(00) Code: Red - Backstory

Code: Red - Backstory


So. Code: Red. Where to start? Well, I guess I should start with the fact that Code: Red is just a silly little idea that I’ve had for a while, but never got round to doing anything on because it’s my little thing. Look don’t judge me okay, I bet you probably play LEGO: Batman the Video Game and watch Mew Mew Power everyday, so shut up. Anyway. Code: Red…

When there are no heroes to save the world, who will? Well literally anybody because most people have super powers now. Look I don’t know where I was going with that. Anyway. During the war of ‘96 between Rootin’ Tootin’ Vladmir Cutin and Ronald Trump (Kimmy Jong was there too, but he wasn’t important) Russia decided that the only way to win was with total world obliteration. Which they tried. I mean, luckily they failed, but I digress. When they launched the so hyped “Muteni-Bomb” to all parts of the world they thought it would turn everyone into hideous creatures, unable to have thought or feeling. When it hit, nothing seemingly happened for months, everything went on, all the anticipation that the bomb had created turned to dust. I mean, nothing happened. Until…

Until things started happening. Children that were born started having strange abilities - from having wings grow on their back, to showing signs of super intelligence, even at times them being completely transformed, the person looking completely inhuman, all sorts of things. At first, it made people panic, I mean, you would if your newborn baby suddenly sprouted tentacles and started doing the dishes at age 0.3. Slowly, however, people realised that these powers were good, that they could help in many ways - the powers were, well, super-powers! People were happy about their babies sprouting tentacles and doing the dishes and whatnot.

The happiness did not last all too long, however. Soon after, the Phantoms appeared. Phantoms came in all different shapes and sizes, humanoid at times, like monsters at times, alien at times - hell, some took the form of household objects with peanut arms and legs. The point is, there were Phantoms. Now, most Phantoms were harmless, friendly even. But because a few Phantoms were were not so friendly, playing the old “Haha, I killed your whole family” trick and humans being humans, we tried to kill ‘em. That stopped fast. People realised that it was just the occasional bum-head (mind my non-Christian language) who tried to kill people. Still though, said bum-heads couldn’t just roam the streets to murder and be an bum-head - I’m using that word a lot, eh? - And so, Phantom Holding Unit of Control and Care was created, A.K.A. PHUCC - Tee Hee. Any school across the nation would be fitted with a PHUCC Station, at which children could sign up, and if a Phantom was doing anything naughty they would send out a school PHUCC Team, whom would take down the Phantom, subdue it and wait for a retrieval team to pick it up, and take it to the local area’s PHUCC Containment Unit and study the Phantom, so as to learn more about these strange creatures. Simple enough, right?

Now, Code: Red focuses on one such PHUCC Team, which goes by the name Code: Red. Said team consists of Red Codez (pronounced Code-ez, by the way) - He’s The Leader;
Yellow Codez - She’s The Brains of the crew;
Green Codez - He’s The Brawn;
And Orange Codez - Look I’m gonna be honest, I really don’t know what he does, he like… He’s kinda the demolitions expert, but I wouldn’t call him and expert at anything, he’s the comic relief character really, so he doesn’t really have a job other than say stupid stuff, soooo…

And so, you watch - well, read, but imagine it as a cartoon - as Red, Yellow, Green and Orange fight their way through all sorts - Phantoms, Enemies, Gods, Idiots, as I said, all sorts. Along the way they find new abilities and friends, allies and enemies, Love interests and cryptic items - all the time equipped with some guns, two knives, a sword, a weird saw blade pole thingy and a baseball bat. And trust you don’t wanna mock the baseball bat, ‘cause when you do chaos unfolds, and uh, heh, a lot of the time, people mock the bat…


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