#nanite replacement therapy

[ashwin-the-artless]

Nanite Replacement Therapy

Ever since we started publishing our stories, there’s been a rumor going around that someone, if it isn’t us, is wandering around Portland, Oregon in a shiny new nanite exobody. And, I guess that those people who’ve read our more recent books are starting to speculate on how this might be.

I want to put that to rest.

As I wrote, we destroyed all of the nanites in the probe that our ancestor ship had sent to Earth 22 million years ago. Now that Phage has used its abilities to transfer the Tunnel to Sarah and Goreth’s psyche, there’s no need to keep the nanites present and functional on Earth. And, in fact, there is great danger in doing so.

We Ktletaccete have absolutely no interest in endangering Earth life in that way.

Some say that Phage must have used the nanites to transfer the Tunnel to Sarah and Goreth’s brain. And, if it had, that would have definitely been a viable way to do so. And, if the nanites had remained dormant in their system in all that time, we could certainly have activated them and done something with them.

We didn’t. We have not done that. There are no nanites here. I am sorry, you will all have to figure out how to make them yourselves, and go through all the social and technological change necessary to get there. And we will not help you do that. The process is important. It’s a part of evolution, which best when it is gradual and gives the rest of life a chance to adapt.

But.

If we had brought nanites to Earth, and they were somehow made available to you, here is what making yourself a nanite body might be like.

Not an exobody, as we often do on the Sunspot, but a replacement body for the one you grew up with, because that’s what so many of our fans are talking about.

You might as well understand how it really works.

So, here we go. CN: implied gore, death of the body, transhumanism, etc.

When Morde converted her body to a fully nanite one, sie did it quickly and rashly, with no regard for hir own health and safety. And no one recommends doing what sie did, least of all hir. However, sie paved the way to understanding the process. (For those curious, Morde’s actual name and pronouns are Mortu and shem, but sie has chosen these English equivalents for when we write about hir for Earth publications.)

So, if you read Systems’ Out! and think that you could endure the process sie underwent and follow in hir footsteps, please done. Please consider this more effective and thorough suggestion.

Do it slowly. And do it by following this procedure designed to accommodate the human psyche and physiology.

You can still do it largely at your own pace, within these parameters. There are even stages at which you can halt the process, or possibly start to reverse it. Though there is definitely a point of no return.

Should you somehow, miraculously acquire a dose of Ktletaccete construction nanites, or watakarro as we call them, what you will receive is just enough to create a neural terminal. This is more than enough to convert your body to a full nanite one in time.

1.Installing your neural terminal

The very first step, once they are in your bloodstream, is to consent to the neural terminal.

Do this by saying out loud the words “fe watukarro getimarro nimuufenokera.” This is Fenekere for, “I say yes to a construction nanite gateway,” or a nanite neural terminal.

For a set of nanites precalibrated for human neurology, it should take roughly 48 hours for them to learn your personal neural processes and adapt. And then you will begin to have access to any local nanite Network. If there isn’t one already present, your nanites will create their own.

The first thing you’ll be able to access is your own Network space, and a command menu. And if the person who gave you the dose of nanites is at all remotely responsible (which they are inherently not for passing out such dangerous technology) they will act as your Tutor. And your new Tutor will greet you and give you a tour of your new technology.

This will feel a lot like a fever dream, or lingering dreams as you’re waking up in the morning. A hypnopompic state, just as you are waking up, is perfect for this, so typically the nanites and your new Tutor will time things to introduce you to the system on a morning following your dosage. Your mileage will vary on this, depending on any quirks in your biology, but you will generally have access by the fourth day.

And, once you’ve taken the time to practice interacting with your Tutor and your Network space, you’ll find that it becomes easier and more accessible with time. But for a few days, at least, it will feel a lot like you are doing no more than vividly daydreaming. It may feel fake.

The primary reminder that it’s not fake will be your tutor refusing to think, speak, or behave according to your expectations and commands. It will be a living and conscious being, a person, and retain its own rights to consent and autonomy. If I were your tutor, I would explain to you how your vessel belongs to you, and that you have merely consented for me to visit it to help you in your transition, but that I would also accept and respect any further invitation to share your vessel further, if you trust me to do so. That would not be a request nor an implied order, but merely a statement of fact.

From there, your tutor will start to teach you the Fenekere commands to configure your terminal to your needs. It’s not necessary to describe this in detail, as the information will be provided for you at that time, pretending that this is at all possible. Which it isn’t.

By the time you take the next step, your access to the Network will be so vivid that when you connect to it you will be able to forget the signals you receive from your body and feel as if you have fully entered another world.

Your body still exists and still has needs, and if it fails before you have taken certain steps, or have given the nanites enough time to fully map and replicate your psyche, you will experience personal damage and memory loss. Please exercise balance, and return to your body frequently enough to take care of it.

One way to manage this, if you find this too difficult, is to give your Tutor fronting permission, so that it may exercise, clean, and feed your body as needed.

But, also, maintaining regular contact with your body will give you a better sense of what you’re doing as you modify it and coax it through transition.

2. Replacing the biological neural processes

It makes sense to start here. The nanites have been reconfigured to interface with your neurology on both a molecular and electromagnetic level. Of all the organs in your body, it is easiest for them to replace your neurons first.

Also, by taking the time to replace your neurons first, you will integrate and transfer your consciousness fully into your Network before it comes time to take the final steps.

It is this stage that takes the longest, and it is where almost all of the (hypothetical) subjects have reported the most frustration, but it is well worth it.

You don’t really need to know the full details of how it works, because the program will have already been constructed to do it for you. But a rudimentary knowledge of the process helps to understand why it is done in this way.

The nanites will start at the peripheries of your neural cells, at the connections between the dendrites and axons, where they are already working to read and mimic your neural processes. And a fully parallel neural net will be constructed.

Once that is working in perfect sync with your biological neurons and your electromagnetic fields, the nanites will then start to physically replace your neurons themselves, starting with those most distant from your neural core, your brain.

This may create some sensations similar to the pins and needles, and pangs felt by surgery patients in recovery. The more slowly you go, the more mild this will be. But, you are in control, and you can adjust this speed manually and find where your own limits are. Again, within preset safety parameters.

But the other thing you will have to do is supply the nanites with building materials.

Your body already has most of the trace elements needed to create a construction nanite, but not in the ratios needed for a full conversion even at the slowest rate. Also, most of those elements are locked up in biological functions that are still needed at this phase.

So, you will need to either adjust your diet or invest in a regimen of dietary supplements. This can be pricey, so it is recommended that you save up for this, or for you to find some covert and discrete way of acquiring them otherwise. You may consult your Tutor about how to do this. It will likely already be several centuries older than you, with a wealth of knowledge and experience at its disposal, even if it isn’t so familiar with Earth customs.

Think minerals more than vitamins. Though some vitamins contain the needed elements as well. A full list that is tailored to your specific needs will be generated.

Some people have (hypothetically) found that once they have enough nanites at their disposal they can absorb and process the needed elements through their fingertips by touching various objects.

This is usually only available at the later stages. Hypothetically.

As you near these stages, you shouldn’t really experience anything unusual. Not involuntarily, at least. By this point, the nanites will have such a grasp on your neural signals that the tingling and pangs should have abated entirely.

You will have a progress chart you can call up, and review, and a list of new commands that you can safely issue to your system, and with that you can start to experiment.

Do not experiment outside of the safety parameters, or you could damage your body before it is ready for the final stage.

The Point of No Return

Theoretically, it is possible to use the construction nanites to cultivate, direct, and coax stem cells into growing into new neurons and integrating back into your nervous system. So, in theory, as long as you have a few neurons left in your body, you should be able to grow new ones. We’ve even been informed that it might be possible to do so without any of the originals present. And your nanite network should be able to teach them to function as a biological network for you to reside in them again, and to manage your body on their own.

Nobody has ever tried this.

And in terms of our knowledge and experience, the point of uncertain return starts when you begin to replace the neurons of your gut. The odds are still very good at that point, but the weight of neurons that permeate the human gut is nearly the same as the human brain, and the impact of their function is fairly significant. Regrowing them would take a lot of work and calibration.

By the time you are replacing your spinal column, you will also be altering your brain, and regrowth will be even riskier.

Once you’ve replaced any given organ of the brain, regardless of any path you’ve chosen, you should consider yourself past the point of no return. You can still give it a try, but we do not recommend it.

Again, nobody has bothered. They are usually much too satisfied with the process to even consider it.

Depending on your settings and personal comfort, this whole stage could take anywhere from three months to three years or more. Anyone taking longer than three Terran years, however, is doddling purely for their own comfort and interests.

3. The Final Step

When your progress chart pings, it will mean that you have not only entirely replaced your neural system with nanites, but that you also have enough reserves to harvest materials in earnest and construct the rest of your nanite body in a short time.

If you were aboard the Sunspot, or had access to a vat of nanite clay or pure nanites, you could do this next step nearly instantly. But you are not, and don’t, and won’t. But, since we are daydreaming about all of this, you might as well consider that possibility.

This part looks a lot like what Morde did as Metabang wrote about it in its book, Systems’ Out!

If you have a bin of nanite clay or slurry, you can just jump into it and issue the command. Your Network will take the initiative to disconnect from your biology and take control of your allotted portion of nanite clay, and do the dirty wetwork without causing you any distress or pain what-so-ever.

If you want, you can observe it from a dissociated state while in the Network, as if in third person. Or by watching your chart. Or you can remain in contact with what is now your physical form, your nanite body, and experience the sensations of it metabolizing your old biology.

I personally have experienced neither of these things, so I cannot tell you what it’s like. When my original vessel died, I was already fully a Network entity, and I was more focused on ushering my fellow system members who lingered within it into their new life as Crew.

Morde refuses to describe hir experiences in detail, saying it was very personal.

But, considering the extreme configurability of the Network and the nanite neural terminals and exobodies, you should be able to tailor your experience to whatever it is you expect from it.

If you are forced to, or want to take things more slowly, using what you might have on hand in your home, I recommend performing the process in your bathtub.

You’ll need a very large dose of those supplemental materials, which your tutor will direct you to fill the tub with.

Then you will lie on top of them and direct your nanite reserves to start replicating using those materials.

Once they’ve reached outside of your body and started doing this, you can get up and walk around for a while if you like. Let the bathtub fill with nanite slurry.

Maybe you have a few things you want to do yet with your old body. Maybe there’s a ritual you’d like to perform, to thank it for its service and bid it farewell. Or simply let your friends online know that you are in your final stages. (Don’t do that. Don’t write about it on social media. Don’t tell anyone. The world should not know about this. It is too dangerous. DO NOT LET THIS TECHNOLOGY FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS - You really don’t need to worry about this, this technology doesn’t exist on Earth. But if it did, this would be the protocol.)

Or, you can just continue to lie on the supplements and wait. You should be able to access the Terran internet through your nanite Network, anyway. It is trivial to set up wifi and the proper protocols. Most of that work has already been done by your Tutor. Play some Marvel Snap or Diablo II Resurrection while you wait. Maybe VRChat. I particularly like the Odd Giants community, even if they’re not quite where their parent game, Glitch, used to be, yet. But with your newfound processing power, maybe you can help them out!

And then, when the nanites in the tub reach critical mass, see above.

This part of the process takes a matter of seconds or up to around an hour, depending on your resources.

Enjoy!

4. What you can do with your new nanite body

Ktletaccete engineers and programmers have been working for Sunspot centuries to perfect nanite senses and capabilities.

Ideally, your senses should seem just like they were before you started this process, a perfect simulation of your biological processes. And the slower you take this whole process, the more accurate they’ll be. The three year mark is the point of diminishing returns regarding this, of course. So longer than that isn’t really necessary.

But, of course, you can now configure them and your own psyche to do all sorts of interesting things. Likely, you’ve been doing this since you first got your terminal and started unlocking commands. But now you have the full suite at your mental fingertips.

Seeing in infrared and ultraviolet, for instance, is absolutely trivial. As is being able to sense most of the electromagnetic spectrum.

You could even configure your nanite neurology and Network psyche to interpret your other sense as if they were visual, if you wanted, such as smell or sound. And there are models you can use to make that interpretation useful to you, instead of bewildering.

You should also be able to refine your sense of touch to be able to tell at an instant the chemical composition of whatever your body is contacting. Or, if that’s overwhelming, you can send that information to a visual readout that you can pull up and read at your leisure.

The big question you probably have is whether or not you can fool the world into thinking you haven’t done this to yourself. Can you blend in? Can you avoid detection? What are the practical concerns of this?

Well.

That’s where some problems may arise.

While we have made it so that the surface of your nanite body can imitate the color, reflective, luminal, and textural properties of skin and textiles (and anything else), and we’ve finally figured out how to produce sound with nanites that is nearly indistinguishable from biological vocal apparati, there are some things that are much harder to hide.

You’re going to show up on various kinds of Terran sensors. You might even, if you’re not careful, trip the metal detectors in government buildings and other checkpoints. The TSA will not know what to do with you, and they will panic, and so will the rest of the United States, if you try to travel by air in the conventional way through that country. You should bypass these sticking points by sneaking onto aircraft as a mist of nanite dust, and you will want to spend some time experimenting with how to do that safely without leaving nanites behind to idle until someone else finds them.

You’re going to want to stop going to the doctor. You won’t need to, of course. But they won’t know what to do with you if they try to examine you. Fortunately, in many countries you can probably neglect your relationship with your doctor without much fuss. Just avoid doing anything that gets a team of EMTs sent to examine you for anything.

It’s the more subtle things that will raise suspicions on a daily basis, though.

The density of your nanite body can be adjusted to match your old body’s weight, so that shouldn’t be a problem. But the pliability of your surface will not quite match that of skin and flesh, and people who touch and grab you may notice this. Objects might bounce off of you slightly differently than off a typical human, and you might also not react to them the same way yourself, depending on what you’ve done to your senses and reflexes.

You can still eat and enjoy food, and your nanites will process what you consume for energy. But you can now eat just about anything. Be careful to not make that a habit you perform in front of other people. Eating batteries is a serious faux pas and a grave security risk, as tempting as it may be.

You might be tempted to stop buying clothing, and to just simulate it with your own body. Simulated clothing may move quite a bit like the genuine article, but when touched will likely give away its true nature, if someone knows what to expect of a nanite body. But also, if you always seem to be in new clothes without spending money on them, or always seen in the same set of clothes without them appearing to deteriorate, this can create other clues that some people might pick up on.

Back to the eating thing. If you don’t eat regular food at the rate at which you needed to for your old body, some people will notice that. Your needs are different, though, and higher without the broadcast power of the Sunspot, and you’ll end up consuming supplemental fuel sources, which can be tracked by snoopy government algorithms or roommates. Unless you steal it and consume it where no one can detect you.

I think this may give you a clear enough image of what to expect if you make it this far. Your Tutor will endeavor to guide you further and investigate the concerns and dangers of your specific living situation.

But, you also no longer need to live life pretending to be human.

You could, if you wanted to, spend a few years as an unused mail drop box on the corner of an old industrial site, and focus your attention entirely on the Internet. To give one example for no particular reason.

Or you could see what it’s like to pass as a Terran animal of some sort. It is highly unlikely members of the species you choose will accept you as one of them, especially if they rely on a strong sense of smell. But other species may respond predictably to you, including the odd human.

The possibilities are fairly endless and really restricted to your sensibilities. Unless you attempt to violate or interfere with the rights to consent or autonomy of another person, in which case your nanite body will refuse to carry out that particular command. 

Sorry. No nanite assisted killings. We cannot allow that. It’s for your safety, after all.

[izzyfromdeadspace]

Seeing how swollen the boys knee was he frowned worried as to why he didn't have a RIG or any surgeries to maintain his body. Why would anyone make him suffer like this when it was so easy to get new joints or gene therapies to help with his issues? At the mention of a needle he shook his head. "No needles. Izzy can't use them so unless she's in a hospital it's all needleless. Let me show you." Getting up with a groan he walked over to the medkit and grabbed a syringe. Walking back he pulled up the boys pantleg as high as he could before injecting him. It would have just felt slimy with a dull pressure. Once done he let him go and showed the empty vial.

"See no marks. Had them invented for military use to prevent accidental injuries as its easier to just jam one into your neck and go." He explained before sitting down next to him. "And you don't know what nanites are? Which colony are you from?" When asked some questions he seemed confused. "Where? Son you're on Terra 3. Did you get hit in the head or given some bad drugs? Well seeing as you don't have a RIG maybe you were created in a lab as a parts replacement or backup body. Explains a lot." He mused before looking at him again. "I'm Alice Carson. Commander Alice Carson. Izzy is my daughter. She's a Nova."

L had of course been fairly shocked when he had suddenly taken a tumble out of nowhere and landed square on his ass, he managed to get to his feet though and when he did he froze. He found himself in a strange city, one he had never seen before, there were so many lights and colours and noises, cars sped through strange roads at speeds that he thought were really dangerous, holographic signs filled the buildings as far as he could see and the noise was a bombardment on his ears.

He was a bit slack jawed for a few moments, there were so many strange smells and looking to the people he saw the glow of their RIG’s and he didn’t understand at first, shifting his hoodie he felt a grasp of excitement more than fear, so he delved head first into this new world without a second thought. He spent his time exploring the city trying to to make people look too weirdly at him, although he couldn’t help but stare fascinated, well that was until he had walked over an overpass looking around and saw a weird group of guards, they reminded him of people you’d see guarding VIP’s and the sorts, they had that here?

Well the changing of a sign caught his attention and he looked fascinated as it changed, but when he saw what it changed too he froze dead in his tracks staring at the advert for the church of Unitology: he grabbed the railing, “Oh fUCK NAH.” He exclaimed, not realising just how loud he was, “FUCKING NECROMORPHS?! FUCK THAT!” He exclaimed before he felt a chill and he shuddered looking over on sheer instinct he saw a tall older man looking at him, but the way he looked sent so many alarm bells off in his head he didn’t even think twice and bolted away.

Of course just his luck he heard some guards following him, of course he said something stupid! Of course he somehow fucked up. Fear made him run as fast as he could, he slipped and weaved through crowds, somehow still being polite as he passed form sheer fucking instinct before he bolted past another tall man and a blue woman as the guards yelled at him to stop, “ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT!” He screeched running past the two and grabbing a pole he used it to make a sudden sharp turn to try and loose his pursuers.

@izzyfromdeadspace

[hulksmashin-bannerpackin]

SUPER SUPER EARLY DRAFTING OF HULK-VERSE

616 Bruce replacing Peter Parker and Peter B Parker.

Our main Bruce, Bruce Banner was killed and the populace is split in half, some praising and cheering his death while others mourn and respect him. He came back to life and has been living mostly off the grid, not wanting anyone to know he’s back.

Amadeus Cho replacing Miles Morales.

Using special nanites, through experimental Amadeus absorbed the Hulk's powers becoming a new, better and smarter Hulk. He’s found out that it isn’t as easy as he thought and he’s now having trouble controlling his new monstrous persona.

Rick Jones replacing Aunt May.

When the multiple Bruce’s don’t know where to go and what to do in an alternate reality the only one they believe they can turn to is their old and dearest friend.

70105 Bruce Banner replacing Spider-Gwen

This Bruce Banner was bitten by a spider that survived the gamma blast, after years on the run, extreme gene therapy and heavy medication he became known as Spider-Man

616 Bruce Banner Retconned replacing Soider-Noir

A young teenager, this Bruce’s reality was retconned as a ‘Dream’. Edgey as fuck and has the ability to telepathically communicate with his Hulk since childhood.

9997 Bruce Banner replacing Peni Parker

Bruce Banner’s body continued to absorb radiation as if he was a sponge to water. His mutation caused an extreme mutation causing Bruce and Hulk to split into separate entities. Bruce, now in the body of a 10 year old boy with his adult mind is blind, but psychically linked to the near mindless and simian like Hulk.

Hulked Size Mini Hulks Hulk replacing Spider-Ham.

This Hulk doesn’t have much of a past or history, a ‘nice and child friendly’ miniature Hulk from Audrey Loeb’s comic strips.

9200 Bruce Banner replacing Kinpin

Bruce Banner turned insane and evil after surviving a massive irradiated explosion that wiped out most of Earth’s life. Current alias ‘The Maestro’ (Totally haven’t fleshed out evil plot yet)

Stan Lee as Stan Lee

#BlessThisMan

Bruces that will make an brief appearance:

(Thinking of them all shown in shattered pieces of different realities)

MCU Bruce

David Banner

Old Man Logan Banner?????? (Icky!!!!!)

Sorcerer Supreme Bruce/Infernal Hulk

LEGO Bruce Banner

The End Hulk

House Of M Bruce Banner (GOD DAMN ABORIGINAL TRIBAL MARKINGS)

Marvel Zombies Hulk

Ruins Hulk

Ultimates Hulk (with infinity gauntlets)

Ultimate Comics Bruce ‘sociopathic’ Banner

Ultimate Human Bruce (on Venus)

Captain Universe Bruce

Hippie Hulk

[dagenspear]

SUICIDE SQUAD Rewrite

Open on the Red Hood mask,the surface of it reflecting the ACE Chemicals Plant in it. Go through The Killing Joke origin where the Joker is a sad comedian forced into being the Red Hood and when Batman comes after him he pleads with him to not hurt him, that it’s just a mistake, but Batman doesn’t listen to him and throws him into the chemicals. Show him crawling out of the river and pulling off his hood to see his face bleached, his hair green and a sadistic smile on his face.

Then we cut to the Joker in Arkham Asylum and the whole scene was him telling the story to Dr. Harleen Quinzel.

The Joker says that he realizes now that the Batman victimizing him the way he did and it driving him insane is no excuse for what he’s done since then and that with Harleen’s help he’s now cured. He asks her if she can get a package from a friend of his and bring it to him during their next session.

She’s hesitant, but he tells her it’s just a family heirloom and it would really help him in his recovery. She agrees.

Cut to the Joker firing a machine gun in Arkham. And his men strapping Harley onto the electroshock table. When Joker shocks her brain, we cut to the opening title:

SUICIDE SQUAD

The Joker could be played by Alan Tudyk. But a cast change is not really needed.

Then cut to the conference scene where Amanda Waller tells them what she wants to do, that in Superman’s absence they need a force for humanity, to protect them should they ever be threatened again.

She gives the low down on the group, same deal, built in deniability etc.

The squad is comprised of Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Slipknot, El Diablo, Enchantress, Katana and Killer Croc, led by Rick Flag.

We see Deadshot, Boomerang, El Diablo, Enchantress, Katana and Killer Croc’s flashbacks. Katana is a volunteer.

One of the conference members asks how they are gonna keep Enchantress from getting her heart.

Waller explains that the box the heart is inside is made up of nth metal, which is magic proof and that they keep her brother’s statue locked in a vault completely lined with it.

They’re recruited.

Poison Ivy contacts the government, with the threat on a city that her plant spores will replace the concrete monstrosity of the city with plants and trees and tells them to evacuate everyone in the city or they’ll die with it.

She then begins, her plants growing in an empty building.

So Amanda Waller, because they have no knowledge of Poison Ivy’s thought process, decides to use Harley Quinn to find her.

FLASHBACK TO: After Jason Todd was murdered, Batman chases down and wrecks the Joker’s car, that he and Harley are in, onto a pier. Batman restrains Harley and beats the living crap out of the Joker, nearly killing him, but holds himself off. The Joker laughs in Batman’s face, saying that he’s disappointed in him, before setting off a bomb that blows up the pier, Harley falling into the water, Batman jumping in after her to save her. Joker is then presumed dead.

END FLASHBACK.

Harley, now locked up, has to be force fed her medication by several guards. Afterwards, Waller visits her and recruits her with the promise that she’ll be released so she can go get her psychotic boyfriend if she helps them find someone. Harley instantly agrees, not caring who.

When the team is assembled, they get their stuff and Harley gets a giant hammer excitedly that when Boomerang asks about she says it’s a surprise. Flag then takes it away. She pouts.

Boomerang pockets his exploding boomerangs.

Deadshot asks why he isn't gotten his heavy artillery back.

Flag tells he'll give him his grenade launcher, when he becomes a soldier.

Deadshot introduces himself to Harley, to which she responds, “You know my name, but I don’t know yours.”

Deadshot explains to her that he was hired to kill her once, but he rejected it. When she asks why, he tells her that he doesn’t kill victims.

She asks what that means.

He tells her that he knows what the Joker did to her.

She says that she’s been told that lie by her psychiatrists and the Bat, but they were just trying to get her to turn on her Mr. J. She insists that Deadshot shouldn’t believe everything he hears. He stays silent.

Harley asks who the soldiers are. Flag tells says it’s none of her concern.

Meanwhile one of Harley’s guards is captured by the Joker’s thugs and taken to him, where he interrogates him. He gives Joker everything about the situation.

The squad is briefed. When Harley finds out that it’s Poison Ivy, we FLASHBACK:

To the events of No Man’s Land, where the Joker is in a gunfight with the Penguin’s men and Harley’s shot several times, but the Joker leaves her there to die when he’s chased Then a barefoot woman walks up to Harley, grass and flowers growing in her footsteps, as she bleeds out.

Cut to Harley waking up with healing plant enzymes on her gunshot wounds, to Poison Ivy watching her in her lair, surrounded by children.

Harley asks Ivy why she saved her and Ivy says that she protects the helpless, it’s what she does. Harley is confused.

Ivy tells her that she was left to die and she couldn’t let a helpless victim of the Joker suffer that fate. Ivy proceeds to give the children food to eat.

Harley asks why the Bat hasn’t gotten her.

Ivy says that Batman has bigger problems with the city having undergone a massive earthquake that’s run out most regular people and left the city to the criminals and psychos. She continues that her and Batman have an arrangement, he brings her any lost, orphaned or abandoned children to take care of and he leaves her alone. Harley tries to leave on her own, but is stopped by Ivy, who tells her that she can’t leave yet, as her wounds aren’t fully healed yet. Harley thanks her for everything and she says that it was no problem. Harley and Ivy introduce themselves officially to eachother and shake hands.

Poison Ivy is played by Mary-Elizabeth Winstead.

END FLASHBACK.

The same scene where the Joker breaks into ARGUS’ computer hard-drives and has Harley’s bomb disabled.

The squad arrives on the scene and Flag confirms that the entire area has been evacuated and quarantined, so even if they could disable their bombs they couldn’t get out, the official story being there was an earthquake. Same basic scene with Slipknot.

They track down Ivy and confront her. They fight her plant people first, before they get to her. Deadshot sees El Diablo not fighting and gets onto him about it. Diablo blows him off, saying he won’t be a tool of violence and death anymore, he wants to do God’s will.

After a short battle, Enchantress possess' Ivy’s body. The squad tries to stop her, but she gives them traumatizing flashbacks to hold them off and fully possess Ivy, leaving June Moon’s body.

Deadshot’s flashbacks are of his dad abusing his mom when he was a child, beating her and him, him grabbing a gun and shooting his dad when he was going to kill her.

Harley’s flashbacks are of her suffering electroshock therapy by the Joker.

Katana’s are of her watching her husband being murdered with her sword.

Killer Croc’s are his parents locking him in their basement as a child and feeding him scraps of meat like an animal.

El Diablo’s are of his house burning around him.

Flag’s are of him seeing his mom die by being hit by a van as she pushes him out of the way of that car.

Flag shakes his off first and starts to aim his rifle at Enchantress as she’s still leaving June’s body, but hesitates to take the shot. Deadshot shakes his off just in time to see this.

Enchantress proceeds to bring the building they’re in down around them, the squad dodging the majority of the debris, but eventually all getting knocked out.

Amanda Waller becomes enraged and sets off the charge in the heart to destroy it. But it doesn’t work.

Enchantress teleports herself to ARGUS and confronts Waller, saying, “You should have done your research. My heart is only a weakness in a body that needs one. This body is unique. It doesn’t need a heart.” She places her heart back into her body, saying, “Now it can restore my full power without being a liability.”

Meanwhile Harley flashes back while out:

To Ivy trying to convince her not to go back to the Joker. Harley blows it off, saying that her puddin’ needs her, she’s his girl. Ivy tells her that she can be more than that.

END FLASHBACK.

Deadshot wakes Harley up as the rest of the squad gets itself together. They start to peace out only to be met with Flag holding the trigger to their nanite bombs, telling them that they have to stop Enchantress. They reluctantly agree. Flag wonders where she went, when June says that she’s gone to ARGUS.

When the squad asks her how she knows that, she tells them that she still has some sort of psychic connection with Enchantress. They ask why she's at ARGUS and June says that she’s going after those who kept her imprisoned. Her psychic link to Enchantress kicks in and June sees her tell Waller to take her to where her brother is being kept. June tells them that.

Flag states that they have to get back to their helicopter and get to ARGUS now to keep Enchantress and her brother from killing anymore people.

Deadshot says that he knows a shortcut through one of the neighborhoods.

They cut through the houses of a residential neighborhood, with Croc breaking down the doors.

They see a bar built into the house. Boomerang immediately tries to go for the alcohol, but is dragged back by his jacket by Flag.

Croc stops and looks solemnly at a picture of the family the home belongs to.

Harley steps in and makes a hypothesis about Croc’s psyche: That even though he pretends to be a monster, all he’s ever really wanted is societal acceptance. That based on his actions, she suspects that his anger, desire for acceptance and inferiority is rooted in child abuse.

Croc does admit that his family always saw him as a freak, as something to hide and lock away, but he’s happy the way he is, a creature that’s feared and respected.

Harley then remarks that she bets that he wishes that that was true.

They get to the building and go inside it.

When the squad gets up to the top where the helicopter is, they see that the helicopter has been destroyed. The group that was guarding the helicopter has been killed. All by Enchantress. Flag is infuriated.

The guards all form into monsters. Enchantress speaks through them to the squad, telling them that if they want to live, to leave her to do what she wants with Waller.

Most of them consider it, but Flag states that there is no way he’s going to let that happen. The rest of the squad begrudgingly agree, because they have to.

The monsters attack them and they fight throughout the building, going down the floors, but still staying in the top levels.

They can’t defeat them all.

Harley and Deadshot stop 1 together barely, Katana puts 3 down, Croc kills 1 barely, while Boomerang hides, but they’re pretty much overpowered.

Deadshot again sees El Diablo doing nothing in the battle and confronts him about it. Diablo says again that he won’t do violence, he won’t do evil anymore.

Deadshot asks him if he thinks God wants Enchantress to continue killing, if God wants him to hide and do nothing. Deadshot pushes him some more until finally he uses his powers to blow the monsters all away.

In the fight Katana’s sword gets knocked out of her hands and out a broken window. She freaks and tries to jump out after it, but is grabbed by Flag. Croc grabs the sword through the window from the floor just below Katana and Flag. Harley takes a moment to give Katana a knowing look of understanding and has a quick FLASHBACK:

Of her jumping into the vat at the ACE Chemicals plant of her own free will.

END FLASHBACK.

Harley and Deadshot have the same exchange about love.

After a brief few moments of calm, suddenly another helicopter swoops in with the Joker in it, piloted by his men, with more of his goons firing machine guns out the back. He calls Harley to him and she hesitates, torn between saving Ivy and going with him. She says, “Sorry Red” and goes to Joker. Flag tries to activate her nano-bomb, but it doesn’t work. Flag then pulls out his gun to kill Harley, but is shot in the side by a stray bullet. The helicopter starts to fly away. Flag gives Deadshot the order to kill Harley, but he doesn’t.

In the helicopter, Harley is overjoyed that the Joker has come for her, but then he hits her, knocking her to the ground and laughs about how he really got her with this and then complaining about how he had to waste his time finding her, because she’s his property, his joke. Harley has a flash to the Joker electrocuting her. She has a moment of realization about what was really done to her, then seeing herself being pushed into the the chemical vat by the Joker, not jumping in on her own. Harley’s eyes fill with tears, as the Joker continues to laugh at her. Suddenly the gas tank is hit by something-

A boomerang thrown by Captain Boomerang.

The gas tank in the helicopter explodes. Harley jumps out as the helicopter it goes down, her landing on the roof of a building, it crashing to the ground.

They all rush down and find Harley in the same way as in the movie. Flag confronts her, blaming her for Joker attacking them, but Deadshot says that if it hadn’t been for his boss, they wouldn’t even have this problem, so why not let Enchantress do whatever she wants with Waller?

Flag holds up the trigger.

Deadshot tells him that he better do it fast before he lets out that Flag had a shot to take Enchantress out, but didn’t take it before she bodyjacked Ivy.

Flag doesn’t do it.

Deadshot then tells him that they aren’t gonna get there anyway, so he’s gonna go get a drink and Flag can blow his head off if he wants.

Harley follows, as does Croc, Katana… and Captain Boomerang, but only after making sure that Flag isn’t going to blow his head off and then making a go for the alcohol.

June stays with Flag.

They get to the bar inside the house from before. Harley gets behind it and takes out some bottles. The lights are still on inside the house. Harley asks what Floyd will have. He gives her a look, like he’s wondering if she even knows what she’s doing. She says that she’s serious, that she used to bartend in college, it was how she paid for it. Croc follows, but sits down on the couch in the same area. Katana takes a stool seat at the end. Captain Boomerang sits directly between Katana and Floyd. Katana takes her mask off. She sets her sword on the bar and starts talking to it in japanese. Harley asks them all what they’re having. They tell her. She starts making them.

Harley gives the last drink to Katana and asks her what the deal with the sword is that she’s willing to get herself killed because of it.

Katana says that it’s unique.

Harley asks if that’s because it belonged to her husband. Harley then explains that she recognizes the kind of desperation that would cause her to be willing to get herself killed. Harley then says that their situations are completely different though, because her being willing to get herself killed for something like that is almost normal, not healthy really, but healthier than a reason she personally would have for doing something like that.

Katana simply says that it’s the sword her husband was murdered with.

Harley just nods and says that yep, still healthier than her reason.

Same basic scene. Floyd gives his spiel about how they’re gonna get blamed. He talks about how, for a minute, he had hope that he could get the chance to see his daughter again. Diablo says that he can still have it, if he lets God give it to him. Deadshot asks if he’s preaching. El Diablo says that Deadshot still has a chance to turn it around, to get away from his evil. Deadshot gets angry and defensive at that, saying that all he’s ever done is kill evil. El Diablo shoots back that murder doesn’t change for him no matter who he is does it to. El Diablo continues that he knows what Deadshot is thinking, that he thinks he does what’s necessary, that it’s justified, because those he does it to aren’t good, so why should he care? He continues with:

DIABLO: We both used to see the line, but we reached a place where it was nearly invisible, and you’ll cross it one day, like I did. What we both didn’t realize is that we’ve already crossed the line and the one we think exists is just a delusion.

DEADSHOT: What’s that supposed to mean?

DIABLO: You have a “code”, right? You ain’t never killed no women, no kids. And you think because of that you’re a good guy, that you can still do what you do. But you can’t. Your code won’t be something you can hide behind. It won’t even exist anymore.

Deadshot gets in El’s face, enraged.

DEADSHOT: I’ll never kill women and children.

DIABLO: That’s what I said.

El Diablo tells his story. It’s fully the same.

BOOMERANG: What happened to the kids?

HARLEY: He killed them. Didn’t you?

EL: Yes.

HARLEY: Of course… What’d you expect? Did you think you could just play with evil and have any kinda life? Evil infects you. It rots your soul until your broken and it destroys everything you have that matters. That’s the price of darkness and by the time you realize you made a horrible mistake, it’s all gone. You didn’t deserve all you had, but God gave you a break and you blew it to pieces.

BOOMERANG: You think you’re any better, sweetie? I heard about the things you and the Joker did. You may be as pretty as a picture on the outside, but on the inside, you’re ugly.

HARLEY: We all are. We all are! We’re murderers. We’re monsters. Every single one of us. We ARE the bad guys.

DEADSHOT: What the Joker did to you, you can’t be held responsible…

HARLEY: I haven’t have full control of my faculties ever since Mr. J-Joker… did that to me. But he didn’t force me to give him a gun. We’re not innocent victims just because we’ve been broken after we did something wrong, treated like lesser, lost people or have been abused. I made a CHOICE to give him what he wanted. I knew what he was. And I still let myself be used. I was dazzled by the super criminal world and I wanted to touch it. I thought that if I could get him to trust me, I could... be more. Pride was my sin and a lot of people have died for it. I may not have known that what I gave him was a gun, but I knew it wasn’t innocent. And I’m responsible for that choice.

Flag and June both walk into the house and Flag sits down next Deadshot, as June leans on the wall in the back. Flag then asks Deadshot if he figured out about his feelings for June. Deadshot responds with, “I’ve never had sex with a witch before. How was that?” to show that he has. Flag says that he spent all his time trying to protect June, he couldn’t risk killing her.

June then pipes up that he should risk it.

Flag pulls the trigger out of his pocket and flips it over, showing the bullet damage in the front of it from the Joker.

Captain Boomerang immediately jumps out of his stool and runs away.

Flag says that Deadshot was right, they wouldn’t get there fast enough to stop Enchantress anyway. Harley makes an analysis of Flag that his intense protective nature of the woman in his life is likely tied to a childhood trauma about his mother. Flag gives an angry look to the effect of ‘Too personal.’ Harley apologizes and says that it’s a reflex.

But Flag admits that his dad was an important high ranking general, who had a lot of enemies, who targeted his family. When he was a child, one of them tried to run him down, but his mom pushed him out of the way and died in his place. He saw his mother die and there was nothing he could do about it. June walks up to Flag and comforts him by placing her hand on his. Deadshot has a meaningful moment where he tells Flag that he knows what it feels like to watch something terrible happen to your mom.

Flag pulls several letters out of his side pocket and pushes them over to Floyd. Same basic scene about his daughter. Floyd asks why Flag has these and he responds that he was supposed to use them as a way to gain emotional leverage over him if he became difficult. Floyd asks if that’s what he’s trying to do now. Flag just shakes his head no.

Flag taps a glass and Harley takes the hint and pours him a shot of whiskey. He lifts the glass and comments about the things they do for their family. And June has a quick flashback to a memory of Enchantress’, causing her to drop to the ground:

Of her and her brother forcing mankind to bend to their will and them making the preparations to open a portal to their hellish dimension using both of their energies to bring forth their people into this world and replace humanity with them. And then the humans attacking and cutting out Enchantress’ heart and trapping them both in their statues.

June then realizes and says that that’s what Enchantress wants to do now and why she’s going to release her brother.

The team realize that they’re all in danger from Enchantress and Flag says that there’s nothing they can do, the helicopter’s destroyed and they can’t get there in time. Deadshot immediately says that, yes, they can, depending on how long it’ll take for Enchantress to get to her brother. Flag says that the vault he’s in has a nighttime shutdown protocol. It won’t be able to be opened by Waller until dawn, which is in 3 hours and then tells them where ARGUS is. Deadshot says that that’s enough time, barely. Flag asks how he could know that. Deadshot responds that he’s a sniper, his whole thing is measuring times and distances.

Deadshot then asks Flag if he knows a way past the quarantine. Flag says that they should take the underground tunnel. Deadshot, Katana, June, Flag and Diablo all head out. Then Harley follows them, telling Croc, “Come on. Ya got something better to do?”

The squad search through the streets for something to ride in and they come across an abandoned bus. Flag starts to hotwire the bus and Deadshot makes a playful jab at him knowing how to. Harley starts to close the doors, when Boomerang pops up at them, begging her to let him in. Harley questions him about his sudden change of heart.

CB: Well, I was running away from all this danger and I stopped and suddenly felt this strong sense of compassion for my fellow man, to just save lives and be a hero-

HARLEY: You don’t know how to get out of the city.

CB: I don’t know how to get out of the city.

Boomerang gets on the bus and they’re off. When Boomerang is told what they’re doing, he’s freaked and asks them all if getting themselves killed is what they want. Deadshot says that he’d do anything to protect his little girl and Harley responds that her best friend is trapped inside Enchantress, it’s not like she’s got anything left to live for and she can’t be anything but this, also that it’s either this or get put in a hellish dimension of monsters.

Katanna talks to her sword in japanese again in the back of the bus. Croc walks up to her and asks if her husband’s soul is really trapped in there. She looks surprised. Croc says that when he was a wrestler he traveled around the world and had to learn multiple languages, at least the basics for most. He can understand what she’s saying because he speaks a little japanese himself. Katana simply nods. Croc asks her if she’s going to hold onto the sword forever, let her husband be trapped in it. Katana asks him what he means. He says that it must be able to be broken otherwise she wouldn’t have freaked out about it falling out of the building, so it’s not like he’s completely trapped in there, that he can move on, if she lets him. She takes offense to that, saying that she’s not keeping him from that, she’s protecting him. Croc tells her that she’s protecting herself, from having to move on. That she’s holding on to her past. Katana becomes angry and tells him that he doesn’t know anything about that. He says that that’s him: Never letting go of his past. That choice has made him what he is. She rebuts that he’s a an animal, something that eats people. He snarls and says he’s never eaten anyone. It’s just what he lets people think. He’s killed though, but so has she. She asks why he lets people think that, if he does because he liked to be seen that way. He says no. But he used to lie to himself that he did, then he just lied to everyone else. But he does it because he thought that’s all he was good for. He’s punishing himself the way his family punished him for existing. Katana takes a moment, then says that her husband’s death was her fault. He died saving her. That maybe she’s been punishing herself too. But she’s been punishing Maeso in the process. Croc says that he thinks that self-punishment never just hurts yourself.

They pull up to the ARGUS base.

Katana holds her sword, contemplatively. The squad gets ready, trying to figure out a plan. Boomerang says that he said that this was a stupid idea, that they don’t even know if they can hurt Enchantress. Katana realizes something at the word “hurt”. re-iterating Croc’s words before, “Never just hurts yourself” and tells them that yes, they do have a way to hurt Enchantress.

FLAG: How?

KATANA: Us.

Katana points to herself and El Diablo.

KATANA: Or maybe even just you.

She then just points to El Diablo.

DIABLO: What?

KATANA: Why hasn’t Enchantress tried to kill us? She personally killed the team guarding the helicopter, she went after Amanda Waller personally, but she left us for dead.

DEADSHOT: Why?

KATANA: Because my sword and Diablo’s powers can hurt her. She didn’t want to take the chance.

HARLEY: Um, huh?

KATANA: We were the only ones who could take out the most of her monsters. My sword and his powers are mystical. She’s afraid of us.

They work out a plan, to go up against Enchantress. June says that her heart isn’t a vulnerability anymore now that she’s in Poison Ivy’s body. Katana says that she can use her sword to trap her soul in order to pull her out of Ivy’s body, but her sword is only for a human’s and it won’t hold a witch for very long and then she could just jump back into Ivy’s body. June then says that that won’t happen if she takes Enchantress on long enough to get her heart out. Flag objects, but June tells him that she can’t keep letting Enchantress control her. He tells her that they don’t know for sure if crushing Enchantress’ heart will kill her too or not. She responds that it’s her fault Enchantress is free anyway and it’s her responsibility to do what she can. Flag reluctantly agrees. The squad all recognize that it’s now dawn. Flag says that they better hurry. They start to make their way inside the ARGUS facility.

Meanwhile Enchantress now forces Waller to open the safe. She does. Enchantress then telekenetically lifts Waller up and renders her unconscious. Enchantress proceeds to float the statue to her and cracks it open, funneling her brother into the Waller's body. He forms. They have a moment, saying that it's a good thing she hasn't been destroyed, as their life forces are tied, he would die with her. They then begin to combine their energies and open the portal.

As the squad breaks into the facility, clouds take up the sky above them. They go in.

Entering ARGUS, Flag comes across the bodies of all those there. He goes over to a weapons cache area, pulling out a drawer holding the squad's more vicious weapons, saying that they, ARGUS, kept their bigger weapons out of their hands for safety, but they're gonna need them now. Deadshot goes for his grenade launcher, but Flag snatches it up first and then calmly hands it to him. Boomerang grabs his explosive boomerangs. And Harley excitedly grabs her comically oversized hammer. They get in the elevator going down into the ARGUS lower levels vault.

Enchantress and her brother open the portal to their world, energy crackling out of it, saying it's time, creatures starting to come out of it.

Harley and the group peek at the situation unfolding. Harley saying, "Everyone else's seeing this, right?" They respond yeah, why? She says, "I'm off my meds."

Flag states that the portal's open now, how are they gonna close it?

June says that the portal will become destabilized and dangerous if it's interrupted without a power source, so they can't just kill Enchantress and her brother, otherwise it could turn into an unstable wormhole. It'll take an energy pulse, like the kind that would emanate from Enchantress' heart being destroyed.

Deadshot concludes then that they'll have to figure out a way to do that.

Enchantress senses their presence and sends her other creatures and her brother to get them, saying that now that the portal is open she can keep it that way on her own. The squad fights them.

Boomerang uses all of his exploding boomerangs to take a couple of them down, Katana takes a couple out, Deadshot has to start shooting his gun when his grenade launcher gets knocked out of his hand first thing, him and Flag going back to back and Harley being a lure to catch a few off guard with Killer Croc.

Diablo squares off against Enchantress' brother, an intense firey battle, but ends up being beat down by him, though still barely holding his own.

June meanwhile sneaks past the fight up to Enchantress. She makes her way up to Enchantress, signaling Katana. When Enchantress twists her head around and grabs June by the throat, yelling for the squad to stop or she'll kill June. Flag, frozen in fear, tells them to stop. They do as they're told.

Enchantress jerks their weapons away telekenitcally to her feet, even Harley's hammer. Enchantress tells them that she can give them everything that they want in life, as they've earned her begrudged respect, showing them these flashes of what they want.

Flag/June-A life together.

Deadshot-Him killing Batman and having his daughter.

Harley-A kooky suburban life with Joker.

Katana-Her husband.

Croc-His family to love him.

Diablo-His family.

Diablo breaks it though, gripping his cross, his wife's cross, telling Enchantress that he can't change what he did and neither can she, as he then blows her brother away from him using his powers! He turns to the group to convince them of the same.

DEADSHOT: I killed the Bat.

DIABLO: You don't want that.

DEADSHOT: Yes, I do.

HARLEY: Me too!

DIABLO: Well, I'm not gonna be the devil's pawn anymore. My choice is to fight. Even if I have to do it alone.

They all hesitate and he unleashes his full powers on Enchantress' brother. The squad all join in, fighting back. They fight and Diablo implodes himself and her brother to defeat him. Her brother is severely damaged, unable to move.

The squad stops in their tracks, the only thing left of their fallen comrade is the cross. They don't know what to do now. Harley staring at the crater left by Diablo.

Enchantress mocks them, telling them they've lost their biggest and only real weapon and they should give up and they'll get what they want in exchange for their surrender, as more monsters come through, showing them that they can't possibly defeat them all.

Harley picks up the cross, contemplatively, then handing it to Deadshot.

They all look at eachother, Boomerang ready to side with Enchantress. Harley speaks up first.

HARLEY: Can you really do what you said? Can you bring my Mr. J back?

ENCHANTRESS: Yes.

HARLEY: I believe you can.

Harley walks up to her, kneeling in front of her. She then looks back at Katana, shifting her eyes to the side to signal her for something. Katana's confused at first, but she realizes.

HARLEY: Don't you want that too, Katana? Don't you all want that?

The squad look at eachother in understanding. Harley looks back to Enchantress, first looking down thoughtfully and then back up at her, Enchantress in Poison Ivy's body.

HARLEY: Red, are you still in there? If you can hear me, I want you to know that you were right. I can be more.

Harley then grabs her hammer and smashes Enchantress in the face with it, the hammer EXPLODING! Harley is blown back and caught by Croc.

HARLEY: Whoa! Packs a punch.

Enchantress is blown away from the portal, disconnecting her from it. The squad all go for their weapons while they have the time. The portal then begins to turn into a black hole. June yells that it's now or never as the black hole sucks all of Enchantress' other creatures into it. Enchantress recovers, infuriated, before being stabbed in the shoulder by Katana, with her sword, absorbing Enchantress into it. The black hole becomes stronger. The sword struggles to contain her, but June grabs the sword, as it starts to crack and break, absorbing Echantress into her body. The sword is destroyed. Enchantress is enraged. Boomerang throws an exploding boomerang at her, which she catches and deactivates, glaring at Boomerang, who is peeing his pants scared now.

ENCHANTRESS: I won't be fooled with the same trick twice.

KILLER CROC: Good thing it's not the same.

Killer Croc rams his fist through Enchantress' back into her chest from behind and pulls out her heart. He throws into the black hole and Deadshot takes aim with his grenade launcher. Enchantress, weakened severely, flashes an image of Deadshot's daughter in front of him.

HALLUCINATION ZOE: Daddy! Daddy, please don't do this! You can have Batman dead, so much money and power... me. It's what you want.

DEADSHOT: Yes, it is... But I can choose better.

FLAG (begrudgingly): Do it.

Deadshot FIRES the grenade launcher and the grenade BLASTS THE HEART, destroying it, just as it enters the black hole. The pulse of the heart being destroyed CLOSES THE BLACK HOLE and causes an explosion.

Deadshot, Harley, Boomerang, Croc, Katana and Flag wake up, surrounded in the rubble of the ARGUS vault.

Harley quickly digs through the rubble, calling for Ivy, Croc then assisting her. She pulls her out, alive. Harley hugs Ivy. Who is confused and worn out.

Flag walks up to Enchantress' body, June's body, now turned to stone. He has a moment of grief, Deadshot telling him how sorry he is. But they then hear something, coughing coming from the now statued body. Flag and Deadshot crack the stone, getting all the pieces off to find June alive. Flag kisses her. He then hugs Deadshot, thanking him, which Deadshot shoves him away, saying he doesn't do hugs.

They all have a moment of triumph, Deadshot saying he's headed back to Gotham, to see his daughter. Harley then saying she can hot wire a car, asking him if he wants a ride.

Same basic scene with Waller.

But Harley barters for Ivy to join the squad instead of going to prison or Arkham, along with the espresso machine.

And Killer Croc wants a fully furnished, above ground cell, with a TV that has access to CMT, as he's no longer living in the sewers like a monster, saying that he's not an animal and he doesn't want to pretend he is anymore.

And when Boomerang tries to get up in arms about not being set free, Waller tazes him.

WALLER: Any other complaints?

HARLEY: Nah.

DEADSHOT: I'm cool.

Same scene with Deadshot and his daughter.

In the end montage Harley fist bumps Ivy through the glass of their conjoined cell and willingly, peacefully takes her medication.

Katana becomes their personal guard.

June finds that she now has energy powers of some sort.

Flag and June get married, the squad in attendance.

And, as Harley sits in her cell, drinking espresso, suddenly the entire ARGUS base is hacked, the squad's bombs are activated, and a voice telling them they have to work for him now, as a GREEN QUESTION MARK appears on all the ARGUS monitors.

THE RIDDLER: You belong to me now.

END.

Post credits scene is Justice League setup scene.

And a reveal of the Joker being alive, unsurprisingly. Played partially for laughs.

Please review and tell me what you think! Have a very great day!

God bless you all!

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I didn't like the way the Walrider from Outlast looked. The 'science' behind it was also waaaay too far-fetched for me. There needs to be some plausible root to the scifi in order to make it believable, you know? Also, you have something called THE SWARM with the name WALRIDER or ALPTRAUM, (Walrider is one of several names for the German nightmare, along with Mara and, well, Incubus) LITERALLY MEANING NIGHTMARE, and you DIDN'T make it some supernatural eldritch monstrosity?!?! You made it A CLOUD OF NANITES IN THE SHAPE OF A NAKED MAN WITHOUT A FACE?!

Therefore, I produced this AU because I'm TRASH and I like rubbing my grubby hands all over your fandoms.

The Walrider is a living manifestation of nightmares that was lying dormant in the mountains. Whether he was an existing force that became malignant and nightmarish when the asylum was built and opened due to the negative energy of the place, or whether he/it was already a malignant nightmare entity before the asylum was built and it's just coincidence is left open to interpretation, however, it was mostly an existing and inherently evil force that has been other places but was drawn to Mount Massive upon its creation because it was stronger there due to the negativity.

In the game, the Morphogenic Engine is not in fact a machine, but a process. Therapy and Human Growth Hormone are used to make a patient receptive to the Engine. The idea is that it triggers a psychosomatic response in the patient's bodily systems, which renders them more receptive to the nanoswarm production and control process. They are then hooked up to the Assembler that starts the process, which basically has them, the humans, basically create

nanoscopic biomachines

out of their

cells

that they control through lucid dreaming. Like, they're using their cells to assemble biomachines THROUGH DREAMS. Completely outside the realm of scientific possibility, so I'm changing that.

In this AU, the Morphogenic Engine is a process in which one can take control of their own body down to the cellular level, though only through lucid dreaming following intense therapy and preparation, and with the aid of nanomachines already injected into the body. Wernicke encountered the Walrider in Nazi Germany in his first experiements with this concept when it nearly came through into this world. It is a supernatural entity that manifests itself through nanites, since they're there and it can control them.

The point of the Morphogenic Engine was originally to create a human-controlled nanite swarm to replace soldiers; men needed only enter the lucid dreaming state and the nanites would go to work. They would achieve this by using the Engine to have the body receive some of the nanites and then control the rest through the Engine process. However, the Walrider took control of the nanites instead, just long enough to enter Billy as its host--it had been appearing to him in his lucid dreams for a while. When hosted by a human, it could project itself with the nanites but was immobile, and that's when Project Walrider began, with the intention of finding it the perfect host who could hold it without being A) on life support, B) insane, and C) in a lucid-dreaming state, otherwise it was kind of stuck; Project Walrider was manipulated by the Walrider itself.

Basically, it wants a physical form.

Dipper uses the Morphogenic Engine to prevent it from taking control of his body, as his will is extremely strong and his mind has suffered enough but retained enough sanity to be the perfect host. However, they are matched in power and therefore one cannot control the other, so Bill manifests with the nanites and moves around independently of Dipper, same as he used to with Billy--Billy had no control, though, and he and Dipper enter a symbiotic relationship of sorts.

TL, DR;

Basically, Bill is a supernatural spirit who took control of Billy's body a la possession and used the Morphogenic Engine process to control the nanites to allow him to 'manifest physically'. This is where he got the name Bill.

Since he has no physical body and therefore no way to undergo the Morphogenic Engine and control the nanites. While in Dipper, he can control the nanites, but he can't subjugate Dipper's mind at the same time and therefore Dipper sort of exists independently of the nanite swarm.

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Suicide Squad Rewrite-Part 1

Open on the Red Hood mask,the surface of it reflecting the ACE Chemicals Plant in it. Go through The Killing Joke origin where the Joker is a sad comedian forced into being the Red Hood and when Batman comes after him he pleads with him to not hurt him, that it's just a mistake, but Batman doesn't listen to him and throws him into the chemicals. Show him crawling out of the river and pulling off his hood to see his face bleached, his hair green and a sadistic smile on his face.

Then we cut to the Joker in Arkham Asylum and the whole scene was him telling the story to Dr. Harleen Quinzel. The Joker says that he realizes now that the Batman victimizing him the way he did and it driving him insane is no excuse for what he's done since then and that with Harleen's help he's now cured. He asks her if she can get a package from a friend of his and bring it to him during their next session. She's hesitant, but he tells her it's just a family heirloom and it would really help him in his recovery. She agrees.

Cut to the Joker firing a machine gun in Arkham. And his men strapping Harley onto the electroshock table. When Joker shocks her brain, we cut to the opening title:

SUICIDE SQUAD

The Joker could be played by Alan Tudyk. But a cast change is not really needed.

Then cut to the conference scene where Amanda Waller tells them what she wants to do, that in Superman's absence they need a force for humanity, to protect them should they ever be threatened again. She gives the low down on the group, same deal, built in deniability etc. The squad is comprised of Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Slipknot, El Diablo, someone named Jason, Enchantress, Katana and Killer Croc, led by Rick Flag. Harley Quinn is only put on the squad after they learn that the threat is Poison Ivy. We see Deadshot, Boomerang, El Diablo, Enchantress, Katana and Killer Croc's flashbacks. Katana is a volunteer. One of the conference members asks how are they gonna keep Enchantress from getting her heart. Waller explains that the box the heart is inside is made up of nth metal, which is magic proof and that they keep her brother's statue locked in a vault completely encased in nth metal, which is magic proof.

They're recruited.

Poison Ivy contacts the government, with the threat on a city that her plant spores will replace the concrete monstrosity of the city with plants and trees and tells them to evacuate everyone in the city or they'll die with it.

She then begins, her plants growing in an empty building.

So Amanda Waller, because they have no knowledge of Poison Ivy's thought process, decides to use Harley Quinn to find her.

We see a flashback after Jason Todd was murdered, where Batman chases down and wrecks the Joker's car, that he and Harley are in, onto a pier. Batman restrains Harley and beats the living crap out of the Joker, nearly killing him, but holds himself off. The Joker laughs in Batman's face, saying that he's disappointed in him, before setting off a bomb that blows up the pier, Harley falling into the water, Batman jumping in after her to save her. Joker is then presumed dead.

Harley's recruited by the promise that she'll be released so she can go get her psychotic boyfriend if she helps them find someone. Harley instantly agrees, not caring who.

When the team is assembled, they get their stuff and Harley gets a giant hammer excitedly that when Boomerang asks about she says it's a surprise. Flag then takes it away. She pouts.

Deadshot introduces himself to Harley, to which she responds, "You know my name, but I don't know yours." Deadshot explains to her that he was hired to kill her once, but he rejected it. When she asks why, he tells her that he doesn't kill victims. She asks what that means. He tells her that he knows what the Joker did to her. She says that she's been told that by her psychiatrists and the Bat, but she never believed it, she thought that they were just trying to get her to turn on her Mr. J. She insists that Deadshot shouldn't believe everything he hears. He's silent.

Harley asks who the soldiers are. Flag tells says it's none of her concern.

Meanwhile one of Harley's guards is captured by the Joker's thugs and taken to him, where he interrogates him. He gives Joker everything about the situation.

The squad is briefed. When Harley finds out that it's Poison Ivy, we flashback:

To the events of No Man's Land, where the Joker is in a gunfight with the Penguin's men and Harley's shot several times, but the Joker leaves her there to die when he's chased Then a barefoot woman walks up to Harley, grass and flowers growing in her footsteps, as she bleeds out. Cut to Harley waking up with healing plant enzymes on her gunshot wounds, to Poison Ivy watching her in her lair, surrounded by children. Harley asks Ivy why she saved her and Ivy says that she protects the helpless, it's what she does. Harley is confused. Ivy tells her that she was left to die and she couldn't let a helpless victim of the Joker suffer that fate. Ivy proceeds to give the children food to eat. Harley asks why the Bat hasn't gotten her. Ivy says that Batman has bigger problems with the city having undergone a massive earthquake that's run out most regular people and left the city to the criminals and psychos. She continues that her and Batman have an arrangement, he brings her any lost, orphaned or abandoned children to take care of and he leaves her alone. Harley tries to leave on her own, but is stopped by Ivy, who tells her that she can't leave yet, as her wounds aren't fully healed yet. Harley thanks her for everything and she says that it was no problem. Harley and Ivy introduce themselves officially to eachother and shake hands. Poison Ivy is played by Mary-Elizabeth Winstead.

The same scene where the Joker breaks into ARGUS' computer hard-drives and has Harley's bomb disabled.

The squad arrives on the scene and Flag confirms that the entire area has been evacuated and quarantined, so even if they could disable their bombs they couldn't get out, the official story being there was an earthquake. Same basic scene with Slipknot.

They track down Ivy and confront her. They fight her plant people first, before they get to her. Deadshot sees El Diablo not fighting and gets onto him about it. El blows him off, saying he won't be a tool of violence and death anymore, he wants to do God's will. After a short battle, Enchantress possess Ivy's body. The squad tries to stop her, but she gives them traumatizing flashbacks to hold them off and fully possess Ivy, leaving June Moon's body.

Deadshot's flashbacks are of his dad abusing his mom when he was a child, beating her and him, him grabbing a gun and shooting his dad when he was going to kill her.

Harley's flashbacks are of her suffering electroshock therapy by the Joker.

Katana's are of her watching her husband being murdered with her sword.

Killer Croc's are his parents locking him in their basement as a child and feeding him scraps of meat like an animal.

Jason's are of him being beaten to death.

El Diablo's are of his house burning around him.

Flag's are of him seeing his mom die by being hit by a van as she pushes him out of the way of that car.

Flag shakes his off first and starts to aim his rifle at Enchantress as she’s still leaving June’s body, but hesitates to take the shot. Deadshot shakes his off just in time to see this.

Enchantress proceeds to bring the building they're in down around them, the squad dodging the majority of the debris, but eventually getting knocked out.

Amanda Waller becomes enraged and sets off the charge in the heart to destroy it. But it doesn't work. Enchantress teleports herself to ARGUS and confronts Waller, saying, "You should have done your research. My heart is only a weakness in a body that needs one. This body is unique. It doesn't need a heart." She places her heart back into her body, saying, "Now it can restore my full power without being a liability."

Amanda Waller becomes enraged and sets off the charge in the heart to destroy it. But it doesn't work. Enchantress teleports herself to ARGUS and confronts Waller, saying, "You should have done your research. My heart is only a weakness in a body that needs one. This body is unique. It doesn't need a heart." She places her heart back into her body, saying, "Now it can restore my full power without being a liability."

Meanwhile Harley flashes back while out:

To Ivy trying to convince her not to go back to the Joker. Harley blows it off, saying that her puddin' needs her, she's his girl. Ivy tells her that she can be more than that.

Deadshot wakes Harley up as the rest of the squad gets itself together. They start to peace out only to be met with Flag holding the trigger to their nanite bombs, telling them that they have to stop Enchantress. They reluctantly agree. Flag wonders where she went, when June says that she's gone to ARGUS. When the squad asks her how she knows that, she tells them that she still has some sort of psychic connection with Enchantress. They ask why and June says that she's going after those who kept her imprisoned. Her psychic link to Enchantress kicks in and June sees her tell Waller to take her to where her brother is being kept. She tells them. Flag states that they have to get back to their helicopter and get to ARGUS now to keep Enchantress and her brother from killing anymore people.

Deadshot says that he knows a shortcut through one of the neighborhoods. They cut through the houses of a residential neighborhood, with Croc breaking down the doors. They see a bar built into the house. Boomerang immediately tries to go for the alcohol, but is dragged back by his jacket by Flag. Croc stops and looks solemnly at a picture of the family the home belongs to. Harley steps in and makes a hypothesis about Croc's psyche: That even though he pretends to be a monster, all he's ever really wanted is societal acceptance. That based on his actions, she suspects that his anger, desire for acceptance and inferiority is rooted in child abuse. Croc does admit that his family always saw him as a freak, as something to hide and lock away, but he's happy the way he is, a creature that's feared and respected. Harley then remarks that she bets that he wishes that that was true. They get to the building and go up it.

When the squad gets up to the top where the helicopter is, they see that the helicopter has been destroyed. The group that was guarding the helicopter has been killed. All by Enchantress. Flag is infuriated. The guards all form into monsters. Enchantress speaks through them to the squad, telling them that if they want to live, to leave her to do what she wants with Waller. Most of them consider it, but Flag states that there is no way he's going to let that happen. The rest of the squad begrudgingly agree, because they have to.

The monsters attack them and they fight throughout the building, going down the floors, but still staying in the top levels.

They can't defeat them all.

Harley and Deadshot stop 1 together barely, Katana puts 3 down, Croc kills 1 barely, while Boomerang hides, but they're pretty much overpowered.

Deadshot again sees El Diablo doing nothing in the battle and confronts him about it. El says again that he won't do violence, he won't do evil anymore. Deadshot asks him if he thinks God wants Enchantress to continue killing, if God wants him to hide and do nothing. Deadshot pushes him some more until finally he uses his powers to blow the monsters all away.

In the fight Katana's sword gets knocked out of her hands and out a broken window. She freaks and tries to jump out after it, but is grabbed by Flag. Croc grabs the sword through the window from the floor just below Katana and Flag. Harley takes a moment to give Katana a knowing look of understanding and has a quick flashback:

Of her jumping into the vat at the ACE Chemicals plant.

Harley and Deadshot have the same exchange about love.

After a brief few moments of calm, suddenly another helicopter swoops in with the Joker in it, piloted by his men, with more of his goons firing machine guns out the back. He calls Harley to him and she hesitates, torn between saving Ivy and going with him. She says, "Sorry Red" and goes to Joker. Flag tries to activate her nano-bomb, but it doesn't work. Flag then pulls out his gun to kill Harley, but is shot in the side by a stray bullet. The helicopter starts to fly away. Flag gives Deadshot the order to kill Harley, but he doesn't.

In the helicopter, Harley is overjoyed that the Joker has come for her, but then he hits her, knocking her to the ground and laughs about how he really got her with this and then complaining about how he had to waste his time finding her, because she's his property, his joke. Harley has a flash to the Joker electrocuting her. She has a moment of realization about what was really done to her, then seeing herself being pushed into the the chemical vat by the Joker, not jumping in on her own. Harley’s eyes fill with tears, as the Joker continues to laugh at her. Suddenly the gas tank is shot from afar-

By Jason, using a sniper rifle.

The gas tank in the helicopter explodes. Harley jumps out as the helicopter it goes down, her landing on the roof of a building, it crashing to the ground.

Jason then says, "Rot in ****, clown."

TO BE CONTINUED...

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