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Chuck vs The Uprising, The Aftermath
A/N: First things first, I'm not saying there's a sequel, yet. The way Uprising ended always bothered me. I'vve been playing God of War which deals a lot with the Norse Gods….and I'm having thoughts…I have no idea if this will be a story, it's just something in my head that if you enjoyed the first one, I thought I'd throw it out there and see what the readers thought…
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, I do own God of War, and this is all Cas's fault…
2 ½ years after the fall of the Machines
He sat at his computer, staring at the message. He didn't think it was possible, but he was scared. During the fight against the Machines he wasn't scared, but now, he was. He had never feared death, but now he knew she was alive, and his enemy was coming for him. The fight had to be taken to him, but how? He rolled over to table, and pulled out the newest report his assistant had given him. He read the notes Laszlo Manhoski had written on the hypothesis that the remaining tower in the Badlands could be used to make small machines the size of insects. Laszlo called them replicators.
He turned back to his computer and read the message for the tenth time. H is sending the Norseman for you. B. It couldn't be taken literally, because Hela was the ruler of Hel and the daughter of Loki. Chuck had been called Loki during the Uprising, so it was obvious these were codenames. H was Hela who had to be Volkoff, which meant B was Baldr. Baldr had to be Frost, or as he knew her, his wife. Mary Bartowski. She was alive. He was going to find her, no matter what it took. He was going to save his wife.
3 ½ years after the fall of the Machines
"Jack!" Chuck yelled chasing down the toddler. He scooped him up, the little boy giggling in his arms. "What am I going to do with you?" The little boy giggled again and Chuck blew a raspberry onto his cheek.
"Are you behaving, young man?" Chuck heard Sarah say. Jack laughed again and saw his mother, grinning at him. Chuck put him down, and the little boy sped walked to her. Sarah scooped him up.
"Daddy, when's Grandpa coming home," Molly asked, who was following along behind Sarah. Chuck looked over at the empty house. He had left a year ago to go on a scientific mission to the Badlands. They had kept in touch using the wrist computer, but Stephen had been very guarded in what he was doing. Chuck wondered again if he shouldn't have gone with him.
"I'm not sure, Sweetie," Chuck replied. Sarah started to round up the children to go into the house. Chuck heard a noise, and turned around. There was something in the sky making a buzzing sound. He watched it, curious. It looked like a ball, with a glowing orb in the middle, and it was moving his direction. He stood there and realized how close it was. His eyebrows shot up and he started to run when his wrist computer went off. As he turned to run, he saw the words on the computer. "I'm sorry."
Chuck stopped in his tracks and looked back at the orb. His computer went off again. "I need you." Chuck took a deep breath, and stood still, facing the orb that was right in front of him. Sarah came out of the house, and saw what was going on.
"CHUCK!" she screamed as the ball seemed to grow arms, grab Chuck by the shoulder, and put his head into the opening. She ran to him as his body convulsed. After a few minutes it was over, and she caught him, as he fell backwards, and the ball simply lost its integrity and small parts began to rain down to the ground, sounding like Legos hitting the floor. "ELLIE!" she screamed. Ellie came running out of her house next door. She took one look at the scene and directed Sarah to get Chuck to Stephen's workshop.
A few hours later, Chuck opened his eyes, looking at a very nervous Sarah, and an irritated Ellie.
"I didn't do it," he croaked, his throat feeling dry.
"Oh, I know you didn't," Ellie said. "I know exactly what happened." She shoved a piece of paper in front of Chuck. He glanced at it, and the flash began. After it was over, he dropped back on the bed, the mother of all headaches beginning.
"What did he do?" Chuck groaned. Ellie turned on the TV, and they saw Moscow under attack by the same things that had carried this new Intersect to Chuck. "Dad," he groaned.
"He's going after mom," Ellie said, making Chuck blink his eyes and try to sit up. Sarah helped him.
"I don't understand," Sarah said.
"Years ago, our mother was kidnapped in Russia," Ellie explained. "We found out she was forced to stay or Chuck and I would be killed. A crazy weapon manufacture, Alexi Volkoff, fell in love with her. We know this, because she sent us information over the years. I've always thought the reasons the machines did what they did was to hide us from Volkoff. They tried to carry out Dad's thoughts when he entered the machines, but Dad…"
"Dad's mind is all over the place," Chuck added. Ellie nodded.
"So this time they're going for Volkoff," Sarah said. Ellie nodded again. Sarah looked at Chuck. "I'll get Hogan, looks like we're going to Moscow." Chuck stared at her. "Oh, don't you give me that look! You know you're going, and there's no way I'm letting you go alone! Plus if we leave Casey behind and there was a shootout…"
"He would be so mad," Chuck said, grinning. "The messed up Warriors three ride again?" Sarah nodded, grinning. "Admit, you missed it just a little, didn't you?" She bounced a shoulder and headed out.
"I'll tell Devon he has to watch all the kids," Ellie said. Chuck looked at her. "You sure aren't going without me." Chuck grinned at her as she walked over to her computer and started to do some work.
"Hold on, Mom, we're coming," Chuck said, as he watched Moscow in the monitor.
A/N: So the voice actor for Kratos from God of War is Christopher Judge who starred on Stargate SG-1. Cas mentioned replicators to me the other day and my mind went a million miles a minute. Look, I have no plot figured out, I have nothing, not even a crazy dream. If there's interest…I'll see what we can do… Hope you liked it, reviews and PMs are always welcomed…Take Care
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pacrim for the fandom meme?
Favorite Male Character: stacker pentecost (and i have not seen uprising because i don’t acknowledge it but i also love jake pentecost)
Favorite Female Character: mako mori!
Least Favorite Character: toss up between hannibal chau (yawn) and irritating kaiju fanboy newt
Favorite Ship: mako/raleigh!!
Favorite Friendship: i guess in ones we’re shown, tendo and the beckett brothers was actually really great. aside from that, i’m gonna say platonic ship in general and say mako and stacker.
Favorite Quote: oh god. “today we are cancelling the apocalypse”? “you can fight the hurricane”? there are so many idk where to start.
Worst Character Death (if any): RIP stacker, the triplets and the kaidonvskys. and also chuck, i guess.
This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: god i still love just about every single moment of mako vs raleigh in the kwoon it’s so great.
Saddest Moment: “you can always find me in the drift” this is fine.
Favorite Location: the shatterdome, naturally.
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So I have some Thoughts™
Just came back from seeing Pacific Rim: Uprising and there was just so much going on, I’m still trying to process it all.
Spoilers below! (obviously)
So... it was pretty good. Sequels have a tendency to be awful, and it definitely wasn’t that, but in my opinion, it also definitely did not live up to the first one. For a few reasons (and I’m gonna try so hard to keep this brief).
I think, overall, some of the original characters were ignored in favor of introducing about ten new faces that didn’t get any character development. (And that love triangle was less than pointless.) I know making a sequel means adding new characters, but it also means respecting and expanding upon the characters that are already there. And Mako Mori did not get an ounce of respect in this movie. She absolutely did not deserve what happened to her.
I liked what they did with Newt, and it did make sense, given how stupidly ambitious he could be in the first movie, I just wish they had, I dunno, done more with the struggle he was clearly going through? The scene where he realizes he’s hurting Hermann and has to wrench himself away was so great, and I wanted more of that. I think there could’ve been a clearer fight for control in his brain because from the way it played out, it just looked like he was straight up evil. At the very least, I wish it had been Hermann to confront him in the final scene, not Jake. Being faced again with someone he actually cares about vs. someone he barely knows would’ve made a much better impact. So, good plot line, but I think execution could’ve been better.
Hermann was the only original character that I have no complaints about. He was fantastic, I love him, and I will stan him forever (yes, I am using that word now).
The only other major issue I had was that we still don’t know what the hell happened to Raleigh and/or Herc. Are they dead? Are they happily retired? Where are they and why was Chuck left out of Pentecost’s sacrifice story when he sacrificed himself too?? Maybe he was on that wall of fallen pilots but I did not see him. And I’m very sad about the fact that Mako died without ever seeing Raleigh again.
Overall... it could’ve been a lot worse, but it also could’ve been better. Let’s face it, the original is a tough act to follow. Looks like they’re definitely setting up for a third, so we’ll see where that goes. If Newton Geiszler does not get his redemption, I will personally murder everyone.
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🔥 fanfic trope/s
I hate modern AUs. There are a few, very rare exceptions, but part of the reason I love the literature I do is because it’s set in a time period that fascinates me, and because the characters I glom onto are shaped by and a reaction to the times in which the author lived. I don’t want to read about Enjolras in a Starbucks, or Elizabeth Bennet going to college. I want to read about their historically specific struggles. Enjolras loses his fascination for me when he’s not shaped by a legacy of constant political upheaval, of state repression battling against populist uprisings, of Romantic notions of the apocryphal and the sublime. Lizzy’s not nearly as interesting of a character when she isn’t a part of that Romantic move to escape into nature, blended with the Enlightenment/ Georgian struggle of private vs public self, undergirded by the Napoleonic social struggles of individual liberties vs social contracts that bind together society. Plus then you loose the clothes! The cloooooothes why would you chuck historical fashion for jeans and a T-shirt. (because it’s way more comfortable, less expensive, and allows for greater ease of movement BUT STILL)
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Events 10.14
1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings. 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England. 1656 – The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends. 1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch. 1773 – The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm. 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. 1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France. 1843 – Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy. 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia. 1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. 1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene. 1898 – The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106. 1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series. 1910 – English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C. 1912 – Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. 1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners. 1915 – World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers. 1920 – Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories. 1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference. 1939 – World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland. 1940 – World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz. 1943 – World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout. 1943 – World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt. 1943 – World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president. 1947 – Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound. 1949 – The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government. 1952 – Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952. 1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism). 1957 – The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada. 1957 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia. 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba. 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. 1964 – The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices. 1966 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system. 1968 – The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew. 1968 – The 6.5 Mw Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured. 1968 – Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds. 1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers. 1975 – An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground. 1979 – The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people. 1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat. 1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. 1991 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1994 – Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government. 1998 – Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. 2003 – The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. 2004 – MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board. 2004 – Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed. 2012 – Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere. 2014 – A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people. 2014 – The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win. 2015 – A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others. 2017 – A massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others.
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World Building League Building: Elite Status and Championships
Ever wondered about how a Champion is chosen? How the Elite Four were chosen? Or even why things changed in the way things were done? Well, we’re going to answer these questions in-depth here and now. And it’s probably going to be more detailed than you want it to be, but buckle up and get your thinking caps on because here we go. This is primarily GameVerse, too, so keep that in mind.
To begin, we’ll start at the beginning. Kanto- the origin of the games. To understand where we’re at and how far we’ve come, we must understand the beginning. In the very first games (and their remakes of FireRed and LeafGreen) the story line went as such; Rocket ran amok. You took them down. You defeat the League. You defeat the E4. You defeat your rival (who became Champion mere moments before you did). You are now Champion.
Let’s start with this. Championship, at the time, was flimsy and had no real basis behind it. It took Kanto a mafia’s uprising and downfall, a snot-nosed loudmouth, a selectively mute 10 year old fleeing, and Giovanni’s resignation as a gym leader to realize they needed something to keep the region stable. Someone. Championship, after this realization, began to mean something entirely different.
A Champion, after this time, became someone who helped keep the region stable. It was no longer just a title to be passed away to anyone who defeated you. It was also at this time that the Elite Four changed purpose. After the events of Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, FireRed, and LeafGreen, the Champion became one person. One person and one person only. The title of Champion became something like a very heavy responsibility (or, as Steven saw it, a heavy burden). The entirety of the League was reshaped.
As a trainer, you have a rank. As a trainer taking the Gym Challenge, this rank depends on the number of badges you have. Hobbyists excluded. Of all trainers that take the Gym Challenge, 80% drop out somewhere around the 4th badge. Only less than 10% make it to- or get- the 8th badge and less than 4% ever make it to the Elite Four. The rank names are dependent on your region, however anyone with 6 to 8 badges, no matter the region, is considered an Ace Trainer. This is typically where you begin to meet Ace Trainers in-game.
The Gyms and Gym Leaders are there to test your skills as a trainer. They have specializations of their own and use handicaps against their main team to teach you and show you as much as possible in the little time you have with them. In the limited battle time, they try and teach you all they can. Once you conquer all eight gyms, you then go through Victory Road and then to the Official League. The Elitists. With the exceptions of Kanto-to-Johto (i.e. Red-to-Gold or FireRed-to-HeartGold), these Elite Four members NEVER CHANGE.
The Elite Four are the most BRUTAL trainers in their region. In reference to Geoforza’s post, specializing in a specific type gives you leverage. You know the ins and outs, how to raise them, the best possible move sets, and so on. The Elite Four are hand-picked because it’s no longer about testing them and making sure the trainer is up for the lifestyle. It’s about showing them the issues that come with it. The horrible side of battling, battling people who show no mercy. They are there to STOP you before you reach the Champion.
The Elite Four are the toughest of the tough. The strongest four trainers in their regions. In all honesty, if the current Champion or the Protag Champion had to face the Elite Four back-to-back (like in the games) when they were using the team they grew up with and raised and were the most used to- not even that Champion would be able to get through all four. No matter how well built their team is. The first- and even the second- time you battle the Elite Four they’re pulling their punches. Because if they DID go all out, you would never make it.
Against all four, back to back, nobody would. Furthermore, all official League Members from Gym Leaders to the Elitists to the Champion have all eight badges of their region. There are few exceptions, but they are few and far between. However, what makes a specialist different from another specialist? Why isn’t, say, Wallace an Elitist and Phoebe the Gym Leader?
There had to be something special about them. Something that happened that made them different. No E4 member started their journey as a trainer and went straight for the Gyms. More than likely, they spent quite a few months, years even, with their starter Pokemon. Their Starter that most likely determined their specialization later. This gave them the leverage they needed- they learned the ins and outs of their Pokemon, of that type, and probably devoted themselves to that type before they even took the Gym Challenge.
This means that by the time they did take the challenge, they were probably showing WAY more expertise than they should have been by the 4th badge. In Geo’s post, he explains that Giovanni beat Red (considered to be the ‘strongest trainer’) with a type disadvantage. This is the power a gym leader would have when not holding back. But there’s a reason the E4 is called the Elite Four. Why they never change.
During the Gym Challenge, the Elite Four proved themselves more than capable by annihilating the gyms (probably sweeping the match) and only really having difficulty over the Champion when battling him. Even against other trainers of the same type (i.e. Marshal vs. Chuck or Shauntal vs. Morty), they would have smeared the competition. The exceptions to that being the matchups like Sidney vs. Grim, Shauntal vs. Phoebe, Marshal vs. Bruno, etc.
The Elite Four are all certified masters of their respective types. These trainers are the cream of the crop and were probably trained to be champion but denied it because they did not want to have to give up the time they could spend learning even more about their specialty to practically govern a region. They probably assist the Champion a lot but would otherwise turn the title down.
The Champion title is not just a title. No. Just beating the past Champion will not make you the Champion. Instead, it gives you the OPPORTUNITY to become the Champion. If you decide you want that, you’ll learn. You’ll learn under the current Champion, take lessons from the Elitists, and maybe even go through classes to learn.
Because it’s not just a title. It’s not all fun and games. It’s not about being the toughest trainer in the region. It’s about maintaining your region, about keeping track of everything that happens within it, keeping relations with other champs/regions for trades and so on.
So beating the champion gives you the opportunity to become a champion. In order to become one, after the classes/learning and such, you would fight the E4 again and the champion AGAIN to prove “yes, I’m ready” which is why the E4 pull their punches less the second time you fight them. You’re going for the real thing this time and they’re there to show you that they’ll be behind you if you can do it/choose to do it, but it’s going to be harder.
The first time you defeat them, it’s a title- a badge of honor you parade around like “haha, I beat them!” However, the second time, because you’re taking the title completely, it’s a lot tougher. There really is no third time (where the E4 has different/stronger Pokemon), as nobody but another Elitist can defeat an Elitist when going at full force.
#hc.#[ &&. headcanon! ]#((BRINGS THIS BACK))#((AND CRIES))#((THANK U SOMUCH ASPEARBARRY I LOV E YOU))#((YOU'RE THE ABSOLUTE GREATEST))
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Argentina Teeters, Protests Rage, Glaciers Melt: Weekend Reads
(Bloomberg) -- Want to receive this post in your inbox every day? Sign up for the Balance of Power newsletter, and follow Bloomberg Politics on Twitter and Facebook for more.Argentina is teetering on the edge of an economic abyss while its neighbor Chile is watching its glaciers melt at an alarming rate, and China is massing its troops on the border with Hong Kong.Dive into these and other stories that chronicle the week’s major political events with the latest edition of Weekend Reads. What Life at Center of Chaos Looks Like for Argentine BusinessesAfter two sovereign defaults this century, small business owners in Argentina are well versed in navigating times of crisis. But even they were left floundering by the latest rout. With presidential elections still 10 weeks away, they were left wondering how much worse it can get. Jonathan Gilbert, Jorgelina do Rosario and Patrick Gillespie report.Macron’s Quiet Summer May Turn to Anger as Voters Return to WorkPresident Emmanuel Macron has spent three weeks in the Cote d’Azur, south of France, alternating between the beach and preparing for a delicate G-7 summit on Aug. 24. While Macron himself doesn’t face voters until 2022, Gregory Viscusi reports any turbulence would be an unwelcome backdrop for local elections that are essential for developing his three-year-old party.Xi’s Dilemma: Send Forces Into Hong Kong, or Wait Out ProtestersThere’s signs China is preparing to mobilize mainland forces to quell the weeks-long uprising in Hong Kong. The question now is whether President Xi Jinping will actually do it. The protesters, meanwhile, have raised the stakes with actions to inflict economic pain as they push for leader Carrie Lam’s resignation and other demands to loosen Beijing’s grip on the city.Hong Kong’s Massive Protests Raise Ominous Questions About 2047When the U.K. agreed to return Hong Kong to China, “One country, two systems,” was shorthand for Beijing’s pledge to maintain the city’s character for 50 years — and the possibility that by the time 2047 rolled around, the systems would have converged. But as Matthew Campbell reports, that’s now unlikely.It’s Democracy vs. the Hackers as the 2020 Election ApproachesThe front line to protect the integrity of the U.S. presidential election is in a Springfield strip mall, next to a Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurant. As Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report, it’s there that a couple dozen bureaucrats, programmers, and security experts are working to prevent a replay of 2016, when Russian hackers breached voter registration rolls.Protests Pop Up Across Russia as Putin’s Popularity, Economy DipYevgeny Dubinin had never been to a demonstration before. But he was so angry authorities had refused to register opposition candidates in Moscow’s city council election that he couldn’t sit at home. The protest-arrest cycle represents the biggest public challenge to Vladimir Putin’s two-decade rule since in 2012, Irina Reznik and Ilya Arkhipov write..Where America Flirted With Its Own ChernobylThe Three Mile Island accident four decades ago turned the U.S. against nuclear energy. Now the complex is closing just as some say it still has a role to play, writes Will Wade. Today, nuclear energy is at the center of a complicated debate — while cheap gas has upended the economics of operating reactors, questions about whether to shut one down involve more than the bottom line.Gaza Needs Cement to Rebuild, But Israel Dominates the MarketGaza needs concrete, and lots of it. In the 2014 war, some 11,000 housing units were destroyed, and an additional 160,000 sustained damage — affecting more than a quarter of the families in the territory. As David Rocks and Yaacov Benmeleh write, Israeli-Palestinian politics have hampered the pace of recovery.The Walls Are Closing In on Cyril RamaphosaWhen Cyril Ramaphosa succeeded Jacob Zuma as South Africa’s president, he promised a “new dawn” after nine years of misrule that hobbled the economy. But as Michael Cohen reports, 18 months later, hopes have dissipated that the former labor union leader can orchestrate a turnaround.Modi Has Limited Options to Boost Economy in Locked Down KashmirPrime Minister Narendra Modi says his move to revoke Kashmir’s autonomy is about boosting its economy. But as Archana Chaudhary and Bibhudatta Pradhan report, observers say it will take more than rhetoric to bring investments to a state that’s lost more than 42,000 lives to conflict in the last three decades.And finally … Chile has one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water outside the north and south poles. But its abundant glaciers are melting fast, with the ice mass now retreating one meter per year, Laura Millan Lombrana reports. The formations also happen to cover some of the massive copper deposits that make Chile the world’s largest producer of the metal — and uncovering those minerals also threatens to hasten the glaciers’ demise. To contact the author of this story: Ruth Pollard in New Delhi at [email protected] contact the editor responsible for this story: Kathleen Hunter at [email protected] more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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(Bloomberg) -- Want to receive this post in your inbox every day? Sign up for the Balance of Power newsletter, and follow Bloomberg Politics on Twitter and Facebook for more.Argentina is teetering on the edge of an economic abyss while its neighbor Chile is watching its glaciers melt at an alarming rate, and China is massing its troops on the border with Hong Kong.Dive into these and other stories that chronicle the week’s major political events with the latest edition of Weekend Reads. What Life at Center of Chaos Looks Like for Argentine BusinessesAfter two sovereign defaults this century, small business owners in Argentina are well versed in navigating times of crisis. But even they were left floundering by the latest rout. With presidential elections still 10 weeks away, they were left wondering how much worse it can get. Jonathan Gilbert, Jorgelina do Rosario and Patrick Gillespie report.Macron’s Quiet Summer May Turn to Anger as Voters Return to WorkPresident Emmanuel Macron has spent three weeks in the Cote d’Azur, south of France, alternating between the beach and preparing for a delicate G-7 summit on Aug. 24. While Macron himself doesn’t face voters until 2022, Gregory Viscusi reports any turbulence would be an unwelcome backdrop for local elections that are essential for developing his three-year-old party.Xi’s Dilemma: Send Forces Into Hong Kong, or Wait Out ProtestersThere’s signs China is preparing to mobilize mainland forces to quell the weeks-long uprising in Hong Kong. The question now is whether President Xi Jinping will actually do it. The protesters, meanwhile, have raised the stakes with actions to inflict economic pain as they push for leader Carrie Lam’s resignation and other demands to loosen Beijing’s grip on the city.Hong Kong’s Massive Protests Raise Ominous Questions About 2047When the U.K. agreed to return Hong Kong to China, “One country, two systems,” was shorthand for Beijing’s pledge to maintain the city’s character for 50 years — and the possibility that by the time 2047 rolled around, the systems would have converged. But as Matthew Campbell reports, that’s now unlikely.It’s Democracy vs. the Hackers as the 2020 Election ApproachesThe front line to protect the integrity of the U.S. presidential election is in a Springfield strip mall, next to a Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurant. As Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report, it’s there that a couple dozen bureaucrats, programmers, and security experts are working to prevent a replay of 2016, when Russian hackers breached voter registration rolls.Protests Pop Up Across Russia as Putin’s Popularity, Economy DipYevgeny Dubinin had never been to a demonstration before. But he was so angry authorities had refused to register opposition candidates in Moscow’s city council election that he couldn’t sit at home. The protest-arrest cycle represents the biggest public challenge to Vladimir Putin’s two-decade rule since in 2012, Irina Reznik and Ilya Arkhipov write..Where America Flirted With Its Own ChernobylThe Three Mile Island accident four decades ago turned the U.S. against nuclear energy. Now the complex is closing just as some say it still has a role to play, writes Will Wade. Today, nuclear energy is at the center of a complicated debate — while cheap gas has upended the economics of operating reactors, questions about whether to shut one down involve more than the bottom line.Gaza Needs Cement to Rebuild, But Israel Dominates the MarketGaza needs concrete, and lots of it. In the 2014 war, some 11,000 housing units were destroyed, and an additional 160,000 sustained damage — affecting more than a quarter of the families in the territory. As David Rocks and Yaacov Benmeleh write, Israeli-Palestinian politics have hampered the pace of recovery.The Walls Are Closing In on Cyril RamaphosaWhen Cyril Ramaphosa succeeded Jacob Zuma as South Africa’s president, he promised a “new dawn” after nine years of misrule that hobbled the economy. But as Michael Cohen reports, 18 months later, hopes have dissipated that the former labor union leader can orchestrate a turnaround.Modi Has Limited Options to Boost Economy in Locked Down KashmirPrime Minister Narendra Modi says his move to revoke Kashmir’s autonomy is about boosting its economy. But as Archana Chaudhary and Bibhudatta Pradhan report, observers say it will take more than rhetoric to bring investments to a state that’s lost more than 42,000 lives to conflict in the last three decades.And finally … Chile has one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water outside the north and south poles. But its abundant glaciers are melting fast, with the ice mass now retreating one meter per year, Laura Millan Lombrana reports. The formations also happen to cover some of the massive copper deposits that make Chile the world’s largest producer of the metal — and uncovering those minerals also threatens to hasten the glaciers’ demise. To contact the author of this story: Ruth Pollard in New Delhi at [email protected] contact the editor responsible for this story: Kathleen Hunter at [email protected] more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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Chuck vs The Uprising Ch 9, The Ride of The Valkyrie
A/N 1: Sickness in the family, daughter in 2 plays and more regional and state competitions than I can shake a stick at. I've missed this, I promise you more than you've missed reading. March looks to be even more busy, but I'll write when I can. It's my mental health escape from my Asperger's and I need it. Enough about me, let's go.
A/N 2: Apparently the fanfiction website is having an issue getting out alerts about stories right now. If you are interested, I am posting all of my work on my tumblr, davidcarner. You're welcome to follow if it helps. As pointed out by several, Chuck is getting taken advantage of…A LOT…in this story. What does that say about my dreams? I don't know. (Sorry Zac) This chapter…please remember this is a dream I had, it is Sci Fi, and don't ask me to explain to you exactly how it all works because I have NO idea. Ch 9. Ride of the Valkyrie
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, Terminator, Norse Mythology, Richard Wagnar, or Bugs Bunny…you all have seen What's Opera, Doc…right…right?
Frigga watched the monitor as the status bar slowly loaded. It was currently at 89%.
"I thought this union was supposed to go smoothly?" she asked, becoming irritated…again.
"Well, he's not dead," the words came to the monitor. Frigga's eyes narrowed.
"What about the third upload?" she asked, scared to hear the answer.
"I predict few problems," the screen replied.
"Given your assurances about the other two, that doesn't comfort me one bit," she said, her head in her hand.
}o{
Ambulance on the way to Frigga's headquarters
"Hogun, are we being played?" Valkyrie asked. She blamed herself for this. No, not her, Chuck. He wouldn't quit, with his kindness, his heart, his love…he had caused her to lower her guard and now he lay there motionless. But could she really have prevented this? If she was honest, this was bigger than her. She felt things she didn't know she could, and the fact this happened the day after she finally gave in to herself…she felt like she had to blame herself. She knew, deep down, if he was awake, he'd tell her she was wrong. He'd tell her what they had couldn't be taken away. She knew what she had, and now, she didn't have to wonder anymore. She would do whatever it took to get him back, she didn't care who she had to go through. Hogun's words pulled her out of her thoughts.
"I don't get it, Valkyrie, IF Frigga is his sister-" Hogun said.
"We don't know that she is," Valkyrie replied, cutting him off. "All we know is that she never denied it. Actually we don't know that, she may be setting us completely up."
"You're going to slice them from end to end," Hogun said, not asked. Valkyrie looked at him, her blue eyes flashing.
"I going to send them straight to the gates of Hel if they've hurt him," Valkyrie said softly, but intensely.
}o{
Frigga's base
"That's it, Systir, protect him," Frigga said, smiling.
"You know that's us she's talking about sending to the gate of Hel," the monitor read.
"Maybe that will make sure you don't hurt him," Frigga said testily. "How much longer?" The monitor popped the status back up. It was at 99%. "That last 1% could take an hour," she muttered. No sooner than she said it, it turned to 100%
"You were saying?" the screen read.
"You may be more annoying without a body," Frigga said.
}o{
Ambulance
"Uhhh," Chuck moaned. Valkyrie grabbed one of his hands and put her other hand on his shoulder.
"Chuck?" she asked, worried.
"What's that noise?" he asked.
"It's a heart monitor," Casey said.
"It needs to stop," Chuck said, holding his head.
"Chuck," Valkyrie began, but then she realized. She turned and looked at the heart monitor; it was off. She looked back at Chuck, he was looking back at her.
"That's better," he said. "Hi, Beautiful, sorry if I scared you. Thanks for turning that thing off Casey." Sarah just stared at him.
"I didn't turn it off," Casey said, he was about to say more when the vehicle stopped moving. "We've stopped." He looked out the back window and saw vehicles behind them and a stop light a block further down. "It looks like nothing's really changed here, and it's like it was before the machines came. We're probably stopped at a stoplight."
"I wish it'd turn so we can go on," Chuck said. "I want to get this over with." Suddenly they heard a squeal and a crash in front of them. Casey and Sarah shared a look.
"Chuck me," Casey said, opened the door, hopped out, and looked. The light was green in front of them, and from the way the two drivers were arguing in front of them, all the lights were green. Casey turned, his mouth opened. Sarah hopped out, holding Molly, and looked around. "He's affecting electrical objects."
"Casey, they said Ragnarok," Sarah said. "Ragnarok is the battle between the powers of Hel led by Loki and the Aesir. That includes Frigga, and Odin. Is Chuck going to face off against his family?"
"Are those two really his family?" Casey asked.
"Really?" Chuck said, climbing down. "You two haven't figured it out?" he asked, smiling. "It's okay, if it wasn't for whatever happened, I wouldn't know," he said as he pointed at his head. "The Norse terminology wasn't used until the machines showed up. Their father, or…"
"Odin," Sarah said, starting to understand. "They pulled him in. Odin is Orion." Chuck nodded.
"Apparently Dad's consciousness or something," Chuck said. "They, well, the machines that Dad controlled, apparently took Ellie that day, but they named her Frigga."
"Why?" Sarah asked.
"Best I can figure out, it was a truce between Dad and the machines," Chuck said. "Ellie was put in charge of marriages, and family. This side of the world got to live normal, Dad would quit trying to destroy the machines. The only destroyed T-800 we know of is in the Governor's sector."
"So what does this mean?" Hogun asked, wary of Chuck. He assumed Chuck was in control of himself, but what if the machines…
"Hogun, if you try anything, I will personally end you," Sarah said. Casey blinked. He wasn't about to go after Valkyrie.
"Guys, I know where we need to go," Chuck said. "We can end this. We can finish them, I just need one more update, and I need you two." Sarah walked right up to him.
"I don't like this," she said.
"I am aware," Chuck said grinning.
"You are soooo gonna owe me," she replied, a smirk growing.
"I'll gladly pay up, but I need the Valkyrie to ride one more time," Chuck said. He looked up at Hogun. "You too, big guy." Casey grinned.
"I get to shoot things?" Casey asked. Chuck nodded. "Of course I'm in!" The guards that were driving the ambulance were watching them, not sure what was about to happen. Chuck finally turned to them.
"Is there something else we can ride in?"
}o{
Over ten hours later, the team pulled up at their destination. Sarah, holding Molly, and looking less like Valkyrie every passing moment, was rolling her eyes at Chuck.
"I'm just saying, of everything to survive, Vegas?" Chuck said.
"The world's ending, or so people think," Sarah replied. "Where do you think most people will go in their last hours? Those that have families would go to them, but others….Vegas makes a lot of sense, one last hurrah before the world ends." Chuck stood there nodding. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"Inside these doors are either my family, that I thought was dead, or the most evil plan-" Chuck didn't get any further when an ear splitting shriek hit them and the front door burst open. Before Sarah or Casey could react, a brunette blur hit Chuck right in the chest and grabbed hold of him. Sarah was about to pull the crazy woman off, when an arm grabbed her neck and pulled her in as well.
"You're all three alive!" she cried.
"Ellie, you're killing us," Chuck choked out. Ellie let go and pulled back. Tears were in her eyes. She turned and looked at Sarah with admiration and love. Sarah nearly stepped back, but it was too late, she pounced again.
"Thank you!" Ellie said. "You kept him alive, you loved him, you protected him, and you gave him hope!" Ellie pulled away, looked at her, and pulled her back in again.
"Ellie, she is the Valkyrie, you might not want to upset her," Chuck warned.
"Hush, Chuck, I'm hugging my sister," Sarah said. Ellie squealed even more. Casey had his eye shut, wincing. "Meet your niece." Ellie reached in and took the little girl. "This is your Aunt Ellie," Sarah said. Molly cooed, and Ellie pulled her in again with her free arm.
"Holy hell," Casey said. "I've seen it all." Ellie broke the hug, handed Molly to Sarah walked over, and punched Chuck right in the arm.
"What did I do!"
"You didn't get captured with me," she said.
"Dad," Chuck said, and Ellie nodded. "Crap, he sent those machines to get both of us. Before that we were never in a position, were we?"
"He was dying, Chuck," Ellie said. "The machines were trying to keep him alive, but couldn't. They needed him alive or his consciousness would float in those things forever, messing with them. I was the one they had to have, but they wanted you. If you had been here sooner little brother, this might already be over." Sarah stepped up beside him.
"No it wouldn't," Sarah said. "He wouldn't have us to watch his back." Ellie's smile was huge.
"You're right, now, shall we go inside and continue the family reunion?" Ellie asked. They all nodded and headed in. "Dad was able to hold back the machines and keep this part of the world as it was. We let those crazy theories run wild in the rest of what remains of the US. It was awful, but we only had so many resources, and we had to try to win this war."
"Is Dad going to survive this?" Chuck asked. Ellie took a breath, and set her shoulders.
"I don't know, Chuck," she said. "What I do know is he won't rest until he fixes this mess." Chuck nodded. "What we need you to do is dangerous."
"That's what being the trickster is all about," Chuck said grinning. Ellie gave him a grin.
"I figured you'd be pleased to have the code name Loki," Ellie replied. They all stopped as they reached the control room and saw the huge chamber that housed the body of Stephen Bartowski. Chuck walked up to it. There was a screen attached to the chamber.
"Glad you could make it son," the screen read.
"Why didn't you tell me you were coming that day?" Chuck asked.
"It was all I could do to control the machines, I didn't have the ability at that time to send a message and do what needed to be done. I wanted both of you back, but I had to have Ellie to survive," Stephen said. Chuck nodded.
"Dad, we need you to survive this," Chuck said.
"Let's defeat the machines, and then go from there, okay?" the screen read. "There is a third upload, the one that will give you the power to turn off the machines. What I need you to do is make sure to broadcast it over their internal communication hub to each other."
"Are we gonna do Independence Day to them?" Chuck asked grinning. Casey grunted in confusion.
"It's a movie where to beat aliens humans put a computer virus into the aliens' systems, destroying them," Ellie explained. "And, basically, yes."
"So how do I get in?" Chuck asked.
"Why can't you just upload the program since your already in the machines, Odin?" Casey asked.
"The program is incompatible with me in my current state," Odin answered. "Look, Son, I'm not going to lie, this one…it's going to hurt, and it may knock you out."
"How long?" Sarah asked.
"Not too long," Odin answered. "Two or three days, max."
"TWO OR THREE DAYS!" she screamed.
"TWO OR THREE DAYS!" Ellie also screamed. Chuck had never seen a screen look nervous before, but he was pretty sure he it did right then.
"He'll be alright," Odin assured them. "Once the three merge, Chuck will wake up, we'll attack the T-800, Chuck will figure out how to turn off the power to the T-800, and turn on the transmitter to infect the other seven machines."
"That doesn't sound quite so easy," Chuck said.
"I don't like this," Sarah said, giving the screen a threating look.
"Breaking the screen won't hurt him," Ellie said.
"How many?" Chuck asked, grinning.
"Dozens," the screen said. Chuck laughed.
"I'm the only one, huh?" he asked. "So ,what will happen while I'm out?"
"Supercomputer genius here thinks we should transport you to the site while you're out," Ellie answered.
"Not a terrible idea, he won't talk as much during travel," Casey grumbled. Chuck gave him a look.
"Think we can wait until morning?" Chuck asked. "I would really like some alone time with my wife before this…you know, just in case." Sarah just looked at him.
"Don't you mean your family?" she asked.
"Yes," Chuck said nodding. "My wife, and daughter?" Sarah nodded. "And, Sister?" Sarah nodded again. "And, Dad?" Sarah nodded and gave him a look. "And my dear friend who is the older brother I never wanted, Casey?" Sarah smiled.
"What in the fresh hell did you do to her, Bartowski?" Casey asked.
"I believe you called it being, Bartowskified," Chuck answered grinning. Casey grunted and shook his head. For the rest of the night, the mission was dropped, a family reconnected, a new family was forged, and there was a growing belief this would not be a one-time thing. There was a true feeling that after this mission, this gathering would be a regular occurrence. As the night ended, Sarah noticed something against the wall she never had before.
"What is that?" Sarah asked, handing Molly to Chuck and walking over. Ellie smiled, and never looked in that direction.
"I believe you call it a sword," Ellie said. "It's made of a material strong enough to hurt the T-800. I don't know if you could kill one with it, but you can sure make it mad."
"It would be a good thing to have to give someone a distraction if they needed it," Sarah said, looking at the sword in awe.
"That's why you're going to take it, you are the Valkyrie," Ellie said, grinning at Chuck. Sarah's face broke into a smile, she sprinted across the room, and hugged Ellie.
"This is terrible," Casey said grumbling. Chuck winked at Sarah and handed Molly over to Casey as he continued his tirade about lady feelings. He never once thought about not holding the little girl. "I only hope that I can save you from this madness," Casey ended his speech talking directly at Molly and having a huge smile on his face. He looked up, saw everyone looking back at him. He turned to Chuck. "I hate you."
"Love you too, Big Guy," Chuck said, his arms out for his daughter.
"Oh no you don't," Casey said. "I know what you two are going to do tonight, and you're not corrupting her. I've got her for this evening." With that, he picked up the little girl and headed off to bed.
"Your bedroom is on the farthest side of the compound," Ellie said, a grin on her face that said she meant exactly what they thought she was saying.
"Probably best," Sarah said, making Chuck's chin bounce off the floor. She led him off, Chuck's brain trying to reboot. "Just for the record, I'm still in the lead."
"Just for the record, losing to you, really isn't losing," Chuck replied. She stopped and faced him.
"Chuck, I'd say you won," she said, smiling.
"Thirty minutes of silence and then cuddling?" he asked, grinning.
"Can you be quiet for thirty minutes?" Sarah asked.
"OUT!" Ellie yelled at them. "I don't want to have to scrub my brain!" The two left, leaving Ellie with Orion. "I hope this isn't the last time we're all together," she said softly.
"If it is, those that make it will have to honor the others," the words said on the screen. Ellie nodded, and went to lay down, a worried feeling in the pit of her stomach.
}o{
The next morning found them all gathering in the main room. Chuck's hands were sweating like crazy.
"I need you to promise me something," Chuck said. Sarah looked at him. "IF, this goes wrong, I need you to make sure you raise Molly. I can't have you going out there being the Valkyrie and going on a suicide mission. She needs her Mom, and don't give me that you're not her Mom, because you are now." Sarah nodded, tears in her eyes.
"Chuck Bartowski, if you don't come back, I will haunt you the rest of your days," she said, tears now streaming down her face.
"Sweetie, I don't think it works that way," he said softly. There was a glint in her eye.
"Trust me, Buster, it will," she said. He believed her. He gave her a chase kiss and leaned his forehead against her.
"There isn't a T-800, big enough or bad enough to keep me from coming back to you," Chuck said.
"Damn, straight," she mumbled. "Especially since I've got that cool sword to watch your back with. Be careful, Chuck, there are people here who need you." With that she gave him a toe-popping kiss, smacked his backside, and walked over to the rest of the group. Chuck nodded, walked over to the monitor, turned to Ellie, and nodded.
"Good luck little brother," she said. "When you wake up, you will definitely be the trickster they never wanted to see." She pressed a button and the images flew. His eyes watched them all, and when it was over, he fell straight back. "I knew I forgot something," she said, wincing at his crash.
"Okay, let's get this show on the road," Casey said. They all packed the gear, and Chuck, and departed, leaving Ellie, Molly, and the chamber holding the body of Stephen in the compound.
"He'll be okay," the monitor read.
"I hope you right," Ellie replied. "If not, I'll let you deal with Sarah." She swore the monitor shuddered.
A/N: We've got one more chapter to go. Next up, Valhalla I Am Coming. Just go ahead and put Immigrant Song on repeat…Take care, see you soon
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HERO CATS MIDNIGHT OVER STELLAR CITY TP
HERO CATS TP VOL 01
HIDDEN CHILDS STORY OF HOLOCAUST HC GN
HIPPOPOTAMISTER HC GN
HOTEL STRANGE GN GHOSTS IN THE CLOUDS
HOWTOONS REIGNITION TP VOL 01
INCREDIBLE HULK EPIC COLLECTION TP MAN OR MONSTER
IRON MAN EPIC COLLECTION TP GOLDEN AVENGER
IRON MAN EPIC COLLECTION TP STARK WARS
IS THIS A ZOMBIE GN VOL 01 NEW PTG
ITTY BITTY COMICS THE MASK TP
ITTY BITTY HELLBOY SEARCH FOR THE WERE JAGUAR TP
ITTY BITTY HELLBOY TP
JACK AND THE BOX GN
JEFF SMITH LITTLE MOUSE GETS READY HC
JET PACK PETS TP
JOHNNY BOO HC VOL 01 BEST LITTLE GHOST I/T WORLD
JOHNNY BOO HC VOL 02 TWINKLE POWER
JOHNNY BOO HC VOL 03 HAPPY APPLES
JOHNNY BOO HC VOL 04 MEAN LITTLE BOY
JOHNNY BOO HC VOL 05 DOES SOMETHING
JOHNNY BOO HC VOL 06 ZOOMS TO THE MOON
JOHNNY BOO MEETS DRAGON PUNCHER HC
KID FIRECHIEF GN
KID SAVAGE TP VOL 01
KORGI GN VOL 01 SPROUTING WINGS CURR PTG
KORGI GN VOL 02 COSMIC COLLECTOR
KORGI GN VOL 03 A HOLLOW BEGINNING
KORGI GN VOL 04 PROBLEM WITH POTIONS
KUNG FU PANDA 3 CINESTORY TP
KUNG FU PANDA DIGEST GN ART OF BALANCE
KUNG FU PANDA DIGEST GN VOL 02 ELEMENTAL
LEGENDS OF ZITA THE SPACEGIRL GN
LITTLE MISS DAREDEVIL INCREDIBLE RACE GN
LITTLE NEMO BIG NEW DREAMS HC
LITTLE PRINCE GN VOL 01 PLANET OF THE WIND
LITTLE PRINCE GN VOL 02 PLANET OF THE FIREBIRD
LITTLE ROBOT GN
LITTLE TAILS IN THE FOREST HC VOL 01
LITTLE TAILS IN THE JUNGLE HC VOL 02
LITTLEST PET SHOP HC OPEN FOR BUSINESS
LITTLEST PET SHOP HC WAIT A SECOND
LOST IN NYC SUBWAY ADVENTURE HC
LOUD HOUSE GN VOL 01 THERE WILL BE CHAOS
LUCY & ANDY NEANDERTHAL HC GN VOL 01
LUKE ON THE LOOSE SC
LUMBERJANES GOTHAM ACADEMY TP
LUMBERJANES TP VOL 01
LUMBERJANES TP VOL 02
LUMBERJANES TP VOL 03
LUMBERJANES TP VOL 05
LUNCH WITCH GN VOL 01
LUNCH WITCH GN VOL 02 KNEE DEEP IN NICENESS
MADDY KETTLE GN VOL 01 ADV OF THE THIMBLEWITCH
MAGIC TRIXIE GN VOL 01 NEW PTG
MAN FROM RIVERDALE TP
MARVEL TSUM TSUM TAKEOVER TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE ALL NEW AVENGERS ASSEMBLE DIGEST TP VOL 01
MARVEL UNIVERSE ALL NEW AVENGERS ASSEMBLE DIGEST TP VOL 02
MARVEL UNIVERSE ALL NEW AVENGERS ASSEMBLE DIGEST TP VOL 03
MARVEL UNIVERSE ALL NEW AVENGERS ASSEMBLE DIGEST TP VOL 04
MARVEL UNIVERSE ANT-MAN DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS ASSEMBLE CIVIL WAR DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS ASSEMBLE DIGEST TP VOL 01
MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS ULTRON REVOLUTION DIGEST TP VOL 01
MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS ULTRON REVOLUTION DIGEST TP VOL 02
MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS UNITED DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE DOCTOR STRANGE DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF GALAXY DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF GALAXY DIGEST TP VOL 01
MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF GALAXY DIGEST TP VOL 02
MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF GALAXY DIGEST TP VOL 03
MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF GALAXY DIGEST TP VOL 04
MARVEL UNIVERSE IRON MAN DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE THOR DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE ULT SPIDER-MAN SPIDER-VERSE DIGEST TP
MARVEL UNIVERSE ULT SPIDER-MAN VS SINISTER SIX DIGEST TP VOL
MARVEL UNIVERSE WOLVERINE DIGEST TP
MARVELS ANT-MAN PRELUDE TP
MARVELS AVENGERS TP AGE OF ULTRON PRELUDE
MARVELS AVENGERS TP BLACK WIDOW STRIKES
MARVELS CAPTAIN AMERICA TP CIVIL WAR PRELUDE
MARVELS CAPTAIN AMERICA TP WINTER SOLDIER PRELUDE
MARVELS DOCTOR STRANGE PRELUDE TP
MARVELS GUARDIANS OF GALAXY PRELUDE TP
MARVELS GUARDIANS OF GALAXY PRELUDE TP VOL 02
MARVELS IRON MAN 3 PRELUDE TP
MERMIN GN VOL 01
MERMIN HC VOL 02 BIG CATCH
MERMIN HC VOL 03 DEEP DIVE
MERMIN HC VOL 04 INTO ATLANTIS
MIGHTY JACK GN VOL 01
MINI MARVELS COMPLETE COLLECTION TP NEW PTG
MINNIE AND DAISY GN VOL 01 BFFS FOREVER
MINNIE AND DAISY HC VOL 01 BFFS FOREVER
MIRACULOUS ORIGINS TP
MISTER X ARCHIVES TP
MO AND JO HC VOL 01 FIGHTING TOGETHER FOREVER
MONSTER ELEMENTARY TP VOL 02 EGYPTIAN CURSE
MONSTER HC VOL 01 CHRISTMAS
MONSTER HC VOL 02 MESS
MONSTER HC VOL 03 DINOSAUR
MONSTER HC VOL 04 TURKEY
MONSTER HIGH GN VOL 01 HOPES & SCREAMS
MONSTER ON THE HILL GN
MONSTERS INC DIGEST TP
MONTY THE DINOSAUR TP VOL 01
MOOMIN COMPLETE LARS JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 06
MOOMIN COMPLETE LARS JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 07
MOOMIN COMPLETE LARS JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 08
MOOMIN COMPLETE LARS JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 09
MOOMIN COMPLETE LARS JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 10
MOOMIN COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 01
MOOMIN COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 02
MOOMIN COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 03
MOOMIN COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 04
MOOMIN COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 05
MU AVENGERS SPIDER-MAN AND AVENGERS DIGEST TP
MU GUARDIANS OF GALAXY COSMIC TEAM UP DIGEST TP
MU ULT SPIDER-MAN GREAT POWER SCREEN CAP DIGEST TP
MU ULT SPIDER-MAN WEB WARRIORS DIGEST TP VOL 01
MU ULT SPIDER-MAN WEB WARRIORS DIGEST TP VOL 02
MU ULT SPIDER-MAN WEB WARRIORS DIGEST TP VOL 03
MU ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN AND AVENGERS DIGEST TP
MY FIRST SMURFS TP VOL 01
MY LITTLE PONY ADVENTURES IN FRIENDSHIP HC VOL 01
MY LITTLE PONY ADVENTURES IN FRIENDSHIP HC VOL 02
MY LITTLE PONY ADVENTURES IN FRIENDSHIP HC VOL 03
MY LITTLE PONY ADVENTURES IN FRIENDSHIP HC VOL 04
MY LITTLE PONY ADVENTURES IN FRIENDSHIP HC VOL 05
MY LITTLE PONY EQUESTRIA GIRLS TP
MY LITTLE PONY FIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER OMNIBUS TP VOL 01
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER OMNIBUS TP VOL 02
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER TP VOL 01
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER TP VOL 02
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER TP VOL 03
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER TP VOL 04
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER TP VOL 05
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER TP VOL 06
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER TP VOL 07
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER TP VOL 08
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 01
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 03
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 04
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 05
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 06
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 07
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 08
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 09
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 10
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC TP VOL 11
MY LITTLE PONY OMNIBUS TP VOL 01
MY LITTLE PONY OMNIBUS TP VOL 03
MY LITTLE PONY TALES TP VOL 01
MY LITTLE PONY TALES TP VOL 02
MY LITTLE PONY TP VOL 01 THE MAGIC BEGINS
MY LITTLE PONY TP VOL 02 WHEN CUTIE CALLS
MY LITTLE PONY TP VOL 04 PAGEANTS & PONIES
MY LITTLE PONY TP VOL 05 A CANTERLOT WEDDING
MY LITTLE PONY TP VOL 06 CRYSTAL EMPIRE
NANCY DREW & CLUE CREW GN VOL 01 SMALL VOLCANOES
NANCY DREW & CLUE CREW GN VOL 02 SLEUTHS
NANCY DREW DIARIES GN VOL 01
NANCY DREW DIARIES GN VOL 02
NANCY DREW DIARIES GN VOL 03
NANCY DREW DIARIES GN VOL 04
NANCY DREW DIARIES GN VOL 05
NANCY DREW DIARIES GN VOL 06
NANCY DREW DIARIES GN VOL 07
NANCY DREW DIARIES GN VOL 08
NICKELODEON PANDEMONIUM GN VOL 01
NICKELODEON PANDEMONIUM GN VOL 02
NIGHT OF THE BEDBUGS HC
NINA IN THAT MAKES ME MAD HC
NOMAD GIRL WITHOUT A WORLD TP GN
NOVA TP VOL 01 ORIGIN NOW
NOVA TP VOL 03 NOVA CORPSE
NOVA TP VOL 04 ORIGINAL SIN
NOVA TP VOL 05 AXIS
NOVA TP VOL 06 HOMECOMING
ODDLY NORMAL TP VOL 01
ODDLY NORMAL TP VOL 02
ODDLY NORMAL TP VOL 03
OEDIPUS TRAPPED BY DESTINY GN
OKIE DOKIE DONUTS OPEN FOR BUSINESS HC
OLYMPIANS GN HC VOL 09 ARTEMIS
OLYMPIANS GN VOL 01 ZEUS KING OF THE GODS
OLYMPIANS GN VOL 02 ATHENA GREY EYED GODDESS
OLYMPIANS GN VOL 03 HERA GODDESS AND HER GLORY
OLYMPIANS GN VOL 04 HADES LORD OF DEAD
OLYMPIANS GN VOL 05 POSEIDON EARTH SHAKER
OLYMPIANS GN VOL 06 APHRODITE GODDESS OF LOVE
OLYMPIANS GN VOL 07 ARES BRINGER OF WAR
OLYMPIANS GN VOL 08 APOLLO BRILLIANT ONE
OLYMPIANS GN VOL 09 ARTEMIS
ORPHAN BLACK TP VOL 01
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD TOON GRAPHIC HC
OTTOS ORANGE DAY HC
OZ TP EMERALD CITY OF OZ
PATRICK EATS HIS PEAS & OTHER STORIES HC
PATRICK IN A TEDDY BEARS PICNIC & OTHER STORIES HC
PATSY WALKER AKA HELLCAT TP VOL 02 DONT STOP ME-OW
PATTY CAKE & FRIENDS TP VOL 1 FC ED
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR DIGEST GN VOL 02
PENNY DORA AND THE WISHING BOX TP VOL 01
PERCY JACKSON & OLYMPIANS SC VOL 01 LIGHTNING THIEF NEW PTG
PHILEMON ADV GN VOL 01 CAST AWAY ON LETTER A
PIG GOAT BANANA CRICKET GN VOL 01 ORGLE BORGLE
PINK PANTHER TP VOL 01
PINKY & STINKY GN
PIRATE PENGUIN VS NINJA CHICKEN HC VOL 01
PIRATE PENGUIN VS NINJA CHICKEN HC VOL 02
POLLY & PIRATES TP VOL 01 NEW PTG
POLLY & PIRATES TP VOL 02
POWER LUNCH HC VOL 01
POWER LUNCH HC VOL 02
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST EPIC COLLECTION TP HEROES FOR HIRE
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST EPIC COLLECTION TP REVENGE
PRINCELESS SHORT STORIES TP VOL 01
PRINCESS DECOMPOSIA & COUNT SPATULA GN
REAL POOP ON PIGEONS HC
RED SHOES AND OTHER TALES HC
REDAKAI GN VOL 01
REDAKAI GN VOL 02
RETURN OF ZITA THE SPACEGIRL GN
ROCKET RACCOON AND GROOT TP VOL 00 BITE AND BARK
ROCKET RACCOON AND GROOT TP VOL 01 TRICKS OF THE TRADE
ROCKET RACCOON AND GROOT TP VOL 02
ROCKY & BULLWINKLE CLASSICS GN VOL 01 STAR BILLING
ROCKY & BULLWINKLE CLASSICS GN VOL 02
ROCKY & BULLWINKLE CLASSICS GN VOL 03 MASTERMIND
ROCKY & BULLWINKLE MOOSE ON THE LOOSE TP
ROLLER GIRL YA GN
SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH ANIMATED SERIES TP VOL 01
SAGA TP VOL 04 (MR)
SAMURAI EXECUTIONER OMNIBUS TP VOL 01
SANJAY AND CRAIG GN VOL 01 FIGHT THE FUTURE WITH FLAVOR
SANJAY AND CRAIG GN VOL 02 NEW KID ON THE BLOCK
SANJAY AND CRAIG GN VOL 03 STORY TIME
SANJAY AND CRAIG HC VOL 01 FIGHT THE FUTURE WITH FLAVOR
SANJAY AND CRAIG HC VOL 02 NEW KID ON THE BLOCK
SANJAY AND CRAIG HC VOL 03 STORY TIME
SCRATCH9 CAT OF NINE WORLDS TP
SCRIBBLENAUTS UNMASKED A DC COMICS ADVENTURE TP
SEA CHANGE HC
SEA CREATURES HC VOL 01 REEF MADDNESS
SEA CREATURES HC VOL 02 ARMED & DANGEROUS
SECONDHAND HEROES GN VOL 02 IN THE TRENCHES
SECRET PATH GN
SHARK KING TP
SHAZAM MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL TP
SHOWCASE PRESENTS BRAVE & BOLD BATMAN TEAMUPS VOL 01
SHOWCASE PRESENTS BRAVE & BOLD BATMAN TEAMUPS VOL 02
SHREK DIGEST GN VOL 02 LIVING GREEN
SILLY LILLY AND THE FOUR SEASONS HC
SILLY LILLY IN WHAT WILL I BE TODAY HC
SILLY SYMPHONIES HC VOL 01 COMP DISNEY CLASSICS
SILLY SYMPHONIES HC VOL 02 COMP DISNEY CLASSICS
SILVER SURFER EPIC COLLECTION TP WHEN CALLS GALACTUS
SISTERS GN VOL 01 LIKE FAMILY
SISTERS GN VOL 02 OUR WAY
SISTERS HC VOL 01 LIKE FAMILY
SISTERS HC VOL 02 OUR WAY
SKETCH MONSTERS HC VOL 01
SKETCH MONSTERS HC VOL 02 NEW KID
SKYLANDERS RIFT INTO OVERDRIVE HC
SKYLANDERS RTN OF DRAGON KING HC
SKYLANDERS SECRET AGENT SECRETS HC
SKYLANDERS THE KAOS TRAP HC
SMURFS AND FRIENDS HC VOL 01
SMURFS AND FRIENDS HC VOL 02
SMURFS CHRISTMAS GN
SMURFS HC VOL 01 PURPLE SMURFS
SMURFS HC VOL 02 THE SMURFS AND MAGIC FLUTE
SMURFS HC VOL 03 SMURF KING
SMURFS HC VOL 04 SMURFETTE
SMURFS HC VOL 06 SMURFS & HOWLIBIRD
SMURFS HC VOL 07 THE ASTRO SMURF
SMURFS HC VOL 08 SMURF APPRENTICE
SMURFS HC VOL 09 GARGAMEL AND SMURFS
SMURFS HC VOL 11 SMURF OLYMPICS
SMURFS HC VOL 12 SMURFS VERSUS SMURFS
SMURFS HC VOL 13 SMURF SOUP
SMURFS HC VOL 15 SMURFLINGS
SMURFS HC VOL 16 AEROSMURF
SMURFS HC VOL 17 LAZY SMURF
SMURFS HC VOL 18 FINANCE SMURF
SMURFS HC VOL 21 WILD SMURF
SMURFS HC VOL 22 SMURF MENACE
SMURFS MONSTERS GN
SMURFS THE VILLAGE BEHIND THE WALL GN
SMURFS THE VILLAGE BEHIND THE WALL HC
SOCK MONKEY TREASURY HC (O/A)
SOMETHINGS FISHY HC
SPIDER-MAN BIG TIME TP VOL 01 ULTIMATE COLLECTION
SPIDER-MAN BIG TIME TP VOL 02 COMPLETE COLLECTION
SPIDER-MAN BIG TIME TP VOL 03 COMPLETE COLLECTION
SPIDER-MAN BIG TIME TP VOL 04 COMPLETE COLLECTION
SPIDER-MAN MAXIMUM CARNAGE TP
SPONGEBOB COMICS TP VOL 02 AQUATIC ADVENTURERS UNITE
SPOT ON ADVENTURE READY FOR TAKE OFF GN
STARDOLL GN VOL 01 SECRETS AND DREAMS
STARDROP GN VOL 03 HOME IN TIME
STINKY GN
STITCHED GN VOL 01 FIRST DAY
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE HC VOL 01 RETURN OF PURPLE PIEMAN
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE HC VOL 02 STRAWBERRY NOIR
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE HC VOL 03
SUPER FRIENDS HEAD OF THE CLASS TP
SUPER HERO SQUAD TP VOL 01 GET YER HERO ON DIGEST
SUPER HERO SQUAD TP VOL 02 SUPER STARS DIGEST
SUPER HERO SQUAD TP VOL 03 SQUAD UP DIGEST
SUPERGIRL COSMIC ADVENTURES IN THE 8TH GRADE TP
SUPERMAN ADVENTURES TP VOL 01
SUPERMAN ADVENTURES TP VOL 02
SUPERMAN ADVENTURES TP VOL 03
SUPERMAN IN THE FIFTIES TP
SUPERMAN IN THE FORTIES TP
SWANS IN SPACE GN VOL 01 (OF 3)
SWANS IN SPACE GN VOL 02 (OF 3)
SWANS IN SPACE GN VOL 03 (OF 3)
SWEETIES GN VOL 01 CHERRY SKYE
T RUNT HC
TAILWANDS GN VOL 01
TEEN TITANS GO BRING IT ON TP NEW ED
TEEN TITANS GO HEROES ON PATROL TP NEW ED
TEEN TITANS GO TITANS TOGETHER TP NEW PTG
TEEN TITANS GO TRUTH JUSTICE AND PIZZA TP
TENKO KING GN VOL 01 NEW LEAF
THEA STILTON HC VOL 02 LIZARD CLUB
THEA STILTON HC VOL 07
THING CLASSIC TP VOL 01
THING CLASSIC TP VOL 02
THOR AND MIGHTY AVENGERS
THOR EPIC COLLECTION TP GOD OF THUNDER
THOR EPIC COLLECTION TP KINGDOM LOST
THOR EPIC COLLECTION TP RUNEQUEST
THOR EPIC COLLECTION TP TO WAKE MANGOG
THOR EPIC COLLECTION TP WAR OF PANTHEONS
THOR EPIC COLLECTION TP WHEN TITANS CLASH
TIME MUSEUM GN VOL 01
TINY TITANS RETURN TO THE TREEHOUSE TP
TINY TITANS TP VOL 01 WELCOME TO THE TREEHOUSE
TINY TITANS TP VOL 02 ADVENTURES IN AWESOMENESS
TINY TITANS TP VOL 03 SIDEKICKIN IT
TINY TITANS TP VOL 04 THE FIRST RULE OF PET CLUB
TINY TITANS TP VOL 05 FIELD TRIPPIN
TINY TITANS TP VOL 06 THE TREEHOUSE AND BEYOND
TINY TITANS TP VOL 07 GROWING UP TINY
TINY TITANS TP VOL 08 AW YEAH TITANS
TIPPY & NIGHT PARADE TOON BOOKS YR HC GN
TMNT TEA TIME FOR A TURTLE HC
TOMMYSAURUS REX GN VOL 01
TOTALLY AWESOME HULK TP VOL 01 CHO TIME
TOYS I/T BASEMENT HC
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS TP VOL 02
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS TP VOL 03
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS TP VOL 04
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS TP VOL 05
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS TP VOL 07
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS TP VOL 08
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS UK TP VOL 01
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS UK TP VOL 02
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS UK TP VOL 04
TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS UK TP VOL 05
TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE TP VOL 10
TRANSFORMERS TP VOL 10
TRIP TO THE BOTTOM O/T WORLD HC
TROLLS HC VOL 01 HUGS AND FRIENDS
TROLLS HC VOL 02 PUT YOUR HAIR IN THE AIR
UGLYDOLL GN EAT DAT
UGLYDOLL GN GOIN PLACES
UGLYDOLL GN SHHHHHHHH
UNCLE SCROOGE PERIL OF PANDORAS BOX TP
UPSIDE DOWN A VAMPIRE TALE GN
UPSIDE DOWN GN A HAT FULL OF SPELLS
VARMINTS GN
VOLTRON LEGENDARY DEFENDER TP VOL 01
VOLTRON LEGENDARY DEFENDER TP VOL 01
WELCOME TO SHOWSIDE TP VOL 01
WINDMILL DRAGONS LEAH & ALAN ADV HC
WINX CLUB GN VOL 01 BLOOMS DISCOVERY
WINX CLUB GN VOL 02 SECRETS ALFEA
WINX CLUB GN VOL 03 MAGIC FRIENDSHIP
WORDGIRL GN VOL 01 COALITION OF MALICE
WORDPLAY HC GN
WRINKLE IN TIME GN
WRITTEN AND DRAWN BY HENRIETTA HC
WYNONNA EARP YEARBOOK TP
X-MEN 92 TP VOL 01 WORLD IS A VAMPIRE
X-MEN 92 TP VOL 02 LILAPALOOZA
X-MEN EPIC COLLECTION LONELY ARE HUNTED TP
X-MEN EPIC COLLECTION TP CHILDREN OF ATOM
X-MEN EPIC COLLECTION TP GIFT
X-MEN EPIC COLLECTION TP SECOND GENESIS
X-MEN FIRST CLASS GN TP CLASS PORTRAITS
X-MEN FOREVER 2 TP VOL 01 BACK IN ACTION
X-MEN FOREVER 2 TP VOL 02 SCREAM A LITTLE SCREAM
X-MEN FOREVER 2 TP VOL 03 PERFECT WORLD
YAM TP
YEAH GN
ZIG AND WIKKI IN THE COW
ZITA THE SPACEGIRL GN NEW PTG
ZODIAC LEGACY HC VOL 01 TIGER ISLAND
ZODIAC LEGACY HC VOL 02 POWER LINES
ZOMBIE KID DIARIES GN VOL 01 PLAYING DEAD
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While You Were Offline: Beyonc Is Having Twins and the Internet Is Having a Cow
Big news: Beyonc is pregnant. This would send the Internet into a frenzy under any circumstances, but during a week when there was another explosive bit a of news every 10 minutes, Queen Bey’s Instagram announcement quickly diverted everyone from a moment of panic to one of collective joy. Even better, she’s having twins, which means finally we have another Star Wars meme to go alongside the Carrie Fisher is the leader of the Resistance one that’s been going around for a while. Meanwhile, a Twitter hashtag helped Uber lose 200,000 customers and might have pushed the CEO of the company to drop out of President Donald Trump’s business advisory council. Oh, and Trump has also seemingly declared war on Arnold Schwarzenegger. What even is this world? Let’s find out together in this round-up of things you might have missed on the world weird web over the past seven days.
#TrumpBlackHistory
What Happened: President Trump doesn’t seem to have the strongest grip on history. Thankfully, Twitter found the funny side. Where It Blew Up: Twitter What Really Happened: Can we talk about President Trump’s amazing speech earlier this week to launch Black History Month?
This is a full transcript of President Trump's speech to his Black History Month event. http://pic.twitter.com/uJ9iXvUOGr
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 1, 2017
Actually, let’s let Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Amber Ruffin do it for us:
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Thankfully, even as the lame stream media acted as if it was a disaster, Twitter managed to see the funny side, spinning off into the bizarre history of alternative facts that the president might actually believe about black history:
#TrumpBlackHistory Harriet Tubman brought us the Underground Railroad, paving the way for the great subway systems you see today.
— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) February 1, 2017
They claimed times were good, but that was FAKE NEWS. BAD times. Terrible. The worst! Sad! #TrumpBlackHistory http://pic.twitter.com/WvyII6jjcZ
— Tracey Ross (@traceylross) February 1, 2017
We owe a lot to Diana Ross for sewing our first flag. It was so great of her. So great. #TrumpBlackHistory
— AL (@MissSchliez) February 1, 2017
Frederick Douglass has made many contributions. They will become more and more. Period. #SpicerFacts #trumpblackhistory
— Em (@emilydabney) February 3, 2017
The Takeaway: It’s funny, you see, because the alternative is to take it seriously, and that’s just heartbreaking. Still, there was one upside from the whole thing, if you look at it the right way:
I'm wondering if Jews who read the transcript of Trump's Black History Month talk still wish Trump had mentioned them last week
— Popehat (@Popehat) February 1, 2017
Sure, But Which Woman?
What Happened: Funny story: A sexist comment reportedly made by President Trump led to a social media uprising. But we expected it would, right? Where It Blew Up: Twitter, media reports What Really Happened: The leaks coming out of the White House since Trump took office have been plentiful: We’ve been told by anonymous sources that he has to have screen time regulated by staff, that he really can’t do diplomacy well, and, according to one report on Thursday, that he “liked the women who work for him ‘to dress like women,’” which… yeah. The report went on to say, “We hear that women who worked in Trump’s campaign field offices—folks who spend more time knocking on doors than attending glitzy events—felt pressure to wear dresses to impress Trump.”
It’s exactly the kind of sexist narrative that people expected, which meant that it got all kinds of attention. Twitter, of course, couldn’t leave it alone either, creating the hashtag #DressLikeAWoman to respond:
#DressLikeAWoman http://pic.twitter.com/kq6ih1lI4B
— Melissa Hanham (@mhanham) February 2, 2017
#DressLikeAWoman http://pic.twitter.com/ziLcpOfEQn
— Michelle Hughes (@sqrrlgrrlm) February 3, 2017
So, I should wear this to work, Donald? SOUNDS GREAT. #dresslikeawoman http://pic.twitter.com/EfnJqvXJYb
— BatCritia (@BatCritia) February 3, 2017
#dresslikeawoman – nailing it. http://pic.twitter.com/mWofeyA7lf
— Naomi Watkins (@DGNaomiW) February 3, 2017
The Takeaway: Let’s look to style icon Katherine Hepburn for the final word on this one, shall we?
#dresslikeawoman Katharine Hepburn when harangued about not wearing a skirt: "Ill wear it to your funeral. http://pic.twitter.com/8yz2UvCtX3
— Dubhthaigh Adams (@lizduffyadams) February 3, 2017
Maybe It’s a Band Name, Like the Brian Jonestown Massacre
What Happened: When is a terrorist attack not a terrorist attack? When it never happened, obviously. Did you hear that, Kellyanne Conway? Where It Blew Up: Twitter, media reports What Really Happened: Hey, remember when Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway talked about “alternative facts” as a way to avoid admitting that Press Secretary Sean Spicer had lied to the press? Turns out, she practices what she preaches; in an MSNBC interview this week, Conway cited the “Bowling Green Massacre” as a reason why it’s important to fight back against terrorists with things like the executive order on immigration. Funny story! There’s no such thing as the Bowling Green Massacre.
You bet that the media was quick quick to point out that Conway had invented a fake attack to defend the administration, but Twitter wanted to get to the bottom of things.
I'm still so furious that because of political correctness the feds refused to investigate the Bowling Green Massacre thanks Obama
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) February 3, 2017
Who can forget where they were when they heard of the Bowling Green Massacre for the first time?
— Science Enjoyer (@fifthstarter) February 3, 2017
if you'd like to donate to the fund for the victims of the bowling green massacre please PayPal me directly
— Max Read (@max_read) February 3, 2017
shame on Kellyanne Conway for attempting to politicize the Bowling Green massacre, in which I was killed
— PAPPADEMAS (@PAPPADEMAS) February 3, 2017
The Takeaway: Although Conway would later try to explain that she just misspoke, but there are those who remain braced for the next wave in the ongoing war between the current administration and its stated opposition:
So pumped for the coming Bowling Green Massacre spin. "Chuck, you know what WAS a massacre?" "This is yet another example of the media nitpi
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 3, 2017
Jar-Jar Binks Comes Out of Hiding
What Happened: Just when you didn’t expect it, Jar-Jar Binks returned to the Internet this week, in the most unexpected place. Where It Blew Up: Twitter, media reports What Really Happened: Ah, the Drudge Report! Famed bastion of post-truth in a world that has finally come around to its way of thinking! If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywwait. What’s that on the front page?
Wait, why is Jar Jar Binks on the front page of the Drudge Report? http://pic.twitter.com/vwkrvquYpr
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) February 2, 2017
In the bowels of the Pentagon, a gen. is informed Iranians have developed Jar Jar Binks technology.
Removing cigar, he sighs: "God help us" http://bit.ly/2kbfBzD
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) February 2, 2017
AGENT JAR-JAR: @DRUDGE may have just uncovered John Kerry's secret Iranian nemesis. Was Binks the mastermind Behind #irandeal? #StarWars http://pic.twitter.com/uSjIgDscNM
— Thomas Paine (@Thomas1774Paine) February 2, 2017
@samsanders Even weirder, it looks like the original was from a 2008 article… that was mocking the @DRUDGE_REPORT http://bit.ly/2kbgCI6
— David Robinson (@drob) February 2, 2017
The picture on the home page of Drudge has Jar Jar Binks in it and its file name is "Iran Fake Missiles." http://pic.twitter.com/ag6s1OMtid
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 2, 2017
To no one’s surprise, the return of Jar-Jar made headlines. Confused, concerned headlines. Has anyone checked in on Ahmed Best? The Takeaway: Really, we all thought we were doing OK before this news broke, let’s be honest.
On top of everything else, now Jar Jar Binks is trending. Remember the good ol days, when we just had to deal with nazis?
— Lincoln Dennis (@jlincolndennis) February 2, 2017
Someone Ask Keanu Reeves, Just to Be Sure
What Happened: It was the meeting of two of the buzziest Twitter accounts when the ACLU turned to Merriam-Webster for help. Where It Blew Up: Twitter, media reports What Really Happened: This one doesn’t need a lot of explanation, as it unfolded on Twitter in pretty much real time. All you really need to know is that, in light of current events, the American Civil Liberties Union is receiving a boost in attention and donations. Which led to the tweet that started the whole thing off.
@ACLU has arrived: "We'll see you in court" was clue in yesterday's @nytimes crossword!
— David Cole (@DavidColeACLU) February 2, 2017
Woah http://bit.ly/2lwuTLy
— ACLU National (@ACLU) February 2, 2017
@ACLU @DavidColeACLU I only say this because I love you, and I want the best for you: its whoa.
— Jonathan Coulton (@jonathancoulton) February 2, 2017
@jonathancoulton @DavidColeACLU apparently this is a heavily debated topic http://bit.ly/2kbdZ91
— ACLU National (@ACLU) February 2, 2017
Hey @MerriamWebster, help us out here? Can we say "woah"? http://bit.ly/2lwhvXK
— ACLU National (@ACLU) February 2, 2017
Ah, yes; checking with the Merriam-Webster Twitter account, which is itself undergoing a significant boost in attention these days. How would it weigh in on the topic?
@ACLU We don't include that as a variant, but we're pretty sure you still have the right to say it. http://bit.ly/2kb88Rq
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) February 2, 2017
@MerriamWebster love youuuu
— ACLU National (@ACLU) February 2, 2017
So, now we knowand have a meet-cute moment for two of Twitter’s most media-friendly accounts of the moment. A little light entertainment for once! And just when you thought it was over
'Woah' vs. 'whoa': Merriam-Webster and the ACLU settle the debatehttp://bit.ly/2lwEIct http://pic.twitter.com/GUu8iJgUVu
— Mashable (@mashable) February 2, 2017
Whoa. cc @MerriamWebster http://bit.ly/2lwl54v
— ACLU National (@ACLU) February 2, 2017
.@ACLU Whoa!
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) February 2, 2017
Seriously, this is far too cute. The Takeaway: Well… yeah. (Oh, and just to tie it back to an earlier topic!)
it's 2017 and the power couple of the year is the aclu and the merriam webster dictionary http://bit.ly/2lwF0QM
— mc (@lafgl) February 2, 2017
Read more: http://bit.ly/2kbfKTX
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Chuck vs The Uprising Ch 3, How Far You’ll Go
A/N: I'm following the order of the dream, there are some time jumps and I know some of you hate them, but I'm sorry. Ch 3, How Far You'll Go, submitted without comment.
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, Terminator, or Norse Mythology, but my daughter really, really, really, has a crush on Chris Hemsworth…
Now, one week after the last chapter ended
It stood before them, the metal shiny, the eyes red, over six foot tall. The T-800, straight out of the movies. She should be terrified, she should be scared out of her mind, God knows Hogun was, but she wasn't. She was pissed. She was a madder than a baptized cat pissed.
"I swear to God I will rip you apart. I will take your arm and beat you to death with it!" she screamed.
"Valkyrie, let him go, we've got no way of beating it!" Hogun screamed from across the room.
"NO!" she screamed, rage rushing through her. "He is not yours to have." The machine paused, as if it was studying her. The next words out of her mouth shocked even her. "He is mine," she said softly. "And, I will destroy this entire hellhole if I have to, to protect him." The lighting flashed in this dark section of the world…the Wastelands.
"Valkyrie you can't beat it" Hogun yelled, still using his body to shield Molly. Molly didn't seemed scared, she trusted Casey, which was a miracle in its self.
"I can to," Valkyrie snarled. Chuck lay there, groaning, the beating the bandits had put on him was evident. The machine looked in Chuck's direction and then at Valkyrie. "You. Don't. Get. Him." She said softly, but intensely. The sword she was holding she had taken off the bandits, almost seemed to glow. Her clothes were ripped, her blonde hair whipping in the strange wind. In this land of lovelessness, she was protecting someone not because of her job. She couldn't admit why, but somewhere, deep inside her, she knew.
"You will bring him to Frigga," the machine said, as it turned.
"I'll not let her hand him over to you either," she said. The machine turned, and almost seem to study her. It stared at her for a long minute, nodded, turned, and left.
"What the hell was that?" Hogun yelled. Valkyrie turned to Hogun.
"It was me, keeping my promise," she said. Hogun could only stare.
}o{
One week ago
Sarah woke up, but didn't open her eyes. She had slept better the past two nights than she had in years…since before the machines. She was tired. She was tired of being a killing machine, just to be a killing machine. Today, she wasn't tired any more. She had something to fight for, a spark of hope. If Orion had created the machines, then maybe, just maybe, Chuck could stop them. She knew what she had to do. She got up, grabbed a robe, and headed out. She knocked on Hogun's door. After a few seconds, Casey opened it.
"Valkyrie," he grunted. She nodded to come in, and he opened to let her.
"Casey, I'm not turning Chuck over to Frigga," Valkyrie said, not looking at Hogun. He stood there.
"For three years we've been partnered together. You are a fighting machine, never letting an emotion get in the way of anything, until this kid," Casey began.
"He's the same age as me," she said.
"Valkyrie, he's naïve, and has no clue. He's not like us," Casey replied. Valkyrie's head snapped up.
"That's the point, John," she said. "He's not like us, he can do things." She paused for a minute than continued, softly. "His father is Orion."
"Ah, hell," Casey muttered. He went over and got a cigar to chew on. "Valkyrie, do you think he can save the world?"
"I don't know, but don't we have to give him a chance?" she asked. "Hogun, our way isn't working, we're not winning, we're not even drawing even. We own four sectors, but you and I know the truth, everything the machines want is in the wastelands. There is a stronghold there we can never overrun." Casey nodded.
"Propaganda has given the people hope," Casey admitted. He studied her for a second. "I don't get it, Valkyrie. In three years, you've never done anything like you've done in the past two days, why?"
"Because for the first time I think we have a chance to be something more than just the human version of killing machines. Because I know you hate feelings, but those machines have no feelings, and they do it better than we do. The only way to beat them is to have something to fight for," she said.
"We're disobeying an order," Hogun said, his resolve weakening.
"God, country, family," Sarah said. "He's got a chance to give us our country and families back."
"That's a lot of feelings," Hogun replied.
"Look the governor would never agree to this, but if we do it, she's got plausible deniability. If we hand him over, it's more of the same," Sarah said. Hogun nodded, chewing on his cigar.
"Okay, but if we find out he can't do anything, I'm out," he said. Sarah just stared at him. Casey shook his head. "Tell me you have been mixing your peanut butter with his chocolate."
"I don't even know what that means," Sarah said honestly. Casey smiled.
"Sure you don't Valkyrie, sure you don't," he said. He studied her for a minute. "If you fight that well, with nothing to live for, I wonder how well you'll fight with something to live for." Valkyrie took a few steps toward Casey.
"You trying to say something, Hogun?" she asked, staring at him as if daring him to say the wrong thing. Casey grinned and chewed on his cigar.
"Pretty sure I'm saying it," he said. She studied him a moment, turned, and left.
}o{
The governor was sitting in her office when her screen came to life. A distorted figure came on in front of her.
"Governor," the voice said.
"Frigga," the governor responded. "Bartowski is on his way accompanied by two of my best, Hogun and Valkyrie. They are also bringing the baby."
"You ordered them to bring the baby?" Frigga asked.
"No, I told them if they didn't the child would be put in orphanage if they didn't reunite it with the father, and Valkyrie and Bartwoski decided to deliver the child."
"Interesting," Frigga replied. "Anything else I should know?" The governor considered for a moment, then spoke.
"Bartowski is special," she said. "I beg of you, do not sacrifice him."
"Did he ask for protection?" Frigga asked. The governor shook her head. "Has anyone freely decided to become his protector?" The governor shook her head again. "Then you know what the rules decree."
"Can I appeal to Odin?" the governor asked, not believing the words coming out of her mouth. There was silence and the figure seemed to give a smile…a frightening smile.
"Do you know your mythology, Governor?" Frigga asked. Beckman nodded. "Then you know when Odin is in his sleep, I am the law and he is powering up for an attack."
"Maybe I won't send Bartowski," the governor said. Frigga again seemed to give the frightening smile.
"Maybe I tell the machines that he is there and is the son of Orion," Frigga countered. "They won't care that I control three sectors when they learn their creator's son is in your grasp." The governor blanched. "Do we understand each other?"
"You're sentencing him to doom!" the governor hissed.
"Didn't his father do the same thing to this world?" Frigga countered. The governor's shoulders slumped. "Who says I'm sentencing him to doom?"
"All of the missing technology people you have acquired over the years says so!" the governor snapped.
"So I have acquired them," she replied. "Oh, you believe the fairy tales that I sacrifice them to the machines so the machines will leave Heaven be?"
"Don't you?" the governor asked.
"Governor, you can never go too far for the people you love, and for family. Always remember that," Frigga said, and with that the screen went blank.
}o{
Sarah walked back into her room and noticed the bed was empty. A part of her was glad because that meant they could get going another part of her…she didn't even recognize that part. She heard the shower running and walked over to the bathroom door.
"Do you have clothes in there?" she asked. "If not I can leave so you can get some."
"I'm good," came the voice, a little high pitched.
"Everything okay? Do you need some help?" she asked, a grin on her face.
"Nope," he yelled, the voice even higher. Sarah couldn't help herself and smiled.
"Okay, I'm here if you need anything," she said laughing to herself.
"Got it!" he yelled, sounding almost scared. She shook her head and went and sat on the bed. She heard the shower turn off and a few minutes later he came out of the bathroom, dressed. He looked a little freaked out if she was honest. "It's all yours," he said, as controlled as he could. She slowly got off the bed and let the robe fall to the ground. She was modestly dressed, but she noticed his ears quickly go red, and he took his gaze to another part of the room.
"Chuck, are you feeling okay?" she asked, grinning.
"Yeah, why do you ask?" he sputtered out.
"Your ears are getting kinda red," she said.
"That happens when my shower is too hot, or strong, beautiful women tease me," he replied. She studied him for a second.
"Was the shower that hot?" she asked grinning.
"No," he replied, finally able to look her in the eye. She held his glance.
"You men," she said softly. "Always noticing how someone looks," and with that she started to walk past him, when she felt a hand tentatively grab her wrist. She glanced at the hand, then at him. He noticeably swallowed.
"You are devastatingly beautiful, and it's not even one of your top ten features," Chuck said, his voice thick. Sarah froze. "You have an inner beauty that makes your physical beauty look like someone that was beaten with an ugly stick. You could have ran last night when I bared my soul. You could have told me how I deserved to die, how I was going to get from Frigga what I deserved, but instead you told me you'd protect me. No one has ever done anything for me like that, ever."
"I haven't done anything yet," she replied, barely trusting her voice.
"But you will," he said. "Because you said you will." She nodded this time not trusting herself to speak. Chuck let go of her.
"For the record, the reason I call you Angel, is because you are. You keep saving me," he said. Sarah nodded, not knowing what else to do, and walked calmly to the bathroom door and shut it. She leaned against it, and slid down it. Her face was in her hands. She had no idea what to do with all these emotions she had. This fool out there, he wasn't interested in her because of her looks, he was interested in her because of her. She suddenly had a very good idea what Casey meant about mixing chocolate and peanut butter.
}o{
The three had breakfast very quietly. Casey was studying Chuck and Sarah, Chuck was thinking, and Sarah kept playing with her food, her mind a million miles away.
"Everything alright with you two?" Casey asked.
"Just thinking about how hard it's going to be in the wastelands with a baby," Chuck answered. Casey grunted and looked at Sarah. She was still pushing food around with her fork.
"Valkyrie?" Casey asked.
"Probably best to start calling Mrs. Bartowski," she said. Chuck looked over at her. "You know, the cover."
"Is that why you're pushing your food around, regretting your choices in husbands?" Chuck asked, grinning. Sarah looked up at him, and held his gaze. A smirk started to make it's way across her face.
"No, I've just been thinking and I can't decide if it's good or bad," she said. "We can't use the pure excuse anymore Casey, I'm going to be carrying around a kid." Casey grunted in the affirmative. "However, for whatever reason once a woman has a child, there does seem to be less of a…desire…is that even the right word? However, I was thinking the same as Chuck, food, diapers, all of those things in the Wastelands…it's going to be rough." Casey nodded.
"And being stuck in the same room as Bartowski for a few more days can't make any of this easy," Casey said grinning. "I mean it's bad enough caring for one child, now two." Chuck made a 'ha-ha' face at Casey. Sarah reached over and took Chuck's hand. It was harder to tell who was more surprised, Chuck or Casey.
"Chuck has been nothing but an absolute pleasure," Sarah said, as sultry as she could. With that, she got up, and left. Casey shot Chuck a look, who put his hands up in defense.
"I have no idea what's going on," Chuck said.
"That I believe," Casey replied.
}o{
They had gotten Molly, gotten their tickets, and were on the train. There were two rooms, one for Casey and one for the other three. Chuck's and Sarah's room did have a crib, so the two had plenty of room to share a bed. Sarah was putting Molly down for a nap while Chuck was stretching out on the bed.
"Rats," Chuck said. Sarah turned to look at him.
"Something wrong with our accommodations?" Sarah asked.
"My feet hang over the bed," Chuck grumbled. "It happens quite a bit, so I have to lay on my side and bend my knees."
"Show me," she said. Chuck turned over and got into the most comfortable position he could.
"See the problem?" he asked.
"Not really," she replied.
"I kinda hang over your side," he explained. She gave him an exasperated look, and came over and got on the bed with him. "What are you doing?" he asked, a little concerned.
"I'm showing you how ridiculous you're being," she replied. She lay on her side and found herself plopped up against him, his chest to her back. "See?"
"No, that won't work," he said.
"Why not?" she asked.
"My hand," he said, trying to figure out the best way to tell her.
"What about it?" she asked, looking over her shoulder, getting perturbed. He gave up, and slightly pinched his fingers, making her jump. The look on his face was, 'see' she mocked glared at him. "I thought you were going to behave."
"I thought you were going to ease up on the teasing?" he counted.
"I'm teasing?" she asked, a grin on her face.
"You are killing me," he said honestly. She smiled.
"Good," she reached down, grabbed his hand and put it on her hip. Electricity jumped at the touch for both of them, but they both tried to play it off. "See, that will work just fine."
"We have different definitions of fine," he muttered.
"Can't control yourself, Chuck?" she challenged.
"You put my hand there, I didn't," he countered. The baby cried, ending the standoff. Sarah hopped up to get Molly, leaving Chuck on the bed wondering how he'd ever sleep tonight. She took the baby, sat in the rocking chair, and rocked it. Chuck watched, the motion of the train and Sarah rocking sending him off to sleep.
He woke a few hours later, finding Sarah in the same position, quietly talking to the baby. The room was dark, so he could barely see Sarah, his eyes not adjusted to the dark. He assumed she couldn't see him, but she could since her eyes had adjusted.
"He thinks he's being cute over there, watching me like I don't know what's going on, but I see him. He's a good one, you'd be lucky to have a father like him," she said softly where only the baby could hear her. "I hope your father is a good man."
"What are you doing?" Chuck asked.
"Spending time with the baby," Sarah replied.
"But, I thought there was no love in the world?" Chuck said, using her own words. "I thought we had to blend in." Sarah held the baby and just stared at him, smirking.
"You keep trying to be funny," she said. Chuck lay there watching them, not sure if he should say what he was thinking.
"You'd be good at that, you know," he said, earning an eyebrow raise. "A mother." She laughed.
"Chuck, there are a lot of things I'm good at, but motherhood, isn't one of them," she said.
"Really, you're the baddest woman on the planet," Chuck replied. "If anyone tried to hurt or take your child, you'd end them. You love, even when you're not supposed to, you're kind when nothing is expected in return, you, Sarah, are the perfect mother." Sarah said nothing, but her eyes said so much. "I think you sell yourself short."
"I think it's time for dinner," she said. "Of course since you slept all day, you're probably not hungry," Sarah said. "I'm going to get Casey." And with that, she put the baby in Chuck's arms, and left the room.
"Molly," Chuck said looking at the little girl. "I'm sorry about your real mommy. I'd say maybe one day you'll get one as awesome as Sarah, but she's kinda one of a kind." Molly cooed.
Sarah knocked on Casey's door. He opened it and pulled her in.
"Valkyrie, be careful by yourself," he said. "I know you can defend yourself, but we don't need a lot of questions."
"I can't do this," she said. She looked up at John, tears in her eyes. "I can't do it."
"Ah, hell, you fell for the moron didn't you?" he asked. She couldn't answer. "Okay, Valkyrie, we keep him safe." She looked at him in shock. "What can I say, the moron grows on me too. But, let's not tell him until we're there, because I can't take what all he'll say."
"I can hear him now," Sarah said, grinning. "See, I knew you two were capable of feelings." Casey pulled out a bottle of Johnny Walker Black and poured them both a drink. "To life with the moron."
"To life with Chuck," she said. Casey raised and eyebrow, but didn't respond. They took the drink.
"Come on, let's go have dinner before he tries to Barowskify the entire train," Casey said.
"They'd be powerless to stop him," Sarah muttered.
"Seriously, you fall for that nerd?" Casey asked.
"Shut it, Hogun," Sarah said, following him out the door.
}o{
Now
Frigga stood at her monitor, having watched the entire meeting between Valkyrie and the machine take place. She looked down at the tube, the human body inside, being kept alive by machines. She looked back up at the monitor, and rewound the footage to the curly haired man on the ground. She pushed some buttons and checked the readouts. The footage had been analyzed in real time. While the man had some minor damage and bruising from the bandits, he was okay. She smiled as she watched the blonde haired warrior do something she had never seen…stand up to a machine, and know she would win. She was willingly his protector. There was hope still alive in this world. There was a chance, and for the first time in a very long time she believed they could win. She looked back down at the tube, and nodded.
"Well, things just got interesting," she said. "You can never go to far for love or family."
A/N: …..Dreams are weird….Take care, see you soon
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Chuck vs The Uprising Ch 1, Friends and Enemies
A/N: If you are looking for fluff, leave now. This, I'm not kidding, came to me in a dream. It is insane. I'm not sure anyone is going to like it, but I can't get it out of my head, so I'm writing it, and if you don't like it, you're not hurting my feelings. It's a mashup of so many things, but the easiest one to describe is Chuck in the Terminator Universe, but that's not even right. Let's just start there, and see how this goes. Let me know if you hate it, I have no idea how I even feel about it. You're still here? Okay, here goes nothing. Ch 1, Friends and Enemies.
A/N 2: Steampunk .Chuckster is the BEST! She helped me figure out a few things the dream didn't provide, and adjust some that didn't work. I don't know what I'd do without her!
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, Terminator, Norse Mythology, or anything else that pops up in this story. Also I might have eaten a fragment of underdone potato…
"Bartowski? Are you sure about this?" Casey grumbled.
"No, I've not been sure about anything in a few years," Chuck replied. Casey grunted. "You promise you'll give Doc Awesome the medical supplies he needs?"
"Bartowski, we pull this off, we'll have enough supplies for three years and the ability to start producing our own," Casey replied. "I made a promise, Doc will get the supplies." Chuck looked at Casey, and truly believed if Casey promised you something he would always follow through.
"Do you two want to hug?" their blonde partner asked.
"I'm always open to hugs," Chuck said grinning. The blonde rolled her eyes.
"I should have known," she mumbled, and headed off, her destination in mind. Chuck silently berated himself, and thought back to a simpler time.
"Are you sure, Dad?" the little boy asked.
"Of course I'm sure," his father answered. "Machines will make things so much easier."
"Didn't you watch that movie? The ones where the machines took over the world?" the little boy asked, worried.
"Charles, it's science fiction, emphasis on fiction," his father replied.
"But, Dad, some of the work you do is pretty out there," the son rebutted.
"Charles, you can't be scared of technology."
Chuck sighed, and looked at the blonde agent in front of him, and knew what he had to do. He slowly made his way towards her. He didn't want to spook her, she was the Valkyrie. It was more than a callsign, she was a warrior, and she was beautiful. In this world, women normally had one use, procreation. After the rise of the machines, and the depopulation of humans, love was no longer a factor. There were three reasons for intercourse; procreation, lust, and release. The fact Valkyrie was currently in the field spoke to her abilities.
"I apologize," Chuck said softly behind the blonde. He could see her stiffen. "I sometimes forget where we are and how things are said to you." She turned to tell him that was the stupidest/craziest thing she had ever heard. She looked into his eyes. It took all her training, but she didn't gasp. There was truth there, and he looked ashamed. "It won't happen again." She was shook, and she did the only thing she knew to do in these situations, she fought back with what she had. This man…boy in front of her, had probably never seen anyone like her, and he surely had never been with anyone like her.
"Think I'm not good enough for you?" she asked with a challenge in her voice. Instead of fleeing in terror, or completely losing his composure, he did the one thing she never thought he'd do. He gave her a soft smile. For a second she got lost in those brown eyes.
"I don't think there's anyone out there that is good enough for you," he said gently. She felt herself swallow. She had been propositioned by many men, men much more attractive than this boy…man in front of her. She had been promised untold riches to sire children, and never once did she feel one iota of attraction to any of them. And then, here, in the middle of a mission, in the heart of enemy territory, this man, does nothing more than apologize and she feels something. Something she hadn't known was in her since this hellscape existed. "The entrance is over there," he said softly, nodding to her destination. She returned his nod, and turned, silently cursing herself for losing control on the battlefield.
"I'm going with him, Hogun," she said to Casey. "He needs protection, and you are more likely to get spotted than I am."
"Hogun, really?" Chuck asked grinning. "Can I be Fandral?"
"I was thinking more ergi," Casey said, grinning. Valkyrie grinned at the exchange, and wondered if the wonder boy…man…ugh, he was bothering her, had any idea.
"Ergi?" Chuck asked. "I'm unmanly? It's true I do have some girlish screams."
"Quit insulting girls," Valkyrie said before she could catch herself. Chuck grinned at her.
"And here I thought you didn't have a sense of humor," Chuck said to her softly.
"Maybe if you say something funny, I'd laugh," she said, as she silently took off to her destination.
"Watch it, Bartowski," Casey said to him softly. "You aren't in her league."
"That is something I'm well aware of, Hogun," Chuck said, grinning. Casey grunted as Chuck followed behind Valkyrie. They made their way to the entrance.
"Think you can get in, Ergi?" she asked, grinning. Chuck returned her grin.
"I don't know much in life, but I do know computers and code, I'll get us in," he replied.
"But can you do it without the machines knowing we're here?" she asked. Chuck shrugged, and Valkyrie's eyes widened.
"Well, that answers that question," Chuck said, working.
"What's that?" she asked, with venom in her voice. Chuck turned to her and grinned.
"Does the Valkyrie frighten?" Chuck replied. An irritated look crossed her face. Chuck punched a button and the door opened with no alarms.
"Of course I frighten, you idiot!" she snapped. "This whole world should frighten anyone."
"Then that means you're human, just like the rest of us, and not part robot," Chuck responded. She stared at him. "In case you're wondering, that's a good thing," he said as he slipped inside. She stared after him. Casey caught up to them.
"What's bugging you?" he asked.
"He might be insane," she said, gaining control. Casey gave her a look.
"He's survived this long, I'd say he has to be insane," as he slipped inside as well. Valkyrie shook her head and followed the two. It was slow going, avoiding patrols of the bipedal machines, but they managed to not be spotted as they slowly advanced through the base.
"The EMP will take them out?" she asked. Chuck nodded.
"We just need to be inside to take over the system once the computers reboot. At that point, we'll take control and the governor will control the entire sector," Chuck responded.
"That's hard to imagine," Casey said. Chuck shrugged.
"It's been Heaven's gameplan for years," he replied. "They control three sectors, the governor will control one, that leaves six on the continent. In ten years we've taken back nearly 40% of the US, Canada, and Mexico. We can win this war."
"Patrol," Casey said. "I'll go up and scout, you two stay here." Chuck and Valkyrie sat in silence.
"Why is his name Awesome?" Valkyrie found herself asking. She wanted to berate herself. She found herself talking on this mission more than ever. She knew why. She didn't like it either, but she wanted him to trust her. She needed him to trust her. She looked over at Chuck and he was grinning.
"He was Ellie's boyfriend, my sister," he began. "Everything he's ever done is Awesome, even flossing." Valkyrie grinned.
"You said was, they broke up?" Chuck shook his head.
"They took her," he said softly. "The machines took her, I can only assume she's dead." He was quiet for a second. "Most probably think she deserves it, same as me," he said so quiet that if Valkyrie hadn't been listening intently she never would have caught it.
"Bartowski," Casey hissed. He looked up and saw Casey waving him over. He snuck over and made his way into the control room, Valkyrie right behind him. "Guard him Valkyrie, he's our only shot." Chuck looked over at Casey.
"Casey, promise me, Doc gets what he needs," Chuck pleaded, one last time. Casey looked him in the eyes.
"God, country, family, Bartowski, I keep my word," Casey said. Chuck nodded. Valkyrie scoffed.
"God…have you seen this hellhole?" she spat. Chuck looked up.
"I've seen an angel," he replied simply. He turned to go back to work. She grabbed his arm and spun him toward her.
"Why?" she asked. "Why are you being nice to me? There is no love here. It's dead. There is no courtship, no dating, no love at all. It's about surviving and procreating, and that's all there is."
"If we don't have love, why are we even fighting?" Chuck asked. She was stunned. "If we don't have someone to live for, to love, are we any better than the cold emotionless machines we're fighting? No one deserves to be treated like an incubator or something to rut with. We are human beings, and we all have feelings, some of us just hide them better than others. That includes you, Valkyrie." He turned and went back to work.
"Sarah," she whispered after a moment. Chuck turned to her, confused. "Sarah…my name is Sarah." Chuck held his hand out. She eyed it, and then shook it.
"It's my pleasure to meet you, Sarah," Chuck said grinning. "Now, I have to get back to work before cold, emotionless machines kill us."
"What are you doing, Bartowski?" Casey asked. "Just set off the EMP!"
"Well, if I turn off some of the sentries and those robots without AI, it might mean we only have to fight off half of the machines here instead of all of them," he said, furiously typing. Casey nodded, his bottom lip out.
"Not bad," he admitted. Chuck hit a button, and an alarm went off.
"Hope you're ready," he said. Both nodded, and he hit the EMP. Everything went dark.
"How long?" Sarah asked.
"Two minutes," Chuck replied.
"As soon as that computer comes up, do your thing," Casey said. "I don't want to be here holding my jock when those machines come to find us."
"Neither do I," Sarah and Chuck said together. They both looked at each other and smiled.
"You can do this," Sarah said softly to Chuck. Casey watched them. In the past three years, he had never seen this side of Sarah. He shook his head, he knew if they got through the next ten minutes their lives would never be the same again. The lights slowly began to come on.
"Do your thing, Bartowski," Casey growled.
"Come on, come on," Chuck said, encouraging the computer to boot up. The computer came up, but they heard the steps coming their way. "I need two minutes."
"I can only promise you thirty seconds," Casey replied, opening fire.
"Really?" Chuck asked. "You couldn't meet me halfway?"
"I'll get you two," Sarah said opening fire as well.
"I like the way you negotiate," Chuck said, his fingers flying. Sarah glanced back when she heard his fingers stop.
"Is everything okay?" she asked.
"Promise me about Doc," he said.
"Chuck, I promise," she replied. Chuck nodded, typed a little, hit the enter button, and the machines stopped moving. "You did it!" she yelled, standing. She was sure this was suicide mission. "They won't come back on?" she asked, turning to him.
"Nope," he said. "They're off." She nodded with a sad smile, and pulled a gun on Chuck.
"I'm really sorry, Chuck," she said. "I like you," and then she fired. Chuck looked down at the dart, not really surprised.
"Greater good?" he asked as he began to fall. She nodded and watched him collapse.
"Greater good," she replied. She turned to Casey. "You never repeat my name."
"All I know you by is Valkyrie," he answered. He looked down at Chuck. "Shame about the kid. He had something." Sarah nodded.
"Yeah, he has our freedom, the entire district is saved," she replied.
"Then why do I feel like a traitor?" Casey asked. Sarah looked at him, a storm brewing in her eyes.
"Having lady feelings?" she asked.
"Not as many as you did," he answered. She scowled at him, as Casey reached down to pick him up and they returned to their base.
}o{
The taste came to his mouth first. It was like cotton had taken away all of the moisture in his mouth. He opened his eyes and saw things that were blurry. There was a specific blurry thing he saw sitting outside of his cell. A blonde halo seemed to surround her.
"Told you, you were an angel," he said.
"Don't," she said. "I have my orders."
"I know," he said. "You're the perfect soldier, and you do what you're told."
"Why did you volunteer?" she asked.
"Same as you, greater good," he replied.
"But the people you're trying to save are dying," she replied.
"But now with the medicine Doc can save them," he countered. "You are keeping your promise, right?" She nodded.
"He's got the medicine," she said solemnly.
"Tell me you told him I died during the mission," he said. She nodded. Chuck sighed a sigh of relief. If Doc thought he was alive, he'd do something stupid.
"You knew," she said softly. "You knew what would happen and you did it anyway." He shrugged.
"I didn't know," he said, trying to grin, but realizing all of his muscles weren't working right. "I suspected."
"You're an idiot," she said, standing up. Why was she so mad at him right now?
"Yeah, but I saved some people," he replied. "At least my family did something right in the end," he said softly. She heard him, and that was the second time he made mention of his family and their shortcomings.
"Valkyrie," Casey said, coming in. "The governor wants to see us." He started to leave.
"Thank you," Chuck said. "Both of you. You kept your word. That's something rare these days." Casey turned to look at him, and gave a nod of respect. The two headed off to see the governor.
}o{
"It's not right," Sarah said. What was she doing? Why was she pleading the case of this commoner? He was no agent, or warrior.
"I made a deal with Frigga," the governor responded. "I don't like it any more than you do. Why didn't he include his protection as part of the deal?" She slammed her hand on the desk. She was a short woman, but she seemed to tower over the two tall agents in front of her. "If he had only asked, I could have protected him."
"Frigga is going to give him to the machines," Casey replied. "You're signing his death sentence."
"We don't know that," the governor replied, but the look on her face said she suspected as much.
"When's the pickup?" Sarah asked. The governor looked uncomfortable. Sarah rolled her eyes. "No," she said simply. The governor looked down. "You want us, to take him cross county, through machine controlled sectors to Heaven?" The governor nodded. "Governor, I'm a fighter, but this, this is madness. Do you know how many men we'd have to fight off? Not to mention any machines we will encounter along the way."
"There's more," the governor said, taking a breath. "There's a child here that Frigga would like returned. The mother has passed, and the father is in Heaven."
"No," Casey said softly, realizing where this was going. Sarah looked at him and then back at the general. She shot out of her chair.
"NO!" she screamed. "I will not do it!"
"It's for the greater good, Valkyrie," the governor said.
"We can't take a child across the wastelands." She snarled.
"I could order you," the governor said softly. "Or I could just put the child in an orphanage." Sarah grabbed the table and flipped it. The governor moved out of the way in time. She stormed out of the office. "Well, that went better than I expected."
"I would be their bodyguard?" he asked. The governor nodded. "Let me talk to him."
"Do you think that would do any good?" she asked. "I mean he can say whatever he wants, but out there…he'd have to care for the child, while possibly going to his grave."
"He's different," Casey said. The governor just looked at him. "I trust him."
"It doesn't matter if you do or not," the governor replied. "Does she trust him?"
}o{
"I hate you!" she screamed at Chuck, who was cowering in his cage.
"I thought you liked me," he said, terrified. Sarah stopped screaming and looked at him.
"You heard that?" she asked. He nodded.
"Unless I shouldn't have, and then I didn't," he said, scared he was going to lose a limb. She sat down outside the cage and put her head in her hands.
"You have to go to Heaven, and we have to transport you," she said softly. She looked at him. "They want us to take a baby.
"Across the wastelands!" he yelled. "Do you know what would happen to that child? The odds of making it are…I don't know….but not good." She stared at him, incredulous.
"I captured you, put you in a cage, and you're worried about a child?" she asked. Chuck shrugged.
"There's worse things than being captured, and you're keeping me company," he added. She just shook her head and chuckled.
"I am supposed to go," she said softly. "I'm to be married…to you." Chuck's eyes widened.
"That's not right!" he yelled. "They can't do that to you, or the child! I will not stand for…well, I don't like it, there's not much I can do since I'm trapped in here. I know, let me out, and I'll go to Heaven by myself." She turned to look at him again. Again in shock.
"You're not kidding," she said softly looking into his eyes. "You're really not."
"No one should be forced to be with another person," Chuck said. "No one, gets to tell someone else when to…I'm not even going to finish that." Sarah stared at him.
"You know we wouldn't actually be married, right?" she asked. Chuck looked away.
"Oh…my bad," he said.
"You understand if we don't take the child home, they'll put the child in an orphanage." Chuck looked away.
"I'm going to assume like everything else in this world, orphanages have gone downhill since the uprising?" Sarah nodded. Chuck sighed. "So we have to do this for the kid or…." Sarah nodded.
"You understand why I can't trust you, right?" she said, not knowing why she would even care. She glanced over at Chuck, who smiled.
"You don't know me well enough," Chuck said. "Plus, I suspect the male species has not given you a whole lot of reasons to trust men in general." She smiled in spite of herself and shook her head.
"The governor said she could order me to go with you," Sarah admitted. Chuck's face fell.
"That's not right," he said. "It's not. Look, I know you have no reason to trust me, but if she ever forced that to happen to you, I would never forgive myself if something happened to you, because she ordered you to take me and the baby to Heaven." She looked at him, and nodded.
"I believe you believe that right now," she said. "But out there, it's kill or be killed…" she looked away.
"Sarah," he said softly. She looked back. "Never."
"And the marriage cover?" she asked.
"I would be completely respectful of you," he said.
"Well, you sure now how to make a girl feel good," she said with a twinkle in her eye.
"That's for scaring you, isn't it?" he asked, grinning. She nodded. "I had to make sure the EMP wouldn't hurt you."
"Uh-huh," she said.
"What are you going to do?" he asked.
"Don't have a lot of choice, do I?" she replied. She turned to him. "I'm going to make this real clear Bartowski, if you ever do anything to me that I don't want you to, and we make it to Heaven, I will make your life a living hell." With that, she got up and walked away.
"What exactly do you mean if you don't want me to?" he yelled. She ignored him and kept walking. "Maybe I don't want to, you ever thought of that!" She continued to ignore him and left the room. A few minutes later Casey opened the door and walked up to the cage. He stared at him.
"I will kill you if you do anything to her," Casey said. Chuck nodded.
"What did she mean if she didn't want me to?" Chuck asked. Casey just stared at him. "You know what, never mind." Casey shook his head.
"This ain't right, kid, I'm sorry." Casey looked torn.
"Casey, things aren't always as they seem, and maybe I deserve this," Chuck replied.
"You having this kid and fake marriage with Valkyrie or you getting turned over to Frigga?" Casey asked. Chuck blanched.
"Casey, no one deserves to be put in orphanage or be fake married to Valkyrie," he replied. Casey grunted. "And Valkyrie doesn't deserve to have that happen to her."
"She's right," Casey said. "I think you are insane." With that he turned and left, leaving Chuck alone with his thoughts.
"Dad, is it alive?" the teen asked.
"It is, Charles, it is!" his father answered. "It's starting to move through the internet. It's thinking!"
"Dad, what's it accessing?" the teen asked. His father's face fell.
"No, it shouldn't do that. It shouldn't…Charles, get downstairs. Get your sister and get downstairs, NOW!"
"Maybe I deserve everything Frigga is going to do to me and more," Chuck said to the empty room.
}o{
"Mr. Bartowski, you understand what you'll be doing?" the governor asked.
"I'm going to take a child with my fake wife, make it to Heaven, and turn myself in to Frigga," he replied. The governor nodded. "By agreeing to this," he continued, catching the governor by surprise. "You are going to make sure Doc Awesome always has the medical supplies he needs, and protect him." The governor stared at Chuck for a moment and nodded. "In writing," he said. Casey chuckled. "One more thing, Governor." She raised an eyebrow. "The name of the child?"
"Molly," the governor answered. Chuck looked at Sarah, who looked at him and nodded. They both looked down at the ring in each of their hand. "Would you like me to say a few words?" she asked with a smile on her face.
"No," Chuck replied. "Valkyrie's luck you'd say something and make us legally married." Sarah snorted.
"You are legally married," the governor said. Both of them jerked their heads up. "All paperwork has been filed. When Valkyrie returns, the paperwork will disappear, but in case something happens along the way, we thought it would be best to have all bases covered." Sarah nodded. She felt Chuck's eyes on her. She turned and she could see the apology on his face. She shook her head. It wasn't his fault.
"Did I take her last name?" Chuck asked. Sarah grinned. For someone that thought he deserved a lot of bad things to happen to him, he sure did make a lot of jokes.
"No," the governor said, trying not to grin. "Her last name is now Bartowski. My apologies Valkyrie." She shrugged.
"At least it wasn't Johnson," she replied. Casey coughed to cover a laugh. "Ready?" she asked Chuck. They both slid their ring on their finger. Chuck looked at it.
"Don't feel any different," he said. He looked over at Sarah who was shaking her head and grinning.
"How do we feed the baby, Governor?" she asked. "It's not like there's a lot of places to get baby food." The governor handed over a map.
"This is the best map we have of towns and places you can find supplies," the governor said.
"Don't worry Valkyrie, I make sure Bartowski is a gentleman if you have to…you know," Casey said grinning. Sarah thought for a second and then she realized what he was trying to say.
"You do know that a woman doesn't produce milk just because a baby is around. The baby would have the same luck with you as I in that regard," Sarah said coolly.
"I don't know, I think the baby might find the experience less traumatic with you than Hogun over there," Chuck said, trying to keep a straight face. Sarah turned and looked at Chuck. She was quiet for a second, then a slow grin covered her face.
"Now that, that was funny," Sarah said, and left the room. Casey followed behind, while Chuck stood there a second.
"Mr. Bartowski, I am sorry," the governor said. Chuck shook his head.
"You have nothing to be sorry for. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one," he said. The governor grinned.
"I seem to remember that line gets changed around in the next movie," the governor said. She extended her hand, and Chuck shook it. "Thank you, Mr. Bartowski."
"My pleasure, Governor Beckman," he said, and he walked out of the room. Beckman watched him leave.
"I sure hope he makes it," she said to the empty room.
A/N: Okay, that's how it starts. That's probably 15 to 20% of the dream. No, I didn't dream all parts that I put on paper, or if I did I didn't remember them all. What I remember are huge sections but my brain has easily filled in the rest of the holes. I know, it's super-weird. Let me know what you think!
#Chuck#Sarah#Charah#Chuck vs The Uprising#fanfic#@victorianoir is the best#MOLLY!#fanfiction#crazy dream
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Chuck vs Truffaut Industries
A/N: I know…don't beat me. Sarah vs The Life Unexpected is almost over. Chuck vs The Uprising is not going to be more than 15 chapters. This, this is a story I have always wanted to do, but didn't have the guts. Today being the 6 yr anniversary of the last episode, has got my mind thinking about it again. I bounced it off of Steampunk. Chuckster for over an hour, and as usual, she said go for it. I'm going to try it, and if it's a bomb, it's a bomb. This is a short introduction, I hope you enjoy it, Ch 1, I Only Work on Macs
Buy More 2005
"Nerd Herd, Chuck Bartowski speaking. Hey, Ray, what's up. I see. I mean I can, but Harry is going to lose his mind. Wait let me get a pen and write all of this down. So, Truffaut Industries network install. What do they do? They're a security company? Don't they have their own tech guy who can help. He only works on Macs…I see. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Ray. I can't just go do an install and get none of the sale. I see. 60/40. You get the 60, and I do 100% of the work? I don't think so Ray. Ray, I went to Stanford, I'm not stupid. Getting kicked out is beside the point. Yes. That's right I want 60. You know what, you talk to Harry Tang then. I'm in the system now, I see it, pleasure doing business with you Ray." Chuck hung up and looked at the phone, satisfied.
"You could have got 70," Morgan said wondering by.
"That would just be greedy," Chuck replied, trying to find Harry. "Think I can get to Big Mike before Harry finds out?"
"Bartowski!" Big Mike yelled. "What did you do?"
"I got a sale?" Chuck replied.
"That's exactly what you did, Son," Big Mike said, slamming his fist happily on the Nerd Herd desk. "You've made me extremely happy, Son. Do you know what would make me happier?"
"What's that, Big Mike?" Chuck asked.
"To go complete that install," Big Mike said. Chuck nodded.
"You got it."
"And take Jeff with you," he said as he headed back to his office. Chuck dropped his head.
"I'll go get my can of cheese," Jeff said. Chuck stood there and nodded.
"Take your time, Jeff," Chuck said looking around and noticing how everyone had scurried away. He sighed, at least he could get out of the building for a while.
After a discussion about whether to take Jeff's van or the Nerd Herder (more of a begging on Jeff's part, and Chuck's refusal) the two found the building in Simi Valley. It was obvious they weren't open for business yet, but it didn't look like it was far from opening. Chuck opened the door, and went inside, followed by Jeff.
"Hello, we're with the Nerd Herd," Chuck yelled.
"Do you think aliens took them?" Jeff asked.
"Don't be preposterous," a thin man said coming up to them. "They would have left doppelgangers if they had."
"How do we know you're not one?" Jeff asked.
"You don't," the thin man replied. Jeff reached out, and sprayed his can of cheese on the man's head. The man looked at him, reached up, got some of the cheese, and put it in his mouth.
"Sharp," the thin man said. "I approve." He reached out with the same hand that had the cheese on it to Chuck. "Lester Patel." Chuck just nodded at him.
"Chuck Bartowski," Chuck replied. "That's Jeff, and I'm assuming you only work on Macs." Jeff shook Lester's hand and then licked the palm where some cheese had transferred. Chuck closed his eyes for a split second, trying to regain some semblance of control.
"I only work on Macs," Jeff said. Lester nodded.
"Why would we work on anything else?" Lester responded.
"Oh, I don't know, because your employer doesn't have Macs," Chuck replied.
"You could come work with me," Jeff offered. "I can get you hired." Chuck shook his head. Not because Jeff was wrong, because if Jeff told him too, Big Mike would hire him. "Do you like 80s music?"
"I love 80s music," Lester replied.
"We could be a band," Jeff said.
"Do either of you play an instrument?" Chuck asked, trying to stop the out of control freight train.
"Charles, do you hate unicorns?" Lester asked. Chuck shook his head.
"Come on," Jeff said. "Let's get you hired." The two walked out the door, got in the Nerd Herder, and left. Chuck pulled out his phone, and made a call.
"Morgan," Chuck said. "You owe me $20, he just took the Nerd Herder." Chuck laughed at his friend's response. "Listen, he's bringing someone to get a job. No, he has no business being at the Buy More. He only works on Macs. I agree, Big Mike will probably hire him on the spot. I'll call you, Buddy." Chuck hung up as he saw a lady look down the hall at him. "Hello?"
"Hi, are you with the Buy More?" she asked.
"Yes, I'm Chuck Bartowski with the Nerd Herd," he said. "I think your IT guy just quit. He and my coworker just took my car and left."
"Oh, thank God!" the woman exclaimed. She came towards him, hand outstretched. "I'm Emma. Emma Truffaut," she said. "I made such a mistake of hiring that fool. My daughter really wanted to give me grief over it, but she's been too kind."
"Gwanny," a cry came down the hall.
"Oh, could you come this way please," Emma said. "I'm watching my granddaughter until my daughter gets back."
"Dad at work?" Chuck said.
"I have no idea," Emma said. "I've never met the father."
"Oh," Chuck said. "I hope you'll forgive me, I have a terminal case of foot in mouth disease." Emma gave him a smile.
"No worries," Emma replied. "I've never met the father, and I'm not sure he knows he's the father." Chuck gave her a look, and Emma realized she had said too much. "I hope you'll keep that to yourself." Chuck nodded.
"No problem," Chuck said. Emma gave him a look.
"I feel I've told you not enough to tell you as much as I have," she said. "Apparently they met at a football game around three years ago." Chuck's eyes widen just a bit. "They had a night, the way my daughter describes him, she had no regrets, he was a nice guy, and they used protection, but as she says, 99.2%." Chuck put a finger in his shirt and stretched the collar out a little.
"A little hot in here, don't you think?" he asked. "What did you say your daughter's name was?"
"Sarah, Sarah Walker," Emma replied. Chuck took a deep breath, smiled, and then nodded.
"I suspect there are many out there that could have found themselves in similar circumstances," he said.
"Gwanny," they heard, as they saw the toddler in her crib.
"She just woke up from a nap," Emma said. Chuck looked at the little girl. The long blond hair, the crooked grin, and the stormy blue eyes…if he didn't know better…
"Did your daughter go to Harvard?" Chuck asked. Emma nodded and pointed to the wall, where her degree hung. Chuck walked over and looked at it. It said Sarah Walker, plain as day. "Well, why don't you show me what's wrong and I'll see if I can't get this straightened out."
She told him what was wrong, and Chuck got to work. A few hours later, he found himself under a table, when he felt a presence behind him, assuming it was Emma or Sarah, he decided to ask for a bit of help.
"Could you please hand me that screwdriver?" he asked.
"Okay," the small voice came, and he felt the screwdriver in his hand. He looked over and saw a smile from the little girl. He tightened a few screws, and clapped his hands.
"I think it's fixed," he said to her. He got up off the floor, sat down in a chair, and turned the computer on. She walked over to him, and started to climb up on his lap. Chuck grinned, picked her up, and sat her in his lap. She looked perfectly content.
"Molly?" Emma's voice came down the hall again.
"She's with me," Chuck said, grinning. Emma came around the corner, and she looked quite surprised. "I hope it's okay, she was climbing up me so I thought I'd save her some work."
"It's fine," Emma said, a strange catch in her voice. "Molly doesn't have a lot to do with men. In fact she usually cries when one tries to hold her." Chuck looked down at her.
"Is it okay I hold you?" Chuck asked. She nodded. Chuck began to work on the keyboard while balancing the toddler on his knee. She started to reach for the keyboard. "Don't do that, sweetie," he said gently. She pulled her hand back. "If I tell you which button to push, can you?" She nodded. Chuck clicked the mouse a few times, and then pointed at which button. Molly pushed it with glee. "You're a smart one, aren't you?"
"She should be," Emma said, giving them a strange look. "Her mother went to Harvard, her father to Stanford." Chuck nodded. "Where did you go to school, Chuck?"
"Stanford," Chuck said, grinning. "But, I never met a Sarah Walker." Emma laughed, nervously. "Although I did meet someone once at a Stanford Harvard football game.
"Small world," Emma said. She heard the front door open, and rushed out of the room. Molly looked up at Chuck.
"Is your cheek okay?" Chuck asked. Molly felt it, and looked concerned. "Can I check it?" Molly nodded. Chuck stood her up, and raspberried her cheek, and Molly shriek with laughter. Down the hall, Emma caught her daughter.
"Mom, I thought I told you to only use the Thousand Oaks, Buy More," Sarah said.
"I did, dear, but they couldn't do it, so they sent the best guy they had from the Burbank one," Emma explained. Sarah huffed.
"I'm sorry, Mom," Sarah said. "I'm overreacting."
"Why is it such a big deal?" she asked. Sarah looked at her and smiled.
"Are you sure you aren't a former spy?" Sarah asked.
"Being a parent is a bit of spycraft," Emma replied, grinning. Sarah started toward the offices.
"I hope their best is good enough," Sarah said.
"Oh, I think he is," Emma said, deciding to just see how this played out. Sarah rounded the corner, and saw the technician holding her daughter. The way he held her seemed so natural. He was tall, had brown, curly hair, and she knew immediately who he was. She stopped mid-stride.
"Oh, Sarah," Emma said softly.
"Mama!" Molly cried seeing her mother. Chuck bent to put down Molly, and she hurried to her mother. Chuck turned around to introduce himself to Sarah Walker. There was the normal Bartowski smile on his face. It fell off halfway through his turn as he saw her. Shock covered his face. He just stared at her.
"Jenny?" he asked, just above a whisper. Emma shut her eyes, and Sarah gave a sad smile.
"Hi, Chuck," she said.
"Jenny Burton?" he said again. Sarah winced, and then looked on in shock as Chuck fainted onto the floor.
"Sarah," Emma began, and couldn't finish.
"Yeah, Mom?" Sarah asked as she bent down to check on him. She found a pulse and she sat in the floor holding his head. She looked up at her mom.
"I guess you did know where he was all along," she said. Sarah gave a sad smile as she brushed him hair with her hand.
"Yeah," she admitted.
A/N: There's a story here. A good one, I think…will this be fluff? I don't know, but it's me, so probably. Let me know. Until next time.
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Sarah vs The Life Unexpected Ch 22, Yippie Ki Yay
A/N: I'm sorry. I'm not saying some of you are standing there like Molly, hands on hips, more than a little upset that I've posted two straight Uprising chapters and no Molly…but I'm not saying you're not either. I apologize. I've learned my lesson.
A/N 2: It is cold here. There is snow, and a sheet of ice, and people are trying to drive 900 mph on it. Welcome to the "south". (It's Kentucky but we consider ourselves the south). Did you really think Jack's going to jail? Come on. It's me.
A/N 3: Serious fluff broke out in this chapter that I wasn't expecting but it kinda wrote itself. You have been warned. Shout out to Sound of Music by Quistie64 for Call of Duty making it in to this chapter. If you love fluff and haven't read that, I can't help you.
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, or Die Hard…but they are both great at Christmas.
Last time on Sarah vs The Life Unexpected
"General, I owe some men, some very bad men, two million dollars, and my daughter believes she has a plan to capture said men. General, for far too long I've put my family in harms way, and today that ends. I am surrendering. I am turning myself in." Sarah's jaw dropped and she turned to stare at her father. Chuck turned to Casey.
"I didn't see that coming," Chuck said. Casey just grunted.
And now Ch 22, Yippie Ki Yay
"Wait, what?" Sarah yelled. Jack turned to her.
"Darlin', I can't do it to you. Do you know what they'll do to me for two million, to my family?" Jack asked. Chuck put his hand on Jack's shoulder.
"Jack, I appreciate the sacrifice," Chuck said. Casey stared at Chuck. Chuck turned to the monitor. "General, I guess you'll need to send someone down to pick him up." The general looked confused.
"Wait, who was the sheik that you owe money to?" she asked. Chuck happened to be looking directly at Bryce when Jack answered.
"Sheik Ahmad," Jack answered. Bryce flashed, and Chuck saw it. As he watched Bryce's face, it was like he was looking at many pictures at once, and it reminded him something of his past.
"Professor Fleming," Chuck said softly. No one heard him, but Bryce saw his mouth say the word. He shook his head, and Chuck kept his mouth shut. Bryce told the general everything Ahmad was involved in. "It's obviously much too dangerous for my family, and Jack," Chuck said. Sarah stared at Chuck. She knew he had become very withdrawn, but this was weird. This wasn't Chuck.
"Charlie's right," Jack agreed. "I can't take a chance of my family getting hurt."
"Give me a moment," Beckman said and the monitor went off. Jack smirked at Chuck, and tapped his finger on the side of his nose. Sarah's mouth dropped.
"You…," she said to her father, and then turned to Chuck. "And you…" Her mouth was wide open in shock.
"Charlie, I didn't think you had it in you," Jack said softly. Chuck shrugged.
"I don't want to see my family hurt, what have I said that's untrue?" he asked. Sarah just shook her head.
"And he's family," she said softly.
"Five bucks says she does him right here in the next ten minutes," Carina whispered to Casey.
"I might take that just because I think she's about to drag him to the supply closet right now," Casey countered.
"How?" Sarah asked to her father. Jack shrugged.
"Lichtenstein," he answered. Sarah rolled her eyes.
"Really? That's what you want to go with?" she asked.
"Some one really wants to buy a building and rename it," Jack said, grinning. "The sheik really wants to buy the Fox Plaza building and rename it to something more appropriate."
"Nakatomi Plaza?" Chuck asked in a hushed tone. Jack nodded. Sarah looked confused. Chuck caught Bryce's eye.
"Yippie Ki Yay Mother-" Bryce began as the screen flipped back on.
"Father," Chuck finished looking at Bryce. "I know, it's weird calling someone a mother-father, but that's what they do so who are we to tell them they're wrong?" Beckman's eyebrow was raised, and Sarah was biting the inside of the cheek to keep from laughing.
"I mean who are we to tell someone what sounds weird or not, right?" Bryce agreed.
"If you'll excuse the interruption," Beckman said. Everyone turned toward the screen. "I have an offer. If you can get the Sheik's accounts, we can make…some deal." The last part was made as if there was a bad taste in her mouth. "First, Jack, your record will be cleared." Jack stuck his bottom lip out as he nodded. "Second, we can make sure that the adoptions are done within a week." She held up her hand before Chuck could cut in. "By not participating we will still do all we have previously agreed. Third, there are some new weapons we can provide for you, plus give special NSA status, you wouldn't be active agents, but it would help you get around some…things…shall we say should you need something working for Carmichael."
"Well, I don't know, what about Charlie's family?" Jack asked. Sarah glanced at Chuck. Chuck winked at her.
"State of the art security at his home, plus the two duplexes the other employees are looking to purchase," Beckman offered. Jack looked at Chuck.
"Come on, Bartowski, we could use the weapons," Casey said.
"Dear, this is your call," Chuck said looking at Sarah. She gave him a level look and extended it to her father when he looked over at her.
"Are you staying?" she asked. Jack looked her in the eye.
"I can't just stay here with your Mom here with someone else," Jack admitted. "It would kill me. But, I'll go clean, when I'm here I'll even work here, if you'll have me."
"That may be the most honest thing you've ever told me," Sarah said. She looked up at Beckman. "We're in, plus we keep any of the money actually get out of the Sheik." Beckman nodded. "The rest of the team is back later today, we'll gameplan tomorrow and call you tomorrow afternoon with our plans." Beckman nodded, and cut the feed. She turned to her father. "You could have let me in on it." Jack grinned.
"Nope, after what the schnook has been through the past few days with all of you, I figured he was perfect for the job," Jack said. Chuck grinned. Sarah shook her head and left.
}o{
The three met at Lou's. They sat in the back, trying not to draw attention, but who are we kidding, three of the most gorgeous spies that ever lived were sitting at a table and talking in hushed tones, men and women stared at them.
"I may have to pay you three to come in more often, I can't ever remember a time we were more busy," Lou said with a grin to Sarah, Carina, and Zondra. "Sarah, I want to apologize." Sarah waved it off.
"I'm aware most of that was Bryce's doing, what I really don't get is how no one put together Burton Industries and Jack Burton," Sarah replied. Lou shrugged.
"At one point Morgan mentioned it," Lou said. She took a deep breath. "And, to be honest, I kept noticing how good looking your dad is, and may have gotten distracted." Sarah had an amused smile on her face.
"Total hottie, right?" Carina said. Sarah shook her head.
"Please, continue telling me how good looking my dad is, Carina," Sarah said. Carina looked at her. "You're going to do what you want anyway, I might as well tell you to. Wanna join us Lou?" Lou shrugged and sat down.
"Okay, what are you three up to?" she asked.
"We took Jill away to Vegas to try to get the low down on her and Bryce," Zondra said.
"We're hoping if we get Bryce and her together, she'll lay off blondie," Carina explained.
"So, spill," Lou said grinning.
"Well, Jill thinks he's good looking," Zondra began.
"He is pretty," Lou said. Sarah nodded.
"Worse, he knows it," Sarah added. Carina snickered
"Who took longer to get ready, you or him?" Carina asked.
"Oh, him," Sarah said, shocked Carina would even asked. "That man would primp, and put product in his hair for hours." Zondra and Lou were rolling. "The thing is, I would catch him doing stuff like Chuck does, watching sci-fi shows, looking at a comic book in a store, or something nerdy like that, and he'd hide it, and act like I was wrong. Or he would say he was just getting info in case he ever had to go undercover in that scene again." Sarah shook her head. "He denied himself everything he really wanted, including Jill."
"Do you think if he were himself you two wouldn't have broke up?" Lou asked. Sarah thought for a second.
"Well, we wouldn't be together, but I wonder," Sarah began. The three looked interested so she plowed ahead. "What we had was convenient."
"Ain't nothing wrong with that," Carina said. Sarah rolled her eyes.
"What I'm saying is, we were both looking for something else, and neither of us was truly honest with the other, or ourselves. IF Bryce had opened up to me, then maybe I would have been more honest with him, and then we would have realized, we're friends. Great friends, and colleagues, but that was all," Sarah explained.
"You think he wanted Jill even when he was with you?" Zondra asked. Sarah nodded.
"So we're back to him being pretty," Lou said, grinning. "How does she feel about him?"
"She doesn't know, it's been a while, and frankly, she's beating herself up for losing Chuck," Carina said, glancing at Sarah. Sarah shrugged.
"She should be," she said, smirking. The other three laughed. "But what did they really have, her and Bryce I mean? What Jill thought they should be, or was there something really there?"
"That's what Jill is wondering," Zondra replied. "Spy life is not conducive for relationships." The three spies nodded. Lou just gave all three of them a look, and rolled her head.
"Oh wah," she said. The three dropped their jaws. "I get to be beautiful and go to glorious places, and have excitement, and danger, and good looking men buy me drinks. Try sitting here, waiting on some of the guys I wait on."
"You do know that some of the criminals we have to get close to aren't that attractive," Sarah said grinning. "And some of the good-looking men, are absolute disgusting pigs." Lou leaned forward.
"Okay, I have to know, when you do these missions, do you ever have to seduce a man?" Lou asked. All three grinned.
"Who said they're all men?" Carina asked. Lou's eyebrows went up.
"How far do you go?" Lou asked. Sarah sighed.
"There are missions, typically long term, get close to a mark or even get the mark to fall in love with you, where that is required," Sarah said. "But, an agent is never required to do them. Those are volunteer. The best seduction is flirting, teasing, and promising more. That's all I ever have done, others…" she said, looking at Carina, who shrugged. "Believe why waste the good time that is available."
"Hey, I'm a one guy woman now," Carina said, and then paused as she thought about that. "Walker, you ruined me."
"I think it was Casey that ruined you," Zondra said, batting her eyes at Carina. Sarah burst out laughing and Lou wondered if a fight was about to break out. Carina stared at Zondra for a minute and then shrugged.
"He gives me lady feelings," she said grinning. Everyone groaned and Sarah tossed a napkin at her.
"And my lunch is ruined," Sarah said. "Although I'm shocked I could ever eat again after catching you two in the supply closet."
"TMI!" Lou said. The door opened and they all noticed Chuck walk in. "Someone misses you." Sarah turned and saw him. He noticed all four women at the table, and got a strange look on his face. He waved, then reached in his pocket for his phone, he said something, waved again and left. Sarah raised an eyebrow, pulled out her phone, and called him, all while watching him through the window. He had already put the phone in his pocket, and pulled it back out.
"There is no way I am coming in there with the four of you having lunch," Chuck said. Sarah burst out laughing.
"Would you like me to bring you a sandwich later?" she asked.
"Nah, I'll find something, just tell me, did I do anything wrong?" he asked.
"No, you're good," she said. "Love you."
"Love you," he said and disconnected.
"Well, we cost you one sale," Sarah said, grinning.
"I mean do you blame him?" Lou asked.
"I'm shocked he works with all of us," Carina replied. "Back on topic, Jill and Bryce."
"So Bryce brought flowers, and they talked last night," Zondra said. "She said she wants to take it slow and figure out how she really feels about him."
"How are you with working with Bryce?" Carina asked.
"I'm fine with it," she replied. "I'm about out of my contract," she said, looking down and then back up at Sarah. Sarah reached over and put her hand on Zondra's.
"There's always a place here for you," Sarah said. The door opened back up and there was Chuck, looking defeated.
"Your man must love that sandwich," Lou said, and got up to go make him one. In a minute he walked over to them.
"I'm not trying to horn in on your conversation so I'll gladly go sit by myself on the far side of the room," Chuck said, hoping they'd let him go. Zondra patted the seat right beside her.
"Sit, Chuckles," she said, grinning. He sat and saw the grins of the other two.
"I should have gone fast food," he muttered.
"Pretty brave today, Chuck," Carina said. "Pulling that con on the general and not letting your wife know." Chuck shrugged.
"I just played along," Chuck said. "Can I ask you guys a question?" They all nodded. "You know that class that Bryce planted those tests in?" They nodded again. "Why is that class so important for the CIA?"
"Recall would be extremely useful as an analyst," Sarah replied. Chuck gave her a look. "Really, do you think you could do some of the things we did?" Chuck grinned. "I've seen you trap a spider and carry it outside." Chuck dropped his head. She reached across and put her hand on his. "It's one of the things I love about you."
"I thought it was my girlish screams," Chuck said.
"We're going to need you to quit insulting girls like that," Zondra said, shoulder bumping him.
"Watch it, Zondra," Sarah said. "That's my move," she said smiling, but a little serious. "Why the questions about Stanford, is this about Bryce?" Chuck bobbed his head around and glanced over at Zondra. "She's one of us."
"Today during the meeting with Beckman, when your dad mentioned the sheik, Bryce's eyes did something and then he started spouting of information," Chuck said. "It's like he saw a bunch of stuff really fast, it kinda reminded me of Professor Fleming's class at Stanford."
"What are you saying, Chuck?" Zondra asked.
"I'm saying, I think there is a reason Beckman keeps giving me those weird looks, I think there is a reason Bryce wanted me out of Stanford, I think there is more going on than we realize," he replied. "Think about it, we're civilians, yes, former agents, but civilians. When have you ever heard of one agent being partnered with all these civilians?" He turned to Zondra. "Before you came along of course, and I'm glad you're here." Zondra smiled at him. Sarah studied Chuck for a minute.
"She's hiding an agent," Sarah said. "Bryce is a good spy, but not that good, so why?" Chuck nodded.
"It's got to be something else," Chuck said, taking a bite of his sandwich.
"So, you think it's got something to do with the recall?" she asked.
"That's the thing," Chuck said. "Bryce wasn't anywhere as good as me on recall."
"You think whatever's going on, it was supposed to be you instead of him?" Sarah asked. Chuck shrugged.
"You said it yourself," he said to Sarah. "I couldn't do what you do. Why create something like we're talking about for an analyst?" Chuck studied her for a bit and grinned. "Is this what you were like in the field, figuring out the next move?" She bounced a shoulder with a grin.
"Easy, Walker, you don't want your nerd overheating," Carina said.
"It's Bartowski," she corrected. "And you're wrong. I like it when my nerd overheats," she said giving Chuck a wink.
"I bet you'd be a mastermind as a tactician in Call of Duty," he said.
"The three of us would wipe the floor with you, Bryce, and Morgan," she said, grinning.
"Oh, of course you would," Chuck said. "Bryce would go off and play hero, and destroy our gameplan." Sarah glanced over at Carina.
"Someone on our side does tend to go off by herself a lot," Sarah said, grinning. Carina shrugged.
"So me and Morgan against you and Zondra," Chuck said. "We wouldn't last a minute." Sarah grinned at him.
"We need to get back and figure out what we're going to do," Sarah said. Chuck nodded.
"I figure you'll just tell me to stay in the car," Chuck said grinning. Sarah had a twinkle in her eye.
"I'm thinking I might keep you nearby," she said.
}o{
"Zondara and Casey are obviously our security," Sarah said. Jack nodded. "You're the point man," she said pointing at her father. "Bryce is Lichtenstein, I am his business manager, and Chuck is my personal assistant."
"I don't know about Charlie," Jack said. "No offense, Charlie."
"None taken," he said. "I figured I'd stay in the car with Morgan and Alex."
"They're overwatch, I need you there in case we run into any problems with the money tracking," Sarah explained. "Bryce is the main guy, but I'm the one that gets everything done, so I need an assistant. It's not that uncommon, plus an assistant should be very good with computers."
"It does make a lot of sense," Chuck said. Jack turned to him.
"Whose side are you on?" Jack asked.
"Oh, no one's," Chuck replied. "I'm just as shocked as you that she wants me there, but she does make a lot of good points."
"What do you expect, she's my girl," Jack said. Chuck smiled.
"You raised a good one," Chuck replied.
"Okay, you both did great, one donated sperm, the other-" Carina began.
"STOP!" Sarah said, scared where that was going. Chuck and Jack both looked a little uncomfortable standing beside each other. "Chuck plants the tracer, we find the accounts, we're in and out, any questions?" Chuck raised his hand. Sarah grinned. "Yes."
"Will I have on a vest?" he asked.
"Why will you need a vest?" Sarah replied.
"In case there are bullets," Chuck responded. "These things always seem to go bad."
"It's not a bad idea," Casey said. Sarah nodded. She turned to Bryce.
"Can you speak German?" she asked. Bryce looked insulted. "You couldn't when we worked together."
"He can now," Chuck said, eyeing him. Bryce gave him a look. Chuck barely cocked his head to the side. "Vay' vIghel stanford nIS maH." (We need to talk about Stanford-Klingon)
"QaSpu'DI' Qu'," (After the mission-Klingon) Bryce replied. Carina turned to Sarah.
"Spałeś z nimi i poślubiłeś jednego z nich," (You slept with both of them and married one of them-Polish) Carina said.
"Czy to czyni mnie Królową Nerdów?" (Does that make me Queen of the Nerds-Polish) Sarah said, rolling her eyes.
"While I don't know exactly what you two are saying there, Carina," Chuck began. "Let me remind you that your boytoy mostly communicates by grunts." Carina gave Chuck a look and then looked over at Casey and winked. Casey grinned and grunted.
"Johnny, I told you don't grunt at me like that in front of others," Carina said. Sarah rolled her eyes.
"So we have the plan, we'll give it to Beckman, and go from there," Sarah said. "Any questions?" Everyone shook their heads and left the conference room except Chuck and Sarah. She walked over to him. "Chaq polish vaj ghojmoH SoH jIH?" (Maybe I should teach you Polish-Klingon) Chuck grabbed her hand and led her out of the conference room. "Where are we going?" She asked with a coy grin on her face.
"Supply pa'Hom Samta'meH," (To find a supply closet-Klingon) Chuck answered as Sarah laughed and happily came along.
A/N: Sorry about the different languages
Until next time
DC
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