Omega, still utilizing Doc's armor to speak in English, laughed maniacally as the preparations were finished. "Yes, yes! At long last, my plans will unfold perfectly! Everything is in place, and soon no one will be able to stop me!"
"Really?" Doc asked in surprise. "Because it looks like we've been standing around in a frozen wasteland for the past few hours doing nothing while you and Lopez have been puttering over meaningless junk. If your plans involved that, you'd have had much better luck at Antiques' Roadshow."
"You fool!" Omega snarled angrily. "Haven't you been listening to any of our planning as we've been establishing ourselves and our long term goals?"
"Yes, in English," Doc replied calmly. "But you and Lopez mostly speak in Bad Spanish, so..."
"<Are you sure fixing my voice box to speak in more than just Google Translate Spanish has to be such a low priority?>" Lopez inquired diffidently. "<If I am such an important part of the plan->"
"And the technology built into you that this plan hinges on will only activate to your voice command in your present vocal configuration!" Omega snapped back. "If we fixed it now, it wouldn't work!"
"I'm still left in the dark, though..." Doc pointed out.
"Ugh...fine!" Omega growled. "I will explain, so pay attention! I'm only going to explain this once!" Once he was certain he had Doc's full attention, he began. "The Reds included a super-weapon inside Lopez, one that they were unable to activate! However, I have acquired the missing D Batteries, and now his weather control technology is fully functional and waiting to be activated!"
"So you're going to unleash storms on them?" Doc asked in surprise. "Seems rather simplistic-"
"Of course I'm not going to just unleash storms!" Omega snapped back. "While I was briefly in Simmons' head, I managed to get a look at the specs of Church and Agent Texas' new bodies! Not enough to know how to combat them...but enough to know that in the flying pony form they have the ability to manipulate the weather! The storms are one part distraction, one part supercharge!"
"Supercharge?" Doc gasped in surprise. "But what could you be supercharging?"
"The Red Sergeant may not be good for much, but he stockpiles many explosives!" Omega explained smugly. "Not only that, Simmons in his drunken state upgrades them immensely! I have managed to acquire a very large explosive, one that Simmons redesigned to absorb and amplify magical energy, like that the weather control technology runs on due to how the Sergeant unwittingly designed it! The storms will distract everyone, and the lightning will strike the bomb and supercharge it! The explosion will be enough to rip a hole in the fabric of space and time...and not only will the Reds and Blues be pulled in and cast to the far corners of the multiverse, but that blasted pony will be obliterated by the anti-magic reaction it will generate!" He proceeded to laugh maniacally. "Now all that must be done is contacting my bounty hunter, Agent Wyoming, to arrange for the Reds, the Blues, the pony, and Agent Texas to be here, and I shall have everything in one fell swoop!"
"Oh, so we're ahead of schedule," Grif spoke up from behind Doc and Lopez. "That's a new feeling. I'm not sure I like it."
Lopez spun about as Doc turned in surprise, seeing Grif and Church standing there having heard every word of the plan...and eating ice cream for some reason. "Why are you guys eating ice cream?" Doc demanded in confusion. "It's terrible for your teeth!"
"It's me," Grif pointed out. "Why wouldn't I be eating ice cream?"
"And with how much popcorn I've gone through watching Grif fly by the seat of his pants - and perform amazingly by the way, surprise of surprisies - I needed something sweet to get the salt taste out of my mouth," Church pointed out. "Pity the only available flavor is salty anyway."
"Hey, what do you expect when the only one selling ice cream in this Helheim hole is a freakin' duck?!" Grif countered angrily, eating more of his ice cream bar. "Besides, it's delicious! Tastes like happy memories and brotherly love."
"What?" Omega demanded in shock. "But how is it you aren't locked up? The guards at Sidewinder are the best the Red army can provide!"
"Grif somehow managed to convince the first guy he was a Freelancer," Church explained ruefully.
"And the rest didn't seem to be very smart," Grif added. "I mean, they had to put name tags on their armor. Even Caboose can remember everyone's names without doing that. Between that, a Halloween decoration, and a magic marker, I managed to convince the entire base I was Agent Texas in disguise, and nobody messed with us."
"But it's been seriously awkward," Church murmured ruefully.
"But thanks for telling us this is Sidewinder," Grif spoke up happily. "Church has been locked onto Maud and Texas' communicators since I commandeered the base's communications rig to boost it before Maud showed up to smash things. Once we heard you announcing your plans, Maud hopped over to where Simmons and the others were so everyone could hear it, and we'll all be here soon to thrash you just as soon as we deal with that bomb of yours."
"Wait wait wait!" Church spoke up urgently as teleporter gates started opening. "Omega's plan involves getting us all in one place so he can wipe us out with a bomb...and our plan to stop him is to get us all in one place where the bomb already is?"
Grif stared at Church for a time. "...yeah, I was rolling so many 20s, I guess a 1 had to come up at some point..."
"Well too late for that now," Simmons groaned as everyone charged out. "Quick, take down Omega before he can do anything!"
"But to take down Omega, we have to take down Lopez!" Sarge declared worriedly. "And Lopez has the weather control tech built in, and once it's activated-"
"<Activating weather control,>" Lopez stated firmly, energy gathering around his body as lightning flashed and storm clouds gathered. Before anyone could do anything, a bolt of lightning had lashed the bomb.
"Watch out, Maud!" Church screamed out as he threw himself over the bomb just before everything went white.
Wow. Church's new body did NOT last long. Like at all.
Also it is a TRAVESTY that this only updates once a week.
AHHHH TENSE WHY CLIFFHANGER!
Ah, a good old Bob and George Reference!
I can't wait to see if EVERYONE ends up a pony now.
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Tats has his reasons for that, mostly because the two story update was burning him out, this was a compromise and its working, i dont complain. besides, Church will be back...right after Maud gets done with Omally...
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That would be awesome to see. especially if they end up in a ponyfied version of red vs blue and Maud is human.
Well this is a mistake that Dr. Wily would have made early in his story. Now how will Omega recover from this when all the dust settles?
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My bits are actually on the energy release temporarily supercharging him into his Alicorn form so he can kick Omega's ass, only to loose the form at the most inconvenient/hilarious opportunity.
I... I .... CLIFFHANGER WHHHHHHY?!
And how Omega gonna shield himself in this mess?
Should that be Lopez?
Huh..... should i be worried for Omega?
Someone has been playing board games, the good ones...
Kingdom Hearts, much?
Kingdom Hearts 2 reference, i believe.
While i really enjoyed the chapter, I don't get the meaning of the title. Probably because I never played Megaman, but even after reading Triple W, I don't get it.
Only reason Caboose doesn't use nametags is because he still has trouble reading.
That and it's rude to forget the names of friends.
Again?!
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It's the whole "monologue your big plan to the heroes so they can stop it" trope.
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In the webcomic "Bob and George", Wily frequently monologued his plans only for one of the heroes to literally be standing right behind him.
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Thank you
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Thanks
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Again.
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well KH in general as the icecream shows up in more then just 2 but ya that was McDuck
Hoo, boy. Looks like we're in for some timeline shenanigans after all!
What did you expect, Omega?
Why not reconfigure it?
That sounds, convoluted.
They're not smart.
It's not a smart plan.
I mean, law of averages.
Well shit.
Damn it. If I could know this was gonna update today I would have waited with my previous post. Anyway season 16 is coming.
Ahh sea salt ice cream. A lovely flavor, just remember to keep it away from Maud, salt gets ponies drunk.
Off the top of my headI can think of four things that might occur from this. In order of likelihood
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Since we're dipping into sprite based web comics, are the D batteries a reference to Captain SNES, with their rechargeable D Cells? I suspect not, but just want to be sure.
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I have a gut feeling it’s going to be option 4 according to the rules of comedy.
Kingdom Hearts references are so few and far between. It's great when they're done successfully though!
I'm constantly amazed at how many villains continue to think their plans are fool proof.
Clearly Doc has never seen MacGyver. Meaningless junk is the most destructive and useful weapon in the world.
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D Cell Batteries? To power a weather machine? Really? Yes, you have completely lost it. Universe, are you going to do anything about this…?
UNIVERSE: "Aside from having you get me more Popcorn? no. This is my favorite type of poetic justice: short sighted self-inflicted. I don't have to lift a finger. Just watch the fireworks."
Fireworks?
UNIVERSE: "These always have fireworks. Now. POPCORN!"
So the weather machine is step 1 in a 4 step plan to kill 10 people. Where have I heard that before… Universe, why do you have two rayguns?
UNIVERSE: "Knowing is half the battle. The other half is red lasers and blue lasers."
Apparently Doc forgot Church is a robot and his teeth are indestructible. Much like his daughter's.
…can Scrooge McDuck please, please, please, PLEASE raise a pony to be his heir? By far he is the greatest superhero ever, and whomever ends up being raised by him will be nigh unbeatable.
UNIVERSE: "This brings back memories."
What type of memories?
UNIVERSE: "The ones where the villain unknowing answered his own question."
UNIVERSE: "IT WAS A D20 WITH NOTHING BUT 20s! HOW THE HECK DO YOU ROLL A 1 WITH THAT!!!"
*whistles innocently*
What? I'm just practicing my whistling.
Chuch just pulled a Captain America?
UNIVERSE: "Most likely."
Gonna reward him for it?
UNIVERSE: "No."
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If this was Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded, I bet Maud would have a unique keyblade that easily MAX out to get more finishers in.
This may be redundant but what if Church gains the ability to become armor for others through friendship and synchronization?
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Great summation there. XD
I also enjoyed the D-cell batteries bit. I suppose it makes SOME sense. If you can build a miniature weather machine, the power source is mostly irrelevant. You can just use whatever's lying around, since it would seem you had already solved the power issues to even build one.
Narbonic has one too. It used to be a dishwasher.
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I'd agree, but you also missed the one where Church survives but gets used as a cannonball, or the one where it was all a fakeout and the flash didn't actually do anything (or, the magic made physics act Looney-Tunes style, so they are only covered in soot), or the one where that was the ONLY part of the plan that "worked", and the rest is merely a Rube Goldberg-style embarrassment.
Really Omega, that's what your brainstorming for a master plan did? Weather or not it will succeed is a shot in the dark though. Not like you can magically lash at those new bods and not expect them to have a way to discharge excess right?
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Scrooge must be on some pretty hard times if he's manning his own offworld vendors.
You know, when I saw the name I assumed Omega had done something like turn Lopez into a Robot Master. Which...he sort of did. So what name does Lopez have now? Weather Man? Bitter Spanish-speaking Man? Misunderstood Man?
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Scrooge can't raise a pony, he's already popped up as a side character in Coco's story. Pretty sure that disqualifies him.
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Lopez is still Lopez La Pesado. He never changed his name when this happened in canon, so why should he change it now?
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Aye. But I never specified which Scrooge McDuck. After all, there are multiple versions of the character, and while the one in Coco's story is clearly from the 1987 Ducktales Cartoon, there is both the comic incarnation of the character (which dates back to 1947, and upon which the 87 cartoon was loosely based off of) and the 2017 Ducktales Cartoon incarnation.
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Then all hell will really break loose.
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Because otherwise he can't be a Robot Master!
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To the point where he stopped lamenting his own oversight and started criticizing the author about reusing the joke.
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But he is Droid #01011331123.
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Maybe it’s better that Lopez bonds with Sarge instead of Church being all buddy buddy with everyone, on second thought.
Besides, in the canon universe, Church becomes a ghost in Carolina’s she’ll. He did well that way.
With my admittedly rudimentary Spanish knowledge, Lopez actually checks out. WHO’S EXCITED FOR SEASON 16‽
interrobangs are dank
Well, that happened. 😑