by Shock Headed Peter, LLANCE, Chewy Walrus, BISONSIX, Big Boss Tweed, HourGirl, Rypta Gud'n, Happy Noodle Boy and Jonah'sWhale
COMPUTER: -Twenty nukes incoming-
SHP:What?
COMPUTER:-Twenty nu...
SHP:Yes, yes, I heard you! Put up a grav net and, well, put them back in my stockpile.
COMPUTER:-Grav net inoperative. Power needed to build time bombs-
SHP:What about my laser defences?
COMPUTER:-Inoperative.-
SHP: My giant catcher's mitt?
COMPUTER:...
SHP:well???
COMPUTER:-Active-
SHP:Phew. Activate Mitt.
COMPUTER:-TOMB also incoming-
SHP: Ah... when will the time bombs be ready?
COMPUTER:-10 minutes-
SHP:ETA of TOMB?
COMPUTER: -5 minutes-
SHP: Well, this'll make for an exciting conclusion...
Lance: It's getting hot down here!
Chewy Walrus: Lance, remind me again what this plan of yours is supposed to do...
All right, team, this is it. I'm setting foot on SHP's super-secret HQ. He apparently deactivated all the nukes with a giant catcher's mitt. How he managed that... I'll never know. All right, group, split up. Jonah, you, HourGirl and BISONSIX take the backdoor approach. Steve, you, HNB and I will take the more direct route. Franta and the Docs will tunnel underground and come in through the floor. According to my Plot-Holish Walrus Sense, we have 5 minutes 'till time bomb detenation. Let' s go!
BISONSIX: 'All right it's the back door for us, troopers! And hey, look there it is. It actually says 'Back Door' on it! Let's Go!' -BS pulls out his huge spud gun, jacks a potato into the chamber, checks the ether magazine, and rushes headlong into danger!
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HourGirl-wiggles adorably, checks her hourglass, and follows the Bison
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JW-'Hey guys! Wait for me!'
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When Suddenly....
Big Boss Tweed: A ghastly apparation appears before them.
BISONSIX: What the...? Who's that supposed to be?
JW: Isn't it... Boss Tweed?!
Boss Tweed (in a whisper): Avenge me...
And with that, the ghost of Tweed is gone...
HourGirl cluches Bison's arm tightly....
"I don't LIKE ghosts, even dead ones."
Bison laughs at her, patting her back and points his gun ahead of them, trudging on.
JW:"ahem......." He races to them, catching the girl by her other arm. "Don't worry huney, I'll protect u." He glares at bison and sticks his foot out to trip him.
HG screams.....there is a crash....everything goes erily quiet. DARKNESS envelopes them............
Noises are heard around the fallen trio, and a guard's flashlight suddenly picks them out, lying helpless on the floor.
SHP's hired goon raised his gun, took aim..
and suddenly, an arm appeared out of the darkness and ripped the gun away. Two hands clasped around the guard's neck and twisted. He fell to the floor, dead.
Rhyme Guardian stepped out.
JW: "Rhymer! Hey! Damn, you're getting mysterious. What happened to brightly costumed, always in the limelight, leader of the MBL Rhyme Guardian? And aren't you cosmically powerful? Why'd you have to break the guard's neck? Couldn't you just blow his head off with a rhyme force blast?"
RG: "All will be answered... in time."
JW: "That has to be the wankiest thing I've ever heard you say."
RG: "I know. I'm so ashamed..."
HNB, Chewy, and Steve stood at the entrance to SHP's HQ. As the acronyms rapidly took over the post, the three desperately searched for an entrance...
BISON, HG and JW enter SHP's Lair.
SHP: You're 30 seconds earlier.
COMPUTER: Sorry, sir.
SHP: Shut up. I'll examine your workings later...after I kill TOMB. One by one.
JW: Go get 'im, BISON.
BISON: Me? Uhm...well...heh...I uh...I have to go back to the car for a second...forgot my...uh...thing.
BISON takes off running.
Hehe.
HG and JW square off against SHP. They tense, seconds before attacking.
"Ah, I see SHP has fallen for my ruse!" thinks BS as he quickly doubles back around through Peter's sanctuary and climbs atop a huge Kirby Device. Bison looks down from the shadows to see HourGirl momentarily occupied with a horde of SHP-bots and poor ol' Jonah being pummeled mercilessly by Petey.
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HG:"Stand back you evil droids, or I'll be forced to open a can of Chrono-Kung-Fu-Whup-Ass on ya!-giggles adorably-"
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JW:"Ouch...Oooff..Ouch..MY FACE! MY FACE!
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SHP:"Now you are at my mercy TOMB!" POW! WHACK! KICK! BAP! POW!
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BS:" No more of this you fiend! Prepare to face the wrath of BisonSix!!" BS yells heroically as he hurls himself off of the Kirby Device."Leave my little buddy alone!"
...when suddenly.....
In walks Lance, "Hey, anybody got any asprin? All the blood has rushed to my head and I have the killer of all head-aches!"
Shocked by Lance's sudden appearance, Shp drops his weapon when suddenly Hourgirl...
Lunges at SHP! Out of refex he grabs her HourGlass...
"Nooooooooooooooooo!" She screams.......
JW and Bison both reach out to her. Jw snatches at a corner of her cape...
*****FFFFFFFFFFFffffffaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAssssssssssssssSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh****
SHP and HG disappear..........
And reappear surrounded by powered wigs and politicians.
HG: OH my god! They're writing the constitution!
SHP:Really? Heh heh heh. I'll just add a few paragraphs about dogs being the masters of humans...
HG kicks SHP in the groin.
SHP: I have no genitalia.
HG: That figures...
SHP:Hey!!
HG: (doing a kung-fu kick) What's your thing about dogs anyway?
SHP Dodging) I was one, Hourbimbo!
HG: You???
SHP:Until human science chose to remove my brain, I was Petey... the smartest dog in the world!
HG: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
SHP: Shut up! It's not funny!
HG: Here boy! Fetch!
SHP:I'm sick of hearing that...
SHP pulls out a small device and points it at HG. A flash of light, and she falls.
HG: What... I don't...
SHP: I now have your time powers! You can't save your comrades trapped in the past! Especially since one of them is about to betray the rest.
I think I'll visit my future self...
And with a flash,SHP disappears off to the 'Future of the MBL' thread...
Continued in Chapter 10