked that that would be the last we’d hear of Robotropolis, right? Well actually no - that radioactive wasteland actually came back as an ongoing plot point. When Sonic returned home from space in issue #130, Eggman decided to give him a homecoming present. And what does one get the hedgehog who has everything?
Why, more nuclear missiles of course! One was aimed at Knothole, and the other at Station Square. And deciding that overkill was just enough kill, Eggman decided to throw in a bonus gift by sending his robotic armies to destroy the forcefield keeping Robotropolis’ nuclear radiation safely contained. While Sonic and Tails led a team to Old Megapolis Harbour to stop the missile launch, King Acorn’s forces, led by Antoine’s father General D’Coolette, defended Robotropolis from the incoming horde of Swatbots.
Knuckles, Julie-Su and Mighty came to lend a hand too, and they were also joined by Rouge and the forces of GUN. But play of the day goes to Vector and Amy Rose, who single-handedly took down the first waves of invaders.
The ruins of Robotropolis wouldn’t come up again for awhile, until after the AI ADAM attempted to take over the planet with self-replicating nanites. After that plot was thwarted Nicole took control of the nanites and used them to create the city of New Mobotropolis, which was incredibly convenient when Eggman bombed Knothole and everyone needed a new place to live.
New Mobotropolis got its energy from a power plant that siphoned radiation from the ruins of Robotropolis and converted it into safe, clean energy. So in issue #207 the Iron King attacked Robotropolis with the intention of taking away the Freedom Fighters’ power source.
King Acorn’s armies tried to fight him off unsuccessfully, and Sonic and Monkey Khan also struggled to slow him down when they showed up to join the fight. Sonic managed to outsmart the Iron King though, talking him into sparing the shield protecting the environment if Sonic and Monkey Khan allowed him to smash the power siphon that powered New Mobotropolis.
The forces of evil were not happy when they later found out they’d been played.
After Eggman returned to power he also tried to strike at New Mobotropolis’ power source, this time by sending in an undercover agent to strike from within: Operation: Deadly Cuddles.
I will never for the life of me be able to figure out why Evan Stanley decided to design the Tails Doll’s monster form to look like a… that, but I guess I get the genital… er, general idea of what she was going for. 😛
In the post-reboot era of the comic, one could argue that the entire series became about saving the environment. With the entire planet shattered in the Sonic Unleashed adaptation, the main goal of the heroes became to save the planet and put the pieces back together. But there are two environmentally-focused stories that immediately spring to my mind, both of them taking place from issues in issues #260 - 263: Waves of Change and Light in the Dark (and its immediate follow up, Consequences).
Sonic, Rotor and Amy were sent on a mission to locate a possible Gaia Temple on the coast, presumably somewhere in Soumerica. What they found instead was an underwater shrine that was being used as a chao garden, under the care of the priestess Coral, along with her apprentice Pearly and friend Razor.
Coral’s job was to care for the chao, in particular Aquarius, who helped to maintain the shield that protected the nearby city of Meropis. Coral was still somewhat new to her position and under a lot of pressure, facing prejudice from the royal family and armies of Meropis who were blaming her for everything that was going wrong and thought that Princess Udina should have gotten the job instead. One of the problems Coral was being blamed for was pollution being washed into the city that was only being kept at bay by the shield. When Aquarius the Chao failed to be reborn from her cocoon on schedule, the King and Queen threw a temper-tantrum and stripped Coral of her title as priestess. Things got pretty bad as the devastated Coral was unable to keep the shield up, letting the dark gaia monsters into the city.
It took the intervention of the Freedom Fighters, Chaos, Tikal, and the newly reborn and now-immortal Aquarius to save the day.
Thankfully with the God of Destruction Water vouching for Coral, the King and Queen saw reason and restored her title. The cause of the pollution plaguing their city was also discovered:
While Sonic, Amy and Rotor were busy in Meropis, Sally was leading Tails, Bunnie and Antoine on a mission to recover a Chaos Emerald. Sally had managed to hack Dr. Eggman’s files, and she and Nicole discovered a mine where Eggman had his forces digging for one of the mystical gems. The plan was to disable the security sensors, get in, find the emerald, and get back out without Eggman ever knowing they were there, so that he would waste his time and resources drilling for something that wasn’t even there any more. However that plan changed when they got inside the mine and saw it for themselves.
Deciding to do their bit to save this environmental wonder, the heroes let the security sensors detect them and fought off badniks and an E-1000 robot to escape the mine with their prize, giving Eggman no more reasons to continue drilling there.
The Freedom Fighters knew that there would be consequences for letting Eggman know that they'd stolen something he'd already called dibs on, but they decided they could live with that.
Are there any other environmentally-focused stories in ArchieSonic that I missed? Let me know in the comments! Next week I’ll be covering episode 59: “stranded in the ocean.” Sonic’s favourite episode, clearly. :P
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