#for no reason no charge or for throwing a rock at a military tank

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Even CNN is reporting the truth more now. But if you are held without being charged, you aren’t a prisoner, you’ve been kidnapped and are a HOSTAGE. And human rights organizations have said that the other 50%, who were charged, were mainly charged with throwing rocks, and that even most of that was made up.

For all the pro israel who came to my posts of Palestinian children celebrating their freedom, calling them terrorists and criminals. Israel is an occupation state, they don't need a reason to arrest you as long as you're Palestinian.

[duhragonball]

Hellsing Liveblog Ch. 35-40

This is the one-part “Xanado”, and the five-part “Final Fantasy”. 

So last time, we saw a Millennium team led by Rip Van Winkle take control of a British aircraft carrier, which forced Hellsing to send Alucard to deal with the situation.   He accomplished his mission, but now he’s stuck on the boat by himself, because vampires can’t cross running water.   I suppose Hellsing would have arranged a second aircraft to pick him up, but they’ve got bigger problems on their hands.   Just as Alucard finishes off Winkle, reports come in of communication breakdowns all over Great Britain.  Military, intelligence, police, all out of reach.  Integra recognizes this as Millennium’s next move.    By taking out the communications networks, they ensure a clear shot for their invasion force to move in.   But how did they pull this off?

Simple, they did it the same way they arranged all those vampire attacks during the summer, and the Valentine assault on Hellsing Manor, and the Brazillian Police raid on Alucard’s hotel suite, and Lt. Winkle’s takeover of the H.M.S Eagle.    They convinced a bunch of Brits to betray their country in exchange for being turned into vampires.   The only real surprise here is the sheer breadth of treachery this time around, as Millennium must have created dozens of sleeper agents throughout the country, each tasked with hijacking or sabotaging key defense systems.  And Vice-Admiral Penwood’s command is no exception.    Those a-holes who gave Integra a hard time earlier?   Turns out they were in the tank for Millennium all along, and now that the invasion force has arrived, they’ve revealed their true colors.   At first, they’re pretty thrilled to have captured Integra Hellsing herself, but she calmly informs them that they’re minor league vampires at best, and they’ve foolishly revealed themselves in the presence of expert vampire hunters.

And Walter calmly slices them all up with his magic wire powers.  Cool.

But that’s not going to stop the one thousand vampire soldiers currently heading into British airspace.   I think the most striking visual in this part of the story are the expressions of sheer excitement on these guys’ faces.  They’re just so thrilled for what’s about to happen, and when you consider how long they’ve waited, it only makes sense.   It’s almost infectious, until you recall just what it is they’ve come here to do.  

Meanwhile, Alexander Anderson watches the Millennium blimps roll in.   Oh, right, I forgot about him.    Back in chapter 25 he was still in Brazil, trying to locate Millennium’s HQ, but all he found were human agents trying to stop him, which he found rather insulting.   Then Maxwell contacted him to explain what he learned from the summit with Hellsing, and he ordered Maxwell to come to London in preparation for a great crusade.   But unlike the Crusads of old, their enemy is not Allah, but Mars, since Millennium is so devoted to war.   Anyway, Anderson’s here and ready to rock.

Meanwhile, the people of London finally spot these blimps rolling in, and it’s pretty horrifying stuff.   We’ve already seen the carnage that can be wrought by a few vampires, and now it’s a thousand vampires, and they’re all Nazi soldiers to boot.   The sense of dread here is just palpable.

Aboard the flagship (flagblimp?) the Major starts giving his men their orders, and they even have a stupid invasion handbook for the occasion.   Warrant Officer Schrodinger lost his and has to share with the Captain.   I suppose this is intended to alleviate the tension, except, no, it really doesn’t.    These guys are all horrible monsters in every sense of the word, and they’re about to do awful, unspeakable things.    Schrodinger’s comic relief moments only make it worse.

The Major gives an extra-long speech for the occasion, basically outlining all the buildings and people in London that he wants his men to destroy (tl;dr: “all of them”).  He then assigns Lt. Zorin Blitz to take one of the blimps with a contingent of men and head for the Hellsing mansion on the outskirts of town.   She figures that’ll be an easy gig, since Alucard is away, but the Major warns her not to underestimate Integra Hellsing or Seras Victoria.   He doesn’t exactly explain his concerns about Seras, but the mere fact that she’s Alucard’s servant is probably reason enough to be mindful, and Integra is Alucard’s master, and she comes from a long line of vampire hunters, so the Major considers them both to be archenemies on the same level as Al himself, despite their inexperience. 

So the Major explicitly orders Zorin to go to the mansion but not to attack.   Her task is to observe an wait for the Major’s order.    This will be important later.

Then the Major orders a bunch of V-1 and V-2 rockets launched at London.   I mean, geez, were the hundreds of vampire soldiers not enough?  Did he think he needed to soften the city up first?  

Then the troops jump out of the blimp to begin their assault.  They look like they’re parachuting down, but I don’t think any of them are wearing parachutes, since they shouldn’t need them.  It’s almost pathetic the way they talk to each other with all of this professional military talk and congratulating each other on a successful landing.    London is virtually defenseless and this is a slaughter, not a battle, but they’ve been psyched up for this for 55 years.

Back at Penwood’s base, Integra warns him to flee before the main invasion force arrives, but Penwood insists on remaining at his post.   He confesses that he’s completely incompetent, and he only has this position because of his inherited title, but he refuses to abandon his duty, since that’s the only honorable thing he can do.   Integra leaves him a gun with silver bullets and wishes him well as she heads for her own duty.    Penwood orders his men to evacuate, but they refuse, since Penwood can’t actually operate any of the equipment here.

So now we get an extended sequence of Milennium marching through London, basically sacking the city and slaughtering anyone they meet.   This is accompanied by the lyrics to “Akuma Stocking” which I think was used in the anime adaptation as well.   There’s a lot of gory scenes here, but the three main visuals that stuck with me in the anime are these:

First, this motherfucker eating a baby.   

Second, all the Londinian civilians they bite end up rising up and transforming into ghouls, who then join in the slaughter.    It’s easy to forget about ghouls at this point, but Millennium never forgot.   Their artificial vampires can’t turn virgins into new vampires, and I think that may be by design.   They were counting on their victims rising up to compound the horror.    

Third, just a lot of bayonet-usage going on here.   You’d think they’d be content to bite and shoot people, but these guys seem to enjoy hoisting up their prey to show them off.   It’s a horrific nightmare and there’s no end in sight.   

Integra and Walter speed home as fast as they can, but they stop to take out a Millennium soldier in a shootout with London police.    She can’t save the cops, but she does avenge them.

Back at the Naval base, Penwood sends out a final transmission as he expects the enemy to enter his post at any moment.    His men are all dead, with the last one shooting himself to avoid becoming a ghoul.  He tells anyone who can hear him to resist and do their duty.    Then he recalls his first meeting with the young Sir Integra.   Back then, he found it ridiculous that a 12 year old should be in charge of Hellsing, but she quickly puts him in his place, and established that she would be asking him for favors from then on.  

But Penwood won’t be granting any favors to the Kraut bastards who storm his post.  Instead he sets off the explosives they set up earlier and I guess they all die together.   I wouldn’t have thought an explosion would kill these vampires, but they are a lot less formidable than Dandyman or the Valentines.   Luke couldn’t regenerate his foot, for example.

When Integra shot that one vampire, she gave away her position, and now Millennium is on her trail.   Just when it seems they have a clear shot at escape, someone blocks their path, and Walter tells Integra to take the wheel and find another route.    He’s going to stay behind to fight this guy, but he doesn’t think he can hold him off for long.

Integra does as he asks, but orders him to return alive “at all costs.”   Hmm.

Walter uses his wire power, but it turns out this is the Captain, and he’s apparently powerful enough to foil his attack.    Walter recognizes him, presumably from when he and Alucard fought the proto-Millennium in the 1940s.

And then the Major flies along in his blimp and confirms it. 

Meanwhile, Integra gives the Last Battalion a merry chase, but eventually she crashes the car and seems to be cornered.  One asshole tries to get closer to finish her off, but she decapitates him with her sword.

His comrades accuse her of being a “sore loser” and tell her to give up, but she mocks them all for being cowards who surrendered their humanity.  She’s hardcore, she’s hardcore.

But before she can fight all these vampires alone, somebody comes along and throws a bunch of blessed bayonets at them.   These did a number on Alucard and Seras, but they didn’t cause any lasting harm.   Seras was even able to pull them out without too much trouble.   But this shithead just disintigrates on the spot.  Remember, the Last Battalion’s main advantage is their number.   Individually, they’re not terribly impressive, at least as vampires go.

But yeah, it’s Alexander Anderson, along with his two sidekicks, Heinkel Wolfe and Yumiko Takagi, the stars of Kouta Hirano’s earlier manga, “Cross-Fire”.   We’ve seen Heinkel in Hellsing before, but I think this is Yumie’s debut here.  They chastise Anderson for interfering, since they were only sent to observe, but Anderson is too fired up by Integra’s fighting spirit, and he wants to kill some vampires, dammit.

Turns out there’s quite a few of these Iscariot guys here, maybe all of them, but Anderson starts doing a whole routine with them, as they chant all this stuff about how they’re assassins in the tradition of Judas, the disciple who betrayed Christ.  I’m not sure I get much of this, but it’s nice that Hirano put some thought into Section XIII as the super-secret death squad of this fantasy version of the Vatican.

And that’s all we have for now.   

[evolutionsvoid]

When we finally slew that great leviathan, we thought that day was one to be celebrated. Such a moment would go down in history, and people would be telling the tale to their children and grandchildren for years to come. It took only a month or two before we realized that such a time would be seen as a regret rather than a victory. The failed demolition of the corpse and the resulting worm swarm should have been our first clue, but we were still blinded by our successes. Surely that was an inconvenience and not an omen of things to come, right? When Bitoso reared its many heads and began to terrorize our cities, we finally had to accept reality. The great titan that we defeated was not just a colossal beast, it was an entire ecosystem. A creature of that impossible size would be the perfect home for many critters and parasites, with plenty of resources to be had both inside and out. When we killed the leviathan, we destroyed the food and shelter for countless of organisms, and they were forced to relocate. Since its massive corpse was laying on top of a city, the fleeing denizens found refuge in our own homes, and then the problems started. Bitoso was the first one to reveal itself to the world, and we had hoped it was the only survive of that exodus. Sadly, this was not the case. Not long after Bitoso burst from the sewers and slithered through the streets, another terror was found. A trail of sinkholes and collapsing tunnels led investigators into the wilds, and then straight into the heart of another unfortunate metropolis. When an entire city block sank into the earth, we knew that normalcy would never return to this world. The giant beast that caused such destruction has only been fully seen a handful of times, as it spends most of its life underground. Regardless, it has earned itself the name: Infradestructor. The title certainly isn't as clever and sophisticated as Bitoso's, but it certainly fits the beast. A creature that size with the ability to burrow through practically anything is an absolute nightmare to building foundations and infrastructure. The many tunnels it carves out are prone to collapsing, causing everything sitting up top to come crumbling down. If the Infradestructor kept to the wilds, than perhaps its wouldn't be so bad. Unfortunately, it has quite a liking to human towns and cities. Scientists believe this may have to do with the creature's origins, as they claim this horrid monster was a type of parasitic skin mite. It would have been living in the hide of the leviathan, carving through the epidermis and feeding on the flesh around it. Any witness to the battle can tell you that the titan was in no way thin skinned, it took bunker busters to even break through its armored hide. Thus it can be reasoned that the mite was familiar with a rather hardened and tough stratum, so perhaps it finds our tons of concrete, gravel and asphalt a fitting substitute. Maybe it thinks our cities are just another titan to carve through and feed on, despite the fact it is much bigger than it originally was. Just like Bitoso, it is believed that its escape from the corpse landed it in a nutrient rich slurry of blood, flesh and sewage, causing it to grow astronomically. Who knows, maybe the leviathan's blood is a freaking mutagen... Regardless of how it reached such size, all that matters now is finding a way to destroy the Infradestructor before it topples any more cities. It possesses three pairs of limbs that are coated in powerful claws and spikes, which allow it to shred through any substance. Its whole body is covered in these spines, helping it carve its way through the earth as it digs. To aid in its efforts, its arms and body secrete a powerful digestive enzyme that turns rock and steel into goop. People have seen this powerful fluid in action, mainly when the mite surfaces and engages attackers. As it flails and fights, gobs of the stuff go flying and splatter across buildings and streets. There are plenty of videos out there showing this enzyme eating through solid concrete within seconds, and no one dares mention the footage of when this stuff lands on a person. With its claws and acid, it tears through the earth with ease as it searches for food. It isn't fully confirmed what the Infradestructor eats, but it is believed it is a combination of melted concrete and sewage. It tends to target areas that are dense with sewage lines and waste. Quite a few nearby landfills have suddenly vanished into the earth, possibly serving as a feast for this insatiable monstrosity. Due to its love for cities and towns, it is believed that some material we use for construction is another favorite of the creature. Concrete and cement is the current guess, as it goes after larger buildings as well as bridges. That sadly does not mean that smaller structures and places are safe, as the mite often burrows through them to get to the juicy parts, which means that your house or business is going to get eaten by the resulting sinkhole. 

Efforts to kill the Infradestructor have ended in failure, with the best plans only wounding or scaring the beast. Since it spends so long underground, it is hard to target it for an aerial assault. Planes, helicopters and tanks are pretty much useless until it emerges, and getting it to the surface is incredibly difficult. Bunker busters and buried charges have been used to try and kill it, but the ground absorbs too much of the impact and the mite moves ridiculously fast. Even when it is hit, it is very hardy and prefers to hide underground to nurse its wounds. By adding more detonations, it is possible to drive it to the surface, but that can also scare the mite and cause it to panic. While this may be good against other combatants, it isn't when this beast is hiding beneath populated areas. When it gets scared, it tries to throw off its attackers by fleeing in a rather erratic way. It pretty much burrows wildly through the earth, going every which way to try to confuse its opponents. This has the unfortunate effect of undermining the entire area and causing widespread collapses. One operation accidentally caused this frenzy and wound up burying three different towns as the mite went crazy. Even when they flush it to the surface, it isn't an easy beast to take down. The many spines seem indestructible and its flesh is quick to heal. Its claws tear through any armor or vehicle nearby, making a land assault suicidal. Attacking from the air isn't safe either, as the mite has learned an obnoxious tactic. Using its claws, it rips into the ground, scoops up the debris and then launches it into the air. With all limbs flailing and throwing, the creature is capable of spraying plumes of dirt and rock everywhere, clogging the airspace. A stone the size of a fist doesn't seem like much, but it is a huge problem to a copter or jet. Then factor in a couple thousand of them as they are launched into the sky, only to come raining back down. At this point, it is best to keep your distance and attack from super long range. However, if pressure is not kept on the Infradestructor, then it will burrow back into the ground and escape. Nothing angers the military more than sacrificing countless of lives, resources and weapons just to have the target grow bored and leave. With all this devastation and destruction, the new plan is to nuke the creature when it emerges. Hopefully the strength of an atomic bomb can finish it off once and for all, but that can only happen if it is on the surface. Unfortunately, the Infradestructor is learning and adapting, and it is getting harder and harder to drive it upward. It knows our tactics and it is growing bolder. Scaring it from its burrow may no longer be an option. The other issue people bring up is what will happen to the creature or corpse once we irradiate it? If we fail to kill it with this one strike, will it only grow stronger? And what if it does die? We have killed a titan like this before, and see what misery came from that. Who knows what is dwelling inside these beasts, ready to escape and continue its legacy of terror? ---------------------------------------------------- Kaijune is winding down, but we aren't done yet! Giant parasites! Bitoso has company!  

[viking-raider]

A Year Late - Chapter One

Summary: The world has over. Months later, 9 people are traveling the U.S, Canada and Mexico just trying to survive the eaters...zombies, the people effected by the disease that ended the world. But, the important question is: Can they survive?

Pairing: Henry Cavill/OFC

Word Count: 5,087

Rating: PG-13 - Apocalypse AU, Zombies, Language, Violence, Blood, Gore, Survival, Weapons, Death, Angst, Pain and more 

Inspiration: I don’t know. I’ve never watched anything like the Walking Dead or anything, I have seen I am Legend, though. But, it just sorta came to me, once upon a time, and here it is. This is also a third revision of the story, so if you find it elsewhere, that’s me, being weird and recycling some of my stories for new muses. lmao

Author’s Note: Tell me what you think!

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'The world as you know it is over.' There was a long deafening pause. 'A catastrophic catastrophe as swept over the nation, no ladies and gentlemen, the world. The end of the world is here and it has claimed the human race. This is Ron Sidwald signing off for the last time...ever, for Channel 12 news, November 5, 2019. God be with you all.'

Static and hissing is all that's left from the 6 month old news cast that still ran in random intervals all over the now nothing but dust, rust and abandoned desert that was once the flourishing United States of America. The world population of 7 billion as been reduced drastically to an unknown number ranging in the possible 3,000s. But, that was just a wishful thought of the ones that were still alive and unaffected by the disease that claimed their people and perfect life they had, though, they didn't know how perfect it was.

Until it was gone.

A rock sailed through the air, disappeared in the glare of the unforgiving sun and clinked into a rusty old Folgers coffee can that tipped and rolled around on its round rim bottom, then righted itself and settled back onto the dusty ground. "Woo!" A shout was hollered from the top of a modified, faded yellow, school bus. "Rock in one. Beat that, Tank!" "Oh, fuck you, Toombs. That was just a lucky shot." Tank grumbled, jumping off the top of the bus and picking up the rocks he and Toombs had been tossing into the coffee can to pass the time. "Hey yo, Link! When does Sy, Zero and Trix get back from wherever the hell they're going too?"

The beefy, over tanned Hispanic shrugged his shoulders as he cleaned his AK-47; his two Glock 18C extended clip, automatics were already cleaned and reloaded in his shoulder holsters. Link never said much, but he was good shit when it came to using his guns and getting the job done. Those qualities were the reason Sy and Zero valued him so much in these times. "Where'd they go?" Toombs asked, sitting back in the fold up lawn chair on the top of the bus, pulling on his sun goggles. "To that city we saw on the map on the way here." Link answered, pushing bullets into a new clip for the AK. "Are you fucking serious?" Tank boomed. "That shit was like seven miles from here and its almost sun down!"

Link shrugged again, putting the clip into the gun. Throwing the rocks down to the ground, Tank shoved his way into the bus, took the radio off the dashboard and held down the button on it so hard the hot, black plastic around it, cracked. "Sexy 'n' Sleek to Fuck You, over." he called and released the button to wait for Trix's response. There was a bit of static, before it came in. "This is Fuck You, come in, Sexy 'n' Sleek." static. "Over." "What the hell are you guys doing, going to a city seven miles out of zone!" Tank chewed Trix out. "We need to get supplies and we can't.." static. "..so Sy and Zero decided to come. We'll be back in no time. We just got here, over." Trix answered. "Let me talk to Sy." Tank growled. There was no answer. "Fucking over!" he barked. "Sy, isn't in range at the moment, here's Zero. Over." Trix replied. Tank leaned over, rested his hand against the hot dashboard and hung his head. "I don't want to talk to Zero." he sighed to himself, wiping the sweat off his forehead with the side of his arm. "Zero here, over." Zero's annoyed voice came in. "What's up, Tanker?" "Why the hell didn't you and Sy tell us you were going into the city for supplies, this fucking close to sun down?" Tank asked, his anger controlled. Pissing Zero off wouldn't get anyone, anywhere. "We told Link and that's what matters." Zero answered. "He has his orders, now stay off the fucking line. Over and out." Throwing the radio receiver, Tank rattled back off the bus and climbed back up into the roof. "What's up, T?" Toombs asked as Tank dropped down into a plastic deck chair next to him. "Nothing." Tank growled. "They'll be back in a bit. Link's left in charge till then." "Okay." Toombs shrugged, indifferent by it all.

Sy thumbed the smooth wood of her English longbow, other than the five guys she rode with, it was her best friend, just like the 50 thin bobtail arrows in the quiver she made and had strapped to her back. In case she ran out of arrows, she had two EAA Witness Match Semi Automatic Pistols, one in a left shoulder holster and one in her back waistband, along with a 5'' Gerber paraframe II knife in her right combat boot. She looked over at Zero, who was walking on the other side of the street from her, she looked him over. Dirty and torn cameos. Military FAMAS strapped in front of him, index finger at the ready above it, his two extended clip and automatic Tarurus PT92s in their holsters and bumping against his thighs in the rhythm of his walk, and his long knife in its holder across his back. Zero was Sy's brother, he was 2 years older than her and the only one she hadn't lost at the end of the world. Sighing heavily, she shifted her gaze from Zero to Trix, or the little twerp as she called him. Wasn't more than 18, about 6 foot and a buck forty. Skittish as hell, slow in the head and annoying like a horse fly. But, he was good with technical things like the engine to the bus, the radios and other things like that. He didn't look right, right now with a S2 sub-machine gun in a shoulder strap around his neck, hand gripping the handle like life and love needed it, 12in hunting knife poking out of his timberland and the 2 LD Jungle knives she let him use held to his scrawny right thigh. The only thing that looked right on him was the military radio backpack slung over his shoulders, so they could stay in contact with Link, Toombs and Tank at the bus, in base camp. Made Sy sad to see someone Trix's age having to do shit like this just to fucking survive. "I don't think we're going to make it back by dark." Zero's voice called, bringing Sy out of her daze, just to sigh heavy again and pull off her Tan colored Military goggles from around her head. "Should find shelter then." She said, popping out the black lenses of the goggles and replace them with clear ones, then put them back around her head and over her eyes. She looked up at the sun, "Only got about 2 hours til we're in the dark." Zero nodded agreeing with her, rubbing his dirty, sweaty and gritty face. He kicked a rock in front of him down the street and looked at Sy with a raised eyebrow. "Trix." Sy called to the kid. "Take a seat, watch the street, and remember what your mother did, and didn't, teach you." she told him, pulling the bow between her back and quiver, then pulled out the pistol from her shoulder holster. "Look all ways when near a street, yell when someone comes, and shoot when you need too." Trix recited it to her like a bible verse, in a sense it had become one for them all. "Good boy." Zero smiled, patting Trix on the head as he sat down on curb. Zero quickly made his way over to Sy, they stood close to each other and talked about their possible options for a safe shelter to use for the night. "Could go back two blocks and use the store." Sy suggested. "We already cleared it." "Yeah, the first two levels. Not the basement, cellar and attic." Zero shook his head. Sy nodded, exhaling a stressed breath. "Okay, down a half block around the corner and see what pops up." she held her fist out to him. Zero touched his fist to hers in agreement with the plan and they headed down. "Behave, twerp." Sy threw over her shoulder as she and Zero went down the street.

Trix waved her away and popped a stick of gum in his mouth, looking down the street the way they came, then around the corner of the wall on the other side of him and down at Sy and Zero as they disappeared. "Hate being alone." he mumbled to himself, fingering his gun.

In nervousness, Trix started to whistle low and rock back and forth, side to side. Timing his movement and whistling with how he looked down the three sections of road. The streets were dimming and gray, it was getting cold and Trix was starting to loose his nerve. Zero and Sy hadn't returned yet, but he didn't hear any gunfire either. So, they were probably still scoping out wherever they were scoping out and not getting eaten by anything that lurked in the abandoned buildings. He hoped anyway. Whipping his head to the the left, Trix saw three figures moving down the road where he, Sy and Zero had come from. It couldn't have been the others because Link had orders that if they didn't return by morning, he was to take Toombs and Tank to the next planned area and if any of them survived would make their way there to meet them. Getting up and hiding behind the corner of the building, his gun pointed at the moving figures, his heart pounding. "It's too early yet for Eaters." he whispered to himself, trying to calm himself. He looked up the road where Sy and Zero went. He knew that he couldn't run up that way without them seeing him and he couldn't yell for them either because he was sure they'd hear him before Zero and Sy would, and get to him before the three tore him apart. Trix looked back to the three figures, they were closer now. So, backing up down the wall a good length, he turned and ran to an ally, ran down that ally and as he passed through the other side, he collided with Zero. "Trix, get the fuck off me." Zero growled, shoving the teen off him and getting up. "What are you runnin' from, twerp?" Sy asked, helping him up. "There's three figures coming up the road. It's not the T's or Link and it's too early for the Eaters." Trix panted. "It's never to early for the Eaters." Sy said, pulling night vision goggles out of Zero's pack and replacing her goggles with them and switching them on. "Come on." she whispered going up to the edge of the street and peeking around the corner at the three figures. "It's okay, Trix. You're right. It's not dark enough for the eaters to come out yet. Not unless you woke them up." Zero assured him. "I was whistling." Trix shook. Zero shook his head, coming up behind Sy and pressed his finger to his lips. Trix nodded and zipped his lips. Sy scoped out the three figures coming up the street towards them. They're movements were unsure, like they were lost. One tall, one close to that and one an inch or two shorter. "Wish I had Tank's sniper scope." she whispered to Zero. "At least then I could see their faces...wait. They've stopped, there's activity behind them." "What is it?" Zero demanded quietly. "Those three aren't Eaters, Z." she said, pulling the Night Vision up away from her eyes and looking back at her brother. "How do you know?" "Because the 6 things behind them are." she told him, pulling out her bow. "We have to help them."

Zero nodded, pulling his FAMAS against his shoulder and looked back at Trix and nodded at him. Trix nodded at Zero and readied himself. "Go, Sy." Zero whispered, patting Sy on the back. Sy ran out from the corner to the middle of the street and down a few step, where she stopped. Pulling a thin bobtail arrow out of her quiver, placing it in the bow and pulling the sting on the bow back, aiming carefully between the two tallest figures, who she could now see were three guys. A smirk pulled on her lips seeing their scared faces, then let go of the arrow. The arrow whizzed through the air, creating a breeze in the longish hair of the second tallest as it went between them and struck one of the Eaters through the right eye, shattering the back of its skull and dropping it completely dead to the ground. When that Eater dropped, Zero and Trix came out as Sy ran to the three guys being tracked by the Eaters. "You need to move, now!" she snapped at them, pulling back another arrow as a second Eater got closer. "Go!" she yelled at them, taking out the Eater. The three guys ran to where Zero and Trix were and hid behind them. "Sy, get back here!" Zero yelled at his sister, shooting down two Eaters. Sy shot another Eater, than turned and ran back to the group. As she slid to a stop next to them, Trix let loose with his sub-machine gun. "Take them back to the building." he yelled over the gunfire. "Come on." Sy said, pushing the three guys back to the building that she and Zero cleared. She pushed them inside. Putting her bow away and pulling out her shoulder gun again, she held the door with one hand and the gun with the other, watching the door for Trix, Zero and anything else that wanted in. "It's fucking dark in here." one of the guys complained. "Here." Sy shrugged her pack off, never looking away from the door. "There's heavy duty glow sticks in there. Only break open two, that's all you need to see." she instructed them. The sound of them rummaging through her pack, then ripping open the foil packaging of the glow sticks and the creaks and pops of the sticks filled the sheet rock walled room. A neon green glow came to life in the room, then the shuffling sounds of the men sitting down with heavy and uneasy sighs. Zero and Trix came charging in, slamming the door shut and pushing everything they could in front of it. When they felt it was safe, Sy, Zero and Trix pointed their guns at the three men sitting on the floor in front of them. The three struggled up, their hands up and palms out and backing up. "Whoa, chill." The tallest spoke. "Yeah." A second tallest of the men added in.

The third stayed quiet, but frightened looking. "Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing out here? and are you infected?" Zero interrogated them. "I'm-I'm.." The second tallest stuttered. "Henry, from London. We got trapped here, when all the shit hit and as far as any of us know, we're not infected." "And you two are?" Zero asked, pointing his AK at them. "I'm Joey, I'm also from England." The quiet one answered. "And I'm Armie, I'm from here in the U.S." The other answered. "He's bleeding." Trix said, pointing to Henry. "On his side." Sy walked up to him, pulled open his tattered black plaid button down and looked over the gash on his side. She looked back at Zero and shook her head. "It's not anything to worry about Eater wise. Just a wound." she said, stepping away from him. "What the fuck is an 'Eater'?" Joey frowned. "Those things that were going to attack you, before we came in." Zero told them, putting the safety on his AK and sitting back against the pile in front the door. He checked the clip and a bunch of other stuff, Trix did the same as Henry, Joey and Armie sat back down. Sy dug in her pack and pulled out some items. She stood up and went over to Henry and motioned for him to follow her. "You want him to follow you?" Joey protested. "Yeah, unless he wants that wound on his side to get anymore infected, if it isn't already, and if the blood isn't covered up and controlled the Eaters will sniff it out." Sy snapped at him. “No doubt, why they found you.” "I don't trust you." Joey snapped back. Sy growled, dropping her head back. She set the medical supplies aside and unloaded all her weapons, her bow, quiver, clips and guns. "There." she showed him, arms out and turning. "Knife, in you boot." Trix added. "I might need it." she glared at him. "I'm not Cat Woman." Joey, Armie and Henry exchanged looks with each other. "Fine, bleed and/or get sick and die, for all I care. What's one more to add to the loss." Sy rolled her eyes going past him. Henry stopped her, grabbing her by the arm. "I trust you." he whispered. Sy sighed softly, grabbed the medical supplies again and led him to a little kitchen, away from all the others in the place. She laid the supplies down on a counter island and pointed to a chair for Henry to sit in. "Take your shirt off too, please." she told him, pulling a chair up in front of him. Henry nodded and hung the shirt up on the back of the chair. He watched Sy lean close to him and look over his wound, touching it carefully. "So, how long you guys been out here?" he asked, trying to break the silence. "Me, my brother Zero and Trix, the kid, along with our other three guys Toombs, Tank and Link have been here since before it happened. All of us, but Link were born in the US. Link was born in Mexico." she told him, leaning back and grabbing a closed bottle of water and a pad of gauze. Popping open the water and wetting the pad, she wiped and pressed it to his wound making him hiss and bite his bottom lip.

"Sorry." "It's okay." Henry groaned. "This wound is sorta old. Its hardened over some and its got puss inside of it." She told him, dropping the wet pad to the floor. "I have to open and drain it." Henry's eyes went wide as she told him she'd have to cut his wound. "If there was another way, I'd do it. But there's not. If the puss sits there any longer, the more it'll enter your blood stream and make you really sick." She tried to explain it to him as lightly as possible. Henry gulped and nodded his head slowly, "Okay." he whispered. "What do I do?" "I need you to lay down." she told him, getting up, pushing the chair back as she did. Henry rubbed his face, looking at the floor. "Here, wait." Sy stopped him as he started to lay down. She left the kitchen and came back with a brown blanket. She laid it out, took off her black and red hoodie, folded it up and laid it down on the blanket too as a pillow. "There, make it a little more comfy." she smiled at him. Henry smiled at her and laid down on his back, his head supported by her rolled up hoodie. Sy brought the medical supplies down to floor level as she sat cross legged beside him, she pulled her knife from her boot and flipped it open, she poured iodine on the black blade and laid it on fresh gauze. "Go you have any painkillers?" Henry asked, meeting her eyes. Sy pressed her lips together and shook her head at him. "No, sorry." she apologized, pouring more iodine on another piece of gauze and wiping around the wound, but she paused. "But, you know what." she said, her eyes far off. "Trix! Come here and bring your bag." she called out to the kid. Trix came rushing in, gripping his bag by a strap. "Yeah, Sy. Got it right here." He tripped over himself to give it to her and watched like a caught sheep as she dug through it and pulled out a 12oz bottle of Tennessee whiskey. "Here, down some of this." she opened the bottle and held it to Henry's lips, letting him gulp down a fourth of it. "Okay. I'll let you have the rest when I'm done." she told him, putting the cap back on the bottle and setting it aside. "Thanks you, Trix. You can get lost now." Trix nodded, taking his bag back to the front room. "Thanks." Henry replied, when Trix was gone. "Anytime." Sy answered, picking up her knife. "You want something to bite or you good?" she asked him. "Is it gunna hurt?" Henry asked looking her in the eyes. His blue orbs looked worried and scared beyond belief. "I was just throwing it out there." Sy answered, trying to be encouraging and soothing. Henry squeezed his eyes shut and dropped his head back to her hoodie. "Just go." he told her. "Okay." she nodded, then pressed the tip of the knife to the wound.

Henry growled deep in his throat, his hand shooting out and gripping Sy's knee and squeezing his eyes shut tighter as she cut open the length of his wound. Sy dropped the knife as thick white puss oozed out of the cut, she picked up a package of iodine and ripped it open with her teeth. "Big pain." she warned him and squeezed the stinging brown liquid out of the package to his oozing wound. Henry howled in agony as the iodine soaked into the cut. Joey, Trix, Armie and Zero leaned in the doorway of the kitchen to see what all the commotion was about. Sy ignored them, wiping away the puss and pressing it out as much as she could and letting Henry squeeze her leg as much as he need too. "Is he gunna be okay?" Armie asked, concerned. "Yeah, I'm sure of it." Sy answered, still pushing puss out of the wound and pouring more iodine on it. "I need to keep an eye on it to make sure it heals right." "That means they have to stay with us." Trix whined. "Yeah, just like you had too, when we found your dumb ass." Sy mocked back. "Go radio Link and tell them the situation." she barked out the order. "And the rest of you, beat it or your next." she threatened. Not needing farther threats the group at the door was gone to find something else to do. "I don't want to be a burden." Henry panted. "Shut up and breathe." Sy ordered, opening the wound a bit deeper. Henry groaned as the knife cut deeper into his side and gripping her knee even tighter, but Sy never registered it. "There. I'm gunna let it ooze a bit longer, then I'll bandage it up. I don't want you moving. So just lay there, you need something let me know, got it?" "Got it." Henry answered, still panting. "But, tell me something." "Anything." "Okay then, two somethings." Sy smiled at him, cleaning off her knife. "What is it?" "One, what's your name and two, how do you know what you're doing?" "One, My name is Sy and two, I'm a medic." A frown washed over her face. "Well, I was before the whole end of the world thing. I was 3 months shy of becoming a doctor." "Sy. What's that short for?" he asked, looking at her. "Nothing. It's my full name. My parents weren't very clear minded, when they had me." she laughed. Henry chuckled and Sy patted Henry on the shoulder, packed away the medical supplies, then sat back against the counter island facing Henry and closed her eyes. It was going to be another long night, the Eaters or the people that had been affected by the disease that swept over the world, turning many into flesh eating, night walking maniacs, where coming out in stronger and bigger numbers every night. But luckily they seemed to be spread out from each other, though God only knows how long that'll last. It only took three days, three days, for the world to end and tip upside down. The brown, cloudless and sunny sky was utterly unforgiving in the day time. It was so hot in the day you could fry an egg the sidewalk and so cold at night, you couldn't wet your lips without running the chance of them freezing together. Chapstick, sun block and sun glasses were your best amigo in the day and a thick blanket, more Chapstick and another human body were your partner at night. Yeah, Sy, Zero, Trix, Link, Toombs and Tank had it all down to a pretty good and fine science. They had their faults, nothing out of the usual though. Only being some of the last surviving people on the planet over run with Zombies, supplies were few and in between, like toilet paper, a bar of soap or even a washer machine. But things could be improvised for that. They always sold out the ammo stores and aisles when they could, got what good food they could use, water was a hard thing to get right, but thanks to Trix, they had a system of making damn sure it was clean enough to drink and cook with. They raided hospitals for medical supplies when needed, clothing stores for new shoes and whatever else they needed to cover themselves. It was by no means a simple life, or an easy one. But, they all knew that it could be worse, and as long as they had each other, they'd be able to get through it virtually unhurt. Sy jerked awake, hearing a startled gasp from in front of her. Sitting up, putting a hand on her shoulder gun and reaching into the side pouch of her cameo pants, she pulled out a glow stick and broke it, illuminating the kitchen in a blue glow as she shook it for extra strength. It was Henry, sitting up on his elbows, sweating heavily and staring, frightened, at the small kitchen window behind her. Glancing at her watch, it was 3.03am. She set the glow stick between them and rested her hand on his tense shoulder. She could hear the Eaters now, running and screeching passed the window and around the building. It was a sound that kept her awake many of the first nights, haunted her dreams for weeks after, and finally, just recently, she got use to it. But, obviously Henry hadn't gotten to that point yet. "It's okay." she whispered to him, wiping sweat from his temple. "They can't get in." "You sure?" Henry asked, never tearing his eyes from the window. "Yeah, the window is too small, the door is blocked and Zero's watching it. The windows on the third floor are too high for them to reach." Sy assured him. She ran her fingers through his short curly brown hair, smiling as it spiked slightly from him sweating. "Just lay back down, I won't let anything happen to you. I promise." Henry laid back, breathing slowly in and out through his mouth. He stared at the ceiling, his stomach rumbled angrily. Sy frowned hearing it and watching him press his hand to his stomach, closing his eyes. She shifted to get up and he grabbed her by the wrist, looking at her from the corners of his eyes. "I'm just going to get my bag, okay. I won't be more than like twelve feet from you." she told him, tenderly. Henry's hand slowly let go of her waist and Sy stood up, edged around him and went into the other room where the others where at. "Everything okay?" Zero asked. He was sitting on turned over paint bucket in front of the door, his FAMAS loaded and ready to go if anything happened, across his lap. "Yeah, just need my bag. Got a growling tummy in there and by the sound of how pissed it is, he hasn't eaten in a bit." Sy replied, picking up her bag, where she dropped it last. "Yeah, Trix gave those two some food and water, he was gunna give some to you two, but you were already asleep and I told him to leave you." Zero answered, watching the shadows outside zoom by. Sy sighed, standing next to Zero, facing away from the shadows. There was an uneasy pause and silence between them, words for their thoughts didn't have to be said out loud anymore, because they'd been said so many times before. "Go and get some food in that boy's belly, Sy." Zero said softly, looking down at his safety. "We'll talk about it later." Nodding and patting him on the shoulder, she took her pack back into the kitchen and sat back down in her spot beside Henry, who looked at her with a gulp. Sy smiled at him, digging in her bag and pulling out a medium sized brown package and a dark green spoon and handed it to him. "What is this?" Henry frowned taking the items. "Um, I think, that's chili and beans. I got...uh, meatloaf with gravy and Pork Chow Mein, if ya wanna switch." she told him, holding up two other medium sized packages. "Okay, but, what the hell is this?" he asked, shaking the package at her. "Oh! They're MREs." Sy answered, grabbing another spoon for herself. "Meals Ready to Eat. It's U.S military food. They have a shelf life of 25 years, so they're good stuff for us." Henry grimaced at the MRE and spoon in his hand, but his stomach was telling him to rip that shit open and devour it. Setting the spoon down and ripping open the package, he looked in at the gooey mess in it and looked up at Sy still a bit grossed out. Sy offered him a smile, as she ate the Chow Mein with her fingers. Shrugging, Henry picked his spoon back up and dug into the food. It wasn't as bad as he thought it would be, he was actually sorta impressed by it.

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28. Song Of The Siren

The episode begins with a view of a beach at night. Some police bots are walking by the edge of the harbor. They pass by a rock in the shallow waters of the beach. Something is moving in the water and towards the rock. Splash Woman jumps up onto a rock. She takes a deep breath, and begins singing. The police bots turn around and look at Splash Woman. Splash Woman waves to them as she is singing. She then points them towards some robots sitting down on the sand. The police robots begin shooting at the robots and destroy them in the process. Splash Woman laughs evilly as she watches the carnage. Meanwhile, Mega Man and Rush are walking down the city sidewalk. Some lady robots are walking up to them. They flirt with Mega Man and tell him how handsome and muscular he is. Rush groans in embarassment at the spectacle. Mega Man tells the lady robots that he and Rush have to go. They quickly walk past them as the lady robots seductively bid Mega Man goodbye. Mega Man is red in the face with sheer humiliation. Rush licks his face as a way comforting him. "Thanks Rush." Mega Man says to him "I needed that."

As they walk to the corner sidewalk, they see someone running towards them. Three large

military robots come charging towards them. They begin firing at them. "Sufferin' Cyborgs! An ambush!" Mega Man cries out. He jumps out of the line of fire and shoots at the military robots. Rush jumps out of the way also. One of the military robots fires a grenade at Mega Man. The grenade lands in front of Mega Man. Mega Man picks it up and says "Here! Have a taste of your own medicine!" He throws it at them. Two of the military robots are instantly blown up into parts. The remaining military robot fires his gatling gun at Mega Man in the hopes of destroying him. Mega Man dodges the bullets and charges up his cannon. Rush jumps on top of the military robot's head and covers its eyes with his paws. Mega Man fires a fully charged shot at the robot's legs. Mega Man cries out to Rush "Rush! Jump!" Rush jumps off of the robot's head as the robot falls to the ground and smashes its head upon the

pavement. Rush runs back to Mega Man. "What was that all about?" Mega Man asks Rush. A call comes up on his arm cannon. Mega Man presses a button on his arm cannon to receive the call. It's Dr. Light. "What is it, Dr. light?" Mega Man asks him. Dr. Light responds "Mega Man! Construction robots appear to have glitched and are wrecking nearby buildings! You need to get over there right now before they put human lives in danger!" Mega Man says "I'll be right there!" and hangs up the call. "Looks like there's another emergency, Rush!" Mega Man says to Rush. Rush barks and then turns into his Jet mode. Mega Man gets on Rush and they fly over to the construction site.

Elsewhere, some garbage disposal robots are picking up garbage cans and dumping their contents into the garbage truck. Splash Woman pops out of the fountain nearby and says "Yoo hoo!" to the garbage disposal robots. They look at her and then look back and continue on with their work. Splash Woman says "I knew you wouldn't pay attention to me..." and then begins singing. The garbage robots, instead of dumping the trash cans into the garbage truck, begin throwing the trash cans through the windows of nearby buildings and throw the garbage in the garbage truck all over the place. Splash Woman laughs evilly at the spectacle before her. She gets a call on her arm cannon and answers the call. She asks in a singsong voice "Who is it?" Dr. Wily sighs and says "It's Dr. Wily. Is your singing reprogramming them as I expect it to do?" "But of course!" Splash Woman says with glee "And they're causing chaos like you wanted them to do!" Dr. Wily says "Excellent! With your help, Splash Woman, I will have a massive army of robots in no time! Now make your way to the Robo Commando headquarters and give them a concert they'll never forget! Mwa ha ha ha ha!" "Oh Wily!" Splash Woman says "You're such a card!" and hangs up the call. She dives into the fountain and swims away to her next target.

Meanwhile, Mega Man uses his plasma cannon to stun the last remaining construction robot. The robot falls to the ground with a metallic thud. Mega Man exclaims, "Well that takes care of them!" He then surveys the damage that was caused by the construction robots. "Is everyone alright?" Mega Man asks everyone. The people tell Mega Man that they are okay and unharmed. Mega Man is perplexed as to what is causing the robots to go berzerk. Mega Man calls up Dr. Light on his arm cannon to ask him if he's figured out the cause of the problem yet. Dr. Light tells him not yet, and for him and Rush to meet him and Roll at the seafood restaurant for dinner. Mega Man hangs up and tells Rush that they have a rendezvous with Dr. Light and Roll. Rush barks and turns into his Jet mode. Mega Man and Rush fly off.

At the seafood restaurant, Mega Man is discussing with Dr. Light the current situation with the berzerk robots. Across from where they're sitting, something swims into the large tubular aquarium that is in the center of the dining area of the seafood restaurant. It then swims up to the top of the tank. It is revealed to be Splash Woman. She surfaces and sees that Mega Man is over at one of the tables. She laughs to herself and says "Mega Man's going to be quite in a tizzy tonight!" She begins singing. Next to the aquarium is a table full of high-ranking police robots. Dr. Light and his robots hear singing coming from the aquarium. Dr. Light thinks that they are putting on a show for the diners. "Such beautiful singing!" Dr. Light complements "The entertainment here is simply astounding!" Mega Man says "Yeah! Whoever's singing should really sing up for-" as he turns his head to where the aquarium is, but cuts himself off when he sees that the singer is none other than Splash Woman. He is shocked and shouts out "Splash Woman!" Mega Man jumps out of his chair and runs over to the aquarium. The high-ranking police robots that are now under Splash Woman's control come up to Mega Man to stop him from confronting Splash Woman. "Stop in the name of the law!" the police robots shout at Mega Man. They aim their guns at him. "We sentence you...to death!" the police robots says as they charge up their guns. Splash Woman laughs out loud and says to Mega Man "Looks like you've been busted!" Mega Man looks up at her and then back down at the police robots. He then shouts out "Afraid not!" He jumps onto the head of the police robot in the middle and the police robot's gun points down to the floor. The gun goes off, creating enough force to launch Mega Man up onto the edge of the tank.

He stares Splash Woman right in her eyes and exclaims "You're the one that's been making robots go crazy, aren't you!" Splash Woman giggles and says "Robots like you!" She begins singing. Mega Man tries to resist her singing, but finds himself falling under her spell. Splash Woman giggles evilly and says to him "You love my singing to, don't you?" Mega Man slowly nods. Splash Woman then tells him "Now, my number one fan, go wreck your friends!" Mega Man jumps down from the tank, using the police robots as a landing. He then aims his cannon at Dr. Light and begins charging it. "Mega No!" Roll cries out.  She quickly switches to her frying pan attatchment and puts the frying pan in front of Dr. Light. "But Splash Woman wants me to!" Mega Man says, clearly brainwashed by Splash Woman's siren-like singing. Mega Man fires a shot from his plasma cannon in Dr. Light's direction. Roll deflects the shot with her frying pan. The shot is deflected and hits the floor in front of Mega Man. Dust and debris and kicked up. Mega Man swipes at the dust with his hand to clear it. He accidentially hits Roll, who lets out a cry that is reminiscent of off-key singing. This, for some reason, snaps Mega Man out of Splash Woman's control. Splash Woman sees that Mega Man is no longer under the control of her singing. She has the two remaining police robots destroy Mega Man and his allies. They get up and run over to Mega Man and aim their guns at him. "So the pursuit is still on, huh?" Mega Man says to the police robots. He then shouts "Very well then!" and fires at their guns. The intense heat of the plasma blasts melts the police robots' guns, making them no longer work. The police robots put up their arms and surrender. "Now that's more like it!" Mega Man exclaims. Suddenly, Dr. Light cries out "Mega Man! Help!" Mega Man turns to see Guts Man holding up Dr. Light above his head. "You better put him down, Guts Man!" Mega Man says to Guts Man. "Or what!?" Guts Man growls. Mega Man aims his plasma cannon at him and says "Or else you're going to get a face full of plasma power!" Guts Man laughs and says "Try it! You'll end up hittin' your dear ol' doc instead! Ha ha ha ha ha!" Rush sneaks up to one of Guts Man's legs and bites it. Guts Man wobbles around in pain and yells out "Not again!" Dr. Light falls out of Guts Man's arms. Mega Man jumps up and catches Dr. Light. Meanwhile, Guts Man manages to pull Rush off of his leg. He goes over to the large

lobster tank. Rush whimpers as Guts Man prepares to drop him into the lobster tank. "Here lobsters! Lunchtime! Ha ha ha ha!" Guts Man yells out with sadistic glee in his tone. Rush yowls out for Mega Man. Mega Man runs over to the lobster tank. While he is running to the lobster tank, Mega Man yells out "Oh great! Now it's Rush's turn to be rescued!" Splash Woman is getting upset at Guts Man's tomfoolery and yells out to him "Guts Man! What do you think you're doing!" Guts Man groans and says "Ohhh! I was getting rid of the robo dog!" Splash Woman yells out "The others are getting away!" Just then, Mega Man snatches Rush

out of Guts Man's grasp and pushes the lobster tank over, dumping water and lobsters all over Guts Man. The lobster crawl over Guts Man and pinch various parts of his head. Guts Man flails around in pain and ends up slipping and crashing onto the floor. Splash Woman facepalm and says to herself "Looks like I'll have to spear them myself!" She fires her Laser Trident at Dr. Light and Roll. Mega Man and Rush run over to save them. Roll uses her vacuum attatchment to suck up the projectiles, but as the Laser Tridents are sucked up, they damage her arm. Mega Man fires some shots at Splash Woman, knocking her Laser Trident out of her hands. Splash Woman yells out "This is just the beginning, Mega Man!" and dives into the aquarium. Mega Man tries to jump into the aquarium to pursue her, but just as he is about to dive into the aquarium, he sees that she has already swam away. He splashes the water in disappointment. "Robo Rats!" he cries out.

Back at Dr. Light's Lab, Dr. Light is trying to find out how to reverse the effects of Splash Woman's singing. He laments how he had built her and seven other robots to help humanity. He thought that he had created them in a way that would make it difficult for them to be reprogrammed, but Dr. Wily somehow managed to find a way to reprogram them. Mega Man remembers the first time he confronted them. Dr. Light and Mega Man hope that they can save the robots that he had created and get them onto the good side once again. Dr. Light tells Mega Man that he can't seem to find a way to reverse Splash Woman's singing by himself. He tells Mega Man that only Splash Woman herself would know how to reverse her own singing. Mega Man wonders how they are going to find out a way to gather information on how her singing works on male robots. Dr. Light tells Mega Man "It's looks like you're going to have to seduce her into finding a way to reverse the effects of her singing." Mega Man looks at Dr. Light with disbelief. "Are you serious!?" he says to his creator. "I'm afraid so." Dr. Light replies. Roll places a half ring-shaped device on one of Mega Man's "ears". She tells him that if he needs her help to just press the button on the device. Mega Man tells her "Okay. I'll remember that for if I need any of your advice during this little misadventure." Mega Man gets into the Air Raider and flies out of the lab and off to the Skull Ship.

Mega Man arrives at the Skull Ship. He gets out of the Air Raider and walks over to the Skull Ship. Bubble Man comes up on the ship's  intercom and asks him angrily what he is doing near the Skull Ship. Mega Man tells him that he wants to join Splash Woman's side. In the Skull Ship's main room, Bubble Man talks into the microphone. He says to Mega Man "This isn't some sort of clever trick, is it!?" Mega Man says to him "Of course not!". As he straightens  his bowtie he says "I love Splash Woman so much I want to join her and fight by her side!" Bubble Man responds "Hmmm...fair enough!" He presses a button on the control panel in front of him. A bridge extends out of the Skull Ship and plops down in front of Mega Man. Roll tells Mega Man "Just go up the bridge and make a good entrance!" Mega Man walks up the bridge and onto the Skull Ship. He walks by some security cameras that are following his every move. He goes up to what he thinks is the main entrance. He knocks on the door. On the intercom, Bubble Man snaps "Just go in, Mega Ditz!" "Oh! Okay!" Mega Man responds. The door slides open and Mega Man enters. He walks around looking for the room that Splash Woman is in. He hears Splash Woman saying "Come in, Mega Babe!" Mega Man asks out loud "Where are you, Splash Woman?" Splash Woman simply giggles and replies "Over here!" Mega Man looks around and yells out "Where?!" Splash Woman cries out "In the room next to you, silly!" Mega Man looks to his side and sees a door there. He slowly opens the door. He goes into the room. The room is dark. Mega Man hears water swishing. A single light turns on in the room. The light shines on Splash Woman. She lightly waves at him and says with a coy tone in her voice "Why hello there, Mega Man!" Mega Man is taken aback for a second, but regains his composure and replies "H-Hello there, Splash Woman! It's real nice to m-meet you!" Splash Woman giggles and says "It's nice to meet you too!" She swishes her tail seductively. Mega Man outstretches his hand to give her the bouquet. "Oh for me!" she says to him. She takes the bouquet and holds it close to her chest and says "That was real sweet of you!" "T-thank you!" Mega Man nervously replies. He is unsure of what to do next. He tells Splash Woman "W-will you e-excuse for a moment, please?" She replies "Sure thing, Mega Man!" Mega Man does over near the entrance and presses the button on his device. He asks Roll what he should do next after offering her the bouquet. She suggests to him asking her out on an outing. Mega Man tells Roll that he and Splash Woman are in the Skull Ship. Roll suggests that he bring her out onto the deck so that they could view the scenery together. Splash Woman looks over at Mega man and is suspicious of his behavior. Mega Man goes back to Splash Woman and asks her if she would like to join him in watching the scenery from the front deck of the Skull Ship. She answers "Why I would love to do that! Only one problem, I kinda need someone to carry me up on deck!" She points with her hand to her slowly swishing tail. Mega Man goes over to where she is. He treads through the water and picks her up in his arms. "No problem!" Mega man says to her as he carries her out of the room. We see Splash Woman looking back with a sinister look on her face. As he is walking out with Splash Woman in her arms and down the hallway, Guts Man stops him when he gets to the end of the hallway. "Just where do ya think yer goin' with her!?" Guts Man asks Mega Man. Splash Woman interrupts Mega Man before he can say anything to Guts Man. "I have given him permission to take me out onto the front deck to watch the stars with him, isn't that right Mega Man?" Splash Woman says to Guts Man. Mega Man nervously replies "Uh, yes! That's right! That's what she told me!" Splash Woman looks at Guts Man in a stern way and

says to him "You better be nice to us, Guts Man! Mega Man is going to be joining our side very soon!" Guts Man groans "Oh, alright! You may pass...but only this once!" Guts Man slowly steps aside and lets them through. "You're such a gentleman, Guts Man!" Splash Woman says to Guts Man as they go past him and out onto the front deck of the Skull Ship. Proto Man is watching them from the end of the hall. "This I gotta see!" Proto Man says to himself with amusement. Out on the deck of the Skull Ship, Mega Man and Splash Woman are watching the bustling city life by the harbor. Mega Man silently sneaks away from Splash Woman to contact Roll. He presses the button on the device and waits for Roll to call back. Roll asks him what he needs this time. Mega Man asks her what he should say to her as she is watching the nighttime scenery. She tells him to complement her and to comment on what is going on in the distance. Mega Man replies "Got it!" and hangs up. He goes over to Splash Woman and tells her "You're looking really pretty tonight." Splash Woman says to him "Why thank you, Mega Man!" She looks down at the water below and says "I've never had a robot of the opposite gender complement me before!" Mega Man looks down at the water with her, his reflection joining hers upon the surface. Mega Man says "You haven't had a robot complement you before!?" Splash Woman sadly responds "No...not even Dr. Wily himself!" She continues "The other robots don't even treat me with respect! They just see me as some sort of sea princess!" Mega Man looks back at Splash Woman and says to her, "I respect you." Splash Woman is suprised by what Mega Man just said to her. "You-you do?!" she asks him in order to confirm what he just told her. "Of course I do!" Mega Man replies. "You're not only an attractive robot, you're also a great fighter!" He continues "You were quite the adversary during the seige on Atlantis!" The excitement increases in his voice as he says "You're one formidible opponent!" Splash Woman blushes and says "Why thank you, Mega Man! I've never had one of my enemies complement me on my fighting prowess! You're a first!" Thinking that Splash Woman is lost in what he said to her, Mega Man goes over to the other side of the deck and contacts Roll yet again. "Any other romantic advice?" he asks her. Roll simply says "Now's a good time to hold her hand!" "What!?" Mega Man exclaims in disbelief, his exclamation attracting Splash Woman's attention. She glances at him, and sees the device around his "ear". Roll is still explaining to Mega Man why holding her hand would win her heart. As Mega Man concludes his conversation with Roll, Splash Woman suddenly grabs his hand. Mega Man looks over at Splash Woman, horrified. Splash Woman angrily asks Mega Man "Who are you talking to on that thing!?" Mega Man tries to confess that it is Roll, who is helping him out on his "date" with Splash Woman. Splash Woman angrily says "You'd rather talk with your ditzy sister than spend some quality time with me!?" Roll overhears what Splash Woman called her and begins to say "Listen here, you rusting excuse for a mermaid! I-" Splash Woman pulls the device off of Mega Man's "ear" and crushes it in her hand. Roll has now realized that her communication with Mega man has been abruptly cut off. "Oh no!" she exclaims "Mega could be in very big trouble!" She runs out of the side lab and exclaims "I've got to tell Dr. Light! Fast!" Meanwhile, Mega Man tries to explain to Splash Woman why Roll was assisting him. Splash Woman doesn't listen to him, and accuses him of romancing her as a way to find a way to stop her from controlling the male robots. Mega Man feels like he cannot make excuses and admits that the "date" was indeed an intelligence gathering mission. Splash Woman yells out "I knew it! You were just trying to sweet talk your way into finding out how to save your boy robot friends!" She presses a button on her arm cannon and yells out "Now you've made a very fatal mistake!" Mega Man extends his hand out to stop her from calling for back up and cries out "No! Don't!" While looking at him with evil intent, Splash Woman says into her arm cannon "It's a set up! Mega Man's trying to destroy me! Help! Help!" Mega Man hears the robot masters about to go out of the door. He looks back to

Splash Woman and says "Sorry I broke your heart!" He tears off his suit, removes his bowtie, and run towards the tip of the deck and dives off of it headfirst into the water below. Guts Man, Dive Man, and Bubble Man barge out of the door and onto the front deck. "Where did that blue lothario go!?" Guts Man roars at Splash Woman, ready for a fight. Splash Woman tells the robot masters that he jumped into the water, then commands Dive Man and Bubble Man to pursue him with her. She goes over the railing and goes into the water in pursuit of Mega Man. Proto Man stands at the door and shakes his head at the spectacle occuring

before him. After diving into the water, she activates her Laser Trident and swims away. "Where did that cyan cad go!?" she asks herself with anger in her tone. Meanwhile, Mega Man is hiding under a dock, with some scraps of the suit still on his body. He calls up Dr. Light on his arm cannon and yells into it "Dr. Light! Come one! The mission's a failure and now Splash Woman and the other robots are after my blue hide!" Dive Man passes by the dock and hears Mega Man calling for help on his arm cannon. Mega Man hears Dive Man swimming towards him, looks up, and gasps in terror. "Found you, you little womanizer!" Dive Man

says to him. He fires some Dive Missiles at him. Mega Man swims quickly out of the way of the missiles. The missiles destroy the wooden pillars holding the dock up. The dock falls into the water. Mega Man tries to escape the sinking dock, but ends up pinned under the wreckage. Bubble Man comes upon the carnage and swims over. He sees Mega Man struggling to free himself from the wreckage and comments "Ha ha ha ha! Trapped like a blue crab!" Splash Woman joins Dive Man and Bubble Man and charges towards Mega Man with her Laser Trident. Mega Man sees her charging towards her with a very angry look on her face. Mega Man exclaims "Don't make me shoot you!" He realizes that she will not listen to this threat, and aims his plasma cannon at her as it charges up. Unfortunately, his plasma cannon has been damaged and automatically shuts down. Mega Man sighs and braces himself for Splash Woman's attack. Bubble Man and Dive Man simply watch with

sadistic glee. Just then, Roll jumps down into the water and onto Splash Woman. She is knocked unconscious for a moment. Rush dives into the water not too long after. He goes over to Mega Man and sees that he is trapped in the wreckage. Mega Man shows Rush his damaged arm cannon and tells him "I can't really defend  myself this time, boy." Bubble Man tells Roll "Sorry to burst your bubble, Blondie, but you're not going to be play heroine!" He fires his Bubble Lead weapon at Roll. Roll is enveloped in a large bubble. Bubble Man goes over to Rush while he's removing the reminants of the dock off of Mega Man and says to him, "Now it's your turn, Metal Mutt!" He fires his Bubble Lead weapon at Rush. Rush dodges the bubbles. The bubbles hit the wreckage and encase parts of it in bubbles. The bubbles float away, freeing Mega Man from the wreckage. "Thanks for the assistance, Bubble Man!" Mega Man tells Bubble Man. Rush turns into his Marine Mode, and Mega Man gets inside. Dive Man fires some Dive Missles at Rush. Rush quickly jets away from the missiles. Roll tries to pop the bubble trapping her with her fingers, but is unable to. She switches to her corkscrew attatchment and jabs the bubble. The bubble pops, and Roll swims away to join Mega Man and Rush. Splash Woman goes after Roll and fires her Laser Trident at her. Mega Man looks back and sees that Roll is in trouble. He tells Rush "Rush! You need to fetch Roll! She's in a pickle!" Rush turns back to rescue Roll from Splash Woman's wrath. Roll switches to her toaster attatchment and attempts to fire it at Splash Woman, but the toaster won't work underwater and just produces a stream of small bubbles. Splash Woman laughs and tells Roll "How pathetic! You can't even use the right attatchment! You really are a Robo Ditz!" Splash Woman charges up her Laser Trident and aims it at Roll. Roll goes through her attatchments in a desparate attempt to find the right one to fight Splash Woman with. Rush quickly grabs Roll by the collar of her "shirt" and quickly swims away. Splash Woman still fires at them as they get away. Dive Man tells Splash Woman "Don't waste your Laser Trident on them, Splash Woman! We'll get them next time!" Splash Woman growls and clenches her fist as the good robots surface.

As the Air Raider makes its way back to Dr. Light's lab, Mega Man and everyone else are trying to think of another way to find a way to reverse the effects of Splash Woman's singing. Roll recalls back at the seafood restaurant, when she cried out in a way that sounded like off-key singing, that for some reason it reversed the effect the singing had on Mega Man. "It was almost like I was singing off-key!" Roll comments. Mega Man and Roll both realize that off-key singing is the key to reversing Splash Woman's singing. "That's it!" they both say in unison. Mega Man turns to Roll and says "No offense, Roll, but your terrible singing appears to snap guy robots out of Splash Woman's spell." "None taken!" Roll says. Mega Man then says "We gotta tell Dr. Light right away!" The Air Raider flies over to Dr. Light's lab.

Elsewhere, the Skull Ship docks at Baltimore's harbor. The Skull Ship is near the World Trade Center. The Skullker flies out of the Skull Ship and goes up towards the roof of the skyscraper. It lands on the roof. Proto Man is revealed to be the one flying the Skullker instead of Dr. Wily. He looks to the back of the Skullker, where Splash Woman, Guts Man, and Cut Man are, and says to them "Time for your concert, Splashy!" Splash Woman smiles evilly and chuckles. Guts Man carries Splash Woman out of the back of the Skullker with Cut Man following behind them. He goes to the center of the roof and places Splash Woman down. "Okay!" Guts Man says to her "Sing yer heart out!" Splash Woman stands up a bit and clears her throat. She begins singing. Every male robot within earshot of her begins to stop what they are doing. They then begin to wreck havoc on their surroundings. Dr. Wily is viewing the situation from his Skull Ship. He laughs evilly and is very pleased that his plan is working. He calls up Proto Man in the Skullker and tells him to look down and see how the male robots are reacting. "Okee Dokee Doc!" Proto Man responds. He gets out of the Skullker and looks down at the city below from the edge of the roof. He sees the destruction below and smirks. He turns around and walks back to the Skullker. He hears Cut Man cry out that an air vehicle is on the horizon and looks back to see what it is. It is the Air Raider. Proto Man thinks that it is going to shoot at them. He and Cut Man aim their cannons at it. To their surprise, it lands on a nearby skyscraper. They deactivate their cannons.

They go over to the edge of the roof to see who is going to come out of the Air Raider. Mega Man comes out of it, looking confident and determined. Roll climbs out of the Air Raider, but instead of her usual garb, she is in a sparkling red dress. Dr. Wily's robots are strangely both confused and enamored at the same time. Rush comes out of the Air Raider, carrying a kareoke machine on his back. He places the machine in front of Roll.  Roll grabs the microphone, looks at the bad robots and says "Hey Boys! Check this out!" She takes a deep breath and begins singing, off-key. Splash Woman hears Roll singing and stops singing herself. She flops over to the side of the roof. She becomes enraged when she sees Roll for herself. She commands the bad robots to go over there and get rid of them. They run into the Skullker and fly off while Splash Woman resumes singing. Mega Man and Rush see that the Skullker is heading towards the building that they are on. Mega Man looks at Rush and says "We need to stop them!" Rush turns into his Jet Mode and Mega Man gets on him. They fly off the roof to confront the Skullker. Inside the Skullker, Proto Man is piloting it and sees Mega Man approaching, his cannon aimed at the Skullker and ready to fire at it. Proto Man says, "So you're going to stop us, huh?" He presses a button, smirks evilly and says "Let's see you stop this!" The Skullker fires a large beam at Mega Man and Rush. "Rush! Roll over!" Mega Man yells out to Rush. Rush does a barrel roll, narrowly dodging the large beam. The beam hits the windows on the side of the building. The windows reflect the beam back at the Skullker. Proto Man, Guts Man and Cut Man are terrified at the beam shoots back at the Skullker. The Skullker is hit and is badly damaged. Mega Man looks on and comments "How's that for karma?" The Skullker emits billows of smoke and begins to plummet to the ground below. Mega Man is shocked to see that the Skullker is headed towards a group of people. He flies down and catches up with the plummeting Skullker. He pushes the Skullker towards the water. Proto Man sees that the Skullker is now headed towards the water. "Abandon Skullker!" Proto Man cries out in distress. Proto Man and the other bad robots jump out of the Skullker, Proto man jumps out of one of the windows in the cockpit. Guts Man and Proto Man plunge into the water. The Skullker makes a huge splash as it smashes into the water. Cut Man misses the water and lands onto the concrete walkway. His cutters take the impact and smash into pieces. He hits his head on the ground and bounces over onto his back. Swirls appear in his eyes. Underwater, the Skullker sinks quickly down into the depths. It then explodes, sending up a column of large bubbles. Proto Man and Guts Man try to dodge the bubbles, but the bubbles end up floating them up towards the water's surface. As they surface, Bubble Man and Dive Man confront them. Dive Man sternly asks them "What's going on here!?" Proto Man tells Dive Man "Mega Man is what happened, Dive Man!" They hear Rush and Mega Man flying up back to the rooftop. Proto Man fires his plasma cannon at them. Guts Man grabs Dive Man and prepares to hurl him at Mega Man. "Hey! Put me down!" Dive Man commands. Guts Man tries to throw him, but messes up the throw. Dive Man falls into the water. Dive Man surfaces and yells at Guts Man "You moron!" He aims his cannon at Mega Man and says "Let a more competent soldier handle this one!" He fires some Dive Missiles at Mega Man. Mega Man catches the missiles, much to Dive Man's shock. "Touchdown!" Mega Man cries out. He then says to Dive Man "Here, let me throw you the old pigskins!" Mega Man throws the missiles back at the evil  robots. The missiles explode and literally blow them out of the water. Dive Man flies out of the water and lands onto the concrete. Guts Man ends up landing on him. "Get off of me, you hard-hatted lug!" Dive Man angrily yells out.

Meanwhile, Splash Woman sees that Mega Man is returning to where Roll is situated. "It's time for an encore performance, Mega Cad!" Splash Woman evilly says. She sings to him. Mega Man sees that she is delibrately singing to him and covers his "ears" with his hands. Unfortunately, he is unable to do this for very long. He and Rush swoon as they succumb to the singing's effect. Mega Man and Rush go up to Splash Woman. Mega Man asks Splash Woman "W-What is your h-heart's desire, m-my love?" Splash Woman tickles his chin and tells him seductively "Oh Mega Man, I would just love it if you would destroy your sister!" Mega Man turns around and says "As you w-wish, mi a-amore!" Rush barks slowly and lovingly. Mega Man and Rush turn around and jet right towards Roll. Mega Man aims his cannon at Roll, all the while flashing an expression of hatred. Roll knows what to do this time, and without fear, begins singing off-key. Mega Man and Rush immediately snap out of the effects of Splash Woman's singing. Mega Man realizes that he his aiming his cannon at Roll, and quickly puts it down as his cheeks redden with embarassment. Splash Woman is furious that Mega Man has yet again escaped her control. She readies her Laser Trident and fires at the good robots. Mega Man fires at Splash Woman and knocks her Laser Trident out of her hands. Splash Woman sneers and growls "If I can't destroy you, then my fans will for me!" She goes over to the edge of the roof and looks down. She sees the hypnotized male robots being loaded up onto the Skull Ship. She begins singing to them and has them enter the skyscraper the good robots are on and go up to where they are. "Scale that building and bring them down!" Splash Woman commands through song. The male robots march out

of the Skull Ship and run over to the skyscraper. Some of them enter the building and go up the stairs and the elevators, while some of them climb up the building. Dr. Wily calls up Splash Woman on her arm cannon and cries out "What do you think you're doing!?" Splash Woman responds with "Getting rid of the problem, just like you've commanded me to do!" Dr. Wily angrily tells her to get them back on the Skull Ship. Splash Woman replies "After I get rid of the problem!" She hangs up the call and continues with her singing. In the Skull Ship, Dr. Wily calls up the robot masters. Over near the building, Guts Man manages to finally get off of Dive Man. Dive Man gets  up and begins yelling at Guts Man. Proto Man gets a call on his arm cannon. He yells out "Shut Up! Wily's calling me!" at Guts Man and Dive Man, who were still fighting. Proto Man says "What is it, Wily?" Dr. Wily says to him "It looks like the hypnotized robots are going to need your help in taking down Mega Man...literally!" Proto

Man smiles evilly and says "Sure thing, Dr. Wily! We'll be right there, won't we guys?" He looks at Guts Man and Dive Man. Dive Man salutes Proto Man and says "Yes sir!" They then run off towards the building. Meanwhile, Mega Man and Rush look down from the rooftop and see that the hypnotized robots are getting closer and closer to them. Mega Man shoots at some of them, causing them to fall off of the building. He tells Roll "I don't think I can hold them off for long..." He then tells her "Sing to them!" Roll resumes singing. Splash Woman sees that Roll is singing again. "Oh no you don't!" she exclaims. Splash Woman starts singing again. Roll sees that Splash Woman is staring to sing and turns up the volume on the kareoke machine. Splash Woman sings louder. Roll turns up the volume on the machine even higher. Splash Woman sings even louder. "How about this, Scale Tail?" Roll yells out to Splash Woman. She turns the machine up to maximum volume. Splash Woman sings as loud as she can. Mega Man is still blasting away at the robots climbing up the building. He and Rush hear them exiting onto the rooftop. Mega Man looks at Rush with worry and says "Looks like we're done for!" Suddenly, Splash Woman's throat short circuits. Some smoke comes out of her mouth. She tries to sing again, but can barely let out a squeak. "What's the matter, Splash Woman?" Roll taunts "Robo cat got your tongue?" Splash Woman readies her Laser Trident and aims it at Roll. "Not this time, Splashy!" Mega Man cries out. He fires a fully-powered shot at Splash Woman, knocking her out. "Looks like her singing career is over!" Mega Man says to Roll. Rush is at the edge of the roof and says to Mega Man "Look! Look!" Mega Man and Roll go over and see that the robots are snapping out of it. The robots on the roof that were about to attack Mega Man and his allies realize where they are and head back to the door. Roll turns around and says "I hope the rental store is still open at this-" She is suddenly grabbed. Mega Man turns  around and sees that Guts Man has snatched Roll. Before he can react, Cut Man aims the cutters on his head at Mega Man's neck. "Mega! Danger!" Rush barks out. Mega Man turns around to see Cut Man on the verge of taking his head off. He ducks just as the cutters close shut. Proto Man, Dive Man, Wave Man, and Bubble Man climb onto the rooftop. They surround Mega Man and Rush. "Looks like you're surrounded, Little Brother!" Proto Man says to Mega Man. Mega Man says "Well in that case, why don't we put some tunes on!" He adjusts the kareoke machine's volume, causing it to emit a loud horrible screech. All of the bad robots cringe and cover their ears. Guts Man drops Roll and

stumbles back a bit. He loses his balance and falls off of the building and onto the ground, smashing into pieces. Roll gets up and says "Twas beauty that killed the bot!" Proto Man crouches down, still holding his 'ears' with his hands. He yells out "Somebody turn that wretched machine off!" Wave Man fires his Water Wave at the kareoke machine. It does not turn off but instead shorts out. The Water Wave sends the machine towards Dive Man and Bubble Man. "Not over here!" Dive Man yells out. "It's going to explode!" exclaims Bubble Man. The machine is about to explode. Bubble Man fires his Bubble Lead at it, encasing the machine. Dive Man and Bubble Man both exhale a sigh of relief, but to their horror, the machine explodes. They are both blown to pieces. Roll comments "We're going to have to pay for that now!" Only Cut Man, Proto Man, and Wave Man now remain. Mega Man tells Roll "Stand in the middle!" Roll complies and gets between Mega Man and Rush. Mega Man fires at Wave Man while dodging his Water Waves. Mega Man charges up his cannon and fires it at Wave Man. Wave Man is knocked out and falls onto the ground. Mega Man then copies his Water Wave weapon. Proto Man and Cut Man see that Mega Man has Wave Man's weapon now. "Let's get him!" Proto Man yells out to Mega Man. "I'm sorry, but you guys are all washed up now!" Mega Man says to them as he fires his Water Wave at them. Proto Man and Cut Man fall off of the building. Before landing on the ground, Proto Man cries out "I'll get you next time, Mega Man!" He and Cut Man smash into pieces, their parts joining Guts Man's shattered body. Mega Man and company hear a boat's horn blow. They peer over the roof and see that the Skull Ship is leaving the dock. "Bon voyage!" Mega Man yells out.

Back at Dr. Light's lab, Roll is telling Dr. Light how she had to explain to the rental store owner why she couldn't return the kareoke machine. Rush goes over to Mega Man and barks to him, indicating to him that the kareoke video game is ready for him to play. Mega Man goes up to the microphone. "This oughta be good!" Roll says to Dr. Light. Mega Man clears his throat and begins to sing. He hits a high note, shattering a nearby vase. Roll tells Mega Man, "You might want to consider singing lessons, Mega!" The episode ends with everyone laughing.

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GI Joe: Remixed, the Stygians

Another set of OCs by the brilliant Night_stalker, this time of the Baroness’ elite personal black ops goon squad, the Stygians:

Team leader:

Name: Waylon Calthrope Codename: Obelisk DoB: Classified Orientation: Homosexual Former Affiliation: Force Research Unit Bio: Waylon comes from a long line of military men, so when he was picked for the FRU, eyebrows were raised. Yet, the hardened NCO had been chosen, so he went into it eyes open. Needless to say, by the time he was transferred out, he had picked up quite a few unsettling habits. Needless to say, these habits weren't what Her Majesty's Armed Forces particularly liked, so he was sent down to Gibraltar, in order to cool off. Alas, he was involved in Operation Flavius, which was the final straw for many of the brass. Come 1990, he was handed his kit in a box, told to leave, and politely reminded of the Official Secrets Act while on his way out the door. Naturally, he did what anyone would do in such a time, and went off to join ArmorGroup, a PMC, where he actually was doing very well for himself. Well, nobody doubted his skills, stories are still circulating throughout their barracks of his daring deeds, the problem was, stories were circulating. Including one or two that showed he hadn't quite lost those habits that had gotten his discharge papers in the first place. In an attempt to avoid losing such a highly valued member, AG just had him rotated into a training position, figuring that he could be far less harmful there then in the field. A reasonable argument, it failed to consider one possibility. Namely, that he would occasionally be called up as a Floater (Guard used to fill temp holes in schedules), which was exploited once the people in charge of staffing realized the potential gold mine they had on tap. Then the company was acquired by G4S, and one of the changes they made was letting go of personnel who they deemed to be unfit to have under their umbrella. Waylon was one such person, but this time, he had done some prep work. As he walked out the door of his old office, a worn cardboard box with the few personal belongings he had inside it, he pulled out a business card, and dialed it. The phone rang twice, before a woman with a Eastern European accent picked up the phone. "Baroness? This is Waylon, are you still looking for another member of that outfit you're setting up?" Hobbies: Knife Throwing, Weightlifting, Fantasy Football, and Homebrewing.

Members:

Name: Matsui Yunosuke Codename: Goryō DoB: June 19th, 1979 Former Affiliation: Inagawa-kai Specialty: Close In Protection Orientation: Het, Married to Console (see below) Bio: Born into a Yakuza family, Matsui grew up with the ethos of the movement as his nursery rhymes. However, he didn't seem to fit quite in. Despite his best efforts, the only things he seemed to be good at were keeping silent, and when keeping silent wasn't enough, cracking skulls. As one would imagine, while it makes him a great bodyguard and enforcer, when it comes to stuff that requires a bit more of a business mind, he didn't fit in. The local boss, seeking to capitalize on his talents, assigned him to guard his beloved sister, who was responsible for handling the books side of the business. However, even he couldn't protect her from an full sized hit squad sent by a angry rival. While in hospital, his boss tried to silence him, which failed horrifically. Once he was done recovering from some torn stitches, he was contacted by one of the Athenes, and made a very appealing offer..... Revenge for service, in essence. Stricken with rage, he agreed, and the boss was soon killed in what was described as "A gangland deal gone wrong", and what was described by a police offical off record as "The single biggest bloodbath he'd seen in his career". Hobbies: Kendo, Spider keeping, listening to punk rock, and watching trashy romance anime.

Name: Balbina Krajewska Codename: Baba Yaga DoB: Classified Former Affiliation: Medi-Vipers, before that, [REDACTED] Orientation: Asexual. Specialty: Medical/Interrogation Bio: Much of Balbina's life before Cobra is left blank. Mostly as she comes from the Medi-Vipers, and that stuff is kept classified as hell, and also because well, nobody wants to look too deep into the Abyss. That said, it is known that she's a combat medic par none, winning several commendations for her life saving methods, as well as managing to uncover a organ theft ring. Totally unrelated, according to her. That said, she did ruffle some feathers, as well as other parts of their bodies, so a sideways transfer was in order. Hobbies: Cosplaying, Ballet, Medical experimentation, and Medical Cosplaying (Don't ask. Seriously.).

Name: [REDACTED] Codename: Console DoB: Unknown Former Affiliation: Cyber-Vipers, before that, Unknown Orientation: Het, married to Goryo Specialty: Heavy Weapons/Cyberwarfare Bio: While little is known about Console's previous life, given the usual Cyber-Viper "Welcome Basket", what is known is that she's got a fondness for heavy weapons, in particular DShK's, a hatred for GI Joe that seems rather intense, implying a personal connection to them, and finally, some very interesting tattoos on her body. Or at least, the remains of some tattoos, implying the Cybers laser removed them before her conversion occurred. Hobbies: World of Tanks, Knitting, Trolling forums, and deadlifting weights.

Name: Romeo Moretti Codename: Gaucho DoB: Unknown Former Affiliation: None Orientation: Single Target Sexuality, believed to be Baroness Specialty: Long Range Threat Neutralization Bio: Growing up in the Atacama Desert on the compound of a former Argentinian military sharpshooter and his wives, Romeo's childhood wasn't really the best. Between the daily marches to toughen them up for the impending apocolaypse, the hard shooting conditions, tight rations, and the annual tradition of being dumped someplace to find their way back, well, the fact that it took Romeo until his 16th birthday before he finally put a bullet through his father's skull could be taken as a sign of how patient he was. Or how long before he was allowed live rounds and some trigger time. Fleeing the compound with a old Mosin-Nagant rifle on his back, a canteen of water, and his favorite horse, it wasn't expected he'd show up anytime soon. Yet he survived in the wilderness, becoming a poacher, and on occasion when hunting was lean, a hitman. His natural charm and skill with a rifle somewhat impressed the locals, a fact which he started exploiting, trading animal pelts and teeth for ammo and other nescessities. However, soon the heat became too much for him, both figuratively and literally, so he started looking for a way out. As luck would have it, Baroness had heard rumors about this daring man's skills, and made him a offer. It's rumored he accepted as soon as he saw a photo of his new boss, but there probably isn't any truth to them. Hobbies: Horseback riding, hunting, meditation, collecting stuff for his secret shrine to Baroness. 

Name: Goktas Muhiddin Codename: Askari DoB: March 5, 1983 Former Affiliation: Special Forces Command, Turkey Orientation: Het Specality: General Combat Bio: [REDACTED] Hobbies: Wargaming, Baccarat, playing Overwatch (Reaper Main), and cross country running. 

BONUS: The leader of Athene, The Baroness’ personal paramilitary unit (because her boyfriend has the Iron Grenadiers and she can’t stand not being having an army of her own)

Name: Moira Burns Codename: Lozen DoB: December 19th, 1980 Former Affiliation: 1st Marine Battalion, A Company Orientation: Gay, currently engaged to a Track-Viper and a Rock-Viper at the same time. Bio: Why Moira left the Marines is a matter of some debate amongst her new command. Some claim that she was forced out before Don't Ask was repealed, and held a grudge over the matter. Others make the argument that the "Apricot Incident" was the last straw for her military career. And then we just have people who think she joined out of true love. The answer may never be known, as all parties involve remain silent. What is known is that she left the Marines with a bit of ax to grind against them, which made her rather appealing to the Baroness. Why she picked Moira for the Athene unit's lead isn't as concealed. According to Baroness: "Moira's professionalism and aggressive leadership style made her a perfect fit for the Athene Unit", which has been accepted as the gospel truth. Or at least nobody feels a desire to really push matters much further past that. Hobbies: Burning down Apricot trees, movie reviews, dog breeding, and weight lifting.

[afterspark-podcast]

G1 Episode 52: Transcript

[This can also be found on AO3!]

[Intro Music]

S: I do not respect the father from the second Robots in Disguise.

O: Hello, and welcome to the Afterspark Podcast, an episode by episode recap of the Generation 1 Transformers cartoon. I'm Owls!

S: And I'm Specs.

O: And today we're going to be talking about episode number 52: Triple Takeover. Let's talk about giant robots today, shall we?

S: Yeah! Boy, we shall.

O: This one's a doozy.

S: Oh, yeah. And today on the Transformers, we open with the Decepticon spin on Mount Rushmore. 

O: With Blitzwing, Astrotrain and Starscream shooting into a random mountainside, somehow carving four faces while doing this.

S: They're surprisingly good artisans with their guns. Is this a recognized art form on Cybertron? Is it like, chainsaw ice sculpting?

O: [Laughter] The four faces naturally include themselves and Megatron. Probably so Megatron doesn't shoot them if he catches them.

S: Except immediately afterwards Starscream says some disparaging things about Megatron and shoots at the rock face leading to a horror movie a makeover on, uh, Megatron's bust, ah, before obliteration takes it.

O: So they're just idiots. So much for my theory.

S: It's for the same reason that Izma has, like, busts of Cuzco that she smashes.

O: Ah, I see, it's a way to take out their aggression.

S: Probably? Yes, I think so. As they fly back to the Decepticon base the three discuss overthrowing Megatron.

O: You know, definitely a casual conversation that Decepticons have with each other.

S: Well, I mean, considering that the name has “deception” in it, probably yes. I mean, like you do with your buds? This is obviously a thing Decepticons do, it's just spitballing!

O: But, unbeknownst to Starscream, the other two intend to take him out as well.

S: Sometime later, in some big ass tunnels, Starscream is leading Megatron into the trap. Why would humans make tunnels this big? Not even our sewers are that big!

O: Megatron does call it a sewer so I assume it is man-made.

S: It's an exceptionally clean sewer. It looks positively sterile.

O: Megatron says something about reinforcements and Starscream protests because, “It's their mission!” So is this a date?

S: What did Starscream say to him to get him to come out here?

O: Want to do filthy things in a filthy place?

S: [Laughter] And then it ends up being the cleanest sewer in the world.

O: Can't win them all?

S: Of course Starscream wouldn't want to get any dirt anywhere.

O: Obviously not.

S: The trap is sprung, freezing Megatron at absolute zero.

O: Starscream gloats because, obviously, he has planned for this but finds he's trapped as well. 

S: Curse your sudden and inevitable betrayal!

O: Now, in a football stadium, Blitzwing comes crashing in while in tank mode.

S: He seems rather enamored with the “battle simulation arena, an excellent place for Blitzwing headquarters.”

O: One of the poor football players says, “There's a tank on the field,” and asks their coach what to do.

S: The coach responds with, “Give him the ball!”

O: They throw the ball into Blitzwings’ cannon and he shoots it at the scoreboard, getting two points.

S: He transforms and says, “I win!”

O: Why that works we have no idea, it's going to be a reoccurring theme.

S: I'm afraid these poor football players all have had very unfortunate head trauma in the past because, I mean, why didn't they just-

Both: Run!

O: Don't know. Blitzwing confronts the coach and, uh, thinking he is some great military commander makes him his new second in command.

S: He's surprisingly egalitarian, uh, with regards to humans but, I mean, maybe he was impressed that they didn't run away.

O: They were too stupid to run, Blitzwing.

S: The coach fearfully agrees after being scooped up by Blitzwing.

O: Elsewhere, at a train depot, Astrotrain touches down on one of the tracks.

S: Once Astrotrain transforms, the engineer in charge says he's, “Retiring… NOW!” and runs the hell away.

O: Much smarter than the football players.

S: Yeah. Astrotrain declares this to be Astrotrain Headquarters.

O: The humans all scatter once Astrotrain kool-aid man’s his way through a wall.

S: As a sensible person does. And with no humans around he just turns to the trains. He's found his people.

O: But even soldiers need brains, so Astrotrain just grabs part of a large computer console and gets to work. How he manages this, we don't really know.

S: Yeah. I have many questions, none of them are answered.

O: No, they never are in this show. Are you kidding?

S: Back at the football stadium, Blitzwing also smashes through a wall and into a locker room, telling the coach that this is his new office. So much structural integrity is being destroyed here.

O: All the while he is holding the coach by the whistle around his neck.

S: Yeah, how is this man not dead?

O: Because we can't accidentally hang people in a children's show? They're immortal. Plot armor!

S: He's fine. He then throws the coach into a locker, uh, which may, in fact, be his new office and shuts the door, telling the coach to, “Stay here at your desk.”

O: Either Con desks are very strange or Blitzwing is an idiot. Personally my bet's on the latter.

S: Yeah, yeah. Oh god, now I'm just imagining giant robots going into, basically, small closets to work on things and those are their desks.

O: Yeah.

S: But the coach had said something about “zone defense” which has evidently gotten Blitzwing thinking.

O: To which, he tasks the Constructicons with building a highway maze around the stadium.

S: Yay?

O: They- they got work, yay?

S: The union makes sure they get paid well.

O: [Laughter]

S: He pulls out the coach from his, uh, locker-desk, uh, to get more ideas which leads him to driving outside and shooting at a nearby bridge.

O: No, we're not really sure, either. Um, and then finally, seven minutes in, we get an Autobot.

S: And it’s Hoist! Who saves one of the humans and the cars that fell off the bridge. Which I think it's a bridge over water? So, eeeh? 

O: Blitzwing awards himself five points for this on the scoreboard.

S: What are the rules for this game?  No one knows and Blitzwing's not telling.

O: [Laughter]

S: While blitzwing is busy being a terrorist, bombing the rest of the freaking city, because instead of just bombing the bridge he is throwing bombs all over. The Autobots move in. 

O: Our Blitzwing team for today is Prowl, Bluestreak, Skids, and Tracks! And Skids even gets a line today.

S: Yeah, he knows what football is. Enough to reference the 10-yard line. Maybe he, Trailbreaker, Spark- and Sparkplug listen to sports together in their spare time.

O: Possibly? We don't really know what they do in their spare time. 

S: Mm-hm.

O: Scrapper goes to stop the Autobots but Blitzwing says to let them all through.

S: Wha- why?

O: Because Blitzwing wants violence.

S: As one does. So Scrapper just pops into some nearby bushes instead and apparently this is excellent camouflage.

O: The Autobots enter the highway maze and Blitzwing begins taking them out one by one.

S: Exploding Bluestreak. We see pieces fly apart.

O: Flattening both Skids and Prowl.

S:Maybe this is why Skids never shows up again.

O: Which is wild if so, because Prowl definitely looks worse for wear right now and he shows up again.

S: Yeah, and also flattening Tracks who, for some reason, wasn't flying. Why wasn't he flying? I mean, giving them recon from the air could have been really useful. That would have made a lot more sense.

O: This show's not known for it’s sense.

S: That's true.

O: Blitzwing arrives back in the stadium proper and awards himself 10 points per Autobot for a grand total of 47 points.

S: How did he calculate that? [Laughter]

O: I have no idea, 10 points per Auto- per Autobot.

S: Yes, but 10 points and ending with 40- oh, hold on. 

O: He already had seven.

S: Yes, yes, yeah. Meanwhile, Astrotrain is getting his train soldiers to swear “fealty” to him.

O: Which- they can't talk, so they honk? Presumably in agreement to his terms. 

S: Honk! Honk! I don't know, I'm sorry, that's just- it's a really stupid image to me.

O: [Laughter] It is very silly.

S: Yeah. Astrotrain transforms and leads the other trains down the tracks and into a tunnel where he sets them to gathering energy. But these trains aren't too bright, so he has to micromanage them. Or attempt to micromanage them.

O: It's so hard to get good help these days.

S: Back at the stadium, Blitzwing now has 117 points meaning, obviously, that he's taken out another seven autobots that we never see.

O: Blitzwing calls Scrapper to ask how big their zone defense is now and Scrapper doesn't know and informs us that the rest of the Constructicons are lost inside.

S: Not that Scrapper can be bothered right now, because he's making: ART!!!

O: Out of corpses! I know they're only knocked out or whatever but they definitely look dead right now, so: Corpses!

S: Well, they definitely took that part of his bio. They're a new throne.

O: And Scrapper's trying it out himself.

S: Ahhh, oh god, people furniture. Powerglide flies over and spots this art installation, calling Smokescreen and Hoist with the location of the missing Autobots.

O: And he does what we said Tracks should have done, giving the other two directions as they enter the maze until they reach Scrapper.

S: Smokescreen provides cover as Hoist lassos the others to safety.

O: Astrotrain is still chugging along, uh, when Thrust arrives to ask if he's still working on the railroad.

S: Thrust calls him a “choo choo.”

O: I would like to put forth my theory that they both know what a “choo choo train” is and the song “Working on the Railroad” due to Rumble and Frenzy watching Sesame Street.

S: Honestly, now I'm just imagining that at some point HR just made all of them watch Sesame Street to get the basics of human culture.

O: And by HR you, of course, mean Soundwave.

S: Yes, Soundwave and, somehow, Starscream because, for whatever reason, they're the ones that file the most paperwork.

O: Yes, also Starscream had previously done that, “Here's the church, here's the steeple, open it up, inside there's all the people,” thing, which also I feel like lends way more credence to that than should be there.

S: Yeah, Astrotrain calls his wee trains his Astroforce.

O: But they don't come when he calls so Astrotrain and the Coneheads go into the tunnel to see what happened.

S: And Starscream appears for a shot despite, you know, still being trapped in, oh, absolute zero with Megatron.

O: All the trains appear to have had a pile up and Astrotrain tries to encourage them.

S: One of the trains manages to get going again, uh, only to run face first into a water main.

O: This causes the tunnel to flood, washing all the Cons out of it and also freeing Megatron and Starscream at the same time.

S: Megatron rightfully blames Starscream but Starscream throws the Triple-changers directly under the bus.

O: Megatron says, “You're either lying or you're stupid.”

S: To which Starscream responds, “I'm stupid, I'm stupid!”

O: Optimus, Ironhide, and Spike show up out of nowhere.

S: Oh, the water main break is now flooding the entire city which is-

O: Suspect. [Laughter]

S: Yes, very confusing and suspect and also probably bad for the hygiene of anyone trapped in that water.

O: Optimus attempts to fix it but makes it much worse, leading to Spike getting washed away. 

S: Poor Spike, he probably should go to the hospital now.

O: I think- I will say I think it was a water main not a sewer main, so- 

S: Yes, but the water is picking up anything that was in the street.

O: Oh, yeah, you’re right, that's true, that's probably not good for him, right.

S: Yeah. Thankfully, Optimus manages to, uh, evacuate Spike to Powerglide.

O: Trailbreaker pushes the water away with his forcefield.

S: Ironhide and Optimus patched the line with liquid nitrogen, which that doesn't seem like it would work but okay? Just, like, it seems like it would make the break worse.

O: Or something!

S: I mean, that is obviously only a short-term patch.

O: Yeah, I would hope.

S: Yeah.

O: And now back with Blitzwing, he's got 1,569 points and I have no idea what he did to award himself said points.

S: It's like those military dictators that just give themselves a shitload of medals.

O: [Laughter] Yes.

S: The Constructicons come busting in, destroying his scoreboard, and demand that Blitzwing keep his promise about sharing leadership of the Decepticons. As I said, the union dues. 

O: Blitzwing tells them to go build a bridge and jump off of it.

S: I think Constructicons elect to, uh, just form Devastator instead because, you know, pummeling him is a lot more satisfying.

O: Definitely. We cut to a confrontation with Optimus and Megatron and Starscream.

S: Optimus needles Megatron, taunting him about needing to find the Decepticon leaders. 

O: Megatron is predictably pissed at the insinuation that he is NOT the Decepticon leader.

S: Oh god, yeah, he would hate sharing leadership with anyone.

O: Oh, definitely.

S: The flood reaches the stadium, carrying Astrotrain with it.  while Blitzwing and Devastator are fighting.

O: And it's an all-out brawl between the three of them until Megatron shows up and bangs Astrotrain and Blitzwing's heads together.

S: Devastator however continues to rampage until the other Cons have to work together to take him down.

O: The last bot standing is Megatron and Dirge asks, effectively, why Megatron doesn't just kill them all but he responds with, “The Decepticon cause precedes personal vengeance.”

S: The Cons all fly off and Ironhide says Prime was right, Megatron took care of the Decepticons for them.

O: Something about there only being one great leader though and the Autobots used in Scrapper's throne decide to recreate it in honor of Optimus.

S: That's not creepy at all, is it? Oh no, it's so creepy. Optimus, thankfully, turns this down saying, “Thrones are for Decepticons.”

O: I did not need to know or want to know- I did not need or want to know that the Autobots have a human furniture kink or Cybertronian furniture here, I guess.

S: Transformers, unintentionally introducing kids to weird kinky shit since 1985! But, I mean, considering some of the stuff that got brought up in IDW where people are literally laser pointers- 

O: Yeah… but need I remind you of all the tentacles that are in this show?

S: That's true…

O: So many tentacles.

S: Yeah, how many times has Megatron made a tentacle machine?

O: So many. But whatever, after this episode I believe I can say with confidence that if Megatron were dead the Cons would not be a threat because they'd be too busy being morons.

S: This gets vaguely, uh, confirmed in season three.

O: A little bit, yeah!

S: Join us next time when Seaspray's bubbly personality wins over a mermaid revolutionary and a bunch of weird magic shit happens. Also the Rumble becomes a little too rooted in the situation.

O: You better be-leaf it.

B: [Laughter]

O: Anyway i believe you have some fanfic recommendations for us today.

S: Yep, yep. So the first fanfic recommendation is: “Not the Little Mermaid” by ultharkitty. Uh, it's G1 cartoon, rated G, it's gen, there's no pairings, uh, characters are Astrotrain, Blitzwing, Brawl, and Vortex. So, canonically, it takes place after this episode, whatever. In summary: “In which Astrotrain and Blitzwing have been engaging with an element of human culture, Vortex is an aft, and Brawl is outside.” And that is really the long and short of it. So the the reason I picked this is because it's robots engaging in human culture, like what Blitzwing was doing- what Blitzwing and Astrotrain were doing in this episode with their-

O: Or at least attempting?

S: Yes, with the football and the trains, except this is more successful and it's a drabble. So very, very short. It's like 130-something words.

S: The second fic is “Triple Blitzed” by Dragoness Eclectic. It's G1 cartoon, rated T, gen, no pairings. Our characters here are Blitzwing and Astrotrain and it’s, “A deleted scene from the episode Triple Takeover, that explains much about Astrotrain and Blitzwing's behavior,” so it's episode related and I thought it would, uh, perhaps be a fun explanation for what the heck we see in this episode.

O: And we do see a lot, don't we?

S: Yes, and it's a one shot and Dragoness Eclectic did a very good job with it. And that just about wraps it up for us today. Remember to check us out on Tumblr or Pillowfort as Afterspark-Podcast for any additional information, show notes, or links we may have mentioned.  You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter @AftersparkPod (all one word), and various other locations by searching for, “Afterspark Podcast,” such as AO3, iTunes, Spotify, and Youtube, just to name a few. And feel free to send us questions on Tumblr, Youtube, or AO3. Until next time, I'm Specs.

O: And I'm Owls.

S: Toodles!

[Outro Music]

[good-old-gossip]

There are several videos of them arresting/detaining kids as young as 2 years old. What sort of fucked up military tactic is that?

Even CNN is reporting the truth more now. But if you are held without being charged, you aren’t a prisoner, you’ve been kidnapped and are a HOSTAGE. And human rights organizations have said that the other 50%, who were charged, were mainly charged with throwing rocks, and that even most of that was made up.

For all the pro israel who came to my posts of Palestinian children celebrating their freedom, calling them terrorists and criminals. Israel is an occupation state, they don't need a reason to arrest you as long as you're Palestinian.