Fan Fiction: The Great Panic

[dannavy85]

An Astroboy Fan Fic
By Dan

© Astro boy and Tetsuwan Atom, Osamu Tezuka 1954, all rights respected.

Doctor O’Shay’s house
Chiba Metro City
Morning…

Astro moaned, rolled onto his stomach and swatted whatever it was that was tapping on his head till he half opened an eye and saw the clock on his nightstand…

“UGH!....” The boy bot grunted in shock as he rolled out of the bed and fought his bed sheets. “UGH!!! I’M LATE FOR SCHOOL! ZORAN, WHY DIDN’T YOU WAKE ME UP?!”

Zoran ran after Astro as he jumped into the bathroom and quickly brushed his teeth. “I’m so late, I’m screwed!”

“I tried to wake you up but you kept going back to bed.” Zoran said as she grabbed up Astro’s moon boots and followed him back to his bedroom. “You were out so late for Doctor O’Shay, I thought they’d let you sleep in.”

“Nice thought. Too bad Miss Myoki knows I don’t really need a ton of sleep…ugh! I’ll be cleaning the school for weeks!”



A ringing phone brought Astro dread. “That’s her! I’ll be walking the walk of shame to Principal Toma’s office. Bucket and swabs! Break your back Astro! What? Did you think you were hero enough to escape you corpulent computer?!”

“Uh? Miss Myoki? I’m…I’m sorry! I’m really, really sorry teacher! Please don’t condemn me to clean the whole school….I’m….”

Miss Myoki replied on the other end. “Wow! You must have speed gulped your Sugar Smacks Astro. “giggles” relax ok? You’re not in trouble just for being late once.”

Astro’s mouth dropped. “I’m not?”

“Doctor O’Shay explained everything this morning. I’ll send your homework to your school e-mail account.”

“Hey! Astro gets to ditch out of school?!” Abercrombie could be heard snapping and yelling in the background. “You better make it up to us!”

Miss Myoki calmed the class. “You can go back to bed Astro…Doctor’s orders. No sneaking off to the tree house or the video game plaza got it?”

Astro smiled at the phone. “No problem. Thanks Miss Myoki.”

Soon he was back to sleep snuggling a giant teddy bear, perfect bribery and blackmail points for a small enterprising little sister who stealth fully placed a baby bottle and pacifier near Astros’ head. Soon he was left alone in the dark till Zoran was shaking him awake with a frantic level of concern in her voice.

“Get up! Get up! You gotta come see the television!” She yelled as she pulled on an arm.

“Ugh….Zoran!” Astro complained. “What is it? I was told to sleep, this better not be another dumb episode of Barney.”

Astro trudged down the stairs to the living room and sat sleepishly in front of the television, squinting till his systems were all up and running. “What’s this?”

“The news says a meteorite came down somewhere in America. A really big one.”

Astro waved a hand in the air. “Ok fine, meteorite, happens all the time. Unless it’s something really amazing Zoran? Don’t pull me out of bed.”

Zoran snorted. “Well see if I ever share anything with you at all grouch.”

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“Where’s Doctor O’Shay? I thought he’d be home by now.” Astro said as he stretched himself and walked to a basket of freshly washed clothes.

“Probably taking a big interest in the meteor but what do you care?” Zoran complained as the phone rang. Astro pushed the intercom button as he sat pulling his pants up. “Hi!”

“Hey Astro? Are you watching the news?” Reno’s voice came over the speaker.

“It’s a meteorite Reno, how many of these things land on earth?” Astro pulled his shirt over his head and tapped a foot. “I don’t see what the big deal is.”

“Well it’s the size of a house!”

Astro chuckled. “So are elephants. I’m going to do what? I’ll fly all the way to America, pat it like a cat, get my face on the cover of TIME and come home? I have better things to do…like make up the homework I missed today.”

“You’re so cranky when you wake up you know that?” Reno said smiling.

“Very funny. See you later.” “Click”

Astro returned to his room and sat at his computer desk downloading his homework while looking for research on the internet. He scoffed at the obsessive exposure being given to the meteorite by his search engine. “I bet if an elephant were dangling from a flag pole of some high rise they’d find a way to make a dumb movie that would win like 13 Academy awards, humans go ga-ga over the strangest ordinary things.”

Evening

Astro was laying on his bed watching Ghost in the Shell SAC and nibbling on a Pocky stick when Zoran all but crashed through the door and grabbed him by the arm. “ASTRO! IT’S TERRIBLE! IT’S HORRIBLE! THEY’RELANDINGALLOVERTHEPLACEAND KILLINGPEOPLE!”

“Slow down Zoran!” Astro said as he pulled on Zoran’s arm. “Calm down and stop talking like a dumb fax…”

Just then the anime channel changed from Ghost in the Shell to a familiar audible tone. “This is the Metro City Emergency Broadcast System, stand by for an official announcement from the government, this is a National Emergency telecast…”

Astro’s eyes bulged. “What the…?”




Zoran pulled him along down the stairs. “They’re dropping all over the world! It started with the meteorite that landed near Los Angeles. This thing came out of it and and….it’s killing people!”

Astro looked at the television and watched as the local news reporters described what had happened. Fragments of soldiers fighting whatever was shooting, green lights, exploding tanks. He clicked channel after channel and every one told the same story. He looked at Zoran with a blank stare. “So much for everyday stuff.”

“People are dying and you’re cracking jokes?!” Zoran yelped as she pounded him in the chest. Astro held her as the television switched to the Government EBS system and General Red, head of the Metro Regional Defense Forces, came on the screen.

“Citizens. As you heard several hours ago, a large meteorite landed on the outskirts of Los Angeles California in the United States. Within several hours more of these occurrences happened in France, Russia, China, South America and other nations on the major continents. The meteorites it now appears, contain an invasion force of undetermined strength and identity. Your military is mobilizing to meet this threat. As of this moment Metro City is under a state of Martial Law. No one may enter or leave. All transportation and highways have been closed…”

“Wham!” The front door of the house slammed open and Reno came running in with Ken, Tamao and Abercrombie behind him. “Are you seeing all this?!” He asked Astro. “We’re under attack!”

Astro was still in shock. “By who? I’m still trying to figure all this out! It’s like a bad science fiction movie!”

Abercrombie snorted. “I heard they blew through Germany whacking everything in their way. They’re attacking Beijing, Rome…they’re all over the place.”

Tamao grimaced. “They got these death ray ships! Nothing’s stopping them, everything they shoot at them bounces off!”

“Have any of them landed in Japan?” Astro asked.

“They’re trying to find out.” Abercrombie said wringing his hands. “What are we going to do?”

Reno rubbed his chin. “I know what they’re going to do. Raise the city shield, put the robots on the front line and haul out the nukes. You know General Red.”

Astro clenched his fists. “Like nukes will really work? It seems somebody is forgetting what the news is saying.”


Astro started for the door but Ken cut him off. “The military isn’t letting anyone leave Astro. No body can get out!”

“Well someone has to get eyes on all this.” Astro said throwing his hands around. “All we got right now is a bunch of reporters from CNN wetting their pants, they might be exaggerating the details.”

Reno grabbed Astro’s shirt. “We need you here buddy boy. The way I see it those creepy aliens will be doing their own wetting when our Astro starts wrecking their dumb machines!”

“Heck yeah!” Abercrombie cheered. “Let em come! Astro will lay em out with a universal ***** slapping!”

Astro frowned back. “And….what about the rest of the world? I guess I should sit back while they wipe out the rest of humanity?”

Doctor O’Shay came through the door just then panting and catching his breath. “Ugh it’s… it’s madness. I can’t get a phone call out to anyone overseas. All the lines are jammed even the video links.”

Reno got the Doctor a glass of water. “How bad is it? Have you found out anything?”

“Very little Reno. Scattered news and lots of static, these things must produce so much radiation in the air that every form of communication dies. We haven’t heard of any landing in Japan but every line is so busy we can’t get an accurate picture. General Red has taken the only precaution right now that makes sense, he’s ready to order Magnamite to throw a concentration energy shield over the city.”

“It seems humanity is getting a great galactic ass whooping.” Reno said sighing. “What did we do to anyone? Last I heard we didn’t leave any soda cans on Mars.”

“I think it’s a matter of envy.” Doctor O’Shay said. “Someone was looking for a wonderful planet to plunder and they found us at last.”

Abercrombie shook his head. “ET forgot to drink his coffee this morning! What are we going to do?! I don’t want to die!”

Tamao snarled. “The typical response of the day. I haven’t got any plans to pack bags to heaven any time soon, my dad has his laser rifle.”

Ken yelled. “What good is that against a death ray!”

“WELL IT’S BETTER THAN SITTING ON MY BUTT!”

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“EVERYBODY SHUT UP!!” Astro screamed out. “Ugh!” He sighed as he fell into a chair. “Some one hit me with a pipe to see if I’m dreaming because this is all crazy!”

Reno smirked. “I pinched myself with a pair of tweezers, we’re not dreaming.”

Doctor O’Shay was on the phone throwing his hands around in the air. “Well you have to control it Towashi! Tell the people to stay in their houses! The last thing we need is chaos and rioting!”

“Rioting?!” The kids replied with fear.

“Yes. It’s starting to turn ugly all over the city. Riots at the supermarkets, fights in the streets, everyone’s panicking.” Doctor O’Shay said as he grabbed his coat and hat. “We have to get the people off the streets and into shelters before it’s too late to save anyone!”

The Doctor ran out the door.

“I…I gotta get home to my parents.” Abercrombie said as he started to cry.

Ken hugged Astro tightly. “You’ll stop them won’t you? I can’t think of anything or anyone who could kick their butts better than you.”

Astro pushed Ken back and shook his head. “Something’s bothering me about this whole thing.”

Reno snorted. “What? The fact that maybe we’re doomed?”

“No…the fact that it just feels wrong, I dunno.” Astro said as he paced around the room. “I need to sneak out of the city.”

“Fat chance of that happening with all of the security. And every robot here is electronically tagged, you’ll be thrown in jail for running faster than an Olympic Curler.” Reno snorted.

Astro giggled. “An Olympic Curler? That so doesn’t fit.”

“Hey, my Simile machine’s broken ok? Now how do you plan to leave the city?”

Astro grinned. “Someone owes me a few favors.”







West Metro City
Midnight

The group of boys had to dart from hiding place to hiding place to avoid the police and military security cars and hover cars that were flying back and forth trying to stem the panic and chaos of the moment. Soon they were slipping through a broken fence into the abandoned Nissan Car Factory and stood around while Astro threw rocks and broke a few windows above the building’s roof.

“CRASH!” “ATLAS! I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE, STOP HIDING!” Astro tossed another rock and by good timing he hit Atlas boy off the head as he stuck it out.

“GRRRRR….WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! STOP BREAKING MY WINDOWS YOU GOODY TWO SHOE CREEP!”

“My…isn’t he in a nice mood.” Ken said.

“That’s his every mood every minute.” Reno said smirking.

“Ok Goody! You bothered me now go away!” Atlas Boy snapped.

Astro flew up to the roof and stood with his hands on his hips. “Remember? You kinda owe me favors after I saved you from Towashi?”

“What of it?” Atlas snapped. “I suppose you “think” I’d care about the fat bags huh? Looks like they backstabbed the wrong people on the galactic block, typical.”

Astro snorted. “If anything happens to them? You’ll be next on the cooking spit Atlas. Anyway since you’re so keen on robots helping robots, you owe me a favor and I wanna cash it.”

“For what?” Atlas snickered.

“I want you to remove my locator chip and play tag with the authorities while I sneak out to see how bad things are.”

Atlas leaned back and played with his hair. “For a price.”

“Uh huh!” Astro protested.

“For a price or you can forget about the chip.”

Reno shouted from below…”YOU GREEDY DORK!”

“Don’t make me come down there and teach you manors fleshy.” Atlas snarled. He looked cross eyed at Astro. “A free modification and tune up at the Ministry of Science. All expenses paid. Well?....”

“Fine!” Astro yelped. “Out of my savings account.”

“You’re such a good doggie.” Atlas smiled as he petted Astro on the head.

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An hour later

Reno dusted his hands off. “Ok, I got the chip transferred.”

Atlas Boy sat up smirking. “You better have kept your grimy paws off everything else fleshy.”

“Believe me. Anything else would have been sober satisfaction. But we need you.” Reno said as he helped Astro to sit up.

“Just think. If I really wanted to….I could so mess up your reputation.” Atlas said to Astro as he gloated over the juicy possibility.

“Then you won’t get your modification or anything else when the aliens are done throwing you on the scrap pile.” Astro replied snickering. “If I were you? I’d seriously consider behaving.”

“Oh don’t get your wires crossed Astro. I intend to be a raging terror like always. Anything to make these humans envious of our talents. Go on your jaunt and leave everything to me.” The red boy bot said as he shooshed his hand. “But get back here quick if you find the aliens closing in on us. I don’t want too miss the fun and leave all of them to you.”

Astro and his friends ran one way while Atlas took off in another. Soon they found a storm drain where Astro could slip out beyond the city. “Here we go. This should get you too the Chibasaki River where you can get to Tokyo.”

Astro started to duck into the drain pipe but turned around one last time to hug his friends. “If I can….I’ll try to take em out before they get here.”

“Just don’t be stupid.” Ken said. “We want you home.”

Astro gave a thumbs up. “I’ll buy the ice cream when I get back.” With that, Astro disappeared into the pipe. The length was pretty short and soon Astro found himself dropping onto the bank of the Chibusaki. “I’ll fly low through the back country.” He said to himself as he leaped into the air and hugged the ground along the river. He felt it safe enough to tune himself into a Tokyo Pop radio station and was surprised to hear…


“Music? They’re still playing music? I knew J-Pop was as crazy as MTV but this?” Astro stopped on the top of a small mountain rise to look around the horizon. “Nothing strange. All the town lights are still on, no fighters in the air, no military radio traffic?” He stood puzzled till he aimed himself towards Tokyo and took off again.

“I don’t get it. If the aliens haven’t reached Japan yet, we should still be on some kind of alert.” Astro changed his radio receiver to another channel. “Nothing on the hour news reports? This is too crazy. Metro City’s going nuts and the rest of Japan’s acting as if nothing’s going on!”

Astro finally reached the suburb of Hachinohe-chiba where the night life….looked stupidly normal. He landed on a street and looked at a newspaper stack. “No front page alien reports? What’s going on?!” He said snorting as he saw a man coming out of a night-time bar. “Hey mister?! Mister!”

The man stopped, obviously a little drunk. “Mister…uh…..Have you heard anything about the aliens?”

The man smirked. “Aliens? Whacha talking about kid?....I….I see em….all the time. Yup! Wonderful thing…Suntori Whiskey.”

Astro groaned. “Obviously you’re no help.” He turned to see a man and woman walking across the street and flew over to block their way. “Excuse me! I’m sorry to bother you but have you heard anything about the alien attacks? Are they here in Japan yet?”

The man shook a fist. “What are you robot? Stupid! Is this your idea of a joke?! Get lost!”

Astro stood dumbfounded. “Now I’m confused. What is it?! Has the whole world gone nuts?!!”

A police officer saw Astro throwing a rant and walked over. “You ok there young robot?”

“No officer…The world’s being attacked by aliens, my home city is going crazy and the rest of Japan seems quiet…you tell me.”

The policeman scratched his head. “Well…I don’t know about any aliens attacking the world. Sounds to me like you have some chips loose.”

Astro grabbed the man’s hand. “Can you take me to your police box? I have to see a television or something.”

Metro City Military Command Post
Midnight


“What are you doing?! All robots have been ordered to stay within the confines of the city proper!”

“Duh…wouldn’t it be better to get them while they’re outside the city?” Astro replied snappingly. “Boy they need to really re-examine your commission.”

General Red snarled angrily. “That little upstart robot. Call Doctor O’shay, I want Astro punished for his childish insubordination!”

Atlas Boy was sitting on a hill outside the city laughing and rolling on the ground. “LOL! Oh man! Goody Two Boots is going to have a hard time explaining himself! LOL!...”

Everything was funny to the red colored boy bot till a shimmering light of green glow caught his eyes as he sat back up. “Oops…laughed to soon I guess.”

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Originally posted by dannavy85@Feb 27 2006, 08:33 PM
Morning…

Astro moaned, rolled onto his stomach and swatted whatever it was that was tapping on his head till he half opened an eye and saw the clock on his nightstand…

“UGH!....” The boy bot grunted in shock as he rolled out of the bed and fought his bed sheets. “UGH!!! I’M LATE FOR SCHOOL! ZORAN, WHY DIDN’T YOU WAKE ME UP?!

This is quite the opposite of what happened in #057 the Robot School English #37 Astroboy goes to School, in which Atom needed to activate the sleepyhead ejector that tossed Uranium out of bed.


Interestinfg story so far. I like the part about the invasion seeming to be local to Metro City. The hero is confused, as are the readers. :wahah:

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hehehe.....

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Back at Military Command an aide de camp to General Red ran up to him with a message. “Forward observation reports a green glow of light to the Northwest of the city Sir!”

General Red walked to his plotting board. “This may be it. This may be the lead attack or the main assault. Order Magnamite to trigger the plasmatic shield, all artillery robot units lock up their gun tubes and await orders to fire!” The General grabbed a radio mic. “Astro, I’m giving you a direct order to come back inside the city or so help me I’ll lock you up for insub…”

Atlas stood cracking his fingers. “Stuff it General. You know as well as I do that I need some play time. Sit your artillery guns down and leave these saps to me.”

“Heh….you’ll owe me big time for this Goody.” Atlas thought of Astro as he started running through the woods. “They say these creeps have a blister shield around them like an upside down wine glass? Well even a wine glass has a hole in it.”

Hachinohe-chiba
Police Box 12C

“I can’t get through to the Metro City Police Station.” Officer Kanzaki said as he sat scratching his head. Astro shook his head as well. “I should be able to get a radio signal to Doctor O’Shay, my teacher, a couple of my friends…Nothing but stupid busy signals.”

“Do you believe me now? What I’ve been telling you?” The officer asked.

“It took some double checking.” Astro replied as he snarled. “I’ve got to get home as fast as I can. Thanks for the help!”



Astro ran from the box and made a thunderclap sound as he broke Mach towards Metro City.

Outside Metro City
1am

Atlas Boy steeled himself against a tree as he caught sight of the invaders as their ships hovered above the trees across a dip in the landscape. They were manta shaped, copper colored with a snake like probe moving and hissing over their backs. The red boy bot crouched low and raised his hands over his head. “It’s soft ground….about 50 meters or more…dig right under their stupid shield and slam them in the belly.”

Atlas took off, his arms and hands flailing a stream of dirt and mud behind him as he rocketed into the ground, covered the distance to the alien ships and came up under one blasting lasers from his fingers and curses from his mouth.

Over highway 16 towards Metro City

Astro dropped from the sky and landed a few feet from a police car that was blocking the highway. “Hey you two! Can you get through to Metro City? I gotta talk to the Counsel President, it’s an emergency!”

One of the officers handed Astro his radio. “I can only get short messages through. The radios’ been jammed like crazy.”

Astro stood slapping the walkie talkie. “No good, let me try your car radio.”

“What’s going on kid?” The second officer asked. “Have you heard anything from the outside? We heard some of the alien ships are on the outskirts of the city!”

Astro gave the cop a doubtful look. “What you’re hearing is a big fat fake. This is all a lie, there is no alien attack!”

Astro just barely dodged a laser shot as it flashed past his nose! He caught the offending man by the arm, shocked the gun from his hand then shocked him again before leaping onto the other cop and snatching his weapon with his teeth.

“That’s enough of this foolishness!” Astro snorted as he flew into the air and held the man by his legs. “Now how about you spill your guts before we take a quick elevator ride?”

Atlas cried and gnashed his teeth as another squeeze and the feeling of cracking made him struggle as hard as he could. It was all around him, trying to pull his head off, rip his arms from their sockets…


“ATLAS!” Came a muffled voice from without. “I’LL CUT YOU OUT!”

A warmth soon washed over Atlas Boy’s face as a rush of flame melted whatever had held him fast in a cocoon of death. Soon Astro was helping him to sit up, pulling dried and burnt plastic from his back and head.

“Decoys…I should have been less stupid.” Atlas said snorting.

“We’ve all been caught in a big boob trap.” Astro replied frowning. “This is all a big fake.”

“Fake?” Atlas said shaking his head. “Those ships over there are fakes?” He pointed to the two hovering alien death machines making a slow march towards the city.

“The whole invasion is a fake. The radio reports, television news, radio and phone calls…a really good movie style fake.”

Atlas wasn’t amused. “What the hell? Why would some jerk go through all this trouble?”

Astro paced back and forth. “Everyone’s in shelters, the army’s on the perimeter, everyone is looking outwards…”

Atlas smirked. “No one’s bothering to look…inside the city.”

Astro patted Atlas’s back. “You’re smart after all, there’s hope for you!”

“Watch your mouth or I’ll knock your stupid head from your neck.” Atlas barked as he followed Astro towards Metro City. “So what could be so enticing that someone ended up going to all this trouble for?”

Astro stopped at the mouth of the drain pipe near the Chibusaki River. “What’s the one place that has the most value to anybody?”

“No way. The reserve economic exchange building?” Atlas followed Astro up through the pipe. “When I was with Skunk, that was one place we always talked about ripping off. If he’s done this I’ll be shocked.”

Astro looked back smirking. “I don’t think this is his caper. First things first, we have to find and destroy the equipment the perp is using to cause all this illusion. You can have that fun.”

Atlas stopped. “Wait a second! I didn’t say I’d help you. Watching these humans freak out makes me giggle. I need a little laughter every now and then.”



“If you want that Modification?” Astro said smiling.

“You’re such a creep. But if I can trash whatever I find, I don’t mind getting my hands dirty.” Atlas walked past Astro and flew into the air as they emerged from the pipe.

“Now let’s hope I can call somebody.” Astro said to himself as he opened his chest-plate and pulled out his mic. “SkyFly? Are you crouching under your bed like everyone else?”

From the speaker a girl’s voice came squeaking back. “What are you doing?! You got the military looking for you! The aliens are getting closer…”

“Uh…sorry to bust your bubble Fly but the aliens don’t exist. It’s a fake movie plot so someone can rip off the financial reserve building.”

“You’re sure?” SkyFly replied. “It’s all a joke?”

“Yeah! How would you like to return the favor for me? That’s “if” you can hack the reserve’s security system.” Astro smirked sarcastically.

“You owe me.” SkyFly replied.

“I’m owing everybody. Can you take a number?” Astro leaped into the air and flew towards the reserve building.

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Meanwhile, Atlas balanced himself on the very top of the Science Ministry spire, half excited by some impending action and half brooding over having to help Astro. If Atlas had his way, every human would be following a set schedule under penalty of prison if they refused him. Human’s were a selfish, destructive, disorderly and to Atlas somewhat useless lot that needed structure rammed down their throats. This is why he had such a near dislike of Astro…or so he thought.

He couldn’t run from the obvious as he scanned the surrounding city for any signs of a signal or traces of original signals from some electronic monstrosity. Fact was? He liked Astro. What would existence be without someone to pick on…no…someone to talk too. Most humans hated him, most of Astros’ friends gave him pass and go looks, only Astro spent time, though perhaps fruitless, to give Atlas companionship. But he could do without the constant “human hugging” and “care bear freaking” Astro drowned him with.

Atlas chuckled. He loved teasing and picking on Astro, what better way to make these humans respect him more than to put their favorite robot hero down before their eyes. Sometimes Atlas wondered if Astro wasn’t throwing things his way or taking dives to make Atlas feel so good. Well for the moment it didn’t matter as Atlas massaged his fists. It was time to make at least one human…or as many stupid ones who pulled this wasteful disruption in the order of things….wet their pants in fear of the great red wrecking machine!

Metro City Financial Reserve Building

“How long does it take twenty goons to fill a semi full of cash?!” The short man said as he bopped an umbrella off the head of a nearby crook as he balanced a heavy bag of cash in his hands.

“Easy boss! There’s seven safes in this place and you didn’t say we shouldn’t miss any of em!”

“Use your common sense you dolt!” The man grumbled as he pulled a cigarette holder from his lips. “It took me months to come up with this scheme and find the right city to throw it on! How long do you think we’ll have before Doctor McPhesto’s gadget gets found?! GET THE LEAD OUT AND FINISH STOKING THAT TRUCK OR SO HELP ME I’LL FEED YOU TO MY FEATHERED FRIENDS LIKE KIPPER!”

“Yes boss! You heard the man, FINISH THE JOB YOU LUGS!”

The flunky was about to walk out of the building through the service door when it slammed shut, cutting the money bag in half! Every window, every door, every vent was making the same sudden steel slamming sound as doors and gates blocked every way out!

“I thought you said you disabled the security system?” Another goon said as he tapped the waddling leader’s top hat.

“Whaaaaaaa! Wa! Wa! Wa! Get out of my way you idiots! I powered the whole thing down myself! It should be off!”

The short man stormed through the door to the security computer only to find a figure sitting in a chair throwing playing cards into a basket. “Uh…you’re kind of beyond the normal business hours don’t you think?”

Watanabe Storage Units
East Metro City

Doctor McPhesto was running around his electronic creation checking screens, throwing switches and delighting himself in the chaos he was causing until one knob refused to budge. He turned his head to look at it and instead came upon a set of scowling eyes…

“That’s my nose fleshy…I don’t enjoy being TOUCHED!!” Atlas slapped his hands on the man’s shoulders, sent a charge of electricity through his body and sent him flying through the air and into a nearby trashcan! Atlas then snickered happily as he looked at the contraption before him…”Giggles….this should make an awesome economy sized paper weight.”



Military Headquarters

It was as if someone had tripped an alarm in the room. Every phone, every television, every radio suddenly became clogged with a wash of signals from beyond the city. A soldier ran up to General Red with a paper in his hands…

“Sir! The capital has been trying to contact us for hours. They want to know why no one’s been able to contact anyone in the city?”

General Red snorted back. “They should know why? Or isn’t it obvious?!”

“Yes Sir I know but.”

“But what Corperal?!”

“Sir…they’re saying this whole thing about aliens is…well beyond all the swearing they said it’s all a big lie, there is no alien attack!”

“WHAT?!!!!!!” General Red screamed as he slammed a table with his fist. “CONFIRM THIS AT ONCE!”

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I like it lots!

[jeffbert]

Hurry up & finish this thing! Is the waddling guy the Penguin?