Colossus By Design: Entry 0103 - The Death Sentence

[January 9, 2146]
[Cape Town, African origin continent]
[Temporary G.U.D. Base of Operations]

[Researchers from G.U.D. Headquarters look over various salvaged materials from the old base]


(Dr. Jiro Ifukube): Dammit, where is it?!

(President Nigel Mandela): Jiro, what is it?

(Dr. Jiro Ifukube): Nigel, I can't find any more samples of that toxin used for the Oxygen Destroyer, and none of my teams have managed to salvage any from the wreckage of G.U.D. HQ.

(President Nigel Mandela): So that's the famed weapon that Project Warmonger's founder worked on.

(Dr. Jiro Ifukube): Yes.

(President Nigel Mandela): Do not worry, old friend. My own teams have been sent into the South American wasteland's core to search for any possibly remaining flowers.

(Dr. Jiro Ifukube): Thank you....


[President Mandela looks at the salvaged blueprints for the Oxygen Destroyer]


(President Nigel Mandela): Jiro?

(Dr. Jiro Ifukube): Hmm? Yes, Nigel?

(President Nigel Mandela): Why is this Oxygen Destroyer so important to you, anyways?

(Dr. Jiro Ifukube): Well, it was an old Japanese WMD project first developed during WWII. However, we rediscovered one of the base components, those toxic flowers, during the Annex of South America.

(President Nigel Mandela): Yes, I remember, fondly. Although it's definitely a powerful bio-weapon, if the possible quantities of available flowers are so low, why do you wish to create this weapon anyways?


[Dr. Ifukube looks back at the blueprints, then at the various scans and photos of the various P.E.M.F.s, both standard and non-standard]
[Dr. Ifukube points at the scans and photos]


(Dr. Jiro Ifukube): Them.

(President Nigel Mandela): The P.E.M.F.s? What of them?

(Dr. Jiro Ifukube): These creatures are the greatest threat ever faced by Humanity, and the Warmongers were the greatest weapon ever created by us. But this Oxygen Destroyer...... it's something else entirely.

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[January 10, 2146]
[South American Wasteland, former South American continent]

[Group of HAZMAT researchers travel through the wasteland and are escorted by Union's Warrior]


(Researcher 1): Are you getting anything on the scanners?


[Other researchers check their scanners]


(Researcher 2): Nope.

(Researcher 3): No.

(Researcher 4): Nothing at all-- Wait a second, I got something!

(Researcher 1): Which direction?

(Researcher 4): Uhhhhh.... aha! Just a click due north.

(Researcher 1): Alright, let's move.


[Group moves a click north]
[Signal detected by scanners is approaching red zone levels, yet no visible signs of the toxin flowers are present]


(Researcher 4): Sir, the readings are going wild, but I don't see anything!


[Union's Warrior stops in place, as if sensing something]


(Karen Marais): Wait a minute......

(Researcher 2): Ma'am, what is it?

(Karen Marais): Hang on a sec, guys.


[Union's Warrior crouches down and lifts a large boulder off the ground, revealing a small crevice containing a small collection of the toxin flowers]


(Researcher 3): How did she.....

(Researcher 1): Never mind that! Collect these samples!


[HAZMAT researchers collect every last flower sample]


(Karen Marais): How much is there?

(Researcher 2): Not a lot. Only enough for one more decently-sized Oxygen Destroyer.

(Karen Marais): It'll do. Let's go home.


[Group leaves the area, with nothing left in sight]
[Large metallic-looking hook-like claw suddenly bursts out from the ground were the flowers once grew once the group has left the area entirely]